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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.
Conquest doesn't run an empire this vast by itself, and this manga's whole case is that the women managing its medicine and its politics mattered just as much as the men on horseback.
The time-travel hook gets you in the door; the honest medical stakes are why you stay for twenty volumes.
This comedy is willing to make its heroines genuinely unlikable when they deserve it, which is exactly why it works.
It asks for patience early on and pays that patience back with a beautifully drawn, carefully constructed mystery.
The art alone is worth the price of admission; the story asks you to feel your way through instead of understand it, and that won't work for everyone.
Slow down and let the paintings do half the storytelling — this isn't a quick-scroll webtoon, and it doesn't want to be.
Tight, twist-driven AI dystopia that earns its Black Mirror comparisons and rewards reading in one or two sittings.
Every chapter of About Death is a different person's whole life compressed into one honest conversation, and most of them land harder than they have any right to.
There's no other manga quite like it, and there probably shouldn't be. Essential reading, but go in knowing exactly what you're signing up for.
Adachi tells a bigger story than 'will they win the game' here, and the quiet, understated way he does it is still the series' whole appeal.
Worth it as an early but faithful adaptation of a genuinely acclaimed novel, best approached knowing it's still a slow-building start.