Oh, this is interesting. Among this list I've read Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, Orange, and Yotsubato! I feel like I should  be reading more as the thread maker xD Though I do recognize a lot of the manga listed here as being really good and popular.

The main manga I follow now isn't even on the list though : S I thought before it was fairly popular.

By Love Hina, you mean the old one by Ken? (Of course there's only one Love Hina, haha...) That's going way back old school, haha. I remember watching the anime, which was pretty good. What made you decide to go back and read that?

The other manga you mentioned sounds like pretty heavy stuff, but interesting. I'm not very good with nudity though.... @_@

Well now, I too have a new manga I picked up recently. I think it's an interesting read at least...

Anyways, it's called Criminale! and it's about a boy who is a criminal magnet. All his life he's been attracted by criminals from robbery, kidnapping, shootings, and probably plenty more you can think of (He gets casually flashed in one chapter as well xD ) He gets transfered into a new school and he has high hopes of making new friends and just having a normal life. However, he somehow ends up in a class full of criminals each with their own signature crime. And it mostly follows how his life goes befriending the people in his weird class, learning about them, and surviving the crazy things that happens in the middle.

I think it's pretty funny, good and clean over all.... except for one character who raises the bar quite a bit to mature material (with some nudity), but it's tied to one character, and thus not so bad.

Also, I am biased now since it has my favorite type of character design xD Anyways, so there's something new from me...

Mmm Tokyo ghoul doing some pretty sweet numbers! Thanks to the anime, it got really popular.

Bleach below Gintama? Not good...but Gintama anime helps boost sales quite a bit while bleach anime ended a few years back. Once the last arc gets Animated, it should pick up some steam :)

Jojo is also showing some versatility for a 30 year old Manga :D thanks to that sweet anime adaptation no doubt.

My buddy keeps telling me to read haikyuu, might do it. He says it's basically kuroko with volleyball xD

Haven't commented in here in a while...but I just read Fairy Tail and I'm pretty upset....and need to vent.

Gajeel's death scene...part of me is thinking...oh it's Fairy Tail, he'll be back by the end of the arc. This manga is the epitome of shounen asspulls, he'll be back and everyone will be happy.

The problem is...I've read Hiro's first manga, Rave Master, already...and a very similar scene happens there with a former villain. The character gives up her life to keep her loved one happy, comments on all her guilt, and thinks about forming a family with the one she's sacrificing herself for. I really really want to hope that Hiro is trolling for tension...but after what happened in RM...I'm pretty worried that I just saw an actual main character death.

We'll see...maybe this will be resolved somehow. And if it isn't...maybe the manga will seem stronger as a result. Still...for now...I'm pretty mad about this development. Gajeel was my favorite character for a long time, and Gajevy one of my top 3 pairings.   

Seven Deadly Sins was also pretty sad this week...but it seems like nothing after FT. I might comment on it when I'm less upset.

Same. I'm pretty upset as well.

Gajeel is my favorite character and his pairing with Levy has always been my favorite. But I do think this is for the best, fairy tail needed an actual main character death. Am I pissed off? You better believe I am, but I can accept it. If they DO bring him back, I'll be extremely happy though and my ship can continue to sail with no worries. Also, Mest blew it in the end whe he used Brandish to attack the old man. I've never liked him and this just makes me hate him more.

Besides a lot of the fights being terrible, one of the main reasons I quit Fairy Tail was because of the Ultear situation and her fate.  Pissed me the hell off.  It was like the author tried to make the whole thing as bloody cliched as possible.  I was furious.  Yes, she was one of my favorite characters, but I still would have been annoyed over such an obvious trope no matter what.  The whole thing with the former villain having to suffer in order to gain redemption is so incredibly cheap and lazy.  More than that, it was ALL SO NATSU COULD GET THE FUCKING CREDIT.  I mean, the way it was handled was just like, "oh, she used to be bad, so this is inevitable."  Seriously, the mangka of Fairy Tail is good at certain things but when it comes to actually writing, I consider them to be a hack.

Is that so about Tokyo Ghoul? I thought it was just overall popular. I had some friends tell me it was great and recommended to me o:

Jojo was quite popular where I lived in Japan, but that could be because the manga artist was from that city, so maybe it was part of their pride in living there, haha.

And yeah, Haikyuu was quite popular. A lot of my students had goods of it. It took over after Kuro Basuke ended xD

Yeah, I hate having to drop manga I get into, but sometimes it just happens with some manga. Something goes astray with some, and I just fall out of them. I used to read some like Medeka Box and Yandere Kanojo, but something happened with those manga and I just... dropped them. I wonder if it's just me or if the manga is losing the charm it once had. I dunno... There's likely some more I dropped because I just lost interest.

Yeah, usually if I'm not enjoying a manga after 2 or 3 volumes, I tend to stop buying those, though that makes for some weird incomplete sets in my collection xD

I can definitely see it being necessary...it just really sucks to see it happen. I'm still not over it! I'll see what happens and figure it out from there I guess.

And yes, Mest is a freaking idiot. Seriously what the hell. Now I get why he tagged along so randomly.

I feel like I'm really hot/cold about Fairy Tail. I love the characters, setting, humor, and artstyle...but when it comes to actual story flow, it's pretty forgettable. Things often just happen for the sake of happening, and this instance give me that same impression. It really annoys me after catching up on One Piece, which has pretty much become my gold standard for adventure manga. The way Oda sets up plotlines 500 chapters in advance is a real far cry to sudden death scenes like this one, where we might have had one chapter of foreshadowing it. Very few things bother me more than forced character death for its own sake.

I don't mind redemption stories, but I do feel like Hiro overdoes it. Jellal still is punished for Simon's death, Ultear had to be removed from the story due to being bad, and even Laxus is still beating himself up over his attack on Magnolia. I think these type of scenes can add character depth...I just wish they would actually move past the angst at some point and stop suffering forever. 

I suppose...if I had to put things in perspective, this whole mess is nowhere near as bad as Naruto was for me. I had a lot of issues with that manga before I dropped it, but the straw that broke the camel's back was when a major character was literally killed off out of nowhere just to give the MC a scene with the main love interest. It was contrived, forced, and just plain awful honestly.