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larryhammer) wrote2011-03-04 07:31 am
larryhammer) wrote2011-03-04 07:31 am
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"I said half of my dreams came true / and the other half are up to you ..."
... and you said that's a little peculiar
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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[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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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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* 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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