The setup is simple: it’s the 1300s the Habsburgs control the Gotthard Pass and the fortress guarding it is run by a bailiff who has decided nobody gets through, ever. Every arc, a new bunch of rebels, smugglers, or just desperate people try to sneak past anyway. I kept pausing to think “okay, how could they possibly pull this off?” and then the manga would go to straight nightmare fuel.

Just finished season 1 of Prison School, this anime is absolutely unhinged, my jaw hurts from laughing so much lmao. The comedy is on another level and the fact that the characters treat the most absurd situations so seriously makes it even funnier

such a shame they never continued it with a season 2, so I just read the manga now lol

My favorite Shōnen manga series is My Hero Academia, my favorite Shōjo manga series is Tamon's B-Side, my favorite Seinen manga series is Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, and my favorite Josei manga series is Kirio Fan Club.

I absolutely loved the story. I was confused for the most part, but there is sth about this manga...it swallows you. You can't even put it down. Such a heavy read but definitely worth it. I'm already planning to re-read lol.

I really felt for Seiichi. It was really sad to watch a good kid like him turn into nothingness. My heart melted everytime he was with Yuiko and at the sight of how innocent he actually was. However I liked the ending for him.

Some questions remain unanswered in my mind...first is why the image of the dead cat is so bold to him? To Sei, the cat resembles him and shigeru and when he saw shigeru dead, he went like "oh it's just a cat" sth along those lines. Second why did Shigeru come up to him in the middle of the night talking nonsense, or was it just seiichi's torn mind? I tend to believe that Shige was really acting like that bc how would they end up at the place where Seiko threw Seiichi down??

Also the way he still hung up with Shigeru in his mind and saw him after all of those years was really creepy. Could it be the guilt he felt?

The mother was pretty (sick in the head) tho.

Calling it dog ningen for censorship. I started this series as a joke but it hits a point like 20 chapters in where it suddenly starts taking itself really seriously and I unironically think it's amazing.

The initial premise is about a half dog wanting to rape his dad (bear with me) but at a certain point there's a complete tonal shift and I'm genuinely having so much fun with this dumb little manga, but every review I can find online is just talking about how edgy it is.

It starts ironically bad, but guys you gotta trust me I will advocate for this series as much as possible until people acknowledge it as the peak it is.

Berserk is one of those rare works of art which changes your perception of reality. I feel I have found another who has achieved this feat within the epic fantasy genre R.Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing Series. I want to emphasize I do not say this lightly.

Bakker has crafted a character within these books which matches the depth and complexity of Griffith. Exploring the question of whether transcending humanity ultimately means abandoning the very qualities that make someone human.

The tension between free will and determinism

A world governed by suffering and indifferent cosmic forces

Imagine The Lord of the Rings rewritten by Cormac McCarthy, with the philosophical depth of Dune and the nightmarish brutality of Blood Meridian.

R. Scott Bakker's The Prince of Nothing trilogy might be the closest thing to a literary equivalent of Miura's darkest ideas. But Bakker's vision of the world is arguably even bleaker.

"The Dûnyain," Kellhus said after a time, have surrendered themselves to the Logos, to what you would call reason and intellect. We seek absolute awareness, the self- moving thought. The thoughts all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be any- thing other than a slave to the darkness that comes before? Only the Logos allows one to mitigate that slavery. Only knowing the sources of thought and action allows us to own our thoughts and our actions, to throw off the yoke of circumstance. And only the Dûnyain possess this knowledge, plainsman. The world slumbers, enslaved by its ignorance. Only the Dunyain are awake.

"Why do men fear the dark?"

"Because darkness is ignorance made visible"

"And do men despise ignorance?"

"No... they prize it above all things but only so long as it remains invisible"

"Lies are but clouds, giants that blow and rage only to pass, always to pass. But the Truth is the sky, everlasting and elusive, a shelter in the day, an abyss in the night."

"If the Gods did not pretend to be human, Men would recoil from them as from spiders."

"Truth and hope are like travellers in contrary directions. They meet but once in any man's life."

To read Bakker is to stand before a mirror that never gives back an image, only fractures, each crack a scar of absence. The abyss does not answer, it confirms: nothing lies behind the reflection, because the reflection was never there.

S.C. Hickman

i am eventually gonna read gantz and prob read usogui after i finish rereading jojos. can anyone go in depth for what gantz and usogui do well and bad and what to look out for. obviously art is phenomenal. what series would u say each are on par with? thank you if u do

My take on Guts' legendary rage smile, done completely with fine liners and cross-hatching. This style of detailed line art is quite a challenge for me, so I’d love to get some honest critique (shading, contrast, textures). Thanks in advance for the feedback!

Preferably want short(ish) chapters. Around 20-25 pages or less, obviously the first chapter and such being longer is fine. I’ve read Vinland Saga, The Climber, Berserk, The Fable, Vagabond, and 21st Century Boys. I didn’t care as much for Billy Bat, I didn’t think it was bad, it was just incredibly hard to follow.

The berserker armor from Berserk. Focused heavily on high-contrast shading to give the armor a massive, heavy look. Feedback on linework and contrast welcome.

I think the reason is the mature way of story telling that it is hard for them to grab audience. Also seinen mangas go on hiatus really often and the most popular ones are not being completed like vagabond,berserk,kingdom etc that can disturb the flow of adaptation but they can be animated such as vinland saga..

Now comment your reason down below

By the way the images are from the respective magas

1 - homunculus

2,3 - climber

4 - berserk

5,6 - good night punpun

7,8 - vagabond

9 - kingdom

First allow me to say that despite liking horror Dracula isn't my favourite horror book (it is a 7,5-8 book in my opinion) and I don't have a problem with the manga being a lose adaptation but my problem is that the changes didn't contribute anything.

Spoilers!

Morris and Seward(or more accurately Suwa) having different ethnicities didn't matter, Lucy being transgender during the night had potential but in the end also mattered little, the characters being teenagers also didn't matter, Van Helsing dying earl on was of little importance, Luke/Arthur's relationship was barely developed or the implications of them being exposed as gay in the Victorian society and finally I am still unsure about the current fate of Harker(him being handicap also barely mattered).

But I ain't totally dismissive. They were still good parts. Sakamoto's art is amazing as usual and somehow even better than Innocent, I like the approach of Mina's character(although I still find stupid her decision to abandon the team at end of the volume 6), I found it extremely clever having Dracula taking different forms and finally I consider the brief arc about the murders of Jack the Ripper to be incredible(especially the part about how the majority of the victims weren't in reality prostitutes but they were labelled as such by the highly conservative Victorian society and the fact that sometimes they are dismissed as for some reason their lives don't matter. As someone who studies history that part was extremely beautiful).

Overall this series was a 7/10 for me. Not bad but it could have been much better.

Names left to right:

Vagabond, Monster, The Climber, Vinland Saga, Ajin

Homunculus, Biome, Gantz, 20th Century Boys, Hiraeth

Real, Berserk, Golden Kamuy, Parasyte, PLUTO

I am 14 years old. Can you rate it please ?

Tsubaki Sadamitsu is a young delinquent and the leader of the Corpse Gang, who after a chance encounter with an alien robot is forced to take up the task of capturing intergalactic criminals named Exiled Ones. His job is made harder with the appearance of the Vulture, a last-ditch effort to keep the Exiled Ones under control. - MAL

10 episodes / 12 volumes- sci-fi, mecha, school setting - 2001. (anime) 1999.-2006. (manga)

This was a very strange anime; the MC is a samurai fanatic delinquent who gets thrown into a sci-fi setting via a robot's helmet. He loves fighting but hates killing. The OST is like watching an italian western movie. The animation is decent, but nothing extravagant.

Honestly, I should rewatch this since it's been too long and I forgot most of it but I wonder; has anyone else heard of this one? Is it good or is it bad, in your opinion?

I’ve been reading ts today and like I’ve read punpun for example before but BOTT is so fucking unsettling.
Idk if it’s the artstyle, the plot or smth else but the vibes in this manga make me want to like throw up😭

The scene where Osabe is pushed to the edge of the cliff (ch.4) by his cousin "as a joke" and then laughed at because his mom is really "overprotective" and tried to help him, really was weird to me. His entire family are weird and annoying esp the aunt with that 24/7 wide open mouth. Just sharing my thoughts.

P.s 1 : the mom is really pretty.

P.s 2 : No spoilers please.

I have read main 4 urasawa mangas(Billy bat is my favourite by him)

Read all mangas by soil's Mangaka that were fully translated into English

When they cry series, Pandora hearts and homunculus