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A post for personalized manga recommendations.
I've been thinking of doing this for a while. Comment with what you're looking for, be it a genre or description or the names of a few More Like This Please series, plus whether you prefer licensed volumes or scanlations, and any other parameters (long/short, completed/ongoing, et cet.). I'll suggest two titles to try, based on my sense of your tastes. If you've already read those two, I'll attempt one more title before giving up in despair.*
Because if I'm going to spend five years reading gods know how much of the stuff, the least I can do is make myself useful.
Blind spot: I haven't read very many yaoi series and so am completely unqualified to recommend them (indeed, I'm looking for recs for series that discard the seme/uke dynamic). Weak spot: I have idiosyncratic tastes when it comes to shounen,** especially shounen adventure, which means that while it steers me to non-obvious titles, I often overlook the obvious ones. I'm also weak with manwha and manhua, partly from availability and partly taste. Strengths: shoujo romances and adventures, and yuri fluff.
* Symbolized by cherry petals swirling about me as I weep manly tears.
** I find most shounen rom-com not very com. Nor all that rom, for that matter.
---L.
A post for personalized manga recommendations.
I've been thinking of doing this for a while. Comment with what you're looking for, be it a genre or description or the names of a few More Like This Please series, plus whether you prefer licensed volumes or scanlations, and any other parameters (long/short, completed/ongoing, et cet.). I'll suggest two titles to try, based on my sense of your tastes. If you've already read those two, I'll attempt one more title before giving up in despair.*
Because if I'm going to spend five years reading gods know how much of the stuff, the least I can do is make myself useful.
Blind spot: I haven't read very many yaoi series and so am completely unqualified to recommend them (indeed, I'm looking for recs for series that discard the seme/uke dynamic). Weak spot: I have idiosyncratic tastes when it comes to shounen,** especially shounen adventure, which means that while it steers me to non-obvious titles, I often overlook the obvious ones. I'm also weak with manwha and manhua, partly from availability and partly taste. Strengths: shoujo romances and adventures, and yuri fluff.
* Symbolized by cherry petals swirling about me as I weep manly tears.
** I find most shounen rom-com not very com. Nor all that rom, for that matter.
---L.
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Date: 4 March 2011 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 4 March 2011 03:31 pm (UTC)ETA: Hrm -- I hadn't realized that both licensed and scanned versions of Pumpkins Scissors are effectively on hiatus early on, making that not quite a fair rec. So a third, again in a slightly different direction: From Far Away/Kanata Kara, which is complete in both licensed and scanned versions. A portal adventure fantasy that also looks initially episodic but ends up pulling every single event together into a satisfying and world-shaping climax.
---L.
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Date: 4 March 2011 04:49 pm (UTC)Pumpkin Scissors? I think of it as about the rebuilding effort after FMA.
I am now very sad that it's on hiatus, because that sounds really cool. (FMA ended where it should have ended, but I'm still kinda disappointed we don't get to see the rebuilding effort)
From Far Away/Kanata Kara sounds right up my alley! :D Thanks!
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Date: 4 March 2011 05:03 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 4 March 2011 06:17 pm (UTC)[pause while I refrain from posting a 2,000-word essay on What I Like And Don't Like In Manga.]
Let me see: I am always in the market for cracktastic shoujo melodrama (like Pandora Hearts or Sakurahime Kaden or Tsubasa RC).
Also angsty/intense friendships/loyalty bonds or sibling relationships (which would be another reason I love Pandora Hearts).
Also romances where the guy teases the girl a lot, so long as he isn't coming off the winner in every dispute.
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Date: 4 March 2011 07:53 pm (UTC)Er, so to speak -- I think that metaphor got away from me. (Not that melodrama of that sort is exactly realistic, mind you.)
---L.
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Date: 4 March 2011 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 4 March 2011 08:43 pm (UTC)* I initially typed "real-world," but stories about teenage Japanese tango dancers who get sold to the ruling family of a small South American country (who then get immediately overthrown in a junta) are not exactly set in the real world.
---L.
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Date: 4 March 2011 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 4 March 2011 06:45 pm (UTC)My personal 'more like this', though I am not hopeful about it as I haven't run across anything in uh several years, is MeruPuri.
Also something long and good that I can get all of right away never happens either-- all the long stuff I start reading is on hiatus, or comes out from scanners/pros at a rate approaching glaciation.
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Date: 4 March 2011 07:30 pm (UTC)For yuri fluff, long and complete is also difficult. Transistor Venus (Lililicious) is the longest I've got, and while it's not complete, it's got little enough story arc that it doesn't really matter there's no ending yet (ETA: meaning, in English). Except of course for the wanting more now please, but that will be true after the end.
---L.
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Date: 5 March 2011 06:19 pm (UTC)I'd also be interested in your take on Hot Blooded Woman by the same, er, manhwa-ka(?) (what is the Korean term?) -- I'd suggest it directly, but it's even less "like" MeruPuri. Though come to think of it, the Korean equivalent of a shinigami is a major character, and does get into trouble because of the protagonist ...
---L.
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Date: 7 March 2011 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 March 2011 11:42 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 4 March 2011 07:57 pm (UTC)I'll admit. I laughed until I cried.
(I still joke about how amusing it would be to sort of surreptitiously work this into a novel someday...someone will get it and be amused...)
I will request nothing, because I'm still only THREE SERIES into the ginormous list you kindly compiled for me a while back. :D
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Date: 4 March 2011 08:05 pm (UTC)BTW, have you seen 5 Centimeters per Second? The title comes from the terminal velocity of sakura petals, and yes we see them. Boy howdy. Not a children's movie, FWIW -- not that there's anything inappropriate for littles, but it is so squarely told at adults they'd be totally bored. It's about love and loss and missed connections, and is as stunningly gorgeous as everything else Makoto Shinkai has done.
---L.
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Date: 5 March 2011 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 March 2011 05:31 am (UTC)---L.
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Date: 5 March 2011 04:53 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 5 March 2011 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 March 2011 11:48 pm (UTC)How about Angel Sanctuary by Kaori Yuki and Basara by Yumi Tamamura. The former has enough angst to power an entire public high school for a semester, and is based on a very cracked version of Christian cosmology. The latter has less angst (it could hardly have more) but is set in a low-fantasy setting which happens to be post-apocalyptic Japan and has a strong heroine. Both have been completely scanlated as well as completely translated in official volumes, which are still in print.
---L.
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Date: 7 March 2011 11:42 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 8 March 2011 03:46 am (UTC)---L.
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Date: 8 March 2011 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 8 March 2011 04:56 am (UTC)Come to think of it, her Complex is also a show-biz story that's also happy and not romance-obsessed and IIRC reasonably feminist. Her other series I've read is more solidly romances, though, if a slow-paced one.
---L.