best and worst manga of 2022

[@megan2661]

Kimi Ni Todoke was one of my favorites I read this year too! You’re so right about the friendships and characters being amazing. I think my favorite ended up Ayane, but each every character was handled with so much care, I can’t help but love them all. I’m currently trying to collect every volume now but it’s a STRUGGLE, unfortunately that’s how it collecting most shojo beat series right now. Although reprint are finally coming, I just got a shipping notification from rightstuf for a few of my back ordered Kimi Ni Todoke volumes.

[@tsukkinotes]

yes!! even though kurumi was my least favorite character i couldn't deny her charm and would love to see her sequel story printed in english ,, really hoping the reprint trend continues!! it was a long journey for me to collect all the volumes but i would never wish that on anyone lol

[@zombiee01]

Alot of people say they like Love Me Love Me Not more than her other work but I absolutely love Ao Haru Ride. I didn't like the ending for Love Me Love Me Not. I was waiting for the moment when the couple that I was rooting for, be together, and when they did, she moved away and then time skipped. She comes back and THE END!! No dates for them, no nothing!! I wanted a few chapters focusing on them being together, being a couple. To me, it was disappointing.

[@antonio9456]

SAME

[@tsukkinotes]

glad i saved myself more frustration dropping it in the middle lol but ya ... sucks that the ending wasn't satisfying, i felt dumb buying all the volumes in good faith but you win some and you lose some

[@animefanatic33]

Ao Haru Ride was good but I found myself enjoying Storbe Edge a lot more. Just food for thought

[@angelinaciara4480]

@@animefanatic33 omg yesss strobe edge is so underrated. Love ao haru ride but strobe edge really surprised me :)

[@purplefrogYT]

Another wonderful video as always! I love watching these types of videos! It is so fun to hear other’s thoughts and opinions on various series! I really need to check out kimi ni todoke in 2023!

[@tsukkinotes]

glad you enjoyed!

[@tonireadsmanga]

Your ‘worst’ lists are so much more thought out than mine, I just said I didn’t like them over and over again haha. I could have made a ‘most disappointing’ list and some of those series might have shocked some people (My Love Story, Ragna Crimson, Frieren, etc). Anyway, I should try to read Yotsuba next year since it’s so well-loved.

[@tsukkinotes]

i always feel like i have to justify myself 10 times over when talking about series i didn't enjoy lol, it also saves me the anxiety of having to give a detailed explanations to every WHAT YOU DIDN'T LIKE THIS???? comment,, but you should read yotsuba!! really adorable and a perfect relaxing read imo

[@LarsEspen]

really? i think frieren is really good, but that's my opinion lol

[@tonireadsmanga]

@@LarsEspen Yeah I haven’t found a single other person who shares my opinion yet lol

[@LarsEspen]

@@tonireadsmanga Haha

[@noom1732]

Have you tried Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life? It’s about members of a Koto club in a high school who are all working on the same goal to compete nationally. The friendships and characters are so well-depicted in this manga. All the characters are so lovable, including members in other high school that they compete with, teachers, each's family members. There are at least three ships in the manga so far. I recommend you to read the volumes first then watch the anime so you can listen to the soundtrack of the koto songs. (I’m glad you like Kimi in todoke, this one is on my next year tbr, and I’m excited to try it!)

[@zombiee01]

I absolutely love this series! It's soooo good!! But it sucks that there is no physical English release yet. I pray pray for it to be released soon!

[@tsukkinotes]

i'm really hoping it gets published physically!! the anime has been on my list for a while now, seems exactly up my alley

[@ghastlyworms]

I love hearing your manga reviews, especially the GLs!

[@tsukkinotes]

glad you enjoyed!

[@LiterallyGraphic]

I'm giving Yatsuba a second try tomorrow. I tried to pick it up a few years ago when my need & tolerance for cuteness was much lower. I think I'm in a much better place to enjoy it now. I keep thinking about re-reading MARS (it was one of the first manga I read many many years ago) but I keep procrastinating as the only way to read it is on KU. Blank Canvas was so very interesting. I actually felt like it gave me some further context for MARS as well in retrospect.

[@tsukkinotes]

hope you enjoy yotsuba the second time around!! it won't be for everyone but the cute slice of life stuff is my favorite lol

[@elizabethmcfadden3615]

Skip and Loafer is definitely a favorite manga I got into this year as well as Yona of the Dawn, but I’ve been reading a lot of webtoons too! I’m very much a beginner when it comes to BL but On or Off was a huge surprise that stole my heart, Doctor Elise was really cute with great art and Death is the Only Ending Fit for the Villainess continued to be peak isekai webtoon for me

[@elizabethmcfadden3615]

@@amandak.4246 yes! I think I have a habit of calling it the title it had before it got picked up for physical release. It is so good though, I hope your library keeps stocking it up because it gets really good imo, glad you liked it! :)

[@tsukkinotes]

thanks for the recommendations! and i am planning to properly get into yona in the new year! just waiting on some more reprints before i do

[@SeRenee.01]

Got back into reading manga recently and I’ve been loving Skip & Loafer, Blue Period, Witch Hat Atelier, and My Love Mix Up. Also, with how much you recommend Dr Stone, I picked up vol 1 & 2 and can’t wait to read them!

[@tsukkinotes]

all great picks!! blue period might end up on my 2023 list since i have a ton of volumes to catch up with,, witch hat was a contender though for this year, the series is so good

[@xxopxxfan54]

I prefer Strobe Edge over Ao Haru Ride as I think some of the troupes Sakisaka tends to use reads a little better in Strobe Edge. Admittely cause it's a bit of a lighter take on some of the plotlines that Ao Haru Ride uses. I think I'm in the minority who has this preference but I would also say it may be due to me reading them in close proxomity to each other so that would be my only recommendation if you do decide to pick both or one of these series up, read the other after a while! I hope you do get into Sakisaka's works, she has such a charming style plus I don't believe her other series run into the issue that you flagged in Love Me Love Me Not. Also yey Skip and Loafer was another series I really enjoyed this year, I also finally got back into Seinen and enjoyed Monster hugely (which also inspired me to start collecting physicals). I also enjoyed revisiting a favourite shoujo of mine which is "My Lv 999 Love for Yamada-kun" and getting into "Dadadan".

[@tsukkinotes]

thanks for the insight!! nice, i also enjoyed monster this year,, and my lv 999 is getting an anime next year right? sounds super interesting so hopefully they print it physically!

[@animefanatic33]

I enjoyed Storbe Edge a lot more! It’s my favorite out of the mangaka’s works

[@rise.dmonkey8001]

Really need to start reading Mars!Love hearing your honest opinion.

[@tsukkinotes]

hope you enjoy!! really good imo

[@bug4459]

Aaah omg i LOVE yotsuba-my first manga iv'e ever read and it has such a place in my heart

[@tsukkinotes]

yes!!! so glad i read it last year, such a gem

[@eeveepkmnfan]

Salutations! Ahhh I'm excited for this video!! I love hearing people rank and tier things,, You've finally convinced me to try reading Skip and Loafer! It sounds cute, and I tend to really enjoy slice of life stuff! I'll have to give it a try. 👀 Crimson Hero sounded like something I'd like until you talked about how aggressive the love interests were. :( Shame to hear. I haven't read Waiting for Spring either, but maybe I'll try that one instead! Hmm, Mars seems interesting. Thank you for the recommendation! It's nice to go back and read an older series now and then! Thank you for another great video!! Looking forward to the next one uwu. :D

[@tsukkinotes]

glad you enjoyed! and please do,, i feel like i'm the number one skip and loafer but it is so good,, waiting for spring was just really boring imo, one of the boys is also pretty pushy in that love triangle but not to the level of the boys in crimson hero

[@_..Henry.._]

you need to try goodbye my rose garden the only girls love I read but its really good 🤩

[@tsukkinotes]

that's one i keep hearing good things about!! next time i see it in stock i'll get it

[@ri1570]

no youre so right abt there not being enough gl manga printed in English. the ones that they do have never meets expectations i guess but again maybe that's bc I'm a sapphic so i could just be based like you said 😭

[@tsukkinotes]

ya idk TT i was thinking about it but the fact that there is a publisher focused on bl but there's no gl one ....

[@ri1570]

@@tsukkinotes YES this too!! it's really sad tbh. it makes them way harder to find too. i have to look up recommendation videos or ask around to find gl rather than bl literally being marked most of the time bc of the publisher. it just sucks :[

[@tanveer8115]

I love that you like dr.stone and thanks to you I got into manga a long time ago

[@tsukkinotes]

it's so good!! glad you're enjoying

[@J17891]

I didn’t even get to the very weird parts of Sweet Blue Flowers but I couldn’t get into it after a few chapters. Glad I checked it out from the library. I don’t feel a pull to finish it.

[@tsukkinotes]

ya definitely not something i would recommend lol i'm glad i also reread it from the library

[@ellythehuman9304]

Happy New Year! On reread, I was much more neutral about Love Me, Love Me Not lol. My top two completed series was Kitchen Princess & Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts. I ended up enjoying them more than I thought I would. I ended up dropping Monster & Chainsaw Man because they couldn't hold my attention and I didn't care to continue 😅

[@tsukkinotes]

happy new year! and nice!! i've been hearing a lot of good things about sacrificial king lately,, i enjoyed csm and monster but i totally see the negatives to both series

[@azeciala]

i recall you mentioning abt tamen de gushi in the past, if you like that i highly rec “the guy she was interested in wasn’t a guy at all”-rlly cute and funny as well! :D

[@tsukkinotes]

yes i LOVE tamen de gushi,, thank you for the recommendation!

[@Christina-Apple]

Too bad strobe edge is out of stock (I’m afraid it might not be reprinted but who knows). BUT it’s definitely io sakisaka’s best work imo and she tackles its themes in a more meaningful way

[@tsukkinotes]

thanks for the insight! i am definitely willing to give some of her other works a shot

[@azurereloaded]

happy new year, tsukki! i read so much good manga this year but yona of the dawn is, predictably, my pick for the best one i read this year! i'm up to date with the japanese chapters and the current events are WILD.

[@tsukkinotes]

happy new year! and yona is one i hope to get into properly in the new year! just waiting on a couple more reprints

[@thekatlife]

i dropped love me, love me not for similar reasons 😅 same for waiting for spring, the love triangle annoyed me even though I'm ok w/ the love triangle trope sometimes

[@tsukkinotes]

glad to know i'm not alone lol, waiting for spring was just boring for me and then some uncomfortable age gap stuff near the end really soured my feelings about it, i believe i had it on my worst completed from last year

[@antonio9456]

I love when you make those kind of videos lol

[@tsukkinotes]

glad you enjoyed!

[@spoonflaps12]

I felt the same way about 20th Century Boys as you did with Pluto. Maybe if it was half the length or had fewer characters, I would have enjoyed it more. I read Wandering Son this year. The middle school arc was great, but the high school (in other words, the last few volumes) were really dull. Bit of a shame...

[@tsukkinotes]

i know what you mean with 20th century boys, the middle would have been a good stopping place but at that point i really did care about the characters and was invested enough to not mind the later half and kind of just okay ending,, idk why i got so annoyed over pluto though lol ,, good to hear wandering son (or at least part of it) still holds up, makes me feel better about rereading the series sometime soon

[@Killerqueen2000]

@@tsukkinotes 20th cb might still be my fave urasawa work cuz the story and mystery is so fun but I do think Monster is his most consistent work. I did like pluto tho lol. Still want to read Billy Bat. I hear from some ppl that they think it's his more underrated work compared to the rest. not sure if u read it or not

[@manga_mia_]

I couldn't really get into love me love me not either even though I'd consider myself an io sakisaka fan. This might be controversial but my fav series from her is actually Strobe Edge. It has a certain delicateness that I adore and I feel like the characters really grew. I really liked ao haru ride but it kinda lost me in the last third or so. I wasn't a fan of the "love triangle" and the story meandered a bit.

[@tsukkinotes]

thanks for the insights! may pick up strobe edge if they ever reprint it

[@noom1732]

My best manga of this year is Kono Oto Tomare vol 26! I cried for so many scenes in this volume! My worst is a Sign of Affection, I do not like the male protagonist in this manga, and their relationship development at the beginning was too quick in my opinion, it was hard for me to immerse in the story. I think I’m going to try Kimi in Todoke and Blank Canvas next year, thank you for the recommendations!

[@tsukkinotes]

interesting,, i love a sign of affection but i will agree that the male lead is not my favorite, the college setting and sign language aspects really do it for me though,, and hope you enjoy if you end up trying those out!

[@sejcai]

i wanna collect manga so bad but i’ve literally never read an english volume so idk if i’d like them in english 😭😭😭

[@tsukkinotes]

i think most english translations are pretty good if that's what you mean?

[@mumtahinachowdhury4214]

Love me, Love me not annoyed the hell out of me in first few volumes. I couldn’t even tolerate any of the characters because all seems to be a mess and in a very odd situation which was really annoying. However after vol 7 (even in vol 7) there were some super cute moments but overall It's not worth investing in. So I just kept the vols where i felt some moments were super cute and made me laugh since maybe only these are the ones i might look back when i am in mood for some dose of cuteness.

[@tsukkinotes]

ya i agree ... the beginning was way too messy that i was never able to get properly invested in the story/characters :/ i don't regret dropping the series

[@gregww]

How Do We Relationship is a really good GL that I recommend for 2023 if you haven't already read it!

[@tsukkinotes]

i'm reading it!! one of the few good adult gl i've read, super unique imo

[@asianmerr]

I need to get back on Kimi Ni Todoke, loved season 1, the characters are amazing, Ryu Supremacy 🙏 Best read of the year: Blue Box (digital) and surprisingly enough Mashle or Blue Lock (physical) Worst read: Out Blood Oath (digital) and Fire Punch (physical) Side Note: Loved/Hated Tokyo Revengers manga (the binge was amazing but when I caught up to it the weekly read was hell)

[@tsukkinotes]

nice nice, i paused on blue box after the physicals got announced so excited to get past where i've read eventually! mashle was also enjoyable, waiting for my library to get more volumes though

[@Killerqueen2000]

Ok so I've only read Pluto from everything u mentioned but I enjoy hearing you talk about your reasoning for all the best and worst XD Especially the worst ones, you were very clear on what u didnt like and why haha. A lot are what I don't like either such as the pedo thing, incest, the sudden switch ups that make no sense for character's actions, spoon fed themes. no thanks 😂 Crimson hero just sounds like Chihayafuru but not as good. The character dynamics in Chihaya are really good.. Aye that last one sounds wild🤣definitely not my thing but I'm sure there are actual ppl like this that exist.

[@tsukkinotes]

i definitely feel the need to over explain why i didn't like something so the fans won't attack me but it is kinda fun to give my negative opinions sometimes,, and i need to get back on chihayafuru for sure ... forever hoping for english physicals

[@Killerqueen2000]

@@tsukkinotes there would be peeps that would still attack regardless🤣 but I'll be backing u up😤 and yeah rather be honest than fake it. I love hearing negative opinions as much as postive ones lol. having positive opinions about everything just aint realistic or how life works. keep up the genuine you, thats why I was drawn to ur channel ^ ^

[@yuukata1698]

The thing about Love Me Love Me Not is that , its the weakest out of all the works from the manga I'll give you that but here , she focused more on the topics that she likes to tackle ( which were also in her previous works , but weren't handled well I guess ) so the romance feels flat in my opinion where in her previous works the romance parts were great . This is just my opinion cuz Ao Haru Ride's one of my fav shoujo manga and I'm so sorry if I explained this poorly .

[@tsukkinotes]

ah i see so the romance is better in her other works while some other themes or aspects are better in love me love me not? thanks for the insight!

[@Killerqueen2000]

I don't read enough manga as I would like but my best manga of this year has to be Daiya, Baby Steps (ended up having to read written translations on reddit paired with the manga raws💀), Vinland, Blue Period. Basically all the series I already like lol. Also started reading part 8 Jojo and it's starting to pick up! Jojo is always a ton of ridiculous fun.

[@tsukkinotes]

nice! all series i enjoy (i'm anime only for jojos though)

[@Killerqueen2000]

@@tsukkinotes This year I've mostly been disinterested in most animanga so it's been great to still continue to read the ones I love the most. Most of the ones I could binge were sports ofc ;) Yes, I saw all your story archives haha. Always funny seeing ppl react to all the bizarre things happening😂 thats so interesting how u watched jojo instead of reading. and ik u don't like horror but Jojo honestly is more horrifying than most horror series lol. So i guess it's not a turn off for you.

[@bizarreindividual4026]

Great video!!! Still need to do mine! ❤❤❤

[@tsukkinotes]

thank you! can't wait to see your list

[@hitorinyan]

have you read my happy marriage? i think you'll like it a lot ^^

[@tsukkinotes]

i haven't but thank you for the recommendation!

[@hitorinyan]

@@tsukkinotes no problem! there are only 2 volumes so far in eng, vol. 2 is just going to release next week and vol 3 by may

[@danielalancasey]

I didn't love Pluto either. I thought it had some really cool sci-fi world building elements, but the actual plot was not very satisfying.

[@tsukkinotes]

glad to know i'm not the only one

[@frenchtoastchopsticksmanga5792]

Have you tried Donuts Under a Crescent Moon?

[@tsukkinotes]

yes!! one of the best adult gl i've read ... but that's not really saying much lol

[@Mangaotakaprince]

As someone who reads a lot of explicit manga, I hate meaningless sex scenes or way to much of it without any purpose to it , so i would probably drop our teachers are dating for that reason as well.

[@tsukkinotes]

ya our teachers are dating is weird, it's like they couldn't commit to being an 18+ series or a fluffy romance so it just fell flat in a weird middle zone

[@Mangaotakaprince]

@@tsukkinotes With a better structure and a lot less sex, it could of been a good series in my opinion.

[@psychicbonds4793]

the way you described that last one is just so horrible. bith sound toxi in their own ways tbh and if it is a biograpy, both should split

[@tsukkinotes]

ya idk TT it was not good imo and i feel really bad if it was an autobiography