I Am a Hero - Recommendations

• Vol: 11; Ch: 41
• 2007 - 2011

Encased by trees that are used to make grave markers, Sotoba is a village thought to be surrounded by death - a fact that soon literally becomes the case. One summer, a series of mysterious and untimely fatalities begins to plague the small rural town. With a higher than normal mortality rate for the time of year and each cause of passing remaining unknown, Toshio, the local doctor, and Seishin the temple’s vice chief monk become suspicious and take it upon themselves to investigate. However, as the deaths begin to pile up, more people begin to wonder just what is behind this sudden epidemic; could it have anything to do with the bizarre Kirishiki family that recently moved to the village?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 14
• 2007 - 2009

War looms over everyday life in the capital. Two girls who seek respite in the bucolic outskirts of Suginami Ward learn that a riverside where spirits reside is creeping with rotting anomalies. As the adults prove incapable, youth must take up arms.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 46
• 2011 - 2015

Yoshiaki Maeda has been falsely accused and detained, along with delinquents from all over the Kanto region, in the juvenile correctional facility, Shouran Institute. Yoshiaki is as typical as a boy can get, so when he finds himself living in this violence-ridden prison, he can't think of anything worse. His cellmates, Iwakura, Yamanoi, and Yoshioka, are a cunning crew and soon Yoshiaki finds himself pulled into a feud going on in the prison. Then suddenly, a prison van crashes into the facility and what shambles out of the wreckage are flesh-eating zombies … and so the curtain is raised on this bone-chilling story of panic and horror…

• Ch: 99
• 2014 - 2016

Eun-Sung Lee went to work that day like any other, kissing his wife and child goodbye before dealing with the daily office grind. But no one expected that Seoul would collapse that day as it was overpowered by a swarm of giant, man-eating insects that kill or infect everyone in their path, turning most of the survivors into mindless killing machines. What’s worse, anarchy now rules the streets and humans are now just as dangerous as the insect threat. Along with his co-worker Ji-Eun Seong and a battle-hardened old man, Eun-Sun traverses this desperate landscape in an attempt to find his family, and to keep all of them alive against their enemies at every turn.

• Ch: 66
• 2013 - 2015

The world has come to chaos. An unknown virus haunts every living soul, and one man is determined to reach his beloved before it's too late. His journey takes him closer and closer, but he faces adversity and strife. That's when he faces reality. He sees the world around him. He sees a world faced with something more dangerous than the virus.

• Vol: 12; Ch: 140
• 2017 - 2020

After an unexpected family tragedy, a reclusive high school student is forced to leave his home -- only to face something much scarier: a reality where monsters are trying to wipe out humanity. Now he must fight alongside a handful of reluctant heroes to try and save the world before it’s too late.

• Vol: 15+; Ch: 65+
• 2019 - ?

Surviving a zombie apocalypse beats being a wage slave any day! After spending years slaving away for a soul-crushing company, Akira's life has lost its luster. He lives in a trash-filled apartment, his pay is abysmal, and he can't even muster up the nerve to confess his love to his beautiful co-worker. But when a zombie apocalypse ravages his town, it gives him the push he needs to live for himself. Now Akira's on a mission to complete all 100 items on his bucket list before he...well, kicks the bucket.

• Vol: 7; Ch: 30
• 2006 - 2013

When the infected approached Rei and Takashi's school, it led to a gruesome blood bath that left the majority of students and staff dead or turned into the zombie-like monsters that have spread throughout the world. Together with a handful of other survivors, Rei and Takashi set forth to find their families in a world that is rapidly detoriating. Governments have collapsed, the killer disease is out of control, and people everywhere are trying their best to simply live through each day...

• Vol: 4; Ch: 27
• 2015 - 2016

A group of high school students spent their peaceful days freely until they were chosen as participants of a game where everyone is hypnotized until they commit suicide. No one is safe from sudden death, so what will they do to avoid their fates?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2004 - 2014

A little girl Rin and her bear protector happen upon Sayuri, a survivor of the zombie apocalypse. Rin seems to be living an idyllic life in her lone mountain home, but how is it that she and Mr. Bear have managed to go unnoticed by the zombie hordes?