Most Un-cliche mangas ever

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Bradherley no Basha tragic shoujo (?), not work safe
Ludwig Revolution generally subverts/inverts clichés, the one that's played straight is Handsome lech+Straight edge servant
Cesare is a historical manga, one glaring cliché is genius country bumpkin, but that's easily ignored, based on history (the mangaka is working w/an european historian)
Freesia is generally cliché free except for one glaring one

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choku! is pretty subverted.
Angel Densetsu is hilarious, and a subversion of battle manga and average guy in the wrong place.
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Kanojotachi no X-Day. It's a shoujo.

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No one's mentioned Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer yet?
Try it, it's great. One of the only manga that's completely surprised me. Most manga that have surprised me, I at least expected to be surprised given the nature of the story. This one though, I went into expecting a fairly generic shounen only to be presented with a manga that gradually but completely subverted all the typical cliches in a thoroughly entertaining way.

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Tropical Citron
Uncivilized Planet
The World is Mine
Abandon the Old in Tokyo
Bakune Young
Ugh. Too many to list.
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Operation Liberate Men has gender roles so reversed that it cant be cliche (very interesting too)
Savage Garden
(both are shoujo)
Edit: Also After school nightmare is very unusual. Forgot about that one.

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One outs
liar game
kaiji
gantz
shamo
in other words (my favorites)
why because i am the president of the student council of course
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One name comes to mind;
Since he's the Father of Manga, you cannot call his works cliche, right? 😀

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Pretty much all of the Matsumoto Jiro works i guess
Though i must say this topic is kinda useless for people who are into manga and have some experience...all of u have read those...and everyone knows about those titles even without this topic--
U can just check every highly-popular manga and that would be it -- Not that hard
And just for lulz...
Onani master - bullied girl cliche
Sundome - weak male lead,ill female lead
Mysterious girlfriend - pretty weak male lead,anrdoid-type female lead
Saru lock - perverted male lead
Cage of eden - strong male leader lead,battle-royal-like plot cliche\
Until death do us part is full of cliches too
and on and on...
I'm just messing with it ofc,but still ...the thing is - the other parts of the manga are compensating those cliches,and in the ecchi manga the thing that compensate it - are boobs,pantsu,harems and bit of a romance
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No one's mentioned Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer yet?
Try it, it's great. One of the only manga that's completely surprised me. Most manga that have surprised me, I at least expected to be surprised given the nature of the story. This one though, I went into expecting a fairly generic shounen only to be presented with a manga that gradually but completely subverted all the typical cliches in a thoroughly entertaining way.
yeaa i dont get it why it isn't ultraaa popular .....its just awesome
apart from that try
psycho staff--same author as hoshi no samidare
kiseijuu
AIKI ...harem protagonist who actually expresses his libido
love roma---a feel good romcom ...diff from GE & KNIM which give me the creeps (GE not so much as KNIM)
best shonen manga couples :
shinichi X ran
natsu X erza
ippo X kumi
naruto X gaara
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MIMAN RENAI
SUNDOME
KANOJO WA KANNOU SHOUSETSUKA
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Yuutai nova
(more action)
Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest
Until Death Do Us Part
I highly recommend you don't read Sundome but the rest I second
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I totally second Mushishi and Bakune Young! The former is mystically beautiful in terms of both art and story, while the latter is just...plain weird, but in a good way.
I feel that Tsumi to Batsu (OCHIAI Naoyuki) is going to be pretty un-cliche as well; but the scans are still at the beginning so I can't be 100% certain.
Anything by Matsumoto Taiyo and Furuya Usamaru can be considered fairly cliche-free, too.
Oh - and K no Souretsu and Goth are both rather odd and very much unlike the normal manga in their respective demographics.
If you don't mind anime, be sure to try out Mononoke and Mouryou no Hako. Both are very unique and interesting.
Edit - Forgot to add Discommunication Seireihen and Astral Project
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