Do you have nice one-shot stories to recommend?

[Ikagura]

By one-shot I mean usually one (or two) volume mangas that aren't meant to be long stories with several arcs but a single one with a clear goal.

I first think of Toriyama's Sand Land which is a self contained story but there are many others as well. I can accept "two-in-one" volumes as well.

 

[J.F.C]

Most of Fujimoto's one shot's are pretty good, better than whatever the fuck Chainsaw Man Part 2 has turned into anyway.

 

[Hikari.EXE]

Bullet Armors is pretty fucking good, it's not a 2 volume but a 6 volume, alas I don't think it'll make that much of a diference.

 

[Elwiwi]

There's this manga called Hajime no ippo ...

Like jfc said look back is a good one

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

Laughing Vampire is one of my favorite short stories ever. Probably my favorite work by Suehiro Maruo

Just be mindful that it's very very very gory, very absurd, very pornographic and obscene, with very heavy themes. If you don't think you would be uncomfortable with this stuff then for sure read it, the art is supreme and it makes your spine shivers many times. It's a very unique experience

 

[Antilocal123]

Yuusha Goikkou no Kaerimichi, also Can you fall in love with a skeleton?

I read those recently and they're pretty good, I think FKMT has one-shots but I'm not sure lol

 

[UnDubious]

Toriyama's Cowa is similar to Sand Land but better IMO, and Kajika is more like DBZ but in super-condensed form so the fights don't drag on forever. I recommend both. Kentaro Miura of Berserk fame made a one-volume post-apocalyptic manga called Japan with a script by Buronson (Fist of the North Star). I remember liking it.

 

[pipolaplaya]

Tekkon kinkurīto by Taiyō Matsumoto is great !

 

[UnDubious]

Most of Taiyo Matsumoto's work is short and great, even if they're not technically one-shots.

 

[miguk]

Why not go even shorter? You can pick up Pop Team Epic at any point, even at any page, and still get plenty of enjoyment out of it. You get a ton of short stories per volume and have no obligation to read more unless you want to.

 

[Ikagura]

Tekkon kinkurīto by Taiyō Matsumoto is great !

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I've seen the movie many years ago, I may check it.

 

[UnDubious]

There's a couple short story collections by Taiyo Matsumoto btw, Brothers of Japan is great and Blue Spring is good too.

Another short series I liked was Samurai Crusader. It's about a descendant from a samurai family who travels the world before WWII and ends up chilling with Picasso and Ernest Hemingway and getting into fights. Written by the founder of RED Company, who created the Tengai Makyo and Sakura Taisen series of games, with art by Ryoichi Ikegami. 2 or 3 volumes.

Speaking of Ikegami, The Offered is another 3-volume series written by Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub, Crying Freeman, etc.) and it's the most insane manga I've ever read. Literally every single event in it is deranged, it never lets up. There's more madness in 3 volumes than all of Crying Freeman and Wounded Man put together. Highly recommended.

 

[Ikagura]

I've read that there was Toward the Terra, a 3 volumes story not too far from sci fi classics like Captain Harlock.

 

[Teemo]

Most of Fujimoto's one shot's are pretty good, better than whatever the fuck Chainsaw Man Part 2 has turned into anyway.
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It really is a shame to see the clusterfuck of part 2. Was building up into something so good only to throw it all away.

 

[Yukyon]

Hideout by Masasumi Kakizaki, Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto, Mario by Kishimoto and Sand Land by Akira Toriyama

 

[pipolaplaya]

I've seen the movie many years ago, I may check it.

If you liked the movie, you'll surely love it!

 

[Cu-Neo]

Belladonna no koibito

 

[Yousef]

One Outs isn’t a one-shot, but it’s a pretty good manga!

 

[spectresfrommercury]

heavenly star

 

[Hotwer]

Unconscious World and Kiss shitai Otoko.

 

[GardeniaSky]

Pretear is one of my favorite stories ever. It's only 4 books with a single main goal/arc throughout.

It's very magical girl, but Himeno is one of my favorite anime/manga heroines.

Don't watch the anime version. It's pretty terrible. They even changed the villain and a lot of the character designs.

 

[Bonkers225]

Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater
Whole bunch of Ito Junji's short horror stories
Berserk had it's own one shot until the publisher picked it up

 

[UnDubious]

Manga Theater is a collection of old Toriyama one-shots and mini-series that ran for less than a volume's worth. Some cool stuff in there. I really liked Dragon Boy, the Dragon Ball prototype.

 

[trickybus]

Can you fall in love with a skeleton?

Yes.