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12 manga like BLAME!
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with BLAME! (horror, action, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like BLAME!
Readers also like it1. Battle Angel Alita
by Kishiro Yukito
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In the lawless Scrapyard beneath the floating city of Zalem, cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido searches the garbage for useful parts. One day he finds the head of a cyborg girl whose human brain is still alive. He gives her a new body and the name Alita, though she remembers nothing of her past. When danger strikes, Alita discovers that her body remembers what her mind does not: the Panzer Kunst, a legendary and deadly martial art. She becomes a Hunter-Warrior, chasing bounties in the Scrapyard's violent streets, competes in the brutal sport of Motorball and slowly searches for her identity in a divided world where the privileged live in the sky and everyone else lives in their trash. Yukito Kishiro's cyberpunk classic is a gripping, philosophical action story about identity and the value of a life. It was adapted into an anime and the Hollywood film Alita: Battle Angel.
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Readers also like it2. Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
by Yukito Kishiro
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
After her final battle with the scientist Desty Nova, Alita wakes up somewhere she never expected: inside Zalem, the floating city that the people of the Scrapyard below always believed was paradise. What she finds is a place of fear, cruelty and decay, and her close friend Lou is in danger. With a new body and old enemies everywhere, Alita fights her way through Zalem to reach Lou, while the secrets of the sky city and of her own past slowly come to light. The search soon carries her far beyond Earth, to the colonies of space and the Zenith of Things Tournament, where the greatest fighters in the solar system meet in brutal, spectacular martial-arts battles. Yukito Kishiro's sequel sets aside the original ending of Battle Angel Alita and takes the story in a new direction over fourteen years of serialisation. It combines hard science fiction, philosophy and some of the most detailed fight choreography in manga, and was later continued in Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle.
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Readers also like it3. 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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Readers also like it4. 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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Readers also like it5. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Thriller
In a world where humans and robots live side by side, someone is destroying the seven most advanced robots on Earth, and murdering humans who fought for robot rights. At each crime scene, the bodies are left with strange makeshift horns. Europol sends its finest investigator, Gesicht, a robot detective who is himself one of the seven. Gesicht's investigation crosses the world, from the Swiss robot Mont Blanc to the gentle pacifist Epsilon and the boy robot Atom, whose kindness is almost human. As the case widens, it reveals the scars of a recent war, buried memories and the dangerous question of whether a robot can learn to hate. Naoki Urasawa, with co-writer Takashi Nagasaki, reimagines a classic Astro Boy story by Osamu Tezuka as a mature science-fiction detective drama about grief, prejudice and what it means to be human. It won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and was adapted into an acclaimed anime.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Survival6. 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 · Survival7. 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 · Seinen8. 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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Horror · Seinen9. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- 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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Horror · Seinen10. Parasyte
by Iwaaki Hitoshi
- Action (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Philosophical
- Psychological
One night, alien parasites fall silently from the sky. They burrow into human hosts, take over their brains and feed on people while wearing ordinary faces. The parasite meant for high-school student Shinichi Izumi fails to reach his brain and takes over his right hand instead. Shinichi and the parasite, who names itself Migi, are forced into an uneasy partnership: one body, two minds, and neither can survive without the other. As parasites spread through the city, including the cold, curious Ryoko Tamiya, who studies humanity as closely as it studies her, Shinichi fights to protect the people he loves, while slowly changing in ways that frighten him. Hitoshi Iwaaki's horror classic is a gripping, thoughtful story about what makes us human and humanity's place in nature. It won the Kodansha Manga Award and was adapted into an anime, live-action films and a Netflix series.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi11. 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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Survival · Horror12. Aphorism
by Karuna Kujo
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural
Can you see the island in the sky? Most people think it is just a metaphor or a strange hoax, but the rare students who can actually see the island floating overhead are offered a place at Naraka High School. Its graduates are promised secure government jobs and lives of wealth and prosperity. Momiji Rokudou, a first-year student who has spotted the island, enrols, hoping for that comfortable future. But once he arrives, he discovers what the school's extraordinary reputation really means: graduation depends on survival, and the campus is the setting for deadly trials, where students must fight to stay alive. Karuna Kujo's series is a dark fantasy that turns the familiar pressures of school into a battle against an institution built on terrifying rules.
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