Manga like Hoshikui Goroshi no Ignalo

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 , Male Protagonist , Necromancy , Dragons , Survival , Animals , Anthropomorphism , Magic , Shounen , Body Horror , Politics , Shapeshifting , Coming of Age , Kemonomimi , Military , Gore , Agriculture , Medieval

Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä

Also known as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

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

Humanity, in its hubris, has precipitated a devastating environmental disaster. Flourishing industrial civilizations have been swallowed up by the Sea of Corruption, an enormous forest of fungi releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. Nausicaa, a compassionate young princess, and her allies battle to heal a wounded world and its inhabitants...



Note: Won the 26th Seiun Award for Best Comic (1995).

Tags: Environmental , Post-Apocalyptic , War , Lost Civilization , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Survival , Aviation , Military , Cult , Dystopian , Eco-Horror , Politics , Religion , Anachronism , Kaiju , Ghost , Magic , Slavery , Tragedy , Tanks , Travel , Calligraphy

BLAME!

Also known as BLAME!.

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

In a future version of Earth, there is a city grown so chaotically massive that its inhabitants no longer recall what “land” is. Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Killy is on a mission to find the Net Terminal Gene—a genetic mutation that once allowed humans to access the cybernetic NetSphere. Armed with a powerful Graviton Beam Emitter, Killy fends off waves of attacks from fellow humans, cyborgs and silicon-based lifeforms. Along the way, he encounters a highly-skilled scientist whose body has deteriorated from a lengthy imprisonment who promises to help Killy find the Net Terminal Gene, once she settles a score for herself…



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

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

Ningyou no Kuni

Also known as APOSIMZ.

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

This story takes place on the frigid, massive artificial planet known as Aposimz. Eo, Biko and Etherow, residents of the White Diamond Beam, are in the middle of combat training when suddenly a girl appears, Rebedoan Empire soldiers in hot pursuit. The girl asks for their help in keeping safe a “code” and seven mysterious “bullets.” This chance encounter marks a major shift in the fate of the entire planet...



Tags: Cyberpunk , Primarily Adult Cast , Robots , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Cyborg , Dystopian , Lost Civilization , Male Protagonist , Henshin , Shounen , Super Power , Post-Apocalyptic , Snowscape , Crossdressing , Gender Bending

Ooyukiumi no Kaina

Also known as Kaina of the Great Snow Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

Kaina is the only youth in the last remaining village that clings to life on the Canopy, high above the surface of the world. When Liliha, a princess from the surface, makes her way to the Canopy, they both realize that there is more to their world than they knew. Kaina agrees to help Liliha return to the Great Snow Sea far below, where her kingdom is imperiled by the rapacious neighboring kingdom of Bargia.

The trip is arduous, and foes lie in wait at the end of their descent. With Liliha taken prisoner and her father the king too caught up in politics to rescue her, Kaina has no choice but to set off with only the young prince in tow, braving the dangers of the Great Snow Sea to rescue Liliha from Bargia's clutches...



Tags: Survival , Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Lost Civilization , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Environmental , Snowscape , Shounen

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

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 , Real Robot , Adoption , 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 , Aliens , Body Horror , Dystopian , Anti-Hero , Shounen , Skeleton , Henshin , Cult , Agender , Demons , Food , Cosmic Horror , Space Opera , Slavery , Nudity , Age Regression

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mecha , Romance

In their closed-off underground village, Kamina and Simon chafe at the limits imposed by the village elder. Yet all this will change, when Simon stumbles across a fantastic device - just as the village's peace is broken by a violent intrusion.

Tags: Space , Seinen , Space Opera , Tragedy , Gods

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