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12 manga like Mobile Police Patlabor
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Mobile Police Patlabor (comedy, action, mecha), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Mobile Police Patlabor
Also by Masami Yuuki1. Ultimate Superman R
by Masami Yuuki
- Comedy (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Slice of Life
The photography club at Harukaze High School already attracts an unusual collection of students. Its newest arrival, R. Ichiro Tanaka, makes the group stranger still: he is an android built for a purpose far grander than attending classes. In practice, joining his classmates and finding something to eat interest him much more than world domination. R's mechanical nature rarely makes him the most sensible person in the room. Club activities, school events and disputes with fellow students become excuses for the entire cast to follow increasingly ridiculous ideas. His friends accept the impossible newcomer as another part of their own peculiar routine. Masami Yuki turns a science-fiction premise into an ensemble school comedy. The humour comes from patient misunderstandings, eccentric personalities and the distance between R's intended mission and his modest daily priorities, giving the series a relaxed, playful alternative to stories about unstoppable robot weapons.
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Mecha · Sci-Fi2. redEyes
by Jun Shindo
- Action (shared)
- Mecha (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Captain Grahad Mills commanded the Jackal, an elite unit of soldiers fighting in powered armour. As his country faces defeat, his own men betray him and accuse him of treason. Condemned after a military trial without a proper defence, he escapes on the morning of his execution and begins a battle that the official end of the war cannot settle. Mills seeks both revenge and an explanation for the betrayal. His former comrades, military authorities and the forces shaping his defeated homeland stand between him and the truth. The skills that once made him a valuable soldier now help him survive as a fugitive. Jun Shindo builds this military science-fiction story around heavy infantry equipment, tactical confrontations and divided loyalties. Detailed armour and weapons give the fighting a physical presence, while the investigation behind Mills's anger connects individual combat to a wider struggle over responsibility and power.
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Police · Sci-Fi3. Tokyo Aliens
by NAOE
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Akira Gunji is a high-school freshman who is as ordinary as they come: awkward, bad at studying and in love with manga. The only thing that sets him apart is his determination to follow in the footsteps of his late father, a police officer. Then, on a train, he witnesses a ferocious battle between two strangers with unusual powers, and learns that aliens live hidden among the people of Tokyo. Drawn into the work of a secret organisation that polices them, Akira must learn whom to trust in a city full of hidden identities, and discover what kind of officer he wants to be. NAOE's series is a stylish, energetic action story mixing science fiction with buddy-cop dynamics, set in a Tokyo where the most ordinary face might hide something extraordinary.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen4. SPRIGGAN
by Hiroshi Takashige, Ryouji Minagawa
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Ancient civilisations left behind technologies powerful enough to change the modern world. Their surviving relics attract governments, soldiers and other groups eager to claim that power. The ARCAM organisation sends its elite agents, known as Spriggans, to keep dangerous discoveries from falling into the wrong hands. Yu Ominae is one of those agents, a young operative whose advanced equipment and combat skills place him between rival forces and the secrets they seek. Ruins become battlefields, archaeological mysteries become urgent missions, and opponents with extraordinary abilities turn each assignment into more than a straightforward recovery operation. Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa combine adventure, military action and speculative archaeology. The appeal lies in the collision of ancient mysteries with modern technology, supported by energetic mechanical artwork and a hero who must decide when the past should be uncovered and when its most dangerous achievements should remain buried.
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Police · Sci-Fi5. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Thriller
In a world where humans and robots live side by side, someone is destroying the seven most advanced robots on Earth, and murdering humans who fought for robot rights. At each crime scene, the bodies are left with strange makeshift horns. Europol sends its finest investigator, Gesicht, a robot detective who is himself one of the seven. Gesicht's investigation crosses the world, from the Swiss robot Mont Blanc to the gentle pacifist Epsilon and the boy robot Atom, whose kindness is almost human. As the case widens, it reveals the scars of a recent war, buried memories and the dangerous question of whether a robot can learn to hate. Naoki Urasawa, with co-writer Takashi Nagasaki, reimagines a classic Astro Boy story by Osamu Tezuka as a mature science-fiction detective drama about grief, prejudice and what it means to be human. It won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and was adapted into an acclaimed anime.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen6. ARMS
by Kyouichi Nanatsuki, Ryouji Minagawa
- Action (shared)
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Ryo Takatsuki begins a new school year expecting an ordinary life, but a hostile transfer student brings a very different future with him. Hayato Shingu attacks with an abnormal left arm, and another mysterious assailant soon threatens Ryo's childhood friend. Under pressure, Ryo discovers that his own right arm is no longer entirely human. The change connects him to others carrying powerful artificial abilities and to organisations pursuing their own plans for human evolution. Nanotechnology, secret experiments and cybernetic opponents pull the young characters into a conflict whose rules they must learn while trying to survive it. Ryoji Minagawa and Kyoichi Nanatsuki combine science-fiction action with the tension of a conspiracy thriller. The transforming weapons supply the spectacle, but the question of how their bearers can keep control of their lives gives each new discovery a more personal cost.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen7. Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor
by Yoshiki Takaya
- Action (shared)
- Horror
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Sho Fukamachi is an ordinary student until an encounter with a mysterious device changes his body and his life. The object bonds with him to form the Guyver, a powerful suit of living armour. What first appears to be an impossible accident makes him a target for an organisation determined to recover its lost technology. Chronos sends its transformed fighters after the armour, placing Sho's friends in danger as well. With Tetsuro drawn into the secret, Sho must learn what his new body can do while confronting opponents whose human appearances conceal something very different. Every fight raises further questions about the equipment and those who created it. Yoshiki Takaya combines superhero action with biological science fiction and unsettling transformations. The armour's organic design and the expanding conflict give the series its identity, while Sho's struggle to protect his own life keeps the enormous powers personal.
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Police · Comedy8. Case Closed
by Gosho Aoyama
- Comedy (shared)
- Crime
- Mystery
- Romance
Shinichi Kudo is a brilliant high-school detective who helps the police solve cases nobody else can crack. While investigating two suspicious men in black at an amusement park, he is knocked out and given an experimental poison. Instead of killing him, it shrinks his body into that of a seven-year-old child. Taking the name Conan Edogawa, he moves in with his childhood friend Ran and her father, the bumbling private detective Kogoro Mouri, solving cases in secret while letting Kogoro take the credit. All the while, he hunts for the mysterious Black Organization that did this to him, with help from allies such as the scientist Ai Haibara. Gosho Aoyama's series has run since 1994 and is one of the longest and best-selling mysteries in manga, with hundreds of cases and an enduring central mystery. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award and inspired a long-running anime and yearly films.
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Police · Shounen9. Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective
by Akira Amano
- Comedy (shared)
- Crime
- Mystery
Ron Kamonohashi was the most gifted student ever to attend BLUE, a school that trains great detectives. But he had a fatal flaw that got him expelled: whenever he unmasks a culprit, he cannot stop himself from pushing them to despair, with tragic consequences. Now working in secret as a private investigator, Ron teams up with Totomaru Isshiki, a pure-hearted but rather dim police detective. Totomaru brings him the most baffling cases and takes the credit in public, while trying to keep Ron's dangerous impulse in check. Their odd partnership solves mystery after mystery, while a larger shadow from Ron's past slowly emerges. Akira Amano, creator of Reborn!, delivers a thrilling detective story for a new generation, with clever puzzles and an unsettling hero. It was adapted into an anime.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen10. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
A powerful, tentacled creature destroys most of the Moon and promises to destroy the Earth in a year. In the meantime, for reasons of his own, he insists on becoming the homeroom teacher of Class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Junior High, the school's despised class of outcasts, and the students are offered a huge reward if they can kill him first. Their smiling, unbelievably fast teacher, nicknamed Koro-sensei, turns out to be the best teacher they have ever had. Between assassination attempts, he helps students such as the observant Nagisa and the brilliant troublemaker Karma rediscover their confidence, alongside the government agent Karasuma and the professional assassin Irina. Yusei Matsui's series is a funny, inventive and surprisingly moving school story about education, self-worth and growing up. It was adapted into an anime and live-action films.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen11. Aria
by Kozue Amano
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
On Aqua, the planet once called Mars, the town of Neo-Venezia recreates old Venice down to its canals, bridges and lantern-lit squares. Akari Mizunashi arrives from Manhome, as people now call Earth, to train as an Undine, one of the gondoliers who row visitors through the city and tell them its stories. She joins the small Aria Company, home to Alicia, one of the most admired Undines in town, and to its company president, a round, blue-eyed cat named Aria. With fellow trainees Aika and Alice, Akari practises rowing, studies the city's history and finds wonder in ordinary days: a festival at night, a hidden alley, the seasons changing on the water, a conversation with a stranger that stays with her for years. Kozue Amano's series is the definition of a gentle, healing story, unhurried and full of light. Aria the Masterpiece collects it in a larger edition, following the earlier volumes of Aqua, and invites readers to slow down, look around and notice what is beautiful.
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Shounen · Comedy12. One Piece
by Eiichiro Oda
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
As a boy, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired by the pirate Red-Haired Shanks to set out to sea. Eating a Devil Fruit gave his body the properties of rubber and took away his ability to swim, an inconvenient trade for a life at sea. Undeterred, he sails off alone in a small boat, vowing to find the legendary treasure called the One Piece and become King of the Pirates. Along the way he gathers the Straw Hat crew: the swordsman Zoro, the navigator Nami, the sniper Usopp, the cook Sanji, the reindeer doctor Chopper and more, each with a dream as fierce as his own. Every island brings new customs, villains and friends, and the journey into the Grand Line slowly reveals a world ruled by power and hiding a forbidden history. Eiichiro Oda's adventure has run in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997 and is the best-selling manga series of all time. Funny, moving and enormous in scope, it has been adapted into a long-running anime, many films and a live-action series.
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