Good Manga To Read?

See I'm looking for a good manga to read. Some past endeavors I have enjoyed are Death Note, Black Lagoon, Bleach, Gantz, and FMA. I really like a good idea and plot. Suggestions?

Bakuman is one of my favorite mangas. It's a manga about, um, manga... I swear, it's more interesting than it sounds. o3o The basic premise is that it's about two guys who team up to create a manga, and their struggles to get it published. The impressive part is how much of an interesting plot they manage to get out of it. I mean it sounds like there's not much but... yeah, they do a good job with it. It also references all sorts of other real mangas, and takes you through a very realistic manga-publishing process as they work their way into the also very real Shonen Jump. :p

Oh, and it's made by the same author and artist as Death Note. I swear there are a number of scenes that you can tell are meant to make you think of Death Note and therefore make you laugh. It opens up with a scene like that, actually.

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Originally Posted by Kagamine

Bakuman is one of my favorite mangas. It's a manga about, um, manga... I swear, it's more interesting than it sounds. o3o The basic premise is that it's about two guys who team up to create a manga, and their struggles to get it published. The impressive part is how much of an interesting plot they manage to get out of it. I mean it sounds like there's not much but... yeah, they do a good job with it. It also references all sorts of other real mangas, and takes you through a very realistic manga-publishing process as they work their way into the also very real Shonen Jump. :p

Oh, and it's made by the same author and artist as Death Note. I swear there are a number of scenes that you can tell are meant to make you think of Death Note and therefore make you laugh. It opens up with a scene like that, actually.

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Saw this at the bookstore, and was gonna check it out cuz you know, it's by the same author ^.^ Ill pick up the first copy and see if I like it. Any other suggestions?

So I read a couple of mangas recently, and loved each one, here are a few I would suggest. From your selections, it looks like you'll enjoy these:

[Ongoing Manga] Shingeki No Kyojin [Attack On Titan]: A young boy named Eren Jaeger lives in a world where each day could be your last. He lives in the last bastion of humanity - a small city protected by a 50 foot wall to keep out the titans. Titans are humanoid like giants (Think of them without skin...You can see all their muscle, and their faces are sinister) that eat humans for what seems to be fun, not for sustenance. To avoid major spoilers, one day something happens to Eren, and he joins the scouting legion to take the fight to the titans. There is also a trailer for the upcoming anime releasing next month: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znvVz-V-4Oc

[Ongoing Manga] Vinland Saga: A young viking boy swears vengeance against Askelaad for the murder of his father. This tale tells Thorfinn's story as he learns the true meaning behind what it means to be a warrior, living with vengeance, and raises questions such as what will he do once he takes his vengeance when all his life has been dedicated to nothing but it. (This is my personal favorite...Best character development I've ever read in a manga.)

[Finished] Battle Royale: A group of high schoolers are taken hostage and thrown onto an island for survival. The goal is simple: Kill all your classmates and you will be allowed to leave. A sick game show which culminates into a sea of blood. This manga has great character development too, and you really develop feelings towards the characters. One of the few mangas which evoked a mixture of sadness and anger when my favorite characters died. You would be CRAZY to miss it.

[Finished] Parasyte: One night a group of aliens around the size of tennis balls invade earth and begin taking the form of humans. What ensues is one boys fight against aliens who conceal themselves within society with the aid of an alien which he has captured. I just finished this manga tonight within the space of two days. I loved it, and the ending raises many philosophical questions. The main character and the alien are pretty much what made this a page turner for me, as well as the excessive gore and the motives behind the aliens. Its a simple concept, but executed wonderfully.

Hope I helped :)

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See I'm looking for a good manga to read. Some past endeavors I have enjoyed are Death Note, Black Lagoon, Bleach, Gantz, and FMA. I really like a good idea and plot. Suggestions?

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Hayate no Gotoku [Literal: Like Hayate [A Gust of Wind]] / Hayate the Combat Butler: Probably the only manga with over three-hundred chapters that I've stuck with. The idea is very basic,that of a poor, abandoned kid who has to work as a butler in order to not be kidnapped by the mafia to pay off his useless parents' debt, and the plot is pretty much non-existent apart from some few continuous strings here and there, but in terms of hilarity and character development, it's brilliant.

Maou Yuu Maou Yuusha: Be mine, Hero! I refuse!: Yes, I had to be that specific because there are A TON of manga adaptations with this title, and this one is probably the only one that takes the cake. Politics, economics, romance, fantasy all mixed into one - sounds a bit over-used, but its presentation and story is simply fantastic.

Minamoto-kun Monogatari: A modern take on the Hikaru Genji legend. It's basically full of cockblock [both within the story of the manga, and the fact that it only has, on average, nine pages on a monthly release basis], but it nevertheless makes for an interesting and addicting read.

Otoyomegatari: The story of several girls [and their friends and families] in some remote part of sub-Siberian Asia as they go through adulthood and face the challenges of cultural expectations a midst the tide of change enveloping the world in the late 19th/early 20th century [there is no really specific indication of when it is taking place, so I'm mostly throwing guesses based on technological and political references made throughout the story].

Necrophile of Darkside Sister: The story of a troubled young priest, Georg, as he seeks to protect his older sister who seems to be suffering from some kind of disease. Seeing as you liked Gantz, I figure you're going to like this, too. Plenty of blood, gore, intrigue, and taboo-breaking happening in here.

Solanin: Sweet little story about lovers who are also part of a band, and the main character's struggle to write a song befitting their situation. Was adapted into a movie I think in 2009 or 2010.

Gokukoku no Brynhildr: Do you believe in magic? Even if you don't, prepare to be thrown into the chaotic world of this manga, where human girls are experimented on to become 'magic users'. The protagonist is dragged into their struggles through a series of unfortunate [or fortunate?] mishaps, foremost being that one of the girls, Kuroneko, looks exactly like his missing childhood friend, Kureha. Note that this manga is written by the same person who wrote Elfen Lied, and, honestly, I think this is a much better work than that.

Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou [Daily Life with A Monster Girl]: Monster girls galore, need I say more?

Kure-nai: Same name as its anime adaptation, and the light novel from which it was adapted. It tells the story of the titular character as he struggles through daily life being an orphaned sixteen-year-old, with the help of childhood friends, romantic interests, and employers alike. Contains a healthy amount of martial arts and supernatural elements to spice up the story, as well as a dash of romance.

Aaaaaand hopefully I helped a bit. I have a ton more somewhere, just can't remember them right now. Enjoy!

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Bakuman is one of my favorite mangas. It's a manga about, um, manga... I swear, it's more interesting than it sounds. o3o The basic premise is that it's about two guys who team up to create a manga, and their struggles to get it published. The impressive part is how much of an interesting plot they manage to get out of it. I mean it sounds like there's not much but... yeah, they do a good job with it. It also references all sorts of other real mangas, and takes you through a very realistic manga-publishing process as they work their way into the also very real Shonen Jump. :p

Oh, and it's made by the same author and artist as Death Note. I swear there are a number of scenes that you can tell are meant to make you think of Death Note and therefore make you laugh. It opens up with a scene like that, actually.

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One thing I didn't like about Bakuman was the terribly subtle [which probably makes it worse] misogynistic streak in it... I mean, one can argue that most animu/mango have that in them, but Bakuman was, for me, particularly sneaky about the way it laid the ideas into the audience, and it made me sort of... I don't know. For one thing, it made me stop reading it.

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So I read a couple of mangas recently, and loved each one, here are a few I would suggest. From your selections, it looks like you'll enjoy these:

[Ongoing Manga] Shingeki No Kyojin [Attack On Titan]: A young boy named Eren Jaeger lives in a world where each day could be your last. He lives in the last bastion of humanity - a small city protected by a 50 foot wall to keep out the titans. Titans are humanoid like giants (Think of them without skin...You can see all their muscle, and their faces are sinister) that eat humans for what seems to be fun, not for sustenance. To avoid major spoilers, one day something happens to Eren, and he joins the scouting legion to take the fight to the titans. There is also a trailer for the upcoming anime releasing next month: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znvVz-V-4Oc

[Ongoing Manga] Vinland Saga: A young viking boy swears vengeance against Askelaad for the murder of his father. This tale tells Thorfinn's story as he learns the true meaning behind what it means to be a warrior, living with vengeance, and raises questions such as what will he do once he takes his vengeance when all his life has been dedicated to nothing but it. (This is my personal favorite...Best character development I've ever read in a manga.)

[Finished] Battle Royale: A group of high schoolers are taken hostage and thrown onto an island for survival. The goal is simple: Kill all your classmates and you will be allowed to leave. A sick game show which culminates into a sea of blood. This manga has great character development too, and you really develop feelings towards the characters. One of the few mangas which evoked a mixture of sadness and anger when my favorite characters died. You would be CRAZY to miss it.

[Finished] Parasyte: One night a group of aliens around the size of tennis balls invade earth and begin taking the form of humans. What ensues is one boys fight against aliens who conceal themselves within society with the aid of an alien which he has captured. I just finished this manga tonight within the space of two days. I loved it, and the ending raises many philosophical questions. The main character and the alien are pretty much what made this a page turner for me, as well as the excessive gore and the motives behind the aliens. Its a simple concept, but executed wonderfully.

Hope I helped :)

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Battle Royale and Shingeki No Kyojjen really look good. Ill be picking those up.

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Hayate no Gotoku [Literal: Like Hayate [A Gust of Wind]] / Hayate the Combat Butler: Probably the only manga with over three-hundred chapters that I've stuck with. The idea is very basic,that of a poor, abandoned kid who has to work as a butler in order to not be kidnapped by the mafia to pay off his useless parents' debt, and the plot is pretty much non-existent apart from some few continuous strings here and there, but in terms of hilarity and character development, it's brilliant.

Maou Yuu Maou Yuusha: Be mine, Hero! I refuse!: Yes, I had to be that specific because there are A TON of manga adaptations with this title, and this one is probably the only one that takes the cake. Politics, economics, romance, fantasy all mixed into one - sounds a bit over-used, but its presentation and story is simply fantastic.

Minamoto-kun Monogatari: A modern take on the Hikaru Genji legend. It's basically full of cockblock [both within the story of the manga, and the fact that it only has, on average, nine pages on a monthly release basis], but it nevertheless makes for an interesting and addicting read.

Otoyomegatari: The story of several girls [and their friends and families] in some remote part of sub-Siberian Asia as they go through adulthood and face the challenges of cultural expectations a midst the tide of change enveloping the world in the late 19th/early 20th century [there is no really specific indication of when it is taking place, so I'm mostly throwing guesses based on technological and political references made throughout the story].

Necrophile of Darkside Sister: The story of a troubled young priest, Georg, as he seeks to protect his older sister who seems to be suffering from some kind of disease. Seeing as you liked Gantz, I figure you're going to like this, too. Plenty of blood, gore, intrigue, and taboo-breaking happening in here.

Solanin: Sweet little story about lovers who are also part of a band, and the main character's struggle to write a song befitting their situation. Was adapted into a movie I think in 2009 or 2010.

Gokukoku no Brynhildr: Do you believe in magic? Even if you don't, prepare to be thrown into the chaotic world of this manga, where human girls are experimented on to become 'magic users'. The protagonist is dragged into their struggles through a series of unfortunate [or fortunate?] mishaps, foremost being that one of the girls, Kuroneko, looks exactly like his missing childhood friend, Kureha. Note that this manga is written by the same person who wrote Elfen Lied, and, honestly, I think this is a much better work than that.

Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou [Daily Life with A Monster Girl]: Monster girls galore, need I say more?

Kure-nai: Same name as its anime adaptation, and the light novel from which it was adapted. It tells the story of the titular character as he struggles through daily life being an orphaned sixteen-year-old, with the help of childhood friends, romantic interests, and employers alike. Contains a healthy amount of martial arts and supernatural elements to spice up the story, as well as a dash of romance.

Aaaaaand hopefully I helped a bit. I have a ton more somewhere, just can't remember them right now. Enjoy!



One thing I didn't like about Bakuman was the terribly subtle [which probably makes it worse] misogynistic streak in it... I mean, one can argue that most animu/mango have that in them, but Bakuman was, for me, particularly sneaky about the way it laid the ideas into the audience, and it made me sort of... I don't know. For one thing, it made me stop reading it.

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Necro of the Dark Sister or whatever sounds pretty interesting. Keep the suggestions coming guys, I can get these all for free. So make as many suggestions as possible.

I'm glad I could help.

Any of the Corpse Party manga that are not the 'Musume' adaptation are good. It's the adaptation of a game, however, so some things may be unclear or confusing at first without the prior knowledge. It's also not very good for anyone that has a problem with mild amounts of gore or things of that nature.

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