HatsumiShinogu said: I am already planning on getting X/1999, though some of the volumes are OOP. As for the others, I am not sure. Honestly, I didn't think the Magic Knight Rayearth anime anything special, so I am not sure if the manga is any better. I literally haven't seen the anime for 10 years, but the manga is much more compact and stylized if I remember correctly. Well, at 3 volumes, it would have to be. |
| After rereading Asterisk and looking forward to purchasing volume 5 soon, it definitely qualifies as an obsessed series. ;) Volume 2 is when it crossed the line for me. I'm obsessed with a lot of Ichiraci series actually and have been madly buying all of them that I can. Not an easy or cheap feat considering the low circulation and age of many. ^_^;; Silver Diamond is the obvious one. I was obsessed from chapter 1. Hakkenden. New volume 4/20! YES! Volume 5 or so I think is when it really got good. Depending how the new volumes of Umi no Kishidan go, it might get promoted to obsessed. ;) |
| I'm going crazy on several ongoing manga series now. Here's some of my favorites: Nana - yeah yeah it's quite weird for a guy like me to like Nana but I can't help falling for it being so realistic. The plot doesn't just define the slice of life genre, Yazawa Ai takes it to the next level revealing the dark and the bright side of 'fate'. Eyeshield 21 - This proves the importance of intelligence in every battle. It made me think that if superman and lex luthor were fighting and neither of them are evil or good, it's safe to say that the man of steal will be defeated. Change 123 - Yeah, I mean it, it's just a matter of fan 'services'. Hot girls that kicks ass! Moe~ Bakuman - coolest shounen, slice of life manga series out there. Superior - I'm fond of "rivals-turned-lovers" romance plots and this one surely rocks. |
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| The newest volumes of Hakkenden and Boku to Kanojo no XXX have only fueled my obsession. But having to wait another YEAR for the next Boku to Kanojo no XXX volume douses it a bit. :/ I'm enjoying Houou Gakuen Misoragumi as well. I wasn't sure if it would stay interesting after the first volume, but it did. |
| I've been obsessed with Banana Fish since this past winter. Friend got them for me for xmas/bday/late high school grad gift (and some other stuff). I was back for less than two weeks (I did winter session), but certainly read it all in that time and then took them back to school with me and re-read them. Since then, I've started re-reading them again pretty recently, on vol 5 again. For years, Maison Ikkoku, I was getting them as they came out starting around when vol 2 game out I believe. It was one of the first series I gradually collected, I'd get $20 or weekly allowance back in high school and if there was a new MI, it got first priority for buying over all else. I used to get way more manga back in high school now I think about it. Last month, I managed to track down vol 1 and 13 of Please Save My Earth and re-read the series. Also had my friend come over (I do lend her manga, but not this one, too tough to get a hold of!) and she enjoyed it as well. I lent her the OVA, which is how I found out about the series (6 episode =/= 21 volumes) and determined the manga probably did a heck of a lot more and was right! She didn't get a chance to watch the OVA, but at least her younger sister did. Those are probably always gonna be the 3 big ones for me, the only ones I've rated 10. oh damn, near forgot about Liar Game. I turned a few friends to this series at college and we all wait with baited breath for the new chapter! Probably check for a new chapter twice a day at least it seems. |
| As of right now I am reading Love.Com. I loved the anime so I had to pick the manga up and I was not disappointing. It is so funny. And different. I am also reading Immortal Rain. I hope the ninth comes out. I have read a bunch of x/1999. I must say that I love it. Such a good manga. |
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| Not so much a series but an entire area in manga. I am currently really into the entire underground, alternative, and experiemental works. So I care more about the authors/artists rather then the series. Such people are Kiriko Nananan, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Fredic Boilet, Katsuhiro Otomo, Jiro Taniguchi, Asano Inio, and Taiyo Matsumoto to name a few. This thread on ANN is very informative and I noticed that there are very few works noted by the club that fit the bill for this subculture of manga. All very good and few very long works (spanning multiple volumes), so many shorts stories abound. It is hard to get a hold of them and the most reliable source is actually buying the book since they are usually not scanned. I'm still debating whether to buy the anthologies Secret Comics Japan, Comics Underground--Japan, or Memories of Her... (some of the early works of Otomo). EDIT: Just snagged a cheap copy of Secret Comics Japan off of Ebay and I am planning on buying Memories of Her... tomorrow. |
Pierre_BezukhovJul 14, 2009 4:22 PM
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HatsumiShinogu said: I am also hunting for more of CLAMP's earlier works, which most of them are OOP. I'm a Clamp whore but I have to ask. What is OOP? I'm renewing my love for Tsubasa Chronicles. After having backlogged 6 volumes, I finally sat down to read them again. OMG! I love it so much. I'm having to make myself slow down. LOL Fushigi Yuugi Genbu is another one of my current obsessions as well as Ayashi no Ceres. I plan on completing AnC this year but I feel like I'm waiting forever for the next volume of FYG to come out. No reading this stuff online. These are keepers for me. I read some of Fruits Basket online, a series that I'm collecting the manga for, and when I sat down to read the manga in my hands, my experience was ruined because I had "already read it". So I just impatiently wait for the ones I physically collect. ^.^ |
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duotrouble said: I'm a Clamp whore but I have to ask. What is OOP? OOP = Out Of Print I absolutely love X, but I don't think they will ever finish it :-( My current obsession is Dogs: Bullets and Carnage I have no idea why I love it, but I do. |
| Currently I only have two obsessions one being Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden, and Loveless. Genbu Kaiden is just awesome, in my opinion it out shines the first series which I was also obsessed with for some time. The characters are like able, not to mention the plot is one I like a lot. I wish it came out faster in the Unties States, to be honest but the mangaka has a lot on her right now. As for Loveless I adore the shounen ai/yaoi genre, and this is one of my favorite shounen ai's. The plot is so unique, a little confusing at times but still interesting its different and original. Though its a shame it takes forever for the volumes to come out, but still a great read!! |
| What you saw at the castle on that windy night ,and what you saw at the bridge last night .. how I smiled, never utter a word to anyone. If you dare speak .. I will find where you are .. And I will kill you. Kill you. I will rip you apart .. crush your bones And eat your flesh.. I will drink your blood. I will .. devour you. |
Yoru_Hime said: As for Loveless I adore the shounen ai/yaoi genre, and this is one of my favorite shounen ai's. The plot is so unique, a little confusing at times but still interesting its different and original. Though its a shame it takes forever for the volumes to come out, but still a great read!! I watched the anime and I really enjoyed it, so now I started to read the manga. I'm really liking it so far. I think I'm going to start purchasing volumes for it as well. :D |
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sakura_r0se said: Thanks to duelistbluerose, I've been into Shadow Star (Narutaru) and Bokurano lately. I'm actually reading both at the same time = ) They're both very mysterious series and that's one of the main reasons why seinen is now my favorite genre is because a lot of them are mysteries that no matter how weird and unusual they may be, there's just something about them that just makes me want to continue reading and that's how I feel about these 2 series. Im glad you're enjoying them ^_^ but wow - reading BOTH at the same time? You'll need a shrink after your finished. and where are you reading naru taru? are you reading the un-edited version that I linked on the club wall? i hope so because if you're reading it on a scanlation page there's going to be a lot missing from it. reading bokurano on www.onemanga.com is fine though. |
| Right now I'm really enjoying Fullmetal Alchemist, Seven Days and Golden Days. Golden Days has a very interesting plot and you can't not love the characters. Fullmetal Alchemist is (so far) perfect <3. As for Seven Days, it's just too cute :) |
OrangeSky said: Golden Days has a very interesting plot and you can't not love the characters. Ah, I loved Golden Days <3 It doesn't have a lot of readers. |
| Claymore. I know it's well known, but I've just got around to reading it and once I start reading it, it's so hard to stop! Just yesterday I spent around 3 hours reading it because I got so sucked in, and I did around 30 chapters. XD |
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| I just started Sanctuary, and wow I had high expectations for this manga but I actually didn't expect it to be this good. |
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SixFlags said: I just started Sanctuary, and wow I had high expectations for this manga but I actually didn't expect it to be this good. That was my reaction to it as well. Awesome to see someone else reading it :) Right now I'm really enjoying Hokuto no Ken and Oyasumi Punpun. Obviously for very different reasons lol. I'm also reading Blame for the second time and loving it probably even more than the first time around. |
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| I'm also currently reading Sanctuary. And I agree with you guys, it's very addicting, but it's board line sexist. It's not the rape scenes that bother me, but the lack of a strong female character, and the portrayal of 'otherness' as female and something that must be conquered and dominated. These things really disappointed me. But not enough to stop reading because the story was/is genuinely interesting. Nevertheless, this sexism drops the manga from a master piece of 10/10 in my books, to a 8/10. I still have 25 chapters to go, so we shall see if the manga can redeem itself here. ps - I'm not sure if it was appropriate to drop an analysis in this thread, but I wanted to share with someone what I got from reading Sanctuary. Also, there is a lot more analysis that I have left unsaid, namely, the underworld's usage of women to make profit. It is never made explicit in the manga, but the imagery is more then enough for one not to miss it. I feel like Sanctuary is tackling the social issue in the wrong way, and missing the big picture. That is, a lot of social problems not only stem from a lack of education, but the kind of education. If one is educated in a patriarchal highly dominating way, violence and domination is reinforced in the education itself. Alright, now I'm just going vastly off topic. haha. sorry. (I'm very interested in education and media and the links these two have with reinforcing social norms, so I find this type of stuff very interesting ;]) |
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| I got obsessed with 1/2 Prince lately. It's an MMORPG based story which takes place in 2100 where the reality rate of these games are 99% and you can play while SLEEPING! (That's one part I found amusing). I think it can be considered as a shoujo shounen comedy and so on mixture of lots of genres, but after reading like two chapters I laughed my head off. I really recommend it for everyone! |
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| Ohh 1/2 Prince is really nice...it seems to be an usual gender bender at first but then it gets so interesting and hilariuos! and I love the way they portray the absurd parts of the MMORPG. Anyhow, they outstanding part of this manga is exactly that mixture of genres..it is always nice to see love stories like this, where the romance isn't the main point or the center for everything. |
| Angel Densetsu - I decided to try it because it was Yagi-san's other work and I really like it. It's funny and charming. There is hardly any plot, but I always want to read more to see what else the characters will get themselves into. |
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| Bara no Tame ni- I've reached chapter 32, the last one that was scanlated, and I really love it! ;; It's a shame that this is the last chapter that has been scanlated so far :( It's really cute. |
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| Somewhat actively reading Eternal Sabbath, the plot gets more and more interesting as I read. I started to read it some months ago, but forgot about it, and found it again last week during a boring lesson at school. :D Long way to go till the end, I'm sure the story will have lots of twists ahead! |
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| I've started Flat today, and I already caught up with the scanlations. Such an adorable and refreshing series. It resembles Usagi Drop in a way, probably due to the calm atmosphere of the story. If you like one, you'll certainly like the other as well. Ah, and this is from a new mangaka. I need more chapters though |
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| I am really loveing xxxHOLiC, so there is my CLAMP fix. Other then that, I have been waiting for more chps of the follow: Ningyou Kyuutei Gakudan by Kaori Yuki - It's such a good story but its only 3 volumes long...she needs to make another really long series. Sakurahime Kaden by Tanemura Arina - It is really cute but still maintains her usually character personailties so some may find it boreing. Purple Eyes by Shinohara Chie - Ever since I read 'Red River' I have been reading as much as I can find by her. She has such an interesting style you can help but want more of. There are more, but it would take along to list them all. ^.^;; |
| Kanata Kara - I dropped FY after |
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| I'm really loving Glass no Kamen so far. The art may be a bit outdated, but the story is amazing. And it's probably the reason why I love older shoujo manga (like from the 70's, 80's, early 90's or older) in the first place. :-) |
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| I'm rereading 20th Century Boys because I forgot where I left off about a year ago. It is just as amazing as I remember. Urasawa is an incredible story teller. It is amazing how he flawlessly goes between past and present, which is rather difficult to do. I really need to read his other stuff. |
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soaring_wings said: Yeah I'm only a few volumes in and I'm getting the same feeling as you already.I'm also currently reading Sanctuary. And I agree with you guys, it's very addicting, but it's board line sexist. It's not the rape scenes that bother me, but the lack of a strong female character, and the portrayal of 'otherness' as female and something that must be conquered and dominated. Virtually every woman in the manga so far is just some whore getting nailed by the Yakuza, with the exception of Ishihara who alternatively wants to get nailed by one of the top Yakuza, has wet dreams about him and wonders why she had to be born a woman. At least the character art is nice. |
| Last night I finished CLAMP's classic Tokyo Babylon, and I could see why so many people love it so much. I really want to read X/1999, but the only thing that puts me off is the fact it's on hold, and has been in years. Still, this has definetley re-sparked my interest in reading older CLAMP series, like RG Veda + Clover. Also thinking of starting Kaze to Ki no Uta aswell, as I've heard nothing but good things about that. Seems like my holidays are for manga catch up again, lol. |
| I've recently restarted Swan, by Kyoko Ariyoshi. It's tough for me to get new volumes, because the only store that actually has the series is quite far from where I live (and is also where I had to go in order to get Basara, my other favorite shojo). It's totally worth it though. Swan is definately one of the best manga I've ever read. The artwork is gorgeous and I've yet to find a character in it that I dislike. |
JePiNaY said: I began to read Vinland Saga a few days ago. I'm really liking it and for the most part, I usually enjoy any historical manga. I've read all the 60 chapters of Vinland Saga a few days ago, it is one of my favourites now. Another good historical manga is Historie (http://myanimelist.net/manga/2924/Historie) it doesn't contain many action scenes but that is good in its own way. I've started Usagi Drop today, and its one of the few mangas I enjoy/ed right from the start. |
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| just finished the gravitation manga series, lol. I love my boy-love ^_^ |
| When I was at the used bookstore, they had vol 1-3 of Flower of Life and it's just so good I'm certainly obsessing over it and plan to place an order somewhere pretty soon just for the last vol (4, shame they didn't have it there). I don't tend to care about series that take place in a high school, mostly because 1) high school was never that awesome for me and 2) I'm so damn happy to be out of high school that I don't really wanna go back there even in my entertainment. But man, Flower of Life just does characters and story integration so well, it has dramatic moments used well, comedy, and just bits of almost slice of life too. I know I only read 3 volumes, but it felt like I'd read at least twice that, it's never happened before so it's hard to describe and it's not because it took me any longer to read it either, it must've just sucked me in faster. |
| I've recently began reading Otomen whenever I go visit the bookstore. It's just so cute. I tend to think it's a parody of shoujo manga, even though it has a real plot [kinda]. XD The manga is about this guy who is very feminine and like cute, girly stuff. However, his dad turned into an Okama becuase of the same reason, so his mother told him that he ALWAYS has to act like a real man. And so, he tries to hide his true personality.At the same time he falls in love with a tomboyish girl. It's hilarious. I really enjoy it. x3 |
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NoyaChan said: I've recently began reading Otomen whenever I go visit the bookstore. It's just so cute. I tend to think it's a parody of shoujo manga, even though it has a real plot [kinda]. XD The manga is about this guy who is very feminine and like cute, girly stuff. However, his dad turned into an Okama becuase of the same reason, so his mother told him that he ALWAYS has to act like a real man. And so, he tries to hide his true personality.At the same time he falls in love with a tomboyish girl. It's hilarious. I really enjoy it. x3 That does sound funny XD I want to read it now~ |
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