Top Manga of 1982

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

風の谷のナウシカ

A thousand years after an apocalypse called the Seven Days of Fire, the surviving kingdoms cling to shrinking patches of land beside the Sea of Corruption, a spreading toxic forest of poisonous spores and giant insects. Nausicaä, princess of the small Valley of the Wind, can read the wind and even commune with the insects, especially the colossal Ohmu. When the empire of Tolmekia drags her homeland into a war over an ancient weapon, she is pulled into the conflict between great powers.

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Message to Adolf

アドルフに告ぐ

Thriller

Drama

In 1936, Japanese reporter Sohei Toge travels to Berlin to cover the Olympic Games and reunite with his student brother Isao, only to find Isao murdered. The killing draws Sohei into a conspiracy around a secret document on Adolf Hitler's origins. The story braids together three men named Adolf: Adolf Kamil, a Jewish boy raised in Kobe; Adolf Kaufmann, his half-Japanese, half-German best friend; and the dictator himself.

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Legend of the Galactic Heroes

銀河英雄伝説

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

The autocratic Galactic Empire, where the young commander Reinhard von Lohengramm is rising fast, faces the democratic Free Planets Alliance and its strategist Yang Wen-li. Across the series the two lead fleets against each other while their sharply opposed visions of governance, iron-fisted unification against imperfect democracy, play out through officers like Siegfried Kircheis and Wolfgang Mittermeyer. These are the original novels every later Legend of the Galactic Heroes adaptation draws from.

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Akira

AKIRA

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

In Neo-Tokyo, rebuilt over the crater of a city destroyed by a mysterious blast, biker-gang teenager Shotaro Kaneda leads a pack through the decaying megacity. After his friend Tetsuo Shima is injured in a crash and seized by the military, secret experiments awaken in Tetsuo a vast, unstable psychic power. As Tetsuo's abilities spiral beyond anyone's control, his path circles back toward Akira, the dormant force behind the original catastrophe, while resistance fighters and government forces close in.

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High School! Kimengumi

ハイスクール！奇面組

Shounen

Comedy

Picking up where 3-nen Kimengumi left off, Rei Ichidou and the four other boys of the self-styled Kimengumi move up to Ichiou High School, where their instinct for chaos only scales with the new setting. Their classmates get dragged along with them, among them the sharp-tongued Chie Uru and Yui Kawa, the prettiest girl in their year, as the group turns school rivalries, contests and everyday routine into escalating absurdity. Teachers who thought the group would settle down soon learn otherwise.

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Top 250

Top 250

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Message to Adolf

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Akira

High School! Kimengumi