Top 10 Horror Manga of 2020
1. School-Live! Letters
Now that the apocalypse is over, the former School Living Club members moved on to new stages in their lives, walking different paths. Letters help them remember the past, live for the present and stay connected with each other.
(Source: Yen Press)
2. This Monster Wants to Eat Me
“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…?
(Source: Yen Press)
3. Sleeping Dead
Earnest and pleasant Sada is a high school teacher popular with his students and colleagues. One day, while patrolling after school, he encounters a female student being attacked by someone with a knife. He doesn't get the chance to run away, and dies. However, Sada wakes up on a cold table...
(Source: Printemps Shuppan, translated)
Note: Includes two bonus chapters.
4. Global Examination
This is an examination that puts your life at stake. Answer a plethora of questions, pass the exam, and you may live. Two-faced examiner, Qin Jiu, meets the cold examinee, You Huo. In this inhumane system, both of them who have lost their memories go head to head against each other. Despite that, they have a strong mutual understanding. Alarms go off and the system collapses time and time again. During which, their memories gradually return. It turns out that even at the end of the world where there's only dust left, you're still the first person I met. What's so great about this system? We'll just destroy it. The world is brilliant and grand still, so welcome home.
(Source: Bilibili Comics)
5. The Blood of the Butterfly
When a swarm of giant bugs threatens to wipe out humanity, the world’s only defense is a group of humans with special abilities called Butterflies. For Maehwa Baek, Butterflies are just heroic people he sees on TV until a tragic event brings him to the scientists that created them. Soon, Maehwa must confront questions about himself that he has long avoided: why does he lose control at the sight of his own blood? And what happened during the 13 years of his life that he can’t remember?
(Source: WEBTOONS)
6. Usotsuki Satsuki wa Shi ga Mieru
"You... are going to die tomorrow."
Satsuki Minazuki, 16 years old. Apart from being antisocial and declaring the death of her classmates, she is a normal second-year high school student. Her nickname is "Liar Satsuki." However, her eyes alone are abnormal. What she is gazing at is...
(Source: Shogakukan, translated)
Note: The chapter count includes an epilogue chapter included in the last volume.
7. Aisha
The twins who have lost both their mother and father had got their humongous inheritance stolen by their evil stepmother. The three sons of their stepmother have a special relationship towards their non-biological sisters. Thus, a scene of love and hate occurred in this old mansion. This is a fairy tale of romance and vengeance.
8. Kuchi ga Saketemo Kimi ni wa
Miroku-san, the slit-mouth woman, is to marry high school student Kouichi to maintain her existence as his family has been in charge of upkeeping superstitions for generations. To add, there seems to be another reason that he seems more than willing...
Miroku, however, would rather use her own strength than borrow that of others. Thus, they establish a contract as follows.
1. For a trial period of a year, they are to act as though they were married.
2. If she is able to scare him within that year, the engagement will be broken.
Note: A three part short story.
9. The Spooky Love Tale of Gongchan Seol
This is a mysterious romance between horror novelist Seol Gong-Chan and his downstairs' neighbor.
Ghosts aren't real... right? Gong-Chan has a wild imagination as a horror-novel author with a knack for turning his mundane life into a harrowing ghost story. These spooks live only in his head... that is until he meets Young-Min, a man haunted by the supernatural specters in Gong-Chan’s novel! With everything around him suddenly turning into an eerie mess, is Gong-Chan's growing love for Young-Min the reason why his heart is racing? Or is it the bloody ghost behind him?
(Source: Tapas)
Note: Includes 9 extra chapters.
10. The Live
Only I can see the future in this deadly game.
Yoon-Jae leads an empty life after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered. One day, his journal reveals one mysterious sentence: “You can see them again.” Yoon-Jae is pulled into a parallel universe where everyone is a player in a lethal game, and the final survivor will be granted any wish. Desperate to be reunited with his family, will Yoon-Jae succeed in fighting his way in this hellish world to be the last one standing?
(Source: Manta)