Now and Then, Here and There - Recommendations

• Vol: 3; Ch: 21
• 2016

Two children unexpectedly meet in the midst of war. After running away from the chaos, they come across a long empty road. With no adults to rely on, the two strangers, now become friends, walk alongside each other to see what's at the end of the road. All they hope is to keep being able to move forward. Just what kind of trials and tragedy awaits them during their journey for survival?

• Vol: 7; Ch: 60
• 1990 - 2004

When a nuclear holocaust leaves Earth an uninhabitable wasteland, the surviving humans create a new civilization on satellites orbiting the poisoned planet. Eventually, a terrorist attack forces the colonists back to their blighted homeworld, causing a young mother to be separated from her children. For many years Sarah has wandered the land in search of her family, witnessing the worst in humanity as she travels from one chaotic town to the next. No matter what happens, she will not rest until she is finally reunited with her children.

• Vol: 9; Ch: 36
• 2002

A grand-scale masterpiece of life in a dystopian future, Aegis paints a picture of the love and friendship between orphans Jino and Izare. Having gained independence from Revro, the earth secretly trains an army of boys. Jino and Izare are abandoned to the camp, and Izare silently sacrifices himself to keep his promise to Maria that he'd look after Jino. But Jino escapes the soul-killing cruelty of the camp. With Jino in his heart, Izare remains to become an ultimate weapon. The boys' lives, and the secrets of the mysterious Maria, gradually unravel in this epic sci-fi drama. For earth, can peace and utopia be won?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 47
• 1994 - 1995

This is how a Japanese family's life goes wrong: an immoral protagonist, her sister who was gang raped before, her alcoholic mother who later devoted her life to a cult, and her father who lost favor with his company.

• Vol: 18; Ch: 126
• 1997 - 2008

In the near future, a large portion of humanity is wiped out by a brutal, new virus that hardens the skin while dissolving internal organs. Those who aren’t immune are either severely crippled or allowed to live with cybernetically enhanced bodies. Taking advantage of a world in chaos, a paramilitary force known as the Propater topples the United Nations and seeks world domination. Elia, a young survivor searching for his mother, travels towards the Andes Mountains with an artificially intelligent combat robot. When he encounters a group of anti-Propater freedom fighters, a maelstrom of unique characters unfolds. 

• Vol: 11; Ch: 44
• 1972 - 1974

On a day like any other day, Shou, his classmates and the entire elementary school were mysteriously transported to a barren wasteland filled with terror. There's no food or water, nothing in sight but an endless desert in all directions, and both the students and teachers are so terrified that they are rioting, murdering, and falling victim to their fears. With no idea of how they got there or how they'll survive, these students must work together and set forth into the unknown to discover the truth of their circumstances.

• Vol: 7+; Ch: 70+
• 2020 - ?

Natural plants have all but withered, leading to low levels of oxygen everywhere. However, humans have developed a technique to transform people into plants to produce a small amount of oxygen that allows mankind to keep surviving. In this world, everyone must decide: Will they live as humans in a bleak and uncertain world, or abandon their anguish to embrace a new life as plants?

• Vol: 12; Ch: 81
• 2003 - 2009

Freesia is set in an alternative Japanese society that is at war, and has passed a law legalizing retaliatory killings. If somebody kills your loved one, you are legally sanctioned to kill, or hire someone to kill, the victimizer. The manga is set around a character who works for a firm that specializes in these retaliatory killings.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 11
• 2005

Being abandoned by his owners, having his mother die of starvation, a puppy who suffered lifelong separation from his siblings wandered around the city. Meeting and parting with kind people, experiencing brutal treatment from unjust people. Pao, who learned to live within the harshness of reality, awaits even more ordeals...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2008

During WWII, Yamato enrolls in an army preparatory academy in hopes of becoming a great military general. However, he’s confronted and pushed down by an elite instructor named Onizuka! This is a forbidden love story between the self-centered instructor Onizuka and the intelligent but prideful student Yamato!