Mine is Yotsuba&! It’s just so underrated in general and I love it.
There are a few, but https://anilist.co/manga/30081/ARIA/ stands alone.
I also love Yotsubato! :) sometimes it blows my mind that’s it’s the same author as Azumanga Daioh
My #1 favorite is Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, it’s several times longer and more complex than the movie.10/10: Nausicaa, Girls’ Last Tour
Almost 10/10: Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku
9/10: B-gata H-kei, Genjitsu Touhi shitetara Boroboro ni Natta Hanashi (the Nagata Kabi alcoholism memoir), Mata Onaji Yume wo Miteita
Other favorites: Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, Nichijou, Onimai, Melancholia & Nickelodeon, March comes in like a lion, Onanie Master Kurosawa, Gakkougurashi. Maybe parts 6 and 7 of Jojo’sSorry I haven’t been responding, been out sick.
Hope you get well soon. I love this thread. So much manga to read now
just returned back to school. still got a bad cough but I’m alright I guess
Currently:
My gf loves girl’s last tour! Haven’t read it myself though
First off, I love this thread. So much manga to read now.
But currently my favorites are please go home Akutsu-san and one punch man
I think every single person on the planet should read Yotsuba&! It’s a world treasure.
It’s not my personal favorite though - that would be The Voynich Hotel. I just love everything about it - great characters, funny as hell, great stories and even a great ending.
Some honorable mentions:
I don’t know that I can pick any one favorite, it’s more like they come and go at different times. My current favorite is probably what I wrote about this week in the general thread, The Moon on a Rainy Night, but that is surely heavily influenced by recency bias.
A handful of other favorites of mine would be (tried hard to limit myself to 5):
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
For me, the more a manga makes me go “WTF”, the better.
190+ chapters in, it still has moments that I did not expect.
This criterion makes me biased towards slapstick comedies, but it’s my favourite genre anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Another bias that favours 100 girlfriends is that it is the longest running manga that I’ve followed from the beginning.
It’s still ongoing though, so there’s always a chance that it drops off.
So if I have to nominate one of my completed 10/10s, it’s A Complicated Sibling Relationship 4-Koma for being a roller-coaster of WTFs
I only read The Promised Neverland and Nisekoi: False Love, so they are my only favorites.
My top 3 are:
- Domestic Girlfriend
- Telework Yotobanashi
- Mushoku Tensei
I know a lot of people hate Domestic Girlfriend for the ending, but I thankfully got to bingeread the entire thing during Covid, so I just got to buckle in and enjoy the wild ride.
I also binged Domestic Girlfriend early in the pandemic. I have a love/hate relationship with the series overall. On the one hand, the reason the ending is so incredibly polarizing is because the story and characters are so easy to be invested in. You really care about these three and the melodramatic messes they find themselves in. On the other hand, well, the ending. Domestic Girlfriend makes you feel something, that is for sure; and that is better than a lot of lesser series can say.
I was definitely invested in the characters, I just didn’t get invested in whether Hina or Rui won in the end. I just needed to know what happened next. This is why I love the series, because I wasn’t one of the people slighted. Plus, I felt the ending hinging on a huge change out of left field was appropriate given some of the previous arcs. I get why some people are made, but I wasn’t in their situation.
