Jiro Tenge, the second son of what used to be an influential Japanese family, returns home after being a POW in an American camp during the Second World War. He finds his family corrupted by the terrible social aftereffects of the war.
His elder brother, determined to keep what remains of the family patrimony after the Government's forced land reallocation, has prostituted his wife to his father to secure his blessing, while other members of Jiro's family have been drawn into similar corruption, and he himself is being forced to spy for the Americans after being broken as a POW. Now the family's youngest daughter Ayako will have to bear the brunt of the family's sins.
Ayako is finished and has 3 Volumes and 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: 奇子, Ayako
Genres: Historical, Drama, Seinen, Romance, Psychological, Conspiracy
Top 5 Manga Like Ayako [2022 List]
- 5. Chichi no Koyomi
- 4. Hadashi no Gen
- 3. Shoujo Tsubaki
- 2. MW
- 1. Ningen Konchuuki
5. Chichi no Koyomi
A family is devastated by the Great Tottori Fire of 1952, but the family comes to terms with the disaster and breaks free from the bonds holding them back.
Chichi no Koyomi is finished and has 1 Volumes and 12 Chapters. It is also Known as: 父の暦, My Father's Journal
4. Hadashi no Gen
The childhood of Keiji Nakazawa dies on a sunny Monday morning. The biggest mass destruction weapon in human history is thrown at the Japanese town Hiroshima. 20 years after the incident Nakazawa begins to work up the gruesome events of his childhood and begins to draw manga.
Barefoot Gen is finished and has 10 Volumes and 54 Chapters. It is also Known as: はだしのゲン, Barefoot Gen - Bomb on Hiroshima
3. Shoujo Tsubaki
The basic plot is that an orphan girl named Midori is taken in 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 is finished and has 1 Volumes and 8 Chapters. It is also Known as: 少女椿, Midori, Camelia Girl
2. MW
Gurai is a Japanese Catholic Priest, who is unable to give up his lifelong sexual relationship with Yuki, a beautiful and sadistic young master criminal. Yuki's malicious crimes have become more and more extreme over the years, claiming many innocent lives, and Gurai is tormented by guilt at his inability to stop them...
MW is finished and has 3 Volumes and 26 Chapters. It is also Known as: MW, MW
1. Ningen Konchuuki
"Human Metamorphosis," a satirical Manga depicting human society compared to the insect world, focuses on the life of a devious woman. Tomura Toshiko, who is said to be a genius, is a rising star writer. Her novel wins the Akutagawa Prize for the best novel of the year. While she attends the award ceremony, another woman named Usuba Kageri commits suicide in another place. It turns out that Kageri and Toshiko used to live together, and the awarded novel was copied from Kageri's transcript. Toshiko is like a parasite: approaching talented people one after another, squeezing everything out of them and stealing their works for her own fame. Behind her success story, she has her secrets.
The Book of Human Insects is finished and has 2 Volumes and 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: 人間昆虫記, Human Metamorphosis
