Manga & Comics

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Why Manga over Video Entertainment(TV/Movies/YouTube)?

Mainly I wanted to be approachable while I had my now one meal a day.

When I used to watch Movies/TV/YouTube while eating and anyone made a lot of ruckus nearby, it used to drive me mad because I wanted to focus on what was being said is if there was going to be a test on it and if I didn't answer, I was going to die.
That obsessive compulsive desire to consume video entertainment was something I didn't like in myself.
It also meant that when my parents(mainly mother) wanted to talk to me when I was eating, I would get irritated and agitated because all I wanted to do was eat in peace for the one meal I have a day.
This compulsion to eat in peace bought everything but peace! And I knew this had to go.
Ideally, you should not do anything other than eating and I completely understand that but this habit has now been formed for decades now to in front of a video entertainment and I already am doing a tons of other things that require willpower and this is not on my priority list at all.
Also, No Gaming, No Social Media, No TVs, Movies really help immensely with this.
It had became a deep engrained habit that I would start consuming video entertainment whenever I started eating(especially if that food was junk food), and I would want to eat something because I saw it on the black mirror(TV/Movies/Social Media).

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Junji to - Horror collection (On tablet)
I keep thinking about Batman and the Justice League TV show so might try Batman Comics some time.
Vagabond
The Walking Dead

Ongoing

(On Tablet)The Boys → 33% complete

Update: The comics is so much better and so much funny and so much more logical than the pathetic TV show which feels like shit the more you watch it. The decisions in the TV show make no sense and they are just creating drama for the sake of drama.
They should have just stuck to the manga and the TV show would have been great.
Hated how they ruined the TV show so I wanted to consume the source.
(Printed) Bakuman → Started 18th Oct 2026

Based on my personality of becoming what I consume, this is supposed to the best thing for it, let's see after I am done with Detective Conan.
(Tablet and then printed copies) Detective Conan - (Ongoing Series) - Read #107 (The last one released)

Update: Waiting for the translation of the latest mangas after 107. I would have skipped it but they release so late that I am fine reading 1-2 mangas every year considering I have already read all the ones before it.

Not a good manga! It's just that it was aired on TV back when I was a kid and I started watching the anime online and after 450 episodes I was really invested in it, however this was the beginning of reading in stead of watching something while eating and it's entertaining enough not to disappoint so I don't mind it.
Anyways, I am about to catch up to the current series and since there is a lot of gap between this series, it won't disrupt my other manga which can actually be finished.

Completed

(Printed) Detective Conan Zero's Tea Time→ Completed 18th Oct 2026

Update: This manga is a great example of how Nintendo sucks money out of it's fans and the fans gets treated like shit all the time. This spin-off comics is a pathetic low-level comic by every measure and I was surprised at how disgustingly low IQ it is. It's almost as if the writers are testing how little effort they have to put in to make a lot of money and the idiot fans can't get more stupider than this.

What a pathetic excuse of a manga. Absolutely pathetic on so many levels but I have printed them so I am going to finish them.
(Printed) Asobi Asobase - Finished 2026

The later parts which were stories not involved with the three main characters were pretty dull but I really loved the first many parts.
(Printed) Death Note - first half of 2026

Loved the anime back in college and always wanted to read to see what extra stuff was there and was not disappointed.

Retired

Spider-man, Avengers and other Comics

Even though I have read a lot of the copycats of Marvels as a kid in Raj Comics, for some reason these comics aren't interesting enough to keep reading them.
Sinchan, Doraemon and other such comics that were later popular TV shows

Maybe would have loved them when I was 5 or 6 but clearly not now.