08th MS Team is a classic if you want Universal Century, small unit mobile suit combat in Vietnam. Gundam Thunderbolt offers a newer side-story look for Universal Century. I've always loved Gundam Wing & Endless Waltz, but if ihad to choose a non-UC ... mmm you could try the Mercenary Kids of Iron Blooded Orphans. However Gundam Wing remains the nest non-UC imho.
On a side tangent - want a kino space anime with great combat & story, check out Outlaw Star.
Thanks for this, been primary manga recently because I found animes moving too slowly for my tastes. Your lists have been great for finding other gems, and getting a succinct summary is harder & harder with review sites being tainted by left bias.
Some of my own manga re-reads & new discoveries,
Martial Arts & Military:
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(current reread) Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi / History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi by Matsuena Shun - gem from 2002, up there with Bakku & Hajime no Ippo as a great 2nd-tier martial arts manga under DBZ
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Records of the Mystic Gardens by Trick Garden - Chinese Xianxia cultivator martial arts. page flow isnt aids, loved the style - killed off by CCP inner security before its time.
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Girls' Frontline //Dolls' Frontline by Mica Team, Miharu (壬覇流) - kino gun girls manga with a anime out based on the gacha game. always had a solid story, i'd reccommend it.
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Ramia-Yana, Hero & Demon Lord Chronicles by TheGoldenSmurf - fantasy by a guy who does a great style like One Punch Man, if you like curvy musclewoman & OPM in a fantasy setting, try this.
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Ragna Crimson - solid fantasy, dragon-demon slaying
Slice of life / Sports:
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Dogsrred by Noda Satoru - sports manga on Japanese High School Hockey and classic rise to the top. made by the guy who did Golden Kamuy.
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Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari / Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You by Jinushi - adult slice of life romcom between a salaryman and cute supermarket clerk afterhours
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Hitman // Weekly Shonen Hitman by Seo Kouji - story of a manga editor and the artists he manages in a high speed way
If you need readings for traditionalist ideas, messages, & paths:
I. Brief Introduction
A Handbook of Traditional Living
II. First Steps
Julius Evola - Men Among the Ruins, Rene Guenon - The Reign of Quantity and The Sign of the Times, Hans Herman Hoppe - Democracy: The God That Failed, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn - The Menace of the Herd, Anthony Ludovici - A Defence of Aristocracy, Plinio Correa de Oliveira - Revolution and Counter-Revolution, Thomas Carlyle - Heroes and Hero Worship,
III. Beyond the Pale
Oswald Spengler - The Decline of the West, Francis Parker Yockey - Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, Julius Evola - Revolt Against the Modern World, Rene Guenon - The Crisis of the Modern World, Carl Schmitt - Political Theology, Ricardo Duchesne - The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Eric Voegelin - From Enlightenment to Revolution, Eric Voegelin - Modernity Without Restraint, José Ortega y Gasset - The Revolt of the Masses,
IV. Further Explorations
Julius Evola - Ride the Tiger, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn - Liberty or Equality, Satoshi Kanazawa - The Intelligence Paradox, H.L. Mencken - Notes on Democracy, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck - Germany’s Third Empire, David Stove - On Enlightenment, Christopher Lasch - The Culture of Narcissism, Paul Johnson - Intellectuals, Theodore Dalrymple - Our Culture, What’s Left of It, Theodore Dalrymple - Life at the Bottom, Thomas Sowell - Affirmative Action Around the World, Wyndham Lewis - Time and Western Man, Kevin Macdonald - The Culture of Critique,
V. High Culture
Roger Scruton - Beauty, Roger Scruton - The Aesthetics of Architecture, Roger Scruton - Understanding Music, Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy, Harold Bloom - The Western Canon,
VI. Embracing Masculinity
Robert Moore - King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, David Deida - The Way of the Superior Man, Walter Newell - The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country, Frederic Delavier - Strength Training Anatomy, Mark Rippetoe - Starting Strength, Tony Robbins - Awaken The Giant Within, Marcus Aurelius - The Meditations, Sun Tzu - The Art of War, Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power, Yamamoto Tsunetomo - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai,
VII. Traditional Christianity
G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy, Venerable Fulton Sheen - The Moral Universe, Hilaire Belloc - Survivals and New Arrivals, Michael Walsh - Roman Catholicism: The Basics, Archbishop James Gibbons - The Faith of Our Fathers, Henri Daniel Rops - This is the Mass, Fr. Frederick William Faber - The Precious Blood or the Price of Our Salvation, Fr. Frederick William Faber - The Creator and The Creature, Robert Hugh Benson - Christ in the Church, Cardinal Manning - The Holy Ghost, The Sanctifier, Colin Lindsay - The Evidence for the Papacy, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre - An Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Fr. James F. Wathen - The Great Sacrilege, Fr. Luigi Villa - Vatican II About Face!, Fr. Joseph Deharbe - A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion, ——– Alexander Schmemann - For the Life of the World, Kallistos Ware - The Orthodox Way, Lorenzo Scupoli - Unseen Warfare, John Marler - Youth of the Apocalypse and The Last True Rebellion, Seraphim Rose - Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future,
VIII. History Revisited.
Admiral Raphael Semmes - Memoirs of Service Afloat, Anne Jean Marie René Savary - Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo, Claude François de Méneval - Memoirs to Serve for the History of Napoleon I, K. P Pobyedonostseff - Reflections of a Russian Statesman, Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France, Regine Pernoud - Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths, Lothrop Stoddard - The French Revolution on San Domingo, Sidney George Fisher - True History of the American Revolution, Lawrence H. Keeley - War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage, Alexis de Tocqueville - The Old Regime and the Revolution, Peter Oliver - Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion.
Helldivers 2 .. got the Community Manager award from these newspigs...