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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

More or less short manga reads in my PTR

A selection of titles from the gekiga scene, a short-lived yet influential artistic movement that flourished during the 1960s to the 1970s and maintains a prominent underground presence today. While mostly known as a pioneer of cinematic paneling and close attention to realism, it would be more accurate to consider gekiga as a counterculture. Surrealistic, autobiographical, and experimental works emerged as an alternative to the Tezuka school of aesthetics and paved the way for other artists to different modes of expression.

This is in NO WAY a comprehensive list and should be treated more as a starting point for diving into this movement. There are so many more important artists and titles in the scene that MAL unfortunately does not have entries for, and probably never will. Since I can't speak Japanese, there may also be some titles that I am unfamiliar with. The 50-title limit doesn't help either, but I hope this gets you started in this often-unexplored side of manga.

Note: Not all of these titles are available in English.
11/04/2022 Updated to include more underground artists.

If you enjoyed this interest stack and want to learn more about gekiga, feel free to check these other outlets:
The MAL Gekiga Club
Taniguchi Scanlations
Habanero Scans
Illuminati-Manga
Hox Scanlations
Stinky Scans
Ryan Holmberg's translations
Star Fruit Books
Glacier Bay Books
Koenji Shawn Reviews
The Comics Journal
Breakdown Press
Drawn and Quarterly
New York Review Comics
AX Volume 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga

The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.

(Source: Wikipedia)

A collection of great manga between 2 and 5 volumes that you can read in a single day !

The reason I have not included 1 volume manga is because I have made a separate stack for them : https://myanimelist.net/stacks/2090

Manga which feature subject-matters that would conventionally be considered "boring". There are some distinct subsets in this list.

Manga that has been translated and published in Norwegian

These manga's can most likely be found in your local bookstore, like Bokli or Ark. You can also order online from Outland and other sites.

It might be possible to find it in your local library as well.

Jiro Taniguchi was a Japanese mangaka. He was born in Tottori. His stories deal with universal themes as the beauty of nature, devotion to family, and/or return to childhood.

Jiro Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. In France he was knighted a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.

Died: February 11, 2017

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/ratings-manga.php?top50=best_bayesian&n=150

Many manga were published in Brazil, i chose a few for this list.

I plan on reading 100 manga in one month. Manga I will read are on this lists.
First try: part 1&2
Second try: part 3&4

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/22728
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/22729
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/24269

Mangá² podcast recommendations (#050-#099)
Recomendações do podcast Mangá² (#050-#099)

It is hard to pick a manga to read.

PM for suggestions.

List of manga/manhwas published by the Brazilian publisher Pipoca & Nanquim.

Note: Junji Ito's manga published by Pipoca & Nanquim follow the Japanese edition "Masterpiece Collection", which puts the author's main works in order. However, Myanimelist doesn't follow the same order, which makes selecting the correct mangas for the list very confusing. Therefore, only some of Ito's manga are listed, while the rest of the manga, along with other manga that are not available on the MAL website, will be described with the name used in the Masterpiece Collection.

Obs.: Os mangás de Junji Ito publicados pela Pipoca & Nanquim seguem a edição japonesa "Masterpiece Collection", a qual põe em ordem os principais trabalhos do autor. No entanto, o Myanimelist não segue a mesma ordem, o que torna muito confuso selecionar os mangás corretos para a lista. Portanto, apenas alguns mangás do Ito estão listados, enquanto o restante dos mangás, juntamente a outros mangás que não estão disponíveis no site do MAL, vão estar descritos com o nome utilizado na Masterpiece Collection.

Non listed on MyAnimeList:
➣ Dogs (Keum Suk Gendry-Kim) ➡︎ after "Yume no Hashibashi"
➣ Dassouhei no Iru - Masterpiece Collection 5 (Junji Itou) ➡︎ after "Panorama Toukitan"
➣ Umeku Haisuikan - Masterpiece Collection 8 (Junji Itou) ➡︎ after "Shin Kubidai Hikiukenin"
➣ Rojiura - Masterpiece Collection 6 (Junji Itou) ➡︎ after "Vampire"
➣ Bohyou no Machi - Masterpiece Collection 9 (Junji Itou) ➡︎ after "Kogarashi Monjirou"
➣ Kubi no Nai Choukoku - Masterpiece Collection 7 (Junuji Itou) ➡︎ after "Miyamoto Musashi"
➣ The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions [art book] (Junji Itou) ➡︎ after "Genkai Shitai"
➣ Mugen no Shiro no Princess (Shintaro Kago) ➡︎ after "Battle Royale"