swap_horiz Solanin 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 celebrated Japanese graphic novel series exploring themes of violence, family, and redemption wit...

Classic Manga Samurai Dark Horse

9.2 Excellent

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Love & Rockets

Love & Rockets presents a richly detailed world of interconnected stories centered on the lives of Ricky and Guido Sprag...

INDIE Slice Of Life Fantagraphics Los Bros Hernandez

9.1 Excellent

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Buddha

Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha is a monumental manga series chronicling the life of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha...

Epic Vertical Manga Religion

9.0 Excellent

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Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon)

Dungeon Meshi is a graphic novel series created by Ryoko Kui. It centers on a group of adventurers who prepare and consu...

Food Fantasy Manga Ryoko Kui

9.0 Excellent

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Ode to Kirihito

Osamu Tezuka’s *Ode to Kirihito* is a haunting manga exploring themes of medical ethics and human transformation. The st...

Vertical Horror Manga Medical

8.9 Great

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Adolf

Adolf is a graphic novel created by Osamu Tezuka that examines World War II through the narratives of three distinct ind...

Drama Manga World War Ii Osamu Tezuka

8.9 Great

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers

Ooku: The Inner Chambers is a graphic novel exploring an alternate historical Japan in the 17th century. A mysterious il...

Manga Alternate History Gender Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Ping Pong (Taiyo Matsumoto)

Ping Pong is a graphic novel by Taiyo Matsumoto exploring themes of competition, friendship, and identity through the in...

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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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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Nijigahara Holograph

A surreal horror manga by Inio Asano that weaves together a nonlinear narrative of childhood trauma, collective guilt, a...

Manga Dark Surreal Fantagraphics

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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What a Wonderful World!

A collection of interconnected slice-of-life manga short stories by Inio Asano, exploring the everyday struggles of youn...

Manga Slice Of Life Anthology Viz Media

8.0 Great

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2001 Nights

A Japanese hard science fiction manga by Yukinobu Hoshino, serialized in the 1980s, depicting humanity's expansion into...

Sci Fi Space Manga Viz Media

7.9 Good

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Biomega

A cyberpunk horror manga by Tsutomu Nihei published in 2004, featuring intense action as a lone agent fights a virus tha...

Sci Fi Manga Dystopian Viz Media

7.7 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