New Dystopian Manga Series for Adults

How many ways can the world go sideways? Step into the fertile imaginary worlds of these manga series to experience different variations on the dystopic and post-apocalyptic. 


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After God

Japan has been invaded by gods–and they’ve left nothing but death and destruction in their wake. With entire cities now classified as uninhabitable danger zones, researcher Sachiyuki Tokinaga is determined to find “a way to take down the gods and save humanity. When chance leads him to high schooler Waka Kamikura, the two may just end up changing the fate of the world forever.


Battle Royale: Enforcers

Program 68 was banned, but now a new AI created by the fascist government of the Republic of Greater East Asia has resurrected it, and a new generation of young adults will have to fight each other to the death. 

 



Fool Night

In the distant future, the polluted earth is running out of oxygen, so humans develop a technology to turn people into plants. Already at the end of his rope and ready to exchange his body for a payday, Toshiro Kamiya considers the ethicality of this process–and the limits of society’s waning humanity. 



Kaina of the Great Snow Sea

A young man named Kaina ekes out an existence high atop the canopy that spreads from the titanic orbital spire trees. He and the handful of aging fellow villagers who remain believe they are the last humans in the world–after all, no one could survive amid the great snow sea that blankets the surface below. But they’re about to learn how wrong they are. 


Mujina Into the Deep

When you are seen as below the law and without rights, that gives you a certain freedom – freedom to kill, for one. 


Search and Destroy

Search and Destroy transplants the vengeful action of Dororo from feudal Japan into a dystopian future where mercenary robots known as “creatures” serve the human elite and victimize the city’s scrabbling, desperate masses. The violent death of one of these creatures connects an orphaned thief named Doro with a mysterious girl in a stinking animal hide that conceals deadly cybernetic implants. Who is this mysterious girl? How is she killing, one by one, the city’s most twisted and powerful creatures? 

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Somali and the Forest Spirit

Explore a world from the hit anime of the same name, a world ruled by goblins, spirits, golems, and all types of strange creatures… but not humans, who were nearly persecuted to extinction for their reckless disregard of the natural world. When a golem, a guardian of the forest chances across a young girl lost in the woods, he vows to take care of her… despite his life coming to an end. He must find other humans for her to live with, but in a world that despises them, is that even possible? 

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Space Punch

Joe and Zack live in a city ruled by a brutal mafia and only have each other to depend on. Their lives are turned upside down when a strange inheritance from their father is found. 

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Tank Chair

Guicheng Island is called “the most dangerous town in the universe,” a dystopia ruled by violent gangs fighting for power. After taking a bullet to protect his little sister Shizuka, Nagi must use a wheelchair and is in a comatose state, only returning to his senses in the face of murderous intent. The siblings become a dangerous assassin duo, with Shizuka lining up the jobs and Nagi doing the killing. 


Ultra Heaven

In the future any mood you want is just a pump away. People flock to legal “pump bars,” where licensed medical professionals, known as bar doctors, prescribe their customers the perfect pharmaceutical blend. But when standard dosage isn’t enough, our protagonist, Cub, turns to an unauthorized source.