Branded under the genre of psychological horror, this manga is an altogether otherworldly experience. Nijigahara Holographis significantly different from all of Asano’s other mangas. His best works include mangas like A Girl on the shore, Solanin and Goodbye Punpun. He has often been described as a voice of the generation. Inio Asano isn’t just one of the most popular manga artists in the west, he is also one of Japan’s best ones.
Homunculusis a must-read, especially if you have even minor interest in psychology 4. In fact, to get a better hang of his character, Yamamoto even lived among the homeless. It isn’t hard to recognize where all his hard work went. It took Hideo Yamamoto around eight years to finish it. After the process, he begins to see the homunculi of people (which is something like their psychological selves).īoth in terms of the themes that it explores and in its out of the box artworks, Homunculus is truly magnanimous. Homunculus is about a guy who was once rich but now homeless and who agrees to go through a process called trepanation. The story of this manga is surely better than what you’d find in any mainstream Hollywood movie, so don’t be surprised if you come across a movie adaptation of it in near future. We don’t know how scientifically accurate its story is, but you can be sure that you would find plenty of food for thought in this one. What if someone takes out one half of your brain and puts in someone else’s brain in place of it? Would you remain the same person or would you change? This is the existential dilemma that KeigoHigashino explores in this intriguing manga. We recommend you to check both as they have slightly different plots that somehow complement each other. In addition, its 1988 movie adaptation, which was also directed by Otomo is great too. Its techno-futurist setting, wide array of characters and underlying themes like power and alienation are good enough to make one of the greatest mangas ever written. KatushiroOtomo has drawn it in a way that makes each page of this masterpiece worthy of hanging in a museum. It was path breaking in more than one way, and you simply can’t start a discussion about mature mangas without mentioning it. Akira by KatushiroOtomoĪlthough it was written and drawn in the 1980s, Akira never gets old. 7 Must read mangas for a mature audience 1.
Let’s take a look at seven such superb mangas. These deal with everything from the poetical to the psychological and existential, something that is meant exclusively for the mature people.
We develop such misconceptions because most of us are unaware of some really good mature mangas out there.
Owing to popular manga titles like Dragon Ball, Naruto, and One Piece, most of us think that mangasaren’t for a mature audience.
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