If you liked SPRIGGAN
12 manga like SPRIGGAN
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with SPRIGGAN (adventure, action, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like SPRIGGAN
Also by Ryouji Minagawa1. 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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Military · Sci-Fi2. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
A thousand years after a war that destroyed industrial civilisation, humanity survives on the edges of the Sea of Corruption, a vast forest of giant fungi that releases poisonous spores and is guarded by enormous insects. In the small Valley of the Wind lives Nausicaa, a young princess with a rare understanding of the forest and its creatures. When the kingdom of Tolmekia, led by the formidable Princess Kushana, goes to war, Nausicaa is pulled into a conflict between rival nations fighting over ancient weapons. Her journey takes her deep into the forest, where she begins to uncover the truth about the poisoned world and humanity's place in it. Hayao Miyazaki's epic manga, created over twelve years, is far richer and more complex than the 1984 film it inspired, a profound story about ecology, war and compassion. It won the Seiun Award and remains a landmark of the medium.
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Military · Sci-Fi3. World Trigger
by Daisuke Ashihara
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Four years ago, a gate to another world opened above Mikado City, and invaders called Neighbors poured through. A secret organisation named Border used the Neighbors' own technology, weapons called Triggers, to drive them back, and now protects the city. Osamu Mikumo is a Border trainee with little talent but a stubborn sense of duty. He meets Yuma Kuga, a cheerful transfer student who turns out to be a Neighbor himself, carrying a powerful Black Trigger. Together with Chika Amatori, a girl with enormous trion energy whom Neighbors keep targeting, they form a team and work their way up through Border's ranks. Daisuke Ashihara's series is famous for its intricate tactics, team strategies and carefully defined weapons, where decisions matter as much as power. It was adapted into an anime.
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Military · Sci-Fi4. All You Need Is Kill
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryousuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
When the alien Mimics invade Earth, Keiji Kiriya is just one of countless young recruits strapped into a combat suit called a Jacket and sent to the front. On his first battle he dies, then wakes up on the morning before the fight, and lives the same day again. Caught in a time loop, Keiji dies again and again, learning more with every repetition and becoming a far better soldier than his training could ever make him. On one loop he meets Rita Vrataski, a legendary American soldier who seems to understand exactly what is happening to him, and who may hold the key to breaking the cycle. Adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel by Ryosuke Takeuchi, with striking art by Takeshi Obata of Death Note, this compact military science-fiction story inspired the Hollywood film Edge of Tomorrow.
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Military · Shounen5. Kage no Kyuutei Majutsushi
by Ryousuke Hata, Kotoni Shiroishi
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy
Leon is known as the most worthless court magician in the kingdom, famous mainly for not showing up. One day, his repeated absences catch up with him, and as punishment he is sent to the battlefield. There, using quick wits he had always kept hidden, he saves the kingdom's Third Princess. The princess is a reformer with plans of her own, and at her side, Leon steels his resolve and becomes a specialised officer, determined to control the course of events from the shadows. He is far more comfortable influencing what happens than taking credit for it, and the gap between his reputation and his real judgement shapes the war around him. Written by Ryousuke Hata and drawn by Kotoni Shiroishi, this fantasy is a military and political story about a hidden strategist, where brains, not brute strength, decide battles.
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Military · Sci-Fi6. redEyes
by Jun Shindo
- Action (shared)
- Mecha
- 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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Military · Shounen7. The Heroic Legend of Arslan
by Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiromu Arakawa
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama
- Fantasy
In the prosperous kingdom of Pars stands the royal capital of Ecbatana, ruled by the undefeated King Andragoras. His son, Prince Arslan, is a gentle, curious fourteen-year-old who does not seem to have what it takes to be a king like his father. At Arslan's first battle, the Parsian army is betrayed and destroyed, and the invading kingdom of Lusitania seizes the capital. With a handful of loyal companions, the mighty knight Daryun, the brilliant strategist Narsus, his young servant Elam and the priestess Farangis among them, Arslan sets out to take back his kingdom, and learns what kind of ruler he wants to become. Based on Yoshiki Tanaka's classic novels and drawn by Hiromu Arakawa, creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, Arslan is a sweeping epic of war and kingship. It was adapted into an anime.
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Military · Sci-Fi8. Kaiju No. 8
by Naoya Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Japan is plagued by kaiju, giant monsters that attack without warning, and the Defense Force exists to destroy them. Kafka Hibino, thirty-two, spends his days in a much less glamorous job: cleaning up their carcasses after the battles. As a boy he promised his friend Mina Ashiro that they would fight kaiju together, but while she became a celebrated captain, he gave up after failing the entrance exam. Encouraged by his young co-worker Reno Ichikawa, Kafka decides to try again, just as a small, strange creature crawls into his mouth. He wakes up able to turn into a powerful kaiju himself, soon labelled Kaiju No. 8 by the very force he wants to join. Now he must pass the exam, fight beside rookies such as the fiercely talented Kikoru Shinomiya and hide what he is. Naoya Matsumoto's series became one of the biggest hits of Shonen Jump+, a story about never being too old to chase a dream. It was adapted into an anime by Production I.G.
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Sci-Fi · Adventure9. No. 5
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In a future where seventy percent of the Earth has turned into harsh desert, peace is kept by the Rainbow Council, a team of super-powered guardians, each known by a number. One of them, No. 5, abandons his post, taking with him a mysterious young woman named Matryoshka. The other numbered guardians are sent to hunt him down across a strange, multicultural landscape reminiscent of the Middle East. As former comrades close in, each must weigh duty against what they know of the fugitive and of one another, and the pursuit becomes an exploration of the people asked to preserve a troubled version of peace. Taiyo Matsumoto's No. 5 is an eccentric, visually dazzling science-fiction journey, full of striking landscapes, unstable ideals and his unmistakable artistic style.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen10. 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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Sci-Fi · Shounen11. Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
When the mysterious flash of light turned all of humanity to stone, six astronauts were aboard the International Space Station. Among them was Byakuya Ishigami, Senku's adoptive father, a cheerful man with boundless optimism. With Earth silent below them, the crew, including the famous singer Lillian Weinberg, decides to return to the planet, and finds a world without people, power or civilisation. This side story follows how they survived, built a new life with the little they had, and left something precious behind for a future they would never see, for a son they hoped would one day wake up. Written by Riichiro Inagaki and drawn by Boichi, Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya is a moving side story to Dr. Stone, about hope, legacy and the love of a father for his son.
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Sci-Fi · Shounen12. Ultimate Superman R
by Masami Yuuki
- Comedy
- 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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