Iron Buddy - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 16
• 2020 - 2021

The near-future sci-fi manga's story centers on Hana, a woman who works in a pharmaceutical company, and her regular correspondences with the titular Pino, a robot equipped with an AI. Pino is tasked as a caretaker of the animals the company regularly uses for medical trials. But one day, Pino undergoes an unexpected change.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 10
• 2014

Wakaba meets a strange duo of a girl named Chao and her robot partner.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 20
• 2010 - 2013

The near future where mankind lives on the moon. A girl who loves robot animation, Yamamoto Tsukihi, of which "Lunar Demon Gradulus" is her favorite. One day, she hears that the real thing exists on the moon...?! With her passion for Gradulus second to none, Tsukihi struggles in search of missing parts!

• Vol: 5+; Ch: 22+
• 2019 - ?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 8
• 1999

PIPPI, a humanoid computer developed to predict earthquakes, estimates that a global-scale cataclysm will occur in eight years. Though the computer also announces that the accompanying danger of human extinction can be avoided by taking a series of specific steps, the process deviates so far from normality that people are thrown into a state of chaos and doubt.

• 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: 10; Ch: 114
• 1982 - 1986

When an industrial robot named Monroe begins to work at his father’s factory, Satoru is fascinated. As he and his friend Marin spend more time with Monroe, they start to suspect there’s much more to the machine than anyone else realizes. But neither children nor adults are prepared for Monroe’s violent awakening into consciousness.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 29
• 2010 - 2012

In the future, androids live side by side with humans – but not as their equals, as their slaves. Though they look identical, these androids must display a holographic ring over their heads so the difference is clear. One day, a boy named Rikuo finds abnormal activity patterns in the logs of his own android, and alongside his friend Masaki, he sets forth to find where the android has been. Much to their surprise, the duo discovers a secret café known as Eve no Jikan with a single rule: within its walls, there must be no discrimination between humans and robots. In this place, androids appear to be human and are even displaying signs of independence – a trait that should not be possible. Rikou finds his perceptions increasingly challenged as he struggles to come to terms with his own android, and the relationship between man and machines...

• Vol: 5; Ch: 38
• 2013 - 2015

A secret social experiment is led by two Japanese engineers, having an android every move, expression and decision decided through a majority vote from a collective of ca. 3000 randomly chosen people. The vote system offers the opportunity to any member of the collective to set forward his/her proposition. The 3 most proposed actions as well as two propositions made only once are submitted to the majority vote.Rules and systems have been set to ensure the dynamism of that community, and to prevent identification of people and places where the android evolves in modern-day Japan. And so the Dēmokratía android came to life.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2018 - 2019

In the future, robots are more than machines. Autonomous “cyber-persons” with A.I. brains are part of society, interacting with humans and growing their own culture. In fact, they may be surpassing humans, as biological homo sapiens and their own world have begun to die out. But are humans truly disappearing, or are robots the new “humans”?