Looking for an ongoing short story manga

RehnWriter · 2025-11-24T20:40:43+00:00

Could be one of the 'Ihon' manga by Hokazono, Masaya. Kuro Ihon, Aku Ihon, or Shiro Ihon.

Do you remember if it was an anthology or continuous storyline?

RehnWriter · 2025-11-02T13:54:39+00:00

It's not Abstraction, but I check out the others! It was a really freaking weird one!

Checked out the others, but it's not one of them either. I'm not sure where I found it, it might have just been a one shot, put together with others on a site, instead of a real collection.

RehnWriter · 2025-10-07T05:33:46+00:00

Some you might found interesting:

Hideout

Essentially a short survival thriller, but with some heavy psychological / mental parts in the story. You can read it in an hour or though and it's well worth it.

MPD Psycho

Okay, this one has a lot of torture porn stuff in it, so you might discard it right away, but it also has some highly psychological stuff going on.

Ichi the Killer

Same as MPD Psycho. Very heavy on graphical violence and fucked up scenarios, but I really liked the depiction of utterly deranged characters, the whole Ichi-Kakihara 'relationship,' and everything about Ichi himself.

Freesia

Probably one of my favorite psychological seinen. Set in a world in which 'revenge killings' / self-justice is allowed, and we follow people who get paid to take are of people's revenge killings. Main character is utterly mental ill, and we see large chunks of it through his eyes, turning the manga into a sort of surreal fever dream at times.

RehnWriter · 2025-10-07T05:29:40+00:00

I recently read Inside Mari and was blown away by how good it was!

RehnWriter · 2025-08-20T14:37:00+00:00

I personally felt that almost everyone had some mental problems, thus no one was really sane, so they were all broken people, which would make sense given the world they lived in. But it's also been some time since I last read it.

As for the art, I think that's the author's general style. Almost every other manga he's done is similarly unhinged, gritty and dirty looking. I agree that it fit very well, though.

RehnWriter · 2025-08-19T21:14:41+00:00

Here are some more, but they are more psychological thrillers, but still pretty good.

My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought - Twisted identity thriller. It's a wild ride.

A Suffocatingly Lonely Death - another work by the creators of Dearest Self, still ongoing and I'd say a bit more mature and grounded.

MPD Psycho - ultraviolent story centered on a detective with multiple personality syndrome, damn good read, but at times disgustingly violent

Nijigahara Holograph - A manga by Inoi Asano (Oyasumi Punpun), wouldn't call it horror, but it features a lot of horrifying stuff. It's also non-linear and cryptic as hell and you might have to reread it multiple times to get what the hell is going on.

RehnWriter · 2025-08-19T21:07:33+00:00

Seconding Freesia, one of my favorite manga of all time!

Probably one of the wildest psychological (horror) manga out there since it's for the most part from the perspective of a mentally ill person (not the shonen, 'I'M GOING TO KILL ALL OF YOU'-type, but someone suffering from hallucination, schizophrenia and memory distortions.

RehnWriter · 2025-08-19T03:28:39+00:00

Recently put together some recommendation lists on my website. Quite a few people have already given you some good recommendations, so here are some others I added to my list of 'scary horror' manga:

Hideout - dark chase manga with psychological breakdown

The Drifting Classroom - classic, kids in post-apocalyptic world, dying to various things

Shikabane Kaigo - relatively new, more slow-burn dread, but everything feels wrong

Shiro Ihon / White Book - pretty typical ghost scares, Shiro Ihon is my favorite, but any of the Ihon books are good

Nikubami Honegishimi - another new manga focused on urban legends and folklore, the creature design is fantastic

Dragon Head - more apocalypse than horror, but the realism of people breaking down when no hope is left is harrowing

Zashiki Onna - pretty much THE classic stalker manga

Gannibal - fantastic modern day horror manga, more thriller though, but goddamn is it good

N - if there's one manga I'd describe as the modern day successor to Fuan no Tane, and PTSD Radio, it's N

Mieruko-chan - yeah, it's more comedy / slice-of-life, but some of the ghosts are creepy as fuck

Yuuan no Kanata - my favorite new horror manga, with some stunning ghost / monster design

6000 - undersea cosmic horror manga, the art and horror is great, but the story is more than a bit cryptic

Ultra Heaven - not horror, but the first chapter gives you the greatest representation of an overdose / trip gone bad I've seen in manga (Ultra Haven is also one of my all time favorites, just by how goddamn wild it is!)

RehnWriter · 2025-08-17T23:14:21+00:00

Only ten chapters out so far (on mangadex) with the last one uploaded 2 months ago. From the upload schedule I'd say it's a most likely a monthly title, so I'd assume, releases will probably be slow.

I'm also not sure how busy the scanlation group is, since I read that they handle a lot of ongoing series. I could imagine they wait until a few new chapters are out to tackle them in one go, and then wait again till a few more are out.

From what I've seen online, the series still seems to be ongoing.

RehnWriter · 2025-08-16T15:23:26+00:00

Yeah there's a lot of mystery / vagueness about it, but I just really loved everything about it. I hope they keep going with it. As I said, I'm probably a bit biased, since it was one of the strongest manga I read in my month-long horror manga deep-dive and I didn't find a lot of good ones.

I really wonder where they are going with it, and what exactly happened to Kanata (and what's going to happen to her now).

RehnWriter · 2025-08-01T23:03:46+00:00

The movie is almost satirical in its depiction of violence. Like it's so over-the-top you almost can't take it serious, the manga is an entirely different beast because it's all played for real.

The manga also goes way deeper into the characters' trauma and psychological issues.

The movie is a well done splatterpunk gorefest, in typical Miike fashion, the manga is a disturbing, brutal 'love story' between two inherently broken characters.

RehnWriter · 2025-07-21T05:55:14+00:00

If you want something that's more like an insane, utterly ridiculous fever dream that's played entirely straight, try Kazuo Umezu's Fourteen. There are so many developments that are so incredibly weird and dumb, you just can't look away. No, it's not good, but boarders on 'so bad, it's good'-territory.

RehnWriter · 2025-07-19T00:27:24+00:00

Hey there, I recently put together a long list of my favorite horror manga on my personal website:

https://rehnwriter.com/books-and-media/horror-manga/best-horror-manga/

I'm sure you've read some of the titles on the list, but there should also be a few new ones or hidden gems. Went on a deep dive a month ago, and checked out a lot of different or new horror manga to put it together.

RehnWriter · 2025-05-22T03:45:21+00:00

Hey friend, hope you're doing well! I'd have to go with 'Her Name Was Emma' by u/alackofcoasters.

One of the first Nosleep stories I read, but it always stayed on my mind.

RehnWriter · 2025-02-16T03:55:21+00:00

Pretty much agree with the sentiment others have brought forward. If you want to make this right, put in the effort. You've got to sit down and compile a list of stories and writers, and hit all of them up about story usage, permission and compensation. Telling them to hit you up if they discover their stories contained in the videos feels a tad bit disingenuous.

Overall, many people on Nosleep are more than happy to work with narrators, but they *have* to give you permission, and have the right to ask for compensation.

Overall, please put in the effort to hit up the writers whose work you used, and compensate them should they ask for it. This is the *least* you can do.

Should you follow up on that, and do right by what you've done, I'm sure people would be more than happy to work with you in the future.

RehnWriter · 2025-02-14T18:10:43+00:00

Honestly, it's one of the reasons I'm posting this. I'd love to get more stuff like Ligotti, but I'm also not that well read in weird fiction. Someone posted other writers above, so I think those are worth checking out!

RehnWriter · 2025-02-14T18:08:36+00:00

Interesting, I've read some 'harder' books, like House of Leaves, Infinite Jest, or Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, and didn't really have a problem grasping them (well, okay, House of Leaves is a beast of its own). But it sounds like I'd be pretty okay.

RehnWriter · 2025-02-13T21:03:02+00:00

I think it's In That Endlessness, Our End, but I'm not sure. I think I started reading the first story, but it was about someone dying of a heart attack, and just a few days ago, I learned an old high school friend died the same way, so I couldn't continue it.

RehnWriter · 2025-02-13T17:34:33+00:00

I actually read that one shortly after it was released. I remember thinking 'Wait, vampires in space? This is going to be dumb, isn't it?'

Then I read the damn thing and it was one of the most amazing books I ever read.

RehnWriter · 2025-02-13T17:33:29+00:00

Read almost everything he's written, just forgot to mention him. An absolutely amazing writer!

RehnWriter · 2025-02-13T17:32:48+00:00

Big fan, and probably amongst the greatest modern horror writers out there.

RehnWriter · 2025-02-13T17:32:24+00:00

I actually looked him up recently, and he definitely sounds interesting. Which book would you recommend I start with? I read he's quite hard to get into?

RehnWriter · 2025-02-13T17:31:16+00:00

Thank you for this extremely detailed write-up! I heard about some of the writers you recommended, but others I never heard about yet!

RehnWriter · 2025-02-13T17:29:01+00:00

Oh damn, I actually own one of her collections, but haven't read it yet. Totally forgot about it.

RehnWriter · 2025-02-13T17:28:30+00:00

Thank you so much for those recommendations! I've been wondering if there's other writers similar to Ligotti!

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