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Manga with dark fantasy world building. Stories set in a fantasy setting

Critics & Connoisseurs was a club that was founded in 2008 and ended club activities on the 31st of 2022.

The goal of the club was to come up with a list of highly recommended quality shows and manga that are exemplary either within its genre or universally. A manga needed a 70% approval rate in our voting to get on the relation list. The following manga are all part of said list.
Do note that our club's main focus always was anime, our club's readership was relatively low which results in a lot of manga not being able to reach enough votes to get on the relation list despite having a 70% or higher approval rate.

You can see the club page here:
https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=2913

Anime Relation List Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/324
Anime Relation List Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/328

Dark fantasy series that have a "gritty" feel to them.

When people try to explain why they love a manga so much, you might find the usual "I love the characters", "really like the art", "world building!!". Which, by no means is a bad thing, but an element of manga that is not very commonly talked about it panelling. It's very easy to confuse composition and panelling, but hopefully this list will help you experience the true beauty of how important panel structure is to maintain consistent flow whilst reading!

Panelling, Composition, Art and Negative Space are all taken into consideration when adding to this list. Enjoy!!

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Characters experience trauma which results in a lash of violence or psychological abuse and revenge, will these characters succeed in their revenge or will they forever struggle...?

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Also sometimes labelled as a splatter, the main focus of the manga is well the blood, guts and dismembered body parts. Shock is a key element of this genre. Movies such as the SAW series are famous for the difficult-to-watch torture sequences, but what a bout the manga? This list is compiled of some of the most gory manga I have seen that aren't pornographic.

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seinen manga that features serious themes and is not afraid to use things that make the reader uncomfortable

Sometimes, all I need is a fun group of friends having fun together to have a good time. Here are all the fun groups of friends that made me sad to say goodbye. All genres but leans heavily romance.

Worldbuilding - "the process of constructing a world, originally an imaginary one, sometimes associated with a fictional universe." These kinds of manga are usually set in a fantasy and/or sci-fi world, and excel at establishing & showcasing the rules/history/economy of their fictional universe. List was created through collective data from multiple websites of people's answers as to what manga are considered to have great world building.

Manga in which a tall lady is either a primary or important secondary character.

No giantess(es).



Let me know of any other manga I've missed.
Or not; you decide.

The Masked Man is an American YouTuber who makes videos primarily about manga, but also anime, and very occasionally video games. He does in-depth analysis on the subjects he talks about. Here is his top 50 manga.

NOTE:-
"Fata Morgana no Yakata: Anata no Hitomi wo Tozasu Monogatari" is not manga, its a Visual Novel.(https://vndb.org/v12402)
Consider this list from Beserk to OPM to be the actual manga list.

For part 2
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7241

Manga I found creative

At least one main character is a monster, a demon, an alien, a robot, a lovecraftian entity, a thoroughly animalistic demon, a straight up anthro, or whatever else there might be; merely 'humanoid' at best.

Manga that will take you in a wild ride

Not for the faint hearted. These are manga series that will put your physical and emotional endurance to test.