So.... Im 21 years old watching animes since I was 12 started with Hunter x Hunter followed by Naruto,Full metal,Death Note,Dbz,Attack on Titan these are the biggest right?And I never had courage to start One piece the number of episodes just pushed me away but I always wanted it so much and always heard of it in fandom like "the best ever","better than Naruto and Dbz" "best story ever" but never really started it.

As someone who has watch best animes (yet),best tv shows (american,european,spanish,turkish),many many movies I never watched only one big,famous,long name "One piece",and now its time to start it I just cant wait to see what everyone calls "peak""best ever""best worldbuilding in anime""best world" because I watched Lotr,Got,Star Wars,Aot,Dark itd...

Can One piece beat this fictions I mentioned?

Am I in for a true joruney and adventure of a lifetime like everyone says so,is it really peak,peak fiction? The best of big 3?

Am I watching really best anime off all time?

I just finished Volume 27, and I can officially say that Claymore has become my favorite manga and possibly my favorite piece of fiction.

There's not a single bad chapter, and from the first to the last the quality only increases which is something I haven't seen in my entire life.

Every character is as deep as an ocean, they feel so genuine, to the point where someone died or was in danger my heart skipped a beat.

The ending is possibly one of the best out there, it's not only beautiful but also emotionally heavy and truly feels complete.

Thank you so much Norihiro, your story and art has made me laugh, cry, fear and smile like no other. I feel as I'm a better person from before I started this series.

i’ve always thought about if i were limited to a single shelf and had to keep only my absolute favorites—what would i pick?

i thought this idea was interesting, and it’d be cool to hear what series others would keep too.

i had some obvious series in mind, but when i actually tried putting it together just for fun, it was surprisingly challenging.

a quick run-through of the reasons why i’d pick what i picked:

a big factor for me was whether the series had a good anime adaptation. i always prefer manga over anime and generally enjoy reading more than watching, but if a series has a really good anime, i’d be less strict about keeping the manga since i could still experience it through the anime. examples of that would be naruto and aot.

berserk: this is my favorite story ever told—favorite manga and honestly favorite piece of media overall. i love the series so much that even if i were limited to one shelf, i’d still want both editions. i try to reread it yearly, so this is 100% a must-keep.

gantz: in my top 5 and is just such a blast to read. i can see myself rereading it a lot over the years, and oku is one of my favorite mangaka.

tokyo ghoul: my first manga back in 2018, and even after rereads, i still think it’s amazing. it was my first favorite until i read berserk, but it’s still a 10/10 for me.

shuzo oshimi: oshimi is my favorite mangaka. i love his writing, his artwork, and most of what i’ve read by him. i own everything released in english, but i’d only keep my top 3 works by him, with blood on the tracks being in my top 10 manga of all time in general.

real: very straightforward, one of my all-time favorites and easily in my top 10. there’s so much value in this story, and inoue’s artwork is on another level. personally, i actually prefer real over vagabond, so that’s why i chose it instead.

I know a lot of y’all dislike the recent turns of one piece, so I was wondering, which (finished) manga satisfied all your expectations to the point where you’d say “this is the best manga I’ve read in years”?

Mine are

1. One piece
2. Yona of the dawn
3. Blue lock

Here is the full list to the top 100. Do you agree or disagree with these positions and entries?

https://www.comicbookcanon.com/top-100-manga/the-top-100-manga-ranked

The story is really well-thought. I can't stress it enough: it's clear that Tsukuda had everything planned from the start instead of making shit up as he goes and breaking a lot of established concepts from the earlier days or even taking a dump on the supposed final boss to introduce a villain nobody ever asked. It amazes me how complex the story is. Every action has a consequence: for example: if you do a crime like kidnapping someone, you go to jail instead of getting away with it and even having a friendly talk with the person you kidnapped. Also, I may add that he never forgets the storylines he set up or the cast he carefully developed in more than 300 chapters. What other shonen could even say that?

I also love how the characterization remains consistent throughout the series. In SnS, it would never happen something like a character that had a huge arc to develop their personality and become more open to the other to suddenly forget all that they learned. Or a character that was the main roadblock to the hero a few chapters ago to be jobbed in less than a chapter. Or a character that starts as weak, has an entire soryarc of becoming more confident and stronger and keeps losing every fucking match we see. Or two characters that were hyped to be the strongest of the main guy's generation to stop appearing. It would be cheap to make a character act in way he/she shouldn't because the plot said so, or to create unnecessary problems.

Speaking of the characters, I love how all the characters we know and love remain important. This comes back to what I've said earlier about never letting a plotline go to waste. And they all receive consistent development - both in characterization and cooking skills. I love that part of the show. When a character has a so-called power up, it never looks like the writer is pulling it from his ass. And I also enjoy how the character never forgets said power up, or even his realization about what it makes a good chef.

What about the power levels? I like that even though it's a silly fanservice manga, Tsukuda never runs out of ideas and starting making shit up like magic knives and completely unrealistic cooking techniques that we are supposed to take seriously. You could literally follow every step of the manga and make every dish presented in the series. Hunter x Hunter power system could take a lesson or two with Shokugeki no Soma.

It's also impressive how you can never predict who is going to win a match by, say, the order of who is presenting the dish or just because the stakes are too high for the protagonist to lose. It keeps you always guessing and not bored.

And the villains? Ok, in the start they were just okay, but as the series went on, they got better and better, until we got everyone's favorite character - Asahi. I love how he shook up the structures of the manga in a totally not shitty way. I've never seen someone more popular in a fanbase than this guy. And tell me about complex feelings. I'm really torned upon this romantic triangle with Soma and Erina and I'm not hoping his character dies an ugly death. His objectives are so well-thought and I really care about him and didn't wish he never appeared in the manga. I also really love how he was consistently foreshadowed throughout the entire manga and the people who were paying attention knew that he was always the final boss instead of Joichiro Saiba, Akira or Erina. I hate when a character is introduced just because the author doesn't want something to happen and needs a roadblock for it like, say, two characters that had an amazing development together with one character finally recognizing the other's ability as a peer and how there was nothing stopping them to starting date like most part of the fanbase wanted. I hate when this happens. If you are a young writer, you should learn with this manga.

And I didn't even talked about the comedy. I love how funny the manga is lately. I laugh so much people think I'm crazy. But I'm not crazy. I'm just reading the best, funniest and most well-thought manga of all time, Shokugeki no Soma!

Happy April Fools' Day to y'all.

https://www.comicbookcanon.com/top-100-manga/the-top-100-manga-ranked

The full list of 100 most critically acclaimed manga is linked above