What is Post Apocalypse manga?

An anime that takes place on future Earth (or it could be an alternative universe) after a major cataclysm has occurred. World War III, an alien invasion, plague, global warming or some other general disaster are common themes to build a post-apocalyptic world upon, where the effects were severe enough that mankind barely survived.The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologised). Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in an agrarian, non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain. There is a considerable degree of blurring between post-apocalyptic fiction and that which deals with false utopias or dystopian societies.

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Kono Sekai ga Izure Horobu Koto wo, Ore dake ga Shitte Iru

(Only I Know That the World Will End)

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Description:

An ordinary office worker, Akira Ichijo, was attacked by a Minotaur on his way home from work - the next moment, he woke up in his office! Akira rose from the dead, inherited his level and status, and possessed a unique ability called "Returning to the Underworld" that allowed him to restart his life at a certain time!! In the cruel real world he faces, Akira uses his skills to seek survival with his childhood friend Nao Nanase. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
Type

manga

Rating

Violence

Status

current

Started

2022-09-18

Arata Primal

(Arata Primal: The New Primitive)

7.09

Description:

The key to save the world is in the primeval period!? Connecting the present and the past. Burning passion opens up the future!! A primeval survival mystery that passes through time and civilization!! (Source: Shueisha)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

35

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2019-02-08

Imgi Cheonnare Gate-ga Yeollyeotda

0

Description:

During the oath if initiation of becoming a politician, a gate opens over Seoul with monsters raining down. How will our hero survive together with help of his fellows with nothing but wit?
Type

manhwa

Status

current

Started

2022-07-20

Taekbaegisa

(Black Knight)

0

Description:

Devastating air pollution and severe social divide between residents and refugees. A corrupt, unforgiving and violent social order. This is the world Sa-Wol was born into. After watching the police massacre her mother and adopted family simply because they were refugees, Sa-Wol holds a deep-seeded rage and fear of the police. Sa-Wol believes that becoming a delivery agent is the only means to liberate herself, but can she beat the odds stacked up against her to become one? (Source: WEBTOONS, edited)
Type

manhwa

Chapters

89

Status

finished

Started

2016-12-25

Sekai no Owari no Pen Friend

(Pen Pal at the End of the World)

7.76

Description:

In a post-apocalyptic stationery store, a girl and a former animator exchange letters. A dystopian correspondence story. (Source: Shonen Jump Plus, translated)
Type

oneshot

Chapters

1

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2021-11-22

Isekai Nihon

(Another World in Japan)

0

Description:

As two worlds collide into one, a fateful counter between the "killer hero" and the "elf princess from another world" has led to a great adventure to defeat the even greater evil!
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2022-08-11

Zombi Shoujo no Fujimi-san

7.15

Description:

An ashen-colored adolescence vividly resurrects in a broken collapsed world. Saito Ryo presents a dystopian youth romcom!
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

12

Status

finished

Started

2020-04-16

Meikyuu Metro - Mezametara Saikyoushoku Datta node Shima Risu o Tsurete Shinsekai o Aruku

(Metro Labyrinth - When I woke up, I had the Strongest Job, so I teamed up with a Chipmunk and wandered the New World.)

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Description:

100 years in the future I woke up on the 50th basement floor of the "Otsuka Metro", a labyrinth full of metro beasts, in Tokyo, which was transformed by "the flooding of the metro" and "contamination of super fungi". Still, Satoshi stands up with his partner, the Chipmunk Tamiko. Eat the spores of the defeated metro beasts to level up and acquire "bacterial ability (skill)". An adventure begins with one person and one animal to escape to the surface. "Shin Tokyo" is a country that was reconstructed from the catastrophic collapse caused by the "Tokyo Referee". A hunter spun in a new world... Source: MU
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2021-06-01

Shuumatsu Touring

(Touring after the Apocalypse)

0

Description:

Enjoy touring over the weekend (in the apocalypse)! (Source: AL)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2020-09-26

Bocchi Hakase to Robot Shoujo no Zetsubou Teki Utopia

(Lonely Professor and Robot Girl's Despair-Like Utopia)

7.58

Description:

Follows the daily life of a professor and a robot girl in a post-apocalyptic setting.(Source: Batoto)
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

33

Status

finished

Started

2016-09-27

Tabi to Gohan to Shuumatsu Sekai

0

Description:

The human era has ended. This world is one where society has already collapsed. While people have slowly accepted the fate of their race, someone has started their journey: a girl and a dog. This tale, while a little lonely, is also filled with warmth. A slow life at the end of the world. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Status

current

Started

2017-12-12

Rokudou Tousouki

(Battle of the Six Realms)

0

Description:

In a world where humanity escaped underground to survive, En is an impoverished boy who lives off the trash of those more privileged than him. He spends his days in the slums, looking through a trash heap for the decomposing bodies of "losers," those who were defeated and killed in the "Battle of the Six Realms." To participate combatants have to undergo an expensive "body modification surgery," and En sells these modifications, machines attached to their bodies that significantly increase fighting ability. Uninterested in the tournament and its champion, unlike everyone else, he aims only for a worry-free life. But one day, a chance encounter with a mysterious man shatters his reality and puts him on a different, more gruesome path. Source: MU
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2021-02-05

Lawless Kid

(Lawless Kid)

7.17

Description:

A month has passed since a declaration of peace, and, ever since then, the big city disposes of trash outside its walls—including the expendable humans. Every day, the hungry scour the heap of waste for food. Among them is the young, brave ex-soldier Orga, together with his sister Harika, who gives him the strength to persevere. The siblings, along with Orga's best friend Nick, barely scrape by. Orga collects potentially valuable junk to save enough money and provide the three of them with a comfortable life away from the impoverished streets. But while Orga works, Nick intends to accelerate their salvation; he proposes a plan to Harika—one that only she can execute.
Type

oneshot

Volumes

0

Chapters

1

Status

finished

Started

2019-04-22

YoRHa Shinjuwan Kouka Sakusen Kiroku

(YoRHa: Pearl Harbor Descent Record – A NieR:Automata Story)

0

Description:

The distant future. Invaders from another world attack without warning, unleashing a new type of threat: weapons known as "machine lifeforms." In the face of this insurmountable threat, mankind is driven from Earth and takes refuge on the Moon. It is the year 11941, and the long war against the machines rages on. In an attempt to break the deadlock, the Council of Humanity forms a new infantry unit of female androids: YoRHa. Deployed to the planet’s surface, these soldiers now fight to recapture Earth for the glory of mankind… (Source: MANGA UP!) Note: Adaptation of the stage play "YoRHa" by Yoko Taro.
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

18

Status

finished

Started

2020-12-26

Blame!: Denki Ryoushi Kiken Kaisou Dasshutsu Sakusen

(BLAME! Movie Edition: THE ELECTROFISHERS’ ESCAPE)

0

Description:

In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions. Now humanity has lost access to the city's controls, and is hunted down and purged by the defense system known as the Safeguard. In a tiny corner of the city, a little enclave known as the Electro-Fishers is facing eventual extinction, trapped between the threat of the Safeguard and dwindling food supplies. A girl named Zuru goes on a journey to find food for her village, only to inadvertently cause doom when an observation tower senses her and summons a Safeguard pack to eliminate the threat. With her companions dead and all escape routes blocked, the only thing that can save her now is the sudden arrival of Killy the Wanderer, on his quest for the Net Terminal Genes, the key to restoring order to the world.
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

7

Status

finished

Started

2017-04-26

Post-Apocalyptic Dispatch Company

(Post-Apocalyptic Dispatch Company)

0

Description:

A failed entrepreneurship! A ten million debt! A betrayal! A girlfriend that ran away! He even landed in a pile of trash/rubbish/garbage when he tried to jump off a building! The unlucky Cao Xiaomeng woke up to find himself surrounded by zombies everywhere! The system activates upon the moment of death! Become a post-apocalyptic entrepreneur! The post-apocalyptic dispatch company that hires cute zombie secretaries and mutant beast employees to serve you! Source: Bilibili Comics
Type

manhua

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2020-09-24

Musou Kouro ~ Tensei Shite, Uchuu Senkan no AI ni Narimashita ~

(Unparalleled Path ~Reincarnated as the AI for a Space Battleship~)

0

Description:

After regaining consciousness, your average high-schooler Asagaya Shin has become an AI for a space battleship. As if that wasn’t enough, the ship has been surrounded by enemies, and he himself has a damaged engine, putting him in a dire situation.The warship commander had already died in combat, and taking the place of the temporary commander is a young girl of the imperial family, who had joined the ship out of courtesy. Shin had tried convincing himself that this was a dream, but being persuaded by the girl, he stands as a battleship.After somehow crushing the enemy at point-blank range, the fleet’s fight is over, and the battle for the fate of the empire has ended in a crushing defeat. Shin gathers up the survivors and plans to escape the battleground, but there’s a large enemy fleet on the route to the empire. He makes a jump deep into the enemy territory on a slim chance, but —Set 10,000 years in the future, a young boy has been turned into an incredibly powerful cheat AI and leads a small fleet to become peerless. There’s romantic comedy, imperial intrigue, ancient weapons, philosophy, and more! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

15

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2020-08-06

Ryoko

0

Description:

Japan has been ruined for several years, and several "things" roam the cities now. The world has ended and the meal begins, and Ryouko's stomach is empty. A menu battle action series begins. (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Rating

Status

current

Started

2016-10-19

Light Again

7.69

Description:

It was an Earth that had lost its moon to a meteorite collision. In a world enveloped in darkness, people craved light. And at a facility researching the luminescent "Lumia" people, an innocent girl and young researcher meet. (Source: Shueisha, translated)
Type

oneshot

Chapters

1

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2021-09-26

Soukoku no Garou - Hokuto no Ken Rei Gaiden

(Fist of The North Star Rei Gaiden)

7.46

Description:

Rei is a ruthless man who is traveling the world in search of a certain someone... But Rei was not always ruthless an uncompassionate, it's vengeance the one who stripped Rei from his humanity, and he won't be able to become a normal human being until that vengeance is fulfilled. Right now, he can only roam the world as a furious lone wolf, a lone wolf who preys on those who oppose him. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

54

Status

finished

Started

2007-04-27

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