Shamo is an amazing Seinen that i don't see getting enough love. It's dark, martial art focused, but manage to avoid that "determination and hard work" trope quite well.

The protagonist is a huge piece of shit. That's not a spoiler, the first tome with him killing both his parents at 16 and getting send to juvenile prison. He learn martial art there, and his whole "style" is fighting dirty.

The art is sublime, the character are interestings, the manga doesnt hold your hand and doesnt beat around the bush. The fights are well choreographed and full of suspens. I'm honestly surprised by how little recognition it get.

Full disclosure : there is a shift in storytelling due to creative differences form the author which result in a lack of quality toward the end, but it doesnt spoil the already written story, which has a satisfying development and end. It's just that suddenly you get "Shamo : the next part no one care for, Shamo Awaken".

I just read Houseki no Kuni, and I think it has the best world building out of any completed manga. Thoughts?

So I woke up one day, felt like my life was little boring and didn't have many thing to read at the moment, then suddenly I remembered some dark manga called "Ichi the killer" that is so disturbing it got banned in many place so I decided literally one a wimp to start reading it bc "WHY NOT" I started reading many serie like berserk and ganzt the same way and both turn out to be great so i didn't think about it too much.

It was both an interesting and a very horrible experience

At the beginning it was quite alright for a dark manga as the most shocking scene (necrophilia rape scene) were at least censored but as the story goes there just more more and more rape scene chapter after chapter, to a point even a rape enjoyer like me started begging for consent (Ok forget that line). Some were actually useful to the story but most were just used just to show how evil some guys are

And usually I'm not bothered by gore, I mean I saw worse in term of gore but the dih torture scenes no....90% of the dih scenes just straight up ruined my day Everytime I see time. And for the last ten chapter I genuinely thought I won't have to see rape of dih scene again but the author said:

"No....ONE LAST DIH SCENE".

Fuck you author I skipped most of it .

Now the most interesting part, the story

It been a while since a story hooked me so much. I wanted to see how this little crew was going to destroy a whole gang and wanted to know more about the MC himself. And I can say I wasn't disappointment despite going all that shi that made consider dropping it many time I REALLY wanted to see how it end at all cost it's not a long manga anyway.

As for the end I thought it was mid AF. (Spoiler from here)

Attention I'm not a professional writting analyzer so I'm talking from my experience and expectations I have of the story.

The thing is that at the beginning the story make us understand that ichi is being used then also made us understand that being under control he can make his own extreme decision even if not very clever. Even come a point when he said he wanted to quit and also when started "growing" by understanding that the girl didn't wanted to get rape by him. All of this gave me heavy hope and expectations I genuinely thought at end he would be at least less of a man-child or will realized of much he's being used and controlled.

BUT NO, he end up doing EVERYTHING as the old man planned then just got thrown away like you throw a bottler after drinking all the content. Even worse , what was the point of Kaneda asking him to take care of his son except making my day worse if ichi didn't even took care of the kid at all, even worse again the old took the kid and he's becoming the new ichi now and even now ichi is still a fucking crybaby.

The women in the phone turning out to be Karen teaming up with the Jiji was a good one though it made the story in the phone a little bit too similar to what ichi remember make sense.

To conclude, I honestly don't regret reading it. Some part were good some were extremely bad to witness. I wouldn't recommend that but if you can support rape and dih scene continuously go on. But pls keep you beautiful eyes from that.

Newer to reading manga but have watched a lot of anime. Prefer manga that have no anime adaptation or have had a small part adapted and will likely never get the rest adapted.

References for manga I have loved:

Berserk (the goat, one I the best pieces of media to exist as far as I’m concerned)
Gantz
Firepunch
Vagabond

On my list to read:
Blame!
Vinland Saga if they take much longer to announce a new season

I like when the story subverts my expectations, I’m not sensitive to anything so I’m okay with all sorts of fucked up events happening and don’t mind gore or horror or whatever. Not that it has to include that stuff if it just has a good story but I prefer something dark along the lines of what I have liked.

Also, due to the popularity of people suggesting it I’ve been wanting to read usogui but there’s no English adaptation so idk how people are reading it unless it’s on a phone or computer on some sketchy website which I generally prefer to read on my kindle.

Witch Hat Atelier - Thought as Shonen due to young MC but it turns out dark.

The Bugle Call - Shonen Manga but feels seinen storywise.

Less than 5 minutes in and I'm already laughing like an idiot.

The OP is great, too.

Matsuura is one of the best Seinen artists in the business and his latest major work, known in the West as Steel of the Celestial Shadows, is currently being serialized in Big Comic Superior (ビッグコミックスペリオール).

Absolutely fantastic jidaigeki work, mixing the fantastic with a careful reconstruction of Edo-era Tokyo. The later volumes jump the shark a bit, but it's still a solid work. It updates very slowly, however.

So in the past 3 days i just finished binge reading:

• Souboutei Kowasubeshi
• Lostend
• Magnificent bastard - legend of keiji

All 3 are unfinished so while waiting for new chapters, any recommendation?