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Survival manga
Stranded, hunted or trapped: stories of staying alive against the odds, where every choice could be the last.
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Ongoing · 20171. Record of Ragnarok
by Umemura Shinya, Fukui Takumi, Azychika
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Tragedy
The gods have met and voted: humanity ends. One valkyrie objects and invokes Ragnarok, a final tournament of thirteen one-on-one duels between gods and the greatest humans in history. Zeus, Thor and Poseidon against Lu Bu, Adam, Kojiro Sasaki and Jack the Ripper. Win seven, and humanity lives.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Ongoing · 20202. Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
by sing N song, Sleepy-C
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
For ten years, office worker Kim Dokja was the only reader of a web novel about the end of the world. The day it finishes, the world starts ending exactly as written. He is the one person who knows what comes next — and he means to change the ending.
Read on WEBTOONOpen
Ongoing · 20193. Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King
by YKB (임경배), SOON Q (권순규), Studio Khit (스튜디오 크힛)
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
Fresh out of military service, Hanbin Ryu is pulled into another world, where his guide system is so broken that he spends twenty years stuck in its tutorial. When he finally gets out, the world has turned against people from other worlds, and he has to survive as the most over-trained beginner anyone has met.
Read on TapasOpen
Ongoing · 20214. The Tutorial Is Too Tough!
by gandara, Imae Daiki (이마에 다이키)
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Isekai
Former pro gamer Lee Ho-Jae is invited into a Tutorial World and, sure of himself, picks Hell difficulty. Then he finds out he cannot leave. The survival rate is 0.01 percent, and every floor makes him wonder why he, of all people, was invited.
Read on TapasOpen
Completed · 20175. Dr. Stone
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
A mysterious flash of light turns every human on Earth to stone. Thousands of years later, teenage genius Senku Ishigami breaks free into a world of forests and ruins. Armed with nothing but science, he sets out to rebuild civilisation from scratch — fire, medicine, electricity, one invention at a time.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Hiatus · 20196. Second Life Ranker
by Sadoyeon, NongNong
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
Yeon-woo's twin brother vanished five years ago. All that comes back is a pocket watch holding his diary, written inside the Tower of the Sun God, and the names of the people who betrayed him there. Yeon-woo enters the tower with that diary, his brother's knowledge and nothing to lose.
Read on TapasOpen
Ongoing · 20217. Murim RPG Simulation
by Hyung Geun Cho (조형근), Kwang Hwi (광휘)
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- Fantasy
Seol-Hwi, a scout of the Demon Cult, dies with his whole squad at the hands of a master from Mount Hua, with nothing to show for his years of service. As he lies dying a game prompt asks him whether he wants to start again. This time he means to make different choices.
Read on WEBTOONOpen
Completed · 20168. The Promised Neverland
by Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Mystery
- Psychological
Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest children at Grace Field House, a loving orphanage with a kind "Mom". Then they learn what adoption really means there. Three children plan an escape from a place built so that no one ever escapes — a tense, clever thriller.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Ongoing · 20159. So I'm a Spider, So What?
by Baba Okina, Kakashi Asahiro
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Drama
An ordinary high school girl is reborn in a fantasy world as a spider, one of the weakest monsters in a dungeon full of things that want to eat her. She talks herself through every fight, levels up, evolves and refuses to die, in one of the most popular reincarnation stories there is.
Read on Yen PressOpen
Ongoing · 202210. Dungeon Odyssey
by Glumph, Son Min-woo
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- Fantasy
After the war between the surface and the underground, some children were born as dungeon babies, with strange powers and a pull towards the labyrinths below. Kim Jin-U is one, and he has buried that pull to live an ordinary life as a guide and look after his family. Then an expedition goes wrong, and he ends up the owner of a labyrinth.
Read on TapasOpen
Ongoing · 202311. Surviving the Game as a Barbarian
by Jung Yoon-kang, Han Tae-su, Midnight Studio
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Isekai
Lee Hansoo spent nine years playing a brutal dungeon game nobody else could finish. Then he wakes up inside it, in the body of a barbarian named Bjorn. He knows the game better than anyone, but here dying is permanent, and pretending to be a simple barbarian is its own kind of survival.
Read on WEBTOONOpen
Completed · 200712. Psyren
by Toshiaki Iwashiro
- Action
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
Ageha Yoshina finds a red telephone card that reads "Psyren" — and answering a public phone pulls him into a deadly game in a ruined, monster-filled future. Players who survive come back with psychic powers and a mission: find out how the world ended, and stop it.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Completed · 200913. Attack on Titan
by Hajime Isayama
- Action
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Horror
Humanity lives behind three enormous walls, safe for a century from the Titans — giants that eat people for no reason anyone understands. Then a Titan taller than the walls kicks a hole through the outer gate, and Eren Yeager watches his town fall. He joins the army sworn to wipe them out, and what he learns about the walls, the Titans and himself turns a monster story into one of the boldest epics manga has produced.
Read on KodanshaOpen
Ongoing · 202314. The Top Dungeon Farmer
by Lim Hyeong, sdcknight, Lee Ha Kyung
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Drama
Ordinary Se-Jun stumbles into a dungeon full of quests and rewards, and ends up growing tomatoes in it. With optimism, a knack for getting by and a growing band of furry friends, he farms, sells his crops and clears quest after quest. A cosy dungeon story.
Read on WEBTOONOpen
Ongoing · 202015. A Cave King's Road to Paradise: Climbing to the Top with My Almighty Mining Skills!
by Hajime Naehara, Takao Demise
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life
Hiel was laughed at for his worthless crest and shipped off to a deserted island. Then he picks up a pickaxe, and the crest turns out to be anything but worthless: whatever he digs, he can make. A cheerful build-your-own-paradise story, one tunnel and one new neighbour at a time.
Read on J-Novel ClubOpen
Completed · 199016. Battle Angel Alita
by Kishiro Yukito
- Action
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi
In the Scrapyard beneath the sky city of Zalem, cyber-doctor Ido finds the head of a cyborg girl with no memory, and gives her a new body. Alita remembers nothing, except a deadly martial art. The cyberpunk classic behind the film.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Ongoing · 201817. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
by Haro Aso, Kotaro Takata
- Action
- Comedy
- Horror
Akira has spent three years being crushed by a company that never lets him go home. The morning zombies overrun Tokyo, his first thought is that he never has to go to work again. He writes a list of a hundred things to do before he turns into one of them, and sets about doing every single one.
Read on VIZ MangaOpen
Ongoing · 202418. Senki Survival Saga: Isekai no Unmei o Kaketa Mujintou Fujun Iseikouyuu
by Otosama
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Isekai
Anastasia, an elf mage without equal, is swallowed by a blinding light in the last battle of a war — and wakes on a desert island without her magic. The only other castaway is an ordinary man from Earth. A survival comedy on an island that fills up, one stranded warrior princess at a time.
Read on ComicWalkerOpen
Completed · 201719. Sweet Home
by Kim Carnby, Hwang Young-chan
- Drama
- Horror
- Thriller
After losing his family, withdrawn teenager Hyun Cha moves into a rundown apartment block, planning to give up on life. Then people start turning into monsters shaped by their own desires. The tenants barricade themselves inside: a tense, gory survival horror.
Read on WEBTOONOpen
Completed · 201920. Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
When the whole of humanity turned to stone, six astronauts were in orbit. Byakuya Ishigami, Senku's father, leads them back to an empty Earth. The story of how they survived and what they left for the future — a side story to Dr. Stone.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Completed · 202121. Shotgun Boy
by Carnby Kim, Hongpil
- Horror
- Thriller
Hyeongseok is bullied relentlessly at a remote mountain school. The night monsters overrun it, he finds a shotgun. From the writer of Sweet Home: a brutal survival horror about what fear and power do to people.
Read on WEBTOONOpen
Completed · 201422. Golden Kamuy
by Satoru Noda
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
Hokkaido, after the Russo-Japanese War. A veteran called Immortal Sugimoto hears of a fortune in Ainu gold whose map was tattooed onto the bodies of escaped convicts. With Asirpa, a young Ainu hunter who teaches him to survive the wilderness, he joins a ruthless race for it: a wild mix of adventure, history, food and comedy.
Read on VIZOpen