If you liked Astro Boy
12 manga like Astro Boy
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Astro Boy (adventure, action, mecha), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Astro Boy
Mecha · Sci-Fi1. Getter Robo
by Go Nagai, Ken Ishikawa
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Horror
- Mecha (shared)
Professor Saotome's research into Getter energy produces three aircraft that can combine into different giant robots. As an underground reptilian civilization threatens the surface, the volatile Ryoma Nagare and his fellow pilots become humanity's unlikely defense, each formation demanding a different approach to battle. Ken Ishikawa and Go Nagai turn the combining-robot premise into an intense struggle against monstrous enemies. The original manga brings rough-edged characters, sudden violence and ominous discoveries to its mechanical spectacle, establishing the opening chapter of the larger Getter universe.
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Also by Osamu Tezuka2. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Thriller
A string of killings targets humans and some of the world's most advanced robots. Robot detective Gesicht follows the connections, uncovering questions about memory, grief and the legacy of war. Naoki Urasawa reimagines an Astro Boy story by Osamu Tezuka as a science-fiction detective drama. Evidence leads through lives shaped by conflict, including machines whose experiences resist easy definitions of personhood. Gesicht's search asks what can survive inside memory after violence, bringing the structure of a murder investigation to questions about prejudice, responsibility and the possibility of hatred.
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Mecha · Sci-Fi3. Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
by Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Kazuhisa Kondo
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Mecha (shared)
- 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen4. Cyborg 009
by Shotaro Ishinomori
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen5. Captain Harlock
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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Sci-Fi · Adventure6. No. 5
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Psychological
- 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen7. Space Battleship Yamato
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen8. Galaxy Express 999
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Tetsuro Hoshino dreams of obtaining a mechanical body, an escape from the vulnerability and inequality surrounding ordinary human life. A mysterious woman named Maetel offers him passage aboard the Galaxy Express 999, a train whose tracks stretch between worlds. Their destination promises the transformation he has been seeking. Each stop introduces a society shaped by its own desires, losses and compromises. Through these encounters, Leiji Matsumoto turns an interstellar journey into a meditation on mortality, dignity and the things a person might surrender in pursuit of an apparently perfect future.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen9. Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
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. Returning home means confronting a world without the people and systems the astronauts relied on. Their struggle gives the main series' distant past an intimate focus, linking immediate survival with hope for someone they may never meet.
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Mecha · Adventure10. Knight's & Magic
by Hisago Amazake-no, Takuji Kato
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy
- Isekai
A programmer with an enduring love of robots is reborn as Ernesti Echavarria in a world where magic powers enormous armored machines. To everyone around him, Silhouette Knights are formidable weapons. To Ernesti, they are a dream made real, and he is determined to understand, build and pilot one himself. His knowledge from a previous life gives him an unusual starting point. Training, engineering experiments and battlefield challenges become parts of the same pursuit as he pushes beyond the designs his new world takes for granted. This manga adaptation combines mechanical ingenuity with fantasy adventure, following the consequences of an enthusiast who treats every limitation as a design problem waiting to be solved.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen11. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
A tentacled creature destroys most of the Moon and promises to destroy the Earth in a year — unless the students of Class 3-E, the school's outcasts, can kill him first. In the meantime, he insists on being their teacher. He turns out to be the best they have ever had: a funny, surprisingly moving school story. The assignment forces students written off as failures to observe, cooperate and think for themselves. As their confidence grows, the person they are supposed to eliminate becomes increasingly difficult to separate from their hopes for the future.
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Sci-Fi · Action12. Dimension W
by Yuji Iwahara
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
By 2072, devices called Coils draw energy from a fourth dimension and have made the old energy crisis a thing of the past. Kyouma Mabuchi earns his living collecting illegal Coils, dealing with the dangerous underside of a technology the rest of the world depends on. One job brings him into contact with a mysterious girl named Mira. Their meeting draws them toward questions that convenient, seemingly limitless energy has left unanswered. As the secrets of Dimension W come into view, technological progress becomes inseparable from human consequences in a science-fiction mystery driven by investigation, action and an uneasy partnership.
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