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12 manga like Space Battleship Yamato
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Space Battleship Yamato (adventure, action, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Space Battleship Yamato
Also by Leiji Matsumoto1. Captain Harlock
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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Also by Leiji Matsumoto2. Galaxy Express 999
by Leiji Matsumoto
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Tetsuro Hoshino dreams of obtaining a mechanical body, an escape from the vulnerability and inequality surrounding ordinary human life. A mysterious woman named Maetel offers him passage aboard the Galaxy Express 999, a train whose tracks stretch between worlds. Their destination promises the transformation he has been seeking. Each stop introduces a society shaped by its own desires, losses and compromises. Through these encounters, Leiji Matsumoto turns an interstellar journey into a meditation on mortality, dignity and the things a person might surrender in pursuit of an apparently perfect future.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Military3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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Aliens · Military4. 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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Military · Sci-Fi5. Cyborg 009
by Shotaro Ishinomori
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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Aliens · Sci-Fi6. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo
by Gege Akutami, Yūji Iwasaki
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Supernatural
In 2086, sixty-eight years after the Culling Game, an alien people called the Simurians arrive on Earth. Their appearance places jujutsu sorcerers Yuka and Tsurugi Okkotsu at the center of an encounter with consequences for the entire world. Familiar ideas about cursed power must now meet something outside humanity's experience. Written by Gege Akutami and illustrated by Yuji Iwasaki, this sequel takes Jujutsu Kaisen into a new era, where sorcerers face the uncertainty of first contact as well as the burdens inherited from the past.
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Aliens · Sci-Fi7. Dragon Ball Super
by Akira Toriyama, Toyotarou
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Peace has come to Earth after Majin Buu, and Goku is bored. Then Beerus, the God of Destruction, wakes from a long sleep looking for a worthy opponent. Gods, angels and fighters from other universes follow: the Dragon Ball saga continues, with Toriyama's story drawn by his long-time successor Toyotarou. A world that once seemed vast now sits within a much larger arena. Goku's appetite for stronger opponents pulls familiar characters into new tests, where the excitement of competition exists alongside threats with extraordinary consequences.
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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. 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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Aliens · Sci-Fi9. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- 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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Aliens · Shounen10. Dragon Ball
by Akira Toriyama
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy
- Fantasy
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. Goku meets the wider world with curiosity rather than caution, drawing friends and rivals into his search. The early adventure's playful spirit remains important as training and competition steadily reveal how far his strength might take him.
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Military · Sci-Fi11. Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
by Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Kazuhisa Kondo
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Mecha
- Sci-Fi (shared)
War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon reaches the space colony where Amuro Ray lives. Forced into the cockpit of the experimental Gundam, he joins the people escaping aboard White Base. Survival soon means fighting in a conflict none of its young crew were prepared to inherit. Kazuhisa Kondo adapts the original Mobile Suit Gundam television story with a strong emphasis on machines and warfare. Amuro's encounters with enemy pilot Char Aznable unfold alongside the strain of combat, divided loyalties and the growing abilities that make him valuable to the military.
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Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi12. Mechanical Buddy Universe
by Takuji Kato
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
An android whose original purpose has ended discovers an abandoned baby among the ruins of a city. Choosing to care for the child gives the machine a new responsibility, and the pair begin building a family in a world still scarred by conflict. Their relationship becomes one of several unusual partnerships connecting humans and machines. Takuji Kato's collection combines brief, intimate scenes with bursts of science-fiction action. Beneath its weapons and mechanical bodies are questions about care, loyalty and belonging. This is the original collection of short comics, preceding the separate Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0 serialization.
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