When you tell someone to read a manga about wheelchair basketball it sounds almost absurd, but once you get into it you realize this manga is more than just wheelchair basketball

If i had to describe real, it would be this sentence: "life is fucking hard", because this is what real is, the hardness of life, the effort one has to make to keep living, this is the reality of the world.

What i like most about REAL it's that it has more than just 1 protagonist, the series revolves around 3 persons, each one battling their own demons and battling to survive the condition their living in. The characters from REAL have so much depth and development that i'd have to say, from all the mangas i've read, this manga is the only one that actually made me cry, and it wasn't just some tears, i was actually crying my eyes out, which made me realize how much connection i had to the characters on this manga. The ways the characters are presented makes you feel what they're feeling, for example even though Takahashi is presented as an asshole and a selfish person, the more you know about him, and the more you go on into this character you start to like him, you start to feel what he's feeling on a deeper level, which many mangas fail to do, the same can be said about nomiya or togawa, they're all created on such a personal level, that i'd say this manga feels more real than most of the manga I've read.

If you wanna read something serious, something to actually think about at night or in the shower, then read REAL, I wouldn't say everyone would like it, it feels more of a book than a manga, for the simple fact that this manga doesn't follow the normal characteristics and tropes of a manga.
It isn't farfetched to say this is the best manga I've read up to date, and if you wanna have something to think about, then give it a try.