Started Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles since supposedly it and xxxholic are potentially part of the same universe as Cardcaptor Sakura. The parallels are interesting and I could see Clear Card crossing over more directly with it in the future. It's interesting seeing Sakura and Syaoran as different characters. The universe trotting is also pretty cool.
Don't like the artstyle as much as CCS and CC though. Everyone's way too tall and lanky.
I don't know, where to put this, but in tjis thread it should be ok: I wan't to finish a manga I started a couple of years ago - thing is, i forgot its name^^. It is about a girl, who finds a gradon egg and her friends, who also have dragons - dragons in this world are sort of alien-plane like figueres. Girl wears a CCCP shirt and has got problems with the military later on. Manga is early 90s if i remember correctly. Maybe someone can help with this.
Finished TRC. Thought of starting xxxHolic but I think I need a break from Clamp outside of Clear Card. It's kind of long too. Tsubasa World Chronicle is somewhat short though so I was thinking about that but haven't started it yet. I started Liar Game but not really feeling it. Everything feels too stiff and the characters aren't really that interesting to me. Also started Ajin and I do like it so far.
Want to read Spriggan after watching the movie but nobody is scanlating it, Viz's heavily censored releases stopped at volume 3, and while there's an official English translation released in Singapore I can't find anywhere to buy it because it's out of print. And there's no scans of that either.
I just began Kannou Sensei (I don't know what that means) by Yoshida Motoi (Natsu no Senjitzu/The Day Before Summer). Lovely art, as usual with this mangaka, and nice storytelling. It's about a romance between a 40 years old novelist who is exploring erotic writing and a 22 years old waitress, but I'm a bit itchy about the childish behaviour of the female mc. Even so I guess the author will manage to make the most of the story, given her previous works.
Ajin's pretty good so far.
! It actually still manages to be interesting even though a good chunk of the characters are immortal. Like how if they have something happens to them that might be a minor (at least better than death to most people) inconvenience for most people, like getting shot by a tranquilizer or being non-lethally poisoned, they'll immediately look for a way to kill themselves to stop it from happening since non-lethal incapacitation is a much larger danger than death to them. It's even basically a part of most characters' fighting or combat styles and for some reason that's humorous.
Don't want to pile too much on to read at once but want to start reading Witch Hat Atelier too. It's released towards the end of each month though so it still doesn't fill the gap for me between CCS Clear Card and Jojolion
Ajin has a great villain that's one of its strongest point in my opinion
I'd be interested in seeing a thread about things people have read and really enjoyed across genres - assume it's been done in some form or another already, but I've sort-of-enjoyed a lot that's been posted in this thread and very-much-enjoyed a few things as well.
We should have a sort of collecting ground for the things that people did enjoy. Does this exist and I'm just missing it? Manga You Should Read Recommendations?
It exists yes.
Read through Kobato and Tsubasa World Chronicle. Didn't like World Chronicle as much as Reservoir Chronicles. Also feels kind of weird that it was brought back only for a single standalone arc but maybe they'll continue it later. Starting to read Trigun (and then after it Trigun Maximum). The art is kind of hard to follow. Will probably read Angelic Layer and maybe Chobits later as I want to get through more Clamp stuff. Want to read xxxHolic too but it's longer than any of these other series and I'd prefer to read through some shorter ones first.
It exists yes.
Hah, dang that was an age ago. Good find though.
Was able to read a few more Witch Hat Atelier chapters that came out recently. Still loving it a lot. Probably my favorite currently running manga. Hopefully it gets an official English release that isn't as far behind as the fan scans.
I just finished Innocent by Sakamoto Shinichi. It's a great story about the Sanson family who whas in charge of the executions in the pre-revolution France. The two main character are amazing, a man and a woman siblings who were both executioners. The fact that a woman is made executioner of France C XVII makes of her a very interesting character in a well written story.
! In the last chapters, Marie taking the mission to change the world for the better took me by surprise, but I guess that fits well her character given she's really against practically all. (I'd like to know if there's some historical references to her character.)
I'm starting the sequel Innocent Rouge
One Piece weekly and I want to read Vinland Saga or Oyasumi Punpun.
The second part of Magic Knight Rayearth was significantly better than the first part I felt. The last page of it is pretty great too and it's probably the only manga to do something like that. I also now want a full mecha series by Clamp. I know they did the designs for Code Geass but I think having a non-fantasy mix mecha series made completely by them could be cool. I really need to find some good mecha manga in general. I want to read Patlabor (and I am as far as I can) but it's still being scanned and the scans are slow.
I started reading Talentless Nana and dropped it after one chapter. Talk about a waste of time. The world-building is laughably poor.
I’m reading Mary’s Grave from Sunday magazine. At first I was a bit sceptical but after a second try the title grew on me. One of the last chapter happening in the past introducing what will (i hope) be a recurring parallel was quite interesting
I also started Aposimz by the author of Blame. Inread mainly for the art at the moment since those white pages are beautiful. The story in itself is not uninteresting but I’m not that much into it yet
I usually read Dragon Ball when I was a child. But now at the age of 19, I don't have much time to read manga, but I still love reading Hunter X Hunter when I have free time.
Started reading Revolutionary Girl Utena. Will probably watch the anime afterwards since it seems to be a lot more popular than the manga.
So a couple years ago I read the first 70 or so chapters of Assassination Classroom while it was first being published. Then I just kinda dropped it. But now I own all 21 volumes of the series and I'm reading it all in one go. I'm up to volume 6 now and volume 8 is about where I left off. Can't wait to get to the new stuff.
Started reading Revolutionary Girl Utena. Will probably watch the anime afterwards since it seems to be a lot more popular than the manga.
And for really good reasons. The anime is probably the weirdest thing in the world.
Finished Instant Bullet. Didn't mind the ending as much as some people apparently. Especially if the author is going to continue it at some point, which they've shown interest in. Started reading Phoenix, finished the first volume. The artstyle is still strange for the content in my opinion (and there's more fourth wall breaking than I'd like) but it's really really good. I'm interested in the sci-fi portions.
i've just finished volume 9 of Radiant by French artist Tony Valente. It's really a great serie and I'm very happy it will be adapted into an Anime this fall in Japan
I think it is a first for a French manga and it is well deserved
I was looking for a nice mecha-series and I was lucky enough to find Mizukami Satoshi just started a new series called "Planet with". The scanlator has translated just two chapters. But it has the nice mix between spiritual/psychological world, action and mecha.
I've been looking for a mecha manga to read recently too and most of what I found aren't completely translated, if translated at all. It sucks, especially since those that have anime adaptations or anime entries in the series have them translated but still not the manga.
I started up Golden Kamuy and i'm loving the manga so far.
I didn't actually know it was this violent but damn if Man Gets Face Torn Off By Bear And Then Kills Bear Anyway isn't some cool shit
Set Art by Daily Rowlet
I've been looking for a mecha manga to read recently too and most of what I found aren't completely translated, if translated at all. It sucks, especially since those that have anime adaptations or anime entries in the series have them translated but still not the manga.
Planet with could be good mecha series for you if you like Satoshi's series (I'm a big fan). The storyboard is a 1000 pages draft drawn by him. Here you can find more info about the series:https://manga.tokyo/news/satoshi-mizukamis-new-anime-series-planet-with-announced-for-summer/
I finally finished my read through of Assassination Classroom. Awesome, awesome series that sadly doesn't seem to get the credit or attention it deserves.
Well…okay, that's not to say it's perfect, but still a very creative and emotional series that I would probably rank among the best I've ever read (not that I've read a WHOLE lot of manga, granted).
Random observations (spoilers included):
! -The assassination stuff is cool and all, but I think the stuff with Class E fighting against the oppressive school system was the best part of the manga. Hell, that alone could have been the basis for a series.
! -That said, even after the school stuff was resolved (about 2/3 of the way through) the stuff after that was really great too, especially Kayano's reveal and Koro sensei's backstory.
! -That also said, going into space was probably the dumbest part of the whole manga. That was just a bit too…out there (no pun intended). Hell, even that whole conflict is kinda nonsensical since they try to find a way to save Koro sensei, but then just...go back to trying to kill him? ...I don't get you Class E.
! -A shame none of the romances (aside from Karasuma and Irina) ever cemented into anything final, but eh, they're still college kids by the end of the series. They've got time.
! -Also a shame that Koro sensei never used his Absolute Defense Form again. It just felt like something that should have been used again at least once.
! -God, this manga's use of metaphorical imagery is just extraordinary, if not sometimes a little confusing, but that might just be me being an ignorant American.
! -Between this and MHA, I was really initially turned off by the idea of introducing a whole classroom of students with the false promise of becoming connected to each of them. But both cases proved me wrong as, while it's true that not all the students become fully fleshed out deep characters, you still get a sense of who they all are over time and you can remember most if not all them by the end of the series (almost like a real classroom)
! -I also read that bonus one-shot at the end of Volume 21. While the designs are really creative...yeah, I can kinda see why it wasn't picked up for a series.
[And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon]
I finally finished my read through of Assassination Classroom. Awesome, awesome series that sadly doesn't seem to get the credit or attention it deserves.
Well…okay, that's not to say it's perfect, but still a very creative and emotional series that I would probably rank among the best I've ever read (not that I've read a WHOLE lot of manga, granted).
Random observations (spoilers included):
! -The assassination stuff is cool and all, but I think the stuff with Class E fighting against the oppressive school system was the best part of the manga. Hell, that alone could have been the basis for a series.
! -That said, even after the school stuff was resolved (about 2/3 of the way through) the stuff after that was really great too, especially Kayano's reveal and Koro sensei's backstory.
! -That also said, going into space was probably the dumbest part of the whole manga. That was just a bit too…out there (no pun intended). Hell, even that whole conflict is kinda nonsensical since they try to find a way to save Koro sensei, but then just...go back to trying to kill him? ...I don't get you Class E.
! -A shame none of the romances (aside from Karasuma and Irina) ever cemented into anything final, but eh, they're still college kids by the end of the series. They've got time.
! -Also a shame that Koro sensei never used his Absolute Defense Form again. It just felt like something that should have been used again at least once.
! -God, this manga's use of metaphorical imagery is just extraordinary, if not sometimes a little confusing, but that might just be me being an ignorant American.
! -Between this and MHA, I was really initially turned off by the idea of introducing a whole classroom of students with the false promise of becoming connected to each of them. But both cases proved me wrong as, while it's true that not all the students become fully fleshed out deep characters, you still get a sense of who they all are over time and you can remember most if not all them by the end of the series (almost like a real classroom)
! -I also read that bonus one-shot at the end of Volume 21. While the designs are really creative...yeah, I can kinda see why it wasn't picked up for a series.
If you enjoyed assclass for creative design and its metaphors then Matsuis previous work is an absolute must read. While i really enjoyed assclass personally i find it falters in front of Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, it amps up the creativity to eleven even the cover pages are creative as hell.
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It's my absolute favourite series and i can't wait for his next work to appear.
Just read The Waking Man by Taniguchi Jiro. It's 18 short stories (or portraits) of a waking man and the events he lives on his walks. It's a relly beautiful slice of life, I'd say, focused in the spiritual practice of being in the here and now.
I also read The Magic Montain by the same author. A short story about two children and a talking magical salamander. Like in the first one also in this one the author knows how to portray a spiritual living world in the middle of contemporary society. Really nice author for people who likes spiritualism. It also reminded me of Ashinano Hitoshi's works which revolve around similar topics.
I binge read Innocent:Rouge & caught up to the latest translated volume. (I made a mistake & read the sequel first. Will have to read backwards now.lol)
This series is really weird. It's like I'm on an acid trip but yet I want to keep reading it.
The art is just amazing…It's so incredibly detailed & beautiful. The characters, costumes, scenery etc. I don't even want to imagine the amount of time spent drawing some of the panels. It's easily my favourite aspect of the series & the reason why I decide to read it.
Though I'm not really a fan of almost everyone looking like bishounen/bishojo.
The nudity, sex, violence & gore is kinda off putting. But it does set the tone of the series well & it's at a tolerable level...
! In the first few chapters, our main character's son have to help in the execution of a 12 years old girl who killed her rapist husband….
Definitely knew what I was getting into then. lol
I'm not well versed in the French revolution at all. So, I can't really comment on the historical accuracy of it. I know there are definitely some creative changes to it. One of the main character may not even exist in real life.
I need to catch up the original series first before I can comment on the characters.
Now i am readind Babel2 by Mitseru Yokoyama. Have finished Mars and his giant robo Manga, i realy admire this kind of sci fi….next i will try on his history stuff (Sangokushi).
Getting back into reading Phoenix. It's seriously really amazing. Want to finish it before starting Dorohedoro, which is apparently ending soon.
Getting back into reading Phoenix. It's seriously really amazing. Want to finish it before starting Dorohedoro, which is apparently ending soon.
it's 2 years (maybe more) since Dorohedoro is ending soon 
But I certainly won't stop you reading it. It's extremelly good
They announced that there's only 3 chapters left in it but apparently they've done this before so who knows. At the very least even if it goes on longer than 3 chapters from now, as long as it does end fairly soon it'll probably be over by the time I catch up.
Edit: Started reading Dorohedoro. It's got a really cool aesthetic. I knew about it a little bit but it's a lot more obvious when actually reading it. The art's a little sketchy but it fits still.
It's been many years since I last reread Shin Angyo Onshi, my favorite manga along with Steel Ball Run and One Piece, and I finally got at it again.
It's been a very good experience revisiting it after so long, surprisingly (despite the fact this is probably like the 5th time I am reading it) there are a lot of things I forgot, and I am being particularly surprised with the main character - up to this day he is still my favorite main character in any manga, but this time I am finding him so much more nuanced it is like I am finding a whole new character with so many more layers.
If anyone is curious, I strongly recommend it. It is a manhwa, actually, but it was published in Japan as well almost at the same time and the english scanlation is based on the Japanese translation: https://mangadex.org/chapter/108288/1
The drawings are kinda off at first, but they improve absurdly in no time (by the end of the first volume it is already much more polished). If you decide to try it, I recommend to at least go through the whole first chapter (it seems like a very lame cliché story at first, but there is reason for that).
EDIT: Dorohedoro is really ending now? I put it on a hold because I FELT like it was going to end and I preferred to read it all instead of one occasional chapter. It's been… let's me check... 8 years since then!
Apparently Dorohedoro was going to end before too but it didn't. Not 8 years ago though I don't think. But yeah, chapter 167 is supposed to be the last chapter. I think chapter 165 came out last month but it hasn't been translated yet. So this month and the next month if it's not another fakeout.
I finished Believers, which was an interesting and short series. I want to find some raws and see how they do some of the text because a lot of the text is apparently gibberish but maybe with the meaning (or a meaning) written in furigana or something. Started Ran to Haiiro no Sekai and am in the middle of it. It takes several chapters to get going but it's pretty interesting where I am right now.
For those who like higly visual narrative manga, there's available in mangadex Fellow short cover stories. A bunch of short stories drawn by some great mangakas (Irie Aki, Kaoru Mori, Shirahara Kamome, etc). 
I am reading After the Rain manga. This is one of the best manga. This manga story is so nice. I prefer you read this manga.
Finished Saint Seiya. Was predictably cliche but I loved the whole thing with the Greek gods and stuff, and the cloths. Might look into the spin offs or the sequel that's running now but it's not something that I'm clamoring for. Probably going to start Rookies next. Only found out about Rookies because I wanted to read Rokudenashi Blues but it's not fully translated yet.
Migi & Dali is great. Glad I dove in without a synopsis. Without giving too much away, it's about weird twins.
I'm two chapters into Sankarea: Undying Love and wow… I love it already.
Very interesting concept for a story and the two main characters are pretty likeable so far.
If anyone's already read the manga and they're interested in reading a Twitter reaction thread,
then I've recently started one of those. I'll probably end up making one for The Promised Neverland too.
There is a new serie by Mizu Sahara, the author of watashitachi no Shiawase and Tetsugaku letra
https://mangadex.org/title/33728/okashiratsuki
It's about a girl who falls in love with a boy who is rejected by everybody since he has a physical anomaly.
Given the author past works, it's an instant follow.
To avoid resurrecting a 2 year old thread, will post here.
Just finished Fire Punch.
Loved it. Since Kdom mentioned Chainsaw man author having other manga, I decided to check it and I'm really glad I did.
After I got around the mid-point I started looking up people's reaction from the time the chapters were released and I was really annoyed by this almost meme-ish collective reaction of constantly repeating in absolutely every possible chance in every week that the manga never made sense (even though it was not usually said as a bad thing), because I really think the manga had such an amazing plot line.
Sure it was impossible to predict what was coming next, but that's not because it didn't made sense, just because the author kept showing he was too self-aware and was consciously trying to avoid manga tropes when moving further.
At first sight it may look just like your everyday gore manga, but I suggest you keep going. It will change your mind in its first chapters already.
My favorite moments got to be two that go almost back-to-back. First, the "non-educated dialogue" that calls back to the importance of how looking for easy answers only lead to wickedness down the line (this is something fiction always fail to take into account since we need to wrap things up and long-term effects are never taken into account). The "it wasn't a misunderstanding" moment was so good when I think back to how it started and I thought "I wonder how he will feel when he finds out how he got it all wrong".
Second, obviously, the gender identity issue. I was at the edge of the chair when it was brought up thinking "so this is it, now he will give me a reason to hate this manga". But no. The subject was handled incredibly well and, again, avoiding all the common places and going for a complete different take on it (since it is such a new subject in media, we are still using it in the most basic way "trans person having to deal with society denying their gender identity", so it was good to see one case when the author thinks "ok, we've seen that already. What about moving over to another way of approaching the subject?").
Really good manga, even though I think the end came a bit too early and some things were left unanswered.
I don't expect Chainsaw man to evolve to this point since it is a shonen and I doubt JUMP's public will allow it to live for too long (a shame, I really like the change of tone it could bring to the magazine even if its own argument is not that strong), but I am definitely more interested in seeing how it will grow.
Reading through the K-ON manga, nearly finished. I've heard a lot of criticism about the manga but it's pretty good imo. They did a really good job with the anime though but most of the main content is in the manga, there was just a lot of extra stuff added to make it flow better in episodes. It's cool seeing how jokes and scenes were done in the 4-koma format too. And there's some jokes and content that was slightly toned down for the anime. I think it was a good decision to do that but it still adds something to experience both of them. Will probably read College and High School afterwards. I've been picking up some manga that I want to read too, mostly ongoing stuff, so I need to get back to reading manga like I was before, but I don't want to be reading a million ongoing manga at once.
I've been reading it for a while but I don't think anyone has said a word about it:
An outsider is better in the afterlife or Raise wa Tanin ga Ii for those who speaks Japanese is an extremely good title. It really stand out among the yakusa theme titles I have read so far.
The art is unique and I'm pretty fond of it. We have a really strong willed female lead and a psycho male one. Will they marry at the end and have lot's of children ? It's a bit to early to say.
In delinquent shonen mangas, Tokyo Revenger is also quite good. There is a fantastic side since the hero is time skiping but it is also what makes it interesting since we see what our high school delinquents become once adult. It's published in the Shonen mag and is by the author of Shinjuku Swan so the art is top notch.
In the new titles which have picked my interest:
https://mangadex.org/title/34327/blue-period about a high schooler who discover an interest in art
https://mangadex.org/title/33670/skip-to-loafer about a high schooler from the countryside lost in Tokyo
And someone picked up 7 seeds again so I'm really happy
Finished all the finished K-ON manga, Subarashii Sekai, and Hoshi no Koe. All of them were pretty short so quick reads. Started Rookies though which is pretty long but something I've wanted to read for a while (along with Rokudenashi Blues, though that isn't fully translated yet). Also want to read xxxHolic, which is also long, but most of the scans I can find for it aren't very good quality.
I just finnished everythuing that is published and translated from "out" by Makoto Mizuta. its a good delinquint manga with nice fights but also an interesting overal plot. worth to look into.
https://www.mangatail.me/manga/out-makoto-mizuta
Just finished volume 7 of Rookies. There was a rule they invoked that I didn't even know about, that if the catcher doesn't catch the ball on a third strike the batter is allowed to run to first. If I'd seen that actually happen in a game I don't remember it. Also the first game took up more than 2 volumes. I wonder if that will be normal for all games in the series or if they'll skim over some games later on.
