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r/mangarecommendations · Looking for recommendations based on sum of my favsOhhh you like Tezuka! Have you read Ayako? Its about the same length as Apollo's Song. Its a bit more on the disturbing side, and has been living rent free in my head since i read it a couple months ago.
r/mangarecommendations · I’m half-way through 20th Century Boys and hating it. What else would you recommend?MW Book of human insects Ayako Ode to Kirihito
r/manga · Which manga would you recommend?As said above: 20th Century Boys, Monster, Pluto... For the sad part: Rainbow, Shamo, Ayako, Planetes...
r/Seinen · Any recommendations of some messed up manga or at least based on what i have readAyako, himizu, jisatsutou, kirihito sanka, oyasumi punpun
r/mangarecommendations · Classic manga reccomendation?For me, the two pillars of classic manga are obviously Tezuka (for his shorter series, I highly recommend *Ayako*, *MW*, and *Message to Adolf*; for the longer ones, *Black Jack*, *Buddha*, and *Phoenix*). He essentially established the stylistic standard that influenced the years that followed—look at the work of Nagai and Shotaro Ishinomori, as well as more niche authors like Sanpei Shirato and Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who were themselves pillars of the *Gekiga* movement. The second fundamental author—and one of my absolute favorites—is, in my opinion, Shigeru Mizuki. Since he was about a decade