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Japanese: アストロベイビー
English: Astro Baby
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 5
Chapters: 43
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 3, 2024 to Oct 25, 2025
Genre: Sci-Fi Sci-Fi
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Jump+
Authors: Moriya, Shiro (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.481 (scored by 14811,481 users)
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Ranked: #176662
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Popularity: #5399
Members: 4,408
Favorites: 8

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The remote town of North Hill has been quarantined to prevent the spread of the mysterious Couper disease that is turning people into cannibals. Young soldier Billy returns to his hometown for the first time in six years for the woman he loves, but what horrors will be awaiting him...?

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Astro Baby was simulpub digitally in English through MANGA Plus. The volumes have been published digitally by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint since May 27, 2025.

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 Abby
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Sheena, Billy
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Serafin
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Makoto
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Myra
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Matsuda
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Eleanor
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Jul 7, 2024
desusama
Recommended
Preliminary (9/43 eps)
One of the things I enjoy about manga is the ability of a writer to imagine a completely unique and insane scenario that I couldn't have come up with on my own. The problem is, after reading a lot of them, patterns start to emerge, and that feeling of genuinely encountering a premise so insane you have to stop and appreciate the absurdity becomes harder to come across.
I'm glad to announce that each new page of Astro Baby genuinely had me going "What the hell am I reading?" in the best way.
The characters are a combination of human enough for you to empathize with and ...
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May 9, 2024
DinoNo1
Recommended
Preliminary (8/43 eps)
Unironically one of the most funny and entertaining manga I have read in the recent times.

It presents us with a fantastical city of North Hill where people have caught the cooper disease known to turn people into blood hungry beasts. Now quarantined, our protagonist, who once was the native of the very town, is once again on the way to the town in order to maintain the peace and..... Actually drop all that, it is just Last of Us + Boss Baby. Good and compelling story and overly hilarious moments which actually hit even at serious moments it knows how to hold down a reader ...
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