Uchuu Kyoudai

Description

From Kodansha:
The year is 2025, the older brother decides to trust himself just one last time. It’s the start of an adventure that aims for Mars via JAXA in the town of Tsukuba! The official Space Brothers manga is ready to launch! Two brothers looked to the starry skies as children and made a promise. And now, in the year 2025, the younger brother, Hibito, is carrying out his promise. He is an astronaut who has been selected as a crew member for mankind’s first long-term base on the moon. Meanwhile, the older brother, Mutta, has just been fired from his job and is unemployed. A text message from Hibito sends him applying to be an astronaut and shooting for the stars.

Note: Was nominated for the Manga Taishō in 2009 and 2010. Won the award for best general manga at the 56th Shogakukan Manga Awards and at the Kodansha Manga Award (shared with March Comes in Like a Lion) in 2011. Won the Reader Prize of the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 2014.

Official English: Azuki, INKR
Official French

Type

Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Anh Em Phi Hành Gia

Fratelli nello spazio

Space Brothers

Uchu Kyodai

Uchū Kyōdai

สองสิงห์อวกาศ (VBK)

宇宙兄弟

Groups Scanlating

Crunchyroll

Dirty and Rough Scans

Extras

Imangascans

Latest Release(s)

c.412-413 by Dirty and Rough Scans 11 months ago

c.409 by Dirty and Rough Scans 1 year ago

c.406-408 by Dirty and Rough Scans 1 year ago

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Status in Country of Origin

44 Volumes (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 19, Chap 187

User Reviews

N/A

Forum

12 topics, 25 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.9 / 10.0 (346 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.69 / 10.0

46%

25%

15%

Last Updated

May 9th, 2025 6:36am PDT - 3 days ago

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Genre

Adventure Comedy Drama Sci-fi Seinen Slice of Life
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Morning (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Azuki (digital)

Crunchyroll

INKR Comics

Kodansha USA (44 Volumes - Ongoing; digital)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #767

(+7)

Monthly Pos #1002

(+102)

3 Month Pos #1138

(+21)

6 Month Pos #1073

(-98)

Year Pos #1388

(-531)

List Stats

On 1630 reading lists

On 1001 wish lists

On 41 completed lists

On 52 unfinished lists

On 376 custom lists

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Forum Posts Click to view the forum

Space Brothers Author: Anime Planned to Continue After Manga Ends

1 year ago

Space Brothers Manga to End with Final Chapter in September

2 years ago

Space Brothers' Creator Plans to Start Final Arc This Year

3 years ago

No more Uchuu Kyoudai?

6 years ago

Last Spurt of Space Brothers is Coming

7 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

Propaganda ridden at later chapters

by melquiades
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

It was a fine manga until it became another propaganda manga for Japan, at the later chapters.

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I love this

by MatNeba
5 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Space Brothers isn't just a space manga. It's a familiar drama that fills you with despair and sadness, but recompenses you with harm-hearts (if this expression exists) scenes. Actually, I see myself in Nanba Mutta, the protagonist of this story, a man who doesn't have confident in himself, that believe that everything in his life is because of his bad luck that came from birth. But over the course of the history, he gains more and more confident and will to reach his brothers and fulfill his second mothers dream. And spoiler ahead, he got it. In general, Space Brothers made me cry while i was reading this, but not a sad cry, but a very happy tears, because i saw all that characters that we learned to love and care to reaching their dreams, its a overwhelming feeling, like i was part of their inner circle of friendship.

I absolutely love this manga, and i wish so much for the new scans to reach out soon.

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Some great moments

by PZcolo
9 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

This manga is a bit uneven, it goes from interesting to touching to exciting to boring to cheesy and goes around those time and again.
A story about not giving up your dreams and keep the young kid in you alive after becoming an adult. A quite mature and realistic story in which it's best things are the chars and the eventual touching moment, but the mangaka abuses of those moments at times and contributes equal part of inmaturity to the formula, like in the romance or some events I won't spoil.
Overall a very good series for pretty much anyone except those who only read action series.

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Feel so Moon

by Green Mylle
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This is a Drama about two brothers and their dreams.
It's weird that all my favorite series are usually randomly picked or series I neglected a long time.
In this case, it was randomly picked, back in 2011 or early 2012?
I did not regret it.

Mostly Mutta Nanba's inner thoughts is amusing, relatable and realistic.
We all had this complexes and doubts but you may never know until you do it.
It's never too late they say. So go ahead.

Overall, gosh, I gave it a Perfect score. Yes it has flaws with sometimes the repeated use of flashbacks and connections but it works, It works for this masterpiece. Every time it updates, I still feel excited which is rare.
I have reread this manga a lot and it still has the same effect, the feeling of success (pooping lol.). I could just clap my hands for this series. Brilliant.

I did watched the anime, and gotta say, It's AWESOME. Soundtrack, animation, pacing....why is this not more popular than Shingeki no Kyojin ( I mentioned SnK since when SnK was airing Uchuu is still airing too). Bahh who cares anymore....

As Yotsuba said from Yotsubato!:
RECOMMENDABLE!

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Freaking awesome

by MatrixM
12 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I pretty much decided to read this by default as almost of the projects by Extras were fantastic. Also it reminded me of ST&RS (bunch of unique tests to get a job). Only it turned out to be infinitely better. ST&RS is so juvenile whereas this series is mature with fantastic drama and comedy just as good.

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Surprisingly Good

by bull3thole
13 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

I first heard of this manga when the anime came out and I thought it would be another boring anime but after reading this I was wrong. The plot of course is different from any manga I read so it made me hesitant to read it but it's worth it. The manga can be cliche at times but what manga isn't like that now?

Anyways, the comedy is pretty good and I laughed at some of the jokes. I also like the reason why the two brothers wants to go to the moon

Saw a UFO go to the moon when they were kids .

Overall it's surprisingly good and I read all the current chapters(Ch.53) in one day. I recommend this manga to people that wants to read a manga about people wanting to follow their dreams with a touch of comedy.

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Awesome series, needs scanlators

by dawger
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This one hit me by surprise. I've never heard about this till the anime came out, but oh boy, I am really hooked right now. The characters are fairly interesting, and even though this is a more "realistic" kind of story (or rather, because of that) it's quite easy to relate to them. I don't know much about space and astronauts, but this series has piqued my interest. I'd really wish there would be more groups scanlating this, or at least one, that can kick up the pace, and bring it up to date, seeing how it's already at 17 volumes.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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A story of space

by Anabiotic_Pineapple
14 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

Not a lot has been done as far as translations go for this story, but based on the first chapter alone, I'm excited. It seems to be a tale of brotherly rivalry using a mission to the moon as a backdrop, and from there, possibly a mission to Mars. The main character, the older brother, is fairly sympathetic for individuals who also have a younger brother that overshadows them (for instance me), so he's relatable in that aspect. There isn't much more I can say given the lack of releases, but I highly encourage people to give it a try. Hopefully the scanlators will continue working on it since it seems it'd be a shame to watch it fade away.

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