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Top 19 Space manga you should read right now. [2026 List]
- 19. Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!
- 18. Hitoner
- 17. Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusen-mochi Datta no de, Ikkodate Mezashite Youhei Toshite Jiyuu ni Ikitai
- 16. I Became an Evolving Space Monster
- 15. Terra Formars
- 14. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
- 13. Cheolsureul Guhasio
- 12. Mowang Zuobi Xitong
- 11. Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!
- 10. Dai Dark
- 9. Babylon made wa Nankounen?
- 8. World Trigger
- 7. Sidonia no Kishi
- 6. Space Boy
- 5. ēlDLIVE
- 4. Outlanders
- 3. Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo - Seishun Frontier
- 2. Ginga Tetsudou 999 (1996)
- 1. Kanata no Astra
19. 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!
18. 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 (Pre-Serialization), skinnie (Pre-Serialization), humaner (Pre-Serialization), ヒトナー (Pre-Serialization)
17. 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!
16. 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
15. 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
14. 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
13. 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
12. Mowang Zuobi Xitong
One day, countless dungeons suddenly appeared in the world, and humanity ushered in the "dungeon era". Adesalai, the boss of an abyss-level dungeon, was killed by human adventurers via despicable means. Vowing revenge, he was reincarnated as a weak adventurer, but he activated an exclusive Boss System. Using the system's cheating powers to conquer dungeons and becoming its master, he started on the road of revenge.
Mowang Zuobi Xitong has finished publishing and it has 80 Chapters. It is also Known as: The Demon King's Cheat System, Demon King Cheat System, Demon King's Cheating System, Mowang Zuobi Xitong, Mówáng Zuòbì Xìtǒng, The Demon King Cheat System, The Demon King’s Cheat System, 魔王様のチートシステム, 마왕 전용 사기 시스템
11. 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!
10. 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
9. Babylon made wa Nankounen?
Follow the intergalactic adventures of a man traveling the stars with a mission: to bone the hottest girls the universe has to offer while uncovering the mysteries of his forgotten past.
(Source MU)
How many light-years to Babylon? has finished publishing and it has 32 Chapters. It is also Known as: バビロンまでは何光年？, Babylon made wa Nankounen?
8. 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
7. 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
6. Space Boy
A girl who belongs in a different time. A boy possessed by an emptiness as deep as space. A story about an alien artifact, a mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years.
Space Boy has finished publishing and it has 278 Chapters. It is also Known as: Space Boy
5. ēlDLIVE
Chuta Kokonose is an orphan who lives with his aunt. For as long as he can remember he's had a voice in his head, but other than that he's a normal boy - right until the day when a strangely-looking thing follows him home and teleports him to a place filled with more fantastic creatures. It's a space police station, and Rein Brickke, the Chief of Solar System Department, tells him that he's been chosen by the computer as a possible candidate to join the police force, although Sonokata Misuzu, girl from Chuta's school with an angelic face and ill temper who turns out to be one of Rein Brickke's subordinates, doesn't think him suitable for such a job. Chuta, who was shocked at first, decides to take aptitude test to prove her wrong.
has finished publishing and it has 64 Chapters. It is also Known as: エルドライブ 【ēlDLIVE】, elDLIVE
4. 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
3. 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
2. 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
1. Kanata no Astra
What starts as a pleasant class trip to a planet five light-years away becomes a nightmare survival trip to get back home.
In the year 2063, interstellar space travel has become the norm. What sort of adventure awaits on the new frontier?
It's the first day of Planet Camp, and Aries Spring couldn't be more excited! She, along with eight other strangers, leave for Planet McPa for a weeklong excursion. Soon after they arrive, however, a mysterious orb appears and transports them into the depths of space, where they find an empty floating spaceship…
Astra Lost in Space has finished publishing and it has 49 Chapters. It is also Known as: 彼方のアストラ, Kanata no Astra
