I've just finished reading Yotsubato in japanese and had a blast with it.
Could you guys recommend some other good comedy/slice of life manga with 振り仮名 ?
I'm really not into shounen.

Yotsubato is shounen. The thing is you are not really going to find manga that has furigana that isn't eithershounen or shoujo. I thought the drama for yankikun to meganrchan was alright so you might want to check that out. If your OK with harem stuff love him a is OK. Its seinen so there is no furigana, but Museum, a serial killer story, is pretty interesting.

Well I might have misused the term then, when I think shounen I think adventure/action manga for boys with a hero growing more powerful through an initiatory quest. You know, bleach, naruto, stuff like that. I just hate that.
Again, what I'm interested in : comedy, slice of life, light-hearted romance with furigana (that's an absolute).

Jungle Wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu : Great comedy, a little romance, weird slice-of-life with overaching plot, furigana.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei : Comedy, absurd humour, social commentary, furigana

Sakigake!! Cromatie High School : Comedy, parody, very absurd humour (Freddy Mercury is a regular in this manga for f***'s sake), furigana

Linval Wrote:Jungle Wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu : Great comedy, a little romance, weird slice-of-life with overaching plot, furigana.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei : Comedy, absurd humour, social commentary, furigana

Sakigake!! Cromatie High School : Comedy, parody, very absurd humour (Freddy Mercury is a regular in this manga for f***'s sake), furigana

Thanks mate, I'm gonna check those out.

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Nisekoi

Great Teacher Onizuka

Golden Boy

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Nisekoi

Great Teacher Onizuka

Golden Boy

Thanks, I'll try Nisekoi and GTO, the other 2 don't have furigana.

Shonen isn't the genre, it refers to the target audience.

There is a lot of stuff marketed towards that demographic in Japan, that wouldn't be in the West. Yotsubato! (a slice of life comedy) is a good example of that. In Japan, it's a shonen manga, in the West it's seen as a kids' manga because it's "family friendly" and there's no real complexity to the characters.

すごいよ！！マサルさん is a comedy one. I think it was the first of the surrealist style comedy manga. My girlfriend got it for me as a present a while back, and I remember laughing a lot. Some of the whacky language might be hard to figure out though.

The first manga I ever read was Doraemon, and I'd recommend everyone read at least of couple of them for the cultural exposure.

I really liked カラクリオデット - it's shoujo slice of life/comedy about an android schoolgirl trying to understand how to act like a human. Easy to understand and funny.

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s0apgun Wrote:Space Brothers / Uchuu Kyoudai　宇宙兄弟

Nisekoi

Great Teacher Onizuka

Golden Boy

Thanks, I'll try Nisekoi and GTO, the other 2 don't have furigana.

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s0apgun Wrote:Space Brothers / Uchuu Kyoudai　宇宙兄弟

Nisekoi

Great Teacher Onizuka

Golden Boy

Thanks, I'll try Nisekoi and GTO, the other 2 don't have furigana.

download the raw and use kanjitomo ocr

Wanna read them on my iPad.

I'm thinking about buying Sayounara Zetsubo Sensei, but I was wondering how difficult it is? It does have furigana, but I feel that a smart-looknig comedy like that might be a little difficult to understand. The only manga in Japanese I've read is Naruto 1; I understand almost all of chapter 1 and varying much smaller amounts of the rest after reading it about 4 times. In Naruto, I already had the context of having watched the anime in English subs, therefore picking up some of the specialist world language. I want to make a step up (I'm not that easily frustrated as long as there's furigana - when read Naruto 1 the first time I understood almost nothing), but I'm just worried I won't understand the jokes for the reading.

Nichijou is a comedy and the manga has furigana. You might be able to check the anime on crunchyroll if its available in your country, to see if it is to your liking (it is also known as My ordinary life).

A quick question if there is anyone who has read the Nichijou manga, is it on the same level as Yotsubato or is it more difficult? I can read little bits and pieces atm, but very little. I bought the volumes off ebay and was hoping it could be a replacement 'intro' manga for Yotsubato, which alot of people seem to recommend as a first manga for learning.

Helena4 Wrote:I'm thinking about buying Sayounara Zetsubo Sensei, but I was wondering how difficult it is? It does have furigana, but I feel that a smart-looknig comedy like that might be a little difficult to understand. The only manga in Japanese I've read is Naruto 1; I understand almost all of chapter 1 and varying much smaller amounts of the rest after reading it about 4 times. In Naruto, I already had the context of having watched the anime in English subs, therefore picking up some of the specialist world language. I want to make a step up (I'm not that easily frustrated as long as there's furigana - when read Naruto 1 the first time I understood almost nothing), but I'm just worried I won't understand the jokes for the reading.

Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei can be tough to read. The vocabulary is fairly simple, but the topic they discuss can be pretty specific. However,they drag the jokes for a while, so you have time to adjust. Definitely something to read with a dictionary handy though, but I found it very rewarding.

I like daily life stuff, shonen or shojo:
なな - Nana
BECK
のだめカンタービレ　- Nodame Cantabile

all music / school / university related. I think they all have furigana.

One Piece is good but its very standard shonen.

Ah BAKUMAN is good too but very text heavy.

mattty999 Wrote:A quick question if there is anyone who has read the Nichijou manga, is it on the same level as Yotsubato or is it more difficult?

yotsubato is much easier. partly because of vocabulary, but also because stories are more straightforward. nichijou boasts nonsense humor and requires knowledge of some otaku tropes.

if you want stuff with furigana, 学校怪談 was relatively easy. there's lots of vocabulary, but mostly words that are very useful + each story is about 10 pages long, so it really shouldn't be too demanding to finish.

ok thanks, yea i guess i will have to work up to them. I guess alot of the parts i could understand were because i had seen it in the anime so i basically knew what was happening from that. Cheers for the recommendation too, it does seem a bit more simple on quick glance.