I’ve recently started reading a bunch and have mangas and manwhas I like, but the manhua I’ve tried so far was too heavy on the propaganda for my tastes. I’m not sure if that was specific to the one I was reading or if the CCP requires all art to be pro Chinese nationalist and imperialist.

My top mangas:
Hunter x Hunter (keeps going where the anime stopped, though it doesn’t finish the story and I’m not sure it ever will)
Dandadan (holy shit this one is so good, goes way past the one season of anime, which is very faithful to the manga, it’s still ongoing with weekly updates)

My top manwhas:
Hero Killer (I love the characters and art, though the action and story can be difficult to follow)
A Returner’s Magic Should be Special (this one is the first one I found after deciding I wanted to read a completed story and it delivered)
Solo Levelling (this one’s pretty fun, especially early on)

And the manhua I started but gave up on:
Way to be the Evil Emperor (some speculated in the comments that the CCP friendly stuff was to gain some leeway with the rest of the story but it was just too overt for me to enjoy. And the writing isn’t that great outside of the propaganda, too. The art was good though)

What’re those last two, manhuh?

There are real good stuff every now and then that makes the search worth it

Its like any other form of media/art…some people will like the medium and others won’t.

And just like other mediums there are pieces that are really good and ones that are really bad.

There are pieces that most people not invested in the medium won’t think much of and there are pieces that will resonate with nearly everyone.

Same as any other form of media.

I like some of it, and I REALLY like a few standouts.

The only manga that I have ever read was the sixth part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, before the anime came out. The other parts I watched earlier in their anime forms. It’s very brutal, violent and gory, but also hilarious. Comparing the anime to part 6, I have to admit that they did the manga justice. I don’t know what the other two words mean, but I guess that they’re related.

Hmm, they overlap a lot. They can be pretty similar, so I don’t really have pros and cons that don’t apply to all of them. Where I draw the line is dianhua. The animations look like a cutscene from an 2007 MMO.

In order, not a fan, what?, and what? Never even heard of the last two, but the manga/ anime craze didn’t really take off until I was in my early 30s, so I never got the appeal.

All are fine, just different cliches. Mostly nowadays I read manhwa since it’s easier to read on the phone, a series usually starts with a drop of 20 episodes and then releases weekly and usually at least the guys look kind of adult… (I mainly read trash romance, it’s desperate out here to get characters who don’t look like middle schoolers or something lol)

I mainly read manga when I want an actual story that isn’t just the same 50 plug and play tropes in a blender every time (ie think the mangas I follow right now are Frieren, Heroine Survival and Arte). Manhua I VERY rarely touch. They seem to have the worst machine translations and tbh I really dislike how they implement most of the tropes, just way too petty/childish/violent for me. Only manhua I read are Cheating Men Must Die and Shut Up, Evil Dragon.

I have a slightly more positive view of manga because it’s more likely to be hand drawn (March Comes in Like a Lion, Made in Abyss) but one of the things I really don’t like about manwha/manhua is that it’s always (as far as I’ve seen) a continuous strip which means I have to scroll a lot. I have an auto-scroll extension but it makes me dizzy after a while. I do appreciate how each of them have their own unique style, I think that’s pretty cool.

Also my first “manga” was Scott Pilgrim. Author’s Canadian and IIRC it was read left to right but everyone still called it a manga.

In my opinion, manga read from right to left and are both singular and plural at the same time. But that’s all I know.

Also I never liked Death Note, but I liked Dragon Ball translated into French. And those were the only manga I ever read.

Good

Fun

It’s all just comics. Fine by me

I’m a huge fan of Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s work.

Akagi is the best series that I can’t actually recommend, because if you don’t know anything about Mahjong it will be completely incomprehensible. Or if you do know anything about Mahjong, you’ve already read it and didn’t need me to recommend it to you. Akagi is peak, but only for a very specific niche audience.

Kaiji is the one I can recommend. Kaiji gets conned by shady loan sharks and forced to gamble his way out of crippling debt, playing all kinds of bizarre games with high stakes. It’s the same style of intense psychological warfare, but, like, accessible to the average reader.

He’s written a lot of other great stuff, and most of it is more Mahjong, but those are the big two from him.