Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria
The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria

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- A mix of philosophical, mystery and action stories

Are you tired of the usual light novel experience full of generic tropes and unispired writing? Here are some books that are entertaining to read through and through.

Focus on deceiving, outwitting your opponents, and psychological warfare.

So we all know the mystery genre tag is freaking bloated and stuff with stuff that isnt really mystery
so i thought ill make a list that filters most of the stuff out like i did for horror
Only 1 Series per franchise

Blending sci-fi, supernatural, and fantasy, they are unconventional stories that transcend the boundaries of space and time. The dominant feelings are rather melancholic and gloomy.

Most scored manga with no anime adaptation or announced

We've all experienced that frustrated feeling of enjoying a manga/LN, only to find out that it has a horrible, rushed, incomplete, unsatisfying ending. Here is a list of manga/LNs with endings that are so fulfilling and complete that they will leave you with nothing but a heart full of contentment and/or bittersweetness. List was created through collective data from multiple websites of people's answers as to what shows are considered to have satisfying endings.

As you know, there are several manga and light novels which, for some reason or another, it is impossible for them to have an animated adaptation, but in that case, they could break it on social networks, so I decided to create this "stack", mentioning some of them. If I have time, I'll update it.

Here are some old but gold, Romcom filled with many good memories

Based on this video: https://youtu.be/YP82g6jsCnw
Kinda of an old video I know, but it is a list of titles that deserve to be remembered(just like the title states!).

I asked ChatGPT for the top 50 best light novels, here is what I got (couldnt write "top 50 light novel" in title as it wouldnt let me post it public)

Denpa, drug abuse, psychological abuse, schizophrenia, depression, loneliness, anxiety, suicidal, manipulative characters, all kinds of mental issues and problems. You find them here
can consist a little bit of romance, horror, mystery, and thriller

ASANO INIO, OSHIMI SHUUZUO, SUGARU MIAKI...
Excluded, if you don't know them, go read them ffs why are you even here
focusing on "non-mainstream" mangas or mangakas

btw loving a depressed mc doesn't make you one

These are the best rated "manga" on MAL by chapter count, starting with 1 chapter, then 2 chapters, then 3, and so on, all the way up to 50 chapters. "Manga" is in quotations because it actually includes anything - manga, manhwa, manhua, novels, light novels, one-shots, etc.

If people are interested, I'll make a part 2 showcasing the best manga with 1-50 volumes or best manga with chapters 51-100, or the best for each type, e.g., best manga, best manhwa, etc.

Ranked by order of when they first got a spot in the top 10 (or were scored above a 9). Description will have the day they first entered along with the rank they attained and what score, along with the highest rank and score it attained. Note: The highest score isn't necessarily the score it had when it had the peak rank.

Found with the Wayback Machine. MAL didn't always have manga; the earliest crawl on the archive is on July 13, 2007.

Some things worth noting: In the span of 16 years, only four manga have had the #1 spot, with the lion's share of the time holding the title belonging to Berserk. Berserk has been in the top 10 since day one and has not left it once. One Piece and Fullmetal Alchemist have also spent the majority of the time in the top 10, however they were pushed out temporarily a few times.

There used to be rankings for Original English Language (OEL) manga, or western comics mimicking the style of a manga. All OELs were pruned from the database in 2016, likely due to them being difficult to define.

Light novels and non-light novels used to be rolled into one Top Novels section, however they split them up in early 2021.

While the Doujinshi tab has been there since 2008, a few years ago all of the doujins that were parodies of other series were removed, leaving just original hentai and BL works and scant few other entries. RIP to the days of the top doujins tab being half Naruto x Sasuke fanworks.

Of the 47 series on this list, 12 don't have an anime adaptation (though Battle Royale has both a live action and a manga adaptation), 15 have an incomplete one with little hope of receiving a continuation/remake, 9 that are currently being animated (including the Rurouni Kenshin remake), 8 with completed adaptations and the remaining 3 are manga adaptations of anime. I'm counting Jojo Part 7 as not having one since there's been no announcement yet (though it's only inevitable for it to be animated) and Nausicaa and Akira as incomplete despite their respective movies technically reaching the end of the source material due to how much they left out. Also worth noting that Fruits Basket and Fullmetal Alchemist initially had incomplete adaptations that were later remade into complete ones, along with Rurouni Kenshin, whose remake is currently being animated.

Of the 47 titles on this list, 11 are currently unfinished/still in publication. This is including Vagabond, which is officially on hiatus and will likely never receive a proper ending, and not including Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Rurouni Kenshin, which are still being published through The Jojolands and The Hokkaido Arc, but are still their own separate series.

This list, but for anime: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35061

(from romcom to drama romance there is everthing)

List of light novels and novels that are published in polish language.
Random order.

Top 50 highest scores ever reached on MAL (Manga)

Source: Wayback Machine

Anime: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/44849
Manga: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/44862

HM:
- Kino no Tabi
- Twelve Kingdoms
- Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou desu yo?
- Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
- Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?