Top 16 Dementia manga you should read right now. [2024 List]

16. 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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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

15. 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

14. Kimi ni Aisarete Itakatta

Kanae is a girl who is struggling to fit in with the popular clique at her high school. Because she had been bullied in middle school, she has developed an acute inferiority complex that had led her to engage in compensated dating in order to feel wanted.

In comes Hiroshi, a high-school baseball star who became drawn to her after finding her crying during a group date at a karaoke bar. Thus begins an unhealthy relationship between a mentally unstable high-school girl and a guy who will eventually knife her to death at the end.

Kimi ni Aisarete Itakatta is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 君に愛されて痛かった, You Loved Me So Much It Hurts, I Wanted to be Hurt by Love

13. Dangsini Saranghaneun Dongane

Duchess Helena Thordel has many secrets. One, her real name is Lila Violet. Two, she’s not actually an aristocrat. And three, she’s supposed to be in a loveless, contractual marriage with Duke Aslan Thordel, but in fact, she’s deeply in love with him. So when Aslan brings another woman into their home, Helena leaves so he can be happy. Or at least, that’s the plan until Aslan gets into an accident trying to chase after her! What if Helena’s one-sided love for her husband is two-sided after all?

When You're in Love is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: The as Long as You Love, While You're in Love, ยามเมื่อใจคุณมีรัก, あなたが愛する間に, 在爱你之时

12. Inugami Hakase

What is Inugami?

Inugami Hakase has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: 犬神博士, Inugami Expert

11. Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners

A teenage girl, who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the "death" of everything in existence and kill the object by destroying its "origin". She recently recovered from a two-year coma caused by a traffic accident. Prior to the traffic accident, she originally had two personalities, a male personality named Shiki (織), and the original female personality Shiki (式). Children born into the Ryougi family are generally male and are raised with two personalities, so the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It is easy to tell which Shiki is speaking at a given time because they both have a distinct style of speaking, most notably that the female Shiki refers to herself with the pronoun watashi (私), while male Shiki refers to himself as ore (俺). After waking from her coma, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the male Shiki's presence and assumes that he died because of the accident. She also feels a detachment from her memories before the accident, and while she knows she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is. In the hopes of regaining herself and the "dead" Shiki, she puts on a cold facade that somewhat resembles the male Shiki's and tries to act as the female Shiki did. Touko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality.

The series is regarded as being set in the same world as another TYPE-MOON series, Tsukihime, with Aoko Aozaki's sister Touko Aozaki being featured in this series and the protagonist of the series, Shiki Ryougi, possessing the same abilities as Tsukihime's protagonist, Shiki Tohno.

The Borderline of Emptiness has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: 空の境界 the Garden of sinners, Rakkyo, Boundry of Emptiness, The Borderline of Emptiness

10. Choudouryoku Mouko Daishuurai

The Ultra Power Mongol Invasion has finished publishing and it has 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: 超動力蒙古大襲来, Chou Douryoku Mouko Daishuurai

9. Shoujo Tsubaki

The basic plot is that an orphan girl named Midori is taken in (read: enslaved) by a traveling freak show. The freak show includes such unsavory characters as a mummyman, a snake woman, and a drooling man with no limbs. The owner of the freak show, the eponymous Mr. Arashi, is a strict man who allows his freaks very little freedom or joy in life. He is especially cruel to Midori, our heroine. Midori works, not as a freak since she is normal, but as a sort of caretaker of the freaks.

Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show has finished publishing and it has 8 Chapters. It is also Known as: 少女椿, Midori, Camelia Girl

8. Hokenshitsu no Shinigami

Hadesu Sensei is no ordinary middle school nurse. In fact, many students believe he is a shinigami. His excessive friendliness and eagerness to win his students' affection does little to offset his terrifying appearance. But, fortunately for this middle school, Hadesu Sensei is an expert at extracting "byouma", demons of disease, from possessed students!

Hokenshitsu no Shinigami has finished publishing and it has 87 Chapters. It is also Known as: 保健室の死神, The Shinigami Infirmary

7. Anamorphosis no Meijuu

A sort of horror-mystery, Anamorphosis revolves around a group of people invited to a contest wherein they have to stay in a supposedly haunted set for 48 hours after an evil murderous spirit is summoned to produce a recreation of the murder scene.
Over half of the book features this story and the rest is a collection of bizarre shorts designed to make you go
( ﾟдﾟ)！？

Anamorphosis no Meijuu has finished publishing and it has 10 Chapters. It is also Known as: アナモルフォシスの冥獣, The Dark Beast Animorphosis

6. AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga

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.

AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga

5. Dementia 21

What will nursing be like in the future?

Yukie Sakai, a home care giver, is a specialist for nursing patients under the serious condition. The patients are, for example, "Reddleman," the hero who used to protect peace on earth, and the president of an advanced nursing home in which everything is controlled by machines, and...!



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Tantei SumoKING (Detective SumoKING), India de Ransuu
Volume 2: Separate

Dementia 21 has finished publishing and it has 37 Chapters. It is also Known as: ディメンシャ 21, Separate, Tantei SumoKING, India de Ransuu

4. Holy Brownie

Two dolls, animated by the Divine Provvidence, sent by the world, in different times, to assist prayer people. Extra non-sense.

Holy Brownie has finished publishing and it has 30 Chapters. It is also Known as: Holy Brownie

3. Mashima-en

A collection of one-shots by Mashima Hiro
Vol 1:
Magician
Fairy Tale
Cocona
Plue's Adventures Pt. II
Vol 2:
Bad Boys Song
Magic Party
Christmas Hearts
Fighting Group Mixture

Mashima-en has finished publishing and it has 8 Chapters. It is also Known as: ましまえん, Magician, Fairy Tale, Cocona, Plue no Bouken Nikki II, Plue's Adventures Pt. II, Bad Boys Song, Magic Party, Xmas Hearts, Christmas Hearts, Kongou Sentai Mixture, Fighting Group Mixture

2. Me wo Mite Hanase

After a brutal beating at the hands of a group of thugs, a man wakes up to discover that the people around him no longer have eyes.

Look Me in the Eyes When You Talk has finished publishing and it has 1 Chapters. It is also Known as: 目を見て話せ, Me o Mite Hanase

1. Kijin Gahou

Collection of one-shots.
1. The Collection
About a girl who collects everything her crush touches.
2. Suck It
It's about a man who keeps a photographic album of women giving him blowjobs. Of course, no collection is complete without a little variety.
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6. Fetus Collection
A suicidal girl enters a little group of sick woman that made abortion a grotesque art. With usual Kago sick humor and nonsense.
7. Harakiri
A world where cutting your stomach is the newest fashionable trend among schoolgirls.
8. The Unscratchable Itch
Putting worms under skin can be an addictive pleasure.
9. Holy Night
Santa is terrorizing the Japanese by flooding everyone with unwanted gifts. The only way to stop Santa from sending more is to convince him that you’re happy with what you got, or so they believe.
The story is split between a girl trying to find a way to get Santa to stop sending her vibrators, and the various government schemes to try and capture or eliminate Santa."

Kijin Gahou has finished publishing and it has 9 Chapters. It is also Known as: 奇人画報, Atsumemomo, Harakiri, Fetus Collection, Holy Night, Suck It, The Unscratchable Itch, Kakkasouyou, Daisei'ya