Trufax, the best manga ever written is called Eden: It's an Endless World! (exclamation mark is part of the title btw) and as far as I can tell nobody in the entire world has read it except for me. Okay, maybe a few people, like the dude who wrote the tiny weaksauce wikipedia page on it. But he probably didn't care about it since his page is so weaksauce. Then again I love Eden and I haven't contributed anything at all to the wikipedia page about it so maybe this guy is okay.
Alright, well some people probably read it apart from me, otherwise it wouldn't still be in production, but still, it's relatively unknown. In proportion to how mind-blowingly awesome it is. If the world was good and fair then Eden would be right up there at the top of the sci-fi anime pantheon, alongside EVA and Ghost in the Shell. But the world is neither good nor fair so Eden languishes in the back of storerooms of anime shops everywhere.
So what is this Eden all about? Basically it's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi, a bit like Akira, but with cyber-robot-people like in Ghost in the Shell. It's really, really dark, probably one of the goriest manga there is, and also has lots of sex, drugs, prostitution, mutant robots and other horrible things. Mostly each chapter falls into one of three categories: a) characters talking about philosophy b) characters talking about how messed up their past is and c) characters shooting and bombing each other. Sometimes the writer mixes things up with scenes of people talking about how messed up their past is while shooting and bombing each other.
I know that doesn't sound like anything special but it's just that everything is done so well. The characters are brilliant, the action scenes intense, and the artwork - well the art is probably the best part of it, it's some of the most detailed artwork I've seen in any graphic novel. It's extremely realistic and gritty, but the fight scenes still contain that stylized sense of motion that you see in Naruto or Bleach. According to my uber leet artist friends, the 'body proportions' aren't always correct, but I can never see it so they're probably just lying like they always do.
Anyway, I've written too much again and probably put everyone off reading this because it's so long, but if you got this far then go out and buy Eden. Until you do though it's all mine.