If you liked AKIRA
12 manga like AKIRA
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with AKIRA (psychological, action, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like AKIRA
Post-Apocalyptic · Military1. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Human settlements survive beside a poisonous forest in a world scarred by ancient destruction. Nausicaä, a young princess with an unusual understanding of its creatures, is pulled into a war between rival nations. Her journey challenges what humanity believes about the forest and its own survival. Compassion can be a difficult position to maintain when survival appears to demand an enemy. Nausicaä's attention to the world beyond human conflict gives her journey its tension, as political ambitions and ecological mysteries challenge the explanations her people have inherited.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Military2. Space Battleship Yamato
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi (shared)
By 2199, alien bombardment has made Earth's surface poisonous and driven its survivors underground. A distant world offers a possible means of restoring the planet, but reaching it requires an expedition across hostile space. The rebuilt battleship Yamato sets out carrying the remaining hope of humanity. Leiji Matsumoto's manga follows a crew whose mission is measured against Earth's dwindling time. Battles, losses and encounters beyond the solar system give the voyage its scale, while the people aboard must decide what they are willing to risk for a home they may never see again.
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Superpowers · Military3. Cyborg 009
by Shotaro Ishinomori
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Kidnapped and rebuilt as experimental weapons, nine people from different parts of the world escape the organization that transformed them. Joe Shimamura, designated 009, joins his fellow cyborgs and their scientist ally in resisting Black Ghost, an arms enterprise that profits from conflict. Their distinctive abilities make them formidable together, but the technology inside them is also a reminder of what was taken away. Shotaro Ishinomori follows the team's battles through a science-fiction adventure concerned with war, solidarity and the humanity that survives beneath mechanical alterations.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Psychological4. Land of the Lustrous
by Haruko Ichikawa
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Philosophical
- Psychological (shared)
Far in the future, living gems guard their island against the Lunarians, who come down from the moon to shatter them and carry them off. Phosphophyllite is the youngest and most fragile of them, and wants desperately to be useful. A strange, beautiful and devastating story about what Phos becomes in trying. Phos's wish to contribute makes change seem like the answer to every inadequacy. In a world where bodies can break and be repaired, the desire to become stronger also raises unsettling questions about continuity, memory and the self.
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Superpowers · Military5. Kaiju No. 8
by Naoya Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Japan is plagued by kaiju, and Kafka Hibino, 32, spends his days cleaning up their carcasses — still dreaming of joining the Defense Force that fights them. Then a small creature gets inside him, and he gains the power to turn into a kaiju himself. Now he has to join the Force while hiding that he is the very thing it hunts. Kafka's greatest chance to pursue his dream arrives in a form that could make it impossible. Every step toward the Defense Force places his desire to protect people beside the risk that they will see him as a threat.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Superpowers6. Psyren
by Toshiaki Iwashiro
- Action (shared)
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
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. Returning home does not make the ruined landscape safely distant, because it may be the destination of everyone's present. Ageha and the other survivors must connect what they learn between visits, turning a test of endurance into an attempt to understand and alter a catastrophe.
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Psychological · Seinen7. Parasyte
by Iwaaki Hitoshi
- Action (shared)
- Horror
- Philosophical
- Psychological (shared)
Alien parasites fall from the sky, take over human bodies and feed on people while wearing ordinary faces. The one meant for Shinichi Izumi misses his brain and takes his right hand instead. Now the two of them share a body, and neither can afford to lose. A horror classic. Their partnership is practical before it is comfortable: one body makes survival a shared concern. Encounters with other parasites force Shinichi to reconsider instinct, empathy and the distinction between humans and predators, while his altered hand keeps that uncertainty unavoidably close.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Seinen8. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Slice of Life
Long after the seas rose, Alpha, an android, runs a little coffee shop on the Japanese coast while humanity slowly fades. Coffee, watermelon, her guitar and the gulls. A quiet, bittersweet classic about finding beauty at the end of things. Small visits and changing seasons matter precisely because the surrounding world is slowly disappearing. Alpha's patient attention gives ordinary pleasures room to linger, creating an atmosphere where decline and contentment can coexist without either canceling the other.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Seinen9. Battle Angel Alita
by Kishiro Yukito
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In the Scrapyard beneath the floating city of Zalem, cyber-doctor Ido discovers the remains of a cyborg girl and gives her a new body. Alita has no memory of her past, yet instinctive knowledge of a dangerous martial art survives. Her search for an identity begins among the people and conflicts of a divided cyberpunk world. Her instinct for combat offers a clue to an identity she cannot remember, but also draws her toward the Scrapyard's violence. The search for a self unfolds in a world where bodies can be rebuilt more easily than lives.
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Psychological · Sci-Fi10. No. 5
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In a desert-dominated future, a member of an elite group of peacekeepers abandons his post and becomes its target. The hunt draws the other numbered guardians into a conflict shaped by their loyalties and doubts. An eccentric science-fiction journey through a world of striking landscapes and unstable ideals. Former comrades must weigh duty against what they know of the fugitive and of one another. Taiyo Matsumoto's shifting perspectives make the pursuit less a simple contest between sides than an exploration of the people asked to preserve a troubled version of peace.
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Military · Sci-Fi11. Captain Harlock
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Earth has grown complacent, and those who question its comfortable order are easily dismissed. Captain Harlock has chosen exile aboard the pirate ship Arcadia, gathering a crew that values freedom over obedience. When an alien threat approaches, the outlaw and the society that rejected him are drawn into the same conflict. Young Tadashi Daiba joins Harlock's journey and discovers the loyalties behind his fearsome reputation. Leiji Matsumoto's original space adventure combines mysterious enemies and sweeping battles with a melancholy interest in friendship, conviction and lives spent beyond the accepted boundaries.
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Military · Sci-Fi12. Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
by Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Kazuhisa Kondo
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Mecha
- Sci-Fi (shared)
War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon reaches the space colony where Amuro Ray lives. Forced into the cockpit of the experimental Gundam, he joins the people escaping aboard White Base. Survival soon means fighting in a conflict none of its young crew were prepared to inherit. Kazuhisa Kondo adapts the original Mobile Suit Gundam television story with a strong emphasis on machines and warfare. Amuro's encounters with enemy pilot Char Aznable unfold alongside the strain of combat, divided loyalties and the growing abilities that make him valuable to the military.
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