Manga recommendations

So i decided to review and recommend my favorite manga titles. My preferences are usually something seinen and slice of life-ish. But good old shounen and romance mangas like DragonBall and Ichigo 100% sometimes tickle my fancy too.

So this week's manga is called Saint Young Men, or 聖☆おにいさん in Japanese (sei oniisan), and is by Hikaru Nakamura. Oh btw isn't it better to use the last name (in this case Nakamura) first rather than the first name, is it? I live in Canada now but where i come from originally the family name always comes first, as it does in Japan. And i dunno what the kanji is for the name but its most likely 中村光.

Anyway, the manga is about Buddha and Jesus who come back to earth to live human lives. And of course they come back as cool and slack young men, just as lost in the big city as a regular not so holy young person. The manga describes their lives and has a very sense of humour and is very light-hearted overall. It reinvents old characters of Buddha and Jesus and gives them a modern face that everyone can sympathize with. Needless to say religious fanatics might not enjoy it. However its important to overcome that kind of virtual boundaries and narrow-mindedness, and to be able to see old things in new ways. Since it's set in Japan it also tries to strengthen the cultural bridge between Japan and the West. I am not a member of any religion, although i am sort of spiritual and often question myself, and thus might be agnostic. So my view is different from someone who has been going to a church every sunday and reading the bible regularly or going to a monastery and praying to buddhist gods since their childhood, or whenever. I am going into dangerous grounds now i feel, and might have said that will upset some, so sorry.

Give this manga a whirl, and i am sure you will enjoy it! Only 4 chapters are available in english on the net tho which sucks. A good place to read it would be One manga which has a lot of titles for free online.