Higanjima
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Japanese: 彼岸島


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Type: Manga
Volumes: 33
Chapters: 330
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 2, 2002 to Jul 12, 2010
Genres: Fantasy Fantasy, Horror Horror
Themes: Gore Gore, Survival Survival, Vampire Vampire
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Young Magazine (Weekly)
Authors: Matsumoto, Koji (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.451 (scored by 15821,582 users)
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Ranked: #180422
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3348
Members: 7,326
Favorites: 40

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Synopsis

When Akira Miyamoto learns that his older brother, Atsushi, is missing, his family begins to fall apart. The family business fails, and his father becomes an alcoholic. His two parents constantly compare Akira to Atsushi. Worse, Akira has a crush on a girl named Yuki, who already has a boyfriend, his friend Ken.

One day, Akira finds a girl unconscious in front of his house. The girl, Rei Aoyama, shows Akira Atsushi's ID card, claiming that Atsushi is alive. Rei explains that Atsushi is trapped on Higanjima Island, said to be inhabited by vampires. Akira invites his friends to help his brother, under the guise of a vacation to celebrate their graduation.

Upon arrival, vampires attack their boat and capture all of them except Rei. However, Akira escapes with his friends before vampires can drain their blood. On the island, he meets with Atsushi, who explains that the vampires are led by Miyabi, another vampire. Trained by Atsushi, Akira and his friends begin the battle against Miyabi and his vampire army in order to escape the island alive.

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Background

Higanjima was adapted into two Japanese live-action films and TV series.
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Sequel (Manga)
Higanjima: Saigo no 47 Nichikan
Adaptation (ONA)
Higanjima X
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Characters

 Miyabi
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Miyamoto, Akira
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Miyamoto, Atsushi
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Master
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Ken
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Katou
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Rei
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2 Recommended
0 Mixed Feelings
5 Not Recommended
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Sep 19, 2025
Shironasu
Recommended
Overall, Higanjima is a very weird case for me. The manga seems like complete garbage, with an inconsistent story, characters and their habits that are incredibly stupid and nonsensical, a repetitive plot (I'm amazed it has over 33 volumes with this plot), and overall questionable writing quality. This would be true if you take this manga seriously, but if not, it's an incredibly charming series. You'll enjoy the author's bizarre fetishes, such as peeing fetish, the various and creepy creature designs, and the memorable characters who, despite being stupid and annoying as fuck, I think the author did a good job of giving them appropriate ...
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Aug 19, 2024
Im_Caffeinated
Recommended
My English bad.

Definitely something different.

This is dog shit, made me felt like a sicko who scoop it all up it put in to my mouth. Contain a lot of gore, women getting gang "touch", body horror, things that make you feel yucky like pimple popping and scat.

It about the MC who is very weak face strong foe and get stronger each time until seem like he the strongest creature, then the villain get buff, the MC train again, an endless cycle. sprinkle in some romance drama, and NTR.

Plot: very basic like every other Shounen.
Art: Good enough to ...
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Jan 21, 2023
abystoma2
Not Recommended
Higanjima is an intriguing manga. Not in a good way. I really thought people were being overly critical, there’s no way a manga *that* bad could keep ongoing without getting axed, right? Wrong.

To summarize the nature of Higanjima, it’s a manga that’s wholly dependent on the rule of cool. Yet the author keeps missing the cool check roll most of the time. This results in obviously atrocious storytelling that just keeps being so annoying. Random bullshit keeps happening to delay anything being solved. The plot moves nowhere, only introducing more and more contrivances to divide attention elsewhere. Things are either not explained at all, or ...
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