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There are some really pretty pages involving The Crystal Palace. The pacing is similar to A Bride's Story, but it jumps between characters far less. The art improves drastically over time, though it's not bad in the first place. Mori's definitely put a lot of research in, but there are still certain things that don't ring true to history every now and then. I feel like it doesn't quite hold up to A Bride's Story on that front, but that might just be because I'm a lot more familiar with Victorian London than central Asia during the same period.
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Arslan Senki anyone? https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=97707 Manga adaption done by the creator of FMA and suits her art style/story telling well. I never read the original but it's fairly well-known.
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Did she finish the farm school story then?
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Jackard posted:Did she finish the farm school story then? No, still ongoing. It even has a S2 anime adaptation.
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Alder posted:Arslan Senki anyone? Please speak English.
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Jackard posted:Did she finish the farm school story then? Silver Spoon is way better than Arslan though, you should read it.
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Not that it's bad, I just lost interest after the pizza plotline.
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coathat posted:Please speak English. Google Translate is here for you. Jackard posted:Not that it's bad, I just lost interest after the pizza plotline. I got bored of the anime but the manga series itself is entertaining. It's a calming SoL vs say FMA where everyone is trying to kill everyone else. Alder fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Alder posted:Google Translate is here for you. Why would I do that when it's written in English all over the place when I go to read it? http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/the-heroic-legend-of-arslan/volumes
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Alder posted:I got bored of the anime but the manga series itself is entertaining. It's a calming SoL vs say FMA where everyone is trying to kill everyone else. I dropped it early on because it wasn't as funny as FMA even though FMA features genocide as a central theme. Does it get better?
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Rodyle posted:I dropped it early on because it wasn't as funny as FMA even though FMA features genocide as a central theme. Does it get better? Welp, if you didn't find it entertaining then I'd say not much of it changes later on. Most of it is about the MC learning how to run his own farming company and not be bankrupt in one month. I did enjoy learning about farming and agriculture in modern day Japan along the way.
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A Bride's Story updated (you may notice all the previous chapters got DMCA'd off Batoto, check other sites to catch up, sorry)
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Volume six just came out for people who actually want to support the manga.
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:A Bride's Story updated (you may notice all the previous chapters got DMCA'd off Batoto, check other sites to catch up, sorry) 19th century Central Asia seems remarkably progressive on the subject of gay marriage.
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This arc lacks both comedy and drama. Please break Mr Smith's heart again or something.
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Rodyle posted:This arc lacks both comedy and drama. Please break Mr Smith's heart again or something. We're probably gonna have drama next time given things I vaguely remember about old Indian customs regarding what happens to widowed women.
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Blhue posted:We're probably gonna have drama next time given things I vaguely remember about old Indian customs regarding what happens to widowed women. Aren't we in Persia right now?
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I forget. I always assumed it was India, but I'm not gonna pretend I'm right.
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I think we're either in Persia or the area that's modern-day Turkmenistan. Definitely somewhere Shia, at least.
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Rodyle posted:This arc lacks both comedy and drama. Please break Mr Smith's heart again or something. But there's a adorable fluffy cat in the latest chapters 
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Yeah, say what you want about this arc, at least it has the grumpiest and fluffiest cat.
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The Sandman posted:I think we're either in Persia or the area that's modern-day Turkmenistan. Definitely somewhere Shia, at least. I think you're right. Henry and Ali are headed to Ankara via Tehran and probably Baghdad. I'm assuming Tehran is going to be it's own arc, and they were talking about the first imam Ali during the sisterhood ceremony.
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Was the "sisterhood vow" a real thing in that time and culture?
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ATP5G1 posted:Was the "sisterhood vow" a real thing in that time and culture? I would google it but lately it's been letting me down  It works fine for extremely specific requests but for general questions it's less than accurate.
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So does sister hood mean financial obligations as well? In this comic it feels more like a front for lesbianism.
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caberham posted:So does sister hood mean financial obligations as well? In this comic it feels more like a front for lesbianism. I thought it was lesbianism.
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Since we're spending so much time in the baths, here is a letter by Lady Montagu about her time in an Ottoman Turkish bath in the 1700s. Read the last section. https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/topic_4/montagu.htm
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ATP5G1 posted:Was the "sisterhood vow" a real thing in that time and culture? I spent a few hours trying to find anything on it and turned up bupkiss, but one commenter on another site had this to say: quote:For those who don't get the sisterhood ceremony, this is basically the female version of the Oath of the Peach Garden. Just like how men in martial societies swore oaths of brotherhood to each other in formal ceremonies with religious overtones, women also did in some societies. To some extent the women's oath has more significance than the men's ('coz to be fair men broke their oaths with distressing regularity - just ask the andas Temujin and Jamuka), because sisters in Muslim societies were expected to assist each other socially and economically at all times. In Persia (Iran) of the 19th century this led to the formation of an underground financing network where widows or divorced women ran businesses by collecting money from their sisters and friends and pool them into vast investment funds, with profits shared between members of the sisterhood or circle of friends. The businesses themselves were of course run by men, but the women held the reins. When one or more members of the network fell into hard times, the rest of the members would offer parts or all of their profit to help her. We're probably going to see this at play now that Shirin's husband is in trouble and Shirin's livelihood is in danger.
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Considering the need for more awesome historical manga and a setting/story with this much potential, it's a pity how bland and generic Ad Astra feels. I guess there's that one little series set in Carthage that the manga-ka behind Historie did, maybe I'll finally give that a look.
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I just finished volume 10 of Ooku and needless to say it was excellent. I highly recommend that you go out and buy it.
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Two new Cesare! This time, those dastardly Pazzi have set a trap in Florence, and the King of France married without the Pope's blessing!
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 sparklecat comix continues: Otoyomegatari 42 One more chapter to go on this story, and I agree it's been a little bit dull but man the pages with the dark garden lit up in the moonlight and poo poo have been real purty
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:
These last few chapters have made me really want a cat manga from Mori.
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Nipponophile posted:These last few chapters have made me really want a cat manga from Mori. I would buy it on day one. I don't even care if it's hardcover and $20 volume.
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Nipponophile posted:These last few chapters have made me really want a cat manga from Mori. Collab with Ito Junji.
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AnonSpore posted:Collab with Ito Junji.
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Jackard posted:Is he the one that always kills them? Or was it dogs? Isn't that Araki from JoJo Bizarre Adventure?
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Jackard posted:Is he the one that always kills them? Or was it dogs?  Is that the face of a man who could kill a cat?
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