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Critics & Connoisseurs was a club that was founded in 2008 and ended club activities on the 31st of 2022.

The goal of the club was to come up with a list of highly recommended quality shows and manga that are exemplary either within its genre or universally. A manga needed a 70% approval rate in our voting to get on the relation list. The following manga are all part of said list.
Do note that our club's main focus always was anime, our club's readership was relatively low which results in a lot of manga not being able to reach enough votes to get on the relation list despite having a 70% or higher approval rate.

You can see the club page here:
https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=2913

Anime Relation List Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/324
Anime Relation List Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/328

Mangas featuring otakus as main characters

These will make you laugh super bad. 100% guarantee it.

Just a list of what in my opinion is the pinnacle of the medium. No particular order.

As the title says, sometimes the story behind the making of a manga can be more exciting than the manga itself. The manga in this article show us what is going on in the creator’s head when they make these stories for us.

Manga that Fujimoto Tatsuki (Chainsaw Man author) mentioned in the Magazine Switch. Could be taken as recommendations.

Source:
https://twitter.com/D_Kumii/status/1558092439843323905?s=20&t=u-wRqduf0CCoqLYCvUPH5Q

*edit 14/10/2023
+ Chaos Game (source: https://twitter.com/D_Kumii/status/1594721901129105408)
+ Ichinose-ke no Taizai (source: https://x.com/chainsawmannews/status/1592556512043765760?s=20)
+ School Back (source: https://twitter.com/Wsstalkback/status/1653273099800915968)
+ Spunk (https://x.com/nagayama_koharu/status/1715663209762541976?s=20)
(06/10/24)
+ Centuria (https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1841856268861919497)
+ Tower Dungeon (https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1768964164238598151)
+ The Hundred Ghost Stories that led to my Death (https://x.com/nagayama_koharu/status/1678817508898512896)



Shoutout to PomPomPossum's stack, you might want to check it out if you're a fan of Fujimoto!
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/19547

Part 1 : https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15026

Must-read manga mostly demographed as Seinen but also contains other good mangas that are not published in any Seinen magazine but are definitely suited for an older/adult audience.

All these mangas are a good read in my opinion, ofcourse this includes ones that I consider top-tier and personal favorites but the others - if not amazing, are definitely worth reading at least once.

Characters who are overweight, are seen as fat, or are very plump.

Anime Planet Tag: https://www.anime-planet.com/characters/tags/overweight

Manga Update Tag: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?category=Fat%20Female%20Lead ; https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?category=Fat+Male+Lead


NOT LISTED ON MAL
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A Pudgy Girl's Love [Satomi] *
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/z7goj1c/a-pudgy-girl-s-love

Borrowed Beauty [Elise]
https://www.anime-planet.com/manga/borrowed-beauty

Childhood Friend [Shouta] *
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/yc1ytgl/childhood-friend-jiro-rin

His Highness, Don't Leave! I Will Lose Weight for You! [Han Fei]
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/lwqxryi/his-highness-don-t-leave-i-will-lose-weight-for-you

Koi no Kiseki [Taeko]
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/kcngpza/koi-no-kiseki

My Chubby Princess [Mu Wushuang]
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/yxevrcd/my-chubby-princess

My Pudgy Coworker Is a Snack [Fukuyama] *
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/ktg2gqu/manmaru-douki-ni-kuwaretai

Out-Girl's Proposal
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/x3xyxgm/out-girl-s-proposal

Tell Me It's Real [Paul AUSTER]
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/28cln1j/tell-me-it-s-real

-----------OVER 50 MANGA-----------
Eyeshield 21 -- [Ryokan KURITA]
Tejina-senpai -- [Masashi]
Steins;Gate -- [Itaru HASHIDA]

Manga that has been mentioned by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man, Fire Punch). Most of the stuff here was found on his Twitter, but a few are from interviews.

Part 2 Here: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/19611
Part 3 Here: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/53585

Some things aren't on this list, such as:
- 101st Prologue by Hanachika Tooyama (１０１回目のプロローグ - 遠山花近)
- A Little Closer to The Sun Than I by Eris Sino (僕より少し太陽に近い - 詩野エリス)
- A Studio Ghibli Story by Toshio Suzuki (スタジオジブリ物語 - 鈴木敏夫)
- Ark by Haruo Yuki (方舟 - 夕木春央)
- Art of Alice: Madness Returns
- David in Love (恋するダビデ)
- Empty People by Kouya Yoshikawa (空虚な人たち - 吉川皓也さん)
- Frankenstein's Man by Rikazu Kawashima
- Green Premonitions by Midori Chiba (緑の予感たち)
- Hellboy
- "The Blue Dress" from "I Heard This Story" - Takashi Atoda (こんな話を聞いた - 阿刀田 高)
- Iiyone! Yonezawa Sensei by Jigoku no Misawa
- Inheruno
- No Deduction, No Detective? by Masamune Masaki (ＮＯ推理、ＮＯ探偵? - 柾木政宗)
- Pink Candy by Nishida Sou (ピンクのキャンディー - 西田荘)
- ROCA: Kikkawaroka Story Live by Hisaichi Ishii
- Room with Books by Nishida Sou (本がある部屋 - 西田荘)
- Satsubatsu Sekai
- Shitai ga Kataru
- Smoke Where There is no Fire by Hiroshi Ashizawa (火のないところに煙は - 芦沢 央)
- The Immortal Mizar by Yomori Toru (不朽のミザール - 暗森透)
- The Nighthawk Star by Kenji Miyazawa
- The Adventures of Drumkanna

- Enaga Takabatake's manga
- Hideki Arai's manga
- Taiboku's manga (たいぼく)
- Takao Yaguchi's autobiographical manga
- Yoko Kuno's short story in Comic Beam's March 2023 issue

- A gl he recommended on his alt account - I don't remember it sorry (iykyk)
- https://twitter.com/nagayama_koharu/status/829177667073118210?s=20&t=eRVCbvgxOgRJOoyJKzg4iw

- Akai Ito (Game)
- Bomberman (Game)
- Digimon (Game)
- Final Fantasy (Series)
- Genius Bit-kun (Game)
- Mario (Game)
- Pokemon (Game)
- Puyo Puyo (Game)
- Sugar Rush Online (Wreck-It Ralph game?)
- Uno (Game)

- Anpanman (Character)
- Hatsune Miku (Character)
- Bananaman (Comedy Duo)

Personal manga collection of voice actor/youtuber SungWon Cho.

Original video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRt81fIw47Q
Posted May 5, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-kIwtMGs3I
Posted September 7, 2023

The Girl That Can't Get a Girlfriend
https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/the-girl-that-cant-get-a-girlfriend/list?title_no=408161

Mangas featuring college students

Only manga concluded as of creation

Mangas featuring cosplayers as main characters

A list of manga recommendations by the youtuber Bayfond. There is a playlist in his channel compiling the videos where he makes these recommendations and the order displayed in that playlist is the one being taken into account here, I'll try to keep this list updated to his future uploads. https://www.youtube.com/@bayfond/featured (link to his channel)

part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/43551

(Willing) cross-dressing/gender non-conforming/drag queen/drag king characters that are not canonically transgender in manga. (I did include some debatably trans characters/characters that are sometimes tagged as trans.)

Anime version:
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/53553


Not on MAL (yet):

Dansou Joshi to Josou Danshi ga Kekonshimashita
Agaru Yamada (cross-dressing woman) (protagonist)
Anzu (cross-dressing man) (main)

Wagahai wa "Otoko no Ko" de aru!
Nanami Igarashi (cross-dressing man) (protagonist)