THE PROMISED NEVERLAND WRITTEN BY Kaiu Shirai for weekly shonen jump
;At first look at the cover art for this series this manga looks like a typical shonen adventure series about positivity filled with coming of ages slice of life content and comedy. Read the first chapter of this series and you will notice how wrong you actually are. The promised Neverland is the darkest thing to come out of weekly shonen jump since the chimera ant arc in hunterxhunter. What is the promised Neverland you ask well the promised Neverland is a magna about children under the age of 16 in a orphanage with a loving caring mother figure and how they find out everything they thought they knew about there life was a complete lie. In reality there basically farm animals groomed to be Mensa levels of intelligence and when they come as age there sold as meat for demons who enjoy the taste of brains from the absolute smartest children, and that loving mother figure is a sadistic survivor doing whatever she has to do to survive grooming these kids with a false sense of hope to personally hand them over to there deaths. Yes this isn't your typical shonen magna, but theres another twist. You might asked what can be more shocking then the premise of this whole manga well by this premise you might think this is a horror manga and you would be wrong. The first part of the promised never land is on the same lines of another series that by the initial premises before reading you might think is a horror manga then after reading it you find it to be a phycological thriller focused on the mind games of genius's trying the outwit each other i.e death note. The children find out the truth about there seemingly perfect lies by actually seeing a demon scoop up a child who they tried to give her stuffed rabbit back to after they believe she's being adopted, then plan there escape. They have to keep all there plans secret from the "mother" who is on to them and it becomes a phycological cat and mouse game between the kids trying to escape and the "mother" trying to make sure the next shipment of children doesn't get interrupted. the second half of the manga as of now is on the lines of a adventure novel after they escape focusing on how they survive and adapt to the new world witch there the only humans in and try to follow clues left by a mysterious man to a human safe haven in a different dimension. This is one of the very few manga I have ever read that has delivered week after week and week after week each chapter end sin a cliff hanger that leaves you screaming and feinding for more.
JAGAAAAAAAAN WRITTEN BY KANESHIRO Muneyuki for big comic spirits
This might be one of the most disturbing most graphic most wtf magna I have read in a long time especially the first 20+ chapters before the tone of this magna goes from a complete horror seinen series to some weird gross out super sentii style series about grossly disfigured half humans that have been taken over by parasitic demon like frogs that team up to take on humans completely taken over by these parasitic demon frogs one who which is a mentally unstable stalker series rapist who as soon as he sticks his tongue into a female they immediately wanna have sex with him. This series starts out with the main character Shintaro Jagasaki who is a cop with the mind of a school shooter, he pictures in his head mass murdering everyone he arrest and pictures murdering his own finance, in a normal magna you would view someone like this as the ultimate villain in this series he is actually the hero. One day his arm gets taken over by some parasitic demon frog but is able to somehow stop it before completely turning him over turning his hand into a weapon and those criminals and civilians he wants to murder so bad well they end up getting completely taken over by these parasitic demon frogs and its up to jagasaki to kill them to safe the day turning his eager desire to kill everyone in sight into something positive in the blink of a eye. This magna is a mindfuck with some of the most disturbing scenes I've seen in magna since berserk and Gants. Also this magna is extremely intriguing and has me waiting each week to see where this magna goes
PLATINUM END WRITTEN BY TSUGUMI OHBA FOR JUMP SQ
If you were a author how would you follow up one of the most commercially successful while critically acclaimed and beloved series of the past decade that also had a completely original plotline that hasn't been seen in anywhere else before?? for death note author tsunami ohba he took a few concepts from some popular magna series (future diary and his own death note) and put them into one concept. Platinum end starts off with suicidal high school student Mirai Kakehashi who tries to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of his school only to be rescued by a angel, yes a actual angel since in this reality angels safe suicide victims and put them in a last man standing battle Royale with 13 other suicidal people all equipped with magic arrows to decide who will become GOD AFTER GOD RETIRES IN 999 DAYS. Only in Japan would of concept like this even exist and yet it works so well. The only thing I don't like about this manga is that its a monthly release so the pacing is extremely slow since you get only one chapter a month and its just a prolonged chapter in the same situation instead of progressing more than one story lines in a chapter but overall this is a amazing series that I highly recommend
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