If you liked Mazinger Z
12 manga like Mazinger Z
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Mazinger Z (comedy, action, mecha), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Mazinger Z
Also by Go Nagai1. Getter Robo
by Go Nagai, Ken Ishikawa
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Horror
- Mecha (shared)
Professor Saotome's research into Getter energy produces three aircraft that can combine into different giant robots. As an underground reptilian civilization threatens the surface, the volatile Ryoma Nagare and his fellow pilots become humanity's unlikely defense, each formation demanding a different approach to battle. Ken Ishikawa and Go Nagai turn the combining-robot premise into an intense struggle against monstrous enemies. The original manga brings rough-edged characters, sudden violence and ominous discoveries to its mechanical spectacle, establishing the opening chapter of the larger Getter universe.
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Mecha · Sci-Fi2. Astro Boy
by Osamu Tezuka
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Mecha (shared)
- 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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Mecha · Sci-Fi3. Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
by Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Kazuhisa Kondo
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Mecha (shared)
- 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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Mecha · Comedy4. The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World
by Koyoshi Nakayoshi
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy
Togo Asagaki fights evil as the Red Ranger of a superhero team, but his last desperate battle leaves him somewhere no training could have prepared him for: another world. Surrounded by magic, monsters and unfamiliar customs, he takes up the life of an adventurer without abandoning the ideals that made him a hero. Transforming into Kizuna Red still seems like a perfectly sensible way to help. His new companions have rather different expectations of adventurers, especially when his spectacular powers and wholehearted speeches enter the picture. Fantasy quests meet the exuberance of a team-based action hero in a story about carrying the spirit of cooperation into a world that has never seen anything quite like him.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen5. Cyborg 009
by Shotaro Ishinomori
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen6. Captain Harlock
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen7. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen8. Space Battleship Yamato
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen9. 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen10. Man of Rust
by Kei Urushiro
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Ruo lives in the Fallen World at the bottom of the earth and dreams of the sky. When he gets his hands on relic iron — the forbidden remains of an iron monster — he gains a power no one is meant to touch. A straight-ahead boys' adventure, complete in four volumes. The metal offers a route beyond the limits of Ruo's surroundings, but its forbidden nature makes that opportunity dangerous. His desire to see more of the world drives an adventure about inherited restrictions, unfamiliar power and the risks of reaching upward.
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Shounen · Comedy11. Marriagetoxin
by Joumyaku, Mizuki Yoda
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
Hikaru Gero is the heir to a clan of poison-using assassins, expected to marry and carry on the line. He has never been on a date in his life. His matchmaker is Kinosaki, a marriage swindler: assassin battles and dating disasters, in equal measure. Skills honed for lethal assignments do little to prepare Gero for ordinary romantic conversation. Kinosaki's experience with deception supplies an unconventional education, while the pressures of his clan ensure that attempts to build a personal life rarely stay separate from danger.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen12. Me & Roboco
by Shuhei Miyazaki
- Comedy (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Every family has an OrderMaid robot now, and Bondo finally gets one. He was hoping for a pretty android; he gets Roboco — muscular, overconfident, convinced she is gorgeous, and very kind. A gag manga in Weekly Shonen Jump that parodies Jump itself, with a surprisingly big heart. Roboco's confidence can overwhelm almost any situation, yet her concern for Bondo keeps the household chaos affectionate. Familiar manga conventions become material for jokes, while the contrast between an ideal domestic robot and this very particular one supplies its own daily surprises.
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