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    Radiant - Vol. 5 Ch. 30 - The Bravery Duet

    Can we all take a moment and appreciate how a shounen hero actually calmly discussed with someone about the mysterious things that happened to him. That literally never happens in shounens; the heroes always just keep quiet and wonder what's going on instead of confronting the people they think...
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    Ozanari Dungeon

    Review: A children's manga with that early 90s and 80s feel and that very nostaligic art style. The author quickly shifts the format and tone from an episodic comedy series that references fantasy RPGS from the era to a more serious plot that better develops the characters. It still reads well...
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    Silver Spoon (ARAKAWA Hiromu)

    Review: A "slice of culture" series with the touch of an experienced author who is good characters. The series is about agricultural lifestyle, which is far more interesting than it sounds. The author also chooses to progress time realistically, meaning the characters grow and graduate.
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    Anatolia Story

    Review: A classic and still a high point within the shoujo subgenre where a girl gets dropped in a random time period. It will seem dated at some points, but it innovated many of the conventions seen in later series of its type.
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    Recca no Honoo

    Review: An archetypical shounen fantasy battle manga by the author of "MÄR". It's one of the lesser known complete manga in its category along with "Psyren", "Kekkaishi", "Yu Yu Hakusho", "Shaman King", and "GetBackers".
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    Hana Yori Dango: Boys Over Flowers

    Review: This manga will seem very dated relative to other more recent shoujo, but it was very influential for its time and is a landmark in the Romance Drama genre. Like many shoujo which were not written anticipating long-running success, Hana Yori Dango loses steam and becomes a drama of...
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    The Legendary Musings of Professor Munakata

    Review: This is a "slice of culture" manga that gives Japanese myths a sort of conspiratorial X-files treatment. The story follows the eponymous Professor Munakata, a mostly serious, slightly cranky, and definitely eccentric scholar of myths. In the typical case, Prof. Munakata, a buxom graduate...
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    Q.E.D

    Review: Q.E.D. is one of the fair "you can solve the mystery" mangas. It's more difficult than Detective Conan or Detective Academy Q and probably about as hard as the Kindaichi Case Files. After the author settles in, cases focus more on math, physics, logic problems, testimony contradictions...
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    Shishunki Renaissance David-kun

    Review: Shishunki Renaissance David-kun is a pretty typical school comedy with the usual male-oriented Japanese-style jokes and scenarios. What makes it different and will either make or break your reading experience is if you have some background knowledge of classical art. Many different works...
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    Perhaps an option to filter publishing status (Ongoing/Finished) :implemented:

    @Teasday, the appeal is you have a list of manga that have already ended and thus aren't in publishing limbo. Searching by completed also will give mostly finished translations. Perfect doesn't have to be the enemy of good enough.
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    Radiant - Vol. 3 Ch. 19 - The Bulwark

    As someone who reads more western fantasy novels than reads manga, I really appreciate a shounen with western-style characters and western-style cultural conflicts. Radiant gives me that ghibli feel. It's definitely the shounen I'm most excited about in several years. I really appreciate the...
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    Perhaps an option to filter publishing status (Ongoing/Finished) :implemented:

    Please include this option. It's the one feature of sketchy aggregators that was actually good.
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    Mark Manga as "not interested" or something similar

    I'd like a separate "Ignore" or "not interested" tag as well. An option that would let you hide ignored series would be extremely helpful.
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