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Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Ytlaya posted:

It's really a shame. I like the art style in Soil a whole lot; despite being really stylized, all the characters look like actual Japanese people (rather than "anime"). The plot is a little too "LOST"-ish for my taste, but I still enjoy it.

Yeah, it's extremely characterful. Reminds me more of an avant garde 2000AD or Vertigo style than other manga.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2014 11:04

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 04:12

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Personal_Nirvana posted:

Homunculus may be right up your alley.

Syrant posted:

You might enjoy '6000' which is pretty good but not very long just yet. I would link if I weren't on my phone.

Homunculus, as suggested, is pretty drat good.

Of course there is also 'Franken Fran' which is just all sorts of Cronenberg.

Yeah I liked Homunculus alot, even if I don't think it ever really achieved the promise of its early chapters. It stayed unusual and interesting throughout, though.

Syrant posted:

You might enjoy '6000' which is pretty good but not very long just yet. I would link if I weren't on my phone.

Homunculus, as suggested, is pretty drat good.

Of course there is also 'Franken Fran' which is just all sorts of Cronenberg.

6000 looks like it could have a cool The Thing vibe. I'm going to leave it for a while since I've got a tendency to burn through series that I like and then have no chapters left to read.

Paracelsus posted:

Franken Fran is heavy on the gross-out, so it may not be what he's looking for.

Kaja Rainbow posted:

Franken Fran is more of a really macabre comedy anyways.

Looks fun and the art seems interesting so I'll check it out at some point.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 20:47

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Everything Burrito posted:

Manhole is both (biological) horror and police procedural.

Got around to reading this last week. Very good recommendation. I liked almost everything about it: the realistic art style, the two detectives, the suspense. The only part that really bugged me was when the girl detective kiss-feeds the pills to the guy - surely there'd be a better way to get him to take the pills without almost certainly infecting herself?. That said, it was a pretty minor point. Need to see what else Tsutsui Tetsuya has done.

I also finished Kingdom up to the latest release, although I suppose discussion of that belongs in the historical manga thread.

TheFallenEvincar posted:

Sakamoto desu ga, still awesome, still hilarious.
This chapter...the perfect heist?! Nightmarish next-level porn?!
http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Sakamoto-desu-ga/Vol-003-Ch-014--Sakamoto-Really-is-a-Freak-?id=209755

Yesssss

# ¿ Oct 14, 2014 12:28

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Just finished 21st Century Boys. Waiting for chapters and translations must have been agony.

I think I'll wait till Billy Bat is finished before I start reading it...

Urasawa is so good.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2015 02:59

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Elf island is like a prophecy every generation of a cult thinks will come to pass in their life time, like the coming of Zorp in parks and rec.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 23:34

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

I'd prefer more Cooking Papa to the hyperbolic nonsense of most cooking manga.Just a hardworking dad who solves mundane problems with food.

Chas McGill fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Apr 23, 2015

# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 10:18

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

This makes me sad that the old man manga about the train conductor and the salarywoman stopped being translated.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2015 17:00

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Dorohedoro is a fever dream. I always forget what's happening in it when I go back, but it doesn't matter.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2015 09:59

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

I have no understanding of what's going on in Dorohedoro most of the time...and I don't care.

The gyoza man is one of my favourite sequences in manga.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 09:45

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Yardbomb posted:

Also I keep getting closer and closer to reading Dorohedoro, it's gonna happen at some point I keep telling myself.

It's real good. Unique.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2015 23:30

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

You could take some psychoactive drugs and look at the work of John Blanche, perhaps.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2015 11:44

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

That's an awesome premise.

Also I'd like to thank people in general for recommending stuff in here and doing wee write-ups since otherwise I doubt I'd be able to find any good stuff on my own.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2015 12:37

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

I haven't read it yet but I love a good emotional rollercoaster.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2015 20:32

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Sharkopath posted:

its manipulation of emotional highs and lows to create crushing triumph when everything turns out good, thats like storytelling 101
the cool thing about shiori is that much like life it also doesn't decide set points or arcs to have highs and lows, everything flows up and down throughout the entire chapter. This chapter was super heartwarming but also reinforced what was lost in the past that can be regained in the future.

the band teacher is just a super driven career woman so lol if you think of it as cartoonish evil. shes actively and maliciously going after anything she thinks of as a threat for the constant growth and expansion of her personal realm, but it is for the interest of the students in the end. super human behaviour.

I actually agree with sharkopath after reading Shiori. It's a pretty standard adversity-breeds-excellence story and extremely enjoyable. Like Jimi says: you need problems to play the blues properly. It'd be rather boring if Shiori's path to legendhood was all smooth sailing.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2015 10:34

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Turin Turambar posted:

Sometimes Mellow

Fanservice done right.

Ok, ok, I will give you the good stuff.

A single volume with 8 stories, mostly little possible romances and sudden spark between man and woman, or some upbeat short story. From the author of "Is Reiroukan Still Alive?". Great drawing, very sensual women. It seems the author knows his fort� is the drawing, and sometimes the dialogue is almost mute.
From the eight stories, I would say five are good, so overall decent but it could have been better.

Turin Turambar posted:

Undercurrent

With the first pages, this started as the typical realist seinen manga, a boring real story of a totally mundane character in our boring real world. Exactly, it's about a woman whose husband went missing and she has to go on in her life while working in family business.
But the truth is that I found it pretty gripping, a story that is being opened bit a bit to mystery of the disappearance and what it really hides the two main characters in their past.
It express clearly and in a unpretentious way how horrible is this kind of situation, as she doesn't know if he left her for another woman, or he killed himself in a far away place, or he escaped outside the country, or had an freak accident, or what, so she has no closure at all. Looking at her mechanically gaze to newspaper suicide articles, and doubting about if she truly understood her couple is painful. But it isn't only full of angst, it has too a few humor moments that gives a needed levity and some SoL touches, and the plot advances eventually, with a decent resolution.

These look cool. Adding them to my to-reads.

I've been reading a couple chapters of Bartender every night lately and although it's not earth shatteringly good, it's relaxing and satisfying, like a glass of 10yr old Aberlour. I bounced off the anime, despite being a lover of mundane stories, but I'm somehow 40 chapters into this. As Yang Wenli said, alcohol is humanity's friend.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2015 03:07

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Any recs for manga (or anime) where the protagonist solves problems with cool knowledge or non-fighting related skills? Stuff like Master Keaton, Bartender, Jin, Sakamoto desu etc.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 01:32

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

That Works posted:

Munakata Kyouju Denkiko is more in the Master Keaton vibe than most stuff I think

http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Munakata-Kyouju-Denkikou

This is extremely cool. I'm really interested in comparative theology and folklore so this is almost the perfect manga for me. The art is outstanding too.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 14:32

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Yes, I started reading Soil a while ago after someone (probably in this thread) recommended it to me. Really intriguing and unusual, but I understand that it's no longer being translated? I decided to stop at the end of volume 1 or something to wait and see if someone would complete the whole thing. Looks like it hasn't been updated since 2013.

I'm liking Munakata a lot, although I feel that he lacks a bit of personality himself. It feels pretty old-school-serial. The focus is definitely on the myths rather than the characters, with little continuity between the chapters (at least for the first few). A pretty former student/daughter of the shrine-owner meeting him every time he goes to investigate something is a little predictable. The content is so interesting that I don't really care though.

Master Keaton struck a good balance of having interesting and informative plots with a likable protagonist and side characters within an episodic framework.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 16:00

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Turin Turambar posted:

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (end)

Thank you for these cool posts.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2015 01:22

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Dungeon Meshi is insanely good, everyone. Wish there was more of it. The art is nice and the concept is perfect.

Chas McGill fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Oct 23, 2015

# ¿ Oct 23, 2015 15:59

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

mate I didn't know what that was and shouldn't have looked it up at work...good thing no one is here, haha.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2015 16:16

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Nipponophile posted:

If you haven't already, be sure to look up the author's earlier anthology series. She has a knack for taking a unique setting and telling a funny or sometimes poignant story.

Yeah, I'm planning on reading her other stuff. There were sections of Dungeon Meshi with lots of invention - the treasure bug/mimic lifecycle and the food in the paintings were great moments.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2015 16:45

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Captain Invictus posted:

I was not very interested in keyman but then I tried it and it was very good and not at all what I expected beyond Alex Rex being the baddassest Tyrannosaurus Rex cop in 1930s-esque not-new york with a sinister supernatural plot happening that he gets sucked up in

It's funny, it's graphic as hell without necessarily being extravagant with it most of the time like immortal hounds, it's dramatic, it's got a couple of cute romances, and the lady cop has righteous baps

I gave it a shot. I'm not sure about it it. Alex is cool, the city is cool. Necro is embarrassing and gross. Boob cop is cool. I like how dirty the action scene art is, to a point. Some of the panels are just confusing, though. 6 chapters in and I'll probably drop it unless chapter 7 is particularly good.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2015 18:05

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Mikl posted:

There's a new Shiori Experience chapter out and you guys best go read it right the gently caress now

Yess. Looking forward to this.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 22:36

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Rock and Roll Ricky

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 16:50

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

That was horrible.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 10:40

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

It's brilliant. I really liked the anthology of shorts the author did as well. Clever writer.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2015 20:44

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Captain Invictus posted:

New Shiori Experience.

I dunno why I thought that kid was her brother. End of chapter was certainly worth it though

I had a feeling you're meant to, maybe. He looked sort of similar to how she remembered her bro, I think.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the documentary. I didn't expect it to actually feature her performance, since that's being saved as a prop in a redemptive set piece.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2015 10:47

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

I'd love to see Tupac in. It could say he actually died 2yrs after his 'death'.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2015 15:27

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

GGpX posted:

After 6 long years, a new chapter of Me & The Devil Blues.

http://reader.manga-download.org/read/me_and_the_devil_blues/en/5/29/page/1

I don't remember if there was a thread of it not.

But yeah, enjoy. This was a loving pain in the rear end to clean. And the next chapter ain't that much better either. Sigh.

Thanks, looking forward to this. Pretty weird because I was just reading about Robert Johnson yesterday. Spooky.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 10:25

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Kaja Rainbow posted:

This misinformation keeps getting brought up. Sigh. It's only an unsubstantiated guess by goons about his motives. Prison School is not the only fanservice work he has under his belt, I've heard.

I don't think anyone cares...

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 19:32

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

Maybe the ending is terrible, anyway..............

# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 17:08

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

It's ok, but I haven't enjoyed any of it as much as the first volume.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2016 13:33

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

The cats in March Comes in Like a Lion are my favourite.

I'm becoming more interested in the shogi stuff. I particularly liked the chapters about the older player - there was an emotional connection to the events of the game that went beyond "be the best!". He was playing to retain his sense of self.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2016 14:29

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

# ¿ Jun 21, 2016 15:23

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

I bounced off Billy Bat despite being a massive Urasawa fan. To be honest I still don't understand 20th c boys completely, and Billy Bat is a level above that.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 18:22

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

I really like the manga in every aspect except the main relationship, which I find a bit gross. Maybe her character will develop to move past it, but previous experience with manga suggests otherwise...

# ¿ Aug 25, 2016 10:17