Manga like DARLING in the FRANXX

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Status: Finished

In a devastated post-apocalyptic future, Earth is a ruinous wasteland. Humanity’s only remaining strongholds are mobile fortress cities called Plantations. Massive beasts known as klaxosaurs, the planet’s new apex predators, have pushed mankind to the edge of extinction, and within the walls of the Plantations, things are no less dire. Humans no longer love or reproduce–adults live on in sterile immortality while children are regarded as nothing more than parasites, artificially created to pair up and pilot the Plantations’ giant defense robots known as Franxx. Former child whiz kid Hiro fails out of the piloting program after falling out of sync with his co-pilot, and a fateful decision to skip his group’s graduation ceremony puts him on a collision course with a horned girl known as Zero Two, whose co-pilots always end up dead. She claims Hiro as her “darling,” but what can that word even mean in such a loveless world?

Tags: Dystopian , Monster Girl , Super Robot , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Love Triangle , Robots , Nudity , Aliens , Shounen , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Yuri

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Shonen Jump Plus

Mato Seihei no Slave

Also known as Chained Soldier.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Ecchi , Fantasy , Romance

Decades ago, gates to an otherworldly and dangerous dimension known as Mato—the “Demon City”—appeared across Japan. Those who partook in the “peaches” growing there gained unique abilities—but only if they’re girls. When down-in-the-dumps high school boy Yuuki Wakura finds himself caught up in a gate, he’s saved by Kyouka Uzen, the beautiful commander of the 7th squad of the Demon Defense Force, who…orders him to become her slave?!

Tags: Heterosexual , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Nudity , Slavery , Female Harem , Demons , Henshin , Shounen , Gods , Swordplay , Urban Fantasy , Love Triangle , Shapeshifting , MILF , Matriarchy , Monster Girl , Threesome , Guns , Creature Taming , Aliens , Time Manipulation , Martial Arts , Spearplay , Clone , Bisexual , Politics , Delinquents , Isekai , Bullying , Curses

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Shonen Jump Plus

Pixiv Comic

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Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven

Also known as Eureka Seven: Psalms of Planets.

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

Renton Thurston is a young 14-year-old who is tired of his monotonous life. The only thing that makes him happy is when he "lifts", an extreme form of aerial hoverboarding. His feelings of frustration come from his life of toil in his Grandfather's garage and being the son of an enigmatic yet legendary "hero." One day, a large LFO (Light Finding Operation) craft called Nirvash falls from the sky and a beautiful young girl named Eureka emerges and asks for repairs. When a smitten Renton literally falls over himself to help her, the two begin a journey that will change both of their destinies.

Tags: Aliens , Tragedy , Shounen

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VIZ

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To LOVE-Ru

Also known as To Love Ru.

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

Yuuki Rito is your average high school student–awkward, shy, and hopeless when it comes to confessing his feelings to the girl of his dreams. But one day, an alien princess on the run suddenly appears in his bathtub! When Rito finds himself engaged to the beautiful Lala after a misunderstanding, he becomes embroiled in the chaos of extraterrestrial politics, rival alien suitors, and harem hilarity! The story continues in To Love Ru Darkness, when Lala’s younger sister Momo begins her own machinations to marry Rito…but it can only happen if he is coronated as king of their interstellar empire, which would allow him to marry as many women as he wants!

Tags: Female Harem , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Aliens , School , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , Dissociative Identities , Assassins , Body Swapping , Kuudere , Gender Bending , Isekai

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Megami Kouhosei

Also known as The Candidate for Goddess.

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

It is the year 4088. It has been over one thousand years since the Crisis of Systems (Lost Property), which resulted in the destruction of four planetary systems, leaving only a single inhabitable planet, Zion. Mankind is forced to live in space colonies, since that one planet is constantly being invaded by alien life forms that have come to be known as Victim.
To stop the aliens and to allow people to land on Zion, mankind has developed the astronomical humanoid weapons, Ingrids, also known as Goddesses. G.O.A. (Goddess Operation Academy) is a school dedicated to the training of young men to pilot these Ingrids...

Tags: Super Robot , Aliens , Military , Space , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Tsundere

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Deadman Wonderland

Also known as Deadman Wonderland.

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

The inmates of this insane penitentiary fight for survival every day to provide entertainment for the masses, and terrifying secrets lurk in the shadows. Ganta is determined to survive Deadman Wonderland and clear his name, but the price may be his soul…

Note: Volume 12 contains 6 short side stories, which counts as 1 whole chapter.

Tags: Death Game , Body Horror , Prison , Super Power , Gore , Torture , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Philosophy , Suicide

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VIZ

Kadocomi

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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

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INKR

Comic Days

Omoi

K MANGA

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Shin Seiki Evangelion

Also known as Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In 2015, the "Angels" have returned, and Shinji Ikari, a fourteen year-old child of the new Earth, is forced by his father Gendo--commander of the secret organization NERV--to pilot the monstrous biomechanical weapon called "Evangelion" to match the Angels' fearsome power...

Tags: Philosophy , Coming of Age , Kaiju , Tragedy , Military , Body Horror , Primarily Teen Cast , Real Robot , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Denpa , Seinen , Cosmic Horror , Robots , Super Robot , Tsundere , Angels , Kuudere , Gore , Memory Manipulation , Cyberpunk , Amnesia , Bisexual , Espionage , Guns , School , Urban , Nudity , Space , Tokusatsu , Love Triangle

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VIZ

Naver Series

Kadocomi

KakaoPage

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Captain Earth

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

One night right before summer vacation, Daichi Manatsu, a second-year in high school, sees a weird round rainbow floating in the sky above Tanegashima and ventures there alone. He has seen this rainbow before. With the memories of his father's mysterious death and an encounter of a mysterious boy and girl, Daiji arrives on the island while the alarm of a building labeled "Earth Engine" is going off. Someone asks him if he's a captain, just as robotic intruders from Uranus called "Kiltgang" arrive. The battle around the shining stars is about to begin.

Tags: Shounen

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Muv-Luv Alternative

Also known as Muv-Luv Alternative.

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

In Muv-Luv Alternative, Takeru wakes up three years after the end of Muv-Luv Unlimited to find himself back in his room. Although he first thinks that everything that had happened to him was a dream, he soon feels that something is wrong, and leaves the house to find that he has been sent back in time to the beginning of the events in Unlimited. Unwilling to accept something like Alternative V, he decides to help professor Kouzuki to complete Alternative IV and save mankind.

Tags: War , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Military , Isekai , Post-Apocalyptic , Alternate Universe , Time Manipulation , Robots , Aliens , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Politics , Seinen , Artificial Intelligence , Drugs , Memory Manipulation , Body Horror , Gore , Amnesia , Bisexual , Twins ,

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86: Eighty Six

Also known as 86―EIGHTY-SIX.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

A War Without Casualties:

The Republic of San Magnolia has long been under attack from the neighboring Giadian Empire's army of unmanned drones known as the Legion. After years of painstaking research, the Republic finally developed autonomous drones of their own, turning the one-sided struggle into a war without casualties-or at least, that's what the government claims.

In truth, there is no such thing as a bloodless war. Beyond the fortified walls protecting the eighty-five Republic territories lies the "nonexistent" Eighty-Sixth Sector. The young men and women of this forsaken land are branded the Eighty-Six and, stripped of their humanity, pilot the "unmanned" weapons into battle...

Notes:
-The total chapter count includes 3 extra chapters.
-The manga was cancelled due to the poor health of the mangaka.

Tags: Military , Tragedy , Robots , War , Politics , Real Robot , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Nudity

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