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 19 Dementia manga you should read right now. [2024 List]
- 19. Uzumaki
- 18. While You’re In Love
- 17. Kimi ni Aisarete Itakatta
- 16. Super-Conductive Brains
- 15. Dementia 21
- 14. Heads
- 13. Garden
- 12. Hokenshitsu no Shinigami
- 11. Shoujo Tsubaki
- 10. Nanako SOS
- 9. Yume Nikki
- 8. Pugyuru
- 7. Kijin Gahou
- 6. Eden Ui Wang
- 5. Jovantore
- 4. Jisatsu Yuugi
- 3. Gunmania
- 2. Drag-On Dragoon: Shi ni Itaru Aka
- 1. K-Dash
19. 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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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
18. While You’re In Love
I actually knew the truth. «I didn’t marry my wife because I loved her.» So it’s not his fault. It was all my fault to have false expectations. «I just signed a contract with her based on needs.» Three years as his wife. I tried hard to be the right woman for him, but I couldn’t get a piece of his heart. «I didn’t know it would last this long. It’s annoying.» I was nothing to him to the extent that I was thrown away as soon as the heroine appeared. In the end, the main character was the main character and the extra was the extra. No matter how hard I try, I’m just an annoying extra. The role hasn’t changed. So it’s right for me to leave. «I’m sorry I’ve been bothering you all this time. Please be happy with her.»
While You’re In Love is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: WYIL
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. 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
15. 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
14. 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
13. 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
12. 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
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. Nanako SOS
Nanako is a supergirl. She became a friend of Yotsuya and Idabashi, a genius who think all time to money and an otaku.
She can fly, has super strength and she is smart and shy.
The story unfolds as Nanako encounters a variety of dangerous missions and mysterious events, but her natural sunny disposition helps her through all the incidents as she solves each mystery one after the other.
Grotesque and hilarious manga that became an '80 cult.
Nana the supergirl has finished publishing and it has 58 Chapters. It is also Known as: ななこSOS, Nanako S.O.S., Nanako the Supergirl
9. 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
8. Pugyuru
Ma*** is a seemlingly ordinary girl who one day meets a tiny maid-creature named Cheko-chan. However, she is not what most anime/manga fans think of as a maid, but instead a strange creature with lots of mysterious and funny behaviors. Soon more friends of Cheko arrive for more and more weird side characters. It is a 4 panel comic strip.
Pugyuru has finished publishing and it has 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: ぷぎゅる, Pugyuru
7. 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.
3. [unknown]
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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
6. Eden Ui Wang
A remote village massacred in Andalusia. A single man apprehended wading through the aftermath. But the killer they've brought down from the mountains is entirely impossible for them to retain...The world has been stained by blood before. So it shall be again.
King of Eden has finished publishing and it has 51 Chapters. It is also Known as: 에덴의 왕, Eden-ui Wang, The King of Eden
5. Jovantore
At first glance, Rita is a completely normal young woman. What no one can tell from looking at her is that since she was a child she has been plagued by a penetrating ticking sound that seems to come directly from inside her head. The doctors are also at a loss. But when Rita has already given up hope for a cure, she meets a mysterious old witch who, of all things, gives her a watch...
Jovantore has finished publishing and it has 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: Jovantore
4. 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
3. Gunmania
Bando Eiji is a hitman (Though he hates to be called as such...) with more than a few screws loose.
This 3 chapter mini-series from the creator of Hellsing follows the escapades of the demented Bando as he picks off one target after another whilst simultaneously confusing the hell out of onlookers with his unhinged mental disposition!
Gunmania has finished publishing and it has 3 Chapters. It is also Known as: ガンマニア, Gunmania
2. Drag-On Dragoon: Shi ni Itaru Aka
One, a mysterious and quiet young girl who is known as "The Former Songstress", seems to hold deep resentments for a certain dragon.
Drakengard: Fatal Crimson has finished publishing and it has 21 Chapters. It is also Known as: DRAG-ON DRAGOON 死ニ至ル赤, Drakengard: The Red Unto Death
1. K-Dash
K' (K-Dash) is a four volume doujinshi compilation released by Kodansha containing oneshots by a number of different authors and artists.
The first two issues contained short stories by published mangaka such as CLAMP and Ikumi Mia (amongst others).
The first issue was released in December 2002 at Comiket 63, while the second was released in March 2003 to commemorate the opening of the K-Square store.
These two issues contained short comedic stories from CLAMP; Tokyo Tower Kankeisha Kakui (characters from Chobits, Rayearth and Cardcaptor Sakura running into each other in the Tokyo Tower) and Murikuri Holic (Watanuki and Yuuko working at the K-Square store while characters from Murikuri look on)
The third and fourth issues consisted primarily of work from doujinshi artists.
: Ephidel/MAL
K-Dash is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: K', Another Side of K, 東京 タワー 関係 者 各位, Tokyo Tower Kankeisha Kakui, Everybody is allowed in the Tokyo Tower, むりくりHOLiC, MuriKuri Holic, xXxHOLiC & MuriKuri, CLAMP especial crossover
