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Zenzirouj: Jun 10, 2004; What about you, thread?
You got any tricks?

TheFallenEvincar posted:

http://mangafox.me/manga/uncivilized_planet/

I probably shouldn't have read this right before bed. It's purestrain melancholy. But also really good.

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Zenzirouj: Jun 10, 2004; What about you, thread?
You got any tricks?

TheFallenEvincar posted:

Right? Some of the visuals Jiro Matsumoto brings to the plate are just amazing. It's one of my personal favorites.

If you liked that, Freesia and Tropical Citron are two more series of his. Both pretty surreal and intense. I also really liked his collections of short story manga, like Keep on Vibrating and A Revolutionist in the Afternoon. He's got a new ongoing series (at least I think it's new) set in the post-apocalypse, Jigoku no Alice, that is fairly decent right now but I'm not quite sure if it's going to reach the heights of some of his other full-length series, we'll see I guess.

I read Freesia over the past few nights and I don't know what makes his stuff so compelling. Something about the mix of surrealism, Earthlike settings, and a society-wide undercurrent of callous violence just forces you to keep reading. I really do have to wonder about this author, though. Both main characters have only the barest of grips on reality and are frequently hallucinating, plus half the other characters are batshit in their own ways and are also probably hallucinating. And then there's the constant stream of sexual violence. And yet, despite all that, it's just too good to put down.

So, regarding the ending of Freesia: are we to assume that he survived? Or that it was a flashback? Or that there's somebody else who is now hallucinating him? I'm not sure which is the worst option, really.

Zenzirouj fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Oct 14, 2013

# ¿ Oct 14, 2013 10:25

Zenzirouj: Jun 10, 2004; What about you, thread?
You got any tricks?

Nate RFB posted:

(and equally surreal for other people who didn't even realize it was still going)

Yeah, holy poo poo, I assumed it was already complete when I stumbled across it in high school and that whatever wasn't done was just untranslated.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2014 22:32

Zenzirouj: Jun 10, 2004; What about you, thread?
You got any tricks?

Speaking of food porn, Aiki updated recently. I'm used to the usual manga habit of Japan > the world, but man Isutoshi likes to poo poo on Western food and Western tastes.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2014 02:49