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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.
It takes a while to get going and the early art is rough, but stick with it and it turns into one of the most heartfelt battle series of its era — and it actually sticks the ending.
Peak murim comfort food — a legendary swordsman reborn into a broke, washed-up sect, and it's as funny as it is cool.
The floor grind gets repetitive and the tone never lightens — and it's still the smartest thing anyone's done with a gacha premise.
Anyone who's wished John Wick would get a day job belongs here — come for the silences as much as the gunfights.
Kojima's paneling changed how action gets drawn in comics, and Koike never once softens Ogami into a conventional hero -- this is a slow, brutal masterpiece, not a quick genre fix.
The premise alone -- bug-men on Mars, humans grafted with insect DNA to fight them -- is worth the price of admission; whether the execution holds up over 20-plus volumes and two long hiatuses is a much shakier bet.
Brutal, unpredictable, and drawn with real kinetic force — it just never figures out what to do with all the nudity it keeps shoving in the frame.
Sixty million copies sold isn't an accident: the fights hit hard and the friendships hit harder, even if the humor and pacing show their late-80s age.
The premise does the heavy lifting, and for a long stretch that's more than enough — bomb-throwing island survival with actual tension and actual deaths.
It's a romance wearing a delinquent-gang costume, and that disguise is a big part of why it works as well as it does.
Loud, simple, and completely sincere about what it's selling: guys who'd die for each other over a school that isn't worth dying for.
Grounded, almost documentary street-fighting wrapped around the psychology of bullying — rough-drawn, but unlike anything else in the genre.