[Challenge] You Should Read This Manga 2024

@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!

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.

@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.

That information can be found in the stack.
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/41944

I actually don’t know, I’m just speculating here based in computer programming, probably the system do something like this:
- By the end date it checks from those that had stacked the challenge
- Then it will cross the mangas from the stack and your list, if found any, it will check first the Start Date and that must be Feb 25th or after
- If the Start Date is before Feb 25th that entry will not count towards the challenge
- Else (i.e., Start Date >= Feb 25th), it checks the number of Volumes Read from that entry, and if it has 2 or more then you get the badge.

Kinda simple programing for that, most difficult part is probably crossing the stack list and your entry, checking is the easiest part.


Not that simple, but something like this

So, answering your objective question. Those volumes you’ve read before the challenge (here I mean, in your manga entry the start date is after Feb 25th) then no, they will not count for the challenge, you’ll have to start a new one.



@Kloudlessky and @memorycloud
I can’t know for sure, but that’s a good question.
Based on the statement I’ve wrote above, if the manga is in your PTR you probably didn’t update the field Start Date so, when you start reading this, and update that field (manually) it will count towards the challenge. Hope someone from the staff can confirm that for us.

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.

Oh yes, I was waiting for this, time to read some manga, I already read Oshi no Ko, a shame, there are several mangas of some animes that I saw so I might read some of those, I don't know... I might also read something new
On the other hand... How did they read suggestions? Could the suggestions be submitted? NOBODY TOLD ME THAT? How is it done? I want to suggest something next year

Selamın aleyküm I don't understand anything. Do they want us to read the 2 manga they chose? How long do we have?

Can we read something that didn't make it to the final selection, or is it only the titles left in there that we can read?

@ZoeEbe There were banners and emails advertising the nominations for around one month :')
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2135097

I actually don’t know, I’m just speculating here based in computer programming, probably the system do something like this:
- By the end date it checks from those that had stacked the challenge
- Then it will cross the mangas from the stack and your list, if found any, it will check first the Start Date and that must be Feb 25th or after
- If the Start Date is before Feb 25th that entry will not count towards the challenge
- Else (i.e., Start Date >= Feb 25th), it checks the number of Volumes Read from that entry, and if it has 2 or more then you get the badge.

Kinda simple programing for that, most difficult part is probably crossing the stack list and your entry, checking is the easiest part.


Not that simple, but something like this

So, answering your objective question. Those volumes you’ve read before the challenge (here I mean, in your manga entry the start date is after Feb 25th) then no, they will not count for the challenge, you’ll have to start a new one.



@Kloudlessky and @memorycloud
I can’t know for sure, but that’s a good question.
Based on the statement I’ve wrote above, if the manga is in your PTR you probably didn’t update the field Start Date so, when you start reading this, and update that field (manually) it will count towards the challenge. Hope someone from the staff can confirm that for us.