Need mangas with darker/melancholic atmosphere

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I need some of that darker ambience, really looking for non-action ones, but some action is fine, really depends.

I need something with this depressing or melancholic atmosphere. I feel like im running out of da good shit, so i need suggestions.

Stuff like oyasumi punpun or stuff similar to any of the ones listed here, more of dark ambience or just really melancholic, this to seperate it from stuff people think is "depressing" even though they mean sad. I think sad and depressing are two different things. Though those are welcome too if it's something like tragedy, but it isnt what im looking for exactly.

Here's what I have read so far that are kind of in similar vein for what im looking for

Ones i have read that are closest to what im looking for maybe:

Oyasumi punpun
Other asano inio's stuff like solanin etc.
Skyhigh
Bokutachi ga Yarimashita
Homunculus (kind of, not really the best example, but it had a lot of what im talking about)
Kokou no Hito
Holyland (same as homunculus)
Toumei Ningen no Hone
Distant Sky
Cant forget berserk, at least before it started getting worse.

Other ones i have read that are acceptable, not exactly what im looking for but are welcome:

Kasane (Which almost could go to the first category but here we go)
Boku dake ga Inai Machi (like the winter melancholic atmosphere in it)
Bokurano
Eden: It's an Endless World!
About Death (basically skyhigh but without the stuff im really looking for)
Arigatou
Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge ( cant remember exactly if it belongs here but i think it had some of the vibes)
Not Simple
Dragon Head
Jigoku no Alice
Tatoe Todokanu Ito da toshitemo (god damn ending sucked hard doe)
Fumetsu no Anata e


And last but not least, the couple of the more boohoo tragic stuff i have read, not all but:

Half & Half
Magi no Okurimono
Bitter Virgin (tbh it could almost be on the upper category)
Annarasumanara( i guess, cant remember it anymore)
Deep Love: Ayu no Monogatari

Okay at the very very last here's examples of what i'm not really looking for, i think they do not qualify:

Planetes(tbh almost, it has some nice setting for that melancholy but ultimately i think it wasnt enough)
Onanie Master Kurosawa
Koe no Katachi


Also if someone finds it too confusing or just cannot put the finger on what im talking about, or havent real oyasumi punpun or any of the ones there. Let's just say it's this calm kind of tiring atmosphere, prime example being oyasumi punpun and skyhigh maybe. One's that you read and just feel completely drained after, so yeah, thank you in advance if someone can find something new for me.
 
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Uzumaki also pretty good, but don't read it in one go like me or else your eyes will get dizzy @.@
 
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@ShitFaced you seem to be pretty diverse in your criteria, so most of mature seinen non-thriller series should be fine, i cant clearly see any connections between them, as only those are mostly drama, so you could just check out other asano inio's works, especially his early oneshots: Subarashii Sekai / Hikari no Machi / Sekai no Owari to Yoakemae
same applies for Naoki Yamamoto: Anjuu no Chi / Believers
Jiro Matsumoto (Jigoku no Alice): Freesia
Tsutomu Takahashi (Skyhigh): there are plenty of sequels, i havent read them lmao
and Hiroki Endo (Eden): Endo Hiroki Tanpenshuu
and if you mentioned Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge: Welcome to the NHK
even Vagabond seems relevant, as you mentioned berserk
more random stuff here:
Yamikin Ushijima-kun - definitly what youre looking for
Yomawari Sensei - same here, based on real life this time
Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou - mangaka's depression and apathy somewhat influences their work
The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness - a literal author's self analysis
She Doesn't Know Why She Lives
World Gaze Clips - more adolescence oriented themes, yet fits description just fine
enjoy!
 
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@ShitFaced

Sangatsu no Lion is one of the best out there, amazing anime adaptation too.
check out FKMT whole discography, the pessimistic and cynical vibe his series have should be into your liking, you can try those three first.
Gin to Kin
Buraiden Gai
Saikyou Densetsu Kurosawa

this one's vibe should be into your liking
Totsukuni no Shoujo
Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou
Marie no Kanaderu Ongaku

there's some plot point down below that you might like

Basilisk
Lone Wolf & Cub
Blade of the Immortal

Goth
Ashita no Joe
Haruka na Machi e

Pluto
Alien 9
D.Gray-man

Soil
Yuureitou
Watashi wa Shingo

Kiseijuu
Dorohedoro
Golden Kamuy

this one I haven't read but should fit what you lookin for
Okan
Himizu
Jumyou wo Kaitotte Moratta
Nande Ikiteru ka Wakaranai Hito
Yuunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni
 
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Gonna look through these, thanks for the suggestions, im sure i will find something
 
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You could try Eternal Sabbath.

https://mangadex.org/title/335/eternal-sabbath
 
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my favourite "dark" manga
https://mangadex.org/title/40813/ijimeru-yabai-yatsu
https://mangadex.org/title/51587/ijimeru-aitsu-ga-waruinoka-ijimerareta-boku-ga-waruinoka
 

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