Yagiza no Yuujin - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2004 - 2006

Haru, a university student, has just traveled from Tokyo to the countryside for her mother's funeral. And like her mother, she is just as unwelcomed by the townsfolk, presumed to be immoral and even a witch by the local kids. But one young boy, Taro, takes an interest in Haru, and together the two begin a memorable summer together filled with laughter, and even a harrowing adventure, that changes their lives forever.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 39
• 2014 - 2015

Makoto does not have it easy. He gets bullied in School and has problems with his father due to skipping school. His outlook on life brightens when Kirisaki, a girl in his class, compliments his drawing skills. A while later he sees her getting harassed by the ringleader of his bullies. He decides to intervene, but is cut short by the revelation that she is the ringleader's girlfriend who incited the bullying in the first place. Depressed by his situation Makoto decides to kill himself. He lands in purgatory, neither Heaven nor Hell with the mission to save the lives of six people, whose life will be negatively affected by his suicide... his father, his bullies and Kirisaki.

• Ch: 147
• 2019 - 2022

Lee Kyung Ho's mind was engulfed with ending his life due to bullying and the loss of his mother. He attempts to, but is saved. His determination to commit suicide somehow entices Sierra, a grim reaper who later offers him a contract. This contract blesses him with the ability to borrow the powers of the dead in their previous life in return of sacrificing years from his lifespan. For the sake of attaining what he wishes for, he eventually agrees to it.

• Vol: 9; Ch: 111
• 2019 - 2022

Do you want someone dead? Maybe there's a bully harassing you at school? Just contact the Tranquility Support Center. They'll deal with your problem by killing the person harassing you! Of course, there is a price to pay, but it's worth it, right...?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 14
• 1993

At the edge of the city not far from the sea, a field of goldenrod sways in the breeze, its veil of amber flowers obscuring secrets underneath. Old bones and forgotten memories rest in silence, waiting for someone to dig them up. This is where the lives of six young men and women intertwine in ways both tragic and extraordinary. Decaying secrets are revealed as they forge friendships from pain, find betrayal in pleasure, and stare into the face of death itself—in a field of gold by a stagnant river, under the smoke-filled skies.

• Ch: 28+
• 2023 - ?

Haruki endures relentless bullying from a trio of classmates. One day, a beautiful transfer student named Shirayuki suddenly approaches him and asks if he would date him if the bullying stopped. Haruki dismisses it as a joke. But the next day, one of his tormentors disappears. Then another. One thing's for sure—Shirayuki is a psychopath that lacks common sense and empathy.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 50
• 2015 - 2019

Nothing interesting is happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. His life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.

• Ch: 14
• 2011

• Vol: 6; Ch: 23
• 1998 - 2002

Confidential Confessions is a shoujo drama series by Reiko Momochi which features several short stories in each volume. The stories deal with true to life subject matter that teen girls face such as rape, suicide and sexual harassment. Often dark, it is a provocative look at the hardships that young woman have to deal with, no matter what culture they live in.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 12
• 1990 - 2011

Includes the following chapters:

• 1. Bio House
• 2. Face Thief
• 3. Where the Sandman Lives
• 4. The Devil's Logic
• 5. The Long Hair in the Attic
• 6. Scripted Love
• 7. The Reanimator's Sword
• 8. A Father's Love
• 9. Unendurable Labyrinth
• 10. Village of the Siren
• 11. Bullied
• 12. Deserter