In my case, I particularly like this manga because it’s weird. That said, I think it’s likely that if you read it you will like it more than I do. My preferences in humor overall would be Hinamatsuri and Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro I think they’re better comedies (OPINION). That is to say, “INSANE over the top reactions”, but I definitely had a hell of a lot of fun with the series.

To be honest, the kind of humor in the manga that it mostly focuses on doesn’t actually bust my gut. Some readers say it’s the best ongoing comedy manga out right now, and reception to it is extremely positive. And it’s a damn good one at that - definitely one of the best.

Just, the best way you can put it is to call Grand Blue a gag manga. How about romance? I noticed in that first page up there there’s a girl talking about how she’ll start living with her cousin - does that mean romance?

Does that mean it gets sad and depressing at times? Nooope. While it’s often absurd, it can have some heartfelt moments, and when it gets into diving (it does, I swear) it’s overwhelmingly nice. I’m not even talking about how its first chapter is full of young men drinking heavily and getting naked, it’s a strange manga because it’s not “usual”. In case it wasn’t obvious: Grand Blue is fucking weird. In other words, a comedy/sports kind of series…technically. Grand Blue (ぐらんぶる, Guran Buru, also Grand Blue Dreaming) is a diving manga by author Inoue Kenji (井上堅二) (his best known work is probably Baka to Test) and artist Yoshioka Kimitake (吉岡公威) that is…I suppose also a “gag manga”.

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