If you liked Mechanical Buddy Universe
12 manga like Mechanical Buddy Universe
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Mechanical Buddy Universe (comedy, action, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Mechanical Buddy Universe
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. 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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Sci-Fi · Drama2. SUKEDACHI NINE
by Seishi Kishimoto
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In a near-future Japan, a special judicial unit carries out a law that answers murder with the same method used against the victim. Its nine executioners act for bereaved families while carrying losses of their own. Their cases test the boundary between punishment and revenge, and whether either can bring comfort to those left behind. The law offers an exact response to violence, yet the emotions of the bereaved resist such a neat formula. Each assignment places the executioners' own histories beside the families they serve, examining how an official duty can remain inseparable from personal grief.
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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. 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-Fi4. 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 · Drama5. Dimension W
by Yuji Iwahara
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- 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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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. 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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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi7. 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-Fi8. 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. 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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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi9. 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. 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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Post-Apocalyptic · Drama10. 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. The family Yu lost remains the measure of what he wants to protect and avenge. Military loyalties and the reality of the vampire conflict complicate that resolve, as the past returns in ways that challenge the clear division between human allies and monstrous enemies.
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Sci-Fi · Drama11. 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. 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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Sci-Fi · Drama12. 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. Returning home means confronting a world without the people and systems the astronauts relied on. Their struggle gives the main series' distant past an intimate focus, linking immediate survival with hope for someone they may never meet.
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