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Attack on Titan (2012)
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For the big, decade-spanning mystery, start behind the walls with Eren and his friends. The setup looks like a siege story about humans and giants, but the most gripping question is what the people inside those walls have been told about the world.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2018)
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Tanjiro's search for a way to restore his sister Nezuko gives a sprawling demon hunt one simple purpose. If you know the anime, read the manga for the quick transitions between the siblings' quiet moments and fights, and for the way each new demon tests Tanjiro's empathy.
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My Hero Academia (2015)
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A school for superheroes gave this decade a new way to talk about inherited power. Midoriya starts as one of the few people without a Quirk, and his education stays interesting because knowing how to use power well is a separate skill from having it.
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Haikyu!! (2016)
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Short on height and long on spring, Hinata makes you see the volleyball court in terms of timing and positioning. Read it for the feeling of learning a team game a rally at a time. The contest for the next point is usually interesting even before you understand the whole rotation.
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Tokyo Ghoul (2015)
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College student Ken Kaneki becomes part ghoul and has to learn the rules of the society he used to fear. Read it for the discomfort of seeing both sides of the same city through somebody who has a reason to hide from both.
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One-Punch Man (2015)
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Start with ONE and Yusuke Murata's manga version. Saitama can finish almost any fight immediately, so the joke becomes whether he can find a reason to care about winning. It's a good companion to My Hero Academia if you want to see the decade's appetite for superheroes turn into satire.
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The Promised Neverland (2017)
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The children at Grace Field House have to plan an escape while maintaining the appearance that everything is fine. The opening volumes are an especially good choice for readers who like suspense built from watching who trusts whom.
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Golden Kamuy (2017)
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A coded map, a cache of gold, and Ainu guide Asirpa send a Japanese war veteran into Hokkaido. The hunt makes room for comedy and practical details about how people eat and travel there. Try it when you want an adventure whose setting dictates what the characters can do.
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Land of the Lustrous (2017)
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Phosphophyllite lives among gems fighting the Lunarians. Give the spare black-and-white pages time. The sense that a body can be broken and remade makes the action an unusually good way into a story about what survives when a person changes.
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Witch Hat Atelier (2019)
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Coco learns that magic is drawn, which makes each spell a small piece of design you can look at and try to understand. Pick this up for the way the drawings let you share in her discovery, and for the sharper question of who gets to learn a craft that powerful.
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2018)
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Two excellent students want the other to confess first. The longer they try to engineer a confession, the easier it is to see how much simpler honesty would be. This is the decade's big school-romance pick for readers who enjoy miniature battles of strategy.
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A Silent Voice (2015)
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Shoya used to bully his deaf classmate Shoko and tries to make amends years later. Read this if you're looking for a school drama in which apologizing is the start of figuring out how to live with other people, with room for awkwardness long after the obvious thing has been said.
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Delicious in Dungeon (2017)
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A rescue party needs to eat its way through a dungeon. Once you see a monster as dinner, you start wondering what it eats and where it came from. That curiosity makes the setting feel like a place people can live in as well as a gauntlet for adventurers.
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Jujutsu Kaisen (2019)
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The sorcerers who deal with cursed spirits are the reason to pick this up if you enjoy a fight with rules you can puzzle over. The threat of Sukuna makes it feel like the people trying to protect everybody are sharing space with the very danger they're trying to contain.
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Chainsaw Man (2020)
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Denji starts out hunting devils to pay off debt, and his deal with Pochita hardly makes for a conventional superhero origin. The blunt comedy and abrupt violence are part of the rhythm. Try it if you've read a lot of action manga and want a lead whose basic wants seem strange only because other heroes are promised so much.
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Spy x Family (2020)
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An undercover assignment requires a spy to assemble a family. The premise keeps the stakes legible even when its characters are lying to each other: an ordinary success at home can mean something different to every person in the room.
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Goodnight Punpun (2016)
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This is the decade's pick for a demanding coming-of-age read. Punpun's oddly simple birdlike appearance stands out among the drawn people around him, giving you room to recognize his confusion before you decide what to make of his choices.
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Dr. Stone (2018)
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Humanity has turned to stone, and Senku's answer is to start rebuilding. The hook is the joy of seeing an idea become something useful with the materials at hand. Read it when you want a long adventure driven by practical problems that build on each other.
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Assassination Classroom (2015)
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A class has to stop the teacher who threatens Earth, and he keeps turning out to be good at teaching. The pleasure is watching a gag that seems suited to a single chapter become a story about a class discovering what it's capable of.
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Yona of the Dawn (2016)
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Princess Yona loses the protected life she knows and has to discover what kind of leader she can be away from the palace. The long view is part of the appeal. If you usually reach for action manga first, this is a way into a fantasy where allegiance and relationships determine what strength is worth.
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Mob Psycho 100 (2018)
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For another side of ONE's comedy, try the timid psychic who does exorcisms for a boss with no powers of his own. The rule that Shigeo's emotions can climb to 100 gives the story a countdown, and it makes small social pressures matter as much as the ghosts.
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