I think I’ve read that manga partly - is it about a cross-dressing girl, surrounded by reverse-harem? Not that one. I was talking about the one where there’s a parody episode of ‘Boy meets girl’ troupe.

Did you forget about the high school boys series? I don’t remember what the name was, but it was quote funny.

I was reading it some time ago, but I stopped because I wasn’t feeling okay. Lately, I’ve been on a self-destructive behavior, reading vile stuff. Maybe I’ll start with this manga again, but for now I’m quitting for some time.

This is the last time I’m reading any manga. I’m sick of how boring and shitty it feels to read one. Tried reading the Chronicles of Narnia: Magician’s Nephew. Tried picking a few other title, and I felt so tired and sad tht manga aren’t fun anymore that I’ve had enough, and I’m going to start reading novels, after I enjoyed the first part of The book of Earthsea last week.

MangaDex has almost all of the translations available in one place. There’s also Baka-Tsuki.

Maybe I don’t like reading manga anymore, I guess. What I’m probably looking for is a full-sized novel in the form of graphic novel. The last thing I’ve read was HakoMari, and I quite enjoyed it, despite some of it’s flaws.

I did not like it. I really enjoyed the first few chapter, but a lot of stuff went wrong after that. The pointless sexualization of minors (Hana) made it really suffocating, The last chapter I read progresses like a typical shonen, so that was also a big no.

I’ve read both Sweet Home and Shotgun Boy. It wasn’t as fun as Bastard. But it was a nice read.

Honestly, I want to read something that gives me the joy and fear of unknown. For example, when I talk about fantasy, I want to enjoy an unknown world that I might be somewhat familiar with. I will gladly accept the good and bad side of a world, as long as it is neither glorified or vilified. I want a main character that does not deviate from their moral responsibility. I don’t want to read cartoon-ish heroism or villainy. I want a world that isn’t black and white, where the conflict between two groups is complex.

I don’t want a fantasy that bends to fan service. I despise evil stuff, but if such things exists in this fantasy, I expect societal problems to affect the main character as well. I don’t want to read the story of the hypocrite power-fantasy MC who has a twisted sense of justice normalized by the mangaka. Honestly, I don’t find comics to be fun anymore. Maybe there’s a small subset of books out there out there that is for me. One reason why I like comics like AiRen and Shakugun no Shana is because it has this concept of “joy” in “despair”. Too bad I won’t be able to read SnS because apparently, they never translated the book to English.

I have started to hate most of the stuff that I read. Power fantasy like tower-climbing/levelling-up and otome/villainess is something I detest very much. I admit that I’m guilty of consuming it, because curiosity - and rightfully, it has killed the cat in me time and again.

Apart from that, I hate over-repeated, unfunny jokes related to “accidental” sexual assault, and the cocky “smirk syndrome”. And don’t even get me started on special otome highlight panels - the hero/heroine can say the most ridiculous nonsense, and people won’t question it, cuz “muh fleur, glitter en shiz”. When it comes to adult category, they’re the worst, especially the “guilty pleasure” part of it - apparently, some people like it, but me, I’ve been traumatized.

I like reading stuff that makes me feel like I’m a speck on the universe. I also like reading good slice of life. Good, as in, not just pointless daily life time-lapse. Something similar to Hyouka, where the story is slow-paced.

Here’s a few of them that I enjoyed of the many I’ve read:

• Manga:

  • Hyouka (I’ll probably read the light novel because this is so damn good)
  • Ai Ren (very dark and traumatic, but hits the right spot of transcendental mysteriousness and cosmic horror)
  • Attack on Titan (Spoilers only: I’ll start from the beginning sometimes later)
  • Uzumaki (cosmic horror)
  • Monster
  • Samurai 8 (I like this, the theme is very similar to Asura’s Wrath)
  • Code Geass

• Manhwa:

  • Bastard (my number one manhwa favourite)
  • Days of Hana (bitter-sweet romantic story)
  • Tower of God (I’ve yet to resume - I stopped reading about three years ago, this isn’t what I consider as tower-climbing, more like tower-transcendence)

• Manhua (all the manhua I’ve read are absolutely shit, except for this one):

  • Pan Long

• Light novels

  • HakoMari series
  • Kamisu Reina series

Right now, I’m considering moving to actual novels, from diverse international authors. Maybe a few in English, Hindi, French and possibly, my own mother tongue. I don’t really like the currrent enshittification of East Asian animation. Maybe I’ll read something like Inuyasha, Trigun, Blame, WorldEnd, Astra Lost in Space or Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash in the future.

I’ve completed the second one. It’s horrible. I’m ashamed at myself for reading it all the way. It’s not just manhua, but also manga and manhwa - they’re bad (at least the newer ones). If I had the chance to, I would go on a rant about all the three mediums of comic. Barring a few, I hate most of them. I no longer enjoy reading them - in fact, I’ve stopped reading for about three years, tried getting into it recently, and I’ve stopped again. It feels too forced, unnecessarily sexual, mentally draining, repetitive and bland.

This is a good one. I like it so far.

Read the manga back when I was a teen. Haru was the best girl.

I loved Dororo (the remake) and Astro boy (saw Pluto, which is part of a singular Arc). I would like to read Phoenix and BlackJack.

“Ai Ren” by the same author who worked on “My Lovely Ghost Kana”? It’s dark and depressing however.

I’ve stopped reading manga/manhwa/manhua and animated versions of it, starting from around 2020 for personal reasons. However from what I’ve read, here are a few good reads I would recommend (not necessarily isekai):

• Agni
• Ai-Ren
• Hachimaru
• Monster
• Uzumaki
• Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
• Made in Abyss
• Hyouka
• Shakugan no Shana

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