I recently discovered Like a Butterfly (Hun) and they were brilliant. So now I'm wondering if there are any other hidden gems that came out in the last five years or so. What I mean by hidden gems are manga/manwha/whatever that are good but tend to have probably less or about 200 or so people reading them on MU, ones that not many people read/know about. 485v61

As for what genres and etc, I'm fairly open to anything, though I'm not really looking for shoujo. I do prefer art that looks good, but as you can see from my examples my tastes are eclectic. I think as long as they're fairly unique story-wise or the premise is different from the usual, then I'd be up to reading it.

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Astra Lost in Space is pretty criminally underrated. It's a space survival/adventure/conspiracy/comedy story. It's about nine kids who are mysteriously transported to the depths of space 5,000 light years from home, and try to find their way back. I could write on and on about what makes it so good, but you should just try it for yourself.

Not many people are actually reading it, which is a shame because all of its chapters are currently being released for free on Viz's website.

Most people probably don't even know Astra Lost in Space is being released for free and I get why a lot of people aren't reading it after trying to read it. You should definitely add the releases on MU since they're free, but it's still fairly difficult to use the website reader since Viz is relying on Flash and the UI is pretty bad.

Anyway, Astra is pretty cool, the whole airhead Aries turned me off at first but after they got lost the whole story picked up. Thanks for the rec.

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I will shamelessly plug Aoi Uroko to Suna no Machi, because I believe everyone should read it 🙂

That scanlation group does a lot of obscure short things you might want to check out.

Okay so Astra Lost in Space is really good even though there are a few hoops to jump through, it is really good.

Arte looks awesome and just up my alley so I'll give that a look see.

I enjoyed Aoi Uroko to Suna no Machi a try too.

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Here's a few that I've been hooked on recently:

Kine-san no 1-ri de Cinema only if you're a movie buff tho

Sandman - The Dream Hunters

The Chronicle of Myo-Jin lots of mature themes and violence though, but it's amazing

more light hearted side:

Anata no Koto wa Sorehodo quite interesting, deals with all sides of adultery

I try to find obscure new manga of the last five years myself, so... here! Note I tend to be a fan of shoujo and BL though haha.

Taihen Yoku Dekimashita. - a high school romance that is formed on the basis of being an outcast. The couple becomes friends before lovers too, which I really liked.

These might all be more to my taste than yours, but still! I hope you can enjoy them.

@mikako17 Have you read all of the available chapters yet? Because the latest chapters are really something. (And I ended up adding the chapters to the release section. Thanks for suggesting that).

Also, I second Arte. The only problem with it is that Silent Manga Audition ceased translation of all their titles last year, so we're pretty much left hanging.

The best hidden gems I came across lately are Grand blue both mangas have an ecsellent writing, characters and art, and are not typical clichè speciments of their respective genres.

Arte apparently only has chapter 1 and 17 available so I couldn't really get into it.

Aoi Uroko to Suna no Machi was so beautiful and just really good.(Also I really love the movement of Tokiko's skirt throughout the manga.)

[Hoakan Evans no Uso] looks kinda hilarious and so does Kine-san no 1-ri de Cinema especially since I don't really consider myself a movie buff.

I probably won't read Anata no Koto wa Sorehodo though, they just sound really cool.

I'm not sure about reading Taihen Yoku Dekimashita sounds a bit too similar to other high school debut shoujo manga so I probably won't check it out.

@calico197 Yes I have and omgomgomg! Astra!!!!! 😀 (And np, now I'll know when a new chapter is available without me having to check the site every day 😛 )

I really have to catch up on Grand Blue sounds pretty good though.

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Bokura no Fushidara

Palace Meidi it's a shoujo but I think this is quite decent.

[m]The Promised Neverland[m] Only 51 chapters at the moment, but its very good.

I'm playing catch up with all these reccs right now and have only caught up with Hoankan Evans no Uso both of which are hilarious with Shinobu-chan being especially adorable.

Palace Meidi was recc'd since I kinda adore any kind of manga about history.

I've been hearing good things about The Promised Neverland but am not sure I want to get into it.

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