Manga Recommendations: 4-Koma you don't want to miss
If you read manga, you may have heard of the 4-koma style of manga, which can be boiled down to a page with 4 panels that's released daily instead of a multi-page series released weekly or monthly. 4-Koma are growing in popularity and having a new page to look forward to every day is exciting. I've been slowly finding more and more 4-koma that I enjoy and want to pass on some recommendations to people who may be interested in them.
All of the manga I'll be recommending in this post are in a high-school setting and are slice of life, romance genre. If that's not your cup of tea, I'll be making more recommendations with broader genres in the future, so look forward to that write-up in the near future and may turn this into a recurring series of recommendations.
Mousou Telepathy
Mousou Telepathy follows the story of Ayako, a high school student who is everything but ordinary as she has the ability to hear the thoughts of those around her. This isn't something she does intentionally as it happens whether she likes it or not.
At the start of a new year, she starts noticing perverted thoughts towards her and they're coming from someone who generally doesn't show any signs of emotion, Toda. The series follows the hijinks that come from hearing her classmates thoughts and the developing romance between Ayako and Toda.
Tomo-chan wa Onna no ko!
Tomo and Jun have been friends since elementary school. Not only are they best friends, but they also enjoy fighting each other in Tomo's father's Dojo. It isn't until middle school that Jun realizes Tomo isn't a boy, but is actually a tomboy girl. This manga like the one before, is centered around the blossoming romance between Tomo and Jun as they enter high school.
Although Tomo-chan is one of my favorite dailies, it has severe pacing issues and a lot of status quo chapters, meaning after you finally think the plot is going to progress, the characters kind of act like nothing's changed. It's gotten better in its more recent chapters, but this one may be a wild ride as it already clocks in at over 700 pages.
Kuzu to Megane to Bungaku Shoujo (Nise)
Kuzu is a series I'm still working through, but it's unique enough already that I feel it deserves a recommendation. The story follows Koga who spots Orikawa one day reading under a tree and it's love at first sight, for him. Although Orikawa acts like she's a "literature girl" she's actually just pretending to be one because she finds it aesthetically pleasing. The series follows the hijinks of those two along with another boy who are all part of the literature club and Koga's attempt of getting Orikawa to like him, when in reality she thinks he's gay.
That's all for now, I'll be turning this into a weekly or monthly series depending on how much manga I have the time to pick up at the time. If you have any recommendations for manga or 4-koma feel free to leave it in the comments below.