Tengoku ni Musubu Koi

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A selection of titles from the gekiga scene, a short-lived yet influential artistic movement that flourished during the 1960s to the 1970s and maintains a prominent underground presence today. While mostly known as a pioneer of cinematic paneling and close attention to realism, it would be more accurate to consider gekiga as a counterculture. Surrealistic, autobiographical, and experimental works emerged as an alternative to the Tezuka school of aesthetics and paved the way for other artists to different modes of expression.

This is in NO WAY a comprehensive list and should be treated more as a starting point for diving into this movement. There are so many more important artists and titles in the scene that MAL unfortunately does not have entries for, and probably never will. Since I can't speak Japanese, there may also be some titles that I am unfamiliar with. The 50-title limit doesn't help either, but I hope this gets you started in this often-unexplored side of manga.

Note: Not all of these titles are available in English.
11/04/2022 Updated to include more underground artists.

If you enjoyed this interest stack and want to learn more about gekiga, feel free to check these other outlets:
The MAL Gekiga Club
Taniguchi Scanlations
Habanero Scans
Illuminati-Manga
Hox Scanlations
Stinky Scans
Ryan Holmberg's translations
Star Fruit Books
Glacier Bay Books
Koenji Shawn Reviews
The Comics Journal
Breakdown Press
Drawn and Quarterly
New York Review Comics
AX Volume 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga

Compiled some manga I enjoyed under 5000 members. This is subject to change If it blows up so I will u are interested in them, please check out the Author's other works!

If you are running dry check my profile for more; sort via tags ;0

- Weebookey

Tags: Niche, Underground, Underrated, Alternative, Unknown

Come one, come all- under the manga big top! Happy trapeze artists to martial artist acrobats to dark freak shows, it is all in here.

Yo besties, I've been having a challenge of reading short manga.
so I thought of creating interest stacks for this challenge.
Some of the manga I've listed in the challenge aren't in MAL so I will list them in the description.
Each set (currently there are 15, and it continues) has 49 entries, and the manga vary in genres and popularity.
All of the manga are 1-5 volumes long, and I would love to see other people participating in this challenge!
(All of these should be scanlated, except for a few)

Manga in this set not listed in MAL:
Shitsurakuen (Daijirou Morohoshi)
Bibliomania
Tetsu to Ken
Mission-chan no Daiboku

Next set: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34663

Horror is the most consistent genre for social commentary. This Manga Stack aims to highlight series that focus on the darker side of womanhood, either angled from that of power and gendered dynamics, and mutual abuse of them; eventual self destruction surrounding relationships, lust or sexuality; or the aestheticism of beauty and the pursuit of the freedom it gives. This one is quite similar to my "Psychosexual Girl's of Manga" stack however do note there are some distinctions to be made, especially regarding introspection of the female mind here.

"I think that writing about women goes hand in hand with horror writing. The female body is a nexus of pain almost by design, but it is also potentially monstrous—an object traditionally subjugated, both for its presumed weakness and its perceived threat."

A list primarily inspired by Angelica Jade Bastién on Letterboxd.

**some of these are rough placements and I will need to reread.



Not on MAL (some are NSFW):
- https://anilist.co/manga/181275/Haru-no-Yokihi-ni/