What is Cyberpunk manga?

Cyberpunk focuses on computers or information technology, usually coupled with some degree of breakdown in social order. The plot often centres on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and mega corporations, tending to be set within a near-future dystopian Earth.

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Akira

8.22

Description:

In the year 2038. A police state, scheming politicians, religios sects, revolutionaries and a secret scientific project all combine to produce an explosive mixture in Neo-Tokyo. The rival groups all have their eyes on one prize: control of Akira, a boy of such destructive psychic ability that he has been held in cryo-stasis for over 30 years. A coup is planned, but there is a wild card in play: the psychic Tetsuo, an impetuous young biker who releases Akira and so forces all of the groups to make their move.
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

120

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1982-12-06

Gunnm

(Battle Angel Alita)

8.15

Description:

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Gally and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Gally remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Gally decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust? (Source: Kodansha USA, edited)
Type

manga

Volumes

9

Chapters

53

Status

finished

Started

1990-11-01

Blame!

8.14

Description:

Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head. Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks. (Source: Tokyopop)
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Chapters

66

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

1996-11-25

Gunnm: Last Order

(Battle Angel Alita: Last Order)

8.07

Description:

The sequel to the Battle Angel Alita/Gunnm manga, ignoring the original ending. When Doc Ido, a talented cyber-physician, finds Gally's head in a junk heap, she has lost all memory of her past life. But when he reconstructs her, she discovers her body still instinctively remembers the Panzer Kunst, the most powerful cyborg fighting technique ever known. In the postapocalyptic world of the Scrapyard, as the secrets of Gally's past unfold, each day is a struggle for survival. (Source: Kodansha USA, edited)
Type

manga

Volumes

19

Chapters

124

Status

finished

Started

2001-07-19

Eden: It's an Endless World!

(Eden: It's an Endless World!)

8.01

Description:

In the panic surrounding a worldwide pandemic which kills 15 percent of the population and cripples many more, a secret organization, the Propater, topples the UN and seizes control of much of the world. A boy and a girl, raised in an abandoned virology research center, immune to the virus, are attacked by the Propater and escape. 20 years later the boy is the most powerful drug lord in South America. He aids his son from behind the scenes as he evades and eventually with the help of mercenaries from Nomad (some of them former Propater operatives) fights the Propater. As the plot develops focus shifts away from the main character and develops many sub-plots dedicated to terrorism, Human-improvement, the struggle of the developing countries and the power battles between the drug cartels and Propater. Based strongly on Gnostic mythology, all major characters are named after gnostic deities, and have analogous roles. Warnings: Eden contains a lot of very graphic violence and some sex scenes. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

18

Chapters

127

Rating

Mature

Status

finished

Started

1998-09-25

The Ghost in the Shell

(The Ghost in the Shell)

7.72

Description:

In the near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ''ghosts'' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case involving an extremely dangerous ''ghost'' hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

11

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1989-05-01

Psycho-Pass: Kanshikan Kougami Shinya

(Psycho-Pass: Inspector Shinya Kogami)

7.67

Description:

Technology has now allowed people to be numerically categorized based on their psychological, physical, and emotional traits. People have begun using this technology to standardize what everyone considers a "good way to live." They call this system "PSYCHO-PASS." Although all people know the standard "good way to live," crime still occurs. Kougami Shinya and his colleagues are part of the governmental agency that apprehends individuals deemed lacking under the PSYCHO-PASS standard. His agency are actually comprised of individuals who were once found to be problematic for society. They are now the dogs of the government. (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Chapters

35

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2014-06-30

Tajuu Jinkaku Tantei Psycho

7.59

Description:

The main character is a detective, Kazuhiko Amamiya, suffering from multiple personality disorder. Starting out as a violent detective series with a twist (the twist being the variant personalities that take over Detective Amamiya at various intervals), the series evolves into an exceptionally complex and involved sci-fi conspiracy story.
Type

manga

Volumes

24

Chapters

155

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1996-12-26

Biomega

()

7.48

Description:

Set in the future, the plot follows Zouichi Kanoe and his AI companion Fuyu Kanoe, whose luminous form is integrated into the system of his motorcycle. They are agents sent by Toha Heavy Industries to retrieve humans with the ability to resist and transmute the N5S infection, which is spreading across the world, turning humans into "Drones"; disfigured, zombie-like beings. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

42

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2004-06-14

Bankara

7.47

Description:

Right after "Naruto" mangaka Kishimoto Masashi's, "Bench" comes the second one-shot from Jump's "Top of The Super Legends" series. "Bankara-san ga Tooru", by Sorachi Hideaki, mangaka of "Gintama", tells the story of the legendary leader of a juvenile delinquent gang.
Type

oneshot

Volumes

0

Chapters

1

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2010-10-18

Clover

7.4

Description:

Kazuhiko is a young, but already deeply wounded black ops agent of a baroque, retro-tech future - pulled out of retirement to escort Sue, a mysterious waif, to a destination she alone knows. Suu and Kazuhiko have never met . . . yet she knows him, having grown up since the age of four with her only human contact being two distant voices: that of her elderly "grandma," General Ko, and of Kazuhiko's dead girlfriend, Oruha. And Suu has been kept in that cage all these years because of what she is, and what the Clover Leaf Project found her to be -- a military top secret, and the most dangerous person in the world. (Source: Dark Horse Comics)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

20

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1997-01-01

Appleseed

7.37

Description:

It is the 22nd Century, the Third World War (2099-2126) has decimated a large part of Earth even though nuclear weapons have not been employed during the conflict. Old nations such as England, France and China have survived but have difficulty restoring their power. On the other hand, new nations and organizations such as the Sacred Republique of Mumna and the Poseidon Organization have been born on the ashes of the world resulting from the Third World War. In this bleak future, we are introduced to ex-L.A. SWAT members Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires. Having survived the world conflict and living in a desolated city, they are found by a young woman called Hitomi who proposes them to follow her to the utopian city of Olympus which has become the world's most powerful organization and which registers the new relations in terms of politics, economics and military between new and old nations/organizations. In Olympus, they are integrated in the prestigious ESWAT (Extra Special Weapons And Tactics) organization, whose main mission is to protect Olympus from terrorist attacks and Olympus's interests in the world. From here on, the two main protagonists encounter a great number of other characters and organizations who will be implicated in international plots that target Olympus.
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

25

Status

finished

Started

1985-02-15

The Ghost in the Shell 1.5

(The Ghost in the Shell 1.5)

7.33

Description:

Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents the "lost" Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, but never collected until now. Focusing on Section 9 agents in their daily battle against technocrime, Human-Error Processor has all the mind-twisting cybermadness you've come to expect from Ghost in the Shell but set in a more police-procedural context with action and suspense galore. (Source: Dark Horse)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

7

Status

finished

Started

1991-01-01

NOiSE

(NOiSE)

7.08

Description:

The Bible has its Genesis. The Matrix has The Second Renaissance. BLAME! has NOiSE. Through the eyes of police force member Susono Musubi, this one-volume prequel gives readers a glimpse of the world before the Netsphere went haywire. Witness the events that threw the technologically advanced society into chaos: the cancerous growth of the Megastructure, the birth of the parasitic lifeforms called Silicon Creatures, and the development of the ruthless killing machines known as the Safeguards. Also included in the compilation is Tsutomu Nihei's debut work BLAME which served as the prototype of the acclaimed 10-volume series, BLAME!.
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

8

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2001-10-20

Kagaku to Mahou no Kakutouka-tachi

(Science vs. Magic)

6.97

Description:

Special one-shot drawn by One-Punch Man artist Yusuke Murata with story by Inukorosuke! A no-holds-barred fight between science and magic!
Type

oneshot

Chapters

1

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2019-07-29

Ergo Proxy: Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker

(Ergo Proxy: Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker)

6.96

Description:

A side story that takes place within the Ergo Proxy universe about an autoreiv that travels on the Centzon.
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

10

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2006-08-18

Haisha

(Ashen Victor)

6.9

Description:

Meet Snev, a hapless motorballer nicknamed the "Crash King." Ever since a traumatic accident on the racetrack, Snev has been running on the edge of sanity. Only his best friend, a beautiful prostitute, still believes in him. Then, when Snev discovers his employers' ulterior motives for keeping him on the motorball circuit, he must muster the courage to confront both them and his inner demons! (Source: Manga)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

4

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1995-01-01

Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface

(Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface)

6.86

Description:

Taking place a few years after the first Ghost In The Shell manga. The Major has been missing since then and Ghost in the Shell 2 follows the mysterious Motoko Aramaki as she runs an investigation into a incident at an organ factory and it's consequences. she's on the run to clean up the mess and save herself in the process Meanwhile the former members of section 9 investigate Motoko to find out who she really is. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

11

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1991-09-01

Kamiyadori

6.73

Description:

Girard and ViVi are special government agents known as "Right Arms" whose job is to seek and destroy people who have become "infected." In this world, a weird virus that turns people into monsters has run rampant and the only way humanity can survive is to keep tight control on those who are infected. If the virus' symptoms appear, the person must be disposed of. It's a tough world where women and children must sometimes be killed to prevent the spread of the virus. (Source: Tokyopop)
Type

manga

Volumes

5

Chapters

29

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2003-07-26

Blame Gakuen! And So On

(BLAME! Academy and So On)

6.54

Description:

Collection of Blame-related short stories. 1. ZEB-NOID 2. Blame Gakuen! 3. Blame Gakuen! Kyoto Nara Aiai-gasa (Kyoto and Nara Under One Umbrella) 4. Blame Gakuen! Sakura Saku Tou no Shita de (Under the Tower of Blooming Sakura) 5. Kozutsumi (Parcel / Nihei: Abba) 6. Netsphere Engineer 7. Pump 8. BLAME!² - Dai 8-keishitai Pcell no Toshi Kouzoutai Dasshitsuki 9. Numa no Kami (God of marsh) 10. Senshi Kouchuu Suzumega (Winged Armor Suzumega / The Armored Battle Insects: Sphingidae)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

10

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2008-09-22

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