Manga like 2001-ya Monogatari

Planetes

Also known as Planetes.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Haunted by a space flight accident that claimed the life of his beloved wife, Yuri finds himself six years later as part of a team of debris cleaners on a vessel called the Toy Box charged with clearing space junk from space flight paths. The team consists of Hachimaki, a hot shot debris-man with a sailor's affinity for the orbital ocean; Fee, a chain-smoking tomboy beauty with an abrasive edge; and Pops, a veteran orbital mechanic whose avuncular presence soothes the stress of the job.



Tags: Philosophy , Work , Environmental , Space , Seinen , Educational , Politics , Family Life , Terrorism , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Iyashikei , Tragedy , Nudity , Time Skip

Stardust Memories

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Stardust Memories is a short story compilation of human beings in the distant future where we have traveled deep into space. Each story describes a moral dilemma that people traveling in space may experience which is something that we have yet to determine in the current world.

Stardust Memories talk about such problems as the implications of having people travel for years, even decades, in the cold, quiet and endless universe. A different story tells on how human presence in a foreign galaxy will affect the environment. The topics the author decides to write about are interesting and makes you wonder about the future.

Tags: Anthology , Space , Seinen , Philosophy , Astronomy , Aliens , Cosmic Horror , Nudity , Space Opera

Mirai no Futatsu no Kao

Also known as The Two Faces of Tomorrow.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Midway through the 21st century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world's affairs. A proposed major software upgrade - an artificial intelligence - will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. In order to more fully assess the system, a new space-station habitat - a world in miniature - is developed for deployment of the fully operational system, named Spartacus. This mini-world can then be "attacked" in a series of escalating tests to assess the system's responses and capabilities. If Spartacus gets out of hand, the system can be shut down and the station destroyed... unless Spartacus decides to take matters into its own hands and take the fight to Earth.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Space , Philosophy

2001+5

Also known as 2001+5.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Hoshino add 5 new stories to his space saga.

Yoru no Taikai no Naka de (2001 Ya Monogatari Bangaihen)
Spinoff of the famous 2001 Nights.

2-4. Arthur World (STARSHIP ADVENTURE Star Field)
Sarari-za no Akai Hoshi (STARSHIP ADVENTURE Star Field)
Ikari no Utsuwa
Ougon no Wakusei (Space Fantasy Part1)
Dollmen (Space Fantasy Part2)
Kyokuten e no Tabi (Space Fantasy Part3)
Phobos Daimos
Kiri no Wakusei

Tags: Space , Seinen , Anthology

Uchuu Kyoudai

Also known as Space Brothers.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Two brothers looked to the starry skies as children and made a promise ... Now, in the year 2025, the younger brother, Hibito, is carrying his out. He is an astronaut who has been selected as a crew member for mankind’s first long-term base on the moon. Meanwhile, the older brother, Mutta, has just been fired from his job and is unemployed, but decides to trust himself just one last time. A text message from Hibito sends him applying to be an astronaut too and shooting for the stars …



Notes:
Nominated for the 2nd and 3rd Manga Taisho Award
Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award
Won the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Category.

Tags: Space , Educational , Seinen , Work , Astronomy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Tragedy , Aviation , Time Skip , Episodic , Iyashikei , Nudity

Ryuu no Michi

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

A young man called Ryu wakes up in a space ship and discovers that the hostile planet inhabited by monsters he has landed upon is actually Earth. This manga is about him traveling in order to find civilization.

Tags: Dystopian , Cosmic Horror , Post-Apocalyptic , Aliens , Language Barrier , Male Protagonist , Cyborg , Shounen , Space , Memory Manipulation , Time Manipulation , Robots , Philosophy , Alternate Universe

Kyojintachi no Densetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Sci-Fi

A collection of sci-fi short stories.

1-2. Legend of Giants
A sci-fi drama about humans, inspired by Prometheus, struggling against their given fate by using fire to end the ice age.

Icarus Asteroid
A sci-fi drama about a smog-covered world and a daring plan to transmit enough energy from the Sun so humanity can survive.

Horizon Patrol
A sci-fi action/comedy about a futuristic Earth covered by a sprawling mess of highways, and two loose-cannon officers who help keep the roads safe.

Tags: Shounen

MOONLIGHT MILE

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

Gorou Saruwatari and Lostman are mountain climbers who have ascended some of the highest mountains around the world. At the peak of Mount Everest, they see the ISA Space Station in the sky above and become determined to go into space. At the same time, NASA begins a program to research and obtain a new energy source which has been discovered on the moon. Gorou and Lostman attempt to join the program through different approaches: Lostman becomes a pilot and Gorou takes a job as a construction worker. Note: Originally completed with 23 volumes and 206 chapters on 2011-11-25, the author announced the publication of volume 24 on 2022-12-23, with the intention of continuing publishing irregularly.

Tags: Seinen , Space , Male Protagonist

Hi no Tori

Also known as Phoenix.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

"All things are born and all things die. That is the law of heaven." According to legend, the Bird of Fire called the Phoenix is the eternal spirit of life, death and rebirth. She oversees the cycle of reincarnation and the rising and falling of civilizations and species. Those who can obtain her blood will be granted eternal life, while to others she can grant infinite wisdom, or eternal suffering. Throughout history, from the dawn of civilization to the extinction of the human race, those human souls touched by the Phoenix have hunted her over and over in multiple reincarnations, and their actions in one life determine or reflect the sins and sufferings of other lifetimes.



Note: This is an incomplete series due to Tezuka's death.

Tags: Philosophy , Reincarnation , Episodic , War , Historical , Mythology , Time Skip , Achronological Order , Environmental , Dystopian , Anachronism , Space , Coming of Age , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Gods , Tragedy , Body Swapping , Post-Apocalyptic , Robots , Aliens , Anti-Hero , Artificial Intelligence , Fugitive , Revenge , Satire , Love Triangle , Age Regression , Amnesia , Ensemble Cast , Clone , Swordplay

Hotel

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

Hotel: Since 2079
It is the year 2272 A.D. A computer continues to live on in order to complete a mission in a world where all life, including Mankind, has gone extinct. This is a record of those 27 million years of its heroic struggle.

Present
Hanako suffers from a terrible disease. After awakening from a deep slumber, Hanako has only three days to live. Set in the future, Present tells a story based on human feelings where the truth isn’t always what it seems.

Subete wa Maguro no Tame datta (It Was All for the Tuna)
Tuna have become extinct and Jun Shiozaki will do everything possible and imaginable to bring them back.

Stephanos
Set in modern-day Japan, our main character Noriko finds out that she is pregnant with her lover Matsumura’s baby. He, however, is an important doctor with a family and everything already. Noriko wants to have the baby, but Matsumura says that it’s actually a rapidly growing cancer and that they have to remove it immediately. It might also be neither of these things…

Diadem
A "Diadem" is a word for 'crown' that has its root in Greek. "Stephanos", which appeared in "Mandala" 01, was also a 'crown'. It seems that we could consider this the second work in a continuing series of shorts that should perhaps be called a "Crown series.

Tags: Anthology , Environmental , Post-Apocalyptic , Artificial Intelligence , Seinen , Aliens , Robots , Nudity , Achronological Order , Steampunk , Cosmic Horror