If you liked Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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.

Manga like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Readers also like it1. 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
Readers also like it2. 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
Readers also like it3. 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.
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Readers also like it4. 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.
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Readers also like it5. 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.
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Readers also like it6. 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
Readers also like it7. 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.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi8. 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.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi9. 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
Military · Sci-Fi10. 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
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi11. 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
Post-Apocalyptic · Military12. 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.
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