Angel's Egg
Ashita no Joe
Battle Angel Alita
Berserk
Boogiepop Phantom
Casshern Sins
Desert Punk
Dororo to Hyakkimaru
Haibane Renmei
Kaiba
Kemono no Souja Erin
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Mononoke/Ayakashi: Bakeneko
Monster
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Nodame Cantabile
One Piece
Perfect Blue
Rose of Versailles
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal
Serial Experiments Lain
Shigurui
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Texhnolyze
Trigun
Welcome to the NHK!
Honorable Mentions
Aim for the Top! Gunbuster
Ergo Proxy
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
GeGeGe no Kitaro 1968
Ghost in the Shell
Giant Robo
Howl's Moving Castle
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 2012
Kimi ni Todoke
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
Master Keaton
Mirai Shounen Conan
Mushishi
My Neighbor Totoro
Natsume Yuujinchou
Pale Cocoon
Planetes
Psycho-Pass
Steins;Gate
The Tatami Galaxy
Time of Eve
I don't think I have a favorite arc because I enjoyed almost everything. I really liked each Straw Hat's backstory (Nami, Robin & Brook's were probably my favorite). Water 7/Enies Lobby, Thriller Bark, Amazon Lily Arc, Impel Down/Marinefold were some of the best. I'm really enjoying the current arc in the manga (Dressrosa).
My favorite non-Straw Hats have to be Shanks, Vivi, Perona, Bon Kurei, Sabo, Ivankov, Rayleigh.
Blackbeard's crew is interesting. Some of the members seem to parallel the Straw Hats. I can see each member facing off the Straw Hats in the future. I would love to learn more about the other Pirate Crews. That's why I love One Piece so much. There's so much to look forward to.
I found those bands by searching the forums at Encyclopaedia Metallum. And thanks very much for the recommended bands and albums, I will be sure to treasure Bathory. Could you offer some more recs, specifically pagan and black?
Yeah no problem, I could tell it was getting a little off topic. Yes I agree, which wouldn't be a completely bad thing if we could tell what he's trying to do with it. Most people started reading it for it's dark fantasy type setting and story, now that it's changed people are nervous. And like I said before, they don't have a chance to really like what's happening because it's going too slow.
It could be writers block, though I hope he's working on it fully. Because if he ever gets the story down then he could start drawing again.
Though we haven't seen the strength of most of the god hands have we? I know that female one popped up in the troll cave, and void fought the skull night a little, but even reborn Griffith hasn't fought probably to his full ability. I expected him to gain up companions too, though most of the ones he has now are kids. It makes me wonder what he's trying to do and it doesn't seem like he's getting any closer to Griffith.
Thanks for the friend request. Yeah Enel's always been such an interesting character and the picture I found for him was perfect, so I thought why not.
And sorry for late replying, I had college work to do.
As for bands, I must admit that I'm still new to the whole genre of metal. As for the bands that I like listening to over and over again...
I like some Funeral Doom Metal Bands like Earth, Yob, The Chasm, Incantation in addition to Electric Wizard. Dopethrone is probably the best doom metal album out there and I, The Witchfinder is my favorite doom metal song.
As for Black Metal... Xasthur, Windir, Fleurety, Weakling
Kvist made only one album to date, but it's really good. Bathory's good, I like how Bathory pioneered the whole pagan and viking metal sound.
I also like Pagan bands like Wolfhetan, Temnozor (Their best albums are: Horizons, Folkstorm of the Azure Nights, and Haunted Dreamscapes.)
It seems fine to me, but you might wanna ask anyway, because the faster they come, the better. I have this feeling it might be a one-man-army project. Seems like he has everything already translated and now he's just editing/typesetting the whole thing. Try to find a way to contact him, but that may be difficult because really does seem like some anonymous scanlator.
Yo, some random scanlation group is doing Ibitsu and it's not on most of the famous online reader sites. I was looking around for information on it and stumbled upon this. Seems like they're doing volume by volume and they're doing it fast.
I'm glad you liked it. The ending was way too powerful and heavy, wasn't it? Breaking her out, taking her to the promised place and then a clusterfuck of metaphors and symbolism all hitting you like a brick wall. It's the one manga that made me legitimately cry... not manly tears, but cry.
How did you like Kurumi's first confession to Aiba in that chapter where he hides in the closet when her doctor comes to her house? I think it was one of the most twisted yet sweetest confessions I've ever seen.
Man, go ahead and get the Ibitsu project up and running! You have my full support. Haha, I love these manga that explore fetishism, so I'd love to see another one brought about by the scanlation community. I think you'll like Nana to Kaoru but it's not anywhere as twisted as Sundome. It's more centered around BDSM than S&M.
The greatest thing about Sundome is definitely the characters. I can't really connect to it on a personal level because I've never been in a relationship like that, but I grew attached to the characters nonetheless. I'm one of those guys that can relate to any character as long as they're well developed.
I don't know if I'd call Sundome a masterpiece but I can definitely call it a favorite.
If you'll take a personal recommendation from me and take it into consideration, I suggest you read Onani Master Kurosawa. It's really short and very comedic at first, but the latter becomes dead serious and a very endearing story. It's my favorite manga. I hope you don't allow the synopsis, disposition and its composition make you ignore it. It's a lot more than what first meets the eye.
Sundome's mangaka has done two works now that are sadomasochism themed. I, too, think she's (yeah, it's written by a woman) really into S&M. Her other one is more of a domination/subordination kind of manga. The first three chapters are available to read online, but no scanlation group is picking it up, and unlike Sundome, no English publisher is picking it up. I really want to read. I enjoy Kazuto Okata's works. And don't worry about whatever is spoiled to you, the execution of the story in that story is unpredictable, even if you have heard what's going to happen.
I'm actually caught up with Dorohedoro, I didn't put the chapters, but the amount of volumes I read, lol. Yeah I totally love it. It's an absolutely great manga and it reminds me a lot of Bioshock.
For Sundome, I really like it because I like to see exploration of S&M it did, and I really enjoyed the relationship between Kurumi and Aiba. It was so unique in manga that it was extremely refreshing. The manga is masterfully executed and the ending is phenomenal; incredibly metaphoric and symbolic.
