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No. 186711
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Nonnies, which manga series would you recommend for someone who hasn’t read one in over 5 years? A manga that could reignite my interest!
I’m in my early 20s, I used to love (to an autistic level) black butler as a teen. Nana is my all time favorite. I also liked some fantasy-like mangas by CLAMP, Arina Tanemura etc. So specific genres aren’t that important, BL is fine too. It doesn’t have to be translated either, Japanese is fine.
No. 186717
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>>186711That's a bit hard. Since you were not very specific, I can't narrow down the "vibe" that you want. Do you want something laid back to ease into manga reading again? Or do you want some crazy shit that will keep you reading and come back with a bang? Do you want something more grounded/mundane or a fantasy world? Do you want an adventure or something dark or dramatic? Something light hearted and funny or some action? Something that you can read casually or something that has a lot of overarching narratives?
No. 186730
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>>186714Oh it’s still a thing? Thanks anon then I’ll check out Black Butler again! Haven’t read it since 2016 I think. Ah I remember hearing about Paradise Kiss, I’ll check it out too, thank you kind
nonnie!
>>186717Yes sorry for being so vague anon, I couldn’t really say that I wanted a specific genre because I used to like so many different mangas. But I guess as for the “vibe” I’d like something that isn’t too much slow slice of life and something that isn’t too sad and dramatic maybe? What’s the manga in the picture you posted, it looks like a comfy fantasy adventure
No. 186745
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>>186730>it looks like a comfy fantasy adventureIt's literally that! It's called Tongari Boushi no Atelier or Witch Hat Atelier. The art is gorgeous. It's written by a woman and there's no fanservice, as far as I read and probably not ever tbh.
I don't know if you'd consider Yotsuba too slow, but it's pretty cute and laid back, as well. Do you want completely mundane SOL or can it have more fantasy/adventure elements as well? I love Gokushufudou (the way of the house husband) and Kodoku no Gourmet (and Wakakozake) but it's pretty mundane. I will look into my stuff and see if I can find other recommendations!
No. 186746
>>186745where can i buy the manga in english?
>>186730what's picrel?
No. 186749
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>>186746Magic Knight Rayearth by CLAMP. One of my childhood favorites.
No. 186766
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I'm curious what farmers think about this manga. Personally I really enjoyed it. Caught myself tearing up certain times.
No. 186773
>>186770Its a manga about sexual and gender identity. I'm a
terf but I riked it still, it was pretty good.
No. 186775
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>>186773I am the most homophobic person in the world but I love seeing these topics in fiction so much, right now I am reading this manga, is quite bad, I do not recommend it, it is a slife of life about a nonbinary character kek
No. 186783
>>186775lol I remember this one. IIRC it's a male crosdresser and all the staff in the cafe he works at are traps. He gets upset and cries when they think he's also a "boy who crosdresses" but in reality he's "neither boy nor girl".
>>186773Really? What's so good about it? I don't mind spoilers.
No. 186789
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>>186783I like the way it explores the topic without feeling like weird pandering if that makes sense. Stories like this can easily turn into trauma porn, woe-is-me, repetitive and doubling down on stereotypes IME but MC learning about the cast and discovering himself is done quite tastefully. An experience you've heard before but still interesting. I'm not very good at explaining myself. I empathised with the homosexual characters in particular, their storylines touched me the most. The characters in general feel very human-like and real as if I'm listening to conversations and private stories someone IRL had.
The art being attractive and whimsical is a huge bonus too of course. Coastal town setting. Picrel made me kek
No. 186797
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>>186775The worst part is that the origin is from a hentai of the author, where the character has a suspiciously small penis
No. 186798
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Anyone else read Aono-kun ni Sawaritai kara Shinitai? It's romantic horror about a girl trying to continue to date her boyfriend after he dies and becomes a ghost. It's balances the fluffy romance and spooky shit really well and touches on a lot of subjects that I imagine would hit close to home for many anons.
No. 186799
>>186792She
>>186789 is not talking about
>>186775 you retard
>>186797>loli-looking trapshit author is also a shotafagwow what a shock
No. 186800
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>>186799This is how the autor looks kek
>>186798I will definitely watch it, I love twisted things, if you have more suggestions like that I would love to see them
No. 187214
>>187207As far as I recall it's just a slice of life harem manga. The stereotypical "a bunch of girls somehow end up living with bland MC and fall in love with him. Drama ensues". My memory could be wrong though. The art's fine.
I picked up the first volume of another of the author's series (Negima I think?) that was in Japanaese to try translating as Japanese practice but I didn't get far.
No. 187223
>>187207NAYRT but it’s basically an introductory manga for LGBTQ categories. Like each character is one type of “queer” identity and have a small story arc before moving onto the next one. Protag is gay, there’s a lesbian couple, MTF kid, FTM adult, old gay couple
which of course has one guy living a double life and suffering from AIDS. Like the other anon said the character Anonymous is an asexual themby and basically is the author’s self-insert that guides all the queers with her OPness
The art is beautiful but yeah
No. 187262
>>187250The one spot of reality actually happens with that character
because he gets groped by a creep while crossdressing at a festival, and it’s what convince him to stay male. Almost everything else (excluding the cis gay male couple ofc) is sugar coated in it.
No. 187330
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>>187250>Feels like it was made for tumblr and twitter users exclusively.Actually you reminded me of this pannel when the "god" says that, so yes you are right.
>>187262Holy shit I forgot about the details but if that's true the fuck, no wonder the mangaka trooned out.
No. 187382
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>>186730Another comfy fantasy adventure I'd recommend to someone who hasn't read manga in a few years is Dungeon Meshi! It's about a group of adventurers in a DnD style dungeon, but two of them are obsessed with cooking and eating monsters, so every chapter or two they make Japanese food out of the monster they killed. It's very funny and exciting.
It also has a really talented female mangaka.
No. 187384
>>187380On top of
>>187383, that's how it started here too. Just fifteen years ago it was still "Ohh, we're just trying to live our life, but we won't deny we're actually men, sex and gender are different. We just wanna pee, and get our dick chopped off and silicone tits slapped on." until just a few years later it suddenly was "What do you mean males can't be lesbians? That males have a biological advantage in terms of strength, mass, weight and volume? That we don't belong in womens prisons? Suck my dick, bitch."
No. 187673
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Hate that I even have to ask this, but is Yotsuba& safe from random pedo moments?
No. 187904
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>>187901The mangaka announced out of nowhere that he was making a sequel a week or two ago. At first, I was worried since the original ended so well, but I have faith in Raiku.I liked Animal Land, although I haven't read VECTOR BALL yet.
No. 188185
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>>186711Maybe Magi The Labyrinth of Magic? It's one of my favorites despite how it ended. Has a very fun and diverse cast, decent plot imo, and nice/cute art.
No. 188832
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Why are abominations allowed to be the norm in anime/manga? But give a yaowee/otome guy larger hands or body frame and it's a running joke for the next decade
No. 189098
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Golden Kamuy spoilers
I can't wait for the next chapter cause I wanna see shit going down between these two
No. 189101
I bought witch hat atelier recently and I'm so excited to read it. It's the first manga that I ever buy it's just too pretty
>>187380>No way will it spread as much as in the WestNonnie the world is connected together and nothing stops the flow of information. Anything that comes from America is highly influential.
No. 189288
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>>188871Yeah, the end was a shitshow and I honestly still can't really wrap my head around it kek. It felt like L vs Light where it was like "you think I outsmarted you? Jokes on you, I knew all along!" and then "I knew you knew so it was I who outsmarted you" and so on kek. I really enjoyed a lot of it though. The art is soooo cute I'm about to reread it just to enjoy how dumb and stupid some of the little chibis are hehe. Peep my favorite boy.
No. 189295
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I can't believe Mia Ikumi passed away, my heart is breaking
No. 189341
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>>189295I heard Mia was overseeing the new anime too so I can’t wait to see her final project. She was so young RIP queen Mia Ikumi.
No. 189375
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>>189295The news has me weeping like a child, especially knowing tomorrow is Mew Ichigo's birthday and now she won't even get to see her creation debut this Summer. Sailor Moon may have been my first love, but Mew Mew is my forever. Rest easy queen.
>>189299She was even younger, 42.
No. 189524
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Holy shit i thought i hallucinated this whole thing, no i just read it on danbooru six years ago, its just not translated and searching for "imperial army dogs" turned up a lot of horrible chinese stories and not much manga
No. 189540
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I just finished reading Totsukuni no Shoujo but I think I'm too retarded to get the ending.
It felt so unsatisfying. I guess they both become trees at the end? Cool I guess, but humanity never receives salvation and the mother at the bottom of the lake is still just a big ass black blob so nothing really changed at all in the end. Is that the point? That this world will be locked forever in a fight against each other? Rest in peace to the king but what the fuck ever happens with the priest? Do the people kill him as a result too? The people in the wall are like 'lol ok so we have to kill the girl to save ourselves? cool lets kill her' but now there is no vessel for Father, nor is there a soul for Mother. They hint that insiders are coming out of the walls, so have they just accepted they must live with the outsiders? No one gave them the message that Albert speaks of in the end though (the "true" curse stuff, constantly being at odds with each other), so why would they suddenly decide this? They still run the risk of becoming cursed. Also nothing is explained about what will potentially happen if Father got his body back and Mother got her soul back.
The worldbuilding and the lore were really neat but the towards the end I felt like it got really convoluted. Maybe finishing it all off nice and neat wouldn't have done it any true justice, but I don't think the way it ended really did much either.
No. 189604
>>189540Ok I'm back after reading some people's interpretation of the ending.
The best interpretation I read is the emphasis on sharing, such as Albert sharing some of his soul with Shiva, and Shiva (in her original form) sharing part of herself as a black child with him (even though it is a forced sharing at first- Albert and Shiva willingly pass the soul between each other later on). They are able to escape the curse because of his, such as that Shiva is not instantly cursed when touched by the black children and Albert is able to retain some of his humanity even after being cursed. The insiders and outsiders will remain cursed because they do not realize they are each a half of a whole (a vessel and a soul) and therefore will remain cursed in their own ways. I like this interpretation, although it doesn't really make me enjoy the ending very much since my questions about the priest and mother and father still remain kek. Also someone pointed out the cover, which I posted above, shows a bucket and a tree which furthers along the idea that they both died (Albert becoming a tree, Shiva is an empty bucket (no soul left)), along with Albert normally not needing to sleep as a black child, so nap = death. Well. It's fine. But I'm just not really a fan of stories where, despite all that we followed and the effort that was put into lore and worldbuilding, important/special characters die having zero impact on their world in the end. Maybe Nagabe's point was most of us die like that anyway? kek No. 189807
>>189799Thank you for your suggestion, I'll check this one out, I don't think I mind the working environment, and since the relationship is already established and not the focus it should be alright.
>>189800I'm not super fond of webtoons, especially the format, but I'll check it too, it sounds nice.
I mostly read seinen mangas with a mixed protagonists group because romance is usually absent or a last chapter addition and I wanted to branch out by reading more things with adult female protagonists, but it's really hard to find stuff I like.
No. 191216
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Read My Alcoholic Escape From Reality and A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's An Alcoholic, and just looking for more recs for mangas that are realistic about alcoholism-overdrinking like those two, theyve helped me realize my own issues so Im a fan
No. 191248
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>>191244My Alcholic Escape and My Warrior Life have been translated into English nonna! Idk about other languages tho sorry
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>>191248I was able to find them—thanks so much
nonnie.
Upsetting spoiler but this coming out in Wandering Nagata Kabi explained a lot. Jesus fucking Christ.
No. 191457
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i know everyone hates op but bear with me. what's up with those spoilers/reveals about luffy and his devil fruit not being the gomu gomu no mi? i heard wano arc finally concluded so i was excited to read the whole thing in one sitting now, but those spoilers i read today are insane.
No. 191458
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>>191419Oh no that just broke my heart and it would explain more about her upcoming memoir: Straying Warrior Kabi Nagata: Go Gourmet! (it hasn't come out in Jp even) which talks about her eating disorder/excessive eating
No. 191947
>>191419Just finished reading the two newest issues since they came in the mail, this made me honestly tear up.
I had trouble understanding a lot of the stuff in the book about her alcoholism due to only drinking like, twice before but her other books including this one hit me so hard.
No. 192909
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>>191216I started catching-up with her latest manga but seems like to most likely to troon out (at least probably to gender-x), I'm dissapointed. I really liked her first two mangas, and I read about her alcoholism part too.
No. 192918
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>>192909That's just sad, I can understand with her past though a bit but I also do blame twitter/American influences, a lot of people in the states don't realize it but their culture is very influential no matter how fucking stupid it is (hence why I'm seeing people whose languages don't even have pronouns like mine still putting shit like him/her/they like wtf.)
Anyway back to manga, does anyone have a rec for a place for me to read Happy Mania by Moyoko Anno? I can't find it anywhere
No. 192920
>>192909Wow, gender bullshit legit is spreading to nipland. Just what their autistic, pornsick culture needed.
This is kind of, I don't know, callous to say but after reading all her books about her horrible life, trooning out only to
>A. deeply regret it down the line and write another depressing book about itor
>B. finally be pushed to sudoku by itSeems like the natural course of action for her. God is that woman's biggest hater.
No. 192948
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>>192947Also I would love to read her fictional mangas if anyone knows if they ever got published?
No. 193104
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>>192968They’ve got a great podcast called Manga splaining and blog also where they put down notes and links to what they mention and since they’re an older gen of weeb they’re much more varied and really do have better taste and background in manga and anime then a lot of newer/younger fans!
Btw has anyone read Taiyo Matsumoto work in French? I’m thinking of getting the Bambou Samurai series and I can read to a middle school level so hopefully it’ll turn out good if the translation isn’t total ass
No. 193853
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I feel bad for the poor souls who have to read about Nagatoro abusing the nerd kid, you can read Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, it's also a girl teasing a boy but it's not retarded coomer content and it's very cute. There is even a sequel where they are grown up and married and have a daughter. There is a part when the wife asks the husband what kind of hairstyle he likes best and he can't think of any hairstyle other than his wife's, that was so cute I wanted to post it but I can't find it.
No. 193873
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I read this manga obsessively as a kid and when I saw the sequel series I was stoked, but what the fuck?? It was shit.
Firstly the guy from the Ura Peach Girl / Sae’s story spinoff completely disappears from the narrative, he’s never even mentioned despite being a major player in that series but fine, maybe the writer wanted to explore something new?
Nah it’s just the same old rehashed love triangle drama with Momo, Toji and Kairi. It just meandered on and on with the same plots as the first manga. I was honestly really annoyed that after setting them up pretty nicely with Toji having a lot of patience for Sae and growing really close to her, the writer still couldn’t break out of the “love triangle must revolve around my shoujo mc, even if she gets married, the other guy still belongs to her and has to be in love with her”
Also momo just got weirdly blander and blander, it was more fun when she pushed back on Sae just as hard even after they become close friends, but her and Kairi are just so stale as adults. Sae really ends up being a way more interesting and fun character, even though she’s pretty awful.
No. 193899
>>193875Thanks
nonny! I found a place selling it and some of Anno's other works so I was going to buy them maybe this weekend!
No. 194549
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Is anyone reading Akane Banashi? It’s about a young girl trying to become a master Rakugo to avenge her dad (whose not dead but got kicked out of the society basically) the art is really good and the MC is so cute!
No. 196766
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>Orochi ni totsuida musume
>snake x woman manga
Scalie sisters, you won.
No. 196938
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any nonnies reading Skip and loafer? Its very cute and funny, and will be getting an anime apparently
No. 197601
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Does anyone have a sports manga but with all women in the vein of like Slam Dunk? Like good plot + art, I've read Chihayafuru, and it's nice despite the annoying ass love triangle but a lot of other more modern manga/anime with all women teams is just so so bad with the moe/cutesy shit (cinderella 9 like picrel was killing me trying to watch that) and ott fanservice (fucking keijo) For what else I've read, Asahinagu was a major let down btw the plot was poorly paced. I've already a lot of old school series such as Ginban Kaleidoscope, Ace o Nerae!Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl and Attack No. 1 but I'm personally not the biggest fan of that old school shoujo art style and I was thinking of checking out Bamboo Blade
No. 197652
>>197614I've read them both thank you
nonny
>hentai mangakakek didn't know that! And it's my fault for not mentioning it but I was looking for more team sports manga, in like that Slam Dunk/Eye shield 21 vein that sadly a lot of girl focused series I've seen seem to lack.
No. 197999
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I'm thinking of getting back in and finishing Bleach but I have to ask, for anyone who stuck till the finale, was it worth it? I don't want spoilers but just will I be on suicide watch like all the AOT fans?
No. 198910
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Has one read the newest Little Miss P (volume 3 + 4 to be specific,) love the first two but a moid on the third cover has me worried for tranny pandering + I can't find a link anywhere online to read it so I don't really want to spend my money on it if it does end up erasing women by pretending men can somehow get periods kek
No. 199488
>>199230NHL, but this. I tried reading the original Legal Drug but it didn't seem special to me. Maybe I need to read more of it.
I wish newish Clamp manga hit me like the old one. They've peaked with Tokyo Babylon (I want my promised anime, except make it not shit!!!) and X. You will not change my mind.
I've also managed to struggle through Kobato (mediocre) and Tsubasa (a mess with all the clones and CCS worship). I wish I could read Xxxholic but I always stop within early pages. Something about it is uninteresting to me, IDK what and why…
No. 199510
>>198999Does the hot blue haired guy (Grimmjaw?) my middle school husbando die really thats it kek
>>199194byt damn that sounds annoying tho fr, I don't care much for shipping but I just want fun fights really, I'm going to spoil myself because I'm curious about that final showdown asspull, thank you nonnies!
No. 199528
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>>197601I heard really good things abt Yoko Nihonbashi's "Shojo Fight". Haven't read it yet but I did read Nihonbashi's G Senjou Heavens Door. The artwork is pretty unique too. Maybe not for everyone but I love it.
No. 199663
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Anyone else read Sazan and Comet girl? The art was far better than the plot but it’s still an ok read. Comet girl aka Mina looks identical to cutey honey and the art style is influenced by 90s/80s anime.
No. 200047
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Tatsuki Fujimoto released Sayonara Eri a few weeks ago. At first it really looks like another manic pixie dream girl story, but in the end it's a rather original story about movies (a subject the author's obsessed with), narration and unreliable narrators
No. 200147
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>>200142Have you read Franken Fran?
No. 200395
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saw a youtube video of someone dubbing the first chapter, thought it was okay and i find the old guy hot so I ended up giving it a read. the romance is actually pretty sweet, the old guy is a flirt but not in a scrote-ish way. the story's okay and iirc the angel wasn't used as a blatant fanservice. i actually wanted to read it again and the other chapters i haven't read yet or were recently updated/published.
No. 200401
>>200142kasane and voynich hotel. imo murcielago is quite funny when you ignore the author’s moidy treatment of lesbians
>>200147seconded!!
No. 200442
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I'm looking for ongoing shojo/josei that's not mainly about romance, if anyone has recommendations. I don't mind if it's untranslated.
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>>200560Do you mean Blood on the Tracks? I haven't read it but I was considering checking it out since I've seen people hyping it up
No. 200604
>>200560>>200561Yup, that's the one. I picked it up because of the hype but it was shit.
>>200564For me it was just a waste of time. What's the story trying to do? What's the author trying to say? The writing is subpar, the main character has Kaneki syndrome - the whole trauma wanking is juvenile, ill-written, and feels like it was written by a 14 year old for other edgy 14 year olds - and the only good thing I recall of it is that the art is really good. If you like looking at things pick it up. Try picking it up for yourself though, you might like something I don't. Or you might just find it lukewarm.
>>200591Kek, you're so cute.
No. 201609
>>201598>>201598NTA but “there’s nothing about this subject is the story” isn’t really a story, let alone a good one. A guy having chronic diarrhea to the point where he has to apply vaseline to his asshole regularly isn’t a story. Too bad there’s nothing written about this subject either.
>obsessed retardYou’re an anon on an imageboard. Who the fuck are we obsessed with? Get it together missus schizo
No. 201658
>>201609I genuinely think it's you not liking the manga for whatever reason rather than it not having a story. Because it clearly has one: teenage boy deals with repercussions of having a psycho mother in the light of
her murdering his colleague. It's a psychological comic and has a story written in the vein of the genre. It's fine to not like it, but it doesn't mean it's not there.
Anyway, has it finally finished, so I can binge it?
No. 201925
>>201915One PieceIt's not "red flag" as "this person might be dangerous" but "It's pointless to try to talk about manga/anime with this person"
>>201754The author is mentally ill and is talking about common thoughts mentally ill persons have, why are you calling her a retard?
No. 201997
>>201915Oyasumi Punpun and One Piece for completely different reasons
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No. 202102
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>>201915Monogatari (especially if they also read the LN which consists pages of MC talking about boobs, but no, it's still 2deep4u), Eromanga sensei (The manga is more tame than its source, light novel which ends with picrelated and underage brother and sister having an intercourse.There are also a shit whole lot of coomer scenes where characters are quirky underage NLOGs that are happen to be into porn), My Dress Up Darling.
No. 202132
>>201915If he likes punpun run. Bianca Devin's murderer was an incel simp who loved punpun and wrote a phrase out of the manga in the sidewalk where he dumped the body.
"May you always remember me" I think. The main girl in punpun writes that on a tanabata paper and then punpun hits her very hard.
No. 202299
>>201915Pedo Tensei
Chainsaw Man/Fire Punch
Any Asanoshit
Spice & Wolf
NGE
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Welcome to the NHK
Note that I don't hate everything up there^ but I deem moids who enjoy it as subhuman for various reasons
>>201979This
No. 202407
>>202299Like
>>202364 surprised to see Spice & Wolf in here. Admittedly, I barely watched the first two episodes because they were too much of a drag (my friend had the same experience, so I can't ask her either). Is it because Horo seems to have this Born Sexy Yesterday thing going on?
No. 202539
>>202413No, it doesn't. Most males are
abusive cheaters, so of course most of the men watching Naruto are like that. Just like most men anywhere else.
No. 202970
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Anybody remember this wild ass manga? The mangaka wrote a sequel and it started being published like two weeks ago.
No. 203017
>>202970Do I remember it correctly that the first volume was setting a completely different plot than what it evolved into later?
I actually have entire series at my parents house but I haven't read it in like 15 years
No. 203126
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>>202970Never read that, but I bought and read all 3 volumes of her Fairy Cube manga in high school because the cover was pretty. I cannot remember a single thing about the plot or characters though, so maybe it was just meh.
No. 203156
>>203126NTA but I had the same experience with Fairy Cube. I think I remember a character being a reverse trap for trauma reasons and that’s about it.
>>202970I still have the art books because the character designs were great, but sold off the manga a while ago. The plot is a total clusterfuck and definitely gives off SMT fanfic vibes
No. 203532
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Did anyone else get lured in by the pretty cover? Kek
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>>203532Here’s a page for those who don’t know kek
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>>203524For manga about artists I really recommend Blue Period by Tsubasa Yamaguchi and the autobio Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey from Akiko Higashimura, I'm also a huge fan of Taiyo Matsumoto (Ping Pong or Sunny are some faves from him,) Inoue Takehiko (Real which is very, very character driven about sports/disability and slice of life) For newer manga I also recommend Akane Banashi. For manga about making manga you also can't go wrong with Bakuman from the creators of Death Note, so while the plot can be kinda retarded at times the art always delivers! The podcaste and blog mangasplaining also has very good manga to check out that's not your typical run of the mill 12 year old chosen one story
>>203535Holy fuck my sides lmaooo
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>>203532Kek, reminds me of the Courtney Love manga, much of the publicity was based on Ai Yazawa doing some character design for it, I've never read it but I don't think the art was as bad as Labyrinth.
>>203562I wouldn't recommend Bakuman, it's extremely scrotey.
No. 203614
>>203535Jfc KEK
>>203613Ah I used to see this in the bookstore all the time but I never actually read it
No. 203676
>>203569Not really a tranny actually just a cross dressing bi guy who likes cute things and feel that it’s easier for men to accept him if they think he’s a cute girl instead of a cute guy but I am also older and not a total super online pronoun obsessed dumbass zoomer who got really into this series after the anime trailer dropped so sadly don’t have the time to spread common sense kek
>>203613Oh for fucking real, I blocked out so much of the manga but I really liked the parts where they were creating and plotting and Toru entire dumbass arcs, like I could legit see some weeb influencer trying to do the same today but yeah the way women are treated when they do pop up, the sexism is so real whew
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>>203613I read princess Ai when it came out and it was just ok. The art wasn’t THAT bad tbh. They actually made dolls of her too it was a big deal to have Courtney Love and Ai Yazawa on board.
No. 203757
>>203613oh my god I still own the volumes, the nostalgia. It wasn’t as bad as one might think as far as I remember but it wasn’t great either. The concept was a bit weird because it’s basically some courtney love fantasy marysue with her grunge boy love interest lol but idk don’t remember much
>>203747>I legit thought Ai Yazawa actually did the art for the whole thingKek same, I saw a promo artwork made by her in some magazine before
No. 203863
>>203532>>203535I bought all the volumes and read them. The covers are gorgeous, I can't remember the artist but she had a few other series she worked fully on.
I actually didn't mind the plot. There were some new characters that were hit or miss but I liked some of the quirky goblin bits. I went in fully knowing the art was not like the covers. And I feel like the art got slightly better towards the end. Not amazing, but better.
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>>203863I’ve read and owned her series Alichino. I can’t remember what it was about though.
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>>203873Kek I read it in high school for the pretty boy on the cover. I had no idea where the plot was going. I think the alichino were kinda like demons and the hottie was supposed to hunt them and he was super special (hot) so all the alichino wanted to hunt him. Idk it's been a while. Great art though.
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So, I've read the first volume of Boku to Kimi no Taisetsu na Hanashi, and… does he stay like that? My theory, which would be his only saving grace, is, that he has all his ideas about women from reading shoujo manga, since he knew about some annoying tropes like the male LI always having to overcome some childhood trauma and we saw him reading some shoujo manga magazine, and thinks manga is made by women -> all women think like that. I don't care if it's a spoiler, please confirm if this is correct. If I'm wrong, he's really sounding like some proto-incel and I'll have to hate-read this from now on lmao.
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I was at the comic book store for free comic day and picked up this manga. It’s really cute so far.
No. 205400
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Does anyone have good series artbooks to check out? I have Moyocco Anno's art books alongside Slam Dunk, Junji Ito, Eureka 7, Studio Ghibli, Soul Eater, Toiletbound Hanako, Tokyo Ghoul, Dennou Coil, all of Amano's art books (not anime/manga but still weeb) like even if it's not for a series I haven't checked out, as long as the art is good (and especially zero panty shots) and unique I would still love to take a look!
No. 205578
>>205433I'm on volume six (out of seven) now, and he doesn't change at all so far. The most we get is "Oh, but you're different though" when he goes on his rants. I think you're onto something with Robico trying to deconstruct shoujo tropes, because she
did manage to do so in other instances. It's a shame, really, the cute moments really are cute, but then they get ruined by his incel-tier sperging (which always gets explained away with "But my auntssssss") in the next panel. The side characters are carrying the whole series (though I can't stand Keisuke and Tamaki, either), I'm much more invested in their stories than in that of Nozomi. All there is to say about her is that she likes Azuma. We barely know anything about her, except for her infatuation with Azuma. While we know that Hamarin has a thing for Azumas friend, her identity is more than that. She's the leader of the literature club, doesn't know how to talk to people, is protectice of Nozomi etc. Suzu likes gardening, has trauma from her father suddenly leaving her, feels alienated because of her looks and name. Azuma is… Azuma, writes his novel, has particular ideas about women, apparently has some unresolved childhood trauma he refuses to see… I feel like we know about as much about Nozomi as we know about her brother, and he appeared for a second in like three chapters, and his face was seen in maybe two panels. Nozomi though is just Azuma this, Azuma that. Also, at this point it's more like he is the protagonist rather than Nozomi, honestly, but I can admit that this might've been intentional. At his point I wouldn't even be mad if Nozomi and Azuma ended up together, because Nozomi is so bland and has no personality outside of him that there isn't much more use for her charater, anyways. We've had her stand up to him once so far, just to apologize some pages later for saying what she said, even though he says much worse things while, while realizing how much of an insufferable dipshit he's being, barely caring about it, if at all. The chapters focusing on the side characters are a breeze to read through, and then I have to put down the manga to take a breath because Azuma ruined a moment that could have been so nice ONCE again because he couldn't contain himself.
can't agree on your "not particularly cute" though, he's of the kageyama phenotype especially in his off-mode, which, while plain-ish, is my absolute favorite, but this pisses me off even more, like why is my no1 choice of male character design wasted on a pile of shit No. 206027
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>>205400From your collection I think you'd love the Junji Itou artbook, I don't care about his mangas because they are very similar but his art is great. I also recommend Ayami Kojima's Santa Lilio Sangre (the lady behind a lot of classical Castlevania character designs).
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So I started reading Beastars and I've liked it thus far, but I'm surprised no one talks about how the story is clearly and even sometimes ham-fisted commentary on gender and sex more then anything else, think about it the carnivores are physically larger then herbivores and have a deep desire to "consume" them and carnivores are disproportionately far stronger then herbivores, so herbivores despite being in technically an equal society with carnivores still live in fear of being "consumed" and with the strength differences between the two its easy to see why
No. 207582
>>207514i haven't read Beastars but i watched the adaption and yes it's a pretty big metaphor for sexism especially in the first season
where Haru and Legoshi are at the subway and she she monologues you’ll never understand how it is to feel as if you’re always close to dying
i could get devoured by a carnivore at any time
before experiencing what true love is
but since you don’t have that kind of fear you’ll never understand how i feel at allI think a lot of women can relate to Haru and it makes sense since the series is made by a women
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What are nonnies thoughts on Oshi no Ko? I enjoy and hate different parts of it.
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I wanted to recommend a manga I've been reading, the scanlation translates the title as Heterogeneous Linguistics, the official translation has it as Heterogenia Linguistico. It's about a linguistics student traveling a fantasy world and learning about the different ways different creatures communicate. It kind of reminded me of Dungeon Meshi in parts with the focus on something mundane in a high fantasy world, although it doesn't have much in the way of story. It has a cosy atmosphere, and the half-werewolf little girl sidekick is an adorable character. I like fantasy manga like this, I wish there were more because I'm not a fan of the more isekai-esque stories that seem popular lately.
No. 208386
>>208314I really really enjoyed the manga until it become just a stupid love triangle and the main plot stopped developing. But I am also an hardcore idolfag, so that's another thing…
I don't think I will continue reading it, honestly, I may just wait and skip all the chapters about the love story.
No. 208909
>>208329This sounds really unique and cozy
nonny, thanks
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>>209225HxH also! I'm so hyped for this summer, regressing back to middle school honestly
>>208329Thank you
nonny! This looks so cozy and I love Dungeon Meshi so totally checking this out
I also have to ask but is anyone a fan of Daisuke Igarashi (picrel) and if so, do you sometimes get a hint of Taiyo Matsumoto in his work? I know they both got interviewed by Brutus like a decade ago (
https://mangabrog.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/24/) but I would honestly love a team up for real, especially because both of their work is outside of the typical manga I see being hyped up (shonen or some sort of BL like Dick Fight Island or whatever)
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>>209239>HxH alsoYESSS but god now I'm a bit overwhelmed at the thought of trying to understand the current arc all over again, I don't remember shit
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>posts a scribbled tree on twitter
>becomes most followed mangaka on twitter in 3 days
How does Togashi do it?
No. 209646
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>>209597Kyoko Okazaki is pretty hardcore, her works are slowly gaining traction and attention in the West (shes popular in France and Rivers Edge is getting an english trans this winter.) I really like Pink (picrel) and some of her works have been made into films (helter skelter or rivers edge,) alongside Moyocco Anno another well known josei author was her assistant back in the day! Sadly like Ai-sensei she has had health problems after being hit by a car so she hasnt published much since then
No. 209693
>>209597Seconding
>>209646Paradise Kiss is also by Ai Yazawa if you haven't read it. Some other manga I liked were Cat Street, Mars, Tramps Like Us, and Jellyfish Princess. But it depends on what you liked about Nana obviously
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I recently discovered a super cozy josei called Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni Karigurashi. Or "The Snow Country Hunting Life of the Northern Nobleman and the Raptor Wife". The insanely long title is probably because it began as a light novel.
It's about a lord of a tiny kingdom in an alternate universe Finland that marries a retired lady soldier. She moves in with him in his snowy village and they just kind of do daily tasks like hunting, crafts, and helping out people in town while growing closer as a couple. The female lead starts with short hair but grows it longer as the series goes on which is a neat touch.