This is a great comedy manhwa with a reincarnation theme. It features some of the best reaction faces there are, on par with Grand Blue. The story never goes into much depth on its theme of estate development, but it does feel like the author knows what they're talking about, which puts it head and shoulders above the competition. 331k5q

I also enjoy the slightly-off worldbuilding: occasionally, the...

Among the things this martial arts manhwa does very right: The MC is overpowered but doesn't mindlessly slaughter everyone; NPCs quickly come to understand that the MC is strong and don't continue lining up to be slaughtered, as happens in too many such stories; the MC is not a one-man-show but instead has subordinates and clans; and he has actual goals, rather than merely getting dragged along by...

This is an alt history story about a modern gym enthusiast and bodybuilder who introduces a bunch of modern concepts and technologies into the former kingdom of Korea, in particular bodybuilding and improved firearms.

The bodybuilding is fun regardless of its implausibility. (You'd assume there was neither sufficient metalworking know-how to make the gym equipment, nor sufficient nutritious food...

This is an entertaining albeit rather slow-moving football manga. It took inspiration from Giant Killing (there's an interview between the respective mangaka in a later volume) to depict football like it would look on TV: many s are drawn in bird's-eye view.

This makes it very different from most football manga which came before it: the protagonist has weak technique but good eyes; there's a...

This series shines with its genuinely untypical protagonist and great mentor character, but suffers from mediocre art and (though at no fault of the author) a fan translation that's always bad and occasionally borders on gibberish.

This is a fluffy and cute story which suffers from some glaring implausibilities in plot and characterisation. For instance, the formerly abused daughter somehow has an “angelic” personality; and the protagonist’s social media efforts pay off ridiculously quickly.

That said, the manhwa improves as time goes on, and eventually settles on a predictable but rather enjoyable formula.

Lookism is a fascinating manhwa. In the first half of its long run so far (~400 chapters as of this review), it featured lots of short arcs and jumped between several genres. E.g. there’s a brief horror story, and one of my favorite arcs was the 4-chapter detective story Jacedaichi Case Files around chapter 215. Then in the second half, Lookism becomes more of a classic shounen-style pure fighting...

This manhwa is a prime example of why it doesn't matter how tropey a story is, but only how well it's executed. In this case, the story takes a while to find its footing, plus I find the art occasionally uneven or hard to follow. In exchange, the protagonist is great (as in, both competent and comionate); the side characters are enjoyable; some story arcs are genuinely outstandingly good (e.g....

This VRMMO-style story has a few neat ideas - specifically, quests don't just involve NPCs, but usually pit players against one another (i.e. if civilians fight against corrupt authorities, there will be players on either side of the conflict). And sufficiently difficult quests can ostensibly result in the death of the quest-giving NPC and all future quests associated with them.

However, besides...

This is a story about the acolyte of a sealed evil goddess, so the protagonist is somewhat evil but also still follows some rules of morality, like not killing innocents. I'm not entirely confident whether the story will manage to keep the character morally consistent in the long-term, but for now it's working fine.

Regarding the art, I like some aspects of it, like that the protagonist doesn't...

Not only is this one of the few isekai stories with an actually genuinely unique premise, but it even executes on that premise magnificently. Both Emi and Remilia are delightful characters, Remilia's motivation is enjoyably single-minded, the antagonist is perfectly detestable, etc.

The story is not free of weaknesses, like a clear difference in art quality between the main cast and side...

I did not expect to like this manga so much. The pace is rather slow, but in exchange, this is one of those rare shounen battle manga in which both protagonists and antagonists act smart (or at least much smarter than outright dumb). For instance, they strike at weak points, don't attack when they don't think they can win, don't explain their abilities (I hate it so much when that happens), use...

This is a 4-koma manga about a girl who can't refuse requests. It starts out as a comedy, but eventually becomes a more full-fledged slice-of-life story - the characters even grow up, graduate from middle school, etc.

It's an interesting transformation of a story - when I describe it like this, it sounds like the author abandoned their original premise, but instead they managed to give it some...

This is a gag manga in the same vein as Fujimura-kun Meitsu, though where the humor in the latter leaned towards perverted stuff, here it's been more about comedy violence.
In any case, there's hardly any plot to speak of, but so far (chapters 1-6) the jokes have been great in both quantity and quality.

Reincarnation stories aren't anything special nowadays, but the setting already begins intriguingly enough - a tough career-focused salaryman turns into a magical loli officer in a war-ravaged fantasy version of our world (set in pseudo- during WWI). More amusingly, this happens because he enounters god after his death and manages to anger him.

In any case, the result is a person who's 100%...

This is a great comedic story about misunderstandings and obliviousness, and about doing the right things by accident. The art can sometimes be a bit rough; and the NPC fight scenes get a bit repetitive; but the core premise works really well and makes up for any imperfections in the execution. Cid is just a really fun and unique protagonist to read about.

This is mostly a very good fantasy story with an almost entirely irrelevant isekai subtheme. I particularly like that, while it features an overpowered protagonist, a) he's not at the top of the food chain (e.g. he's clearly weaker than the gods), b) most problems he confronts can't be solved with force, or rather, c) the story spends very little time on battles he'll obviously win.

The only part...

Regression series are a dime a dozen, and this one is vaguely amusing as far as it goes, albeit too slow to ever get anywhere. But the art here is really uneven, and often outright ugly. The fights look unappealing and uninteresting, and a few scenes even use blatant CGI models and thus look entirely out of place.

Most of the story is the typical VRMMO-type plot with a protagonist becoming overpowered for no reason. The author handles some things well, like the NPC humor or the extended questlines.

Other things are handled, shall we say, less well. For instance, to make the action exciting, the story regularly brings the protagonist into melee range, even when this makes no sense whatsoever. And in-game...

There's so much to love about this series, but from my perspective the most important one is Kazuki's social ineptitude. He's a magnificent hacker, but there are a gazillion stories about boring geniuses. What makes him interesting is that he's initially so incapable in social situations that none of his skills have any chance to shine, and all this is depicted just brilliantly.

Sakai, an...

This is one of those series in which the name and synopsis both imply that it's ostensibly about something interesting (here: medicine), but then most of its time is devoted to cookie-cutter cultivation stuff instead.

Giant Killing is unexpectedly fantastic. While matches always take tons of chapters, this allows for plenty of smoothly flowing action scenes, as well as character development and shenanigans (including not just the players of both teams, but also coaches, and sometimes even subs or ers).

And on a separate note, there's also something very enjoyable about a manga full of adults (not school...

Manga about acting seem to yield genuinely high proportions of great stories. This is another great example. There are many ways to screw up this type of manga, e.g. if the mangaka has no idea how to depict voice-acting / audio on paper, but this one does everything well.

The two protagonists ooze pure personality - the guy is hard-working but has a potty-mouth but is secretly nice to people but X...

This is kind of a weird story. It's commendable and tough to make a story about real medicine, and while that part can be dry at times, it can also be unnerving and thrilling. However, while the portrayal of the medicine seems accurate, that of the adults seems less so. Neither the male nor female protagonist act like functional adults; they're emotionally unstable, get into weird conflicts with...

This manga deserves all the praise it gets, and I won't repeat all of it here. What stands out to me in particular, though, is how big of a difference it is to have a female mangaka draw a sports manga. I've read (parts of) a gazillion baseball manga, including all the Adachi manga (which I adore), Last Inning, etc. Mo...

The premise is okay as far as it goes, but the author and artist aren't skilled enough to pull it off well. Besides some bland art with insufficiently varied facial expressions, the plot also has some bizarre aspects: the rebels are evil (quite possibly due to mandated propaganda); the empress doesn't remotely care about her soldiers and officials dying all the time; and she supposedly works as...

This story is ostensibly about a school-aged genius author, but that part is all Tell, no Show: we rarely see Hibiki writing, and the most we learn about what she writes is the story titles and synopses. That's just a deeply unsatisfying and fundamentally flawed way of depicting a story about genius. If you want to write a good story about a craft, whether it be acting or writing or volleyball or...

While Jujutsu Kaisen is very obviously a shounen manga, it has as of yet (c29) managed to avoid almost all of the annoying tropes while carving out a niche of its own. I really like both the protagonist's earnestness, and the antagonists' brand of villainy. The designs for the Curses have also been surprisingly unique - there are lots of extremely deformed humans, and even some monsters that look...

This is really strong in all aspects - it's genre-savvy (there's an averted girl-falling-from-the-sky trope in the first chapter), so it's not just a cookie-cutter shounen battle manga; the drawings are amazing; the relationship between the two in the couple is really fun and develops quite fast (it's definitely no Ranma 1/2 in that regard); and so on.

But the strongest recommendations I can give...

This is a fluffy story that eschews conflicts almost entirely in favor of showing its characters smiling happily each chapter. If that's something you want to read, that's what you'll get.

This is a neat isekai story with a romance focus. Its differentiating factor to other isekai stories is that ML and FL are both reincarnated and deal with everything together. The art is okay but uneven in backgrounds and fight scenes. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the romance.

This is a really enjoyable story. It features solid writing, a fun cast of characters including an overpowered character who can stomp everyone but is nonetheless enjoyable to read about (this is not an easy feat of writing!), really enjoyably depicted action sequences (e.g. there's one chapter that consists entirely of a non-stop sword combo), great use of color (often the pages are in black and...

The story is kind of cute, but suffers from the typical music problem: static drawings simply aren't a great medium for depicting music and sound.

Update: And even more damningly, even by c100 almost nothing has happened. The story wastes multiple chapters at a time on slice-of-life moments that don't progress the plot whatsoever, because the author apparently isn't skilled enough to write stuff...

This is, indeed, about a princess trying to get some sleep despite being held captive in the demon king's castle.

Except... she's amazingly vicious in pursuit of this goal. There's a chapter called "Innocent Villain", and that description captures her perfectly - she's essentially the villain of the series (because all the demons are harmless). But she's also innocent, not in the sense that she...

Tons of knowledge and research are required, not to mention quite a bit of ambition, to write a story that tries to be so grounded in actual science. When it succeeds, Dr. Frost is really impressive.

Despite some slight missteps of mentioning stuff that we now (years later) know did not survive the replication crisis in psychology (e.g. the story favorably mentions the Stanford Prison Experiment...

This seemed like a decent story with some amusing moments, but then a scene later on was suddenly so remarkably bad that it made me doubt the author's ability to bring it to a decent conclusion.

In chapter 41, the protagonist P is about to duel the antagonist A. To paraphrase:
A: Before our duel, please drink from this water bottle. It's not poisoned or anything.
P: drinks
During the duel, P...

Besides telling a solid story, this manga is singularly great at depicting social anxiety, social awkwardness, introversion, and feeling uncomfortable in social interactions.

...and I'm so glad it isn't. Both story description and cover are pretty misleading - when you hear about a light-hearted manga about diving, you might expect a harem/ecchi setting. And indeed, the manga is full of people unashamedly flaunting their assets...except that 99% of those people are bodybuilder-style men. And the protagonist is not amused by this. Indeed, one of the strongest aspects of...

This manhwa is beautifully drawn, and I loved the start before the MC got his cheat powers. It's still solid afterwards, but the art can't hide the utter absurdity of the setting.

Consider: In most generic cultivation stories, the MC "merely" grows stronger at an accelerated pace. Here... he's almost the only one that can grow stronger at all. I don't mind reading the occasional power fantasy, but...

Thankfully, this is a revenge story whose protagonist is not overpowered for once. Yes, poison can act as an equalizer, allowing him to take revenge on the sects that wronged him; but that requires preparation, and clever setups, and is therefore much more entertaining than dumb "I'm stronger than all of you combined" fights.

That by itself would already make for a good story, but what elevates it...

The art is phenomenal, and the magic is simultaneously magical and somewhat rule-based. But some of the side characters are unbelievable annoying. By chapter 8, multiple characters seem to exist only to victim-blame Coco.

For instance:

Agathe, one of Coco's fellow disciples, makes Coco take a trial that could kill her, just because she thinks Coco hasn't earned her role as a disciple. And for...

What a brilliant idea for a romcom manga. Namely, it's a battle of wits over something as pathetic as forcing the other party to confess their love first. The result is something like a bizarre romantic comedy version of Akagi or Liar Game, and this works remarkably well.

EDIT: Oh, and I only just now realize that this mangaka is also responsible for the amazing manga ib - Instant Bullet. Talk...

This is a comedy about two crazy people in a mental hospital, one of whom gets a cultivation system. They're story-crazy, rather than suffering from a specific mental health problem, so this is entirely a comedy and not at all a realistic take on mental health. The comedy, however, is pretty great; it's as if One Punch Man was crazy rather than bored. There's also an adorable deal of bromance.

Of...

Reincarnation and ing past lives are a common trope, but See You in My 19th Life deals with it uniquely well. Most importantly, the protagonist is refreshingly confident and straightforward, as befits someone with a plethora of life experience. More generally, all the characters in this story have (for a story) above-average maturity and ability to deal with emotions and conflicts, which...

Wow this manga sure knows how to enjoy itself. In the dance scenes, the art is... unique? Raw? Beautiful though hard to parse, certainly, but also remarkably different from other mangas.

This is one of those stories of the "nothing happens" school of thought. Even fights against filler mobs, which would take only a few s in other manhwas, sometimes take multiple chapters here; and yet there's no suspense, nor any notion that the protagonist is at any risk of losing.

This is probably the best shounen manga running in Jump right now. Boichi's art is fantastic (and I'm very glad that this isn't an ecchi manga), and the writer proved his abilities with the fantastic Eyeshield 21. Together, they've created something very special - a manga that's obviously shounen, yet still somehow manages to truly get into the spirit of science, awe of science, etc. It's almost...

I like the story structure: the story takes its time until it reaches its eponymous setup, and FL and ML only meet face to face quite a while in (~c30).

However, I'm not the biggest fan of the ML and how the romance develops. (There's even alcohol involved.) I found it okay in the beginning, but eventually just found it grating, particularly the ML's incessant jealousy. The story also suffers from...

This manhua is a bit weird in of settings, story flow, etc., including with some scenes that are a bit hard to understand. In exchange, however, this is a genuinely unique experience.

Medical Return is a decent reincarnation story with a believably overpowered protagonist: instead of superpowers, he has a lifetime of medical experience and training.

Some weaknesses of the story:

The main antagonist is depicted a bit weirdly (he gets screwed over by his upbringing, then once more by the protagonist's reincarnation). There's a love triangle that takes too long considering how...

There are a few mangas on fashion, but from the descriptions, most seem to treat fashion just as status fights, and that doesn't appeal to me.

Yet this manga is different. It's about the whole process of fashion design, including deg clothes, making prototypes by hand, and then showcasing, exhibiting, mass producing, and selling them. Only someone with genuine interest and experience in the...

There have only been 2 chapters as of yet, but this is already pretty amazing. It's a dialogue-heavy series typical of the writer's previous works, and a great take on a romance / mystery story.

There are yokai, and other monsters from Japanese folklore, but so far my favorite parts were the protagonist's phenomenal courting of her love interest: utterly open (there's no secret crush), dogged...

This is a worthy counterpoint to the shounen trope of the Power of Friendship. Yugami ostensibly doesn't have any friends, but he doesn't care; he enjoy life on his own... while often aggravating those unfortunate to be around him. This makes for plenty of great comedy, but there's something more here, too.

What an adorable romcom. It's simultaneously great comedy (often stemming from all the supernatural secrecy) as well as great romance (with tons of adorable / cute / fluffy moments).

The webtoon artist is obviously really skilled, too - s flow well, the story progresses fast, and... I basically have nothing to criticize. That's a rarity for me.

This is a really lovely manga.

It's got a great and cast of characters. All of them are somewhat strange / crazy, and none of them is weak (which very much includes the average-looking protagonist). All characters are either criminals or suspects, and the manga mostly manages to make them seem likable despite their over-the-top actions (causing explosions, arson, stalking...).

The comedy is also...

This is a really cute story about the interactions between a few supernatural beings (three students and a teacher) with a middle-aged male teacher who tries to help them cope with society despite their differences and special characteristics.

While there's one-sided infatuation, the manga has so far evaded the terrible harem trope. I hope that'll continue to be the case.

Also, some of the facial...

Dr. Duo follows an episodic formula of presenting some characters each chapter, one of whom then suffers an injury or illness, and Tasuku for some reason being the only person who can do the first response. (Typical reason: the ambulance is too slow or late, all ambulances are already in use, or there's no escape route from the accident site). In that sense, it's similar to a murder mystery series...

Superhuman Era is a superhero story with an international cast and global stakes. Ostensibly the protagonist is Kang Lim aka White Cap, but in of screentime there isn't one particular protagonist; lots of superhumans and even some antagonists receive their respective screentimes. The narrative often jumps around between multiple concurrent conflicts at once, which is fair enough.

Unfortunate...

The core premise is neat, but the misunderstandings and plot progressions are based on some extremely handwavy writing. Rosa barely makes an attempt to hide her identity, for example, and somehow stays mostly undiscovered anyway.

The first season of ToG was amazing. Twists, betrayals, and atypical characters were everywhere, and the season ending was a particular highlight.

But at some point early in season 2, something went wrong. The tone changed: a large proportion of the plots became predictable or boring or pointless, the author wrote far more characters than he could meaningfully sustain, etc.

All that said, ToG at...

This is a new story by the author of Fullmetal Alchemist. I've really enjoyed it so far. The protagonists and other characters have a ton of personality, and secrets and treachery abound. The power system in the story is also clever: because it's based on pairs of daemons (= creatures from folklore), those have personalities of their own, which in turn allows for tons of colorful interactions...

Like other reviewers, I think I preferred several other Adachi series over this one. But Mix does have a charm of its own. It's also frankly remarkable that a mangaka is still writing a monthly series at age 72 (after beginning it at age 61).

Just temper your expectations. In particular, don't go into this series expecting to see the protagonist from Touch again. While you'll see a small number of...

This manga is yet another illustration that the quality of a manga is almost wholly unrelated to its premise, and that execution is what actually matters. This manga is not just better than you'd expect, given its bizarre premise. Rather, it's genuinely good.

An adorable romantic comedy about a classic 'perfect guy' who desires an SM relationship with a co-worker.

Things to like: No ecchi or any other sexual aspects: the day-to-day dynamics of the master-servant relationship take center stage. Chapters are long, and the story seems to progress at a good pace. The main couple is adorable and relatable. Both partners are independently strong, but also...

At times dramatic, at times insightful, but always hilarious, The Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich is a remarkable piece of web fiction. It takes the standard reincarnation plot and does several interesting things with it - e.g. the main character reincarnated multiple times; there was a vengeance subplot, but it's mostly already happened in the past, and in the present, there are more important...

This is a fascinasting and weird manga. It’s about radio, or more accurately, about a radio host making news. As in, getting into weird newsworthy situations and then eventually reporting on them (including on a bizarre radio-related cult).

The cast is great, full of fleshed-out personalities with plenty of flaws. For instance, the protagonist makes for a great radio host but doesn’t remotely have...

This manhwa has it all - awe-inspiringly beautiful art; an intelligent protagonist who's unique enough you haven't seen her in a hundred shoujo stories already; a male character who starts off unlikable but gets plenty opportunities for heroism as the story goes on; and so on and so forth.

Then there's the atypical setting - horror, yes, but you're never sure what's "fake" (ghost house horror) and...

This is a really fun fantasy story with a mix of strong art, strong humor and banter, impactful battle scenes against nightmarish monsters (no orcs or goblins here), etc.

The story begins with the trope of being betrayed by one's party, but apart from that initial tropey plot outline, the moment-to-moment developments are far more varied and interesting than the setup would suggest. For example...