Manga NOT featuring high-school or younger protagonists

I read that as Hamtaro instead of Hamatora. Speaking of which, I'm sure not of the Ham-Hams are high schoolers.

Kamen Rider Gaim, as well. Yooooo!

DON'T SAY NO JUST LIVE MORE!

That sounds like something Friedrich Nietzsche would say!

Hm. I see no recommendations for Big O yet. This confuses me.

I think there were several.

Big O is filler-ish and full of plot holes and gaps and weirderies.

Do timeskips count? If so you have the second half of Gurren Lagann.

The first half of the show was a very sweet ride. The second was, eh...

Kurosagi. The main protagonist is 21 and dropped out of school since he didn't care about that anymore after what happened in his backstory. All the characters focused on are either college age or older.

edited 22nd May '14 6:48:10 AM by Prime_of_Perfection

Nobody mentioned Zetman, where most of the plot happens with the characters college-aged.

As is the Super Sonico anime.

There's also Dendrobates. The protagonist is working as a police officers, and most of the featured characters are adults - middle-aged, even.

There is of course the classic 80's series known as Dirty Pair. Both the main protagonist Kei and Yuri are 19.

edited 23rd May '14 11:03:04 AM by AfroWarrior27

Award-winning manga that does NOT feature high-school or younger protagonists:

• Azumi
• Berserk
• "Bokko" by Hideki Mori
• "The Silent Service" by Kaiji Kawaguchi
• "Futatabi" by Kentaro Miura
• Gallery Fake
• Monster
• Oishinbo
• Souten Kouro
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Nobody mentioned Mobile Fighter G Gundam?

(Or, on that note, most of the UC OVA works, like 0083 and 08th MST.)

edited 31st May '14 7:24:34 PM by RocketDude

Man, I can't believe I neglected to mention YKK, it's right up there as one of my top manga. Although... oh, right, when I recommended the manga I did on page 1, I remembered to take into consideration Handle's tastes; I'm not sure if Iyashikei is up his alley or not.

Still, I'd strongly recommend it to everyone, along every other manga the author has made (Kabu no Isaki, PositioN, and the currently running Kotonoba Drive).

The All You Need Is Kill manga based on the light novel Edge of Tomorrow is adapting has a protag who's an army recruit in his 20s. The female co-star is given the specific age of 22.

Planetes has not been mentioned.

Fairy Tail counts.

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (and by extension the original but I say go for the re-make). Again some of the characters are in their late teens but past high school age and treated as adults as far as the plot is concerned.

Toriko the 2 main characters are 25 at the start of the series.

Specifically at the start?

Yup, and there's not a school in sight. Both of the main protagonists are professionals in what they do at the start of the series, even if they're very far from the strongest or most skilled in the setting.

The Hollywood Tactics and generally terrible warrior ethics really really turned me off that show, and I went for the remake first. I can deal with Values Dissonance and What An Idiot separately, but not when they happen concurrently...

I am not sure if it was already mentioned here but Tokyo Ghoul has a college-age main character/protagonist, and his school life is rarely even touched upon all things considered. One of the other protagonists is a high school girl but her school life is barely brought up or shown either.

edited 13th Jul '14 6:44:14 PM by Bleddyn