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Getter Robo

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mecha

The first Getter Robo series chronologically. Published 15 years before the rest of the manga, Getter Robo pioneered the idea of the combining and transforming robot.

Millions of years ago, the dinosaurs were driven deep underground due to the sudden arrival of "Getter Rays" on Earth. After evolving into sentient beings, they grew bitter and vengeful at the humans who replaced them on the surface and began plotting their attack on humanity.

Fighting against them is Getter Robo, a machine built by Professor Saotome which uses the mysterious Getter Rays as its power source. Piloting it are three strong-willed young men - the violent martial artist Nagare Ryoma, the psychopathic yet highly intelligent revolutionary Jin Hayato, and the hot-blooded Judo master Tomoe Musashi. Each controls one of three specially designed combat jets which can be combined together in different forms to form three different kinds of giant robots: the flying, axe-wielding Getter-1, the quick, drill-wielding Getter-2, and the tough, tank-like Getter-3.

Tags: Super Robot , Kaiju , Dinosaurs , Body Horror , Amnesia , Gore , Shounen , Martial Arts , Demons , Delinquents , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Eco-Horror , Guns , Natural Disaster , Heterosexual , War , Space Opera

Getter Robo Saga

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha

A compilation of the long-running Getter Robo series into one continuous story. Includes several new pages and chapters as well as revisions to old material and a newer, more conclusive ending to Getter Robo Āḥ.

Getter Robo (1974)
Getter Robo G (1975)
Getter Robo Go (1991)
Shin Getter Robo (1997)
Getter Robo Āḥ (2001)

Tags: Super Robot , Anthology , Gore , Dinosaurs , Kaiju , Aliens , Male Protagonist , War , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Cosmic Horror , Space Opera , Body Horror , Delinquents , Demons , Martial Arts , Episodic , Eco-Horror , Guns , Natural Disaster , Amnesia , Lost Civilization , Pandemic , Heterosexual , Space , Military , Zombie , Cyborg , Foreign , Ghost , Tomboy , Time Manipulation , Monster Boy , Monster Girl , Werewolf , Revenge , Post-Apocalyptic , Gods

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

Kill la Kill

Also known as KILL la KILL.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

The story centers around two fiercely fighting schoolgirls, Ryuuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuuin. On a campus ruled by force, a transfer student wielding a Basami sword brings about upheaval.



Tags: Super Power , Tomboy , Seinen , School , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Revenge , Tragedy , Cult , LGBTQ+ Themes

Getter Robo Go

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

Years after the events of Getter Robo/Shin Getter Robo, Hayato Jin is the leader of NISAR; a private owned research and weapons development organization based in Japan. He, and Professor Tachibana, have been developing various weapons and building up their forces to deal with a threat that started fifteen years ago: the mad scientist Rando. When Rando's forces begin their terrorist operations around the world, NISAR begins its search for exceptional soldiers to pilot their super weapon, the Getter Robo.

Tags: Cosmic Horror , War , Super Robot , Cyborg , Shounen , Dinosaurs , Space Opera , Gore , Twins , Nudity , Guns , Zombie , Kaiju , Military , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Space , Foreign , Werewolf , Heterosexual , Ghost , Tomboy , Body Horror , Gods

Mazinger Z

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

One of the first Super Robot manga and the one that introduced most of the traits of the Mecha genre. Constructed with the Super-Alloy Z, Mazinger was built by Professor Juzo Kabuto as a weapon against the Mechanical Beasts of the evil Dr. Hell. Koji Kabuto, the grandson of Professor Kabuto, becomes the pilot of Mazinger Z when his grandfather is killed, and battles from there on against Dr. Hell and his allies. This is the first series that introduced the concept of a pilot inside a Mecha, which all series from then on have followed.

Tags: Super Robot , Robots , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Episodic , Motorcycles , Gore , Meta , Cyborg , Nudity , Dullahan , Dissociative Identities , Advertisement

Undead Unluck

Also known as Undead Unluck.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

What happens when an unlucky girl meets an undead guy? Pure chaos!

All Fuuko wants is a passionate romance like the one in her favorite shojo manga. Unfortunately, her Unluck ability makes that impossible. But just as Fuuko hits rock bottom, Andy sweeps her off her feet—literally! Now she’s become Andy’s unwilling test subject as he works to find a way to trigger a stroke of Unluck big enough to kill him for good. However, when the pair discovers a secret organization is hunting them, it puts Andy’s burial plans on hold.



Notes:
Winner of the 6th Next Manga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2020.
Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: Super Power , Shounen , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Time Manipulation , Kaiju , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist , Gore , Time Skip , Martial Arts , Ensemble Cast , Zombie , Cosmic Horror , Nudity , Memory Manipulation , Post-Apocalyptic , War , Time Loop , Found Family , Meta , Aliens , Body Horror , Real Robot , Swordplay , Idol , Curses , Boxing

Getter Robo Arc

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

Getter Robo Āḥ is the fifth Getter Robo series chronologically.

Taking place several years after Getter Robo Go, Earth is now a post-apocalyptic world. Hayato, now an aging scientist, has completed Professor Saotome's masterpiece, Getter Robo Āḥ. Piloting it are Ryoma's son Takuma, the human-dinosaur Kamui and the younger brother of Tayel, Baku. Alongside the reformed Dinosaur Empire, they fight the insectoid Andromeda Flow Country attacking from across time and space.

Tags: Super Robot , Shounen , Time Manipulation , Aliens , War , Space , Post-Apocalyptic , Ensemble Cast , Dinosaurs , Space Opera , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Monster Girl , Monster Boy , Kaiju , Revenge , Gods

Getter Robo G

Also known as Getter Robo G.

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

After Emperor Gore and the Reptilian empire is defeated, a new enemy, Emperor Burai and his Hyakki empire rises and threatens to take over Earth. Ryoma, Hayato, and newcomer Benkei pilot the new Getter Robo G to save Earth.



Tags: Super Robot , Lost Civilization , Body Horror , Delinquents , Gore , Demons , Shounen , Aliens , Space Opera , Cyborg , Guns , Motorcycles , Episodic , Pandemic , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , War , Space

Sakugan!!

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

The distant future, long after the Western calendar is no longer used. Humans live shoulder-to-shoulder, cramped in the "Labyrinth," an underground world deep below the surface. There are many colonies where people live in the underground Labyrinth. The place is known for extreme high temperatures, but also for lodes of gold, silver, and other riches. In one of the colonies named Pin-in, a curious nine-year-old girl named Memenpuu and her father Gaganbaa board a two-person work robot and mine for ore. They eke a living as the lowest of lowest "Worker" occupations.

One day, Memenpuu begs her father Gaganbaa to set out as Markers — those who chart the innards of the Labyrinth as a spelunker — to search for her mother who left their home. If they encounter a "mysterious giant creature" lurking in the caves, the survival rate is less than 5%. Since discovering an unknown world is dangerous work, "maps" hold great value in the world of Labyrinth and fetch high prices on the market. A Marker is the most dangerous, but also the most lucrative, job. Gaganbaa decides he cannot hold back the ever-curious Memenpuu from going off on her own countless times, and finally gives in. The two embark on a journey together in the work robot.

However, the "cost" of curiosity... The "truth" they finally uncovered...

This is a father and daughter's epic journey with the theme of family love.



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