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Jan 9, 2009 1:03 PM
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Bara no Tame ni
Nice romantic tale about the chubby but adorable Yuri. Has a good amount of drama, mystery and comedy.
After her grandmother’s death Yuri discovers that her mother is still alive. Moreover, she is a famous actress! She moves in, and meets her three beautiful siblings. The lazy Huyou, the transsexual Aoi and the grumphy Sumire. While she is bossed around as a maid, she falls in love with her brother?!

Buddha
I’m really baffled that there aren’t more people who have read this amazing work by the master of manga (Osamu Tezuka). I really fell in love with this work, it’s story, it’s art and it’s humour, it’s action, ..., oh my, it just has it all!

Edit by Sakura: Your recommendations have been added to the master list.
sakura_r0seJan 13, 2009 8:18 AM
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Here's the list of all the recommendations we are yet to check out.

Edit by Sakura: Moved to Master List in first post.
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Moving this here from the comments.

bluemoon09 said:

Immortal Rain
Authors: Ozaki, Kaori
Knights

Authors: Murao, Minoru
and
The Good Witch of the West
Authors: Momokawa, Haruhiko (Art), Ogiwara, Noriko (Story)
these are all some of my all time favs that no one else seems to know of. i would recommend them to everyone! enjoy! :)


Edit by Sakura: Your recommendations have been added. Good Witch of the West is already in Chichiri's recommendation thread.
sakura_r0seJan 22, 2009 8:50 AM
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Moving this here from the comments

kuglefang said:

To date the following are some of the mangas I've reviewed thus far and I'm sure that you won't be familiar with all of them so I hope you check them out

1. Half & Half
2. Hatsukoi Limited
3. Suzuka
4. Slam Dunk
5. Ichigo 100%
6. Lilim Kiss
7. Monster Collection
8. Cross Over
9. Vinland Saga

10. Fire Emblem: Hasha no Tsurugi


Edit by Sakura: Your recommendations have been added. I didn't add the last one 'cuz it didn't seem like you enjoyed it as much as the other ones based on your review.
sakura_r0seJan 15, 2009 8:58 AM
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How about Fire Investigator Nanase a new title from CMX.
Feb 11, 2009 10:50 AM
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CMB17 said:
How about Fire Investigator Nanase a new title from CMX.


Ah! Good find! CMX always manages to license all of the more obscure titles . . .

I will add this to the list. How is this series btw? Are you currently reading it?
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sakura_r0se said:
CMB17 said:
How about Fire Investigator Nanase a new title from CMX.


Ah! Good find! CMX always manages to license all of the more obscure titles . . .

I will add this to the list. How is this series btw? Are you currently reading it?
I have found some of them to be very good and I hope I will find more for them in the future. ^_^ I have read the first book and it looks good so far. I'm in love with the character mix like a Fire Investigator who is working with a fire bug in a strange way. If I tell any more it would be a big spoiler.
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I want to recommend H20. I've read it during the past two days and it's really a sweet and very funny romance series. It's been a while since I last laughed out loud this much while reading manga. It's only fault is that it is a bit short. The end seemed a bit rushed, tough it was okay, but there was more in it. Still, it's really worth the read.
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Recommending Hatenkou Yuugi / Dazzle. While the artwork starts sloppy, it gets better on. The characters have enough character to actually be an character and mysteries and plottwists enough to discover in this manga.

Also a yaoi manga from my side. Junjou Romantica is a brilliant manga thanks to its funny, hilarious and sometimes sarcastic humor, while the characters are all struggling with their m x m relations. Consists of three different stories, but the characters of one story sometimes make cameos in the ''other'' story. Definitely not one of those ''standard'' brainless yaoi or shounen-ai series. Hot stuff included, but not more than 1/6 of the chapters.
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*sighs* This list really needs to be cleaned up. I'm thinking about having members vote for which series they want to stay or go on this list and maybe we should have separate threads for shounen-ai/yaoi and/or manhwa/manhua?

What to do? What to do?
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While I think it's appropriate to break up any age restricted materials (like 18+ yaoi), in terms of general recommendations, I think separating the genre "shounen ai" from everything else sounds discriminating. Unless you're doing the same thing with all genres of course. If someone doesn't like that kind of thing, they should be quickly able to tell from the description or genre tags. Like me and sports manga..lol. I filter my dislikes myself. Age appropriate things should probably be marked, whether yaoi, smut, hentai, etc.

Keeping manhwa separate makes more sense, since it's a different (original) language (and OEL could be separate if ever submitted).

Hmm.. ideas. Maybe trying to pick the main genre and separate them by that? (might be hard for some) I also noticed many of the same members participate, so give each member a heading themselves containing their recs? Or everyone could have a post containing their recs and they'd edit it to add more things (since not much actual discussion seems to go on in the thread anyway, it can be like a list) Not too sure. Handling large lists is tricky.
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Ok. I re-did the list "Game-Based Manga" style. I guess we can just let the list grow for the remainder of the year and then figure out what to do then.

Thanks for your opinion shinkeikaku = )
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I think it looks better already. And I do like the genre tags, since I did to hit up certain ones or avoid others.
Mar 16, 2009 8:17 PM
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Will "Emma" be qualified to be added on the list?
Mar 17, 2009 4:30 PM

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Oh my, this looks a whole lot more orderly than before. Nice job :)

Little remark:
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PLEASE NOTE:
- Don't add oneshots or series less than 4 volumes here

What happend to this? I see Ryuguden (3 vols), 7 Jikan me no Rhapsoday (1 vol) and Because Goodbyes are coming soon (one shot) listed.
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rijntje said:
Oh my, this looks a whole lot more orderly than before. Nice job :)

Little remark:
sakura_r0se said:
PLEASE NOTE:
- Don't add oneshots or series less than 4 volumes here

What happend to this? I see Ryuguden (3 vols), 7 Jikan me no Rhapsoday (1 vol) and Because Goodbyes are coming soon (one shot) listed.


Thanks. That doesn't even make sense, I'm an idiot, LOL. *Deletes sentence*
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kuglefang said:
Will "Emma" be qualified to be added on the list?


Of course Emma is qualified! It's actually already on the club's Manga Relations. This list is more reserved for stuff that I haven't read or not familiar with, but the members want to recommend anyway.

I'm adding Emma to the 21st Century Manga list though (if it's not on there already). Thanks = )
Mar 19, 2009 5:32 AM

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I'd like to add Ilegenes ~ Kokuyou no Kiseki ~, Olimpos, @Full_Moon, and Kyuuso wa Chiizu no Yume wo Miru. These are all great and if not available in English, should be soon (Olimpos). I don't think @Full Moon is currently planned by anyone, but's it's Matoh Sanami.. how long can they ignore it?!
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shinkeikaku said:
I'd like to add Ilegenes ~ Kokuyou no Kiseki ~, Olimpos, @Full_Moon, and Kyuuso wa Chiizu no Yume wo Miru. These are all great and if not available in English, should be soon (Olimpos). I don't think @Full Moon is currently planned by anyone, but's it's Matoh Sanami.. how long can they ignore it?!


I've just added them, thanks! And I noticed that Olimpos is listed as a future project for Storm in Heaven (one of my favorite scanlation groups). I was going to apply to be a part of their team awhile back, but sadly I'm too busy at this point to help out = (
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Oh, forgot another one--Train☆Train. It's supposed to be out in English soon. There was a news thread a while back.

sakura_r0se said:
I've just added them, thanks! And I noticed that Olimpos is listed as a future project for Storm in Heaven (one of my favorite scanlation groups). I was going to apply to be a part of their team awhile back, but sadly I'm too busy at this point to help out = (

SiH is the best! It's frightening how often my taste overlaps with SiH, even across genres. Thus, I think they have the best picks out there. ;D They do such great work. For scanlation work, I'd definitely want to do it for them.
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Oh, forgot another one--Train☆Train. It's supposed to be out in English soon. There was a news thread a while back.

SiH is the best! It's frightening how often my taste overlaps with SiH, even across genres. Thus, I think they have the best picks out there. ;D They do such great work. For scanlation work, I'd definitely want to do it for them.


Ok I've added Train☆Train! Thanks again!

Yeah, SiH always seems to pick out series that both have interesting/unique storylines and nice looking art!

And it's also nice that a lot more of their projects are getting picked up for English licensing so that other people out there that aren't already familiar with those series can also be able to read it themselves = )
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I'd like to recommend "Vampire Game". It's a shoujo fantasy manga, but not an ordinary one. =D It's out in English by Tokyopop.

Edit by shinkeikaku: Added this manga to the list and relations.
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I added Lovers in the Night and Gerard & Jacques because I thought we needed moar high quality yaoi. ;) Yoshinaga Fumi delivers.
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I added Id to the list, which is a really cool manhwa however not really well known!
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^Bump. I have cleaned up the list again by moving all of the oneshots and short series to the Oneshots and Short Series thread.
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First time posting here in the club o/

I'd like to recommend Pluto, in my opinion another masterpiece of Urasawa Naoki. It is a spin-off of one of Tetsuwan Atom's (Astro Boy) arcs, in which the protagonist isn't Atom, but a supporting character in Osamu's work, Gesicht. I really enjoyed reading this. :D
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Hi Mah_Marina! I'm glad you joined us. :) I added Pluto to the list.
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These are great titles that's not quite popular, I believe:

Ray
After school Nightmare
X-day
HAPPY!
DIAMOND HEAD
Chicago (though ending is WTF)
The Legend of Chun Hyang
Othello
Onna no ko wa yoyu
BioMeat: Nectar
Bokurano
Zetman
Alpen Rose
Devil and Her Love Song
The Tarot Café
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I started reading National Quiz its about a dystopian japan were you can have or lose everything through the name given daily quiz show.

I recommend this because its pretty good so far and there is no title under N :)
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I'd like to suggest for the manga Arisa be added on the list.

It's a shoujo manga tagged under mystery. I'd say that it's an interesting read because the the one behind the plotting have no super powers and mere high school students. Basing on the tags, it also has romance in it but it's not yet shown. As of the moment, there's only an implied romance on the series. But still it's a good read - it's interesting and intriguing at the same time. There is also an element of surprise in it. Unfortunately, it seems that only a few people know about this manga but the ratings is definitely high (based on the user ratings of MAL and Baka Updates). I hope you'll consider adding this manga :)
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Sumire is a 17 year old high school girl who wants nothing more than to make friends with her new classmates. She's so dissappointed that they all seem to hate her, calling her a pervert, a dirty old man, creepy, weirdo... alas, what is a poor lifesized puppet to do in this cruel world.

http://myanimelist.net/manga/11942/Sumire_17!!
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well a few mangas i'll like to add are (well its up to you to add them its just these are some of the mangas my friends from the anime club don't know about, untill i brought it into their lives) ( i also put in some manhwa hope thats ok)

Koucha Ouji
Operation Liberate Men (Manhwa)
Saiunkoku Monogatari
Duck Prince
Princess (Manhwa)
Karakuri Odette
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I'm surprised Sanctuary isn't here.
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Sorry you guys this list hasn't been updated since May because I was trying to consolidate it with some of the other lists. I will get to all of these when I get the time. Please be patient everyone! All of your suggestions have been very helpful so far = )
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I would like to recommend the manga Jiraishin I started reading it before 3 days and I could say that Every next story about a person it tells it gets more and more interesting.I think that everybody who liked Sanctuary will definitely like this manga.
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I would like to recommend Shin Angyo Onshi or Threads of Time ... it would be for seinen or historical... or fantasy...
Or Sugar Addiction and Beauty is the Beast and one extra long - Hana Yori Dango for shoujo/comedy...
Kimi wa Petto for josei/comedy
Or one that is still ongoing - Until Death Do Us Part - it is seinen too and has beautiful art
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I would like to recomend Hourou Musuko of Shimura Takako . Is the best gender bender manga type i have ever read ! :D
It's really good ^-^
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Just found it today, but I'd like to recommend Katana. It's a story about an heir to an old family of blacksmiths who can see the spirits of the swords he's sharpening.
I've only read the first 4 chapters, but I'm already hooked because it gives off a calm feeling which lets it stand out of most of the sword-centered manga.

It certainly won't be wrong to give this little story a bit more attention^^
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How about Sket-Dan or Sket-Dance, I don't know which one is the right title.
This manga is really good! It's freaking hilarious and it's sad too! Not a lot of people know this manga.
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I was surprised when I didn't see Shiawase Kissa Sanchoume, this manga have a simple story, yet so wonderful. And how about beelzebub? this manga is cool to and have an unique plot.Ao no futsumashi is another cool action, adventure manga. This is the list of manga that I'm going to recommend:
1.Shiawase Kissa Sanchoume
2.Beelzebub
3.Ao no Futsumashi
4.Are you Alice?
5.Defense Devil
6.Liar Game

That's all for now, I know that I have more manga to recommend, but I forgot, so I have to check all my manga list all over again.
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I really recommend this anime/manga called Ghost Hunt: http://myanimelist.net/anime/1571/Ghost_Hunt ; http://myanimelist.net/manga/158/Ghost_Hunt

sorry if someone already mentioned it, but it's really good. it's an adaptation from fuyumi ono's novels.i haven't finished the manga yet but I really liked the anime. it's about this optimistic girl, her (rightfully) narcissistic boss and their paranormal cases with the rest of their ghost hunting team. this is one of my favorite stories, i love how it's really organized and mixes in horror, comedy, and romance without being cliché and cheesy.
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I would like to recommend Di[e]ce , A*D and Level E

http://myanimelist.net/manga/3712/di[e]ce

http://myanimelist.net/manga/16669/A*D

http://myanimelist.net/manga/1193/Level_E

and i agree with animechick , Sket Dance is great :)
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Azumanga Daioh
While I realize it's not exactly a ''hidden'' gem I feel it still deserve to be part of this club for 2 reasons.

  1. As far as comedy is concerned, this manga, set as a collection of strips, definately stands out in style. I'm not one to fall head over heels over comedy manga but this one really got me. Very original concept.
  2. It still has under 6000 ratings on MAL...
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I'll pick Jiraishin.
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These are the ones that I would recommend and are not quite popular.
Enjoy them^.^
Mademoiselle Butterfly
Pansy
Barairo ma Hani La vie d'amour
Kagen no Tsuki
Akkan Baby
Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen
Nageku Shinigami
Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai
Towa Kamo Shirenai
Night of the Beasts
100% Perfect Girl
Cinema Empire
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I'm new member so I will do some recommendations =D

1. Skyhigh series by Takahashi Tsutomu
Skyhigh
Skyhigh Karma
Skyhigh Shinshou
and the latest work
Skyhigh 4

2.Leviathan
3.Onikiri Jyuzo
4.Witches
5.Seijou Kouchakan no Jijou
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Boku Dake ga Inai Machi - very good thriller+ supernatural, even though it's slowly going up in rankings it's still largely unknown.

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Change Ge Xing - This is a very excellent historical manhua (chinese manga). Despite what it seems, it is a seinen series but it give off the same feel as Otoyomegari in terms of it atmosphere and i think it is a great read for everyone of all ages. Don't be put off by the synopsis, it has more depth than it seems on the surface. People who enjoy historical series should definitely give this a thought.
http://myanimelist.net/manga/42001/Song_of_the_Long_March
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Nijigahara Holograph
Hourou Musuko
Shiroi Kumo
Subarashii Sekai (*cough everything Asano Inio has ever done cough*)
Hoshi no Koe
Fuan no Tane
Fugurumakan Raihouki
Double Arts (and all of Komi Naoshi's one-shots)
Holyland
Vendemiaire no Tsubasa
Angel Densetsu
Sayonara ga Chikai no de
Sakura Gari
Chikan Otoko
Onani Master Kurosawa

annnd I'll stop there for now.
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