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Plenty of Japanese manga series and one-volume stories have happy endings that can make a reader feel good about themselves when the story is over. This is especially true in shonen and shojo manga series, which nearly always end with joyful triumph and accomplishments, from defeating the final villain to getting together with a lover to getting into one's intended college. However, there are some manga series that take another route, denying their characters a happy ending that they may or may not deserve.

Such manga series tend to be grim and dark, and some are downright subversive by refusing to end on a high note. Such manga series may have a bittersweet ending that's not quite a typical "happily ever after," and some manga series are even rougher, ending with a dark or twisted ending that challenges the reader to think more deeply about what they're seeing. A manga needs a good reason to deny everyone a happy ending, which can make for an intriguing read.

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10 Death Note Punished Light Yagami For His Dark Aspirations

The famed shonen manga series Death Note showed Light Yagami the antihero rising to power as Kira, the self-appointed god of justice in a new world order. Light fought with all his wits to defend his ambition, first defeating the super-detective L, and then battling Near and Mello as well. Light almost won, but Near got him in the end, and Kira was cornered.

Light tried to escape his dire situation, only for Matsuda to shoot him, and then Ryuk wrote down Light's name to kill him. Light's grim world order collapsed with him, and for the most part, the world moved on from Kira. But as the ending showed, there was an underground cult devoted to the idea of Kira, proving that a villain may die, but their twisted ideas don't die so easily.

9 Happy Sugar Life Showed True Love in Death's Embrace

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Happy Sugar Life is a classic example of a subversive manga series that had an ironically cheerful title and a deceptively cute protagonist in Sato Matsuzaka. Sato is a quintessential yandere character, a lovesick teenage girl who clings tightly to the object of her affection, a younger girl named Shio. However, Sato is a criminal who abducted Shio from her original family.

Shio has accepted Sato as her best friend and protector, but it might not last much longer. The authorities and Shio's older brother are trying to shatter the happy, sugary life that Sato built for herself and Shio, and Sato will go to shocking lengths to defend the cozy "castle" that she and Shio share. Sato would sooner die than let Shio go, and it just might come to that.

8 Fire Punch Concluded With the End of the WorldFire Punch's Agni, using his fire affliction and regenerative blessing

Before author Tatsuki Fujimoto launched his mega-popular Chainsaw Man manga, he wrote an eight-volume shonen manga titled Fire Punch. It was almost like a post-apocalyptic X-Men story, taking place in the future in the middle of a bleak Ice Age. Some people are born with mutant powers that are viewed as God's gifts, but such powers rarely bring happiness.

Protagonist Agni will suffer greatly when a fire-wielding man burns down his village and seemingly kills Agni's sister Luna, prompting a revenge story. All the while, Agni's flesh regeneration powers will keep him alive while flames constantly burn his body, but Agni will soon wonder whether revenge is really worth it, and seek new meaning to his life. As for Fire Punch's grim ending, it's evident that there really is no salvation or meaning in a world like this.

7 Solanin Ended on a Bittersweet NoteMeiko from Solanin glancing at the viewer.

Author Inio Asano is best known for his drama manga Goodnight Punpun, but he has more to offer for fans of relatable drama series. He also penned the short but sweet series Solanin, which as a tense, bittersweet mood the entire time. The story doesn't end on a totally bleak note, but it's also not a carefree happy ending. It's somewhere in the middle.

Solanin follows Meiko Inoue, a 20-something who feels frustrated and lost in her adult life as an office worker. She and her boyfriend Taneda are also music lovers trying to launch a band, but it's easier said than done, and when tragedy strikes, Meiko must fight to overcome her grief, despair, and apathy to figure out what she really stands for.

6 Girls' Last Tour Showed True Friendship as Oblivion Drew NearYuuri placing a blanket over Chito's shoulders while she sleeps in Girls' Last Tour.

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For the most part, the Girls' Last Tour manga series is an off-beat "cute girls doing cute things" manga, but unlike series like K-On! and Laid-Back Camp, the protagonists of Girls' Last Tour are fighting a losing battle against time. Chito and Yuuri are two charming girls who roam the remains of a high-tech city after a dreadful war, and while they're free to go anywhere they like, they have no real destination in mind.

The two friends will simply have fun exploring the slowly crumbling city as their supplies start to dwindle, providing a sense of creeping dread. By the story's end, Chito and Yuuri arrive at the roof of the fallen city with nowhere left to go, and they cozy up for the night, clinging to one another as they try to deny their inevitable end as starvation looms.

5 Inside Mari Had a Shocking Twist Endingthe cover of inside mari's japanese manga volume

Inside Mari is one of author Shuzo Oshimi's most notable works aside from The Flowers of Evil. This short manga stars an odd pair of protagonists, a loser 20-something shut-in and a cheerful, popular high school girl named Mari. The mystery begins when Mari's soul vanishes, with Isao Komori the shut-in awakening in her body.

That premise may sound similar to the body-swap fun of director Makoto Shinkai's Your Name., but Inside Mari takes an even darker turn than that anime movie ever did. Isao must face his own pitiful life as he explores the world inside Mari's body, and by the story's end, the reader will realize that not everyone in this story is who they seem to be, and not everyone is even real.

4 Remina Showed One Planet Killing AnotherThe living planet Remina in the sky as two men look up at it.

Remina is one of author Junji Ito's most vivid works, a short manga that features a huge living planet that's approaching the Solar System with malicious intentions. An astronomer named that weird planet after his daughter, Remina, but that just makes Remina the girl a target when humanity turns on her in a panic.

As Remina the living planet, approaches, mass hysteria sets in, and Remina is offered as a sacrifice to the alien horror named after her. Soon, everyone will have even bigger problems as Remina the living planet, starts tearing the Earth itself apart, and even the best-prepared people may struggle in the face of this Lovecraftian assault.

The cover of Junji Ito's Rumina manga
Junji Ito's Remina Is a Modern Horror Classic - That We Don't Need Right Now
WRITER
Junji Ito
Artist
Junji Ito
Price
19.99
Release Date
December 15, 2020

3 Tokyo Ghoul Ended With Ken Kaneki's Painful Defeat

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It's true that the follow-up series Tokyo Ghoul :re has a happy ending even for villains like Naki, but the classic original isn't quite like that. From certain points of view, the day was saved in this manga's final battle, with the CCG investigators reasonably satisfied with a battle well fought. However, for the half-other protagonist, Ken Kaneki, the ending of Tokyo Ghoul is a disaster.

Ken fought his most powerful foe yet, Kisho Arima, only to get thrashed in their battle, and he even got his head stabbed. Thus, Ken lost his memories and assumed a new identity as Sasaki, who was ready to join the CCG as an investigator himself. Ken suffered greatly and didn't even knowing it, causing Tokyo Ghoul to end on an uneasy and bittersweet note.

2 Ibitsu Allowed the Monster WinIbitsu manga acover with the villain and her umbrella

The sort, fairly obscure horror manga Ibitsu is a borderline slasher story featuring a dark-eyed, pale antagonist in Remina Kanbe, who lurked on the streets with a parasol and smelly teddy bear. She acted like an urban legend monster, asking passing people if they wanted a little sister, referring to herself. When protagonist Kazuki Ito happens by, he answers that question, and then the real horror begins.

Remina becomes a yandere determined to replace Kazuki's actual little sister, and she will attack, abuse, or kill anyone whom she must to make that selfish dream happen. Kazuki will desperately try to learn the truth of who and what Remina even is, but the answers won't come easily, and he can't escape her wrath. In the end, Remina gets her way, then begins asking around if anyone else wants a little sister, perpetuating the cycle.

1 Uzumaki Had an Ambiguous Ending With Countless Spirals

The final scene of Uzumaki with underground spirals.

Uzumaki still stands as author Junji Ito's most popular and definitive work, even more so than Tomie and Gyo. This is the unforgettable story of how an ordinary Japanese town becomes infested with spiral shapes, which appear in all kinds of forms, some of them truly gruesome. Heroine Kirie Goshima tries to continue her ordinary life during the spiral attack, but soon, society falls apart.

Kirie and her boyfriend watch as their town dissolves into chaos, and there's no clear way to escape or fight back against the spiral shapes as the problem continues to get worse. By the manga's end, Kirie stumbles upon the apparent source of the spiral attack, but it's an ambiguous, open-ended conclusion where there is no victory for Kirie -- and probably no survival, either.

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