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Jistu wa watashi wa... (The Truth Is I am...) A guy with no poker face thus bad at lying stumbles on a secret of the girl he likes. Shes a vampire Plus 3 of the best bros ever. Only a couple chapters though and the first one is a pretty rough scan.
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.Clash posted:Jistu wa watashi wa... (The Truth Is I am...) "Just what did he saw in this cute girl?" sounds like a slasher movie cliffhanger. Goddamn.
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Manga no Tsukurikata is odd to me. One the one hand, it's definitely very yuri, which I of course appreciate, but I'd say like 60% of it was about the life of a mangaka. Obviously, fiction can only emulate reality so much, but I do wonder how much pressure mangaka are under to put out a consistently good product for their editors. The majority of scenes in the story thus far are of the two leads writing / drawing their respective manga, so I wonder how much the author intends to play up the yuri. On that subject, the two leads are kinda frustrating. I really like both of them, but then again I don't exactly have the most discriminating tastes. They obviously care about each other a lot, as even apart, they're on each others' mind all the time. There's a scene in chapter 32 where they share a bed together where the kouhai in the relationship is talking about how lonely she is without her sempai. Her love for her sempai is no secret to either of them, but they've never really seriously gotten together yet, but her feelings are not exactly unrequited. I'd say the author was trying so far to make a statement how the pressures of writing manga leads to the exclusion of the important people in the author's life, but with an ongoing series like this, it's hard to say how much any angle in the story is going to get played up. But just to take a ballpark guess, I'd say the series is going to share a lot with Sasameki Koto in that the story is more about the dance of the relationship than the relationship itself, like, say, Octave was. Well, I'll be interested in the journey in any case, however long this thing goes on.
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Manga no Tsukurikata is basically Sasameki Koto with the humor and (admittedly often cliched) drama replaced with scenes of people drawing manga. Just sitting there drawing. And little else happening, certainly nothing romantic. It's pretty much the most frustrating manga in existence. E: It could be good too, since the art is generally great and the writing isn't really bad, except for having less happen than even most SoL series. Which makes it worse.
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Huh, Wandering Son Vol. 5 is listed as being released if you go on fantagraphic's site, but amazon says it's not out until November. http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/wandering-son-vol.-5.html Gonna order it direct and see what happens. 
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So... I don't know if this is the right thread - I hope it is! I was a big fan of manga when I was a young teen back in like.. '02-'05 or so, basically I kinda missed the huge licensing boom and was sort of bemused and annoyed that all this manga I had read and enjoyed via scanlation was now showing up on the shelves. Even weirder, I was always a fan of yaoi/shounen ai, and even a shockingly vast quantity of that got licensed and released over here, even though many of the publishers are now defunct (BLU, Tokyopop's semi-secret yaoi imprint) or have significantly lowered their outpit (DMP/June/801) but luckily at least Viz has started up an imprint putting out great titles that are well-made (SuBLime). In any case, the last six months or so I've gotten... semi-obsessed with collecting yaoi/shounen ai manga. I'm a bit embarrassed about it, because it mostly has to do with nostalgia and my affection for revisiting this genre that I was very fond of as a kid... I get a huge kick out of owning and re-reading manga that I had long ago read unofficial translations of, squinting at lovely cathode ray tube monitors over a decade ago. So there's something really nice about owning these officially translated copies ogf these manga. I had *never* been into collecting comics, or collecting much of anything before, but I really love collecting this stuff... Especially since the volumes I'm collecting are mostly first and only printings, mostly by now-defunct publishers. It's fun trackin down good prices and hard to find volumes. Anyway, it would just be fun to, uh, be able to talk about it. Though I am not sure if this is necessarily the right place 
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Yeah, go for it. Yuri gets talked about enough, so for the sake of balance I'd been hoping we'd get some BL readers posting.
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To be honest I was starting to wonder if maybe it was taboo. I recently started following a few series that I found browsing new updates on Batoto, because I'm always looking for manga with older characters and they seem to be way more common in yaoi. As someone without much backround in the genre I'd be interested in knowing what are considered classics or must-read series. edit: Taiyou no Ie update, yay! Everything Burrito fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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I actually started reading BL recently because I ran out of scanlated josei that I enjoy. I also was looking for manga with older characters and more even relationships (this part is very hit or miss!). I mostly like "new wave" artists like Yamashita Tomoko and Kusama Sakae (these two at least do other genres as well), so I don't know much about the classics. I've actually been planning on a Yamashita Tomoko effortpost for awhile, but clearly haven't gotten around to it. I guess good older mangaka would be Yoshinaga Fumi and Yamada Yugi. Anyway, I don't have much time, but I recommend the following by Yamashita Tomoko: Yes It's Me (BL short stories, a big fan of the title story), Mo'Some Sting (shojo/josei w/ gay characters, was licensed by JManga so probably hard to find), Kuimonodokoro Akira (straight up BL), Mud (a Josei oneshot that was posted elsewhere in ADTRW at some point), and Illumination (BL one shots, a little uneven but I really like a couple). If you're worried about penises, I don't recall ever seeing any. When there is sex, which is rare, it's a fade to black sort of thing. Butter is her seinen romance. I was waiting for more of it to be scanned to start reading, but I just checked and 2 volumes are done so far. Aaand an art sample, why not (not sure what this is from, actually): 
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Wow, great! I am glad to hear there is some enthusiasm for the topic  Just to go over some stuff... In my posts I'll actually be differentiating all the BL manga I read into two categories: Yaoi and Shounen Ai. Some people might think that the two are synonymous, or that the difference might have to do with the ages of the characters involved, but neither are true. Based on my perception, Yaoi refers to BL manga that by definition contains sexually explicit material, which is sometimes the exclusive focus of the manga, and sometimes not. Shounen Ai, on the other hand, is manga that is primarily focused on character development, relationships, the emotions and feelings of the characters, etc - shounen ai generally contains nothing more explicit than kissing/hugging and maybe some implied sex that takes place off-screen. I think there's actually some shoujo that skirts the line of shounen ai - and in some ways shounen ai is really a lot like shoujo manga except with homosexual relationships between boys being the romantic focus. And like shoujo, shounen ai can be light and fluffy and comedic as easily as it can be angsty and sad. In any case! I'd like to both make some recommendations, and maybe do some reviews of various series I'm currently reading, although I'm really not sure where to start... The recommendations I'll make in this thread are probably going to be more on the shounen ai side of things, because I think it's generally more accessible to a wider audience and probably more well-suited to this thread... For instance, I've been reading a REALLY fantastic three-volume shounen ai series right now called Little Butterfly by Hinako Takanaga - who is easily my favorite BL mangaka. Even though it's just three volumes I'm taking this slow because it's so good - the name is a bit cheesy but it's just really well done... It's actually a fairly straightforward story at first but the mangaka is so talented that she just does amazing things with it. Anyway I think I want to give it a proper review when I finish it, so I'll wait. Also, Kusaru, I am embarrassed but I haven't read any of that BL myself! Probably because I'm rather omnivorous when it comes to BL manga and don't mind traditional femmy ukes with big eyes. It looks worth checking out for sure, I especially liked what I saw of Yes It's Me on the sample on the amazon page... ... By the way I should add that I'm a bit weird in being very, very fond of actual physical books and something of a snob about this. To be honest, I don't much like reading manga digitally anymore and as I said I really love collecting and reading the physical books. I should probably buy a tablet and just get over it though, I doubt reading manga on an ipad would be much different.
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Kusaru posted:Yoshinaga Fumi I didn't recognize the name at first but I've read Kinou Nani Tabeta? and really enjoyed it. It's cooking-themed slice of life but also explores the relationship the two leads have, addressing things like how they met, what their coworkers think of them, and family problems that arise. Everything Burrito fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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Everything Burrito posted:I didn't recognize the name at first but I've read Kinou Nani Tabeta? and really enjoyed it. It's cooking-themed slice of life but also explores the relationship the two leads have, addressing things like how they met, what their coworkers think of them, and family problems that arise. That manga sounds fantastic and really different from typical BL. I'm sure it's well done - when I hear Yoshinaga Fumi I immediately think of Antique Bakery which was a manga (definitely more shoujo than shounen ai but it had gay characters that it took seriously) which she did *years* ago that I read online way back in the day... I guess it spawned all kinds of stuff like an anime and even a TV show which according to wikipedia sucked every last bit of homosexuality from the source material, heh. Guess that's that's to be expected. Regarding "Kinou Nani Tabeta?", which I actually just read the first chapter of briefly... Well, I always tend to find manga that actually acknowledges the reality of what it's like to be a gay man in Japan to be considerably better than the stuff that's locked into the more typical genre/characterization tropes of yaoi which have little to nothing to do with the actual *reality* of male homosexual relationships - need that even be said? I should add that I do not view this as a bad thing, always - I do not read yaoi/shounen-ai and always expect absolute realism; to me, it is often escapist fantasy, generally speaking, and there's little wrong with that. Lots of manga falls into that category.
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I have heard that Love Com is a good romantic series, but I didn't know if I should read the manga or watch the anime. I'm looking for a good romantic anime to watch, I liked the romance in The Tatami Galaxy. I know I should watch Revolutionary Girl Utena as well  I am reading Honey by Meguro Amu and it is really cute, but it is only 1 volume. The style is really pretty, and the characters are really cute. RebBrownies fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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Everything Burrito posted:I didn't recognize the name at first but I've read Kinou Nani Tabeta? and really enjoyed it. It's cooking-themed slice of life but also explores the relationship the two leads have, addressing things like how they met, what their coworkers think of them, and family problems that arise. Vertical just recently liscensed that so you be able to buy it early next year. Also I'm stoked for volume eight of her other manga Oooku which should be here next week.
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kaworu posted:Hinako Takanaga I would like to warn against reading Koisuru Boukun by her. It's easily one of the rapiest, tropiest, emotioal blackmailiest, but still really popular BL out there. Everything Burrito posted:I didn't recognize the name at first but I've read Kinou Nani Tabeta? and really enjoyed it. It's cooking-themed slice of life but also explores the relationship the two leads have, addressing things like how they met, what their coworkers think of them, and family problems that arise.
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RebBrownies posted:I have heard that Love Com is a good romantic series, but I didn't know if I should read the manga or watch the anime. I'm looking for a good romantic anime to watch, I liked the romance in The Tatami Galaxy. I know I should watch Revolutionary Girl Utena as well Watch the anime for Love Com, the manga is great too, but the anime owns and cuts out some dumbness that shows up in the last act of the manga. Watch (and then read) Paradise Kiss as well. The last several posts have been pretty cool since I know next to nothing about the genre, and my impressions of it are pretty well summed up by this episode of Turning Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCgkbyKxbDA 
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coathat posted:Vertical just recently liscensed that so you be able to buy it early next year. Also I'm stoked for volume eight of her other manga Oooku which should be here next week. Yeah I saw it had been licensed when I was checking to see if I could link to it or not, so I put it on my Amazon wishlist to pick up when it comes out.
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a kitten posted:this episode of Turning Girls: I watched this on a whim and... holy poo poo, it's fantastic.
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While y'all are talking about gays could ya throw out some more yuri for me? I'll read everything, even stuff I already read and forgot about.
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Kusaru posted:I would like to warn against reading Koisuru Boukun by her. It's easily one of the rapiest, tropiest, emotioal blackmailiest, but still really popular BL out there. Oh trust me I already know. And it's so fuckin' terrible because she's written some other stuff that is really fantastic, and I was just aghast when I tried to to read the first volume of that manga because... maybe it's just me... but non-consensual sodomy does not belong in a yaoi comedy series *shrug* And yet it's super-popular like you said! The Hinako Takanaga series I recommended is just incredibly different as could be - it's decidedly opposed to all forms of rape and abuse and makes this very much known and is basically the point of the series. Which is one of those reasons why I liked it in so much, especially in a genre where you have to dodge the revolting non-con stuff like landmines. edit: I should add for those unfamiliar that non-consensual sex is just a VERY common trope in the yaoi genre. Something you see a lot is that the uke (receptive partner who is usually younger and effeminate) is often in denial about his homosexuality and this creates the emotional conflict in WAY too many yaoi one-shots and series than I care to mention. Unfortunately, if your uke is in denial about his homosexuality, he is unlikely to have sex with any sexy masculine guys. Solution? Just have the seme (the pitcher, so to speak, who is always more masculine and generally fine with loving other men) rape the uke! That way they can continue the dramatic tension and still have sex scenes! I'm not even joking when I say that this shows up over... and over... AND OVER AGAIN. Part of the reason why I stick to shounen ai is because it respects the characters much more and since the focus isn't on sex at all, you don't get horrific rape scenes that are intended to be arousing. kaworu fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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gobbledygoat posted:While y'all are talking about gays could ya throw out some more yuri for me? I'll read everything, even stuff I already read and forgot about. Anything by Morishima Akiko (she draws lewd stuff but it's all in service to the moe/characters), Morinaga Milk, or Amano Shuninta Or specific titles, The Flower and the Star, Wife and Wife, or Lonely Wolf, Lonely Sheep. This is all cutesy stuff that doesn't make you think, just feel. I'll toss in a mention for Kase-san, another thing that overflows with cuteness on every page. UP AND ADAM fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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kaworu posted:
I totally agree (although since I like to read manga with sex scenes I have to sift through the smut I dislike to find the smut I like). To me it feels like some of the more distasteful and obnoxious shoujo tropes cranked up to 11. You still have the inequal relationships and inappropriate ages (teacher/student, boss/employee, middle-aged man/teen) but instead of forcefully taking the heroine's first kiss they're taking the smaller, weaker guy's butt virginity. I really hate that kind of stuff regardless of genre, especially when it gets used as a plot device to generate some sort of "true love" relationship. I tend to avoid one-shots as a way to filter out some of the bad smut, and look for stories where the relationship has some time to develop and the characters get to know each other first. I think the ones where one guy is ostensibly straight and gets "converted" by true love are pretty silly but tolerable. Here are some that I've read recently (don't read these at work, seriously): Mousou Elektel Ameiro Paradox Vanilla Resort Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai Acid Town
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UP AND ADAM posted:Anything by Morishima Akiko (she draws lewd stuff but it's all in service to the moe/characters), Morinaga Milk, or Amano Shuninta Aahhh this stuff destroys me. Being gay rules sometimes. gobbledygoat fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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Does anyone have any recommendations for BL that's not smutty? I don't mind reading the more perverted stuff, but sometimes I just want to read funny or cute series. Sometimes I think I've come across a cutesy manga, but then the author sticks in a haphazard sex scene on the last 3 pages. One BL I remember liking is Honto Yajuu. It's about a yakuza member who falls in love with a cop, and it's pretty adorable. It does have sex scenes though, so keep that in mind, and it's been a bit since I've read it so I can't vouch that it doesn't have terrible cliches in it. I enjoy the "yakuza member likes a non yakuza member" dynamic (or just a delinquent/tough person and a regular person), since they always turn out really goofy and ridiculous, but I can't find a whole lot like that. I've seen some shojo with that plot, and found another BL, but the latter was kind of creepy. UP AND ADAM posted:Anything by Morishima Akiko (she draws lewd stuff but it's all in service to the moe/characters), Morinaga Milk, or Amano Shuninta Thanks for these suggestions, I have trouble finding cute yuri, and these all sound excellent.
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Chrysolith posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for BL that's not smutty? I recommended it in this thread a while back, but since I love it so much I'll recommend it again- Seven Days. Most of the time I avoid BL stuff but this one's pretty great.
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Oh hey, cool to hear that the subject of BL isn't off-grounds! It's time for me to give back to this thread. My favorite BL author is Hayakawa Nojiko, who's not got a lot of work behind her just yet. But she has a really, really fantastic way with atmosphere and page composition. Her artwork is a little loose and sketchy looking, but I think that's part of the charm. Her finished work are as follows: - Endou-kun no Kansatsu Nikki. - Yozora no Sumikko de. - Kurayami ni Strobe. - Toshokan no Yokai. According to her twitter, Kurayami ni Strobe is due for two more side chapters before everything gets collected in a book proper towards the end of the year, though it sounds like the main story is more-or-less done. There's also no outright smut in any of her stuff so far, though there is a (brief) suggestive daydream and a few heated moments here and there. I also recommend Doukyuusei by Nakamura Asumiko. It doesn't break any particular new ground as far as high school romance stories go. But in a genre that's over saturated with problematic stereotypes and rape, it is pretty refreshing! (While it stands on its own perfectly fine, Doukyuusei also has a sequel in Sotsugyousei, which follows Kusakabe and Sajou into their graduation. Said sequel does, however, crank up the rating because of sex and all that.) Nakamura's done some other BL, but a lot of them lean more on the psychological side of things. Hideyoshico is also a pretty solid author! Negative-kun and Positive-kun is funny and sweet, as is Kanemochi-kun to Binbou-kun. On the more serious side of things, she has Ringo ni Hachimitsu and its sequel Kare no Barairo no Jinsei, and these latter two do feature smut. Edit: Whoops, corrected a few links. Dreamy Souffle fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Sep 17, 2013 |
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I've been looking for some new stuff to read so thanks for those suggestions, definitely will check out those titles.
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Chrysolith posted:Thanks for these suggestions, I have trouble finding cute yuri, and these all sound excellent. Honestly it's worth it just to go through the archives of Yuri Hime, Hirari and Tsubomi (R.I.P. Tsubomi), since they have a lot of cute one shots.
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gobbledygoat posted:While y'all are talking about gays could ya throw out some more yuri for me? I'll read everything, even stuff I already read and forgot about. Poor Poor Lips is ridiculously cute and happy if you haven't read it.
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Dreamy Souffle posted:Oh hey, cool to hear that the subject of BL isn't off-grounds! It's time for me to give back to this thread. Those are all great recommendations. For newbies, keep in mind that for Hideyoshico, anything with an "A-kun to B-kun" title will have no sex, but her other stuff will. My personal favorite by her is Ringo ni Hachimitsu and its sequel. I'd like to point out that Acme-dan scanlated pretty much all of the Hideyoshico and Hayakawa Nojiko stuff out there, so if you like those you will probably like their other releases. I can't think of anything they've released that I'd recommend against. To all the other recommendations, I'd like to add Hana wa Saku ka by Hidaka Shoko. It's a super slow burn romance but there is an age difference (late 30's and 20-ish, so both are adults at least). The characters actually acknowledge that and are bothered by or work around it. It's not "cute" exactly, but very relaxed. It's licensed, but the first volume's release date has been pushed back a few times. It is ongoing, but I think it's planned to end at 5 volumes.
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I'm a bit late, but the ending to Aoi Hana kind of seemed like the author just didn't want to write it anymore. I should read Wandering Son at some point because [reasons] but what I really want is just some good yuri.  I started Sasameki Koto and it seemed not good. Could've been the translation. I guess I'll have to get it another try, because it's that or... Maria-sama ga Miteru maybe? I dunno. I wonder if there are any good western comics that would fill that niche.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm a bit late, but the ending to Aoi Hana kind of seemed like the author just didn't want to write it anymore. I should read Wandering Son at some point because [reasons] but what I really want is just some good yuri. Octave Poor Poor Lips Girl Friends Husky & Medley (This is pretty short) Chatting and the Amber Teahouse Gokujou Drops is a little creepy power-controlly in the way that a lot of BL stuff is I guess, but in the end it's an interesting story.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm a bit late, but the ending to Aoi Hana kind of seemed like the author just didn't want to write it anymore. I should read Wandering Son at some point because [reasons] but what I really want is just some good yuri. For Sasameki, as tired as the line may sound, stick with it. If it's doing nothing for you after chapter 15 or so, feel free to drop it. I'm quite enjoying it, but it definitely becomes more romantically intense between the leads as the story goes on. Maria-sama I highly recommend. It's not actually particularly yuri as much as it is extremely romantic. Most of the relationships don't go into the "girlfriends" territory, but the emotional connection between the sister pairs is intense and should be what you're looking for. Very sugary sweet, but it's a very well-written series. I'd also recommend the manga Octave. It's explicit, but you'll scarcely find better yuri. Sexy, romantic, poignant, and just an all-around extremely well told story. The ending isn't particularly conclusive, but if you had to ask me, that's not an insult. You'll understand why if you end up reading it, but if there's anything on this list you should check out, I'd recommend Octave. Edit: I'll second the above poster regarding Amber Teahouse. It's a pretty short manga, shouldn't take you more than a couple hours or so, but it's also extremely sweet and very yuri. The author has gone on record saying he's at his happiest when two women are happy in a relationship, and it definitely shows in his work.
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Sep 19, 2013 04:29
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Yeah I've read the stuff people (ie a kitten  ) recommend for yuri. Hadn't heard of Poor Poor Lips though.
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Sep 19, 2013 04:38
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It's not really a spoiler, but the main canon pairing in wandering son by the end is yuri. Of course, that ending is also rushed (not as much as Aoi Hana but it's still pretty rushed) and it's super long.
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Sep 19, 2013 04:46
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Yeah I've read the stuff people (ie a kitten Poor Poor Lips is about an extremely poor girl who starts working in a jewelry store run by a wealthy woman who's openly lesbian. You can pretty much guess where the plot goes from there. Its a 4-koma with a very cutesy style.
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Sep 19, 2013 04:56
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That's the other thing. I'm pretty sure you could take any of my suggestions and carve through it in an afternoon if you read at a reasonable pace. Husky/Medley or Amber Teahouse are both really short but cute, Octave is a bit of a rollercoaster but doesn't take long to get through, Poor Poor Lips is "long" but it's drawn in the four-panel style so it goes quick. Girl Friends and Gokujou Drops are probably the longest due to storyline and panel complexity but still, a long afternoon would see you through either of them. And I found Sasameki Koto to be pretty good but yes it starts off kind of slow and weird. There's also a couple bad translations I've seen compared to the good one.
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