Questions tagged [manga]
Manga refers explicitly to printed comics in a specific style originating in (but not exclusive to) Japan. Although science fiction and fantasy manga is on-topic, the Anime & Manga Stack Exchange site may be able to provide more expertise
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Educational Manga [on hold]
I remember, in kindergarten to first grade (late 2000s or early 2010s), reading a kids' comic book from the public library.
I think it featured some sort of gray-haired mad scientist who somehow ...
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Manga about a girl being able to see through animals' eyes and control them, who solves a crime
I read this long ago but just now I had remembered it and thought about it.
I remember it was about a girl who was able to see through the eyes of animals. She does figure out she can’t do it with ...
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Manga about siblings moving to the countryside and a selfish God
I don't really remember much but I read this manga a year maybe two years ago.
It involves two siblings who are moving to the countryside (or mountains) to live with distant relatives (an older ...
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Romance manga where friends go back in time with keys to save a girl from her own suicide
I saw a romance and fiction manga one year ago and I can't remember the name of it.
It's about a girl that falls in love with her sisters' boyfriend and the story repeats because her friends go back ...
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Manga where two students are reincarnated in another world with magic and adventurers
This manga is about two students that died in an accident and are reincarnated in another world with magic and adventurers. The girl can wield magic of like 5 elements. I forgot about the guy, he can ...
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Fantasy manga/comic that had some themes of the Garden of Eden
I don't remember the character's looks too well, but I know the story. This was probably a web comic and I read this a really long time ago.
The main character was a little girl starting off in a ...
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Manga with an assassin with eyes that can kill
I'm trying to find a manga I've read before. It's about a pair of assassins/mercenaries/hired killers (by their company).
protagonist can kill someone just by looking at them
his partner's ...
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A martial art manga series about a samurai with animal's blood
I read this manga a long time ago (3 or 4 years I think), it's drawing style seemed to look like Vagabond.
There was explicit mature content in that series but the story & drawing style was ...
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Manga with a bat winged and horned boy chosen to pose as a prince
I read this manga a few years ago. It was read left to right, and was in English. I remember it being fairly entertaining and I’d love to find it!
All I remember is that there were two nations, one ...
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Manga about the son of a blacksmith, whose mother died
A few years ago I read this manga/manhua/webtoon about a boy who lived in a medieval era type setting with his father being a drunk blacksmith after his wife died, the son at the age of 12 goes to the ...
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Romantic manga with time-traveling police officer
The story is about a young woman, working as a police officer or something. She is in love with a fellow collegue.
While visiting her old high school she meets a wanted criminal. Said criminal was ...
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Manga about a stream of time which kills people who are immortal
So I read this manga years ago, back around 2009/10?
The main character, a girl who's a student gets whisked away by something, from what I remember it's a river of time. She's in the future(?) and ...
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Manga about woman marrying man from another tribe [closed]
I'm looking for a manga telling the story of a woman who travelled from a distant land to marry a man from a different tribe. I don't recall their names; but the man is 12–15 years old and the woman ...
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A Dragon Ball Z/GT fanfiction where characters are fighting in an interdimensional tournament
I remember reading some scanned materials on a website, which I believe were fanfiction because of how non-canon the story sounded. These scans were in French, though I don't know if it was translated ...
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Manga where a girl's “dream world” turns out to be real
The main storyline is, every time the girl (mc) goes to sleep, she ends up in another world. This world seems to be set in olden times, and at first she thinks it's just a dream, but certain events ...
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Manga about four people from middle school moving apart and then back again in high school [closed]
The manga was about four people that are in middle school; two of them were a guy and a girl who were childhood friends. The girl likes the boy but the boy doesn’t know and then the guy falls in love ...
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Looking for a manga about a high school student who wants to take over the world
The manga is about a guy in high school whose goal is to take over the world/rule it. He's basically a delinquent, though not like a genius or anything. I read the manga so long ago and I forgot this ...
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Horror Manga about an (web)app that ends up killing people
I read a manga about a female transfer student that befriends the most popular girl in class, a site on her phone appears and it asks which student would the person most like to die. Thinking that it ...
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Fantasy Manga about Main Character playing a building game
The main character plays a building game, he builds a city for years, and on that city there is a tower that he first built in that city. Then he got teleported into that city game, then he had a ...
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Comic/Manga from early 2000's: thief-like guy with a snarky fairy companion, accompanied by a female mage and a tank
It's been a long time since I've read it, so the details are a bit hazy. There might have even been an anime, but I honestly can't say. What I remember most is the beginning of it, because it stuck ...
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Manga where a girl travels back in time after the guy who liked her died
The guy would keep confessing to a girl who was his childhood friend and she would reject him until eventually she accepted, but she still didn't know if she liked him. Then he dies and she realizes ...
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Manga about a guy and a girl who meet on a ship and both love sci-fi stories
It's about a guy who meets a girl on a ship. Both of them love sci-fi stories.
The girl tells the guy a story which might be real or might be not. The story is about a girl who has memories since the ...
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Book I read when I was younger but now forgotten. Help!
I read a book (it was definitely a comic, possibly manga) about a girl whose parents die and she goes to live with her auntie and uncle. They are actually vampires (or witches). Her cousin is mean to ...
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Name this Anime or manga
I saw this anime a long time ago, and I forgot the name to it. It's about a guy who is a fairy and a girl. She admires the fairies who live on the floating island, she gets saved buy the fairy boy ...
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Sci-fi manga about a boy with an alien girl classmate
Two to three years ago, I was reading a very interesting sci-fi manga, but I dropped it and now I can't remember the name. It was not new when I read it, but I'm pretty sure it was released after 2000....
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Looking for name of manga novel of boy that found exosuit on dying alien and it has great power
I'm trying to find a novel I read when I was in middle school. It's a manga young adult novel, where a boy finds a dying alien in a crashed ship and has the alien's suit latch onto him. It only covers ...
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Manga where a succubus/vampire meets human guy
This is a manga that I just read recently, but forgot the title, where a succubus/vampire meets human guy.
I remember the ending, where the guy died because of the excessive energy being sucked by ...
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In Bleach, how do the shinigamis get their zanpakuto?
Each shinigami has a weapon (zanpakuto) and this is the way they release their own powers, but how do the shinigams acquire these objects?
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Transported to a game manga name
I'm trying to find the name of a manga in which the protagonist is a game designer who, while editing the game, gets sucked into it, and he has a game window in which he uses Meteor Shower to kill a ...
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Powers gained from making pacts with devas
I'm looking for a manga in which the main character gains wind powers after meeting a girl dancing on a bridge when he is standing there in the rain. The girl was called a deity ("Deva"), and during ...
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Manga with a god that sells dreams and a variety of god/animal characters
I read this manga recently but I completely forgot its name.
The main character was a cute medium straight brown haired girl who was very happy busy and optimistic. The male was kind of a god who ...
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Anime or manga with a girl who can draw the future.
I remember the anime/manga had a girl attending a high school and she's an artist. She gets some kind of magic hand and can draw the future. But the drawing is very obscure.
I remember her "falling" ...
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I need to find a manga about two brothers, one of whom is skilled with magic
This manga(?) is about two brothers. One is short and the other is tall. The short one is pretty skilled with magic and the other is pure force
They try to hide that they are strong and they are ...
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Webcomic / site identification
Not sure if this the right place to ask, bit here goes.
I'm trying to find a comic / manga site that I'm certain begins with a j. I'm also pretty sure the logo was a stylised fox, and I've seen ads ...
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Manga where a man in car accident body swaps with someone who committed suicide
It's about a guy who is bullied so he takes his life, and at the same time (I think) another guy is in a car accident and he ends up in the suicide victims body! He must live his life but he is a ...
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Manga about “war between nations, and special individuals with elemental tattoos”
Many years ago, I read a comic/graphic novel/manga, and the main theme was about war in a fantasy world (think of Final Fantasy, maybe). I believe the war was between multiple parties (i.e. more than ...
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Manga about a guy trapped in a video game and is looking for a way out
This must have been at least two years ago, but there was this one manga I was reading that I lost touch with and am trying to find again.
The story is the usual "guy is trapped in a video game and ...
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Manga about a girl helping souls in limbo
In the story a woman is in limbo as cake eating herself, a boy and girl go around redeeming lost souls turning them into angel, the boy dies and the girl tries healing him with a magic apple that a ...
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What is Motoko Kusanagi's nationality and ethnicity?
Ignoring the transhuman aspect of Major's prosthesis, was Motoko Kusanagi ever intended, in either the manga or anime, to be non-Japanese?
I'm asking due to the current #IAmMajor campaign being ...
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Diagnosis for Kaori in “Your lie in April”
The character Kaori in the "Your Lie in April" has an illness.
As far as I can tell, it is not stated what it is. Did I miss it?
Symptoms:
Some others have suggested that the diagnosis is a ...
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What happens if someone realizes that infinite Tsukuyomi is a dream, like Neo in The Matrix?
As we are shown in the anime and manga, all the people trapped in Infinite Tsukuyomi will become white Zetsu with the passage of time. How much time will it take to turn trapped people to white Zetsu?
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Can you get trapped in the Naruto dream world?
I know that when "Infinite Tsukuyomi" is cast, each and every person having chakra is trapped into a dream world.
What happens to them if the person who controls the dream dies?
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Why doesn't hamon/Ripple slow down Joseph Joestar's aging?
In Part II: Battle Tendencies of Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, the long-running manga series (and more relevantly to me, its ongoing anime adaptation of the same name) we learn that the martial arts ...
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Is Goku's power limited in Dragonball? [duplicate]
In the Dragonball series, Goku's power increases as he fights with his enemies. He becomes Super Saiyan, then Super Saiyan level 1 to Super Saiyan level 100. Is the power of Goku unlimited?
And was ...
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What is the difference between anime and manga? [closed]
I saw this discussed in the context of tags on meta, and surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be any authoritative-looking answer when I Googled aside from some forum threads which I don't know if I ...
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Why didn't the Third Hokage choose another successor after Minato died?
The Third Hokage wanted to retire so he (eventually) chose Minato as his successor and 4th Hokage.
However, not too long after that, Minato died, and the Third came out of retirement.
So, why didn't ...
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Why do manga characters love to eat a lot of food?
A common theme in Japanese cartoons (manga and anime) is having a protagonist that has a big appetite and the ability to eat a lot. We see examples of this in Dragonball and One Piece.
Historically, ...
