Manga Recommendations From The Last 30 yrs Virtual Panel list

• So since I was unable to attend Otakon due to Covid, I released the panel virtually on Youtube at https://youtu.be/uFGAoRNnGws . So if you were curious on the full list of manga titles, we discussed. here is the full list including ones we removed due to time constraints. hope you enjoManga Recommendations for Grown Ups from The Last 30 yrs. List

 

1994

• Naoki Urasawa’s Monster
• Kyoko Okazaki’s River’s Edge
• Noboru Watanabe’s Rurouni Kenshin
• Hitoshi Ashinano’s Yokohama Kadashi Kikou

1995

• Yoshiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life
• Kyoko Okazaki’s Helter Skelter
• Ai Yazawa’s Neighborhood Story
• Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun

1996

• Noboyuki Fukumoto’s Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji
• Maki Murakami’s Gravitation
• Moyoco Anno’s In Clothes Called Fat
• Rumiko Takahashi’s Inuyasha
• Garon Tsuchiya’s Old Boy

 1997

• Kaiji Kawaguchi’s Eagle: The Making of an Asian American President
• Toru Fujisawa’s Great Teacher Onizuka
• Kouta Hirano’s Hellsing
• Eiji Otsuka’s Multiple Personality Detective Psycho
• Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece

1998

• Kou Fumizuki’s Ai Yori Aoshi
• Ken Akamatsu’s Love Hina
• Junji Ito’s Uzumaki
• Takehiko Inoue’s Vagabond

1999

• Naoki Urasawa’s 20^th Century Boys
• Satoru Akahori’s Mouse
• Yuki Urushibara’s Mushishi
• Makoto Yukimura’s Planetes

2000

• Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro
• Hiroya Oku’s Gantz
• Kozueko Morimoto’s Gokusen
• Chica Umino’s Honey & Clover
• Yasuo Ohtagaki’s Moonlight Mile
• Ai Yazawa’s Nana
• Taiyo Matsumoto’s No. 5
• Jun Shindo’s Red Eyes
• Keiko Tobe’s With The Light: Raising An Autistic Child

2001

• Tite Kubo’s Bleach
• Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist
• Junji Ito’s Gyo Ugomeki Bukimi
• Tomoko Ninomiya’s Nodame Cantabile
• Kou Yaginuma’s Twin Spica

2002

• Rei Hiroe’s Black Lagoon
• Kaoru Mori’s Emma
• Shimoku Kio’s Genshiken
• Eiji Otsuka’s Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

2003

• Futaro Yamada’s Basilisk
• Hideo Yamamoto’s Homunculus
• Akira Hiramoto’s Me & The Devil Blues
• Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto
• Tatsuhiko Takimoto’s Welcome to The NHK

2004

• Hikaru Nakamura’s Arakawa Under the Bridge
• Makoto Kubota’s Astro Fighter Sunred
• Araki Joh’s Bartender
• Kanata Konami’s Chi’s Sweet Home
• Tadashi Agi’s The Drops of God
• Housui Yamazaki’s Mail
• Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku The Inner Chambers
• Etorouji Shiono’s Ubel Blatt

2005

• Yumi Unita’s Bunny Drop
• Hidenori Hara’s Train Man: Densha Otoko
• Kiminori Wakasugi’s Detroit Metal City
• Hideo Azuma’s Disappearance Diary
• Motoro Mase’s Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
• Shinobu Kaitani’s Liar Game
• Inio Asano’s Solanin
• Makoto Yukimura’s Vinland Saga

2006

• Jun Hayase’s Ekiben Hitoritabi
• Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail
• Shigeru Tsuchiyama’s Gokudo Meshi
• Natsume Ono’s House of Five Leaves
• Toru Fujisawa’s Kamen Teacher
• Natsume Ono’s Ristorante Paradiso
• Hikaru Nakamura’s Saint Young Men
• Sorata Akiduki’s Snow White With The Red Hair

2007

• Jinsei Kataoka & Kazuma Kondou’s Deadman Wonderland
• Inio Asano’s Goodnight Punpun
• Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
• Chuya Koyama’s Space Brothers
• Isuna Hasekura’s Spice & Wolf
• Fumi Yoshinaga’s What Did You Eat Yesterday

2008

• Naoki Urasawa’s Billy Bat
• Mitsuro Kubo’s Moteki
• Akiko Higashimura’s Princess Jellyfish
• Takashi Murakami’s Stargazing Dog
• Mari Yamazaki’s Thermae Romae
• Wataru Watanabe’s Yowamushi Pedal

2009

• Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan
• Inio Asano’s A Girl on The Shore
• Kengo Hanazawa’s I Am A Hero
• Tsutomu Nihei’s Knights of Sidonia
• One’s One Punch Man
• Hikaru Asada’s Sickness Unto Death
• Mitsuhisa Kuji’s Wolfsmund

2010

• Masasumi Kakizaki’s Hideout
• Takuma Morishige’s My Neighbor Seki

2011

• Kohske’s Gangsta
• Takumi Yanai’s Gate: Thus The Japanese Self Defense Force Fought In Their Land 
• Coolkyousinnjya’s I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying
• Hiromu Arakawa’s Silver Spoon
• Yu Sasuga’s Terra Formars
• Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul
• Takeshi Azuma’s Ultimate Otaku Teacher 

2012

• Shuzo Oshimi’s Inside Mari
• Okayado’s Monster Musume
•   Ishio Yamagata’s Rokka: Braves of the Seven Flowers

2013

• Yui Sakuma’s Complex Age
• Kaori Ozaki’s The Gods Lie
• Sankakuhead’s Himouto! Umaru-Chan
• Bradley Bond’s Ninja Slayer
• Rin Kokuyo’s Recovery of an MMO Junkie
• Yuko Osada’s Shiori Experience
• Gido Amagakure’s Sweetness & Lightning

2014

• Jun Mayuzuki’s After The Rain
• Inio Asano’s Dead Dead Demon Dededede Destruction
• Ryoko Kui’s Delicious in Dungeon
• Katsuhisa Minami’s The Fable
• Kenji Inoue’s Grand Blue Dreaming
• Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia
• Tasuku Karasuma’s No Guns Life
• Tetsuya Tsutsui’s Prophecy
• Maybe’s To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts
• Hiroaki Samura’s Wave, Listen To Me!
• Fujita’s Wotakoi: Love Is Hard For Otaku

2015

• Yuhta Nishio’s After Hours
• Miya Kazuki’s Ascendance of a Bookworm
• Akane Shimizu’s Cells At Work!
• Minatsuki’s My Roommate is a Cat
• Honda’s Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-san

2016

• Shinichi Ishizuka’s Blue Giant
• Taiyo Matsumoto’s Cats of the Louvre
• Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
• Kumo Kagyu’s Goblin Slayer
• Yabako Sandrovich’s How Heavy Are The Dumbbells You Lift
• Yoru Sumino’s I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
• Tomohito Oda’s Komi Can’t Communicate
• Kabi Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
• Synecdoche’s Plus-Sized Elf
• Junpei Inuzuka’s Restaurant To Another World
• Yoshitoki Oima’s To Your Eternity
• Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier

2017

• Natsu Hyuga’s The Apothecary Diaries
• Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s Blue Period
• Tomonori Inoue’s Candy & Cigarettes
• Tsunehiko Watanabe’s The Ideal Sponger Life
• Gaku Kuze’s Life Lessons With Uramichi Oniisan
• Naoki Yamakawa’s My Home Hero
• Tone Koken’s Super Cub
• Akiko Higashimura’s Tokyo Tarareba Girls

2018

• Naoki Urasawa’s Asadora!
• Kazutomo Ichitomo’s Handyman Saitou In Another World
• Yuji Kaku’s Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku
• Akumi Agitogi’s My Happy Marriage
• Shogo Sugitani’s Pompo: The Cinephile
• Akira Hiramoto’s Raw Hero
• Kintetsu Yamada’s Sweat & Soap
• Kousuke Oono’s Way of the Househusband

2019

• Kore Yamazaki’s The Ancient Magus Bride
• Miyuki Tonogaya’s The Ice Guy & His Cool Female Colleague
• Kei Sanbe’s Island In A Puddle
• Rikachi’s Nina The Starry Bride
• Suu Morishita’s A Sign of Affection
• Tatsuya Endo’s Spy x Family
• Yuto Yotsuba’s Ya Boy Kongming!

2020

• Rokurou Ogaki’s Crazy Food Truck
• Nayoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju no 8
• Hawkman’s Night of the Living Cat
• Aka Akasaka’s Oshi no Ko
• Akira Amano’s Ron Kamonohashi
• Yuto Suzuki’s Sakamoto Days

2021

• Sakaomi Yuzaki’s She Loves To Cook & She Loves To Eat
• Sana Kirioka’s Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
• Taizan 5’s Takopi’s Original Sin

2022

• Tatuki Fujimoto’s Goodbye Eri
• Joumayku’s Marriage Toxin
• Rocket Shokai’s Sentenced To Be A Hero
• Jinushi’s Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You

2023

• Takeru Hokazono’s Kagurabachi
• Inio Asano’s Mujina Into The Deep
• Yushi Ukai’s Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table

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