Manga like BEATLESS

Koori no Kuni no Amaryllis

Also known as Amaryllis in the Ice Country.

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

The ice age had come, the whole world locked under the layer of ice. Humans maintained dormant in cold sleep facilities called 'The Snow Princess'. The robots responsible for taking care of them formed a small village and lived forever underground. Amaryllis, a young girl robot, as the vice-chief of the village, worked hard every day with other villagers to repair 'The Snow Princess' that had been damaged by the collapsing incident and its aging components. This was all for being able to walk hand-in-hand with humans to the future. But one day, the village chief made a statement that shocked Amaryllis and her companions. "I believe humans ought to perish." What decisions would they finally make? This is a heartwarming story of the robots' choice of life.

Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Survival , Tragedy , Robots

Vivy prototype

Also known as Vivy Prototype.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Vivy, the world’s first autonomous AI, sings to bring joy to her audience as a cast member of NiaLand, Japan’s largest theme park. In this world, AIs have become integral to human life and exist to carry out their missions. One day, out of the blue, an AI claiming to be from the future approaches her, revealing that in one hundred years, advanced AIs will turn on the humans they once served, sparking a violent war to annihilate humankind! When he asks for her help in preventing the conflict, Vivy agrees to ditch the stage and take up the century-long mission against her kind in order to save humanity.



Tags: Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Dystopian

Ame no Hi no Iris

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

The story is centered around a cute android who initially had a happy life with her master who dearly loved her. But she was then struck by a series of misfortunes and ended up in a robot-equivalent of concentration camp. Through experiencing and witnessing the sufferings towards herself as well as the people/robots around her, she eventually gained a better appreciation of life.

Tags: Tragedy , Body Horror , Robots , Female Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Unrequited Love , Suicide , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Real Robot , Maids , Denpa , Agender , Yuri

Date A Live

Also known as Date A Live.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

Shidou Itsuka has a problem. The world has been racked by massive quakes of an unknown source for years now, though life goes on. Then one day, Shidou's calm life ends forever when in the middle of a quake in his city, he meets a girl who's apparently a spirit-and the cause of all the destruction! When a team arrives to eliminate the threat, Shidou becomes embroiled in a war to protect these spirits-by making them fall in love with him?!



Tags: Female Harem , Primarily Female Cast , Super Power , War , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Isekai , School , Amnesia , Shounen , Yandere , Witch , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Kuudere , Otaku Culture , Ghost , Twins , Crossdressing

IS: Infinite Stratos

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

Japan engineered an armed powered exoskeleton "Infinite Stratos" (IS) and it became the mainstream of weapons. Since only women can operate IS, women dominate the society over men. Orimura Ichika is a 15 year old boy and accidentally touches an IS placed in the IS pilot training school. He is found to be the only man who can operate IS and forced to enter the training school. Ichika's busy school life surrounded by girls has begun.

Note: The light novel stopped publishing on 2011 and resumed its publication a year later under a new label, Overlap Bunko. Due to this, the light novel changed illustrators, with CHOCO being the new illustrator of the series.

Tags: Female Harem , Robots , School , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Tsundere , Kuudere

Your Forma: Densa Kukan Echika to Kikai Shikake no Aibou

Also known as Your Forma.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

In an alternate 2023, the Your Forma, a miraculous “smart thread” technology initially developed to treat a massive outbreak of viral encephalitis, has become an integral part of daily life. But these convenient devices come with an invasive drawback—they record every sight, sound, and even emotion their users experience. For electronic investigator Echika Hieda, diving into peoples’ memories via the Your Forma and hunting for evidence to solve the toughest crimes is all part of a day’s work. The problem is, she’s so good at what she does that her assistants literally fry their brains trying to keep up with her. After putting one too many aides in the hospital, the top brass finally furnish Echika with a partner on her level, a brilliant yet cheeky android named Harold Lucraft. Does this unlikely duo have what it takes to resolve their mutual suspicions and avert a deadly technological infection from sweeping across the globe before it’s too late?



Tags: Detective , Female Protagonist , Crime , Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Pandemic , Philosophy