Manga that impacted you

[Garakuta]

Recommend me a manga (or more), that has/have impacted you, or that was/were in any way significant/meaningful/important to you and if possible, tell me why you like it.

 

[No1ExS]

Something I started reading years ago is Tower of God. it is also what introduced me to webtoons and eventually manga.

I personally like it because it is so fantastical. The amount of imagination the author has is astonishing, the storytelling is also superb. I'm also a sucker for cool looking fight scenes.

Brief intro
Tower of God centers around a boy called Twenty-Fifth Bam, who has spent most of his life trapped underground, with only his close friend, Rachel, to keep him company. Rachel enters a mysterious and enormous Tower, Bam manages to open a door into it as well (which is highly irregular), and faces challenges at each floor of this tower as he tries to find his only friend.

The art can come across as weird (at least season 1), but it grows on you. And the author has become quite the artist over the years. Some of the later chapters have some amazing looking panels.

If you decide to give this a try, I encourage you to get through season 1 and start with season 2
a friend of mine gave up after 10 chapters until I got him to read to season 2, now he wont shut up about it.

 

[mammon]

Mx0 - pretty much the manga that got me into this whole manga hobby
Akumetsu - Can't really say much because pretty much my whole impression is a spoiler. One of the tightest manga ever and the author managed to end it gracefully even though it got cancelled abruptly.

 

[zalagires]

To Love Ru
its best ecchi manga, pioner of cute shameless heroine
when other manga (at that time) sell pure heroine and pervert male MC
this manga break that stereotipe, with various heroine with many different personality
its became mainstream ecchi manga, and many manga copy scene/gimmick of to love ru

 

[Garakuta]

Thanks guys, I will check them out.

@AbyssalMonkey
I watched the Index anime (some years ago, up to season 2) and I remember it having some good moments, but I somehow cant bring myself to watch season 3, because, to be frank, it seems rather bad. If you have seen it, is that an issue with the adaption and is the original better? If that were the case I would gladly read the novels.

 

[Garakuta]

@AbyssalMonkey
I see, seems like I would like the novels more, as I had a problem with how they presented some of these things in the anime.

I dont really read too many LNs, but from watching the manga/anime adaptations, I really ask myself how some of them can get so popular, like the milf isekai for example.

 

[Sem]

There are so so many manga that have changed the way I see things, but one I've been revisiting lately is Pluto.

https://mangadex.org/title/1594/pluto

It's a rewrite of an old Astro Boy arc called The World's Greatest Robot, and it's about a series of human and robot murders. The storyline itself isn't that complex until the end, where Urasawa honestly loses me a little every time with the identity-ception, but the questions he raises and ponders over through the course of the events in Pluto are haunting.

I still think back occasionally to how weird some of these moments are. The robots act and feel the way humans do, yet deny themselves that humanity constantly. There's a moment where one of the robots needs to get in a bigger robot, and my expectation the whole time was that he would climb inside, like a human does with a mech but no. He just...removes his head. Like a flash drive...
The thought of his entire identity being inside of a small portable drive, and not trapped in a flesh body, somehow made him feel so fragile even though robot bodies are stronger than human ones.
The main character suffers from nightmares, which isn't supposed to happen because robots don't dream. So then, if robots don't dream, what's happening to his AI to make him behave this way?

There's just a lot of fun psychological and physical differences portrayed between robots and humans in a world where they've become visually almost indistinguishable. I'd recommend it strongly, but it is admittedly kind of a niche thing that doesn't appeal to mainstream manga readers.

 

[Killjoynik]

The manga that Impacted me the most are...
https://mangadex.org/title/3056/tokyo-ghoul
https://mangadex.org/title/1543/homunculus
https://mangadex.org/title/4251/boku-wa-mari-no-naka
https://mangadex.org/title/2334/oyasumi-punpun
https://mangadex.org/title/2890/alice-in-borderland
https://mangadex.org/title/5049/boku-dake-ga-inai-machi
https://mangadex.org/title/33275/she-doesn-t-know-why-she-lives
https://mangadex.org/title/9570/ajin
https://mangadex.org/title/82/death-note
https://mangadex.org/title/2712/blame
https://mangadex.org/title/1057/pandora-hearts
and https://mangadex.org/title/12331/solanin

I know it's a lot but out of 70+ manga these are the ones that spoke to me the most, the loudest.

 

[Kyxr]

Bocchi na bokura no ren ai jijou
I really love this. There s a good line in there for all of us, guys. "If we could understand how girls think, then all the men around the world dont have to suffer so much" by Kiichi.

Shingetsutan tsukihime
I love the story flow. The mc also not a wimp. Although the ending is quite unexpected.

Hakoiri drops
Good rom com.

Iris zero
Love the story.

Mx0
Probably the best magic academy/comedy/romance. The MC reaction are quite priceless too.

Instant bullet/ IB
The storyline is quite cringy but nonetheless its a good manga. It closely depicted on how society work nowadays. This is the manga that have the most impact on me. Probably the mc is the same as me in the past.

 

[axelTHEGREAT]

Simply Historie and Kingdom, but if you ask me about anime, it will be Iron Blooded Orphans. No explanation needed.

 

[dharman]

Hikaru no Go, by Yumi Hotta.
an introduction to the world of professional Go game. Igo/Weiqi/Baduk. warning: ghost apparition involved.

 

[ribbitribbitsaga]

Bleach - basically one of the mangas that got me into it. I remember borrowing the anime from the public library and watching season to season. Good times. I was a middle schooler and blockbuster was still in my town.

Sgt. Frog - Another original manga that got me into manga. I also borrowed this anime too. It's pretty good but I eventually fell through since the library only carried a certain number of volumes. its ongoing in comic spirits iirc

Slam Dunk - This too is an OG for me. It's basically a basketball underdog story. It's very good and its influential to the point it got a lot of people into basketball. I'm still in gripes with the omake and the ending. I hope the old man could give us a 20 chapter sequel before he kicks the bucket.

Nozoki Ana - My first rollercoaster manga. It's a read once and only once kind of manga. The way it impacted me was due to the amount of investment I had with each chapter.

Fujimura-kun Mates - a great gag harem manga. Basically proved to me that there's hidden gems in manga and not all great mangas get anime adaptions.

Yotsuba - wholesome manga for when the day is a sad one.

 

[plonz]

Oyasumi Punpun is a manga that really changed my perception of life and my actions - no joke. perhaps it may not be for you, but you should give it a shot. It is about a cartoon bird (trust me, it makes sense) and his life
--- (Psychological, Slice of Life, Seinen)

Kakukaku Shikajika is a manga about a highschooler (based on the author) who wants to pursue a career in art - specifically manga. ;; a great story about aspirations and dreams and uses the 'follow ur dreamz' storyline in a real impactful and meaningful way -- taught me to do what i want
-- (Slice of Life, Josei)