The Case Where Manga Was My Textbook on Life | Current Edition

This article, which I have been writing over the past three installments, will come to a temporary pause with this one.

I will be writing about the manga scene of the last ten years or so, which is relatively recent (though it might already be old news if I think of it as recent).

*It's long. It's just an otaku article.

First, my take on the digital vs. paper debate.

Recently, digital has become more accepted, and I feel like paper has decreased quite a bit, but I have been a huge proponent of digital since it started. (No, I like paper too. It's nostalgic to get my hands dirty while reading Jump, though.)

Yes, it all started when I was a high school student, I think?

Do you know a site called

Comic Seymour

? You might have heard of it since they have TV commercials now.

I have been using it since before the site even changed its name, probably.

At first, it was almost entirely an erotic manga site.

I dabbled in various other sites as well. Long live digital, where I could read erotic manga without my parents finding out.

From there, before I knew it, I was able to read regular manga.

There were transitions before that, but this is still the site I use the most.

As I wrote in the first article, I have bought over 5,000 volumes, counting roughly. Even now, I buy and read over 10 new releases every month.

Starting from erotic manga, it has gained quite a bit of civil rights.

Besides that, the Jump series is something I can never let go of. Jump apps have changed a lot, but what is now called Jump+ is something I have been reading since its predecessor app. Among them, I also continue to subscribe to the digital versions of Jump and Jump Square.

Currently, reading manga daily on manga apps is almost a part of my routine.

I have tried many and have many installed, but the main apps I read every day are

Jump+
I cycle through Manga Pocket, Nico Nico Manga, Manga UP!, Comic DAYS, pixiv Comic, and Gamma.

On Jump+, I read almost everything that has been adapted into an anime, like SPY×FAMILY, Dandadan, and Chainsaw Man.

I buy comics on Seymour, Zebrack (Jump series), and Kindle.There have been so many things...

After all, the benefit of not taking up space is huge. And I can read them anytime, even while on duty, and I never forget them. I buy textbooks and such in paper, but I think I will stick with digital for manga from now on.

Let's move on to talking about works. Recently, I have stopped reading every single work in Jump. I only read One Piece, Witch Watch, and 2-B Hero Destroyers, which started recently. Jujutsu Kaisen and The Elusive Samurai have also ended... It's a shame, but it's a habit (since it's weekly), and maybe a manga by a teacher I know will start again. I have no plans to stop.

I am also subscribed to Young Jump, but I guess it's Kingdom, Batsu Hare, and Märchen Crown. Terraformars has also resumed, but I remember too little of what happened before... It was incredibly interesting at first, but it dragged on a bit.

It would be endless if I listed everything, so I will leave here the works from the last few years that I can recommend from the bottom of my heart.

In particular, my top two are

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

2.5 Dimensional Seduction

.

Both have ended...

You might have heard of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War since it was also made into a live-action movie.

This started in a magazine called Miracle Jump, a spin-off of Young Jump, and I was shocked for the first time in a while after reading the first chapter because of the high level of the concept, story, and gags.

It was interesting all the way through after that. People say the second half was unnecessary, but that's not true. It was the best until the final episode. The anime was also just great. I love all the voice actors who came out of it. The songs were also good, and I became a huge fan of halca, Airi Suzuki, and Masayuki Suzuki.

I bought everything, including the anime DVDs, the reading play DVDs, and the anime theme song collection CDs. It is a work I am betting my life on recommending. I just regret that it ended... I am also looking forward to the new anime that is planned.

Oshi no Ko is also quite famous, but have you heard of it? It is a manga written solely by the author who created the story for Oshi no Ko. For a while, it was serialized simultaneously in Young Jump. It was the best. I have mixed feelings about the final episode of Oshi no Ko... but of course, I like it. But I like Kaguya-sama: Love Is War better.

I cry every time I watch the anime or read the manga. I cry while sobbing. It's disgusting for a 40-year-old man, but I cry at this.

Also,

2.5 Dimensional Seduction

This was serialized on Jump+, and at first, it was a love story themed around sexy cosplay. I thought it was the usual stuff, but the art was very beautiful, so I followed the serialization.

Then, the content gradually changed midway through, the sexiness became a bonus, and it became a manga that embodies friendship, effort, and victory, just like Shonen Jump. Even though the subject is cosplay, why is it so exciting? The story is truly well-crafted. The author also says that they changed direction midway through. I think it's a great success.

Even though the theme is cosplay, the costume making, the background of each character, the reason they work hard... they make an effort, cooperate with friends, and aim for the top popularity at the photo session venue, even though they are not fighting rivals directly. There are the career worries unique to high school students, the conflicts of the adults around them, family problems... the character depth is insane. Everyone is attractive. This has also been made into an anime, and since it has only just begun, it will continue in the future. The anime wasn't as big a hit as Kaguya-sama, but it's interesting.

It's not just hot; the author must be young, but I think they love manga as much as someone of my generation. They insert small references to manga, anime, and games everywhere, and everything from major to minor ones hits home. They are a genius.

This one also makes me cry every time I read the manga, no matter when I read it. I make sounds. I can only read it when I'm alone.

Haa haa haa, it's already long, but is it still okay? If you get tired, I want you to read it again tomorrow.

By the way, if you are an otaku, you probably understand, but I am speaking the explanation so far in one breath, talking fast.

Other than that, I also like light novel adaptations and the popular reincarnation genre.

As for what I am still reading in that area,

・That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
・The Rising of the Shield Hero
・Mushoku Tensei
・The Story of a Salaryman Who Became One of the Four Heavenly Kings After Going to Another World
・Game of Familia
・How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
・Yankee Quest
・Handyman Saitou in Another World

I guess that's about it. Some have ended, though. They are all famous reincarnation stories, but they are interesting because they have survived until now.

For something a bit different, I recommend

・Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools

It is a reincarnation story, but it might be fine to just call it a regular fantasy since it's not too focused on that. There are no cheats. I mean, it didn't really have to be a reincarnation story... It's a story about making various tools in a world with a little magic, and it spreads from people around her and becomes useful to the country. I guess the idea is that the things she makes are from modern Japan, so she uses that knowledge. The things she makes, like five-toe socks, and the way the story spreads from there is interesting.

Even though it's a story about a world inside a fictional manga, the world-building is amazing. Isekai stories sometimes require basic knowledge, but you get drawn into the world without that. And it's hot. It's quiet, but it's hot.

The anime was honestly a bit disappointing, but the manga is very, very good.

Also, these three

・Observation Log of a Self-Proclaimed Villainess
・Orie Taishi's Isekai Creature Girl Survival Log
・Fuka Fuka Dungeon Kouryaku-ki

The author is the same (though the art is different), but they are connected in one world line. It's an isekai reincarnation, but there are no cheats, and the thoughts and ideas are more realistic. It's like a work by Osamu Tezuka, including philosophy.

However, there are many erotic elements, and I think it's a genre that many people cannot accept the art for. The erotic elements are not just a little bit, but full-blown erotic manga. I think people who don't like it really won't like it.

For royal road fantasy,

・Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
・Daemons of the Shadow Realm
・Zatch Bell! 2
・Kaiten no Albus
・Record of Ragnarok
・I Became a Legend After Telling My Party to Leave Me Behind 10 Years Ago
・The Reincarnated Villainess is Conquering the Dragon Emperor
・Interspecies Reviewers
・Goblin Slayer
・The Old Man from the Countryside Becomes a Sword Saint
・Dungeon no Osananajimi
・Blue Exorcist
・Shangri-La Frontier
・Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai - Avan and the Demon King of Hellfire
・Dragon Ball Super
・Blood Blockade Battlefront
・Mononogatari

and so on. Many have been adapted into anime.

I am also weak for sequels and spin-offs of old manga.

I recommend them all, but Daemons of the Shadow Realm is a work by Hiromu Arakawa, the author of Fullmetal Alchemist, and it is indeed god-tier.

Kaiten no Albus will probably be an anime too.

Mononogatari is not that famous, but it has been made into an anime and the manga is also interesting.

Finally, since becoming an adult, I have become weak for work-related stories, office romances, slice-of-life, and stories that seem to be happening in the real world. I admire them. I want to have an office romance. I want to have an adult romance...

In that area,

・Villainous Son, Buying the Person I Love with Money
・Artiste
・Young People These Days
・Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
・We Are Still Immature
・We Are Living Apart
・Sweat and Soap
・My Dress-Up Darling
・The New Employee Who Can 'Read' the Air and the Blunt Senior
・My Wife is a Little Scary
・Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!
・Recommendation for Otaku Marriage!
・Marimo Brothers' Daily Life
・Those Who Leave Are Distant in the Days
・Youthful Summer
・Handsome Husband Loves His Gorilla Wife and Pretty Daughter Too Much
・Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
・Nana Shimazaki @ Job Hunting
・I Don't Like Haruno-san at All

I classified it wrong.

Among these, Artiste is a bit different. It's a story about the daily life of an Italian restaurant and the drama that happens there.

It feels like reading Team Medical Dragon, Dr. Coto's Clinic, or The King's Tailor back in the day.

Ah. I still haven't written enough. There are many things I missed.
Also, there are many manga that are seriously erotic-focused that I haven't written about. I'm a middle schooler, so please forgive me... This shouldn't be a sexual preference announcement party...

As a feature, the number of works I encounter on X has increased. I am perfectly caught in the strategy of getting curious and buying them.

Therefore, it has become difficult to classify them by magazine.

Also, I feel like the distance to the authors has become closer. I can easily write fan letters. I can get replies. I think things have changed from the past. No slander, absolutely not.

I often support the author as a whole, so I collect manga by the authors who write the manga above.

In particular, I am in the fan club for Koi Kawahara and paying for it.

Villainous Son, Buying the Person I Love with Money is a relatively new manga, but I always share my thoughts on the X update every Wednesday.

The other day, I won a signed book...! I plan to make it a family treasure.

I ended up just listing works again. I mean, I shouldn't have made this the last article. It's about twice as long as my usual articles...

I have been writing about my manga history over the past four articles.

I am still updating, and I always want to encounter new works that I can be passionate about.

I already did the summary in the previous article. Oops.

Anyway, I have gained knowledge about various things in life from manga (and games, anime, books, and...). I have learned how to live.

Even now, by liking manga, I think I am able to keep up with trends and the flow of society, even though I am in the medical world, which tends to be isolated. My knowledge might be a bit biased, though.

Thanks to manga, my curiosity and spirit of inquiry are not lost. I want to know new things. I am being made to feel positive, like trying hard is not bad.

My presbyopia is already quite advanced, but I want to be reading manga even when I am 80 years old.

If I ever retire as a doctor, I want to open a manga cafe. Not a stylish cafe, but an old-fashioned one. I would disregard profit and just want to be there and read manga. It would be the best if I could build it next to a pachinko hall.

It was a trigger to remember that I had such a dream.

My love for manga will never end.

I don't think I will list works like this again, but I want to write articles like recommended works or special features on manga that are useful for learning medicine, like Kaguya-sama and 2.5 Dimensional Seduction this time. I only listed them, but I could write an article just talking about My Dress-Up Darling.

One more thing added to my title.

Unserious, a pediatrician for now, likes pachinko, uses AI, raising children, on a diet, wants to be popular, and likes manga.

It's a complete failure in terms of note strategy. Many people said that if you don't specialize your account, it will become blurry.

However, this is a Shiumai account. I will continue the style of bringing out the humanity of the person inside.

If you have any recommended manga, please let me know. I will definitely read them.

Finally, I realized that I hadn't mentioned Medaka Box even once. I love it. I mean, I love Nisio Isin. I'll talk about Bakemonogatari in the favorite anime edition...!