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12 manga like Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
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Manga like Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
Readers also like it1. BLAME!
by Tsutomu Nihei
- Action (shared)
- Horror
- Sci-Fi (shared)
The City has been growing for so long that no one inside it remembers open ground. Floors stack upon floors without end, split by chasms too deep to see across, and the machines that once built it now hunt the humans who still wander its corridors. Somewhere in this endless structure, humanity lost its link to the Netsphere, the network that once let people control the City, and with it any way of stopping the expansion. Killy, a silent traveller armed with a devastating Graviton Beam Emitter, is searching for one human who still carries the Net Terminal Gene. On the way he passes scattered settlements, cyborg hunters and the merciless Safeguard, and meets Cibo, a scientist whose body has been rebuilt more than once and whose knowledge may matter as much as Killy's weapon. Tsutomu Nihei, whose background is in architecture, tells the journey mostly through space and silence: vast stairwells, rusting bridges, long pages without a word and sudden bursts of violence. BLAME! is a landmark of cyberpunk manga, a lonely, hypnotic exploration for readers who like to get lost in a world.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Seinen2. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Slice of Life
Long after an environmental catastrophe raised the seas, humanity is slowly and peacefully fading away. On the Japanese coast near Yokohama, Alpha, a gentle android, runs a small coffee shop, waiting for the owner who left on a journey and never returned. Her days are made of simple things: brewing coffee for the rare customer, riding her scooter through flooded towns, playing her guitar, sharing watermelon with neighbours and watching the seasons change. As she travels and meets the few people and strange beings who remain, Alpha finds beauty and contentment in a world that is quietly ending. Hitoshi Ashinano's classic is one of the great works of gentle, healing manga, quiet and bittersweet, with gorgeous landscapes and a deep sense of peace. It was adapted into two short anime series.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi3. Mechanical Buddy Universe
by Takuji Kato
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
An android that fulfilled its original mission long ago wanders the ruins of an old city. On a rainy day, it comes across a child who has been abandoned there, and a family is formed out of a machine and a human. As the two grow older together, their story begins to connect with other unusual pairings of humans and machines, each with its own history. Brief, intimate scenes alternate with bursts of science-fiction action, and beneath the weapons and mechanical bodies lie questions about care, loyalty and belonging. Takuji Kato's Mechanical Buddy Universe is a collection of short stories with striking mechanical designs, set in a shared world. It is the original collection that preceded the ongoing sequel series, Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi4. Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0
by Takuji Kato
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
An android whose mission was completed long ago finds a child abandoned in the ruins of a war-ravaged city. Taking on a task far outside her original orders, she decides to raise him, and in a dystopian world, a machine and a human become mother and son. The series follows their life among machines, soldiers and survivors, balancing dangerous missions with the small, everyday acts that make a family. Protection and care cannot always be separated in the world they inhabit, and the android's role as a parent gives every encounter a personal centre, as a relationship built beyond her original purpose becomes her reason to keep going. This is the serialised version of Mechanical Buddy Universe, the popular collection of short comics by Takuji Kato, author of Knight's & Magic, expanding its world with detailed mechanical designs, action and heartfelt family moments.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Seinen5. Land of the Lustrous
by Haruko Ichikawa
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Philosophical
- Psychological
Far in the future, on the last remaining land, live twenty-eight Lustrous: immortal beings made of living gemstones. They are guarded by their teacher, Kongo, and must fight the Lunarians, who descend from the moon on clouds to shatter them and carry the fragments away as ornaments. Phosphophyllite is the youngest and most fragile of the gems, too brittle to fight and too clumsy for most work. Desperate to be useful, Phos is instead asked to compile an encyclopedia of their world. The task leads Phos to Cinnabar, a lonely gem who patrols the night, and to a series of changes that will transform Phos, body and mind, far more than anyone expects. Haruko Ichikawa's series is strange, beautiful and devastating, drawn with elegant, airy lines. It explores identity, change and the meaning of the self, and was adapted into a striking computer-animated anime.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi6. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
A thousand years after a war that destroyed industrial civilisation, humanity survives on the edges of the Sea of Corruption, a vast forest of giant fungi that releases poisonous spores and is guarded by enormous insects. In the small Valley of the Wind lives Nausicaa, a young princess with a rare understanding of the forest and its creatures. When the kingdom of Tolmekia, led by the formidable Princess Kushana, goes to war, Nausicaa is pulled into a conflict between rival nations fighting over ancient weapons. Her journey takes her deep into the forest, where she begins to uncover the truth about the poisoned world and humanity's place in it. Hayao Miyazaki's epic manga, created over twelve years, is far richer and more complex than the 1984 film it inspired, a profound story about ecology, war and compassion. It won the Seiun Award and remains a landmark of the medium.
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Martial Arts · Sci-Fi7. Space Cheon-ma 3077
by Noksaegyeou, Ha San, Dae-Yeong Kim
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Thousands of years after the golden age of martial arts, humanity lives among the stars, and the old rule still applies: the strongest make the law. Interstellar martial-arts organisations govern space with qi and sword, and bounty hunters such as Seryeong, Robert and Sunja make their living from the trouble that follows. Chasing a top bounty on the irradiated wasteland of Earth, the crew finds something far stranger than their target: a martial artist who has survived for two thousand years. A legend from the old world wakes up in a future of robots and spaceships, and the bounty hunters suddenly have a very dangerous, very confused passenger. The webtoon blends classic martial-arts storytelling with science fiction and comedy, as an ancient master meets a future that has forgotten him. Bright, fast and full of spectacular fights, it is a fresh twist for readers who love both wuxia legends and space adventures.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi8. Psyren
by Toshiaki Iwashiro
- Action (shared)
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Ageha Yoshina is a tough, good-hearted high-school student who runs a business solving other people's problems. When his classmate Sakurako Amamiya mysteriously disappears after whispering "Save me", he finds a red telephone card with the word Psyren on it. Answering a public phone pulls Ageha into a deadly game, set in a ruined, monster-filled world where players must survive to return home. Those who make it back awaken psychic powers, and discover that the wasteland of Psyren is Japan's future. With Sakurako and other survivors, Ageha sets out to uncover how the world ended, and to stop it from happening. Toshiaki Iwashiro's series is a gripping blend of survival game, psychic battles and time-travel mystery, with a cult following among Shonen Jump readers.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi9. Donyatsu
by Yusuke Kozaki
- Comedy
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Summer, 20XX. In the ruins of Shinjuku, among the rubble of a fallen civilisation, walks Donyatsu: a creature shaped like a chocolate doughnut that looks very much like a cat. Humanity has disappeared, but Donyatsu and his friends, other strange food-shaped animals such as Begaru and Baumcougar, live carefree lives in the abandoned city, scavenging, exploring and getting into small adventures. Their cheerful curiosity makes the empty streets feel unexpectedly lively. Yet the questions remain: where have the humans gone, and what caused this post-apocalyptic world? Created by Yusuke Kozaki, the acclaimed illustrator and character designer known for his work on video games, Donyatsu is an easygoing science-fiction comedy that slowly unravels its mysteries beneath a charming surface. It was adapted into a short anime and is currently on hiatus.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi10. Dr. Stone
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
One day, 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 where civilisation has completely vanished. He soon revives his loyal, big-hearted friend Taiju, and together they set out to rebuild everything from scratch. Armed with nothing but science, Senku recreates fire, medicine, glass, electricity and more, one invention at a time, while finding a cure for petrification. His plans are soon opposed by Tsukasa, the strongest high-school fighter, who wants to rebuild the world without the corruption of the old one. Senku also finds a village of survivors and allies such as the warrior Kohaku and the curious scientist Chrome. Written by Riichiro Inagaki and drawn by Boichi, Dr. Stone is an exciting, optimistic adventure that makes real science thrilling. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award and was adapted into an anime.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi11. Girls' Last Tour
by Tsukumizu
- Adventure
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Slice of Life
Civilisation is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. The two girls ride their beloved Kettenkrad, a half-track motorbike, through the silent ruins of a vast, multi-level city, searching for food, fuel and somewhere warm to sleep. Serious, bookish Chito drives and worries; carefree, hungry Yuuri carries the rifle and finds joy in small things. Climbing ever higher through the layers of the city, they find abandoned factories, strange machines, the occasional survivor and traces of the people who lived there before. Each discovery prompts questions about war, memory, faith and why anything matters at the end of the world. Tsukumizu's series is quiet, melancholic and gently funny, an intimate story of companionship drawn in soft, simple lines against enormous empty landscapes. It became a cult favourite and was adapted into a much-loved anime.
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Seinen · Sci-Fi12. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action (shared)
- Horror
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi (shared)
High-school student Kei Nagai is struck and killed by a truck, then gets up again moments later. He is an Ajin, one of the rare people who cannot die: whatever happens to them, they come back to life. The news makes him a target, because the government captures Ajin and uses them in secret experiments. On the run, with help from his childhood friend Kai, Kei discovers that Ajin can also summon an invisible, ghostlike black figure that fights for them. He is soon drawn into a war between the authorities and Sato, a calm, ruthless Ajin who has learned to use immortality as a weapon and plans a campaign of terror. Kei, cold and calculating himself, must decide whom to stand with. Gamon Sakurai's series is a sharp, tactical thriller about bodies, power and the value of a life. It was adapted into an anime, films and a live-action movie.
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