Manga & Anime Recommendations

What do lambs and wolves have to do with space fantasy?

How is Poppy Pesuyama's "Until I Love Myself"?

My favourite biographical comics are Guy Delile's "Pyongyang" and Nagata Kabi's "My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness." Delile's experience in a corrupt culture was interesting. Kabi's lack of confidence felt comforting.

Can someone recommend me an Isekai where the protag kills a lot of slavers. Like, just instantly their first instinct upon seeing legalized slavery is just to kill every single slaver they can see.

Because I've started and dropped 3 seperate isekais in a row where the "Hero" buys their own perfect busty elf waifu and I'm really getting sick of it.

Edited by ShirowShirow on Aug 4th 2023 at 2:31:25 PM

The best you're gonna get really comes down to the protags that are strictly against overwork simply because that's how they died. This means dipping into the Iyashikei genre alongside isekai. Thankfully, I have two good recommendations to get you started.

• By the Grace of the Gods — 2 seasons thus far.

• I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level — A second season of this anime is confirmed. Its release date has yet to be announced though.

I mean Iyashikei is basically the opposite of what I want. I want blood. I want to see people get their heads torn off for this. And that's outside of the anime recommendation.

... That said the fact that I feel that way may mean reading/watching some is actually a good idea.

I honestly don't know of any story that comes close to the level of violence you're asking for while still being a centrally pro-worker piece of fiction; and I doubt that it exists in such a capacity. Ergo, I gave you the closest alternative that does exist with the same thematic message.

That being said, I can only hope you'll be satisfied with my recommendations. Enjoy!

Isekai may be the wrong genre if that's what you're looking for.

• Rise of Shield Hero likely has some anti-slavery / Nazi-punching if that's your thing, but the hero does buy his own slave waifu furry girl.
• Arifureta has the hero with his own waifu, but he kills a lot of the people in the setting who are worse.
• Redo of Healer is about a hero who kills people who assaulted him repeatedly... by assaulting them back. He also enslaves those same people and brainwashes them into joining his party so he can sleep with them repeatedly for revenge. Yeah...

If you want

Then I can recommend

• Berserk
• Inuyashiki
• Gantz (the manga, not the anime)

I'll raise this point - Japan has a notoriously toxic work culture. The idea of finding an isekai story where a protagonist fights back against slavery or is pro-worker is going to be an uphill battle.

Stuff like Zom 100 and All of us are Dead (a manwha IIRC) kind of take that approach. The first one is about a Japanese worker who gets "liberated" by the zombie apocalypse. The second one features a lot of societal structures getting challenged in the face of an apocalypse - albeit the higher-ups are usually portrayed as sensible and empathetic.

Edited by FOFD on Aug 21st 2023 at 8:05:25 AM

Arifureta's harem are all free women who are with the MC voluntarily. He fights slavers in the process—the second girl's people have been getting repeatedly victimized—although it's not his main goal.

Survival in Another World with My Mistress! flips the situation on its head with the MC initially getting enslaved by the first girl as a way of protecting him, since the village she's from is mostly populated by escaped slaves and refugees from predations by the neighboring kingdom. They drop the ruse after a few days by proving he isn't from this world and therefore bears no responsibility (she considers them married afterwards), and they go to war with said kingdom in the second book.

Skeleton Knight in Another World has the MC and female companion waging a two-person guerrilla war against slavers wherever they find them, although I don't like that one because it's wildly tonally inconsistent and abuses SA for shock value.

Edited by StarSword on Oct 2nd 2023 at 8:37:46 AM

Sorry, that was ~Shirow Shirow.

Does this thread also include light/web novels, or is there a separate thread for them?

Does anyone know good works about Househusband or otherwise puts a heavy emphasis on houseworks?

Basically, I would like works like The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today and The Way of the Househusband.

Edited by dRoy on Nov 10th 2023 at 12:12:15 AM

Me, the Heroine? And a Saint? No Way, I'm Just an All-Works Maid (Heh) (light novel and manga) — The MC is a maid otaku who fully embraces the job, dies in a plane crash, and reincarnates into a ladies' dating game. The game's plot goes Off the Rails because she doesn't realize that she's the OP Saintess (hence how she does the job solo); but she's so obsessed with being a maid, she doesn't want to be pulled away from it.

This is basically what happens when The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent gains the zaniness of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!. It's quite amusing to say the least.

So, ever since I finished The Quintessential Quintuplets, I've been looking for a similar series; a harem series more focused on the romance and the question of who the lead ends up with, rather than the slapstick and sex comedy aspects. I've heard that "Tying the knot with an Amagami sister" and "The Cafe Terrace and its goddesses" are similar. Are they with checking out, and are there any other series anyone would recommend?

Interesting, will take note!

Ghost in the Shell is something a lot of people hold to dearly. I myself have never set foot into the franchise. I found the entirety of Shirow Masamune's original work in a hardcover format and am tempted to bite. Should I?

I finished reading Phoenix (1954)

I started it a couple of years ago but never finished it, then a post in TV Tropes reminded me of it, so I went back and finished it.

It is .......interesting , more like a novel than your standard manga.

In general, I liked it, the stories were engaging, and my favorites were  "Strange Beings" and "Nostalgia".

A shame that the mangaka died before finishing the saga.

If someone ever reads it, then a warning/spoiler Don't get attached to any character.

I'm watching a video on an old Yasuhiro Nightow work called Gungrave, and remembering how much I enjoy these 90s to early 2000s anime projects.

Trigun, Gungrave, Yu Yu Hakusho, Ruroni Kenshin, G Gundam. Project A Ko, Hunter X Hunter, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Zoids Chaotic Century, Dragonball Z, Flame of Recca.

There any more like these?

I'm looking to give Gunsmith Cats, Bubblegum Crisis, Carried By The Wind Tsukikage Ran, Blood Plus, Ghost In The Shell, and Vanpire Hunter D a shot.

I'm not familiar with most of those. Is there a unifying pattern besides when they were made? Because I'd just add Baccano! and Read or Die in that case.

How is Rumiko Takahashi's Mao?

I grew up on adaptions of her other works and have fond memories of them.

Hello so I finished watching this anime from Netflix called Kotaro Lives Alone. I must say it has plenty of heartwarming and tearjerking scenarios and tackles serious issues for a Slice of Life genre such as abuse. I'd recommend this anime to anyone.

Ignore this post as I moved it to Girls' Love/Yuri thread.

Edited by holygrail24 on Mar 10th 2024 at 6:55:43 AM

Hello, I'm looking for a good story about childhood friends who are totally platonic.

Rules

• Childhood friends do not necessarily have to be the protagonists, they can be secondary.
• Childhood friends must be at least 14-15 years old, which is when it is common to start feeling attracted to another person.
• It must be platonic on both sides, that is, no unrequited love.
• Childhood friends must have compatible sexual orientations. (That is, if they are both of the same gender, they must be gay or bi, and if they are of a different gender, they must be straight or bi.)

Edited by Luisdalas on Apr 11th 2024 at 5:20:11 AM

You might try Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai. One of the secondary characters, Rio Futaba, is male lead Sakuta Azusagawa's nerdy friend (don't remember how long they've known each other though), and they're 100% platonic (instead she's carrying a torch for their mutual male friend Yuuma Kunimi).

Another one that comes to mind is Alderamin on the Sky by Bokuto Uno, with Ikta Solork and Yatori Igsem as Platonic Life-Partners, though they're a little older than you're suggesting (18-ish).

I think you were confused, I meant that 14 years should be the minimum age.

adult protagonists are fine.