I Just Don't Wanna

Just random posts about mangas that I'd like to recommend. If you like complicated plotlines, messed up stories, female protags, and sometimes yuri, you've come to the right place.

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I just persuaded my friend to watch Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica on the impression that it’s a cute magical girl anime with yuri (lesbians). They agreed to watch. Now am awaiting feedback. After this I’m gonna recommend Yuki Yuna is a Hero and Magical Girl Site. Wish me luck :D You can check those anime/manga out, too, since they match with my theme.

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Manga: Sasameki Koto

By: Takashi Ikeda

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo Ai, Seinen, Yuri

Description: “This manga is about two best friends: Sumika Murasame and Ushio Kazama. Ushio has a seemingly endless series of crushes on other girls—specifically, on cute girls. She's oblivious to the fact that her athletic, sarcastic and distinctly *un*cute friend Sumika is in love with her. When a couple of girls in their class realize their feelings and form a club just for girls who like girls, things seem like they're beginning to improve...”

Status: Completed; 55 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: This manga actually has a promotional anime, so I recommend watching it before reading. I had watched the anime first and after realizing the story wasn’t even halfway finished in the animation... you have no idea how happy I was. The manga starts off pretty comedy-based, but somewhere during the story, the drama just starts to kick in. It can get confusing at times, but if you re-read those parts again, it’ll make more sense (at least for me). Also, be prepared for trips down memory lane! It comes in rather unexpectantly.

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Something new I’ll be doing, rather than putting descriptions and such, I’ll just post a part of the manga instead, with its title, genres, and author, as well as a comment of mine.

Then, to start off:

How to confess 101

Manga: Futatsu no Rasen

By: Match

Genres: Shoujo Ai

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Manga: Kuro

By: Somato

Genres: Demons, Mystery, Slice of Life, Supernatural

Description: “As the sole inhabitant of an enormous mansion, Coco would be utterly alone if not for her beloved black cat Kuro. Although he has his quirks, the two are an inseparable pair and enjoy fun-filled adventures on a daily basis. Lulled into bliss by these idyllic days, Coco is completely unaware of the harrowing reality that surrounds her. For everyone else in her town, life is filled with dread and unease. They fear the sinister forces enveloping their town, but they are also afraid of Coco and Kuro. Ignorant of the situation, Coco lives out her peaceful days with Kuro, but her days of blissful ignorance may be quickly coming to an end...”

Status: Completed; 22 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: Woah! Two continuous updates?! Who even knows of this! Ahem, well, after finishing this, I have to say... The ending can be pretty confusing. But I love the bubbly but dark art style, as well as the plot!

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Manga: Tengoku ni Ikitakatta Dekisokonai

By: Ironon

Genres: School Life, Slice of Life, Psychological

Description: “A story about a girl who tries her best to get into heaven.”

Status: One Shot

Personal Thoughts: Sorry for not posting for a long while (Although almost nobody really read my posts). Anyways, it’s a pretty short story, even for a one shot. It’s quite cute, I urge anyone to read it if they have a bit of time on their hands.

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Manga: Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?

By: Asahiro Kakashi (Art), Okina Baba (Story)

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Isekai

Description: “When a mysterious explosion killed an entire class full of high school students, the souls of everyone in class was transported into a fantasy world and reincarnated. While some students were reincarnated as princes or prodigies, others were not as blessed. Our heroine, who was the lowest in the class, discovered that she was reincarnated as a spider!? Now at the bottom of the food chain, she needs to adapt to the current situation with willpower in order to live! Stuck in a dangerous labyrinth filled with monsters, it's eat or be eaten! This is the story of a spider doing whatever she can in order to survive!”

Status: Ongoing; 35+ Chapters

Personal Thoughts: For a long time, I’ve been thinking of whether I should post about this manga, but since I’ve just recently realized this manga is so popular and that the anime is coming out, why not. So, to begin with, I recommend reading the light novel before the manga, I find it more interesting that way, and the picture I used is from the light novel anyways. By the way, the light novel has 300+ chapters. Also, I know I shouldn’t push my opinion onto others, but seriously, stop saying it is a ripoff or copy of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime; respect the authors. Anyways, personally added tags: Action, Adventure, Seinen

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Manga: Stravaganza: Isai no Hime

By: Akihito Tomi

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, (E)cchi, Fantasy, Seinen

Description: “Humans live mostly behind safe walls, protected from the many non-human creatures outside. In this kingdom's walled capital city of Mitera lives an unusual young warrior woman known as Claria. The story begins as she takes a potentially deadly walk alone in the woods, encountering various dangerous creatures—most notably a lizardman that treats her surprisingly kindly. But what no one knows about Claria is that she is secretly this kingdom's ruler, Queen Vivian!”

Status: Completed; 44 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: This manga contains content for mature audiences, but if you can bypass that, it’s quite amazing! The story slowly progresses towards a deeper plotline, even if the beginning may be a bit strange. There are even hints of comedy in this manga as to sooth the serious atmosphere! Anyways, some of my personally added tags: Adult, Comedy, Mature

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Manga: Cosmo Familia

By: Hanokage

Genres: Supernatural, Seinen, Sci-Fi

Description: “The world is devastated by the sudden stampede of the mysterious invading creatures called ‘cosmof’. Amakawa Alice still believes that her family, that disappeared 6 years ago, will return. Can she protect her home on her own?” 

Status: Ongoing; 12+ Chapters 

Personal Thoughts: To be honest, it hadn’t looked that interesting at first when I had read the description. After a while and I got through a couple of chapters, I thought it to be pretty good. I think it’s a bit light-hearted so far, but you’ll never know what will happen~ Give it a try

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Manga: Arachnid

By: Shinya Murata (Story), Shinsen Ifuji (Art)

Genres: Action, Drama, Shounen

Description: "The life of a teenager is just one hell after another, and this is especially true for Fuji Alice. At school, she's often bullied -- and at home, she's abused by her uncle. When he tries to sexually assault her, Alice finds him suddenly murdered by a mysterious assassin known as 'Kumo (Arachnid)'. Instead of killing her too though, Kumo takes her under his wing, having seen a dangerous potential in Alice. Now she thrust into a world of murder and secret organizations, where if she doesn't make the killing strike, she will be killed instead..." 

Status: Completed; 73 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: I'd add a couple more genres to the list, but well, it is what it is. Also, not a big fan of the ending, but hey, it is what it is. (My personally added tags: (E)cchi, Shoujo Ai, and Supernatural)

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Manga: Saeism

By: Tooru Uchimizu

Genres: Drama, Mature, Psychological, School Life, Seinen, Shoujo Ai

Description: “In the month since she transferred to a new school, Misao hasn't made any friends. Instead, she's been teased and bullied by some of the more aggressive girls in class. This all changes on the day Sae returns to school. Sae is good at everything, and everyone at school adores her—but Sae seems to want only to be friends with Misao. All the bullying stops immediately, and Misao is thrilled to be best friends with the most popular girl in school. Sadly, things really are too good to be true. Sae starts to become more and more domineering, preventing Misao from making other friends and insisting on controlling how she spends all her time. As Sae's friendship becomes more and more nightmarish, someone reaches out to Misao to try to help her break free. But is it already too late?”

Status: Completed; 17 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: I’ve just recently finished reading this and let me say, I want to rant. But I won’t... I’ll just say that, in my opinion, this is pretty similar to Happy Sugar Life. Anyways, I may be crazy in the head because Sae Maki is still my favorite charater~

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Manga: Satougashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai

By: Kazuki Sakuraba (Story), Iqura Sugimoto (Art)

Genres: Drama, Psychological, School Life, Shounen

Description: “Nagisa Yamada is a junior high school student who lives in the remote countryside town of Tottori. Her father passed away years ago, and her mother does part-time jobs to support the family. She is a realist, and wants to graduate as soon as possible to live her own life. Mokuzu Umino is a melancholic and very mysterious transfer student. She claims to be a mermaid, come to land on a mission to find a true friend before the storm comes. At Tottori, the two girls meet, develop a unique friendship, and do what they can to keep living.”

Status: Completed; 13 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: This manga messed me up in the head (well, most of the manga I posted here did, too)

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Manga: Murasakiiro no Qualia

By: Hisamitsu Ueo (Story), Shirou Tsunashima (Art)

Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Shoujo Ai, Shounen, Tragedy

Description: “Hatou Manabu has a very odd friend at school named Marii Yukari. Yukari has purple eyes and a bizarre way of looking at the world: she sees all living things as robots. This has not always worked out well for Yukari, even costing her a best friend when she was younger. However, Yukari insists that the things she says she sees is true, and her vision seems to give her insight into the abilities of others. Manabu thinks she’s just weird, but she soon realizes that Yukari has unexpected talents. Her eyes allow her to view the world in a different way, and even the police come to hear her insights. Eventually, her eyes also get Manabu wrapped up in dangerous plots, and force Manabu to not only step up and take a much more proactive role in her own life, but also to question what being a human or a robot actually means.”

Status: Completed; 18 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: I remember hating some parts of this story (including the ending) but still love it at the same time...

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Manga: Shitsurakuen

By: Tooru Naomura

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, School Life, Shoujo Ai, Shounen, (H)arem

Description: “Himoto Sora is a transfer student with a sense of justice and dreams of becoming a knight. Upon arriving at Utopia Gakuen, she learns of a virtual reality-like game played by the male students in which they use girls as weapons in battles for status and treat them as commodities. Seeing one of these girls being abused she steps in and though some sort of error unwittingly becomes the first female participant of the game.“

Status: Completed; 24 Chapters 

Personal Thoughts: It’s been so long since I’ve read this, read for yourselves and tell me what you think

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Manga: Innocent Devil

By: Moto Nakamura

Genres: Action, Horror, Mature, Psychological, Shounen, Supernatural

Description: “Jack the Ripper; Ed Gein; Andrei Chikatilo; John Wayne Gacy; Jeffrey Dahmer - separate from these serial killers who shocked the world, there exist offenders known as “Innocent Devils”, who murder without malice. A criminal psychologist and her beautiful assistant probe the depths of their minds.”

Status: Completed; 18 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: It’s been so long since I've read this, so read for yourselves and tell me what you think.