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12 manga like Battle Angel Alita
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Battle Angel Alita (philosophical, thriller, tragedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Battle Angel Alita
Readers also like it1. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Thriller (shared)
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.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Philosophical · Post-Apocalyptic2. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama (shared)
- Philosophical (shared)
- 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.
Read on Comic DAYSOpen
Philosophical · Post-Apocalyptic3. Land of the Lustrous
by Haruko Ichikawa
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Philosophical (shared)
- Psychological
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.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Philosophical · Post-Apocalyptic4. Girls' Last Tour
by Tsukumizu
- Adventure
- Philosophical (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Slice of Life
Chito and Yuuri travel through the remains of a vast, empty city in their small tracked vehicle. Food, fuel and a place to sleep give their days a simple rhythm, while discoveries prompt larger questions. An intimate journey about companionship and finding meaning after familiar civilisation has vanished.
Read on Yen PressOpen
Philosophical · Tragedy5. Uzumaki
by Itou Junji
- Drama (shared)
- Horror
- Mystery
- Philosophical (shared)
Kurouzu-cho, a foggy town on the coast, is cursed not by a ghost but by a shape: the spiral. Kirie's boyfriend Shuichi sees it first, in his father's obsession, in the wind, in people's bodies. Junji Ito's horror classic, as the whole town is drawn into the pattern.
Read on VIZ MangaOpen
Philosophical · Tragedy6. Mushishi
by Urushibara Yuki
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Mystery
Mushi are the most basic forms of life, older than plants or animals, and most people cannot see them. Ginko can. A mushishi, he wanders from village to village, helping people whose lives the mushi have touched. Quiet, strange and beautiful stories, each complete in itself.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Philosophical · Sci-Fi7. Parasyte
by Iwaaki Hitoshi
- Action (shared)
- Horror
- Philosophical (shared)
- Psychological
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.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Thriller · Sci-Fi8. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action (shared)
- Horror
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Kei Nagai is hit by a truck, dies, and gets up again. He is an Ajin, one of the rare people who cannot die, and the government wants him for experiments. On the run, he is drawn into a war between the state and an Ajin terrorist who has learned to use immortality as a weapon.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Post-Apocalyptic · Survival9. 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.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Post-Apocalyptic · Survival10. Dr. Stone
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
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
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi11. 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.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Philosophical · Tragedy12. Three Days of Happiness
by Taguchi Shouichi, Miaki Sugaru
- Drama (shared)
- Philosophical (shared)
- Romance
- Tragedy (shared)
Almost twenty and going nowhere, Kusunoki finds a shop that buys what is left of people's lives, and sells all but his last three months. He spends them under the eye of Miyagi, the woman sent to watch him, and finds out too late what they could have been worth.
Read on Shonen Jump+Open