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Death Note or Inyuasha

Well the two titles are quite dissimilar, so it's sort of like comparing apples and oranges. InuYasha is great if you are a Rumiko Takahashi fan, and Death Note is great if you like intelligently written supernatural thrillers. Two different markets, although there are many fans who like both. So what you have to ask yourself is, what sort of person are you?

If your goal is to read something that you can finish, go with Death Note. Viz hasn't completed it's run of Inuyasha in the US, and while I love the first few volumes for their dark tone and charm, the plot gets repetitive, the characters stop developing, and the story devolves into power-up arcs after a while. You wrote that you're currently bored with Naruto, so you probably don't want to start on something that even most of its *fans* thinks gets really boring...

Death Note is shorter, tighter, fully released in the US and available at many public libraries. It has more dialog and less action than Inuyasha, but it's also more suspenseful and sports a killer ending! (Meaning, if you read it, you'll probably feel a good payoff at the end).

Another option is to try something Completely Different (tm, Mounty Python). If you're bored of a long running current shonen, why not try a classic shonen (Dororo or Black Jack, both by Osamu Tezuka. The former is only 3 volumes long and is action packed, the latter is tons of fun and full of self-contained stories, so you can pick and choose volumes and chapters, even read it out of order, and not miss out) or a modern Seinen (Pluto by Naoki Urasawa has suspense and mystery, great characters, awesome art, zero sex (or romance, really), and is fully released in the US at only 8 volumes)?

If you're bored with a modern shonen story, give something new a try. Inuyasha is just more of the same.

I have no idea who told you that, but 20th Century Boys is NOTHING like Lord of the Flies. Sure, in the flashbacks a bunch of boys (and one girl) are friends (but none of them go crazy and try to kill each other or anything), and the similarities end there. Its plot is intriguing and complex, the characters are engaging, etc., I highly recommend it.

thanks for the advice,and funny you mention it but i actually started black jack a couple days ago,(and the anime series im about to start.)as for seinen,well,i haven't heard of as many as shonen.I've heard of some like 20th century boys,but the plotline sounded like a total rip off of lord of the flies,and berserk sounded like it was just a gorefest and it seemed like it could die easily.I've heard of pluto,but i never knew what it was about,what is it about?

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka , Vol. 1

In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.

A shonen series that captures "dark" and "suspenseful" really, really well is Parasyte by (IIRC) Hiroaki Iwaata.

Really? What magazine did it run in?