Dear /cel/, what are some of your favorite normie-tier manga for their time? Lots of retro anime love here, little love for their manga counterparts, so let's share some. Picrel Love Hina, everyone I knew who read manga, read it as it was translated.

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Favorite manga? anon October 22 2025 21:09:31 No.4054

Dear /cel/, what are some of your favorite normie-tier manga for their time? Lots of retro anime love here, little love for their manga counterparts, so let's share some. Picrel Love Hina, everyone I knew who read manga, read it as it was translated.

anon October 22 2025 21:25:30 No.4056

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I remember having volumes of Sailor Moon and Fruits Basket as a kid, if that counts.

anon October 22 2025 21:34:08 No.4057

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>>4056
For sure, both are pre 2k.
I'd like to mention claymore, but that was 01, so I'll just post Kerberos/Jin-Roh instead.

anon October 22 2025 21:38:36 No.4058

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I don't know if I count KPC as 'normie', but good read either way.
How about Parasyte?

anon October 30 2025 12:24:15 No.4098

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I love Rookies, if it counts (started in 1998).

I really didn't expect to like it as much as I did but Kawato is such an endearing character that I just fell in love with the whole thing. Seeing him go out of his way to do so much for that baseball team even when no one else would and leading all the students to actually want to try in Baseball again was just brilliant.

My favourite part of the manga will always be when in one game he goes up to an opposing pitcher who has been struggling in the game so far, tells him he's doing a fantastic job, then goes to the opposing coach to tell him to stop fucking around. He should take that kid off the mound and give him actual coaching advice so he can grow into a proper player (and adult) instead of this weird humiliation ritual he was forcing him to do to teach him a lesson. Then proceeding to return to his dugout and screaming out loud "AHHHHHH WHY DID I DO THAT I COULD'VE GOT THE TEAM SUSPENDED"

It's truly a one of a kind manga and it saddens me that everything else the mangaka has done is not fully translated yet, even Rokudenshi Blues is taking 20 years to translate and is still around 40 chapters away from being complete.