2024 was the year that Manga PLUS not only decided to start translating all series into English, but also all One-Shots, I feel so lucky 🤣
New Series
I think these ones are going to be pretty big/have broad appeal
I think Girl Meets Rock is my choice of these three. I just love Rin and her scheming hahahahaha. The other two are still really good though.
I really like these but don’t know if other people would
The God Before Me is my pick here. Odachi is just hilarious. Navigatoria and Hope You’re Happy Lemon are also really solid and I look forward to new chapters.
- Existential Unplugged
- Taro Miyao Becomes a Cat Parent?!
- ANKOKU Delta
- Astro Baby
- Navigatoria
- The God Before Me
- The Days of Diamond
- Catenaccio
- Hope You’re Happy, Lemon
I enjoy these but they aren’t anything special
I realise that with the exception of Hero Organization and Machi and Oboro, the rest are ‘edutainment’ type series.
- Monochrome Days
- Hero Organization
- Kunigei – Okuni University Art Department Film Program
- Get Away Matsumoto! -100 Days Escape-
- Machi and Oboro
- DRUNK BULLET
These are OK
I might drop Shiba Inu Rooms at 20 chapters if it doesn’t get better. I think I’ve invested too much time in Oversleeping Takahashi to back out now. Ghost Fixers I’m giving the benefit of the doubt because of the mangaka…but at the moment I don’t like it much.
Ongoing Series
- Blue Exorcist – final battle and I’m not really following. I think I had too long a break between reading it in tankobon and my switch to reading it digitally
- Chainsaw Man – I’m honestly not really following it so well now
- Choujin X – even though it’s final battle time, it’s still fairly interesting
- Dandadan – we finally get the series name-dropped within the story 🤣 It’s still a really fun series
- Ghost Reaper Girl – I don’t think we got any new chapters this year
- Gokurakugai – feels pretty slow to update? It’s ok
- Kaiji No.8 – final battle time, not that interested, but I kinda haven’t been since the start. This is my HeroAca of Manga PLUS
- Kindergarten Wars – still super fun (but also sad 😢)
- Magilumiere Co. Ltd. – It’s been not that interesting since time-skip
- Make the Exorcist Fall in Love – Mr Priest’s emo arc is too long
- MARRIAGETOXIN – still fun 😁
- Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective – so sad this is in final arc right now!
- Sachi’s Records – this series ticking along! I almost feel the ex are funnier than the actual chapters. I like it though.
- Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign – final battle, but also pretty interesting since we’re finding out about the high ranking vampires
- Show-ha Shoten – it’s still good. I still don’t find any of the jokes funny but I enjoy the explanations about the ‘science’ of comedy
- SPY x FAMILY – wow some great arcs this year. Martha’s one in particular was amazing and pretty sad. And Melinda is SUCH an interesting character
- Wild Strawberry – apparently I never did a 10 chapter summary on this. It’s a drag, I should have dropped it at 10 chapters LOL
- 2.5 Dimensional Seduction – still awesome. Which is kinda impressive given how large the cast has become.
Series that Finished this Year
Oshi no Ko was the big one, but my favourite is probably actually Demon Lord Exchange!!
- Oshi no Ko
- Magical Girl Tsubame
- Goze Hotaru
- Demon Lord Exchange!!
- ByeByeBye
- Fool
- I’m So Hungry I Could Eat Basashi
- History’s Mentalist
- The Dark Doctor Ikuru
- Diasporaiser
- Service Wars
Best of the One-Shots
The only two I really remember. Swipe Right and Die Tonight I think about a lot LOL. It was just magnificent. In hindsight, I Told Ya It’s No Good was probably actually fairly formulaic, but it reminded me that ‘that’ form of writing exists. I don’t know the term for it. Where the characters speak to/interact with the reader. I’ve seen it every now and then as doujinshi/fanfics but for some reason I keep forgetting it exists haha.
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