LibrarianCroaker posted:

A Story About Treating a Female Knight, Who Has Never Been Treated as a Woman, as a Woman

Jagged Jim posted:

That looks like that would be a very impractical way to dress if you wanted to do... well, anything.
Also what is this?

Brought To You By posted:

chumbler posted:

Speaking of bad titles.

Brainamp posted:

Too bad its a pretty garbo manga

Brainamp posted:

Too bad its a pretty garbo manga

Thuryl posted:

That one's getting an official translation as How to Treat a Lady Knight Right, which is... an improvement, I guess.

Snooze Cruise posted:

Cuntellectual posted:

I have no idea if anyone else reads 1-nen a gumi no monster, but power move by momo in the last chapter.

Cuntellectual posted:

I have no idea if anyone else reads 1-nen a gumi no monster, but power move by momo in the last chapter.

Onean posted:

New chapter for Love Me For What I Am and this seems like fun.

Brought To You By posted:

Haven't seen it mentioned but are people reading Dosanko Gyaru is mega cute? Story is about a Tokyo kid moving up north to Hokkaido and meets the resident Gyaru. Who apparently has anti-freeze running through her veins most days, which is an impressive feat to achieve without Vodka.

It's got 5 chapters and is off to a good start just setting up these two being interested in each other and clearing the omnipresent Misunderstanding within the same chapter it's introduced so I consider that an additional plus. Humor is good too, MC's reactions are solid but appropriate.

If Silver Spoon taught me anything it's that Hokkaido is a pretty cool area, am interested to see where else these two explore.

Wark Say posted:

Given that sukebans/delinquent girls aren't super popular lately, I'm sorta glad that I've come to like these mangas with rad gyarus. Thanks!

Wark Say posted:

Given that sukebans/delinquent girls aren't super popular lately, I'm sorta glad that I've come to like these mangas with rad gyarus. Thanks!

Brought To You By posted:

If Silver Spoon taught me anything it's that Hokkaido is a pretty cool area, am interested to see where else these two explore.

Captain Invictus posted:

lol everything about the yashiya fight in rokudou is magnificent

yashiya's version of the love spell making rokudou look like kenshiro despite still being a little weenie in reality is hilarious

This whole arc with the onashima has been fantastic. Glad I continued this series, it's great fun. The art seems to be improving too.

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Like to read long-running bromancey fantasy manga but getting tired of the boys never kissing? Yami no Koudou might be just what you need. Bamboo Feathers describe it as "Freaky dark supernatural psychological impending-doom mystery full of reincarnated bad-asses"
Nine years ago, Kouichi Amano was attacked at the park with his brother, Jun, who lost his memory of that event as well as the second sight he’d possessed. Now in high school, Kouichi is plagued by nightmares and bloody visions. Dark creatures stalk the streets as the appearance of the Harbinger heralds the coming of the Dark Millennium. The clans are spurred once more into action as Touya and Kamio are inexorably drawn toward the Amano brothers. How can the coming darkness be stopped, and what role will the Amano brothers, both ignorant of their fate, play in it…?

It's an ongoing series that's been running since 1997 and has some of the same feel, at least initially, as something like X/1999 with an impending apocalypse looming and a bunch of clans trying to hold it back while some upstart with mysterious powers shows up and starts loving up all their poo poo. The main thing that really got me hooked (blacking this out because it's a plot spoiler) is that all the apocalypse stuff ends up being the clans playing a game of telephone with extradimensional knowledge, and rather than bringing an apocalypse down on their heads the leads are dismantling a calcified and corrupt system built around empty reverence for a misunderstood (and tragic) figure.

The trigger warning on Bamboo Feathers' project page is no joke, there is a plot relevant rape scene and one additional moderately-graphic sex scene later on if that's a thing that bothers you, but for the most part most of the action is implied and never drawn in detail. The main relationship later on also features a lot of making out but other than their first big bedroom scene everything else they do is offscreen so for the most part it's pretty non-explicit. What you're more likely to see are blood and guts, there are a few scenes where people get gibbed so heads up on that front as well.

The art is very distinctive and stylized and at its best in the big spreads when the linework is very brushy and dynamic. It does some neat stuff with panel layout and use of patterns too, but the anatomy can be a little sketchy (I crack up a little when somebody's lumpy butt is shown and realize that was probably fanservice). The dialogue is occasionally hard to follow from panel to panel but for the most part it has good scanslation so it's not like Silver Diamond or The Ice-Cold Demon's Tale where you have to struggle through early scans to get to the more readable stuff.

The series is ongoing at 26 volumes but the scans are only up to 22 or so, but they come out on a regular schedule every 2 weeks so it's also not like you'll get caught up and have to wait years for another update (or never get one) so that's definitely a plus. Overall it took me a bit to get into it but once I got past the introductory stuff and learned who everyone was and what their relationships were it was easy to get hooked on the story. I like that most of the antagonists aren't straight-up evil and are mostly just flawed people who are following what they think is right.

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I just caught back up on Yami no Kodou after not reading it since October and I'd forgotten what a trip this manga was. At this point in the story the lead guy is in a weird threesome with his boyfriend and an undead energy vampire and is also collecting a harem of inter-dimensional warriors who are all horny for his previous incarnation. The warriors and the human characters communicate on different wavelengths so the warriors voices sound like birds chirping and they have to communicate via psychic uplinks facilitated by holding hands. It had a very X/1999 feel at the beginning then it went waaay past that and just kept going and I love it.

Pollyanna posted:

Absolutely yes. I love a good trainwreck and that manga is awesome.

Mirage posted:

Tiny spoiler for you: Yashiya will eventually return and give us, in her delusions, the funniest image in the entire series.

Captain Invictus posted:

Do you mean during the fight with her where Rokudou goes full blown hulk in her delusions after he saves her from falling out a window or is there an even further future encounter

because I am all for continuing the gimmick

A Sometimes Food posted:

So Rokudou is actually good? The premise seemed kind of, uh, creepy.