If you liked Donyatsu
12 manga like Donyatsu
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Donyatsu (comedy, mystery, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Donyatsu
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi1. Mechanical Buddy Universe
by Takuji Kato
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
An android whose original purpose has ended discovers an abandoned baby among the ruins of a city. Choosing to care for the child gives the machine a new responsibility, and the pair begin building a family in a world still scarred by conflict. Their relationship becomes one of several unusual partnerships connecting humans and machines. Takuji Kato's collection combines brief, intimate scenes with bursts of science-fiction action. Beneath its weapons and mechanical bodies are questions about care, loyalty and belonging. This is the original collection of short comics, preceding the separate Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0 serialization.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi2. Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0
by Takuji Kato
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In the ruins left by war, an android discovers an abandoned child and takes on a task outside her original orders: becoming his mother. This continuing series follows their life among machines, soldiers and survivors, balancing dangerous missions with the small acts that make a family. Protection and care cannot always be separated in the world they inhabit. The android's role as a parent gives the encounters with other survivors a personal center, exploring how a relationship built beyond her original purpose can become a reason to keep going.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi3. Dr. Stone
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure
- Comedy (shared)
- 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. Progress depends on translating knowledge into tools that can actually be made with limited resources. Senku's ambitions give the adventure its scale, while cooperation turns each small breakthrough into something capable of changing other people's lives.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi4. Psyren
by Toshiaki Iwashiro
- Action
- Mystery (shared)
- 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. Returning home does not make the ruined landscape safely distant, because it may be the destination of everyone's present. Ageha and the other survivors must connect what they learn between visits, turning a test of endurance into an attempt to understand and alter a catastrophe.
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Sci-Fi · Mystery5. Dimension W
by Yuji Iwahara
- Action
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
By 2072, devices called Coils draw energy from a fourth dimension and have made the old energy crisis a thing of the past. Kyouma Mabuchi earns his living collecting illegal Coils, dealing with the dangerous underside of a technology the rest of the world depends on. One job brings him into contact with a mysterious girl named Mira. Their meeting draws them toward questions that convenient, seemingly limitless energy has left unanswered. As the secrets of Dimension W come into view, technological progress becomes inseparable from human consequences in a science-fiction mystery driven by investigation, action and an uneasy partnership.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi6. Girls' Last Tour
by Tsukumizu
- Adventure
- Philosophical
- 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. With little certainty about where they are going, the two girls create a life from what they can find. Their conversations give small comforts and passing discoveries meaning against the vast silence surrounding them.
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Sci-Fi · Mystery7. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In 1959 Nagoya, a young girl named Asa is caught in a kidnapping as a devastating storm approaches. What begins as an unlikely encounter grows into a story spanning decades, with aviation, family and a strange presence on the horizon drawing her life in unexpected directions. Asa's life unfolds against upheaval that reaches far beyond her immediate circumstances. The contrast between intimate human encounters and an ominous larger mystery gives her journey both an everyday warmth and a widening sense of uncertainty.
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Animals · Comedy8. I'm the Catlords' Manservant
by Rat Kitaguni
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
- Supernatural
Yukiharu Izumi would like an ordinary school life, but he has neither money nor a home to support that ambition. His search for help leads him to a household of cats that can take human form. They agree to give him somewhere to stay, provided he becomes the attendant responsible for their many demands. The arrangement turns everyday chores into a succession of supernatural complications. Yukiharu must learn the personalities and expectations of his feline employers while trying to preserve some normality of his own. A chaotic household comedy grows from the uneasy bargain between a desperate student and his demanding new hosts.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi9. Land of the Lustrous
by Haruko Ichikawa
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Philosophical
- 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. Phos's wish to contribute makes change seem like the answer to every inadequacy. In a world where bodies can break and be repaired, the desire to become stronger also raises unsettling questions about continuity, memory and the self.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi10. 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. 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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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi11. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama
- Philosophical
- 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. Small visits and changing seasons matter precisely because the surrounding world is slowly disappearing. Alpha's patient attention gives ordinary pleasures room to linger, creating an atmosphere where decline and contentment can coexist without either canceling the other.
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Sci-Fi · Mystery12. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Thriller
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. Evidence leads through lives shaped by conflict, including machines whose experiences resist easy definitions of personhood. Gesicht's search asks what can survive inside memory after violence, bringing the structure of a murder investigation to questions about prejudice, responsibility and the possibility of hatred.
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