Manga like Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gihren Ansatsu Keikaku

Kidou Senshi Gundam: The Origin

Also known as Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin.

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

Zeon ace pilot, Commander Char Aznable, thought he could foil the Federation's plan to build a mobile suit by attacking their research base on colony Side 7. He was wrong. With a prototype already active, the besieged Federation forces strike back using their new weapon, the mobile suit Gundam, with devastating consequences. Amidst the fighting, young electronics wizard Amuro Ray is determined not to let his friends and family die in the crossfire. But what can one boy do to repel a squad of mobile suit-clad invaders?



Tags: Space Opera , Military , Space , War , Real Robot , Full Color , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Shounen

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

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

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Philosophy , Amnesia , Fugitive , Twins , Noir , Foreign , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Detective , Historical , Ensemble Cast , Crime , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Orphan , Adoption , Suicide , Torture , Gore , Achronological Order , Assassins , Episodic

20 Seiki Shounen

Also known as 20th Century Boys.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world.

For Kenji, a simple convenience store manager who once dreamed of becoming a rock 'n' roll musician, a host of memories from his past come rushing back when one of his childhood friends mysteriously commits suicide. Could this new death be related to the rise of a bizarre new cult that's been implicated in several other murders and disappearances? Determined to dig deeper, Kenji reunites with some of his old buddies in the hope of learning the truth behind it all.



Tags: Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Seinen , Achronological Order , Dystopian , Fugitive , Conspiracy , Cult , Found Family , Pandemic , Time Skip , Post-Apocalyptic , Terrorism , Male Protagonist , Detective , Philosophy , Cosmic Horror , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Musical Theater , Historical , Augmented Reality , Police , Robots , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Transgender , Foreign , Time Manipulation , Homeless , Nudity , Twins , Urban , Rock Music , Drugs , Crossdressing

PLUTO

Also known as Pluto.

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

In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.



Tags: Seinen , Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Detective , Police , Tragedy , Politics , Memory Manipulation , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Foreign , Post-Apocalyptic , Real Robot , Ensemble Cast , Conspiracy , Amnesia , War , Noir , Anachronism , Cyberpunk , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Cult , Suicide , Agender

Babylon

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

The suspense story centers around Zen Seizaki, a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles across a conspiracy over an election for an autonomous "new zone" established in western Tokyo.



Tags: Conspiracy , Police , Philosophy , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Suicide

Kidou Senshi Gundam U.C. Senki: Tsuioku no Char Aznable

Status: Finished
Genres: Mecha , Sci-Fi

Collection Edition of the three Oomori stories published on Gundam Ace Special between 2007 and 2008 centered around Char Aznable's past and related events about the men fighting around him.

Char Senyou Zaku II vs. Rick-Dias (シャア専用ザクVSリック・ディアス, Zaku II Char Aznable Personal Use vs. Rick Diaz); Gundam Ace Special vol.1 (2007/4)
This story is a retelling of the 12th Gundam Evolve episode. It goes to describe the end of the simulated fight between Quattro's Hyaku-Shiki and the first Gundam.

Ryousangata Zaku vs. Gundam (量産型ザクVSガンダム, Mass Production Type Zaku vs. Gundam); Gundam Ace Special vol.2 (2007/9)
This story doesn't star Char describes the death of Garma Zabi. It is essentially the same like the episode of the Gundam TV series but seen from the eyes of the pilots of the Zakus.

3-5. Char Senyou Zugokku vs. GM (シャア専用ズゴックvs.GM, Z'Gok Char Aznable Personal Use vs. GM); Gundam Ace Special vol.3-4 (2007/12-2008/3), Gundam Ace #71 (2008/5)
This three part story is once again a retelling of a well known episode from the Gundam TV series, this time seen from the eyes of the pilot of the RGM-79 GM Mobile Suit that is killed by Char in his red Z'Gok during the Jaburo attack.

Tags: Real Robot , Space Opera , Military , Anthology