manga reading poll
Nov. 8th, 2008 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Same thing as last time. And thanks primarily to rightstuf.com's Viz and Tokyopop sales, it's about the same amount. I blame my recent Clamp and Kaori Yuki obsessions. The thinking here is that you're going to be stuck with manga posts anyway, and those of you who actually read them can say you'd rather read about Random Cracktastic Awesome Manga instead of Random Obscuree Thing That Caught Megan's Eye And No One Has Ever Heard Of. (Plus "17 people said to read this one" helps when staring at the shelf, wndering what to read next.)
People who love me will not vote for mainlining 30+ volumes of Clamp, Kaori Yuki, Higuri You and Matsuri Hino manga. Except that most of you don't love me so much as you love to read me deliberately breaking my brain with their manga.
[Poll #1293527]
*Short story collections and single volume series.
** Newly released series by Matsuri Hino (Vampire Knight)
BTW, can anyone tell me how many volumes of the manga the first season of Yu Yu Hakusho covers? Or does it break away early?
People who love me will not vote for mainlining 30+ volumes of Clamp, Kaori Yuki, Higuri You and Matsuri Hino manga. Except that most of you don't love me so much as you love to read me deliberately breaking my brain with their manga.
[Poll #1293527]
*Short story collections and single volume series.
** Newly released series by Matsuri Hino (Vampire Knight)
BTW, can anyone tell me how many volumes of the manga the first season of Yu Yu Hakusho covers? Or does it break away early?
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Date: 2008-11-08 08:05 am (UTC)wiki page for Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Kaidashi_Kik%C5%8D): it's mostly slice of life - setting in a future when robots look like people. I have some of the Japanese books even though I can't read Japanese.
I'm not sure if you prefer links to manga updates or wiki - I don't mind spoilers so I usually read wiki - warning, there may be spoilers in the Synopsis for Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai because it's completed.
wiki for USagi Drop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usagi_Drop): it's kind of like "Baby and me" but the main character was a 30-year-old successful man who became a reluctant care for his 5 or 6 year old aunt (out of his grandfather's affair, and the grandfather died - no one was willing to take care of her).
wiki for Tenshi Nanka ja nai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenshi_Nanka_Ja_Nai), by the same mangaka as NANA and Paradise kiss. This was one of her earlier works - it's kind in the genre of High School Debut.
wiki for Yotsuba&! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba%26!): it's about a 6 years old - she's cute. It's licensed by ADV and they released the first 5 volumes - then it's been *canceled*. There are 8 in Japanese.
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Date: 2008-11-08 03:02 pm (UTC)HIGHLY recommended, and it's an utter shame that it hasn't been licensed yet.
Aqua/Aria is the same sort of story, only without the postapocalyptic angle. Not quite as good, IMO, but still well worth reading. I've just watched the first season of the anime (available via Netflix), and it doesn't *quite* have the feel of the manga, but if you like landscape porn, it's well worth watching. I took a bunch of screenshots to (eventually) make a post about it. Aqua 1-2 is the first part of the story, then the mangaka switched publishers and changed the name to Aria, which picks up almost immediately after Aqua 2. Like YKK, it's episodic without a larger story arc other than "Akari discovers the small wonders of Neo-Venezia and falls more deeply in love with her city."
My pimp post for Aqua/Aria on the
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Date: 2008-11-08 07:46 am (UTC)Uuumm...I'm guessing that the first season covers the first arc in the series, since there are four seasons of the anime which each cover a specific story arc.
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Date: 2008-11-08 08:06 am (UTC)Uuuuuhhh...*goes back to wiki* this might help you (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_YuYu_Hakusho_chapters)
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Date: 2008-11-08 08:26 am (UTC)I 2nd Yamada from the 1st comment. Again, shoujo romance that I somehow liked. Not to mention Lovely Complex.
Other random (and absolutely haphazard suggestions):
Hinata no Ookami (Shinsengumi fiction, Hijikata-centric, I might blog about this when I have the time), Shimizu Reiko's work (with the exception of Kaguya-Hime, but that's just me), Itou Junji (horror, bizarre), and...I would rec more, but I think we got to know each other due to those (Blade of the Immortal? Natsume?).
I'm not into manga as much as I am into novels, so I'm probably not to be trusted.
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Date: 2008-11-08 08:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-08 09:02 am (UTC)+then I'm reccing Natsume no Yuujinchou-->stress-relief that makes you feel all warm and gooey inside.
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Date: 2008-11-08 05:28 pm (UTC)Kingdom of the Winds manhwa is *licensed*???
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Date: 2008-11-10 06:40 am (UTC)Tenshi Nanka ja nai... somehow I don't think you're going to like this one. It's not horrible, but its very basic oldschool shoujo with all the tropes, some of which annoy me (remember when I was telling you and siobhan about the manga where the guy is hung up on his brother's gf and then when he finds out the heroine has a new bf he just picks up and leaves? This is the one.) I hear the mangaka's other work is quite good. Tenshi seems like one of her older works.