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Noteworthy shounen that released during the Era of the "Big 3"

Worldbuilding - "the process of constructing a world, originally an imaginary one, sometimes associated with a fictional universe." These kinds of manga are usually set in a fantasy and/or sci-fi world, and excel at establishing & showcasing the rules/history/economy of their fictional universe. List was created through collective data from multiple websites of people's answers as to what manga are considered to have great world building.

Number of sales and date that number was acquired from in notes for each. Some of them I have personally estimated a higher figure than the date says.

No. 147 would be the Himitsu Series of books. It's for children and I can't find it on MAL. It has 116 volumes and started in 1972, and has sold 23 million (June 10th, 2018).

Enjoy these diverse worlds and cute romances from Weekly Shonen Magazine.

Link to part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6533

EDIT: Added "Four Knights of the Apocalypse", "Knights of the Area", "Gamaran", "GTO: The Early Years" and "Cromartie High School".

Part 1 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6823
Part 3 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7371
Part 4 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9506

Part 5 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9550


Free on Book Walker - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9163
Manga on Comixology Unlimited - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9505

Fairy Tail Reading Order (Release Order):
(1 Prequel, 1 Sequel, 4 Side Stories, 6 Spin-Offs, 5 Other)
0. Mashima-en (Aug 1998 to Oct 29, 2003) | 2 Volumes 8 Chapters - Other
Rave (Jul 7, 1999 to Jul 27, 2005) | 35 Volumes 298 Chapters - Other
Rave: Plue no Inu Nikki (2002) | 3 Volumes ? Chapters - Other
*1. Fairy Tail (Aug 2, 2006 to Jul 26, 2017) | 63 Volumes 549 Chapters- Parent Story / Sequel
2. Fairy Tail S (Nov 14, 2007 to Jun 20, 2016) | 2 Volumes 18 Chapters - Side Story
3. Fairy Tail+ (May 17, 2010) | ? Volume 3 Chapters - Side Story
4. Pray for Japan (May 5, 2011) | Doujinshi | 1 Volume ? Chapter - Other
5. Fairy Tail Light Novel (May 2, 2012 to Mar 17, 2016) | 3 Volumes 29 Chapters - Side Story
6. Fairy Tail: Houou no Miko - Hajimari no Asa (Aug 18, 2012) | 1 Volume 1 Chapter - Side Story
7. Fairy Tail x Nanatsu no Taizai Christmas Special (Dec 25, 2013) | 1 Volume 1 Chapter - Other / Crossover
*8.Fairy Tail Zerø (Jul 16, 2014 to Jul 17, 2015) | 1 Volume 13 Chapters - Prequel
9. Tale of Fairy Tail: Ice Trail (Jul 16, 2014 to Jul 17, 2015) | 2 Volumes 15 Chapters - Spin-Off
10. Fairy Tail: Blue Mistral (Aug 2, 2014 to Dec 1, 2015) | 4 Volumes 17 Chapters - Spin-Off
11. Fairy Girls (Nov 20, 2014 to Aug 20, 2016) | 4 Volumes 21 Chapters - Spin-Off
12. Magazine Ohanami!! (Apr 1, 2015) | 1 Volume 1 Chapter - Other / Crossover
13. Fairy Tail Gaiden (Jul 30, 2015 to Sep 14, 2016) | 3 Volumes 52 Chapters - Spin-Off
14. Edens Zero (Jun 27, 2018 to ?) | ? Volumes ? Chapters - Other
*15. Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest (Jul 25, 2018 to ?) | ? Volumes ? Chapters - Sequel
16. Fairy Tail: Happy no Daibouken (Jul 26, 2018 to Apr 2, 202) | 8 Volumes 80 Chapters - Spin-Off
17. Fairy Tail: City Hero (Oct 26, 2018 to Nov 22, 2019) | 4 Volumes 46 Chapters - Spin-Off
18. Mashima Hero's (Oct 16, 2019 to Dec 25, 2019) | 1 Volume 10 Chapters - Other / Crossover

Note: Those with asterisks (*) are the main stories.

Other manga by Mashima-sensei with related characters (from Rave and Eden's Zero) are included in this list as 'Other'. Not necessary for complete reading of Fairy Tail but will give you more of an idea about Mashima's manga universe as characters from those series crossover from time to time.

Also found in my blog Fairy Tail Watching & Reading Guides: https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=871618

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I also made a Fairy Tail Official Music Listening Guide:
Part 1: Openings and Endings Compilations (Series, OVAs, Movies), Character Song Collections - https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=872065
Part 2: Series OSTs - https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=872066
Part 3: Movie OSTs - https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=872068

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Note:
*Links to OFFICIAL reading sites (INKR Comics, Azuki, BOOK☆WALKER, Crunchyroll, MangaPlaza) with English translation are included per manga entry. More will be added when I encounter them.

For watch order, I recommend the interest stack [AEGC] Fairy Tail Guide watch order: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/5001

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Mangaka: Mashima, Hiro https://myanimelist.net/people/1882/Hiro_Mashima
Genres: Action, Adventure, Award Winning, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy
Demographic: Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)

Club: Fairy Tail https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=13852 (Semi-active)

Tags: Dragon, Guild, Mage, Magic, S-Class, Wizard

good and bad, to play after reading

We've all experienced that frustrated feeling of enjoying a manga/LN, only to find out that it has a horrible, rushed, incomplete, unsatisfying ending. Here is a list of manga/LNs with endings that are so fulfilling and complete that they will leave you with nothing but a heart full of contentment and/or bittersweetness. List was created through collective data from multiple websites of people's answers as to what shows are considered to have satisfying endings.

Good games to play after read

This list contains only completed lesser known battle shounen manga (so no Jojo, Bleach, FMA and similar stuff). I also excluded manga that may have some battles but are primarily other genre, like comedy (Sket Dance) or survival (Imawa no Kuni no Alice).
I rated all of the following manga 7 or higher.

This is the continuation of last part,same as last time. I picked the ones that populars and underrated and which publisher publish it so on and so forth...

If you're an anime watcher you should read these manga. You won't regret it.

It's the 2nd most popular Manga Magazine right after Jump. It got so many good manga titles!