World Trigger - Recommendations
If you're looking for manga similar to World Trigger, you might like these titles.
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Birdmen
- Vol: 16; Ch: 78
- 2013 - 2020
Eishi Karasuma is a loner with a monotone life and his only friend is Mikisada Kamoda. One day they venture together while skipping class and they meet Tsubame, a very energetic girl, and Rei Sagisawa, a pretty boy that attends the same middle school. On their way back to school a sudden event happens. A mysterious boy with wings will come to help.
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Haikyuu!!
- Vol: 45; Ch: 402
- 2012 - 2020
After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, "the King of the Court," Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!
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Reasons you might like Haikyuu!!...
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What World Trigger and Haikyuu!! both do well with several things: (1) a large cast of memorable characters, (2) explanation of the world, battle mechanics and such done organically rather than exposition dumps, (3) and "battle arcs" that serve the purpose of growing both characters and the story at large. I would say Haikyuu!! executes these things better than World Trigger as a work that hooks you and keeps you as a reader. World Trigger is good, pretty good, a solid read. It is a story that grows on you the longer you stay with it. Haikyuu!! is great work. Those charmed by it experience this very early on.
"The power of friendship" and unwavering emotional determination are staples in shounen (young boy demographic targeted) titles. I'm interested in titles that are nuanced from that, works that make your head and heart cock to the side with something that feels more grounded in the difficulty of life.
World Trigger has an overpowered main character. But the true central main character is someone with real inadequacies, has several limitations, and never gets amazing growth suddenly or over time.
Haikyuu!! flows naturally with energetic, driven protagonists that both have and gain skills that look and feel powerful. Caveats of limitations, weaknesses and failures--as well as a long term growth--come along the way. These things exist, are more gradual, but I would say a crucial part of how Haikyuu!! is such a great story.
Kaiju No. 8
- Vol: 12+; Ch: 105+
- 2020 - ?
With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation. How can he fight kaiju now that he’s become one himself?!
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Reasons you might like Kaiju No. 8...
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Both animes have a defense force, defeat monsters, have a main character that was ordinary at first, and have characters that are from the enemy side but are main protagonists.
Manabi Straight!
- Vol: 4; Ch: 27
- 2005 - 2007
The year is 2035, and schools have been suffering from a lack of childbirth, which has caused many of them to close. An energetic girl named Manami Amamiya transfers to a new school where she quickly becomes the student council president and starts to bring back some vigor in the students' lives.
Hyper Dolls
- Vol: 5; Ch: 30
- 1994 - 1997
Mica Minazuki and Mew Fumizuki are two out-of-this-world high school babes who lead a double life as the legendary Hyper Dolls! These mysterious beauties are Earth's protectors of justice, destroying evil demons of the underworld and keeping the human race safe from harm. With school, festivals, and friendships to handle, will the girls have enough time to save the world without skipping class?
Barom One
- Vol: 3; Ch: 9
- 1974
Takeshi and Kentaro are two friends who have been together since they were infants. They were born in the same hospital on the same day, have shared every class in school and even vie over the same girl. However, soon the two friends become closer than they’d like when they discover they are the Chosen Ones that will defeat the powers of an evil being and his minions who are currently wreaking havoc on mankind. Together, the two merge and become a super fighter known as Barom One, capable of taking down monsters with ease. Can Takeshi and Kentaro band together to save the world?
Majuu Sensen
- Vol: 2; Ch: 27
- 1975 - 1976
A secret society of scientists seek to create advanced humanoid lifeforms through the hybrid of man and beast for their almighty Lord Yeshu and the new world that is nigh.When young Shin'ichi Kuruma is pulled into this inhuman pursuit and loses everything, his path of bloody vengence leads him into the depths of a conspiracy greater than he could ever imagine.
Prefectural Earth Defense Force
- Vol: 4
- 1983 - 1985
The nefarious Phone Pole Team has one goal—world conquest. However, this has proven difficult, so they're revising their strategy and taking over the world one prefecture at a time. When the mayor's office of their current target learns of their plans, they recruit every member of the high school baseball team to combat this threat. Our heroes must contend with Faceless Minions, rampaging cyborgs, desperate attempts at undercover work, and perhaps even a touch of romance, all in their efforts to protect their neighborhood... and justify the stipend given to them by the city council.
Tesla Note
- Vol: 7; Ch: 58
- 2021 - 2022
Botan Negoro is not your average high school girl—she's been trained to be an elite government agent since she was young. She's also an expert on the "Tesla Fragment", which appear throughout the world to cause supernatural chaos. Her mission is to retrieve these fragments, and to do so she teams up with the smarmy, self-proclaimed top agent Kuruma. But this is no easy mission, even for an elite team...
Asura Cryin'
- Vol: 4; Ch: 25
- 2008 - 2010
Natsume Tomoharu takes the opportunity to live on his own when he enters high school. Although he appears to be a normal high school student at first glance, there is one thing about him which isn't normal. He's haunted by the ghost of a young girl, Minakami Misao. Tomoharu moves to his new place of residence, Meioutei, and starts enjoying a carefree high school life. But this is all ruined when a beautiful girl named Kurosaki Shuri appears with a trunk which Tomoharu's brother told her to pass on to Tomoharu. The presence of the trunk causes the appearance of Takatsuki Kanade, a girl dressed like a shrine maiden who is after the trunk.