We don’t do manga series in our recommendations here, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t want to lie in bed and read a few good chapters quietly before bed. Instead of branching out into manga recommendations, we’re going to give you a few good ones that you can look into. So if you want to read some good romance manga or are just some sort of anime hipster that wants to be all “I read the manga before it was cool and animated,” then check out these romance manga recommendations below. A quick preface here, any romance manga fan will know that romance manga has a lot of cliches. I’ve included some of the more cliched scenarios below, but also tried to present more unique alternatives. I like romance manga, but the same story in a million different ways tends to wear. 7 Seeds With a meteorite headed towards Earth, humanity was facing an extinction-level event. In order to preserve mankind, the government started many programs

Despite not having memories of his past, Souya lives a peaceful high school life. However, one day his town is threatened by huge objects floating in the sky. Conventional weapons are useless against them, but the 7 heroes charged with defending the city emerge in their mechs and head into battle. Souya, too, finds himself drawn to battle, but not against the objects, he is drawn to fight the heroes. While confusing with its early storytelling and occasionally supremely absurd, Planet With presents a low-key almost-parody mecha anime with a surprisingly interesting world once you get into it. For anime recommendations like Planet With, look no further. For Fans of Amnesia 07-Ghost The Barsburg Empire’s Military Academy is famous for training elite soldiers to fight with an ability called Zaiphon. Though a slave with no memories of his past, Teito is one of these elite soldiers. However, after uncovering a dark secret of his own past and a murder of a high ranking of

Anime tends to communicate a lot with the eyes. Eye color can be an indicator of their personality, but some shows go beyond that. It isn’t just about eye color, some characters have their powers in their eyes. If you are looking for anime series about eye powers, then give these a try. Code Geass Let us start with perhaps the most famous anime about all the power that the eyes can have. After meeting a particular person, Lelouch is granted the power of kings in his eye, otherwise known as Geass. With this eye, he has the power to make anyone do as he says. While excessively useful, especially when launching a full on rebellion, there are also cases where it is shown to be a pain. Like for example you accidently make a joke about genocide and then someone goes on a massacre. Legend of Legendary Heroes In the world of this anime, there are those born with magic eyes, known as Stigmas. In the main character’s case, Ryner bears the Alpha Stigma, awakened by the deat

Haruo is not popular, handsome, or even friendly. His sole redeeming quality is his skill at video games. However, his world is thrown upside down by a popular rich girl in his class, Oono, who absolutely trounces him in every game. Now He follows her from arcade to arcade trying to win. A good comedy about gaming is always welcome, but the relationship that it displays is just as good too. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like High Score Girl, then look no further. For Fans of Gaming Gamers This is the tale of lonely Keita Amano who loves video games and the video game club at his school that ardently tries to recruit him. While each member of the club is distinctly different, they are all united through their love of games. Like High Score Girl at times, Gamers is not always about gaming. Both shows are often moreabout people and the relationships they form. However, while gaming remains a big part of High Score Girl, they kind of forget it as Gamer

In his MMORPG, Takuma boast overwhelming strength and was referred to as the demon king. However, one day he gets summoned to another world, still in the appearance of his character. There he discovers two girls that use the same magic he uses to turn others into slaves. However, due to his magic reflect skill, the spell was turned back on them. Certainly a familiar premise, if you are looking for more anime recommendations like How Not To Summon a Demon lord, then look no further. For Fans of Overpowered Main Characters Overlord As the final hour approaches the life cycle of the MMO Yggdrasil, Momonga, a powerful wizard and leader of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, is there to see it off. However, to his surprise, the servers don’t go down and even stranger is that all the NPC characters have come alive with their own unique personalities. If there is one series that has such a similar feel to How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, it is Overlord. Not only is it about peop

At face value, A Certain Magical Index and its spin-off story, A Certain Scientific Railgun, shouldn’t be difficult to watch. You watch both seasons of Index then both seasons of Railgun and enjoy. However, that’s kind of a recipe to make this already complex series more confusing than it needs to be. Incidentally, there are also those that argue that by watching Index first, it greatly diminishes the best arc in the series that is infinitely more expanded upon in Railgun, but loses a lot of the grandeur when you have already seen the shorter, less fleshed out version in Index. Furthermore, it is also notable that the first few episodes of Index’s first season make this series seem almost worth a pass when compared to how amazing it gets for the next three-fourths. So if you are looking to give A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun a try, consider the following watch orders to get the most out of the series. Index First / Broadcast Order When w

Once with a reputation for messing around with men, high school girl Satou Matsuzuka has finally fallen in love – with a young girl she keeps locked in her apartment. Shio, this young girl, seems to have no other place she would rather be than in Satou’s arms. However, Satou is ready to do anything to protect their relationship. Don’t be fooled by the fluffy story, there is little happy, sugary, or nice in this story. With everyone having uniquely horrible circumstances, if you want more anime recommendations like Happy Sugar Life, you need not suffer, just look below. For Fans of Obsessive Love Future Diary Yukiteru Amano likes to imagine himself as an observer. He spends his days keeping a diary on his cell phone, but not about himself, about everything that goes on around him. At home, he spends his time conversing with his two imaginary friends, Deus Ex Machina, the God of space and time, and Murmur, his assistant. However, one day he discovers his friends a

I remember a time where glasses had a different stigma of being nerdy, but these days, that is not quite the same. Anime in particular has helped shaped a different sort of point of view with the meganekko archetype, as they are often called. These meganekko girls are often shy with big glasses, only for you to often later find out that they are some of the most intelligent characters in the series. Everyone loves a glasses girl, and we’ve got plenty of them below. Anri from Durarara Anri stars off your typical glasses girl. She is plain, demure, and almost downright boring to watch. However, as Durarara goes on, you start to see a different girl beneath the glasses with a dark secret. Throughout the series, she is calm and almost calculating in everything she does. Yet, there are small moments in Durarara when she is cute, however sparse they are. Yuki from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Yuki’s whole character surrounds her being a glasses girl – someone yo

This is the story of Chio, a young bookworm, and her daily walk to school. Of course, she won’t be getting to school anytime soon as her usual route usually takes her weirdly off course. A simple premise with wildly unexpected comedy and situations. It is a classic recipe for success, and if you are looking for more anime recommendations for Chio’s School Road, then look no further. For Fans Of Gaming Reference Comedy High Score Girl Haruo is not popular, handsome, or even friendly. His sole redeeming quality is his skill at video games. However, his world is thrown upside down by a popular rich girl in his class, Oono, who absolutely trounces him in every game. Now He follows her from arcade to arcade trying to win. Both shows have simply plots that focus on one very niche thing, and in that lack of plot, it gives them the creative license to focus on comedy. Furthermore, while not as obvious about it, Chio’s School Road also has a lot of nerd comedy too. Wata

The beauty of all fiction, not just anime, is that your imagination can flourish. However, it is notable that anime has some very strange aspects, sometimes primary among them, the weaponry. In anime, under the right circumstances, anything can be used as a weapon. No matter how unlikely or impractical, they can make it work. Tuxedo Mask’s Roses in Sailor Moon Tuxedo Mask is dapper AF, and they could have easily have given him a classy and effective weapon, you know, like a rapier or something. However, he has roses. Of course, his roses are special and can pierce skin, but they’re still roses. He uses them much in the way f throwing knives, but intimidating opponents with roses has to be difficult. Gon’s Fishing Pole in Hunter X Hunter Hunter x Hunter is actually filled with a lot of unconventional weaponry, and they all have the same fate –they get faded out in lieu of Nen fighting. However, it is often strange to see a main character with a weird weapon, y

As the Mongolian Empire rapidly expands in the 13th Century, they turn their eyes across the sea to Japan. For Jinzaburou, once a trusted man of the Kamakura and now an exiled criminal, he finds himself at the first staging point of the invasion – the island of Tsushima. As the first stop between Korea and the Japanese mainland, can they withstand the torrent of a Mongol invasion? Flying under the radar and a rather rare series covering pre-Warring States era Japan, Angolmois brings about the full package of action, drama, and history. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Angolmois, consider all the goodies below. For Fans of Overlooked History Golden Kamuy After surviving the brutal Russo-Japanese war, Sugimoto gained the nickname “the immortal”. However, he now seeks the promise of gold north in Hokkaido to provide for the blind wife and infant son of his comrade of war. Yet, during his hunt, he hears the tale of a hidden stash of gol

You know what they say, the face says it all. Nowhere is that more true in the expansively creative realms of anime. While some shows go for a more realistic approach, there are so many others that make full use of the creative flexibilities that come with animation. If you are looking with shows that have an abundance of silly faces to entice those giggles from the dark shadows of your soul, then give these anime recommendations a try. Asobi Asobase As a relatively new series, if you look at the plot or even a few promo screenshots, you might give this show a pass as another cute girl slice of life show. While it is cute and slice of life, it is also very much a comedy show. Much of the comedy in it, in fact, comes from the facial expressions. There is some excessively intense ones inside that are set off by the otherwise pastel palate soft nature of the show in general. Hinamatsuri This show became beloved not so much by the character or the flimsy plot, but for th

Rachel awakens to find herself trapped in the basement of an abandoned building. After wandering around, lost, dizzy, and without her memories, she happens across a man in full bandages named Zach. Together, they try to find a way to escape from their bizarre circumstance. Originally a horror game then being adapted to a manga, Angels of Death really captures the feeling of playing a horror game, in both the good and the bad ways. If you are a fan and are looking for more anime recommendations like Angels of Death, then descend below. For Fans of Escape Deadman Wonderland Ganta Igarashi is pumped up for his class trip to the prison amusement park where inmates fight for the public’s amusement. However, when all his classmates are viciously murdered by a mysterious man in red, Ganta gets blamed for the crime and thrown into the very amusement park he was so excited to visit. While the prison in Deadman Wonderland is a bit roomie, both shows have a focus on a set

Gender is somewhat more fluid in these modern times, but some things never change. There are still some that want to be manly men. Smoke cigars, grow an untamed forest of chest hair, do push-ups just for fun sort of manly men. That’s fine. You do you. However, every manly man needs a manly anime they can get behind. Fist of the North Star Everything about Fist of the North Star is the pinnacle of manliness, from Kenshiro the main character to the story of revenge and betrayal that it tells. Furthermore, you would be hard pressed to find an episode without an epic fist fight as the post-apocalyptic wasteland is full of conflict. Not only that, but even the villains are manly in one way or another, even the minors ones. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure While things in Jojo can, obviously, take a turn for the bizarre, even the worst member of the Joestar family is a manly man. They are well-muscled, well-groomed, and drawn to be the manliest sons of bitches you will ever se

Everyone feels lonely sometimes. They feel like they don’t fit in, but one day they find the right person or people that finally make them discover they have a place in this world. Unsurprisingly, there are a number of anime series that explore this particular feeling of being an outcast. I’ve always believed that watching the right anime for how you are feeling can make a big difference. So if you feel like an outcast adrift in a sea of people that seem so different from you, perhaps check out these anime series. Darling in the Franxx This series is a double-sided outcast story about two people that were innately different in a post-apocalyptic world where they were expected to conform. Hiro showed all the signs of being an expert pilot, but ultimately fizzled out while Zero Two is literally shunned because of what she is. However, these two form feelings and ultimately elevate each other in to being able to excel in battle. There is much more to unravel in this

This is the story of three girls that couldn’t be more different. Brought together by classroom games, or their irritation to which, they spend their days fretting over their English scores. Filled with an intoxicating mix of cuteness and absurd comedy, if you are looking for more anime recommendations like Asobi Asobase, then look no further. For Fans of Absurd School Comedy Daily Lives of High School Boys This is the tale of three boys that roam the halls of the all-boys school of Sanada North. Their lives are filled with nothing but giant robot drama and true love stories, at least in their imaginations. In reality, these three boys are nothing special, but they try their best to pass the time. Where Asobi Asobase is about girls, Daily Lives of High School Boys is about boys. Both feature incredibly grounded absurd comedy series where the absurdity of real life situations as well as the facial expressions make them very effective comedies. Nichijou Nichijou is a

We don’t do manga series in our recommendations here, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t want to lie in bed and read a few good chapters quietly before bed. Instead of branching out into manga recommendations, we’re going to give you a few good ones that you can look into. So if you want to read some good action manga or are just some sort of anime hipster that wants to be all “I read the manga before it was cool and animated,” then check out these action manga recommendations below. Vagabond Shinmen Takezou is wild and aggressive, leading to the villagers being fearful of him. However, he and his friend Matahachi end up running away and joining the Toyotomi army for glory. Unfortunately, after a crushing defeat at the Battle of Sekigahara, they barely make it out alive and are separated. From there, they each go on a journey. Takezou walks the path that will eventually see him as Musashi Miyamoto, legendary swordsmen. Vinland Sag

Iori Kitahara is excited to travel to the seaside town of Izu for his first year of college. He moves into his uncle’s scuba shop, Grand Blue, but things don’t go according to plan. Inside the shop is a bunch of naked and drunk upperclassman who get him drunk. After his cousin walks in, his college life starts to derail, but his work getting it back on track doesn’t go quite as planned either. Grand Blue is comedy through and through, part slice of life and part random events, it is sure to tickle your funny bone. If you are looking for a similar comedy experience, then try these anime recommendations below. For Fans of The Beach Harukana Receive In Okinawa, Haruka convinces her short friend Kanata to form a beach volleyball pair with her. Kanata was once discouraged from the sport, but Haruka has a way of convincing her to aim for the junior tournament. While Harukana Receive is more sports and slice of life oriented, it has beach-oriented comedy similar to Gra

It’s that time again. The summer 2018 season has progressed enough where the good rises to the top and the bad ends up completely forgotten. However, you don’t have to sort that out yourself. You’re busy, we get it. So we watched the new season for you to give you a clue on what was worth watching. As always, this only covers wholly new series. So any second seasons won’t be included. If you are a fan of My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Steins;Gate, Overlord, or Free, then by all means go watch those. Grand Blue Iori Kitahara is excited to travel to the seaside town of Izu for his first year of college. He moves into his uncle’s scuba shop, Grand Blue, but things don’t go according to plan. Inside the shop is a bunch of naked and drunk upperclassman who get him drunk. After his cousin walks in, his college life starts to derail, but his work getting it back on track doesn’t go quite as planned either. Why It Is Worth Watching? – Don’t be fooled, th

During the Vietnam War, a soldier named Griff goes insane and starts killing his own platoon. After being subdued, all he kept speaking was the words “banana fish”. Years later, Griff is taken care of by his brother Ash, a boy who ran away from home and was taken in by mob boss Papa Dino. Ash was groomed as both heir to the Mafia family and sex slave to Papa Dino. Now he seeks to unravel the mystery between this banana fish, a phrase that keeps mysteriously popping up in his life. Though based on a shoujo manga, Banana Fish the manga and the anime are the manliest series you’ll run across. Combining mob politics and deep conspiracy, it is a non-stop anime of action and intensity. If you are looking for similar series, then look no further. For Fans of Foreign Crime 91 Days Set during Prohibition, a man named Avilio returns to Lawless, a town famed for brewing illegal liquor, after the murder of his family by the mafia. A mysterious letter prompted him to return