I have not read it yet actually (work and all...). But I hear good things!
Yeah, some of them are more obscure (in the West, at least), particularly Last of the Mohicans, A, A Prime, In Clothes Called Fat, Banana Fish, and A Drunken Dream and Other Stories. I found out about several series, such as Banana Fish, through Shaenon Garrity's Overlooked Manga Festival (she's now alternating with Jason Thompson at ANN for articles on House of a Thousand Manga), which are both great for more obscure (and likely out of print) manga.
A, A Prime and A Drunken Dream and Other Stories are both by Moto Hagio, a shoujo mangaka whom I've seen described as second only to Tezuka in how influential she was. Unfortunately she's been very little translated in English; Fantagraphics recently brought out gorgeous hardcover editions of A Drunken Dream, a compilation of her work from the 1970s to the present, and The Heart of Thomas, which was [one of the] earliest boys love stories in manga. Here's hoping more of her work comes to the States. A, A Prime was published by Viz many years ago, back when they were still flipping their manga, and I know little more about it than who wrote it, that FnordChan suggested it, and that it consists of three stories, "set in the same futuristic universe, all linked by the presence of Unicorns, people genetically engineered for space travel who now coexist somewhat uncomfortably with other human colonists. The Unicorns are extremely intelligent but have limited emotional and social skills, making them almost autistic. The first storyIn the second story,deals with a Unicorn woman who is killed in an accident and replaced by a clone, who then has to deal with the reactions of the crewmates who knew her predecessor.The third storya boy named Moriwho is also a rare breed of human, gifted with psychic abilitiesfalls in love with an uncommunicative and secretly troubled Unicorn girl." (thank you, Shaenon)catches up with Mori as a young adult when he meets and falls for another Unicornbut this one is a man.
In Clothes Called Fat is a josei manga, and was an impulse buy that I saw the bookstore. It's only a single volume, and is about body insecurities / self-image issues women face.
Banana Fish is... basically a shoujo manga take on a gang drama, though the only real indication that it is supposed to be a shoujo manga, from the language (coarse, at least under one translator) to the artwork (utilitarian and draftsman-like) to the setting (1980s New York City, as imagined by a Japanese woman) to the plot (I don't know, but I've read that it's quite grounded all things considered and it seems that way from what I've read), is the fact that there's a mostly implied homosexual relationship between the two principals, and that there's somewhat more emphasis on the outward expression of emotions. But when I was reading the first volume, at times it felt like a seinen.
The Last of the Mohicans is the 1973 remake of a manga adaptation of the novel of the same name. It was $5.99 and is nicely oversized. I have no idea if I'll like it, but it looks good on a shelf.
I haven't. What's it about?
I could look it up, but I might get that more thorough recommendation this way!
In Clothes Called Fat is a josei manga, and was an impulse buy that I saw the bookstore. It's only a single volume, and is about body insecurities / self-image issues women face.
Oh well. I guess I should change my avatar.
Hunter x Hunter not coming back next week as planned and has entered permanent hiatus again.
You know, might as well take this opportunity to reread nisekoi to see what avatar I can use.
Good idea Y/N?
Pfft, Narita already got booted from Jump not too long ago.
If I throw my Nisekoi volumes into a fire and take a picture of them burning, does that qualify as a Nisekoi avatar?
I doubt the art is the issue.Does the writer of Hunter X Hunter not have an understudy or an assistant he can relay his plans for the series to?
Give the losers an out, Akito.
Let them also use avatars from Super Interesting Darkness.
Give the losers an out, Akito.
Let them also use avatars from Super Interesting Darkness.
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Give the losers an out, Akito.
Let them also use avatars from Super Interesting Darkness.
just need to censor those pesky parts
just need to censor those pesky parts
get rid of the pants! ;]I read this as pants first.
Censorship is the lazy answer.
Yeah... I guess that's happening. It's really a bummer that that's how this is happening, though. If he was just going out on hiatus like usual (and this is clearly not like usual for a trillion reasons, but I'm kinda tired of going over them again), I'd be able to laugh and change my avatar happy and all, but as it is I just hope he's ok and I can't really focus on laughing it off "lol another hiatus".
It's beautiful
They did say just a while ago that's it's because of serious back pain.I think Togashi owes it to his long term fans to tell them exactly what the score is with him.
If is genuinely chronically sick, that's fair enough, but tell us!
Why is it all so vague?
Well um, do you have sources for any of that.That and the deeper issue being that Togashi doesn't like work, and knows that he has power over the Jump editorial staff like no other.
When Yu Yu Hakusho was booming Togashi didn't want to draw it any more and wanted a long break despite raking in the money for both himself and Shueisha he just stopped. He let the editors know this but they told him to keep going like they do with every popular manga. The difference with Togashi was that he actually pulled his own work and just stopped writing. That's why Yu Yu's conclusion was so abrupt and it only lasting 19 volumes where in Jump popular series go on for much longer (except Death Note).
He later agreed to do Level-E which was only serialized for 10 chapters a year and it which a massive success, and later Hunter x Hunter which was also massive. The editors can't really force Togashi to do anything he doesn't want fearing that he will pull his own serious like he did Yu Yu. He makes far to much money for everyone involved.
No reason for his illness has ever been stated in all of these years, and he has been seen at several events when he was meant to be on hiatus looking completely fine.
You'll never be able to hide your shame that you bought Nisekoi volumes~
Well, if Amazon is to be believed, I have some Nisekoi on my doorstep in a box as i'm typing this
Fuck you Dragon Quest. Fuck you.
The bet was just a nisekoi avatar, not onodera or any of the other shit characters. Time to find the most bland background character.