shit that left an impact on me

Orb isn’t about astronomy alone. It’s about intellectual freedom, faith, fear, and the violence used to preserve certainty. About how progress is built on people who were silenced, erased, or burned for daring to think differently. Every chapter asks the question: what is the price of truth, and who gets to decide it ?

My favorite manga of all time, if you enjoy philosophy I highly recommend it.

10/10

Where does evil come from?

Is it innate, or is it created?
Can evil be born from good, or do we turn good into evil?
Would evil then be nothing more than another way of perceiving things? If so, is evil evil because our conception of good differs? And wouldn’t our vision of good simply be evil for someone else?

I could talk hours about this masterpiece, that’s how much it fucked me up.
11/10

What does it mean to be human when your humanity is denied ?

86 is about racism, genocide, and discrimination dressed up as “national security.”
It is about a society that survives by erasing people, renaming them, and pretending they were never human to begin with. It is about citizens who benefit from the system choosing comfort over conscience.
Atrocities don’t persist because people are ignorant, but because they choose not to look.
Go watch the anime and thank me later.

yall do I even need to make a review about this masterpiece ? Just read it that’s all I can say

To me, at its core, this manga is about forgiveness, not as something easy or noble, but as something terrifying. Forgiving means letting go of the identity built around pain. It means choosing to change when violence is all you’ve ever known. Vinland Saga asks whether a person can truly unlearn hatred, whether it’s possible to refuse the cycle instead of continuing it, and whether peace is an act of cowardice or the bravest choice of all.
« I have no enemies »

Vagabond is not about becoming the strongest. It is about understanding what strength actually means. Through solitude, failure, and relentless self-questioning, it follows a man who slowly realizes that violence, pride, and victory are empty if they are not guided by awareness.

Reading it years later as an adult, I finally got to understand what this manga was trying to teach me about the meaning of life, something I couldn’t grasp when I was younger. And that’s growth yall

If u going through depression, I highly recommend not reading this unless u tryna kill urself.

What’s disturbing about this manga is realizing that these aren’t extreme characters. They’re painfully ordinary. The tragedy doesn’t come from monsters, it comes from unresolved trauma, emotional neglect, and people growing up without the tools to cope.

Punpun stays with you because it feels uncomfortably real.

Finally a shonen in this list, and somehow one of the most emotionally intelligent ones.

A masterpiece that makes you laugh until it hurts, then casually destroys you when you least expect it. It’s absurd, chaotic, deeply human, and surprisingly profound.

What really makes this manga for me is the trio.
Three complete idiots, zero brain cells combined, and somehow one of the most genuine bonds I’ve seen. I love them so much.

every time I went « surely it can’t be more depressing than this ? » it did

there are no grand speeches, no heroic triumphs. Just two children, drifting through a world that has already ended, trying to understand why they are still alive.

reading it reminding me of a palestinian child who said that death would be less painful than continuing to live in such a world. We really aren’t that far away from fiction, or perhaps, we’ve already surpassed it.

What would you do if you could talk to your past self?
Orange is built around that question, and it hurts because we can’t go back in time.

This manga is about regret, about the words you didn’t say, the moments you underestimated, and the realization that some pain only makes sense once it’s too late. That’s what makes it resonate so deeply. Having regrets is something tragically human : it isn’t always born from bad intentions, but from learning too late.