It's a new weekly series like AskAnime where I ask for Manga recommendations. I binge read a lot of manga so I tend to run out of titles on a weekly basis so it'd be great if you guys can give me some recommendations.
Just suggest a manga you think is weird. There's a chance I've read it if it's a recent title (around 2020 and up) without an anime adaptation but I can overlook the obscure ones where there are yet any reliable English translations even from fans.
Mechanics:
- Entry can either be a comment under this post or a separate post with a hashtag #mangamonday24. Please note the number "24" at the end of the hashtag is an indicator of the week number and it'll help me search for recent entries on the succeeding weeks. Making a separate post is preferred but settling for a comment is fine too.
- If you make a separate post about the recommendation, you don't need to specify that it's "Manga Monday Contest Entry 24" or something along those lines, just post it like any regular review post on the community. This isn't a formal contest as the criteria is just looking recommendations to read about.
- Reblogs or upvotes are appreciated but not necessary. Just comment the recommendation or make a post about the manga, that'd be fine.
- It doesn't necessarily have to be a manga, it can be a manhwa or manhua.
- If you already made a post about your recommendation, let's say a manga review posted months to years ago, drop it here as an entry.
- You can do multiple entries in the comments or post but bear in mind that if you shill me a bucket list of titles, I'd probably ignore it.
- Community mods will be curating the entries for engagement. This doesn't mean big votes, we could just be handing out Hive tips for those that engage more just as what we do on AskAnime weekly.
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Thanks for your time.
I have 2 recommendation for this week & both are new series (1 manga & 1 manhwa).
Manga: Reincarnated as the Lazy and Villainous Noble, I Broke the Scenario and Became the Most Formidable With Extraordinary Magic
Manhwa: Childhood Friend of Zenith
You're gonna love both of these (that's my guarantee 🙃)
There's this old Webtoon I used to read in the past *(around 2015~ish) called Tales of the Unusual. It's episodic, so maybe one episode runs for 3 or more chapters each. It has some of the most unthinkable stories I've ever read. I should get back to reading it since I stopped a few years ago. It ended in 2022. :)
When I think about "weird" manga or people ask me to recommend an absurd anime, I recommend Dorohedoro.
The title is already finished, it got a very good adaptation from the MAPPA studio (the endings are a fucking masterpiece, like in Jojo's Bizzare Adventure from David Production).
This title is striking in its strangeness from the very beginning - unusual characters, a crazy sense of humor full of references to gore, sex, and an initially nonsensical plot (meaning, until we see what it is about, the plot is not about anything specific, we just observe the characters who move in world they know well).
The main characters are Kaiman and Nikaido. Kaiman is a giant who was transformed by a magician. The transformation is that he lost his real head and got a reptilian head instead. Additionally, Kaiman doesn't remember anything and has another person's head inside him. For this reason, he catches random people, puts their heads in his mouth, and then asks "what did that guy say?!" As is the case with semi-stupid protagonists, Kaiman has a short memory and is hungry, so he instinctively eats their heads xD. Sometimes he does it before he even asks. His friend is Nikaido, who also has her secrets. Together they travel through the inner world (known as the Hole) and the outer world, wanting to explain their secrets.
btw. @adamada - Regarding point 5 (sharing the link on social media) - if I add a link to the post on my FB fanpage in this way, will it be OK?
https://www.facebook.com/BlogHerosa/posts/pfbid035uFZfcWbfrhfMhyytfcsbHaMV6RSPHrH87qLUudPcvdv91bvt95TMqeTRCuroRFl