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Instead of that rapefest manga, why not read about a girl who gets struck by lightning and gets turned into Ultra Onideka - Action, Seinen, Supernatural  Kiryuin Hanasei is a popular girl in school, and one day she gets struck by lightning alongside her childhood friend. When she wakes up, she becomes a towering giant, her size matching how fast her heart is beating! At the same time, huge, weird monsters start rampaging through the city, and she's the only one who can stop them. This series is fairly new I believe, only a handful of translated chapters, but it's pretty cute and a neat take on the kaiju genre. The reason I'm considering recommending it is because there's not a lick of fanservice to be seen. Her clothes grow with her so there's no ~oh no she's outgrown her clothes so she's a giant naked girl~ bullshit, any time there'd be a panty shot it's shadowed, which is sadly refreshing in manga/anime. And the action and destruction is pretty great, not to mention the sense of scale. She really towers over things and it's funny seeing a hundred-foot anime girl just casually jogging towards a city with a monster in it along the highway, leaving shattered pavement in her wake. The artwork is pretty great too, though the artist clearly has problems with drawing hands.  
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Captain Invictus posted:Instead of that rapefest manga, why not read about a girl who gets struck by lightning and gets turned into Ultra This is legit pretty charming. I'm on board to see where this train goes. 
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i read qualia the purple and it is a very good story about Royalty time to look through the rest of the recs in this thread
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Hi Manga thread. Yen Press is now on Comixology. https://www.comixology.com/Yen-Pres...2_YenPressDebut Bye Manga thread.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Hi Manga thread. Yen Press is now on Comixology. At the bare minimum that means Yotsuba&, so it's pretty great news.
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Tollymain posted:i read qualia the purple and it is a very good story about Royalty Qualia the Purple was absolutely sublime from start to finish. It's only 18 chapters long, if you have a free hour, I highly recommend it.
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Thermae Romae - historical, comedy, supernatural Thermae Romae is a manga about a roman bathmaker who, whenever he gets in a bath, somehow or another winds up slipping unconscious and waking up in modern-day Japan. He does not speak Japanese nor do the Japanese understand him, of course, and assume he's just a crazy foreigner. He is bewildered by our modern technology but inevitably comes in contact with modern bathing tech, and pilfers the ideas and designs for his own use, when he inevitably loses consciousness and returns back to roman times. It's a completely bizarre premise that is pulled off pretty great and the art is well done too.  It is licensed in the US by Yen Press, who released the six japanese volumes in three huge hardcover volumes for english readers. I managed to find the second and third ones for a pittance(about 20 dollars together), but the full retail price for them is pretty steep, clocking in at about a hundred dollars for all three volumes new. See if you can find them used or from a library, I got mine as library cast-offs from Amazon. If you're okay with digital, all three volumes can be had for $63 via Kindle/Comixology.
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To You, the Immortal. ( Fantasy ) By Ooima Yoshitoki ( A Silent Voice ) This is the story of an infant god. Immortal and without shape, its maker places it upon a frozen shore. It mimics a stone. Eventually, it became moss. Then a wolf passes nearby, and it takes that shape instead. But it’s just a shape - the thing doesn’t think, it doesn’t eat, and it has no purpose. It just… wanders. A boy finds it, and brings it home as a pet. The wolf-thing is his only company in a frozen wasteland.   The creature wanders, and in time accidentally saves a young girl named March, who adopts this non-person as her wayward child. It’s drawn into a world of politics and pain it's incapable of understanding. The human cast is fascinating and charming - March, the intended sacrifice, is silly and stoic, and has a huge heart full of innocent naivety. Her adopted older sister, who struggles with the value of tradition versus the value of the little girl no one else will protect. The first boy, lost on the tundra stubbornly refusing to give up hope. The author is dang good at twisting those heartstrings.   The author does a good job of making the creature fundamentally alien and unsettling. Even when it takes on human shape, there’s simply nothing happening behind the eyes. The world has an air of quiet tragedy, of something broken that can't be fixed. 
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Good people of internet, could you please point me in the right direction? I'm looking for English translation of Abstraction by Kago Shintaro in print. Standalone, as a part of anthology, whatever goes. Was it ever printed?
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Can't help you there, unfortunately. In other news, I Am A Hero is one or two chapters away from finishing, so if you were waiting to catch up or haven't started yet, now's a good time. It sure does go places in its run, way more unexpected than I thought, and not necessarily in a good way at times, but overall it was a hell of a ride and the ending if it doesn't do something really stupid in the last two chapters should be suitably absurd for Hideo.
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Captain Invictus posted:Can't help you there, unfortunately. Having read the last chapter I'm not sure how to parse it. Absurd is one way to put it I suppose.
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Are the translations up to date? I'm on chapter 252 and it doesn't seem to be at any point where it could end gracefully in 2 chapters.
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Spoiler alert: it doesn't. That said, I didn't mind the ending.
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I don't mind the ending much, the only thing really bothering me is the young girl in Italy that's implied to be chosen or special in some way and who's zqn guards are all killed, feels like a dangling plot thread. The interlude had some interesting moments, but it seems kind of pointless now.
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to you, the immortal is rough as gently caress
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Tollymain posted:to you, the immortal is rough as gently caress It's on my "will read once more chapters are out" list. I'm sure the author is going somewhere with this but we're not there yet and it's just been depressing so far as I've read it.
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Majime na Jikan(A Serious Time) - psychological, tragedy, supernatural A short, 9 chapter series about a girl who, in the opening pages, is hit and killed instantly when a car smashes into her. It follows her in the afterlife. A very somber and at the same time uplifting and sometimes humorous story, but very good. Definitely an interesting take on death. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Has anyone in here recommended Voynich Hotel because holy moly do I love this thing. Dowman Sayman takes his incredible artstyle and makes an incredibly well done 3 volume series that takes everything he's known for (great art, crass humor, occasional lesbians) and made a great story out of it. It tells the story of Kuzuki Taizou, who comes to the Voynich as part of his vacation. As he meets and becomes friends with the island's inhabitants and the hotel staff (namely maids Elena and Beluna) his vacation turns into a permanent residence. Read along as Taizou discovers the islands hidden secrets, as his past slowly catches up to him. - I would kill to get an adaptation of this but it would probably kill Dowman to do all the art himself. Anyone know what he's up to these days aside from posting art on Tumblr and Twitter?
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Voynich hotel is really surreal and interesting with a good supernatural story to it, but I didn't link to it due to the relationship between two of the main characters, which is the biggest issue with it. If it ever got adapted, trigger could totally nail his artstyle.
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Luna Was Here posted:Has anyone in here recommended Voynich Hotel because holy moly do I love this thing. I really love Dowman Sayman and Voynich Hotel a lot. I'm a little skeeved out about relationship stuff w/r/t Elena because she's drawn super young looking but I think she's just supposed to be short? I dunno it's a good manga and I like it, weird Dowman quirks and all.
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There was some weird stuff in his other anthology work (Nickelodeon) which was similar; some really cool and fun stories but occassionally some questionable decisions.
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Yeah I was thrown off incredibly hard by Elena considering her personality quirks but I think the implication is that she's just short? Dowman's artstyle doesn't lend itself well to showing age outside of extreme exaggerations imo. Her personality certainly doesn't help with the whole "she looks like she's 10" when the relationship kicks up but over that short arc she matures quite a lot and I think it gets better. It's something that I didn't like at first but at the end of the series I was on board with it all. Nickelodeon a little less so in its...stranger instances but I'll give a little leeway to the former hentai guy doing serious stuff.
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Captain Bravo posted:In other news, I was recently pointed to a new series by a friend, who simply told me "Don't judge this book by its cover." Unbalance School Life seems like it should be really, really bad. Did Qualia the Purple ever get finished?
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Luna Was Here posted:I would kill to get an adaptation of this but it would probably kill Dowman to do all the art himself. Anyone know what he's up to these days aside from posting art on Tumblr and Twitter? He's still doing his Scott Pilgrim-inspired series Oddman 11, and I think he's got another series going in a magazine that nobody scans.
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Jackard posted:Did Qualia the Purple ever get finished? It absolutely did. Also, attack on titan is still going strong and they got to the basement and it was totally worth it, to the shock of literally everyone.
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I can confirm that for all the jokes made over the years about that loving basement it ruled insanely hard.
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gently caress, Qualia of/the Purple went off the fuckin rails basically every single chapter and I loved it. "This is surely as crazy as this thing is going to get wait nope somehow things got weirder"
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It was all foreshadowed at the beginning, after all, Gakuto had a screw loose.
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Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzakashii(It's Difficult to Love an Otaku) - romance, comedy, slice of life About a group of office workers who are also huge nerds. Like, super huge nerds. But they're going out with each other. It's funny, cute, romantic, and most importantly for some, not set in high school. The main couple is a quiet, but blunt gamer guy, and his girlfriend, a fujoshi who has to ship basically every guy she sees. The other couple is a pair of tsunderes, which I always love, because while a couple with one tsundere is common and pretty rote, both parties in a couple being tsundere leads to some of my favorite shenanigans.
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Captain Invictus posted:The other couple is a pair of tsunderes, which I always love, because while a couple with one tsundere is common and pretty rote, both parties in a couple being tsundere leads to some of my favorite shenanigans. I can only picture a couple like this as the guys from the I'll Marry Your Stupid rear end sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_IYrltqYrU
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Yakumo Wants to Feed - comedy, romance(?), seinen, slice of life   A manga about a widow who loves to cook, and a neighboring highschool boy who's on a baseball team. It's a very chill series, and primarily is about enjoying food(and making me hungry), but also has a background story that it slowly unveils rather laconically. It's a good de-stressing series. Has a romance tag, but it hasn't gone there yet. She's pretty motherly to him, though it'll likely escalate eventually before the series ends. Despite it also having a tag for "ecchi"(pervy stuff), I think that's just for Yakumo's character design, the author has self-admitted to designing her to his tastes(big boobs, glasses, wearing sweaters with jeans) which is, uh, completely normal? With anime, that's about as vanilla as you can be.
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https://www.comixology.com/My-Lesbian-Experience-With-Loneliness/digital-comic/485670 Horribly depressed shut in learns to take care of herself and also calls a lesbian escort agency, a funny autobiographical story.  
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://www.comixology.com/My-Lesbian-Experience-With-Loneliness/digital-comic/485670 Another recommendation from me, by a well-respected author whose previous major work, Lovely Complex, was a pretty outstanding school-based romcom that bucked the general trend of romance series where it ends as soon as the two main characters actually start going out, and instead follows them for a good while before ending. Definitely worth a look, and it was genuinely funny instead of awkwardly attempting to be so like a lot of romcoms.  This new series(well, "new", it's completed at 10 volumes), Please Love the Useless Me, follows a 30-something woman who is rather aimless in life and has a history of being too trusting and getting taken advantage of. She's not sure what to do with herself, and starts working at a cafe run by her old boss from a former job. It's genuinely hilarious, one of the funniest manga that isn't predicated solely on humor that I've read, and also deals with some serious topics well, but never gets too deep into the weeds. Very charming, and the scanlations have been coming out fairly swiftly, with chapters currently being on volume 8. The slapfights between the two main characters are incredible.   
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Yeah I only say funny because I've been there with serious depression and can look back and laugh. Still a good read tho.
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Laputanmachine posted:All Jump series are trash. its true but I still like My Hero Academy.
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Motherfucker posted:its true but I still like My Hero Academy. It's paedo. (lol at how people are gonna defend it by arguing that it's only "a bit skeevy")
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Wait how is MHA pedo.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It's paedo. ??? wut
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It's paedo. 
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im tryin' to like your funky style of posting bravest but you cant be doing this poo poo buddy cmon
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