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Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012


Story went with the open ending which is fine. We can guess what will happen and these two deserve each other

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Brought To You By posted:


Story went with the open ending which is fine. We can guess what will happen and these two deserve each other

It at least feels like a good ending, he's still half-vampire and he's now basically on the level with her, and she seems happy to have him back. I'll take it

Final chapter of Shiroyama and Mita-San: https://mangadex.org/title/92aad009-294d-4865-bf6d-1e275a287858/shiroyama-and-mita-san

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Jan 24, 2024

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Call of the Night's ending was alright but it's weird absolutely nothing ever came of Nazuna's weird origin.

If I read anything by that author in the future I'll have to remember to keep my mystery resolution expectations low.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Sindai posted:

Call of the Night's ending was alright but it's weird absolutely nothing ever came of Nazuna's weird origin.

If I read anything by that author in the future I'll have to remember to keep my mystery resolution expectations low.

Yeah I do get the feeling that they wrapped up either because Publisher prompted them to or they were tired of writing the series.

SmellOfPetroleum
Jan 6, 2013

Sindai posted:

Call of the Night's ending was alright but it's weird absolutely nothing ever came of Nazuna's weird origin.

If I read anything by that author in the future I'll have to remember to keep my mystery resolution expectations low.

"Why are you still half-vampire?"

"lol idk"

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

The mystery was one of the weaker parts and an element that the comic never seemed super interested in wanting to solve so not surprised it kinda just didn't come up. I can respect a story that chooses to just lean into its strengths and just leave some things unresolved.

Comic did mostly lose me in the previous arc though even if final chapters were pretty good.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
"Loves in Sight" just wrapped up, if you haven't read it it, its cute: Sight disabled girl and Delinquent guy fall in love and overcoming both their issues and limintations

https://mangadex.org/title/478feb7a-efa3-4912-8faf-18d287f33cab/yankee-kun-to-hakujou-gaaru

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

CommieGIR posted:

"Loves in Sight" just wrapped up, if you haven't read it it, its cute: Sight disabled girl and Delinquent guy fall in love and overcoming both their issues and limintations

https://mangadex.org/title/478feb7a-efa3-4912-8faf-18d287f33cab/yankee-kun-to-hakujou-gaaru


I know exactly what he's talking except Id probably say the cosmos are hauntingly beautiful at times, and sometimes downright sci-fi horror soundtracks. Planets are usually chill though, stars are the scary ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwnpXll_A_E

Spookydonut
Sep 13, 2010

"Hello alien thoughtbeasts! We murder children!"
~our children?~
"Not recently, no!"
~we cool bro~

CommieGIR posted:

"Loves in Sight" just wrapped up, if you haven't read it it, its cute: Sight disabled girl and Delinquent guy fall in love and overcoming both their issues and limintations

https://mangadex.org/title/478feb7a-efa3-4912-8faf-18d287f33cab/yankee-kun-to-hakujou-gaaru

i just binged it the last two days, thank you for the recommendation. it was very good

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Spookydonut posted:

i just binged it the last two days, thank you for the recommendation. it was very good

Glad you enjoyed it!

New chapter of 'The Dangers In My Heart': https://mangadex.org/title/3df1a9a3-a1be-47a3-9e90-9b3e55b1d0ac/the-dangers-in-my-heart

Also found this one: "Living, Eating, and Sleeping Together". Nice little slice of life romance, love the way the stories done as it does a chapter from his perspective, and then a chapter of the same events from her perspective:
https://mangadex.org/title/39470154-57d5-4bbe-b69a-95d91633a83e/kuu-neru-futari-sumu-futari

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Feb 2, 2024

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!
meanwhile in you and i are polar opposites, dorks hang out

something about taira gazing down at the bottomless pit in his soul and azuma being like "uh dude my eyes are up here" perfectly encapsulates their relationship

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

SexyBlindfold posted:

meanwhile in you and i are polar opposites, dorks hang out

something about taira gazing down at the bottomless pit in his soul and azuma being like "uh dude my eyes are up here" perfectly encapsulates their relationship


big fan of this background character


the mouths being the same is very cute

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
'Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro' new chapter: https://mangadex.org/title/d86cf65b-5f6c-437d-a0af-19a31f94ec55/ijiranaide-nagatoro-san

And we have confession

Helter Skelter
Feb 10, 2004

BEARD OF HAVOC

Nice pun with the chapter number on that one.

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

Megamissen posted:


big fan of this background character


the mouths being the same is very cute

Taira’s kermit the frog motherfucker faces are incredibly funny

Spookydonut
Sep 13, 2010

"Hello alien thoughtbeasts! We murder children!"
~our children?~
"Not recently, no!"
~we cool bro~

CommieGIR posted:

'Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro' new chapter: https://mangadex.org/title/d86cf65b-5f6c-437d-a0af-19a31f94ec55/ijiranaide-nagatoro-san

And we have confession

honestly just end it there i cant imagine it would be anything but downhill after this

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Spookydonut posted:

honestly just end it there i cant imagine it would be anything but downhill after this

I suspect it'll start wrapping up at least - Nagatoro got her Judo groove back, Senpai confessed and Nagatoro accepted, and he's moving quickly towards his art goals, there's not much left to cover methinks

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute

SexyBlindfold posted:

meanwhile in you and i are polar opposites, dorks hang out

something about taira gazing down at the bottomless pit in his soul and azuma being like "uh dude my eyes are up here" perfectly encapsulates their relationship

Pleasantly surprised at how brisk the pace has been, particularly for a bi-weekly release. The perfect blend of moving the status quo forward while also giving the characters breathing room to mess around and be dorks.


Mmm yes he's the exact opposite, you could even say... a polar opposite. :v:

Terper
Jun 26, 2012


Masuda Eiji, author of Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa, has started up their latest manga, and it's another romcom!

https://mangadex.org/chapter/e716db76-fefa-46c1-8b0a-3a7a8879d7d2

...with a twist!!

Elfface
Nov 14, 2010

Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
IRON JONAH
Already some first class faces there. I'm looking forwards to more!

BlankSystemDaemon
Mar 13, 2009



Terper posted:

Masuda Eiji, author of Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa, has started up their latest manga, and it's another romcom!

https://mangadex.org/chapter/e716db76-fefa-46c1-8b0a-3a7a8879d7d2

...with a twist!!
loving hell, I love everything about this.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Terper posted:

Masuda Eiji, author of Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa, has started up their latest manga, and it's another romcom!

https://mangadex.org/chapter/e716db76-fefa-46c1-8b0a-3a7a8879d7d2

...with a twist!!

Finally, a romcom I can self insert into

BlankSystemDaemon
Mar 13, 2009



Brought To You By posted:

Finally, a romcom I can self insert into
Holy poo poo, you're right - it's the real self-insert romcom!

Chicken Thumbs
Oct 21, 2020

Time is dead and meaning has no meaning!

Terper posted:

Masuda Eiji, author of Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa, has started up their latest manga, and it's another romcom!

https://mangadex.org/chapter/e716db76-fefa-46c1-8b0a-3a7a8879d7d2

...with a twist!!

This rules.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
New chapter of 'Uzaki-Chan Wants to Hang Out': https://mangadex.org/chapter/19d7168b-0b82-4ba8-a94b-5cf9bb4862a2/8

Marriage proposal sprung!

Spookydonut
Sep 13, 2010

"Hello alien thoughtbeasts! We murder children!"
~our children?~
"Not recently, no!"
~we cool bro~

CommieGIR posted:

New chapter of 'Uzaki-Chan Wants to Hang Out': https://mangadex.org/chapter/19d7168b-0b82-4ba8-a94b-5cf9bb4862a2/8

Marriage proposal sprung!

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012
Found an ongoing series about love between two older people.
https://mangadex.org/title/72a2961a-333b-434c-8552-8944d5c0c862/gojuu-rokujuu-yorokonde
Contains a dangerous amount of one foxy grandpa.

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

polar opposites is on break this week but theres a short bonus chapter

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
If you guys are not watching Season 2 of 'The Dangers In My Heart' you are missing out, its doing a really good job at adapting the story and characters. Making me feel better after how poorly the 'Girl I like Forgot Her Glasses' anime fell flat.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
New chapter of 'The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses': https://mangadex.org/title/6d6d9fda-5cd3-40ac-948b-776b1a1a0eb1/suki-na-ko-ga-megane-wo-wasureta

Lube Enthusiast
May 26, 2016

Teaser for the Ikoku Nikki live action adaptation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJxdKMw3SA

I’ve read almost no manga since it ended. It was quite simply too good & nothing else compares.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
heh, i posted it 2 pages ago B)

like i said earlier, i still think makio is too well put together

Lube Enthusiast
May 26, 2016

Snooze Cruise posted:

heh, i posted it 2 pages ago B)

like i said earlier, i still think makio is too well put together

Oh sorry, my bad. Like i said, I haven’t had the need to check to my adtrw bookmarks

Orb Crabmelt
Jan 16, 2011

Nyorp.
Clapping Larry

Lube Enthusiast posted:

Teaser for the Ikoku Nikki live action adaptation

I’ve read almost no manga since it ended. It was quite simply too good & nothing else compares.

I've been reading it over the last three weeks with the stipulation that I'd read only when I had a good chunk of time to devote to it and also read no more than one volume per day. I'm on the last one now. I will say both that it's one of the best series I've ever read and that it also has some small problems.

Some of this might be attributable to the scanlation, but I feel like I spent a lot of time trying to figure out who was saying what. In any conversation featuring more than two speakers, I usually just gave up and read it all as a big jumble, though that worked out fine most of the time since that's how group conversations tend to be in reality. I also think that if the scanlators were going to go through the trouble of cleaning and redrawing the onomatopoeia, then they should've "translated" them the best they could, but that's a very minor nitpick.

I wasn't a big fan of the use of brief flashbacks that becomes very frequent towards the latter half. Like, if you were reading this as it was published, I feel like you would've forgotten the context or significance of a lot of the flashbacks. Not a big problem for me, but if there's ever an official localization (which I would definitely buy), I have to wonder if people will get more confused when they have to wait longer between volumes.

But definitely one of the best series I've ever read. Probably the best since I can't think of anything else I liked better. It really portrays a lot of the weird things you feel when you lose a close family member, particularly in how it affects you in unexpected ways during day to day life instead of having one big clear cut emotional climax and then being resolved forever. I also liked that while the subject matter was inherently sad, it didn't feel arduous or gut wrenching to get through. It was like... A grief-comedy slice of life, if that makes any sense.

I'm really sad that I only have that one volume left, because I also haven't seen any other manga like it. I particularly loved how the series could pivot from sadness and grief, to cute and goofy comedy, and then to something surprisingly tender and heartfelt in the span of just two or three pages.

It is a story dealing very intensely with grief, coming-of-age, and finding meaning in life without going too over the top in the way any other manga with a similar premise would. It really earns its serious moments. I 100% recommend anyone read it who thinks it sounds the least bit interesting (just make sure to read at least to chapter two since the first chapter is essentially a prologue). I'm really grateful to everyone who posted about it for getting me to read it.

(Only very tangentially related, but if anyone's looking for a pretty good comedy, check out Onna no Sono no Hoshi / Star of the Girls' Garden. I mention it here because it ran in the same josei magazine as IK and I also wanted to tell people to read it but don't really know what thread it would go in. There's only about ten chapters translated so far, but I really like its drier style of comedy juxtaposed with how strange a lot of the characters and situations are. It's about a very unassuming teacher at an all-girls high school whose students and coworkers are all weirdos without being too cartoonish.)

the_seventh_cohort
May 4, 2013
I caught up with How Do We Relationship? over the weekend, and honestly it's still sitting with me a couple of days later. Unlike a lot of romance manga, it hasn't relied at all on stupid misunderstandings or cheap drama. A lot of the issues that the main cast has dealt with, like not being able to communicate your feelings, mis-matched sex drives, how much of themselves someone is willing to sacrifice to be in a relationship, and feeling the need to always put on a positive face for your partner, have been reflections of issues that I and others I know have gone through. The manga also presents it's cast as them not being good or bad people, but just people, who have different desires and needs in a relationship, and recognizing that for a lot of relationships, it's not always possible to compromise your way past your problems. It's not a story that has necessarily made me feel good, but it has made me feel very seen.

Does anyone have any recommendations of manga that deal similarly to relationships?

Gully Foyle
Feb 29, 2008

Ikoku Nikki was one of the first pieces of media in the last few years that made me cry on its own merits - like it wasn't because I had personal experience with relationships/situations similar to what was in the work. I don't know if a piece of media has ever drawn me into it like that before.

God I hope they get a physical translation on the shelves.

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

I really like Natsu no Zenjitsu in terms of relationship dramas.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde

new Kasane to Subaru

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

you and i are polar opposites chapter 50, a birthday date

came out last week, but i think i forgot to check because of Very Special Episode and all the preparation that went on the days before

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
So, 'Ri-Chan' just wrapped up, its a cute little single page/chapter along the line of 'rescuing my childhood friend' or 'When I Returned Home, My Childhood Friend Was Broken' sort of romcom/romance

https://mangadex.org/title/0f19ed5a-e496-4416-8d4d-86d338655156/ri-chan

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Mar 13, 2024

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