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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.
Gorgeous, brutal, and decades ahead of its influence on cyberpunk anime — the early pacing is uneven, but the ideas still land.
Forcing a musician to fight with the one thing he loves is a sharp enough hook to carry a fairly dense war-fantasy setup.
The silly cowboy-comedy opening undersells what this turns into — by the second half it's one of the better sci-fi tragedies manga has to offer.
Confident creative reset that fixes what dragged down the first Boruto manga, sharper art, higher stakes, and a full Kishimoto script that finally gives its side cast room to matter.
Genuinely fresh angle on a Murim genre staple, built around watching Tang Mujin grow into the founder of a clan you may already recognize from a dozen other Murim series.
Well-drawn cultivation power fantasy that gets real mileage out of a protagonist willing to be the villain instead of quietly redeeming himself, even if the sprawling cast and harem trappings will wear on some readers.
Fresh, specifically-skilled spin on the reincarnated-into-Murim formula that finds a genuinely underused niche, poison and insects, to build its hook around.
Genuinely dark, morally serious entry in the xianxia genre that earns comparisons to the genre's best for real reasons, hampered mainly by a compressed adaptation.
Genre-defining classic that still holds up as some of Takahashi's best comic writing, even if its episodic structure and dated humor occasionally show their years.
Solidly genre-typical urban cultivation manhua that runs the secretly-overpowered-rebirth-protagonist formula competently without doing much to distinguish itself from its many genre siblings.
