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Oct. 11th, 2008 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Anyone have any opinions on the following manga/manhwa?
Alichino
Aque
Arcana
Demon Ororon
Fantamir
Jyu-Oh-Sei
Nabi
Planet Ladder
Rure
Vassalord
V.B. Rose
(I'm pretty sure I've seen several posted on recently, actually, I just can't remember where.)
Alichino
Aque
Arcana
Demon Ororon
Fantamir
Jyu-Oh-Sei
Nabi
Planet Ladder
Rure
Vassalord
V.B. Rose
(I'm pretty sure I've seen several posted on recently, actually, I just can't remember where.)
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Date: 2008-10-11 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-11 08:01 pm (UTC)Again, this was at least two years ago, so my opinion isn't 100% certain.
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Date: 2008-10-11 08:05 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aria_the_Animation
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Date: 2008-10-11 08:29 pm (UTC)I do recommend the first volume as a lovely, bittersweet slice of life story and volume two for the crazy and the truly awesome horror, but if you decide to read the full series, know that things get a lot nastier in the second volume. The rest of the series is downhill, tonally; the first volume is the happiest it gets. Narrative breakdown starts in about halfway through the third volume, I think? I need to get crackin' on that reread.
On the plus side, the two main lady characters are pretty awesome!
I have heard good things about Planet Ladder and Vassalord, but I have read neither! Sorry.
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Date: 2008-10-11 08:33 pm (UTC)I liked Aqua. It's definitely a slice of life. There's no urgent plot. There's also no romance.
I read v.1 of Arcana many months ago. I just looked at my book logging entry for it. The art freaked me out a bit. The characters' heads were all weirdly shaped. I kept getting distracted by wondering how they had room for anything in there. The first volume didn't give enough character or plot for me to have a strong opinion about the series. I'd pick up the second volume if I found it cheap, but I wouldn't look hard for it. There's a kid (I can't remember whether male or female) who can talk to animals. There's a magic artifact that the kid has to transport and a warrior who's supposed to protect it.
Planet Ladder is on my list of Yuletide fandoms every year. I love it. The first volume starts slowly and, from what I've read online, has some translation issues. The last volume suffers from the fact that the story really needed at least one more volume to wrap up properly. The heroine has her moments of being wimpy and passive, particularly in the first volume, but becomes more assertive later. The entire story has some serious moments of WTF crackiness that make it more fun.
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Date: 2008-10-11 09:27 pm (UTC)Demon Ororon - It's been a couple years since I read this, so I'm fuzzy on what it was actually about, but I remember it as being unrelievedly dark - apparently it's hard growing up in hell! People get dismembered. Who would have thought. Sort of Angel Sanctuary without all the stuff that made Angel Sanctuary compelling.
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Date: 2008-10-11 10:09 pm (UTC)The Demon Ororon, however, I loved and wished was more than four volumes. It's so sad. The art takes some getting used to and the story is a touch convoluted, but it was so gooooood. Plus, size!kink.
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Date: 2008-10-11 11:00 pm (UTC)Jyu-Oh-Sei I've heard some really good things about but haven't actually started reading myself.
Demon Ororon.. well, there's no point in adding in anything else, as everyone else has pretty much said it.
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Date: 2008-10-11 11:13 pm (UTC)I liked Aqua quite a bit but definitely do read Aria afterwards to get the complete story. It's a great series to relax with!
I loved Planet Ladder for a few volumes, but after that the plot goes completely downhill and gets really messy. Still, it's worth checking out, just don't feel the need to stick with it when it gets dull.
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Date: 2008-10-12 01:38 am (UTC)Planet Ladder: Shoujo fantasy awesomeness; cool female characters and a giant robot chicken. The plot is confusing; ignore it.
Alichino: Beautiful art. Boring story.
Aqua: Sweet, mellow, relaxing. All the major characters are female (but not kick-ass, they're gondoliers.)
Demon Ororon: Strong start, dissolves into incoherent action.
Rure: Stong start, dissolves into cliched action.
Vassalord: Deliberately hilarious and over-the-top series about gay cyborg vampires ad their caped Dobermann.
V.B. Rose. I adapted this. Sweet shoujo about a girl working in a wedding boutique. Very standard but like I said, sweet.
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Date: 2008-10-13 09:24 pm (UTC)Gay cyborg vampires WHO ARE AGENTS OF THE VATICAN, working against the shadowy, nefarious forces of THE UNITARIAN CHURCH!!!1!.
Also, the ecclesiastically-caped Doberman is also a cyborg. (I don't know if he's also gay and/or a vampire. He does have a pet kitty of his own, however.)
It is, in otherwords, v. cracky. I don't know if it would quite be your thing, mind you, since despite the high crack levels I think a lot of its appeal rests on how much you enjoy sexy, snarky vampires and constant BL-ish tease, and female characters, while definitely present, are secondary to the boys and seem pretty likely to stay that way.
Still, you gotta love anything that involves author's notes like this:
I love sexy Master-types!!
I love cool glasses!!
I love seductive older men and inexperienced young ones!!
I love America!!
I love Christianity!!
I love vampires!!
I love traveling!!
I love B-movies!!
... So basically, I threw in everything I like and somehow a comic came out.
Truth in advertising, right there.
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Date: 2008-10-13 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-12 02:51 am (UTC)what do you mean there's no crack!ship? doesn't every manga have a ship that is forbidden in at least half of the universe?)Planet Ladder...I enjoy it. I re-read it every so often and it was one of the first non-Sailor Moon mangas I enjoyed. Its confusing, especially after the first...hmmm I think 4 volumes when the production schedule just became...very very slow. It took YEARS for the last book to come out (though I don't know if that was American in origin or Japanese) and is confusing. Some of it is very straight forward, but the overall plot is rather confusing (not in a CLAMP you know some resolution will be had eventually sort of way though). Its fun and there is a robot chicken, limbs falling off inexplicably and a brooding possibly emotionally frozen guy with sword skillz, mysterious (and often tragic) past and red hair. I can't ask for more.
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