Watashi no Hibi
Mizuki Shigeru’s last serialized autobiographical manga. He started this when he was 91 years old!!! A true legendary manga author, right up there with Osamu Tezuka and Shotarou Ishinomori.
~dakazu
Watashi no Hibi
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Pygmalion
Pygmalion
Another ‘our daily lives are destroyed by invading creatures’ manga. This one is about evil Mascot characters brutally murdering the masses. It’s very much in the same vein as Magical Girl Apocalypse. Not very good.
~dakazu
Gurazeni: Money Pitch
Gurazeni: Money Pitch
Unique manga dealing with the money contracts of Professional Baseball players.
The title literally means “money buried under the pitcher’s mound” and the protagonist is obsessed with each player’s yearly earnings. It works both as a informative insight into the business behind Baseball and a dramatic sports manga, which is a bit surprising considering the plain art style. An anime adaptation is coming next year.
~dakazu
King Golf
King Golf
I’ve read a couple golf manga but a lot of them are (understandably) geared toward adult readers. This one is more shonen based with a cliche delinquent protagonist. It cracks me up because with so many scenes of people crying you’d think that golf is the most dramatic emotional sport to ever exist.
~dakazu
Full Drum
Full Drum
Rugby manga currently serialized in Young Jump. Compared to the other popular rugby manga All Out!!, the artwork isn’t as stylized but is still very good. A good sports manga always conveys kinetic motion through it’s paneling and view point angles and this one is no exception. The main character is a generic ‘talented idiot’ archetype but so far I’m still enjoying it.
~dakazu
Innocent
Innocent
Another manga that takes place during 18th century France. Follows the life of Charles-Henri Sanson who became the royal executioner for King Louis XVI. The artwork has exquisite detail but sometimes it takes away from the storytelling by becoming the central focus, making it more style than substance.
~dakazu
Napoleon: Shishi no Jidai
Napoleon: Shishi no Jidai
The manliest manga about Napoleon you’ll ever read. They’ve taken all the famous soldiers/generals of the French Revolution Army and given them Fist of the North Star character make overs. Violent, hilarious, and educational all rolled into one. Good stuff.
~dakazu
Dai-3 no Gideon
Dai-3 no Gideon
This has a unique setting with the French Revolution. I checked it out because it’s done by the illustrator that worked on Iryuu: Team Medical Dragon. It’s pretty good but I think I’d rather recommend another manga about France.
~dakazu
Sanzoku Diary SS
Sanzoku Diary SS
The sequel series to Sanzoku Diary. This time manga artist Rintarou Okamoto focuses on summer spear fishing. Love his series about hunting and this one is just as great.
~dakazu
Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki
Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki
Story about a middle aged dude who enters a fantasy based virtual reality massively multiplayer online game who ends up having great achievements despite choosing a set of unpopular worthless skills on purpose.
Online game stories are nothing new but I liked the premise of this one because the main character just want so privately enjoy the game and his successes make him more and more famous. As the story progresses he starts to influence the game world by making the worthless skills popular. It’s based off a lite novel series of the same name so there’s a lot of wordy narration and time spent explaining in-game mechanics and systems but otherwise I kinda enjoy this series.
~dakazu