Do you think it's possible for 'mainstream' manga(like, action/shoujo/etc, doesn't have to be a popular manga necessarily) to have deep meaning?

Can you list the ones you feel had deep meaning/messages? Please don't list anything by osama tezuka, thanks oh and also if you can please post what meaning/message you thought the manga had

I was reading the last book of ayashi no ceres and im sure the author attempted to put a message there but im not sure what it was since i only read the last book not the whole series

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gantz maybe. i just found the message: "zoos are evil". okay, there are many more deeper messages in there

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2 popular "mainstream" series that I didn't see in your lists:

Great Teacher Onizuka
Fullmetal Alchemist

Easily two of the best and meaningful shounen titles, ever.

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Personally I would say:

Hachimitsu to Clover - coming of age
Onani Master Kurosawa - another coming (pun!!) of age story
Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan - well, just read the description
Hana no Namae - I guess it's about love & escaping inner turmoil... or something.
Toumei na Sekai - death and living
Cat Street - personal growth
Kanojotachi no X-day - personal growth
7 Seeds - suffering, and love, and hardships, and human nature...
Heptagon
Kaze Hikaru

But I think there is a lot of meaning in many popular series. True there are also a lot of shallow manga, but it's the same for novels, or Western comics, or whatever. We're all just human and trying to share things... if you can connect emotionally to a character, I think there's a lot of meaning just in that.


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You should say what you think is mainstream... and give some magazines that release mainstream stuff. Then give some examples of what you think are not mainstream series.

This is because what I think are mainstream and what you think are mainstream are probably not the same.

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thanks guys for the recommendations!

@toto- that at first glance/summary doesnt seem like its going to have any sort of deep meaning. Like, Naruto for example. A ninja manga, with fighting in it, probably no deep meaning. (i haven't read it so i don't know if theres any meaning in it or not, but just as an example).
Or a fluffly looking shoujo romance. But that underneath the plotline/bishies is some kind of deep message

mainstream: Shounen jump magazine
Not mainstream: Slice-of-life manga
i hope that helped?

Oh and vampire knight to me had the message that living forever isn't as grand as people make it out to be

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I second FMA and Hachimitsu to Clover (talk about different ends of the spectrum... though both do have a coming of age theme...)

Fruits Basket is one that screams mainstream but its deep.