Your Turn to Die: Majority Vote Death Game - Recommendations

• Vol: 4; Ch: 17
• 2013 - 2014

Each year, the elite Hope’s Peak Academy selects only the most gifted and talented students to enroll... plus one ordinary student, chosen by lottery. Makoto Naegi was that lucky person — or so he thought! When he shows up for class, he finds the elite students are a bizarre cast of oddballs under the ruthless authority of a robot teddy bear principal, Monokuma. The bear lays down the school rules: the only way out of Hope’s Peak is to not only murder another student... but get away with it, as every murder is followed by a tribunal where the surviving students cross-examine each other!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 19
• 2012 - 2017

High school student Hajime Hinata must be the "Ultimate" at something--after all, he got accepted to Hope's Peak Academy, which takes only the nation's elite teens (whether they're elite at being gangsters, gymnasts, or hamster breeders!). But he doesn't know what his special talent is...only that he and his classmates have been given a surprise summer vacation on Jabberwock Island. It may be a tropical paradise, but their sinister teddy bear headmaster Monokuma still expects them all to complete their assignments if they ever want to go home--namely, murder a fellow student and get away with it, as the survivors cross-examine each other at a classroom trial!

• Vol: 4; Ch: 20
• 2007 - 2009

Rabbit Doubt is a popular new mystery game in which a ‘wolf' kills off each of a group of ‘rabbits' one by one. If the rabbits determine the identity of the wolf, they win the game; but if they suspect the wrong individual, the rabbits all die. Eiji, Rei, Mitsuki, Haruka, Yuu and Hajime are six friends who were meeting for the first time at a karaoke bar, but then, while separated, they lost consciousness and came to in a mysterious building - one of their bodies impaled on the wall. A real life game of Rabbit Doubt has begun. With paranoia and suspicion abounding, the survivors struggle to piece clues together before the Wolf picks them off one by one.

• Vol: 8+; Ch: 50+
• 2018 - ?

Masahiko Mariyama, a small-time businessman, lives a modest life with his wife, two children, and dementia-stricken mother. Then one day, the people disappeared from the town! In the midst of his confusion, he is summoned to a place where he finds seven families and giant dolls. And so begins a compulsory recreational activity. No one is allowed to escape, and the winner will receive a luxurious prize, while the last place winner will be punished. One of them is sacrificed at a family meeting! 

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2011 - 2013

A female entertainer typical to Japanese traditional customs, finds herself swept into the world oh so familiar, and yet so different from the one she lived in so far.... a world where she has to fight to survive.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2011 - 2012

Asahi and her friend Yamato are aboard a luxurious ocean liner for an unusual reason: the entertainment company Sky Nova invited them to be exclusive test players for a new game they've developed, and they must come as a pair. Joined by a handful of others such as a popular school idol and a suicidal boy, the duo eagerly awaits the beginning of the fun. However, what greets the teens is something far more sinister - a one way trip to a deserted island where they're forced to avoid traps, escape being hunted, and live to survive another day...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 6
• 2018 - 2019

Seven former fellow middle school students are forced to participate in a “death game” by an eerie ‘rabbit’. They have never met after graduating but now they must complete 6 death games within one hour to escape their entrapment! A game of despair begins as their dark past is revealed and their fragile relationships are put to the test!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2013 - 2014

On what seems to be a normal day, Arata and 33 of his classmates head to third period, where they find blank crossword puzzles on the desks. Suddenly, a mysterious being named Kuro appears, and within minutes countless students explode or are eviscerated in increasingly gory ways. The remaining survivors must use their smarts and their wits to survive the Dead Word Puzzle. 

• Vol: 5; Ch: 21
• 2011 - 2012

Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. After his teacher's head explodes, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games, such as Daruma ga Koronda (a game like Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win...

• Vol: 3; Ch: 23
• 2020 - 2021