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September 10th, 2015
Extended favorite manga list
Anime Relations: Kingdom
5 just isn't enough. I've read far too many good manga to just pick five. Since I really like to analyse mostly everything, I decided to sum up the reasons of each one, anyway don't take it further than a brief sketch. I don't know if anyone will ever read this but it's fine if not, I do it mostly for myself. I'll start with the five ones on my profile page and then I'll start adding some more.
- Vinland Saga: VIKINGS, wonderful drawing, lots of action, amazing character growing, and a subtle philosophical tone. Thorfin is a cinnamon roll, a cinnamon roll that could kill you any time, but a cinnamon roll.
- Eden: It's and endless world: One of the best seinen that ever hooked me up. Endo Hiroki's style is superb. Also much gnosticism so philosophical. Plus, badass female characters. Helena <3
- My girl: I LOVE SAHARA MIZU (or whatever the pen name you know her by). Her use of watercolors is just flawless and her style is simple yet really emotional. The history is fragile yet very powerful and Koharu is the child most of us would want one day.
- Piano no Mori: My sons, my beautiful sons. Also, most of the stuff I know from classical music, I learnt it from PnM. It also inspired me a paper for college which my teacher loved. Just read it. Probably the best slice of life out there right now.
- Omoide Emanon: I'm quite the Kenji Tsuruta fangirl, I have every of his artworks published at my country. The story is kinda vague but I like the freedom yet the weight in all of it. The drawing style is marvelous.
- 20th Century Boys: TOMODACHIIIIIII. Naoki Urasawa, that should explain by itself why it's worth reading.
- Aku no Hana: Psychological, coming-of-age manga, with great characters and a really fitting ending. Loved it.
- All rounder Meguru: Do you want to be a MMA tactician? Do you want to have one more push to exercise? All of it plus Hiroki Endo's art on All Rounder Meguru.
- Angel Densetsu: I've never, EVER, laughed so much with any manga I've read. Plus, drawing style is great.
- Annarasumanara: This one is kinda like being trapped inside a magician's show. It kind of gives you hope for the future. Plus, it's in full colour.
- Anuki: First World War inspired sci-fi manga with some great plot twists and a variety of characters.
- Arigatou: This one's pretty personal. I felt related to many aspects of it. Then, I spent a few hours crying over it. Pretty self-destructive but definitely one of my top favourites.
- Bakuman: I just can't be objective on this one, it holds too emotional value for me to be it. While the huge walls of text can be burdening, it's really interesting. Obata is a great artist too. The only thing I don't like is the treatment of female characters, often idealizing concepts such as "purity" and old meaningless stuff.
- Bartender: Before I read it I just liked the alcohol. Now I have a shaker and a .txt containing all the recipes from the manga.
- Beelzebub: It could possibly be the best battle shonen manga of the last few years. Short yet intense battles and a sense of comedy from the first chapter 'til the last one.
- Berserk: I hate you yet I love you so much, Kentaro Miura.
- Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: do you want Magical girls and suffering but with a classical drawing style? Take a look at the all known Sailor Moon. MAKE UP!
- Blade of the Immortal: Love it, Love it so much I have a GIANT poster of one of the characters at my bedroom. The characters are soooooo great. The action is sooooooo amazing. If you're into historical manga but fancy a twist of fantasy, read it.
- Bokurano: Deconstruction of the mecha genre. Feelings, too many feelings. If you liked Madoka Magica, take a look at Bokurano.
- Bradherley no Basha: Finest psychological horror that will leave you thinking about it for days. Also great drawings.
- Cesare: Borgias are pretty famous around Europe yet, for some reason, not so much at my country, which they were originally from. Renaissance, political struggles within the Vatican, art, and a wide variety of historical characters from the epoch such as Savignarola, Maquiavelol, or Michel Angelo. Plus, insane art.
- Claymore: EPIC. Plus, loved the sorority amongs the characters and how well developed they were.
- Diamond dust: Go to your nearest store, buy as many kleenex you can afford, buy some chocolate too, then sit at your computer and read.
- Dorohedoro: Don't ask. Just read.
- F. Compo: Most stereotype shattering manga I've read in a while. Funny too.
- Fourteen: Imagine the best B sci-fi movie you can. This manga is probably still B but better.
- Fraction: Shintaro Fucking Kago toying with your mind.
- Fuguruman Raihouki: Kei Toume doing what she's best at. Magic reality.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: If someone who's never read manga asked me to recommend them one to start from, this would be it.
- Gisèle Alain: A cute teen girl doing chores around Paris in the late XIX, early XX. Don't need to say more.
- Golondrina: Alright, I'm against bullfighting and all of that BUT thanks to Golondrina I can understand why some people would call it an art. Plus, if you really want to feel like you were in Spain without spending a coin, this is your manga. And Est Em.
- Hayachine!: I like slice of life with children as main characters. I love children, I really like them. Plus, this one teaches you many things from the region is set in and another japanese stuff, it portrays gender diversity and has some feminist tones to it. Plus, the drawing is SO cute.
- Historie: Hitoshi Iwaaki (Parasyte) drawing a biography of Alexander Magnus full of war strategy and little details which you will surely appreciate.
- I am a hero: Just imagine The walking dead but set in Japan and with japanese characters. "Sorry I had to steal the food from your store, here are x yen to cover it up / I'll come back to pay you when this all ends".
- Hitsuji no Uta: Vampires treated on a very different light. Also, the first I read from Kei Toume.
- Horou Musuko: Transexuality treated on a delicate, soft, educational manner. Would recommend to anyone who doesn't understand what's it about.
- Ikigami: I have a thing for dystopia.
- Kakukaku Shikajika: Pure motivation. One of the most honest manga I've ever read.
- Kanikosen: Adaptation of a communist novel. Loved it.
- Kaze no tani no Nausicaä: Amazing main character. Loved how it treats nature-related stuff and how wonderful Miyazaki's art is.
- Kingdom: My last great discovery. I've learn military strategy, which has lead me to start taking seriously chess. AMAZING characters. AMAZING style. AMAZING everything. It could be well be on pair with Vinland Saga and Vagabond on quality.
- Life: I wish this was mandatory reading in all of high-schools. Magnificent piece about bulling.
- Majo: Quite Alternative. Great designs.
- Magi: An alternative shounen. It has all the classic elements plus it's deeper than your regular shounen, the characters are more developed, and it's set on an unusual background.
- Monster: My favourite work from Urasawa. Wish it had a live adaptation.
- Mushishi: Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful.
- Nocturne: Subtle, sentimental, fragile, drama. With a drawing style that could almost work perfectly without any text on it.
- Not simple: Natsume Ono really knows how to do something different.
- Orokamono wa Aka wo Kirau: Yuri is the perfect example of how a heroine can be all soft and sensitive and still be determined and brave. Loved her.
- Otoyomegatari: It's nice reading something set in an area I almost know nothing of. The impartiality all of the stories are told is really refreshing. The characters are all memorable. And the drawing is just from another world.
- Oyasumi Punpun: You know this shows about wild life where they show you a baby deer, they name it and you watch it grow and you feel like it's almost your own pet and then a fucking lion or a forager comes out of nowhere and you see it dying and your heart breaks forever? that's Punpun in a nutshell.
- Panorama of hell: Who could imagine a self biography could be told in such a sick yet genious manner?
- Planetes: Masterpiece by the same mangaka who is now doing Vinland Saga, another fucking masterpiece.
- Raqiya: Gnosticism and shit with church conspiracy and all that stuff. Bit ecchi with really nice gals.
- Reimei no Arcana: Nakaba x Caesar the best OTP of all them OTPs. Nakaba is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO badass.
- Ribbon no Kishi: A classic which can be considered the first magical girl manga amongst MANY other things.
- Rozen Maiden: It might not be a master piece but I really like all of the time line stuff and how it was handled. Plus, the designs are just sooooooooooooo cute.
- Sanctuary: I love yakuza manga and the political twist on this one is just awesome.
- Shaman King: It's the manga in which is based my childhood anime. Also it has one of my favourite endings ever. Plus, Hao is probably the first on my top-villain list, thought I can't fully think of him as a villain :(
- Slam dunk: Great sports manga plus really funny.
- Solanin: Asano Inio is the voice of our generation. Period.
- Song of the long march: Chang Ge Li is one of the most wonderful main characters I've ever read. The story is complex and it hooks you from the start. The art is really awesome.
- Souten no ken: Same as Hokuto no Ken but with a more badass kenshiro and alltheway better.
- Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna: psychological, cool, with one of the best female characters ever.
- Subaru: You are going to star to watch ballet videos non-stop.
- Sukima-shiki: Love the concept of mixing indie pop songs with manga. Really original. Plus Yumeka Sumomo.
- The bride of the water god: I wont say anything about the story apart from the fact that I hate the names of the characters for being too difficult to remember them all. Just take a look at the drawing style and you'll need to read it.
- The world is mine: Most nihilistic manga I've ever, ever, read.
- Vagabond: One of the manga that probably have most influenced my life. Vagabond was the turning point where I really saw manga could be as good as any other written media and I decided to make the world acknowledge it. And here I am, striving to be a manga publisher, which lead us to...
- Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan: Just read it. Masterpiece.
- Yesterday wo Utatte: It might not be my favourite Kei Toume's work but I've really taken a huge likening to Haru. Plus, Kei Toume's artwork is always wonderful.
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Post-apocalyptical yet really quiet and fresh manga. Read it along with a nice cup of tea or coffee.
Posted by Tsukiaki | Sep 10, 2015 7:01 PM | 0 comments