
Is Reincarnated as a Sword Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
Fran and her sword make an oddly touching pair, and the found-family angle is what keeps this from being just another dungeon-crawl isekai.
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We use the whole 1–10 scale and judge each title against the best version of what it is trying to be — a comedy on how funny it is, a thriller on its tension — not against some other genre. As a rough guide: 9+ is all-time great, 8 excellent, 7 a solid recommendation with caveats, 5–6 mixed or average. A 7 is a genuine yes, not a knock. The “Community score” in each review is the crowd rating from AniList, MAL, and MangaUpdates, shown next to ours for comparison.

Few manga swing as big as CLAMP does here, jumping between dozens of fully realized worlds while still building toward one unified, deeply personal mystery.

Rokuro and Benio's prophecy-driven pairing gives a fairly standard exorcist-battle shonen real stakes beyond the next fight.

Grim, tactical, and still genuinely defined by how dark its first chapter gets, so know that going in.

Watching a demon-slaying priest slowly fall for the succubus sent to seduce him shouldn't work as well as it does.

It never quite decides if Rikuo is a kid playing at being a yokai lord or the real thing, but the demon-of-the-week creativity carries it anyway.

For anyone who wants a monster-of-the-week shonen that actually pays off its slower character beats.

Some of the best gunfight choreography in manga, permanently stuck in an unfinished story.

The early arcs undersell it hard, but once the tournament arc kicks in this turns into one of the smartest tactical shonen out there.

Gorgeous gunfights and a genuinely strange sense of humor make this one of the more purely fun looks at the arms trade you'll find in manga.