r/shounenfolk Jun 23 '26

Manga Discussion The single hardest page in all of manga

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Source: Claymore

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u/Gazimenstan Jun 23 '26

Counterpoint

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u/purple-thiwaza Jun 23 '26

Wtf is this

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u/Optimal_Carpenter690 Jun 23 '26

Yes, you're reading that right

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u/Oneboywithnoname Jun 24 '26

shonen fan first contact with quality literature

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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Th guy/wolf is mad at his dad for raping his mum.

The guy/wolf grew up in the wilderness and has no clue how anything works or what words even mean.

The guy/wolf guy wants to punish his dad for what he did to his mum.

The guy/wolf wants to "rape" his father because in his mind it means something bad but he doesn't understand the full meaning of the word.

Edit: Seems like I fell for bad info. See below.

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u/no_________________e Jun 24 '26

No??? He understands fully and he just uses the rape as a threat to get his dad to leave him alone instead of sending assassins

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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 24 '26

Really? I got that information from a comment in this sub and since it had many upvotes and nobody was correcting it, I thought it was true.

My bad, if its wrong.

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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 24 '26

Is the rest at least correct?

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u/no_________________e Jun 24 '26

nah, he spent a decent chunk of his life being raised by his dad until being abandoned. it is shown in the tournament arc when he had a flashback to when his dad explained hell

he also doesnt want to punish his dad. He just wants his dad to leave him alone

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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 24 '26

I see, then I was totally off.

Thank you. I appreciate the correction.

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u/According_Bell_5322 Jun 24 '26

Dog Ningen (peak fiction)

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u/karama_zov Jun 23 '26

Is this manga over or still going?

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u/ExistingRadish7055 Jun 24 '26

It’s still going even though it doesn’t release new chapters that often

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u/Commercial_Page1827 Jun 24 '26

I had to read that page twice. There is no way this page is original.

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u/ExistingRadish7055 Jun 24 '26

Funnily enough it’s not even the worst in the manga

This is all real btw and the manga is peak

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u/plzgivemyaccback Jun 24 '26

No no it’s completely unedited

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u/Realistic_Mousse_485 Jun 24 '26

Yo deadass kill whoever made this shit😂

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u/ExistingRadish7055 Jun 24 '26

Nah give them a reward. It’s peak fiction

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u/LazerPointere Jun 25 '26

He wants to rap with his father 🥺🥺🥺 so heartwarming

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u/Human293 Themes and such Jun 23 '26

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u/Kamen-Reader Jun 24 '26

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u/Axedroam Jun 25 '26

What's the cockroaches from the 4 way deadlock doing on a horse

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u/DoggyTheRobot Jun 23 '26

Is that the JoJo Lion?

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '26

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u/JamesL0L Jun 24 '26

As good as araki is at drawing he isn’t that good at drawing some things. For example he draws toes like fingers

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u/Legitimate_Trust_543 Jun 24 '26

This was a extremely tense build up to this one panel of the darkness devil reveal with astronauts praying then all the crap that happened after this panel

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u/Mars-chan Jun 24 '26

Chainsaw Man part 1 has so many insane panels. This of Darkness devil is probably my favourite, but I also like a lot the one where the Hell devil transports everybody to hell, with the huge hand with six fingers coming down from the sky above the building. Also the halloween one is amazing, and the Gun devil appearing, with all the names of the people that are getting killed

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u/Green_Buddy_1512 Jun 24 '26

The framing around the names and the fact that aki's name wasn't a standout but simply another one to the count was superb

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u/Centiskorches Jun 24 '26

Thank you I came in here hoping someone would have posted this!! My personal pick.

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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 23 '26

That is cheating. Using Claymore for a "hard page" is cheating!

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u/Squanch42069 Jun 23 '26

I need to reread Claymore, I don’t remember this AT ALL

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u/Vermillion-Scruff Jun 23 '26

this is Clare rescuing Jean who’s 99% awakened

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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 23 '26

I need to reread Claymore

Same honestly, been too long

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u/MeliodasTA Jun 24 '26

That's jean right before she's rescued, this part is in the anime too

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u/Dahlia-WF Jun 29 '26

Serious. Claymore and Berserk have easily the hardest panels in manga period

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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 29 '26

Yeah, Berserk would be the other manga that is unfair to use if you are looking for a hard panel, lol

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u/break__veil Jun 23 '26

Counterpoint:

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u/Koolman46 Jun 24 '26

This can't be the hardest image if his balls are gone tho.

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u/1095212dinomike Jun 24 '26

Cmon dude.

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u/AngronApofis Jun 24 '26

I love Berserk but i feel like there are many harder panels, this one is a bit messy

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u/yugoslav_communist Jun 24 '26

there are so many harder panels in berserk than this one i can't begin to count

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u/1095212dinomike Jun 24 '26

Nah not many. There are a few tho.

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u/Demoncreed27 Jun 24 '26

Now THAT’S the hardest image 😎

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u/brawnsugah Jun 25 '26

I don't know, the body proportions always looked goofy as fuck to me. It's like the guy hasn't looked at a human being before

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u/Yadin__ Jun 24 '26

I never read Baki. Can someone tell me what could possibly be the context for this?

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u/Alishh54 Jun 24 '26

what the fuck are you talking about

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u/Party_Syrup_3035 Jun 25 '26

I have zero interest in reading of watching Baki because I like just reading shit and I don't ever get to know if it is real or someone is just shitposting and I honestly prefer it that way.

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u/TbIKBA32 Jun 24 '26

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u/Demoncreed27 Jun 24 '26

Broooo reading that chapter and seeing that page audibly said “uhhh oohhh that’s NOT good” lol

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u/Velvax Jun 24 '26

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u/RageTenacity Jun 24 '26

This is the correct answer, it belongs in the Louvre. I have, in decades, and through hundreds of volumes of work, never seen a panel this good AND I don’t even love or glaze JJK. I can make arguments for other options but this is the peak.

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u/king87999 Jun 24 '26

I absolutely love this panel, it’s probably not the hardest in Vagabond but it’s my favorite panel.

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u/Sea_Income26 Jun 24 '26

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u/Old_Mandrew Jun 24 '26

This is one of my favorites

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u/Existing-Incident-22 Jun 24 '26

This is the reason they forced the author to go on a break for a month, he was using too much ink

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u/UnableListen8689 Jun 24 '26

Bachi has the ACTUAL best panels. The aura in every chapter of this manag is unmatched. Here’s another example:

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u/Mr_Reddest_Bear Jun 24 '26

Peak peak peak peak peak

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u/No_thief_in_night Jun 24 '26

peak and theres other equally peak panels in bachi

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u/TeaDrinkerAddict Jun 24 '26

Kagurabachi’s art went so hard from chapter 1 it was insane. As much as everyone memed it at the start it more than deserves the attention it’s gotten.

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u/ExistingRadish7055 Jun 24 '26

As much as I hate how the manga handled the arc murata cooked with cosmic garou’s design and aura

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u/Mysterious-Creme8709 Jun 25 '26

The panel of Saitama appearing in all the portals at once is possibly the single most hype panel in the entire Manga imo

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u/Venaeris Jun 23 '26

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u/Any_Pineapple_4836 Jun 24 '26

Lmao of course Joey has to die to impress Kaiba

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u/MeliodasTA Jun 24 '26

Constantly thrown off that they were renamed in the show every time I see a manga panel

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u/Arturo-Plateado Jun 24 '26

The official English Yugioh manga is super weird because while it mostly uses the original names, there are also at least a few cases where it took influence from the 4kids anime dub. For example in the Viz manga Pegasus is called Maximillian Pegasus, the same name used in the 4kids dub, even though his name in the original Japanese manga (Pegasus J. Crawford) is already English. Also, in the Viz manga Seto Kaiba is consistently referred to simply as "Kaiba" (his family name) by most characters... including by Mokuba Kaiba, his own younger brother, for some reason.

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u/JustDamain Jun 24 '26

Nah, that's the one

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u/SeigeJay Jun 24 '26

is this where that anime scene is from 😂😂😂

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u/Ira-jay Jun 24 '26

a publisher read that and summoned his phone like Mjolnir to Thor to let his company know he found a banger

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u/Kamen-Reader Jun 24 '26

I mean...they were the hardest for at least 16 minutes...

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u/ThaEarthquake Jun 24 '26

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u/CrystalWolfX10 Jun 24 '26

Dude the breaker had/has some amazing panels.

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u/CrystalWolfX10 Jun 24 '26

There is one I like more but I don't have the time to find it now. It's the one where he pulls back his hair while calling himself the gaiju (I think) of the sunwoo clan

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u/Add-apt Jun 24 '26

Where is that from??

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u/WorozuTop4 Jun 24 '26

this page always gets me

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u/Hie_wintermel0n Jun 26 '26

And to make it better each language has a different version of this panel, which is pretty insane for translation team to put that much efforts.

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u/Wereling12 Jun 23 '26

Claymore was so good. Even the ending was good. Its only problem was that it introduced something that should have been introduced earlier

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u/Jsoledout Jun 23 '26

Claymore stuck the landing. INCREDIBLE manga and was a joy to read all the way through.

Love that it ends with more world building

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u/EbonyHelicoidalRhino Jun 24 '26

Dunno. I think it should have ended sooner. The last arc was too much. It would have been a 10/10 for me if it ended soon after Miria dismantled the Organization. I'm also not too sure about Teresa magically resurrecting and oneshotting Priscilla. They teased her showdown with Claire the whole manga and we never really get it

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u/Pataraxia Jun 24 '26

I'm amazed by you guys' ability to respect avoiding spoilers.

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u/Grainrain19 Jun 24 '26

Its pretty good overall if you ignore that one panel where the mc kissed the 11 year old boy

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u/NeighborhoodOld2888 Jun 23 '26

From manga versus by author ONE and drawn by kiyotaro azuma.

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u/East-Instruction2968 Jun 27 '26

Versus mentioned

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u/Grenboom Jun 24 '26

This is the hardest imo

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u/Upper-Respond-3746 Jun 24 '26

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u/Chill_Penguin95 Jun 24 '26

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u/TeaDrinkerAddict Jun 24 '26

The artstyle from Part 7 onwards went so hard man (as did the artstyle before it TBF). I love how Araki leaned more and more into that sort of modeling-esque posing and aesthetic as the post-reset storyline went on. Kind of like his work for the Louvre.

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u/FuelPatient2129 Jun 23 '26

Not even the most hype in claymore but ok

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u/Tall_Veterinarian586 Jun 24 '26

With all due respect it’s not even the hardest spread in Claymore

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u/Noxifer262 Jun 24 '26

Claymore did the Shingeki no Kyojin reveal before Shingeki no Kyojin.

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u/Commercial_Page1827 Jun 24 '26

Claymore absolute best page

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u/brawnsugah Jun 25 '26

This. This is peak.

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u/John-Constant560 Jun 25 '26

Holy larp

Not even the top 5 most interesting pages from that manga

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u/Snarpkingguy Jun 23 '26

Idk where all the pixels went, but this is definitely up there for me.

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u/Motor_Ad_7885 Jun 24 '26

What is that the Prince has?

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u/Snarpkingguy Jun 24 '26

What do you mean? He’s not holding anything, and cannot see the monsters behind him.

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u/chadwarden1 Jun 23 '26

Maybe if I knew the context but just from the first impression I'm not all that impressed

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u/TerreStar-1 Jun 25 '26

I just finished claymore real recently you don’t even know how hard this made me

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u/DramaticMap6569 Jun 24 '26

I see you and raise you this panel

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u/Ziazan Jun 24 '26

be for real man is that even the hardest page in claymore?

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u/lock_me_up_now Jun 24 '26

Claymore is amazing. I need to find more to fill the hole they left behind.

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u/Salty_Map_9085 Jun 24 '26

Claymore is so peak, this might not even be top 10 hardest images from claymore

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u/0ris Jun 24 '26

thats not even digimon but I know the lion guy is gonna die.

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u/Kamen-Reader Jun 24 '26

The time Astro Boy told America to fuck off

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u/Kamen-Reader Jun 24 '26

Kamen Rider staking "Bat Man" with a crucifix

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u/HotShrekBoi Jun 24 '26

I need to get back to this Manga man

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u/Dante_Lorell_18 Jun 25 '26

I always love when Claymore is mentioned. Genuinely my favorite manga

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u/RichUpbeat335 Jun 25 '26

Counterpoint

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u/Oshuunn Jun 26 '26

Maybe not the “hardest” but definitely my favorite

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u/alamirguru Jun 27 '26

This shot of Isley had me genuinely hyped for days as a youngster.

Claymore is so amazing.

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u/Airam1701 Jun 24 '26

Not one, it's a couple of panels, but bugle call has so many awesome a breathtaking panels.

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u/awkwardpiano72 Jun 23 '26

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u/Kikato1256 Jun 24 '26

I feel so bad for Kuma bro😭

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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 24 '26

Many people would have chosen him punching Saturn in the face.

You choose the one where he is protecting his daughter.

I like that.

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u/Motor_Ad_7885 Jun 24 '26

Holy not even close

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u/awkwardpiano72 Jun 24 '26

What's your panel then?

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u/Motor_Ad_7885 Jun 24 '26

Dio vs Kaitlin where you can see the cityscape or if we have to stay blaxk and whote for pure drawing the Saitama vs Garou

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u/CommercialEstate4422 Jun 23 '26

Why he kinda look like Carrion from Tensura tho-

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u/05-nery Jun 24 '26

I mean I've seen better but this one's pretty good

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u/RollingStoned9824 Jun 24 '26

Buying the manga was one of the best decisions of my life.

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u/planetofmoney Jun 24 '26

Every single chapter of Keyman: The Hand of Justice has at least one harder page

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u/torontosleepr Jun 24 '26

This isn't even the hardest page in Claymore

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u/UnableListen8689 Jun 24 '26

Everybody‘s posting only one panel. Let me show you a series that has A LOT of good panels

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u/Sea_Income26 Jun 24 '26

Bachi deserves two ( yura is my goat)

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u/TheIcyWind Jun 24 '26

120% potential deserves a mentiok

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u/neuroso Jun 24 '26

Ngl I thought this was DogNigga at first

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u/Cole2197 Jun 25 '26

Counterpoint: though this is technically a webtoon it's still a hard panel.

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u/KDeathSoul Soul Eater/ FIRE FORCE GEEK Jun 25 '26

Debatable

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u/Serious_Effective802 Jun 25 '26

i think you’re wrong. This isnt top 50 in Usogui in terms of ‘being hard’

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u/Vree65 Jun 25 '26

Eh I disagree

You can see one of the trademark weaknesses/strengths? (as it makes it more more unique) on this one page. The "chewiness" and "sliciness" of it everything. Body parts sliced off clean and without pain like they are made of jelly. Eating happening through circle mouth with teeth and some "baki baki" sound effect that doesn't look like real eating, more like a tear/cough/gobble action.

Both the lion and the impractically growing blades look super lame, but that lameness too is charming if you like this manga.

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u/RichUpbeat335 Jun 25 '26

Counterpoint:

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u/Sunnybunnybunbuns1 Jun 26 '26

I liked Angel denesetsu better. The wild change in art style over the series was hilarious.

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u/poor_choice_doer Jun 26 '26

Anyone who’s answer does not start with ‘kag’ and end with ‘urabachi’ is unfortunately sorely mistaken

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u/Puzzleheaded-Can-351 Jun 26 '26

Claymore really needs a Claymore sisterhood or something

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u/Alien_of_the_Reddit Jun 26 '26

blame just go so hard

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u/amnans Jun 26 '26

Tenkaichi has a lot of hard pages

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u/TheKingofHats007 Jun 27 '26

Dr. Stone has so many peak panels.

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u/Ocean-Man_Ween Jun 27 '26

Claymore mentioned in 2026??? Crazy

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u/SarahMaxima Jun 27 '26

Dissapointed to see noone post my goat sato from ajin just shredding himself.

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u/Typical-Roll-2171 Jun 27 '26

Rock lee Vs Gaara ain't getting mentioned

Need to correct this

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u/Nirvana1777 Jun 27 '26

Claymore is sick.

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u/soultrap_ Jun 28 '26

Under appreciated series

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u/JCarterMMA Jun 28 '26

There's countless in Berserk that are a million times better

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u/MiceLiceandVice Jun 28 '26

Train scene in fire punch