@They:
Can any of you help me out. I have been trying to remember the name of a manga I read a while back. Its about a boy who is going to a new school and he moves into a shared housing building where it just so happens everyone there is a very good shougi or go player. I tried searching shogi, and go mangas but I just can't find it. Sorry for the vague description.
i think it is Mononofu
But it is a canceled shonen jump serie
@Freddy´s:
Thank you for the list. I think Eden is something I might enjoy. Also been eyeing Lone Wolf for a while now, but been put off to buy the volumes bc they flipped it (I hate that).
Also remembered the Adolf manga (also flipped^^). I think I´ll go with that first.
Haven´t read Adolf yet, it´s on my reading list, but i got distracted too often recently with newer and seemingly easier to digest titles
Yep Eden is one of my favorites, and Lone Wolf is a known classic that was adapted to tv shows and movies even.
Adolf is really good but I didn't like it quite as much as Phoenix or Buddha. And those three are my favorites of what I've read of Tezuka's stuff. Dororo, Princess Knight, and MW were varying degrees of poor to decent. Black Jack is supposedly good but it's quite a bit longer than the other stuff I've read from him so I haven't started it yet. Also want to read Astro Boy at some point.
Right now I'm reading Shiawase Kissa 3-choume, which I mostly picked up because I liked the first volume cover and the character designs (and in general I really like most Hana to Yume volume covers, both for art and just overall design that they all share). Has typical shoujo manga proportion issues but it's fine so far.
Haven´t read Adolf yet, it´s on my reading list, but i got distracted too often recently with newer and seemingly easier to digest titles
Yep Eden is one of my favorites, and Lone Wolf is a known classic that was adapted to tv shows and movies even.
Yeah I think I´ll bite the bullet and order the first two omnibus versions of Lone Wolf with the two Adolf books. I guess the left handed samurai will be fun to see^^ Also: Have you read Mushishi?
@Freddy´s:
Yeah I think I´ll bite the bullet and order the first two omnibus versions of Lone Wolf with the two Adolf books. I guess the left handed samurai will be fun to see^^ Also: Have you read Mushishi?
Mushishi is a title i exclusively watched the anime of, since the animation and the tranquil soundtrack were too good to pass on, one of the few examples i prefer the anime adaptation of (with a few others, especially mangas about music).
I read somewhere that they might have changed the order of the stories taking place (Mushishi is mostly of episodic nature) but it apparently does not change anything.
Mushishi is a title i exclusively watched the anime of, since the animation and the tranquil soundtrack were too good to pass on, one of the few examples i prefer the anime adaptation of (with a few others, especially mangas about music).
I read somewhere that they might have changed the order of the stories taking place (Mushishi is mostly of episodic nature) but it apparently does not change anything.
Ah okay. Episodic sounds great. Might give that a try as well. I guess I have something to do the next weeks ;) Thanx again!
@Ukimix: just realised your post was for me. I read Pluto, but thanks for the tool!
@Freddy´s:
Ah okay. Episodic sounds great. Might give that a try as well. I guess I have something to do the next weeks ;) Thanx again!
@Ukimix: just realised your post was for me. I read Pluto, but thanks for the tool!
No problem, have fun.
Just remembered a few other historic ones i recently (recently means last 3 years or so) started to read.
Gunka no Baltzar (fictional world war I)
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (Chinese Empire)
Golden Kamuy (late 19th, early 20th century Japan)
Otoyomegatari (Middle East 19th Century)
Youjo Senki (fictional world war I)
Since Ajin ended I picked up a few more ongoing series. Binetsu Kuukan because of it being another series by Hidamari Sketch's manga. I like the art, especially because it's a normal manga and not a 4koma like Hidamari Sketch is so the art has more room to show. It only comes out 3 times per year though unfortunately. Also started Heterogenia Linguistic because the concept sounded cool. It hasn't been running for very long though so I'm interested in where it'll go. And I heard that Hitori Bocchi is ending (Mitsuboshi Colors ended recently too) soon so I decided to start reading that too. I don't think it's as funny as Colors so far but it's nice. And I decided to start reading Yuru Yuri too because most of these manga I'm just reading a couple of chapters of per day and trying to not binge. I've already seen the anime but I thought the manga was a 4koma. It isn't though, it's actually similar to how Heterogenia Linguistic is except the chapters are shorter (and it is apparently also quarterly). I've seen the more recent art and it looks really nice but the early art looks kind of weird when you're used to the anime art and designs.
I finished Astra Lost in Space in one seating and it was amazing.
Got a bit rushed and infodumpey nearer the end but the author is very good at character writing but then again, he wrote Sket Dance.
He probably read a lot of sci-fi before he started the project and the people who loved it, really loved it. Like the anime studio who did it gave it their 200% and it showed.
I just really love this manga.
Actually I have been briefly reading some, I rarely read manga these days. I have been reading The Legend of Dragoon. Yes it is that LoD, it's a fan made. So far, they released Chapter 1. Check out the link below:
https://www.interstellar-manga.com/en/Manga/The-Legend-of-Dragoon/8/
Additionally, I also been reading the first chapter of the actual official Manga from Japan.
i think it is Mononofu
But it is a canceled shonen jump serie
Thanks, that was indeed the one. Shame.
I'm re reading Claymore because if we lived in a better world this would get a brotherhood treatment…
I dunno if we have a general manga thread, so I'll take a chance and ask here instead.
So the last shonen I've been invested lately is One Piece and MHA, and a recurring criticism of both is that their fight sequences - while not bad - aren't their strong points. This made me curious what manga there are with fights that are considered top notch, and what constitutes such a fight. I can't remember reading any work in recent years where fighting was even the main draw.
The only one I can think of -at all- is the first half of Naruto.
To restate the question to fit the thread better, what manga would you recommend for someone who'd like to study some genuinely great battle sequences in comic format?
I don't know what people are talking about when they say One Piece fights aren't the best. As far as I'm concerned, they're top notch.
Anyway, for battles you may want to refer to ol' reliable Dragon Ball, which set an impeccably high standard with the pacing and flow of its battles.
Besides DB, maybe Vagabond? But that swordfights and not fist fights, so…
Any fights would do! So long as it's not a sports manga (excepting something like boxing of course, that's a literal fighting sport).
Guess this is a good excuse to finally read Dragon Ball…
@Zar:
I dunno if we have a general manga thread, so I'll take a chance and ask here instead.
So the last shonen I've been invested lately is One Piece and MHA, and a recurring criticism of both is that their fight sequences - while not bad - aren't their strong points. This made me curious what manga there are with fights that are considered top notch, and what constitutes such a fight. I can't remember reading any work in recent years where fighting was even the main draw.
The only one I can think of -at all- is the first half of Naruto.
To restate the question to fit the thread better, what manga would you recommend for someone who'd like to study some genuinely great battle sequences in comic format?
I think it depends on what aspect of fights you are looking for. One Piece is great for the context of fights and what they represent, and flow of the panels (i think Oda is really underrated in that regard, his page and panels layout is incredible, i have yet to see a manga that matches him in that regard), i think if you are looking for transparency in moves and fighting styles, and a cohesive fighting system, yep One Piece is lacking in that regard. The obvious problem is Haki, but it´s not solely that, the DFs themselves are creative for the most part, how Oda utilizes them can be lacking in some instances. And since the powers can be so different from each other, how they relate to each other has both positive and negative consequences.
So yeah, people mentioned Vagabond, in some instances, each sword slash is inspected through the eyes of both spectators and participants, besides the philosophical context. And since it is rooted in real martial arts, it does not have the problem Oda has with fantasy powers.
HxH has a much better and transparent fighting system, though Togashi did some blunders as well, but he treats it much more like a RPG than any manga i have seen, and fights are as much a battle of wits as interaction of powers.
Holyland has an in-depth analysis of a lot of different martial artists and is also rooted in reality, Teppuu highlights mixed martial arts, same as all rounder meguru.
So Oda is up there in some aspects, potential for improvement in others.
I think it depends on what aspect of fights you are looking for. One Piece is great for the context of fights and what they represent, and flow of the panels (i think Oda is really underrated in that regard, his page and panels layout is incredible, i have yet to see a manga that matches him in that regard), i think if you are looking for transparency in moves and fighting styles, and a cohesive fighting system, yep One Piece is lacking in that regard. The obvious problem is Haki, but it´s not solely that, the DFs themselves are creative for the most part, how Oda utilizes them can be lacking in some instances. And since the powers can be so different from each other, how they relate to each other has both positive and negative consequences.
So yeah, people mentioned Vagabond, in some instances, each sword slash is inspected through the eyes of both spectators and participants, besides the philosophical context. And since it is rooted in real martial arts, it does not have the problem Oda has with fantasy powers.
HxH has a much better and transparent fighting system, though Togashi did some blunders as well, but he treats it much more like a RPG than any manga i have seen, and fights are as much a battle of wits as interaction of powers.
Holyland has an in-depth analysis of a lot of different martial artists and is also rooted in reality, Teppuu highlights mixed martial arts, same as all rounder meguru.So Oda is up there in some aspects, potential for improvement in others.
Oda's fights being treated as sub-par is one of the reasons I asked this, actually, as I've always found his fights pretty fun. It made me wonder what exactly people are looking for in a "good fight". But it makes sense that it's a subjective thing, with different manga excelling in different aspects.
Adding those manga's to my to-read list as well. I've skimmed through HxH before and the fights always seemed fascinating (if a bit over-explained).
@Zar:
I dunno if we have a general manga thread, so I'll take a chance and ask here instead.
So the last shonen I've been invested lately is One Piece and MHA, and a recurring criticism of both is that their fight sequences - while not bad - aren't their strong points. This made me curious what manga there are with fights that are considered top notch, and what constitutes such a fight. I can't remember reading any work in recent years where fighting was even the main draw.
The only one I can think of -at all- is the first half of Naruto.
To restate the question to fit the thread better, what manga would you recommend for someone who'd like to study some genuinely great battle sequences in comic format?
First series that comes to mind is Kengan Asura. I think it can be classified as a shonen, it can be a bit gory and violent but nothing like Berserk levels of dismemberment. Simplest way of describing it is that it's a Fighting Tournament manga. There's obviously more going on, especially in the 2nd part of the series, but the main thrust of the story is martial artists fighting and looking very cool doing it.
Hopefully you haven't already read it and I haven't completely wasted your time lol
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@Zar:
I've skimmed through HxH before and the fights always seemed fascinating (if a bit over-explained).
yeah lol, watch the 2011 anime.
@Oga:
First series that comes to mind is Kengan Asura. I think it can be classified as a shonen, it can be a bit gory and violent but nothing like Berserk levels of dismemberment. Simplest way of describing it is that it's a Fighting Tournament manga. There's obviously more going on, especially in the 2nd part of the series, but the main thrust of the story is martial artists fighting and looking very cool doing it.
Hopefully you haven't already read it and I haven't completely wasted your time lol
Second that recommendation. The manga is drawn by someone who clearly understands the human body and the physicality of hand to hand combat.
there's also Shigurui for sword fights
@TLC:
Second that recommendation. The manga is drawn by someone who clearly understands the human body and the physicality of hand to hand combat.
Yeah, I too second Kengan Ashura and Omega. Now, clearly the manga has some supernatural narrative since the characters make things beyond humanly possible. But It's quite nice if you like the heavy actions. The artist draws really good scary faces… lol
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Ajin has great fight choreography.
@Zar:
Oda's fights being treated as sub-par is one of the reasons I asked this, actually, as I've always found his fights pretty fun. It made me wonder what exactly people are looking for in a "good fight". But it makes sense that it's a subjective thing, with different manga excelling in different aspects.
Adding those manga's to my to-read list as well. I've skimmed through HxH before and the fights always seemed fascinating (if a bit over-explained).
From what i have seen of the complaints, it´s mostly about either the lack of strategizing in a battle and also the lack of transparency (just to give an arbitrary example, Luffy´s Jet Pistol is enough to destroy a Pacifista which is made of one of the strongest materials of the world, yet is not enough to beat characters that later get easily beaten by Robin for example with moves she already had before the training. The strength and effect of powers, attacks and so forth vary based on the narrative necessity, so are not consistent).
That only became a problem in one of the later arcs (Chimera ants) for me with HxH, up to then i think he is doing a very good job of keeping the balance between explaining and showing. He has to explain to a certain extent since the strategies and the powers are pretty intricate.
Sakamoto Days has excelent choreography and panneling, but fights are short and there aren't that many because the manga is new.
One Punch Man too, especially the earlier chapters (later chapters fights reach DBZ levels so there's more focus on huge effects).
Thanks for all the suggestions!
My reading-list got quite an expansion 
You can try reading The Breaker and The Breaker new waves for a movie like stylish yet coherent battle manga experience.
It's beautiful is all I'm saying and the fighting slaps.
But it can become pseudo-superhero sometimes so there's that.
Man I just love the legwork and the use of legs in that series, it is just so satisfying to look at.
Someone seems to have picked up Gingitsune to translate. I hope they're good and that they continue. It's been a series I've wanted to read for a long time.
Bought the german e-books of Fireforce and Shamanking, never read anything of Atsushi Ōkubo, so this is a first, so far I finished Volume 1.
I like his panel structure and the story does seem similar to the anime if I remember correctly.
As for Shaman king, read it before but since they are doing a new translation and the art is/was polished by Hiroyuki Takei I thought I give the official version a shot, after only reading the fan translations a few years back. Haven't read it yet but its on my list.
Also bought Uzumaki by Junji Ito, only heard of him, never read/watched any of his work. Hope this wont disappoint me.
I’m rereading History’s Strongest Disciple Kenchi
Read the first 2 chapters of Neru. 1 more chapter and i'm most likely done with it.
Apparently Dorohedoro was going to end before too but it didn't. Not 8 years ago though I don't think. But yeah, chapter 167 is supposed to be the last chapter. I think chapter 165 came out last month but it hasn't been translated yet. So this month and the next month if it's not another fakeout.
I finished Believers, which was an interesting and short series. I want to find some raws and see how they do some of the text because a lot of the text is apparently gibberish but maybe with the meaning (or a meaning) written in furigana or something. Started Ran to Haiiro no Sekai and am in the middle of it. It takes several chapters to get going but it's pretty interesting where I am right now.
That is an actually interesting manga. i read it and i gotta say, it is a 10/10. the way the character development is done is extremely good.
I don't know what I was expecting from a manga titled "Panorama of Hell" but it certainly lives up to that name. Seems kind of autobiographical to an extent, though pretty limited I imagine.
That is an actually interesting manga. i read it and i gotta say, it is a 10/10. the way the character development is done is extremely good.
I'm interested, are you referring to Believers or Dorohedoro?
Read Nickelodeon. I liked it more than Voynich Hotel. The vignette format works pretty nice with the way the guy does stories imo. And them not being part of one large story (though still connected) allowed for a lot of variety in genres and types of stories. The shortness of the stories for me at least made it difficult sometimes to actually piece together the connections though.
Edit: Just finished Kakushigoto. What a masterpiece.
! It's sad to see Kumeta so hard on himself because at least judging by SZS and Kakushigoto he is a very good mangaka. SZS managed to have a great ending after 30 volumes of silly gag manga stuff and Kakushigoto is just an amazing manga all the way through in so many different ways. It is autobiographical to some extent, though Kumeta said that Kakushi isn't really that much like him, and I don't think he has a daughter either. But he put so many of his personal experiences and opinions about the manga industry into the series and it is basically like a love letter to the manga industry. Not just in the references and such but it's so ingrained into the story at every stage, even factoring into the resolution, that as someone who is really into manga it's just really nice to see. Especially when the mangaka puts himself down all the time and has certain opinions about the industry that may make it seem like he doesn't like it. Having the mangaka's words themselves, in the form of short essays after each chapter, is just the icing on the cake and something that unfortunately the anime, among other things, can't replicate.
! And not only is it a story about manga, it's a meticulously thought out and touching father-daughter (and family in general even with the lack of a mother characters in the actual story). It twists and turns while cutting back and forth between the present and the past and building up suspense really well. If I had one complaint though it would be that (and Kumeta himself said in the manga he felt this way) the present storyline did feel like it dragged a bit. If there were even a few more scenes it might have felt like it had better pacing. It could have been darker, but it managed to be just as good the way it was, and I am glad that it stuck to the wholesomeness that it set up throughout the manga. Kakushigoto was definitely not what I was expecting coming from SZS. There is a lot that is reminiscent of SZS but that type of comedy is woven very well in with the wholesome father-daughter stuff, at times it can feel like tonal whiplash but not to the extent where it's offputting. Plot points tie in very well with each other between the present and past chapters (typically things are brought up in the present chapters and then you get what led up to it in later past chapters) and the series does a very good job near the end of firmly transitioning to the present after the final past chapters play out. There is a lot of breathtaking imagery within the last one or two chapters and like I said above, you can just feel the amount of love for the medium Kumeta has. I'm also glad it had a sort of epilogue since it seemed closer to the end that it might not. And with how good the anime is it's a shame that it wasn't able to adapt more.
If you like Slice of life mangas, I recommend you Hirayasumi. It is by the author of Tokyo Alien Brothers and Nora to zassou
Reading Berserk. I wish I was more into this manga when Miura was alive. Feels kind of somber really getting into it now.
Came across a short manga called Laika no Hoshi about the dog Laika that was launched into space by the USSR coming to live on another planet and planning revenge on humanity. I wasn't sure what to expect from it since it's such a ridiculous concept but it turned out to be really good. It reminded me a lot of some of the stories in Tezuka's Phoenix. It has great art too.
Kabuki Volume 4 best. The main character samurai and his appearance especially samurai mask is my favorite. This manga is one of the best example of Japanese old cultural values. Samurai Kounosuke wants nothing more than to while away his time with his page boy Kageya. But, when an unexpected visitor arrives, things are thrown into turmoil. Indeed, Kageya is plagued with feelings of dread. Continuing the backstory of the reincarnated, starcrossed lovers, mangaka Yukari Hashida delivers a lavishly illustrated period romance filled with excitement, intrigue, and plenty of humor.
There wasn't a thread here (and it probably would have been pretty light on discussion) but I really enjoyed Magu Chan throughout its run. I'm waiting for the jump GIGA extra chapter and the secret they're teasing for next week.
I'm not mad at this first chapter. I'll give it 2 more to hook me.
Someone's continued the translations for Patlabor, so I'm reading that. I think it's my favorite piece of Patlabor media. I also just finished Hajimari no Niina, a shoujo romance manga where the main character is a reincarnation of the love interest's girlfriend after she dies.
! I really liked how HnN progressed. The reincarnation stuff wasn't relied on too heavily but instead served as an arc for the protag to determine that she's her own person and not who she was in her past life. But the conflict between her past life and her current life was really well tackled. It's short too but manages to cover so much stuff over its 4 volumes. It seems like it was originally meant to be only a single volume but for whatever reason the mangaka did another 3 volumes.
Happiness was so good.
I like how a series that ran for 4 years read like it was meant for a single seating and felt like a movie experience.
What a madlad.
Excited to check out Zatch Bell 2!
I just "re-read" Blue Eyes of Horus - The Story of a Queen in Men's Clothing (碧いホルスの瞳 -男装の女王の物語). It's a manga about the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut. It's a great story with political intregues unexpected turns of events. The only downside that even now, that I returned to this manga ever since it first released, it seems to never have gained any traction outside of Japan. There's only sixteen chapters released which is kind of a pitty as there's no way to see how the story continues. Still a good read though.
On a recommendation I started Toilet Bound Hanako-kun and man it's a good read, especially the second half of what's released so far. The name always put me off but it's actually a really imaginative Shonen-horror (it's also given me the biggest consecutive gut punches from a manga in a long time).
Started Gachiakuta. Seems a bit generic so far but I’m digging the visuals and character designs. We’ll keep reading it and see where it goes. It’s a new shonen action manga where garbage monsters are amok and the “janitors” are the fighters who take care of these.
I've been reading Goblin slayer and its different side stories.
And while I like the series, it has this really poor character development. He (GS) has been shown to be the more human in his early years as an adventurer, and then later on seems more robotic, without ever addressing the regression. I guess i'd just like to see him develop his humanity more as the series progressed, and maybe even show some continuity between each series.
Lightnovel Honzuki Ascandence of a Bookworm. Bought all the printed books and I am currently reading what is officially translated online.
