FLCL: Shoegaze - Recommendations

• Vol: 7; Ch: 50
• 1984 - 1989

This offbeat Japanese manga tells the action-packed tale of the Cyber 7, a team of biologically enginered robot protectors who attempt to save humanity from a threat beyond imagination.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 8
• 1995

When schoolgirl Rushiha is suddenly attached by a humanoid robot, a guardian robot named Faust appears out of the blue to rescue her! And why does he insist on staying on as her permanent bodyguard? The answers to these questions lead the unlikely pair on a quest to rescue her scientist father from the clutches of his own creations!

• Vol: 11; Ch: 95
• 1992 - 1999

Wahhaman is a special robot soldier built ten thousand years ago by the Atlanteans. Found and dug up in present-day Tokyo, he doesn't remember anything, due to a nasty knock to the head he received at some point.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 30
• 2003

• Vol: 19
• 1993 - 2001

Signal, a robot companion built for Nobuhiko, is attacked by Pulse, one the its creator's previous prototypes. Reprogrammed by Dr. Otoi's mysterious rival, Pulse is loaded down with weapons and sent on a mission by Otoi: steal the most recent robot technology, and obliterate anything that gets in his way.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 43
• 2013

It's said that Thomas Edison stuffed all of his knowledge into his final invention, a screw. Presently, said screw is buried inside the head of Matsunaka Spica, a high-school girl!!! When Matsunaka Spica's thoughts rise to a high enough level, she can create amazing inventions that would normally be impossible to construct!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 10
• 1982

• Vol: 5; Ch: 21
• 1998 - 1999

At first glance Moolchi is just another shy, unassuming boy whose greatest talents are running away from bullies and binging on vitamin supplements. Then one day, Moolchi's absentee father sends him a most unusual gift--a stunningly-proportioned automaton. She calls herself "Six" and mumbles about having a "prime directive." This strange and exquisite creature quickly turns the boy's life upside-down, violently disposing of high school hooligans and anybody else who gets in his or her way. The word "oblivious" barely does him justice as Moolchi remains blissfully unaware of his father's dangerous double-life, or the cute hall monitor who harbors a crush on him, or the intentions of this mysterious femme fatale who insists on bathing with him. Meanwhile, ominous storm clouds gather on the horizon, and one lingering question looms above the others "who is this so-called "Zero" that everybody is looking for?

• Vol: 1
• 1949

Metropolis is a grand high-tech city-state populated by humans and robots alike. It is in these streets that Detective Shunsaku Ban and his sidekick Kenichi search for the rebel scientist Dr. Laughton who unbenounced to them, is developing a super android named Tima as a tool for the Duke of Metropolis. What starts out as a normal case turns into mayhem as the scientist is murdered, and the true plans of the Duke are finally revealed...

• Vol: 10; Ch: 87
• 2016 - 2019

Tokyo, 2048. Japan is now connected to the entire northern hemisphere by the Eurasian Railroad, and all manner of crime and vice pour into the megalopolis at its eastern terminus. Little do the people know that inhuman beings live among us, however–robots with high-level AI, who will kill to survive. Only one ‘man’ can stop them –their prototype: ORIGIN.