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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: 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: 6 March 2011 11:58 pm (UTC)