"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.

[rhinemouse.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh!

[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.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I would always like more yuri fluff.

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.

[jennifergale.livejournal.com]

* Symbolized by cherry petals swirling about me as I weep manly tears.

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

[cha-maeri.livejournal.com]

Kind of random, but do you know anything like Rinka Ueda's Tail of the Moon? I like how it blended humor, romance, and shinobi with pseudo-history and even a bit of melo... Haha I guess that's kind of really specific, but I guess I like series that mix a lot of elements...

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

After looking through this set of q's and a's, I think you should make an illustrated manga-recommendation fortuneteller! (You may know it as a cootie-catcher?)

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Let's go for More Like X: 1999, which I like for the fantasy and the aaaaangst. Since I have read almost no manga at all, odds are good I won't have read anything you might recommend. :-)

[pseudo_tsuga.livejournal.com]

I really want happy heart-warming feminist shoujo BUT where the main plot isn't only romance. If possible I'd also like under 10 volumes for length.