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Discuss manga here.
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Thoughts on Choujin X?
No. 290075
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anyone else read To Your Eternity? I binged the first part and loved it, but the time skip to present day was so jarring and bad. aside from some really comical moments where the main character is essentially experiencing culture shock (pic related) the present day era felt like a massive disconnected downgrade from what was otherwise a compelling series and I'm disappointed
No. 291136
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I haven't read manga in years, but recently I binge read Ase to Sekken. I liked that it didn't have any stupid melodrama and the characters actually resolved conflicts like adults. The romance was really sweet too. Can anyone recommend similar manga to me? I've read some of Yamada Kintetsu's other works; Telework Yotabanashi was good but over too soon and I read the first chapter of Kasane to Subaru but was put off by the crossdressing.
No. 291478
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hnk updates so goddamn slowly that it kills me; we get barely 20 pages per month. maybe per two months if the mangaka decides not to upload. i know i sound really whiny but kek i hate it.
it's also insane to me that i've been reading this since my middle school days. what will i do with myself when it's over…
No. 291894
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>>291478The new chapter is out! I love this shit
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>>291896>>291894yet another chapter that's left me miserable.
i want to phos to find happiness that isn't in death. i wish he could become his own kongo-sensei and run a little school for the new rocks.>there will be a break for the next two publicationsfucking kill me
No. 292043
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>>289637One series I'd love reprinted is Swan. It has the pretty 70s/80s shojo art I crave but the series was stopped halfway through English publishing.
I'm trying to learn Japanese in earnest nowadays, so I might try my hand at scanlating some stuff myself. But I won't be very good at it.
>>291216I haven't seriously read shoujo manga in 5 years or so, so my perception might be wrong. But I get the impression a lot of it/was high school romance. With how many there are in that setting they sometimes blend together unless there's a good hook. Not to say ALL shojo is high school romance of course. I might try finding some youtubers that discuss shoujo (Colleen's Manga Recs seems chill) and find some recommendations. That's helped me with finding more seinen to read.
No. 292892
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front page of mangadex kek
No. 292951
>>292892I don't think I've been on any [read online manga] type websites without about 50 of these on the first search pages.
I find it kind of weird, when I was younger read-manga-online websites were plentiful with tonnes of variety available for you to search but now it's lazy isekai/ecchi/yaoi and nothing else unless you specifically search.
No. 293090
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been reading berserk, just finished the golden age arc. nonnies i am obsessed with this manga, it is so fucking good. even though its incredibly depressing, i've actually been finding it incredibly motivational with seeing how resilient guts is. the only thing i hate is the gratuitous rape scenes with casca. i've been listening to the guts theme on loop while i read it
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>>293090The good news for you is that it might get continued even with Miura dead.
No. 293772
>>293746>even something as girly as Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, which was published in an online shoujo magazine, is getting physically published in a seinen oneSimply ridiculous
I think this happens because they think moids won't read shoujo as opposed to the many women who will read seinen or shounen. I get the impression that if a story is deemed "too good for shoujo" it'll get published elsewhere. Like shoujo is treated these days as the dumpster for low quality girly stuff even though shounen has high amounts of low tier garbage too
No. 294746
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They are still working on that One Piece live action.
>Eiichiro Oda Shares Update on Live-Action One Piece Series, Confirms 8-Episode Count >https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-05-04/eiichiro-oda-shares-update-on-live-action-one-piece-series-confirms-8-episode-count/.197794I can't see it being not-terrible.
No. 295892
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I hate this guy now.
No. 297845
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I just noticed but it's been at least 20 years since X went on hiatus! Fuck CLAMP, fuck Sakura and fuck Shaolan.
No. 297887
>>289577>>297845same with xxxholic rei
i wish they focused more on xxxholic than Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle because TRC became such a complicated clusterfuck towards the end. Imo holic has better characters, easier to follow story, mythology, etc.
No. 297903
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>>296794 Anthony from Shadows House. He manipulated the little girl in picrel and killed her.
No. 298370
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page made me kek
No. 298656
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>>298645I'm glad that Tokyo Babylon project is dead. The only time GoHands was good was when they made K. The rest of what they put out over the years is unwatchable. It's funny how they shot themselves in the foot by trying to be 'creative' though - they could have just copied the outfits from the manga instead of plagiarising real models.
No. 301495
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this is from sakuran, a manga about a girl who grows up in a whore house. spoilered for nudity. wish there was more manga that didn't romanticize this sort of thing.
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Would have been better if they were both women imo and I don’t trust anyone handling crossdressing characters (especially feminine men) in the current year.
But I like the art style
Manga is called Company and Private Life. Not much as been released
No. 301824
>>301823hard to say because I think it’s a new manga?
I agree about the designs , especially Hanku’s clothes.
No. 301827
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>>301824Yeah, I guess I got frustrated because of the web comic formart of only a couple of pages per "chapter", maybe it'll get interesting once the characters actually start interacting. Have you checked The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All"? It's a romance between a gyaru and a girl she mistakes for a guy and she also has an edgy look, I didn't really care for the story tbh, so I dropped it, but the art is nice and the characters are cute.
No. 301878
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can't stop laughing at this mangadex review of Daija ni Totsuida Musume
No. 302349
>>301827I have, I’m currently reading it. Unfortunately there’s a small LC
nonnie in my head criticising the concept because “who could be blind enough to not tell the difference between a moid and a woman”
I love the designs for it as well and I love how the gyaru girl likes alt music like nirvana lmao.
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WHAAAAT?! No way. This fucking story lmao
No. 304727
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Anyone wanna make 3x3's like they're doing in the anime thread?
https://gqgs.github.io/3x3-generator/ No. 304740
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>>304727based csm enjoyer
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>>304727I keep meaning to read Iguana Girl…
Sorry for my sometimes questionable taste.
No. 304889
>>304740BL Metamorphosis was so heartwarming and cute. I love old women as main characters, it should be a thing more often.
>>304727I don't usually read shonen but make the exorcist fall in love has a cute artstyle. What makes you like it enough to be a favourite while it's still pretty new?
Also, did you read Hanshin in english and if so, where? I feel like a boomer retard nowadays because I see people finish and read a lot of more obscure manga in (I'm assuming) english and I can never find them
No. 304902
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>>304727Just couldn't settle on a 3x3, had to do 4x4 lol
No. 304931
>>304889>Make the Exorcist Fall in LoveI debated putting it on since it’s so new but it clicked with me really intensely. I grew up really religious and sheltered and so I could relate to the protagonist a lot and seeing him slowly come to appreciate the world outside of religion just makes me really happy. I’m also really into Judeo-Christian mythology outside of religion and seeing a manga do more with religious themes than just throw up some crosses and nuns totally charmed me. I also love the gore aspects and “temptation”-based romance. It just feels like a manga made for me specifically lol.
>HanshinI found it cause some friends recced it to me, no idea where they first found it lol. Hanshin and Iguana Girl both have English translations on Mangadex, not sure if her other one-shots are up there though. Here are links to both if you need them:
https://mangadex.org/title/35a71f6a-4332-4a1a-b89c-58f4a85fb836/hanshin-demigodhttps://mangadex.org/title/450e6122-00a7-4b77-91e3-8a8b0c6cd1ba/iguana-girl No. 305102
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>>304727I'm going to get called a scrote lol.
No. 305115
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>>305102I almost put all these in my 3x3
Devilman is life, Sirene is my wife. But I haven’t read it all (there’s so much). Have you read the Sirene-Chan short gag spin-off and the adaptation with the crazy-good art
Amon: The Darkside of the Devilman? They’re good
I like the art in Brides Story and I will read it until the end and the romances are sweet but I have my gripes about it that I’ve probably posted here lol. HNK is amazing but I want to see how it ends
No. 305116
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I took a long break from reading manga and am now back, these are the current series that I'm caught up on. I'm looking for other recommendations of manga that have a similar vibe to dungeon Meshi or ancient magus bride, specifically nice gentleman guys like Elias, professor Layton etc.
I highly recommend all my current reads (although ranking of kings has a lot of ups and downs)
No. 305121
>>305116Lots of people like Arte although it didn’t grab me because I didn’t want to read a story about being passionate about work (lol) but it seems pretty good. Heterogenia Linguistico or Sousou no Frieren both might appeal to you.
Also, Daija (the snake in the snake husband manga) is a gentleman, he really strives to be a good husband
No. 305240
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>>304727Started reading hnk because of lc actually
No. 305241
>>305240>PlutoQueen shit.
One of my favorites too and honestly I think it's better than Monster.
No. 305254
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>>304727i feel like mine really shows my age…
>>304740>>304902love seeing others who enjoyed kasane!
No. 305310
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>>304727I suppose I just realised that I have a favourite mangaka
No. 305312
>>305240>>305241samefag but I almost put Pluto on mine too but decided to go for 20th Century Boys instead
my two favourites of Urasawa are Billy Bat and Monster but Pluto is an absolute masterpiece as well, you're both based af
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>>304727>no Eroica in the searchbooo!
No. 305340
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>>305338Never mind I’m just dumb and didn’t scroll.
No. 305372
>>305370Left to right:
Saltiness
Sleeping Dead
7Seeds
Gente (read Ristorante Paradiso first)
Annarasumanara
Swan
Ikkoku Nikki
Helter Skelter
Tokyo Babylon
Dousei Mansion (Saturn Apartments)
Yowamushi Pedal
Dolis
From Eroica With Love
Pet
Antique Bakery
Dragon Head
I want to swap out one or two though, I totally forgot about Coponicus no Kokyuu, Litchi Hikari Club, and I kinda like K’s Funeral Procession more than Dolis (but Dolis is in full color and very stylish)
No. 306329
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huge thanks to the nona that mentioned this on the rec chart. it's so good. i forgot how much i loved ghost stories
in a perfect world things like this would get adapted instead of battle isekai harem ln #594590
No. 306912
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So this has recently been scanlated til the end, so I truly have no reason to not read it. Gonna start right now.
No. 306914
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>>306912And I already love her.
No. 306915
River’s Edge is finally published in English! I’m downloading it rn to see how it is compared to the old scanlation
>>306912I didn’t know it was finished, I’ll have to keep reading. I had stopped around volume 4 I think.
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>>306914Samefagging to add the aunt is hot.
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>>307080I like it! I wasn’t sure what to expect since a few publishers make pretty wonky translations, but whoever worked on this added a lot of annotated notes with info on the time period and things that the characters talk about. The lettering is really good too, and a bunch of the background graffiti text was translated. The biggest difference I noticed from the scanlation is that they use more swear words. I think I’m going to buy a print copy because it’s nice to see it without the super old scans.
No. 307236
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I don’t want to ruin this thread but this screencap kind of surprised me. I’m aware that the mangaka for Witch Hat Atelier worked on some American comics (Marvel) but I didn’t expect the manga to get described as queer.
Should I even be overthinking it.
No. 308285
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Shadows House, please, we don't need 5 new characters you only killed like 2 in the last 100 chapters I cannot take this
No. 308322
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>>304727this was way too hard to make, there's a lot more manga that i wouldve loved to put on this
>>304740>>304902>>305254so happy to see other kasane enjoyers
>>305310based naoki urasawa fan
No. 308528
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Could someone please recommend any manga/manhwa/manhua about slice-of-life childcare, centering around one child and their (happy, no angst) life, such as Yotsuba&! or Papa Wolf and the Puppy? I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask but thank you so much in advance!
No. 308534
>>308528Gakuen Babysitters, One Fine Day, Baby & Me, With the Light
>>308530Rosario Vampire, it’s moid haremshit
No. 308535
>>308530moka from rosario vampire, if youre ever interested in getting into the series do not watch the anime just read the manga
>>308534>moid haremshiti wont disagree but im blinded by nostalgia goggles so its one of my favorites
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>>308536It’s not getting translated but there is an ongoing homolust vampire comedy manga called ババンババンバンバンパイア
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/cv0s96e/babanbabanban-vampire No. 308767
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She's just like me fr. If I was a hot Japanese writer.
No. 309598
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Was Isshuukan Friends any good?
No. 309695
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Cairo Danchou. Has anyone read it? Got a physical release of it recently and planning to start reading soon. Light-hearted story about anthropomorphic hard-working tree frogs who got in trouble with a big spotty toad for drinking expensive whiskey.
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>>309709Yes, no english sadly, I got a russian one (published in 2021, russian nonas can buy it right now in various shops, it's in stock and doesn't seem to be popular). Honestly had no idea it was that obscure kek.
>There were once thirty tree frogs. They worked merrily and amicably. Their insect friends threw them jobs. They collected cups-bells of perilla and poppy boxes, planted flower glades.>Thus begins the parable of one of the most famous Japanese writers of the first half of the XX century, Kenji Miyazawa. Many years later, when Miyazawa became a recognized classic, and his works were included in the school curriculum, the artist Masumura Hiroshi did a great job analyzing the work of the great writer and adapted his works in the form of manga.>Kenji Miyazawa's life fell on a stormy and dramatic period in the history of Japan, and in the two stories that you will find in this book, frogs, insects and forest animals play out the social conflicts that tore apart Japanese society at that time. However, the answer that Miyazawa offers in his stories remains relevant even now — it is love and compassion. No. 310402
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Wait, is Spy x Family gonna be good again? new Fiona bodyhorror chapter gave me chills lol
No. 310664
>>310654The main in
Koi no Kiseki (Love's Miracle) is ugly at first but she goes through a (non-magical, I would say she still looks a little unusual) transformation and is not ugly anymore after a while, she still has problems with having low confidence etc.
Kasane – extremely ugly MC with magic lipstick, the whole thing is about ugliness/beauty and acting
Princess Jellyfishhaven't read these but I think they might fit the bill:
"Pochamani"
Bara no Tame ni iA bouquet for an ugly girlSkip to Loafer (not ugly just average/plain, I don't believe she gets bullied either if you want something lighter)
Kengai Princess by Natsumi Aida
No. 310872
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>>310664samefag: I started reading
bouquet for an ugly girl and it's also lighthearted - no bullying - and it's very cute so far. main character is chubby and shy, the cute perfect nice boy in class is taking an interest in her. comical-misunderstandings-with-cute-conclusions type plot, like picrel volume 1 extra.
No. 310892
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>>310888What did you expect? No one wants to acknowledge being ugly, even ugly representation shouldn’t be too accurate because then what’s there to fantasize about? In the end it really makes you think that maybe you’re not as ugly as you think you are.
I think those manga are okay, not perfect because yeah, a truly ugly character that manages to find happiness would be amazing, but at least it’s something decent and not:
>hi! I’m main character and I’m ugly!>pic related is my ugly ass mug!>I get bullied everyday and everywhere I go!>I’m getting makeup to cover my ugly ass freckles that look like someone sharted on my ugly face!>nah nee?! I’m beautiful now! >I will get plastic surgery because my face is disgusting anyways!>and now everyone will love me!>only if manage to lose 10 kilos, of course!>because I disgustingly weight 40 kilos and I should weight 30 kilos >but that’s not healthy so I will conform with weighting 35 kilos!>I’m a tall freak btw! My height is 1.60 and everyone thinks I look like a monster!>plus this hot dude only dates short skinny legends that somehow look taller than me!>so I will do everything for him! No. 310906
>>310888I think the Koi no Kiseki MC is very ugly but I just don't like the art lol (love the story though.) Kasane was ugly based on what they showed but they refused to reveal her full face which was annoying.
Anyway most of them fit the "socially awkward" part of her request.
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Speedstar Scanlation dropped the snake husband manga? I'm devastated. It was just getting so good. I bought the first volume of the official english release but it'll take so long to catch up!
unless they secretly aren't dropping it… they did release a new chapter
No. 311944
>>310888I remember reading that the watamote artist wanted to make the heroine much meaner-looking, but it got shot down by the editors
In fairness, it's very, very rare in the real world for young women and girls to be genuinely hideous, at most they're just a bit dorky looking. Men on the other hand…
No. 312015
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>>310654The only one I can think you that features that description other than Kasane (as in the protag is ugly and not just awkward/black hair with glasses) is Sora o Kakeru Yodaka but the ugly girl is an asshole despite the story trying to sell you on the "beauty is on the inside" crap lol
No. 312268
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>>312267High chance you've heard of this one but just in case you haven't: A Bride's Story / Otoyomegatari
No. 312321
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Kalendel (of Lovely Strange Dark) is giving away a bunch of her manga. if you live in the US you can get it for the cost of media mail shipping, otherwise sounds like she's tossing them (tragic) because of a move. I can't read japanese so it's of little value to me unless I wanna make a collage out of the pages lol but I know some of you can read them
https://lsd.mangadex.com/2023/07/14/in-a-faint/ No. 312773
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The first chapter of Satoro Noda's new manga DogsRed was translated, for those interested. Pretty much Golden Kamuy on ice so far.
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lmao Noda
No. 312794
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>>312784Same, especially with the title being "doggusureddo" which might as well actually mean sled (or thread), dogs red doesn't make much sense.
>>312790I love the sister. As someone on /a/ has pointed out she's doing the Tsukishima-faces when snow monkey is fanboying or whining.
No. 312926
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Finally read Jojolion. Starts off really strong but everything after Vitamin C is a huge drop in quality. It also has the worst Stands and fights and Rock humans were a mistake. Worst final fight. Way too long.
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>>312928There were a lot of good things about the part too, don't get me wrong. Even after the halfway point. It's just such a massive disparity in the quality of writing between the two halves that when you summarize the part, that's what you mostly focus on. The initial mystery of Jousuke's identity is one of the best things Araki has ever written. The problem is that the part just kept going without direction.
In particular, I really loved the Higashikata family. Joubin especially is one of the most well-thought out antagonists Araki has ever written. I'll admit, a lot of that is because Araki can't write past comic book level villains, but Joubin was good!
No. 313018
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>>312926Jojolion is the only part I never bothered finishing. Want to do it since I eagerly read most other parts, but I guess I will have to force myself. Had kind of a Jojo related burnout around the middle of part 7 though so maybe that's related. Currently reading the new part and I am fine with it, although I read it irregularly.
>>312784>>312790Second chapter is already translated now too. I am so happy to finally have another weekly series to follow. The other stuff I read is monthly at best and yearly at worst.
No. 313271
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I finally decided to read xxxholic this weekend and depressed Watanuki is such a mood.
Just finished reading the final chapter of the original series (so up until xxxholic Rei) and now I’m going to re-read Tsubasa (which I didn’t know had a sequel, I was kinda confused by the original back when I read it. Hopefully things will make more sense this time now that I’ve read xxxholic!)
No. 313395
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This is the worst manga I've read in a while, why are they pandering to twittertards when the covers had BL and yuri? It's like they think mental illness is somehow better than just having a character be gay.
Granted the characters are fucking atrocious, they're literally just clones of their parents with less personality.
No. 313402
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>>313400Higurashi reiwa, it's dogshit just read the original since it's actually good.
They did so many stupid changes like making a lesbian character straight for no reason and marrying the entire cast off to people who literally don't have faces. Then they baited fujos for a while before going 'LOL ACTUALLY HE'S NOT GAY'
No. 313419
>>313395>>313395Ah damn that's the new Higurashi manga isn't it? I wanted to read it for the new content. I hate when that happens. I think that characters without any sexual urges can have a point of existing or it might even match some personalities, but it's suspicious how often it happens with the gays or gay coded characters.
Reminds me of that current G-Witch debacle. I don't even like the series and dropped it, but what they are doing right now to retroactively erase lesbians after the huge success the series had partly because of it is embarrassing.
Also, the second panel you posted makes no sense if the character is aroace. He's blushing and fawning over a guy here. This literally cannot happen if he isn't sexually attracted, especially since he seems to react that way by just remembering it here.
>marrying the entire cast off to people who literally don't have facesI hate this so much it happens in shounen and so many other series. It's like they felt forced to do this, even if the partners are literal nobodies or characters they have never shown interest in before.
No. 313422
>>313419>Ah damn that's the new Higurashi manga isn't it? I wanted to read it for the new content. Yep, it's honestly not good mystery wise either so there's not much reason to read it unless you're familiar with the source material and into hatereading (so pretty small demographic haha).
>but it's suspicious how often it happens with the gays or gay coded charactersExactly, it's pretty much a cop out that you would never see for a heterosexual character, and then moids and twitter trannies get to be overly smug about it.
>He's blushing and fawning over a guy here. This literally cannot happen if he isn't sexually attractedTheir reasoning for this is literally 'he sees him like a cute small animal' which to me is way more weird than 'he's just gay and thinks that he's cute' especially since unlike Rena he only does it with Keiichi's son instead of everyone.
>I hate this so much it happens in shounen and so many other series. It's a trope that's literally only liked by people who think they're 'above' shipping for whatever reason even though it's objectively terrible writing. It's even worse here since most of the people they married don't even have faces or aren't even shown in the manga at all. I avoid reading shounen so I luckily don't run into it that often, but it pops up in stuff I'm reading sometimes despite that.
No. 313542
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is anyone scanlating Yoi With Mottled Skin / Madara Moyou no Yoi / まだら模様のヨイ ?
No. 314399
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Does anyone have any recommendations for manga about girlfailure office women in their 20s?
Along the lines of tramps like us, watashi no shounen, 3am dangerous zone etc.
No. 314440
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Is Nichijou really that much unfunnier than Azumanga Daiou, or is it because it has no 4koma format? I remember finding the few chapters of AO that were panelled normally not as funny as the rest of the series, too.
No. 315578
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I assume that by now everybody already knows about this but Nami Sano, the creator of Sakamoto desu ga and Migi & Dali has unfortunately passed away on August 5, 2023 due to cancer disease.
She was only 35, which makes this even sadder.
Migi & Dali will get an anime adaption that starts in autumn, you should give it a chance. Haven't read that one yet but I greatly enjoyed Sakamoto. Those news make the ending of Sakamoto hit differently for sure.
No. 315602
>>314399>3am dangerous zonememory unlocked
not a manga but have you watched aggressive retsuko?
No. 316024
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>$2.95
different times…
No. 316068
>>316024slightly related but actual manga volumes (like the jpn tankobon ones) used to cost the same everywhere in germany. it was always 5 euros, except for tokyopop volumes which would cost 6,50. that has drastically changed now. the old volumes that used to be 5 euros but that are still sold nowadays cost 6,50 euros by now, and new(er) manga consistently cost between 6,50 and 8,50 euros. some even go for 10 euros. of course special editions like double volumes (ranma 1/2 or inuyasha, for example) cost even more and the price usually ranges from 12 to 25 euros.
i don't buy manga anymore but it makes me sad how i used to be able to buy so many of them with my tiny allowance and saving up birthday/christmas money.
No. 317027
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I was just checking the new manga releases in my country and came across this wonderful yuri manga I want to recommend. Haru Tsuzuru, Sakura Saku Kono Heya de.
It's a two volume long series about loss and healing, the insecurity that comes with the grief after the death of a dear one and the unwillingness of moving on in fear of closing a chapter and forgetting them, even five years later. It's a coincidence that I read it now, since it was exactly five years ago that I have lost two people who were very close to me, so it hit right home.
If you want a bittersweet yuri manga about the slow healing of a 32 year old woman that's far removed from all otaku pandering you should absolutely give this a chance.
>>316068Other German here, wanted to say the same. I still remember the 10DM/5 EUR age. Most manga I buy now cost ~7,50 EUR. Many cost 10-12 EUR, though they are bigger formats to be fair. They have upsides since some stories look better that way, but it makes it harder to keep up with many series unless you have a lot of spare money AND space.
I would have bought Fist of the North Star, Jojo and other nice newer releases, but it's simply too expensive for longer series and I have barely any free shelves at this point. Tbh I would take the small formats for many if I had the chance and rather pay less. I especially do not need fancy hardcovers and all that.
No. 318316
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I always got such a creep factor from Oshimi's works and now I know why. I tried reading a few of his different works without reading they were both by him (Chi no Wadachi and Inside Mari) and felt grossed out by how moidy they were. I liked Aku no Hana the first time I read it as a teen but literally everything he writes is absolutely dripping with his issues with women, its so annoying to see his shit peddled as kino.
No. 318402
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>>318316I ended up reading Aku no Hana after seeing it getting shilled as a psychological masterpiece. Sawa was a fun character however the entire manga is too porny for me to enjoy.
I saw that image circulating on Twitter - I will never understand why actual women put pornsick mangaka on a pedestal just because they happen to have gender dysphoria.
Also funny how deeply disturbed, degenerate male mangaka such as Oshimi and Fujimoto get labelled as LGBT allies kek.
No. 318449
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>>318316Can you retards stop talking about moids for one second?
No. 318451
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>>318449Sorry for talking about a popular mangaka in the manga thread. I'll post about a series I like by a woman to make it up to you.
I really like Sanda, it's by the same author as Beastars. It has a human cast but has the exact same craziness that I enjoyed about Beastars. I hope it gets more popular in the future but I feel without the furry boost people might be turned off by its art style, which is a shame cause it has a lot of fun and insteresting ideas about growing up and growing old and how society values youth.
No. 320289
>>320285Like
>>320287 said, it's a monster horror, not libfem/femme fatale and not misandrist either (women also suffer and are shown as shallow and motivated by jealousy). Many stories are focusing on her disgusting regeneration power.
No. 321547
>>317043Dorohedoro
Magus of the Library
Witch Hat Atelier
The Ancient Magus' Bride
Hakumei and Mikochi
Land of the Lustrous
Music of Marie
No. 322217
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No. 322218
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>>322217Not really a fan of shoujo honestly (I read some of Princess Jellyfish but dropped it because I hated the love interest, he was a shithead)
I like gakuen babysitters though!
No. 322492
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>>322217Not much into shoujo so I dropped most of these, but I really liked Basara, Sailor Moon and Rakugo and I think that Kids on the Slope is painfully underrated.
I was mostly into classic mahou shoujo since it is the perfect form of shoujo IMO. It mixes adventure and drama with the shoujo style, but since it's about magical girls romance is at best a subplot and there are no male characters so it doesn't resort to otome tropes since they aren't my thing and top of all of this it was a bit of wish fulfillment since everybody would like to be given some special power to be a hero one day.
Sadly the that genre is gone for some reason.
But speaking about that list I should get my ass up and start the new manga from the Basara/7 Seeds author already.
I would also add some iconic CLAMP series to that list, especially Rayearth was great. I cannot explain why, but Rayearth worked perfectly for me whereas I couldn't stand Yona, Fushihi Yuugi and the likes. Maybe because of the reasons above, since Rayearth is basically a mahou shouji with other genres thrown in.
No. 322614
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>>322217For some it has been so long ago since I watched them, the only thing I remember IS watching them.
No. 322712
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>>322217wtf where is ouran? Needs rose of versailles and more clamp too imo. I'm mildly ashamed I haven't seen utena, I watched 2 episodes as a kid and it went way over my head kek. I've been meaning to give it another try. Lovely Complex is probably my favorite on the list (maybe just for nostalgia)
No. 322951
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Pleasantly surprised there are so many current shoujo manga, too, instead of the usual circlejerk about only like four titles of the entire genre being valid Uruwashi no yoi no tsuki is my favorite, I love it so much.
No. 324734
>>322217needs Glass Mask and Gokusen
>>322712>Needs rose of versaillesYeah it's pretty weird to have Kageki Shoujo on there but not RoV
No. 324954
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Ikuto x Amu please and thanks
No. 325011
>>324954ikuto x amu gang RISE UP
Nadeshiko x amu gang RISE UP
Tadase x amu gang FACE THE FUCKING WALL.
No. 325173
>>324954Okay but is it going to be an actual sequel with Amu and all or are we going to get another Shugo Chara Party? I liked Rikka
and just Party overall more than most, but in the end she's not the one I came for.
No. 326034
>>324954Someone on tumblr scared me, saying she's hoping Peach-Pit will make Nagi ~explore his gender~. While I sincerely don't believe they will, I'm going to cry if they're gonna turn him into an X-Gender or some bullshit like that because that boy was my very first husbando
on the other hand, with the X-Eggs it'd be kinda fitting, Amu would just have to purify his heart….
No. 326989
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xxxholic has a live-action adaptation and it's on Crunchyroll of all places. (It's probably shit.)
No. 327264
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Fuck Oshi no Ko, of course the author had to focus incest and pedophilia. Noooo it could not be simply about dark sides of entertainment industry in Japan.
>>318316Empathising with a woman as a human being is something impossible for them so they think they need to become one to truly know how it is like. Certainly an idealised pretty young girl version in frilly dresses because I never saw a moid interested in seeing the world as a 55 year old mature woman.
No. 327348
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I feel like this is one of the only places I can truly rant about this but I feel like witnessing the comments on this manga, My Dog Becomes a Human or Inu ga Hito ni Naru Hanashi, has shown me how truly hypocritical and polarizing moids can be. I know I should've just ignored it but I genuinely can't, it's so irritating. So it's a Josei type of manga where all of the pet dogs of a town have turned into humans.
It's mostly cute fanservice of men acting like affectionate and/or spoiled pets. So far there's mostly seen only male dog-turned-human characters, with small cameos of a woman dog-turned-human character in the background plus a single illustration.
Now what annoys me most is that without fail before the cameo of a female dog-turned-human character appeared the comments were mostly nothing but "white woman fucks dogs" and "you just know" or "white woman amirite????" or even "where are the bitches???? why no females????" which doesn't even make sense because the dog turned men don't even retain any physical traits of a dog. No dog ears or tails, they're purely human so I don't understand where they're even getting the bestiality jokes from.
Now what truly infuriates me is that they completely forget the whole "dog-turned-human = bestiality" when a female dog-turned-human character appears. Suddenly it's all okay and not psuedo bestiality. It feels like moids found something targeted towards women and felt the need to completely shit on it and the people who liked it only until the author panders to them with a female dog-turned-human character. It annoys me. It especially annoyed me how some of them were implying that the author should only focus on female dog-turned-human characters, add more, or that the focus will shit from female targeted fanservice to male targeted fanservice once the author gets a serialization. It's like they can't stand if something isn't pandering towards them 24/7. I will be genuinely disappointed if the author shifts focus from female targeted fanservice to male targeted fanservice.
No. 327379
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>>327348I'm always baffled when I see moids commenting on josei manga or webtoons, like… I always think: "Did they get lost? Why are they here?". Idgi.
I barely read comments on manga anymore tho. Are you on BATO.TO? Most of the people commenting are retards or mentally undeveloped kid weeaboos. If I had a penny for everytime I read a comment where a kid screeched about consent or whatever on a manga with a yandere, I would be fucking rich, kekw. They just can't stop farming woke points.
There are some gems tho, sometimes. Picrel is one of my favourites.
Cheer up nona, I don't think the author will start focusing on male fanservice only to appeal to a bunch of retarded moids, lmao.
No. 329525
>>318316He is
so gonna troon out in the future.
No. 329528
>>328231Their comments on
Sadistic Beauty were so annoying, but kind of entertaining at the same time kek.
No. 330265
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Dead Scanlations made a mangadex list for Monthly Magazine Garo (月刊漫画ガロ)
https://mangadex.org/list/0639d428-e299-478c-8cb8-812848ac4a9c/monthly-magazine-garoI'm having a lot of fun looking through them. Lots of one-shots but not all of them are. They're weird.
No. 330274
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>>330265samefag, still reading through these… this one has interesting art and is read left-to-right for some reason. I think the mangaka was trying to make it more like a comic with a western style?
https://mangadex.org/title/b33012fc-5a0b-4ac4-a978-c0927447c5d1/from-the-beyondIt's nice to read some bizarre manga sometimes. I don't mean to spam sorry
No. 330414
>>330265Thanks a ton for posting this
nonnie, a ridiculous amount of my favourite manga comes from Garo!
No. 332047
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>>327348From what I see, it seems like most of the comments from males are them begging to see some female dog humanizations, so luckily what I see isnt as bad as yours. Theres also a lot of comments saying the characters look like they are from a shoujo manga
No. 332149
>>332047I hate men so freaking much. 80% of
all media, not just manga, is made for them but the few niches women have for themselves, they whine and want those too. Literally incapable of fathoming that they aren't the target audience
No. 335135
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do any of you prefer to read manga and (almost) never watch anime? why?
for me it's a combination of time (i read very fast and i don't like waiting for people to finish speaking when i've already read the subtitles 3x, even when i speed up the episode it's just too slow), disliking the anime art style because it can never live up to the usually beautiful manga art (especially with shojo series) and… this is where it gets autistic, i guess: japanese voice acting sounding retarded. especially female voices are usually high pitched baby voices when the character in question is supposed to be a young adult. i also dislike the "umaiiiii" they make when they eat something tasty or the weird exhale when they drink alcohol.
No. 335212
>>335135For me its
>As a young weeb I wanted physicals of stories I liked but manga were cheaper than anime discs>I can read manga on the go whenever I wanna kill time>A lot of anime adaptations only adapt part of the story and end on cliffhangers>Manga has more variety and there's more of it, period>Anime adaptations tend to nerf the art of the manga unless its a fuckoff expensive shounen jump adaptationI only really watch anime for pure junk food entertainment lately. I put on battle shounen or comedy anime I'm not super invested in on to kill time, but if I wanna find something new and unique I'm gonna read manga.
No. 335219
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>>335135I do. Reading manga tends to leave more room for my own imagination, its often a bigger buzz for my brain. Some excellent manga is likely to never get an anime adaptation. Sometimes anime adaptations cut out too much due manga being too long. I easily get addicted to a good story, i follow well over 20 stories at a time and live in constant chapter hell. I also love high quality animation like in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust(2000), Redline(2009), Ghost in the Shell(1995), Lupin the 3rd:The Secret of Mamo(1978), Memories(1995), Neo Tokyo(1987), Akira(1988) and Ghibli films, but gems like that rarely manifest, animation quality rarely surpasses art in manga(original One-Punch Man comes to mind) and so i stick to reading manga.
No. 335244
>>335219One punch man for sure. Magus Bride also surpasses the manga art in my opinion although I’ve seen people say otherwise which is insane to me.
Might be controversial (and I love the manga art in a way the animation can’t convey) but HnK was a fantastic use of CGI and didn’t take away from the story whatsoever but actually lent it color and unreal depth that normal animation would have fallen flat on for the gems.
No. 335245
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Has anyone read "Blame!"? I really liked the setting (reminds me of a lot of the dreams I have) but the story was confusing and the ending was even more confusing. Despite that I enjoyed the entire thing, story and all. It leaves a lot of room to imagine what everything was about. Or maybe it's one of those things you have to read again. I also like that the main character (male) rarely speaks.
No. 335264
>>335245It is one of my favorites.
According to lore the megastructure's runaway expansion has gotten so wast that it encompasses a good chunk of the Solar system, the planets themselves got disassembled as building material, a really fascinating and bizarre post-apocalyptic dystopia, it reminds me of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream."
No. 335428
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>>335264I like the comparison. I like these kind of dystopias because it's very uneasy to me and presents a sort of fear of infinity; in "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" an infinite life of torture and an infinite maze. In "Blame!" just basically an infinite and impossible copy-pasted meaningless, mostly empty series of cities. Definitely encapsulates my nightmares. Plus I love the artstyle and character designs.
No. 335446
>>335264>>335428I guess that makes us two.
You nonnas just convinced me to read it, thank you!
No. 335503
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>>335245I didn't like Blame! that much when I first read it, but the more I thought about the more I liked it. Nihei, the mangaka, often has the same impenetrable plots in his later manga, especially Abara which nobody to this day really gets. Terrible shame what happened to his art. He was the one Jap who didn't want to draw cute girls and his editor browbeat him into it. I read Knights of Sidonia by him recently and really liked it, but the art made me sad every second.
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>>335503Such a shame because his girls
are cute
No. 335594
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>>335245Sage for blogpost and massive sperging. I was introduced to Blame! when the full color spin off volume was released. Besides the high school parody thing it had a few side stories for the main manga and some serious short stories as well, and I instantly became obsessed with the art. At the time I was a "clandestine reader" who would sit on the couch in the manga aisle or even the floor and down entire series like that, often in one go. So I would roam every book store whenever I was in the city looking for more Blame! to read but I never found the whole series and I couldn't read them in order, I had to use my memory to piece it all together, so it was all the more confusing. Then I was busy with other things so I kind of forgot about it until the internet decided to make it relevant again out of nowhere. I also got all the large format volumes that were edited recently (were scans not a thing, I would say it's well worth it compared to the normal manga size). It's one of these series that age very well because it's so out there it just doesn't age at all. I think one of its (many) interesting aspects is that even though you don't understand everything, even though the relationships and characters are quite "cold" and hard to figure out and don't have the full backstories, emotional scenes and other things that are used to create proximity with the reader in other series, you end up rooting for them anyway. You don't even know in detail what makes X good and Y bad but that's just how it is. The lore's mostly out of sight, but you still want to dive into it and cling onto every little element within your reach. It has a way of sparking fascination while skipping out on most of the usual methods which is a bit magical, but maybe I'm still speaking as a middle schooler here and it's different if you read a lot of SF. The battles are numerous and sometimes without purpose but they're never boring. I love the insect-inspired bits and the silicates and safeguard units all look so cool, it left such an impression that I have a really hard time designing robots/cyborgs/non-human species that don't look at least a little bit like them, even now…
>>335503This is tragic. There is a mostly light hearted but also somewhat interesting afterword at the end of Blame! Gakuen, not written by Nihei himself obviously but by a writer named Toru Honda, mostly about the rise of moe culture, which Nihei was taking the piss out of with his weird high school AU. There was talk about the rise of science fiction manga in the late 20th century and its unfortunate downfall in the 2000s and joked about 90s SF authors turning to moe right as the 00s came, calling it "an epidemic comparable to lemmings committing mass suicide" (yes I pulled out the book just to quote that) but he also concluded his commentary by joking that the true reason Blame! Gakuen was even a thing is because the editor's a pervert who wanted Nihei to draw Shibo with her tits out more. I guess it wasn't just humor, kek. We really can't have nice things anymore.
>>335532Right ? it's full of waifu/husbando material already for people who don't have shit taste
No. 335745
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>>335594It isn't fair. Why can't Killy be real. I want a cute, short, quiet boyfriend who risks his life to save me…
No. 335757
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>>335594>he also concluded his commentary by joking that the true reason Blame! Gakuen was even a thing is because the editor's a pervert who wanted Nihei to draw Shibo with her tits out moreI am yet to properly read any of Nihei's works but whatever I have learnt about him from
/a/ genuinely makes me feel bad for the guy. His old art style was so distinct, sad that he was pressurized by sleazebag editors into drawing coomshit.
>>335745Agreed! Again, my knowledge of Blame! is rather superficial so I shouldn't be making this judgement kek but for some reason, Killy is rather endearing to me. When I read manga written by Oshimi, Miura, Fujimoto, etc I get this feeling that they use the male MC as a self-insert for their perversions but I don't get those vibes from Killy.
No. 336252
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I wish Super Baby would be translated again. It is, if not, one of the few typical "gyaru meets nerdy guy" romcom mangas that actually is enjoyable and doesn't make me want to vomit.
No. 336305
>>336252Only gyaru meets nerd manga that matters, everybody else should just stop trying and quit churning out garbage. The mc even looks like an
actual gyaru, mind blowing.
No. 336307
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>>336305Samefag, Mabari-san hunts me down is good too, but I don't really count it as being part of the gyaru x nerd genre, cause of its quirky premise and because the male lead is such a pretty boy.
No. 336932
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Has anyone been keeping up with the manga Noragami? It's ending soon with it's 27th volume and I been wondering whether I should pick it up again as I had to stop reading it when it was still relatively newish.
No. 336945
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anyone read lonely castle in the mirror? it's based on a book. the protagonist (kokoro) is bullied at school and becomes unable to attend class due to the trauma. one day her mirror starts to glow and through it she enters a castle where she meets six others kids who don't attend school due to various circumstances. they are greeted by a little girl wearing a wolf mask who tells them that there is a key hidden in the castle and whoever finds the key is granted a wish and the castle will disappear. if they don't find the key, the castle will disappear at the end of the school year. even though everyone has a wish they want granted, the kids decide not to look for the key and instead become close friends. it's a very short read and very wholesome, even though the ended was kinda meh compared to the whole set up. there is a happy ending, though.
No. 337037
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>>335245I think that those who enjoys Blame! might also enjoy Leviathan by Kuroi Shiro.
No. 337252
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>>336307Premise is cool, execution was disappointing. At the very least this scene was hot, kek.
No. 338069
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I want to read Kimi wa Pet but every time I get put off by these clown lips like what the fuck…
No. 339201
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any other anons reading vinland saga? i just got caught up and I really love it. I first watched the anime, the first season was really eh for me but the ketil's farm arc got me hooked. the manga is really beautiful, Hild is my favorite character
No. 339260
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Author really made the choice of creating an unironically autistic male lead.
No. 339331
>>339217I don't like the tone shift that happened during the Baltic Sea arc (more focus on humor and wacky situations, and it was definitely dragging by the end), I'm not fond of some of the characters introduced during the arc and the following one (especially now that there's
a troon, I don't like how the
Constantinople expedition was skipped and I feel the themes and message are becoming more simplistic. I'm not one of those people who were expecting a "badass viking story" or whatever, Farmland was definitely the best part of the manga and I feel that what made it so good was lost along the way.
No. 339380
>>339331yeah I can agree with that.
i was a little annoyed by the time skip with them just coming back to iceland after the baltic sea arc, felt a little rushed imo. I don't even want to talk about the troon, I think they could have made him an actual woman while more or less having the same design without the beard (tall and strong). Also the whole point of that character is super obvious with the whole "just because you're man doesnt mean you have to be violent/follow in your father's footsteps even though they already covered that with olmarThe farmland arc will always be peak, it completely wrecked my shit and was the first time I've ever cried at an anime/manga and I've been a fan of the genre for at least 15 years at this point.
No. 339596
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witch hat is great but i hate this dude's beard. it's like a fujo filter
No. 339647
>>339630Tinfoil ass nerd thought on my part but I believe she would like to control it and keep it wholesome and contained to the official spinoff where it’s just suggestive.
Is she a real Fujo though? I haven’t seen her publish a gay doujin like the mangaka of ye olden days
No. 339649
>>339610I don't think it's at all that serious or to purposely filter fujos. I mean, it's just a goatee, I like yaoi and I don't let that stop me.
>>339647She's not a fujo but she says she's fine and supportive of "queer people" on twitter.
No. 339736
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I finished the original Bobobo manga and still have the sequel left. I loved the anime as a kid and it completely baffled me. I re-watched the anime a few years ago and was a little disappointed because now that I understood a lot of the references, it didn't seem so crazy to me. But seeing it yet again in the manga and beyond (the anime didn't adapt the full manga) I can appreciate how crazy the series really is!
Starts off a bit rough but becomes retarded gold after Torpedo Girl joins the crew. My favorite character is Tennosuke (Jelly Jiggler).
>>338079I only heard of this series a week ago and now I'm seeing it everywhere! I haven't read a single page of it yet but I loved Innocent so I'll willing to give it a try soon.
No. 339996
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Found on Reddit. Anyone know what this manga they're talking about is about?
No. 339997
>>327348Anon, men's brains are smooth. They're literally smoother than what is normal. If you cracked open a male skull (
literally thicker than normal!) you could visibly see it lacks the folds necessary for coherent thought.
They will say anything to piss you off. Be worse than them, and they will shut the fuck up. Compare the average chinaman's penis to a dogs then point out how it's smaller. Bring up animal rape statistics, talk about fathers raping their own infants. "Smh I wish I had a puppyboy eating my period blood clots out of a doggy bowl while twerking and barking at the same time, modern men could never" beats logic.
(racebait) No. 339998
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>>339996It's not about a manga series, Kadokawa was going to translate and publish the book Irreversible Damage and of course the tranny sex pest expats and localizers threw a fit so now they've cancelled it completely.
No. 340017
>>339998I need to get that book someday, a physical copy specifically. If anyone here read it can you tell me if it's informative for people like us who are already aware of what's going on?
>>340012Everyone follows Harada kek she's super popular. Meanwhile Harada only follows her gay twink singer bff after removing all her old Gintama art and unfollowing everyone years ago.
No. 340254
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>new asada nemui manga is like 98% women
>one (1) bishounen looking guy is introduced
>latest chapter has this
wew
No. 340271
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Anyone read the Chihayafuru sequel yet? First chapter just got released and I'm trying to figure out how to pay for it even since I love this series and everyone in it so much
No. 340526
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Meshinuma got updated after several months, he eats cow tongue, I love cow tongue.
No. 340572
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>>340526judging by the cover art this is either secretly a horror manga or secretly a fetish manga. which is it?
>>340254thank god
No. 340687
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i decided to catch up with one piece after a long time of not reading it because i was getting fed up with oda's bullshit so much that it's starting to over power the whatever sunk cost fallacy i feel over the series only to catch up right at the moment when it's revealed that jewerly bonney is fucking 12 years old
No. 340688
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>>340687we all know how oda draws his female characters but this is her. she is
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>>340692Ayryt yesss it's all done so enjoy the reread, I just did another one and am still figuring out how to pay for the sequel rn..also scouring ebay for artbooks, god I love this series and want to inject anything with it straight into my veins
No. 340836
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I like the idea of the OPTs (one page thread) on 4chan. You post a cool page from a manga and it's sort of like a secret recc thread. I've picked up a lot of good manga in those threads. But 90% of the pages are disgusting scrote hentai and it depresses me.
No. 341038
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i've been reading blue lock the past few days and while i enjoy it a lot, i absolutely hate this character and his constant coomerism.
No. 341988
>>339998wat
since when western trannies have power over japan
No. 342946
>>342939Versailles no Bara Is from the 70s are you sure you know what you are looking for?
Maybe read this and then think about what you’re asking for
https://mangadex.org/title/36717047-bcf7-4d75-8805-4892f5323f01/saint-rosalind No. 343001
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>>342994The woman who did Rose of Versailles was very prolific, click on her name on mangadex or whatever and check out some other things she did. They all have that style there's a lot to choose from.
No. 343798
I’m really curious where Asada Nemui is going with her Yoi series because it’s about genetic modification, and it’s also bringing up female egg donation and (possibly in the new chap) IVF. I don’t think these kind of topics have been brought up much in manga
>>343717I bought all those volumes when I was a teen, it’s too bad because the part where they stopped has an interesting tonal shift. It goes from being super 70s shoujo-y and focusing on classical ballet to the art getting more realistic and switching to modern ballet.
No. 344307
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I'm out of the loop. Magus Bride is being AI translated in english now?
https://comic-growl.com/episode/14079602755566546220 No. 345642
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I just found out Sugar Sugar Rune and both, Sakuran and In The Clothes Named Fat, are from Moyoco Anno. These are completely different in their atmosphere, so this comes as much of a shock as finding out Card Captor Sakura and Chobits are both by Clamp or DearS and Shugo Chara being both by Peach-Pit lol.
No. 345662
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>>345654Peach-Pit?
Just imagine if Shugo Chara were written in 2023…
Probably Nagihiko will be becoming in genderfluid or something.
I guess.
No. 346624
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Its a manhwa this time, but kind of dissapointed with fight club so far. So far, I dont find any of the characters interesting, (with one exception). I dont expect a manga\manhwa to be funny, but that typical shonen humor is really grating. Guess its on me for not realizing it sooner.
The only character I like (and whose name I remember is Maria). I like how confident and ruthless she is. I wish the story was about her and focused on her revenge. Knowing the way the way how the manga is going, she is probably going to get watered down and become a love interest later on.
No. 346658
>>346471I love the way women are drawn in this manga, and it's a huge bonus for me that there's little to no objectification of women in it (even Yon doesn't feel all that sexualized, despite her outfit), but I'm steadily accumulating hatred for it because of the shit it does to its female characters in terms of the narrative. Waka's supposed to be the protagonist, but it's become the Tokinaga and Obikawa show, Yoriko's plot is pissing me off, and Yon's backstory being suddenly revealed like that when she was just an ineffectual goon (big spoiler)
as a way of developing cheap sympathy for her before killing her off almost made me drop the manga.
I'm sticking around because I love Waka, the lore is interesting, the art is pretty, I love how the women look and feel more human than I'm used to seeing in manga, the cat content is very fun, some of the emotional beats really get me, and I'm interested in the larger plot so far, but I don't feel like I can recommend it to anyone I like because of the parts of it I criticized earlier.
No. 346812
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No. 347239
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>>346658is it still that way later on? I'm on chapter 25 and I'm still enjoying it though it's very suspicious how much Toki and Obi are highlighted.
Makes me wonder if the mangaka is into yaoi kek No. 347250
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I found this manga and I absolutely love it. It is light and for me it gives a nostalgic feeling of a time you wish you could live in.
Very sweet.
https://battwo.com/title/123390-veil No. 347258
>>347239The Yoriko plot that bothers me started at chapter 18, but the particular events that bothered me were near the start and middle of chapter 19, at the end of chapter 25 continuing on until the end of chapter 27, and early on in chapter 30. While I understand the narrative purpose of these parts of the plot, I sincerely doubt anyone would make a male character go through the kinds of things Yoriko is going through, at least not outside of a piece of media in which sadism and fetishistic abuse are parts of the core premise. That being said, I still enjoy the manga as a whole more than I hate it so far, and I'm up to date on the translations (so up to chapter 47). If you're up to chapter 25 and not bothered, though, you're probably safe.
I don't want to leave this on a mostly negative-sounding note, so I'll mention more positives. My favorite characters are Waka, Yoriko (despite her uncomfortable plot), and Akio, but I also like the writing of most of the characters. I like the way the IPOs are depicted, it's really nice to see more media diving into how the lives of seemingly all-powerful characters conflict with the lives of those weaker than them without necessarily framing either as irredeemable or worthless. I love the Yoriko/Akio dynamic a lot, it's very refreshing to see a sort of reversal of some of the tropes typical of heterosexual relationships;
He feels like a supporting character to
her, for example. Also, Eno Sumi is really good with comedic timing. Not all dramatic plot points hit as hard as I think they're supposed to (I didn't really care about
Yon's death, for example), but I think more of the plot beats hit than miss. I feel like the story has a purpose and clear direction, and I have confidence in the mangaka's storytelling abilities. I reread the whole thing earlier and noticed a lot of foreshadowing for later chapters, it made everything feel pleasantly deliberate and clever. Maybe this last point is silly, but it feels closer to what I wish CSM was than CSM actually is, but I feel it might be relevant to anyone who might be looking for something similar. That could easily just be a deranged personal view on my part though kek.
No. 347473
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Yuri manga author trooned out.
No. 347592
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Just finished a reread of Welcome to the Ballroom and A: Forgot how horny it can be plus B: cute the outfit are and C: Came out with the randomest crush on Masami…idk how
No. 347805
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Felt like looking up Niko from Litchi Hikari Club because i like him but in the results i found this random drink, sorry to bump the thread just for a shitpost.
spoilered for spooky black manga blood
No. 347887
>>347870>>347872I saw some panels of Toga vs. Uraraka's fight. I lost interest in MHA in middle school and one thing that frustrated me so much was how Uraraka became this female character with huge potential for character growth being reduced to a generic wovey-dovey love interest who can't stop thinking about Protag-kun uwu (even her character design is generic kek).
Did that fight at least gave her some characterization other than wanting to suck Deku's dicku? I'm too lazy to read it myself and just want to know if Horikoshi isn't that big of a hack writer when it comes to girls and women.
No. 347980
>>347887>bnha in middle schoolI feel old kek
Frankly, I wonder if anyone here even reads bnha still
No. 348010
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I really like Neuro and reread frequently but my God do the English scans I have access to look like shit. Does anyone know if there's a high quality upload anywhere?
No. 348176
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Strongly recommend this to anyone who likes the art from Ran's Grey World but hates all the pedophile shit.
No. 348889
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the wave of low quality korean webtoons has now caused tachiyomi to be disbanded and the app will no longer be developed. luckily, new forks are already in the works but i always hated that garbage webtoons are everywhere on manga sites these days and this makes me hate it even more. what's stopping kboos from making their own websites to host their isekai villainess reverse harem schlock??
No. 348947
>>348931Yeah it's dumb as fuck. Like I've never read manga on my phone and went "ugh is that a FUCKING PAGE BREAK I CAN'T READ THIS SHIT!!!"
Manhwa just looks like absolute crap. Garbage coloring too.
No. 348958
>>348931some of the early ones, for example cheese in the trap, used a lot of smaller panels with less white space and it looked way better, especially on mobile. now it's just big panel, scroll, another big panel.
>>348889wondered why it wasn't letting me download new extensions
No. 349257
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throwback
No. 349291
>>348927 I’m hooked on those shitty webtoons, it’s pretty much like junk food for me but even I miss the way korean manhwa used to be. The printed ones had a charm to them that I liked even the mass produced ones looked better than what we have today. And to add on to another anon’s post, since the scroll comics became popular the medium has really devolved and it’s honestly sad looking back
>>348961 At this point, any description that is essentially “quirky (optional) person A and quirky person B have a totally quirky and cute relationship together”, I click off. They’re all devoid of substance and the gap moe schtick is overdone
No. 349557
>>348010I loved that series too, though it's been years since I finished it. A re-read is in order for me.
I remember being desperate to read manga online that I tolerated some really bad scanlations. Especially when they clearly just used the square tool to cut out the chunk of text and put in basic microsoft paint-tier text that doesn't quite fit into the lines. Or, when it's clear the translators aren't very proficient in English.
No. 349558
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>>349291Manhwa used to be really neat. The art was more "elegant" or elongated in proportion than manga. It was kind of pretty. Now all the webtoons look like cookie-cutter generic art.
No. 349579
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Haven't seen anyone post about it yet but I recommend Dandadan. Amazing art, well written characters, gnarly plot. And the anime will be released next year. There's a little bit of coomerism here and there, especially in the first chapter (the freaky aliens disguised as middle aged scrotes). But it's basically high school kids who get caught in the middle of an aliens vs yokai war, and some of the chars get supernatural powers by getting possessed by some yokai.
No. 350591
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>>312268Bride's Story is so fucking good. I love how much detail and research went into it. The art is phenomenal.
No. 350593
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In the last manga thread I sperged about Akane Banashi, AND ANOTHER FAN APPEARED HOLY SHIT! Anon! Wherever you are, I need to get off my ass and read it some more! Aaah I'm just so happy someone else here read it!
No. 350906
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I read one of the anthologies Kui Ryoko was in and she wrote a pro-troon manga. It's funny because she understands you can't fundamentally change anything but Yas Queen, We Respect our siblings delusions. Anyway, I just wanted to vent.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/ea995cfe-da98-4b0d-b033-6b7549b15a35/1 No. 350923
>>350591NTA, But it looks super interesting!
Does anyone have more recommendations of mangas that tackle different cultures like that?
No. 350924
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>>350923Tenmaku No Jadougal also deals with central asian culture (and Iran). I'd recommend Witches by Daisuke Igarashi, it's splendid.
No. 351199
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So the author of Asobi Asobase is working on a sequel following some side characters called Outsider Paradise. Has anyone else read this? The art is really bad compared to early Asobi (though that's also true of late Asobi) and instead of funny it's really creepy. Like, I'm convinced this is a half-hearted attempt at a psychological horror manga. Overall it's just bizarrely shit and I feel like I'm the only person who has even noticed it exists.
No. 351434
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I don't really know why but I can't help myself to hate this fmc, is it internalized misogyny?
No. 351524
>>351450I actually like the manga because it tackles themes you don't normally see this medium and it throws some black pills here and there. However, I couldn't help but think: something is off. You definitely see it in the fmc. She's a deeply insecure, traumatized woman but a lot of the shitty things she does is downplayed to fit the agenda of the author. I feel like the characters don't feel like real people but rather stage props that are overly obsessed with sex.
The one thing I kept thinking to myself (I'm on chapter 13, btw) is "if someone told me Mari Okada wrote this, I would believe them". She's somebody who tackles pretty heavy themes but lack/doesn't convey the life experience needed to follow through. Might change as I keep reading.
No. 351736
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>>350923Shut Hell!! One of the BEST seriez, set in in China/Mongolia during Genghis Khan time and modern day Japan (but very minor.) If you liked Beserk or Vinland Saga but wanted better women characters this is the manga to check!
No. 352108
>>350925He straight up deadnames his possibly hsts bro so I see what you mean. Yet the scans have spelled it out as LGBT unfortunately.
>>351434I've hated it and thought it was a male who wrote this. Turns out it was Asano Inio's ex-wife. I think metatextually the author agrees it's a fucked up situation. But the femc is a pickme trying to grow out of it. At the end it feels like a fantasy for a woman to have a younger man devoted to her to want to change for the better.
No. 352469
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i started reading kimetsu no yaiba just three days ago and i'm already on chapter 140. it's genuinely so enjoyable and funny, though i was fearing that the entire series was gonna be "tanjiro and friends meet hashira, aid him/her with defeating a demon, hashira dies, tanjiro then meets the next hashira and demon" rinse and repeat. i really love the goofy faces, kek. i stopped keeping track of the series after the first season aired so i'm glad i can read the entire thing now. my most intense weeb phase was back when naruto, bleach and katekyo hitman reborn were releasing so it's refreshing to be able to read a series that is complete.
No. 352563
>>352469I binge read it a few months ago and was surprised on how fun it was, when I got the impression it was all carried by animation from the anime. It felt kind of pure and simple to me, kind of like reading Dragonball as a kid again. I hope the mangaka comes back and writes a comedy series someday, her characters and style are so charming.
>my most intense weeb phase was back when naruto, bleach and katekyo hitman reborn were releasing so it's refreshing to be able to read a series that is complete.Tbqh it was really hard for me to get into manga like that as a teen even though I loved battle shounen at that age. There was just way too much for me to get through and I ended up gravitating towards shorter series instead, like Magi. I can appreciate how concise and compact KnY is, even if I felt it could have been like 50 chapters longer I'm glad it didn't drag itself out
No. 352574
>>352568Here are some I liked nona
Magi: High fantasy Arabic-inspired adventure series with a lot of cute boys. Has lots of worldbuilding with diverse settings
The Promised Neverland: Thriller-horror about kids escaping an orphanage. Has a nonsexualized female protagonist who gets to do cool shounen feats if you like that
Undead Unluck: skip to chapter 9 since the start is moidy, goofy adventure series about a zombie guy and a girl with bad luck trying to kill themselves and falling in love
Blue Exorcist: Demon hunting series about a boy who learns he's the son of Satan, has lots of brotherly angst, pretty boys, and pretty art
No. 352578
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>>352568Doubutsu no Kuni, which follows the life of a child found and raised by a tanuki in a world inhabited only by animals from infancy to adulthood. It's pure and well-paced, and the stakes (help animals understand each other instead of eating each other, but not in a metaphor for social issues way) are so ridiculous that I, at least, didn't get annoyed comparing it to grievances over IRL issues. Very pure shounen IMO, the only real problems you can have with it are problems you'd have with the genre's general pinnings itself.
Not much coomshit since the majority of follows him in childhood. And if there are boobs on a cow or something… Well, it really can't be taken as coombait, it's more for comedic purposes. It's how the designs are.
>>352496I read Kimetsu no Yaiba for a while starting when it first came out and dropped it because I just found it devastatingly boring. I only gave it a second try when it blew up too incongruently to what I had seen, and I enjoyed it a lot more just skipping the first few dozen chapters. I'd recommend trying the same and seeing if it lands with you; it could always just still not be your thing, but hey.
No. 352629
>>352578Screw you
nonnie for making me cry like a baby, I was jot prepared foe that intensity of feeling in the first chapter.
Thank you it is really a nice story and I will continue reading it.
No. 352838
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chiikawa is the only thing keeping me sane it’s so cute but so morbid at times kek i can’t help but feel bad for the little animals… my favorite is the one sipping beer and making funny faces
No. 352989
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>>352838I love chiikawa too, this one made me tear up kek. Can be surprisingly heartfelt for a silly little manga
No. 353368
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>>352629Right!? This manga tugged my heart every which way through its course. It's not everybody's cup of tea, but I hope you can continue enjoying it. If you do, please let me know what you thought after you finish! It really is not very well known, so I'm always glad to hear people talk about it.
No. 353444
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>>321547Hakumei and Mikochi is so good it's like ariety mixed with a food manga and it has such a good atmosphere and a lot of heart. I read it on downtime at work and it keeps me in a good mood
No. 353724
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read-neokojiru is redoing the JiruJiru India Travelogues with better quality scans. It's about halfway done.
https://read-nekojiru.neocities.org/jirujirutravelogue No. 354578
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I finally sat down and caught up with that manga and honestly I was pleasantly surprised. The first 3ish chapters were kinda boring so I dropped it initially but i picked it back it up and it was actually…good? The first villain was excellent so I'm hoping the writer didn't use up all his writing skills on him and also hoping he somehow survived being blown to bits because there was too much potential for him to be canned this early, too many plot points related to him left unresolved so I'm coping. I also really like that the female characters aren't coombait and the main heroine being a little sister-type character rather than an LI was nice. The action scenes are really well drawn but he really could detail the faces better. Now I just hope that it stays good and dodges the axe. I wouldn't just yet recommend this to anyone who isn't a shonentard, but there is definitely fujo/yume potential here.
No. 357235
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Madara Moyou no Yoi chapter end spoiler
I'm excited for where this is going
No. 357503
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Gantz is a very frustrating manga, it has interesting ideas that are completely squashed by retarded execution and characters, but for some reason picrel completely rewired my brain, this single panel had so much influence on how I appreciate and choose manga to read.
No. 357530
>>357503I totally agree, Gantz has its moments and some of them are so good while the rest of the series is a dumpster fire. Off the top of my head I remember liking Osaka, Italy, the storyline about Cherry and Tonkatsu, and
Nishi attacking his classmates to get back in the game before it turns into a massive clusterfuck. But the ending arc with all the space ships and robots and aliens was soooo bad.
No. 357668
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>>357653If you're looking for menhera stuff, I'm assuming you don't care about
triggers, but do be warned it's depressing.
No. 357670
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>>357653I never read Punpun but I thought Solani was really good. I tried to read a few of his other works after though and disliked or hated all of it, kek.
I also liked: Confidential Confessions (anthology series) and My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness.
I hope these fits what you're searching for, it's been a while since I read some of them and actually wasn't familiar with the term menhera. Ohh, and maybe Welcome to the NHK? Never read the manga but I thought the anime was decent. I also second the suggestion from the anon above!
No. 357700
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>>357653Shounen no abyss, it's about multi-generational menheras in a menhera city. It written and drawn by a female author and has really great menhera character breakdowns.
No. 357708
>>357707No, it's a woman. Also, I think it's pretty clear considering the drawing style and how she writes stuff related to eating disorders in it.
Please try to keep reading it, the story gets better and the characters make more sense as you discover what really went down in the past.
Spoiler:
The protagonist mom was actually forced by her own mom into prostitution, which is something that actually happens in real life and due to that is severely traumatized and becomes a narc mess. The author guy is also not an angel like he pretends to be. I'd say it's worth the read. No. 357881
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>>357700I only keep up with this series for comedic purposes. The teacher is so insane it makes me crack up every time she reaches a new level.
No. 357882
>>357881Yeah. It’s like a small town depresso-psycho soap opera. Yeah it’s trash but it’s fun
>>357784Is that all you know about it? That chapter was hilarious in the context of the story. Anti troon if anything kek he was a psycho.
No. 357890
>>357882AYRT, yep, soap opera is definitely the best way to explain its appeal. Fun trash.
I would not have recommended it as a menhera series though, I don't think it's something to be taken seriously, which is probably more what the OP was asking for.
No. 358096
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>>358089This one is kind of yuri adjacent, but it's a cool yuri-implied action manga with a lot of fanservice. I read it like 10 years ago, but I remember I liked it then.
Tokyo Girls Destruction.
No. 358213
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I'm pirating the JJK anime to watch it, and usually when I do that with an animated adaptation I look into buying the manga in my first language in case the manga could have more scenes and just to support the series in general. All I'm seeing is people shitting on the official French translation, and at first I thought it would be because of details or techniques having slightly different translations in fan versions and the official versions but it seems to be more shit like lines being in the wrong speech bubbles so someone is saying someone else's line, sentences repeated by different characters to make a parallel between them except they're now saying something else, etc. I don't feel like spending a cent on it anymore now. I guess it can't be worse than Black Butler's translation being so bad in very specific scenes that the now obvious plot twist about the twin brothers was nearly impossible to guess without reading about people guessing it on tumblr, since 息子達 in some flashbacks was translated with "my son" in French. I'm also thinking about how Fruits Basket's French translation sucked monumental ass in a way I could have never guessed because I started the manga when I was 12, monolingual and didn't even know about fan translations online yet. I don't even know where I'm going with this, I'm just annoyed.
No. 358256
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>>358089School Zone is a fun one, good mix of comedy and toxicity. It's currently on hiatus, though.
I also liked With Her Who Likes My Sister (picrel) a lot, and that one is complete.
You might have better luck asking for recs in the yuri thread.
No. 358461
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>>357245Ooooh she posted a preview and the scammer lady is back too kek
No. 358474
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>>358089Depends of what you’re into. I recommend Would you like to go out or, Sasameki Koto, Yamada to Kaze-san, Octave and Still Sick. If you want something more artistic and philosophical, for the lack of better word, try Ebine Yamaji’s works.
No. 358529
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Lovely Strange Dark is starting a new project, Kokage is a Witch. it's cute and funny so far
No. 358987
I don‘t know where to post this but can anyone tell me what not-so-feminine anime twinks are called? types like light yagami or that direction.
I‘ve been on one of these degenerate image boards and i‘m so frustrated that there is no term for anime moids that are just like just normal pretty-boy guys. i found a pretty boy term (bishonen) but that‘s something else i saw. on these sites i can easily search for children moids, disgusting masculine beefcakes, pretty twink beefcakes (saw that a lot when i checked yaoi), there is a tag for girly guys, femboys, there are tags for old moids, ugly moids, fat moids, hairy moids but I can‘t find normal straight(looking) twink cuties?? I have to go through so much shit (by excluding tags too etc) and don‘t find any there where I thought I should. I‘m so confused, are they just unicorns? is there any trick or something i missed that could make it easier?
please, any anime-boy connoisseur help me
No. 358999
>>358987Maybe you're looking for the term "Ikemen"? Bishounen is the correct term for a normal pretty boy.
>found a pretty boy term (bishonen) but that‘s something else i saw>but that‘s something else i sawwhat do you mean by this?
No. 359752
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Funny manga, hopefully will get more of it soon. Side note, resorting to reading manga in spanish is sad, I should learn japanese.
No. 360308
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kek the scanlator for Kinyobi wa Atelier de was so sassy about dropping it. I really like that series I'm kinda bummed.
No. 360569
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Spoiler for the newest chapter of Yoi, Asada’s being Asada
Unfortunately the app it’s on is region locked so it’ll be a bit until it appears on urasunday
No. 361151
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fucking EW
whoever has not dropped Oshi no Ko yet, should do so now
(pic is confirmed spoilers)
No. 361190
>>361160but
nonnie…
It's a sister kissing her biological brother because in past life she was a 12 year old cancer patient who was in love with her 35 year old pedo doctor who is now reincarnated as her brother No. 362618
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Does anyone else here read Mr. Mallow Blue? It's really scratching my itch for classic shoujo genderbender and the toxic yuri subplot was unexpected but welcome. I think it's going to have a "het" ending but it's still a nice soapy drama.
No. 362628
>>362618Tell me more about the
toxic yuri. You've got my attention.
No. 362633
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>>362628I don't want to go into super spoilers territory but it's a bodyswap manga. A 27 year-old hikineet man (Aoi) gets bodyswapped with a mentally ill schoolgirl (Sakura) and the plot is him trying to find her, who has stolen his body. There are two "pairs", Aoi(in Sakura's body) and her male classmate who has his own issues, and Sakura(in Aoi's body) and her bully/ex-friend Yume. All the characters have their own trauma and it's mostly about them trying to unravel and cope with their issues, but yes it's revealed that
Sakura and Yume used to be in a messed up lesbian relationship in middle school which was a trigger for her figuring out how to bodyswap and try to "fix" their failed relationship somehow. But do be a aware it's a little soapy, so don't expect super deep social commentary here. Picrel is MCs while bodyswapped.
No. 362638
>>362637No, sorry. Like I said it was basically a surprise subplot in this. Also I wouldn't recommend it to someone who wants
only yuri because there is also equal focus on the male characters in this manga.
No. 363254
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>>348010Unfortunately, Neuro was just translated using dogshit scans like a lot of older series, and there's no official release that could mitigate it. If only anime wasn't so awful, we could've had it all.
>>347239The mangaka is absolutely into yaoi, she enjoys yuri too, but bias towards yaoi seems to be bigger. She also loves cats.
>>347258I did feel bothered how Waka got sidelined with the whole Obikawa thing (even if I enjoyed his arc), but now it seems like Obikawa got sorted out first because he's a side character. I really liked the chapter where he ate the rabbit. On the monthly basis it was devastating to have nothing on Waka (felt kind of similar to CSM dropping Asa), but rereading everything in one go, the drip feeding with Shion builds up really well, and this part was very emotional to me. I also like how often it revisits Chapter 1, highlighting how crushing it was for Waka.
I did also think it was similar to CSM and for now I'm enjoying that it's sticking to smallish cast and actually sticks with them unlike CSM.
I don't believe 47 was the latest chapter at the time of your post, the releases are kind of awful to follow due to how bad Comikey is. Mangasee had the best scans online, but it's not up to date. This website has the most chapters I could find:
https://mangabuddy.com/after-godThe latest Tokinaga developments kind of left me confused, but I trust Eno Sumi.
No. 363350
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I'm glad this didn't get axed. The mom daughter bonding is cute.
No. 363559
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>first Uro
>now Yorozu
Why is Gege suddenly obsessed with designing his female characters naked? Seems random when he had every opportunity to do it since the beginning. I would say its a Heian era thing but Yorozu was just begged to put on some clothes kek
No. 363565
>>363559Idk but it does really feel random, I think these are the only two female characters that appear naked in the entire series.
And imo, the idea for Uro was cool
No. 363596
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>pick up the first 5 volumes of Vampire Knight from HPB because I remember reading some of them at the library as a kid and loving the art style, want some nostalgia
>aw the eyes are so pretty, I could actually draw these now, excited to go back into the story blind since it’s been so damn long
>see a bunch of zoomers on tiktok are shitting their pants over the manga
>google why
>learn that the entire plot twist hinges on the reveal that Kaname is a Grandpa Brother in love with his sister (Yuki)
>their parents were ALSO brother and sister
>”Incest to keep the bloodline pure” garbage trope
>the sequel has MORE incest and something about Zero falling in love within a horse
>immediate regret
>nostalgia ruined, feel gross having them on my shelf, gonna have to return them for store credit
>story would have been cute if the author didn’t have a fetish that makes me wanna vomit
>gdi Japan
No. 363619
>>363596Kek this reminds me when I was a kid and Toonami made Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune cousins. Looking back, it’s weird they preferred incest over the fact that they were lesbians.
It’s funny what you don’t process as a kid. Idk I re watched and re read a lot of anime and manga that I enjoyed as a kid and came across a lot of stuff like this. I kinda cringed about it but continued to just enjoy the fact that I was a clueless kid and loved the art.
No. 363621
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>>363596Incest was everywhere in 90's/early 2000's shoujo. Personally, I'll always love Angel Sanctuary for its art despite incest being its main premise kek.
No. 363637
>>363619This was the first one that gave me such a surprise to revisit! Tbh I read a lot of shit I shouldn’t have as young as I was, like Chobits, at the public library. I’ve been staring at the volumes on and off trying to decide if it’s worth the effort to read them anyways and force myself to ignore it or if I should just resell them to get more volumes of a different series. The art is still so pretty imo so I’m conflicted but there’s also plenty of other good shojo romances that don’t have incest in them.
>>363622That’s totally fine if it doesn’t bother you, this is a fictional comic like another nonna said. I have some personal trauma related to the subject (walked in on my first boyfriend of several years having sex with his blood sister on the couch when they didn’t expect me home from a night shift early), so it tends to bother me a lot. You do you, just not my bag.
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>>363637>walked in on my first boyfriend of several years having sex with his blood sister on the couch when they didn’t expect me home from a night shift earlyWhat the fuck lol
No. 363701
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Spoilers for jojolands So with this, Dragona's gender is finally
revealed. He's a male with a micro penis. The bullying and sexual assaulted probably exacerbated his trooning out. Though according to his based bully, he already wore girl's clothing before this incident, so the trooning was already there. He deserves it and I hope he dies so I can actually read the manga
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>>363637>>363641I'm sorry for continuing the derail but what the hell even happened after that? What happened before? Why??? How???
No. 363814
>>363622parent/child stuff is gross but I have a weakness for sibling incest ngl. something about
toxic/doomed extremely codependent relationships idk
No. 364204
>>363871Agreed, people just accept it casually for the most part now and it throws me through a loop. Imo I love reading dark topics but it freaks me out to see things like incest be played as normal or something people would do without being in a fucked scenario. If it's a normal romance between siblings I side eye the author and those reading it tbh, you'd be inventing a fantasized lie to portray incest as non
abusive and it feels like that's paraphernalia better repressed than engaged with in a positive light because encouraging not having that hard line with family in your head seems like when people meme themselves into being fine with shota/loli then suddenly are really into it. It just can't be good.
Give me murderers with fucked up family dynamics, but a wholesome school anime can fuck off with its incest push. I can understand putting the author's freakiness to the side if it's not the main part, but people shrug it off like nothing now which is textbook definition normalization. How many older brothers in the world have been taking advantage of this I wonder…
small town I lived near had an incest couple everyone knew about, open secret but they claimed it was fine cause it was "just sex". Nobody was really ok with it but nobody said or did anything about it and it just festered and more older brothers took advantage when they saw no social punishments so I think incest is something we should keep a solid taboo that you don't just ignore. Otherwise it seems too many boys would jump at the possibility to groom their sisters without taboo No. 364986
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I don't see anyone talking about this but Yulia Sensei no Akai Ito is pretty good if you like stories with older characters. It even won the kodansha and osamu tezuka awards. It's about an older woman who finds out her husband has been cheating on her with a man when he is sick in the hospital, and she has to take care of him at home. It's also been made as a tv drama that is currently airing
No. 365202
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I read a lot of shitty manga, but this chapter exceeded my tolerance level simply because it was so out of place in a dumb comedy manga about having Satan as a pet.
The gall of this troon to say lesbians aren't real when he himself is perfectly content being gay.
Not to mention the paedophilia, too. She's a gradeschooler (in a negligee, to boot), in case you couldn't tell by the shitty art style, yet her mom deemed it perfectly acceptable that this grown man be allowed to spend the night in her room. And why's that? Because this pedo fag freak would have assaulted her older brother in his sleep, were they to room together instead. And again, why are we even having this conflict in a shitty comedy manga about having Satan as a pet ?? But, no, it's all good, cause he calls her his future girlfriend in the end so it's a happy ending, how nice.
No. 365251
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Spoiler for the newest jjk chapter.
I thought everyone was joking when they said that Miguel is going to come back kek. I really hope something interesting FINALLY happens next chapter because Sukuna wiping the floor with everyone is becoming stale
No. 365304
>>365202>But I can't go out with you>Because I'm a kid?>That's not trueah yes the superior japanese culture compared to "decadent west"
>deep inside i'm a girlyes classic troonery
>fellow girls can't become loversshow me the face of the degen who is writing this shit
No. 365324
>>365202Jfc,
two nukes really weren't enough. I hate Japanese degenerates.
No. 365326
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>>365251I'm waiting for this manga to end. It sucks because I think it started off okay, but once Gege just kept everything going into big fight, big fight, big fight, there was nothing. No character development, no fun sit down moments. Just fight to fight. It was mentally exhausting. Also, when he killed off
several mains, including Gojo, i just stopped caring. It really pissed me off. He has no direction with this series and it shows. I'm caught up, but I have no idea how much I'd care to continue when new chapters come out.
No. 365336
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>>365309I agree. Modern manga art in general looks ugly and I hate the modern digital art style so bad. It all looks the same. Shit like picrel gets on my nerves so much. I want to read "Given" but the art style hinders me.
No. 365365
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>>365336Does anyone else think the early 2000s popular art styles were so much better in every way? Not just manga but anime style art in general. Even the digital art back then was a totally different vibe, I can clock them immediately. I don't know if i'm blinded by nostalgia but the modern clean digitized look doesn't jive with me at all.
tbf I think a part of this is the low barrier of entry for manga creators now. Many of them mask a poor understanding of fundamentals with all the digital tools like premade assets and color grading etc
No. 365468
>>365202I've always noticed that pedophiles always have this fantasy of the little girl being the "aggressive" one in their fantasy relationships. It's sickening—some DARVO
victim blaming shit—"
she was the one who started it! So I'm absolved of all blame for wanting to diddle little girls!!!!"
No. 365582
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Where do you all like to buy your 2nd hand manga? (jp not eng)
eBay is OK but it’s been a miss lately and I feel like prices are way too high these days.
No. 365613
>>365597I’m a burger. Thank you
nonnie, this is perfect and I already found what I was looking for.
No. 366264
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Any Manga with trippy/strange endings? I think Zetsubou sensei takes the cake
>Nozomu's lover, Kafuka is murdered and her body parts are passed around to students who have attempted suicide
>because of her grand optimism they no longer want to die and are possessed by her regularly
>Nozomu marries almost every single girl+Jun in his 'class' and remarries and divorces them each day depending on who Kafuka is currently possessing and they all love sensei so they're apparently cool with this
>Always looking for new wives to share Kafuka's body via forced blood transfusion
>Has children with everyone (aside from Jun obviously)
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sakusei byoutou zen nennrei ban is a guilty pleasure read of mine. love how crazy all the nurses are; i hope it gets the bocchi treatment someday where all (or most of) the coom elements are removed and the comedy elements are increased. i'd love a workplace comedy about nurses who hated their job
No. 366288
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Came across something interesting today through Dead Scanlations blog. Tsurita Kuniko, a mangaka who died in her 30s and had some interesting but unfortunately unfinished works that are very striking (style varies a lot across them but I really liked the art in The Other Side and some of the Chapters in Flight specifically Story of a Turtle and Knock Knock Big Sister).
https://berndscans.blogspot.com/2024/03/why-did-ghost-cross-road.htmlhttps://mangadex.org/title/fefd07d4-6349-426a-a4fc-9530339f7d9e/flighthttps://mangadex.org/title/54af9e94-aff2-498b-978b-2d27abf06bfd/kanata-e-tsurita-kuniko-mihappyou-sakuhinshuu No. 366290
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I really liked the concept in this one although it's a bit bizarre. 1/2
No. 366292
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>>3662902/2 not gonna post the whole oneshot
shame she died so young
No. 366391
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>>322217Some of the stuff on this list was surprising to me. I guess I keep forgetting that shoujo and josei are demographic distinctions rather than genres.
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Posting here as well, we have a Dungeon Meshi General now at
>>366386 No. 366711
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Has anyone read the creepy cat manga??? The illustrations have such a nice vibe to them, they remind me of ruby gloom and stuff like that. Plus it's cat related. Looks cute but I've never read 4koma before so I'm a bit hesitant to read it… Thoughts??
No. 366714
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>>366711I just read some online and it’s not hilarious but it’s okay.
No. 366859
>>364986I just binge read this because of your rec and I love it soo much. I can only find up to chapter 27 though, does anyone know where to find the original scans?
I was hoping anons could recommend some other manga similar to this. Doesn't have to be older protagonists necessarily, but unique perspectives and genres, more slice of life/slow paced/introspective but lighthearted, detailed pencily artwork.
No. 366870
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>>366859Art styles don't necessarily match what you're looking for but Ashihara Hinako's Bread & Butter and Nozaki Fumiko's Tamako Teishoku both have similar vibes. The latter is a little like if Midnight Diner was a josei series.
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>last chapter dropping next month
How are we feeling rockfriends? I can't believe I've been following this series since middle school. The crazy ride is about to end.
No. 366975
>>366968It feels like Ichikawa lost interest tbh, there was so much more that could've been done with the characters, especially the Ventricosus which never got explored adequately compared to the gems and moonies, I don't think it's bad to end it this way though. It still feels cathartic to me. I'm gonna have to do a complete reread though since I forgot so much. I'm gonna miss Phos….
>>36697221
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>>366978Studio Orange too busy making Beastars and Trigun Stampede…the gems are neglected
No. 367694
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Not ashamed to admit that Boy's Abyss is my favorite ongoing manga because of the constant unintentional comedy of the melodrama LOL it's like the author's entire creative ethos is driven by those edgecringe "torturing my OCs" posts people love to make on tumblr
No. 367696
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>>367694And I'm pretty sure the author herself understands this angle to her work when she herself posts things like picrel regularly? People just take this shit way too seriously kek
No. 367714
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No idea if anyone here reads this slop, but OPM manga is just so bad it's depressing. Even simply listing all the problems I have with it is too much. And its fans are so rabid I feel insane how nobody actually calls out any problems with it. Although it's probably only powerscaling scrotes who still read this crap, because barely anyone I know reads it anymore.
It's a shame that webcomic is so rarely updated. I've been craving for a new ONE work since Mob Psycho 100 ended. He just keeps starting new insanely mid collaboration manga instead. When is he gonna draw by himself again…
No. 368695
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Thank you to the nonnies who suggested suruga. Literally buying all the manga I wanted to buy as a kid, for just a couple dollars each. And I got free shipping.
No. 369243
>>369154I can give you my reading list:
Ao no Hana Utsuwa no Mori (this author is a good romance writer so check out their other stuff)
Busu ni Hanataba wo (picked it up from this thread)
Otoyomegatari (if you’re okay with arranged marriages being romanticized)
Kinyoubi wa Atelier de (they’re not really a couple yet but I like the manga)
Het relationship but manga focuses on something else primarily:
Koi No Kiseki
Otome Monster Caramelize
Watashi no Otto wa Reitouko ni Nemutte Iru
No. 369673
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nice to see Noda is still incorporating bears into his plots even when it's a highschool hockey story
No. 369729
>>369676It's a very fun read because I like kaiju stuff. It's silly and sweet.
>>369688Oh I get it I wasn't complaining, I like his bear obsession.
>>369677yes.
No. 369735
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>>369154Principal (Ikuemi Ryou)
Tomodachi no Hanashi
Machi de Uwasa no Tengu no Ko
Machida-kun no Sekai
Chikutaku Bonbon
>>369243NTA I just started reading Otoyomegatari and it might just be the most nuanced and cutest depiction of arranged marriage of child brides/grooms kek. I feel comfy but also disturbed at how young the kids get set out for marriage.
No. 369737
>>369673Noda is a man who knows what he likes!
>>369154Always gonna recommend princess jellyfish. I'm reading romantic killer right now and while the art isn't the best it's really cute and silly and a fun light read so far, another reverse harem type manga.
No. 369743
>>369737Princess Jellyfish is wonderful.
Side note, anyone know where to find original JP scans of manga? Is there a website like Mangadex but for the originals?
No. 370631
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>reading Princess Jellyfish for the first time in over a decade so I can finally finish the series
>starting the second volume in French
>suddenly, Kuranosuke yelling at Tsukimi, saying "you retard/autist!"
Why did it make me laugh? Am I 5 years old? Is it because I forgot how politically incorrect translations were when I was in high school?
No. 370724
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Late, so someone probably already commented on this, but picrel is not a seinen manga. I don't get what psy op the manga industry is pulling by publishing shoujo and josei manga in seinen/shounen magazines, but they aren't fooling me.
No. 370727
>>370724Its a simple matter of shounen/seinen magazines being more popular and wanting to appeal to more general audiences.
Plus Apothecary Diaries was a web novel to begin, do shoujo/josei magazines do naroukei adaptions?
No. 370739
>>370736Pretty sure a couple of Shonen magazines mentioned years ago that they wanted to pander to the female demographic too.
It's not really a con, it's just headhunting.
No. 370834
>>370828Biggest problem for me was that they cut out the narrations and her inner thoughts, it wipes so much of Mia's character and the comedy.
Why light novel adaptions continue to do this despite it being so damaging to adaptions and how people perceive these sort of series, I got no clue. Apothecary Diaries had lots of luck in that regard. It was adapted with care.
No. 372406
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Kitai Fuku Ga Aru is a slice of life manga about daring to go against the norms in spite of society's prejudice, specifically about wearing what one wishes. It should resonate with readers who have received shit over their fashion choices from total fucking strangers on the streets.
No. 372556
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I didn't know popularity polls are done by sending in votes via buying physical copies of the manga. A Naoya Zenin fan voted 3523 times for the new JJK popularity poll. For comparison he got 6th place with 2.8K votes last time. I guess it makes sense why he's always high. Megumi had 30K votes last time, did 30K people vote for him or does he have a dozen deranged fans collecting every physical copy they can to vote for him? I can't see such a soulless character beating Itadori and Gojo organically. If it can be hacked like this, I don't get what the point of the popularity poll even is. Kpop tier fanwars on JP twitter comparing votes?
No. 372558
>>372556>Kpop tier fanwars on JP twitter comparing votes?this has been a thing forever, look into AKB lore. pretty sure this stems directly from that.
>If it can be hacked like this, I don't get what the point of the popularity poll even is.lol MONEY, dummy. that was always the point. not every day you can get schizos to buy the same copy of a book or album 3k times.
No. 372565
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>>372556If I were rich and had money to burn I would do shit like this for my husbando and most husbandofags probably would too. Granted I already waste money on a shrine of mine. I saw this interaction on a tiktok about this kek.
Unrelated but I take offense at you saying itadori is more interesting than literally anyone else in jjk. He's the most milquetoast bland protagonist I've ever seen kek.
No. 372572
>>372556Iirc some changed it up, like Chainsawman doing it through the internet, hence 3rd place getting won by a car.
Probably as dishonest but it's a bit funnier.
No. 372599
>>372556>Megumi had 30K votes last timeHow often are these votes? Each volume release? Because the poor kid has been
stuck with Sukuna for, what, a year now? And from what I've seen people are starting to really hate him.
No. 372641
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Liar Satsuki ended! Kind of a rushed ending but the author managed to wrap it up as best they could, it obviously got axed. People are taking the sudden ending as license to dump on it but I think they're being whiny babies. It happens, it's not a massively popular manga. I still really liked it, I look forward to whatever the author does next.
No. 373019
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Louise went hulk-mode in the latest Shadows House chapter, it's fun again
No. 373380
>>373019Samefag as
>>373215 I just caught up and get what you mean. Felt like it sort of meandered too much around the second debut arc but Louise now has me paying full attention.
No. 373394
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Anyone else looking forward to the final chapter of Land of the Lustrous that drops tomorrow? I've been following this series for years so it's gonna be weird not looking forward to a new chapter every month (when it's not on hiatus kek)
No. 373431
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>>373353Helter Skelter
Fujiwara Kaoru manga (she has a lot of one shots)
I like looking into the scrote mind by reading Oshimi Shuzo but it's not for everyone.
Nishioka Kyoudai / Nishioka Brosis (brother/sister team) makes surreal alt manga with psychological themes if you're into that.
I like Fuyumushi Kaiko, she only has a few things out though (picrel
https://mangadex.org/title/011a8821-8fea-447b-aff9-cb0212487eac/my-mother-and-older-sister )
My Broken Mariko is a good short one
https://mangadex.org/title/147c9906-343e-4b16-ae64-5a8974a623a6/my-broken-marikoPopular longer series with psychological elements:
Land of the Lustrous
Innocent
No. 373490
>>373451Uhh, I just glanced at the "completed" tab in my mangadex library to grab a couple suggestions. Looking through my mangaupdates complete tab now, these might start to stray further from your original request:
The Bones of an Invisible PersonGirl from the Other Side (in a bizarre twist the mangaka now does gay furry porn, I often wonder what he was trying to say with the metaphors in this considering what he went on to do and how different this is. I think he was molested as a child or something; his oneshot series
Ishu Renai Monogatarishuu has made people speculate he's a pedo.)
Takopii no Genzai and
Ogeha (both have that intentionally ugly/upsetting style that's 3edgy5u if you're up for that)
Sakura-Gari (Yuu Watase's foray into BL, but it's more of a psychological tragedy than it is BL)
Sorry to suggest BL outside containment but Asumiko Nakamura writes good psychological dramas.
If you are willing to try yuri,
Run Away With Me, Girl is a good story
Kiichi!! (initially hated the art style but it grew on me)
Palate cleansers (not psychological):
Yumi to Kurumi (stuffed doll turns a woman's life around)
Neko no Otera no Chion-san (slice of life, lots of cats)
Endevi (very nice art, funny)
Muchuu sa, Kimi ni (short stories about weird high schoolers)
The Fable (yakuza action comedy but has its serious moments)
Angel Densetsu (it's a classic, anime might be better)
Ongoing series I'm reading that you might like:
Blank Space by Kumakura Kon (translations are stalled)
Madara Moyou no Yoi
Koi no Kiseki (it's from 1994 and very soap opera-y)
Yuria-sensei no Akai Ito (got it from this thread, it's complete at 11 volumes but translation only up to volume 5)
No. 373544
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i enjoy a lot of seinen. don't have female authors in my top 9. wish more women would write edgelord shit.
No. 373564
>>373544Is
Shounen no Abyss not edge-lordy enough for you? It's at least as good as Chi no Wadachi
No. 373571
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>>373394phos my beloved
the ending is… okayish? it's a pretty unique story with an unique ending,
No. 373661
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Can someone please explain the houseki no kuni ending chapter to me, I didn't fully get it
No. 373773
>>373661The rocks found their houseki no kuni (kingdom of gems), Big Brobot completed his last task and died happily, Phos
shatters into even tinier fragments and those fragments leave into the universe on a comet. Final panel is a call back to the first chapter when Phos was sleeping in the grass.
No. 374049
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>>373975Nta but I got it as nothing disappears from the universe, they just break up into smaller pieces and now her fragments are spread around the universe via planet collisions and shit and some piece of her ends up on a comet, shining brightly and making someone happy like she always wanted to. Not a big HnK lore expert though.
No. 374098
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>>374092Is it worse than My Dress-Up Darling?
No. 374108
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>>374098Personally this ticks me off way more. I think I could actually like Dress-Up Darling if it didn't have the whole eroge thing and was more in line with the post-anime arcs. This feels like perfectly crafted ragebait.
No. 374113
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>>374110Ngl if she ever tries to write something like a serious mystery or horror and not a romcom, I'd give it a go.
No. 374379
>>374371Dress Up Darling, kek. Its
>>374098 wearing cosplay.
No. 374487
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>>374391Schizotheory but I feel like Marin is written plainly to self insert into. I know visually she's waifubait but the author puts so much more detail into Gojos character than anybody else by far
That and his hands
Hopefully Marin gets some development after this arc though, the diet bit is cringe
No. 374540
>>374487Imo the manga is just self indulgent. Not necessarily a full on self insert or mouthpiece, but she's written to be cute and relatable to the author.
She's a way to sperg about shit like cosplay and ideas the author had but never had enough to make into their own story.
Wouldn't be surprised if the author had went on a diet and decided to add it to the manga.
No. 374713
I’m
>>373353, thank you so much for the recs. I’ve also looking for stuff that is surreal or ungrounded in reality. I haven’t watched Serial Experiments Lain or whatever but I’m guessing maybe something similar to that.
No. 374727
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>>374713May look like a weird suggestion but Mokke's Calamity is a good and simple oneshot that might be up your alley.
BTW for future reference, I think the genre you seem to be looking for is denpa (Mokke's Calamity isn't this kek but just in case you want to describe evth else in fewer words)
No. 374749
>>374713You might like Homunculus. Homunculus deals with sexual predation at some point, though. Ogeha is a really good disturbing and surreal josei, felt pretty unique. Mars is another solid shojo title for good psychological development.
Seconding every rec
>>373431 made, every manga in that list is excellent.
Takopii no Genzai was really impactful, it is pretty edgy though. I'd add Ichikawa Haruko Sakuhinshuu (Ichikawa's compilation of one-shots, it's on Mangadex). Litchi Hikari Club is another amazing surreal manga, it's 2edgy4u, really violent and disturbing, be warned.
Don't skip on Hato Mogio's works. I was incredibly moved by Hanshin. One of the very best 'psychological' mangas ever, it's impressive how good she is as condensing tons of emotions and mental processes in few pages.
No. 374753
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>read manga about kid on the saxophone dreaming to be the greatest jazz player ever
>seems normal, clearly a manga by a guy obsessed with jazz
>non-coom/generic/moe style
>MC randomly gropes a girl less than 2 chapters in
I know I shouldn’t be surprised but fuckkkk I fucking hate moids. I should just finish Sakamichi no Apollon first, even though I’m not into the love triangle-square-pentagon(?) thing going on there kek. I wish there was a jazz manga about a female musician.
No. 374754
>>374753I didn't like this. Protagonist is completely unlikeable and he's this enlightened genius that immediately becomes god-tier at saxophone like a single volume in.
Something like Piano no Mori also had comically OP protagonist that was deified by everyone, but managed to be more fun about it.
No. 374778
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>>374753The thing about Sakamichi no Apollon is that the two guys should've gotten together, or at the very least had a canon one-sided love. I'm not speaking from my fujo heart there, it would have legitimately improved the narrative and given it more emotional impact. They were romantic af.
No. 374804
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Anyone here read Helck? Vermilio is such a fun protagonist. It's a bit too naïve at times as a story, but I found it pretty comforting. And impressive to have this scene entirely without it being romantic in any capacity. Wish the anime wasn't so poorly made.
No. 374814
>>374754>and he's this enlightened genius that immediately becomes god-tier at saxophone like a single volume inI hate stories like "I have zero experience but I'm going to be the best at doing _____ and beat everyone else that's been practicing for years!"
The only exception was Yowamushi Pedal because the MC already knew how to bike long distance, he just never raced competitively…
No. 375066
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I think I'm starting to see a trend of those official translators picking up manga, translating a few chapters, then just leaving them there seemingly forgotten. I dunno if I'm being paranoid, it could be just imcompetence on their part but it feels like they want to monopolize the titles just in case it might be useful? I don't really know how the business behind this works, so that might not make any sense, if that would be at all profitable. But I'm pissed off that one manga I really liked and that was being updated very frequently by a scanlator got an official translation that is way behind and hasn't been updated at all in several months, at this pace I'm better off just learning japanese myself.
No. 375087
>>375081No. All manga gets ridiculously overhyped and then people complain about how the manga betrayed them because it didn't give fix their life and give them money.
Berserk specifically, it's fine. There's a drastic jrpg tone change at one point that might take you out, plus sexual violence and loli/shota which can be a deal breaker.
No. 375094
>>375081No, not really. It has its moments though. I liked the beginning up to Griffith changing and I liked chapter 306. The spanish inquisition parody arc was kinda good sometimes. Guts' armor
becoming sentient was incredibly cringe. Casca is the most egregious example of the
mindbroken-from-rape fantasy trope I've ever seen, literally just kill me if that happens to me.
No. 375109
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>>375081It's not that good honestly, it has some good points and the art can be impactful but even as a nona that is open to anything, the moidcoreness can be obnoxious and way too much sometimes.
I really liked the golden age arc, it was good on its own, but anything before/after felt weak to me. That part with the fairy girls was nice but again, it feels too porny at times, and those are little girls.
I don't think that anything changed in modern mangas but i usually close one eye because it's an old edgy manga that popularized grim fantasy, but it's not that great, i don't regret reading it but if it wasn't fueled by degeneracy it would have been better.
No. 375185
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>>375135Gachi Koi Nenchakujuu. I miss my unhinged moid-obsessed women so much.
No. 376160
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what are some lighthearted and fun manga? (preferably ones that are not too focused on romance)
No. 376167
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>>375081Out of the seinen "big 3" it's the weakest imo. it has some really cool art like pic related. Like some of the other anons said it can be too gratuitous with its SA but if you like dark fantasy its worth trying. I know this is the manga thread but 97 anime is pretty good, especially the ost.
the guts theme was my most played song of 2023 No. 376214
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>>376160NekoDamari comes to mind. It's about a woman and her 3 cats (mostly the cats).
Bear and Tanuki is a cute 4koma series.
https://mangadex.org/title/ea0dad53-39ea-46ae-8ba3-eb4fb63f1b86/bear-and-tanukiEndevi is a nice 3-volume lighthearted/funny story featuring the misadventures of two female friends (an angel and a devil); it has great art and fashion.
https://battwo.com/title/81206-endevi No. 377040
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Is Koi wa ameagari no you ni any good or is it just a love story between a highschool girl and her idk60orsomething boss?
No. 377050
>>377040Just read it. It's not that long, the art is good.
I'm
glad the fans that were rooting for the teenage girl and the 45 year old man to get together were
wrong.
No. 377095
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>>375081Only for Griffith
No. 377107
>>375081The golden age arc is elite. Peak storytelling in manga, imo. The complex characterization of Griffith and Guts (even Casca in this arc was so promising and interesting), the subtext, the emotion, the art. All amazing and it blew my mind when I first read it. Every other arc sucks ass to varying degrees. I periodically reread the golden age arc, but only once read the rest of the manga and have no desire to reread. I've never seen such an incredible disparity between the (storytelling) quality of one single arc in a manga, it's frankly bizarre and disappointing. Was that masterpiece arc just a fluke? Haunts me to this day. I still treasure the golden age and view it as a separate, contained story entirely.
It also makes me so sad the potential and genius of Berserk that was ruined by the author's degeneracy (and mental illness, probably.)
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>>375066>ballet sports manga gets an official English translation>publishes volumes 1 through 10 between feb 2018-nov 2019>nothing since>scanlation stops at volume 19 two years ago, Japan is up to volume 25I'm glad I learned Japanese
No. 377624
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>>377616bit of a stretch to compare a mangaka that made one weird oneshot to one whose entire career has been drawing porn
No. 377637
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>>377625>>377616Are you talking about the oneshot with the plant kid? Wasn't that a story about forcing kids to grow up faster and the pedoshit wasn't even advertised? This place really stinks of twitter users who cant think for themselves.
No. 377641
>>377624>>377637>>377640Who the fuck cares, all this shit reeks of twitter retardation.
Can't you actually talk about something you like for once or do you need to jerk off over being morally superior over cartoons.
No. 377663
>>377432I'm the person you replied to. I saw the series being discussed on /a/ I think; a post saying how it's a ballet manga with younger girls yet it didn't have any creepy fanservice or anything is what caught my attention, among other things. Then I saw that the author also draws (still does, at the same time) stuff for hentai magazines as well. But I'm not into hentai, so I just took a quick glance at some of the recent stuff I could find and it was all fairly tame, 'realistic' (non-exaggerated bodies) and adult girls, so I didn't pay it any mind, especially since some comments in the thread mentioned that she drew adults. Now looking at
>>377624, it seems she does have one book tagged as 'loli', so I went to check it and yes, that one has a oneshot in particular where the girl looks definitely under 13. Not something I'm happy about at all, though it's also a bit of a "weird oneshot" among all the porn she's made. If I were to be generous, I'd assume she's not actually into that kind of thing and was just making whatever would get published when she was starting 20 years ago. Again, I don't like it, but if I were to make a crusade against it, there's lots of other mangaka, especially males, that have done way worse stuff first. I wasn't buying the volumes in the first place anyways.
No. 377754
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One of these days I'm going to post all the problematic manga I'm into and get excommunicated from LC. But not today, I have a cold.
No. 377764
>>377754i’m always getting railed for my interests here. post anyway
t. trapfag
No. 377770
>>377766If judgement of a manga means going by the listed genre tags on another site like this
>>377624 then nobody gives a shit "grace and severity".
No. 377871
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Have any other nonnies here read Requiem of the Rose King? I get the impression that lots of anons would like it, especially the ones who complain about the lack of dark shoujos these days. It finished fairly recently and it's based on Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 3 and Richard III. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes dark fantasy and historical dramas, and dark/twisted stuff in general. This is personally one of my fave mangas like I've only ever rated two mangas a 10 and this is one of them and I seriously think it'd appeal to farmers.
No. 377872
>>377871i kept up with it for a while but the characters didn't appeal that much to me and i didn't rly like the art style
but it's p good if you like darker stuff, shakespeare, or mediaeval settings.
No. 377933
>>377764based and same
t. shotafag
(baiting) No. 378054
>>377875After School Nightmare was such a masterpiece ahhh nona i'm nostalgic now
>>>377945Troonslop would be genderbend romcoms, 'Gay Boy becomes Girl for Crush' shit and pseudo-documentary manga about troons. Accept that shojo artists like to toy with sex/gender in their stories, it predates the troon mania by decades.
>>377664Definitely give it a try because it's hilarious. I've never felt more cringe reading a manga in my entire life. But yeah, the romance isn't riveting, i got the impression she just wrote him as a plot device, nothing more.
No. 378147
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I've been trying to read more manga lately, mostly just reading popular ones. But I would like to read more lesser-known stuff, what are some manga that deserve more recognition in your opinion?
No. 378162
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>>378147After God been mentioned in these threads before, but I'll always recommend it as its English publisher being awful made it completely invisible to public.
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I reread Dorohedoro for the first time since my teens (used to be a huge favorite of mine) and wow I did not recall there being so much gratuitous female nudity in it. Or even the breasts being so watermelon sized. I still like many of the things I originally liked about it but it's wild what you don't notice when you're young. No wonder the moid fanbase that gathefed when the anime dropped was so fucking annoying.
No. 378577
>>378516Yeah he's just speedrunning it now and its sad to see. I'm still curious how he's going to end it because at this point I have no idea, I'm expecting
the merger to happen after this fight.
>>378523What qualifies as a personality/character trait to you? Genuinely asking because Choso's relationship with his brothers does indeed make up a large part of his identity, beliefs, its reflected in how he acts, its relevant to his connection with the main characters AND one of the villains, etc. At the end of the day he's a side character and I think he's played his role well (especially compared to some of the absolute disappointing treatment other characters have gotten). You're entitled to thinking he's boring, shit, annoying, or anything but its bizarre to hear someone say he's a non-character or describe him as a serious-type considering how much he's done in his few appearances kek, also I'm not pretending like he's a masterfully written character, but he's solid.
I already spoke about some in my previous post but I want to add that his conversation with Naoya during their fight was another good highlight for him. Especially in contrast to how Naoya was talking about his brothers, he felt more human than the actual human he was fighting. Following that is the Yuki conversation I mentioned where he talks about his regrets, resentment towards himself, and we get a better understanding of how he perceives his relationship with Yuji and why he wants to support him so much (besides the haha onii-chan thing). We had no idea that he even considered/had the option to live as a "human" with his brothers instead of a curse, I thought that was a really interesting part of their conversation.
No. 380322
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Give other examples of mangaka being obviously female through the work they create despite them never revealing their sex to the public. A man could never make a comfy SoL about fatherhood of an adopted child.
No. 380323
>>377875>After School NightmareThe sexual dimorphism and sexism stuff was getting too convoluted and well…sexist the more I read, so I dropped it.
>>378031Has anybody determined what his medical condition actually is?
>>377754Do it.
No. 380347
>>380323>the sexual dimorphism and sexism stuff was getting too convoluted and well…sexist the more I read, so I dropped itThe ending is very weird as well, it comes out of nowhere and it has nothing to do with all the events that happened
it was actually a metaphor about pregnancy, I was so disappointed when I read it.
No. 380891
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>>380890forgot my image sorry
No. 380902
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Finished all of Houseki no Kuni. Not really sure what to think of the ending? But I'm not sure how I would have wanted it to end either.
No. 382205
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Hoshi of Girls' Garden is such an enjoyable read. I always feel a little happier after a chapter. Wish more of it was translated online.
No. 382276
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>pröööh:DDD
Read jinmin, it's freaky.
No. 382303
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I started reading Nana, I watched maybe 5 episodes of the anime and then never finished it but I am loving it so far. The outfits are so pretty and cool that it's making me want to get into fashion and buy new clothes kek
No. 382352
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>>382215I highly recommend. It's an episodic non-romance SOL josei manga set in an all girls school from the POV of a male teacher. I like it because the female cast is funny but grounded and unsexualized, female author obviously. Every character having a bored and tired expression is accurate to the high school experience. The teacher Hoshi-sensei is like the total opposite of GTO Onizuka and is mature and well-meaning, and has a fun fujobait-y dynamic with another younger male teacher he chats with afterschool. I also rec the rest of Yama Wayama's catalog like Captivated by You, she specializes in comedic stories about cute boys/men with a fujo-pandering BF (Boys' Friendship) focus.
>>382205I was so happy that it was picked up by a new scanlator after the last team dropped it, glad you like it too!
No. 382410
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>>382369Hanayo,
nonnie.
nonnie, Hanayo!
Honorary mention: June!
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>>382352This is so good. Thanks for the rec.
No. 383025
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Jjk newest chapter spoiler.
Is Gege serious? Don't tell me he's bringing Gojo back?? I seriously hope not as much as I like him. Maybe Sukuna's just hallucinating kek
No. 383071
>>383025He's just trolling, it's probably going to be like that scene in Harry Potter 7
where Harry and Dumbledore have a conversation, or it's going to be some random guy from the past we've never heard of before
maybe Gojo's ancestor.
No. 383466
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>>383071I think you just listed some of the worst possibilities lol
>>383128Maybe it's the last push to get as much money as possible? Because I legit don't see a reason for his return. Everyone is already doing their best in the fight, it would be dumb af if he now got to finish the fight.
No. 384950
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lolcor thoughts on this manga?
No. 384953
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I'm a romancehag but this instantly became a favorite. So much fun.
No. 384956
>>384950The mommy issues are not relatable at all to me. It's very slow-paced. I kinda thought it would be a horror but it became really different at the end, quiet and detached. clearly a very personal topic for Oshimi and full of his own psychological issues mixed with fiction as per usual. Fascinating in a morbid way. I've read everything he's written except Aku no Hana and at this point I'm just doing it to analyze his mind. I'm honestly wondering if his mom died recently or something since he doesn't really pull his ideas out of his ass, often the core struggle in the manga is something in his real life.
Somehow when he writes a horrible woman (so basically every single manga lol) she doesn't seem super one-dimensional in that dumb scrote way if that makes sense. It's definitely a woman through a scrote's eyes but they feel kinda real, bad in a mundane way like how a horrible woman I might know in real life would be. He seems like he's been watching women very closely his whole life. He's obsessed. I feel like I'm watching him back when I read his manga.
No. 384957
>>384950art was good but the writing sucks. it's just a schizo moid complaining about how everything is evil mama's fault and insane amounts of filler and flashbacks.
in general i don't like this mangaka's female characters
No. 385725
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>>385715He has a son. He gonna repeat the cycle and make a little mini him lol. Also found out is mom is still alive. He wrote this and
killed her off in his manga, that's cold. He's pretty open about the autobiographical inspiration in his manga; even though they're still fiction at the end of the day it makes her look bad.
picrel source, it's just google translated
https://konomanga.jp/interview/138104-2https://konomanga.jp/interview/137995-2Also interesting from this interview
https://book.asahi.com/article/14487978He said "
I won't depict the past from my mother's perspective." but then he absolutely does do that later in the manga so I guess he changed his mind.
No. 385740
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I just got caught up on Nana. Since it's basically been abandoned, how do you guys think it would have ended/what would you want the ending to be?
I also wasn't expecting Ren's death to make me so upset
No. 385840
>>385740They don't try and undo their mistakes until late in life, realizing they wasted so much time being unhappy for bad decisions they could have fixed long ago.
Most move to Hokkaido and live in the same neighborhood together. The Nana's have a regular knitting circle and travel to Okinawa for a girls trip in the coldest part of the year.
Taking got offed by a Yakuza, fuck him.
No. 386095
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>>386092>mangafoxI use mangasee123 for high quality scans and mangakalot for everything else.
No. 386114
>>386092I use Mihon
https://mihon.app/ for mobile reading. You can use it to aggregate a few different sources, but it's gotten a little trickier than it used to be because Bato threw a fit. As for specific sources, I like to use Bato, Mangadex, Mangaforest, and Mangago. Usually one of them at least will have what I'm looking for.
No. 386285
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>>383025>>383466Well…Gege seriously knows how to troll people.
I don't think anyone will be asking for character revivals anytime soon now.
No. 386561
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The Act-age heroine is a giant for a Japanese teenage girl.
No. 386625
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>>386561Reminded my of the femc of Fujiyama-san, she's 181 cm tall.
No. 387124
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I've been wanting to check out Blue Period, but I know that picrel character gets trooned out and/or enbyfied a lot by the Western fanbase for being a crossdressing gay dude who does the whole otokonoko song and dance of thinking being a straight girl would be easier than being a gay guy, so does anyone know if the official translation also makes him a tranny or if it's just the fans who do?
No. 387756
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re-reading and catching up on this manga and wow it really went to shit very quickly. it was already falling off a bit with the renril arc but the 10 chapters into the modern arc and i'm considering dropping it. the first couple of volumes were so good that it's genuinely disappointing how badly this fell apart.
No. 387800
>>387776yeah the weird loli shit with mimori is making me really hate the modern arc.
She probably should have just ended it after the renril arc
No. 387820
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>>387756I know what you mean and i almost dropped the series because of that arc too, i wasn't impressed with the new characters, but i wanted to find out what happens to that cloaked guy and was pleased about how that concluded, so after reading further on i ended up somewhat glad i didn't drop it, because it gets slightly better.
No. 389165
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>>389158I think it's a good representation of awkward sex between two lonely and unexperienced virgin teenagers. Not the CBT part (that's just Yoru's War personality and Fujimoto's masochism) but what came after. The facial expressions are so realistic. Even the way he resisted it at first but then went for it and kissed her back
No. 389194
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I've caught up with the fan scanlation release of Otoyomegatari. I spoiled myself with what happens with Talas and I was expecting the worse. She was either becomes a waifu of some white guy she has a wild love at first sight with or marry some abusive dying scrote her dad assigns her to. But I was pleasantly surprised when they did a loop back of the previous arcs' locations to take pictures of the characters, it was a nice touch to see the author intentionally broaden Talas's horizon. And then looping back to the theme of mothers being an integral part to society having control within the household by choosing who is rightful to marry her son, stemming from multiple sociological factors even in England. Though throughout, I just get sad that for every female character who feels free and full of purpose and agency, there's always a huge caveat. They're fully aware they're all traded like poker chips, second class, despite how overly capable they are. Not a slight to the manga, it's the best it can do while still being light hearted and accurate to the setting it can be. Pretty good, can't believe it's still ongoing for so long and will be supporting it when I can.
No. 389271
>>389235nta but yes, there is a lot of discourse on how he was sexually assaulted in part 1, and the fact he is partially mind broken in part 2 is because of that.
i like fujimoto, but holy shit, it's not that deep. it's not a deep commentary on the male
victims of sexual abuse, it's just the author's morbid humour and femdom fetish.
it's really true that anime ruins manga fandoms.
No. 389337
>>389165Chainsawman is garbage and Fujimoto can't write. He throws all of these "dark and gritty" themes into his manga and doesn't execute any of them well. Fire Punch had full-on incest with pedophilia that wasn't ever touched on or talked about by any of the characters in any meaningful way. He just likes to throw in his weird kinks on people and you're expected to consider him a God of writing
problematic stories. I can't wait for him to release another 5 chapters where Denji is touched on by a woman again, just for it to end with him not caring about it after all
No. 389358
>>389337tbh this time it's different. He literally had an orgasm on panel. He's literally cumming in that picture. Never seen anything like this in a kids manga. This is madw even more complex since she's the MC and seems to be the first real relationship for both
>>389341Yeah the lines are godawful.
No. 389362
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>>389358Every page I've seen lately just has a bunch of talking heads staring off into space or maaaaybe two characters heads in one panel
No. 389364
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>>389362In comparison Asada's working on two series and she still draws better scenes with 2+ characters talking to each other
No. 389406
>>389337I just started reading fireforce after I saw a bunch of "hurr durr wait until you read fireforce if you think the handjob was too far!" and it's just like
female character: hellp
rando man: Imma rape I love rape
female character: oh no
rando man:
diesI don't think I've encountered a female character who hasn't had this scene yet.
Also
Random bad guy just introduced hm I wonder how bad he is
Rando: I love rape
alright.
No. 389446
>>389358His characters react to what is occurring at that moment, but they don't reflect on it. I bet you Denji will forget this even happened to him in the next five chapters. At most, he'll make an off-hand comment about it, but it serves nothing to the plot. We get it, his world is filled with bad things that happen to people, but how many times can you fill a manga with something before it gets to the point of being pointless?
>>389425I agree with everything you said, it just sucks that his main popular ones are Chainsaw Man and Fire Punch. I really thought the plot was going somewhere, and I read it till the end but it was just bullshit the whole time.
No. 389456
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>>389452These are the most recently updated things I’m reading. Are you reading any of these and if so what did you think of recent chapters? Anything of note?
I’m really trying to give Dogs Red a chance but sports mangas make me roll my eyes.
Yano-kun has been really cute lately I’m enjoying it a lot. Such a wholesome romance so far.
Watamote’s latest chapter had me feeling autistic I genuinely didn’t understand the subtle(?) social interactions between the girls.
No. 389457
>>389452Ngl I've been reading Make the Exorcist Fall in Love recently and tbh I'm pretty interested in how edgy but Christian it is for a Japanese manga, that being said I can't help but think it's basically
the stereotype of a manga that nonas would hate.
That being said, if anybody else has read it, I'd like to know your take on it.
No. 389462
>>389457>that being said I can't help but think it's basically the stereotype of a manga that nonas would hate.Lel I love Make the Exorcist Fall in Love, and I never bring it up here for the exact same reason.
I think it's a really intetesting manga, you see manga use Christian aesthetics all the time but very few are actually interested in Christianity as a religion/mythology. I feel like the author has to have religious experience.
I think it's also really interesting how the manga is always very bluntly trying to tackle feminist issues, it combined with the background angsty BL couple and the focus on cute boy suffering makes me think the author is female with an edgy/coomer streak lol.
No. 389463
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Hey this is just Allen Walker and Cross Marian again. I'm intrigued though thanks for the rec nonnas
No. 389464
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>>389452I've really been enjoying Undead Unluck. I thought it would be coomer slop but I ended up falling in love with the female lead and the worldbuilding, and even the romance started getting to me after a while.
No. 389468
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>>389452Its a little weird but I've been reading Revenge Channel Uramin. Some of it feels pretty voyeuristic, but it's also edge turned up to the max. Nonetheless, I like how different character's stories end up tangling with each other and I'm attached to the mc Midori. The revenge but also her low points are somehow cathartic.
No. 389469
>>389462Yeah, it definitely gives me those types of vibes too, if the author isn't a woman I'll eat a shoe.
The monster designs and powers are also pretty spectacular, have to admit my fave has to be Beelzebub, he was straight fucked.
No. 389470
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>>389452Fun, cute, and light. It's a simple joy every week to read this.
It's also one of the only series I can think of that got increasingly wholesome as time went on. It started out horny for profit but my best guess is that the author/editor/whatever realized that it could survive without that? Some of the thirsty designs from early on still persist because they're their canon designs but whenever the girls go out in casual wear to have fun and stuff the clothes are always very modest.
Interesting fun fact is that the Vinland Saga author considers this one of his favorites.
No. 389472
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>>389452I'm reading this autistic chuuni manga where every 'great' (like einstein, picasso, newton) is turned into a stupid shounen superpower. It's very fun and tonedeaf about history, there's a loli hitler side character who doesnt wanna use her powers for evil for gods sake. Ein and Newton my beloved ship.
No. 389473
>>389472I remember reading this when I was in kid,
its unironcially how I first learned about Pol Pot Is it still going? Maybe one day I'll go back to reading it.
No. 389474
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>>389473KEK as an ESL nona, my history class barely touched on other parts of the world aside from my country, so I feel similarly. It's still ongoing, the scanlation is very far behind but there's some recent activities. as late as a week ago or so.
No. 389518
>>389465I was going to say Talas! Maybe that's cheating since she was in the recent chapter so she's the last bride I saw but I'm so happy for her, she went through a lot.
I also liked Anis and Sherine even though that whole arc was an excuse to draw nude bath scenes. Their story was heartwarming, I liked the friendship and the extremely nice extremely rich husband was a high tier fantasy.
No. 389550
>>389452I was enjoying shokei shoujo no virgin road (the isekai that made men mad because they killed off the self insert in the first chapter) until the mangaka decided the anime was the way they were going to continue.
Still enjoying Shadow House which at the moment is just twist on twist on twist.
No. 390784
>>390754Did Daemons get worse? I haven't read it in a few months but it made me feel the exact same charm FMA used to make me feel.
>>389813The escelation of the plot and the
loop made it a whole lot of fun. When I first read it it felt like a very much dumb mindless shounen but there was clearly a ton of effort put into setting up foreshadowing and various wordlbuilding threads. Seeing Fuuko
become the boss midway through was really refreshing and fun to see, I really appreciated having a battle shounen that doesn't just save that kind of stuff for the very end.
No. 390844
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I'm reading Kanata Kara, an old-school shoujo isekai, and it's so good and the ML is so handsome, that I can't stop grinning like a damn fool.
I heavily recommend it! The art is absolutely gorgeous, and the FL is super likeable. She works through her anxieties by breaking down the situation and focusing on what she can do first. She's aware she's dependant on the ML and so she works hard to be self-reliant and adapt to her new circumstances. I love that she has to learn their language, too. There are many things like that that make the story feel realistic, including the characters' nuanced portrayals and the overall pacing. It's just very well thought-out and, again, the art is fantastic!
You can find the official translation in full here
>>386127 No. 391961
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Started reading Skip and Loafer and stopped 'cause of this. Fuck off. I'm not gonna sympathize with some skinwalker and schoolgirls calling him out for it only makes me like them more. Go fuck yourself, Misaki Takamatsu.
No. 392031
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I haven't read shoujo manga that wasn't as girly to read as this shit.
No. 393123
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where's the other nona who reads Yuria-sensei no Akai Ito? I can't believe she just said this I'm screaming!!!!
No. 393172
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The best manga I've read that dealt with gender nonconformity was W Juliet. It's pretty old and some tropes might age poorly (I read it back in early 2010s), but overall it was so good, rare butch straight mc whose personality stayed the same until the end of the manga and didn't need to be "fixed", ml is crossdressing for a weird bet and not for some stupid gender soul. He is also respectful towards her choice to not be feminine while looking very androgynous lookswise himself, I pray the gendies never find this manga
No. 393325
>>393123I'm seriously rooting for her (well, I know how it ends because of the dorama, but…)
This series is too good
No. 393388
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Anyone reading kaiju no.8? How is it in the later chapters?
I'm like 10 chapters in and so far it seems alright + some dumb comedy stuff. I think they also made an anime adaption but haven't had the time to check it
No. 393402
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>>393396Oh man I, too, hate that trope with a burning passion. Fucking Princess Jellyfish tried to fool me with all the various NEET girl characters, and I'd thought it was good, but now I'm starting to realize how fucked up it was.
>cross-dressing teen guy>fools all the NEET girls except for one>they all accept him>cross-dresser teaches them all how to be beautiful/dress better/have confidence as women No. 393409
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>>393404>why people can't accurately guess he's a guy is because he's half Italianwhat does that have to with anything?
No. 393414
>>393409It’s the blond gaijin foreigners are super exotic beauties stereotype kek
Or maybe it’s a subtle dig at foreign women being bigger and burlier than uwu pure Japanese waifs, not sure
No. 393417
>>393414No it's the first option. Everyone in the manga is like "omg he's sooo pretty is he a foreigner?!" especially in the parts that aren't adapted into the anime like when he
goes to Singapore to tell Tsukimi to go back to Japan and he's pretending to be a female Chinese model with a father from Switzerland. When we see his mom she looks almost just like him and is seen as feminine and beautiful by other characters.
No. 393426
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>>393409>>393414>>393417Until the 2010s, both fujo and shujo authors portrayed Europeans/Americans as ultra-feminine, slender, short and androgynous beings(think how Kpop boys are depicted and viewed today) the reason behind this portrayal was that these authors only had access to grainy footage of a few boybands and they were influenced by other authors who consistently drew exaggeratedly androgynous and "beautiful" white characters. Interestingly the opposite was true for most shonen manga authors, where Europeans/Americans guys were depicted as super tall masculine macho-men. This was because the western media those male authors consumed consisted mainly of action movies
No. 393433
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>>393425Exactly. I fuckin hate manga authors who STILL keep up this shitty stereotype. Say what you will about 70's manga but between the shark fin noses and googly eyes, they sure didn't mind calling out men for being disgusting scrotes.
No. 393475
>>384950Very late, but here are my 2 schizo cents. I agree with the mommy issues angle and Oshimi Shuuzu being insane. But I found this story relatable from the perspective of the mom. The dread of becoming a mother and getting trapped in it and losing oneself in it is a relatable fear to me since I was a kid, looking at my own miserable mom and not wanting to becomd like her, but things pointed out I'll probably do against my will because it's what happens and what you do in life whether you like it or not, it's the norm. I read this manga around the time I was mentally struggling with these thoughts, so the mom's violence and attempts to escape it by force was very satisfying to see, a revenge against society in a way, even if it fucks over her own child. I love her insanity and her hatred and resentment. Her plan is very smart and interesting as well, and it actually worked for her. She got exactly what she wanted. I would've been happier if the story stopped here though. The continuation delves into basically the other side of the coin, the abused child of an insane mother who never wanted to be a mother to begin with, which can to an extent serve as a cautionary tale of never forcing a woman to become a mom under any circumstances because the consequences are life long and worse than her not being one, but I doubt anyone gauged out this meaning other than me.
We get to see her backstory for an explanation of why she did all of this and why she turned out this way, but tbh I wish it was more intense and more justifying. Her backstory iirc is her parents had a younger daughter who was very sick and they tended to her 24/7 and neglected the older one, the mom of the story, which made her resent the concept of a family and project her suffering into every single other household in the reigon, equating family with misery, which is very understandable and relatable to me, but my situation is 100x worse than hers, so I admit I felt like she was overreacting to an extent. Her parents were
abusive to her at some points though, and I don't 100% remember but maybe they made her parent -or rather mom- her own sister at times too? Hence her hatred of being a mother and caring for someone she finds to be a burden.
She grows up, meets a man, gets married, and has a child, because she had nothing else she wanted to do, and this is the "default", and especially in Japanese society, she couldn't really find anything else to do, she just wanted to survive. She reenacted her childhood and experiences with her son to an extent, babying him as if he was so helpless and dependent on her, and wanted him to be the meaning and purpose of her life and existence because she knows nothing else other than that. Then she one day "awakened" to all of this when she realized he could leave her at any moment for a girlfriend or because he learned to fend off for himself on his own, therefore her "role in life" will be over, leading her to decide to get rid of him before he gets rid of her, and started it with trying to kill him because she is that unstable, then she came up with the plan with the cousin which was another obstacle in her way that was taking her son away from her, and she finally gave up on the son on her own when she won the lawsuit and "resigned" from motherhood. But it's the only thing she knew all of her life, so when we see her in the future after she grows old, she's still holding onto her son's childhood pictures and still remember him, and forgot all about her attempted murder and the lawsuit she won, because she's insane and too immersed in her madness. The son feels like his life was ruined and tries to take revenge on her, but he can't kill her because it's just not in him to do something like that, and he couldn't kill himself either, which could eventually repeat the cycle if he ever becomes a parent. I stopped reading when he went into ther apartment so idk what happens after that, but I'll check it out later and see. Hope you enjoyed my unhinged review.
No. 393480
Kuranosuke being pretty and girly enough to pass for a skinny, flat young woman isn't even the most unrealistic part of the manga, and if anything him not getting caught by the main girls shows how retarded the main girls are. They even see him passed out and shirtless with his silicone implants falling out of his bar and they're like "lol this piece of shit normie is flat chest haha" instead of the obvious "oh shit he was a guy all along" and don't even get me started on the stupid backstory he invented to explain why everyone calls him Kuranosuke. It's all exaggerated for comedic purposes. Now shit like the mysterious billionaire CEO taking Tsukimi to another country to hire her for nothing was somehow way more unrealistic and it's meant to be taken a lot more seriously. I don't like how open ended the manga ends, like that's it? Nothing gets truly resolved besides Kuranosuke seeing his mother again? Nothing about the girls either staying mentally ill neets or more or less progressively trying to become more independent?
By the way, the later parts being way less funny and trying and sort of failing to be taken seriously reminded me a little of Fruits Basket and Natsuki Takaya in general. Fruits Basket and her previous shorter manga were pretty funny, had light hearted and atually hilarious scenes here and there with plenty of much more serious foreshadowing and implications, then the whole thing about lifting the family's curse becomes the main plot and we get a lot of fucked up shit like NTR, attempted murder, parental abuse, suicide attempts, etc. then at the very end of the manga when things get somewhat resolved there are a few comedic scenes here and there and they're so painfully unfunny. And soon after that one I started Twinkle Stars and it was just as painfully unfunny. The humor felt very forced. All this talk about Princess Jellyfish reminded me of all of this and I'm not sure if it's just me or if more long running shojo/josei manga end up like this too.
No. 393528
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>>393482Glad you find value in my post ♥
>>393518Give it a shot, but I apologize in advance if it felt nothing like what I said. But I feel like that's in a way the author's intention, because the husband is implied to have known that this was the mom's nature all along and thought he could "fix her". Then he showed regret but also understood why she did it and let her get away it, iirc it seemed like he forgave her all together. But it could also be he just wanted her to leave and didn't want any trouble so he went along with her demands. But it was kinda satisfying to see a mom being
abusive to not just her son, but her husband, too, and both being too scared of her to do anything and they just let her get her way. Projection on my part because I'd probably be like her or worse if I ever end up married with kids, I just think that kind of stuff would suck the remaining soul out of me, and it's because it's the kind of experience I saw first hand with my own mom and other older women in my life who were married with kids but are all trapped and can't get away. In a way, I understand where they're all coming from even if I was a
victim of child abuse on the hands of an angry resentful mom, I just feel bad for them because I know I'll be like them, I know what it feels like without even having to go through it, so the mom character in the story was just so brilliant to me but it could be me reading too much into it.
No. 393530
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>>393528Samefag, I think most people think of this manga as horror because of 2 reasons, 1) big youtubers making videos about it as such from their own perspective (all males, surprise surprise)
And 2) because "mom bad" is a scary thought to them because it's "rare" to see in society, and it's a story about a woman taking control in the most exaggerated violent way possible, though I'd say she didn't go far enough, but it's probably because she didn't want to ruin things for herself. In a way, she's selfish, but it's justified selfishness and I always wanted to see such a selfish female character with 0 regards of any life that isn't hers. Marie Joseph Sanson was close to that until she decided to become a mom and ruined it in a way with trooning her child out and shit, it got weird. But Ai Magase and the mom from this manga are my absolute favorite in this regard. Crazy broken women representation ♥
No. 393550
>>393532I feel like it's more psychological than horror.
>>393533Nah my mom is already in her 50s and had cancer and other health issues and tons of surgeries and I had to take care of the house, my dad, and my 3 siblings as well as my university studies, so I just got too busy to finish the manga, especially that it was a monthly release and I'd forget the previous chapter by the time a new one was released. The application I was reading on also stopped releasing new chapters and I never thought of using something else until now because of this discussion kek. I just kinda forgot about it.
>>393539>covert incest and ego deathNgl, I did notice the former and it was the weirdest part of the story, but I think it kinda ties in with my point about the character herself making her son her purpose in life, he's the only source of real love to her, hence the unhealthy attachment. I could be wrong though. But can you elaborate on the latter?
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>>393480>Now shit like the mysterious billionaire CEO taking Tsukimi to another country to hire her for nothing was somehow way more unrealistic and it's meant to be taken a lot more seriouslyI never understood this "arc". But I think now I sort of do, it falls into the anime/manga trope of "the final boss", like how samurai would storm the lord's castle at the end of the story. And as for the shojo/josei manga becoming more unfunny and dramatic, that's just par for the course. Once you rope in an audience you have to keep them on the rollercoaster of emotions, and the occasional beach fanservice issue. I've only ever read a handful of manga that actually have a secured story in place from the get-go.
No. 393789
>>393475Great review, Nonna.
I didn't finish it because it became too personal for me. It was deeply unsettling and the realness of it only added to the horror of it.
I personally hit close home from the MC's side, though. Probably because I just can't imagine myself becoming a mom, and I personally have no idea how it'll be if I were to become one.
No. 394830
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maria no danzai is pretty fun. a mother's son gets killed by his bullies, so she infiltrates his school. i'm pretty sure i've watched a jmovie with this as a premise, but anyway…the paneling is fun. sometimes the art does look wonky but it has a lot of sovl. if you enjoyed boy in abyss you may like this as well, it's melodramatic in places too
No. 394861
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>>374722Soil is such a trip. Art style is also very unique and has grown on me.
Can’t believe I’m not even halfway done. Hope it wraps up successfully, because right now I have no idea how this already incredibly wild ride can continue for much longer while logically making much sense lol
Thanks for the recommendation. It made my
Sunday!
No. 394931
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>>394861I'm glad other nonnies are getting into Soil, it's one of my favorite manga ever. Deathco is also super fun
and one of the secondary characters from Soil shows up in the background and it has some cool female characters so I also recommend that a lot
No. 394937
>>394629The old guy is not his dad, he just lied to the hospital staff so he could bring him in to see his mom. If you mean the other
young sick guy from the mom’s flashback then yes that’s Reijis dad kekkk and apparently he was a relative of Esemori the author guy who is old and sick now laying next to his mom. That was so random lmao, really pulled Reiji’s dad reveal out of thin air
No. 394995
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>>394993I can’t get past the first few pages and the art. I’ve started it a couple times because of these threads and I just wander away from it. The prologue seems fine then the first chapter has an image heavy opening with 10 pages of the 4koma-style split full page illustrations and this is like the 2nd page with any text so I just put it down after that. Sorry for getting filtered.
No. 394998
>>394993I'm actually really glad Atsushi Kaneko doesn't get a huge amount of attention outside of JP/France. I don't want to derail in Dunmeshi discussion but lately I've seen so many pretentious comments about Dungeon Meshi or criticizing its fans for not reading enough good manga (ironically it's ALWAYS the Witch Hat Atelier fans with sticks up their asses) it just makes me relieved most of the series I like have pretty milquetoast attention
>>394995If it doesn't drive you nuts I'd suggest to keep going, just because the plot picks up fast and the art gets much better as the series goes on. I put off reading it for a long time for almost the exact same reason
No. 395021
>>394998Kek AYRT, I agree, what's happened to Dungeon Meshi is atrocious. Not to be a hipster elitist or anything but I'm also impressed by how many people have the audacity to act elitist about being into DM when they didn't even know about it until they got looped in by animated yuri boobies or whatever.
>>394995Fair, I almost got filtered by the art and the senior detective's misogyny but it's really worth pushing through if you can. Everything kinda slotted into place after a certain point for me.
No. 395080
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>>394998Yeah. He really deserves the hype but i can already picture wannabe essayists planting their claws into his work and drowning the discussion with buzzwords and dimwitted dick contests.
>>394931I'm at the very beginning so i can't have an informed opinion yet (i like the nod to Daniel Paul Schreber with the tower freak though) but the artstyle is even better than Bambi's. It's wonderful
I recently discovered Alichino, what a treat. I love the author's panelling, her sense of athmosphere and texture is incredible too. I could read 100 volumes of this even if it didn't have a story
No. 395083
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>>395080wow alichino, i remembeg it being advertised in the tokyopop editions of the tarot café (picrel) during the 00's. blast from the past.
No. 395089
>>395036I believe that you achieve manga enlightenment when you can completely unironically and sincerely talk about the shounen manga. I really like Konjiki no Gash and made a good friend talking about it. The sequel is cool too; it's exciting to see a manga author get publishing rights for their own series and be able to publish it independently, with their own studio, and moreover, they're really successful with very high sales. I wonder if any more mainstream people will follow, it'd be very healthy for the industry.
Maybe if more established people pave the way, it'd be the direction for shoujo to break off from dying shoujo magazines… I believe that Japanese women are hungry for more shoujo, that must be the reason why Korean romance fantasy / "otome isekai" webtoons are taking off big there, despite many of them being of dubious quality.
No. 395116
>>395111NTA I'd strongly reccomend "I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die" for horror of that type.
>>395089Honestly I've had a lot of fun talking about shounen manga on Twitter lately. I avoid more popular series and mute/block a lot of kids, but having a goofy action manga to follow has helped me make some friends too.
No. 395135
>>395120Happy End. by Imari Arita?
>>395111NTA and it's not horror, but you might like Noise by Tetsuya Tsutsui. It's about murder in a small rural community and the lengths that people would go to in order to keep the peace.
No. 395159
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>>395135That's the manga I was looking for
nonnie, thank you so much!!!
No. 395493
>>395490MAD a new shounen
There was also Centuria that mixed bnha elements with it, pure vomit. The stick stiff legs when they run/kick make me irrationally angry
No. 395507
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>>395478meanwhile CSM is looking worse with every chapter
No. 395656
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>>395409>>395463I'm glad to hear you enjoyed my recommendation, even if the ending was unsatisfying (which, I agree with you. It seemed to me like the author was too fixated on
exonerating the MC, so the ending wasn't as neatly planned out in order to account for that).
If you'd like more titles in this vein, I'd recommend browsing comick.io with any variation of the following tags: "Countryside", "Small Town", "Murder/s", "Rural Town/Village with Mysterious Past", "Uneasy Atmosphere", "Folklore", "Cruelty", etc. The tags are the same as on Manga Updates, with the added benefit that you can readily flip through manga to see what strikes your fancy.
Sorry I keep plugging this website, it's just got everything in one place.A few that caught my eye are The Country of Tanabata, Monkey Peak and Mashuri no Hako.
>I love examination of the darkness in insular communities.I think you might also enjoy Dragon Head, Distant Sky (a webtoon) and, to a lesser degree, 51 Ways to Save My Girlfriend. They're all about survival after world disasters and the darkness that naturally arises in people once the established order of things falls apart. The first two have an incredible atmosphere, while the latter is much shorter and not as drenched in despair.
Picrel relevant, but spoilered in case you wanna go into Dragon Head completely blind.
No. 395661
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I am looking for recommendation on manga that has the same vibe as XXX Holic. I like the gothic and beautiful art and story. Others I would think of in the same vein of what I’m looking for are Trinity Blood, Angel Sanctuary, Pet Shop of Horrors. I’m just feeling nostalgic I guess, kek.
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>>395661Hmm, it has a specific quality to it that might be a bit different from what you're looking for, but try Witches by Daisuke Igarashi. It's an ornate and dreamlike collection of stories about witches from various times and cultures.
No. 396181
>>396178I like weekly/monthly.
Gives me something to look forward to.
No. 396257
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>>395661You've probably read Clover, but just in case.. features some of CLAMP's very best art and panelling. Seconding Witches and Maki Kusumoto, they're pretty close matches. Ikuko Hatoyama might be up your alley (iirc only one one-shot of hers is available in english, but still). Turandot no Renkinjutsushi is not gothic but it has that delicate and dreamy quality to it
No. 396884
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I've been reading Nikaido Hell Golf and I initially found it pretty interesting despite the subject matter being golf, but then it's ruined by this godawful attempt at a romance subplot. The mc keeps sexually harassing this girl in a very pathetic way, which she points out for comedy but of course she still likes him deep down. In the newest translated chapter they even have a sad breakup which is impossible to take seriously when he's been acting like a creep in every single scene they're together lol. I wish FKMT would continue on Kaiji instead, it's been on hiatus for a year now.
No. 396910
>>396884I'm pretty sure these goofy spin-offs are done by someone completely different, they just ape his style really well…
And as I wrote this, I went to MU and was surprised to see that it's indeed him. What the fuck? Is this because Tonegawa spin-off outsold mainline Kaiji?
No. 396941
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>>396910Nah he's always been doing these kinds of side projects, this one in particular reminds me of Kurosawa so far but a lot worse. There hasn't been any classic tense FKMT gambling since Akagi ended, the current Kaiji part is even more bizarre than a lot of the spin-off stuff. Picrel is from the infamous Kaiji gets mistaken for a zoophile arc
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Why is the translation in the middle panel so different, what the backstory on the scanlation groups here?
No. 398023
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Totally forgot that Futekiya got absorbed into Manga Planet and they now have an 'Erotic Josei Manga' section.
No. 398117
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>>398023Cursed, I had a better time reading Yoshihara Yuki's clown smut from 1997. How the quality of "josei" has fallen.
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Started reading SnA since I heard its ending soon and the teacher is so deranged but I sort of love her kek she’s my flavor of mentally ill
No. 398208
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worst manga you have ever read? this shit is cringe incarnated as a manga. I used to read it to see how bad it could get, and it gets really, really bad. I dropped it once they introduced the vtuber loli snuff god or something retarded like that.
No. 398213
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>>398208There's a lot of bottom of the barrel trash out there I've read so it's hard to say. But if I had to pick something that pissed me off IG it would be seeing picrel devolve further and further over time and then not even manage to be a proper tragedy as the cherry on top
No. 398216
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>>398208Pumpkin Night is kinda ass, i read it because the origins of the killer reminds me of American slashers, but it started to fall off when she started to kill people at random and both her and her man just became Mary and Gary Sue and had this medical experiments part, also cringe was Pumpkin Night becoming some type of icon, it's not like it doesn't happen in slashers of any kind, just the way it was done was cringe.
No. 398218
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>>398208i dislike Hiki, felt like it was trying to be the next Tomie or smtg, i thought the part about
the ghost taking control or manifesting through opening drawers(even ones inside the brain kek) was vaguely interesting though i don't doubt it's already been done before and better.
No. 398219
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Love this manga for how much seething it caused. You'd think raping a rapist for trying to rape you would be justified but no ig.
No. 398234
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>>398208I haven't read that much manga (relatively), so there's definitely much worse out there, but for me it's Pygmalion. It could be worse, because at least it's very short so it's not like I wasted too much time, but the ending was hot garbage. The whole manga is about mascots massacring people in gory detail, but then the ending pulls the most baffling genre-discordant Steven Universe shit I've ever seen
and then there's an epilogue style thing that even has a bit basically going "unfortunately some people still distrust and are scared of mascots instead of living with them in peace" like bitch wtf they probably have PTSD from surviving an attempted genocideThe first half was actually fine enough (and it had really good art) and the second half felt like it might just have been cancelled and he just had to wrap it up in a rush, but even then I have no idea how that ending could have worked even if it wasn't rushed to hell.
there's also a character that is part mascot, which he only discovers when he transforms into a mascot after another character snipes him in the head, and iirc the manga never explains why the fuck the other character was sniping a fucking kid in the first place, which bugged me so muchHonorable mention to Elfenlied for the author's obvious piss fetish.It's interesting that all the mangas nonnas are mentioning to you seem to be horror of some kind.
No. 398244
>>398212i just read through the wikipedia article for this, why are there so many people that raped Arie? i understand that bad events need to happen to build up a villan or
victim character, but it's very convenient sometimes that men write a lot of female characters suffering than male characters, like women make for "better
victims".
No. 398262
>>398251Its called Man Slave, a period manhwa, about some noble male that tries assaulting MC and she enslaves him for it with a broader plot of some corruption in the government, at the end she has another boytoy and she marries both but on the night of the wedding she doesn't even sleep with either of them, just puts a double sided dick in both and goes out to have a drink with her homegirl instead.
Certain things nonnies may find iffy: scenes of sexual coercion/rape(usually side characters that are poor or disgraced), attempted rape(MC), a certain annoying corrupt male character that sleeps with a kisaeng(parts of his hideous body is shown, body description: skinnyfat+not that hairy), homo stuff nearing the end with the MC's boytoys(i don't think they do penetration with each other?).
No. 398267
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>>398208Kami no Kodomo. I really regretted reading it and wished that I would forget it fast, so I can't comment on it. It was simply incredibly gruesome and disturbing, in both imagery and events depicted, to the point that I still get nauseous anytime I come across this mangaka's art.
No. 398271
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>>398208Redo of Healer. I picked it up because I heard it was a dark fantasy and that "it would make you want to read some Berserk afterwards to make you feel better", which to me as an edgelord sounded like it would be an exciting read.
Oh. My. Lord. I have read a lot of edgy bullshit mangas in my days, but this is the only one where I felt like the mangaka would have been a school shooter if he wasn't an absolute nerd living in japan. It's not a dark fantasy, it's an absolutely psychotic revenge story set in a fantasy world where they hit you over the head about the MCs trauma by making it as over the top as possible in an attempt to justify him raping and brainwashing some of the women that made his life hell. This entire manga is the ultimate neckbeard fantasy with the MC being a tactical genius 4d chessing everyone around him at all times, his healing powers lets him basically become a real-life hacker, he has a harem of different trope characters (that at the same time feel like they could have been sorta based on people the mangaka could have known in school) that are either brainwashed or just think he's the bees knees for some reason or other, and he also keeps gaining powers and magic accessories so he's always five steps ahead of his enemies. And the mangaka has the gall to claim that the majority of his fans are women, I call absolute bullshit on that. I can go on forever about this shit manga.
And what's worse is that it even got an anime that had a pretty fucking catchy opening it doesn't deserve. Fuck.
No. 398275
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>>398271Wasn't it just a cash grab because the author saw a market for really shitty revenge manga? Not that his actual passion project, pic related, was much better.
Iirc he made a spin off where the mc opens a cafe instead.
No. 398292
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>>398208I purposefully avoid trashy shit so it's not as bad as all the edgy and coomer shit that has been posted upthread but dear god did I hate picrel, I hated how the deaf girl was just a prop for the retarded MC. In the same genre I also hated Your Lie in April but I only watched the anime.
No. 398310
>>398271I read the novel of this bullcrap when it didn't have a manga yet, and it was the most horrid thing imaginable. He was a normal human being for like a couple of chapters and then it was just RAPE RAPE RAPE. No way women like this crap, even men who aren't incels don't.
>>398301I long for the days of Ludwig Kakumei where grim fairy tales were turned dark and twisted even more than their originals but with zero coom. Please rec me any dark fantasy recs you have, nonas, I'm starving
No. 398314
>>398292Watched this years ago because my friend recommended it saying it was deep and beautiful. I couldn't stand any of the characters, in one way or another they're all unnecessarily bitchy, bpd or useless and they never get redeemed but we have to believe everyone's friends and all is good! And somehow the main guy is always the fucking
victim.
No. 398315
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>>398208I feel like I’ve dropped a lot that I don’t remember but the absolute worst one that I kept reading and I’m not even sure why is Ijima Yabai Yatsu. It basically has no good qualities, not the concept, not the art, not the characters, certainly not the writing. I think it’s so bad and nonsensical I started enjoying it just for that, like I have to see what stupid and poorly drawn thing happens next chapter.
No. 398437
>>398271The thing that pisses me off about this stupid manga is not that it is a hilariously over the top revenge fantasy where every man woman and child is raped it’s the fact that it just becomes a generic, boring fantasy harem like half way through.
Moids ultimate fantasy really is just having 10 big titty uguu anime bitches constantly fawn over them at all times and it’s so fucking boring.
No. 398452
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>>398267Personally the grossest thing about Kami no Kodomo for me is that Nishioka Kyoudai are a brother sister team. There's something sick going on if you're writing the stuff they put out with your sibling.
>>398450Not sure since there was very little of it out when I read it, but I can imagine it going that direction, yeah!
No. 398453
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>>398449I think you're thinking of Yoarashi ni Warau, I think the translation team might have dropped it though since it hasn't gotten any updates in almost a year
No. 398469
>>398447I also want to know what the girl's deal is. I need her backstory and motivation. Terrible, terrible manga though kek.
Haven't seen an update in like 6 months so I checked out the scanlators Discrod and supposedly the next chapter would come out in June. Guess they're running a little behind or maybe they forgot about it.
No. 398481
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so i think anyone who enjoys deranged woman fiction could find appeal in this, provided they have a high resistance to male-pandering content. it's basically a dark comedy manga about nurses in the worst hospital in japan.
https://mangadex.org/title/1aabe14c-3848-4e1a-9601-a8281c400cab/sakusei-byoutou-zen-nennrei-ban. i really like how unpleasant the women are + some of the humor relating to their work makes me go "haha yeah, that's me" (underpaid, psychotic superiors, annoying patients, etc.)
for some reason the site told me the file i was attempting to post was already itt? too lazy to see if i've shilled already
No. 398514
>>398481I know somebody has shilled it before because I read it off of a recommendation ITT.
FTR this isn't manga with some coom elements, this is outright hentai in which any character quirks of the women only exist to service various fetishes. We're not talking about some boobshots, we're talking about facial cumshots and a major character's gimmick being that the nurses have to jack him off almost every chapter or he dies.
IDC if that's what you're into because I have worse series that I love but I think you should be a little more detailed with your disclaimers in instances like this.
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My biggest guilty pleasure is any manga by Hiro. I would commit several war crimes to be able to draw like this.
No. 398540
>>398514Thanks for the heads up, I was almost going to read it.
After reading your post, even from the example panels I can see it's just a fetish manga for people who get off mean and/or deranged girls.
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How much do mangaka earn from adaptations of their work into anime/live action?
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Has anyone else read "Mermaid Boys" by Sarachi Yomi?
This comic was also written by a woman and is aimed at a female audience (shojo) but they gave us this bizarrely…
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>>398550lmao the way she blushes and its framed as being something cute. Modern manga for women is literal garbage, it's infested by pickmes who cant draw or write. The LI looks ugly and trashy and the protagonist looks straight out of an ecchi harem. 80s-90s manga for women will literally never be topped. Why would i want to read about some ugly coomshit protagonist and her ugly chinless faggot LI when i could be reading about a fashionable protagonist who gets a qte model mentally ill husbando that doesnt treat her like a piece of meat?
No. 398554
>>398267Kami no Kodomo is really cringe but their other manga are pretty good. I liked their anthology of Franz Kafka stories, their style perfectly suits his work.
The worst manga I've read was probably Once Upon a Glashma or Akihabara @ Deep. Both were super ugly, probably cheap licenses the publishers were just translating for the sake of it
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>>398555yes. It has a lot of fujobait. Minako is a queen.
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>>398550Shit like this is why I read yaoi and not josei or shoujo. It's not like I'm allergic to the thought of heterosex it's just that both shoujo and josei is chock full of this shit, even in shoujo with an MC with a small bust, they never shut up about her body. Most josei covers look like a scrote hentai mangaka gave the prompt and a woman just drew it. There's also so much dubcon and noncon, that if I have to come across it, I'd rather read about it happening to a male and not a woman. The dialogue/dirty talk is also so corny sometimes, like "uguuu i'll never be the same after this", "noooooo i'll break~", "aaaaah i'll get gregnant".
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No. 398617
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>>398561Comparing the smut manga of today with the sfw manga from the past from Nana does not make sense. A more balanced comparison would be josei smut from older authors like Yoshihara Yuki, Ohio Tomu, Enjouji Maki etc. There are still tons of Josei being published that aren't low budget pwp webtoon, but they tend to be be more serious a bit too sanitized with little or no references to mc having a sex life which doesn't suit me. I want to be a little fly on the wall and see every nitty bitty details of mc and her man's relationship, including the sex part kek.
Personally the mc getting 50% of screentime during sex doesn't bother me, I'm watching sex between 2 people so that's a given to me. I do get enraged by the stories where the men are always fully clothed while the women are naked and completely submissive, that's not the equal and loving sex fantasy I'm here for. Weirdly enough, I'm noticing a trend in the newer smut webtoons where 8/10 will have the "only the woman is nearly naked with an orgasm face" problem on the cover, but the contents inside are more equal (and the next volume has tamer covers?) and normal for some reason? I wonder if it's some failed attempt to attract attention on the publisher's part. Picrel is one relatively new short manga from 2019 (Hagukumi Ai wa Maiban Komame ni) that I had no expectations for but turned out to be pretty fun with both characters taking charge at different times.
No. 398619
>>398617>I want to be a little fly on the wall and see every nitty bitty details of mc and her man's relationship, including the sex part kek. Nta but I'm exactly the same
nonnie. I love adult manga be it seinen or josei that doesn't center around romance or sex but I enjoy casual mentions of nudity, sex and any and all kind of real life situations adults get themselves into. It seems like this type of manga really had its heyday during the early 2000s.
No. 398640
>>398583>>398590So I was going through some books and realized I misreferenced. The book I was thinking of that mentioned ladies ero manga is Manga: Masters of the Art and it's specifically about Erica Sakurazawa. Her wikipedia page corroborates that she started as a shojo artist and went more into erotic stories for women and got called a "onna no ko H" mangaka.
https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Masters-Art-Timothy-Lehmann/dp/B000GG4FFEhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_SakurazawaAnd the term used for trashy romance manga seems to be "otometic" but it was originally used to refer to coming of age shojo. I'm not sure if the person who wrote that is right or wrong but everything modern I can find with that tag on manga sites looks like porn.
https://www.anime-planet.com/manga/magazines/otometic No. 398642
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>>398639I filter out the "ecchi" and "hentai" tags + specific tropes like cheating and harem, it works out fine for me
No. 398658
>>398644This wasn't too weird for the times, 'Manga Burikko' featured Kyoko Okazaki to counterbalance the idealized-cutesy-pervy image of bishojo/lolicons in this genre of magazine. There were seemingly many girls who read smutty male-oriented periodics, i'm not sure why. I'm pretty sure Okazaki heavily influenced Sakurazawa too
>>398640Yeah Otometic is mostly super girly SOL shojo, very similar to the current cliche of a fluttering shojo romance. The smutty kind of shojo is called 'Teens' Love'. It competed with Ladies' Comics and featured both highschoolers and office workers. They were pretty dark and explicit, many shojo magazines that featured them were banned in the 2000s over morality concerns IIRC
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I love seeing muscled and built women in fiction, nonas have any other recs where the one of the main characters (be it protag or love interest) is ripped but not for comedic effect? Just a normal woman with nice muscles.
(picrel Tonari no Kinniku Joshi, I love how sweet the main characters are together)
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>>398550Apparently the big-breasted mermaid named "Moana" eventually sacrifices her bust to become human…
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>>398550"That's explains so much…"
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I recently read and fell in love with Fushigi no Kuni no Bird. Came for the historical piece, stayed for the hot emo interpreter guy. Highly recommend actually, its good
No. 400249
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An anon mentioned the manga Gene Bride positively in the manga panels thread so I went to check it out and found picrel on the mangakas twitter. There were also some LGBT posts and one article about tims using the womens bathrooms on her account so there is no way the mangaka wouldn't know the meaning of those colors. Has anyone here read it, is it actually a tranny manga?
No. 400273
>>400249not so far (2 volumes into it). the manga has a lot of progressive themes and there are many scenes about sexism. You should just read it and find out, what are you afraid of? it's not like you're going to die if it turns out to have a tranny in it later. there are only three volumes out it wouldn't take you long.
mangaka definitely knows what those colors mean, yeah. she comes across like a westaboo.
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>>398731The sheer level of pick me holy shit. Close to bragging about being able to infiltrate moid gaze into a girl's magazine. I am vomit.
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>>400273Nah, seemingly "progrrssive" manga betray the readers in the worst way when they lure us in with promises of female empowerment and whatnot but then shame the characters and by extension the readers to "validate" the trannys. Like Kimi wa Nazotoki no Ma Cherie. Seemed like a very promising detective manga with a female protagonist back in the 1930s, but very first chapter is about this HSTS that copies his best friend's lifestyle. Said best friend was (understandably) weirded out by his skinwalking, but the protag and her sidekick convinced her to make up with and perform emotional labor for that deluded asshole. Disgusting.
No. 400799
>>400683you're right. that's the kind of manga it seems like. if the main character of
>>400249 turns out to be a TIM or decides to "become a man" when every other page is about her getting sexually harassed and living in a sexist world it will be a mindfuck. I think the magna would treat it like a good thing. there's no indication of either so far though.
your picrel made me shudder.
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>>400742Yes! I'm glad you liked it! Doubutsu no Kuni will always be the best shonen to me lol, sweet and emotionally gripping, full of stupid hype fights, without ever taking itself too seriously.