swap_horiz I Am a Hero Alternatives

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Phoenix (Hi no Tori)

Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix (Hi no Tori) is a sprawling epic manga series beginning in 1954. It centers around a group of ind...

Epic Manga Reincarnation Osamu Tezuka

9.3 Excellent

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Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub is a landmark samurai manga created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima in 1970, following an assassin an...

Classic Manga Samurai Dark Horse

9.2 Excellent

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Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)

A defining 1980s horror comic run by Alan Moore that redefined the titular character as an elemental entity, introducing...

Horror Environment 1980S DC Vertigo

9.2 Excellent

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Buddha

Buddha is an epic historical manga by Osamu Tezuka, published from 1972 to 1983, offering a highly fictionalized and hum...

Epic Vertical Manga Religion

9.0 Excellent

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Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon)

Delicious in Dungeon is a fantasy comedy manga by Ryoko Kui that started in 2014, following a party of adventurers who c...

Food Fantasy Manga Ryoko Kui

9.0 Excellent

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Ode to Kirihito

A dramatic medical thriller manga by Osamu Tezuka, serialized in 1970, following a brilliant doctor infected by a diseas...

Vertical Horror Manga Medical

8.9 Great

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Adolf

A critically acclaimed historical drama manga by Osamu Tezuka, published in the 1980s, exploring the intertwined lives o...

Drama Manga World War Ii Osamu Tezuka

8.9 Great

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers

Created by Fumi Yoshinaga in 2005, this Japanese alternate history manga explores a feudal era where a male-killing plag...

Manga Alternate History Gender Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Ping Pong (Taiyo Matsumoto)

A sports manga by Taiyo Matsumoto about two table tennis prodigies, acclaimed for its distinctive art style and award-wi...

Manga Coming Of Age Sports Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Uzumaki

Uzumaki is a 1998 horror manga by Junji Ito that tells the terrifying story of a small Japanese town driven to madness b...

Horror Manga Junji Ito Viz Media

8.7 Great

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Uzumaki (Junji Ito)

Created by Japanese author Junji Ito in 1998, this acclaimed horror manga depicts a coastal town that becomes horrifying...

Horror Manga Junji Ito Viz Media

8.7 Great

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American Splendor

American Splendor is an autobiographical comic series created by Harvey Pekar in 1976, celebrated for its mundane yet pr...

Slice Of Life Memoir Working Class Dark Horse

8.6 Great

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Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction is a sci-fi manga by Inio Asano that began in 2014, depicting ordinary teenage li...

Sci Fi Manga Teen Viz Media

8.5 Great

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Black Hammer

A superhero comic series created by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston in 2016, exploring a group of trapped heroes in a myste...

Literary Superhero Deconstruction Jeff Lemire

8.5 Great

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MW (Osamu Tezuka)

A psychological thriller manga by Osamu Tezuka about a priest and a sociopathic killer linked by a cover-up involving ch...

Vertical Psychological Manga Crime

8.5 Great

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Solanin

Solanin is a 2005 coming-of-age manga by Inio Asano that portrays the aimlessness and struggles of recent college gradua...

Music Manga Slice Of Life Viz Media

8.4 Great

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Tomie

Tomie is a 1987 Japanese horror manga series by Junji Ito featuring a beautiful, immortal high school girl whose presenc...

Supernatural Horror Manga Junji Ito

8.1 Great

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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Created by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, this Japanese horror manga follows Buddhist students who start a business tr...

Mystery Horror Manga Dark Horse

7.8 Good

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Gyo

A horror manga by Junji Ito, published in 2002, where bizarre, mechanical-legged fish emerge from the ocean to terrorize...

Horror Manga Fish Junji Ito

7.5 Good

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MPD-Psycho

Created by Eiji Otsuka and Shou Tajima, this Japanese psychological horror manga follows a detective with multiple perso...

Horror Manga Crime Dark Horse

7.4 Good