Helter Skelter: Fashion Unfriendly - Recommendations
Alt title: Helter Skelter
If you're looking for manga similar to Helter Skelter: Fashion Unfriendly, you might like these titles.
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In Clothes Called Fat
- Vol: 1; Ch: 15
- 1997
Noko appears to be living a great life, she's got a good job and a loving boyfriend, but beneath a thin veneer is a young woman who is struggling with her self-image and self-confidence as she fights to keep her weight down. To Noko, being 5 pounds overweight means being miles away from happiness in her lovelife and in her work-place.
3 votes
Reasons you might like In Clothes Called Fat...
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AirCommodore says...
Another fabulous josei manga about body image issues in the modern woman. Helter Skelter is about the unrealistic and dangerous expectations of celebrities, and In the Clothes Named Fat is about a compulsive over-eater, her self-loathing, and harassment by society. If you're in the mood for a short but intense psychological josei story, I would definitely recommend either.
(Also, their art styles are fairly similar, and both have an ultra-bitch in a prominent role)
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IDDKyewD says...
Both of these manga are dark and delve into the the psychology of women who want to be beautiful to the point of self harm. Body image, beauty and their costs are prominant in both manga. They're a good pair.
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thor123 says...
Both of these are josei manga about women's view on themselves and the fact that having an "ideal body" isn't always that great either.
Hanshin: Half-God
- One Shot
- 1984
Yucy and Yudy are two conjoined twins who have been together since birth. However, as the nutrients in their bodies distribute unevenly, Yucy is beautiful yet slow-minded while Yudy is intelligent and horrifically ugly. Yudy is torn between her love for her sister and her hate for having to care for Yucy; can the two continue to co-exist?
2 votes
Reasons you might like Hanshin: Half-God...
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AirCommodore says...
Hanshin and Helter Skelter are psychologically dark stories exploring the nature of beauty, and the negative effects that pursuing or obsessing over it can have.
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IDDKyewD says...
Both manga deal with sacrfice for beauty. Both are psychological, dark, and deal with the lengths people will go to for perfection.
Fetish
- Vol: 1; Ch: 5
- 2004
For a long while now, I've been prone to losing things. It's the things most important to me that I lose, and it's always after I lose them that I realize it. And then, they're suddenly returned to me.
2 votes
Reasons you might like Fetish...
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AirCommodore says...
Obsession. Helter Skelter and Fetish focus on obsessions, and the depths to which they cause people to sink. Helter Skelter is about physical beauty, while Fetish encompasses different types of obsessions (generally concerning other people).
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People tunnel vision, trying to achieve everything they want selling themselves or doing something they're not supposed to, losing rationality and hurting whoever is near them and themselves. A mask that everyone wears every day to try appearing stronger and better than other, leaving this feeling of emptiness that eventually will twist the personality in the worst way possible. Enjoy these two psychological manga.
Family Complex
- Vol: 1; Ch: 6
- 2000
Akira Sakamoto is a typical teenager – and that’s the problem! He’s the only normal one in a family of incredibly attractive people: he has a father that looks great in drag, a mother that looks younger than himself, an older brother that was worshipped at school, and two very opposite sisters. Though his family does everything to make Akira feel special and a part of the group, he can't help but feel an outsider in his own home. Then one night, the truth comes out with very surprising results...
1 vote
Reasons you might like Family Complex...
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AirCommodore says...
Family Complex and Helter Skelter both show that being beautiful doesn't mean being happy. The beautiful characters in each go through a hell of a lot of unnecessary trauma just because of their appearances. Family Complex is lighter, while Helter Skelter is quite a bit more explicit about the depths someone can sink to (and includes nudity and some gore).
Between the Sheets
- Vol: 1; Ch: 6
- 1995 - 1996
Between the Sheets features the unusual friendship from the nearly inseparable Saki and Minako. Minako carries a fervent torch for the other girl - a passion of which Saki is initially ignorant. But when Minako sleeps with Saki's boyfriend Ken (just to see what Saki sees in him), the true nature of Minako's obsession begins to reveal itself ... provoking an understandably strong reaction from Saki.
1 vote
Reasons you might like Between the Sheets...
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AirCommodore says...
While the plots are nothing alike, most everything else is. Especially the art and obsessive/selfish characters. Both are like trashy novels that you can't put down because they're so engrossing depite (or because of?) the hateful characters, quickly-escalating plot, and gratuitous sex scenes.
Helter Skelter has some artistic merit, though, and I like it way better.
Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist
- Vol: 2; Ch: 14
- 2008 - 2012
A woman plummets from the roof of a building. But who she is and whether she jumped, fell, or was pushed remains unknown, as the body was too mangled by the impact to make out her features, and she carried no form of identification. The sole clue to her identity is her cell phone which contains only two numbers: a woman claiming to be her twin, yet who has no official documentation; and the popular author Shun Mizorogi, who remains secretive about his relationship with the deceased...
1 vote
Reasons you might like Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist...
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Helter Skelter and Utsubora are about extremely popular models/authors who secretly turn to plastic surgery or plagiarism in a desperate attempt to maintain their top position. Both are psychological, dark, and sensual. Furthermore, Kyouko Okazaki and Asumiko Nakamura both use a very stylized illustration style which I think will appeal to the same audience.
U-Bu U-Bu
- Vol: 6
- 1994 - 1995
Ayako Minato, a girl who dreams of becoming a model, must bare her soul and body to three men, her idol photographer, Bird, his student and to a successful male model. Thay will change her ideal world of beauty as she is taught the meaning of true beauty. But can she do it?
Barairo no Seisen
- Vol: 20; Ch: 100
- 2009 - 2016
Housewife named Makoto Miki, an ordinary 30-year-old mother whose peaceful life suddenly changes when she learns of her husband’s affair. At this turning point in her life she's determined to reaffirm her own beauty, and decides to enter the world of fashion modeling.
Paradise Kiss
- Vol: 5; Ch: 48
- 1999 - 2003
Yukari Hayasaka is a serious student who is held to high expectations by her overbearing mother. Excelling at her studies used to be her life's focus until one day she meets a group of fashion students who decide Yukari would be the perfect model for their latest design. While Yukari resists at first, she slowly comes to love this group of people who are living a life so different from her own. She also develops feelings for the lead designer, George Koizumi, and becomes close friends with Miwako Sakurada, her boyfriend Arashi Nagase, and Daisuke "Isabella" Yamamoto. Having these new friends in her life inspires Yukari to stop living her life the way her mother wants; so she strikes out on her own instead, determined to find what will make her happy.
3D Material
- Vol: 1; Ch: 6
- 2007
In two separate stories, two young women experience the confusing and thrilling powers of love. One gives away her virginity to a boy and steadily finds herself falling in love with him, but soon his eyes stray elsewhere. The other moves in with a man she’s liked for years and struggles to learn how to live on her own. Each will find her way to becoming a new person and living for herself.