If you liked Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0
12 manga like Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0 (comedy, action, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

Manga like Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi1. 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.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi2. 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.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi3. Land of the Lustrous
by Haruko Ichikawa
- Drama (shared)
- 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.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi4. 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.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi5. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama (shared)
- 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.
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Sci-Fi · Drama6. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- 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.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi7. Psyren
by Toshiaki Iwashiro
- Action (shared)
- Mystery
- 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.
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Sci-Fi · Drama8. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- 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.
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Sci-Fi · Drama9. Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
When the whole of humanity turned to stone, six astronauts were in orbit. Byakuya Ishigami, Senku's father, leads them back to an empty Earth. The story of how they survived and what they left for the future — a side story to Dr. Stone.
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Sci-Fi · Action10. All You Need Is Kill
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryousuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
A new soldier dies fighting an alien invasion, then wakes up before the same battle. Repeating that day gives Keiji Kiriya a chance to learn, but surviving it means understanding why he is trapped. A compact military science-fiction story adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi11. Battle Angel Alita
by Kishiro Yukito
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In the Scrapyard beneath the sky city of Zalem, cyber-doctor Ido finds the head of a cyborg girl with no memory, and gives her a new body. Alita remembers nothing, except a deadly martial art. The cyberpunk classic behind the film.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Drama12. Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign
by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, Daisuke Furuya
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Supernatural
A virus kills every adult on Earth, and vampires take the surviving children underground as livestock. Yuichiro escapes; the boy he thinks of as his brother does not. Four years later Yu joins the army fighting the vampires, sworn to wipe them out — until he finds out what happened to Mika.
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