Ax is the premier Japanese magazine for alternative comics, heir to the legendary Garo. Published bi-monthly since 1998, the pages of Ax contain the most innovative, experimental, and personal works in contemporary manga -- the flourishing underground of the world’s largest comics industry. Now Top Shelf presents a 400-page collection of stories from ten years of Ax history, translated into English for the first time.
has finished publishing and it has 30 Chapters. It is also Known as: AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Drama , Psychological , Dementia
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Top 5 Manga Like (AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga) [2026 List]
5. Yume no Akichi
Renei thinks she's going crazy. After many years, she has begun to dream about "Ku's World" all the time, a place beneath the shadow of the mysterious Mount Babiranma which is inhabited by fantastic creatures -Nagizari, God, the little Rey, the lethal teppas- which is where her dead brother, who is going through an identity crisis, may be, as well as her best friend, who committed suicide some time ago and has now returned for her. As she muses on the sense of life, things in the real world do not seem to be going her way either and when the inhabitants of "Ku's World" begin to reveal themselves to her and try to persuade her to go along with them, she no longer knows if her life is a dream or a nightmare. Will they find the answer to the mystery Mt. Babiranma conceals? And more importantly, will they all escape with their lives?
Yume no Akichi has finished publishing and it has 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: 夢の空地, Vacant Dream Land
4. Sekaiichi Zankoku de Utsukushii Grimm Douwa
3 volumes which contain darker, more mature versions of the most famous Grimm fairytales, all one-shots authored by different mangaka.
- Covered In Cinders/Hai Kaburi (by Aya Kotokawa)
- Rapunzel (by Mimei Sakamoto)
- The Frog Prince (by Noji Hashimoto)
- Vampire Fantasy/Kyuuketsuki Gensou (by Rie Hanamura)
Other authors: Hanako Matsuyama, Kumiko Takeuchi, Mio Kasuga, Naoko Fuse, Romuko Miike, Satsuki Fukuzato, Takayoshi Sagami.
Sekaiichi Zankoku de Utsukushii Grimm Douwa has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: 世界一残酷で美しいグリム童話, Sekai-ichi Zankoku de Utsukushii Gurimu Douwa, The Cruelest And Most Beautiful Grimm's Fairy Tales In The World, Covered In Cinders, Hai Kaburi, Rapunzel, The Frog Prince, Vampire Fantasy, Kyuuketsuki Gensou
3. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Kataribanashi-hen Comic Anthology EX.
An officially published doujinshi anthology series for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, created by several artists based upon reader submitted stories, and complied into volumes by Ryukishi 07.
The first two volumes draw their primary inspiration from question arcs, while the latter volumes draw inspiration from the answer arcs.
Serialisation information and a (currently incomplete) chapter listing can be found under More Info.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Kataribanashi-hen Comic Anthology EX. has finished publishing and it has 23 Chapters. It is also Known as: ひぐらしのなく頃に 語咄し編 コミックアンソロジーEX., Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Anthology, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hinageshi-hen, Omorashi de Naku Koro ni Kanwakyuukei-hen
2. Heads
This manga is a story based on a thriller by Keigo Higashino. The main protagonist, the shy Jun Naruse, is a rather average guy who works for a electronic company and loves to draw. He falls in love with Megumi whom he met at a shop selling drawing materials and an intimate relationship develops. A few days later the office gets attacked and when the criminal tries to shot a little girl he saves her by jumping in front of her.
A month pasts until he wakes up again and is told that half his brain got destroyed and he only survived because someone donated half a brain. Everything seems to be fine, he quickly recovers and is happy, however he begins to change...is the donated brain the reason for that? Or is it just a side effect of the medicine?
Heads has finished publishing and it has 36 Chapters. It is also Known as: ヘッズ, Heads
1. Uzumaki
Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...
Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2009. (Vol. 1)
Uzumaki Spiral into Horror has finished publishing and it has 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: うずまき, The Spiral
