Got any manga recommendations?

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What I'm really looking for are manga classics or stuff considered classics. Like how there are anime classics (Evangelion, Cowboy Be bop) what are some manga classics or like what are some manga that you consider the classics (like I consider Vagabond, 21st century boys, oyasumi punpun) Give me some manga classics please!
 
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I finished reading Tokyo Crazy Paradise recently and I can say that should really be regarded as a classic. I was hooked on the onset and it became truly amazing in the final volumes
For sure a wonderful series with a insanely good protag
 
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The 3 shonen classic for me :

-Great teacher Onizuka (and the prequel)
-Full Metal Alchemist
-Kenshin

All 3 are masterpieces.

Other genre :

-AKIRA
-Adolf ni tsugu
-City hunter
-Gunnm (the sequel are...meh)
-Monster
-Ashita no joe
 
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I think claymore~

If it is shoujo maybe:
7 seeds, glass mask

More modern shojo:
Idk many like gakuen alice, and fruit basket is also popular~
 
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shoujo:
love so life
daytime shooting star
shiawase kissa sanchoume (i really liked this one)

shounen:
hunter x hunter
slam dunk

these are all from the top of my head but im sure there is more :D
 
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You could try
Shonen:
Gokusen (my fav)
Yu yu hakusho
Inuyasha
Cage of eden (mystery with ecchi, story really good but the ending is horrible; worth a try)

Shoujo:
Aria (Aqua) this is my fav
Otoyomegatari (have the same vibe as aria)
Last game (this is good too)
Tonari no kaibutsu-kun
 
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Anything by Mizuki Shigeru- not just Gegege no Kitaro, but his historical/autobiographical work as well: Onward Toward Our Noble Deaths, Shouwa: A History, and Nonnonbaa are amazing. Tezuka, the 'god of manga' is actually more hit and miss (and a lot of his aren't actually finished). Black Jack, Phoenix(considered by him his life's work, unfinished at his death), Buddha, and Astroboy are all classics, though. Read Astroboy long enough to get to "the Earth's strongest robot" tale, then read Pluto by Naoki Urasawa, a modern retelling of it. While we're speaking of Urasawa, you've already read 20th/21st Century Boys, but Monster is an amazing epic, Master Keaton's pretty good and I have high hopes for Happy. Then there's Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life, a history of the early alternate manga movement gekiga. Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you're interested in the history of manga, it's a must along with Tezuka Osamu Monogatari, the officially sanctioned biography of the great by one of his chief assistants. Taniguchi Jiro has a wide range of styles, but he slow, introspective works are what I'd recommend-Walking Man, A Zoo in Winter, Furari, and with more plot: Haruka na Machi e. Lone Wolf and Cub, Lady Snowblood, and Blade of the Immortal if you want samurai manga. Newer, there's Mushishi, Hotel by Boichi, Kuragehime, xxxHolic-though the anime seasons are better, Petshop of Horrors(gets better after the first volume when they get around to giving the second main character some development), and The Itou Junji Collection for horror, along with his Uzumaki. If you don't mind the truly bizarre, any non-hentai by Dowman Sayman(also spelled Douman Seiman)- The Voynich Hotel, Nickelodeon, and Melancholia, in that order, as well as his one-shots; also bizarre but good are the works of Nishioka Kyoudai; less humor and more death and depression, though. Anything based on a story by author Otsuichi is another good bet- Goth and Calling You-but he really shines as an actual short story novelist if you're willing to read books without pictures. They don't quite qualify as light novels for MAL's purposes(keep appearing and disappearing off the site at various mod's whims), but the novel versions of the earlier two, plus Zoo, and Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse are some of my favorite manga-adjacent books.
edit-Almost forgot. Barefoot Gen. The go-to about the Hiroshima bombing.
 
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Try Fist of the North Star perhaps? Is it not cool looking at buff dude punching tank and making it explode and so on?
 

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