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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.
One of the best-looking manga on the shelf, and far darker and sadder than the goofy premise lets on — just be ready for a maze of lore and no ending yet.
Effortlessly stylish and gorgeously drawn — a dark-fantasy witch-hunt that runs more on cool vibes and great fights than driving plot, at least so far.
The horror isn't the monster — it's that you still love your friend after he's gone, and something else is wearing his face. Quietly devastating and genuinely creepy.
It's deliberately excruciating to read — that squirming, exposed feeling of being thirteen — and that's exactly what makes it brilliant.
Fifty years on, it's still one of the most relentless, upsetting survival-horror manga ever made — dated melodrama and all.
Few fantasy manga are this gorgeous or this quietly sad — it stumbles a little once it settles into a magic school, but the spell mostly holds.
Mitsumi is the most endearing klutz in recent manga, and the whole thing is so warm and observant that it's hard not to fall for it.
Kyoko is one of the best heroines in shojo — funny, fierce, and impossible not to love — even if the romance crawls along for 50-plus volumes.
From the Fullmetal Alchemist author, but the opposite vibe — a funny, big-hearted farm-school story that quietly sneaks up and moves you.
The plot knots itself up in the middle arcs, but the art, the atmosphere, and the Kate-and-Emilico double act carry it the whole way.
