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A (Fictional) Cinematic History of the World

Manga
byWeebookey
Dec 23 2024, 10:21 PM | Updated Jan 10, 4:11 AM
Parody of my "A Cinematic History of the World" manga stack but with alternative historical manga instead. All manga are set within earth on within an objective time period or event (or lackthereof) from history. The changes in said events are irrelevant, but must adhere to fiction.

For example (if WWII never happened, or XYZ country won a war instead).

These will be in order, and always updating!
Gundamn and other mecha (excluding NGE) are strictly excluded from this list!

open to suggestions as it's not my strongest area of expertise!

Missing: Monstress
Blue Hole
Manga, 2 vol, 1991 Me:- Author:7
Cretaceous Period;

Science fiction series about the discovery of a gateway in time and space deep underwater which allows for travel between the present day and the age of the dinosaurs.
Blue World
Manga, 4 vol, 1995 Me:- Author:-
Cretaceous Period [cont];

The Blue Hole is a gateway that takes you back in time to a prehistoric age. In anticipation of the astonishing discovery, the United Kingdom and the United States dispatched a joint team to the Jurassic world 145 million years ago and embarked on a full-scale investigation. Just then, a sudden phenomenon cuts off communications with the modern world. Few people with limited equipment are left behind. Survival in a terrifying world where everything is unknown and dinosaurs roam free has begun!
Genshi Shounen Ryuu
Manga, 3 vol, 1971 Me:- Author:6
Paleolithic;

In the era of cavemen, a boy with white skin is born on the night of a storm. He is immediately outcast as a cursed child, doomed to bring disaster to whoever he comes across. This boy is set to be sacrificed to the Dragon King (a Tyrannosaurus), but is saved by an ape woman, Kitty, and is given the name Ryu.
Bestiarius
Manga, 7 vol, 2011 Me:- Author:-
A.D 70 The mightiest empire Rome started conquering the world. The whole Europe was havocked by Roman's foot. In Ablion, in order to protect their homeland, the Bravest Wyvern fought a bloody battle against the invader.
The term Bestiarii (闘獣士) refers to those that fought against beasts, whether through voluntary combat or execution, during the Ancient Roman era. Bestiarius refers to a single Bestiarii.
Anton
Manga, 3 vol, 1992 Me:- Author:-
The Kamakura period (1185–1333);

1199 - 10 years after the death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune at Hiraizumi. Japan is now under the shogun Minamoto no Yoriie, son of Yoritomo, who had schemed against Yoshitsune. Yoriie hears of followers of Yoshitsune still lurk about, and is more than willing to get rid of those thorns in his side. However, they are more pertinent than he could imagine...for Yoshitsune's orphaned son, Hoshiwakamaru, has survived, and is planning to avenge his father with fellow pirates and conspiring officials!

A tale of alternate history set at the dawn of the Kamakura period, with some fantastical elements mixed in.

Seigai no Majo

Holy Corpse Rising

Seigai no Majo
Manga, 7 vol, 2014 Me:- Author:-
In 15th century Rome, witches have declared war against humanity.

Oooku

Oooku: The Inner Chambers

Oooku
Manga, 19 vol, 2004 Me:- Author:-
The Edo period (1603 and 1868);

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers follows an alternate history of early modern Japan in which an unknown disease kills most of the male population, leading to a matriarchal society in which the Ōoku becomes a harem of men serving the now female Shogun.

The Ōoku (大奥, "great interior") was historically the women's quarters of Edo Castle, the section where the women connected to the reigning shōgun resided.

Tsukigami to Bonbon

The Phantom and "bonbon"

Tsukigami to Bonbon
Manga, 3 vol, 2018 Me:- Author:-
The Edo period (1603 and 1868);


Set in an "imaginary Edo-era Japan," the story focuses on a supernatural artist whose art creates monsters.

Jigokuraku

Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku

Jigokuraku
Manga, 13 vol, 2018 Me:- Author:7
The Edo period (1603 and 1868);

Set in the Edo period of Japan, it follows the ninja Gabimaru and the executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri as they search for the elixir of immortality.
Samurai Deeper Kyou
Manga, 38 vol, 1999 Me:- Author:-
At the dawn of the 17th century, at the end of the era of civil wars, in a world of chaos, the epic Battle of Sekigahara was joined.
One man emerged from the largest battle ever fought on Japanese soil; a terrible warrior of unspeakable power, he was nicknamed 'the unconquerable.'
Kyoshiro is a peaceful medicine peddler who harbors the soul of an assassin. He accompanies a young bounty hunter across Japan in search of a murderer and on a quest to discover the terrible secret of his own identity.

Taiyou to Tsuki no Hagane

Steel of the Celestial Shadows

Taiyou to Tsuki no Hagane
Manga, ? vol, 2020 Me:- Author:8
early 19th-century, Japan. Tenpo era (1830 through December 1844);

a down-and-out samurai named Kounosuke Ryuudo struggles through his hardscrabble life. His dear departed mother's last hope was for him to live his life as a splendid warrior, but a cruel curse repels and distorts any metal that gets near him. Will he ever be able to wield a sword, much less live the life of an honorable samurai?

It is said that a samurai's spirit rests in their sword—and Ryuudo can't even pick one up! Destitute and hopeless, he decides to end it all. But when a beautiful and mysterious woman saves his life and his soul, it is the beginning of Ryuudo's journey into a strange world of magic that exists a step away from his own.
D.Gray-man
Manga, ? vol, 2004 Me:- Author:-
19th Century;

Set in an alternate 19th century, the story focuses on an organization of exorcists, named the Black Order, as they defend humanity against the Noah Family, reincarnations of Noah and his twelve apostles whom bear hatred towards humanity and God led by a man known as the Millennium Earl. The exorcists' main weapon against the Noah Family is sentient holy artifacts called Innocence. Innocence comes in a variety of forms, varying from everyday objects such as boots to grandfather clocks, to weapons such as swords and guns; regardless of their form, each Innocence possesses unique offensive and supportive abilities and will only work for the wielder of their choosing. Out of the 109 Innocence hidden and scattered throughout the world, one of them is the master Innocence; whichever side obtains this Innocence first will win the war. In contrast to the Innocence, the Noah Family's weapons are derived from a power source known as Dark Matter. Dark Matter grants the Noah superpowers, along with the ability to create and control demons.
Jin
Manga, 20 vol, 2000 Me:- Author:-
Bakumatsu were the final years of the Edo period (1853 and 1867);

Jin Minakata, an ordinary brain surgeon, has an accident after his operation with an unidentified patient, and realizes that he has traveled back in time and reached the end of the Edo period. Through an encounter with various historical characters, Jin sets up a small clinic called Jin'yudo and saves those suffering from disease and injury with his medical skills.
Blaster Knuckle
Manga, 3 vol, 1992 Me:- Author:6
American 1880s where the KKK are aliens that eat the African American community, keeping their lives in fear.

Dr. Mordrid

Doctor Mordrid

Dr. Mordrid
Manga, 1 vol, 1996 Me:- Author:-
The year is 1897, the era of the Wild West. Doctor Mordrid may be the scientific community's outcast, but his unique skills as an archaeologist specializing in occult cases are second to none and begrudgingly recognized by most. With his trusty animal sidekick Kim and more than a few (mechanized) tricks up his sleeve, Doctor Mordrid sets forth to investigate incredible happenings on the American Frontier.

Youjo Senki

The Saga of Tanya the Evil

Youjo Senki
Manga, ? vol, 2016 Me:- Author:-
World War I (1914-1918);

In 2013 of modern-era Tokyo, an unnamed atheist Japanese salaryman, in the moment of being murdered by a disgruntled subordinate whom he had fired due to poor performance at work, is confronted by an entity that declares itself to be God who condemns the salaryman for not having 'faith'. The salaryman disbelieves in its existence, criticises its various statements from his perspective as an atheist and mockingly terms it as 'Being X'. The entity decides to reincarnate the salaryman into a world where he would face sufficiently difficult circumstances to turn to Being X for help.

The salaryman is reborn as Tanya Degurechaff, an orphaned girl in an alternate universe's equivalent of Imperial Germany, known as the Empire, in which World War I has been delayed until the 1920s and where magic has been incorporated into the military. According to Being X, if Tanya either does not die a natural death or refuses to have faith in it, her soul will leave the cycle of reincarnation and will be sent to hell for the countless sins that Tanya has committed in her previous life. In search for an escape, Tanya decides to join the Empire's Mage Corps and fight in the war, hoping to reach a high enough rank as fast as possible to remain far from the battlefield, and in this way avoid the risk of being killed. Even if she's now forced to speak with a young girl's lips, Tanya soon turns into a ruthless soldier who prioritizes efficiency and her own career over anything else, even the lives of those beneath her, especially those that get on her bad side.
Gosick
Manga, 8 vol, 2007 Me:- Author:-
Set in a fictional European country in 1924.
Zipang
Manga, 43 vol, 2000 Me:- Author:-
World War II (1942);

The newest, most advanced destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, the JDS Mirai, sets sail from Japan on a training exercise with the United States Navy. En route, they encounter a strange meteorological anomaly, causing the Mirai to lose contact with her sister ships. After a short time, the crew detects a fleet approaching, but can barely believe their eyes as a massive battleship passes by them. The crew soon identify it as the Yamato, a ship which was sunk in 1945. As the crew scans with their radar, numerous other ships, including a Nagato-class battleship, are sighted. Two destroyers from the unknown fleet attempt to intercept the Mirai, but she manages to escape.
Kagayake! Daitoua Kyoueiken
Manga, 1 vol, 1997 Me:- Author:-
World War II (1939–1945);


This early work from Kago is an alternative history of World War 2, in which the fighting nations discover a way to turn women into giant-sized biomechanical weapons (tanks, submarines, etc.) and use them as the primary method of warfare.

Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho
Manga, 1 vol, 2006 Me:- Author:-
In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact—they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio’s promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri’s mysterious, carefully tended condition.
Raid on Tokyo
Manga, 1 vol, 2008 Me:- Author:-
Cold War (1947–1991);

An "what-if" alternate history in which the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) fights a desperate struggle against the Soviet Union after it launches a surprise invasion on Japan during heightened Cold War tensions.

Shinseiki Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Shinseiki Evangelion
Manga, 14 vol, 1994 Me:- Author:-
In 2015, the "Angels" have returned, and Shinji Ikari, a fourteen year-old child of the new Earth, is forced by his father -- Gendo, commander of the secret organization NERV -- to pilot the monstrous biomechanical weapon called "Evangelion" to match the Angels' fearsome power.
Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction
Manga, 12 vol, 2014 Me:- Author:8
2010/20s Modern Tokyo, Japan;

Three years before the events of the story, on August 31, an alien spaceship appeared over Tokyo. Although it has not attacked, the Japanese government, seeing it as a potential threat, unsuccessfully tries to destroy it. The situation leads to a cold war between the humans on Earth and the invaders in the mothership above the Tokyo skyline. There is further conflict between political groups who want to eliminate the aliens, called "warctopuses," and those who want to negotiate peace, called "peacesquids." Despite the tense and precarious state of the world, high school students Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa Ouran live their lives with some semblance of normalcy. The focus of the story is not on the alien invasion but on human nature and growing up in a turbulent and uncertain world.
Chrno Crusade
Manga, 8 vol, 1998 Me:- Author:-
America in the Roaring 20s. On the surface, it's a positive, peaceful time after the violence of the Great War. But lurking in the shadows is a dark element ready to snatch that peace away. Sister Rosette Christopher, an exorcist working as a part of the Magdala Order, has a duty to fight the demons which appear and cause destruction.
But along with her companion Chrno, she usually ends up causing more destruction than the demons themselves! On one particular mission, they meet a young girl with a beautiful voice named Azmaria, who is being targeted by her own stepfather. As Rosette and Chrno work to save her, more is revealed about the relationship between them. There is more to these two than meets the eye.
Akira
Manga, 6 vol, 1982 Me:- Author:-
early 21st century (1980s-2019);

On December 6, 1982,[a] an apparent nuclear explosion destroys Tokyo and starts World War III. By 2019,[b] a new city called Neo-Tokyo has been built on artificial islands in Tokyo Bay. Although Neo-Tokyo is set to host the XXXII Olympic Games, the city is gripped by anti-government terrorism and gang violence. While exploring the ruins of old Tokyo, Tetsuo Shima, a member of the bōsōzoku gang led by Shōtarō Kaneda, is accidentally injured when his bike crashes after Takashi — a child Esper with wizened features — blocks his path. This incident awakens psychic powers in Tetsuo, attracting the attention of a secret government project directed by JSDF Colonel Shikishima. These increasing powers unhinge Tetsuo's mind, exacerbating his inferiority complex about Kaneda and leading him to assume leadership of the rival Clown Gang through violence.

Akira is set in the post-apocalypse Neo-Tokyo of 2030, a vast metropolis built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by an apocalyptic blast of unknown power that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when dormant paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, who becomes a target for a shadowy government operation, a group who will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like that which leveled Tokyo. And at the core of their motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear. A fear of someone or something, of unthinkably monstrous power known only as "Akira".

Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio

Arpeggio of Blue Steel

Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio
Manga, ? vol, 2009 Me:- Author:8
early 21st century (2039-2056);

Due to global warming and rising sea levels in the early 21st century, much of Earth's landmass has been lost. In 2039, fleets of powerful sentient warships, armed with advanced technology and possibly 'alien' weaponry, mysteriously appear and devastate the world's naval forces. These ships, collectively known as 'The Fleet of Fog', impose a worldwide naval and aerial blockade, preventing humanity from both traveling the oceans and to other nations. During the blockade, the Fleet of Fog created Mental Models, humanoid avatars containing a ship's Union core, as a means to develop self cultivation and to overcome their lack of creative thinking of tactics that humans possessed, which at the same time made the Mental Models develop their own unique personality.

In 2056, 17 years after the blockade began, Gunzō Chihaya, a former student of the Japanese National Marine Academy, is the captain of a small group of privateers called the 'Blue Steel'. The Blue Steel are infamous for possessing a Fog submarine, the I-401, along with its Mental Model Iona, who defected to the human side. Due to I-401's technology and Gunzō's tactical skills, the Blue Steel have not only survived several encounters with the Fleet of Fog but managed to sink one of their most powerful warships.

Gunzō and his crew are hired by a faction of the Japanese government to deliver the prototype of the vibration warhead, a powerful weapon that may finally allow mankind to fight back against the Fog, to the United States. The United States is the only country with the resources and capability to mass-produce the weapon system. However, the Blue Steel will face obstacles on their journey not only from the Fleet of Fog and their human allies, but from other governments and factions with their own agendas. Along the way they will also gain allies of their own from both sides, increasing their chances against seemingly overwhelming odds.
Dimension W
Manga, 16 vol, 2011 Me:- Author:-
AD 2072. With the invention of cross-dimensional electromagnetic inductors known as Coils, the world's energy crisis has long been solved. Kyouma Mabuchi is a "Collector," someone who makes his living by recovering illegal Coils for the powers that be. When on his latest gig he crosses paths with a mysterious girl named Mira, little does he know that their meeting will bring them both closer to the secrets behind "Dimension W," the fourth dimension beyond X, Y, and Z that powers the world. So begins this progressive sci-fi tale, where the future of science and humanity may very well hang in the balance!
Shin Devilman
Manga, 1 vol, 1979 Me:- Author:-
Various periods are visited: from pre-WWII to ancient Greece, middle ages in France meeting Joan of Arc, far-west America, renaissance.

Kenrou Densetsu

Kerberos Panzer Cop

Kenrou Densetsu
Manga, 2 vol, 1988 Me:- Author:-
In a future postwar Japan poverty and crime have created a new breed of criminal. A new police division is formed with the resources and firepower to deal with the threat: the Hellhounds! To the government, they're heroic guardians. To the people, they're armed thugs. Now, a newcomer to the Hellhounds finds himself caught between the people he's sworn to serve and the revolutionaries out to kill him.
Hellsing
Manga, 10 vol, 1997 Me:- Author:7
Vampires exist. It is the duty of Hellsing, an organization sponsored by the British government, to hide that frightening fact and protect the blissfully unaware populace. Along with its own personal army, Hellsing also has a few secret weapons. Alucard, an incredibly powerful vampire, has been controlled by Hellsing for years. Although he dislikes being a servant to the Hellsing family, he certainly enjoys his job as Hellsing’s vampire exterminator. Seras is a fledgling vampire and a former police woman. Although reluctant to embrace her new self, she is still a valuable member of the organization. Integra Hellsing, the current leader, is usually fully capable of fulfilling her duty, but lately, vampire activity has been on the rise. Unfortunately, the cause is more alarming than anything she could have imagined. A group long thought dead has been plotting in secret since their apparent destruction over 50 years ago. Plotting to plunge England, and perhaps the entire world, into war.
Koukoku no Shugosha
Manga, 5 vol, 2004 Me:- Author:7
TBA

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