Recs if you like Skip and Loafer, Vol. 1...

Manga isn't just for kids! These are titles intended for more mature audiences, including my personal recs and influential, well-known and bestselling titles that are available in English. Whether it's frank discussions of mental illness, abuse, LGBTQIA+ issues, violence, sexuality, horror or dark fantasy, these are manga that either originally ran in seinen (young adult men) or josei (young adult women) magazines, or I've otherwise broadly categorized through research as "not for for kids."

THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION LIST. Inclusion on this list doesn't necessarily mean the rep "worked" for me (as an agender person). There's just so little manga with non-cis characters that this list is literally everything I was able to think of that I've read and meets this criteria. Therefore your mileage may vary on how you feel about the rep contained in them.

I encourage folks to suggest more titles so I can add them! And so I can read them, lmao.

A list with good romance and good vibes, no trigger warnings

There’s a lot of Japanese manga for every type of reader to pick up if you love fantasy 🪄, sports ⚽️, romance 💘, cats 🐱, fanservice 💋, action 💥 or horror 😱. Look here and explore!

these are some of the mangas i’ve found to be Must Reads. more so, i want a community of people who have read those and are interested in talking about it. 🫶

for all my manga lovers

books that make you yearn for the high school sweetheart you've never had

Shoujo's that made my heart skip a beat...