Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu
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Mangá² podcast recommendations (#001-#050)

Works in which the main character has suffered the loss of their spouse. No spoilers.

Collecting manga can be really hard on wallets and the average right-to-left reader. So whether or not you want some short reads or something for your collection that will be easy on your bank account, here is a selection of underappreciated short series to explore your horizons with!

This will contain mostly one and two volume stories, but maximum English volume length will be three to four volumes. Official and COMPLETE English physicals must be available, so this stack will not have partially translated manga like many of TokyoPop's releases, nor digital-only releases like THE COMIQ (please still read that one though!). Most of these should be standalone titles and should be readily available even on the secondhand market.


WORK IN PROGRESS: I will add descriptions later.


Disclaimer: I am a big fan of the fantasy genre and the shoujo demographic. I will try to put all series of all kinds of tags, demographics, and topics here, but it should be expected to see my bias. I apologize in advance.



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This stack contains licensed titles that have been OUT OF PRINT and series that apply will be indicated as such. This means it is near impossible to find these new without destroying your wallet, but there is still a chance in the ever-growing secondhand market! To find these older, hard-to-find series, I recommend the following sites:
https://www.abebooks.com/
https://www.alibris.com/
https://www.biblio.com/

BookFinder is also a huge help with searching for listings with bargain prices! To get the best results, look up the ISBN for English prints of series and copy-paste them into the search.
https://www.bookfinder.com/

Manga that were published under the Shojo Beat/Shojo imprint by Viz Media.

Just a list of the one-shot or single omnibus releases in English of Shojo and Josei stories. Companies include Viz, Vertical Comics, Yen Press, Seven seas, Denpa, Kodansha, Fantagraphics, Star Fruit Books, Dark Horse, Digital Manga Publishing, and ADV manga. There are several that Tokyopop licensed as one-shots or single omnibi, but I ran out of room so I didn't include them on this list.

*I ran out of room to include these works:
- Kodansha's Is Love the Answer?/Kimi no Sekai ni Koi wa Nai which is 1 volume (https://myanimelist.net/manga/143738/Kimi_no_Sekai_ni_Koi_wa_Nai)
- Kodansha's "An Older Guy's VR First Love"/VR Ojisan no Hatsukoi (https://myanimelist.net/manga/142033/VR_Ojisan_no_Hatsukoi)
- Last Gasp's "Pure Trance" (https://myanimelist.net/manga/1359/Pure_Trance)
- Moyoco Anno's "In Clothes Called Fat" (https://myanimelist.net/manga/13881/Shibou_to_Iu_Na_no_Fuku_wo_Kite?q=in%20clothes%20called%20fat&cat=manga)