I finally read the Attack on Titan manga this year. It was incredible and not at all what I was expecting from the trailers. Lots of unexpected twists to the s

I finally read the Attack on Titan manga this year. It was incredible and not at all what I was expecting from the trailers. Lots of unexpected twists to the story, a steady pace of reveals of interesting mysteries, and it seems the entire story was planned out from the start, with things set up at the very beginning that receive a payoff much later. I also read and really appreciated the Witch Hat Atelier manga. It's kind of like a Harry Potter-style story but with a hard magic system like Brandon Sanderson (once you know it you can look at a picture of the spell and be able to guess what it's supposed to do... also there's a lot of modularity in the system so it feels a bit like programming with functions at times, building up more complex and creative spells from the synthesis of smaller ones). A lot of the story in the manga seems to be setting up these interesting moral quandaries about how and how much should you help less fortunate people when you have the power/ability/knowledge to do so, but there are restrictions to what you should do and good reasons for those restrictions, and how can you work around those restrictions and still feel good about yourself and feel like you've done enough (even when you know you could be doing more)? Also should those restrictions be in place in the first place, or are those restrictions ultimately doing more harm than good, and did those who put those restrictions in place do it with good or ill intentions? It's still ongoing, and probably only about halfway through so far, but it was a really interesting read that I'll definitely go back to just so I can ponder its messages again and again. It also doesn't have an anime yet but it has to be getting one sometime soon, it's too good and the art in the manga is too pretty not to get one. I'm also about halfway through 20th Century Boys manga and that's a really clever mystery about some sinister things happening in modern day juxtaposed with the protagonist's childhood, and what in his childhood might somehow be related to what's going on in the modern day. I went in totally blind (just having heard it's really good) and have really enjoyed discovering the secrets of the mysteries (and there's still plenty more to be revealed). It's got a different character art style than most manga as well, and it's pretty refreshing (characters have defined lips, it's weird at first but refreshingly different).