Mangas to Read!

I've grown addicted to the 'psychological' genre of manga recently after reading the manga 'The World God Only Knows'.

Here's a short summary of my new favourite manga, TWGOK:

The protoganist, Keima, is known as the 'capturing god', a hard core nerd/genius who never fails to capture the virtual girls in dating sims/rpg in video games. He is approached by Elsee, a devil from Hell who has heard (albeit mistakenly) of his legendary girl-capturing skills, to help her in catching runaway spirits that hide in girls. These spirits only hide in the crevices in women's hearts, and the only way to get them out is to make the host fall in love so that the gap in the heart will be filled. With Keima's experiences in video games and his insight in the game of dating, the reader will see him capture the heart of one girl after another..

This manga has romance, humour, beautifully drawn girls, good plot and a storyline that progresses really quickly (complete opposite from naruto, bleach, one piece) so what more can you ask for?

You'll also be surprised that the theories/strategies regarding courtship presented in the manga are actually pretty good! At least in my opinion, they're certainly not without basis and what's more, it actually fits reality too! Maybe I'll elaborate on some of these theories some other time..

And guess what, the manga was so irresistable that I completed all 122 chapters that's currently available all within yesterday! Time to find new stuff to read!

I'm looking at the psychological genre right now. I've read Death Note, Gantz, Liar Game, Future Diary and they all left a deep impression on me.

Death Note was just ingenius. Gantz was gory and sick (nothing I can't take though) and it aroused in me many emotions and feelings I've never felt before. Very thought provoking too. Liar Game was one that started out boring (I didn't even bother finishing the first chapter the first time I read it and I gave up) but gets better as the story progresses. The game plans are simply ingenious, though there were times in the story that the character does pretty impossible stuff. Future Diary started off great, had a few moments of mind teasing, but afterwards went on a totally crazy and sick direction. Expect gory and madness.

Ok, I've digressed too much. Anyway, here's a to-read list of mangas I'm considering:

-Akuma to Love Song
-Eden no Ori
-Gamble Fish
-Holyland
-Nononono
-Psyren
-Wolf Guy-Ookami no Monshou

All these are the 'hot' mangas that have appeared on manga fox. Haven't really read through their summaries yet to find out if they're really read-worthy.

Ah, gotta sleep already! I still have a chess competition tomorrow!


From my Past,
To my Future