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Top 19 Space manga you should read right now. [2026 List]
- 19. I Became an Evolving Space Monster
- 18. Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusen-mochi Datta no de, Ikkodate Mezashite Youhei Toshite Jiyuu ni Ikitai
- 17. Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!
- 16. World Trigger
- 15. Cheolsureul Guhasio
- 14. Hitoner
- 13. Terra Formars
- 12. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- 11. Dai Dark
- 10. Edens Zero
- 9. Outlanders
- 8. Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gyakushuu no Char - Beltorchika's Children
- 7. Ginga Tetsudou 999 (1996)
- 6. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
- 5. Sidonia no Kishi
- 4. Agravity Boys
- 3. Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt
- 2. Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo - Seishun Frontier
- 1. Musou Kouro ~ Tensei Shite, Uchuu Senkan no AI ni Narimashita ~
19. I Became an Evolving Space Monster
In the vast expanse of space, inside a cargo compartment made of cold metal, I couldn’t help but acknowledge one thing: I had become an antagonistic extraterrestrial life form in an SF survival game.
I Became an Evolving Space Monster is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Eu Me Tornei um Monstro Espacial Evolutivo, Evolución: El Camino Del Monstruo Espacial, I Became an Evolving Space Monster, Jinhwahaneun Ujugoemul-i Doeeossda, Я стал эволюционирующим космическим чудовищем, Evolution: Road to Space Monster
18. Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusen-mochi Datta no de, Ikkodate Mezashite Youhei Toshite Jiyuu ni Ikitai
When I woke up, I found myself inside a spaceship.
I guess you guys think I’m talking nonsense here, but I also have absolutely no clue about what exactly happened to me.
I was really close to completely losing it, but fortunately, I managed to notice that this place was really similar to the world featured in a game I was playing recently.
Am I dreaming? Nope, it’s no dream. Maybe I actually got sent to a different world or something?
But didn’t those things usually involve getting sent to a magical world with elves, dwarves, dragons and whatnot?
In any case, I don’t know what caused this, but I guess I’ll just have to suck it up and live properly in this world from now on.
It’ll be okay. I got my trusty spaceship so I can probably make some money. It’ll work out! It has to!
This is the story of a man abruptly thrown into space along with his private spaceship. He runs around with it and saves damsels in distress along the way, flirts with said damsels, earns money as a merc-for-hire and uses his gaming knowledge to work his way into living freely and easily.
When I Woke Up, I Got the Strongest Equipment and a Starship, so I Went and Became a Mercenary in Order to Live as I Please while Aiming for a Detached House is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 目覚めたら最強装備と宇宙船持ちだったので、一戸建て目指して傭兵として自由に生きたい, Я очнулся, будучи пилотом сильнейшего космического корабля, а потому решил стать межгалактическим наёмником, When I Woke Up, I Got the Strongest Equipment and a Spaceship, so I Went and Became a Mercenary in Order to Live as I Please while Aiming for a Detached House, Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship!
17. Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!
In his last life, Liam lived as a moral, responsible person...but died deep in debt and betrayed by his wife. Reborn into the ruling family of a vast interstellar empire, Liam knows that life is divided into the downtrodden and the ones who do the stomping, so this time he's going to take what he wants and live for himself. But somehow, things refuse to work out that way. Despite doing his best to become a tyrant, Liam's decisions lead to nothing but peace and prosperity for the empire under his rule, and he just gets more and more popular!
I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 俺は星間国家の悪徳領主!, Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!
16. World Trigger
A gate to another dimension has burst open, and from it emerge gigantic invincible creatures that threaten all of humanity. Earth's only defense is a mysterious group of warriors who have co-opted the alien technology in order to fight back!
World Trigger is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: ワールドトリガー, World Trigger
15. Cheolsureul Guhasio
A massive asteroid is about to hit earth!
Humanity has failed to stop a giant asteroid from plummeting into Earth, and life as we know it has ended. An ordinary Korean office worker named Cheolsu is somehow given the chance to go back in time and prevent this catastrophe from ever happening. Does he have a chance?
Cheolsu Saves the World has finished publishing and it has 69 Chapters. It is also Known as: Regression of Cheolsu
14. Hitoner
An earthling visits a planet inhabited by beastmen. The beastmen are upset to see a "human" for the first time. The beasts' observation of the "human" begins...!
Note: Originally published as a one-shot, was then picked up for serialization.
Hitoner has finished publishing and it has 1 Chapters. It is also Known as: ヒトナー, Hitoner
13. Terra Formars
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold.
It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
Terra Formars is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: テラフォーマーズ, Terra Formars
12. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
In their closed-off underground village, Kamina and Simon chafe at the limits imposed by the village elder. Yet all this will change, when Simon stumbles across a fantastic device - just as the village's peace is broken by a violent intrusion.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has finished publishing and it has 65 Chapters. It is also Known as: 天元突破グレンラガン, Break Through the Heavens Gurren Lagann
11. Dai Dark
Zaha Sanko’s body has great and terrible powers–they say that possessing his bones will grant you any wish, even the desire to become ruler of the universe. But Sanko is still a teenage dude with his own life, and he isn’t about to let every monstrous lowlife in the galaxy rip him limb from limb. He and his skeletal buddy Avakian will use their dark powers to fend off any murder attempts while they search space for whomever put this curse on Sanko’s bones…because killing them might end the madness.
Dai Dark is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 大ダーク, Great Dark
10. Edens Zero
Eleven months after the grand finale of Fairy Tail, master mangaka Hiro Mashima is back with a great adventure beyond imagination! All the steadfast friendship, crazy fighting, and blue cats you've come to expect... IN SPACE! A young boy gazes up at the sky and sees a streaming bolt of light. The friendly, armor-clad being at his side tells him gently, "That's a dragon." The fact that he's joking isn't important. What's important is the look of wonder on the boy's face... and the galaxy-spanning adventure that's about to take place! Join Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail, Rave Master) once more as he takes to the stars for another thrilling saga.
EDENS ZERO has finished publishing and it has 293 Chapters. It is also Known as: EDENS ZERO, • 에덴즈 제로, • Нулевой Эдем: Эденс Зеро, • 伊甸星原, • Нулевой Эдем, • ايدينز زيرو, • Eden's Zero, • एडेंस जेरो
9. Outlanders
It`s face-to-face confrontation when Kahm stares down her father and refuses to end her relationship with Tetsuya. In retaliation, her father sends a punitive fleet to Earth -- with orders not only to crush the rebellion but to annihilate the entire solar system!
Outlanders has finished publishing and it has 33 Chapters. It is also Known as: アウトランダーズ, Out Landers
8. Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gyakushuu no Char - Beltorchika's Children
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack: Beltorchika's Children is an alternative take on the events that also form the core story of Tomino's 1988 anime film, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack. (This novel actually debuted in print a month before the film.) In both, Amuro Ray and Char Aznable (the protagonist and antagonist from the first Mobile Suit Gundam anime) clash in their final confrontation.
However, the novel and the film have significant differences, such as Amuro and Char piloting Hi-Nu Gundam and Nightingale mobile suits instead of the movie's Nu Gundam and Sazabi.
has finished publishing and it has 30 Chapters. It is also Known as: 機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア ベルトーチカ・チルドレン, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children
7. Ginga Tetsudou 999 (1996)
Tetsuro Hoshino is a young street urchin who desperately wants to replace his human body with an android body, which would grant him immortality and the social freedom the androids have.
Normally this is incredibly expensive but it has long been rumoured that if you board the Galaxy Express headed for the Andromeda Galaxy, at the end of the line is a planet where they are given out for free.
After seeing his mother murdered by an Android Count, he has no reason to remain on his home planet and nothing to hold him back. Now, not only seeking the android body of his dreams but also a way to avenge his loss, he begins to search for a way to board the train alone.
Then he meets Maetel, a mysterious woman who offers him a ticket aboard the train if he will be her companion for the journey.
Their journey will take them to planet after planet, each strange and new, and each stop along the way being an opportunity for Tetsuro to reflect on being human, human actions, and the prospect of immortality.
During their travels Tetsuro and Maetel meet, amongst others, Emeraldas and Harlock.
The first cycle was released between 1977 to 1981 and spans volumes 1-14.
Ginga Tetsudou 999 (1996) has finished publishing and it has 93 Chapters. It is also Known as: 銀河鉄道999, Ginga Tetsudou 999 Eternal Chapter
6. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
Zeon ace pilot, Commander Char Aznable, thought he could foil the Federation's plan to build a mobile suit by attacking their research base on colony Side 7. He was wrong. With a prototype already active, the besieged Federation forces strike back using their new weapon, the mobile suit Gundam, with devastating consequences. Amidst the fighting, young electronics wizard Amuro Ray is determined not to let his friends and family die in the crossfire. But what can one boy do to repel a squad of mobile suit-clad invaders?
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin has finished publishing and it has 112 Chapters. It is also Known as: Kidou Senshi Gundam: The Origin, 機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN, Amuro 0082
5. Sidonia no Kishi
Outer space, the far future.
A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity’s home world continue to pose an existential threat.
Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel’s bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship’s coolheaded female captain.
Meticulously drawn, peppered with clipped humor, but also unusually attentive to plot and structure for the international cult favorite, Knights of Sidonia may be Tsutomu Nihei’s most accessible work to date even as it hits notes of tragic grandeur as a hopeless struggle for survival unfolds.
Knights of Sidonia has finished publishing and it has 78 Chapters. It is also Known as: シドニアの騎士, Knights of Cydonia, Cydonia no Kishi
4. Agravity Boys
The year 2118... Four young astronauts head out to the stars to find humanity's new frontier...or so they thought! Two days after they depart, earth is devoured by a black hole! Plunged into a destiny they cannot escape, these unique young men reach their destination of Alpha Jumbro and plan to live out the rest of their lives there. How will humanity survive in this wacky space-survival comedy?!
Agravity Boys has finished publishing and it has 50 Chapters. It is also Known as: AGRAVITY BOYS, Agravity Boys
3. Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt
The Universal Century began with mankind moving its burgeoning population into outer space. The year is UC0079. The cluster of colonies furthest from the Earth, Side 3, proclaim themselves the Principality of Zeon and launch a war of independence against the Earth Federation. Now, it is nearly one year since the war broke out. In the “Thunderbolt sector”, a reef section of space where a large quantity of wreckage from battleships and destroyed space colonies from the war lies, a violent battle plays out as the Earth Federation Forces set their sights on recapturing the Zeon controlled sector.
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt has finished publishing and it has 230 Chapters. It is also Known as: 機動戦士ガンダム サンダーボルト, Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt
2. Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo - Seishun Frontier
This work is a spin-off comic of the TV anime "Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch of Mercury" that began broadcasting in October 2022.
It is a parallel work set in a near-future Japan, depicting the encounter between high school girls Suletta and Miorine.
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo - Seishun Frontier is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 青春フロンティア, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury: Adolescent Frontier, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury: Youth Frontier
1. Musou Kouro ~ Tensei Shite, Uchuu Senkan no AI ni Narimashita ~
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!
Unparalleled Path ~Reincarnated as the AI for a Space Battleship~ has finished publishing and it has 15 Chapters. It is also Known as: 無双航路 転生して宇宙戦艦のAIになりました, Space Cruiser Capricorn, 無双航路 転生して宇宙戦艦のＡＩになりました, Musou Kouro - Tensei Shite Uchuu Senkan no AI ni Narimashita, Musō Kōro - Tensei shite, Uchū Senkan no AI ni Narimashita
