talking about all the manga I read in december '24 and why you should maybe check 'em out.
Last year, I decided on a whim that I would stop keeping up with so many ongoing manga and instead check out short, niche stories from less well-known authors. It was a pretty good idea all things considered. What I failed to consider is that I am chronically addicted to turning relaxing ideas into productivity grinds, and here we are now. I read 20 manga altogether. From a variety of authors, styles, genre and demographic. Some were frankly, exceptional. Some quite good. Most were pretty mediocre. The rest... well, we will talk about. Also important to preface that while most of what I read was via me falling down different author and recommendation rabbit holes on anilist. A fair few were also thanks to the wonderful folks over at Lovely Strange Dark , a translation group who, as they put it aptly "...scanlate obscure works, mainly josei, shoujo, and seinen, which are lovely, strange, or dark. Or all three." Also sho...