 Finalists are divided into: Main List / Should Be Anime / Best for Beginners / Unique Art/Story All together, there are 75 unique manga titles from a wide variety of genres, so there should be something new for everyone to enjoy reading. Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations, and especially, comments. We read through all of your great submissions and tried to pick one comment that we thought showcased the manga well for a potential reader. It was really hard! Some of your texts were quite long so you may notice that we snipped them in a few places to make the page easier to read (シ_ _)シ How to Participate in the Stack Challenge Step 1. Click this link to go to the stack: You Should Read This Manga 2024 Step 2. After clicking the link in Step 1, press the restack button like shown:  Step 3. Read the first 2 volumes (or more) of a new manga by Tue Apr 30, 23:59 PT Step 4. Receive your profile badge after the deadline  * Manga you started reading before the challenge began (February 25) will not count. Pick something new! (Plan to Read is fine.) * Please make sure to write the number of volumes you read in your manga list. If you have 0 volumes read in your list, you won't get the badge. * Badges will be given out after the challenge deadline has passed. They are added manually, not automatically, so please be patient. |
KinetaFeb 27, 2024 8:23 AM
| Wait... can we start marking things as reading today or do we have to wait for tomorrow (February 26th)? I thought I was just going to have to wait until tomorrow, but now the border at the top is up and everything, so... (I'll probably wait until tomorrow anyway just in case unless someone says otherwise.) |
SwiggyFeb 25, 2024 7:08 PM
Reply to Swiggy
Wait... can we start marking things as reading today or do we have to wait for tomorrow (February 26th)? I thought I was just going to have to wait until tomorrow, but now the border at the top is up and everything, so...
(I'll probably wait until tomorrow anyway just in case unless someone says otherwise.)
(I'll probably wait until tomorrow anyway just in case unless someone says otherwise.)
| @Swiggy Sorry, we meant 26th in JST, so you can start now reading now! |
| Sweet! Can't wait to participate in this one. 😁 |
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| Oohhh, so it's here now! I'm definitely going to participate again. ^_^ |
  new stacks - lets gooww !! ^_^ |
vemz21Feb 25, 2024 7:26 PM
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✩| Gonna read Sakamoto Days, was planning on reading anyways W |
  me candies:        |
| Think I am going to read Hiraeth wa Tabiji no Hate! The art style and story looks interesting to me. It is also a complete story that I can finish which is a plus for me concerning this challenge! |
| I got a few things I want to try out and read in this challenge. Should be fun! |
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| hmm it's sucks since i've already read Boys Abbys & Oshi no Ko lol |
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| Yeah, I've already read the ones I'm interested in before the challenge! That's a bit of a bummer. Oh well, maybe I'll read some of the others, so I'll join in just in case. |
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| This one is easy, the stack is full of bangers. |
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| I've actually been considering reading Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari so this is the perfect excuse to check it out! |
| IMO, this is a nice list. I hope I won't get lazy though. |
| My Candies 2024: |
| Yayyy this is my favorite kind of interest stack challenge, glad to see it's back! I've read some good manga thanks to last year's "You Should Read This Manga" list. I haven't started reading a new manga since the new year, so this will be good motivation. Happy to see Witch Hat Atelier, Blue Period, Heavenly Delusion, Apothecary Diaries, Skip to Loafer, Given, and Ao Ashi on the list. I'll definitely give Hirayasumi a shot since the top recommendation for it is Skip to Loafer. The synopsis for Don't Call It Mystery sounds interesting, can't say no to mystery. There are at least ten others on the list that look interesting as well, but I'll probably get through at least one of these two first, for now. |
  "As promised, all that you seek, all that we desire, is prepared up there. On top of the Tower." |
| pretty good collection of mangas. happy to see shounen no abyss included. more people need to read that one. |
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| I've already chosen the new mangas I'm going to read. :) |
Meus doces:       |
| Now that's fortunately an interesting stack, been looking for good recommendations anyway so this really helps |
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| I'm looking forward to a new rozen |
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Kineta said: Manga you started reading before the challenge began (February 25) will not count. Is it okay if I have the manga as Plan to Read currently, but have never actually read it? |
| henlo:) ☆ c h a o s ☆ ^ check out my club :) |
  I'm here to finish off Isho, koukai and looking for aishiteru game ----- |
| Thanks, looks like I'll read a bunch of them soon :). |
 Pls don't write animeS or mangaS >.< // + <50 man(g/hw/hu)a not in MAL. // Join my >manga club< here! |
| added some manga i haven't read before from teh stack into my plan to read, ^^ am excited to read somethin new especially since i havnt read a manga for a short while |
| Can anyone give me suggestions of these manga? Thank you. |
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Reply to Orion911
Can anyone give me suggestions of these manga? Thank you.
| @Orion911 I can't give an informed opinion as it's all new to me, but I can tell you what I was considering. I think I heard Gigguk talk about Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You and it sounded like a good slow-build adult friend/romance slice-of-life kind of thing with a heavier tone. And it's the only one that wasn't actively on my radar already because of anime counterparts I haven't seen yet too, so that's the one I'm planning on going with. And said manga that falls under what I said about anime counterparts for me would be That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Apothecary Diaries (historical mystery? I know less about this one), and Mieruko-chan (if I'm right, it's about a girl who sees dead people but needs to not react to them). I noticed Oshi No Ko was on the list too. |
  I'm level  on MAL-Badges. View my badges. |
| Lets gooo W :^) |
| It's finally started, I'm really looking forward to checking out all the different manga that I haven't read yet. |
Mr_LibraFeb 26, 2024 3:12 AM
   Beachte diesen Satz nicht, du kannst ihn eh nicht lesen, falls doch herzlichen Glückwunsch, du kannst lesen. This set was made by viraat. |
Reply to MoonSpider
@Orion911 I can't give an informed opinion as it's all new to me, but I can tell you what I was considering.
I think I heard Gigguk talk about Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You and it sounded like a good slow-build adult friend/romance slice-of-life kind of thing with a heavier tone. And it's the only one that wasn't actively on my radar already because of anime counterparts I haven't seen yet too, so that's the one I'm planning on going with.
And said manga that falls under what I said about anime counterparts for me would be That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Apothecary Diaries (historical mystery? I know less about this one), and Mieruko-chan (if I'm right, it's about a girl who sees dead people but needs to not react to them). I noticed Oshi No Ko was on the list too.
I think I heard Gigguk talk about Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You and it sounded like a good slow-build adult friend/romance slice-of-life kind of thing with a heavier tone. And it's the only one that wasn't actively on my radar already because of anime counterparts I haven't seen yet too, so that's the one I'm planning on going with.
And said manga that falls under what I said about anime counterparts for me would be That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Apothecary Diaries (historical mystery? I know less about this one), and Mieruko-chan (if I'm right, it's about a girl who sees dead people but needs to not react to them). I noticed Oshi No Ko was on the list too.
| @MoonSpider Thank you very much. |
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hopelesspotato said: Is it okay if I have the manga as Plan to Read currently, but have never actually read it? That should be OK as long as you just have it on plan to read, at least that's how it was last time if I remember correctly. |
| Beachte diesen Satz nicht, du kannst ihn eh nicht lesen, falls doch herzlichen Glückwunsch, du kannst lesen. This set was made by viraat. |
| Stack challenge always be appreciated by me |
 Hide and seek is the best offline games on this fatamorgana-called-world-thing. Please comment nicely. I am newbie here. I'm level  on mal-badges. View my badges  |
| 26 feb 2024 started Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai |
| Wake up to REALITY!! |
chiantidoylabs said: do we need to read all of them? or just 1? Only one, and only 2 volumes of it. |
| Beachte diesen Satz nicht, du kannst ihn eh nicht lesen, falls doch herzlichen Glückwunsch, du kannst lesen. This set was made by viraat. |
I don't read manga much so this going to be fun reading manga that I've heard of that are popular and get a badge in return win, win  |
Daniel0755IIEFeb 26, 2024 11:30 AM
| Gonna use this time as an excuse to start and catch up on some manga. |
 "You fought to the end. You survived. That's why you're here now. I think that's something you should be more proud of." - Vladilena Milizé |
| Surprised to see Usuzumi no Hate on the list. In which country has this been licensed? Edit: Only in Spain by the looks of it. Bit of a niche inclusion for an English-language site/article. |
ToukaFeb 26, 2024 5:31 AM
| Let's go time for a new badge! |
MAL Halloween candy collected 👻 2023  |
| Nice! I see Shounen no Abyss on the list. Good choice. I recommend it. Have fun, everyone! |
| Another badge for the collection. |
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| Sweet! I had already started Sakamoto Days and Gokurakugai two days ago! |
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Reply to Touka
Surprised to see Usuzumi no Hate on the list. In which country has this been licensed?
Edit: Only in Spain by the looks of it. Bit of a niche inclusion for an English-language site/article.
Edit: Only in Spain by the looks of it. Bit of a niche inclusion for an English-language site/article.
| @Touka MAL encouraged us to nominate manga unlicensed in our own region, saying that any manga making the list may be more likely to be licensed in the future. I tried to nominate a newly translated retro manga, and it disappoints me greatly that the final list does not have a single title that ended before this decade. Such manga may not be new to the world, but they are new to those people who do not understand Japanese! |
| その目だれの目？ |
| Hmm. Last year I read 100 Girlfriends which I liked, but this year has a good mangas to choose from. Right now I'm deciding on whether I should read Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Blue Box, Sakamoto Days, or Dandadan. There's also a bunch of mangas listed in the stack that already have anime adaptions aired such as Vanitas no Karte, Heavenly Delusion, "Oshi no Ko", Tenshura, The Apothecary Diaries, The Dangers in My Heart, Skip to Loafer, Mieruko-chan, Given, Ao Ashi, and Dark Gathering. |
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Reply to Lucifrost
@Touka
MAL encouraged us to nominate manga unlicensed in our own region, saying that any manga making the list may be more likely to be licensed in the future. I tried to nominate a newly translated retro manga, and it disappoints me greatly that the final list does not have a single title that ended before this decade. Such manga may not be new to the world, but they are new to those people who do not understand Japanese!
MAL encouraged us to nominate manga unlicensed in our own region, saying that any manga making the list may be more likely to be licensed in the future. I tried to nominate a newly translated retro manga, and it disappoints me greatly that the final list does not have a single title that ended before this decade. Such manga may not be new to the world, but they are new to those people who do not understand Japanese!
| @Lucifrost Aye, that makes sense. I just found it a little misleading since, although the article is promoting licensed manga, there's not really any indication where exactly each series is licensed. An overwhelming majority seem to be available in English so perhaps that thought they don't need to, but that's why Usuzumi no Hate took me by surprise. I do agree with your latter remark, also. I think it would be good to at least have a category for older manga, especially nowadays where a lot of classics and cult hits are being brought over for the first time. Although perhaps not enough people are writing about such manga. Kineta said it was hard to pick between comments, so I assume the most popular submissions steal the focus. I've written submissions for a lesser known manga both years this has been running, but I suspect I might be the only person advocating for it. Needless to say, it didn't get a mention. |
ToukaFeb 26, 2024 8:46 AM
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