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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.
Tezuka uses a body-horror premise to interrogate exactly how fast people stop treating you as human, and the result is uncomfortable in all the ways it means to be.
Treat this like a long-running anthology of tight assassination thrillers instead of one continuous story, and it's one of the most influential action manga ever put on paper.
Every operation plays like a heist with a scalpel, and the hospital politics around them are just as sharp as the surgery itself.
Tezuka points his most beloved-cartoonist instincts at genocide, propaganda, and the lies people tell to survive them, and it hits harder than almost anything else with his name on it.
Few mystery-thriller manga manage rules this tight and twists this satisfying without ever feeling like they're cheating.
Tonogai's other death game is meaner and twistier than Doubt, if you've got the stomach for another one.
Some of the best gunfight choreography in manga, permanently stuck in an unfinished story.
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.
Tight, fast-moving psychological thriller that does a lot with a small cast and a short page count.
Genuinely well-crafted crime drama built on one of manga's more quietly compelling partnerships.
Sharply choreographed action seinen anchored by a genuinely compelling antihero duo, though the bleakness and glacial release schedule are real costs of entry.
Some of the most stomach-turning imagery Junji Ito has ever drawn, wrapped around a plot that gets messier the longer it runs.