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Discuss manga here.
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Thoughts on Choujin X?
No. 290075
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anyone else read To Your Eternity? I binged the first part and loved it, but the time skip to present day was so jarring and bad. aside from some really comical moments where the main character is essentially experiencing culture shock (pic related) the present day era felt like a massive disconnected downgrade from what was otherwise a compelling series and I'm disappointed
No. 291136
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I haven't read manga in years, but recently I binge read Ase to Sekken. I liked that it didn't have any stupid melodrama and the characters actually resolved conflicts like adults. The romance was really sweet too. Can anyone recommend similar manga to me? I've read some of Yamada Kintetsu's other works; Telework Yotabanashi was good but over too soon and I read the first chapter of Kasane to Subaru but was put off by the crossdressing.
No. 291478
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hnk updates so goddamn slowly that it kills me; we get barely 20 pages per month. maybe per two months if the mangaka decides not to upload. i know i sound really whiny but kek i hate it.
it's also insane to me that i've been reading this since my middle school days. what will i do with myself when it's over…
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>>291478The new chapter is out! I love this shit
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>>291896>>291894yet another chapter that's left me miserable.
i want to phos to find happiness that isn't in death. i wish he could become his own kongo-sensei and run a little school for the new rocks.>there will be a break for the next two publicationsfucking kill me
No. 292043
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>>289637One series I'd love reprinted is Swan. It has the pretty 70s/80s shojo art I crave but the series was stopped halfway through English publishing.
I'm trying to learn Japanese in earnest nowadays, so I might try my hand at scanlating some stuff myself. But I won't be very good at it.
>>291216I haven't seriously read shoujo manga in 5 years or so, so my perception might be wrong. But I get the impression a lot of it/was high school romance. With how many there are in that setting they sometimes blend together unless there's a good hook. Not to say ALL shojo is high school romance of course. I might try finding some youtubers that discuss shoujo (Colleen's Manga Recs seems chill) and find some recommendations. That's helped me with finding more seinen to read.
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front page of mangadex kek
No. 292951
>>292892I don't think I've been on any [read online manga] type websites without about 50 of these on the first search pages.
I find it kind of weird, when I was younger read-manga-online websites were plentiful with tonnes of variety available for you to search but now it's lazy isekai/ecchi/yaoi and nothing else unless you specifically search.
No. 293090
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been reading berserk, just finished the golden age arc. nonnies i am obsessed with this manga, it is so fucking good. even though its incredibly depressing, i've actually been finding it incredibly motivational with seeing how resilient guts is. the only thing i hate is the gratuitous rape scenes with casca. i've been listening to the guts theme on loop while i read it
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>>293090The good news for you is that it might get continued even with Miura dead.
No. 293772
>>293746>even something as girly as Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, which was published in an online shoujo magazine, is getting physically published in a seinen oneSimply ridiculous
I think this happens because they think moids won't read shoujo as opposed to the many women who will read seinen or shounen. I get the impression that if a story is deemed "too good for shoujo" it'll get published elsewhere. Like shoujo is treated these days as the dumpster for low quality girly stuff even though shounen has high amounts of low tier garbage too
No. 294746
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They are still working on that One Piece live action.
>Eiichiro Oda Shares Update on Live-Action One Piece Series, Confirms 8-Episode Count >https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-05-04/eiichiro-oda-shares-update-on-live-action-one-piece-series-confirms-8-episode-count/.197794I can't see it being not-terrible.
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I hate this guy now.
No. 297845
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I just noticed but it's been at least 20 years since X went on hiatus! Fuck CLAMP, fuck Sakura and fuck Shaolan.
No. 297887
>>289577>>297845same with xxxholic rei
i wish they focused more on xxxholic than Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle because TRC became such a complicated clusterfuck towards the end. Imo holic has better characters, easier to follow story, mythology, etc.
No. 297903
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>>296794 Anthony from Shadows House. He manipulated the little girl in picrel and killed her.
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page made me kek
No. 298656
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>>298645I'm glad that Tokyo Babylon project is dead. The only time GoHands was good was when they made K. The rest of what they put out over the years is unwatchable. It's funny how they shot themselves in the foot by trying to be 'creative' though - they could have just copied the outfits from the manga instead of plagiarising real models.
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this is from sakuran, a manga about a girl who grows up in a whore house. spoilered for nudity. wish there was more manga that didn't romanticize this sort of thing.
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Would have been better if they were both women imo and I don’t trust anyone handling crossdressing characters (especially feminine men) in the current year.
But I like the art style
Manga is called Company and Private Life. Not much as been released
No. 301824
>>301823hard to say because I think it’s a new manga?
I agree about the designs , especially Hanku’s clothes.
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>>301824Yeah, I guess I got frustrated because of the web comic formart of only a couple of pages per "chapter", maybe it'll get interesting once the characters actually start interacting. Have you checked The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All"? It's a romance between a gyaru and a girl she mistakes for a guy and she also has an edgy look, I didn't really care for the story tbh, so I dropped it, but the art is nice and the characters are cute.
No. 301878
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can't stop laughing at this mangadex review of Daija ni Totsuida Musume
No. 302349
>>301827I have, I’m currently reading it. Unfortunately there’s a small LC
nonnie in my head criticising the concept because “who could be blind enough to not tell the difference between a moid and a woman”
I love the designs for it as well and I love how the gyaru girl likes alt music like nirvana lmao.
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WHAAAAT?! No way. This fucking story lmao
No. 304727
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Anyone wanna make 3x3's like they're doing in the anime thread?
https://gqgs.github.io/3x3-generator/ No. 304740
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>>304727based csm enjoyer
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>>304727I keep meaning to read Iguana Girl…
Sorry for my sometimes questionable taste.
No. 304889
>>304740BL Metamorphosis was so heartwarming and cute. I love old women as main characters, it should be a thing more often.
>>304727I don't usually read shonen but make the exorcist fall in love has a cute artstyle. What makes you like it enough to be a favourite while it's still pretty new?
Also, did you read Hanshin in english and if so, where? I feel like a boomer retard nowadays because I see people finish and read a lot of more obscure manga in (I'm assuming) english and I can never find them
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>>304727Just couldn't settle on a 3x3, had to do 4x4 lol
No. 304931
>>304889>Make the Exorcist Fall in LoveI debated putting it on since it’s so new but it clicked with me really intensely. I grew up really religious and sheltered and so I could relate to the protagonist a lot and seeing him slowly come to appreciate the world outside of religion just makes me really happy. I’m also really into Judeo-Christian mythology outside of religion and seeing a manga do more with religious themes than just throw up some crosses and nuns totally charmed me. I also love the gore aspects and “temptation”-based romance. It just feels like a manga made for me specifically lol.
>HanshinI found it cause some friends recced it to me, no idea where they first found it lol. Hanshin and Iguana Girl both have English translations on Mangadex, not sure if her other one-shots are up there though. Here are links to both if you need them:
https://mangadex.org/title/35a71f6a-4332-4a1a-b89c-58f4a85fb836/hanshin-demigodhttps://mangadex.org/title/450e6122-00a7-4b77-91e3-8a8b0c6cd1ba/iguana-girl No. 305102
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>>304727I'm going to get called a scrote lol.
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>>305102I almost put all these in my 3x3
Devilman is life, Sirene is my wife. But I haven’t read it all (there’s so much). Have you read the Sirene-Chan short gag spin-off and the adaptation with the crazy-good art
Amon: The Darkside of the Devilman? They’re good
I like the art in Brides Story and I will read it until the end and the romances are sweet but I have my gripes about it that I’ve probably posted here lol. HNK is amazing but I want to see how it ends
No. 305116
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I took a long break from reading manga and am now back, these are the current series that I'm caught up on. I'm looking for other recommendations of manga that have a similar vibe to dungeon Meshi or ancient magus bride, specifically nice gentleman guys like Elias, professor Layton etc.
I highly recommend all my current reads (although ranking of kings has a lot of ups and downs)
No. 305121
>>305116Lots of people like Arte although it didn’t grab me because I didn’t want to read a story about being passionate about work (lol) but it seems pretty good. Heterogenia Linguistico or Sousou no Frieren both might appeal to you.
Also, Daija (the snake in the snake husband manga) is a gentleman, he really strives to be a good husband
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>>304727Started reading hnk because of lc actually
No. 305241
>>305240>PlutoQueen shit.
One of my favorites too and honestly I think it's better than Monster.
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>>304727i feel like mine really shows my age…
>>304740>>304902love seeing others who enjoyed kasane!
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>>304727I suppose I just realised that I have a favourite mangaka
No. 305312
>>305240>>305241samefag but I almost put Pluto on mine too but decided to go for 20th Century Boys instead
my two favourites of Urasawa are Billy Bat and Monster but Pluto is an absolute masterpiece as well, you're both based af
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>>304727>no Eroica in the searchbooo!
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>>305338Never mind I’m just dumb and didn’t scroll.
No. 305372
>>305370Left to right:
Saltiness
Sleeping Dead
7Seeds
Gente (read Ristorante Paradiso first)
Annarasumanara
Swan
Ikkoku Nikki
Helter Skelter
Tokyo Babylon
Dousei Mansion (Saturn Apartments)
Yowamushi Pedal
Dolis
From Eroica With Love
Pet
Antique Bakery
Dragon Head
I want to swap out one or two though, I totally forgot about Coponicus no Kokyuu, Litchi Hikari Club, and I kinda like K’s Funeral Procession more than Dolis (but Dolis is in full color and very stylish)
No. 306329
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huge thanks to the nona that mentioned this on the rec chart. it's so good. i forgot how much i loved ghost stories
in a perfect world things like this would get adapted instead of battle isekai harem ln #594590
No. 306912
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So this has recently been scanlated til the end, so I truly have no reason to not read it. Gonna start right now.
No. 306914
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>>306912And I already love her.
No. 306915
River’s Edge is finally published in English! I’m downloading it rn to see how it is compared to the old scanlation
>>306912I didn’t know it was finished, I’ll have to keep reading. I had stopped around volume 4 I think.
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>>306914Samefagging to add the aunt is hot.
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>>307080I like it! I wasn’t sure what to expect since a few publishers make pretty wonky translations, but whoever worked on this added a lot of annotated notes with info on the time period and things that the characters talk about. The lettering is really good too, and a bunch of the background graffiti text was translated. The biggest difference I noticed from the scanlation is that they use more swear words. I think I’m going to buy a print copy because it’s nice to see it without the super old scans.
No. 307236
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I don’t want to ruin this thread but this screencap kind of surprised me. I’m aware that the mangaka for Witch Hat Atelier worked on some American comics (Marvel) but I didn’t expect the manga to get described as queer.
Should I even be overthinking it.
No. 308285
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Shadows House, please, we don't need 5 new characters you only killed like 2 in the last 100 chapters I cannot take this
No. 308322
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>>304727this was way too hard to make, there's a lot more manga that i wouldve loved to put on this
>>304740>>304902>>305254so happy to see other kasane enjoyers
>>305310based naoki urasawa fan
No. 308528
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Could someone please recommend any manga/manhwa/manhua about slice-of-life childcare, centering around one child and their (happy, no angst) life, such as Yotsuba&! or Papa Wolf and the Puppy? I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask but thank you so much in advance!
No. 308534
>>308528Gakuen Babysitters, One Fine Day, Baby & Me, With the Light
>>308530Rosario Vampire, it’s moid haremshit
No. 308535
>>308530moka from rosario vampire, if youre ever interested in getting into the series do not watch the anime just read the manga
>>308534>moid haremshiti wont disagree but im blinded by nostalgia goggles so its one of my favorites
No. 308545
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>>308536It’s not getting translated but there is an ongoing homolust vampire comedy manga called ババンババンバンバンパイア
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/cv0s96e/babanbabanban-vampire No. 308767
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She's just like me fr. If I was a hot Japanese writer.
No. 309598
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Was Isshuukan Friends any good?
No. 309695
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Cairo Danchou. Has anyone read it? Got a physical release of it recently and planning to start reading soon. Light-hearted story about anthropomorphic hard-working tree frogs who got in trouble with a big spotty toad for drinking expensive whiskey.
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>>309709Yes, no english sadly, I got a russian one (published in 2021, russian nonas can buy it right now in various shops, it's in stock and doesn't seem to be popular). Honestly had no idea it was that obscure kek.
>There were once thirty tree frogs. They worked merrily and amicably. Their insect friends threw them jobs. They collected cups-bells of perilla and poppy boxes, planted flower glades.>Thus begins the parable of one of the most famous Japanese writers of the first half of the XX century, Kenji Miyazawa. Many years later, when Miyazawa became a recognized classic, and his works were included in the school curriculum, the artist Masumura Hiroshi did a great job analyzing the work of the great writer and adapted his works in the form of manga.>Kenji Miyazawa's life fell on a stormy and dramatic period in the history of Japan, and in the two stories that you will find in this book, frogs, insects and forest animals play out the social conflicts that tore apart Japanese society at that time. However, the answer that Miyazawa offers in his stories remains relevant even now — it is love and compassion. No. 310402
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Wait, is Spy x Family gonna be good again? new Fiona bodyhorror chapter gave me chills lol
No. 310664
>>310654The main in
Koi no Kiseki (Love's Miracle) is ugly at first but she goes through a (non-magical, I would say she still looks a little unusual) transformation and is not ugly anymore after a while, she still has problems with having low confidence etc.
Kasane – extremely ugly MC with magic lipstick, the whole thing is about ugliness/beauty and acting
Princess Jellyfishhaven't read these but I think they might fit the bill:
"Pochamani"
Bara no Tame ni iA bouquet for an ugly girlSkip to Loafer (not ugly just average/plain, I don't believe she gets bullied either if you want something lighter)
Kengai Princess by Natsumi Aida
No. 310872
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>>310664samefag: I started reading
bouquet for an ugly girl and it's also lighthearted - no bullying - and it's very cute so far. main character is chubby and shy, the cute perfect nice boy in class is taking an interest in her. comical-misunderstandings-with-cute-conclusions type plot, like picrel volume 1 extra.
No. 310892
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>>310888What did you expect? No one wants to acknowledge being ugly, even ugly representation shouldn’t be too accurate because then what’s there to fantasize about? In the end it really makes you think that maybe you’re not as ugly as you think you are.
I think those manga are okay, not perfect because yeah, a truly ugly character that manages to find happiness would be amazing, but at least it’s something decent and not:
>hi! I’m main character and I’m ugly!>pic related is my ugly ass mug!>I get bullied everyday and everywhere I go!>I’m getting makeup to cover my ugly ass freckles that look like someone sharted on my ugly face!>nah nee?! I’m beautiful now! >I will get plastic surgery because my face is disgusting anyways!>and now everyone will love me!>only if manage to lose 10 kilos, of course!>because I disgustingly weight 40 kilos and I should weight 30 kilos >but that’s not healthy so I will conform with weighting 35 kilos!>I’m a tall freak btw! My height is 1.60 and everyone thinks I look like a monster!>plus this hot dude only dates short skinny legends that somehow look taller than me!>so I will do everything for him! No. 310906
>>310888I think the Koi no Kiseki MC is very ugly but I just don't like the art lol (love the story though.) Kasane was ugly based on what they showed but they refused to reveal her full face which was annoying.
Anyway most of them fit the "socially awkward" part of her request.
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Speedstar Scanlation dropped the snake husband manga? I'm devastated. It was just getting so good. I bought the first volume of the official english release but it'll take so long to catch up!
unless they secretly aren't dropping it… they did release a new chapter
No. 311944
>>310888I remember reading that the watamote artist wanted to make the heroine much meaner-looking, but it got shot down by the editors
In fairness, it's very, very rare in the real world for young women and girls to be genuinely hideous, at most they're just a bit dorky looking. Men on the other hand…
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>>310654The only one I can think you that features that description other than Kasane (as in the protag is ugly and not just awkward/black hair with glasses) is Sora o Kakeru Yodaka but the ugly girl is an asshole despite the story trying to sell you on the "beauty is on the inside" crap lol
No. 312268
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>>312267High chance you've heard of this one but just in case you haven't: A Bride's Story / Otoyomegatari
No. 312321
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Kalendel (of Lovely Strange Dark) is giving away a bunch of her manga. if you live in the US you can get it for the cost of media mail shipping, otherwise sounds like she's tossing them (tragic) because of a move. I can't read japanese so it's of little value to me unless I wanna make a collage out of the pages lol but I know some of you can read them
https://lsd.mangadex.com/2023/07/14/in-a-faint/ No. 312773
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The first chapter of Satoro Noda's new manga DogsRed was translated, for those interested. Pretty much Golden Kamuy on ice so far.
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lmao Noda
No. 312794
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>>312784Same, especially with the title being "doggusureddo" which might as well actually mean sled (or thread), dogs red doesn't make much sense.
>>312790I love the sister. As someone on /a/ has pointed out she's doing the Tsukishima-faces when snow monkey is fanboying or whining.
No. 312926
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Finally read Jojolion. Starts off really strong but everything after Vitamin C is a huge drop in quality. It also has the worst Stands and fights and Rock humans were a mistake. Worst final fight. Way too long.
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>>312928There were a lot of good things about the part too, don't get me wrong. Even after the halfway point. It's just such a massive disparity in the quality of writing between the two halves that when you summarize the part, that's what you mostly focus on. The initial mystery of Jousuke's identity is one of the best things Araki has ever written. The problem is that the part just kept going without direction.
In particular, I really loved the Higashikata family. Joubin especially is one of the most well-thought out antagonists Araki has ever written. I'll admit, a lot of that is because Araki can't write past comic book level villains, but Joubin was good!
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>>312926Jojolion is the only part I never bothered finishing. Want to do it since I eagerly read most other parts, but I guess I will have to force myself. Had kind of a Jojo related burnout around the middle of part 7 though so maybe that's related. Currently reading the new part and I am fine with it, although I read it irregularly.
>>312784>>312790Second chapter is already translated now too. I am so happy to finally have another weekly series to follow. The other stuff I read is monthly at best and yearly at worst.
No. 313271
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I finally decided to read xxxholic this weekend and depressed Watanuki is such a mood.
Just finished reading the final chapter of the original series (so up until xxxholic Rei) and now I’m going to re-read Tsubasa (which I didn’t know had a sequel, I was kinda confused by the original back when I read it. Hopefully things will make more sense this time now that I’ve read xxxholic!)
No. 313395
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This is the worst manga I've read in a while, why are they pandering to twittertards when the covers had BL and yuri? It's like they think mental illness is somehow better than just having a character be gay.
Granted the characters are fucking atrocious, they're literally just clones of their parents with less personality.
No. 313402
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>>313400Higurashi reiwa, it's dogshit just read the original since it's actually good.
They did so many stupid changes like making a lesbian character straight for no reason and marrying the entire cast off to people who literally don't have faces. Then they baited fujos for a while before going 'LOL ACTUALLY HE'S NOT GAY'
No. 313419
>>313395>>313395Ah damn that's the new Higurashi manga isn't it? I wanted to read it for the new content. I hate when that happens. I think that characters without any sexual urges can have a point of existing or it might even match some personalities, but it's suspicious how often it happens with the gays or gay coded characters.
Reminds me of that current G-Witch debacle. I don't even like the series and dropped it, but what they are doing right now to retroactively erase lesbians after the huge success the series had partly because of it is embarrassing.
Also, the second panel you posted makes no sense if the character is aroace. He's blushing and fawning over a guy here. This literally cannot happen if he isn't sexually attracted, especially since he seems to react that way by just remembering it here.
>marrying the entire cast off to people who literally don't have facesI hate this so much it happens in shounen and so many other series. It's like they felt forced to do this, even if the partners are literal nobodies or characters they have never shown interest in before.
No. 313422
>>313419>Ah damn that's the new Higurashi manga isn't it? I wanted to read it for the new content. Yep, it's honestly not good mystery wise either so there's not much reason to read it unless you're familiar with the source material and into hatereading (so pretty small demographic haha).
>but it's suspicious how often it happens with the gays or gay coded charactersExactly, it's pretty much a cop out that you would never see for a heterosexual character, and then moids and twitter trannies get to be overly smug about it.
>He's blushing and fawning over a guy here. This literally cannot happen if he isn't sexually attractedTheir reasoning for this is literally 'he sees him like a cute small animal' which to me is way more weird than 'he's just gay and thinks that he's cute' especially since unlike Rena he only does it with Keiichi's son instead of everyone.
>I hate this so much it happens in shounen and so many other series. It's a trope that's literally only liked by people who think they're 'above' shipping for whatever reason even though it's objectively terrible writing. It's even worse here since most of the people they married don't even have faces or aren't even shown in the manga at all. I avoid reading shounen so I luckily don't run into it that often, but it pops up in stuff I'm reading sometimes despite that.
No. 313542
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is anyone scanlating Yoi With Mottled Skin / Madara Moyou no Yoi / まだら模様のヨイ ?
No. 314399
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Does anyone have any recommendations for manga about girlfailure office women in their 20s?
Along the lines of tramps like us, watashi no shounen, 3am dangerous zone etc.
No. 314440
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Is Nichijou really that much unfunnier than Azumanga Daiou, or is it because it has no 4koma format? I remember finding the few chapters of AO that were panelled normally not as funny as the rest of the series, too.
No. 315578
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I assume that by now everybody already knows about this but Nami Sano, the creator of Sakamoto desu ga and Migi & Dali has unfortunately passed away on August 5, 2023 due to cancer disease.
She was only 35, which makes this even sadder.
Migi & Dali will get an anime adaption that starts in autumn, you should give it a chance. Haven't read that one yet but I greatly enjoyed Sakamoto. Those news make the ending of Sakamoto hit differently for sure.
No. 315602
>>314399>3am dangerous zonememory unlocked
not a manga but have you watched aggressive retsuko?
No. 316024
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>$2.95
different times…
No. 316068
>>316024slightly related but actual manga volumes (like the jpn tankobon ones) used to cost the same everywhere in germany. it was always 5 euros, except for tokyopop volumes which would cost 6,50. that has drastically changed now. the old volumes that used to be 5 euros but that are still sold nowadays cost 6,50 euros by now, and new(er) manga consistently cost between 6,50 and 8,50 euros. some even go for 10 euros. of course special editions like double volumes (ranma 1/2 or inuyasha, for example) cost even more and the price usually ranges from 12 to 25 euros.
i don't buy manga anymore but it makes me sad how i used to be able to buy so many of them with my tiny allowance and saving up birthday/christmas money.
No. 317027
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I was just checking the new manga releases in my country and came across this wonderful yuri manga I want to recommend. Haru Tsuzuru, Sakura Saku Kono Heya de.
It's a two volume long series about loss and healing, the insecurity that comes with the grief after the death of a dear one and the unwillingness of moving on in fear of closing a chapter and forgetting them, even five years later. It's a coincidence that I read it now, since it was exactly five years ago that I have lost two people who were very close to me, so it hit right home.
If you want a bittersweet yuri manga about the slow healing of a 32 year old woman that's far removed from all otaku pandering you should absolutely give this a chance.
>>316068Other German here, wanted to say the same. I still remember the 10DM/5 EUR age. Most manga I buy now cost ~7,50 EUR. Many cost 10-12 EUR, though they are bigger formats to be fair. They have upsides since some stories look better that way, but it makes it harder to keep up with many series unless you have a lot of spare money AND space.
I would have bought Fist of the North Star, Jojo and other nice newer releases, but it's simply too expensive for longer series and I have barely any free shelves at this point. Tbh I would take the small formats for many if I had the chance and rather pay less. I especially do not need fancy hardcovers and all that.
No. 318316
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I always got such a creep factor from Oshimi's works and now I know why. I tried reading a few of his different works without reading they were both by him (Chi no Wadachi and Inside Mari) and felt grossed out by how moidy they were. I liked Aku no Hana the first time I read it as a teen but literally everything he writes is absolutely dripping with his issues with women, its so annoying to see his shit peddled as kino.
No. 318402
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>>318316I ended up reading Aku no Hana after seeing it getting shilled as a psychological masterpiece. Sawa was a fun character however the entire manga is too porny for me to enjoy.
I saw that image circulating on Twitter - I will never understand why actual women put pornsick mangaka on a pedestal just because they happen to have gender dysphoria.
Also funny how deeply disturbed, degenerate male mangaka such as Oshimi and Fujimoto get labelled as LGBT allies kek.
No. 318449
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>>318316Can you retards stop talking about moids for one second?
No. 318451
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>>318449Sorry for talking about a popular mangaka in the manga thread. I'll post about a series I like by a woman to make it up to you.
I really like Sanda, it's by the same author as Beastars. It has a human cast but has the exact same craziness that I enjoyed about Beastars. I hope it gets more popular in the future but I feel without the furry boost people might be turned off by its art style, which is a shame cause it has a lot of fun and insteresting ideas about growing up and growing old and how society values youth.
No. 320289
>>320285Like
>>320287 said, it's a monster horror, not libfem/femme fatale and not misandrist either (women also suffer and are shown as shallow and motivated by jealousy). Many stories are focusing on her disgusting regeneration power.
No. 321547
>>317043Dorohedoro
Magus of the Library
Witch Hat Atelier
The Ancient Magus' Bride
Hakumei and Mikochi
Land of the Lustrous
Music of Marie
No. 322217
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No. 322218
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>>322217Not really a fan of shoujo honestly (I read some of Princess Jellyfish but dropped it because I hated the love interest, he was a shithead)
I like gakuen babysitters though!
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>>322217Not much into shoujo so I dropped most of these, but I really liked Basara, Sailor Moon and Rakugo and I think that Kids on the Slope is painfully underrated.
I was mostly into classic mahou shoujo since it is the perfect form of shoujo IMO. It mixes adventure and drama with the shoujo style, but since it's about magical girls romance is at best a subplot and there are no male characters so it doesn't resort to otome tropes since they aren't my thing and top of all of this it was a bit of wish fulfillment since everybody would like to be given some special power to be a hero one day.
Sadly the that genre is gone for some reason.
But speaking about that list I should get my ass up and start the new manga from the Basara/7 Seeds author already.
I would also add some iconic CLAMP series to that list, especially Rayearth was great. I cannot explain why, but Rayearth worked perfectly for me whereas I couldn't stand Yona, Fushihi Yuugi and the likes. Maybe because of the reasons above, since Rayearth is basically a mahou shouji with other genres thrown in.
No. 322614
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>>322217For some it has been so long ago since I watched them, the only thing I remember IS watching them.
No. 322712
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>>322217wtf where is ouran? Needs rose of versailles and more clamp too imo. I'm mildly ashamed I haven't seen utena, I watched 2 episodes as a kid and it went way over my head kek. I've been meaning to give it another try. Lovely Complex is probably my favorite on the list (maybe just for nostalgia)