Shinryaku! Ika Musume

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This list will always be in alphabetical order.

If the ratings on my profile tell you nothing else it should tell you this; I am very a harsh critic. My average for animé and manga are both in the 5's and, considering how many titles I've completed, will likely always be there. If I rate something a 6 or higher I really do think it's worthwhile. So everything in this stack is something I would recommend at least trying.

This stack is for all of the "cute girls doing cute things" manga that I have rated 6 or higher. This includes currently published manga that will be getting a 6 or higher from me, unless something changes, when they end and I finish reading them. I don't officially rate a series until I've finished it, so I've added a temporary rating in this stack for any series I'm currently reading. This stack will be updated as I find new titles. As I am still very new to the genre this stack is guaranteed to grow.

This list will always be in alphabetical order.

I don't expect everyone to agree with my choices and that is okay. If everyone agreed with me that would be boring.

If the ratings on my profile tell you nothing else it should tell you this; I am very a harsh critic. My average for animé and manga are both in the 5's and, considering how many titles I've completed, will likely always be there. If I rate something a 6 or higher I really do think it's worthwhile. So everything in this stack is something that I consider to have gone above and beyond my expectations and absolutely worth a try.

This stack contains all of the manga that I have completed and given a rating of 8.5 or higher. This is the top 9-11% of my completed manga list (hence the stack name). This list will rarely change, though there are currently 5 titles that may end up here when they finish, so I guess I'll list them here as "honorable mentions". Those manga are; Gabriel DropOut (8.5), Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? (8.5), Machikado Mazoku (9), Tonikaku Kawaii (9.5) and Yotsuba&! (8.5).

Same rules like the last three.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/24969
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/25373
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31761

Manga that take place in seaside towns or near beaches.

If I've missed any or am mistaken on any of these, make sure to tell me.

My favorite ones are the "Eddy-likes" (from "Ed, Edd & Eddy") AKA the ones that keeps pushing their luck and takes the punches because they can.

Warning: They're not all slice of life.

TVM Comics, is a now defunct vietnamese manga publisher. It well known back in mid 2000's and 2010's for published many popular Shonen Jump and Shoujo series. The company founded in 2007, an obsidinary company of TVM Corp, for publishing fully license manga series.

Due to around that time, Vietnam is well known for pirate manga and books instead of fully license. Among those, popular publishers in Vietnam like Kim Đồng and Trẻ Publishing House who mostly published pirate manga around that time. But thanks to TVM Comics, it consider help other willing to license out. It also know that TVM Corp, the parent company also responsible for dubbing anime in vietnamese, many popular series such as Dragonball, Cardcaptor Sakura, Captain Tsubasa, Azumanga Daioh, etc,... This company is consider of Tokyopop/ ADV Films of Vietnam.

But unfortunately, even all of many success, the company went bankrupt in 2019. Due to poor sales and around that times where manga isn't no where near hugely popular as of now. Most of the series that they published around that time, either stop or let another company pickup to continue they left off. Even tho, they no longer exist but their legacy still lives on in many manga collectors heart.

I will pick some series that they published, either gone along with them or others pickup.

Oldish manga featuring characters that evoke the 萌え (moe) reaction as per the standards in the early-to-late 2000's, when the so-called moe phenomenon was at its peak in Japanese wota-culture. The titles I've listed here vary greatly in terms of genre, subject matter, and popularity, but they all hold the moe factor in common (in my opinion, anyways.) Some of the popular titles have resurfaced here in the Western side in recent years as part of an internet-born aesthetic known most commonly as "animecore."

*I've only listed manga here. Some of these series originate as light novels, or their light novel counterparts predate the manga (if they're based on anime or games, for example.) In the case of multiple manga adaptations, I've only included the earliest published title.

**If you're not familiar with the concept of "moe" or would like to learn more about it, I also recommend reading these great books on it:
https://archive.org/details/otakuencyclopedi0000galb
https://archive.org/details/moemanifestoinsi0000galb

Manga in my plan-to-read 400-499 chapters