Please recommend manga

Oh yeah...if you haven't read it/seen it...

Go read BECK, it's a completely manga about a band, particularly about a guy who is a loser pretty much that learns to play the guitar, write music, and sing... and they become legends ^.^

Are you reading from actual manga books or online? After onemanga.com essentially shut down, I've moved to mangafox.com.

I concur with the previous shout outs to:
- Aiki - (T&A and fights, but with somewhat incoherent plots)
- Freezing - (pecking order dispute at girl's school)
- Veritas - (punk wants to get stronger) - very good art

I'll throw in:
- King of Thorn - (sci fi suspense/thriller) - excellent story, good art
- Gamaran - (samarai wants to get stronger)
- Jackals - (fighter wants to get stronger)
- Kenji - (martial arts enthusiast in search of grandfather)
- Tower of God - (bumpkin accidentally joins contestants, has to survive puzzles/tasks/combat at each level)
- Yawara - (grandfather manipulates girl to do judo)
- Blame! - (fascinating landscapes without any real story line, chapters and chapters of the guy just walking)
- Biomega - (same writer/artist as Blame!, improved artwork, has a decent story at the beginning, but it dragged on too long and lost focus, ending was a incoherent mess)

MangaUpdates.com go directly to the TLers for the good stuff.

Also Noblesse, Tower of God, and Song of the Cloud are great webcomics

And people wonder why a good chunk of NA manga TP titles have gone bye bye.

"Avast ye maties, scanlations off the port bow."

Claymore is a good series, I've read up to volume 10. But has several tropes that are prevalent in shonen series that sort of don't feel right in this series. Like power levels, named attacks, etc. etc. The anime was good, aside from the fact theres no 2nd season.

Berserk. Although I haven't read much of the series, I liked the anime. (no 2nd season, like Claymore, but there is a new series coming out)

MPD Psycho. Only read the first volume but also own volume 2 (would have vol 3 but my LCS & RightStuf didn't have it). It's quite good.

One Piece. One of the best selling shonen and for a good reason, it's just fun to read. Great action, fun adventures, awesome bad guys. It's a very fun world. I've only read up to volume 29 (there's 50+ out there), but it's a really good series. The anime is great too.


Also, a legal alternative to scanlations.... the library! And I think Viz has the first 2 volumes or something of One Piece online.

I would suggest Until Death Do Us Part, an awesome little shonen manga.

What does a blind swordfighting protagonist do when he has a girl run up to him and ask him to protect her until death do them part? Flip out and kill lots of folks, with the help of his techy friend who's built him high tech sunglasses to help him see! Throw in a shady past, a pack of operatives with lots and lots of weaponry, yakuza, and every assassin in four countries that's between jobs, and that's when you look up from your copy and see the sun set three hours ago.

I normally don't read fighty manga, but holy god, this has such a compelling story. It's modern-day chanbara-tastic!

TVtropes said it best: " What we have here is, essentially, a blind Batman with a katana. This couldn't be not awesome if it tried."

Thanks for the recommendations, and more are always welcome!

Also: Cannon God Exxaxion; a mecha/sentai type story with a twist...(sort of) real world physics ensue. How can a sentai hero fight to save humanity when the shockwave from his hand gun is powerful enough to kill nearby civilians?

Also, Stan Lee is at it again. The manga Karakuridouji Ultimo is co-written by him, and apparently, this time he's the villain!? Anyway, the character that looks like him is apparently immortal, and every so many years he creates dolls that go out into the world to learn about good and evil by bonding with humans, then fight it out to prove which is stronger. I haven't read this one yet, but I figured any True Beleivers out there would want to know!

Damn, Durakken already got to a couple of lesser knowns that I highly recomend, with Liar Game, Cage of Eden, and Super Dreadnaught Girl, all of which I wholeheartidly second/thirded. And someone else mentioned Azumanaga Daioh and Yotsuba, also high on my recomend list.

Ones that I don't think have been mentioned, but would also highly recomend:

Chi's Sweet Home - Chi's sweet home follows a young kitten named Chii, who gets seperated from her mother and siblings, and found by the Yamada family who eventually end up adopting her. The manga follows things from Chi's point of view, with Chi constantly misinterpriting things. Think Yotsuba&!, only starring a kitten.

Team Medical Dragon - A manga that focuses on many of the problems in japanese health care, it focuses on Asada Ryutaro, a brilliant doctor that's been convinced to come out hiding after he was driven out of the medical world for something he didn't do. Really worth reading.

Bartender - A manga that focuses on a young bartender named Ryū Sasakura, who is said to create a cocktail so magnificent it is called "The glass of the gods". It deals with Ryū as he helps the patrons who comes into his bar.

Kekaishi is another good manga... it's about a kid that it is the protector of some barrier or what not against monsters that attack it...just so happen the barrier is over his school ^.^

B-Reaction, An incomplete scanned story as far as I can find that is a comedy fighting manga.... basically a kid likes to get into fights is the son of martial artists or something... He looks up to some fighters... and the day before school starts he gets into a fight with a woman that pretty much destroys him... the next day she turns up as his teacher...


and yes I have read quite a number of manga but i can't remember them all and there are a number of manga i've dropped due to slowness of release, or there hasn't been release in forever, but what is released I would say is good, just not finished or being released any more. There are also a number of manga that while i like them I can't remember their names due to it being so long since i read them or its just a difficult name to remember... which is why you don't see many japanese named mangas from all the ones I've listed...I go off looking at lists of new releases and recall to remember to read them ^.^

Death Note

Honor student Light Yagami finds a notebook on the ground labeled Death Note. On the inside it reads:
-The human whose name is written in this note shall die.

-This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person’s face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.

-If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds of writing the person’s name, it will happen.

-If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a*heart attack.

-After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.


This is a great manga, I enjoyed it so very much! It has a very very very good plot. The whole manga is like a chess game. I highly recommend it!

Noblesse. It is about creatures that are superior to humans and is the origin of vampire myths. They can walk out in sunlight, don't sparkle, and don't need to drink blood. Vampires are humans that drank the blood of the Noblesse to gain power. The main character is a Noblesse that wakes up in the modern world befriends a bunch of high schoolers.

Another one is Defense Devil. Where the main character is a demon lawyer that defends innocent souls from being sent to hell because of them being framed.

Another is Beelzebub which is about a delinquent that has to take care of the baby demon prince of hell on his back. Most of the manga deals with him trying to find a character more evil and powerful than him so he doesn't have to raise the kid anymore.

I'm loving how roughly half the ones people are suggesting I currently read

I just read Bartender recently and it reminded me alot of Addicted to Curry, another food/drink based manga where the protagonist solves problems with nourishment. Both are great.

One Piece is of course awesome but for those who don't know what it is about or have never seen it, some advice is helpful: Suspend your disbelief of what is and is not possible. You'll enjoy the absurdity of OP more that way.

Until Death Do Us Part is indeed great as well.

Berserk is amazing but releases are slow currently. Of course, with over 300 issues to catch up it'll entertain you for days.

Also hurray you found the one you were looking for

Hmm if you haven't read it, the Kimagure Orange Road manga is really good.

Available on Manga Fox. About a family of Espers and high School Romance and is it 99 steps or 100?

I really enjoyed KOR but I had to read the full set of Japanese manga with a translation file.

The anime for KOR is a little spiced up compared to the manga.

Madoka for instance is not the hard core juvie who wears a garter of throwing picks strapped to her thigh and skateboards down the steel girder framework of a building under construction for duels.

And sadly there is no Top Gun/Kaiju parody chapter (favorite episode of the series).

Currently have been reading Toriko. It is kind of like Dragonball meets Gourmet cooking. Gourmet Hunters scour the world for exotic tastes and defeat strong monsters to eat them. Has the typical shounen power levels. Just too bad that taste and smell don't transmit that well in the written word.