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Silence, concrete and confusion used as weapons. Half the time I do not know what is happening, and annoyingly that is exactly why I want to keep going.

Great fashion chaos, weak long-form story. Worth it for the drawings more than the plot architecture.

The classic question — what would you do if you could go back? — handled with Taniguchi's usual emotional precision and weaponised nostalgia.

A 200mph existential chainsaw accident: masterpiece-level chaos in Part 1, then thematically rich but narratively exhausting fraudulence in Part 2. Respectfully, what the hell.

Chaotic, loud, stupid in a way that is clearly doing push-ups. Still reading, still deciding how much of the nonsense is genius.

Trash, class rage and absolutely ridiculous design work. The characters are so loud and defined they almost bully the plot into becoming serious.

The literal definition of opening your mind, unfortunately. A brilliant, ugly trip into perception, trauma and how the brain edits reality for survival.

Kill Bill before Kill Bill: a revenge story that sparks, cuts, freezes and disappears. Too insane to be credible, too stylish not to work.

The best worldbuilding machine in manga: pirates, geopolitics, racism, religion, extinction, friendship and rubber nonsense somehow living in the same ridiculous boat.

If you survive the early hentai cosplay, it turns into a strangely deep story about loneliness, desire and young people failing to grow up on schedule.

Spirals, body horror, people turning into snails, and Junji Ito proving that one simple shape can ruin an entire town's mental health.

Big mythological nonsense in the best possible way. Messy, loud, confident and weirdly satisfying.