I don’t see anyone ever talking about Hellsing. Why I enjoy it, it’s edgelord but with a heart of gold. I love the factions that fight against each other in this secret war that involves the paranormal and vampires in modern day. It’s got guns and magic and the art is good.
Another one I like is Ragnarok (into the abyss is the english title). It’s a manwha by the korean artist behind the game with the same name. Again another little edgelord romp with a heart of gold, I see a pattern. Plus again I enjoy the art and it reminds me of old school 90’s anime schlock with katanas and magic powers that I fell in love with as a kid.
My favorite is Naoki Urasawa’s Monster
You get people talking about 21st Century Boys and Pluto, but Monster is just a roller-coaster of drama
The short version is that it follows an up-and-coming Japanese surgeon in Germany, next in line to become head of surgery at a prestigious hospital. His ethics are put to the test when two patients arrive with grievous injuries, the first is a young boy who’s been shot in the head and left for dead with the rest of his family, the second is the mayor who has an aneurysm on the verge of bursting
The doctor is warned that if he doesn’t operate on the mayor, his career is in jeopardy, but he knows that if he doesn’t operate on the boy he’s likely to die
He chooses the boy, the mayor ends up dying and his career is left in tatters. His fiancee dumps him, the other doctors ostracize him and he’s basically all but blacklisted.
In a drunken haze, he goes to the room of the boy who’s life he saved, hoping for a sign that he made the right choice, but the boy is still in a coma.
In a fit of rage, he curses the other doctors, wishing that they would suffer like he has.
The next day, he arrives for his shift at the hospital… and the other surgeons are dead, poisoned
After being interrogated and cleared, he returns to the hospital with the news that he’s now set to become the head of surgery
Life is finally looking back up, except the boy in the coma is missing and no one knows how
At least until the boy shows back up to tell the doctor exactly what happened.
The boy had killed his own family and poisoned the other doctors as a way of thanking him for saving his life, letting him go on to keep killing and getting away with it
The doctor is left devastated, he swore himself to the preservation of life, but now that’s been turned against him
He steels himself and swears to track down the boy by any means necessary, even if that means violating his deepest beliefs and killing him
This is only the first few chapters by-the-by and it escalates and gets even wilder and more intense
I love it so much
idk that monster counts as a deep cut, it’s definitely the urasawa i see people talk about the most. it’s obviously very good though
Been meaning to read monster, I watched a bit of the anime with a girlfriend of mine at the time, enjoyed it!
The anime is really good too, it’s actually one of the most straightforward adaptations I’ve ever seen
Almost 1:1 with the manga
Nice, like I said I enjoyed the anime so I don’t see why I wouldn’t for the manga.
Same