Manga like Zipang

Genres: Action Drama Sci-Fi

What is Zipang about?

Status: Finished

In the year 200X, a Japanese fleet consisting of 3 vessels leave on a mission to South America. After encountering a storm, the ship JDS Mirai find themselves without their escorts and in 1942, traveling towards the island of Midway to face the American fleet in one of largest battles in naval history. The crew of MIrai must decide whether or not to change the course of history by involving itself in WWII.

Tags: Military , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , War , Historical , Ships , Time Manipulation
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Nihonkoku Shoukan

Nihonkoku Shoukan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy

Japan one day suddenly materialises in another world. The Japanese government is put into chaos amid food shortages and many other issues. The JSDF is dispatched to survey the area and find out as much information as possible, the JSDF discover dragons during their search and men riding dragons. From this the Government confirms their beliefs the entire nation had been transported to another world. Negotiations between the government and their new neighbours swiftly begin in hopes of solving the food problem as quickly as possible. How were they transported here, why were they transported and what awaits the nation in this other world?

Tags: Isekai , Guns , War , Military , Urban Fantasy , Tanks , Dragons , Magic , Economics , Ships , Gore
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Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu

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

In humanity's distant future, two interstellar states—the monarchic Galactic Empire and the democratic Free Planets Alliance—are embroiled in a never-ending war. The story focuses on the exploits of rivals Reinhard von Müsel and Yang Wen Li as they rise to power and fame in the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance.

Tags: Politics , Military , Seinen , Space , Space Opera , War , Primarily Male Cast
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Hellhounds: Panzer Cops

Kenrou Densetsu

Also known as Hellhounds: Panzer Cops.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

In a parallel Japan, the government struggles to handle the urban guerrilla called "Sects". To confront Sects' activity, "Shutokei" (Metropolitan Police) was organized and its Special Armed Garrison "Tokki-Tai: Kerberos" standed at the front line with their heavy arms. Although Tokki-tai achieved a triumph over Sects, people started to oppose their violent and bloody measure. Politically isolated, Tokki-tai made a final decision on their own fate...

Tags: Seinen , Military , Terrorism , Police , Tragedy , Politics , Philosophy , Urban , Dystopian , Guns
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A Distant Neighborhood

Haruka na Machi e

Also known as A Distant Neighborhood.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

Who hasn't thought about reliving their past, correcting perceived mistakes or changing crucial decisions? Would this better your life or the lives of those closest to you? Or would your altered actions prove even more harmful? One man gets the chance to find out...

Middle-aged Hiroshi Nakahara is on his way home from a business trip when he finds himself on the wrong train heading for his childhood hometown. His footsteps take him to his mother's grave and it's there that he is catapulted back into his life as an 8th grader - but with all his adult memories and knowledge intact. As he struggles to make sense of his predicament his adult memories of his childhood return but are somehow subtly changed. The questions start to form ... would his father still disappear without explanation? would he still marry his wife?



Tags: Time Manipulation , Age Regression , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Rural , Magic , Philosophy
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Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan: Noukou Giga

Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan: Noukou Giga

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

One fateful day, a girl time slipped into the Sengoku Era. It was an abrupt enough event to be dubbed god’s whim, done to sate hellish boredom. The girl has no power to change the world. She was a very ordinary, common, and plain girl that can be found anywhere. And that girl can do no more than a single thing. Survive the Sengoku Era ——– that’s all.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Agriculture , Food , Historical , Military , Rural , Time Manipulation , Samurai , War , Shounen
Samurai Commando: Mission 1549

Sengoku Jieitai 1549

Also known as Samurai Commando: Mission 1549.

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

A military test accidentally sends a modern-day army back in time to feudal Japan. When their actions in the past begin to have an effect on the present, another unit is dispatched to retrieve them. But the commander of the lost unit has other plans: He wants to use his advanced technology to conquer Japan and change his country's destiny.



Tags: Swordplay , Shounen , Historical
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Legend of Galactic Heroes

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu

Also known as Legend of Galactic Heroes.

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

Faithful to novels, except some changes may be considered major, e.g., some characters changed from male to female. Covers volume 1 and 2 of the novels.

Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , War , Space Opera , Male Protagonist , Military , Shounen
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Boku no Mura no Hanashi

Boku no Mura no Hanashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A story based on real life events. The Sanrizuka Struggle, told from the perspective of the peasants fighting for their land.

Tags: Seinen , Rural
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Golgo 13

Golgo 13

Also known as Golgo 13.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Thriller

In 1991, UN inspectors found the incomplete Project Babylon--a cannon capable of hurling a shell 600 miles. In 1995, the Clinton administration learns of a second, hidden Iraqi supergun--now operational, and with a much, much longer range... There are only two options to destroy the supergun: send in an airstrike--or send in Golgo 13! Then, flash back to 1979 on the streets of San Francisco, where a hit-and-run accident intersects with a mob boss's terror that he is G13's next target... Plus excerpts from the File 13 dossier revealing the secrets of his personal data, false identities, alias, and more!



Tags: Seinen , Assassins , Historical , Crime , Foreign , Guns , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Nudity
Eien no Zero

Eien no Zero

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Kentaro, 26 years, is a NEET. At the request of his sister Keiko, the young man plunges into his family past. Kyuzo Miyabe, his grandfather, was a fighter pilot of the Japanese imperial navy who had fought at the commands of the mythical Japanese fighter aircraftt: "Zero". But at the end of the war he die in kamikaze attack. Was he the hero whom everybody claims? Or rather a terrorist? A coward?



Tags: Historical , Seinen , Military , Aviation , War
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