Hello, I want to order a manga series, but I don't know which I should take.
So can you please help me to decide which of them is the easiest?

Fairy Tail, One Piece, Beelzebub - That are the 3 manga's which Im interested in (I really want to read a few romance, school manga's of my list, but they're pretty hard compared to the 3 above, I think)


Which of them is the easiest? Or are there any other easy Manga with the same genre?

If you haven't yet reached a solid intermediate level and/or if you've never read manga in Japanese before, they're probably all 'hard'. Though of course that depends in many factors, including how much you want to understand.

Yotsubato! is often recommended as a first manga; it's one of the very few that can truly be called entry level. It's not exactly in the genre you mentioned but it's the type of manga that almost everyone seems to like. Perhaps a nice starting point, I think it's very suitable as a 'bridge' to higher level material.

By the way, there's a pretty easy way to find out whether a manga you're interested in matches your level before you buy it: just download a scan of the first volume (google 'rawscans') and judge whether the dialogue looks doable.

Also check out this thread, plenty of recommendations with descriptions and difficulty ratings.

Naruto is pretty easy. Just know how to differentiate the jutsu names, people, and places. There's a whole bunch of slang, but it's not that hard I think.

Maybe this exists already but, has anyone thought about making a vocab/grammer deck specifically for a particular chapter/volume of manga, in a similar way to how subs2srs decks work for drama/anime?

Bridging the gap between knowing a lot of vocab/grammer and actually reading the easiest manga seems like quite the challenge.

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I guess I don't know what I'd consider hard or easy manga anymore. Its all native material to me... read what you like... you dont have to limit yourself to children manga. I've been reading 進撃の巨人 and its really not to hard to read besides the obvious military words. Nest0r posted a word list from the first volume/episode that is tabbed for importing into Anki if anyone is interested in reading it after conquering the vocab deck first. darkjapanese.tumblr.com is where you can find the file I believe.

they're all going to be hard at first. So just stick with something that you are able to enjoy. This will probably be something with a relatively easy plot line that can be understood without having to look up every word. Focus on understanding and enjoying the overall gist and keeping an enjoyable pace rather than each sentence/frame/page. Long shounen series with a lot of early early established recurring vocabulary is probably a pretty starting point. It will become easier once you've learned the main story related nouns and names and once you've learned which/how pronouns are used to refer to different characters.

I'd say anything romance / slice-of-life / school life is going to be easier to read than any of the action genres. The biggest challenges to first approaching manga are slang expressions and unusual vocabulary. You can't totally avoid slang and contractions, but except for the token 不良 or ヤンキー, most characters in a high school setting speak pretty normally, with only average contractions or slang, and of course the language is perfectly everyday since, well, it's a perfectly everyday setting with the kinds of problems that happen to people every day (usually writ large and with a twist just to keep them entertaining, but still, close enough.)

If what you -really- want to read is school life and romances, then I'd definitely do that. I know for certain that the dialects, slang, nautical terms, military terms, contractions, and rough speech in One Piece make it a pretty tough place to start. Not impossible, but you'll be looking up a lot and some of it won't be easy to find. Any school life manga is going to be easier.