But my ultimate comfort read is the unstoppable girliness that is Hana Kimi. It's certainly a flawed manga, but it's so intently focused on giving girls the girliest girliness that can fit on paper that it always makes me, as a girl, feel completely soothed.

Aria/Aqua, Crescent Moon, Ghost Hunt, Immortal Rain, Mugen Spiral, +Anima, and Hibiki's Magic.

Aria/Aqua (yeah, the one set on an over-terraformed Mars) and Hibiki's Magic (which is about a 10 year old kid, not very good with magic, who ends up working in a school because her teacher was so awesome no-one believes she's not that good at magic) are both the kind of manga where nothing much happens in some really weird ways. They're just very relaxing books that don't take much brain if you don't want to use it.

Crescent Moon and Mugen Spiral are both just fluffy supernatural romance stories, and Immortal Rain is a fantasy supernatural romance story. Y'know, immortal boy who has closed his heart off because watching people die/having people treat you like a monster really sucks after a while meets girl who teaches him how to love, whilst plot maybe kinda happens in the background. I'm a sucker for supernatural fluff - it takes no brain, everyone gets a mostly happy ending, no-one ever gives up (for long).

Ghost Hunt's just plain supernatural manga, although it's also got a touch of magic in it. Title's pretty descriptive. I mostly read it for the character interaction, which I love.

+Anima is that one about kids who turn into animal hybrids. It's cute and awesome and again, requires no brain power and nothing bad happens (for long).

Sunako & Kyohei will get into some sort of situation that will cause them to kick ass together. They are truly the best ass kicking couple in manga.

The boys will get mobbed by fangirls to a horrifying, locust-like degree.

It's truly comfort manga, very mashed potatoes-ish.

Oh, Skip Beat! I think I moved it up to my 2nd favorite shojo now. Everything about it makes me happy, it's ridiculous how smiley I get while reading it! The romance is able to be drawn out slowly in a way that's plausible and feels really well paced. There's some great female friendships in it. The art's able to transition between funny, sexy and poignant at all the right spots. I just think this series keeps gets better and better. It blends comedy and angst so extremely well that you're not bogged down with the emotional bits when they come. The side characters are so fun and Ren is just....maybe the best love interest in shojo right now? I love the backstory with how Kyoko & Ren met when they were little but she doesn't know it was him. Kyoko's whole love of fairy tale, princess type things while still having her out for revenge, take no prisoners attitude is the best. If I was rich I'd buy massive amounts of the 12 volumes that are out in the U.S. right now and skip around town, presenting them to lucky folks like Santa Clause.

I'd like it if the One Piece universe & the Fairy Tail universe met up and had some adventures together. I first dismissed Fairy Tail as a One Piece ripoff after a few pages but then I gave it another chance and found it had enough differences to keep me interested. But I still find One Piece to be the most comforting of all. Once I figure out how to make myself fictional I'm stowing away on that pirate ship. Sounds reasonable, right?

Other than that, pretty good assessment of Fairy Tail. Fun, blockbuster sort of manga. Just like Mashima's previous series, Rave Master, which is all sorts of goodness itself.

And Sex Pistols (i.e. Love Pistols in the states) is just a thing unto itself. Weirder than weird isn't exactly comfort to me but I agree about its crazy energy as a source of uplift.