As a mild distraction from current events, I'm going to start a random twitter thread that I will update spontaneously with random manga panels that have impacted me deeply from ages past or just recently...

This bit from Ch. 17 in MHA is what hooked me on the series and instantly made Eraserhead a top favorite. Beyond the typical shonen kind of narratives and tropes, the one bit I'm ALWAYS a slut for is achieving what you can in the face of overwhelming defeat and man this HITS!

This bit from FMA Ch. 43 was a PoV I had never thought about before while first reading the series and being made cognizant of it made me extremely emotional (even still now TBH) empathizing with Al who is not even 9 or 10 IIRC dealing with a very unique kind of loneliness.

Naoki Urasawa's remake of Astro Boy, 'Pluto' is definitely one of my all time favorites for a variety of reasons but his remake of North #2 is easily one of them. Seeing how an advanced AI robot manufactured for war deals with PTSD while adjusting to its ownership under a /1

cranky, jaded, old and blind pianist will never cease to get my emotions running. Bonus side by side with Tezuka's ORIGINAL North #2! Urasawa's art remains respectful of the original but with some brilliant flourish *___* /2

Eyeshield 21(Ch 181) was basically the peak of my interest in American Football ironically. Yukimitsu's 'Rock Lee esque hard-work with no natural talent' journey (this came out a few years after that famous fight btw!) to beat out cocky natural talent always gets me PUMPED!

Yotsuba (Ch 11). This series captures the innocence of youth quite well through so many instances, but this will always be one of my favorites. Your single dad knocks out after an all nighter of work and child draws on his face with magic marker and tries mayonnaise-ing it off.

Bonus Panel, again the innocence of youth...

xxxHOLIC may or may not be responsible for any semblance of emotional intelligence I have. I dont remember encountering many successful non-mutual romantic love relationships while I was growing up but the one between Watanuki and Himawari has always stuck with me.

One Piece... for all its whimsical moments and slightly off norm representations there are just some moments that hit home real hard. Being able to forgive and build towards peace is one thing, but isn't it also cruel to ask the oppressed to quiet their rage and sadness? 1/x

I have reread One Piece so many times and it feels like I've varying thoughts on this scene in particular every time I hit it. Regardless of how I feel though, these characters carry their intentions straight and true and the emotional sobbing it brings is constant. 2/x

This series is really something man... but one last bonus panel!!! I love Queen Otohime so much, easily one of my top characters in the series T_T

I read Inio Asano's 'Solanin' in early high school somewhere around 15 years ago and the feeling it elicited still resonates even now. It felt like my first listen of Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' plugged with a shot of millennial dread that I had yet to experience.

Honestly a criminally underrated work from him even though AKFG actually made the song for the film adaptation specifically. This manga always gets me feeling a certain kind of way.

Space Brothers (Ch 64) is easily within my top 10 of all time mangas. Seeing the slow piece by piece accumulation of envy and happiness grappling for control and eventually coexisting as Mutta watches his brother land on the moon has personally helped me process so many emotions.

My first experience with manhwa was Jeon Geuk-jin and Park Jin-hwan's 'The Breaker' and I am a sucker for martial arts media in general so getting to experience this on the chapter by chapter release was something else. The art just evokes unmatched rawness levels for me.