Interest Stacks

this stack came to being because i started thinking about what manga i could recommend my friend that reads mostly western comic books and eventually figured i'd gather all manga i could think of that fit the criteria of taste of western comics readers in general and didn't have any aspects that commonly throw them off and stop them from reading manga.

what i considered in making the stack:
- setting had to be western; if fantasy or sci-fi then it had to simply fit western aesthetics and have at least non-japanese names for characters, if contemporary or historical then it had to be set outside of japan (though not necessarily in the west, if it had other aspects that could appeal to a westerner, since if it's set outside of japan that means that the setting is written with an audience that is foreign to it in mind) and have mostly non-japanese characters
- artstyle had to be non-anime; either realistic, semi-realistic in the way that is at least inspired by how western artists tend to draw or stylized in a way that doesn't contain any of the typical codifiers that signify "anime" to the viewer
- vibe had to be western; this is the most vague standard, but it basically means that the way it is written can't be too culturally japanese, so not a lot of japanese humour, tropes, gimmicks, etc.
- it had to not be too popular; i didn't want to add any usual suspects that commonly get recommended to non-weebs, because then i wouldn't have space for the less popular hidden gems that i wanted to highlight in this stack (to clarify, anything above 150,000 members on mal is most likely not in this stack)

feel free to comment me suggestions for a potential part 2, especially action manga, because god knows i don't read a lot of action manga and that's a lot of what western comics readers like to read