my absolute favourites

This is the story of Umiko, a recently widowed 65-year old woman, who discovers her passion for film-making after meeting a university student. The manga has caught a lot of attention in Japan: it was nominated for the 2021 Manga Taisho award, and took first place in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi ranking of manga aimed at female readers in 2022.

It follows the story of Yoshiki Tsujinaka, a teenager in rural Japan who discovers that his friend Hikaru Indo has been possessed by an otherworldly entity, forcing him to navigate their changed relationship amid supernatural dangers.

It follows an amnesiac Ken Kaneki, now living as CCG investigator Haise Sasaki, who mentors the Quinx Squad—humans gifted with ghoul abilities—while struggling to reconcile his new identity with his forgotten past, leading to a war to end the cycle of violence.

Memories of Emanon is a philosophical sci-fi manga by Shinji Kajio and Kenji Tsuruta about a mysterious woman named Emanon, who possesses a 3-billion-year-old consciousness carrying the memories of all her past lives.

Fire Punch takes place on an Earth that has become frozen over and barren. The series follows Agni, a young man who is able to regenerate his body. After his village succumbs to inextinguishable flames he is left constantly on fire, leaving him in anguish and vowing to get revenge.

Yokai and mythical folklore

A mysterious "beast", Guideau is trapped in a female form due to a witch's curse, but her real form is a powerful masked man with a pitch-black right arm and is the "natural enemy" of witches. She reluctantly works with the Order of Magical Resonance to find the witch who hexed her and break the curse.

unfortunately it's been on hiatus for a while ٩(′д‵)۶

Takopi's goal is to spread happiness to others through his various gadgets, though his innocent and simplistic worldview is challenged as he confronts the complex morality and nature of human beings.

TW suicide, child abuse, depression, and murder