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We asked passionate readers which manga you need to read now—and here are the results!
Finalists are listed in the following order: Main List, Unique Art/Story, Should Be Anime, Best for Beginners. Every title is officially available outside Japan in at least one language, with one or more volumes published in 2022.
Official Challenge Stack
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To get the limited-time badge:
1. Click the Restack button
2. Choose a manga you haven't started reading yet
3. Read at least 2 volumes of that manga by May 31st
* Manga you started reading before the challenge began (March 28) will not count. Pick something new!
* 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.
Anime featuring characters with good or bad luck.
Feb/Mar 2023 Official Challenge Stack
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To get the limited-time badge:
1. Click the Restack button
2. Complete at least 1 anime (*) on this list by March 31st!
(*) Anime you completed before the challenge started (Feb 1) will not count. You will need watch something new, finish something you have on-hold, or re-watch something you've watched before.
Manga featuring chocolatiers, patissiers, and confectioners.
Feb/Mar 2023 Official Challenge Stack
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To get the limited-time badge:
1. Click the Restack button
2. Complete at least 1 manga (*) on this list by March 31st!
Fully-translated and finished series are listed alphabetically at the top.
(*) Manga you completed before the challenge started (Feb 1) will not count. You will need read something new, finish something you have on-hold, or re-read something you've read before.
(*) Ongoing series will be accepted for the challenge only if you've read up to the recent translated chapter and have it on your Reading/On-Hold. Do NOT set publishing manga to Completed as 0/0 chp/vol, you won't get a badge!
Summer 2022 Official Challenge Stack
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To get the limited-time badge:
1. Click the Restack button
2. Complete at least 1 manga you haven't read OR re-read a manga on this list by August 31!
Anime reminiscent of summer with supernatural elements.
Summer 2022 Official Challenge Stack
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To get the limited-time badge:
1. Click the Restack button
2. Complete at least 1 anime you haven't watched OR re-watch an anime on this list by August 31!
The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.
(Source: Wikipedia)
The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Minna no Uta (みんなのうた), or Songs for Everyone, is a five-minute NHK TV and radio program which is broadcast several times daily. The program started on April 3, 1961. It is one of NHK's long-running programs.
The program is generally used as filler between programs. While many of the episodes are aimed at children, a large percentage are not, so the program enjoys a wide audience.
The program is used to introduce new songs from popular and new singers, as well as to highlight the talents of various animators and directors. A list of upcoming and currently airing episodes is listed monthly in magazines such as Animage and Newtype.
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Note: This stack is a work-in-progress.
Doroku (土6), a shortened name for the 6 p.m. time slot on Saturdays, was Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) and its sister network Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)'s programming block. Doroku was first launched in October 2002, however, the first anime series to air on the block was in July 1993. The block ended was replaced by Nichigo in April 2008.
Nichigo (日5), a shortened name for the 5 p.m. time slot on Sundays, is Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) and its sister network Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)'s anime programming block. Nichigo was first launched in April 2008 to replace the Doroku (土6) anime programming block, which aired at 6 p.m. on Saturdays from 1992 to 2008.
Beginning in April 2017, Nichigo was combined with the 7 a.m. Saturday anime programming block into a new early Saturday morning segment named Anisata (short for Anime Saturday).
The programming block has been revived in April 2022, with Mobile Suit Gundam Suit: The Witch from Mercury as the first anime to air originally on the block in October 2022.
Manga collected in this stack have stories which focus on the struggles of maintaining, repairing, or building family bonds. These relationships should be between the main characters and must be non-romantic in nature.
Series which focus primarily on taking care of infants to pre-teen children will not be included in this stack; please use the Childcare theme to find these stories. However, if the childcare component is only one relationship of multiple in the family, then these manga will also be added here.
The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Named after Osamu Tezuka, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞, Tezuka Osamu Bunkashō) is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan.
The Short Story Award is given to the best short manga or 4-koma manga.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Note: If the award was given to an author for multiple series, the series will not be included on this stack.
Anime collected in this stack have stories which focus on the struggles of maintaining, repairing, or building family bonds. These relationships should be between the main characters and must be non-romantic in nature.
Series which focus primarily on taking care of infants to pre-teen children will not be included in this stack; please use the Childcare theme to find these stories. However, if the childcare component is only one relationship of multiple in the family, then these anime will also be added here.
Named after Osamu Tezuka, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞, Tezuka Osamu Bunkashō) is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan.
The Creative Award (also called the New Creator Award) is given to works which display novel talents, including innovative presentation and groundbreaking themes.
(Source: Wikipedia)
The following authors won the award for multiple works, and thus are not included here:
Kyou Machiko in 2014 for Mitsuami no Kamisama, U, Ano ne, and mina-mo-no-gram.
Tajima Rettou in 2020 for Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru and Goaisatsu: Tajima Rettou Tanpenshuu.
Taniguchi Natsuko in 2022 for Kyoushitsu no Katasumi de Seishun ga Hajimaru and Konya Sukiyaki da yo.
The Japan Cartoonists Association Award (日本漫画家協会賞, Nihon Mangaka Kyōkai Shō) is an annual award for manga, sponsored by the Japan Cartoonists Association. The prize was first awarded in 1972.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Anime which takes place in a college.
The Shogakukan Manga Award (小学館漫画賞, Shōgakukan Mangashō) is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers. Each winning work will be honored with a bronze statuette and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$9,000). Special awards are also occasionally given out for outstanding work, lifetime achievement, and so forth.
(Source: Wikipedia)