Dr. STONE

r/manga · Recommendations for hard, desolate, mysterious "ultra-scifi"

Honestly is pretty hard to replicate nihei without just recomending more nihei. Biomega and knights of sidonia are also good. I think Planetes and some parts of Dr.Stone. Planetes is set on the space age, feels very realistic and philosophical. Dr.stone is kinda like a single impossibly smart guy in the stone age rebuilding civilization Btw the game Echo from ultraultra is the most similar thing ive seen to blame. Its a stealth game where you explore an abandoned kilometer wide planetary cloning facility and you gotta avoid clones that slowly learn whatever tools you use in the previous sta

r/manga · Manga Recommendations For A History Nerd?

Ancient: Ad Astra (Scipio vs Hannibal), Thermae Romae (a Roman architect time travels to modern Japan, brings back modern ideas on how to build public baths), Red River (modern era girl gets transported back to Hittite Empire) Paleolithic: only ones I can think of are World's First Romcom: Oga & Bebe (about two prehistoric people falling in love) and Dr Stone, kinda (post-apocalyptic but features stone age societies). Medieval: a ton for Japan, of those I've read I particularly like The Elusive Samurai (about the 1333 fall of the Kamakura Shogunate and the Hojo Clan). I'm also watching the a

r/manga · People are way too generous with the "romcom" label when recommending manga

Totally agree. Imo the problem is that the comedy tag is thrown around too loosely in general. Considering how deeply rooted comedy is in Japanese culture, most manga will have some sort of comedic elements. At the time of writing, if you search AniList for the "Comedy" genre, the results in order are: 1. Chainsaw Man 2. ONE PIECE 3. My Hero Academia 4. One-Punch Man 5. SPY x FAMILY 6. Horimiya 7. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War 8. Dandadan 9. Hunter x Hunter 10. Black Clover 11. Komi Can't Communicate 12. Haikyu!! 13. My Dress-Up Darling 14. SAKAMOTO DAYS 15. Dr. STONE 16. Dorohedoro 17. Fullmetal