One piece can be deceptive, cuz it looks goofy, but it has some very deep themes, especially more you read, if you want to dip your toes in it, read the first 100 chapters, cuz that's the prologue
@@CozyReaderKelly I'll just say your loss if you don't return. One Piece starts like most kid's shows. Villain of the week, but ends having built on each chapter.
@@CozyReaderKelly everyone advocates for it, but honestly if you’re not loving it now, save yourself the time as you’re probably not going to love it later and there are so many great manga to check out. Because it’s so long, many people will argue you need to read an insane amount of chapters (such as 100 chapters which is over 10 volumes!) for it to “get good” and speaking as someone who read 45 volumes on that promise, if you’re not liking it…don’t bother. I found it fun enough to read but I do not think it is for everyone, despite its popularity.
Some advice if you ever want to watch the Fullmetal Alchemist anime: there are actually two different versions of the anime out there! There’s one that was made in 2003, and another one made in 2009. Now, it should be noted that the version from 2003 was made when the manga wasn’t even at the halfway-point of its story, and the show runners basically had to come up with their own storyline for it. And as a result of this, it’s VASTLY different from the manga and 2009 version in character, theme, story, and tone. Despite this, it’s still a very good show that I would suggest watching before starting the newer anime.
@@CozyReaderKelly also the first 15 or so episodes of the 09 version (brotherhood) is paced quickly because it is assumed you watched the first version.
Came across this video while casually browsing TH-cam for manga related topics. I highly recommend you check out the Akira manga. It's one of the most influential manga of all time and the movie from 1988 doesn't cover all of it. It's just 6 volumes so not a huge time commitment either. If you enjoy the blade runner/dystopian future setting, give it a shot!
And in a similar corner of darker/more adult stuff, I really recommend monster. It's dark, but it's not graphic. In fact it's very tasteful in its handling of dark themes. It's about a surgeon who finds out a kid he saved several years prior might be a serial killer (or worse) and goes on a trip across central Europe to find out who exactly this kid was and what's going on there... A really cool meditation on empathy, forgiveness, responsability, justice... and authoritarianism, since the story takes place in germany , austria, chzechia right after the fall of the berlin wall. A really good entry into manga for western audiences.
all we needed was 1 person, just a small little infiltration. Once we had that, we could expand our territory to all of book reading youtube. Its only a matter of time until the general public all reads manga. Hahahahaha, all according to plan
I really appreciate that more and more people are giving manga a chance. You really picked up some classics there! I recommend you Noragami if you like the fantasy factor
One piece is my favorite manga for a wide variety of reasons, I’ve been week to week for a little less than a year and I never want it to end but I also do want it to end so I can cry my eyes dry. When One Piece ends I will revert back to a little baby and cry nonstop. The emotions you feel reading the story, the interactions between friends who are found family is so wholesome and knowing that Luffy will start an entire war and challenge the highest authority in the world to save any one of his crew members and friends they meet along the way. As for the art style I think it’s perfect for the type of story and characters that Oda draws. Sure it’s goofy looking but One Piece tackles serious topics such as racism, slavery, and oppressive government body’s. And that’s just the side stuff the main story is luffys search for the One Piece and seeing his journey is so satisfying sort of like starting from the bottom and rising to the top. And the lore holy crap watching or reading always put a huge grin on my face and the power system is so interesting. Seeing the different ways a fight can play out puts me on the edge of my seat. It’s so fascinating seeing it through a new readers eyes because I want to erase my memory and read it all over again. So I hope in the future you give it a shot.
I love when people start reading one piece... They ALWAYS say the same things. I enjoyed this video. I wish that you will give one piece 2 more volumes. That's why they sell them as vizbigs mostly now.
@@CozyReaderKelly its literally a peak fiction... and the art is the definition of art itself. lol Anyways, I myself had the same impression while watching the anime for the first time. But when I reached Alabasta arc, this got my attention. And then Skypea arc, This got me hooked. And then water seven arc.... THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST FICTION STORY!!....
Love this! I was eager to hear your thoughts when I saw you reading these on goodreads. I'm glad you had fun with most of them! One that I'm pretty sure you'd like is Witch Hat Atelier. My personal favourite series is Noragami so I can't help but recommend that to everyone. For a non fantasy one: Silver Spoon, same author as Fullmetal alchemist. I hope you explore some more manga 😄
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I had so much fun making this video and reading these volumes. I really had no expectations going into this experiment and was so happily surprised to have loved 4 of them. Thanks for the recommendations! I just reserved the first volume of Witch Hat Atelier from my library. It sounds really interesting.
I’m glad you’re enjoying your runs with manga. It’s always fun to see booktubers trying out mangas for the first time. Fullmetal is personally one of my fave and Spy x Family is just good wholesome fun. If you’re still taking manga recommendations, A Silent Voice will be a good short binge for you since it only has 7 volumes. Anyway, I can’t wait for you to enjoy the ride 😁
I'm almost done with what is translated to English of Spy x Family and it is a lot of fun. Thanks for the recommendation! I have heard of A Silent Voice and it sounds interesting.
I really loved the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime and I've been meaning to read the manga for ages!! I'm tempted to try the Fullmetal Editions too I've heard good things about The Promised Neverland but wasn't super interested in it; you're making me curious though! Congrats on such a successful experiment! there's a couple manga series I've been meaning to start and this is making me want to do that soon Also love that your librarian wrote you notes!
I want to try and watch the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood after reading the series, but I'll need to find out where I can watch it. They don't have that version on netflix. I like the paper quality of the Fullmetal editions. They look really nice. Promised Neverland definitely has some creepy stuff. I'm continuing it over the next couple weeks so I'll let you know how it goes past volume 1.
One piece isn’t as long as it seems, since it’s a comic book. You can read a volume in about an hour, and there are 100 volumes. So it’s long but not as long as people think
One I've been meaning to try that I feel you could like from the sound of it is Fruits Basket! it's a romance one I think but there's fantasy elements as well
@@CozyReaderKelly I was actually going to say Fruits Basket as well... for me, Fruits Basket and Fullmetal Alchemist were my first two manga that got me into it when I was 11, so to me, the two series are linked in how strong an impression they made on me. Fruits Basket definitely shows its age a little, especially in the art style of the early volumes, but it finds its feet pretty quickly, and if Tohru can endear herself to you at all as a character, it's worth it to see where the story takes her and the other characters. additionally, I feel like Yotsuba& might be a good one to check out if you like the cute kid parts of Spy x Family. Yotsuba& feels a lot more like a series of short little vignettes in the slice of life genre, but if you're looking for something nice and cozy, that'd be it. and on the more suspenseful side of things, Naoki Urasawa's Monster is one of those series where you pick it up and feel glued to it immediately. it just pulls you along and pulls you along, right to the very end.
Seeing as you won’t be continuing Toilet Blund, I hope you don’t mind if I talk a little bit about it in your comments section! I know you didn’t feel that attracted to it so this isn’t to comvice you to read it or anything, I just felt like sharing my own opinion (sorry if it’s a long comment!) It has to be one of my favourite mangas but it’s hard to get into from the get-go which is totally understandable. I see that it’s often classified as a comedy but after a few volumes in it gets incredibly interesting and introspective on topics like death and I really really enjoyed it! Although, it has made me cry more than laugh (despite the adorable art style, it really is heartbreaking sometimes), and I feel like calling it a comedy past volume 4 doesn’t make a lot of sense. The mangas go really deep into the characters emotions and the plot just gets better :D It’s just a story about some kids, but it really knows how to twist the knife in the wound. I’ve got to say that it might be one of the saddest mangas I’ve ever read to be honest, but I love it for that reason. Also, I understand that it’s not really for you but I just wanted to leave another personal perspective on the series here, I hope you don’t mind! I just like sharing :)
I don't know if anyone has recommended it but I think you'd like Silver Spoon! It's a comedy slice of life that takes place on a farm by the same author as Full Metal Alchemist. And it's just 15 volumes so it's not a monstrous commitment.
I know I've just tagged you in the Spy x Family channel, but didn't realise you were thinking of One Piece too! You should definitely join us in that channel too if you continue (I've not finished the video yet). There are plenty of enthusiastic fans that would love to hear your thoughts (even if you don't like it .... they just like to discuss)
Oh yeah, I struggle with the fight scenes too! They are difficult to follow when you first start but you do get more used to it. They are still not my favourite scenes because of the confusion (and well fight scenes are just not my thing either), and still a work in progress for me but as time goes on I am improving my ability to read them.
@@Lynn-CA I get why people like it. The whole pirate thing never really interested me but I figured I should at least give it a try with how much it is loved in the server. Spy x Family has been much more up my alley.
I really enjoyed how you explained each manga and how you read through them. I really like to know how non-manga readers think of the medium. Yeah, there are a lot of very "passionate" fans that only like to know "good" things about their favorite series, but you don't need to hold back because if you don't like it because it's famous, really liked the honesty!
Glad you enjoyed the video! I'm always going to be honest about my opinion because I think people can tell when you are disingenuous. Plus, we are all allowed to have our own opinions and not everyone is going to like every piece of art/writing. I just try to be respectful because others are free to love things I don't like.
You should try ascendance of a bookworm you might dig it. I would also recommend made in abyss I don't know if you can find it at you library though cuz though it's really highly regarded it's not exactly mainstream. Always love to see someone give manga a chance it really does have something for everyone.
The the only "pirate" elements in one piece is that they are travelling the sea and the world government calls them pirates, ofc there are some classic pirates but even then they have a twist. One piece has 1050+ chapters and there haven't been even one character with an eyepatch.
Since you liked Fullmetal alchemist, Arakawa Hiromi-sensei has another great Manga called Gin no Saji (silver spoon) which is about a boy from the big city (sapporo) who starts going to high-school in an agricultural school in the middle of buttfuck nowhere hokkaido. She also does the manga adaptation of Arslan senki but I haven't read that so I can't speak on the quality
Full Metal Alchemist is an absolute masterpiece. What I originally thought was a tale of two brothers quickly grew into a very philosophical and deep world.
If you want to dip your toe into the slice of life/romance corner of manga I suggest you give Maison Ikkoku a shot. It's about a student who failed to get into university and moves into a boarding house while he studies for his next attempt a year later. While there he meets and falls in love with the manager, a young widow. The manga is mostly about their love story but the other residents at the Ikkoku add some humor and have their own smaller arcs. It's very good. The author, Rumiko Takahashi is mostly known for her comedic action/fantasy shonen manga (Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha) but this one is my personal favorite and despite being quite romantic it is classified as seinen, so it might be an easier transition considering you started with shonen manga.
If I had to recommend one manga to anyone it would be Oyasumi Pun Pun an honestly life changing story for me made me cry for many hours non stop would definitely check it out if I were you. Because unlike a lot of manga its just about this boy who lives his life from childhood to adulthood and it is harrowing.
In terms of romcom manga, I would 100% recommend one called “Kaguya-sama: Love is War”. The gist of it is that there are these two people who are both in love with each other but have way too much pride to confess so each chapter really boils down to this intense yet hilarious psychological battle of one of them trying to force a confession out of the other. It often gets compared to death note in that regard but it much more lighthearted It is a little bit of a longer series (sitting at about 270 chapters at the moment) and is still currently ongoing and the series is very episodic in nature with not a whole lot of plot driving the story but there are plenty of arcs where there is a plot driving the story forward, just more often than not most chapters will be their own little isolated story (these do sort of get called back to in later chapters though) Even though it’s a bit longer in chapter count, I feel like it’s a perfect binge read series because each chapter is a pretty quick read and the humour (for me at least) lands almost every time so it makes it enjoyable. I completely understand that you’ll want to finish some shorter series that are complete but I highly recommend this one, it’s one of my favourites and I think you might enjoy it! (also, there aren’t many tropes like love triangles or conflicts that could be avoided by having the characters just talk, so that’s a bonus if you’re not a fan of them!)
I just stumbled across this video randomly and am only about four minutes in, but it's great to see somebody getting into manga. I obviously don't know your tastes, but if you are okay with extreme violence I would highly recommend Berserk, but it's not really until volume 4 (of the paperback) that it starts to _really_ get good and you really start to understand and like the protagonist. Also, if you haven't read any american comics yet, I would highly recommend Sandman and Fables. EDIT: After watching the rest of the video I now retract my recommendation for Berserk😅 However, i do still highly recommend Sandman and Fables, and I think I'll throw in a recommendation for V for Vendetta as well.
I've heard of Berserk but I also heard that it has sexual assault in it quite a lot. That's not something I can really handle in books so I don't think I can read that one. Thanks for the comics recommendations! I haven't really tried comics yet and that could be fun.
@@CozyReaderKelly Fair enough. Berserk is actually a really heartfelt series, but it's also absolutely gut-wrenching at times. Not to mention the copious amounts of gore 😅
SpyxFamily is a great manga and anime series. It's so good cause of the comedy, the touching moments with Anya, Anya's antics with her classmates at Eden College, Yor being a bad ass Mom, and Loid being this spy that in a way, is reconnecting with his humanity after denying it for so long with this found family. i highly recommend it. I see from your bookshelves that you are a big fantasy fan so FMA and this other Fantasy manga called Frieren because its very thematic with immortaliy, memories, the fact that we are in this planet for such a short amount of time but seeing it from an Elf's pov and her story about how we should get to know each other, treasure one another and dealing with grief and loss. It's also very comedic and it has great characters. definitely recommended it :D
I am really enjoying reading Spy x Family and hope to watch the anime at some point. I did another video trying first volumes and Frieren was one of those. I liked it and want to continue the series.
If I were to recommend any series, it'd be Demon Slayer. I think the anime is a better way to view the series since it's known for incredible animation, but the manga is great, too. It was the first action manga I'd ever read, and I think it's pretty easy to follow in the fights. It does get dark at times, but it's not too as bad and is also few and far in between. The first book is darker than the majority of the series, aside from later fights where it's necessary. Basically, Demon Slayer is about a young boy named Tanjiro who loses his family to a Demon attack, leaving only his younger sister, Nezuko, alive. However, Nezuko transforms into a demon while Tanjiro is trying to find a doctor for her wounds, causing her to attack him. She eventually comes to her senses, and, against all odds, protects Tanjiro when a "demon slayer" comes to kill her and bring Tanjiro to a safer place. Demon slayer follows Tanjiro and his sister in his journey to become a demon slayer to slay the demon who killed his family and to find a cure for his sister. This is my absolute favorite series and I think you'd enjoy it, too.
All of the series that you picked are ones that I have on my reading list. For some series, I have watched the anime and for others I have not. Fullmetal alchemist is one of my favorite animes of all time. I would recommend Noragami and D.Gray-Man as two series to try out. They are both action fantasy series that I really love.
I love all the mangas that you pick, they are so good in their own way. My favorite on is One Piece, i understand that a lot of people can find it off putting, is a weird ride to start. Glad you like some of them and you are continuing them. I hope that if you keep reading manga you will someday pick One Piece again and have a new perspective, I know we fans can be annoying but it is really worth it.
I personally love one piece from the beginning. However I totally get and not wanting to need to watch/read a whole bunch until it “gets to the good part”. The beginning of one piece was really cute and fun for me, but I was surprised how it progressed into a grand epic.
I like your money-smart approach. Borrowing manga from the library is such a good idea when you have no idea whether you like the medium at all.. And the cat tax was a nice bonus. If a series doesn't work for you, that's fine.
The sheer thrill I felt when u showed u picked up TPN as one of the contenders and I'm so glad u ended up enjoying it as much as u did, I can't describe how much I cherish that series, I would always reccomend TPN for a new manga reader, the way it pulls u in instantly in this dark unforgiving reality the kids have to face, and nonstop twists and turns u can't help but put yourself in the kids place, especially due to these high tension psychological thriller elements kaiu shirai so gracefully excels at. Even as an avid manga reader whos read like over 300 manga till this day it continues to be one of my all time fav manga
Im interested in your thoughts on promised neverland as you keep reading. It had an amazing arc in the middle. Also i would like to see you review Berserk and chainsaw man or one punch man.
Golden Kamuy is a manga I highly recommend, its a story about a veteran soldier working with an Ainu girl to find the hidden stash of gold worth billions by her father. In order to find them, they must decrypt the codes that are tattooed onto their skin on a number of escaped convicts throughout Hokkaido. As they find the convicts, they must also fight against a rogue Japanese division and a group of samurais that are also searching for the gold as well.
Whilst there are only 12 Deathnote volumes in Deathnote. There is also “How to Read Deathnote”, a short story Deathnote manga and at least 1 Light Novel (a prose novel of around 50,000 words). I personally didn’t delve into the extra books as the main story is concluded in the original 12. I liked the artwork, concept and some of the storyline of the manga, but overall I have since read other manga that I prefer.
If you want to read some more manga, I recommend March comes in like a lion and Mushishi. They're both slow paced, but have really nice out. Mushishi is more like a recollection of short japanese folklore and mythology. It follows a main character which deals with the spirits and teaching people how to coexist with the harmless ones. The art style is absolutely gorgeous, out of this world. March comes in like a lion (Sangatsu no lion) is a more drama focused, about a little kid who becomes an orphan and is now a teenager living by himself after moving out from his adopter's parent house. The kid is a professional Shogi player (japanese chess like game) and that's how he gets by in life, but he's lost in life with a couple trauma.
@@Katpasniss Oh, i guess it wasn't as popular maybe over there. I have all the volumes in spanish so i thought they would have it in the states too, but it seems it comes there on jan 31th next year. The anime really is amazing, but the manga adds that little extra context that i love.
@@CozyReaderKelly You're welcome~ I think i got this vid in my recommendeds because i've been into reading some regular books, so i'll def check out your reviews when i'm done with the isaac asimov foundation prequel books.
@@CozyReaderKelly there's an anime about a woman who got reincarnated into another world who likes books but it's really expensive and rare not sure if you will like it but here is the title honzuki no gekokujou 😁
I know probably everyone will tell you this, but One Piece popularity is given through the later progression of the manga, the true gold of the series is really shown later on. Although I like the beginning, I can totally understand why someone wouldn't. As it is long running, there are a lot of unexpected things that intentionally return to us all the time. If you're willing to give it a second try in the future, I hope you can change your mind, and join the community through the upcoming end of this adventure.
Hmm, if it’s only the art style you didn’t like I would say maybe give One piece another try but with digitally coloured manga online. It will make it easier to follow. But if you didn’t like the characters either than this isn’t for you as, true one piece gets better later but it’s starts good too . Actually One piece is a story that just gets better and better with each next story to the point where it’s not necessarily just popular but the best fic story. BUT it starts off good too with smaller stories.
I shall premise this comment with, I have now the first 50 One Piece volumes. I don’t disagree with your views over crowded panels, but my main problem is that the start of the series is pretty much Luffy gets a new team member each individual single-ish. That being said, I do love the humour and how deep it gets which is why I kept up with it. Good on you for not being put off by a series that has 101 volumes (at the time of writing this comment). As a new manga reader, it is great to see other people’s views, especially those who are also new.
Sorry if this is something you have covered, this is the only video that has been recommended to me. Would you e interested in light novels? If you like fantasy battle then they Isekai genre has a lot to choose from. Jobless Reincarnation created a bunch of tropes followed by titles like Ascendance of a Bookworm and Re: Zero then finally parodied by Konosuba. Also my favorite is Spice and Wolf, which is about medieval economics.
Try Battle Angel Alita. Its an action cyberpunk adventure. Theres gore, but i wouldnt call it over the top nasty in my opinion. Its a classic. Theres 2 type of people, people who love it, an people who have not read it yet.
I'm happy to hear u tried One Piece, i know it may have been a bit rough, especially when ur new to animanga. XXXXXX SPOILER FREE XXXXX One piece, to me, has amazing world building and detail, the art style may seem a bit cartoony. But as the manga goes on, You see Oda's art get better and better, mind you Oda started drawing One piece when he was 16, he is now 47. One piece isnt just a happy go lucky kid beating up bad guys, but it is actually a story of anti capitalism, and revolution. The story really ties into itself at every step of the way, it definitely gets darker and more serious at certain arcs. One piece entails, segregation, human trafficking, slavery, and colonialism and revolution. I promise to you, the story isnt what it seems, the manga really picks up around Baratie, which is chapter 40
I recommend Shadows House and Snow White with the Red Hair! SH is an ongoing manga just like Spy×Family and it has a similar vibe with The Promised Neverland. Just like TPN, it revolves around kids so it starts out all cute and wholesome until dark secrets and mysteries are revealed. While I haven't really read tha manga of Snow White with the Red Hair, I have watched the anime when I was in my early teens. I remember it being really good with the romance making me fangirl while the medical and political stuff (the protagonist is a royal pharmacist) making me super intrigued. I also recommend Land of the Lustrous, Made in Abyss, Dorohedoro, and Beastars. It would be awesome if you checked these 4's anime adaptations, especially LOTL it's just SO gorgeous. All the mangas I recommended have their respective animes and all of those animes have an amazing soundtrack. Beastars as well as The Promised Neverland's openings and endings are complete bangers!
Aww kinda sad you didn’t like Hanako-kun, but I get it. It starts off pretty slow, not much happening especially in the first couple of chapters but it DEFINITELY picks up around chapter 18 (volume 4) If you ever decide to go back to it- just keep that in mind
Since at least 5 of the manga has mystery in it, I think you'll like my recommendation. It's called Hyouka. Now how do I explain this... I know this series from the anime adaptation and it is my favorite anime of all time (I'm a sucker for mystery). However, this one is adapted not from manga but a series of book called Classic Literature Club, the first volume called Hyouka. It's about a highschool boy who is really good at solving mysteries, Sherlock Holmes level of deduction kinda stuff, but is very very lazy. He promised himself to have a quiet highschool life and not spending much energy, but he is constantly finding himself in a situation where he has to solve a case. You can go for either the anime show or the book, I hope you like it. About The Promised Neverland, we had the same reaction. I couldn't stop myself from reading it the first time and finished the first arc in one sitting.
When I saw the thumbnail I was really hoping that The Promised Neverland was in here and that eyes weren’t deceiving me. It’s one of my favorite manga series and the first one I have read all the way through as well as the first I’ve owned all of the physical volumes for. It holds a very special place in my heart, especially as it’s sort of been…fading from the public eye recently, in my opinion anyways.
Was looking forward into seeing another book tuber besides the ones I watch (Merphy and Daniel Greene) do one piece reviews haha. But its fine, hope you do pick it back up in the future :)
In general One Piece tends to take longer to read because it is more dialogue and content heavy than the average manga. In general it's normal to take longer to read One Piece. But then again that's why people are so into it.
I got a really long list of recommendations here but I have a lot of series I think you should at least hear about! If you want something sweet and fun there’s a lesser-known series called “Flying Witch”. It’s slice-of-life following the lives of a witch and her family in the countryside! A comedic fantasy series I’d heavily recommend is “Delicious in Dungeon” where a party of adventurers have to delve into a massive dungeon. But since they had to flee before and lost all of their supplies they learn to live off of the resources of the dungeon itself! Plus the elf, Marcille, is hilarious! If you’re looking for more action series I have four that come to mind: My Hero Academia is the quintessential super hero manga out now. It’s starting to near its end (maybe?) but it’s a fun and tense ride as we follow a kid pursue his dreams of becoming the world’s greatest hero! I don’t know if you’re a Pokémon household but the Pokémon Adventures manga series is incredible! It’s the most intricate the world of Pokémon has ever been portrayed and is filled with so many amazing characters! Third I’d recommend is Soul Eater. It’s a series from the mid 2000s and it’s full of style and *drip!* (the author did take a few chapters to nail the full style down but wow is it a feats for the eyes the entire way through!) It’s about kids with the power to resonate their souls and turn into powerful weapons hunting the evils of the world under the watchful eye of Death himself! It’s also hilarious as they attend a school established by Death 😂 The characters are incredibly colorful for sure! And following Soul Eater I have to recommend the authors latest and (for now) last work: Fire Force. And I do recommend reading it straight after for… reasons 🙃 It’s about a boy with fire powers who wants to become a hero after he lost his family in a massive supernatural fire. All while the world he lives in is under threat from spontaneous human combustions that turn people into fire monsters! I’d also have to recommend the anime for that last one the most because WOW the sound design! It got green lit for a new season recently and hopefully makes it all the way to the end since the manga wrapped up recently! (And unfortunately Soul Eater’s anime had to deviate its story since it caught up to the manga’s publishing when being made so the anime never adapted the full story and the manga’s better ending…) There’s also the world of light novels! They’re like manga in terms of (semi) regular publishing of ongoing stories but in novel form. The one I recommend the most to new readers are Log Horizon and Overlord! Log Horizon follows the journeys of MMO players as they are mysteriously trapped in the game they’ve all been playing, or at least it looks like the game? It’s actually a very heavy political drama with a lot of action thrown in! The anime recently got its 3rd season too and people hope it gets a 4th to make it to the end! Overlord is one of the heavier series. It also follows an MMO game player as he becomes trapped in an alternate reality as his game character. This time around though he played the game as an evil Skeleton Necromancer Overlord as leader of a guild in the game. Now he’s “living” as a Skeletal Overlord as he tried to understand the world he was thrown into! Very deep political series with a heaping helping of fantasy and horror as you follow the villains of the fantasy! Protagonists, yes… but they’re not heroes… Lastly there is a much older novel series that a fantasy junkie NEEDS to read! *Record of Lodoss War!* The quintessential fantasy story. It was actually the retelling of the author’s Dungeons & Dragons game he played with his author friends. I’m actually not sure how easy or hard it is to find the novels in English but the OVA/original video animation series is one of the most beautiful pieces of art you will ever see! If you like D&D or Lord of the Rings you got to read it! I really hope this helped! I’ve been trying to get into more actual reading myself so all these series come with a hearty recommendation! There’s also another recommendation. But understand it is not for the faint of heart… Berserk is the quintessential *MASTERPIECE* of manga ever made. A dark, DARK fantasy story delving into the depths of emotion and the human condition at its breaking point. It’s a masterclass in its medium. The art by the unfortunately late Miura is a cut above all else! Thankfully his best friend and loyal understudies are working now to finish his series after his tragic passing but you will nonetheless find a wholly satisfying story… if you can stomach it because *WOW* it gets *dark* So yeah hope you see this and have fun with frankly anything from my list of recommendations! 😀 Oh and read “Nichijou my ordinary life”, you’ll launch your sides into orbit. Check the anime too, your sides will reach Pluto by the time you’re done laughing 🤣
One Piece is not for everyone, but Its not about the destination, but the journey type manga. Toilet Bound is one of my favorites in my collection the first manga and half of the second manga is pretty slow, and I didn't like it, but after the firs two there are so many like "What" moments and cliff hangers, its pretty mysterious.
if you enjoy comedy and romance i recommend you check out kaguya-sama love is war, it’s about two geniuses trying to make the other confess their love first. Monster is also a great mystery series. Very mature, and it’s considered one of the greatest of all time, highly recommend you check it out.
it's really funny how everyone has the same reaction to the beginning of One Piece :D I'm really not an advocate for 'pushing through' a certain section before a story starts to get good. People do that to me all the time and I really hate it. A good story would start being good at the beginning. I mean, it's not like OP's start is bad, I just found it very dry when I read for the first time. That said... One Piece does get really good at ch70 or so and it only gets exponentially better from there, so... take that as you will^^ Once you start to understand what kind of story this is and how unique its structure is, there's no going back.
The start of one piece basically suffers from it's age. Back when it was first published it was actually very original and quite impressive compared to some of its contemporaries (really it must have been for it to keep going long enough to become the semi-institution it is). The problem is that what we expect of manga /now/ is somewhat more advanced - a lot of more recent shounen series have been expected to tap into current world pop culture (super heroes, back when MHA started for example), are expected to show somewhat deeper themes right from the get go, or are expected to deconstruct or parody common tropes of the kind OP was originally built on. You can see the same problem with Jojo's Bizzare Adventure - parts 1 and 2 are really kind of dated, in terms of content and structure, compared to the later parts as they're much more in tune with what was popular back then (Fist of the North Star for example) than what kind of things are popular in recent times. It's a problem that, unfortunately, doesn't have any great solutions beyond asking the reader to just keep in mind that some of the complexity we expect now wasn't as expected back when they started off.
many talkin about one piece and promised neverland. as otaku i recommend: Bleach and Berserk. And also kimetsu no yaiba. not gonna lie - the end of this manga made my cry like a little baby and gave me the purest emotions i‘ve ever had.
I know you didn’t like Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun (which is valid! It’s definitely not for everyone) BUTTTT if you wouldn’t mind I’d like to recommend checking out Volume 0, which contains an alternate version of the story (basically like an early pilot version/the original one shot which the current story was based off of) as it’s a very self-contained story (only 3 chapters) which a lot of different story elements and alternate details. Volume 0 also includes an entirely separate one shot story by the same author which left me shaken. Still a good story tho, but it’s a lot.
Wow you picked some bangers man, and yeah if u didn't like one piece one, I don't think u would get into it later either, u love Luffy from the start or u don't which is fine. I can't really recommend that many cuz u read my favorites from my collection lol. Assassin classroom is not the same as promise neverland but I always think of them together and both gave me unique vibes and jujutsu kaisen for more mature action series close to full metal than one piece
Good to know. I don't plan on giving it another try anytime soon, but who knows what the future holds. I have Assassination Classroom to try in the video I'm currently working on.
Umm, that's a first, any person who reads one piece and didn't like it for any reason, when they pick it up later and keep going beyond the first volumes they fell in love with it. It's simply much more then a pirate boy that sail on the sea searching a treasure. If you think you won't like one piece after just one read (problaby because you didn't keep reading after the first chapters) you are definitely a very small exception to the norm.
Not liking One Piece is understandable, because it is an investment that needs time to really get into. But for the future I have a couple of recommendations: -To Your Eternity -Beastars -Mob Psycho 100 -My Dress-Up Darling -Dr. Stone All of these series are quite recent, are really popular with fans, and have amazing art and story.
I think a specification should be made about Mob Psycho 100... I actually like the manga, and I own several volumes, so I'm not here to say that the art is bad, but it is unconventional. it has a very rough look to it, some might call it amateurish, and it might not present well to someone who doesn't know it at all. what I will say is that the writing in Mob Psycho 100 is amazing, and the people who did the anime definitely did something very special with it. they kept as much of the manga's original look and feel as they could, which I really really appreciate, but they polished up a lot of that roughness in terms of anatomy and perspective, and then went above and beyond on the quality of the animation itself. you can tell that they put a lot of love into the adaptation. and honestly, looking back at the manga's art style, it makes perfect sense. one of the things that the manga does really well, is that it conveys movement and shot composition. and that's everything you'd want from an animation storyboard. it makes total sense that a bunch of animators would look at that and take it as an invitation to go nuts with it. so like... I'd recommend either the manga or the anime, whichever makes the story easiest to consume... because the story is one of my favorites.
Don't feel bad about not liking One Piece or its art style. I really like the manga, but I also have a good friend who is not a bit fan of the Odas art, though she watched the anime in the past. Also the manga gets even more overcrowded with the future volumes... I guess you will finish the serie you liked first before picking up other recommondations. It's a really good selection and I count the once you like among my favourites as well :) But since you mentioned you like the art of Takeshi Obata. He is my absolut favourite manga-ka (manga artist) and if you want to later on read more of his work I would suggest "Hikaru no Go". It is (sadly) not as popular as the other series you are reading, but it is my favourite manga of all time. It about the japanese boardgame iGo and has a lot of great character development. It has fantasy elements to it, but also not to much. Even though Hikaru no Go is older than Death Note I like the art style of it even more.
I might try the anime sometime to see if it is more to my taste. I have a list going for recommendations so once I finish a few series I started I will look into more. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@CozyReaderKelly I don't doubt it. It's just that I've read a... well, it's more of a sort of fanfic, except it was published and everything. A comic about the supposed origins of Peter Pan? I think? (It was quite a while ago), how he came to Never Never Land and how he got the name Pan and shit. The tone is... quite a bit darker than you usually see it :P I mean, a guy literally gets his dick bitten off XD
@@CozyReaderKelly Right?! Which is why I always kinda have that "But which Peter Pan story?" because... well, the original Peter Pan Neverland fairytale is probably what everyone means, but I always get just that... smidge of wondering XDDD
Reading one volume of a manga and judging the entire series on it is basically like watching the first 5 minutes of Lord of the Rings and saying its trash.
I didn’t insult any of the series. There is an audience for all these series. But not all will be for me. I can make that decision based on one page if I want, since it’s my time being used in reading.
@@CozyReaderKelly Sure you can make that decision on one page if you want..but if you call yourself a book reviewer thats hardly fair and loses my respect for their criticism when reviewing and recommending series based on one volume, if you have that little patience with stories then I dont know what to tell you.
@@Omegateck16 I’m not really sure what your expecting. These manga series are published in volumes. I read an entire volume and gave my thoughts. That is what a reviewer does. I was clear at the beginning that I would only be reading one volume each to try it and decide if I personally want to continue. There are videos out there where people review an entire arc or series, but that is not what I was advertising that I was doing.
I think One Piece is one of the hardest manga to read as your first one, as u said it's very crowded and it's hard to tell what's going on. When I tried this manga I felt the same and just gave up and picked up anime of this instead, it might be paced slower but at least I can get thru this without problems, and after that it became my top1 media of all time, peak fiction for sure. I might try reading manga of it after having experience with a lot of other ones now.
One Piece has 1100 chapters so it unfortunately is not an easy one to get a solid read on unless one really makes a big time commitment to actually sink their teeth into it. It’s definitely not for everyone and like all long running shonen it really is for a specific target demographic. I wouldn’t let it or its fans spook you out of the medium, it’s entirely reasonable to not enjoy it everyone has different tastes. I think you were very fair with your takes
I can understand not liking the first volume of One Piece. It's the mother of all slow burns as far as story goes and the world building is so intricate that every re-read makes you find new information and details that you didn't notice before. It's honestly a series that gets better on reread every time because you know more. Because there are so many details in the art that foreshadow for the very far future, it's very busy as far as panels and art a lot of times, which is a lot to get used to if you are new to manga. It's definitely not a great story for beginners to manga partly because of it being so heavy on the intricate details all of which matter. Also the topics it discusses are really dark and heavy and discussed in a very nuanced way but the author loves very kid-ish comedy so you will find moments of levity in this goofy art style even in the darkest of times, which is definitely not some people's cup of tea. The want their dark stuff to be heavy and angsty all the way. Frankly the story is SO heavy on story-building, while ALSO heavy on character building with a HUGE cast of characters, while also HEAVY on themes that try to get every single angle, at that point it makes sense that it's a slow burn. It suffers from having too much world building and too many in-depth characters. I mean we don't get the main character's backstory until volumes 59-61, which is like 500/600 chapters into the story. At that point we think we know who we are following as it is a story about him and yet... And then after every big game changer in the story and you have to go back and reread it all again. And then you catch more stuff you never noticed and before long you spend a few minutes on every panel, carefully analyzing the art like an insane person because has he hidden something else in plain sight and you are just now noticing? It's a lot. 0/10 recommendation to manga beginners unless you like long detailed epics (like Lord of the Rings) enough to invest a lot of money, since manga volumes aren't cheap. I guess reading online is ok pricewise but a lot of people hate e-reading. On the plus side, some apps allow you to really zoom in to see ALL the tiny details on each panel. I don't think I met anyone who liked it enough to commit off just the first volume and frankly that is very fair. It's more of a thing you do once you have read a lot of manga and now feel confident in just reading a good story. Probably not your favorite, probably not the best ever, definitely a little too slow burn, but a good adventure for everyone if you have time and money to spend with it. Still would say that it's probably not something you will get into. I had the horrible privilege of being exposed to 4kids version of the anime before I ever picked up the manga so I had a vested interest in getting through the prologue of the story which is the first 12 volumes. Most manga tells full story in 12 volumes or less. This story just has the prologue of first 12 volumes, so when I say COMMITMENT and SLOW BURN I really mean it. P.S. My manga recommendation that isn't shounen (for boys) battle action adventure is: "Skip Beat!". It is a revenge story that has comedy, some supernatural elements, a tiny bit of action, a lot of heart, a lot of introspection, very slow burn romance that suddenly picks up very far into the story and thus feels earned and natural. The protagonist is a young woman so the manga has been labeled shoujo (for girls) but it isn't too much like most shoujo because the main focus of the story is definitely revenge first and foremost for the majority of it, while most shoujo tend to be romantic comedies. It is a lot of fun too because of the fact that almost all supernatural elements are used to enhance the comedy rather then for anything else, which is very fresh take. Another recommendation is "Nana". It is also labeled shoujo and sometimes Josei (for women) because of how dark and mature it can get despite that fact that it was labeled shoujo when it first came out.
I can understand how you feel about One Piece, it's a story that doesn't take itself seriously all the time, but when it does it's really good. But if silly jokes and gags are not your thing, then One Piece isn't for you, I thing you will enjoy Fullmetal Alchemist better. And if you're looking for a serious story, I recommend Attack On Titan.
I think One Piece has an amazing artstyle but that's coming from someone who's read countless manga growing up so when something's unique and stylized it stands out. I can see why a new manga reader wouldn't like it. It's like showing someone Dark Souls when they haven't even played Super Mario Bros or any other game in their whole life
The theme of One Piece isn't actually "piracy" but "freedom". It seems goofy at first but there are arcs that deal with slavery and racism and Luffys dream is to be the freest man in the world and whenever he finds that freedom is being denied to people he acts.
I think One Piece is way easier to watch than read. There are some really fun arcs, but until Arlong and after Arlong until Alabasta it is 3/5 at best in my opinion. (and those parts are pretty long, so can't blame you)
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One piece can be deceptive, cuz it looks goofy, but it has some very deep themes, especially more you read, if you want to dip your toes in it, read the first 100 chapters, cuz that's the prologue
I want to focus on finishing some of the manga series that I have started, but I might return to it in the future.
@@CozyReaderKelly however you feel the most comfortable is the best, if you don't feel like it, you don't have to 🥰
@@CozyReaderKelly I'll just say your loss if you don't return. One Piece starts like most kid's shows. Villain of the week, but ends having built on each chapter.
@@CozyReaderKelly everyone advocates for it, but honestly if you’re not loving it now, save yourself the time as you’re probably not going to love it later and there are so many great manga to check out.
Because it’s so long, many people will argue you need to read an insane amount of chapters (such as 100 chapters which is over 10 volumes!) for it to “get good” and speaking as someone who read 45 volumes on that promise, if you’re not liking it…don’t bother.
I found it fun enough to read but I do not think it is for everyone, despite its popularity.
stop capping, one piece sucks, thats it
As soon as I heard she thought the promised neverland is related to peter pan i was like oh nononononono have mercy on this poor lady
😂 yeah, it turned out to be something completely different it I enjoyed it and I am interested to see where it goes.
Some advice if you ever want to watch the Fullmetal Alchemist anime: there are actually two different versions of the anime out there! There’s one that was made in 2003, and another one made in 2009.
Now, it should be noted that the version from 2003 was made when the manga wasn’t even at the halfway-point of its story, and the show runners basically had to come up with their own storyline for it. And as a result of this, it’s VASTLY different from the manga and 2009 version in character, theme, story, and tone.
Despite this, it’s still a very good show that I would suggest watching before starting the newer anime.
Thanks for the anime advice!
@@CozyReaderKelly FMA 2003 is definitely worth a watch!
@@CozyReaderKelly also the first 15 or so episodes of the 09 version (brotherhood) is paced quickly because it is assumed you watched the first version.
2012, calling people nerds for reading manga
2022, calling people nerds for not knowing how to read manga
The times have changed 😂
I started laughing out loud when you said you thought Promised Neverland had to do with Peter Pan.
A bit of a tricky name, not gonna lie.
I had heard someone else thinking it was that so I didn't look into it at all before reading. Which turned out to be a fun surprise.
I mean the Neverland references actually have a lot (thematically/symbolically) to do with the story, especially with the later chapters.
Came across this video while casually browsing TH-cam for manga related topics. I highly recommend you check out the Akira manga. It's one of the most influential manga of all time and the movie from 1988 doesn't cover all of it. It's just 6 volumes so not a huge time commitment either. If you enjoy the blade runner/dystopian future setting, give it a shot!
Thanks for the recommendation!
And in a similar corner of darker/more adult stuff, I really recommend monster. It's dark, but it's not graphic. In fact it's very tasteful in its handling of dark themes.
It's about a surgeon who finds out a kid he saved several years prior might be a serial killer (or worse) and goes on a trip across central Europe to find out who exactly this kid was and what's going on there... A really cool meditation on empathy, forgiveness, responsability, justice... and authoritarianism, since the story takes place in germany , austria, chzechia right after the fall of the berlin wall.
A really good entry into manga for western audiences.
@@maximeteppe7627 That one I have on my list. It sounds really interesting.
all we needed was 1 person, just a small little infiltration. Once we had that, we could expand our territory to all of book reading youtube. Its only a matter of time until the general public all reads manga. Hahahahaha, all according to plan
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I really appreciate that more and more people are giving manga a chance. You really picked up some classics there! I recommend you Noragami if you like the fantasy factor
It's fun to try a new medium!
One piece is my favorite manga for a wide variety of reasons, I’ve been week to week for a little less than a year and I never want it to end but I also do want it to end so I can cry my eyes dry. When One Piece ends I will revert back to a little baby and cry nonstop. The emotions you feel reading the story, the interactions between friends who are found family is so wholesome and knowing that Luffy will start an entire war and challenge the highest authority in the world to save any one of his crew members and friends they meet along the way. As for the art style I think it’s perfect for the type of story and characters that Oda draws. Sure it’s goofy looking but One Piece tackles serious topics such as racism, slavery, and oppressive government body’s. And that’s just the side stuff the main story is luffys search for the One Piece and seeing his journey is so satisfying sort of like starting from the bottom and rising to the top. And the lore holy crap watching or reading always put a huge grin on my face and the power system is so interesting. Seeing the different ways a fight can play out puts me on the edge of my seat. It’s so fascinating seeing it through a new readers eyes because I want to erase my memory and read it all over again. So I hope in the future you give it a shot.
I'm glad you really enjoy it!
I love when people start reading one piece... They ALWAYS say the same things. I enjoyed this video. I wish that you will give one piece 2 more volumes. That's why they sell them as vizbigs mostly now.
Maybe after I finish some of the manga series I have started I could give it another try.
@@CozyReaderKelly most people always said this:
Before reading : one piece is too long
After reading: one piece is too short 😭
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@@CozyReaderKelly its literally a peak fiction... and the art is the definition of art itself. lol
Anyways, I myself had the same impression while watching the anime for the first time. But when I reached Alabasta arc, this got my attention. And then Skypea arc, This got me hooked. And then water seven arc.... THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST FICTION STORY!!....
@@annonimbouz851 Glad you enjoy it!
Love this! I was eager to hear your thoughts when I saw you reading these on goodreads. I'm glad you had fun with most of them!
One that I'm pretty sure you'd like is Witch Hat Atelier. My personal favourite series is Noragami so I can't help but recommend that to everyone.
For a non fantasy one: Silver Spoon, same author as Fullmetal alchemist.
I hope you explore some more manga 😄
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I had so much fun making this video and reading these volumes. I really had no expectations going into this experiment and was so happily surprised to have loved 4 of them.
Thanks for the recommendations! I just reserved the first volume of Witch Hat Atelier from my library. It sounds really interesting.
I’m glad you’re enjoying your runs with manga. It’s always fun to see booktubers trying out mangas for the first time. Fullmetal is personally one of my fave and Spy x Family is just good wholesome fun.
If you’re still taking manga recommendations, A Silent Voice will be a good short binge for you since it only has 7 volumes.
Anyway, I can’t wait for you to enjoy the ride 😁
I'm almost done with what is translated to English of Spy x Family and it is a lot of fun. Thanks for the recommendation! I have heard of A Silent Voice and it sounds interesting.
@@CozyReaderKelly love to hear that! When reading a silent voice, have a box of tissues ready by your side 😅
@@gastonkostas2520 good to know!
I really loved the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime and I've been meaning to read the manga for ages!! I'm tempted to try the Fullmetal Editions too
I've heard good things about The Promised Neverland but wasn't super interested in it; you're making me curious though!
Congrats on such a successful experiment! there's a couple manga series I've been meaning to start and this is making me want to do that soon
Also love that your librarian wrote you notes!
I want to try and watch the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood after reading the series, but I'll need to find out where I can watch it. They don't have that version on netflix. I like the paper quality of the Fullmetal editions. They look really nice.
Promised Neverland definitely has some creepy stuff. I'm continuing it over the next couple weeks so I'll let you know how it goes past volume 1.
Check out TPN please omg it’s so good.
One piece isn’t as long as it seems, since it’s a comic book. You can read a volume in about an hour, and there are 100 volumes. So it’s long but not as long as people think
Just saw this now and you've picked some bangers. kudos for taking the plunge on a new thing
Thanks! It has been really fun trying these.
Cool video always fun jumping into the manga world
One I've been meaning to try that I feel you could like from the sound of it is Fruits Basket! it's a romance one I think but there's fantasy elements as well
I put Fruits Basket on hold from my library to try. Thanks for the recommendation!
I never red the manga but the anime is literally what got me into the media and it is my top recommendation for everyone who likes romance
@@CozyReaderKelly I was actually going to say Fruits Basket as well... for me, Fruits Basket and Fullmetal Alchemist were my first two manga that got me into it when I was 11, so to me, the two series are linked in how strong an impression they made on me. Fruits Basket definitely shows its age a little, especially in the art style of the early volumes, but it finds its feet pretty quickly, and if Tohru can endear herself to you at all as a character, it's worth it to see where the story takes her and the other characters.
additionally, I feel like Yotsuba& might be a good one to check out if you like the cute kid parts of Spy x Family. Yotsuba& feels a lot more like a series of short little vignettes in the slice of life genre, but if you're looking for something nice and cozy, that'd be it. and on the more suspenseful side of things, Naoki Urasawa's Monster is one of those series where you pick it up and feel glued to it immediately. it just pulls you along and pulls you along, right to the very end.
@@ruriva4931 I'm excited to try Fruits Basket!
@@loregoblin3854 I am definitely interested in Monster and thanks for the recommendation of Yotsuba&
Seeing as you won’t be continuing Toilet Blund, I hope you don’t mind if I talk a little bit about it in your comments section!
I know you didn’t feel that attracted to it so this isn’t to comvice you to read it or anything, I just felt like sharing my own opinion (sorry if it’s a long comment!) It has to be one of my favourite mangas but it’s hard to get into from the get-go which is totally understandable. I see that it’s often classified as a comedy but after a few volumes in it gets incredibly interesting and introspective on topics like death and I really really enjoyed it! Although, it has made me cry more than laugh (despite the adorable art style, it really is heartbreaking sometimes), and I feel like calling it a comedy past volume 4 doesn’t make a lot of sense. The mangas go really deep into the characters emotions and the plot just gets better :D
It’s just a story about some kids, but it really knows how to twist the knife in the wound. I’ve got to say that it might be one of the saddest mangas I’ve ever read to be honest, but I love it for that reason. Also, I understand that it’s not really for you but I just wanted to leave another personal perspective on the series here, I hope you don’t mind!
I just like sharing :)
**flashbacks to the last 5 chapters**
_cries_
Feel free to discuss your favorites. Even if I'm not interested in that series at the moment I like to hear other people discuss what they enjoy.
Okay so about Fullmetal, it becomes exponentially better as you read and it already starts really good.
Thanks! I'm looking forward to reading through it soon (it's the next one I'm going to read all of).
I don't know if anyone has recommended it but I think you'd like Silver Spoon!
It's a comedy slice of life that takes place on a farm by the same author as Full Metal Alchemist. And it's just 15 volumes so it's not a monstrous commitment.
Thanks for the recommendation!
the way the deathnote volume is beat up hurst my soul
I know I've just tagged you in the Spy x Family channel, but didn't realise you were thinking of One Piece too! You should definitely join us in that channel too if you continue (I've not finished the video yet). There are plenty of enthusiastic fans that would love to hear your thoughts (even if you don't like it .... they just like to discuss)
Oh yeah, I struggle with the fight scenes too! They are difficult to follow when you first start but you do get more used to it. They are still not my favourite scenes because of the confusion (and well fight scenes are just not my thing either), and still a work in progress for me but as time goes on I am improving my ability to read them.
hahahahaha, I've got to your OP reaction. It doesn't surprise me, it definitely is an acquired taste.
@@Lynn-CA I get why people like it. The whole pirate thing never really interested me but I figured I should at least give it a try with how much it is loved in the server. Spy x Family has been much more up my alley.
I really enjoyed how you explained each manga and how you read through them. I really like to know how non-manga readers think of the medium. Yeah, there are a lot of very "passionate" fans that only like to know "good" things about their favorite series, but you don't need to hold back because if you don't like it because it's famous, really liked the honesty!
Glad you enjoyed the video! I'm always going to be honest about my opinion because I think people can tell when you are disingenuous. Plus, we are all allowed to have our own opinions and not everyone is going to like every piece of art/writing. I just try to be respectful because others are free to love things I don't like.
You should try ascendance of a bookworm you might dig it. I would also recommend made in abyss I don't know if you can find it at you library though cuz though it's really highly regarded it's not exactly mainstream. Always love to see someone give manga a chance it really does have something for everyone.
I have Ascendance of a Bookworm on my list already. It sounded interesting. Thanks for the recommendations!
The the only "pirate" elements in one piece is that they are travelling the sea and the world government calls them pirates, ofc there are some classic pirates but even then they have a twist. One piece has 1050+ chapters and there haven't been even one character with an eyepatch.
Thanks for the comment
Since you liked Fullmetal alchemist, Arakawa Hiromi-sensei has another great Manga called Gin no Saji (silver spoon) which is about a boy from the big city (sapporo) who starts going to high-school in an agricultural school in the middle of buttfuck nowhere hokkaido.
She also does the manga adaptation of Arslan senki but I haven't read that so I can't speak on the quality
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll add it to my list to check out.
Full Metal Alchemist is an absolute masterpiece.
What I originally thought was a tale of two brothers quickly grew into a very philosophical and deep world.
I really look forward to reading through this series soon.
If you want to dip your toe into the slice of life/romance corner of manga I suggest you give Maison Ikkoku a shot. It's about a student who failed to get into university and moves into a boarding house while he studies for his next attempt a year later. While there he meets and falls in love with the manager, a young widow. The manga is mostly about their love story but the other residents at the Ikkoku add some humor and have their own smaller arcs. It's very good.
The author, Rumiko Takahashi is mostly known for her comedic action/fantasy shonen manga (Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha) but this one is my personal favorite and despite being quite romantic it is classified as seinen, so it might be an easier transition considering you started with shonen manga.
Thanks for the recommendation!
If I had to recommend one manga to anyone it would be Oyasumi Pun Pun an honestly life changing story for me made me cry for many hours non stop would definitely check it out if I were you. Because unlike a lot of manga its just about this boy who lives his life from childhood to adulthood and it is harrowing.
I'll add it to my list. Thanks for the recommendation!
After these I’d definitely try something like berserk,punpun, monster, or Vinland saga
Good stuff!
In terms of romcom manga, I would 100% recommend one called “Kaguya-sama: Love is War”. The gist of it is that there are these two people who are both in love with each other but have way too much pride to confess so each chapter really boils down to this intense yet hilarious psychological battle of one of them trying to force a confession out of the other. It often gets compared to death note in that regard but it much more lighthearted
It is a little bit of a longer series (sitting at about 270 chapters at the moment) and is still currently ongoing and the series is very episodic in nature with not a whole lot of plot driving the story but there are plenty of arcs where there is a plot driving the story forward, just more often than not most chapters will be their own little isolated story (these do sort of get called back to in later chapters though)
Even though it’s a bit longer in chapter count, I feel like it’s a perfect binge read series because each chapter is a pretty quick read and the humour (for me at least) lands almost every time so it makes it enjoyable. I completely understand that you’ll want to finish some shorter series that are complete but I highly recommend this one, it’s one of my favourites and I think you might enjoy it!
(also, there aren’t many tropes like love triangles or conflicts that could be avoided by having the characters just talk, so that’s a bonus if you’re not a fan of them!)
I just stumbled across this video randomly and am only about four minutes in, but it's great to see somebody getting into manga. I obviously don't know your tastes, but if you are okay with extreme violence I would highly recommend Berserk, but it's not really until volume 4 (of the paperback) that it starts to _really_ get good and you really start to understand and like the protagonist.
Also, if you haven't read any american comics yet, I would highly recommend Sandman and Fables.
EDIT: After watching the rest of the video I now retract my recommendation for Berserk😅
However, i do still highly recommend Sandman and Fables, and I think I'll throw in a recommendation for V for Vendetta as well.
I've heard of Berserk but I also heard that it has sexual assault in it quite a lot. That's not something I can really handle in books so I don't think I can read that one. Thanks for the comics recommendations! I haven't really tried comics yet and that could be fun.
@@CozyReaderKelly Fair enough. Berserk is actually a really heartfelt series, but it's also absolutely gut-wrenching at times. Not to mention the copious amounts of gore 😅
SpyxFamily is a great manga and anime series. It's so good cause of the comedy, the touching moments with Anya, Anya's antics with her classmates at Eden College, Yor being a bad ass Mom, and Loid being this spy that in a way, is reconnecting with his humanity after denying it for so long with this found family. i highly recommend it.
I see from your bookshelves that you are a big fantasy fan so FMA and this other Fantasy manga called Frieren because its very thematic with immortaliy, memories, the fact that we are in this planet for such a short amount of time but seeing it from an Elf's pov and her story about how we should get to know each other, treasure one another and dealing with grief and loss. It's also very comedic and it has great characters. definitely recommended it :D
I am really enjoying reading Spy x Family and hope to watch the anime at some point.
I did another video trying first volumes and Frieren was one of those. I liked it and want to continue the series.
you picked up some really good tittles, i just had to mention
Thank you for the recommendation!
If I were to recommend any series, it'd be Demon Slayer. I think the anime is a better way to view the series since it's known for incredible animation, but the manga is great, too. It was the first action manga I'd ever read, and I think it's pretty easy to follow in the fights. It does get dark at times, but it's not too as bad and is also few and far in between. The first book is darker than the majority of the series, aside from later fights where it's necessary. Basically, Demon Slayer is about a young boy named Tanjiro who loses his family to a Demon attack, leaving only his younger sister, Nezuko, alive. However, Nezuko transforms into a demon while Tanjiro is trying to find a doctor for her wounds, causing her to attack him. She eventually comes to her senses, and, against all odds, protects Tanjiro when a "demon slayer" comes to kill her and bring Tanjiro to a safer place. Demon slayer follows Tanjiro and his sister in his journey to become a demon slayer to slay the demon who killed his family and to find a cure for his sister. This is my absolute favorite series and I think you'd enjoy it, too.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll add it to my list.
the manga hobby can get silly expensive, i reccomend reading online and only buying the series you truly love
All of the series that you picked are ones that I have on my reading list. For some series, I have watched the anime and for others I have not. Fullmetal alchemist is one of my favorite animes of all time. I would recommend Noragami and D.Gray-Man as two series to try out. They are both action fantasy series that I really love.
Thanks for the recommendations! I am really interested in finishing Fullmetal Alchemist soon.
I love all the mangas that you pick, they are so good in their own way. My favorite on is One Piece, i understand that a lot of people can find it off putting, is a weird ride to start. Glad you like some of them and you are continuing them. I hope that if you keep reading manga you will someday pick One Piece again and have a new perspective, I know we fans can be annoying but it is really worth it.
Nice picks. I'm loving Spy x Family. Nice shirt btw - Matilda is one of my favourite books.
I personally love one piece from the beginning. However I totally get and not wanting to need to watch/read a whole bunch until it “gets to the good part”. The beginning of one piece was really cute and fun for me, but I was surprised how it progressed into a grand epic.
I'm sure it's amazing. Just not sure if I want to spend the time on it currently.
I like your money-smart approach. Borrowing manga from the library is such a good idea when you have no idea whether you like the medium at all.. And the cat tax was a nice bonus. If a series doesn't work for you, that's fine.
Thanks!
The sheer thrill I felt when u showed u picked up TPN as one of the contenders and I'm so glad u ended up enjoying it as much as u did, I can't describe how much I cherish that series, I would always reccomend TPN for a new manga reader, the way it pulls u in instantly in this dark unforgiving reality the kids have to face, and nonstop twists and turns u can't help but put yourself in the kids place, especially due to these high tension psychological thriller elements kaiu shirai so gracefully excels at.
Even as an avid manga reader whos read like over 300 manga till this day it continues to be one of my all time fav manga
This is the series I plan to read through next. I'm really excited for it!
Im interested in your thoughts on promised neverland as you keep reading. It had an amazing arc in the middle. Also i would like to see you review Berserk and chainsaw man or one punch man.
Golden Kamuy is a manga I highly recommend, its a story about a veteran soldier working with an Ainu girl to find the hidden stash of gold worth billions by her father. In order to find them, they must decrypt the codes that are tattooed onto their skin on a number of escaped convicts throughout Hokkaido. As they find the convicts, they must also fight against a rogue Japanese division and a group of samurais that are also searching for the gold as well.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Whilst there are only 12 Deathnote volumes in Deathnote. There is also “How to Read Deathnote”, a short story Deathnote manga and at least 1 Light Novel (a prose novel of around 50,000 words). I personally didn’t delve into the extra books as the main story is concluded in the original 12. I liked the artwork, concept and some of the storyline of the manga, but overall I have since read other manga that I prefer.
If you want to read some more manga, I recommend March comes in like a lion and Mushishi. They're both slow paced, but have really nice out.
Mushishi is more like a recollection of short japanese folklore and mythology. It follows a main character which deals with the spirits and teaching people how to coexist with the harmless ones. The art style is absolutely gorgeous, out of this world.
March comes in like a lion (Sangatsu no lion) is a more drama focused, about a little kid who becomes an orphan and is now a teenager living by himself after moving out from his adopter's parent house. The kid is a professional Shogi player (japanese chess like game) and that's how he gets by in life, but he's lost in life with a couple trauma.
March Comes in Like a Lion volume 1 is coming out in English very soon
(I'm so excited to read it since the anime is my favorite)
Thanks for the recommendation! They sound interesting.
@@Katpasniss Oh, i guess it wasn't as popular maybe over there. I have all the volumes in spanish so i thought they would have it in the states too, but it seems it comes there on jan 31th next year. The anime really is amazing, but the manga adds that little extra context that i love.
@@CozyReaderKelly You're welcome~
I think i got this vid in my recommendeds because i've been into reading some regular books, so i'll def check out your reviews when i'm done with the isaac asimov foundation prequel books.
@@rRekko I have been wanting to read Isaac Asimov. I own I, Robot and hope to get to it this year. Hope you are liking them!
id really recommend vinland saga! it has some fantastic character work
I tried that in another video. I am not going to continue currently but I plan to try it again some time.
Such a nice librarian.
She’s really nice and has been asking how I’m doing with manga since I first started getting them out from the library.
@@CozyReaderKelly there's an anime about a woman who got reincarnated into another world who likes books but it's really expensive and rare not sure if you will like it but here is the title honzuki no gekokujou 😁
If you like wholesome story nichijou is good
There is also ways of the house husband and orange
@@oreoicecream1829 Ascendance of a bookworm might be easier to remember...
Death Note is flat out amazing. Did you ever continue it?
I highly recommend reading urasawa naoki's works 20th century boys, monster and pluto and all Of his works he is one of the best authors ever
I am trying 20th Century Boys in my next video and I'll add his others to my list. Thanks!
I know probably everyone will tell you this, but One Piece popularity is given through the later progression of the manga, the true gold of the series is really shown later on. Although I like the beginning, I can totally understand why someone wouldn't. As it is long running, there are a lot of unexpected things that intentionally return to us all the time. If you're willing to give it a second try in the future, I hope you can change your mind, and join the community through the upcoming end of this adventure.
I have some other things I want to read now, but I might give it another try sometime in the future.
Hmm, if it’s only the art style you didn’t like I would say maybe give One piece another try but with digitally coloured manga online. It will make it easier to follow. But if you didn’t like the characters either than this isn’t for you as, true one piece gets better later but it’s starts good too . Actually One piece is a story that just gets better and better with each next story to the point where it’s not necessarily just popular but the best fic story. BUT it starts off good too with smaller stories.
Ah, seeing the ticking time bomb that is someone opening up a volume of One Piece is always fun to see. Tis only a matter of time
😂
I shall premise this comment with, I have now the first 50 One Piece volumes. I don’t disagree with your views over crowded panels, but my main problem is that the start of the series is pretty much Luffy gets a new team member each individual single-ish. That being said, I do love the humour and how deep it gets which is why I kept up with it. Good on you for not being put off by a series that has 101 volumes (at the time of writing this comment). As a new manga reader, it is great to see other people’s views, especially those who are also new.
Sorry if this is something you have covered, this is the only video that has been recommended to me. Would you e interested in light novels? If you like fantasy battle then they Isekai genre has a lot to choose from. Jobless Reincarnation created a bunch of tropes followed by titles like Ascendance of a Bookworm and Re: Zero then finally parodied by Konosuba. Also my favorite is Spice and Wolf, which is about medieval economics.
Try Battle Angel Alita. Its an action cyberpunk adventure. Theres gore, but i wouldnt call it over the top nasty in my opinion. Its a classic. Theres 2 type of people, people who love it, an people who have not read it yet.
I'm happy to hear u tried One Piece, i know it may have been a bit rough, especially when ur new to animanga.
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One piece, to me, has amazing world building and detail, the art style may seem a bit cartoony. But as the manga goes on, You see Oda's art get better and better, mind you Oda started drawing One piece when he was 16, he is now 47. One piece isnt just a happy go lucky kid beating up bad guys, but it is actually a story of anti capitalism, and revolution. The story really ties into itself at every step of the way, it definitely gets darker and more serious at certain arcs. One piece entails, segregation, human trafficking, slavery, and colonialism and revolution. I promise to you, the story isnt what it seems, the manga really picks up around Baratie, which is chapter 40
Oda was 21 when he started drawing One Piece. He did submit his first work at 17, but that wasn't One Piece yet.
I'm sure it does get better as it goes with how many people love it. I might try the anime at some point.
I recommend Shadows House and Snow White with the Red Hair! SH is an ongoing manga just like Spy×Family and it has a similar vibe with The Promised Neverland. Just like TPN, it revolves around kids so it starts out all cute and wholesome until dark secrets and mysteries are revealed.
While I haven't really read tha manga of Snow White with the Red Hair, I have watched the anime when I was in my early teens. I remember it being really good with the romance making me fangirl while the medical and political stuff (the protagonist is a royal pharmacist) making me super intrigued.
I also recommend Land of the Lustrous, Made in Abyss, Dorohedoro, and Beastars. It would be awesome if you checked these 4's anime adaptations, especially LOTL it's just SO gorgeous. All the mangas I recommended have their respective animes and all of those animes have an amazing soundtrack. Beastars as well as The Promised Neverland's openings and endings are complete bangers!
Thanks for the recommendations! I will add them to my list.
Aww kinda sad you didn’t like Hanako-kun, but I get it. It starts off pretty slow, not much happening especially in the first couple of chapters but it DEFINITELY picks up around chapter 18 (volume 4) If you ever decide to go back to it- just keep that in mind
Thanks for letting me know. There were so many I was interested in that I needed to start somewhere but I might go back to things later.
I recommend Vinland saga
I did try that in my next video and it wasn't currently something I was pulled to. But I will probably pick it up again in the future.
Since at least 5 of the manga has mystery in it, I think you'll like my recommendation. It's called Hyouka. Now how do I explain this...
I know this series from the anime adaptation and it is my favorite anime of all time (I'm a sucker for mystery). However, this one is adapted not from manga but a series of book called Classic Literature Club, the first volume called Hyouka.
It's about a highschool boy who is really good at solving mysteries, Sherlock Holmes level of deduction kinda stuff, but is very very lazy. He promised himself to have a quiet highschool life and not spending much energy, but he is constantly finding himself in a situation where he has to solve a case. You can go for either the anime show or the book, I hope you like it.
About The Promised Neverland, we had the same reaction. I couldn't stop myself from reading it the first time and finished the first arc in one sitting.
You just brought back so many memories!
Thanks for the recommendation! I plan on picking up The Promised Neverland as the next series I read through. Really excited to see where it goes.
@@kjarakravik4837 Hope you enjoyed the video!
My favorite is One Piece. Its a story that if you stick with it, it changes you. Its fantastic.
When I saw the thumbnail I was really hoping that The Promised Neverland was in here and that eyes weren’t deceiving me. It’s one of my favorite manga series and the first one I have read all the way through as well as the first I’ve owned all of the physical volumes for. It holds a very special place in my heart, especially as it’s sort of been…fading from the public eye recently, in my opinion anyways.
That's so great! It is the one I'm going to read all the way through next. I'm gathering the volumes from my library currently.
Was looking forward into seeing another book tuber besides the ones I watch (Merphy and Daniel Greene) do one piece reviews haha. But its fine, hope you do pick it back up in the future :)
Sorry! I might give it another chance in the future, but I wanted to start out my manga journey with ones I was really enjoying from the beginning.
In general One Piece tends to take longer to read because it is more dialogue and content heavy than the average manga. In general it's normal to take longer to read One Piece.
But then again that's why people are so into it.
One Piece is a series that only get better over time and it start really really slow
as time goes on it is great
I would recommend Land of the Lustrous
Thanks for the recommendation!
I got a really long list of recommendations here but I have a lot of series I think you should at least hear about!
If you want something sweet and fun there’s a lesser-known series called “Flying Witch”. It’s slice-of-life following the lives of a witch and her family in the countryside!
A comedic fantasy series I’d heavily recommend is “Delicious in Dungeon” where a party of adventurers have to delve into a massive dungeon. But since they had to flee before and lost all of their supplies they learn to live off of the resources of the dungeon itself!
Plus the elf, Marcille, is hilarious!
If you’re looking for more action series I have four that come to mind:
My Hero Academia is the quintessential super hero manga out now. It’s starting to near its end (maybe?) but it’s a fun and tense ride as we follow a kid pursue his dreams of becoming the world’s greatest hero!
I don’t know if you’re a Pokémon household but the Pokémon Adventures manga series is incredible! It’s the most intricate the world of Pokémon has ever been portrayed and is filled with so many amazing characters!
Third I’d recommend is Soul Eater. It’s a series from the mid 2000s and it’s full of style and *drip!* (the author did take a few chapters to nail the full style down but wow is it a feats for the eyes the entire way through!)
It’s about kids with the power to resonate their souls and turn into powerful weapons hunting the evils of the world under the watchful eye of Death himself! It’s also hilarious as they attend a school established by Death 😂 The characters are incredibly colorful for sure!
And following Soul Eater I have to recommend the authors latest and (for now) last work: Fire Force.
And I do recommend reading it straight after for… reasons 🙃
It’s about a boy with fire powers who wants to become a hero after he lost his family in a massive supernatural fire. All while the world he lives in is under threat from spontaneous human combustions that turn people into fire monsters!
I’d also have to recommend the anime for that last one the most because WOW the sound design! It got green lit for a new season recently and hopefully makes it all the way to the end since the manga wrapped up recently!
(And unfortunately Soul Eater’s anime had to deviate its story since it caught up to the manga’s publishing when being made so the anime never adapted the full story and the manga’s better ending…)
There’s also the world of light novels! They’re like manga in terms of (semi) regular publishing of ongoing stories but in novel form.
The one I recommend the most to new readers are Log Horizon and Overlord!
Log Horizon follows the journeys of MMO players as they are mysteriously trapped in the game they’ve all been playing, or at least it looks like the game?
It’s actually a very heavy political drama with a lot of action thrown in! The anime recently got its 3rd season too and people hope it gets a 4th to make it to the end!
Overlord is one of the heavier series. It also follows an MMO game player as he becomes trapped in an alternate reality as his game character.
This time around though he played the game as an evil Skeleton Necromancer Overlord as leader of a guild in the game. Now he’s “living” as a Skeletal Overlord as he tried to understand the world he was thrown into!
Very deep political series with a heaping helping of fantasy and horror as you follow the villains of the fantasy!
Protagonists, yes… but they’re not heroes…
Lastly there is a much older novel series that a fantasy junkie NEEDS to read!
*Record of Lodoss War!*
The quintessential fantasy story. It was actually the retelling of the author’s Dungeons & Dragons game he played with his author friends. I’m actually not sure how easy or hard it is to find the novels in English but the OVA/original video animation series is one of the most beautiful pieces of art you will ever see!
If you like D&D or Lord of the Rings you got to read it!
I really hope this helped! I’ve been trying to get into more actual reading myself so all these series come with a hearty recommendation!
There’s also another recommendation. But understand it is not for the faint of heart…
Berserk is the quintessential *MASTERPIECE* of manga ever made. A dark, DARK fantasy story delving into the depths of emotion and the human condition at its breaking point.
It’s a masterclass in its medium. The art by the unfortunately late Miura is a cut above all else! Thankfully his best friend and loyal understudies are working now to finish his series after his tragic passing but you will nonetheless find a wholly satisfying story… if you can stomach it because *WOW* it gets *dark*
So yeah hope you see this and have fun with frankly anything from my list of recommendations! 😀
Oh and read “Nichijou my ordinary life”, you’ll launch your sides into orbit. Check the anime too, your sides will reach Pluto by the time you’re done laughing 🤣
Thank you for all the recommendations! I'll add them to my list to look into. It's nice to hear from people who are passionate about the medium.
One Piece is not for everyone, but Its not about the destination, but the journey type manga. Toilet Bound is one of my favorites in my collection the first manga and half of the second manga is pretty slow, and I didn't like it, but after the firs two there are so many like "What" moments and cliff hangers, its pretty mysterious.
if you enjoy comedy and romance i recommend you check out kaguya-sama love is war, it’s about two geniuses trying to make the other confess their love first.
Monster is also a great mystery series. Very mature, and it’s considered one of the greatest of all time, highly recommend you check it out.
I have both of those on my list. Thanks for the recommendations!
it's really funny how everyone has the same reaction to the beginning of One Piece :D
I'm really not an advocate for 'pushing through' a certain section before a story starts to get good. People do that to me all the time and I really hate it. A good story would start being good at the beginning. I mean, it's not like OP's start is bad, I just found it very dry when I read for the first time.
That said... One Piece does get really good at ch70 or so and it only gets exponentially better from there, so... take that as you will^^
Once you start to understand what kind of story this is and how unique its structure is, there's no going back.
I'm not quite ready to push through right now when there are other things that I am more interested in. But who knows what the future holds.
@@CozyReaderKelly Absolutely respect it. You do you.
The start of one piece basically suffers from it's age. Back when it was first published it was actually very original and quite impressive compared to some of its contemporaries (really it must have been for it to keep going long enough to become the semi-institution it is). The problem is that what we expect of manga /now/ is somewhat more advanced - a lot of more recent shounen series have been expected to tap into current world pop culture (super heroes, back when MHA started for example), are expected to show somewhat deeper themes right from the get go, or are expected to deconstruct or parody common tropes of the kind OP was originally built on.
You can see the same problem with Jojo's Bizzare Adventure - parts 1 and 2 are really kind of dated, in terms of content and structure, compared to the later parts as they're much more in tune with what was popular back then (Fist of the North Star for example) than what kind of things are popular in recent times.
It's a problem that, unfortunately, doesn't have any great solutions beyond asking the reader to just keep in mind that some of the complexity we expect now wasn't as expected back when they started off.
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That makes sense.
many talkin about one piece and promised neverland.
as otaku i recommend:
Bleach and Berserk.
And also kimetsu no yaiba.
not gonna lie - the end of this manga made my cry like a little baby and gave me the purest emotions i‘ve ever had.
I know you didn’t like Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun (which is valid! It’s definitely not for everyone) BUTTTT if you wouldn’t mind I’d like to recommend checking out Volume 0, which contains an alternate version of the story (basically like an early pilot version/the original one shot which the current story was based off of) as it’s a very self-contained story (only 3 chapters) which a lot of different story elements and alternate details. Volume 0 also includes an entirely separate one shot story by the same author which left me shaken. Still a good story tho, but it’s a lot.
That's interesting.
One piece fans be like "it gets good around chapter 100"
Glad you enjoyed manga, read one piece up to volume 11 because thats when you will feel the greatness of the great world of one piece
I might come back to it as some point in the future.
If you like deathnote then you should read platinum end too ...same writer
Wow you picked some bangers man, and yeah if u didn't like one piece one, I don't think u would get into it later either, u love Luffy from the start or u don't which is fine. I can't really recommend that many cuz u read my favorites from my collection lol. Assassin classroom is not the same as promise neverland but I always think of them together and both gave me unique vibes and jujutsu kaisen for more mature action series close to full metal than one piece
Good to know. I don't plan on giving it another try anytime soon, but who knows what the future holds. I have Assassination Classroom to try in the video I'm currently working on.
Umm, that's a first, any person who reads one piece and didn't like it for any reason, when they pick it up later and keep going beyond the first volumes they fell in love with it. It's simply much more then a pirate boy that sail on the sea searching a treasure. If you think you won't like one piece after just one read (problaby because you didn't keep reading after the first chapters) you are definitely a very small exception to the norm.
Not liking One Piece is understandable, because it is an investment that needs time to really get into.
But for the future I have a couple of recommendations:
-To Your Eternity
-Beastars
-Mob Psycho 100
-My Dress-Up Darling
-Dr. Stone
All of these series are quite recent, are really popular with fans, and have amazing art and story.
I think a specification should be made about Mob Psycho 100... I actually like the manga, and I own several volumes, so I'm not here to say that the art is bad, but it is unconventional. it has a very rough look to it, some might call it amateurish, and it might not present well to someone who doesn't know it at all.
what I will say is that the writing in Mob Psycho 100 is amazing, and the people who did the anime definitely did something very special with it. they kept as much of the manga's original look and feel as they could, which I really really appreciate, but they polished up a lot of that roughness in terms of anatomy and perspective, and then went above and beyond on the quality of the animation itself. you can tell that they put a lot of love into the adaptation. and honestly, looking back at the manga's art style, it makes perfect sense. one of the things that the manga does really well, is that it conveys movement and shot composition. and that's everything you'd want from an animation storyboard. it makes total sense that a bunch of animators would look at that and take it as an invitation to go nuts with it. so like... I'd recommend either the manga or the anime, whichever makes the story easiest to consume... because the story is one of my favorites.
Thanks for the recommendations! Beastars is one I had on my list to try and I'll add the others.
@@loregoblin3854 Thanks for the information! Art style can be so subjective, but I'm glad to hear about how good the story is.
Don't feel bad about not liking One Piece or its art style. I really like the manga, but I also have a good friend who is not a bit fan of the Odas art, though she watched the anime in the past. Also the manga gets even more overcrowded with the future volumes...
I guess you will finish the serie you liked first before picking up other recommondations. It's a really good selection and I count the once you like among my favourites as well :)
But since you mentioned you like the art of Takeshi Obata. He is my absolut favourite manga-ka (manga artist) and if you want to later on read more of his work I would suggest "Hikaru no Go". It is (sadly) not as popular as the other series you are reading, but it is my favourite manga of all time. It about the japanese boardgame iGo and has a lot of great character development. It has fantasy elements to it, but also not to much. Even though Hikaru no Go is older than Death Note I like the art style of it even more.
I might try the anime sometime to see if it is more to my taste.
I have a list going for recommendations so once I finish a few series I started I will look into more. Thanks for the recommendation!
Whenever someone says something is reminiscent of Peter Pan, but don't elaborate, I always have to wonder which version they're talking about.
This turned out to not be like Peter Pan. Though I've heard it might hint towards the story later on in the series, but I haven't seen anything yet.
@@CozyReaderKelly I don't doubt it. It's just that I've read a... well, it's more of a sort of fanfic, except it was published and everything. A comic about the supposed origins of Peter Pan? I think? (It was quite a while ago), how he came to Never Never Land and how he got the name Pan and shit.
The tone is... quite a bit darker than you usually see it :P I mean, a guy literally gets his dick bitten off XD
@@Sigart wow! That is not what I would expect from a Peter Pan origin story.
@@CozyReaderKelly Right?! Which is why I always kinda have that "But which Peter Pan story?" because... well, the original Peter Pan Neverland fairytale is probably what everyone means, but I always get just that... smidge of wondering XDDD
But Death Note Light Yagami is a genius, its a roller coaster
Diving into One Piece was the best decision i ever made in my life. Change my mind.
Reading one volume of a manga and judging the entire series on it is basically like watching the first 5 minutes of Lord of the Rings and saying its trash.
I didn’t insult any of the series. There is an audience for all these series. But not all will be for me. I can make that decision based on one page if I want, since it’s my time being used in reading.
@@CozyReaderKelly Sure you can make that decision on one page if you want..but if you call yourself a book reviewer thats hardly fair and loses my respect for their criticism when reviewing and recommending series based on one volume, if you have that little patience with stories then I dont know what to tell you.
@@Omegateck16 I’m not really sure what your expecting. These manga series are published in volumes. I read an entire volume and gave my thoughts. That is what a reviewer does. I was clear at the beginning that I would only be reading one volume each to try it and decide if I personally want to continue. There are videos out there where people review an entire arc or series, but that is not what I was advertising that I was doing.
You might want to try out fairy tail
I think One Piece is one of the hardest manga to read as your first one, as u said it's very crowded and it's hard to tell what's going on. When I tried this manga I felt the same and just gave up and picked up anime of this instead, it might be paced slower but at least I can get thru this without problems, and after that it became my top1 media of all time, peak fiction for sure. I might try reading manga of it after having experience with a lot of other ones now.
Westerners are weird AF
I recommend hells paradise , demon slayer
Thanks for the recommendations! I'll add them to my list.
give also manhwa a chance i recomend solo leveling
I'll have to try manhwa sometime. Thanks for the recommendation!
ngl, I clicked cause of OP on the thumbnail so kinda sad you won't be continuing it. ah well, best of luck on your manga journey~
Thank you! OP wasn't for me at this time, but who knows, it might become interesting to me in the future.
read berserk its a slice of life
One Piece has 1100 chapters so it unfortunately is not an easy one to get a solid read on unless one really makes a big time commitment to actually sink their teeth into it. It’s definitely not for everyone and like all long running shonen it really is for a specific target demographic. I wouldn’t let it or its fans spook you out of the medium, it’s entirely reasonable to not enjoy it everyone has different tastes. I think you were very fair with your takes
ONE PIECE IS BY FARRRRR THE BEST ANIME OF ALL TIME!!!!!! ITS AMAZINGGGG!!!!!
I can understand not liking the first volume of One Piece. It's the mother of all slow burns as far as story goes and the world building is so intricate that every re-read makes you find new information and details that you didn't notice before. It's honestly a series that gets better on reread every time because you know more. Because there are so many details in the art that foreshadow for the very far future, it's very busy as far as panels and art a lot of times, which is a lot to get used to if you are new to manga. It's definitely not a great story for beginners to manga partly because of it being so heavy on the intricate details all of which matter. Also the topics it discusses are really dark and heavy and discussed in a very nuanced way but the author loves very kid-ish comedy so you will find moments of levity in this goofy art style even in the darkest of times, which is definitely not some people's cup of tea. The want their dark stuff to be heavy and angsty all the way. Frankly the story is SO heavy on story-building, while ALSO heavy on character building with a HUGE cast of characters, while also HEAVY on themes that try to get every single angle, at that point it makes sense that it's a slow burn. It suffers from having too much world building and too many in-depth characters. I mean we don't get the main character's backstory until volumes 59-61, which is like 500/600 chapters into the story. At that point we think we know who we are following as it is a story about him and yet... And then after every big game changer in the story and you have to go back and reread it all again. And then you catch more stuff you never noticed and before long you spend a few minutes on every panel, carefully analyzing the art like an insane person because has he hidden something else in plain sight and you are just now noticing? It's a lot. 0/10 recommendation to manga beginners unless you like long detailed epics (like Lord of the Rings) enough to invest a lot of money, since manga volumes aren't cheap. I guess reading online is ok pricewise but a lot of people hate e-reading. On the plus side, some apps allow you to really zoom in to see ALL the tiny details on each panel. I don't think I met anyone who liked it enough to commit off just the first volume and frankly that is very fair. It's more of a thing you do once you have read a lot of manga and now feel confident in just reading a good story. Probably not your favorite, probably not the best ever, definitely a little too slow burn, but a good adventure for everyone if you have time and money to spend with it. Still would say that it's probably not something you will get into. I had the horrible privilege of being exposed to 4kids version of the anime before I ever picked up the manga so I had a vested interest in getting through the prologue of the story which is the first 12 volumes. Most manga tells full story in 12 volumes or less. This story just has the prologue of first 12 volumes, so when I say COMMITMENT and SLOW BURN I really mean it.
P.S. My manga recommendation that isn't shounen (for boys) battle action adventure is: "Skip Beat!". It is a revenge story that has comedy, some supernatural elements, a tiny bit of action, a lot of heart, a lot of introspection, very slow burn romance that suddenly picks up very far into the story and thus feels earned and natural. The protagonist is a young woman so the manga has been labeled shoujo (for girls) but it isn't too much like most shoujo because the main focus of the story is definitely revenge first and foremost for the majority of it, while most shoujo tend to be romantic comedies. It is a lot of fun too because of the fact that almost all supernatural elements are used to enhance the comedy rather then for anything else, which is very fresh take.
Another recommendation is "Nana". It is also labeled shoujo and sometimes Josei (for women) because of how dark and mature it can get despite that fact that it was labeled shoujo when it first came out.
I can understand how you feel about One Piece, it's a story that doesn't take itself seriously all the time, but when it does it's really good. But if silly jokes and gags are not your thing, then One Piece isn't for you, I thing you will enjoy Fullmetal Alchemist better. And if you're looking for a serious story, I recommend Attack On Titan.
I think One Piece has an amazing artstyle but that's coming from someone who's read countless manga growing up so when something's unique and stylized it stands out. I can see why a new manga reader wouldn't like it. It's like showing someone Dark Souls when they haven't even played Super Mario Bros or any other game in their whole life
Kingdom, I recommend it over One Piece any day.
You need to be 20-30 chapters in until you're properly hooked.
Thanks for the recommendation!
The theme of One Piece isn't actually "piracy" but "freedom". It seems goofy at first but there are arcs that deal with slavery and racism and Luffys dream is to be the freest man in the world and whenever he finds that freedom is being denied to people he acts.
I'm sure it contains many different themes. It just wasn't drawing me in currently.
The Promised Neverland is a masterpiece
I plan on reading through this series next.
I think One Piece is way easier to watch than read. There are some really fun arcs, but until Arlong and after Arlong until Alabasta it is 3/5 at best in my opinion. (and those parts are pretty long, so can't blame you)
Anime may be the way to see if I could enjoy it.
One piece is good but in my opinion it's nothing compared to berserk also monster a good night pun pun are in my top 5
Good to know.