The title is kinda ambiguous, I'll try to be as specific as possible.

Someone here suggested Ushijima the Loan Shark when I requested for villain-protagonist. I'm just looking for a manga that's similar. If you haven't read it, I will give a little summary of what the manga is like and what I'm looking for.
I don't read a lot of manga due the fact the most are filled with generic/immature Characters and redundant stories. Ushijima the Loan Shark is a realistically scary manga. Not scar because of gore (doesn't have gore), but scary in the sense that it's hard to bat an eye when confronted with its realism, and you get to see how some characters mentally breakdown. It's kinda like Shamo, but without the MMA fighting and the ridiculous metaphors.

How do you make a villain-protagonist appealing to your audience without redeeming the character's actions? I 've seen this done in just three manga: Shamo, Sunabozu and Yamikin Ushijima-kun: If the main character does whats befitting for a villain, the manga doesn't sugar-coat it. It won't take you back to the character's childhood and try to woo you by showing you the character's bad childhood , or maybe turn the character to some kind of preacher to gain sympathy from the readers. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I just think it's overdone, and it's getting cheap


Please don't suggest Death note or any similar manga; need something more realistic and bleak.

Maybe Ookami no Kuchi: Wolfsmund, Freesia, Blue Heaven, The world is mine.


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Duds Hunt If you want realistic and an evil bastard as protagonist, it's a good one. But it's kinda short.

Kimi no Knife Maybe. The protagonist doesn't start evil, but he's well on his way...

Second Wolfsmund. Wolfram is probably the closest to what you're looking for, especially with how polarizing he is amongst readers.

Maybe...
Ajin
A Fairytale for the Demon Lord
Black Lagoon
ib - instant bullet
Kurosagi
Ubel Blatt

Though your mileage may vary on how much of a "villain" these protagonists are. (They're definitely antiheroes at least.)

There's also Anne Freaks, Litchi Hikari Club, and Kami no Kodomo, but I wouldn't really rank their protagonists as "appealing." All of them are definitely incredibly bleak manga, though.

Try this Hoshi no Samidare.

Wolfsmund. is pretty good. Is Wolfram the protagonist? I hope he is. I've tried the other manga you mentioned; not my type. Ajin was really promising. I thought he was gonna kill those hunters, but the manga took a different route.

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Thanks. But not looking for fantasy or romance.

Last edited by lambchopsil at 3:51 pm, Sep 7 2014

hm... series that don't redeem their characters are hard...

what about Destroy and Revolution? the main character is kind of a pussy (the author's MCs always seem to be) but most of the side characters are rather murderous and don't make excuses for it.
That author is good with serious manga, I've read all of his works listed on here and they all have really good psychological depth.

Of course Dendrobates, whose main character is also a villain and murderous, but I've always thought of it as kind of immature and flat... not in a comical way but in a "and he kills them all AGAIN?!?" way

Anne Freaks is alright, it reminds me of a less redeemable Kimi no Knife...