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So, some other recs.
Let's start out with Beauty and the Beast Girl, a WAFFy yuri manga between a blind girl and a monster girl. It's one part slice of life and one part romance, and most of it is so sweet you'd get diabetes.
All-Rounder Meguru and Teppu are both my favorites as far as Martial Arts manga go, mainly due to just how well researched most of it is. All-Rounder Meguru is a manga about Meguru, a former karate practitioner who does MMA to keep in shape, and his slow progress towards becoming a pro. It's also the story of his former childhood friend, and his attempts towards revenge against the man who killed his ex-Yakuza father.
Teppu is an interesting one. A completed manga, it covers this girl, Ishidou Natsuo, who's always been good at whatever she tries, and her entry into the world of women's MMA. She's not a nice character, and it's admitted and explicitly stated that had Teppu been a normal manga, Natsuo would be the rival or villain or antagonist that the main character would face at a climactic battle. Coincidentally, Teppu also has such a protagonist, a works-her-ass-off hard-working girl named Mawatori Yuzuko. Also, everyone who fights Yuzuko agrees that there's something fucked up with that girl. Natsu just wants to beat her face in. Natsuo may or may not also have the yandere hots for her.
There's also Torako! Don't Break Everything! A comedy ecchi manga about Torasawa Aiko—nickname Torako—a shy new transfer student in a school full of delinquents, who also happens to be strong enough to destroy a building with her bare hands. Also bears, but only the really little Japanese brown bears, you see! Clothing damage is also very, very common. If you like shy, busty amazons, then this is something you should check out.
Rough Sketch Senpai is a sadly discontinued manga that's still worth checking out. Basically, this one delinquent ends up as the model for her junior, a member of the art club and an art otaku who doesn't seem to understand his pretty senpai might not have the same enthusiasm for art as he does. While there's very little nudity or accidental pervert situations, it's still a fun comedy manga for anyone who's interested.
Speaking of art, have you heard of Arte? A manga about a 16th century noble girl named Arte who wants to be an artist—name seems a bit too on the nose, but who am I to complain. Unfortunately, this is the Renaissance we're talking about here. Pretty much no Atelier will accept her as their apprentice. But being the determined girl she is, Arte manages to secure herself an apprenticeship in a one-man Atelier run by an artist named Leo. It's a good manga with a solid art style, and there's surprisingly not so much focus on the actual techniques as there is on the lifestyle of a Renaissance era artist.
Of course, as far as art styles go, I've yet to find any manga as good as Witch Hat Atelier in that regards. I could wax poetic about its Fairy tale-esque art style, but I won't. I'll just say that the art style is just very, very, very, very, very good. It's a lot like the illustrations you'd find in fairy tales, but with the addition of cutesy moe characters. Onto its plot! It's plot is mainly about this girl, Coco, who loves magic and Witches. One day, a Witch named Qiffrey accompanies a group of noble women to Coco's village on a flying carriage. The carriage's wheel accidentally breaks, and Coco manages to see Qiffrey perform magic to fix the carriage. Later that night, she draws some magic (yeah, magic is drawn in this universe, as in literally drawn using a pen and magical ink), one of which ends up accidentally turning her mother and house into stone. Thankfully, Qiffrey managed to get her out before the magic took hold. With this comes Coco's introduction to the world of Witches and magic, and of the evil Brimmed Hats, criminal Witches that broke the rules of magic, as decided upon by the ancient Witches. It's a very interesting series with a very carefully thought out world to explore and extremely hard magical system (the basics of it are revealed in something like chapter 3? And these rules are basically absolute, to the extent that much of the drama involves the various characters exploiting the rules of magic to succeed). One example of how strict this magic is? If the ink the Witches use to draw magic is smeared or gets wet, it's basically non-functional.
Let's start out with Beauty and the Beast Girl, a WAFFy yuri manga between a blind girl and a monster girl. It's one part slice of life and one part romance, and most of it is so sweet you'd get diabetes.
All-Rounder Meguru and Teppu are both my favorites as far as Martial Arts manga go, mainly due to just how well researched most of it is. All-Rounder Meguru is a manga about Meguru, a former karate practitioner who does MMA to keep in shape, and his slow progress towards becoming a pro. It's also the story of his former childhood friend, and his attempts towards revenge against the man who killed his ex-Yakuza father.
Teppu is an interesting one. A completed manga, it covers this girl, Ishidou Natsuo, who's always been good at whatever she tries, and her entry into the world of women's MMA. She's not a nice character, and it's admitted and explicitly stated that had Teppu been a normal manga, Natsuo would be the rival or villain or antagonist that the main character would face at a climactic battle. Coincidentally, Teppu also has such a protagonist, a works-her-ass-off hard-working girl named Mawatori Yuzuko. Also, everyone who fights Yuzuko agrees that there's something fucked up with that girl. Natsu just wants to beat her face in. Natsuo may or may not also have the yandere hots for her.
There's also Torako! Don't Break Everything! A comedy ecchi manga about Torasawa Aiko—nickname Torako—a shy new transfer student in a school full of delinquents, who also happens to be strong enough to destroy a building with her bare hands. Also bears, but only the really little Japanese brown bears, you see! Clothing damage is also very, very common. If you like shy, busty amazons, then this is something you should check out.
Rough Sketch Senpai is a sadly discontinued manga that's still worth checking out. Basically, this one delinquent ends up as the model for her junior, a member of the art club and an art otaku who doesn't seem to understand his pretty senpai might not have the same enthusiasm for art as he does. While there's very little nudity or accidental pervert situations, it's still a fun comedy manga for anyone who's interested.
Speaking of art, have you heard of Arte? A manga about a 16th century noble girl named Arte who wants to be an artist—name seems a bit too on the nose, but who am I to complain. Unfortunately, this is the Renaissance we're talking about here. Pretty much no Atelier will accept her as their apprentice. But being the determined girl she is, Arte manages to secure herself an apprenticeship in a one-man Atelier run by an artist named Leo. It's a good manga with a solid art style, and there's surprisingly not so much focus on the actual techniques as there is on the lifestyle of a Renaissance era artist.
Of course, as far as art styles go, I've yet to find any manga as good as Witch Hat Atelier in that regards. I could wax poetic about its Fairy tale-esque art style, but I won't. I'll just say that the art style is just very, very, very, very, very good. It's a lot like the illustrations you'd find in fairy tales, but with the addition of cutesy moe characters. Onto its plot! It's plot is mainly about this girl, Coco, who loves magic and Witches. One day, a Witch named Qiffrey accompanies a group of noble women to Coco's village on a flying carriage. The carriage's wheel accidentally breaks, and Coco manages to see Qiffrey perform magic to fix the carriage. Later that night, she draws some magic (yeah, magic is drawn in this universe, as in literally drawn using a pen and magical ink), one of which ends up accidentally turning her mother and house into stone. Thankfully, Qiffrey managed to get her out before the magic took hold. With this comes Coco's introduction to the world of Witches and magic, and of the evil Brimmed Hats, criminal Witches that broke the rules of magic, as decided upon by the ancient Witches. It's a very interesting series with a very carefully thought out world to explore and extremely hard magical system (the basics of it are revealed in something like chapter 3? And these rules are basically absolute, to the extent that much of the drama involves the various characters exploiting the rules of magic to succeed). One example of how strict this magic is? If the ink the Witches use to draw magic is smeared or gets wet, it's basically non-functional.