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<?=$who;?> Manga Starter List Here's a list of great manga that one might get in order to get started in the genre. Edit
List created by Jason L. (formerroadie) on Nov 27, 2010
List Votes: 1 Books: 14 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
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Death Note, Vol 1 by Tsugumi Ohba
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and bored out of his mind! But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, and notebook dropped by a rogue shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death...  more

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Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 1 by Hiromu Arakawa
Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world, somewhere between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in these powers to grant their dearest wish, one of them has lost an arm and a leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body...  more

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Bleach, Vol 1 by Tite Kubo
Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a shinigami and member of the mysterious Soul Society. While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic...  more

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D. Gray-Man, Vol 1 by Hoshino Katsura
Set in a fictional end of the 19th century England, the story revolves around a teenage boy named Allen Walker who is cursed with a cross mark on his hand that turns his arm into an enormous weapon, which he uses to hunt down and kill akumas. An akuma, generated by a 1,000-year-old phantom, is...  more

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Zombie-Loan, Vol. 1 (ZOMBIE-LOAN) by PEACH-PIT
Michiru Kita's a weak-spirited girl who has a hard time saying what's on her mind. One day, she notices mysterious, ring-like markings around the necks of two of her classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana--two boys who miraculously survived a horrible accident six months ago. Michiru,...  more

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Soul Eater, Vol. 1 (v. 1) by Atsushi Okubo
Maka is a scythe meister, working to perfect one particular scythe until it is good enough to become Death's Weapon -- the weapon used by Shinigami-sama, the spirit of Death himself. As if that wasn't unusual enough, her scythe is a demon scythe called Soul Eater, which can change form...  more

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Zombie Powder, Vol 1 by Tite Kubo
Somewhere in the desert lies the world's greatest treasure: the 12 Rings of the dead, the only sources of the mysterious substance "Zombie Powder," which can raise the dead and give the living eternal life... Elwood was a knife-thrower caught in a life of crime until he met Gamma Akutabi,...  more

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Black God, Vol. 1 (Black God) by Dall-Young Lim & Sung-Woo Park
Wending his way home after a bender one evening, master moocher and game programmer Keita Ibuki decides to satisfy a craving for ramen at a noodle stand.Instead of slurping soup, though, he surrenders his meal to a manic girl who, unbeknownst to Keita, is a Mototsumitama, a guardian of the...  more

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Jack Frost, Vol 1 by JinHo Ko
It's Noh-A's first day at Amityville High School, and her reception is chilly to say the least. Brutal might be a better description! Decapitated but not dead (or is she??), Noh-A quickly realizes that nothing is as it appears at Amityville High where paranormal creatures battle for...  more

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Pandora Hearts, Vol 1 by Jun Mochizuki
Heir to an aristocratic family, Oz Bezarius is a carefree teen. That is until his fifteenth birthday. His entire world changes at his coming of age ceremony when dark forces rise to punish Oz for the sins of a past life. Incarcerated in a prison known as the Abyss, Oz's life and perhaps his...  more

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King of Thorn Volume 1 (King of Thorn) by Yuji Iwahara
Twin sisters... Separated by fate... Drawn together by a horrific illness...Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim to stone--and there is no cure! Hope for salvation rests in Kasumi and a select few who are put into a cryogenically...  more

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Read or Die, Volume 1 by Hideyuki Kurata & Shutaro Yamada
Librarians with superpowers!

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Trigun Volume 1 (Trigun) by Yasuhiro Nightow
It's a western, it's sci-fi, it's punk, and it's popular. It's Trigun and it's become one of the most popular anime in America. But before it was animated, it was a manga. And now Dark Horse has finally brought that manga to America! Continuing our foray into the world of non-Westernized manga...  more

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Undertown, Vol 1 by Jim Pascoe & Jake Myler (Illustrator)
Sama and his teddy bear enter the strange realm of Undertown in search of the Sugar Stone that might heal his father. But can Sama can get to the Stone ahead of the evil Cloud and the Insect Insurgents?

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Comment added 11/27/10 by Jason L. (formerroadie):
These are all first volumes of longer series. I suggest the entire series if you can get them :).