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. [2024 List]
- 18. Uzumaki
- 17. Kimi ni Aisarete Itakatta
- 16. Dangsini Saranghaneun Dongane
- 15. Hokenshitsu no Shinigami
- 14. Heads
- 13. Boku Mushi
- 12. Taisougi
- 11. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Kataribanashi-hen Comic Anthology EX.
- 10. Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners
- 9. Yume Nikki
- 8. Dead Heads
- 7. The Voices That Call Me
- 6. Shoujo Tsubaki
- 5. Comics Underground Japan
- 4. Eden Ui Wang
- 3. Drag-On Dragoon: Shi ni Itaru Aka
- 2. Raccoon-san Apartment
- 1. Inugami Hakase
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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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. 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
15. 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
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. Boku Mushi
A collection of sixteen early works by Nishioka Kyodai, including their three-part debut series. As always the stories range from the whimsical to the surreal, with tales of serial killers, bird women, and a man who one day wakes to find himself with a pouch like a kangaroo.
1. Jump
2. Boku Mushi
3. Aru Kinzoku Bat Jisatsu
4. Mono no Okibasho
5. Torikago
6. Kaze no Fuiteiru Hi
7. Ame no Futteiru Hi
8. Nichiyoubi
9. Tanjoubi
10. Satsujinki-P no Noroi
11-12. Yoru
13. Harigane
14. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Tobirabito
15. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Kangaroo no Matsuei
16. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Shinkei
Boku Mushi has finished publishing and it has 16 Chapters. It is also Known as: ぼく虫―西岡兄妹初期作品集, Nishioka Kyoudai Shoki Sakuhinshuu, Me-Bug, Jump, Aru Kinzoku Bat Jisatsu, Mono no Okibasho, Torikago, Kaze no Fuiteiru Hi, Ame no Futteiru Hi, Nichiyoubi, Tanjoubi, Satsujinkino Noroi, Yoru, Harigane, Boku ga Koroshita Mono
12. 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
11. 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
10. 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
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. Dead Heads
First issue of a canceled series; collected (in thumbnails) in Blame and So on (Artbook)
Dead Heads has finished publishing and it has 1 Chapters. It is also Known as: デッド・ヘッズ, Dead Heads
7. The Voices That Call Me
A Hikikomori hears voices that lead him to a young girls apartment.
The Voices That Call Me has finished publishing and it has 1 Chapters. It is also Known as: The Voices That Call Me
6. 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
5. 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
4. 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
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. 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
1. 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
