What is this genre all about? Stories that have mind-destroying plots. The goal of dementia stories is to mess with the audience's mind through the characters progress into insanity.
We present you the list of Dementia manga you should read right now.
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Top 18 Dementia manga you should read right now. [2026 List]
- 18. Uzumaki
- 17. Kimi ni Aisarete Itakatta
- 16. Inugami Hakase
- 15. Comics Underground Japan
- 14. Garden
- 13. Anamorphosis no Meijuu
- 12. Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners
- 11. Shoujo Tsubaki
- 10. Super-Conductive Brains
- 9. Banji Kaichou
- 8. Kijin Gahou
- 7. Taisougi
- 6. Mashima-en
- 5. Jisatsu Yuugi
- 4. Otoko wa Ookami na no yo?
- 3. Lunatic Lover's
- 2. Orochi
- 1. Yume Nikki
18. 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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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
17. 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
16. 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
15. Comics Underground Japan
Comics Underground Japan presents the wild, subversive world of Japan’s most accomplished underground comics artists. Some of the dozen artists included in this anthology will be familiar to followers of manga; others make their American debut in these pages. The richly imaginative stories in this volume show a great range of graphic style, from painstakingly detailed craftsmanship to exuberant, maniacal renderings. At the heart of each work in this anthology is a unique personal vision and a fierce artistic compulsion–these manga artists are the misfits of the art form, and they are its visionaries.
Included stories are:
1. "Hell's Angel" by Yoshikaze Ebisu
2. "It's All Right if Yiu Don't Understand" by Yoshikaze Ebisu
3. "Steel Pipe Melancholia" by Masakazu Toma
4. "Future Sperm Brazil" by Takashi Nemoto
5. "A Love Like Lemons" by Carol Shimoda
6. "Selfish Carol's Summer Vacation" by Carol Shimoda
7. "Mercy Flesh (Jiniku)" by Kazuichi Hanawa
8. "Don Quixote #1 & #2" by Yasuji Tanioka
9. "Planet of the Jap" by Suehiro Maruo
10. "Mary’s Asshole" by Hanako Yamada
11. "Volvox" by Pan Migawa
12. "Bigger and Better" by Muddy Wehara
13. "Laughing Ball" by Hideshi Hino
14. "Cat Noodle Soup" by Hajime Yamano & Nekojiru
Comics Underground Japan has finished publishing and it has 14 Chapters. It is also Known as: Comics Underground Japan
14. Garden
"Garden" is a collection of Furuya Usamaru's “indie” shorts that were published in Comic Cue, Manga Erotics and GARO respectively. The title is obviously a reference to Hieronymus Bosch’s famous triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, with the first story being a homage to said painting. The other stories range from absurd comedies to fantasy to horror. It’s a very eclectic mixture, but make no mistake: artistically, Garden might just be Furuya’s most accomplished work after The Music of Marie.
Garden has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: Ratai no Kigen, The Origin of Nudity, Tenshi no Fellatio, Angelic Fellatio, YumeKana, Umi kara Kita Kikai, The Machine That Came from the Sea, Tsuki no Sho, The Book of the Moon, Egao de Sayounara, Say Goodbye with a Smile, Emi-chan
13. 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
12. 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
11. 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
10. Super-Conductive Brains
This manga presents different stories settled in a future world in which biomechanoids of any kind are created for every purpose.
All the stories, through different angles and in a somewhat bizzare fashion, explore the same theme:are they mere machines or do they dream of electric sheeps?
Super-Conductive Brains has finished publishing and it has 6 Chapters. It is also Known as: 超伝脳パラタクシス, Super-Conductive Brains - Parataxis, Choudennou Paraxis, Super-Conductive Brains: Parataxis
9. Banji Kaichou
Shintaro Kago one shot collection
Everything's Peaceful:
A doctor suffering from neurosis has trouble separating the real world from the dream world.
Banji Kaichou has finished publishing and it has 14 Chapters. It is also Known as: 万事快調, Everything's Perfect, Everything's Peaceful
8. 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
7. Taisougi
A funeral is on and all the people with fetishes about funerals start searching for it.
- Disks
Technician get obssesed about slicing everything. Things get worse when his wife is killed. Disturbing and similar to Suck it.
- Drunkard Condo Syndrome
Endless stream of salary-men confusing the floor they live on and bursting into flats of other people.
Taisougi has finished publishing and it has 9 Chapters. It is also Known as: 大葬儀, The Big Funeral, Discs, Disks, Drunkard Condo Syndrome
6. 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
5. Jisatsu Yuugi
A self-published one shot, by Shintaro Kago.
Jisatsu Yuugi has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: 自殺遊戯, How to Suicide
4. Otoko wa Ookami na no yo?
Shiino Tazumura is a bit of an odd girl. One day in a park, beside what is rumoured to be a haunted house, she discovers a beautiful dog injured behind the bushes whose wounds she tends to. The next day, a beautiful boy resembling the dog shows up on her doorstep...
Men Are Wolves? has not yet been published. It is also Known as: 男はオオカミなのよ?, Men Are Wolves?
3. Lunatic Lover's
A collection of various stories by Suehiro Maruo.
Lunatic Lover's has finished publishing and it has 8 Chapters. It is also Known as: 月的愛人 ルナティックラヴァーズ, Lunatic Lovers, Tsuki-teki Aijin, Tsukiteki Aijin
2. Orochi
Ultracreepy horror comic from Japan's supreme master of the genre. Each volume is a short story on to its own.
Blood
Set at first inside a gigantic, weird mansion, this tale is a story about two sisters. The older one, Kazusa, is the perfect sister, but the younger one, Lisa, is always scorned as inferior in comparison.
One night after fighting with her husband, Lisa goes on a drunk-driving spree and crashes into another car. Fortunately, a mysterious girl named Orochi is there to divert the car enough, so that Lisa's injuries aren't fatal. As a result though, Orochi falls asleep for several decades.
Eventually, Orochi wakes to find that she's being taken into the mansion where the two sisters now live together as older women where the truth gradually emerges where we find out the true nature of these sisters.
Orochi: Blood has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: おろち, Orochi
1. Yume Nikki
Official manga adaptation of the RPGMaker game, Yume Nikki illustrated by Hitoshi Tomizawa, serialized in Takeshobo's web manga magazine Manga Life Win+. Madotsuki is a girl that always dreams with the same landscape. Finally, she decides to start exploring her dreams, searching for answers.
Yume Nikki has finished publishing and it has 10 Chapters. It is also Known as: ゆめにっき, Dream Diary
