Top Astronomy Manga Recommendations

Jeonjijeok Dokja Sijeom

Also known as Omniscient Reader.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Back then, Dok-Ja had no idea. He had no idea his favorite web novel 'Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse' was going to come to life, and that he would become the only person to know how the world was going to end. He also had no idea he would end up becoming the protagonist of this novel-turned-reality. Now, Dok-Ja will go on a journey to change the course of the story and save humankind once and for all.



Tags: Survival , Post-Apocalyptic , Full Color , Death Game , Gods , Male Protagonist , Meta , Denpa , Astronomy , Found Family , Tragedy , POV , Time Loop , Philosophy , Cosmic Horror , Suicide , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , LGBTQ+ Themes , Battle Royale , Isekai , Swordplay , Body Horror , Adoption , Dragons , Age Regression , Parody , Trains , Crossover , Demons , Angels , Terrorism , Afterlife , Female Protagonist , Zombie , Ensemble Cast , Super Robot

Tonikaku Kawaii

Also known as Fly Me to the Moon.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

First comes marriage, then comes an earthbound love that is out of this world! From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has been destined for outer space…or so he believes. But while trying to join the space program, he is thrown for a loop when an accident introduces him to Tsukasa, a mysterious girl with strange powers. Is she an alien, a moon goddess or something else? Since she insists on marrying him, Nasa has plenty of chances to find out!



Notes: The 16th volume includes the 4 chapter prequel "FLY ME TO THE MOON".

Tags: Marriage , Iyashikei , Family Life , Heterosexual , Historical , Age Gap , Amnesia , Coming of Age , Parody , Meta , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Astronomy , Tsundere , Mythology , Otaku Culture , Ojou-sama , Swordplay , Maids , Software Development , Yuri

Jaeanggeum Yeongungnimi Gwihwanhasyeotda

Also known as The Return of the Disaster-Class Hero.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Humans call them “calamities”—the unknown, destructive creatures that suddenly appeared on earth. To challenge these calamities, the zodiac gods awakened 12 humans known as saints. But there was one more that awoke—unchosen but the greatest hero of all: Geon Lee. His allies betrayed him and left him for dead, but now, 20 years later, he’s more powerful than ever and ready to teach his fellow “saints” a lesson they’ll never forget.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Gods , Full Color , Astronomy , Dungeon , Magic

Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia

Also known as Insomniacs After School.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Nakami is a studious but cranky and antisocial high schooler who gets on his classmates' nerves. However, his bad attitude comes from the fact that he has a sleeping disorder, and frequently spends nights on end without a single minute of sleep. During the preparations for the school festival, he is begrudgingly sent to the school's astronomy observatory to gather cardboard boxes, a place which is said to be haunted by the dire happenings of the now defunct Astronomy Club. He finds the isolated place a haven ripe for him to sleep, but while rummaging around, he stumbles upon his classmate Magari Isaki sleeping inside a toppled-over locker.

Isaki, unlike him, is a personable and popular girl at class, but who also hides her own problems with insomnia. Looking for a middle ground, they find that there's comfort and ease in sleeping together, so they resort to make the observatory their own private cubby to sleep... Have they found the comfort they're looking for?

Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Coming of Age , Astronomy , Iyashikei , Heterosexual , School , School Club , Photography , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Disability , Female Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Camping , Time Skip

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Also known as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

Subaru Natsuki was just trying to get to the convenience store but wound up summoned to another world. He encounters the usual things--life-threatening situations, silver haired beauties, cat fairies--you know, normal stuff. All that would be bad enough, but he's also gained the most inconvenient magical ability of all--time travel, but he's got to die to use it. How do you repay someone who saved your life when all you can do is die?



Tags: Time Manipulation , Time Loop , Tragedy , Witch , Isekai , Male Protagonist , Astronomy , Gore , Cosmic Horror , Magic , Memory Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Cult , Body Horror , Suicide , Amnesia , Alternate Universe , Elf , Dissociative Identities , Reincarnation , Heterosexual , Twins , Time Skip , Maids , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist , Assassins , Femboy , Yandere , Dragons , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Kemonomimi , Unrequited Love , Age Regression , Zombie , Necromancy , Werewolf , Disability , Shapeshifting , Medieval , Curses

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Also known as Sailor Moon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts), and together, they fight the forces of evil!



Notes:
- The tankoubon release contains 52 Acts and 9 bonus chapters across 18 volumes; chapter/volume counts follow the tankoubon release.
- The shinsouban release contains the original 52 Acts plus 8 new Acts across 12 volumes, but no bonus chapters as all 9 were released separately in Sailor Moon Short Stories alongside another bonus chapter that was previously released in an artbook.
- The kanzenban release contains both the 60 Acts and the 10 bonus chapters from the short story shinsoubans across 10 volumes.


Tags: Shoujo , Primarily Female Cast , Reincarnation , Magic , Lost Civilization , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Time Manipulation , Henshin , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Astronomy , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Mythology , War , Cosmic Horror , Demons , Space , Super Power , Aliens , Fairy Tale , LGBTQ+ Themes , Space Opera , Animals , Body Horror , Rehabilitation , Nudity , Revenge , Time Skip , Dissociative Identities , Philosophy , Urban , Unrequited Love , Found Family , Superhero , Circus , Shrine Maiden , Bisexual , Love Triangle , Parenthood , Tokusatsu , Gender Bending , School , Kemonomimi , Age Gap , Age Regression , Bullying , Twins , School Club , Yuri

Uchuu Kyoudai

Also known as Space Brothers.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Two brothers looked to the starry skies as children and made a promise ... Now, in the year 2025, the younger brother, Hibito, is carrying his out. He is an astronaut who has been selected as a crew member for mankind’s first long-term base on the moon. Meanwhile, the older brother, Mutta, has just been fired from his job and is unemployed, but decides to trust himself just one last time. A text message from Hibito sends him applying to be an astronaut too and shooting for the stars …



Notes:
- Nominated for the 2nd and 3rd Manga Taisho Award
- Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award
- Won the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Category.

Tags: Space , Educational , Seinen , Work , Astronomy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Tragedy , Aviation , Time Skip , Episodic , Iyashikei , Nudity

Sora no Otoshimono

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

Sakurai Tomoki is a normal student whose motto is "normal is the best". If there is one thing abnormal, it is that he often dreams of a girl whose face he cannot even remember, and when he wakes up from that dream, he would always be crying. He tried leaving it as just a dream... but one day, from the sky, an angel descended.

Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.

Tags: Female Harem , Angels , School , Surreal Comedy , Artificial Intelligence , Slavery , Parody , Mythology , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Found Family , Chibi , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Gods , Religion , Philosophy , Astronomy , Rural , Shounen , Gender Bending , Yakuza , Torture , Tsundere , Martial Arts , Conspiracy , Meta , Suicide , Clone , Time Manipulation , Lost Civilization , Memory Manipulation , Battle Royale

BASARA

Also known as Basara.

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

Basara is a post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure series and one of the most popular shoujo manga of the 90s in Japan. It is the story of how a young girl becomes "the child of destiny" and finds the strength to free her people and seek revenge for the death of her brother.



Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo category in 1992.

Tags: War , Twins , Shoujo , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Coming of Age , Revenge , Fugitive , Slavery , Class Struggle , Royal Affairs , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Travel , Tragedy , Philosophy , Lost Civilization , Pirates , Disability , Desert , Archery , Espionage , Swordplay , Military , Prison , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Astronomy , Animals , Boys' Love , Bisexual , Suicide

Kaijuu no Kodomo

Also known as Children of the Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does.

Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.



Tags: Philosophy , Mythology , Environmental , Seinen , Swimming , Female Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Ensemble Cast , POV , Astronomy , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Urban , Scuba Diving , Amnesia , Monster Boy , Coastal , Educational , Animals , Ships , Body Horror , Cannibalism , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Work , Nudity

Sengoku Youko

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Romance

The world is divided into two factions: humans and monsters called katawara. Despite being a katawara, Tama loves humans and vows to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting her own kind. Her stepbrother Jinka, however, hates humans, despite mostly being one. The siblings are joined by a cowardly swordsman named Shinsuke, who wants to learn how to become strong.

The people they meet, places they see, and creatures they battle will be legendary!



Tags: Demons , Shounen , Cultivation , Gods , Samurai , Kemonomimi , Time Manipulation , Dragons , Revenge , Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , Historical , Meta , Anti-Hero , Astronomy , Time Skip , Shapeshifting , Male Protagonist

Shugo Chara!

Also known as Shugo Chara!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Everybody at Seiyo Elementary thinks that stylish and super cool Amu has it all: But nobody knows the real Amu, a shy girl who wishes she had the courage to truly be herself. Changing Amu’s life is going to take more than wishes and dreams–it’s going to take a little magic! One morning, Amu finds a surprise in her bed: three strange little eggs. Each egg contains a Guardian Character, an angel-like being who can give her the power to be someone new. With the help of her Guardian Characters, Amu is about to discover that her true self is even more amazing than she ever dreamed.



Note: Includes 3 side stories.

Tags: School , Shoujo , Magic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Coming of Age , Crossdressing , Love Triangle , Nekomimi , Tsundere , Henshin , Philosophy , Gender Bending , Fairy Tale , Family Life , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Astronomy , Orphan , Space , Super Power , Writing , Anti-Hero , Estranged Family , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Age Gap , School Club , Idol , Male Harem , Fairy , Fashion , Adoption , Rehabilitation , Espionage , Femboy , Achronological Order

Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite

Also known as Orb: On the Movements of the Earth.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

In the fifteenth century, claiming that the Earth revolves around the sun was a heresy that could get believers burned at the stake. Child prodigy Rafal is introduced to the truth about the universe by his mentor, and then must flee when the Inquisition comes to mete out "God's justice." With only a peculiar pendant to guide him, will Rafal discover his master's research, and can he and other believers set the world alight?



Notes:
- Winner of the 26th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2022.
- Nominated for the 14th and 15th Manga Taisho Award, placing 2nd and 5th respectively.
- Placed 10th in the 7th Annual Next Manga Award.
- Nominated for the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2021 in the General category.
- Ranked 2nd in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (Male Readers Division).

Tags: Historical , Seinen , Astronomy , Foreign , Conspiracy , Religion , Fugitive , Philosophy , Tragedy , Torture , Medieval , Time Skip , Gore , Primarily Male Cast

Guimi Zhi Zhu

Also known as Lord of the Mysteries.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Thriller

With the rising tide of steam power and machinery, who can come close to being a Beyonder? Shrouded in the fog of history and darkness, who or what is the lurking evil that murmurs into our ears?

Waking up to be faced with a string of mysteries, Zhou Mingrui finds himself reincarnated as Klein Moretti in an alternate Victorian era world where he sees a world filled with machinery, cannons, dreadnoughts, airships, difference machines, as well as Potions, Divination, Hexes, Tarot Cards, Sealed Artifacts…

The Light continues to shine but mystery has never gone far. Follow Klein as he finds himself entangled with the Churches of the world—both orthodox and unorthodox—while he slowly develops newfound powers thanks to the Beyonder potions.

Like the corresponding tarot card, The Fool, which is numbered 0—a number of unlimited potential—this is the legend of "The Fool."



Tags: Gods , Lost Civilization , Religion , Steampunk , Dissociative Identities , Cosmic Horror , Astronomy , Detective , Acting , Conspiracy , Isekai , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Swapping , Historical , Martial Arts , Angels , Circus , Necromancy , Alchemy , Anthropomorphism , Butler , Crossdressing , Age Regression , Foreign , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes

Tsukimonogatari

Also known as Tsukimonogatari: Possession Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Launching the third or “Final Season” of the international cult-hit series, Possession Tale returns the narrator’s headset back to high school senior and amateur savior Koyomi Araragi, who used to eschew friendship once upon a time because it’d lower his “intensity as a human”—a loner’s misgiving that was perhaps on the mark in a different way than he intended.

At issue now is not the precarious fate of one of his cherished confrères, or rather consœurs, whom he’d aid, sight unseen, with a monster’s resilience, but his own aberrant state and its prolonged abuse. If everything comes with a bill, and if no man is an island, then is the price of self-sacrificing amity—and the bloodshed it ironically occasions—becoming inhuman for good?

That being said! Our hero, whose first name means “calendar” but who has none in his room, sees no need to rush, so, on our way to the profound mysteries of the superhuman aspect, expect a super-shallow deconstruction of the alarm clock. On hand this volume to (hardly ever) humor his humor: his little sisters, a living doll of a corpse, and its violent mistress.



Tags: Vampire , Achronological Order , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Alternate Universe , Female Harem , Coming of Age , Dissociative Identities , Detective , Urban Fantasy , Gods , Meta , School , Afterlife , Astronomy , Female Protagonist

Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Tsubaki is a girl who loves making her younger sister's hair pretty every morning, but she doesn't think that kind of style suits herself! On the day of her High School Opening Ceremony, after she failed to be the top student (who usually makes the ceremony speech), she finds herself sitting next to the actual top student of the 1st years, the worst rude guy ever, Kyouta. Because of his saying bad things to her she purposely cuts his hair. Kyota requests that Tsubaki pay him back "with her body" but Tsubaki pays him back by fixing his hair and making it even shorter! Afterwards, Kyota unexpectedly kisses Tsubaki and swears he'll make her his woman.

Note: Volume 1 contains the prologue "Koimonogatari e no Prologue" (恋物語へのプロローグ).

Tags: Shoujo , School , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Astronomy , Estranged Family , Coming of Age , Revenge

Uzumaki Tokubetsu-hen: Ginga

Also known as Lost Chapter: Galaxies.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

One night, Shuuichi Saitou reveals something incredible to his girlfriend, Kirie Goshima: he has recently discovered a new spiral-shaped galaxy. Filled with excitement, Kirie shares the news with her teacher, who invites his astronomer friend to confirm the discovery. The astronomer, Mr. Torino, is shocked at the existence of the galaxy and realizes that it will bring Shuuichi endless fame. The envious Torino, soon corrupted by the spiral, goes to great lengths to steal credit for Shuuichi's work. But this isn't the only new finding in Kurouzu-cho...



Tags: Seinen , Astronomy , Cosmic Horror , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist

Sensor

Also known as Sensor.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he’s been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them—the opening act for the terror about to occur!



Tags: Cosmic Horror , Philosophy , Amnesia , Tragedy , Cult , Religion , Josei , Body Horror , Astronomy , Time Manipulation , Afterlife , Rural , Succubus , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy

Doushitara Osananajimi no Kanojo ni Naremasu ka!?

Also known as How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend?.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Minami and Yuzu have been inseparable since elementary school. But now that they’re in high school, Minami just can’t accept that Yuzu may someday get a boyfriend. How come some random guy gets to wake her up in the morning, feed her lunch, take baths with her…? It doesn’t take long for Minami to realize that her feelings can’t quite be described as “friendship” anymore, but how can she get Yuzu to see her the same way?



Tags: Yuri , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , School , Astronomy , Primarily Teen Cast , Unrequited Love

Saint Seiya: THE LOST CANVAS - Meiou Shinwa

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

This manga tells the story of the previous Holy war of the universe of Saint Seiya, taking place in the XVIII century, 250 years before the original manga. The story centers on the relation between Tenma, the Pegasus Saint and his beloved friend, Alone, who would eventually become his greatest enemy, Hades.



Tags: Shounen , Foreign , Mythology , Gods , Super Power , Astronomy , LGBTQ+ Themes