Best Supernatural Manga of 2020

After reading the conclusion of her favorite manga series, Fuuko Izumo finally feels ready to end her existence. For the past 10 years, Fuuko has been afflicted by a condition that brings extreme misfortune to anyone who touches her. This has had a drastic effect on her surroundings, even inadvertently resulting in the deaths of those around her—including her parents. As she stands on a bridge above train tracks, Fuuko is touched by a strange man, causing the footing underneath him to break and dropping him in front of an oncoming train. However, when Fuuko finds the man's corpse, she discovers that his body is regenerating and that he is coming back to life. The man, whom Fuuko names Andy, is immortal—and like her, he also wishes for death. Initially dismissive, Fuuko eventually decides to team up with Andy to give him the best death possible; but a mysterious organization lurks in the shadows, hoping to take advantage of the duo's bizarre abilities.

Miroku is a slit-mouthed woman whose ear-to-ear smile strikes fear into the superstitious, but who would have thought she had a fiancé? Once an infamous urban legend, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Folklore" has found her existence threatened by the public's declining belief in her. She is also roped into a contractual marriage with 17-year-old Kouichi Sano, a member of a family responsible for the continued existence of the supernatural. Miroku is unenthused by the arrangement and wishes to regain her notoriety through her own means. For this reason, Sano makes his fiancée a deal: if she can scare him once before he turns 18, he will end the engagement. Miroku concedes to these terms but is unsettled by Sano's proposed condition—where he must make her fall in love with him.

Ten years ago, the world changed after the appearance of vampires—beings of immeasurable strength and endless bloodlust. With no way to distinguish them apart from humans, these entities recklessly slaughter people to fulfill their selfish desires. Orphan Park Hayan has always wanted a normal life: to keep her siblings safe from any potential danger and be able to find friends as a college student. But with the rise in vampire attacks, she fears that her life may crumble as traumatic memories return to haunt her. After a tragic accident makes her a target for the "Angels of Death," an underground organization ruled by the most powerful vampires, Hayan decides to confront her past and partners up with Euntae Hwang, a member of the police force who is more than meets the eye. Her plan to eradicate every vampire begins here.

"I've come to eat you," so softly utters the mermaid Shiori as she emerges from the sea and takes high school girl Hinako by the hand. Hinako lives alone in a town by the sea and possesses an unusually delicious body that is irresistible to nearby monsters. To ensure that she matures to the best condition, Shiori seeks to protect Hinako—all so that someday, she can devour every piece of her. What will become of Hinako's feelings as this looming unjust death closes in on her...?

As Mina struggles to find her place as Whitby School’s first and only female student, a devilish horror is unleashed upon the academy and its unsuspecting students: Count Dracula. However, when this unspeakable evil lays claim to her beloved Lucy Westenra, Mina stands ready to join forces with her fellow students and fight against it with everything she has. Loosely based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. *Notes: \- Nominated for the Eisner Awards in the Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia and the Best Adaptation From Another Medium category in 2024. \- Chapter count includes one extra chapter.*

My grotesque (stalker), protects me from 100 stalkers in order to eat me. Sakurai Aoi, a high school boy, has a secret that he can tell no one. He's been a victim of stalking since childhood. One day Ueda Miyako, a classmate, suddenly turned into a monster. She was the one who was stalking Sakurai. The beautiful Miyako, who has been around Sakurai for a long time, was taken care of, but the monsters in urban legends all over Japan are stalking in order to love themselves. The fate of Sakurai, who is loved by the mysterious name of hundreds of beautiful women, is... It's a great point to start! Pure love story about a man's love, greed and illness who was attracted by grotesque girls.

Ichirou Kuga has a lot on his hands beyond his pen. Ever since his father's recent passing, he has been the sole provider for his younger siblings Machi and Fumio, as well as taking on the duties of being a landlord. All of this is on top of managing his shoujo manga career, for which he just barely received recent success in spite of constant deadlines and a lack of assistants. But Ichirou is still determined to pull through for the sake of his siblings' future, until one day his editor gives him a call with some promising news. Racing outside to find his new assistant, Ichirou meets 19-year-old Shiori Goshiki, who soon reveals herself to be a beautiful young woman with talent through some quick inking. With this being her very first job in the industry and having gotten into manga only recently, Shiori seems out of this world—in more ways than one as Ichirou learns after a mid-work nap when he dazedly assumes a pointy pen is sticking out of her body and reaches out to save her. But when she wakes up and immediately tells him that touching her stinger essentially renders them betrothed, Ichirou doesn't know what to think!

At first glance, Kirari Aokigahara appears to be an average, happy-go-lucky first-year high school student. But instead of running late for school one day, she finds herself running late for a meeting at Seaside Cafe hosted by Rushio, the admin of a website called Suicide Cafe. The sparkling, charming young lady stands out amongst the gathering's cast of suicidal individuals. She joins the group in swallowing sleeping pills and entering a car filled to the brim with toxic charcoal smoke. However, rather than dying, she wakes up from a dream about a girl's suicide and is surprised to see that the once-suicidal group appears to be revitalized. Upset that she did not die, Kirari goes home and attempts to kill herself, only to realize that she cannot die, no matter the method. Rushio then appears to tell Kirari that she has been chosen to save people from ending their lives, including the girl in her dream earlier, and become a magical girl of salvation—a "Suicide Girl."

High schooler Gamou Shouya is a dead man—sort of. The real Gamou Shouya is long gone, but his body lives on, inhabited by the soul of a boy who made a pact with the succubus Armelina. In exchange for his services as her personal hitman, Armelina is helping him hunt down the people who brutally murdered him and his family. The path ahead is dark and deadly, but Shouya’s got nothing left to lose…not even his soul.

What lies beyond death? Mika Kashima, an energetic teenage girl, will soon discover the answer for herself. Struggling to overcome the loss of her best friend, Mika ceases to find meaning in her life and decides to die by suicide in an effort to chase after her friend in death. However, her fate takes an unexpected turn when an immortal human, accompanied by a god, prevents her from dying. After learning about the existence of the afterlife from the god, Mika determines a new goal: to join the two eccentric individuals on a journey to the world of the dead—in hopes of seeing her best friend once more.

Shota Iijima picked up erotic books during his childhood and suffers from a severe foreign sister fetish. Thereafter, from the years between his age of 12 to 15, he masturbated 999 times. For his 1000th round of masturbation, he had been transferred to a different world and is sold as a slave.

Joan of Arc, the hero who saved France, was sentenced to be burned at the stake. But at the moment of her death, a demon sent her to another world. There, she found 32 women from across history, known as “witches.” With the addition of the final witch, Joan of Arc, Walpurgis Night begins: Only one witch can survive, and have her wish granted!

A new series from the creator of Rosario+Vampire with artwork that's beyond this dimension! Chloé dreams of being an actress, but her path to success may be closed as she's now twenty-eight with very little to show for it. However, she does happen to have a special occult body type!

As Christmas Eve approaches Academy City, an array of decorative festivities adorn the streets. While the rest of the city is getting into the merry mood, it seems gloom is all that Touma Kamijou experiences. After suffering from one misfortune after another, he encounters Mikoto Misaka escaping from the watchful eyes of Tokiwadai Middle School in an attempt to enjoy the Christmas atmosphere. The two agree on making the most out of this dreadful holiday; however, unbeknownst to them, a mysterious third party observes their every move. Elsewhere, the newly instated Academy City Board Chairman initiates his first operation—a plan that will turn the entire city's framework upside down. Naturally, as he seeks to leave every stone unturned, previously hidden enemies begin to reveal themselves along with their malicious intents...

Garam has always loved to draw, but his dreams of being an artist have been on hold ever since his mother passed away. Wanting to become more independent and focus on his art, he moves into his grandmother's empty house by the ocean. There, he meets his greatest muse: a mystical water creature with no memories of her past. Now it's up to Garam to help her uncover what she has forgotten.

Two years ago, high schooler Kanae left his small island community of Sodeshima to pursue his academic dreams in Tokyo. When that life falls short of his expectations, he runs away from home to return to Sodeshima and his childhood friend, Akari. But before they can rekindle their old feelings for each other, the clock strikes six and Kanae finds himself inexplicably thrust forward four days into the future. Worse, he learns that Akito, Akari's older brother—and Kanae's childhood hero—is dead. Except death might not be the end for Akito. As Kanae tries to fill in the four-day gap of his memories, Akari explains: he's about to relive those four days in reverse order in a phenomenon known as "Rollback." Kanae himself explained it to her...in a past he hasn't yet experienced. Armed with this new knowledge, Kanae is determined to leverage Rollback however he can to save Akito's life—and Akari's heart.

Climax Exorcism. It is the obscene ability that forces anyone, dead or alive, to climax when penetrated. And as a side effect, it also causes evil spirits and monsters to become purified and exorcised when they cum. Haruhisa Furuya, the boy who possesses this unholy ability, is one of the lowest-ranking students at the Exorcist Academy. After all, if he uses his ability, it would destroy his social standing (among other things)... But then Haruhisa meets someone, a girl named Misaki Souya, a girl with an evil eye capable of exposing people's secrets.

Alice Fujii still isn't having much fun. She survived an assault of psychotic bug-themed assassins at her school, but all the battles, the truth behind her family, the two betrayals from false friends who ended up dead and the loss of her Kumoito knife-gun took a toll on her mental state. As such, she spends her days alone splitting open the heads of the rapist zombies who overran Japan since the aforementioned incident. The Organization wants to hire her as their new Boss, and elsewhere her allies Gokiburi and Kabutomushi are looking for her. What will become of all this?

Naoya Fukamachi is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. When a paper of his piques the interest of his folklore studies professor Akira Takatsuki, a handsome and eccentric man, he soon finds himself dragged into Akira’s research. Now, as the assistant in charge of common sense, he must help his professor interpret an array of unexplainable phenomena…

An official *Mairimashita! Iruma-kun* anthology series, featuring stories of Iruma Suzuki and his friends as students of Babyls Demon School.

"Well then, we'll employ you as a shinigami." The part time job I started doing is to clear away the regrets of the deceased with my classmate who's a beauty. The ones who pass away from this world with lingering regrets are given "lost time." The shinigami's job is to save the deceased and resolve their regrets. Though the wage is only 300 yen. What the protagonist discovers after getting involved with various different "deceased" is...

Miki Donoue has been plagued by bad luck since childhood... Then, one evening, he encounters a mysterious, semi-transparent man who claims to live by consuming other people's emotions. Is this merely a dangerous deception, or could this intriguing stranger change the direction of Miki's life?

Minoru Sayo is an office worker who lives an upright but mundane life. That is, until one day, he turns into a vampire. Unable to forgo his scruples, he refuses to feed on humans and attempts to soothe his thirst with cat blood. On one such night when he's out prowling for a feline friend, he runs into his coworker in the same department, Yamadera. After a few drinks at a bar, Yamadera falls asleep at the station leaving his vexing neck exposed and vulnerable. Overcome with annoyance and hunger, Sayo takes a bite and discovers...? Will Sayo find a way to become human again? And what really lies behind Yamadera's sweet mask? Take a read and find out in this emotional and twisted tale between a 40-year-old virgin and his sadistic junior colleague!

The fun and mysterious daily life of a young couple in a forest and strange children who come to them one day.

Ura baito, also known as a shady part-time job. A gray area job that pays very well. The price you pay is your life. Yume Kokuryo and Nagomi Shirahama are in need of money in a hurry. To that end, they casually dive into various shady part-time jobs.

Mashiro was saved by the youkai Shuten-doji when she was little. When she reached 17-years old, she decided to offer herself as sacrifice and marry Shuten-doji. But Shuten-doji has fallen in love with Mashiro and has no intention of feeding on her!

"I'd like you to sleep with me." The day after my birthday, the chief I look up to made me a shocking request. I agreed wanting to be useful to him, but... he suddenly pushed me down looking nothing like himself!! Mikan Sasaki, an office lady who can see spirits, is pretty worried about all the evil spirits attached to Chief Akutsu, whom she's one-sidedly in love with. Moreover, she's been feeling a truly wicked presence among them lately... That very night, when she was drinking in the park in the name of a birthday party alone, he just happened to pass by and bring her back to his place... She then woke up with no memories of the previous night and her handsome chief sleeping right next to her!!I'm wounded and there's a bandage on it, meaning that I caused him trouble, right...? I asked him what I could do to pay him back, but for some reason he asked me to sleep with him!? In his room, in his bed filled with his scent, my heart is about to explode just from lying down next to the one I've loved for a long time. I can't believe I'm this close to him, whom I've always only watched from afar...A bed time love story about how an awkward pair get a bit closer every passing night.

Tomo-kun, an office worker, is neighbors with Aki-san. Aki often comes over to Tomo's house to drink alcohol with him, but when she gets drunk her secret is revealed, she's actually... part cat! As Tomo-kun continues his life, other part-animal Onee-sans will come to drink with him.

The story takes place several years after Lelouch's "Zero Requiem" plan.

Yoon-jae is just a normal college student who lives alone...until his new neighbor, Beom-jin, moves in one floor below him. Then, things get weird. Namely, Yoon-jae starts seeing ghosts everywhere, and they start stalking him. Turns out, a mysterious bell that belongs to Beom-jin is now tied to Yoon-jae's wrist, and it summons ghosts wherever he goes. Unable to remove the cursed thing, Beom-jin suggests that Yoon-jae help out with his work until they find a way to remove it. Oh, what kind of work? Sending ghosts to the afterlife, of course.

A battle between a girl who doesn't want to move from her haunted apartment and the ghosts who are desperate to haunt her and make her move away.

One of the 800 tails of the mighty Disaster Kitsune has escaped confinement and manifested itself as a helpless young kitsune to find Naoto, the boy who released her through his kindness. Now Naoto feels obligated to take care of the fox-girl.

The manga's story centers on the demon Black who comes to the human world in search of content for videos. He wants to expose the hidden side of humans, games, and hobbies. Black's "high-efficiency assistant" is the camera demon Camera-chan.

Vampires are creatures that turn to ash if they are exposed to the light of the sun. He can only move around at night, but he's actually been able to live quite comfortably in modern times. Why is that, you ask? That's because there exists the concept of a "night shift". Toraki Yura is a vampire who lives in the modern age. He works at a convenience store in Ikebukuro (night shift only), and lives in a semi-basement apartment that gets next to no sunlight (blackout curtains are a necessity). For the sake of going back to being human, he lives his life on the straight and narrow everyday. However, after saving a blond-haired beauty from a drunkard, he finds out that she is Sister Iris, a nun who found her calling in exterminating vampires! Moreover, his natural enemy ended up as an unwanted guest in his apartment!? What is going to happen to Toraki's peaceful vampire life!? A slice-of-life fantasy brought to you by Wagahara Satoshi, author of the "Hataraku Maou-sama!" series!

A special short story for the kemomimi series! The boy that first appeared in "Thoroughbred Doesn't Flutter" is...? *Note: Debuted in B's-LOVEY recottia Vol. 101*

Miyazawa Misato is a strikingly beautiful young man with a troubled past. Born to a distinguished family of onmyouji, Misato is no stranger to the occult. That’s why he jumps at the chance to join the Abnormal Disaster Unit in Tomoe’s Town Hall Crisis Management Division, a unit more commonly known as The Spirit Hunters. Enter Karino Ryouji, a fiery young man with peculiar green-and-silver eyes. Working as a freelance monk and raised by a man claiming to be a tengu, Ryouji is by no means an average citizen. When he finds Misato in a sticky situation with regards to housing, he "kindly" steps in, and the mismatched pair end up living in Ryouji's large Japanese-style mansion on the outskirts of Tomoe. What dark mysteries will unravel before them as they attempt to confront paranormal happenings under the constraints of government rules?

A new vampire story begins! The long-awaited second part of the Gothic Vampire Story announced from 2008 to 2011. What appeared before the "Vampire Tree" who lives alone in Shibuya-!?

*Note: Based on the light novel series of the same name by Miyabi Akita.*

Popular jockey Kouma Ayanami is an excellent rider and a natural-born playboy. One day during a race, Kouma accidentally falls off his horse and loses consciousness. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the body of a newborn thoroughbred.

While haunting her usual subway car one day, lonely ghost Park Ja-Eon receives a chance from a deity to redo one year of her life and earn a spot in eternal paradise. With the aid of a grumpy divine guardian and a newfound ability to see ghosts, Ja-Eon restarts her senior year of high school. As the unlikely duo ends up helping spirits and humans alike, they begin to reflect on their own relationships and regrets. But with the clock ticking on Ja-Eon’s second shot, is there time to set it right? *Note: Winner of the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Grand Prize at the 2019 Korea Contents Award. This work was first serialized on Dillyhub in 2018. Munhakdongne has been publishing it since 2020.*

Nukku's self-published continuation of Mangaka-sensei to Zashiki Warashi.

During the change from the Meiji Era into the Shouwa Era, there was a strange medicine seller. This man called Kouen, is a lazy and messy person but as a medicine seller, he is of top class. Together with his assistant, Tsuruhiko, they help out the common folk but they somehow got entangled in a mysterious incident.

It is 1938 in Tokyo, a time when "kaiju" still pervades everyday life. Chitomi Yoichi is a writer who lives with the Amemura family. Every day, he receives many inquiries about strange phenomena, either because of his knowledge or because his attraction to the supernatural....

Monk Sanzang from the "Journey to the west" has time slipped to present-day Korea! She has lived her lifetime constantly fighting yokai but her most dangerous opponent turns out to be just one guy?! On the orders of Buddha, Monk Sanzang and her companions pilgramaged the Western regions in search of his teachings. Unlike Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing, who had hoped to become gods in recognition of their contribution rather than being tied down to the life of Buddhism, Sanzang had wanted to remain in the human world and enjoy a new life as an ordinary human. But as she was being dragged to Heaven by orders from the Buddha, she notices a strange tunnel leading to the human world in which she escapes into... And the place where she fell is the Republic of Korea's Jeju Island! And she meets a guy named Lee Hyun?! The time-slipped Monk Sanzang a.k.a Hyeon-Jeong and the tsundere Lee Hyun's turbulent romance!

In America in the year 20XX, there was a girl with pointy ears and a boy who looked after her. At first glance, they are just classmates, but in fact, they are parent and child.

A story about an invisible botanist and a part-time university student, who unravels the thoughts spun by mysterious plants and people. Asahi is a university student who is introduced to a new part-time job when a record store closes. The idea is to help a "slightly unusual botanist" who lives in a large mansion in the mountains behind the university. However, on his way to the mansion, he somehow gets lost in the mountains on a single road. In fact, Asahi had a strange experience in his childhood as well......

It is said that there are 10,000 people without household registration in modern Japan. There is a government office, called the Monster Registration Section, which helps the unregistered youkai. Mutsuko works in the Monster Registration Section, and she is busy running around town helping all sorts of youkai integrate into life in modern Japan.

The diabolical thousand-year-old fox spirit has seen it all. Now living in modern times, she is very very bored. So she orders her wolf-boy servant, "Entertain me, or else."

Sousuke Satou, 18 years old (elementary school graduate), was summoned to another world, defeated the demon king, and returned to Earth for the first time in several years. While he is unable to find a job anywhere and lives a part-time job, he encounters a battle between a "magician" and a "monster" who he thought did not exist on earth! Sousuke easily defeats monsters, but that power catches the attention of others, and he ends up getting involved in demon subjugation...?! The former strongest hero takes part in modern, supernatural battles!!