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What manga are you reading and how do you like it? What do you plan to read?
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Lightnovel Honzuki Ascandence of a Bookworm. Bought all the printed books and I am currently reading what is officially translated online.
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I just finished reading supergod.
It has some real potential, but ultimately it's awful.
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I finished Arigatou by Naoki Yamamoto recently. It was a strange blend of dark/serious subject matter and humorous execution.
Synopsis: A depressing story about how a Japanese family's life goes wrong: an immoral protagonist, her sister who was gang raped before, her alcoholic mother who later devoted her life to a cult, and her father who lost favor with his company… full of sexual content and highly violent.
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life, Ecchi
I had previously read Believers by the same author years ago. I hear Believers is getting a live action film adaptation soon.
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It being by the same guy as Believers makes me interested. I didn't think that was great by any means but I'm interested in seeing more by him possibly.
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It being by the same guy as Believers makes me interested. I didn't think that was great by any means but I'm interested in seeing more by him possibly.
He certainly has a unique approach to storytelling that makes you curious to pick up some of his work. And the fact that they are not big in terms of chapter count means that you can go for a quick read and not invest too much time in something you may or may not like.
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For what it's worth, I caught up with World Trigger recently. S1 in manga, S2 and S2 where the quality took a huge spike in anime form.
And I have to say that if the author did not have the health complications, this series could have easily been one of the best concurrent jump series.
There's some serious depth and skill in the writing and the set-up/matches that make this series pretty unique and extremely well done.
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I'm currently reading My Hero Academia, and it has quickly become one of my favorite manga, up there with One Piece and Fairy Tail. Not sure what I will be reading after I finish it, but well, that is decision I am yet to make.
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I'm most of the way through Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou. It's pretty great. Completely different than I was expecting. I was expecting something more subdued but it's a pretty silly comedy romcom series. With the comedy mostly consisting of sex jokes. Though even then the characters are pretty good. I'm also catching up as much as I can with GochiUsa and Kill Me Baby, which are two 4koma manga I've been meaning to read for forever. In general I've been going through my to read list starting with shorter series and going to longer series. I'm at the past 10 volumes part and getting kind of intimidated seeing the volume count get past 20 and into the 30s.
Still waiting for some of the manga I'm following to end to pick up more ongoing series. GoshiUsa and Kill Me Baby are ongoing though I guess. Neither are caught up with their translations though I don't think. Plus I've been attempting to read some manga in Japanese and have a sizable to read list for that too. With regards to that I finished Pani Poni's manga in Japanese. I think it's better than the anime for the most part. I'd seen comments about how the manga's chapters are short and disconnected but it has quite a few somewhat long arcs. Though I guess those comments are because those arcs are in the part of the manga that hasn't been translated yet.
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I bought (for quiet some money) Liar Game, to reread it again in physical form.
Still a series i deeply enjoy, Squid Game meets Kaiji with some psychological games to overcome from rounf to round.
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I finished Arigatou by Naoki Yamamoto recently. It was a strange blend of dark/serious subject matter and humorous execution.
I just started reading this and I'm in the middle of volume 2. It is very strange in that it could be a somewhat normal comedy manga but because of the author it has gratuitous content in it. It is funny though. I think I also like the art here more than Believers, though this came earlier.
I also moved onto reading Gingitsune in Japanese. I'm almost caught up with what raws I can find and plan on buying the last few volumes to finish it. I'm really glad I'm able to read this series since it hasn't been lucky with people translating it. It deals so much with how people who are in contact with the spiritual world have to balance that interaction with living their normal lives as humans. Now that I think about it, Natsume's Book of Friends deals with similar things. Though Gingitsune does it through religions (specifically Shinto) and Natsume does it through youkai. I think I like Gingitsune's execution better too. It's a shame I wasn't able to be caught up with the series while it was running, but at the same time I'm glad it was able to finish since there was a period where the mangaka went on hiatus for more than a year.
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Decided to check on Ruri Dragon to see what all the fuss was about. At first glance it was not the kind of manga that I would like (I really dislike the "girl doing scawy halloween claw-hand" manga trope that was on the single image you would always see when someone mentioned this manga), but since there's only 6 chapters out, I figured it wouldn't kill me to check on it.
And, well, I don't know what it is about it, but I can totally see why it became so popular in so little time. Every chapter is so damn pleasant to read. The final page of chapter 4 was so wholesome I even teared up a bit.
