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MegaTokyo is an epic about imagination, extended every few days by a new full-page manga strip.  Gamer, techie, feminist, romantic, fantasy, heroic, and multi-generational themes are deftly blended.  Look at some of the highlights to get a taste of the mature style (the first few dozen strips are weaker than the thousand-plus that follow, but before the end of the beginning chapter  the art has matured and the story is well launched).  The rich plot (reminiscent of Dickens, another serial novelist), has well-crafted climaxes revealing and weaving together an impressive range of characters.  The strips are collected in paperback volumes for those who wish to acquire merit (and some excellent gifts) by supporting the author.

THE MOST RECENT MEGATOKYO STRIP:  DDOS
Progress report - artist twitter

Schedule -- Since August 2000, a MegaTokyo strip has been produced for most Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (although recently this has slowed to one or two days a week as the artist copes with his first child).  A total of 1,259 strips have been posted in 499 weeks.

Efficient-viewing features on the left side of this guide frame (To escape the guide frame, use this direct MegaTokyo link) The Top-Middle-Bottom-Next links and buttons are spaced so that clicks without moving the cursor will show you all of a strip, then proceed to the top of the next strip (most chapter 0 strips are shorter and need only two positions). A button to the left toggles between the  "All strips" mode and a default "Story only" mode that limits what Next (or Back) shows to only the Story strips.  This enables people who wish to catch up on the story sequence to do so without distraction from strips in the non-story categories described below.

KEY TO STRIP CATEGORIES:

Story -- 952 strips tell the main story, which has many cross-currents but also a strong central narrative.  New readers may wish to use the chapter links at top left (or here: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) to read the story in multiple sittings or to look at the titles and types.  Each chapter from 1 on corresponds to one (very full) day in story time.

"Dead Piro Day" Strip Categories
These are scheduled days when the artist (the Piro character's alter ego)
doesn't post a story strip, for reasons ranging from a cold to a vacation.

Art -- 93 strips are stand-alone drawings that provide insight into the characters (and the artist) but do not relate directly to the flow of the main story. 

Meta -- 72 strips describe the context or artistic process for the strips, provide engaging critiques by Seraphim (the alter ego of the artist's spouse), or describe some aspect of the artist's life (typically as an explanation for a missed story strip).  But strips about the on-line role-playing personas of the story characters are in the Story category (a few digressions are in Other) rather than here, because Pirogoeth et al are archetypes at the heart of the story, not peripheral meta-characters.

Omake -- 42 strips comprise the Grand Theft Colo, Circuity, unMod, and Full MegaTokyo Panic short stories that use MegaTokyo characters in contexts different from the main story.  These diverse extras implicitly comment on other manga narrative styles, but also illustrate how these well-realized characters can be substantially recast while retaining their essence.

Other -- 100 strips cover the artist's absence on an adventure of some sort with either guest strips, Stick Guy Dom joke strips drawn by the artist's business partner, or other digressions.  These can be entertaining but are not related to the story.