Top 20 Manga With Serial Killers
If you’re looking for the best manga with serial killers, look no further.
Why do serial killers kill? They are not motivated by our familiar passions or momentarily mental instabilities. For them, killing fulfills a need that requires a certain level of darkness to conceptualize. They are compelled to kill, and their crimes are incomprehensible, whether they do it for deranged righteous reasonings or a yearning to feel warm blood near the contrast of a cold body. Through these serial killer mangas, you'll meet murderers with charming or stone-cold personalities, all with one thing in common behind them: a trail of victims.
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1.My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought
親愛なる僕へ殺意をこめて - Shinai naru Boku e Satsui wo Komete
Going to sleep on October 23rd, Eiji Urashima woke up on the 27th with no recollection of how he had spent the previous days. To his surprise, his life has significantly changed for the better: a gorgeous girl from his university is lying by his side and claims to be his new girlfriend. Eiji sees this as a blessing from God and does not further question his mysterious amnesia. But as the event happens more frequently, he finds his life - the part he remembers - becoming entangled in a spiral of events linking a series of 15-year-old serial killings to new ones.
+Volume: 11
+Chapters: 98
+Published: 2018 to 2020
+Genres: Drama - Mystery - Suspense - Psychological
+Authors: Inoryuu Hajime [Story] Itou Shouta [Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Comic Days
2.Mouryou no Hako
魍魎の匣 - Moryo's Box
When the town of Mitaka and Musashino bear witness to a series of bizarre and mysterious murders of schoolgirls, the curiosity of crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi and news magazine editor Morihiko Toriguchi are peaked. As they relocate to the vicinity, the pair begins to closely follow this series of unusual serial killing crimes in order to solve it. Slowly, new evidence emerges in the form of boxes stuffed with dismembered arms and legs.
+Volumes: 5
+Chapters: 10
+Published: 2007 to 2010
+Genres: Horror - Mystery - Supernatural - Psychological
+Authors: Kyougoku Natsuhiko [Story] Shimizu Aki [Art]
+Serialization/Other works: Comic Kwai
3.MPD PSYCHO
多重人格探偵サイコ - TAJŪ-JINKAKU TANTEI SAIKO
This manga follows Yosuke Kobayashi, a police detective working on what seems to be a serial killer case. The murders he comes across are very gruesome and violent, as the killer's signature is the delicate and meticulous mutilation of his victim's limbs. The series gradually evolves into a complex story that shows the detective slowly drowning into the depths of insanity as he starts to understand and perhaps even relate to the killer's ideas and cold-blooded desires.
+Volumes: 24
+Chapters: 155
+Published: 1996 to 2016
+Genres: Mystery - Police - Psychological
+Authors: Shouu Tajima [Art] + Eiji Otsuka, [Story]
+Serialization/Other work: Kadokawa Shoten
4.Museum
ミュージアム - The Serial Killer Is Laughing in the Rain
Museum is a serial killing manga that wraps its readers in a constant sense of tension. As you flip or scroll through panels doused in blood, you’ll keep wondering when the next attack of the serial killer will occur, who will be his next victim, and more importantly: how will he kill them - as he has a penchant for novelty-? As the story edges on, a detective slowly gets pushed toward the other side of the law.
+Volumes: 3
+Chapters: 28
+Published: 2013 to 2014
+Genres: Horror
+Authors: Tomoe Ryousuke [Story&Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Young Magazine (Weekly)
5.Erased
僕街 - BOKU DAKE GA INAI MACHI
Erased follows Satoru Fujinuma, a struggling manga artist turned pizza deliveryman who discovers he possesses a time-traveling ability called Revival. Using it, he goes back in time in the hopes of solving a series of mysterious murders that took place: that of his mother and childhood friend. Although this plot might seem unoriginal, the story is superbly executed through various minor details that connect to one another and form an intricate web of instability, madness, and slaughter - and a serial killer at its center.
+Volumes:
+Chapters:
+Published: 2000 to 2009
+Genres:
+Authors: Yaginuma, Kou [Story & Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Comic Flapper
6.Yuureitou
幽麗塔 - The Ghost Tower
Yuureitou somehow manages to incorporate heavy horror elements into drama, gore, and violence, mixing in comedy along the way and making it all work. The story follows a graphic series of murders, all similarly perpetrated. The victims are attached to a clock tower, and as the needles slowly rotate towards the next minute and hours, their bones are slowly broken, and their muscles shredded to pieces until finally: death is reached.
+Volumes: 9
+Chapters: 80
+Published: 2010 to 2014
+Genres: Drama - Horror - Mystery - Romance
+Authors: Nogizaka Tarou [Art&Story]
+Serialization/Other work: Big Comic Superior
7.Route End
Route End brings a breath of originality to mangas with serial killers as it is not told from the perspective of the murderer, victim, or law enforcers. Instead, the story follows Haruno, a young man who works as a cleaner for a company specializing in cleaning dead bodies and their remaining traces. At the start of his job, he encounters natural deaths and suicide. But one day, he is dispatched to a scene so terrorizing and eerie it leaves him at a loss for reactions. There he finds a dismembered body whose parts are laid out to spell ‘END’ - a word he will soon start to encounter on many of his job assignments.
+Volumes: 8
+Chapters: 55
+Published: 2017 to 2019
+Genres: Mystery - Suspense - Detective
+Authors: Nakagawa Kaiji [Story & Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Shounen Jump+
8.Monster
Monster is probably one of the best manga ever created to represent a methodic and calculating cold-blooded serial killer. Many characters’ lives intertwine through the storyline, all linked by one person: a charming and collected psychopath who seems to enjoy watching people suffer and finds delight and ecstasy in watching his victim’s pulse succumb to his calculated and twisted acts.
+Volumes: 18
+Chapters: 162
+Published: 1994 to 2001
+Genres: Drama + Mystery + Suspense + Psychological
+Authors: Urasawa Naoki [Story & Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Big Comic Original
9.Murdist: Shikeishuu Kazami Tazuru
マーディスト ―死刑囚・風見多鶴―
Tazuru Kazami is someone the world calls a "Murdist," a murderer whose victims can only be described as works of art. The end to her 89-body killing spree only came after she surrendered herself to the authorities. However, her legacy lives on through numerous copycats who emulate her deeds in desire for fame, bathing Japan in blood. Shrouded in mystery, she offers information on these criminals, but only to one person: Yuki Otohito, a seemingly average college student.
+Volumes: +2
+Chapters: +14
+Published: 2021 to Present
+Genres: Detective - Psychological - Suspense
+Authors: Handa Hotori [Story] Yutoto [Art]
+Serialization/Other works: Comic Gene
10.Murciélago
Murcielago isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, especially if you can’t stand ecchi, as it has a lot of it. Still, I couldn’t create a list recommending mangas with serial killers without mentioning it. The story follows Kuroko Koumori, a woman serial killer whose insanity has led her to murder 715 people. As she sits on death row, playfully awaiting the end, the government decides to strike a deal with her: in exchange for her life, she will serve as a State-Appointed Executioner, hunting down other killers.
+Volumes: +22
+Chapters: +153
+Published: 2013 to Present
+Genres: Action - Horror - Erotica
+Creator: Yoshimura Kana [Story&Art]
+Serialization/Other works: Young Gangan
11.YUUKOKU NO MORIARTY
憂国のモリアーティ - MORIARTY THE PATRIOT
In the 19th century, Great Britain ruled the world through its rigid economic hierarchy. Those born in its underprivileged ranks stood no chance of joining those of the aristocracy and had to content themselves with a life of labor and poverty. Living in a noble world, James Moriarty harbored a feeling of deep hatred for his fellow aristocrats and was always searching for a way to make things change. One day, he encounters William, an orphan whose intellectual capacities seem to surpass even the most scholarly of noblemen. Through his veils of smile and charming attitude, William is actually a killer, although he prefers offering his victims to the people that most want to kill them instead of directly bloodying his own hands. Together, the two will change the course of history.
+Volumes: +18
+Chapters: +72
+Published: 2016 to Present
+Genres: Mystery - Psychological
+Authors: Takeuchi Ryousuke [Story] + Miyoshi Hikaru[Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Jump SQ.
12.DOMU: A CHILD’S DREAM
童夢 - DŌMU
Domu is the story of a small ecosystem of apartments and their tenants spiraling into chaos and slaughter. A police force is first dispatched to investigate a series of 32 suicides that seem to all have taken place in the same location. The investigation fails to detect the culprit and explain how all these individuals have fallen to their death from the heights of an unreachable roof.
+Volumes: 1
+Chapters: 4
+Published: 1980 to 1981
+Genres: Horror - Supernatural
+Authors: Katsuhiro Otomo [Story & Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Action Deluxe
13.LESSON OF THE EVIL
悪の教典 - AKU NO KYOUTEN
In the hallowed halls of Shinkou Academy Machida High, no one is more capable and beloved than the charismatic and handsome teacher Seiji Hasumi, who is always willing to go the extra mile for his students. But beneath his charming facade lies a psychopath who manipulates people and events around him so that everything goes his way. From dealing with troublesome parents and bullies to unruly delinquents, no problem is too big for Hasumi, as he orchestrates events at the school and even murders people in order to build it into his own perfect kingdom.
+Volumes: 9
+Chapters: 36
+Published: 2012 to 2015
+Genres: Horror - Suspense - Psychological - School
+Authors: Kishi Yusuke [Story] Karasuyama Eiji [Art]
+Serialization/Other works: good! Afternoon
14.FREESIA
フリージア
Freesia takes place in a dystopian society where a law legalizing retaliatory killings has been passed. Japanese citizens now have the right to kill or hire someone to kill murderers of all kinds. As you might grasp from this initial storyline, this isn't a rosy manga. The main protagonist, as well as the set of people we encounter, are almost all devoid of any real saneness. Characters are insane, psychopathic, sociopathic, and sometimes even idealists, becoming licensed retaliatory serial killers to satisfy a self-righteous need or the growing void they find in themselves. You won't find cocoons of warmth and safety throughout these panels. There is no embellishment or some higher moral grounds. Here, discomfort, gore, and violence rule in an inhumane and disgusting atmosphere.
+Volumes: 12
+Chapters: 84
+Published: 2001 to 2009
+Genres: Action - Drama - Psychological
+Authors: Matsumoto Jiro [Story & Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Ikki
15.Death note
デスノート
When he accidentally acquires a Death Note - a notebook that grants its user the ability to kill whoever's name they write on it - Light Yagami decides to take on the roles of both judge and executor of criminals. Intoxicated with this newfound god-like power, he views himself as the world's new messiah. But members of the social order who take notice of a new unexplainable series of deaths deem the mysterious perpetrator as a cold-blooded serial killer with sociopathic tendencies. Consequently, justice intertwines with wickedness in a tale of morally gray areas full of suspense and existential questions.
+Volumes: +12
+Chapters: +108
+Published: 2003 to 2006
+Genres: Supernatural - Suspense - Psychological
+Authors: Ohba Tsugumi [Story] Obata Takeshi [Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Shounen Jump (Weekly)
16.LifE
生存―LifE - Seison LifE
Takeda is diagnosed with cancer and feels that he has nothing to live for. Hopeless, he decides to end his life. But when he is about to hang himself, the phone rings: the police have just found the corpse of his daughter, Sawako, who disappeared more than 14 years ago. Under Japanese law, the statute of limitations for murder only lasts 15 years. Takeda has only six months left: six months to live, six months to find his daughter's killer and deliver him to the authorities. After 14 years of silence and obscurity, the family ties are reborn...
+Volumes: 3
+Chapters: 23
+Published: 1999 to 2000
+Genres: Drama - Mystery
+Authors: Fukumoto Nobuyuki [Story] Kawaguchi Kaiji [Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Young Magazine Uppers
17.SHAMO
軍鶏
The story begins as young Ryo Narusihma, armed with a small knife, brutally murders his parents in a living room, now tinted with blood. Shamo differs significantly from other manga in that the story's protagonist is actually an unrepentant and often unsympathetic criminal. Throughout the manga, Ryo Narushima spirals into darkness, his chances at reform slowly ebbing away as he gives in to more and more of his depraved, brutal, and grotesque serial killer tendencies.
+Volumes: 34
+Chapters: 338
+Published: 1998 to 2015
+Genres: Action - Drama - Martial Arts - Psychological
+Authors: Akio Tanaka [Story & Art] + Izou Hashimoto [Story]
18.Denjin N
電人N
Tadahiro Nasu spends most of his time watching VR performances of an idol he veneers: Misaki Kanzaki, the only source of happiness in a life he otherwise hates. To pay his bills, he works at a convenience store under a manager who seems to despise him as much as his parents do. But one day, as he puts on his VR set, something goes wrong, and he becomes pure electricity. His newfound power allows him to inhabit electrical objects of all kinds and even manipulate them. In this form, he decides to become the guardian of Misaki Kanzaki, swearing that he’ll do everything he can to make her Japan’s biggest idol, even if he needs to kill people in the way.
+Volumes: 4
+Chapters: 37
+Published: 2019 to 2020
+Genres: Drama - Mystery - Sci-Fi - Suspense - Psychological
+Authors: Kuraishi Yuu [Story] Inabe Kazu [Art]
+Serialization/Other work: Comic Days
19.BRUTAL: SATSUJIN KEISATSUKAN NO KOKUHAKU
ブルータル 殺人警察官の告白 - BRUTAL: CONFESSIONS OF A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR
Through scenes of intense graphic violence, this manga follows the story of Hiroki Dan, a diligent police detective known for his high number of closed cases. Hiroki believes in the law and firmly abides by it but sometimes finds it lacking when it fails to toutch perpetrators that seem to be beyond its reach. On these occasions, he takes matters into his own hands, both deciding and inflicting the final verdict on criminals who become victims of his cold and calculated rage. Although the plot might seem a bit cliche for fans of the genre, it is well-executed and will send a chill or two down your spine.
+Volume: +5
+Chapters: +19
+Published: 20019 to
+Genres: Detective - Psychological - Drama
+Authors: Izawa Ryou [Art] Koga Kei [Story]
+Serialization/Other work: Comic Tatan
20.THIS MAN: DEATH TO THOSE WHO SEE THAT FACE
その顔を見た者には死を- THIS MAN: SONO KAO WO MITA MONO NI WA SHI WO
This manga is based on an urban legend, which began when a woman told her psychiatrist that she had been seeing the face of a man she had never met before in her dreams. More than 3,000 people all over the world have claimed to see "This Man" while dreaming since then. In present-day Japan, Hakaru Amano, an investigator who works with facial composites, is asked by a mother and daughter to draw the face of a man who illegally trespassed on their premises. He comes up with the face of "This Man." The story of a serial killer begins to unfold.
+Volumes: 5
+Chapters: 43
+Published: 2018 to 2019
+Genres: Mystery - Shounen - Thriller
+Authors: Karin Sora [Story]+ Megumi Kouji [Art]
+Serialization/Other works: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)
