
Is Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
It never quite decides if Rikuo is a kid playing at being a yokai lord or the real thing, but the demon-of-the-week creativity carries it anyway.
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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.

Office rom-com comfort food for anyone tired of the will-they-won't-they dragging on for volumes of high schoolers instead of actual adults.

One of the gentlest, saddest, and most purely well-drawn fantasy manga running right now.

For anyone who wants a monster-of-the-week shonen that actually pays off its slower character beats.

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.

This is the creator of Psyren doing genuinely creepy horror years before Psyren existed, and it's criminally hard to find in English.

The early arcs undersell it hard, but once the tournament arc kicks in this turns into one of the smartest tactical shonen out there.

Comfort-food isekai for anyone who wants low stakes, big laughs, and a heroine too oblivious to notice she's the center of everyone's attention.

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.