Manga What are some of your favorite manga?

[Fantasmic_Saturn]

i have to say...a lot of the time i spend reading manga its always finishing berserk, jojo, or beastars but i recently watched akira 1988 and that movie is AMAZING. i was interested to see what the manga was like and seeing how different the story is and how they rearranged events n such is amazing!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

i have to say...a lot of the time i spend reading manga its always finishing berserk, jojo, or beastars but i recently watched akira 1988 and that movie is AMAZING. i was interested to see what the manga was like and seeing how different the story is and how they rearranged events n such is amazing!

Speaking of classics you should check Nausicaa by Miyazaki.

Akira was a great movie despite its confusing ending.

 

[Fantasmic_Saturn]

Speaking of classics you should check Nausicaa by Miyazaki.

Akira was a great movie despite its confusing ending.

gotcha, will put it on the list

and the thing about the akira ending is that its probably alot of the way tied in to what the manga is, so certain plot points and explanations are dealt with there

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

and the thing about the akira ending is that its probably alot of the way tied in to what the manga is, so certain plot points and explanations are dealt with there

I still liked the movie itself, just got confused and it felt a bit rushed.

Still good to see that an adaption doesn't always require to follow the original (like Watchmen) which is kinda understandable.

 

[naizou's icon naizou naizou]

Sakigake!! Otokojuku
This is the best manga as far as I know.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

My most notable favorites are probably Yu-Gi-Oh, Zatch Bell! (I know it's technically Gash but I prefer how Zatch sounds), Ajin: Demi Human, and of course, my all-time most beloved is Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

 

[Retro Doomer]

Well i would say for me right now it would be.

The Knight King Who Returned With a God​

Return of the 8th Class Magician​

The Regressed Mercenary's Machinations​

Centuria​

Surviving the Game as a Barbarian.Here a just a couple of Mangas i would recommend.​

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Answered it in my AMA, too lazy to rewrite.

Top 5 Manga:

 

[Retro Doomer]

Answered it in my AMA, too lazy to rewrite.

Great List i forgot to add Helck in my list wich is a shame its a great Manga and i enjoyed reading it.

 

[OmegaPunch's icon OmegaPunch OmegaPunch]

Too many to count, but here's some:

A really funny comedy manga about an alien frog who lands on Earth in order to conquer it,
But his platoon abandons him and his crew after they're captured by the Hinata family.
All their attempts at trying to conquer Earth always fails each time, coupled with the fact that their leader, Sgt. Frog, doesn't actually have any interest in conquering Earth.

A really good fantasy manga about a girl named Coco (the one on the cover) who always wanted to be a Witch, but can't because only those born with magical abilities can become witches.
That is, until she meets a Witch named Qifrey, who decides to help her achieve her dream.

A series that needs no introduction.
It tells the story of Takumi Fujiwara, the son of a Tofu store owner (who's also a professional street racer), who's convinced by his friend Itsuki Takeuchi to join the Touge racing scene of Mt. Akina.
And so, Takumi puts all his skills taught by his dad to use, facing all kinds of rivals on the way.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Necromancer's Evolutionary Traits​

Barbarian Quest​

Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha​

Slime Saint​

The Extra’s Academy Survival Guide

Infinite Mage​

Those are some great Mangas to or at least worth a read if i remember right.​

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Only got volume 1 and holy shit did the movie rob me. The plot is so confusing in the movie because of how much from the manga they took out

…oh and Steel Ball Run too, of course

Truth be told I still have a lot of manga to go through, these are the only 2/3 (the other is Cutie Honey) that I’ve actually read through a decent bit so far

I totally won’t yoink everyone else’s suggestions to add to the pile

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The first of those books, MW, is my favourite manga series ever.

Title so short that it can’t be searched on MAL
10/10

 

[rugal]

the ancient magus bride wizard blue
the ancient magus bride
claymore
ruri dragon
slayer volte

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, Case Closed, Zelda Twilight Princess, Yotsuba&! Ghost in the Shell and Calvin and Hobbes.

Calvin & Hobbes of all comics has a manga?

 

[MasterEn]

Calvin & Hobbes of all comics has a manga?

not that i am aware of, but i think of manga and comics like anime and cartoons; they are the essentially the same thing, but they have different styles of presentation.
if there ever was a calvin and hobbes manga, it would probably be the most awesome comic ever made. it would be over the top and amazing.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

There are a few manga adaptations of Lovecraft stories.

And, the guy who wrote Devilman, made a manga version of The Divine Comedy.

Everything is on the table.

 

[Antilocal123]

All of them ❦

 

[EthyLongHair]

Okay, its Horimiya (big surprise coming from the guy with the Horimiya pfp i know). BUT LIKE ITS SO PEAK DUDE, and not just that; when i first read this manga i was a freshman. i was very depressed and mentally unwell, but horimiya pulled me out of that state of depression honestly. it helped me see the world in a different light, grow more as a person and stuff. it did also make me have some stuff to look forward to like i wanted to experience highschool love, having cool friends to hang out with after school etc etc which raised my expectations for highschool. i did find love, but since i was still growing as a person i didnt realise what i had so i threw it away (which i kinda regret honestly). so the sheer love i have towards that manga will never EVER be replaced by anything else in all of eternity.

 

[Deleted member 169540]

In no particular order:
- Girl's Last Tour
- Land of the Lustrous
- My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
- Dorohedoro
- Goodnight Punpun
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
- Memories of Emanon
- Abara
- Yotsuba&!
- Plastic Girl

 

[Cuestionador]

Golgo 13 is one of my favourite mangas of all times: i have the spanish edition of two volumes of the 13 best stories according to the readers and it's a blast, well worth the (re)read from time to time, and a couple of issues published by Leed in the eighties (like an arc when Golgo visits in my country to kill an ex-president). Everything about Duke Togo is shrouded in mistery, but it's more a vehicle to tell things about power, corruption and human drama than a character in her own.

2001 Nights by Yukinobu Hoshino: A thematical mix between the movie 2001 and the One and Thousand Arabian Nights, this manga is a collection of stories set in the distant future, with humanity unlocking a new technology every 100 years. Every story works on her own, exploring many themes of classic sci-fi literatury, the Night Seven (Jupiter Rising) is one of the best parts of the manga.

Sashiki Onna by Minetaro Mochizuki (published in EE.UU recently, with the title Hauntress)
One of the first mangas i owned, it's a really disturbing story about a phantasmagorical woman who stumps in the apartament of a boy. Mochizuki is a master of the oppresive moods, with Dragon Head as another work who ran into the same themes.

Chronowar (Denmu Jikuu) by Kazumasa Takayama:

My first manga: An excellent sci-fi tale who combines romance, body horror, and existencialist themes: a robot impacts in Japan with the mission of learning more about humans, and choose three subjects to experience what is humanity: a cop, a thief and a woman. There's an unrelated sequel, still unpublished to this day.

 

[Spyrone]

My favorites are:

1. Dorohedoro
Q Hayashida's art is gorgeous grotesqerie at it's finest, and plot-wise it's one of the few things that went exactly where I wanted it to and beyond. It's like the plot of the Bible in reverse. It's also really funny. I love it.

2. I Am A Hero
One of my favorite zombie things in general. Gory as hell and has an art style that is super-realistic, making the gore that much more impacting. Plus, the story is filled with great satire, like all good zombie things should be.

3. Uzumaki
My personal favorite example of cosmic horror in manga. It's awesome, and has some beautiful and actually how the outside world might react if a little town went into a (literal) crazy downward spiral of destruction.

4. Akira
My favorite cyberpunk manga. Beautiful art and a compelling setting that mixes youth rebellion, '70s style, cyberpunk oppression, and a bit of cosmic horror with some high-grade amphetamine capsules and binges it until Neo-Tokyo explodes.

5. Blame!
My favorite manga where I can barely understand the plot, and it still kills it front to back. Or would that be back to front? Anyways, it does a really great job of mixing cyberpunk and cosmic horror, the cybernetic antagonists look like Zoog Von Rock and Amelia Arsenic from Angelspit and it has a better gravity gun than Half-Life 2...

6. BioMega
... speaking of which, this prequel to the above manga really takes some cues from Half-Life 2 in how the DRF troopers look, which is very Combine-esque. Zoichi's motorcycle and coilgun are amazing too. It also has a crazy Russian scientist who transferred his mind into a bear and is more or less responsible for setting the series and it's various apocalypses into motion.

7. Gyo
Junji Ito's most bodily horrific work ever. The transformation of Kaori from very beautiful to Death Stench ridden zombie thing is a testament to that.

8. One Punch Man
My favorite satire of why Superman-style superheroes who can kick literally everything's ass with very few, if any weaknesses, are boring. One Punch Man is not boring. It's pretty fun, actually.

9. Desert Punk
My favorite post-apocalyptic manga that shows just how terrible desperately thirsty and/or horny people living in bombed-out shitholes can be. It's pretty hilarious, and has some really well drawn guns.

10. Suichi
The third Junji Ito thing on this list. It's about a really edgy kid who spits nine inch nails (at least, that's how long I assume they are) at people, plays around with curses and ends up getting eaten by a supermodel. It's pretty funny, too.

 

[NobodyHere]

Rereading ‘A Silent Voice’, first volume always without fail makes me tear up at least a little. Such a good manga, beautiful in every sense of the word

 

[DrunkGecko]

Psyren

 

[Sora]

Anything made by Shūzō Oshimi.

I also read lots of Sol, but Hidamari Sketch and Soremachi are always my favourites.

 

[JackNoir413]

Girls last tour remains my favorite manga after 4 years. it changed me and im really grateful to tsukumizu for it.

other manga i consider incredible are yokohama kaidashi, lucifer and biscuit hammer, yuru yuri and hinamatsuri