
Is Tamon's B-Side Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
The whole joke is a heartthrob idol who's secretly a gloomy mess at home, and it keeps being funny long after a weaker series would've run the bit into the ground.
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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.

The whole joke is a heartthrob idol who's secretly a gloomy mess at home, and it keeps being funny long after a weaker series would've run the bit into the ground.

Two completely opposite philosophies about friendship keep colliding in the same classroom, and the comedy never runs out of new angles to hit that collision from.

It borrows a familiar exorcist-club shonen shape, then fills it with characters funny enough that the familiarity stops mattering after a chapter or two.

This body-swap gimmick turns into a genuinely moving story about missing someone you haven't technically met yet, and the manga gets there efficiently even with less room to breathe than the film.

This is a story that eventually asks its two leads to choose each other over saving the world, and it commits to that choice instead of chickening out of it.

Two strangers quietly repairing each other in a rain-soaked garden shouldn't work this well in this few pages, and yet it does.

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.

Nothing dramatic happens here except the slow, ordinary erosion of a relationship over years, and that's exactly why it lingers.

This one actually thinks through what it would mean to be stuck playing a game with your own life on the line, instead of just wearing the premise as a costume.

This is a tight, bittersweet what-would-you-trade story that earns its ending instead of just aiming for one.

Few manga sell raw, obsessive ambition as convincingly as this one does — the tragedy is that you may finish every available chapter without ever finding out how it ends.