Greetings, people ! 🙂

These days I feel like trying series on some topics I've not intensively (enough) explored (yet). Please help me finding them !

I'm looking for mangas which can fit any criteria :

• the MC is cold, cruel and manipulative (preferably a murderer)
• the MC oppresses people (by any mean)
• there is a simple, cute yet eventful romance (≠ holding hands at 50th chapter)
• the MC is a sharp, knowledgable leader in a fantasy setting (≠ forever tutored MC)
• people die a lot (especially if we care about them)
• the story leads to spiritual, intellectual pondering
• the plot is devoid of "common sense" (children imagination, weird stories)
• the MC is mighty yet acts unseen (no matter the reason why)
• the MC couple has perfect synergy (2 bodies, 1 will)
• the MC is living his last days (terminal illness, suicide...)

To be honest, I'm not really picky on subjects, so if you feel like sharing something else just do !

Thanks a lot !
Have a nice day. 🙂

• people die a lot (especially if we care about them)
  Akame Ga Kill

The MC is a sharp, knowledgable leader in a fantasy setting
Overlord

the MC is cold, cruel and manipulative (preferably a murderer)
Freesia
Dendrobates

Not mentioning the super popular ones, like death note and code geass, and these are just couple series off top of my head, all are quite good

• the story leads to spiritual, intellectual pondering

Spirit Circle

Hello ! 🙂

@Pixeldrum : I'll look that Dendrobates ! I know the others. 😛

@hurafloyd : One of my favorites ! Mizukami is golden. :3

Thanks for the suggestions friends ! 🙂

• the MC is cold, cruel and manipulative (preferably a murderer)
  Maou no Hajimekata - The Comic - MC is an evil magician and dungeon master. This also somewhat fits your request for leader in a fantasy setting.
  Death Note, but you probably already know about it.

• the MC is a sharp, knowledgable leader in a fantasy setting (≠ forever tutored MC)
  Nejimaki Seirei Senki - Tenkyou no Alderamin - He is sharp, knowledgeable and has all necessary qualities to be a good leader, but so far the scale is fairly small, i.e. he is not leading anything large/significant yet.

• people die a lot (especially if we care about them)
  Gantz
  Not manga, but in case you also watch anime you should try "Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra".

• the plot is devoid of "common sense" (children imagination, weird stories)
  Yo no Na wa Zushio - It's a nonsensical, random and extremely hilarious comedy.

• the MC is living his last days (terminal illness, suicide...)
  Ai-Ren
  Diamond Dust (KANG Hyung-Gyu)

Edit:

To be honest, I'm not really picky on subjects, so if you feel like sharing something else just do !

Then here are few more titles that I like a lot and can recommend:

Again!! - some (minor) time travel + trying to fix mistakes made in the past. Great characters and character development.
D-Frag! - really good and unpredictable comedy.
Hare-Kon. - primarily: comedy + harem + romance + slice of life. I'm recommending it because its approach to the Harem theme is quite unusual. Story and characters are well detailed and it explores the concept of polygamy in a realistic way.
I Am a Hero - psychological + zombie survival. Fairly realistic for a story about zombies.
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. - primarily: romance + slice of life. What makes it interesting is character development and involvement of Shinto, Japanese mythology and religion.
Onani Master Kurosawa - really not what it seems to be at first. Starts as a comedy with lots of references, then gets more serious and features some good character development.

@ImmLff

Thanks for the suggestions. I know quite a lot of those, but I'll look into what I haven't seen yet : Nejimaki Seirei Senki (probably the novel actually), Yo no Na wa Zushio, D-Frag!, I'm a Hero and Again!!.

🙂

[m]code breaker - action, supernatural, with a touch of reverse harem and romance. It's also really long manga and a 13 episode anime

(Disclaimer: may not be what ur looking for but still good manga)