Genre: adventure, comedy, science fiction.
Stone, writer Inagakai crafts a story that has his two protagonists utilize the seemingly boring school subjects of human history and science to save the world. However, being plunged back into the stone age makes building shelter, finding food and making tools harder than they thought. The athletic Taiju and science-loving Senku must use chemistry to develop a potion that can cure people of their petrification. Now, from Riichiro Inakagi, the writer of the incredibly popular American football manga series, Eyeshield 21, comes Dr.Stone, a manga where two high school boys use science to save the world.Īfter an unknown cataclysmic event, two high school boys, Senku and Taiju, wake up from a 1,000-year slumber to a world completely petrified in stone. The incredibly popular Bakuman shined a spotlight on the painstaking and arduous life of a manga artist. Hikaru No Go, made the ancient and confusing strategy board game of Go appealing to younger audiences. Yowamushi Pedal made the sport of cycling look cooler than David Beckham doing a bicycle kick. Manga is known for its peculiar ability to bring obscure hobbies or topics into the mainstream. Helpful tip: when looking for any English manga, anime or other media on Amazon Japan or at retail stores, check for this kanji: 英語 ( eigo) or “English language.” 1. To my mind - all are must-reads.Īll titles on this list are available in both English and Japanese. Some of the titles on this list are new and emerging, while others have been available for a few years but are still churning out new chapters in 2019. Due to the solid writing and some incredibly original ideas, the titles on this list have received great reception. Some titles like One Piece and Naruto can become insanely popular and span hundreds of chapters, while others crash and burn. Like the television industry in the West, the manga industry in Japan is oversaturated with tens of thousands of titles to choose from. While comics are seen as geeky or childish in the West, manga is read by people of all ages and all backgrounds in Japan. Put simply: manga are Japanese comics or graphic novels, made in a unique style very different from Western ones. While in North America there is a nerd culture largely dominated by Marvel and DC comics, Japan’s own otaku (nerd or geek) culture revolves around the enormous manga industry.