DragonBall

This is not a new manga and dragonball is often considered as outdated but it is one the best mangas for many reasons: it's an unpretentious story and as the comics, mangas are mean to be simple and powerful; dragonball creates a complete and robust universe and finally the story and the characters always move forward and progress, there is no wasted time or stagnation in Dragonball. You can like it or not, DragonBall is still the first BIG manga, long before Naruto and the others, and it was the first manga i read, the one that made me love manga!
The story: a young boy living alone meets a girl looking for some strange balls, the dragonballs. He decides to help her in her quest and turns out to be a very strong fighter in martial arts. During the journey they make a lot of friends and together they happen to save the world several times.

edit: A DragonBall movie is going to be released early 2009, you can find an extract there.

Harukana Machi-E (Distant neighbourhood)

Description: Hiroshi Nakahara returns by chance to his old hometown. There he decides to pray to his mother’s grave, but something happens and suddenly he is transported back to the time when he is still 14 years old.
Then Hirochi has a chance to do the things that he never dared to do when he was young, and to better understand his father, who left without a word when he was 14 years old.

This manga is a real gem, it's sober, deeply sensitive and everything but naive. Jiro Taniguchi is a master !

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Macross zero

Macross zero is a superb anime in5 episodes of 30 minutes each. A pilot crashes in a strange island and, as time passes, begins to love the people living there. He is a pilot in a war where the fighters are using "robots" or "mecha" airplanes. The graphics are stuning and we're never bored: a very good anime, even for those who don't really like japanese animations.

The episodes are available (on poor quality..) on youtube, here we provide you the first episode (click on the right button to go fullscreen):

macross zero on Youtube: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4

Eden

In a future world, a terrible virus has killed a substantial part of Humanity. The remaining people are fighting to survive in a world dominated by terrorists, mafias and new organistations.
In this world, people often have cybernetic parts replacing body parts (arm, leg...).
This manga shows harsh things and should not be put in any hands, but it's a very good manga : I really advise you to read it, if you like seinen / science-fiction mangas of course !

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We're back !

Hi everybody,
After 3 years of silence, the blog team is coming back to bring you the best mangas ever read on earth :)
Mmm, it feels good to be back home.
Let's read some mangas !