Black Joke - Recommendations

• Vol: 25; Ch: 172
• 2006 - 2016

Ken lost his family as a child, and when he confessed to the girl he loved from afar, Yumin, he lost her too in a very different way! For Yumin made her own confession: she's actually Korean, and left for her homeland to become a police officer. One year later, Ken leaves Japan to find his lost love, unintentionally becoming the leader of a brutal Korean gang in the process! It's tough to stay alive in the underworld, but Ken will try his best to keep the peace and rise to power, even though all he wants is a date with the lovely Yumin.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 5+
• 2023 - ?

The 18-year-old Taro Sato, who had no dreams or goals and was leading a lazy life, is scouted by chance to be a driver for a yakuza boss. Taro is at the mercy of the yakuza gang leader's life, which has suddenly begun. Can he become a "cool guy" like his gang leader?　This is a genuine gangster story that pursues realism to the extreme!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 11
• 2015 - 2019

Ryuko is a hard-hitting, motorcycle-riding, high ranking member of the Japanese mafia stationed in the Middle-East. After a fierce battle with the government, she becomes embroiled with the Chinese and an unknown terrorist organisation. Everyone has their own agenda, but it becomes personal for Ryuko when her mother is kidnapped and she was forced to kill her father. What is the right thing to do in this morally complicated situation? Ryuko has a choice to make, but it's tough when good and evil appear to be two sides of the same coin...

• Vol: 108; Ch: 1175
• 1988 - 2012

Being the only son of the leader of the largest criminal organization (yakuza) in Kanto area, Shizuya Kondou chose not to join the gang and became a rookie designer of an underwear company. However, the assassination of his father forced him to inherit the gang, with one condition: keeping his day job while hiding his true identity from his coworkers, including an aspiring female designer, who is his love interest as well as the only person capable to keep his violent instincts contained. 

• Vol: 9
• 1985 - 1989

• Vol: 2; Ch: 15
• 2015 - 2016

A murderous intent without form attacks the yakuza! In the declining yakuza society, the elites bridge the barriers between their organizations and hold a meeting to decide how they will survive as yakuza. In the midst of their excitement, the footsteps of an invisible pair draw closer, bringing the stench of violence with them!

• Vol: 46; Ch: 492
• 2004 - 2019

In recent years, Japan has become the shining light of Asia - with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of Science and Technology, Medicine and the like. But while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more who are engaged in a furious struggle simply to earn their day-to-day living expenses all the while battling with dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism. What will these people do when they require the cash to feed the never-ending desires that are part and parcel of being human? How miserable and dangerous might their lives become if they fall into the fearful traps that are set by black market money-lenders with the sole purpose of ensnaring such weak-willed individuals?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 1994 - 2010

New father and troubled yakuza Rakuda gets a call from his colleagues tasking him to dispose of a random body. The job is fishy, but when you are a gangster sometimes you have to just do what you're told. But in this case, who gave him the job is the problem. A young hustler named Amazaki has tasked him to take care of a corpse without any info on who the body is and how to get rid of it. Turns out the body belongs to their gang lord... Now the gang and the cops are after Rakuda. And with danger around every corner, there are now very few moments for jokes in Rakuda's world.

• Vol: 14+; Ch: 84+
• 2016 - ?

The true story of Kei, a yakuza who was arrested in Hawaii in the 1980s and sent to the most dangerous prison in the United States.

• Vol: 3
• 1997 - 1999

Iwaki Shouzou works as a mercenary in South America. Iwaki is informed of the death of his gang boss dad and discovers his former Yakuza henchman is involved in a double-cross.