Are you interested in 4-koma manga?

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Do tell… :rofl: (feel free to PM)

I don’t use Bookwalker much (their UI is too cluttered and small, esp on mobile), but I’m not surprised. I’ve had my share of filth recs on Amazon… Tho rn it’s throwing me 1970s shoujo… Which is probably(?) on the tamer side

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One of the first manga I have read in Japanese (WORKING!! | L22) is a 4 Koma series and I liked it a lot. That being said, I might be biased by the “OMG I’m doing it, I’m reading in Japanese” I had at the time.
For stuff I didn’t read in Japanese, I also liked あずまんが大王 | L25 quite a lot.
… aaaand that’s about all I can think of. I tried to look at the 4-koma tag on Natively (and added it to two series I couldn’t find in there) but nothing really jumped at me.
I am really fine with the format, it’s just very uncommon for me to find a series that I like.

On the other hand, I do enjoy bonus 4 koma stories that come at the end of manga volumes or some LNs.

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I watched the anime and enjoyed it, so I think it’s legitimately a good series! That said, the manga is on the older side, so the digital quality isn’t great and it’s out of print. Otherwise I would have at least tried the first volume by now.

You read some of ご注文はうさぎですか after I mentioned it on WaniKani.

The ones in 本好き are pretty great. I would definitely pick up a full 4-koma manga about the series. Honestly, it would probably be more interesting than the 貴族院 side story LNs…

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Ah, I meant to say that’s all the ones I really liked. I read more, but even those I found good were not that captivating.

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I think that’s because a lot of the 4-koma I read were part of anthologies. Or maybe I only remember the problematic ones.

Thanks for the recs!

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Btw I stumbled upon a Yuri 4-koma that might be kind of interesting: キャバ嬢だけどJDに落とされました (MFC キューン) | L24?? - cabaret girl who hates (previously) being poor x poor college student

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Thanks for sharing! While I prefer the two column format in general, I am looking for more non-Kirara 4-koma to read. And 乙女男子に恋する乙女 | L25 was still good despite the wide format, so maybe this will be too. Let me know if you end up reading it!

I wonder if that magazine does 4-koma yuri manga a lot or something. Because 明るい記憶喪失 | L22 was also in there apparently.

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Will do (probably soon)

In this month’s issue there were 2-4 series that might be yuri, one of which I’m reading (ケイヤクシマイ), none of which are 4-koma. So idk, but I’ll let you know if I come across more

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I finished キャバ嬢だけどJDに落とされました (MFC キューン) | L24?? (this motivated me to read it). I’d give it a 3 I suppose. Some enjoyable character moments, some good humor, some elements I think are pretty dumb: ( friendly dead spirit haunting the college girl’s apartment, pointless rival, etc. Overall it’s fine, but pretty shallow, and probably works better in small chunks rather than reading straight through. Definitely feel like it could have been a lot more

The vocab is ok most of the time. But some pgs I found myself looking up 3-4 words, which is more effort than I wanted to put in, given the story quality. That’s just me being lazy tho

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