Top Super Robot 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 , Meta , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Tragedy , Found Family , Astronomy , POV , Time Loop , Cosmic Horror , Suicide , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Battle Royale , Isekai , Swordplay , Body Horror , Adoption , Dragons , Age Regression , Parody , Trains , Crossover , Demons , Angels , Afterlife , Terrorism , Female Protagonist , Zombie , Super Robot

Dandadan

Also known as Dandadan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong—Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?



Notes:
- Includes 1 extra chapter.
- Nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Ghost , Aliens , Super Power , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Ensemble Cast , Tokusatsu , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , School , Shapeshifting , Love Triangle , Body Horror , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Terrorism , Gore , Super Robot , Tragedy , Chuunibyou , Cannibalism , Gods , Tsundere , Bullying , Dissociative Identities , Nudity , Suicide , Circus , Acrobatics

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 , Cosmic Horror , Robots , Super Robot , Tsundere , Angels , Kuudere , Gore , Memory Manipulation , Cyberpunk , Amnesia , Bisexual , Espionage , Guns , School , Urban , Seinen , Nudity , Space , Age Gap , Tokusatsu , Love Triangle , Boys' Love

Darling in the Franxx

Also known as DARLING in the FRANXX.

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

In a devastated post-apocalyptic future, Earth is a ruinous wasteland. Humanity’s only remaining strongholds are mobile fortress cities called Plantations. Massive beasts known as klaxosaurs, the planet’s new apex predators, have pushed mankind to the edge of extinction, and within the walls of the Plantations, things are no less dire. Humans no longer love or reproduce–adults live on in sterile immortality while children are regarded as nothing more than parasites, artificially created to pair up and pilot the Plantations’ giant defense robots known as Franxx. Former child whiz kid Hiro fails out of the piloting program after falling out of sync with his co-pilot, and a fateful decision to skip his group’s graduation ceremony puts him on a collision course with a horned girl known as Zero Two, whose co-pilots always end up dead. She claims Hiro as her “darling,” but what can that word even mean in such a loveless world?



Tags: Dystopian , Monster Girl , Super Robot , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Aliens , Memory Manipulation , Nudity , Shounen , Heterosexual , Coming of Age

UQ Holder!

Also known as UQ HOLDER!.

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

Negi Springfield, the boy wizard of the hit manga Negima!, fought and won many battles. Now it is decades later and Negi’s grandson(!), a little boy name Touta, dreams of leaving his quiet village and heading to the City. But first he must defeat his teacher … the immortal vampire, Evangeline! Witness the dramatic beginning of a futuristic battle fantasy



Tags: Magic , Shounen , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Space , Female Harem , Amnesia , Space Opera , Bisexual , Cyborg , Nudity , Super Robot , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Gender Bending , Clone , Guns , Swordplay , Demons , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Ghost , Crossdressing , Tragedy , Vampire , Survival , Agender

Bokurano

Also known as Bokurano: Ours.

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

One summer, fifteen kids innocently wander into a nearby seaside cave. There they meet a strange man who invites them to play an exciting new video game. This game, he explains, pits a lone giant robot against a horde of alien invaders. To play the game all they have to do is sign a simple contract. The game stops being fun when the kids find out the true purpose of their pact.



The extra story Bokurano: Mou Hitotsu no Bokurano (Yet Another Bokurano) ran after the completion of the main story.

Tags: Cosmic Horror , Tragedy , Philosophy , Super Robot , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Primarily Child Cast , Alternate Universe , Military , Gore , Anti-Hero , Bullying , Dystopian , Politics , Body Horror , Age Gap

Sekkaku Cheat wo Moratte Isekai ni Teni shita n dakara, Suki na You ni Ikitemitai: The Comic

Also known as Might as Well Cheat: I Got Transported to Another World Where I Can Live My Wildest Dreams!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Fantasy

Satou Tarou, a 30-year-old construction worker, just died. Reborn into a fantasy world, he’s granted such a high level of healing magic that it feels like a cheat code–and the healing potions he produces fetch a high price. Now wealthy, powerful, and with the worries of his old world long gone, he’s ready to live it up in this new life…starting at the nearest brothel!



Tags: Female Harem , Nudity , Seinen , Isekai , Elf , Meta , Reincarnation , Surreal Comedy , Monster Girl , Magic , Kemonomimi , Super Robot , Medicine

Nano List

Also known as Nano List.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Milo lives in a world where interacting with androids is completely normal. And now, he lives with TWO androids built by his sister. How safe is he living with androids who have deadly strength? Why did his sister gift him a "bodyguard android?" Well, he's about to find out the hard way.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Super Robot , Robots , Full Color , Family Life , Maids , Time Skip

Knights & Magic

Also known as Knight's & Magic.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mecha

A mecha otaku is reincarnated into another world as Ernesti Echevalier, also known as Eru. In this world exists a huge humanoid weapons known as Silhouette Knights. Dreaming of piloting those robots, Eru, with childhood friends, Archid and Adeltrud Walter, aim to become Knight Runners, pilots of these Silhouette Knights.

Tags: Reincarnation , Isekai , Magic , Male Protagonist , School , Alternate Universe , Female Harem , Seinen , Super Robot

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 , Martial Arts , Shounen , Demons , Delinquents , Episodic , Eco-Horror , Guns , Natural Disaster , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , War , Space Opera

Full Metal Panic!

Also known as Full Metal Panic.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Romance

A sergeant by the name of Sousuke Sagara is assigned an important task. That of guarding high school girl Chidori Kaname. Sousuke is a military genius, gaining high rank at an early age, but because of his strange upbringing, he lacks social skill. Now, he finds himself as a fish out of water as he attempts to protect a girl from an evil organization and turn in his school work on time.



Tags: Military , Shounen , School , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Super Robot , Orphan

Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!

Also known as I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

In his last life, Liam lived as a moral, responsible person...but died deep in debt and betrayed by his wife. Reborn into the ruling family of a vast interstellar empire, Liam knows that life is divided into the downtrodden and the ones who do the stomping, so this time he's going to take what he wants and live for himself. But somehow, things refuse to work out that way. Despite doing his best to become a tyrant, Liam's decisions lead to nothing but peace and prosperity for the empire under his rule, and he just gets more and more popular!



Tags: Isekai , Artificial Intelligence , Reincarnation , Space , Super Robot

Evangelion: ANIMA

Also known as Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA.

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

An alternate universe ending for the legendary anime!

What would have happened if the Human Instrumentality Project–from the final two episodes of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime–had never reached fruition? This official light novel series explores just that, allowing Shinji Ikari and the pilots around him to age three years and face a different future. This alternate ending began serialization in Japan a decade ago, and remains the only light novel series for the legendary franchise. With the original 1990s anime series having its very first streaming release on Netflix in Spring 2019, these light novels are a perfect expansion for fans new and old.



Tags: Super Robot , Kaiju , Post-Apocalyptic , Military , Space Opera , Tokusatsu , Lost Civilization , Clone , Time Manipulation

Full Metal Panic! Sigma

Also known as Full Metal Panic! Sigma.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Romance

Tells the same story as Full Metal Panic Second Raid and is as such, also based on the novels The End Of Day By Day.

Leaving off after the original series, this series tells of Sousuke and Mithril as they fight Amalgam. Like the original series, but both sides have gotten a bit more aggressive...

Tags: Military , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Super Robot , Fugitive , Guns , Terrorism , Love Triangle , Orphan , Time Manipulation

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 , Shounen , Robots , Male Protagonist , Gore , Episodic , Motorcycles , Dullahan , Cyborg , Nudity , Meta , Dissociative Identities , Advertisement

Joshi Kouhei

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

The future. The people that migrated to an alternate dimensional space, seeking a new world to live in, started an armed rebellion in order to declare independence from Earth. Thus, multi-dimensional war broke out with the United Army of Earth. The battlefronts spread, and the fight grew long.

In their desire to break the deadlock, the United Army of Earth decided to launch a large-scale offensive, deploying to the front line vast amounts of "Assault Girls" -- new arms that would render all previous weaponry ineffective. Piloted by outcasts and criminals, the members of the The 13th Independent Assault Girl Hunting Platoon -- dubbed "The Hyena Platoon" -- are tasked with hunting down and destroying rogue Assault Girl pilots, who have succumbed to the corruption that eventually befalls all pilots.

Tags: Seinen , Military , Gore , Nudity , Guns , Super Robot , War , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Drugs , Body Horror

Shin Seiki Evangelion: Koutetsu no Girlfriend 2nd

Also known as Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days.

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

In this alternate retelling of Neon Genesis Evangelion everything is different. Shinji and Asuka have grown up together as childhood friends, Rei is the new kid at school, Misato is their teacher, NERV is just beginning to assemble teenagers for their experiments, and the second impact never happened. The story proceeds as a romance rather than an action series, with love triangles a-plenty.

Note: Include three extras chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Tsundere , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Super Robot , Urban Fantasy , Kaiju , Angels , Time Skip , Female Protagonist , 4-koma

EVANGELION: 3.0 (-120min.)

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

Prequel manga that takes place approximately 120 minutes before Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. The booklet EVA-EXTRA-EXTRA was distributed to viewers of Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time as a part of the movie's final run in theaters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Post-Apocalyptic , Super Robot

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

Gravitation

Also known as Gravitation.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music , Romance

Shindou Shuichi is a young, energetic, and optimistic rockstar wannabe. He’s in a band with his best friend and is determined to top the charts. When a romance novelist named Eiri Yuki criticizes his lyrics, Shuichi takes it badly and wants to make Yuki eat his words…but as he starts to follow Yuki around, Shuichi falls hard for him. Yuki, despite his cold and prickly demeanor, even seems to like Shuichi back! Still, Yuki has a past full of trauma that he’s never fully faced, and Shuichi discovers that succeeding in the music biz might cost him his soul. Can these two very different men support each other and make this relationship work?



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Shoujo , Band , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Gap , Bisexual , Idol , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yandere , Guns , Love Triangle , Super Robot ,