What is this?
MangaCodex is my personal manga tracker. I made it because none of the big ones I used or found (Mangadex, MangaUpdates, MyAnimeList) really clicked for me, and some of them have other major issues (e.g. MyAnimeList got bought out by a web3 company).
Works are marked for status: in-progress (), finished (), and dropped (), though if I drop a manga I'm more likely to just remove it. If a work's unmarked, then I haven't started it or I don't remember where I got to before I made this tracker.
Other stuff:
- I read a bunch of stuff years ago that I haven't listed here, and I'm also not gonna list every Touhou doujin, one-pager, and paint-by-numbers soc-med comic I've read
- tags may be inaccurate for works I haven't started or finished
- covers mostly come from mangadex, scaled down and converted to to 20%-quality WebP
- credits are for artists and writers and occasionally doujin circles; it's basically whatever I found when I exported my old data from mangadex and looked things up on mangaupdates
- most Japanese names are in Japanese order, but a few (e.g. Junji Ito) are used so often in Western order that I've written them that way instead
Tags
Some notes about some of the tags:
Info on individual tags
- academia
- When something's being studied in an academic, higher-education way
- art
- anything about the practice and creations of an art form, rather than the manga art itself
- big
- anything about big scales of space and time
- cooking
- manga with actual recipes, or at least focus on process and ingredients (even fantasy ones)
- historical
- works set in real time periods significantly before the time the work was created, specifically those that put a lot of detail into presenting the era (counter-example: Mushishi doesn't make much of the specific period it's set in, even though it's set in historical Japan, so I haven't given it this tag)
- humanimals
- animals as stand-ins for humans
- work
- stories with a focus on workplaces, conditions, politics, and practice, not just that involve characters who're employed
- xenoscope
- Japanese works about real-world places outside Japan and people who aren't Japanese (or the same for Korean, Chinese, etc.)