February 23rd, 20XX.
Looking for a job in the famous TV station at Odaiba, college senior Jin Mishima attended the recruitment orientation. Not far away from the station, Nanako Okano, a gothic lolita trying to attend a concert, found out that her friends tricked her about the concert ticket because of jealousy. The two bumped into each other and "reunited", they were junior high classmates, moments before an earthquake of Richter Scale 8.1 turned the island (the entire city, in fact) into ruins.
From here on, 51 Ways is a predictable but remarkably believable survival adventure. Based on a well-researched novel by Minoru Watanabe, the series paints a picture not quite as explicit and horrifying as ones in other apocalyptic fiction, but one that is frightening in it's detail.
Like many of Furuya's other works, we're also shown just how fragmented and superficial Japanese youth has become: gals, rock stars, Gothic Lolita's, otaku, salarymen, ganguro, and schoolgirls are all here in their self-imposed stereotypical, shallow glory. But while the ugliness of the fragmentation of Tokyo youth is striking - these people all come together in the face of disaster in a way that's ultimately hopeful. When you strip off the posing and expensive clothing: we're all the same.
In the end, 51 Ways is one of Furuya's most optimistic and mainstream works. It would make a lovely gateway drug for more timid independent comic readers or shoujo fans looking for something with a bit more bite.
51 Ways to Save Her has finished publishing and it has 49 Chapters. It is also Known as: 彼女を守る51の方法, 51 Ways to Protect Your Lover, 51 Ways to Save My Girlfriend, Tokyo Magnitude 8
Genres: Science Fiction , Drama , Romance , Action
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Top 7 Manga Like 51 Ways to Save Her (Kanojo wo Mamoru 51 no Houhou) [2024 List]
- 7. Let's☆Lagoon
- 6. Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu
- 5. Kurozuka
- 4. I Am a Hero
- 3. Metro Survive
- 2. Dragon Head
- 1. Eden no Ori
7. Let's☆Lagoon
Yamada is a castaway on an island without any ships passing by and he is unable to recall why he is there. After finding his sports bag, he assumes he was on a school trip. With only 7 days worth of food, he eventually decides to make a boat to leave the island. He thought he was alone on the island until finding a girl named Imaise Chika eating his food. They then decide to continue carving the boat together. Since the boat only has room for one, Yamada decides to set off for help, but returns upon noticing that not only has Imaise put her share of rations in his bag, they are mostly untouched as well. After returning, he notices she made the oar out of a fishing lance and he decides they can live on the island longer.
Note: Chapter count includes 2 bonus chapters
Let's☆Lagoon has finished publishing and it has 68 Chapters. It is also Known as: レッツ☆ラグーン, Let's Lagoon
6. Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu
Following the occurrence of a strange earthquake, an elementary school mysteriously disappears, in which only a giant hole where the school once stood, remains. While the police and worried parents alike think that everybody in the school were somehow killed, the students and staff find themselves and their school in the middle of a barren wasteland. As chaos and panic begins to engulf the school and its inhabitants, sixth-grader Sho Takamatsu and his friends attempt to find out just what happened to them, while trying to stay alive.
The Drifting Classroom has finished publishing and it has 44 Chapters. It is also Known as: 漂流教室, Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu
5. Kurozuka
Escaping from a brother who had just ascended the throne, Yoshitsune, along with his servant, comes across a house in the middle of a desolate mountain. Oddly enough, only a young woman lives there, who seems to possess a very dark and ominous past. This is for mature audiences only, because of its constant full-frontal nudity, among other things...
Kurozuka has finished publishing and it has 40 Chapters. It is also Known as: KUROZUKA-黒塚-, Kurozuka
4. I Am a Hero
Hideo Suzuki is a thirty-five year old mangaka assistant struggling to be the hero in his own life by breaking back into the lime light with a new serial all the while juggling his relationship with his girlfriend and his own delusions.
However, as hard as Hideo may try, the world seems to have a different set of plans for him; sinister and dark machinations that completely overturn his reality as he knows it.
I Am a Hero has finished publishing and it has 264 Chapters. It is also Known as: アイアムアヒーロー, I Am a Hero
3. Metro Survive
Mishima is your average spineless pushover, working as a repairman for the Exopolis Tower, Tokyo's largest and hottest highrise business and entertainment building. He promised to come home in time to celebrate his son's birthday, but when he lets his pushy boss saddle him with overtime, the task takes him all night. On the morning subway train heading home, a massive earthquake strikes and collapses both the Exopolis Tower and its underground train lines. Now Mishima is trapped deep underground with the other passengers of the train, some of whom are less than cooperative. Will he be able to take the initiative for once and lead them all to freedom, or will they starve in their underground prison?
(from the back of the first book)
Metro Suvive has finished publishing and it has 16 Chapters. It is also Known as: メトロ・サヴァイブ, Metro Survive
2. Dragon Head
In the horror of witnessing so many classmates perish before his eyes in a violent train wreck, Teru discovers two survivors in the tunnel: Ako and Nobuo. But salvation from this bloody carnage is far from their grasp. As they try to dig out from the wreck in order to come up with a plan to stay alive, the lack of light and food, combined with the stench of death and decay, will lead one member of the group down a dark and demented path. And with sudden, violent earthquakes shaking the tunnel, escaping to the outside world may lead them to an even greater danger...
Dragon Head has finished publishing and it has 89 Chapters. It is also Known as: ドラゴンヘッド, Dragon Head
1. Eden no Ori
Akira and his classmates are on a plane that crashes on an island inhabited by a species thought to have been extinct. Some of his classmates are eaten alive, some kill others in desperation. Now Akira and a few other survivors are trying to stay alive through what seems to be a horrible nightmare.
Cage of Eden has finished publishing and it has 185 Chapters. It is also Known as: エデンの檻, Eden no Ori
