silverthunder | Manga?

Cantarella is pretty good. I've been reccing it a lot recently. It's a good translation (apart from minor modern phrases every now and then that can be ignored), and the art is gorgeous, and there's yaoi subtext to both. Borgias, incest, love triangles - whee! The historical roots are accurate, but there is a more supernatural twist to it, and some of the historical events have been tweaked to fit that. I have no idea if there are scanlations around - it's likely, Aarinfantasy might be one to try - since I bought it in licensed form, but it'll well worth the money.

I spent today catching up on the latest Loveless chapters, and am now a squealing mess itching to write fic. I can't see what's goingon because they're only text translations (Loveless fandom is really strict about fansubs and manga scanlations now that both the anime and manga are out in licensed form, for some reason), but GOD, I can't wait for the translated volumes to catch up. ;___;

On a brief note, +Anima is now out in English, and Tokyopop's translation looks fairly good, which is a relief. *_*

I don't have much else, I'm afraid - apart from Prince of Tennis they're the only manga I'm following since I have very little money and disliking downloading manga anyway. I prefer having it in my hands. ^^; I clearly need to stop being lazy and starting actually trying to learn Japanese, somewhat.

I'll have to look into Cantarella. Thanks. :)

Loveless, I don't like and probably never will. Too much of an age difference between the characters - that's a big turn-off for me. >_> Plus it looks a little too angsty for me. I'm as much a fan of angst as the next person, but some series just have more than I can handle. This is one of them.

I snatched up the first +Anima volume when it came out. XD Hee. I love that series.

I never got very far with PoT when I watched the anime. Maybe I should give it another chance... I dislike the main character, though. ^^;

Yes, well. I don't really regard what's between Soubi and Ritsuka as romance, exactly, since I firmly believe that they're both currently too messed up for anything on those lines. And if I do write romance, I always age Ritsuka up a few years because he's, well, twelve. However, I do like exploring the tentative friendship they have going, and how they're both sort of supporting the other as they stumble along. It's lovely. However, I adore the female Zero and Kio, the most. Soubi and Ritsuka is sort of the couple that everyone writes. :|

Although, yes, I have to agree with you about the angst. Kouga Yun can really pile it on.

I would really reccomend you try Canterella.

Well, if you want, I can point you in the direction of a community where you can get your hands on the manga and anime. Ryoma is, well, he can be a snarky little bugger, but by the end of the anime I'd ended up really, really liking him and he matures an awful lot. Same with the manga, though the manga is probably easier to get through than the anime, and the two diverge wildly since the manga is still on-going. (And my favourite character is Tezuka, incidentally, but moving on.) Or you could just, I don't know, watch the really gay PoT musicals? XD

I second Loveless... even though the story is kind of wacked out of its mind, the art is beautiful. XD And the shota isn't really hard core or anything... XD;

There's also Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, which just started being translated by tokyopop or viz or someone... I think they may have the first 2 books out by now. Great story. :3

See above comment. XD I will never be a fan of Loveless. It's just... not my thing at all.

I saw the cover for Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne - it looks kind of cute. Maybe I'll see if I can get my hands on it. ^^

Thanks. :D

Yeah, Loveless is a pretty big pile of angst. XD I like it mostly for the art, and these two kids, Natsuo and Youji... *squishes them*

KKJ is a pretty cool story. It's angsty, but not too much, I think. :D

Have you read the Full Metal Alchemist manga? From the top of my head that's the one that I can related the better to what you want.

The manga is different from the anime (which I've checked your profile for and know you've seen) in basically everything concerning the homunculi and alchemy and the characters (Roy killing Winry's parents WTF). I have to bodily chunk out my knowledge of the manga - which I read first - when I'm seeing the anime. It's the only way I can hope even making sense of any of it.

On top of that we're just coming in to some very juicy bits on Hawkeye and Roy and the whole Ishval mess.

Right. Other suggestions are:

- Death Note, by the authors of HnG (which I like better, but it's not as if comparison is fair. It's a whole different genre). It's an incredibly brainy action story - I tried to read to 2/3 of it in one go and ended up a pile of electrified little grey cells. In case you haven't heard of it - which I doubt - it's about an arrogant, intelligent teenager that aquires a book that enables him to kill anyone whom he knows the face and name and the race to try and catch him (you can imagine how difficult it is, in modern days, to catch someone who kills by writing names). It's recommended if only for the successful use of some wicked anti-clichés. It's complete now. ^_^

- Peace Maker Kurogane. I have to admit I read this manga for the gay. And Okita. (But that ends up being one and the same, yeah?) It's a short (5 volumes total, me thinks) Shinsegumi manga, with imminently slashable characters (in so much as they slash themselves, really. It's worse that HXH. There are massages involved.). It also has angst. And blood. And the story telling confused me a lot before I got to grips with the historical events. But. It has a cute main character (Tetsu), and Okita (Okita!) and his pig (yup!) and everyone is gay and pretty and silly under the sun. The end. ^_^

- Naruto. It's one of those action mangas that, like HXH, you get hopelessly addicted to. It has lots of humour and silliness and fighting (which are enjoyable in the manga - draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagging in the anime. I can only see the anime in huge chunks, because of this) and lots of lovable lovable characters (which are slashed every which way). The fandom is also enormous (and growing) and has awesome fics in every direction.

These four mangas you can find acanalated at: http://www.stoptazmo.com/

Now, there are many MANY yaoi mangas scanalated out there (most are, of course graphic and plotless). But I can leave you the names of some of my favourites:

- Gurechawanaidene (scanlated by the Obsession Scanlation Group) and Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made (scanlated by Shi-ran and Nakama), which are both humorous and endearingly silly (and - amazingly - could be rated PG13);
- Bukiyou na Silent (by mochi*mochi), humour, fluff, romance.
- Calorie (by Memory For You), romance, a bit of humour and angst.
- Saa Koi ni Ochitamae (by Forever More), humour, silliness, romance, a bit of angst.
- Wild Rock (by Obsession), romance, fluff, humour and gorgeous primitive men in skimpy clothes.
- Rin (by mochi*mochi), long (three volumes), romance, fluff, *very* good story, archery.

I have lots more, but there's no point in me mentioning them if you don't like any of these. ^_^

If you have problems getting/finding any of the above titles, drop me a message and we'll work something out (by yousendit or such if needed be).

Good reading!

I have read Full Metal Alchemist - I've followed the scanlations faithfully. I have been buying each manga volume as they come out in English, too. FMA is my favorite series of all time, both manga and anime.

I was reading Death Note, but I didn't know it was complete! I stopped reading around chapter 60 or 70 because I got busy and forgot to check for new chapters. I will have to make that one a top priority so I can see how the darn thing *ends*.

Oooh, Peace Maker Kurogane has been on my list for a while. I really need to get my hands on it. But I was thinking I'd have to track it down as an American release and buy it, so I've been putting it off. Heee... link... excellent. I'll probably end up buying it anyway, but this gives me a chance for a free sample so I can tell for sure if I like it.

I haven't read Naruto, pretty much because of the BILLIONS OF CHAPTERS I'd have to get through just to get up to where the storyline is currently sitting, and from what I've heard it's nowhere near a conclusion. I'll probably dig into this one eventually, but for now I'm holding off on it. I'm straining my brain enough wondering how the hell the author of Hunter X Hunter is going to possibly resolve his many, many, MANY open points of conflict - I don't need another series with the same basic question at the moment.

Always looking for new yaoi manga. :) It can be hard to find the good stuff. I've read Bukiyou na Silent and Wild Rock, but the rest of those titles don't look familiar. I'll have to track them down.

Thanks muchly! ^^ I appreciate the recs! (and link)

I collect yaoi scanlations and hoard the good ones like a greedy lil kid, really. ^_^

Currently, I have well over a hundred completed titles and about thirty others awaiting some form of completion.

I recommend almost anything by Naono Bohra, Yamato Nase, Masara Minase, Mamahara Ellie, Sakuragi Yaya and Honame Yukine.

Though Naono Bohra, I've got to warn you, is often times quirky (eyes missing a la CLAMP, cannibalism performed on lake-spirits on the once, people getting hit before making up and making out, supernatural stuff), it's definitely worth it for the chance to see guys actually looking like guys instead of effeminate, girly versions of guys. Oh. And older guys - like, how often do you see people that don't look that they're in their early twenties or that they just stepped out of a magazine cover in romantic yaoi? And she does it so beautifully (and cutely! ~~~chibis!) too! My absolute favourites of hers are Three Wolves, Fingertips' Love, Denki and Covetous You and Insensible Me. So maybe you should start on her works from there. ^_^

xxxHolic is extremely slashable and the manga version is beautiful and fun to read. I don't normally care for CLAMP, but I've made a big exception for this series and I think you should too!

Scanlations here.

I have the first volume of xxxHolic manga and the movie and first few episodes fansubbed (which I haven't gotten around to watching yet - shame on me), but I didn't know where to find scanlations. This will make things a lot easier. :)

Thank you!

I loudly, heartily and enthusiastically recommend From Eroica With Love. Seriously, it is one of the funniest mangas I have ever read, it's slashy as hell (American slash fans were reading translations/summaries of it years before the anime boom hit this country) and it even has good action/adventure plotlines.

The plot is about an aristocratic thief, Earl Dorian Red Gloria, who is being pursued by a NATO officer, Major Klaus von Emberbach. The two of them end up being mixed up with Russian spies (the series is set in the '70s) and all sorts of international intrigue, and find themselves working together more often than they'd like. The humor is cracky as hell -- most of the charaters are insane to at least some degree and the extremely straitlaced Klaus finds himself having to deliver lines like, "The future of the free world depends on his underwear!"

The manga is commercially available from CMX (distirbution is spotty, there's only a couple of places that I know carry it regularly). Not sure about scanlations, but since the series was popular for years before its CMX debut, I'm sure they're still floating around out there.

I'll see if I can find scanlations. I hate buying a series blind, because then if I don't like it I've shelled out money for something I don't particularly want (and manga isn't cheap, either). But I remember seeing this rec on your journal a few times, so if I can't find the scanlations I might just take a chance. It does sound interesting.

Thanks!

Getbackers. On-going and damn long (35 vols and counting) but it's BRILLIANT. Plenty of action but tempered with plot, it's not just fighting. There is INFINITE slash potential - the two leads have a complicated and wonderful relationship (someone once described it as a love story without sex) and most of the other characters have someone who either seems in love with them or someone they are in love with! It's got angst - I think every main character has some dark thing in their past - but all the angst is covered up by the fact that the characters are wonderfully dorky and humourous. It's exciting and there's mysteries galore to try and solve. I absolutely adore and love it. There are scans out there somewhere but I couldn't tell you where - I buy it! (just to warn you about the only bit that really grates, most of the girls who do anything fighting relating get their clothes torn/burned/destoryed. And one of them never wears very much anyway. It's a shonen series and I generally just mumble and concentrate on whatever the next slashy bit is! The only other problem is that it takes a few volumes to totally get into the swing but the first volumes are still great fun!)

(um yes. I love Getbackers a lot. Could you tell?)

Yellow. It's short, only four volumes long but it's one of the best yaoi serieses I've actually read. Definite sharings of angst and humour and very hot chemistry between the leads. And there's a great plot to it too. Again, no idea about scans though. (I don't really do scans)

Tokyo Babylon is one I like a lot. Very angsty but still genuinely funny too. And there's buckets of slash in there.

I'll leave it at that for now! :D Hope I didn't bore you!

Hehe... I've seen a few episodes of Getbackers, but not read the manga. I think Jeremy has a couple of volumes, though (trust Jer to jump all over the slashable stuff), so maybe I'll see if I can borrow it and take a read. Even from the anime I can tell that the series is so full of slash it's not even funny. XD I can probably handle some shonen fanservice - it's not like I haven't seen it before.

I've heard good things about Yellow... It's another series I'm thinking Jeremy will buy, so again, I'll probably borrow it from him. :) It's nice to have friends...

I have all of Tokyo Babylon already. XD Hee. That series is fun.

Thank you for the recs! Of course you didn't bore me. ^^ I appreciate the info.

The Getbackers anime is pretty faithful but not totally. It's still quite good though, I like the anime too. :) I hope if you read it, you enjoy it! :D

*giggles* I get 90% of my manga from my best friend who buys it and lends it to me. I borrow nearly all the rest from libraries or other friends. They are so useful. Of course, sometimes I then have to buy them for myself ... like with Getbackers. And Yellow. And probably Tokyo Babylon soon!

Count Cain? :D

It's Kaori Yuki, victorian England, poison, murder, scandal, and a pretty main character with a Very Devoted butler.

The second (saner) half of the series has been licensed, but volumes 1-5 are up for grabbing here (http://sakuracrisis.ukepile.com/).

Thanks! I'll take a look through it! :) Much appreciated.

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