[Top 10] Anime and Comics With Serial Killers

[Top 10] Anime / Comics With Serial Killers

Updated:

13 Dec 2020

You're not alone if you have a strange fascination with serial killers.

The authors of these anime and comics also have an interest in this subject, which is how they were able to come up with these amazing works. Dimension is given to the killers in these stories, and that makes them all the more interesting to read about. There's no need to look farther if dark stories are what you crave.

10. Hack/slash

Cassie is a serial killer of serial killers.

When Cassie’s mom is revealed to be the culprit behind student murders, Cassie concludes that she has no choice but to kill her own mother. After killing her mother, the slasher known as the Lunch Lady, Cassie decides to dedicate herself to hunting down killers. Cassie ends up befriending a misshapen man named Vlad, and together the two form a killer duo that send slashers, undead serial killers, back to their graves.

9. Future Diary

If he wants to make it to the end of the game, Yukiteru will have to trust the eccentric Yuno Gasai.

Yukiteru Amano is entered into a battle royale with 11 competitors in order to choose the successor of Deus Ex Machina, the god of time and space. To aid him, Yukiteru receives a “Random Diary” that can predict future events related to him. In order to survive this game where the winner is the last one alive, Yukiteru will have to find allies, and that may come in the form of a girl who’s obsessively in love with him.

8. Bedlam

Fillmore Press is suppossedly reformed, but will he stay that way, and if so, for how long?

Fillmore Press, when he worked under the name Madder Red, was a horrific serial killer who did worse to his victims than just kill them. After a surgery that supposedly rid him of his evil tendencies, he partners up with the police to do good for a change. However, Press’ past can only stay a secret for so long, and there’s no guarantee that he’s been cured for good.

7. Erased

Satoru suspects there's something fishy going on when he revisits his childhood, and he has to get to the bottom of it for the sake of his present self.

Satoru Fujinuma is wrongfully accused of murder, and he soon finds himself back in the past thanks to a mysterious phenomenon. He soon figures that the murder might be connected to the abuduction and killing of Kayo Hinazuki, one of his former classmates. For Satoru to protect those close to him in the present, he’ll first have to uncover the truths of the past.

6. Kill or Be Killed

Dylan isn't sure if the demon telling him to kill in order to live is telling the truth, but he isn't about to risk his life to find out.

Dylan is a cynical and depressed college student who attempts suicde after he overhears his roommate and his best friend talking about how pitiable he is. Somehow he survives, but that very night he is visited by a demon who claims to have saved his life and who says that if Dylan wants to live, he must kill a person each month. At first Dylan had his doubts, but after he begins to believe the demon’s words, he finds himself on the hunt for “bad” people to kill monthly . As he continues on this new path, Dylan finds his life taking a turn for the worse.

5. Psycho Pass

It is hard to enforce justice in a world where the ones meant to be upholding the law are corrupt themselves.

In the new future, the Sibyl System, a system that examines a person’s mental state to determine their threat level, is what is used to enforce justice. Akane Tsunemori is a young woman with a passion for justice, and she begins working with Shinya Kougami, an Enforcer, which is someone who does the dirty work of an Inspector, the ones who uphold the law. However, as she spends more time on the job, she realizes the system is less perfect than it’s made out to be and that the justice she dreams of might not be achievable.

4. From Hell

William Gull begins to succumb to madness as he continues to ruthlessly kill.

William Gull, the royal physician for Queen Victoria is asked to help deal with a royal scandal, and when it is dug up, he is summoned to bury the ones who are attempting to bring it to the surface. How Gull goes about disposing of the four women who threatened the crown is nothing short of brutal. Gull begins having visions and as he continues to kill, he falls deeper and deeper into the pits of insanity.

3. Death Note

With his genius and the Death Note, Light is an enemy who should be feared.

Light Yagami is a prodigious high school student who happens to find a Death Note dropped by a god of death. Inside the notebook is a list of rules on how to use it and what it does, which is kill those whose names are written in it. At first, Light was skeptical, but when it’s proven to work, Light realizes that the Death Note can be used to change the world. He adopts the alias “Kira” and decides that he will levy justice and execute criminals with the Death Note. This doesn’t sit well with everyone, and so brought in is the reknown detective L. The superior intelligence of Light and L are put to the test as genius battles genius.

2. My Friend Dahmer

Though Jeffrey Dahmer was undeniably wicked, it can't be ignored that he lived a hard life.

To the world Jeffrey Dahmer was a monster, but to Derf Backderf he was very much human. In this story of his, Backdorf shows his teenage friendship with Dahmer. Though he in no way excuses Dahmer’s crimes, Backdorf offers a glimpse into the world of his classmate that was plagued by torment.

1. Monster

If it's to get his job done, Johan Liebert will spare no one.

Johan Liebert would have died a young boy had he not been treated by Kenzou Tenma, a famous neurosurgeon who had to decide between saving the orphan or saving a mayor. Tenma believed he made the right choice, despite said choice ruining his career, until he learns what has become of Johan. Years after his life was saved, Johan has become a monster, and Tenma takes it upon himself to right the wrong he is responsible for.