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12 manga like Cyborg 009
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Cyborg 009 (adventure, action, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Cyborg 009
Superpowers · Military1. 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 · Sci-Fi2. 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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Military · Sci-Fi3. 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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Superpowers · Military4. To Tame a Fire
by hilluhri
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Supernatural
Ray lives under the shadow of her parents' war crimes, judged for a legacy she never chose. An encounter with a notorious commander gives her a new path, but also places her inside conflicts with no easy answers. As her abilities and loyalties are tested, she must decide what kind of person she wants to become. Proving herself means more than meeting a challenge set by someone powerful. Ray must separate the choices she can make from the history others see in her, as opportunity and obligation draw her toward a future that cannot be built on inherited judgment alone.
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Superpowers · Sci-Fi5. 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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Superpowers · Shounen6. One Piece
by Eiichiro Oda
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
Monkey D. Luffy dreams of finding the One Piece and becoming King of the Pirates. A Devil Fruit has given his body the properties of rubber while taking away his ability to swim, an inconvenient trade for a life at sea. Undeterred, he sets out to gather a crew and pursue the legendary treasure across a world of strange islands and rival ambitions. Every island introduces its own customs, conflicts and people whose dreams are as fierce as Luffy's. The crew's loyalties grow through those encounters, linking the search for treasure to a larger question of what freedom costs in a world divided by power.
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Military · Sci-Fi7. 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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Superpowers · Shounen8. Hunter × Hunter
by Yoshihiro Togashi
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy
Gon Freecss sets out to become a Hunter, one of the elite licensed to explore the world's wonders, to find the father who left to be one. The exam alone nearly kills him — and gives him a best friend, Killua, the runaway heir of a family of assassins. An adventure that keeps reinventing itself, from monster hunts to heists to wars of strategy. Gon's search introduces him to people whose ambitions and moral choices rarely fit simple categories. Friendship provides a sense of direction, but becoming a Hunter requires deciding what risks—and what compromises—he is willing to accept.
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Military · Shounen9. 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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Military · Sci-Fi10. 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-Fi11. 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen12. Astro Boy
by Osamu Tezuka
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Mecha
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Built in the image of a scientist's lost son, Atom is a small robot with extraordinary strength and a stubborn sense of compassion. His adventures take him through a future shared by humans and machines, where technical progress has done little to eliminate fear, exploitation or prejudice. Osamu Tezuka moves between playful inventions and difficult moral questions as his young hero tries to protect both communities. Robot battles and journeys into space become stories about responsibility, belonging and the possibility of treating unfamiliar lives with kindness.
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