"I said half of my dreams came true / and the other half are up to you ..."

[larryhammer]

... 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.

Comments

[esotaria.livejournal.com]

More series like Full Metal Alchemist would be AWESOME. Scanlations or licensed work for me.

[larryhammer]

I scratch much the same itch with Kekkaishi. As a second suggestion, similar in a different direction, how about Pumpkin Scissors? I think of it as about the rebuilding effort after FMA.

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.

[esotaria.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I've heard good things about Kekkaishi.

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!

[larryhammer]

If From Far Away/Kanata Kara works, I can rec more series that are down that alley.

---L.