Fourteen-year-old Kouichi Hayase’s life has always been a mediocre one, if not dismal. However, those days of being bullied by classmates and escaping to a... more>> fantasy of being a hero are put to an end when a certain “accident” bestows on him a girl and a gigantic humanoid robot called “LINEBARREL”. The extraordinary power that Kouichi obtains puts him and everything around him on a sudden rollercoaster ride of battles, intrigues and friendship! During the course of his adventure, the boy starts to learn what life has to offer; he meets new friends, bids farewell to the old ones, but most of all he now has considerable responsibilities and is forced to confront the world around him. <<less

The story is set in the distant future. The land is ruined, and humanity establishes the mobile fort city Plantation. Pilots produced inside Plantation live in Mistilteinn, also know as the "birdcage." Children live there knowing nothing of the outside world or the freedom of the sky. Their lives consist of battling to carry out missions. Their enemies are mysterious giant lifeforms known as Kyōryū, and the children pilot robots called Franxx to face off against them. For the children, riding the Franxx proves their existence.... more>>

A boy named Hiro is called Code:016, and he was once known as a prodigy. However, he has fallen behind, and his existence seems unnecessary. Not piloting a Franxx is the same as ceasing to exist. One day, a mysterious girl known as "Zero Two" appears before him. Two horns grow out of her head. <<less

Kyouhei, after moving away to Tokyo from his old town to get away from the events that happened, is on a goukon with his friends,... more>> including his old neighbor, Shiba. After drinking for a whole night, he and Shiba discover a dead, bloody, body in the elevator. He is told by his younger sister, Utao with her doll, that Aki, an old friend, and his doll, are the culprits responsible. <<less

Trouble always seems to follow the beautiful and sassy Kaname Chidori. Though she is only a high-school student, Kaname is constantly the target of terrorism.... more>> Lucky for her though, the dreamy Sosuke, an undercover agent from Mithril, is one step behind her, ready to protect her at any cost. But will he be able to save her from harm every time she is in trouble? <<less

In the near future, Mother Nature has decided to fight back against all human encroachment.... more>>

The world has entered your standard apocalyptic scenario that you can find in many forms of fiction, but it's right in the middle of the apocalypse actually happening, rather than in the aftermath. Vines and foliage entangle cities, as large wooden mech-like creatures called (named after one of the mythical Greek that tended the gardens in a remote corner of the world) rampage through cities.

Souma Shin, a punk kid out of Japan, went to visit his brother Ken, but all hell breaks loose as Shin finds a group of small kids being used for military purposes. He tries to save them in the confusion created by an Arethusa invading the compound... <<less

Koichi lives an ordinary junior high schooler's life, until one day when the computer of the Tower of Babel authorizes him as a master of... more>> the tower. Koichi is actually a distant descendant of the space alien Babel, who was cast ashore on Earth 5000 years ago. Koichi inherits Babel's superhuman intellect, physical strength and other various supernatural powers. He leaves the Tower of Babel with three servants following him. With their help, he confronts Yomi, a man from the Himalayas who seeks world domination. <<less

In this world, men live on islands floating in the clouds. But the heavens are also the domain of "dragon fish", gigantic monsters hostile to humans and their ships ... Yuu is one of the guards responsible for protecting citizens from their attacks. In the company of Asebi, a young android, he decided to go on an adventure.... more>>

His goal? Discover the ancient island of Brant, capital of the legendary archipelago of Waldecia, who hold many vestiges of human civilization at the time of its heyday! <<less

Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity's home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel's bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship's coolheaded female captain.... more>>

Shinsōban (Volume 7) includes:

Sidonia no Kishi Zenjitsudan: Dai-4-ji Gauna Boueisen

Note: Won the 39th Kodansha Manga Award for Best General Manga in 2015. Won the 47th Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2016. <<less

Huffman Island is a land that emerged from the deep due to volcanic eruptions over three decades ago, now, it is split by an uneasy cease-fire between two major world powers, the USN (United States of the New Continent) and the OCU (Oceania Cooperative Union).... more>>

The cease-fire has held for 20 years, but now tensions are mounting, and it looks like open war will break out again soon. Matsuda Akira has gone to join the on-site reporting team for NNTV.

Are he and his colleagues really ready for the horrors they may face if they're caught in the middle of a war? <<less

Following the Tuatha de Danaan's seajacking incident, things are back to normal at Jindai High School in Tokyo, or as normal as they get with Sousuke guarding Kaname. After finding out who betrayed Mithril and caused the seajacking incident, Kurz and Mao are sent on a top secret mission in order to capture and bring the traitor back. ... more>>

However, Sousuke and Kaname's lives are about to change when they meet Leonard Testarossa, a high ranking member of a mysterious group named Amalgam. After their meeting, Leonard warns her that he would do anything to recruit her even if it means war in the streets of Tokyo. <<less

Three young pilots connected by the Getter Rays (Ryoma Nagare, Hayato Jin, and Musashi Tomoe) are recruited by Dr. Saotome to fight the Devolved beings... more>> appearing from spatial distortions using the only weapon that can face these monsters, the Getter Robo. The Saotome Institute however holds a dangerous secret, a fragment of the being called Emperor which connects the Getter and its pilots to parallel worlds, including the presence of people from those worlds such as an older Hayato and Dr. Shikishima. <<less

During summer vacation a group of fifteen children discover a mysterious man living in a cave surrounded by high tech gadgets, the man claims to be a game developer, creating a video game with a giant robot defending Earth from fifteen alien invaders. He asked the children to test the game for him and they agreed.... more>>

Notes: Received Excellence Prize from Japan Media Arts Festival in 2010 <<less

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... more>> of the secret organization NERV -- to pilot the monstrous biomechanical weapon called "Evangelion" to match the Angels' fearsome power. <<less

In this world, there are mysterious machines known as TREMORS. The reason they came and who built them are still unknown. The most mysterious part of the tremors, however, would be their ability to continuously EVOLVE.... more>>

And in this world a boy is on a journey looking for his missing father. <<less

Official 4-koma manga for Darling in the FranXX.

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... more>> 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. <<less

Mazinger Angels chronicles the adventures of four women who pilot giant robots in the Mazinger vein. The concept is a spoof on the late 70's and early 80's popular TV series Charlie's Angels.... more>>

Three of the robots, Aphrodite A, Diana A and Minerva X are from the original Mazinger Z series, while Venus A is from the Great Mazinger series. Their pilots are also traditional characters from Go Nagai's universe, Sayaka Yumi and Jun Hono from Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger respectively, and Hikaru Makiba and Maria Fleed from Grendizer.

The style of the manga highlights the sex appeal of both the characters and the mechas, sometimes similarly to the way Aika's female characters are shown. (taken from wikipedia) <<less

Clockworkers- mechanical men, created during the war as a weapon to kill as many as possible. That war may be long over, but rogue Clockworkers are still roaming about, spreading fear and death wherever they go.... more>>

Machina's a member of the CWA, an organization dedicated to the destruction of these rogue robots.

Along with Deus, her Clockworker partner, she travels the country in pursuit of these dangerous robots... <<less

Students are trained in the Infinite Stratos academy to pilot the weapon system IS (Infinite Stratos). Although it is believed that only females have the... more>> ability to operate the IS, there is one man who can. His name is Orimura Ichika. <<less

The story focuses on the exploits of Mars, a mysterious boy found on the uninhabited island Akinoshima by a news reporter. This classic manga series... more>> is by the same genius of Tetsujin 28 and Giant Robo. <<less

It ain't easy being the savior of Mankind when you're still in high school, but Hoichi Kano will have to make do. Luckily, he has a super-cool integrated gunsuit at his disposal—just the ticket to take on the monstrous mechanical horrors of a pesky group of all-powerful alien invaders. ... more>>

But eventually, fire must be fought with fire, and luckily Earth may have the biggest beat-stick in the playground: the massive, anti-matter-powered robot, Exaxxion. And of course, all it needs is someone crazy enough to pilot it. Oh, Hoichi... <<less

The world is in a war against an alien race called "Mimics," who have taken over most of the world with a mission to eliminate the human race. Keiji Kiriya is a new recruit in the United Defense Force, which is battling against these "Mimics." On his first day of deployment, Keiji and his unit encounter "Mimics" and are all killed... Or was it all a dream? For some inexplicable reason, after every time he dies, he is resurrected and returned back to the day before the battle. Why does this happen to Keiji and how can he escape from this never ending cycle?... more>>

Note: Nominated for the Eisner award for the "Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia" in 2015. <<less

Leopold Fieseler, a detective with the Zeon Public Peace Department/Zeon Public Safety Department is charged with investigating terrorist attacks against Zeon government officials led by an anti-Zabi group called Valkyrie. While researching to find out who were the culprits, Leopold gets into trouble when Valkryie supporters within the ZPPD/ZPSD "arrest" him for getting his hands into classified information to help find out who are the culprits for a planned terrorist attack against Gihren Zabi himself.... more>>

The manga draws parallels with the 20 July 1944 plot. <<less

The plot is about Japanese teen Yamato Hibino, who is sucked through a time warp into the past, where the dinosaur army of the Dragonia... more>> Empire threatens the world, and Queen Aira of Mu needs Yamato to help her fight back with the aid of the stone-made guardian God Mazinger, which looks suspiciously like a giant robot. <<less

In near future, Humanity discovered incredible ore with unlimited energy, 「Iliosdaite」. In ten years since its discovery that core energy became an alternate fuel supporting... more>> the whole world. But, a lot of Monsters and evil organizations were eager to get their hands on Iliosdaite. That's when a Hero rose up to protect the Peace. His name was..... Love Fighter Shuravan. <<less