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Hello, I am a swedish male in my early 20s and I've been reading manga since around 2003.

Started out reading Dragonball at my friends house. I began collecting my first manga when One Piece was first published in Sweden (2003). Collected up to around 45 volumes of One Piece then started reading "ahead" on the internet. Drifted onwards to Naruto and quickly discovered other mangas.

I had a period when I read a lot of manga in the genres: Romance, school life, comedy, slice of life, drama, shounen, seinen, shoujo. To summerize; I read a lot of easy going romance manga that took place in modern real life.

Now I try to read more serious manga that actually gets somewhere with the story (compared to shounen/shoujo romance). I have drifted more towards horror, tradegy, drama and other "grown up" stuffs. I still enjoy some easygoing slice of life, romance, drama and so on. Generally manga portraiting every day life.

I used to watch a little anime a couple of years ago but I've quit doing that. I find anime takes too much time compared to what you get out of the experiece. I find manga being more efficient and a better way to spend my time. I do however enjoy anime movies such as "Ghost in the shell" and Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki works. I've seen almost all of those.

Here are some pointers if you want to recommend me any manga.

What I look for in a good manga:
- Story is driven forward somehow
- Interesting non-generic characters
- Character developement
- Artstyle and background
- Setting/concept

Genres that are relevant for me, in alphabetical order (taken from mangareader):
=INTERESTED IN=
- Comedy
- Drama
- Horror
- Josei
- Romance
- School life
- Seinen
- Slice of life
- Tradegy
- Psychological

=SOMEWHAT INTERESTED IN=
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Science fiction
- Sports (can be a supporting topic if the rest of the manga is good enough)

IMPORTANT TO NOTE: I'm only interested in manga at the moment, not anime.

I'm joining this community/forum to get back into reading manga and hopefully getting recommendations for mangas that could interest me.

Thanks for looking at my profile and see you around!