What is War manga?

War is a phenomenon of organized violent conflict, typified by extreme aggression, societal disruption and adaptation, and high mortality. The objective of warfare differs in accord with a group's role in a conflict: The goals of offensive warfare are typically the submission, assimilation or destruction of another group, while the goals of defensive warfare are simply the repulsion of the offensive force and, often, survival itself. Relative to each other, combatants in warfare are called enemies. The terms military, militant, and militarism each refer to fundamental aspects of war, i.e. the organized group, the combative individual, and the supportive ethos (respectively). Source: wiki

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Fullmetal Alchemist

(Fullmetal Alchemist)

8.4

Description:

In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical "auto-mail" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his brother and himself... the legendary Philosopher's Stone. Won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category. Won the 15th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award New Artist Prize. Won the Eagle Award's "Favourite Manga" in 2010/2011. Won the Seiun Award for best science fiction comic in 2011.
Type

manga

Volumes

27

Chapters

116

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2001-07-12

Vinland Saga

(Vinland Saga)

8.34

Description:

As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Vikings who murdered his father, Thorfinn became a terrifying warrior, forever seeking to kill the band's leader, Askeladd, and avenge his father. Sustaining Thorfinn through his ordeal are his pride in his family and his dreams of a fertile westward land, a land without war or slavery … the land Leif called Vinland. (Source: Kodansha USA) Notes: - Won the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009. - Winner of the 36th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2012.
Type

manga

Volumes

30

Chapters

220

Status

current

Started

2005-07-15

Kingdom

()

8.27

Description:

Millions of years have passed since the times of legends, when the worlds of man and gods were still the same. In these times it was the desires of man that moved the world. It is the period of the 500 year war: the Era of Warring States. Kingdom is the story of a young boy who grew into a great general and all the trials and bloodshed that led him there. (Source: Exertus Scans)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Status

current

Started

2006-01-26

Iphagyongbyeong

(Mercenary Enrollment)

8.14

Description:

At the age of eight, I-Jin Yu lost his parents in a plane crash and became stranded in a foreign land, forced to become a child mercenary in order to stay alive. He returns home ten years later to be reunited with his family in Korea, where food and shelter are plenty and everything seems peaceful. But I-Jin will soon learn that life as a teenager is a whole other feat of survival. With only one year of high school left, I-Jin must master new tactics to maneuver his way around the schoolhouse battleground. Can he survive a year of high school? Or rather, will the school be able to survive him? (Source: WEBTOONS)
Type

manhwa

Status

current

Started

2020-11-07

Youjo Senki

(The Saga of Tanya the Evil)

8.14

Description:

On the front line of the war, there's a little girl. Blond hair, blue eyes and porcelain white skin, she commands the army with lisping voice. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff. But in reality, she is one of Japan's most elite salarymen, reborn as a little girl after angering a mysterious being X who calls himself "God." And this little girl, who prioritize over anything else efficiency and her own career, will become the most dangerous being amongst the sorcerers of the imperial army...
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2016-04-26

Hiraheishi wa Kako wo Yumemiru

6.91

Description:

It details the life of a mid-rank soldier who died at the very end of the war against the Demon Race. Fortunately for him, he wakes up to find that he's a baby again, in the embrace of his real mother, years in the past. Determined to avoid the chain of tragedies that took his beloved ones away from him, he takes advantage of the advancements in swordsmanship and magic that developed during the war (as we all know, wars are when many scientific breakthroughs tend to happen), and tries his best to prepare for the demon invasion as well as strengthen himself with maximum efficiency. (Source: Hot Chocolate Scans)
Type

manga

Volumes

7

Chapters

62

Status

finished

Started

2016-05-12

Adolf ni Tsugu

(Message to Adolf)

7.82

Description:

This is a story about three Adolfs. Sohei Toge, a Japanese reporter for 1936 Berlin Olympics was surprised that his younger brother, an international student in Germany, was mysteriously murdered right after informing him about an important document. To add more confusion to his sadness, all information regarding his younger brother as a student in Germany have been erased systematically, as if he never existed. Meanwhile in Japan, a half-German, half-Japanese boy named Adolf Kauffmann and his best friend, a Jewish-German boy named Adolf Kamil, were accidentally involved in this incident. Their lives and fates are now inevitably interwoven around the biggest secret of the third Adolf—Adolf Hitler. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

5

Chapters

36

Rating

Mature

Status

finished

Started

1983-01-06

Youjo Senki

(The Saga of Tanya the Evil)

8.11

Description:

On the front line of the war, there's a little girl. Blond hair, blue eyes and porcelain white skin, she commands the army with lisping voice. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff. But in reality, she is one of Japan's most elite salarymen, reborn as a little girl after angering a mysterious being X who calls himself "God." And this little girl, who prioritize over anything else efficiency and her own career, will become the most dangerous being amongst the sorcerers of the imperial army...
Type

novel

Volumes

0

Status

current

Started

2013-10-31

Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?

(So I'm a Spider, So What?)

8.1

Description:

The world where the Hero and the Demon King continue to oppose each other. The grand magic from the Hero and the Demon King cross over worlds and exploded in the classroom of a certain high school. The students who died in the explosion will be reincarnated in a different world. The protagonist, who has the lowest reputation in the class, was reincarnated into a spider. Nevertheless, she adapted quickly to the present condition with strong willpower. This is a story of she who has become a spider trying whatever she can to live. (Source: MU)
Type

novel

Volumes

16

Chapters

384

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2015-12-10

Oukoku e Tsuzuku Michi

(Road to Kingdom)

7.18

Description:

This is the story of a young slave gladiator in an underground arena. He doesn’t know about his past or how he got to where he is, only that his name is Aegir, and that he is strong. One day he kills the boss and escapes the arena, joining a band of mercenaries as a new recruit. During one mission, they encounter the vampire, Lucy, who slaughters the band with her inhuman strength. After learning that Aegir only knows how to kill, Lucy lets him stay at her house, educating and taking care of him. Two years pass, and on the day of Aegir’s departure, they both exchange a promise that if Aegir becomes a king and owns the land of Erg forest, he can come and take her as his woman. Making this his life goal, Aegir set out on a journey to become a hero, a king, and found his own kingdom. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2019-11-19

Nobunaga no Chef

7.77

Description:

Ken, a modern age chef, finds himself in back in the 16th century during the warring states period. Lacking any recollection of who he once was or how he arrived to such a time, he only has his knowledge and skills in cooking to rely on. But as he gains reputation for his incredible food, who else would come to demand his services than Oda Nobunaga himself.
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

2011-03-01

Marginal Operation

(Marginal Operation)

7.55

Description:

Our hero Ryouta Arata is an otaku who's just lost his job after the dissolution of his company. Unwilling to return to his old NEET ways, he applies online to a private military security company, thinking the benefits to be promising. After what appears to be a baffling test, he's assigned to be an "operator of operators" and begins his training in a foreign country. Little does he know, the life of a private mercenary is far more grueling than he could have ever imagined! (Source: J-Novel)
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

88

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Started

2013-05-25

Groundless

7.36

Description:

Civil war continues to wage on the island nation of Alistria. The Waldrons lead a small arms shop on this island when they receive a large order of rifles from the army. However, this turns out to be a ploy by the colonel who made the order. He uses his ties to the rebel army to have them ransack the shop. Having her husband killed, her daughter taken away and her own left eye lost, Sophia decides to take the only remaining sniper rifle and sets out for revenge.
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2010-06-06

Ourou

(King Of Wolves)

6.78

Description:

A bright-spirited young historical scholar, Iba, disappears while on a lone expedition to study the ancient Silk Road. A year later his girlfriend, Kyoko, sets out for the Silk Road in order to find clues that will help to unravel the mystery of Iba's disappearance. When she arrives, she finds the charm she gave Iba for protection and moments later she is sucked into a black vortex and loses consciousness. Kyoko awakes to find herself in a very different place and discovers that that Iba is not only alive but is a warrior-slave under the reign of Genghis Khan in 13th century Mongolia! At last, when Iba and Kyoko reunite, they find that there are a series of fates, crueler than the ones they have already endured, awaiting them...
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

3

Status

finished

Started

1989-03-25

Lord of the Mysteries

(Lord of the Mysteries)

7.33

Description:

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. (Source: Qidian)
Type

manhua

Chapters

65

Status

finished

Started

2020-01-21

Regina Rena: Yongseobatji Motan Geudaeege

(Regina Rena: To the Unforgiven)

7.63

Description:

Rena Rubel is a beautiful woman who has faced her share of hardships, as she was offered as a sacrifice by her own father, Marquis Rubel. She manages to survive and one day encounters a man named Lin, who belatedly discovers she is a powerful warrior who can hold her own. Rena gifts him with the elusive altar stone, and he promises to pay her back. They agree to meet again, and she continues to travel with her maid Yuni, seeking her father for his sins of the past. Can he be forgiven? Source: Webtoon
Type

manhwa

Chapters

46

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2021-12-17

Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen

(Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World)

0

Description:

The Empire endowed with an advanced level of knowledge, and the Nebulis Imperial Household Agency feared as the 'Country of Witches.' On the long-lasting battlefield between these two countries, a boy and girl met. The ice witch princess praised as the strongest in all of the Imperial Household Agency―Aliceliese. The swordsman who became the ultimate force on the battlefield at the youngest age throughout all the Empire's history―Iska. "If you capture me, your dream may also be fulfilled." "Likewise, if you defeat me, it will become a step in the unification of your world." The two arch enemies were to kill each other. However, the boy had his heart stolen by the girl's beauty and nobility. And the girl was attracted to the boy's strength and way of living. Even if walking alongside one another would not be permitted and the only path before them was to defeat each other. (Source: NU)
Type

novel

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2017-05-20

Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria

(Master of Ragnarök & Blesser of Einherjar)

0

Description:

Some urban legends are best left untested! Yuuto Suoh gets more than he bargained for when he joins his childhood friend Mitsuki Shimoya in testing out an urban legend. When he uses his phone to take a picture of himself with the local shrine’s divine mirror, he is whisked off into another world – one heavily steeped in the lore of the old Norse myths. Using his knowledge gained from school and from his solar-powered smartphone, he has the chance to bring the Wolf Clan, the same people who cared for him, to prominence, all while earning the adoration of a group of magic-wielding warrior maidens known as the Einherjar. (Source: J-Novel Club)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2015-02-13

Shiroi Majo

(The White Witch)

6.85

Description:

Depicts the events of the Finnish Winter War from the eyes of the legendary sniper Simo Häyhä with the added bonus of him being a woman this time.
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

6

Status

finished

Started

2014-01-08

Mosquito War

(Mosquito War)

7.44

Description:

After a genetic mutation, mosquitoes have become the strongest predator on the planet. Will mankind be able to fight back? (Source: MU) Note: chapter count includes 1 bonus chapter available in the printed version of the story.
Type

manhwa

Volumes

3

Chapters

49

Status

finished

Started

2017-12-30

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