
Is CITY Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
Denser and stranger than Nichijou, and better for having an actual plot underneath the noise.
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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.

Denser and stranger than Nichijou, and better for having an actual plot underneath the noise.

One joke, told extremely well for eight volumes straight — exactly as much manga as this premise needed, no more.

Watching a legendary sword drag a spoiled brat's body into shape, one humiliating training montage at a time, is a lot more fun than it has any right to be.

The premise is the whole appeal, and it's a genuinely good one — this is the rare comic where you close a chapter having laughed and also learned something.

Every cliché in the genre shows up here, and somehow that's the appeal — until one arc pushes the joke too far.

The slimes are charming enough to carry chapters that Yuji himself mostly coasts through.

Nothing about this date goes well, and that's exactly why it's funny -- and, eventually, kind of sweet.

Every disciple getting their own turn to be ridiculous is a better joke than most cultivation comedies manage with a single lead.

It's a joke-delivery machine first and a story second, and it's honest about that from chapter one.

Making a man who already saved one world go back to work fighting monsters for hourly pay turns the usual hunter-power-fantasy formula into something much funnier than it has any right to be.

Watching Daichi get flustered by Akira's rare girly side shouldn't work in a childhood-friends romance where the couple already knows everything about each other, but it finds a new angle anyway.

Forcing two people who can't stand each other into a shared house, shared meals, and a shared secret turns out to be a much better engine for romantic tension than another slow-burn confession arc.