Manga like Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden Rai

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 , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Shounen

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 , Lost Civilization , War , Philosophy , Survival , Female Protagonist , Military , Aviation , Cult , Dystopian , Politics , Anachronism , Religion , Magic , Kaiju , Tanks , Slavery , Travel , Ghost

Venus Senki

Also known as The Venus Wars.

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

May 2003. An icy planet from distant space crashes into Venus, changing its qualities completely. These qualities prove to present some habitability for humans, enticing men to eventually colonize it for themselves...

80 years later, Venus is home to many people who call it home. However, an ever-present tension between the two major continents, Aphrodia and Ishtar, points to an ominous fate for Venus.

Hiroki Senoo is a rather rebellious member of a motorsport popular within Aphrodia's capital. One day, members of Aphrodia's military approach Hiroki, and, impressed by his skills, invite him to join. Thus, Hiroki finds himself enveloped in Venus's political landscape...

Note: Chapter count resets with Volume 3 to correspond with the second part.

Tags: Motorcycles , War , Politics , Conspiracy , Space , Shounen , Space Opera

Kuro no Shishi

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

One of Go Nagai's first works, this violent period piece takes place in the 1500s and stars a talented low ranking ninja named Shishimaru. In it, Shishimaru fights against Ginnai Doma (an immortal samurai who, despite being butchered multiple times, doesn't die) because Ginnai murdered his comrades. Despite being set in historical times, it has machine guns/lasers/robots/atomic reactors with no real explaination.

Tags: Historical , Swordplay , Anachronism , Ninja , Shounen , Aliens , Space Opera , Tanks , Space , Time Manipulation , Gore , War , Robots

Five Star Stories

Also known as The Five Star Stories.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mecha , Sci-Fi

The Five Star Stories takes its name from the Joker Star Cluster where the stories take place. The star cluster is made up of four stars: Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern. The "fifth star" is a large comet named Stant that passes through that sector of space every 1,500 years pulling with it its own collection of orbiting planets.

In the distant past the Farus Di Kanon Empire, now commonly known as the "Super Empire", controlled all 4 solar systems of the Joker Cluster. They enjoyed a level of technology much higher than is currently known and sent explorers to the far reaches of the Joker Galaxy. Around the year 9000 AD (Ammon Duul) the empire collapsed due to internal strife. The explorers were called home and what remained of civilization focused mainly on survival. Much technology and knowledge was lost by the time the imperial families of Amaterasu, Fillmore and Hathuha gathered and established the JC era. JC stands for "Joker Calendar" and was meant to give a common frame of reference to all nations to help foster a lasting peace. The JC calendar was adopted but the dream of peace was never realized.

The first story of The Five Star Stories begins in JC 2988. At this time interstellar travel is common and genetically engineered "fatimas" are well established as necessary co-pilots of the fearsome mortar headds that dominate the battlefields. Warfare between nations is commonplace and few still hope for peace.

Tags: Gods , Ensemble Cast , War , Space Opera , Politics , Space , Military , Real Robot

Tenjiku Neppuuroku

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

The manga tells a fictional version of the story of historical Tang China diplomat Wang Xuance, centering on his diplomatic journey from Tang Dynasty China to the Empire of Harsha in India in the 7th century CE. When he comes upon a crumbling empire that is now hostile to him he escapes to Tibet and raises a confederation of Tang, Nepalese, and Tibetan soldiers to mount a raid on the Empire of Harsha.



Tags: Seinen , Martial Arts , Historical

Hyakumonogatari

Also known as One Hundred Tales.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

The stories are set in the Momoyama through early Edo periods. Ichirui Hanri is an ordinary accountant servicing his master. Though innocent, he is ordered to commit hara-kiri after being entangled in the trouble of his master's house.

Just then, a witch named Sudama appears. She concludes a contract with Ichirui Hanri so that she can obtain his soul in exchange for fulfilling three of his wishes.

Tags: Shounen , Historical , Nudity

Yoake Shiro

Also known as Castle of Dawn.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Romance

Midorimaru Matsunoki, the only son of lord Matsunoki Mumeharu, retainer of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, becomes involved in his father's secret plans about construction of a new castle. Soon after encounters a female peasant school teacher, Tae, who becomes his lover. Circumstances even come to affect the beautiful female noble Yayoi, who hates (and loves) him, and his beloved sensei, samurai Fujinosuke Murasaki, the main constructer of the castle, in ways no one would have anticipated...

This is a fast-paced story with overt characterization that reflects on the fairness of love and war.



Tags: Historical , Shounen , Samurai , Teacher