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Watching this season
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Days: 25.8
Mean Score:
7.13
- Total Entries141
- Reread0
- Chapters4,008
- Volumes375
All Comments (166) Comments
I have a bunch of burnouts from reading BOTI. The arc I'm on has the same setting and it's so long. So yesterday, I too, put on a nice little hour film called Angel's Egg. It's one of those kinds of nonsensical media, I liked it a lot. I don't have to analyze anything because the movie is up for interpretation, the director couldn't even tell you what it meant lol. I like things like that.
I've had someone describe Maruo's work as "misery porn." Can't say I disagree lol, But I enjoy his surreal aspects of storytelling and his cool artwork.
The Dancing Dwarf was an adaptation of a Japanese story, it was a bit underwhelming compared to DDT.
DDT had its fair share of humor among its abundance of f'ed up stuff, so it was readable lol. I liked the opening surreal illustrations. Two of them are on display in my profile bio under "Show Manga Illustrations."
I really commend his efforts in drawing so many worms. XD
I'm well myself, have you made some time for manga?
I'm more than halfway done reading Blade of the Immortal. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Also looking into Maruo Suehiro's work a bit in between. I've finished a short story collection, as well as a one chap by him. [DDT] [The Dancing Dwarf]
I finished all four omnibuses that I own, but not quite the whole series. I will be reading the rest online. :P
I buy all of my manga second-hand because it's cheaper. A great site for this is Mercari. People also sell a bunch of new stuff too at a good discount. I can refer you to a few listings of BOTI I found, if you're interested. This one, and This one for the complete series.
However you should take note of a little Samurai manga Im actually currently reading, Blade of the Immortal, and the art is just phenomenal! A lot of the panels are done in pencil only so it makes for a really cool sort-of “realism” effect. Its also worth mentioning a lot of people say it rivals one of the greatest samurai manga of all time “Lone wolf and cub”, I own four of the BOTI omnibuses so Im steadily working my way through them. Also, I’ve heard good things about Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite!
Hope you have a good day