Manga Recommendations

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MANGA RECOMMENDATIONS

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Hey, everyone! :wave: If you haven't guessed by now, I really like manga. Lol. So I thought, what better to post about than some of my most recommended manga? Let me know what you think of these if you've read them before! :smile:

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Slam Dunk

Author: Takehiko Inoue

Status: Completed

# of Chapters: 276

Genres: Sports, Comedy, School, Drama, Shonen

Synopsis: Hanamichi Sakuragi is a delinquent who has never had any luck with girls. However, when he meets Haruko Akagi, he is sure that she's the one for him. Haruko is a big basketball fan and notices his potential as a basketball player, due to his immense height. Hoping to win her heart, Hanamichi earnestly tries out for the basketball team despite the fact that he really doesn't care for the sport. With this, Hanamichi is unexpectedly thrust into a world of competition for a girl he barely knows, but he soon discovers that there is perhaps more to basketball than he once thought.

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Fort of Apocalypse

Author: Kuraishi Yuu

Status: Completed

# of Chapters: 46.5

Genres: Action, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, Shonen

Synopsis: Framed and convicted of murder, Yoshiaki Maeda has just arrived at Shouran Academy Juvenile Detention Center. He is placed in Cell 4 and is soon greeted by his fellow inmates Gou Iwakura, Masafumi Yoshioka, and Mitsuru Yamanoi, all of whom have been detained on varying charges and sentences. Already believing life to be laden with misfortunes, Yoshiaki finds that the prison is in the midst of a violent power struggle.

However, things are about to get even worse—little do the inmates and employees know that the outside world has been thrown into chaos by a sudden zombie apocalypse, and a van carrying infected humans has just crashed into the prison, abruptly introducing them to the undead threat.

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20th Century Boys

Author: Urasawa Naoki

Status: Completed

# of Chapters: 249

Genres: Psychological, Sci-Fi, Historical, Mystery, Drama, Seinen

Synopsis: Growing older is pretty rough and Kenji is finding out the hard way. On top of trying to make ends meet running a convenience store, he has to care for the niece that his missing sister left in his care. Memories of youth make it easier, until those memories come back to haunt you.

Kenji and his old friends are slowly being drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that could threaten the world. Who is the mysterious "friend", and how does he tie into Kenji's youth? The friend's memories hold the keys to the puzzle, but years between cloud the clues. The strange occurances and the reach of the "friend" conspiracy grow by the day. It will all culminate on New Year's Eve 2000. Will Kenji and the rest of the group be able to put together the puzzle and save the world?

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Genshiken

Author: Kio Shimoku

Status: Completed

# of Chapters: 127

Genres: Comedy, School, Slice of Life, Seinen

Synopsis: It's the spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara is in a quandary. Should he fulfill his long-cherished dream of ing an otaku club? Saki Kasukabe also faces a dilemma. Can she ever turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Kousaka, into a normal guy? Kanji triumphs where Saki fails, when both Kanji and Kousaka sign up for Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture.

Undeterred, Saki chases Kousaka through the various activities of the club, from cosplaying and comic conventions to video gaming and collecting anime figures—her resentful attitude towards otakus is slowly changing without her notice.

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Kingdom

Author: Hara Yasuhisa

Status: Ongoing

Chapters: 567

Genres: Action, Military, Historical, Drama, Seinen

Synopsis: It is the Great Age of War, lasting 500 years. Our story begins during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period in ancient China. Two slave boys, Shin Lee and Hyou, who are practicing sword fighting out in the fields one day, are met by a mysterious and distinguished political figure. This figure whisks Hyou away to the riches of the royal palace leaving Shin to lead his miserable life alone. Through an unexpected turn of events, Shin learns of the growing tensions within the royal government and is coerced into working with yet another mysterious figure who has an outrageous goal...to unite all of China! However, Shin's aspiration may be just as ambitious, and perhaps just as insane: to become the greatest general ever to wage war in its lands!

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Thanks for reading if you made it this far! :smile: