What Giantess Manga Titles Are Best For New Readers?

If you are interested in learning more about giantesses and would like to read some short stories, I can recommend some of the following works, which all have strong plot lines and accessible artwork. ‘Gigant’ is a good place to start reading about giantesses. Written by_naohiro_iwata, ‘Gigant’ is a hard to classify sci-fi drama for adults that has a strong protagonist arc and good conflict and high stakes. The giantesses in this work are simply a part of the story and are not the focus of the plot.

If you want something a bit different then ‘Attack on Titan’ (large humanoid creatures in a serious drama) or ‘Kaiju No. 8’ (fun huge creatures) could be great starting points. Of course there’s lots of variation in “giantess” themed stories and while ‘Gigant’ is a great starting point, lots of people would get bored with just that kind of thing really quickly. I generally alternate between serious stories with large female characters and more lighthearted, playful stories with giant women, as that keeps things interesting for me. Look for these on legal platforms like Kodansha, Viz, Crunchyroll Manga and Manga Plus, read the first chapter or two and see if you like it.

I sort of entered this niche by accident, and I guess my first rule for friends would be to pick variety. If you want a giantess as part of a larger, fully developed story with some drama and occasional awkwardness, I'd recommend 'Gigant' for its great art that actually shows off the giantess as well as the consequences of her size. 'Kaiju No. 8' is another good one – it's a giant monster buddy-cop story that's a lot of fun and has a lot of great, inventive visuals, treating the giant monsters as normal inhabitants of the story's world. And for a much more classic shonen style of story with a ton of giant monsters and lots of emotional intensity, 'Attack on Titan' is a great start. If you're coming at this from a queer/feminist perspective, or just plain curious, I'd recommend jumping back and forth between a bunch of different series with different tones: a grounded/seinen series, a comedic/parody series, etc. You can even search for genre tags like "monster", "giant", "kaiju" on legit sites to get a sense of the kinds of stories a series might contain without having to worry about spoilers. I found that reading a bunch of seriously gritty giant monster stories, and then some seriously goofy ones, really added to my overall appreciation of the genre.

My general strategy for making these sorts of recommendations is to categorize based on scale and narrative, and then choose from within those buckets. So for a complex, philosophical or moral tale that features large-body phenomena, I go with ‘Gigant’ because the giantess is a medium for exploring fame, identity, and consequences in a story that feels really full. For a more action-oriented, comedic take on giant monsters, I go with ‘Kaiju No. 8’—it’s a really fun, fast-paced, and energetic read that looks great on the page. For a more serious, epic, and downright tragic take on giants as monsters, I go with ‘Attack on Titan’. It’s a really deep and mature (for older readers) series that’s heavy and feels sprawling, but in a good way. For new readers, I would recommend checking for content warnings on the pages of a graphic novel before reading, as some of these stories can flirt with eroticism or otherwise be quite explicit, while others are almost purely focused on monsters in a dramatic, big-scale way. My approach to reading these sorts of stories would be to pick a “mature drama” and a “tragic epic” to rotate between, in addition to the more lighthearted “action-comedy”, in order to keep things fresh and prevent burnout. I continue to be surprised by the many different approaches to representing scale in comics and manga, and it’s that variety that keeps me reading.