Manga like Shoki no URASAWA

Billy Bat

Also known as Billy Bat.

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

It’s 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat. Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing’s original artist . . . but the character’s origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined.



Note: Won the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best international Comic" in 2014.

Tags: Historical , Drawing , Time Manipulation , Conspiracy , Seinen , Philosophy , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Travel , Achronological Order , Foreign , War , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Swordplay , Guns , Ninja , Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Religion , Anachronism , Espionage , Terrorism , Nudity

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 , Memory Manipulation , Politics , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Foreign , Post-Apocalyptic , Real Robot , Ensemble Cast , Conspiracy , Noir , Amnesia , War , Anachronism , Cyberpunk , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Cult , Suicide , Agender

Kushami: Urasawa Naoki Tanpenshuu

Also known as Sneeze: Naoki Urasawa Story Collection.

Status: Finished
Genres:

Urasawa's characters confront fantastical elements ranging from psychic powers, to alien visitors to planet Earth, to attacks by giant monsters. On the flip side, the author philosophizes about his real-world experiences with the wild and wacky international music scene.

Plus, a classic, funny animal tale, in Urasawa's inimitable style!



DAMIYAN!
Tsuki ni mukatte nagero!
Oyaji Shu
Henry and Charles
It's a Beautiful Day
Musica Nostra
Kaiju Okoku
Solo Mission

Tags: Anthology , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Seinen , Band , Autobiographical , Yakuza , Work , Writing , Tragedy , Otaku Culture , Primarily Adult Cast , Kaiju , Superhero , Conspiracy , Animals