Here at Recommend Me Anime, we don’t do manga series in our recommendations, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t also like to lie in bed and read a few good chapters of manga every now and then.
And besides, where do many good anime series come from in the first place – The pages of manga.
If you want to read some good mecha manga, and want to be someone who can potentially say you enjoyed a good series before it was all cool and animated, then check out these great mecha manga recommendations that don’t have anime adaptations – yet.
Best Mecha Manga With No Anime
Verdant Lord
Fighting back against humanity, the Earth has been overrun by vines and foliage as well as large wooden mech creatures.
Although Souma Shin was looking for his twin brother, he finds himself in the middle of an apocalypse.
RedEyes
After being betrayed by his own men, Captain Graham Mills is held responsible for a conspiracy.
After being sentenced to death, he escapes and finds himself under constant pursuit.
12 Beast
Eita Touga is a ninja apprentice that has set forth to find his missing brother.
However, along the way he finds himself entangled in conflict between the humanoid Autana and the Gigas that seek to destroy them.
Cannon God Exaxxion
Hoichi Kano is the grandson of a famous inventor. However, he discovers that the great Elevator Ship designed to transport people between Earth and the home world of the mysterious Riofaldian people is just a ploy for them to invade.
Now, working with his friends, it is up to him to stop them.
Deus Ex Machina
Clockworkers were created to serve as weapons of war. However, after the war is over, many clockworkers have gone rogue and hurt innocent people.
Machina and her clockworker partner Deus are tasked with hunting them down.
Front Mission: Dog Life & Dog Style
On Huffman Island, the land is split between two major world powers – The United States of the New Continent and The Oceania Cooperative Union. While they have been in a cease-fire for 20 years, tensions are ramping up.
For Matsuda Akira, he is dispatched as part of an on-site reporting team, but are they really ready for the true horrors of war?
Valkyrja Engine
In order to battle the AUS, mysterious invaders that came a half century ago, children now enroll in military school to learn to pilots weapons called Valkyrja Engines.
One such student named Reiji is also blessed with an ability to break any gun he touches.
I was Sold at the Lowest Price in My Class, However My Personal Parameter is the Most Powerful
Along with his classmates, Yuuta was sent to another world where they possesses the unique power to pilot humanoid machines called Magicrafts.
As people from Earth are said to possess higher values and make powerful pilots, the people of this fantasy world had high expectations for the class. However, while his classmates were sold at high prices to prestigious institutions due to their high power values, Yuuta has a low value and was sold as a slave.
After he encounters a mysterious white Magicraft, it seems as though his low value is not quite what it seems
Joshikouhei
After seeking a new world to live in, a rebellion broke out between old Earth and the group seeking a new world.
However, while searching for a new world, this group also decided to launch a full offense. Their weapon of choice? Assault girls, robots that look like school girls.
Cicatrice of the Sirius
After his sister sells her brain to a corporation, Takeru is desperate to save her cybernetic body from a gladiator-style dog-fight spectacle.
However, he soon discovers that she is embedded with a self destruct. He must decide between returning her to the fights or finding another way to save her the in one week before she dies.
Orichalcum Reycal
Sakugi Mitsuaki is a poor college student that has a figure modelling addiction. After helping one of his classmates, he is given some special putty.
However, the figure he makes from it comes to life that wants to fulfill the wish of their creator.
Buster Dress
In the 22nd century, humanity founded a colony known as Second Earth. After a mysterious terror attack, a unit is founded to investigate.
Part of this unit is Buster Dress, an intelligent AI that may be the key to solving the mystery behind the violence.
Eleven Soul
In the near future, gene technology is now big business, so much so that the immortality gene is no longer a pipe dream. However, when this gene was accidentally mixed with some biohazard, it created a new life form that waged war on humanity.
With North and South America falling quickly, Japan is now fitting special samurai with exoskelatal suits to fight humanity’s greatest threat.
Snowball Earth
The only thing a shy boy named Tetsuo had in the world was a giant robot named Yukio. He made a promise to Yukio that he would make a friend.
Together, they became saviors by fighting monsters that came from outer space. However, after the final battle, he came back to find Earth frozen over with ice and snow. Now an icy, deadly world, Tetsuo tries to find out what happened to the human race so he can keep his promise to make a friend.
Five Star Stories
The Joker Star Cluster is made up of four solar systems and a large comet named Slant that passes through the sector.
In the past, the Farus Di Kanon empire once ruled all four solar systems. While they enjoyed advanced technology, the empire eventually collapsed in on itself violently. Afterwards, with much of the Empire’s technology lost, the survivors of the empire’s collapsed firmly focused on just surviving.
Five Star Stories follows various stories in the Joker Star Cluster as humanity tries to carve out lives in harsh environments and war-torn lands.
More Manga Recommendations
There are literally thousands of more mecha manga series out there that haven’t been animated yet. Do you have any more manga recommendations? Let mecha manga fans know in the comments section below.
