/animu/ what manga have you been reading? I've been reading the The Hero and the Demon King's Romcom. Also just as a nice thing to do
>You must explain or at the bare minimum give us a sum of of the manga recommended
Eko Eko Azarak
A really old "horror" manga that suprisingly gets chapters translated every now and then.
The series (aswell as two sequels) follows the schoolgirl witch Misa Kuroi, who is sometimes helpful, sometimes mischievous and sometimes outright evil in her use of black magic and gruesome dark rituals.
At other times, she only serves to lure other characters into some sort of twilight zone where they get the comeuppance for their misdeeds or learn a vital lesson.
If you like old horror manga and girls getting punched in the face (happens to Misa suspiciously often), you should check it out.
Majin,I read years back for it being peak 90s manga. I've never seen anyone bring this manga up on an imageboard not on cuckchan or here on 8chan. The first half follows a Jotaro tier delinquent, who gains Devilman like powers after having an encounter with a demon like monster. The second half of the manga follows this nerd who gains supernatural mark on his forehead, both stories overlap with each other.
Been reading Be-Bop Highschool, and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood. Former is a fun read especially if you like delinquents beating up delinquents from other schools, and them doing shit like trying to get some action from female students. As for the latter, watched almost the first two parts of the anime, but ended up deciding to read the manga instead which I found it more enjoyable.
Inspector Kurokochi
It's a gritty Japanese crime drama/procedural with minor bits of comedy and a surprisingly effective pairing of two completely different policemen as the MCs, Lethal Weapon style as they solve ridiculous cases both by hook and by crook.
Not many people here ever talk about Oogureetto's works but thanks for this anon, will check it out.
Even for a borderline hentai manga it's pretty retarded to be honest. The only redeeming feature is how the MC has a literal life and death reason to cockblock himself, so at least it's a fresh concept.
Kin no Tamago
Tamako is a novice editor in the Light Novel department. Chakase is also a novice editor, but in the manga department.
It's a fun workplace SoL manga, and it gets pretty meta with LN/manga subjects sometimes.
Here they are discussing why MCs in harem manga/LN are so dense and why it drags on forever
And all three borrowed a lot from Miyazaki's earlier Sabaku no Tami. It's a shame he didn't make more manga, he's definitely a better mangaka than a director.
So far my favourite Miyazaki work is Otto Carius - Doromamire no tora, which depicts an Estonian skirmish from a German tank commander's autobiography. The final chapter is a little harder to find (it was apparently lost for 14 years and isn't on Mangadex) but it's great stuff and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in WW2's eastern front.
>Was reading an age-gap Yuri manga and getting into it
>Forgot its name and didn't bookmark it
All I remember is that a young girl moved out to the countryside and encountered an older, kimono-wearing woman while she was out and about. The two ended up having sex and falling in love.
EATMAN
Mercenary goes around a desert planet doing jobs, playing people like a damn fiddle and protecting qt girls smiles.
Shit is fully translated, 84 chapters.
>decide to check baka-updates about the writer
>writer did a sequel to the manga
>Eat-Man: The Main Dish
>2014
>only 4 volumes
>no translation yet
I live to suffer
sounds neat, I'll check it out. And I guess I should recommend something now.
Pluto is a retelling of sorts of astroboy made by urasawa (mostly known for monster), I'd say it is relatively unknown due to the fact that it doens't have an anime yet. So we're in the future, robots are common place and have rights, just like humans, when robots and high profile scientists are murdered the protagonist will work towards finding the culprit.
Pluto!
A syfy mango I greatly enjoyed is the two faces of tomorrow, the author also has a couper other space mangos.
I enjoyed kyou kara ore wa, also about delinquents but more comedy geared. And there's also crow (plust a gorillion of similarly themed mangos by the same author) about delinquent fighting.
I'll check this o- "Completely Scanlated? No"
Maybe later.
are there two translations around? what I got had the first few volumes competently translated, then ever after it feels like a native jap is making the translation
> did + past tense verb
> literally two translations for the same word (in a word1/word2) format
> randomly living some shit in romaji, sometimes even having it translated in other parts of the very same chapter
Detective Xeno and the Seven Locked Murder Rooms
An amnesiac boy detective with a weird sense of fashion has been challenged by a famous architect to a battle of wits. Among the hundreds of buildings the architect constructed, seven of them have a hidden feature that will turn them into "unsolvable" locked murder rooms under the right conditions.
The thing is, the architect himself was murdered in one of his own creations and a mysterious third party is sending out instruction manuals to people on how to utilize the rooms for their goals.
A baseball player impaled in the middle of a game? A man drowned in a train compartment? An invisible reaper slaughtering people? Those are the kind of mysteries that await Xeno and his ex-assassin assistant Eila on their journeys.
I mean, if we are going to recommend something ridiculous there's this.
This is akoya tsutaya, it started serious enough, but then I don't know if the ratings were low, the mangaka was planning to do this all along or he just didn't know what the fuck to do, but eventually we got over the top characters and battles, and, strangely, he wanted to end it in a serious note as well.
My brain is telling me that this manga doesn't make any sense and that the rest of the characters, that aren't the anti-heroine, are waaay too goddamn stupid in comparison; Specially for the fact of most of them are hundred to thousand year old, high tier demon lords, with way more magic, strenght and experience than what any human could possibly grasp.
My gut is telling me this is a fairly average parody to fantasy RPG games with a decent pair of twists that are executed with a good degree of competency. But, it lacks "that" proper sense of comedy that some other fantasy game parodies seem to have. For some reason, i can't exactly say why it lacks said proper sense of comedy. Maybe it just isn't as fun or as cringey as other works? MC too grounded into logical reality even for a manga of this type? Overstaying the welcome of the gimmick and making her more than what she should be? Demon lord too easily manipulated with no drawbacks? The fucking welfare state stuff? Maybe a combination of things.
My dick is telling me she MUST be a succubus in disguise. What with those vertical slit eyes and her alluringly-eager desire to enslave, rape with tentacle beasts, steal everything including underwear, torture publicly and inevitable kill all human lifestock? It is also asking if there's an h-doujin about her.
It's weird, looking at individual parts, it's not very good. The murder mysteries aren't great, the plots aren't that interesting, the character building isn't endearing or anything. But it skips around between these things at just the right frequency so you don't have time to focus on how bad they are and instead keeps you intersting with constantly switching focus. The Demon Island arc is really showcasing that.
If you're trying to recommend an action manga based on how ridiculous it is and you AREN'T posting Kangou Banchou you've already failed. Also I guess I AM recommending Kongou Banchou. It's pure cheesy kindhearted testosterone.
The ending was the great part about it. It was the most obscenely retarded thing I've ever read and I fucking loved it. It only actually starts to get dumb when the introduce the other district Banchou's and the opponents go from "super-powered" to "Eldrich Horrors." It'd be sweet if they gave this an anime adaptation and reworked it, it's be genuinely good*
Urasawa is weird, he almost always has a good idea of a story and a unique premise to go with it, but then he always proceeds to introduce too many plot branches and new side characters that he ends up being unable to resolve all of them in a fully satisfying manner. That or he ends up having to make asspulls since things got too ridiculous. His best works are either adaptations/stuff where some other guy wrote the story like Pluto which still somewhat suffers from his usual autism, and episodic case-of-the-week stories with a few longer arcs from time to time like Master Keaton, or SOL tier works like Yawara!. He also suffers from sameface but, strangely enough, only when drawing Asian characters. His Caucasian characters on the other hand look very diverse and realistic.
different shit, the manga caught me by surprise because it appeared to be more serious at the start but then it goes all retarded only to attempt to end in a serious note, completely different strokes.
yeah, I feel he has problems tying all the knots, however, even then I find his works worthy of recommendation, I just feel there isn't much stuff like what he does, I really can't think on a way to explain better.
While I'm at it I should probably recommend another manga, this one I was waiting for a while for it to finish to re-take it: Dorohedoro
A human world has become a ghetto of sorts as inhabitants of the magic world come to the human world to test the effect of their magic (basically using people as guinea pigs). And our lizard headed kaiman is trying to find the person responsibly for giving him that head.
might be vain of me, but I find the art off-putting so I haven't read it. I find most manga geared at women that way, though. Only exception I can think of is houkago, I found the art nice and the mystery good enough (there's a serious lack of good mystery manga around). Basically a teacher of a women only high school has been targeted and he has to find out who's trying to kill him.
I'll probably run out of shit I'm interested in reading some time in the near future and end up reading 7 seeds
>A human world
The human world…
I think it'd be a pretty safe bet that the majority of users in /a/ and /animu/ are anime only. Anyhow, I should expand on "the two faces of tomorrow"
It's the future, earth has started taking resources from space and have a super computer help in being more efficient, they decide to expand the capabilities of the supercomputer, some people are understandably wary of doing this so they need to decide if it's actually safe to improve the computer.
aesthetics are mmo rpg shit i swear to fuck you can make fucking everything you want and you end up with bland mess of mmo aesthetics every fucking time. you could make entirely new worlds with as much effort but no. as we all know fantasy is just about rehashing one and the same fucking thing over and over. and even if common themes can be used properly, they never are. they never go all in on the idea.
thats obviously because manga has much more variety then modern anime. if you want anything other then cute girls doing cute things or lesbians wanting to lick each other cunts you will have very hard time finding anything of worth you havent already read years ago, especially this season.
Reading Astarotte no Omocha!, a nice ecchi manga about a lad who is recruited into a man-hating loli succubus's harem. It's much preferable to the anime, which takes liberties with the original order of events and is full of overly-sentimental dramatics.
because it's financially much safer to create manga for a niche audience than an anime
and magazines can always use more material to fill the pages somehow
And while we're at it, let me recommend Gin to Kin by Fukumoto Nobuyuki of Akagi/Kaiji fame.
The story (or the first half of it) centers around Morita, who wastes his time and money on horse races and dreaming of being rich. On another unsuccesful day of gambling he meets Ginji Hirai, who is involved with moneylending. Ginji hires Morita to help him out with his next moneylending event and from there, Morita finds himself in shady world of blackmailing politicians, illegal gambling, art forgery and even a couple fights against crazy killers as he and Ginji try to take over Japan from the shadows.
And a word of warning: They only play mahjongg once so far. And only for a relatively brief period. Against a crazy rich guy who keeps people in his basement to watch them masturbate.
Smuggler is about two rival gangs as well as a third party which collaborates with either when their interests align. Things escalate between the gangs and blood is drawn. The manga mostly follows the men tasked with body disposal.
It's a short manga, just a little over 200 pages.
I partially read tokyo ghoul, enough to decide to not watch the anime, but according to an acquaintance who did watch it, the anime also sucks at the action scenes. So I'd say it also depends on the artist, my hero academia, and me and the devil blues both get action right imo.
but I also dropped ippo, lost my interest eventually. And I know the only point of comparison between the two is that they are boxing manga, but I preferred ashita no joe to it
The Domestic Yapoo
A feminist from the future crashes her time machine in 1960's Germany, and proceeds to educate a fiancee on how her Japanese husband is the Asian Jew, and that "niggers" and white people are superior.
Seriously, what the fuck am I reading?
Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru
Guy likes to sew clothes for the porcelain dolls his grandfather makes. He doesn't share this with anyone else out of embarrassment.
A gyaru from his class has a similar problem, she's an otaku who wants to cosplay a character from an eroge, but she can't sew for shit. When they find out about each other's hobbies they partner up to help each other.
Shishunki Renaissance David-kun
Voici David ! Même s’il ressemble à une œuvre d’art qui se balade dans les couloirs du Lycée du Louvre, C’est un adolescent typique faisant face au défi de l’adolescence ! Heureusement pour lui, il obtient de l’aide de son meilleur ami Manneken Pis et de son coup de cœur, Venus.
I used to hate ecchi shit, but stuff like this and Gal Gohan are really great. I think the difference is probably that I don't feel like a leering pervert watching the girls be in uncomfortable situations, and they're perfectely fine with getting looked at.
Too much romance here for my taste. So I'll continue with the weird manga and mention fourteen / 14-sai.
The story is set in the future and starts inside a chicken manufacturing plant (they are grown with machines) one of the supervisor of this operation sees that one of the chickens somehow grew an eye, so he set it aside to study it further, to his surprise the chicken develops rapidly and shows sign of intelligence.
Not as fucked up as domestic yapoo, but pretty out there too, so prepare yourself for a wild ride.
Like inhumanly powerful characters and a dystopian future? then "damned" is for you.
It's the future, earthquakes have rekt the earth, reducing its population and its available landmass, everything is going to shit except japan, so people from other countries try and get in, but they don't find an utopia but a country eager to kill the immigrants that just reached, and using even japanese men and women for human experimentation.
Features martial arts, impossible levels of strength, a protagonist that does kill and cartoony evil villains.
thanks, anon. it's been a while since I read and I no longer have the manga, so finding some suitably pages to share was going to be pain. It's impressive in its own way that this was scanlated.
I had forgotten that it is october already. So now I'll recommend zashiki onna.
I won't give much of a synopsis this time as it is only 11 chapters long, and if you are going to read a suspense anything it's better to not know much beforehand. Just know that the protagonist suddenly finds himself stalked by a girl one day.
>deleting of mangas that got licensed.
I thought it was only that scans of licensed translations were forbidden. Did they change that?
You anons who started reading Astarotte no Omocha, please be aware that the chapters by 'Clue' in volumes 7 to 9 are chock full of groidish typesetter commentary. The good news is that there are now cancer-free alternatives to all of the offending chapters available on Mangadex.
I'm switching between MangaLife and Mangadex, since they complete each other to a certain degree.
And Mangafox. But that one only to save pictures for posting on 4cucks /a/ since it triggers them for no appearant reason
And to recommend a manga, Mad Bull 34 by Koike Kazuo, who also created Lone Wolf and Cub, Golgo 13 and Crying Freeman (all which I would recommend too)
This action crime comedy follows the adventures of two NYPD cops in the 1980s: the unlikely duo Daizaburo Eddie and Sleepy John.
Daizaburo is the honest cop trying to do his work by the book in the mostly corrupt 34th precinct, Sleepy John on the other hand is not exactly a crooked cop, but he is also a pimp and rules over a part of the ghetto which he protects from local crime bosses.
Together they fight bankrobbers and rapists, as well as crime syndicates and their hired assassins and mercenaries. Usually shooting first and arresting whoever survives the firefight later
If you need your MANga fix, check it out
>And Mangafox. But that one only to save pictures for posting on 4cucks /a/ since it triggers them for no appearant reason
MangaFox doesn't have that great of a history. You remember how Crunchyroll start up? They're the exact same:
>steals content from scanlators against their wishes (hence all the "Fuck you Mangafox" and "Do not rehost" watermarks)
>compresses images, losing quality
>has a ton of shitty ads
>doesn't attempt to credit the scanlator whom they stole the work from
https://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?page=1&tid=45504&hl=mangafox
>I swear, if only anons have the resources to make a new manga reader.
Hosting is our biggest problem, like starting up an /animu/ news site but much worse. I'd suggest making it a hybrid hosting/tracker site using IPFS but most manga is shared in compressed folders and I doubt filesharers would switch to plain images just to make /animu/nga's job easier.
>but most manga is shared in compressed folders and I doubt filesharers would switch to plain images just to make /animu/nga's job easier.
You could, theoretically, make up some kind of client-side unziping and image parsing shit.
Never tried them, but there seem to already exist JS libraries for compression/decompression.
Would probably look like ass, though, since you would still need to load the whole archive for any image to parse.
The other problem would be getting someone who is suicidal enough to deal with JS' bullshit, on top of dealing with the backend.
That's what we're talking about, faggot. Bitchute and PeerTube use WebTorrent, while IPFS is a potentially better solution because it doesn't require javascript and you could peer with literally anyone who has the same image even if they aren't using our site.
Maybe we should move this to a dedicated thread if we get far enough.
>You anons who started reading Astarotte no Omocha, please be aware that the chapters by 'Clue' in volumes 7 to 9 are chock full of groidish typesetter commentary. The good news is that there are now cancer-free alternatives to all of the offending chapters available on Mangadex.
I was not aware, but this breaks Mangadex's rules. Instead, see https://mega.nz/#F!cH5FQSrY!F5vTPXzC1uV-yHI5O9pFew
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What about a manga about a manga featuring a chubby shortstack girl who gets chased by a chubby chaser?
http://mangakakalot.com/chapter/pochamani/chapter_1
The most recent chapters are taking a long time…
how about a cute chubster doing cute chubster things?
Hime no Dameshi.
Hime is an unmarried 27year old Office Lady, a cake. She's a bit chubby because she loves to laze around at home, eat snacks and junk food and at home she improvises delicious meals from whatever she has leftover in her fridge.
Life could be so easy if there weren't her fashionable, health-concious coworkers and her friend who's way too popular with men.
I don't mind the shoujo style and If it has an interesting hook (chubby chaser chasing a chub girl who can't into intimacy at first) I'll read it.
Another one I couldn't put down was guru guru pon chan. It's about a dog that transforms into a girl. I think I've mentioned it in one of the manga rec's before. It's also a shoujo style work.
I'd also mention Ai Yori Aoshi since it was one of the first manga I picked up but I need to finish that series. I stopped around volume 11 in meatspace. I was going to buy the rest but manga is expensive. It's more of a ecchi harem/comedy than shoujo but it has parts that feel aimed more towards women despite fan service sprinkled all throughout.
I like ara's so it's up my alley. I'll see about taking a look since she looks a cute.
anons, we are right in the middle of october, how come most recs aren't horror/thriller/weird ass manga?
Anyway, here's drifting classroom. From the creator of fourteen. It's a story how a whole elementary school gets transported somewhere unknown, and with no other humans in sight.
This can probably considered a precursor of the a bunch of teens get stranded or isolated from the rest of the population by some psycho, supernatural event, or supernatural psycho. I recall it having some characterizations that I didn't like, but nothing grave enough to not recommend it
How about this one then:
Chi no Wadachi (Trail of Blood)
It's a psychological thriller about a high school kid with an autistic mom who may or may not be into fucking her own son and has a few terrible secrets of her own, and the hell all this shit eventually causes in the MC's life. Basically zero lewds and 100% existential horror. Pics related are subtle hints of what the mom is like.
Got you a little something for Halloween: Girl That Can See It
The main heroine (who lacks a name so far) can see ghosts. Not that she wants to, but the damn things are all around her. At the bus stop, in her bathroom, under the sheets of her bed and everywhere else, ghosts are begging for her attention.
Will she get away with her tactic to simply ignore them?
Kutsuzure Sensen - Witch Vasenkas War
Nadya, a red army soldier, and Vasenka, the former apprentice of Baba Yaga, are caught in the chaos of World War 2.
On their way to Berlin they encounter all sorts of spirits and gods from slavic/russian folklore.
The two end up in weird adventure like when they save Ded Moroz (the russian Santa Claus) from the germans, enter a drinking contest with a house spirit or spend the night with the living dead in a trench.
It's quite funny and offers insight into both folklore/myths and the marvels of soviet engineering
That is one cute semen demon
Anyhow I recommend Anne Casandra, it's about some highschool nerd flunkee who recieves an artifact that tells him the day, and time people around the city will die, with the last death being his own. He and this girl who ends up having the hots for him go on a very crazy journey around Japan trying to stop all the crazy shit detailed in the artifact.
For centuries, salting meat and other foods made them last basically indefinitely. Salted meats and the like are pretty universal. Link that to superstition without understanding why "pure salt>prevent food spoilage>food spoilage is bad>salt prevents badness" and it makes pretty solid sense honestly.
This is going to be the next trend, started by Goblin Slayer. It's going the feature a minor character in a DnD world who's actually a huge badass by focusing on a very specific set of knowledge, who is a huge edgelord and focus on getting revenge on some minor event that stopped mattering years ago.
I can see how you might find this level of retarded edge, but honestly it's just fucking stupid most of all. This reads like something even more stupid than harem shows, which are based in the fantasy of the loser who wishes he was attractive to girls. This is the fantasy of a guy who's such a fucking bitch he only ever choses healer class for his friends and gets mad about it. There's so much underlying patheticness to this story I can't be remotely entertained.
>Fucks a maid every night who is trying to consume his semen every night to magically increase her max level cap but every night he secretly steals part of her experience to raise his level while she's riding his dick
Never mind what I said in >>61961 this is some of the greatest comedy I've ever seen.
The saddest part is that we're excepting the parts of the manga that reveal the kingdom is so rotten and evil that he'll eventually make the world a better place through his insane rapefest and murder spree, which removes the bit of genuine edge that makes this interesting. It's literal wish fulfillment about raping girls to make the world a better place. I wouldn't be remotely shocked or offended if this was actual porn, but it's just fucking sad
Holy shit anon, you weren't lying. This is like a 12 year old bullied incel, trying his HARDEST to make a serious parody of a standrard fantasy manga by being as edgy as he could imagine. This actually has broken my understanduing of people.more than I could hyave imgmained. I actually don'e believe this was made by a real person. Are you sure this wasn't made by an AI learning algorythm that was focused on;y on /r9k/ and learned everything about human behavior there?
So you are saying you want to see the same concept again but with even worse writing, worse art and less likeable characters, right?
https://mangadex.org/title/23551/nidome-no-yuusha
>This is going to be the next trend, started by Goblin Slayer. It's going the feature a minor character in a DnD world who's actually a huge badass by focusing on a very specific set of knowledge, who is a huge edgelord and focus on getting revenge on some minor event that stopped mattering years ago.
Nah. It's nothing like GS. All these revenge stories seem to be inspired by Shield Hero.
>hero isn't really liked because his skills seem useless
>some peole act nice towards him, earning his trust
>they betray him and throw him away
>reaches lvl 100000 by using his "useless" powers in a way that nobody ever thought before
>comes back for revenge
>and pics up a beastgirl-slave companion along the way
Shit, I was just thinking of that one.
Healslut, for all the bullshit, is at the very least acting like someone broken from years of literal gay butthurt.
This guy on the other hand gets backstabbed, and instantly turns into a capeshit villain with none of the charisma, who goes around giggling into the night while making cursed jewelry and apparently stacks his anal annihilation stat as his party grows.
Lemme recommend another horror themed mango for the Halloween season:
Chimaire Sukeban Chainsaw (as well as the newly arrived sequel series, Reflesh)
Nero, a bullied crazy genius highschool girl goes total apeshit and converts almost her entire class into Zombies, cyborgs and mutant creatures called remodelled corpses. The only one still left human is the other class outcast, Geeko, a deliquent who lives alone on a junkyard.
When the monsters come for her, she grabs her trusty chainsaw and cuts a path of destruction through her former classmates to give Nero a piece of her mind.
On her quest she is joined by the science club of her school and some of her former enemies who weren't so bad after all, including a disembodied head with beartrap jaws and a lesbian cyborg.
The action is bloody, the girls are slutty and humor is crude. It's one wild ride.
>The action is bloody, the girls are slutty and humor is crude. It's one wild ride.
Absolutely every single thing that author has done fits that description. Check out his other works like Satanister and Iron Ghost no Shoujou. If I had to nitpick it's that his character faces are weird and can be a total turn off at times.
Ok, with two more recommendations:
Anamorphosis no Meijuu, people are gathered for a reality tv show, the objective is to remain at a "haunted place" for 48 hours, where an "evil spirit" will be summoned. Be aware that this is a volume but only half of it is about this, while the rest is just a few miscellaneous stories.
Then you have dead word puzzle, which is only 4 chapters long, it's got funky but workable art, gore, supernatural conditions that puts teenagers against each other to win or die, unlikeable characters and the killer's powers and motives are never revealed. The kind of manga you read just because you want to read something bad.
Was thinking that it looked like aku no hana and now I see it is from the same author, it looks interesting..
>ongoing
pls, don't do this to me, anon.
Glad you liked it
I didn't buy it (my country basically has no comics or manga), I used madokami to get it.
Fuan no tane was nice, but chapters are very short, and it has an episodic format, so anons shouldn't really go expecting horror. A sequel was released some time later btw, fuan no tane+.
Will keep an eye on this.
I recall this being nice, if a bit predictable.
I for one am thankful I read this since its easily one of the best things I have read in a long time. It was fucking great but.. im also pissed the story isnt finished and wasted a lot of time not doing school work not reading it, my only criticism is the last arc they are in is a bit long. But it seems they are finishing up. Artstyle is a bit hard to see whats going on
Why do Japanese words offend normalfags?
The number of redditors who infiltrate image boards and use outdated examples like "DUDE nakama xD" to justify shit, inaccurate translations has increased a lot the last couple years. I get the feeling a lot of /animu/ would call you autistic for being fine with itadakimasu being left as is. I've seen too many anons righteous over honorifics.
>Fuan no tane was nice, but chapters are very short, and it has an episodic format, so anons shouldn't really go expecting horror.
I think the episodic format works in the series favor since it doesn't dwell too much on a single ghost or phenomenon, leaving the mystery intact.
I enjoyed it, and it is certainly preferable than going with a story long enough to bore or think how retarded the tale around the ghost is. I'm just pointing out that due to its episodic nature readers shouldn't really expect to get a suspense build up.
I wish I still had it downloaded, there was one pretty funny page in it with the ghost that got the wrong house
Punpun is fucking awful. It's a shitty kind of "realistic" edgy that completely boring because it's just being walking around being depressing assholes without leaving a strong enough impression to actually give you feelings about it. People read it because it's realistic and depressing, but that's the only thing it has going for it which means nothing. It doesn't have any sort of actual charm to keep you going.
Manga has some interesting arch(s) that were left from the anime. I suppose they did it because there's no plan for a season 2, or if there is, they were leaving a lot to it.
>There's a foreigner at the tournament that introduces himself as a member of the Badminton World Federation. He aims to make badminton a more popular and profitable sport. He is also Ayano's mom "boss", essentially becoming the new big bad
>Before the tournament ends, he introduces himself to Aayano and even takes her to another stadium for a practice match against yet another girl that her mother trained. Ayano agrees to this bc he promises her she will see her mother if she wins.
>Connie (blonde girl) is redeemed a little bit. She was the favourite of Team Worst Parents, until she rebelled (just a little bit) by taking a plane and going to meet Ayano by herself. She just wanted to see what was up with the actual daughter of her surrogate mother.
If you want to catch on to that, I recomend starting from chapter 13 of the manga. You'll have to re-read a great part of the tournament, but you won't miss on the details left out of the anime.
Also, the author has a female avatar for his omake? Either way she makes my peepee feel funny.
I'm really liking the MMO/isekai/fantasy/classes with leveling/etc setting, and i recently read "Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha" and "Ride On King". Too bad they're not finished.
What else is there that doesn't have an anime yet? I don't wanna read something that already has one like re:zero or the currently airing goblin slayer, but also the last manga i've read prior to the 2 i mentioned above was Sun-ken Rock when it just came out, many years ago, and i'm out of the loop. I'll take anything really, quantity over quality for my newfound shit taste.
I had trouble recalling manga to recommend that'd fit the month (which for me means horror/mystery/suspense and supernatural shit) but I'm back after shaking my brain for a bit.
Today I present you with soil, this is not the kind of manga you see often, where you really don't know what'll happen next. The story mostly focuses in a couple of unorthodox, and not exactly well respected, detectives put in charge of the case of the disappearance of a family in a tiny town. (you should give it a chance even if you don't find the art appealing).
as a bonus recommendation we have a an action and supernatural manga, bear in mind that it is also a shonen so adjust your expectations accordingly…
Togari: Our protagonist has spent 300 years in hell, as he was a murderer during his life. One day the ruler of hell gives him a chance to leave hell, he's to be reincarnated on earth equipped with a wooden sword called togari, that feeds on "toga", the manifestation of the sins of persons, which he must use to obtain 108 togas in 108 days, if he fails he'll be sent even deeper in hell. Being a sinner himself he can't commit any more crimes or he'll be sent back to hell, as well as being disalloweded to harm humans, as the damage will also be mirrored in his body.
>pic
there are other parts like this in the manga which convinced me that she is not really a ghost and more of an insane person with, for some reason, top athlete tier physical conditioning. however there are also certain panels which convince me that she is a demon…
also for those who have read zashiki onna, how do you think she killed the first MC?
soil's ending was pretty garbage. i mean, it does fit the general theme and you do get the key reveals, but the fact that everyone ended up basically even worse off than before the whole thing made me want to kill myself for wasting so much time waiting for it to be completely scanlated before i started reading it
So I think it technically counts as horror, so I'll recommend harem end. This time I will give no synopsis as it's better enjoyed "blind". I will still link an image from the extras (that has nothing to do with the main story in tone or characters). This is only 7 chapters if my memory doesn't fail me.
I think it's kinda tough to get a "good end" on most manga that aren't sol / relationship based. I mean, certainly not impossible, but bad ends happen so often I normally don't mind them much as I was not expecting better.
forgot to say, as it had been a while since I read togari, but it does have a bad end, it doesn't feel like an end at all, and I'd have to look up if my suspicion is right but I felt like the author rushed it, as if he was given just a couple of chapters to end everything. I did, however, find that there's a sequel that's been already finished, but it's not fully scanlated. So anybody reading this has been warned.
>another kago shintaro rec
i've always wanted to try whatever that guy smokes. he is even weirder than the guy who authored Soil.
maybe if you like weird shit like me you'll also like pic related. it's called Route End and is a crime drama about a serial killer called End whose gimmick is mutilating his victim's corpse to look like the spelling of his nickname, and the corpse cleaning agency whose young new boss decides to fight this killer. the manga also explores the business of corpse cleaning in Japan and there is also romance between the MC and a female cop with a brother complex. i didn't think i'd be so invested in it due to its completely average art, but it's great and the mystery surrounding End is way bigger than how it initially appears.
It's basically the zombie apocalypse but with different creatures which ordinarily are harmless in place of the zombies. This plays into the fad started by SnK by making the monsters look 100% human but soulless, much bigger than normal and very dangerous in that uncanny valley style. Also each of these discount HotD stories always have a method of overcoming the zombie replacements which involve being infected yourself, another fad pretty much started by I Am A Hero and maybe Apocalypse no Toride. If you ask the authors they will all probably spout similar bullshit about how the stories are symbolism about a certain fad taking over society and the only way to stop it is to partake in it yourself but exert enough willpower to be able to control it, instead of letting it control you.
>it's actually ongoing
anon, pls no.
Anyway, continuing with barely season related mangos, yesterday I picked something at random from what I had downloaded. A manga called god's child, and the first thing I could tell is that it was done by the same author of "journey to the end of the world", which means you should expect a heck of a ride.
It's only 160pages, so in you're in the mood for something weird you could certainly do worse.
Yeah I do know that recommending ongoing manga is somewhat frowned upon but if you only stick to completely scanlated/completely published manga you'll be missing out on a lot of interesting stuff. It also doesn't help that most scanlators also try to gauge interest in the titles they work on and if they think noone cares about a certain work they will eventually lose interest in it as well, not to mention individual members of the team. I've seen this happen so many times with great manga.
A good example would be this one, Dorei Yuugi. It's a death game manga and it's not even completely published, but for some reason I got so invested in it, perhaps because the author is not afraid to use black humor and that it is often self-aware about all the death game subgenre's conventions. The based gay yakuza is the real MVP of the manga.
I generally use madokami so I wouldn't help for gauging. Yamikini and this https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1631 come to mind when getting invested into ongoing manga, and it hurts. Funnily, though, you just made my day, as thanks to this conversation I see that someone picked it up again.
Oddly I could have sworn I had seen that art somewhere else, but the artist only has Dorei Yuugi to his name.
I seriously need to gitgud at japanese so I only have to suffer finding raws now
And to not lose my recommendation streak, here's Helen ESP. The girl suffered an accident as a child, and ended up blind and mute, however, she has ESP and can use it to communicate with her dog.
>recommending ongoing manga is somewhat frowned upon
One faggot not liking that it's ongoing doesn't mean it's frowned upon. The majority of the recommendations in these threads are ongoing stuff since forever and nobody complained.
What's frowned upon is recommending shit that just started because there's a fair chance it's getting axed, unless it has a very strong start (ride-on king comes to mind).
Keeping up with stuff is easy currently thanks to FMD and other passive download tools/alert sites anyway. Officially published stuff on madokami is the only thing you don't get in a silver platter nowadays.
I'm kinda ashamed it took me this long to remember freesia.
Freesia is set in an alternative japan, where if someone was killed, the family of the victim was allowed to kill the perpetrator, to do this there'd be a time-frame set, and both parties were allowed to hire bodyguards, if you are poor you'd have to get a shitty government agent, however.
The second recommendation today is Kanojo wo Mamoru 51 no Houhou, and it follows a few characters as they try to survive as tokyo is hit by a powerful earthquake.
Both of these are finished.
It's been years so my memory is fuzzy, but I remember hating elfen lied
> unfitting art style
> in case of manga it was not only unfitting but also atrocious
> super heavy handed approach to everything that took you out of it because it made it feel so forced
And I don't recall particularly liking any of the characters.
but is there actual mystery solving or just wanking over mysteries?
>wanking over miseries
fixed for you
Elfen Lied is about tryhard emotional trauma and gore. How it got half the praise people gave it back then (because thank god I don't see it being recommended anymore, I suppose people came to their senses) was a mistery to me.
I don't think it's cuckoldry when he literally does not give a shit about the woman's existance, other than that she's a freeloader with no other recourse. It would be if he actually would care about having a relationship.
Sure, she may say she's his "girlfriend". However, if he does not see her as anything but just as a sack of meat he picked off from the streets, that he sometimes feeds, does he really give a shit about what she pretends to do? Like, when she asked to live with him he just said "Well ok, sure" in the most monotone and uncaring way possible. He may have a lot of issues but giving a fuck about having women or children isn't one of them.
She should still get the rope for biting from the hand that's feeding her existance, what a piece of shit
Well, it was kind of implied she was somehow special since she didn't get the collar.
Since both her and the beach girl overlap in being insatiable cunts, I'mma guess they are the avatars of the god opposed to the deep jealousy god: the raging slut god.
Good point.
>deep jealously god wants to cockblock everyone
>raging slut goddess wants sex all the time, and will keep sending him back no matter what
Yuta's body is trashed now. I suppose if his body becomes too damaged, then he won't go back to the real world if he dies in sexland again. And what happened to his IRL love interest? Could they meet again in that alternate world? Hopefully not, she wouldn't like to see him fucking bitches left and right.
Some people in the threads comments were thinking that he's GF actually is the Deep Jealousy God. I was just think that what if she was transported to a reverse world where there are only men and no women.
>Hopefully not, she wouldn't like to see him fucking bitches left and right.
What if it turns that all humans from Earth have the power to make the women become overcome with lust? Then would she actively try to commit moist lesbian sex to try to keep the MC all for herself?
All the stuff you anons are saying about Elfen Lied is true—it certainly is overwrought, dated edginess and smut—but I'm reading the manga and enjoying it anyway. My older brother's first experience of anime about 20 years ago was as some exotic cartoon on the foreign language/culture TV channel that was novel mostly because it was far more violent/sexual/adult than anything from the West. Reading Elfen Lied seems to capture some of that feeling, as if it's communicating to me "Here is the kind of thing that used to be a big deal, that people thought made anime/manga for MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY!". It's nice to relive part of the mid 2000s in that way.
Requesting manga handout please.
Looking for manga about a small group of adventurers travelling from place to place, with story arcs with little or no overarching consequences on the next. Similar to One Piece, or the first half of Dragon Ball GT where Goku, Trunks and Pan are searching planet after planet going on mini-adventures. Please no manga with the modern-looking teenage boy character designs.
Kokuhaku (confession), two mountain climbers are in huge trouble after they went off course, there's a blizzard that reduces visibility greatly and one of them is wounded, thinking they are done for, one of the climbers decides to confess something that he'll regret soon as they realize they are close to a cabin they can use as refuge while help arrives.
It might not be obvious due to the art style, but the author is fukumoto (akagi,kaiji,kurosawa….) it was just drawn by someone else.
does your name happen to be reyash yadav? http://archive.is/VRI30
urine is body waste, smells and is NOT sterile. Heck, even in survival situations it shouldn't be drank as the fact it has salts will dehydrate you more.
It is drinkable, but you'll end more dehydrated, and if you are desperate enough to drink pee, your body probably isn't in proper working condition, meaning you're putting strain over not fully functional kidneys.
Dungeon Meshi kind of counts if you can get into the culinary autism. Anyway please stop using that kind of language or feel free to go back to >>>/4chan/ my man
Brings back memories. The artist made sure that the other guy looks very untrustworthy to get you rooting for the supposed protag
not him but
>try too hard with nigspeak bait
>gets mad when called out as the 4nigger he is
>i-if (You) call me out for acting like a nigger then y-you obviously love niggers you k-kike!!1
>>>/4cuck/
>>>/reddit/
>>>/gaschamber/
>>>/a/
to keep it thread related i'm going to rec kannou sensei. it's a josei written and drawn by an actual woman and the lewds are softcore compared to the typical harem manga, plus the 40 year old virgin tier MC is a writer of erotica who keeps talking about his perversions in his head but it's also very wholesome with the typical misunderstandings and drama and a genuinely cute pairing as the MCs. the comfy late 70s atmosphere and the decidedly tsundere love interest/secondary MC also make it even better. i think some fags have already mentioned it in the old thread but it's worth shilling it again if only to introduce good josei titles to other anons. despite being mainly aimed at women they can get pretty boner inducing radical in the way they describe sex and sexual passions. same woman who did natsu no zenjitsu so it may be a deal breaker for some, though.
just read all of what's released so far and all i have to say is jesus fucking christ.
< Pocket Monsters: Festival of Champions (Doujinshi)
< by Seijun Tombo
if you've read any of Pokemon Special and enjoyed it, you gotta read this.
i'm not sure what's with the release schedule though
Are lewd requests ok? No seriously, translating a doujin at a time seems like a safer way to practice than committing to an entire manga. Not trying to push my own fetishes either, tell us what you're into and I'll see if I have anything in my backlog that fits.
Otherwise, I had a couple ideas but they're either not scanned or based around some niche interest / fetish.
>accidentally posted those images after rewriting my post
I was going to ask about a one shot/one volume, "Utau Headphone Musume," by the guy that did Torako, but I know nothing about it and it doesn't even have scans.
and then my browser repeatedly shat itself while I tried to post this
I've caught up with Land of the Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni); it's about anthropomorphized gemstones who have been given consciousness by a mysterious monk. They constantly endure attacks from the people of the moon who shatter and capture the gemstones in raids. There's a lot of insight into eastern philosophy if you've never grappled with it such as why people exist, why god exists, why people are so capricious, whether authority should be given absolute trust. The story manages to introduce these concepts while still remaining fresh. There was an anime last year [ https://anidb.net/a13165 ] which adapted up until chapter 34ish and followed the manga very closely to the point that you wouldn't miss anything by watching the anime and skipping to chapter 30 of the manga.
I loved the manga (until everyone blamed Hitomi for ruining the future even though it was the dumbass rockstars fault that was at the time I also stopped watching the anime adaption).
Everyone's more or less intentionally horrible person or outright human garbage (looking at a certain bar mistress here) didn't make me laugh anymore, it made me feel genuinely bad.
Must have gonna soft in my old age.
meant unintentionally instead of intentionally. derp
As for my manga recommendation:
Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction
unlike most Asano Inios work, this one is quite enjoyable and not in-your-face dreary depressing.
The setting is a world where modern day Japan was invaded by Aliens. But the aliens are really weak and got their ass kicked hard. Now their mothership just hangs above the city as scenery. The few aliens that come down every now and then in their little ships get either shot down, crashland into buildings or get hunted down viciously by the army, sparking protests by bored housewives and student groups.
In the middle of all this are Kadode and Ontan with their everyday worries. Ontan is a crazy hardcore gamer dreaming of world conquest, while Kadode is dating her teacher with little success.
Together with their friends they try to make the most of their everyday lives while it lasts.
Can you do this?
It's some random CGDCT, the format is mostly a 4koma. Name is Tennen Aluminium ( 天然あるみにゅーむ！ remember to look for raws using the original title in kanji/kana). If you like it, and want to continue, I can post the rest of the raws in another thread.
How do you get a sweet gf heterosexual girlfriend that's like Rin? Are they 2D only?
Also, on topic, Sword Art Online Progressive is a very enjoyable read. Can recommend.
>inb4 SAO hipsters that think they look clever and cool by trashing the series
The progressive series is genuinely very good, much better than the original stuff, which isn't bad, just mediocre. Hate having to type the word progressive.
>inb4 SAO hipsters that think they look clever and cool by trashing the series
From I've heard, the only version of SAO that is good is "Bunny Loli" and the original web novel (Which is apparently lost forever with only the Chinese translations of the a few of the chapters still floating around, and everything since paling in comparison).
I mean The bar lady is pretty crappy lady cause she made Hitomi work so much illegally but she got what she deserved when she left I like it because surprisingly the comedy is good and they find use to when they actually do have her use her powers she does it in such a absurd way, pretty mind boggling only thing I ask for is the relationship to develop, and really Hina to develop some more. Though Hina can be a huge dick she is sursingly not so bad, she just too lazy to be even a bigger dick than she really could be cause shes so lazy I dont like Hitomi too much since she started looking down on her dad
Avoid anything done by Kamimatsu translations
They are notoriously horrendous, in that not only are they barely even translations, but character names were sometimes changed, and often, they'd also remove panels or even pages. This is particularly noticeable with their translations of Osomatsu-kun chapters, in which there's entire pages with zero lines of dialogue correctly translated.
Anyone know who actually scanlates the Arslan manga? I've been reading it on some of the biggish manga aggregator sites with all the malicious ad bullshit on it. The u>>59119
pdates have become really inconsistent. I know it's (probably) not popular but it's in the same mag as SnK and done by the author of Full Metal Alchemist so it's probably popular enough for somebody to pick up.
The damndest thing about it though, is the scans have been good quality with good translations that were actually proof read by what seems to be a native english speaker. yet they have had no credit pages or water marks or anything on there, which the aggregators are so lazy (bots?) they just leave those in seemingly 100% of the time.
>Pluto
Was gonna read this next but I just read 20th century boys which is by the same author so I figured I'd read something else in the mean time but I really am itching to read it.
Isn't Monster kind of a re-imagining in a way of Black Jack? I haven't read either but it kind of seems that way.
It's weird that the guy seems to have one work that's similar, or a tribute to one Tezuka work, and one being a sort of parallel adaptation.
Tenma is just a doctor who takes the Hippocratic oath seriously, unlike his peers.
His real issue is pretty much the same as in almost any other Urasawa work, where he gets almost no development, because the story meanders on and on over the dozens of characters doing side plots that do all tie in, but still waste shitloads of time and fuck over the focus of the story.
>still waste shitloads of time and fuck over the focus of the story.
That's was the best and worst part of 20th century boys for me tbh. In a way the interconnections made it awesome but it really got a bit too long after a certain point as well. It's still a really great manga and thoroughly unique and interesting, but since I knew how many chapters there were in total already while I was reading it I kept thinking, how's he gonna get 60 more chapters out of this, 30 more chapters out of this etc, then along comes a new character.
>2.4 A group that is locked, has missing chapters, and has had no new releases on MangaDex or any websites affiliated with that group for a period of 6 months is eligible by the request of any user to become marked as inactive.
This is the scanlation equivalent of the 1994 Fantastic 4 film. Imagine not wanting to be marked dead while simultaneously doing nothing.
>have a qt stalker that wants his D
>he is still after the two first girls
>even after the whole fucking drama he and his backstabbing friend started
nani the fuck?
Am I missing something? or did I misunderstood something?
Also, that fucking bench is cursed.
A group doesn't have to be inactive to be able to post translated scans of chapters they haven't finished yet. Right? I mean there's projects that actively have two scanlator groups working simultaneously mostly /a/nons vs another rand group and there has been no problem with their uploads on Dex.
There's no hard rule for it but an "unspoken one" which is pretty retarded. I understand the idea that having two groups working on one translation could be viewed as "wasted effort" but there's this huge ego problem with fan translators that make them get really pissy if someone starts translating something of there's.
Mado kara Madoka-chan
A salaryman meets a strage woman who's always sitting seemingly bored by her window.
Everytime they meet she quickly turns her window/room into a different storefront.
One day, it's a sushi restaurant, the other day a shooting range, sometimes it's a bar, other times a gambling den.
And judging from the authors pixiv account, she even goes so far as to turn her room into a swimming pool for his entertainment.
why is it that most scanlators outside of anons are almost universally gigantic faggots who keep getting involved in scanlation drama? is the japanese language that much of an esoteric thing that only these e-peen whores bother to learn it? makes me seriously consider learning japanese myself if only to troll scanlatwats by correcting their pozzed/wrongly done translations on aggregators or mangadex.
and fuck that group ownership thing, what they are doing is essentially pirating in the first place especially if they never even bother buying physical raws and scanning those themselves. which makes it really ridiculous when a group who dropped a series ages ago then proceeds to threaten the group which picked it up with C&D shit due to asshurt. groups that simply rip off licensed translations from crunchyroll etc and claim them as their own are at least still a bunch of honest-to-god thieves, while these faggots are delusional AND autistic.
>why is it that most scanlators outside of anons are almost universally gigantic faggots who keep getting involved in scanlation drama? is the japanese language that much of an esoteric thing that only these e-peen whores bother to learn it?
Because if they were any more competent and professional they'd be doing more difficult and demanding translation work than anime and manga, and not for free either.
>makes me seriously consider learning japanese myself if only to troll scanlatwats by correcting their pozzed/wrongly done translations on aggregators or mangadex.
Please do.
>gigantic faggots who keep getting involved in scanlation drama
If they were capable of not acting like retards while also being good enough at Japanese to translate, they'd be doing legit paid work instead of pirating shit and posting porn ads on their sites.
Any scanlation group that has existed for any length of time is either incompetent at the language, incapable of not acting like a flaming homosexual, living in a third-world country, or a combination of these.
And while we are at it, fuck groups that constantly try to force people to their ad-ridden site or beg for major patreon shekels . The original creator doesn't see shit, so why should the translators get anything beyond the cost of raws?
I've seen LN groups even structure their site to get extra shekels, breaking up chapters so you have to reload the site every 5 sentences, along with all the ads.
Might work? We have a few threads created specifically for some manga. Maybe creating one for a finished mango and instigating discussion could work. From my experience, if what you want to talk about isn't too popular, you'll have to go the extra mile with both your OP and posts, to draw other people in. Going with the usual
>This is a manga about X. Discuss.
Doesn't work.
Sekai no Owari ni Shiba Inu to
The last schoolgirl on earth and her doge wander the apocalypse, looking for food, getting drunk and being philosophical.
Not entirely unlike A Boy and His Dog, but with more skinny dipping and aliens but less cannibalism, probably
From my experience on /v/ the easiest way to do that would be to make a thread shitting on the plot holes or mary sue characters from a series you happened to read until the end or at least until the most recent chapter and used to get very hyped for, but ultimately are disappointed by. Other anons then pile on the shitting, while contrarians defend it.
mangadex has a policy of trying to be the definitive archive for every single thing ever scanlated, but they also often pussy out when scanlators have a bitch fit due to mangadex getting more visits than their own shitty shekel grabbing sites. it doesn't even take that much to get a work pulled off of mangadex. and mangadex admins are too soft on groups who constantly cause drama which is almost all of them. i still use it because it loads faster than aggregators and has a nice bunch of user features.
meanwhile mangakakalot is just another branch of the gazillion different aggregator sites who steal all their content from every scanlator ever the instant they are published, thus ironically functioning better as an archive in the end. they never bother grabbing the non-english translations which usually only serve as clutter in the likes of mangadex and, formerly, batoto. what you can't find in mangadex will almost always be available on kakalot instead.
I'm trying to remember a manga's name just so I can put it in my list of read stuff there were 3 main characters, 2 guys and a woman. The protagonist is one of the guys, who spends his days restoring old books, he also has the ability to read the full text of anything he touches (I think even if it was obscured) and gets to see the last moments in the life of who wrote it, the other guy is in the police and always tries to get help from here, while MC is the typical "leave me alone" protagonist. I don't fucking remember what was the deal with the girl. I think the manga might have been listed as shoujo, the drawing doesn't look painfully shoujo nor is there any remonce, but the interaction between the guys and how they are drawn "cool" makes me think it was aiming for shoujo demographic.
I don't think it was too long, maybe 3 or 4 volumes, fully scanlated, and 99% sure it is from this century. Does anyone here happen to know what manga I'm talking about?