I think the black and white format (most) manga uses really works well with horror. The shading and contrast between light and dark really make scenes pop in a way I think color doesn't.
Dude your videos are put together so perfectly. You summarize the books perfectly, you show the artwork, and you keep the title up there long enough so that I can just screenshot the ones I really wanna read. You’ve got 70k subs, which is a lot, but you deserve even more. Thank you. Absolutely perfectly put together.
16:18 Urotsukidoji 🐣 ... you know, for the kids! Monster... one of the best manga I've read so far. It's just so good, rips your heart out and keeps stomping on it.
Manga horror is so haunting and memorable for me, I don't read any other horror comics other than manga ones. I remember a page spread that had a man turn into a snail, that still haunts me. Thank you for the list, fantastic choices !
Awesome list. I think from one of your virtual tours, Corpse Delivery Service and Parasyte were pick ups for me which I'm caught up on both series. I was waiting for the fifth volume of the omnibus of Corpse Delivery Service having not wasted time picking up the previous volumes. Hopefully it still comes out. Learning my lesson not to wait on those chances to grab something that might not come back. I see you have the Museum of Terror collections from Dark Horse. I have those too. I didn't waste no time picking up anything Junji Ito when his stuff got an English release. Some of those prints are not only harder to find, but really expensive I've seen on Amazon marketplace and eBay. Surprised to hear Domu being hard to find. I could have swore I saw a copy at my local comic shop though not the one I have in my library when it first got released. Gantz, Monster, Berserk and Battle Royale (illustrated) I haven't gotten around too. I would put Berserk up there since I was asked recently about it and hearing high praise. And now I'm considering to keep my eyes open for Battle Royale. I passed up on the manga and just read the actual literature which was almost 700 pages and enjoyable. I grabbed my copy the moment it got released through Viz publication in the early-mid 2000s. The Battle Royale movies are great but I just loved reading the story and visualizing it that way from my imagination. I must have missed the love the Tomie series doesn't get enough of from the fans. That's where it started for me before Pulp Manga Magazine introduced Uzumaki back then. Ito's work is creepy and just knows how to psychologically get to our worst fears. To put something normal that affects our conscience in any way takes some talent and it shows in his art and the characters in the story, likable or not. There's something alluring to it that you can't step away from. I always finish his works, but there has been some stories I've not gone back to revisit and that is something I can admit is haunting to leave that impression.
I, personally, don't like Battleroyal exept for the fantastic artwork. Can't agree more with you about Berserk, it is more than a horror manga. Great list! thank for sharing
well it was unexpected for you to be an anime fan I am too and although I am not an horror fan I might check out tokyo ghoul because it's seinen and I haven't watched/read much of it which I should read
H.P.Lovecraft: the adaptations by Gou Tanabe DELUXE EDITION. Please, Dark Horse?! I know there are quite a few not in English, and I love the format. Omar, please pester Dark Horse on my behalf!!
I had the disservice of reading the piss poor English translation of Battle Royale's volumes 7-9 by Tokyopop as I was missing the now out-of-print 3rd Omnibus of the Perfect Edition in French (yes, I read most manga in French when available here in Canada lol). I do own the rest of it, so at least I got to still enjoy reading it and seeing the gratuitous violence front and center. Hopefully, Dark Horse or any other well respected Western manga publishers will grab the rights to re-release AND re-translate the manga to be much closer to the original Japanese script. This list of yours is giving me some ideas for Halloween season this year, so thank you for sharing your recommendations!
@@MYTHNL90 I plan on getting the full color editions first then getting the singles. Horror manga looks good in black and white too. Those full color editions are beautiful!
Sadly, I could not get into Tomie! I had high hopes too. It definitely looks like it gets scarier the further along you get, but I believe I didn’t get past the 3rd or 4th chapter. Words cannot describe how happy I am to to see the Drifting Classroom on here. Oh my goodness, SO happy. This was the first manga I read and made me search out more. Berserk definitely is wayyy more than horror. There are so many elements to it. And yes, I understand about weirdly liking it even though I probably shouldn’t.
I'm hoping zekkyou gakyuu gets an English release someday. It's a good horror anthology manga series for kids. In the vein of goosebumps but darker. It's a good middle ground between creepy and terrifying.
I had to read dragon head online in high school. It's honestly a pretty fun read. I love seeing people try to overcome the tragedies and scary mysteries in their world. It's one if my favorites. Elfen Lied finally got an English release so I have hope.
Stupid Question but for these Mangas that begin with what would normally be the back as the standard for books in the states do you still read them left to right or right to left?
You read them right to left always. But when looking at the title on the book cover, they still print the title the standard way of left to right. If the spine of the book is in your right hand, read right to left. Sometimes you do get an American author who makes a manga. POLLY AND THE PIRATES is an example of an Americanized manga. But the spine will be in your left hand. So that one you will read left to right. Sometimes, it is rare to find a left to right manga. Yes I know this video is old, yes I know this comment is old. But I am leaving it here to help anyone who is new to manga or still struggling how to read a manga. Most manga now put a "Stop this is the back of the book," now.
I know I’ve already recorded it, but again, Black Fire by Hernan Rodriguez, is the one of the very best horror graphic novels out there, unfortunately it’s really hard to find now.
Technically not horror, but Ghost in the Shell is so existentially unsettling that it definitely qualifies. The movie in particular has some really disturbing moments, like ghost hacking someone’s memories. Good list Omar! Glad to see a bit of variety on here
@@thepuppetmaster9284 actually, All You Need Is Kill started out as a light novel, which was then adapted into a 2-volume manga and THEN into the Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow the movie adapted the novel as it contained more content the manga adaptation left out, they just Americanized most of the characters but overall the story is the same in both mediums
Omar reads manga?! Want to check out the H.P Lovecraft, meant to pick it up. I read Uzumaki and found it kinda boring, to be honest. It seemed more comedy than horror.
@@balkthor I feel like H.P has a negative feeling toward it. Part of it is the writer himself and part of it being "I don't like squids in my horror." Aka isn't everything he does is cthulu? I know, I love the work and know it's not the case but that's what the average person thinks.
@@fireboy312002 Very true. Having played World of Warcraft from vanilla through Cataclysm, my Lovecraftian lore for a long time was all about C'Thulu and Yogg-Saron.
