Manga like Ningyou no Kuni

BLAME!

Also known as BLAME!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head.

Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Seinen , Cyborg , Post-Apocalyptic , Cyberpunk , Robots , Body Horror , Survival , Lost Civilization , Travel , Dystopian , Guns , Cosmic Horror , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Skip , Urban , Gore , Artificial Intelligence , Alternate Universe , Kaiju , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Agender

Biomega

Also known as BioMega.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Sci-Fi

Set in the future, the plot follows Zouichi Kanoe and his AI companion Fuyu Kanoe, whose luminous form is integrated into the system of his motorcycle. They are agents sent by Toha Heavy Industries to retrieve humans with the ability to resist and transmute the N5S infection, which is spreading across the world, turning humans into "Drones"; disfigured, zombie-like beings.



Tags: Pandemic , Seinen , Guns , Motorcycles , Artificial Intelligence , Space , Time Skip , Cyberpunk , Zombie , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Gore , Time Manipulation

Sidonia no Kishi

Also known as Knights of Sidonia.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Outer space, the far future.

A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity’s home world continue to pose an existential threat.

Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel’s bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship’s coolheaded female captain.

Meticulously drawn, peppered with clipped humor, but also unusually attentive to plot and structure for the international cult favorite, Knights of Sidonia may be Tsutomu Nihei’s most accessible work to date even as it hits notes of tragic grandeur as a hopeless struggle for survival unfolds.



Tags: Aliens , Space , Military , War , Male Protagonist , Survival , Post-Apocalyptic , Agender , Seinen , Real Robot , Heterosexual , Clone , Space Opera , Nudity , Female Harem

Fire Punch

Also known as Fire Punch.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Orphaned siblings Agni and Luna, like the Ice Witch who cursed their world, are two of the “blessed,” humans who hold special abilities. However, not all who are blessed are friendly, and after another of their kind attacks Agni and decimates the orphans' village, Agni fights to survive, vowing revenge.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Suicide , Tragedy , Dystopian , Revenge , Philosophy , Cult , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Survival , Religion , Body Horror , Meta , Torture , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Acting , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Incest , Filmmaking , Transgender , Slavery , Surreal Comedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Denpa , Gods , Memory Manipulation , Snowscape , Politics , Heterosexual , Shounen , Psychosexual , Orphan

Tower Dungeon

Also known as Tower Dungeon.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

An evil sorcerer slays the king and takes over his body, kidnapping the princess and spiriting her away to the legendary Dragon Tower.

The Royal Guard is rebuffed in their attempt to rescue her, and to replace the wounded, a young farmhand named Yuva is called up into service. With only a pot lid for a shield and a strong back to carry supplies, Yuva joins the soldiers on the perilous quest to climb the tower and rescue the princess. But the Dragon Tower houses untold horrors...!



Tags: Dungeon , Magic , Male Protagonist , Necromancy , Dragons , Survival , Body Horror , Politics , Shounen , Shapeshifting , Coming of Age , Kemonomimi , Military , Agriculture , Gore

HEART GEAR

Also known as HEART GEAR.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Sci-Fi

In a ruined world, a human girl, Roue, and a droid, Zett, live a humble life. Then one day, they encounter a mysterious new droid, Chrome... Now all three of them live together like a family, but then…



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Post-Apocalyptic , Robots , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Real Robot , Time Skip

Dai Dark

Also known as Dai Dark.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Horror , Sci-Fi

Zaha Sanko’s body has great and terrible powers–they say that possessing his bones will grant you any wish, even the desire to become ruler of the universe. But Sanko is still a teenage dude with his own life, and he isn’t about to let every monstrous lowlife in the galaxy rip him limb from limb. He and his skeletal buddy Avakian will use their dark powers to fend off any murder attempts while they search space for whomever put this curse on Sanko’s bones…because killing them might end the madness.



Tags: Space , Gore , Surreal Comedy , Body Horror , Aliens , Dystopian , Anti-Hero , Shounen , Henshin , Skeleton , Cult , Agender , Demons , Food , Cosmic Horror , Space Opera , Slavery , Age Regression

Gusha no Hoshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

The setting is a planet named Slars, where the indigenous Slarsians and alien Earthians coexist uneasily. Shinta descends from both races, and is thus shunned by either side, but becomes involved in the conflict around "Regalia" that holds a mysterious power.



Tags: Gore , Henshin , War , Military , Space Opera , Super Power , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Tokusatsu , Tragedy , Aliens , Monster Boy , Monster Girl , Body Horror

Hoshikui Goroshi no Ignalo

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Sci-Fi

Set in a world riven by a strange rift that extends deep into the ground, the people dig into it to search for the resources known as "inheritance." The story begins when a traveler visits a village in poverty because no matter how much they dig, they cannot find any inheritance. The traveler locates a potential vein in the mine, and goes with the villagers to dig into it.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

Abara

Also known as Abara.

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

A vast city lies under the shadow of colossal, ancient tombs, the identity of their builders lost to time. In the streets of the city something is preying on the inhabitants, something that moves faster than the human eye can see and leaves unimaginable horror in its wake.



Included one-shot: Digimortal

Tags: Seinen , Cyberpunk , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Monster Boy , Dystopian , Gore , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Monster Girl , Henshin , Religion , Detective , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy