I’ve been on a manga reading spree recently, having completed good manga like Helck (2014; Nanao Nanaki), Thermae Romae (2008; Yamazaki Mari) [and its IMO better ongoing spinoff Olympia Kyklos] or Boku dake ga Inai Machi (2012; Sanbe Kei)
Does anyone have some recommendations for something that’s…
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Plot-driven (Romance is fine, as long as it’s not one of those stories that moves at a snail’s pace)
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At worst mildly horny
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Doesn’t have awful politics
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Isn’t half the length of One Piece
and of course
- good?
Parasyte.
And if you’re okay with cute gay romance stuff, sasaki to miyano is the best in the BL genre. The anime misses out on the meta-comedy in the manga, which pokes fun at the genre and its clichés. Miyano is (adorable :meow-melt:) a BL fan who introduces Sasaki to the genre, and it goes from there.
Full Metal Alchemist
One Piece is twice the length of half the length of One Piece you should consider it
No
spoiler
I actually read up to the 110th chapter of the manga. It was pretty good (but no masterpiece), but that being less than 10% of the whole thing (so far) made me put it aside and forget about it for a long time.
Yeah, Love is War is great but I thought it overstayed its welcome in the last 50 chapters or so. Definitely worth a read though. Last Game seems to be basically the same premise and it’s not that long, so I guess I’ll check it out.
I couldn’t get into That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime tbh and I didn’t know No Game No Life even had a manga, huh.
Chainsaw Man is pretty good (although it is sometimes way too horny for my tastes). It has an extremely brisk pace and little politics beyond “everything is fucked”. Also, Soviet Union.
Anime is basically just a start of the insane rollercoaster that is the manga, it added some pretty cool scenes expanding on the characters, but had problems with adapting extreme mood changes in manga.
Also really recommend avoiding spoilers for manga, even if it is still very enjoyable (for a specific definition of enjoyable at least) even with spoilers.
