Monster Slaying Manga from Shonen Jump That You Should Try

Since Monster-slaying seems to be in fashion, we had a look at some of the most praised and loved Manga in the genre that you should checkout. The list contains stories that have been running for decades to reasonably new ones that challenge even the well-established ones.

Our Blood Oath 

Our Blood Oath is one of the reasonably new titles on Shonen Jump. It is based on Red pledge and follows the story of two siblings. Shin and Ko are no ordinary siblings since Ko is a vampire while Shin is a human. Even though they have a bloodline full of vampires, the brothers choose to fight the blood-sucking monsters to protect innocent people.

The series has evolved some great vampire designs that are previously unseen. They have shown the courage to move past generic humanoid designs as the animalistic monster vampires do set the series apart from others in its genre. Although it is ranked relatively low, it would be unfair to judge it from its ranking only since the series is relatively new, and very little of it is out as of now. But the Manga, with its unique plot, does seem very promising, and it would be intriguing to see how it builds upon its promising start. 

 Hell Warden Higuma

Hell Warden Higuma, as its name suggests, focuses on the life of Higuma, who is a Hell Warden. Started alongside Chainsaw Man in 2018, the protagonist of the Manga is given the responsibility to find evil demons that have possessed innocent humans. He has to exorcise the human to send the demons back to hell. Higuma has an army of hands at his disposal to help him with his job. 

A human possessed by a demon will probably not know, but the signs are there. The human will tend to undergo a significant personality shift, which often transpires as the possessed picks up destructive and sinister traits. The aim of the demons is to absorb the lifespan of its victims to sustain itself. Hell Warden Higuma gives a lot of time to Higuma and his history; by doing this, it presents a very close look at the effects of monster hunting on an individual. It also shows what type of person would choose to sign up from such a job. 

 Burn the Witch

The Manga Bleach created by Titu Kubo needs no introduction. It quickly grew popularity after its release and got an anime adaptation as well. Burn the Witch is set in the same world as Bleach and focuses on the deuteragonist Noel Niihasi and Ninny Spangcole. Both of them are witches who spend most of their time-fighting dragons who are taking over the city. 

Burn the Witch in 2018, was published as a one-shot, but it had to be serialized this year because of its growing popularity. If you are not familiar with the world of Bleach, you won’t be able to resonate with this series. But, if you are someone aware of the Bleach world, then Burn the Witch is probably the Manga you are looking for.

 Jujutsu Kaisen 

Jujutsu Kaisen is the story of a high school student named Yūji Itadori. He joins an Occult Research Club in his school only with the motive that he will have enough time to meet his grandfather, who is in the hospital. The Occult Club accidentally finds a talisman that holds a very dangerous curse. After the club accidentally unleashes the curse, many other evil curses descend on the school since the powerful talisman curse can give anyone the power to destroy the world.

To protect the people he loves, Yūji consumes the rotting finger talisman himself and becomes the host of the curse. He is then introduced to the world of shamans who are doing their bit to protect the world from falling into chaos. The school’s superiors finally had to decide to sentence Yūji to death, but before he is killed, he has to consume all the cursed rotten fingers so that both can be destroyed simultaneously.  

Jujutsu Kaisen is a unique monster-slaying manga that is hard to replace. Even though you might not be a fan of the genre, Jujutsu Kaisen has the potential to make you a fan.

Chainsaw Man

Chainsaw Man has been running on Shonen Jump since 2018 and has been a massive hit of 2020. It is set in a world where devils regularly attack humans, so hunting devils obviously becomes a lucrative career choice. But there are also humans who make pacts with devils for materialistic gains.

Denji, the protagonist, is an unfortunate young man who is struggling to pay off his father’s debt to the yakuza. He earns money by selling his organs, hunting devils, and working as a lumberjack. His dog Pochita is a devil who can turn itself into a chainsaw, which proves very useful for Denji in his lumberjacking. The yakuza are aware that they can make Denji do whatever they want, so they send him to fight a zombie devil. But it turns out that the yakuza had made a pact with the devil and wanted to use Denji as a sacrifice. When the devil kills Denji, his dog Pochita fuses with him giving him all his powers and a new life. Denji, with Pochita’s power, quickly destroys the zombie devil; when a team of government devil hunters arrives, they offer him to join them, which kicks off his journey as a Public Safety Devil Hunter.

Chainsaw Man is often compared with Deadpool because of the violence and brutality that it portrays. But the series is able to stand out on its own because of its unique and well-written characters. The show deserves to be a sleeper hit, and if there is one series that you should go for from Shonen Jump, then it must be Chainsaw Man.

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