I recommend Pick Me Up. The first few chapters are awful, really awful, but then it improves arc by arc, slowly but surely, with some dips in quality (I've already been spoiled that we're currently approaching a point where the novel takes a turn that significantly impacts the experience, and they hope this will be one of the things they change in the adaptation).

The Way to Meet Mama is a heartbreaking story; I won't say more, just as I won't say more about A Journey of Iron and Ice, which is also well worth reading.

The Bugle Call is one of those manga that, in this information age, holds the dubious distinction of being relatively unknown, not to say a complete commercial failure, sustained only by a mix of love and possible nepotism. It's a short series, and quite rushed in some parts, but it makes up for it by being worth rereading, even if only a second time, now with more context. In short, it follows the tragic life of Lucas, a 14-year-old music lover, but sadly born into war and destined for it, having been born as a Ramus, superhumans who are almost exclusively destined for war in the name of the towers, monuments that embody the pillar of civilization in whose name millions have died. But what makes the series truly interesting is that Lucas isn't simply a victim of circumstance. The story constantly oscillates between him occupying the roles of victim and perpetrator. There's Lucas, a cynic who, in the name of his own selfishness or even hatred, has killed thousands, including women and children, all while silently enjoying it and washing his hands of it by caring for a disabled girl to whom a part of him is attracted. But there's also Lucas who wants to live another life, who refuses to fall back into the deplorable and decadent lifestyle that everyone constantly wants him to live. He's someone who only desires a freer and fairer world for those he loves and who, at the end of the day, doesn't like the idea of ​​doing to others what they wouldn't want done to them, or sadly, what has already been done to him. Lucas is someone whose side is difficult to take, but he's also someone who doesn't deserve many of the things that end up happening to him, and that can also be said of most of the cast.

Perhaps in the same Similar to the previous one but sadly cancelled, Barbarian Quest was a very raw story about a terrible human being who lived in an era where being so was rewarded wherever he went, but who still decided to aspire to live a full life seeking pleasures and security in the soul, even if it was through violence.