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Since I am just about finished reading Mushishi and Saiyuki is sadly on indefinite hiatus, I find myself with a bit of a gap in my reading. Sure, I have plenty of Western comics I haven't read yet, but manga hits a different set of buttons. I thought the internet was bound to have ideas for what I should read next.

Things I already have access to: Trigun, Yami no Matsui, Fruits Basket, Cantarella, Nightmare Inspector, Death Note, Nausicaa, Pet Shop of Horrors, Wild Adapter and Eagle.

I am open to pretty much anything, although pure romance is not my genre in any medium. The characters have to be hunting serial killers or saving the world or committing daring robberies between significant glances.

Manga rec

Date: 2010-10-19 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miladygrey.livejournal.com
If you can find the two volumes of Library Wars, you'd probably enjoy them. Near-future, rather dystopian Japan, the government has complete control over all media, and can censor whatever it wants. In response to this, libraries and librarians have become militarized, and now defend the rights of citizens to read whatever they want. With weapons.

Also, for sci-fi/fantasy adventure awesomeness, Fullmetal Alchemist.

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Date: 2010-10-19 05:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jesuswasbatman
My huge recommendation would be Claymore which is more or less a medievaloid Japanese version of certain dark fanonical theories about the Buffy universe common in S5-6, but with many more scenes with multiple women being awesome together and chopping things up with gigantic swords and less moping. Oh, and there are quite a lot of significant glances of a femslashy nature.

I would warn however that there is some fairly extreme violence and body-horror (more than in Buffy), character death, torture, and a rape attempt early on. It's also quite long (14 or 15 volumes in English at the moment) and isn't showing signs of ending in the near future.
Edited Date: 2010-10-19 05:09 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2010-10-19 05:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jhall1
Of those you mention, I have seen the film adaptation of Nausicaa. If the comic is anywhere near as good as the film then I'd highly recommend it.

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Date: 2010-10-19 07:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nevanna
How about Tokyo Babylon?

I'm going to be lazy and just copy-and-paste the recommendation I made to [personal profile] st_aurafina ages ago: It's the story of Subaru, a teenage exorcist/ghostbuster; his outrageous and upbeat sister, Hokuto; and Seishirou, a local veterinarian and family friend with some hidden powers and secrets of his own... not to mention a habit of flirting constantly with the increasingly bewildered Subaru. The series starts out fairly fluffy and episodic... until it isn't anymore and becomes, instead, dark and warped and heartbreaking to a degree - and in a storytelling style - worthy of Joss Whedon. In all the best ways.

Enjoy!

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Date: 2010-10-20 01:46 am (UTC)
st_aurafina: Rainbow DNA (Mushishi: Ginko by candlelight)
From: [personal profile] st_aurafina
Yes! I second this recommendation. It's really cunning, sinister storytelling. You think it's cute and fluffy, then you realise it's crawled into bed with you and it's not at all as nice as you thought.

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Date: 2010-10-19 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] d_benway
Monster and 20th Century Boys are both quite good, although Monster is very, very long.

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Date: 2010-10-19 10:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charliequinn.livejournal.com
I second Fullmetal Alchemist!

Also Hellsing, Inuyasha, and if you can stand a bit of romantic comedy (which is seriously laugh out loud hilarious), Ouran High School Host Club.

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Date: 2010-10-20 05:36 am (UTC)
st_aurafina: Rainbow DNA (Mushishi: Ginko by candlelight)
From: [personal profile] st_aurafina
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers - historical Japan, where a plague has killed off huge numbers of men, women are functionally running the country, and the Shogun (female) keeps a harem of men. It's really, really gorgeous art. Lots of intrigue, and the kind of world building that makes an alternative history like this work well. (I think the mangaka is the same who wrote Antique Bakery? It has the same slow unravelling of story lines, anyway.)

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: a bunch of graduates realise their qualifications are never going to make them money, so they form a business using their supernatural abilities to work with the dead. I've only read the first volume, but it was dark and funny and ruthless with its characters.

I'm thinking of Mushishi's gorgeous art and loose storytelling when I recommend Bride of the Water God: it is a romance, but told with gods, so it's full of drama and magic. And it's very, very beautiful.

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