Touge Oni
Touge Oni: Primal Gods in Ancient Times

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Touge Oni is really an excellent manga. It is, at this point, a bit episodic: the protagonists visit a sequence of gods (kami) on various missions. However, a larger, very clever plot involving time travel is beginning to coalesce.

I particularly liked chapters 3.5 and 6.5, which step back from the story to focus on the story's first villain. The author deftly humanizes a character who seems in the first chapter to be unambiguously cruel and monstrous. I expect to see more of this subtle characterization as the story progresses.

The story's art is, in general, just satisfactory. One bright spot are the kami, which are massive ... and quite cool to see.

In all, 10/10.

I love this manga.
I came across it not even a month ago and I have read it maybe ten times already, I really wish there was more to read.
The art is very good, easy to 'read' and detailed without being overwhelming, the characters and the relationships they share are never cliché and develop soundly even though there are only 16 chapters so far, you can see attention to details even in little things, for instance Miyo's habit of touching her necklace whenever she is feeling fear, doubts or needs reassurance.
Plus, even tough we see Kami and other supernatural things in every chapter, I like ... how the manga is still (more or less) consistent with actual physics, as we see for instance in chapters 7 and in chapter 9.
To sum it up, this manga definitely deserves more readers, and hopefully one day even an animated version.

Saw this on read a manga 2025 stacks,thought the artstyle is cool and clean and thought i will give it a try.
The story is convoluted and so cluttered it feels like i am hopping between peoples fever dreams,i think they overcomplicated it with too much stuff they want to add in that the main story of the manga gets lost in the sauce.

The artstyle is clean,they made the kami designs look very humongous they feel daunting and suffocating which i liked,really reminds me of Higanjima or something like Freak Island,they are very far apart though just a slight season of that feeling.

Yeah i think it's ... got something going on,i don't know what though,but i will say if this manga gets an anime i think it would feel like a 6/10 the anime you turn your brain off to,and something happens every five minutes that you continue to watch,like a show to put on the background while upgrading your town halls in coc,something like a fruit of evolution🥀🥀