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Genshiken (Manga)

Genshiken

Alternative Titles

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture

Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 9
Chapters: 55
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 2002 to Jun 2006
Authors: Kio, Shimoku (Story & Art)
Serialization: Afternoon

Statistics

Score: 8.631 (scored by 1700 users)
Ranked: #272
Popularity: #47
Members: 2,792
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top manga page.

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Popular Tags

comedy otaku school slice of life

Synopsis

It's the spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara is in a quandary. Should he fulfill his long-cherished dream of joining an otaku club? Saki Kasukabe also faces a dilemma. Can she ever turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Kousaka, into a normal guy? Kanji triumphs where Saki fails, when both Kanji and Kousaka sign up for Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture.

Undeterred, Saki chases Kousaka through the various activities of the club, from costume-playing and comic conventions to video gaming and collecting anime figures--learning more than she ever wanted to about the humorous world of the Japanese fan . . . (Source: Del Rey)

Related Manga

Adaptation: Genshiken, Genshiken OVA, Genshiken 2

Characters

 Angela
 Manabu
 Souichiro
 First President
 Susanna
 Saki
 Makoto

User Recommendations

Similarly lighthearted and comedic, Genshiken features various aspects of the otaku culture including the creation and selling of doujinshi at the comic markets (comikets). Although centered on the quirks of the college otaku's slice of life and less on doujin making, Doujin Works fans should find Genshiken an amusing window to the japanese "modern visual culture" (e.g. anime, manga and games).
reportRecommended by frank3manuel
Slice of life Otaku fare. If you like the girls obsession with Yaoi in Genshiken you'll enjoy Mousou Shojo Otaku-kei and vice versa.
reportRecommended by SummerOtaku

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Overall 10
Story 8
Art 8
Character 10
Enjoyment 10
Dec 16, 200755 of ? chapters read
Genshiken: A fairly simple story concept which gets executed with surprisingly deep results. This is a tale of a loosely-run club of otakus, and of the trials and tribulations of the various members. Although none of the plots of the show is entirely original, the characters and the fact that they suffer through realistic otaku problems (combined with the fact that most readers are probably otaku) make it a very fun, and occasionally emotional, manga.

Characters: You have Sasah... read more
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Overall 9
Story 8
Art 8
Character 9
Enjoyment 10
Oct 14, 2008? chapters
Art - 8

The art itself while stylistically bland and sometimes rough is fairly elaborate. Backgrounds usually are filled in with motion or scenery bringing you in to the scene instead of the stereotypical white background shot. There always seems to be something going on behind the story making it feel like an actual part of real life. Each and every place is filled to the brim with small details that generally go unnoticed but never seem to detract from the scene.
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Overall 10
Story 10
Art 8
Character 10
Enjoyment 10
Nov 7, 2007? chapters
With a medium-sized cast of characters, Genshiken provides a rich and realistic portrayal of otaku life, showing the otaku as not necessarily a positive or negative subculture, but simply one that is.

The characters designs are unique, with distinct yet reasonably subdued designs backed by an elaborately detailed look at the otaku world around them. The artwork changes significantly over time, but it manages to remain at a high quality all throughout. The only point in which the... read more
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Recent Forum Discussion

Does anybody actually read the manga?
Zyro
19 replies by MikeKanke »»
10-20-08, 7:25 AM

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