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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 gag manga ever made, and almost nobody in the West has read it — the dirty-fighting lead alone is worth the price of admission.
Starts as a gag about a dating-sim addict, ends as one of the smartest romcoms in manga — the slow start is the price of admission.
The creatures are terrifying, but it's the people who keep you turning pages — a survival epic that more than earns its 35 volumes.
Small, slow, and quietly heartbreaking — a cozy grief-and-parenting story that does exactly what it sets out to do.
The middle drags and the art shows its age, but nothing else on the shelf does the enemies-to-lovers epic quite this well.
Barely a plot, and it doesn't need one; Matsumoto turns the small aches of childhood into something quietly unforgettable.
Some of the best-drawn pages in manga, wrapped around a story about why anyone would climb a mountain that could kill them.
Uoto turns a math problem into life-or-death drama, and even when it preaches, it's one of the most ambitious manga you'll pick up.
Not a wasted page in the whole run: Mizukami plants a hundred small mysteries and pays every one of them off.
