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11-nin Iru!

Also known as They Were 11!.

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

They Were 11 is about ten Galactic University recruits who have passed many levels only to be given one final test. They are told to travel to an ancient spaceship and live there, together, for fifty-three days. This is not a problem until the ten recruits, hailing from diverse backgrounds and planets, discover that there are actually eleven of them on the ship. In fact, this problem turns out to be the test, as they have to trust each other in order to survive, even though one of them is an impostor.



Note: Won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo in 1975.

Tags: Shoujo , Space , LGBTQ+ Themes , Survival , Aliens , Agender , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Transgender , Memory Manipulation , Adoption

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

Andromeda Stories

Also known as Stories of Andromeda Galaxy.

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

In one corner of the Andromeda Nebula lies the planet Astria, where the peace of its Cosmoralia Empire has been shattered by autonomous machines which can take over people’s consciousness. On opposing sides of the coin are successor to the throne Prince Jimusa, now part of the resistance, and Afulu, his long lost twin sister. As fate brings them together, it also draws them closer to their climactic fight alongside the female cyborg warrior Il.



Tags: Shounen , Space , Tragedy , Robots , Super Power , Incest

Star Red

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

At the end of the 23rd Century, a girl stares at a red star in the sky. Her name happens to be Red Star, born on Mars. The series tells of Red's adventures at the center of the Milky Way.

Note: Won Seiun Award 1980 in manga category.

Tags: Shoujo , Space , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Gender Bending , Reincarnation , Super Power

Barbara Ikai

Also known as Otherworld Barbara.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi

Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara. Then there’s a mysterious and missing geneticist, an eccentric clergyman, a grieving grandmother granted temporary youth, a psychologist killed by a freak tornado… Hagio offers a sci-fi explanation for these seemingly random paranormal elements, and makes it all matter with believable characters in complex and subtle relationships.



Note: Winner of Japan's Science Fiction Grand Prize award in 2006.

Tags: Josei , Age Regression , Family Life , Cannibalism , Ensemble Cast , Memory Manipulation , Alternate Universe , Aliens , Male Protagonist

Juu Ou Sei

Also known as Jyu-Oh-Sei.

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

In 2436 A.D., young twins Thor and Rai are living on the space colony Juno. Their entire lives are turned upside down when one day their parents are murdered, and then they are kidnapped and ushered to the forsaken "planet of the beast king" by unknown masked men



Includes a two-part short called "Death Game".

Tags: Survival , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Twins , Time Skip

A: A'

Also known as A, A'.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

A volume of short sci-fi shoujo stories all featuring a new race of humans called Unicorns. The major theme in all of the stories are about human emotions. As the characters in the story try to interact and relate to these Unicorns who lack a lot of the natural emotions humans normally feel.

The story A, A' raises a troubling question: how would you feel if your lover died—and was replaced by a clone? Could you recreate your relationship with someone who was physically exactly the same but didn't share any memories of your life together?

In 4/4, teenaged Mori flunks out of an ESP training program. But when he meets Trill, a beautiful Unicorn, his latent abilities begin to blossom...

In X+Y, Hagio uses science fiction to explore questions of gender and sexual identity. Time has passed, and once again, Mori finds himself inexorably attracted to a member of the unicorn race - but this unicorn is male... and so is Mori.

Tags: Shoujo , Gender Bending , Clone , Space , Tragedy , Super Power , Anthology , Boys' Love , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes

Marginal

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

In the year 2999, only eleven cities still survive on Earth. The climate has changed drastically, and a biochemical apocalypse has made women extinct. For centuries, the male population of Earth has survived by depending on only one woman, called the Holy Mother, whose ova are harvested to create genetically engineered children. By now, any concept of a world in which women exist as ordinary people is long gone. Society has re-structured itself around all-male families, and gay relationships have become the norm.

At the beginning of Marginal, the Holy Mother is assassinated by a terrorist known as Grinja. The government in power doesn't want to start a mass panic, so it pretends that the Holy Mother has only shed her vessel, and that she will be miraculously "reborn" in the near future. The public, which is superstitious and devout, believes this easily. Only government officials know that behind the scenes, there is a frantic effort to create a new being with an XXY chromosome -- a male capable of giving birth. (This is a BL misrepresentation of an actual phenomenon known as Klinefelter's Syndrome.)

The manga's story revolves around one such boy -- Kira, the product of a genetic experiment, who becomes involved in a three-way relationship with Grinja, the aforementioned terrorist, and Ashijin, a young man who calls himself Kira's owner. A complex plot and flawless world-building make the story irresistible, and Kira's search for freedom is as symbolic as it is gripping.



Tags: Dystopian , Boys' Love , Primarily Male Cast , Post-Apocalyptic , Terrorism , Shoujo , Clone , Slavery , Amnesia , Religion , Nudity , Desert

GUNNM

Also known as Battle Angel Alita.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Gally and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Gally remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Gally decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust?



Tags: Cyberpunk , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Seinen , Tragedy , Dystopian , Robots , Post-Apocalyptic , Martial Arts , Cyborg , Gore , Nudity , Desert , Cosmic Horror , Heterosexual

Megami Kouhosei

Also known as The Candidate for Goddess.

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

It is the year 4088. It has been over one thousand years since the Crisis of Systems (Lost Property), which resulted in the destruction of four planetary systems, leaving only a single inhabitable planet, Zion. Mankind is forced to live in space colonies, since that one planet is constantly being invaded by alien life forms that have come to be known as Victim.
To stop the aliens and to allow people to land on Zion, mankind has developed the astronomical humanoid weapons, Ingrids, also known as Goddesses. G.O.A. (Goddess Operation Academy) is a school dedicated to the training of young men to pilot these Ingrids...



Tags: Super Robot , Aliens , Military , Space , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Tsundere