If you liked Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
12 manga like Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 (action, mecha, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
Mecha · Sci-Fi1. 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-Fi2. 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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Military · Sci-Fi3. 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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Military · Sci-Fi4. 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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Mecha · Military5. Knight's & Magic
by Hisago Amazake-no, Takuji Kato
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Isekai
A programmer with an enduring love of robots is reborn as Ernesti Echavarria in a world where magic powers enormous armored machines. To everyone around him, Silhouette Knights are formidable weapons. To Ernesti, they are a dream made real, and he is determined to understand, build and pilot one himself. His knowledge from a previous life gives him an unusual starting point. Training, engineering experiments and battlefield challenges become parts of the same pursuit as he pushes beyond the designs his new world takes for granted. This manga adaptation combines mechanical ingenuity with fantasy adventure, following the consequences of an enthusiast who treats every limitation as a design problem waiting to be solved.
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Military · Sci-Fi6. 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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Military · Sci-Fi7. 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. Each return turns fear into experience, yet another chance to fight is not the same as a way out. Keiji must discover which lessons can break the cycle and which merely help him endure it.
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Military · Sci-Fi8. 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-Fi9. 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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Military · Shounen10. The Heroic Legend of Arslan
by Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiromu Arakawa
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
Prince Arslan of Pars is fourteen, gentle and unsure of himself when his father's undefeated army is betrayed and destroyed in a single battle. With a handful of loyal companions he sets out to take back his kingdom — Yoshiki Tanaka's epic, drawn by the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist. Recovering a throne requires Arslan to understand the country beyond the protection of its palace. His companions bring skills and loyalties he must learn to use wisely, while the devastation of defeat gives him reason to question what kind of ruler he hopes to become.
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Military · Sci-Fi11. 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen12. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- 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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