Written and illustrated by Jeong Ji-Hoon,The Horizon, presents a rather bone-chilling tale ofa world ravagedto its last legs by war and its horror. The story follows a young boy, fresh from losing his mother to the war and drained of life in an attempt to escape the madness of the war, as he encounters another victim of the war, a girl just about his age.
With no adults to turn to, the pair form an unlikely bond and rely on each other for survival on a seemingly endless long road; they come upon. With the singular hope of just being able to move forward, the pair, with each step, head into an unknown journey of tragedy. However, this piece islaser-focused on manhwa, which bears similarities with the Horizon. These manhwa share the same themes and, most importantly, its eerie and chilling sensation. Therefore, here are the best manhwa like the Horizon.
6Insector
Man vs Insect or Man & Insects?
Inspectordebunks the reality that humans are at the top of the world’s food chain, and it does so in quitea thrilling manner, as the series takes place on an Earth that also houses supernatural creatures called inspectors due to superhuman insect-like abilities, that hide among the humans, pretending to be humans themselves.
The series follows the life of the protagonist, Miseong, a seemingly ordinary high school student, who is apparently an inspector. However, unlike other inspectors, who have a special preference for human flesh, Miseong has a bone to pick with his kind. Toeing a very blurry line between humanity and monstrosity, it remains to be seen if he can suppress his animal instincts and use them for humanity’s sake.
5Hive
The Insect Apocalypse
Hivebrings to life a thrilling apocalyptic tale of a world that ends as fast as it is easy to blink. The series focuses on Eun-Sung Lee,the protagonist and fatherto one and husband to another, who wakes up on the fateful day, thinking it will be like any other day: regular, with his family still home where he leaves them.
However, Seoul meets an unexpected end when giant man-eating insects suddenly appear from the skies, and either infect or kill everyone in their path. Much worse than these insects, is the anarchy and chaos that ensues in the aftermath. Within all of the madness, is Eun-Sung who is desperate to survive and at the same time find his now missing family. Desperate to ensure his family’s safety, he teams up with a war veteran, Ji-Eun Seong, and together, they comb the collapsing streets of Seoul
4Silent Moon
An Island of Death Hosting a Game of Survival
Silent Moontakes the concept of ‘scary’ to new heights in its eerie tale. The series takes place on the deserted Jukmyo Island, also known as the Red Cat Island. An island littered with the corpses of several missing people that go as far back as five years before the story’s beginning.
The story follows the protagonist, Sung-Hoon Kim, whose life takes a twisted turn after he and his longtime crush suddenly win a cruise trip. While the trip initially seems to be as it should be: a vacation trip, it becomes an entirely different story after they arrive at Jukmyo Island. What begins as a simple vacation trip becomes an unending hellish survival game at the Red Cat Island.In this hell, you either play to survive or become food for the Red Cat.
3Distant Sky
The World That Ended Overnight
From falling asleep in class one moment to waking up to the utter destruction of Seoul in another,Distant Skypresents quite athrilling survival tale. The Story revolves around a high school boy who suddenly wakes up to a building full of dead people, with his last memory being dozing off in the middle of a class.
Likethe Horizon, the boy also encounters a fellow survivor, a girl. Together, they move around the destroyed city of Seoul, searching for food and daily necessities while avoiding all types of monsters. However, survival is not the only reason they must keep moving. For the boy who knows nothing about what caused Seoul’s collapse, there should be a logical explanation for what happened; he just has to get to the bottom of it.
2Surviving Romance
A Deadly Tale of Love Gone Wrong
Reincarnation into your favourite romance novel should have its perks, right? This is far from the case for the protagonist in theSurviving Romanceseries. The story revolves around the young Chaerin Eun, who suddenly finds herselfas the protagonistof her favourite romance novel. However, her current reality is far from the fairytale ending she had once read with the novel’s love interest, Jeha.
Things further nosedive after she realises the story’s narrative is changing. Panicked at the thought of not getting the happy ending she so yearned for, Chaerin’s only choice is to seek out the help of an unknown extra in her class within the novel. However, there’s just one problem: everyone aside from herself and Jeha are all extras, so now, her happy ending hangs on how quickly she can find the mystery extra. It remains to be seen if she can.
1Mosquito Wars
Humanoid Mosquitoes = The World’s End
Mosquito Warsshows that bugs, if by some chance grew bigger than they are in reality, mankind may have some serious issues to contend with, and it would not stop at the bugs themselves. The series presents a world where humans lazily live, unaware of the devious plans that the typical household pest, mosquitoes, have been hatching for over a million years. Through centuries of data collection, society suddenly collapses on itself when humanoid mosquitoes suddenly start appearing from nowhere.
With these new species impervious toany sort of modern weapon, it takes only a century for humanity to be all but extinct, leaving just a mere five thousand people in existence. However, humanity will not go down without a fight. In a last attempt to preserve life, the series protagonist, the elite soldier, Kisses, and her team discover the research lab of a scientist who predicted the mutation of the mosquitoes, and a recovery mission begins, igniting the final confrontation between man and mosquito.
