The Kodansha Comics Digital Sampler - REAL contains the full first chapters of all of our "real-life" manga series, including Arisa, Bloody Monday, Danza, Genshiken Omnibus, Second Season, I Am Here, Kitchen Princess, Missions of Love, and Vinland Saga.
4.25 🌟s // Great collection!!! First chapters of a number of manga of different genre, theme, and art style. I didn't know half the titles, mostly the shoujo ones. I'm interested to check these titles out and add them to my list of tbr.
The last one, 'I am here' by Ema Toyama was a bit roll-your-eyes worthy, though, with the typical shy female main character who instantly gets attached/close to the first guy who pays attention to her. Granted, it is a manga from a decade or so ago. Reading those kinds of female protagonists in shoujo makes me cringe a lot so I won't bother with the last title from this sampler.
I got this for free . Mainly black and white artwork. I didn't like the romantic grade school stuff. The Vineland saga,which was about Vikings was quite good, I Will try to see more of that.
A quality sampler. Has a little bit of everything - shojo, shonen, drama, comedy, something for everyone. And a whole chapter of each of the series, for you to give it a taste.