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12 manga like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (fantasy, adventure, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

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Manga like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

  1. Land of the Lustrous
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    1. Land of the Lustrous

    by Haruko Ichikawa

    • Drama
    • Fantasy (shared)
    • 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.

    Read on K MANGAOpen
  2. No. 5
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    2. No. 5

    by Taiyo Matsumoto

    • Action
    • Adventure (shared)
    • Psychological
    • Sci-Fi (shared)

    In a desert-dominated future, a member of an elite group of peacekeepers abandons his post and becomes its target. The hunt draws the other numbered guardians into a conflict shaped by their loyalties and doubts. An eccentric science-fiction journey through a world of striking landscapes and unstable ideals.

    Read on VIZ MangaOpen
  3. Witch Hat Atelier
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    3. Witch Hat Atelier

    by Kamome Shirahama

    • Adventure (shared)
    • Drama
    • Fantasy (shared)

    Coco has always loved magic, even though she believes only those born with its power can become witches. An encounter with a traveling magician reveals a possibility she never imagined and draws her into a world of meticulous craft and closely guarded rules. Alongside fellow apprentices, she discovers how wonder, responsibility, and the desire to help others can become entangled.

    Read on K MANGAOpen
  4. Dragon Ball
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    4. Dragon Ball

    by Akira Toriyama

    • Action
    • Adventure (shared)
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy (shared)

    Goku is a boy with a monkey's tail and enormous strength who lives alone in the mountains — until Bulma turns up hunting the seven Dragon Balls, which grant one wish to whoever gathers them. A comic treasure hunt grows into martial-arts tournaments and battles for the fate of Earth: the series that shaped shonen manga as we know it.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  5. Drifting Dragons
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    5. Drifting Dragons

    by Taku Kuwabara

    • Adventure (shared)
    • Fantasy (shared)
    • Slice of Life

    The crew of the airship Quin Zaza hunt dragons for a living — and sell the meat, the oil and everything else. Mika, their best hunter, mostly wants to cook what they catch. An adventure about a dangerous trade, a close crew and very good food.

    Read on K MANGAOpen
  6. Attack on Titan
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    6. Attack on Titan

    by Hajime Isayama

    • Action
    • Drama
    • Fantasy (shared)
    • Horror

    Humanity lives behind three enormous walls, safe for a century from the Titans — giants that eat people for no reason anyone understands. Then a Titan taller than the walls kicks a hole through the outer gate, and Eren Yeager watches his town fall. He joins the army sworn to wipe them out, and what he learns about the walls, the Titans and himself turns a monster story into one of the boldest epics manga has produced.

    Read on KodanshaOpen
  7. Asadora!
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    7. Asadora!

    by Naoki Urasawa

    • Drama
    • 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.

    Read on VIZ BooksOpen
  8. Dr. Stone
    Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi

    8. Dr. Stone

    by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi

    • Adventure (shared)
    • Comedy
    • 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.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  9. Girls' Last Tour
    Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi

    9. Girls' Last Tour

    by Tsukumizu

    • Adventure (shared)
    • 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.

    Read on Yen PressOpen
  10. All You Need Is Kill
    Military · Sci-Fi

    10. All You Need Is Kill

    by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryousuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata

    • Action
    • 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.

    Read on VIZOpen
  11. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
    Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi

    11. 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.

    Read on Comic DAYSOpen
  12. Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign
    Post-Apocalyptic · Military

    12. Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign

    by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, Daisuke Furuya

    • Action
    • Drama
    • Fantasy (shared)
    • 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.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen