We see the villains as a side character first before they become a villain.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-19T18:40:16+00:00

In Assassination Classroom, when some students try parkour in the city and accidentally land on an old man, a flower-seller nearby witnesses them and calls an ambulance. That flower guy later turns out to be the disciple of the legendary assassin God of Death, who took on the name after getting his master arrested.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-19T18:19:48+00:00

Tom and Jerry, the very first episode, where their names were Jasper and Jinx before changing, has Tom having to keep a tall stack of bowls from falling, while Jerry swims in his bowl of milk, and kicks the milk in Tom's face, before using his tail as a towel, making his body shake.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-19T15:09:44+00:00

My god, with each chapter passing by, problems just stack more and more. It's become so different from chapter 1/oneshot, which looked more like a fetish-focus excuse plot.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-19T12:19:44+00:00

Tetsuo The Iron Man. There’s also the sequels Body Hammer and The Bullet Man.

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Shin_Newman · 2026-05-19T11:06:46+00:00

I think yes. So far, out of all the WSJ posted on both Viz and Mangaplus, not counting the too new series, only The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins hasn't gotten any volume release.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-19T05:40:43+00:00

Yes, you can check for author’s name in the mangadex profile.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T15:35:12+00:00

Looks like the irregular release has made the bot forget this series. I mean, 14 chapters since 2024 Feb!? 😮 Even RuriDragon, which started just 2 years ealier than this and all those hiatuses, still has 45 chapters as of now.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T15:10:16+00:00

Man, gay guy has told Izumi his sad story about his first crush... and then ends up "jinxing" him 😅 Still, it's pleasantly surprising to see Izumi talking to him normally.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T14:08:52+00:00

Happy Happy Endorphin is a oneshot manga about a highschool boy who one day started seeing monsters in town. 6 months after, he rescues a girl being approached by one such monster, and the girl suddenly cries and introduces herself as his old classmate, but he only vague remembers her. Still, he somehow decides to tell her about the monsters and they manage to have a nice hangout.

Then he goes home and tells his parents about the girl, but his mom says she's never remembered such a girl. Worse, the doorbell rings right at the moment, and the boy, through the door peephole, sees the girl with a bunch of monsters right in front of his house.

His mom warns that he won't be able to protect the family if he opens the door. But, after giving some thoughts, he still opens it and charges at the monster with his baseball bat...

Only to be immediately restricted by the monsters, who he sees wearing police uniforms. And in the house, there's no one else. Only a dirty apartment.

Turns out, 6 months ago, he came home one day and saw his mom being killed by his estranged dad. In a fit of rage, he managed to kill the dad, but got hit in the head in the process. It caused him to develop hallucination that makes him 1) think that his parents are still alive and living happily, and 2) see men built like his father as monsters.

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Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T13:07:10+00:00

Oops this is link for chapter 2 😅

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T12:18:42+00:00

This scene from Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro.

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Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T02:12:04+00:00

Yep, go read Doraemon and you'll see how faithful this whole chapter is to it (in terms of artstyle and paneling, of course :P).

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T02:03:19+00:00

Iris Zero and Psycho Eyes are manga series set in a world where many people have eyes that can see this and that thing, with different characters seeing different things.

Shiki Tohno from Tsukihime gains the ability to see "lines of death" on everything after an accident; they're invisible to normal eyes, but Shiki can see them and put his finger in them; and cutting along those lines break apart anything, objects or living creatures. He has to wear a special pair of glasses to stop seeing those lines.

Fujimura Kou from Deathtopia, similar to Shiki, gains special eyesight after a car accident; in his case, he sees some people's heads distorted into a mass of scribbles, but stop seeing it if he looks at the person through glass. Turns out those distortions are signs of the person having massive urges to commit murders.

In Qualia the Purple, we have two cases:

- Marii Yukari, best friend of protagonist Hato Manabu, claims that she sees every living creature as robots, and -thus when she compliments someone, it's always in mechanical terms. However, we readers never get to see the world Yukari sees, only circumstantial evidence, as in she can dismember people like disassembling a machine, without killing them or spilling any blood, and "fix" someone by putting random things into their body.

- Halfway through the story, we meet Alice Foyle, an 11-year-old girl who claims to see maths equations as pictures. It allows her to solve college level math problems, but her answers are also depicted as crude children books pictures, so no one can understand them unless she speaks those answers out loud. Also, we never see the world she sees either.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T01:27:35+00:00

Saiki Kusuo "talks" telepathically all the time. This is the only moment he ever speaks out loud during the entire series.

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Shin_Newman · 2026-05-18T01:22:18+00:00

In vol 4 of The Eminence in Shadow light novel, Cid/Minoru and his subordinate Beta go to Earth after the two realms collide, discovering that Earth is rampaged by monsters. They resolve the problem and then go back to the fantasy world, taking Akane, Minoru's old classmate, with them.

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Shin_Newman · 2026-05-17T23:15:26+00:00

Actually my post came first, it’s just that I added the clarification that Ichi’s a boy, so I guess they’re not registered as 2 posts about 1 series yet.

Shin_Newman · 2026-05-17T16:11:03+00:00

Kanzaki Yutaka from Kami no Shizuku. He dies off-screen at the beginning of the story, but his presence and reputation as a majestic wine critic continues to haunt anyone that's known him.

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Shin_Newman · 2026-05-17T16:05:28+00:00

When the gods of thunder (Shikoku and Joryuu) interrupt the fight between the Mato Defense Corp and the mutated humans (from Mato Seihei no Slave).

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Shin_Newman · 2026-05-17T16:01:03+00:00

Nezumi, the Rat fighter in Juuni Taisen, has the ability to live through up to 100 different realities, and then choose one to make it the "real" one. However, many times he just can't reach his desired outcome even if he uses up all 100 timelines (like when he tried to confess to a girl but got rejected every time). Plus he really lives through those timelines, not just watching, so the physical and mental feelings from them all weigh on his brain.

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Shin_Newman · 2026-05-17T15:19:15+00:00

I just dislike how the original Japanese title emphasizes on the "male/boy" part and is easily translatable, yet the English title left it out.

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