Manga Recs?
Oct. 20th, 2010 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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)Also, for sci-fi/fantasy adventure awesomeness, Fullmetal Alchemist.
Re: Manga rec
Date: 2010-10-20 09:33 am (UTC)That sounds awesome. I shall certainly look for it, thank you for the recommendation.
Also, for sci-fi/fantasy adventure awesomeness, Fullmetal Alchemist.
That should really have been on my list already - I've seen the first half of the anime, and a friend has the manga.
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Date: 2010-10-19 05:08 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2010-10-19 05:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-19 07:28 pm (UTC)I'm going to be lazy and just copy-and-paste the recommendation I made to
Enjoy!
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Date: 2010-10-20 01:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-19 08:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-19 10:13 pm (UTC)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)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.