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12 manga like Captain Harlock
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Captain Harlock (adventure, action, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Captain Harlock
Also by Leiji Matsumoto1. 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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Also by Leiji Matsumoto2. 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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Aliens · Military3. World Trigger
by Daisuke Ashihara
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
When a gate opens over Mikado City, beings known as Neighbors enter from another world. The Border agency uses weapons called Triggers to oppose the threat. Osamu, a trainee with limited strength but a stubborn sense of duty, meets Yuma, a transfer student whose identity challenges his understanding of the conflict. Osamu's limitations make preparation and cooperation essential rather than optional. Yuma's arrival challenges the simple idea of an enemy from elsewhere, while carefully defined tools and competing team strategies give battles a focus on decisions as much as individual power.
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Military · Sci-Fi4. 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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Aliens · Sci-Fi5. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo
by Gege Akutami, Yūji Iwasaki
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Supernatural
In 2086, sixty-eight years after the Culling Game, an alien people called the Simurians arrive on Earth. Their appearance places jujutsu sorcerers Yuka and Tsurugi Okkotsu at the center of an encounter with consequences for the entire world. Familiar ideas about cursed power must now meet something outside humanity's experience. Written by Gege Akutami and illustrated by Yuji Iwasaki, this sequel takes Jujutsu Kaisen into a new era, where sorcerers face the uncertainty of first contact as well as the burdens inherited from the past.
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Aliens · Sci-Fi6. Dragon Ball Super
by Akira Toriyama, Toyotarou
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Peace has come to Earth after Majin Buu, and Goku is bored. Then Beerus, the God of Destruction, wakes from a long sleep looking for a worthy opponent. Gods, angels and fighters from other universes follow: the Dragon Ball saga continues, with Toriyama's story drawn by his long-time successor Toyotarou. A world that once seemed vast now sits within a much larger arena. Goku's appetite for stronger opponents pulls familiar characters into new tests, where the excitement of competition exists alongside threats with extraordinary consequences.
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Aliens · Sci-Fi7. 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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Military · Sci-Fi8. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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Aliens · Shounen9. Dragon Ball
by Akira Toriyama
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy
- Fantasy
Goku is a boy with a monkey's tail and enormous strength who lives alone in the mountains — until Bulma turns up hunting the seven Dragon Balls, which grant one wish to whoever gathers them. A comic treasure hunt grows into martial-arts tournaments and battles for the fate of Earth: the series that shaped shonen manga as we know it. Goku meets the wider world with curiosity rather than caution, drawing friends and rivals into his search. The early adventure's playful spirit remains important as training and competition steadily reveal how far his strength might take him.
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Military · Sci-Fi10. 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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Military · Sci-Fi11. 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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Military · Shounen12. Kage no Kyuutei Majutsushi
by Ryousuke Hata, Kotoni Shiroishi
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy
Leon is known as the kingdom's most useless court magician, and his absences finally get him sent to the front. There he quietly saves the Third Princess with a mind nobody knew he had. At her side, the 'useless' magician starts running the war from the shadows. Leon is more comfortable influencing events than claiming credit for them. Working with the princess gives his hidden ability a purpose, while the contrast between his reputation and his actual judgment shapes the conflict around him.
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