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Dragon Head
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Japanese: ドラゴンヘッド
English: Dragon Head
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 10
Chapters: 89
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 12, 1994 to Dec 13, 1999
Genres: Action Action, Award Winning Award Winning, Drama Drama, Horror Horror
Themes: Psychological Psychological, Survival Survival
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Young Magazine (Weekly)
Authors: Mochizuki, Minetarou (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.151 (scored by 98139,813 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #72812
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #730
Members: 28,855
Favorites: 419

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Three teenagers—Teru Aoki, Nobuo Takahashi, and Ako Seto—discover that they are the lone survivors of a gruesome train accident that proved fatal to their fellow classmates and teachers. In an attempt to make their way out of the dreadful wreckage, they band together to grapple with hunger, loneliness, and the overwhelming sense of loss. However, as something sinister lurks in the shadows, the trio must fight off their worst impulses and the temptation to succumb to madness in these cruel times of despair.

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BackgroundDragon Head won the 21st Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 1997.

The series was published in English by Tokyopop from January 10, 2006, to April 8, 2008. Kodansha Comics USA digitally republished the series on February 27, 2018. It was also released in Spanish by Planeta Cómic as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes from October 15, 2019, to November 17, 2020.

The manga was adapted into a live-action film that screened in Japan on August 30, 2003.

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Characters

Aoki, Teru
Aoki, Teru
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Seto, Ako
Seto, Ako
Main
Iwada
Iwada
Main
Captain Nimura
Captain Nimura
Main
Takahashi, Nobuo
Takahashi, Nobuo
Supporting
Scar Head
Scar Head
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Man in Bandages
Man in Bandages
Supporting
Yamazaki
Yamazaki
Supporting
Ooike
Ooike
Supporting
The Woman
The Woman
Supporting

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13 Recommended
3 Mixed Feelings
1 Not Recommended
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Mar 5, 2024
Gatsu-chan
Recommended
After finishing Dragon Head I just had to express my thoughts about it. Dragon Head is a thrilling artistic adventure. The characters are all quickly thrown into this mysterious phenomenon and have to learn to survive, keep their sanity and their morality. I found the art to be an aesthetic throwback to something like Kazuo Umezu. The detail of the landscape and weather conditions are amazing and the characters simple enough. The story is thrilling and interesting the whole time. I never once felt uninterested. The mysteries keep coming and with every chapter the reader inches closer to discovering a possible truth. It is easy ...
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Jun 3, 2025
czaio11
Mixed Feelings
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The first three volumes are truly spectacular! Creating the necessary tension, you really get into the protagonists' shoes, understanding their fears and madness, not being able to tell what is real or illusion! However, when they leave the subway, the story shifts into something else, practically an action manga, which doesn’t match the beginning—lots of teenagers who seem trained by the army. The final part returns to the initial tension, but the author didn’t know where to take the story, and the ending is honestly a solid 5 out of 10! Also worth mentioning are the duo Teru and Ako, who truly function as partners ...
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Jun 22, 2025
Tokyo-Brain
Not Recommended
Preliminary (64/89 eps)
It's surprising how such a promising start can end up being such an insufferable disappointment.

The story begins with a mysterious train accident that leaves only a couple of survivors trapped in a dark tunnel, not knowing what happened and suspecting that there is something else in the tunnel with them...

But then the author starts stretching out the situations as much as possible, with chapter after chapter where nothing really happens, and then he fills the story with nonsensical philosophical talks, non-stop random disasters, and protagonists who seem absolutely inmortal judging by the amount of wounds that they keep ignoring.

And the worst part is that after ...
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