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Does anyone else find '70s manga charming? The male characters all look like something out of Pride and Prejudice. 
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May 24, 2014 00:04
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May 24, 2014 01:05
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New Horimiya! It's a really good cooking chapter.  http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Horimiya/Ch-036--High-Hopes?id=197386
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May 24, 2014 04:37
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Violet_Sky posted:Does anyone else find '70s manga charming? The male characters all look like something out of Pride and Prejudice. Here's a tumblr that's chock full of vintage manga goodness. Plus if you like romance, yuri, and/or serious melodrama everyone should check out Shiroi Heya no Futari (The Couple in the White Room).  .Those sparkles!  http://www.batoto.net/comic/_/comics/shiroi-heya-no-futari-r2837 It's one of the earlier yuri romance manga and is worth reading for that reason alone, it's also pretty good. That's the other reason to read it.
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May 24, 2014 18:00
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a kitten posted:Plus if you like romance, yuri, and/or serious melodrama everyone should check out Shiroi Heya no Futari (The Couple in the White Room). The whole "younger, less mature girl falls in love with a more mature, 'older sister' figure" thing apparently has its roots much earlier than that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_S_(genre)
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May 24, 2014 19:54
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Violet_Sky posted:Does anyone else find '70s manga charming? The male characters all look like something out of Pride and Prejudice. Rose of Versailles is one of my absolute favorite manga just because the style is so absolutely charming. That and I have a huge boner for Marie Antoinette-centric stories. Of 70s/classic manga, I also like Sukeban Deka though I don't know how much it counts as shoujo..beyond having some definite shoujo ai-type overtones. I really don't know much about classic manga, and reallly really want to read more but it seems like finding complete translations of anything is really difficult.
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May 25, 2014 04:49
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Violet_Sky posted:Does anyone else find '70s manga charming? The male characters all look like something out of Pride and Prejudice. I love the old art style as well. It's very charming.
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May 25, 2014 07:42
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:Rose of Versailles is one of my absolute favorite manga just because the style is so absolutely charming. That and I have a huge boner for Marie Antoinette-centric stories. Sukeban Deka is awesome, I wish they had more translated.  Apparently there was a live-action adaption? All I can find is this (admittedly awesome) trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MMfUvm4g18
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May 25, 2014 08:00
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:Of 70s/classic manga, I also like Sukeban Deka though I don't know how much it counts as shoujo..beyond having some definite shoujo ai-type overtones. It was published in a shoujo magazine, so it qualifies. (And a decent amount of shoujo-ai is actually published in magazines for men.) Edit: Pretty much the only way to be sure is to look up what kind of magazine it was run in, through there're certain tendencies in every given category. (Not even genre because they're too broad for that.) Kaja Rainbow fucked around with this message at 12:48 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 12:45
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The final chapter (as far as I can tell)of Honey & Honey is up now. http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/honey_honey_ch34 I hate to resort to just using an emoticon but...  That pretty much sums it up. What a cool little autobiographical story.
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May 25, 2014 17:26
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Ah! My Goddess 307, so combined with the previously released 308 you can now read the whole thing. It was fiiiiiiiine but yes I agree that it would have been better to have some of the human characters involved. It's an ending that could really use one of those special wrap-up epilogue chapters.
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May 27, 2014 12:09
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Nate RFB posted:Ah! My Goddess 307, so combined with the previously released 308 you can now read the whole thing. Yep, agreed. How's that other manga he's doing now? Any good?
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May 27, 2014 13:14
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Paradise Residence, I presume? The premise on batoto didn't sound particularly promising ("...where the mama of the dorm is a grade school girl.") but it seems to be a pretty innocuous slice of life affair. It reminds me of Non Non Biyori to use something recent. But also in no way, shape, or form is it a romance manga so...
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May 27, 2014 13:24
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I looked back a few pages and haven't seen any mention of it, so I'm going to take this chance and plug for Akagami no Shirayukihime, or "The Red-haired Snow White Princess", which got a bunch of updates a week back. Chapters 16-34 can be found here. The prince of a country hears about a woman in his city with beautiful rare red hair, and decides to make her his concubine. Shirayuki, our protagonist, won't have any of that and tries to flee. In the forest she happens upon a group, and after helping one of them, a boy named Zan, they decide to protect her from the prince and his efforts to bring her in. I really dig this one. It's a light-hearted fantasy, with great characters, good pacing, and some really sweet romance. Definitely check it out if you've missed out on it.
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May 29, 2014 22:13
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Terper posted:I looked back a few pages and haven't seen any mention of it, so I'm going to take this chance and plug for Akagami no Shirayukihime, or "The Red-haired Snow White Princess", which got a bunch of updates a week back. Chapters 16-34 can be found here. That one was strong for me for a while, but I get the feeling that it's been kind of spinning its wheels in place lately. I still keep up with it but it's felt rather dull recently.
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May 29, 2014 22:35
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Terper posted:I looked back a few pages and haven't seen any mention of it, so I'm going to take this chance and plug for Akagami no Shirayukihime, or "The Red-haired Snow White Princess", which got a bunch of updates a week back. Chapters 16-34 can be found here.
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May 29, 2014 23:02
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I've been meaning to check that out for a while but haven't for some reason. I did read all of the translated chapters of Love so Life last week and it's very cute. Also picked this up the other day.  It's so nice to have a good translation.
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May 29, 2014 23:17
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Terper posted:I looked back a few pages and haven't seen any mention of it, so I'm going to take this chance and plug for Akagami no Shirayukihime Someone needs to distill "ordinary but strong-willed girl in a fantasy kingdom being macked on by 3-5 shoujo archetype hot boy princes with various personality problems in a story that alternates between romance and political intrigue as an excuse to never advance the plot" into a one-word genre. I remember the art in Akagami being pretty good though, great character designs. Love So Life is Taiyou no Ie tier in my book, it's almost tropey but the twins are so awesome that I don't really care
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May 29, 2014 23:33
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Mio Bison posted:Someone needs to distill "ordinary but strong-willed girl in a fantasy kingdom being macked on by 3-5 shoujo archetype hot boy princes with various personality problems in a story that alternates between romance and political intrigue as an excuse to never advance the plot" into a one-word genre. I remember the art in Akagami being pretty good though, great character designs. Well, if there's one thing I can say about Akagami, it certainly isn't a "will they won't they" situation. The main couple are a main couple from the beginning. That being said, it definitely feels like they're in the most boring relationship ever. I've followed Love So Life for years now, but it's sooooo god drat slow. Over 70 monthly chapters in and they're still in the stammering phase. Taiyou no Ie is fantastic because it's perfectly paced. The twins really are adorable though.
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May 30, 2014 00:06
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Mio Bison posted:Someone needs to distill "ordinary but strong-willed girl in a fantasy kingdom being macked on by 3-5 shoujo archetype hot boy princes with various personality problems in a story that alternates between romance and political intrigue as an excuse to never advance the plot" into a one-word genre. Historical Urban Fantasy?
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May 30, 2014 01:27
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I think you can generally just assume that whenever you see the shoujo, romance, and harem tags together, that's basically what it is.
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May 30, 2014 01:30
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arisu posted:Well, if there's one thing I can say about Akagami, it certainly isn't a "will they won't they" situation. The main couple are a main couple from the beginning. That being said, it definitely feels like they're in the most boring relationship ever. Yeah, I enjoy the manga and the politics are interesting when the translators are competent enough that I can follow them...but at this point I am way, way more interested in the two bodyguards or the head apothecary and her weird sadistic thing she has going with that other dude from the northern library. The two mains might be more interesting if they spent more time together but it's like...okay, they're together, they just never get to talk, so...
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May 30, 2014 01:32
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I guess this would be the most appropriate thread for this that popped up recently: Story of a Dying Girl. It is what it says on the tin. More drama than romance, though there is that too. A short thing, 6 chapters plus one bonus chapter that kicks your heart in the balls.
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Jun 1, 2014 07:54
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Blhue posted:I guess this would be the most appropriate thread for this that popped up recently: Story of a Dying Girl. It is what it says on the tin. More drama than romance, though there is that too. A short thing, 6 chapters plus one bonus chapter that kicks your heart in the balls. Thank you for recommending 
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Jun 1, 2014 09:24
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arisu posted:Well, if there's one thing I can say about Akagami, it certainly isn't a "will they won't they" situation. The main couple are a main couple from the beginning. That being said, it definitely feels like they're in the most boring relationship ever. I stopped reading Love So Life when it became clear the couple was going to be the old dude and the girl instead of the the girl and the orphan boy cause the age difference and babysitter relation was/is dumb and creepy.
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Jun 1, 2014 15:56
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Davincie posted:I stopped reading Love So Life when it became clear the couple was going to be the old dude and the girl instead of the the girl and the orphan boy cause the age difference and babysitter relation was/is dumb and creepy. Eh, I've just kind of accepted that as the way things are in Manga. Taiyou no Ie has a very similar setup, but it's still probably my favorite ongoing Shoujo manga right now.
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Jun 1, 2014 18:17
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As long as it's two consenting adults and not incredibly stupid, I don't really give a drat. Of course, most of the time the lead isn't actually an adult yet so the man always goes "No, I cannot! Not yet! Oh woe!  "
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Jun 1, 2014 18:32
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arisu posted:Eh, I've just kind of accepted that as the way things are in Manga. Taiyou no Ie has a very similar setup, but it's still probably my favorite ongoing Shoujo manga right now. Yeah, it's not a device I'm really fond of but it's not a total dealbreaker unless it brings in some other elements that make it even more skeevy like the older party being a teacher or having some other sort of authority over the younger person, or when they're 15 or younger. I can't even admit to totally avoiding those since I keep reading 14-sa no Koi and Ojikoi because I have terrible taste and make bad choices.
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Jun 1, 2014 19:53
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Everything about 14-sai is great except for that drat thing with the teacher. Too bad it seems to have taken up half of the manga now. It isn't forbidden love or anything like that, it is just an adult abusing her position to play with a child.
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Jun 1, 2014 20:01
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The teacher in Hirunaka no Ryuusei makes it super skeevy
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Jun 1, 2014 20:26
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You should just do like the game Bravely Default and mentally add several years to everyone's age (though I guess this wouldn't work when one person is in school and the other is an adult).
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Jun 1, 2014 20:49
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hitze posted:The teacher in Hirunaka no Ryuusei makes it super skeevy Oh man, that one is pretty bad about it but I still read it because I read everything. At least there's a classmate love interest but you know she'll end up with creepy teacher at the end of it.
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Jun 1, 2014 21:10
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I came around to Taiyou no Ie's a little bit when the author talked about how the couple was based around her parents. I couldn't help but chuckle at her matter-of-factly "So I made a manga out about it.  "
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Jun 2, 2014 15:17
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Blhue posted:I guess this would be the most appropriate thread for this that popped up recently: Story of a Dying Girl. It is what it says on the tin. More drama than romance, though there is that too. A short thing, 6 chapters plus one bonus chapter that kicks your heart in the balls. 
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Jun 3, 2014 21:33
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New chapter of Taiyou no Ie.
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Jun 8, 2014 05:36
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Allarion posted:New chapter of Taiyou no Ie. hahaha so much for things winding down.
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Jun 8, 2014 05:38
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Everything Burrito posted:hahaha so much for things winding down. Hahah that last page
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Jun 8, 2014 05:39
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I wondered when that would happen
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I honestly thought that would never get brought up.
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