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Dungeon Meshi

After getting his sister devoured by a dragon and losing all their supplies in a failed dungeon raid...

• Author: KUI Ryoko
• Genres: Comedy / Fantasy / Seinen

Food + dungeon crawling! I think this is world building 101, where you take a premise and run the races, the culture, the way agriculture works, the way the food chain works, the way spirits and art work, and combine it with a sincere love of food. Eating monsters in a very delicious way.

Fujimi Lovers

A spiral love story.<br><br>Kouno Jun is a lively character who lives life with all his ...

• Author: Takagi Yuna
• Genres: Comedy / Drama / Romance / Supernatural

I'm so sad this ended prematurely because the premise was just so thought provoking. Guy who changes lifetimes every time he falls in love with the same girl and feels like she takes a part of his heart every time. Extremely creative symbolic story telling that show instead of tell. I will always love you Fujimi Lovers.

I Want to Be You, Just For A Day Webtoon

Tensions are brewing under the seemingly calm surface of the Vasilios Empire, a kingdom ruled by the...

• Author: 삼
• Genres: Fantasy / Historical / Mystery / Psychological / Romance / Webtoons / Shoujo / Drama

When strong women lead the narrative and insane 4d chess is played. Body switching manhwa that takes advantage of having two women with different strengths take center stage. Kind of goes off the rails? Still an insane read that embraces women's rights and wrongs in a historical romance that reclaim the very nature of womenhood.

Selena

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• Author: 정이나
• Genres: Webtoons / Shoujo(G) / Full Color / Historical / Romance Webtoons Full Color Historical Romance

I was a skeptic! No longer. Enemies to lovers with a romance that has enough friction and chemistry to really something to each other. Josei and dedicated worldbuilding.

Pluto

Based off of a story arc from Osamu Tezuka's Tesuwan Atomu, Pluto follows the Europol detective Gesi...

• Author: Urasawa Naoki
• Genres: Action / Drama / Mecha / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Seinen

Beautiful sci-fi that takes Osamu Tezuka's beloved android Astroboy and grounds the narrative in realism. Handles prejudice, anti-war sentiment, and the dissonance of what makes a human.

Akira

In the year 2038. A police state, scheming politicians, religios sects, revolutionaries and a secret...

• Author: Otomo
• Genres: Sci-Fi

Ahead of its time, dystopian cyberpunk where psychic powers disrupt the political balance of the world. Masterpiece.

Hand Jumper

Sayeon Lee despises Aberrants. They wreak havoc on society with their strange, unthinkable powers. I...

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• Genres: Webtoons / Action / Adventure / Fantasy

Incredibly sharp writing that competes with the best of the best power scaling shonen of all time. In my opinion the power system, protagonist, world building and intrigue is beyond stellar. Read on Webtoon if possible to simply support the author but mangago actually has the true version here too. Has potential to be an all time great.

90's Cram School for Unripe Apples

That asshole is back as an entirely new level of asshole! In her final year of middle school, Hwang ...

• Author: Soonkki
• Genres: Webtoons / Drama / Romance / Slice Of Life

Read on Webtoon if possible. My favorite webtoon currently. Romance melded with nostalgia.

Chainsaw Man

There's a new hero in town and he's got a bad attitude and a chainsaw dog demon! A dangero...

• Author: Tatsuki Fujimoto
• Genres: Action / Drama / Horror / Shounen / Supernatural

My other contender for favorite shonen. This is one of those "you're going to have to trust me on this one" because the hypersexuality and hyperviolence is actually a vehicle for some insane critical thinking. My skeptical reading paid off after arc 2, though I hope the momentum of arc 2 continues to keep growing and growing. Eccentric. Movie-like direction wherein there are often shockwaves to the audience long after a plot point is set in motion, even if Denji himself doesn't know how to feel.

Mob Psycho 100

Kageyama Shigeo (a.k.a. "Mob") is a 8th grader with psychic abilities. He could bend spoon...

• Author: ONE
• Genres: Action / Comedy / School Life / Shounen

One of my contenders for favorite shounen of all time. People talk so much about the art but what about want of connection? What about not truly understanding how valued you are in the world until you work hard to make those connections? What about the payoff of putting your whole heart into growing?

Blue Period.

In his second to last year of high school, the dispassionate but studious, Yataro Yaguchi finally fi...

• Author: Yamaguchi tsubasa
• Genres: Drama / School Life / Seinen

I think art is about realizing the conjoined shame and joy of being surface level, then subsequently diving deeper into a world you may not truly understand. Then coming back up to the surface and experiencing that joy again, after realizing the shame is also part of the journey.

Lover Of Green Midnight

A mansion of a Viscount in the 19th century, and Edgar and June, two servants and lovers who live th...

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• Genres: Webtoons / Josei / Seinen(M) Webtoons

Read the official webtoon translations if possible. My nominee for best localized manhwa ever. The writing shoots it up to a modern classic. A psychological manhwa that transfixes on who is more repressed and who can come out on top because of it. Brilliant drama ripe with projection.

Skip to Loafer

Iwakura Mitsumi always had big dreams, of leaving her small town, advancing to the top tier universi...

• Author: Takamatsu Misaki
• Genres: Slice Of Life / Romance / Seinen

An author that truly loves to people watch. There's a quintessential love of humanity that grows with each chapter, and you can tell because even in the stillness of frames there is something growing. Even in the joy and actionable frames, there is something growing. Even in the most miserable frames, something is growing.

Raise wa Tanin ga Ii

Somei Yoshino is a high school girl, born and bred in a yakuza family, but that hasn't stopped ...

• Author: KONISHI Asuka
• Genres: Drama / School Life / Seinen

It takes a lot for me to respect a yandere romance. I think the dynamicism of the relationship suits the intense yakuza politics well, and the romance itself lends to an extreme chemistry that holds up well in high stakes.

Yeon's Letters

In return of helping out a bullied girl, Yi Sori becomes a target herself. Feeling hurt and alone, s...

• Author: Hyun-Ah,Cho
• Genres: Drama / Webtoons

Before this piece I actually doubted the long scrolling manhwa as an artform. After this work I genuinely began to believe that the manhwa format is a vehicle for art, so long as the artist and the message rings as true as this work. Short read, lovely.

Nana

This is the story of two 20-year-old women who share the same name. Even though they come from compl...

• Author: Yazawa Ai
• Genres: Comedy / Drama / Josei / Romance / Slice of Life / Tragedy

My favorite shoujo of all time. Messy and mature, exploration of the human condition during bouts of fame, fanaticism, and codependency.

Fruits Basket

Tohru Honda has been living in a tent since her mother dies in a car accident, but ends up living in...

• Author: takaya natsuki
• Genres: Comedy / Drama / Romance / School Life / Shoujo / Supernatural

The quintessential shoujo for all ages for a reason. Like reading a classic book, the story of kindness not being just a naive stepping stone but the center of all action is evergreen.