One Volume Manga Recommendations

I decide to take a look at some of my favourite manga that was released in English in one volume.
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[@peterstrianus1790]

I read most of these and they are all impressive and deep. Thank you!

[@Immortallium]

Thanks!

[@zalmanlivshiz]

Been following you on KZbin for years and years, your doing great work and you have a distinct opinion that is criminally under-appreciated, salute

[@Immortallium]

Thanks! That means a lot to me to hear that!

[@reef6826]

Honestly with the legal ways to read digital manga now days, if your a mew collector going for these short and sweet mangas is the way to go, you can have a small but refined collection.

[@Immortallium]

I've definitely heard that some people prefer to collect really long series digitally and collect shorter manga physically.

[@unattain4773]

@@Immortallium This is exactly how i collect. Loved the video. Look forward to more from you on the topic of one volume manga!

[@virtual_self]

​@@Immortalliumlike I do!

[@trejosam00]

There are a lot of very good one volume series and sadly it seems most don't get an english translation. As you said english publishers go for long running series which I'm guessing are more profitable for them.

[@Immortallium]

It's probably more consistent for them money-wise. It's nice to have something consistently making you money compared to a one-off. Still, I'd like to see more one volume manga released in the future as they are very satisfying.

[@ArchAngelManga]

Ooh cool video. I agree with a lot of these and need to pick up others. I have some recommendations below: 1. A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Moto Hagio) i believe this is getting a reprint 2. Time Killers 3. The Box Man 4. Giganto Maxia 5. The Ice Wanderer

[@Immortallium]

Thanks m8! Oh! I need to pick up Drunken Dreams! Thanks for letting me know! Thanks for the other recommendations as well!

[@geckonator4268]

This is such a great video!!! Most of these type of videos recommend the same thing over and over, all of these mangas were so fresh for me, even though I've read 100+ series, I'll definitely add these to my plan to read and plan to collect list right away. Also, keep up the great work man :Dd this video deserves a sub from me!

[@Immortallium]

Glad to hear! I'm happy that my recommendations were helpful to you! Thanks and let me know your thoughts on any of these manga if you end up reading them!

[@spongebobsquarepants4576]

Great recs, thank you!

[@Immortallium]

Anything for my favourite sponge!

[@frzera04]

This is so helpful. Thank you!

[@Immortallium]

Always happy to hear that!

[@KalleVilenius]

I recently picked up Jiro Taniguchi's A Distant Neighborhood in a nice hardcover volume. It's pretty great, apart from being flipped. It's odd to see a flipped manga released in this day and age.

[@Immortallium]

I need to start picking up Jiro Taniguchi series at some point. Have heard nothing but great things about his work.

[@user-yi5mt2df5q]

That's my favourite manga. I hope you enjoy it.

[@kmsomebody]

My favorite 1-volume manga of what you haven't mentioned, so excluding "Ayako" and "A Drifting Life": 1. "Tomoji" by Jiro Taniguchi - (German release. There is no English release yet.) 2. "Hare Yuku Sora" by Jiro Taniguchi - (German release. There is no English release yet.) 3. "not simple" by Natsume Ono 4. "Solanin" by Inio Asano 5. "K" - by Jiro Taniguchi - (German release. There is no English release yet.) 6. "The Quest for the Missing Girl" by Jiro Taniguchi 7. "Sky Hawk" by Jiro Taniguchi 8. "A Distant Neighborhood" by Jiro Taniguchi 9. "The Man Without Talent" by Yoshiharu Tsuge - (German release, which has twice as much content as the English release. I think the English release contains the better half though, but not sure.) 10. "H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories" by Gou Tanabe About Jiro Taniguchi... well, I guess the list speaks for itself.

[@Immortallium]

Those are some great choices! I've read Solanin myself and enjoyed it quite a bit. Haven't read the others although some of them are in my wishlist since I've been meaning to read Natsume Ono and Jiro Taniguchi for years now!

[@mr.pothosswag8396]

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[@phildom08phil77]

A drifting life is a masterpiece. Thanks for your recommendations. Kind regards from Switzerland. 🙂

[@Immortallium]

Glad to hear and thanks for watching!

[@northlakeghost]

Loved these - thank you!

[@Immortallium]

Always awesome to hear!

[@Obitus89]

Many good pieces that i didn't even ever heard about and even most of them are my genre. I am glad for your recommendations.

[@Immortallium]

Glad you enjoyed the video and that I could help!

[@NZAnimeManga]

Hey man, long time no see - hope you're doing well! Apologies for being such a prat in the past - looking back I was immature and often pig-headed. Great to see that you're still making such excellent manga content! Ichi-F sounds right up my alley (with my background in Nuclear Physics), thanks for the recommendation! Totally agreed on your thoughts on Pink and Ayako - I second those recommendations wholeheartedly. Great stories with engrossing characters. Ayako is one of my favourites from Tezuka.

[@Immortallium]

No probs man. Thanks! Oh! That sounds perfect then! I think you'd get even more out of it than I would then! Thanks for commenting!

[@cyberrider1765]

I read Ichi-F. Outstanding!!! For me was a long read because it is a bit heavy for me. Loads of informations in it! So good

[@Immortallium]

Glad to hear that you enjoyed it! Yeah, there's a lot of text but very informative.

[@cyberrider1765]

@@Immortallium I was looking at the Italian version as well after reading it in English (I'm Italian) and i could not find it, so i wrote to Kazuto Tatsuta and proposed him to translate the book for free and he told me that it has been obviously translated. I wanted to dig myself in sand so deep that i would not come up anymore! So embarrassing lols

[@Immortallium]

@@cyberrider1765 Haha! At least he could tell you were passionate! Also quite cool that he responded!

[@cyberrider1765]

@@Immortallium i deleted my comment after. So embarrased

[@ashram12]

I'm responding to your comment about Pink's artwork. I know you didn't say anything bad about it, but I just want to point out that the quality of artwork is dependent on how much time the artist has to draw, the amount of people drawing the manga and the skill of these people. For a series like Naruto, which has a huge readership and therefore makes money, an artist can afford to hire more artists to help him crank out 15 pages weekly with decent art. I don't think a josei artist has the financial means to hire enough helpers to polish the drawings. Of course, some mangakas are clearly more talented at drawing than others, but time and monetary constraints does affect how the drawings are going to look. So all I'm saying is that people shouldn't ignore a manga just because of the art style.

[@Immortallium]

I get what you mean. As I said, I actually do like the art but I think I was acting a little defensively since a lot of people I've met only want the standard manga art style and nothing different.

[@ashram12]

@@Immortallium I didn't mean to criticize your comment, and I know what you mean about people wanting just "standard" manga artwork, that's partly why I wrote my initial comment: people should be more open-minded about art. I'm very picky about art as well, however, when it comes to comics and manga, the most important thing is the story. I've read many great manga which are poorly drawn, and I think it's great that the mangaka didn't let poor art get in the way of telling their story.

[@Immortallium]

It's fine. I rewatched that section to see how I phrased it and I could kinda get what you meant. Yeah, that's true. I'm trying to remember who said it but I remember a quote, this was with regards to anime but it applies just as well to manga, that said something like that a good story with bad animation can still enthrall you but a bad story with great animation has little to redeem it. Wish I could remember who said it and what the actual quote was but I think it holds true.

[@candyman02]

Hey bro new to the channel, this is the first video I've seen from you, just wanna say I really enjoyed this video and hearing you speak and the diversity of recommendations you shared, more manga recommendation videos please

[@Immortallium]

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the video! I'll take a look and consider making more recommendation videos.

[@jacomohodnik7161]

Another very interesting Kyoto Okazaki (author of Pink) manga is Helter skelter. Is a very dark and interesting one volume josei. Worth your time!

[@Immortallium]

I've read that one. I liked it but not as much as Pink. Still, thanks for the recommendation!

[@tareg234]

I have not read any of these manga other than Azumanga which is one of the best slice of life anime for me. I am excited to read the rest of the manga since they are short.

[@Immortallium]

Awesome to hear that you're excited to read them! Let me know if you read any of them and what you think!

[@MrThehero4ever]

Your recommendation is quite Unique and with a good taste. Can you Give us some Relatively Small Run (5 to 15 vol maybe) Manga recommendation Next?

[@Immortallium]

That's a great idea! Thanks!

[@NukaColaLight]

Great recommandation, thanks.

[@Immortallium]

Awesome! Glad you liked it!

[@privilegedchromosome]

Great video! Subscribed!

[@ar22008]

great vid!

[@Immortallium]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@chrisreadingcorner3816]

Great video. Some good suggestions there. I have so far read all you need is kill, solanin, a girl on the shore and I have downfall on my read list

[@Immortallium]

Thanks! I've been meaning to read A Girl on the Shore. What did you think of it?

[@chrisreadingcorner3816]

@@Immortallium I really enjoyed it more than I thought I would but I can see it being problematic for some readers. It is similar to utsobura in the sexual part of the manga. It as the issue of the characters beingunderage. Although reading it I imagined them being 15/16 rather than the age I think they are supposed to be. I guess it depends what you get offended with and can take from it. Overall I would say I liked it as much as Solanin. I hope that helps

[@Immortallium]

It was published in the same manga magazine as Utsubora "Manga Erotics F" so it doesn't surprise me that it has that kind of content. Thanks for letting me know!

[@Tom-qo4mz]

have you read/seen sazan and comet girl? and if so would you recommend? its relatively recent (published in english in 2020, originally between 2015 - 18) but has an 80s/early 90s ish art style but in colour. it looks cool and want to check it out

[@Immortallium]

I haven't. Thanks for the recommendation!

[@Tom-qo4mz]

@@Immortallium if you get round to reading it i'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on it. thanks for the videos been enjoying them since coming across the channel the other night 👍

[@pinkinthenight4075]

just purchased called fat in clothes! thank u for the reccs!

[@Immortallium]

Awesome! Let me know what you think of it!

[@mollyraywestbrook9793]

mind spelling out that last one? I really want to see if I can track it down.

[@Immortallium]

If you're referring to Ayako then there you go. If not, all of the titles are listed in the description so you can get the spellings there. Thanks for watching!

[@mollyraywestbrook9793]

@@Immortallium yes I am thank you very much

[@Howls-mar]

Do you know of any romance short manga lie 1-3 volumes long?

[@Immortallium]

I took a look at my MAL to remind me and I see a few that might work. I.O.N is the first manga from Arina Tanemura and is only a single volume long. From what I remember it's a little rough in quality but it's still worth reading. There's also Mistress Fortune from the same author which is a single volume as well. Kisses, Sighs and Cherry Blossom Pink is a good Yuri series from Milk Morinaga. I think it pales compared to Girl Friends from her but it's still good. The Heart of Thomas is a shonen-ai classic but it might be out of print. Hope this helps.

[@Howls-mar]

@@Immortallium ty i will def take a look to see if i will add them to my Christmas list

[@bxquette_7550]

One piece the name already says it.......

[@Immortallium]

I'd love to see a one volume release of One Piece in the same vein as the one volume release of Death Note. Could you imagine how unwieldy that would be!

[@bxquette_7550]

@@Immortallium Do mean the one volume of Death note like the collosal version like Full metal alchemist has or smth else?

[@Immortallium]

@@bxquette_7550 Yeah, I'm referring to the one volume release of Death Note. I can't imagine the paper quality can be that good when you're trying to shove 12 volumes into one. Maybe I'm wrong though. It's just a funny image of a publisher saying "We gotta get 100 volumes of One Piece into one book. How do we do that?!"

[@bxquette_7550]

@@Immortallium Im kinda new to manga btu I have watched alot of anime (like one piece and Deathnote) I even have the full black edition of death note. Im looking for some manga to get on Black Friday rn I wanna get Otome Mania, A silent voice, New World, Dragon ball The time I got reincarnated as Yamcha, and Solo Leveling. But I haven't watched Dragon Ball so do I want to read the Dragon ball manga / watch the anime first or does it not matter?

[@Immortallium]

@@bxquette_7550 Those black editions of Death Note look nice. I'm not the biggest Dragon Ball fan so I can only tell you what I've experienced. I've watched the Dragon Ball anime series and really enjoyed it at the beginning when it was more comedic. I lost interest as it shifted over to being an action series so I've only watched a bit of Dragon Ball Z. The manga will get you the version of the story without filler, something I've heard plagued Dragon Ball Z but I think there's a Kai series that strips the filler out so I'd say either the manga or Kai works. However, as I said before, I'm not the biggest Dragon Ball fan and I'd recommend that you check out some other KZbinrs to find out more about the differences between the manga and the anime. Hope that helps.