Top 20 Dementia manga you should read right now. [2026 List]

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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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

19. 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

18. 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

17. 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

16. 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

15. Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners

A teenaged 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 Ryōgi 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 (オレ). 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 façade that somewhat resembles the male Shiki's and tries to act as the female Shiki did. Tōko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality.

is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 空の境界 the Garden of sinners, Kara no Kyoukai - The Garden of Sinners, Borderline of Emptiness, Rakkyo

14. Subete no Jidai wo Tsuujite no Satsujinjutsu

1. Kobito no Kutsuya (Little People of the Shoe Store)
2. Sanae-san no Nazo (Sanae-san's Mystery)
3. Geinin Jigoku-hen (Entertainer Hell)
4. Kirei na Kintama (Beautiful Testicles/Beautiful Goldenball)
5. Gekisatsu Friendly Park (Strong Poison Friendly Park)
6. Subete no Jidai wo Tsuujite no Kyuuketsujutsu (Blood-sucking Techniques Throughout the Ages)
7. Zipang Seihin wa Kowarenai (Zipangu Goods Aren't Broken)
8. Chimamire Mahou wa Ai no Jumon (Bloodstained Magic is a Love Spell)
9. Totsu no Sekai (Convex World)
10. Koi no Choujikuuhou (Love's Super Dimension Method)
11. Kokuu no Akui (The Void's Malice)

Subete no Jidai wo Tsuujite no Satsujinjutsu has finished publishing and it has 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: すべての時代を通じての殺人術, Murder Techniques Throughout the Ages

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 has finished publishing and it has 70 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. 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

11. 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

10. 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]
4. [unknown]
5. [unknown]
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

9. BAMBi Alternative

BAMBi Alternative has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: BAMBi 零 alternative, BAMBi Zero Alternative

8. 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

7. 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

6. Raccoon-san Apartment

Common Raccoon (from Kemono Friends) and her adventures in the apartment she is staying in.

Raccoon-san Apartment is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Arai-san Mansion, アライさんマンション, Raccoon-san Mansion

5. 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

4. 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

3. 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

2. 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

1. Roman Album: Taishou Dennou Dadaism Emaki - Despera

The story centers around a 12 year old girl named Ain, who often builds random devicess despite the lack of scientific background for them. The sci-fi alternative period story is set in Tokyo during the Taisho era in 1922, one year before the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake.



Note: There are some differences in story between serialized version and published book.

Roman Album: Taishou Dennou Dadaism Emaki - Despera has finished publishing and it has 13 Chapters. It is also Known as: Roman Album 大正電脳ダダイズム絵巻 ですぺら, Desupera