Best death game manga
113 manga about death game, ranked by community score. Tags come from AniList voters; the percentage on each title page says how strongly the tag applies.
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3.8Magical Girl Raising Project
Light Novel · 2012 · 11 ch
Magical Girl Raising ProjectMahou Shoujo Ikusei KeikakuLight Novel · 2012 · 11 ch3.8Sugar and spice--but not playing nice! The hit smartphone game Magical Girl Raising Project is not only free, but one in tens of thousands of players will win real-life powers. In N City, sixteen of these lucky girls help the city's…
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3.7Deadman Wonderland
Manga · 2007 · 58 ch
Deadman WonderlandManga · 2007 · 58 ch3.7The inmates of this insane penitentiary fight for survival every day to provide entertainment for the masses, and terrifying secrets lurk in the shadows. Ganta is determined to survive Deadman Wonderland and clear his name, but the price…
3.7Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
Light Novel · 2015
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's StrongestArifureta Shokugyou de Sekai SaikyouLight Novel · 20153.7When a classroom of students is transported to another world to act as its saviors, Hajime Nagumo finds himself the weakest link. As his friends and classmates are granted strong classes and impressive abilities due to their existing…
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3.7Days of Hana
Manga · 2017 · 113 ch
Days of HanaHanaui HaruManga · 2017 · 113 ch3.7Friends since childhood, Haru and Hana do not have a typical relationship -- Hana is human, and Haru is her werewolf who must protect her. Although werewolves are starting to have more rights, they are still seen as exotic beasts by…
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3.7Angel Buddy
Manga · 2019 · 82 ch
Angel BuddyManga · 2019 · 82 ch3.7To others, Soo-Ho might appear a little strange. But to Soo-Ho, there’s much more to “life” than the average person may ever know. And that’s because Soo-Ho sees spirits. At first he thought his “abilities” were limited to the average…
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3.7L.A.G
Manga · 2022
L.A.GManga · 20223.7L.A.G, an unknown space where humans use abilities or skills through awakening, monsters appear on each floor and room, and missions are given accordingly. The goal here is to reach the bottom. The protagonist repeats death and life…
3.7Gosick
Manga · 2007 · 29 ch
GosickManga · 2007 · 29 ch3.7Kujo Kazuya is studying abroad in Sovuria (a fictional country in Europe), where he meets the mysterious Victoria. Possessing a brilliant mind, which she calls "fountain of wisdom", she seems to know everything, although she never attends…
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3.6Darwin's Game
Manga · 2012 · 125 ch
Darwin's GameManga · 2012 · 125 ch3.6Kaname Sudo’s life changes forever when he accepts an invitation to Darwin’s Game, a mysterious mobile app that thrusts its players into real-life battles using supernatural “Sigils” with terrifying effects. Suddenly hunted by deadly foes…
3.6The Martial God Who Regressed Back to Level 2
Manga · 2023
The Martial God Who Regressed Back to Level 22 Level Hoegwihan MusinManga · 20233.6Earth lost the fight for survival in the BattleNet system and humanity now faces eradication. However, Jihan Seong is given another chance. He has returned three years into the past before BattleNet became a life-or-death game. With his…
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3.6It's Mine
Manga · 2018 · 158 ch
It's MineManga · 2018 · 158 ch3.6There’s nothing that Yo-Han Do doesn’t know about his crush, Da-Jeong. Where she sits in class, works after school... and even where she lives. But unable to approach her, he watches her every move from afar and will do anything to protect…
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3.6Danganronpa/Zero
Light Novel · 2011 · 33 ch
Danganronpa/ZeroLight Novel · 2011 · 33 ch3.6The story revolves around the amnesiac girl Ryouko Otonashi, who is a student at Hope's Peak Academy, and the sharp-tongued Ultimate Neurologist Yasuke Matsuda, with whom she is infatuated. A month after The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy…
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3.6Legend of Dangun
Manga · 2024
Legend of DangunOh! DangunManga · 20243.6Back when tigers still smoked, a bear crawled into a cave and crawled out a woman, becoming the mother of the great ancestor known as Dangun. That is the story everyone knows, but no one remembers the others who left the cave too soon and…![Nakanohito Genome [Jikkyouchuu]](https://s4.anilist.co/file/anilistcdn/media/manga/cover/large/nx100174-sB1AQoIDsHEz.jpg)
3.6Nakanohito Genome [Jikkyouchuu]
Manga · 2014
Nakanohito Genome [Jikkyouchuu]Manga · 20143.6Iride Akatsuki is a popular game footage uploader. He wakes up one day to find that he's been kidnapped and taken to a strange place, along with a number of other uploaders who specialize in different genres of games. A mysterious…
3.6Return to Player
Manga · 2020 · 250 ch
Return to PlayerManga · 2020 · 250 ch3.6Ten years ago, a group of gods turned everyone on Earth into players of a sadistic game that forced them to kill monsters in real life -- or be killed themselves. Sehan Kim has already seen how this game will play out: everyone in the…
3.6The New Gate
Manga · 2014
The New GateTHE NEW GATEManga · 20143.6THE NEW GATE—an online game transformed into a life-and-death struggle for its players. Thanks to the valiant efforts of Shin, the most powerful of them all, an end to the game and freedom for everyone seemed within reach. But just moments…
3.6Reform with No Wasted Draws - The Legend of Koizumi
Manga · 2006 · 144 ch
Reform with No Wasted Draws - The Legend of KoizumiMudazumo Naki KaikakuManga · 2006 · 144 ch3.6Modern diplomacy is settled through high-stakes games of mahjong in this cult classic starring a fictionalized Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi. First serialized in Kindai Mahjong magazines, the 16-volume series pits Koizumi against…
3.5Dungeon Reset
Manga · 2020 · 266 ch
Dungeon ResetManga · 2020 · 266 ch3.5Da-Woon's ordinary life is turned upside down when he is summoned into the Dungeon, where he must play a deadly game, outlasting dangerous monsters and life-threatening traps. To make matters worse, he's only a mere crafter with zero…
3.5The Tutorial Is Too Tough!
Manga · 2021
The Tutorial Is Too Tough!Tutorial-i Neomu EoryeopdaManga · 20213.5Lee Ho-Jae had given up his life as a pro gamer, until one day he received a mysterious message: “Congratulations! You’ve been invited to the Tutorial World.” Intrigued, he enters the game and confidently chooses “hell” difficulty, but…
3.5The Lone Necromancer
Manga · 2021 · 223 ch
The Lone NecromancerNa Honja NecromancerManga · 2021 · 223 ch3.5Seong-Woo is a former special forces soldier who has returned to college after completing his national service. His ordinary life as a student is shattered during class one day when he and his fellow students are faced with a mysterious…
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3.5Arisa
Manga · 2009 · 48 ch
ArisaManga · 2009 · 48 ch3.5Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisa—unlike the hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is “The Demon Princess.” But when Arisa attempts suicide, Tsubasa learns…
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3.5Re/Member
Manga · 2014 · 151 ch
Re/MemberKarada SagashiManga · 2014 · 151 ch3.5Asuka and her classmates get their lives turned upside with an eerie request from their friend Haruka: “find my body.” The request hints at the urband legend of the “Red Person.” They quickly discover that if they don't find all of…
3.5Ghost Dating Simulation
Manga · 2025
Ghost Dating SimulationDugeundugeun GwiyeonsiManga · 20253.5Struggling streamer Do-Yeon Choi downloads a mysterious dating sim game, Heart-Racing Ghost Dating Sim, only to find himself trapped in a deadly loop-- where the love interests are real-life ghosts with unresolved deaths. From haunted…
3.5The Overpowered Newbie
Manga · 2022 · 162 ch
The Overpowered NewbieNewbie Neomu GanghamManga · 2022 · 162 ch3.5With his orphanage on the brink of closure, Kim Jaeju needs to get rich fast. His best shot is to conquer the mysterious tower that appeared in the world seven years ago, except that few who enter the tower ever manage to return. Jaeju is…
3.5Battle in 5 Seconds
Manga · 2015
Battle in 5 SecondsDeatte 5-byou de BattleManga · 20153.5Akira Shiroyanagi is a high schooler who loves challenging games and Konpeito candy. One day, while heading to school, he encounters an enigmatic woman called Mion. After that, Akira and a host of other individuals are kidnapped and forced…
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3.5AMONG US
One-shot · 2022 · 1 ch
AMONG USOne-shot · 2022 · 1 ch3.5A one-shot adaptation of the video game of the same name.
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3.5Alice in Borderland Retry
Manga · 2020 · 13 ch
Alice in Borderland RetryImawa no Kuni no Alice RETRYManga · 2020 · 13 ch3.5Ryouhei Arisu, now a grown adult and married to Yuzuha, who is expected to give birth to their first child any day now, suddenly finds himself back in the Borderlands, the land between Life and Death, after getting into an accident. Will…
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3.5Danganronpa: The Animation
Manga · 2013 · 17 ch
Danganronpa: The AnimationDanganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The AnimationManga · 2013 · 17 ch3.5Each 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…
3.5Not Lives
Manga · 2011 · 54 ch
Not LivesManga · 2011 · 54 ch3.5Mikami Shigeru is a video game genius–he can play and conquer any game, and just as easily program his own. While planning his next project, Shigeru discovers a strange oddity among his stack of research materials–a game disc labelled NOT…
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3.5Future Diary
Manga · 2006 · 59 ch
Future DiaryMirai NikkiManga · 2006 · 59 ch3.5Yukiteru is a lonely student whose only hobby is the daily diary he keeps on his cell phone. But Yukiteru has a secret that nobody knows about...his cellphone can tell the future! Now a vicious game of survival is about to begin among…
3.5Btooom!
Manga · 2009 · 125 ch
Btooom!BTOOOM!Manga · 2009 · 125 ch3.5Sakamoto Ryuuta is an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there may be nothing really special about him, but online, he's one of the world's top players of the combat game "BTOOOM"! One day, he awakes in…
3.5A Dating Sim of Life or Death
Manga · 2017
A Dating Sim of Life or DeathOre no Genjitsu wa Renai Game?? Ka to Omottara Inochigake no Game dattaManga · 20173.5"Conquer" all the ladies! A sexy and exciting suspense-thriller series! A young man awakes to find that his life has become a video game, and one that he must either win or die. Given the cryptic goal of "conquering" all the female…
3.5Akdangi Saraganeun Beop
Manga · 2021 · 199 ch
Akdangi Saraganeun BeopManga · 2021 · 199 ch3.5“You have been chosen as a player in the great game to select the next god’s successor, the Mission! Congratulations!” Seong-Hoon has suddenly fallen into another world to participate in a game to become a god. This other world that is…
3.5Dementia 21
Manga · 2011 · 37 ch
Dementia 21Manga · 2011 · 37 ch3.5Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie's wits to the test!…
3.5Your Turn to Die: Majority Vote Death Game
Manga · 2019 · 36 ch
Your Turn to Die: Majority Vote Death GameKimi ga Shine: Tasuuketsu Death GameManga · 2019 · 36 ch3.5Joe Tazuna has always been the most selfless person Sara Chidouin has ever known, someone she could count on to take a bullet for her. But that trust is put to the test when they wake up restrained to some strange tables and discover Joe…
3.5Death Game Manga no Kuromaku Satsujinki no Imouto ni Tensei shite Shippai shita
Manga · 2021 · 31 ch
Death Game Manga no Kuromaku Satsujinki no Imouto ni Tensei shite Shippai shitaManga · 2021 · 31 ch3.5One day, Mai remembers that her perfect stepbrother is a character in a death game manga, and that one year later he will hold a death game involving all of his classmates, killing his sister in the process. Mai plans a variety of…
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3.5Hyakumanjou Labyrinth
Manga · 2013 · 23 ch
Hyakumanjou LabyrinthManga · 2013 · 23 ch3.5"We got lost in a wooden labyrinth...?" Reika and Youko, who work part time finding bugs for a game company, suddenly find themselves lost in a wooden labyrinth. They try to escape somehow, but the riddles and dangers only keep…