Manga with Philosophical genre:

Devil King

In Kitakaruizawa, a human larger-than-life springs forth from the Kobayakawa Research Center in the middle of the night. That same human, in an instant of pain and agony, turns to dust and is swept away by a forceful gale across the landscape, a tremendous sight witnessed only by clan of truck drivers rushing down the late-night highway. The experiment of Doctor Kobayakawa ends in a disappointing failure, yet the elder brother of a young Akio makes the acquaintance of the Doctor, unmistakably a trap, one bearing the danger of a new experiment…

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Chapter 16

3 years ago
Monsters Demons Survival Office Workers Post-Apocalyptic Military Gore School Life Police Supernatural Thriller Sci-Fi Action Psychological Comedy Crime Adventure Philosophical Drama Horror Slice of Life Mystery Tragedy
Tell Me A Lie

Tell Me A Lie is about a girl, Terumi Arai, who has the ability to read a person's mind when she looks into their eyes.

Psychological Philosophical Drama Slice of Life Mystery Tragedy
Black Blizzard

Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length tankobon and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five decades later will make him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America. Susumu Yamaji, a 24-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station, where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer.

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Chapter 2.1

3 years ago
Survival Mafia Office Workers Police Thriller Action Psychological Romance Crime Adventure Philosophical Drama Mystery Tragedy
I Got Permission to Leave Work for Depression, Lied to My Girlfriend About Taking a Long Business Trip, and Went on a 1-Month Journey

The one-shot is about the protagonist's goal of going North on his scooter, and Aso said that the story is "90% a story of my own personal experience." The manga is Aso's first to be published in Young Magazine.<br /><br />The manga is the seventh one-shot published as part of Weekly Young Magazine's 35th anniversary BULLET project. The project is publishing 35 one-shots over a one-year period.

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Philosophical Slice of Life
Okashiratsuki

Hiyama Nachi has always hated that she didn't tan in the sun like her teammates in the softball club. The difference made her stand out and uncomfortable. Then she met a kind, quiet boy, and accidentally discovered his secret, a secret that made him different beyond what she could imagine!

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Chapter 24

3 years ago
Romance Philosophical Drama Slice of Life
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Cheer Haru (Doujinshi)

There is something different about Haruhi Suzumiya today and Kyon plans to get to the bottom of this change in her mood.

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Sci-Fi Romance Comedy Philosophical Mystery
Kono ato Mechakucha Rabukome Shita

I like romantic comedies. However, romance doesn't develop like that in reality. There was once a time where I thought that. Encountering a girl who fell from the sky, my school life changes with a clang.

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Chapter 6

3 years ago
Romance Comedy Philosophical Slice of Life
Nina Stardust

This world is full of strange wonders: giant snakehead fishes fall from space, planets are sold and bought, toy monkeys start conversations, a ¥ 300 million lottery hit is won, and special motors make islands fly! After being dumped in a garbage dump the past records of the robot Debris-kun (memory) disappeared into stardust. Due to a chance encounter, the pretty high schooler Nina picked him up stating she would not be a robot master but a teacher. So they lived together with her talented slacker husband Tahei. "After one year, five years later, 10 years later…and 50 years later…" Every time you go through a volume, time is progressing very quickly in this work.A robot does not grow old, but human beings do. The girls grow into adult women, the surrounding environment grows into devastation. Human beings are dying, but the stardust memory of the robot does not die. This manga might give you the feeling of being watched in the transience of the world, possibly from God's point of view. And so the story, in God's speed, proceeds to the future! Following ["Mobile Brigade eight Fukujin"](https://mangadex.org/title/1682), Satoshi Fukushima's new "time skip comedy" series for boys and girls is "Stardust Nina"! [MU+GoogleTranslate]

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Chapter 9

3 years ago
Sci-Fi Romance Philosophical Drama Slice of Life
Birdman Anthology

(from ebookjapan): Highly intelligent birds have exterminated humans and become the rulers of the earth!  However, the bird society that was born to correct the evolutionary distortion on the earth is not an ideal world, and it soon begins follow the same path as human society. What will become of the decadent avian society...?! Also contains the Otona Manga (Adult Manga) "The Story of Fumbling Animals". Licensed in English by Ablaze as "Tomorrow the Birds". --- **Volumes 94 and 95 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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Chapter 4

3 years ago
Monsters Animals Anthology Survival Office Workers Military Gore Aliens Supernatural Thriller Sci-Fi Action Psychological Comedy Adventure Philosophical Drama Horror Slice of Life Mystery Tragedy
The City by the Sea: The Manga of Sasaki Maki 1967-81

Anthology of Sasaki's surreal stories that were published in Garo.

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Chapter 37

3 years ago
Supernatural Psychological Comedy Philosophical Drama Horror Fantasy Tragedy
Kissako

*Debut One-Shot of Ao Kojima, published in the Sept 2022 issue of harta (volume 97).* A working woman experiences day to day life in emptiness. But with a visit to a stranger’s house, how would her life change?

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Philosophical Slice of Life
Pippy

In a world faced with a flood of overpopulation, the scientists of the world are called together to come up with solutions. Prof. Leeman suggests for man to live in the sea, but is shunned. In an act of desperation, he turns his son into a merman, and sends him into the sea. This boy is found by a mother sea turtle, and is given the name Pippy. Pippy, unaware of his true parentage, grows up alongside others in the ocean, until he has a terrible encounter with humans. Thus, Pippy goes into the human world, and a long journey awaits him. --- **Volume 137 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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Chapter 3.1

3 years ago
Animals Survival Mafia Delinquents Police Supernatural Thriller Sci-Fi Psychological Comedy Crime Adventure Philosophical Drama Slice of Life Mystery Tragedy
Yomotsu Hegui

A small noodle shop can be found in a run-down shopping arcade at the last tram stop between the world of the living and the underworld, serving creatures from Japanese myth and legend, and the occasional lost human soul who can't quite make up their mind about passing on. CW: issues of suicide and survivor's guilt

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Chapter 6

3 years ago
Psychological Comedy Adventure Philosophical Drama
Honey and Clover Spin-off

Story showing what happened some time after the events in the last chapter.

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Chapter 2

3 years ago
Psychological Romance Comedy Philosophical Drama Slice of Life
Ano Ko ga Tsuki ni kaeru made

The story of a beautiful girl Mitsuki and the Animal caretaker Yuzu.

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Chapter 1

3 years ago
Philosophical Drama Slice of Life
Gishi Sanjinden

A unique collection of one-shots loosely connected to Shino Ura's other short works. The history of an animal shaped like humans. The story of a girl who switched her face with her self in a puddle. The story of a mermaid in a flask in a garbage-filled river. A story of gods on modern streets. A collection of scifi works which originally appeared as a webcomic with additions for the tankoubon format.

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Chapter 7

3 years ago
Sci-Fi Historical Action Psychological Philosophical Drama Horror Slice of Life
Ikigurushikunai nichijō e

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Philosophical Slice of Life
Touhou - Imaginative Power of Meiji ✕✕ (Doujinshi)

A story about a young Reimu's flying lessons, stargazing and growing pains. Also featuring Rinnosuke, Yukari and Newspaper Lady.

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Philosophical Fantasy
Sono Koi wa Kare wo Mushibamu

On his was back home, Mine Ryouta is accidentally got himself attacked at a park, a hotspot for gays, but is rescued by Souma, a guy from “the other side”. Ryouta is warned not to pass over to “the other side”, but he cannot forget the charming eyes of that junior. The closer he gets, the more barriers start to burn down. An unstoppable first love! A dangerously charming seme and an in love matters inexperienced man get sexually involved. This is the premise for the characters created for this new doujin series!

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Chapter 3

3 years ago
Psychological Romance Boys Love Philosophical
Trekking 900 Millimetres in 210 Days (Thats All?!)

The third entry in Keisuke Itagaki's military autobiography series (My Youth in The Narashino 1st Airborne Brigade).

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Chapter 1

3 years ago
Psychological Philosophical
Suzuki and Nakamura

A manga about two (self-professed) good-looking classmates who happen to sit next to each other and their daily conversations.

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Chapter 4

3 years ago
Romance Comedy Philosophical Slice of Life
Money Crazy

When Futaro was five years old, his father left his home and his mother got sick in poverty. Also, Futaro has a ugly face, like Quasimodo: he's been discriminated and treated like trash by almost everyone in his neighborhood. Finally, his mother dies because they can't afford medical treatment. Burying her body, Futaro makes up his mind to do **anything** for money…

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Chapter 3

3 years ago
Survival Office Workers Gore Delinquents Police Thriller Action Psychological Comedy Crime Philosophical Drama Medical Horror Slice of Life Mystery Tragedy
Bomba!

Tetsu Otani is a junior high school student with a weak heart. Despite the hardships of being so meek at school, he has an intense crush on one of his teachers: Reiko Mizushima. However, one of his least favorite teachers, Kito, intends to propose to her. Since Kito is very violent and often pushes Tetsu around, the thought of him and Reiko together infuriates Tetsu. Before him appears a ghostly white horse, and the next day, Kito is found dead. Tetsu realizes that this horse is the ghost of Bomba, a horse Tetsu's father told him he was charged to take care of during the Pacific War. Now, whenever Tetsu feels intense hatred for someone, Bomba will appear and cause that person to die. [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/bomba/) ———- Also includes the 1972 oneshot, "Devil's Mountain" (魔の山, Ma no Yama) at the end of the volume as a bonus. *The English release is based on the Tezuka Bunko version of Bomba. However, Devil's Mountain (and the following one-shots) are excluded: -[Rubbish Poetry](https://mangadex.org/title/ef53217d-a2ec-40f6-8c69-670b5209a1bb/rubbish-poetry) -Spaceship Ringel Rock -Yamanashi -Boy Detective Zunbera -The Stranger -Two Sides of a Human Being -Three Thrills* --- **Volume 93 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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Chapter 2

3 years ago
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Parched Meditation

An African wild dog cast out from their pack is forced to search for meaning and decide whether or not to fall to a insidious temptation.

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Oneshot Ghosts Animals Supernatural Adventure Philosophical Fantasy