Manga?

[silverthunder]

Anyone want to rec me a good manga? Stuff with scanlations available is good, preferably finished but ongoing is okay too. I like slashable series, action, and sometimes the cute fluffy romance series. Ocassional angst is good, and here-and-there humor is a must.

Also if it's *really* super good, I don't mind recs that involve going out and buying the translated version. Heh.

So, any takers?

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[joanaseta.livejournal.com]

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!

[silverthunder]

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)

[joanaseta.livejournal.com]

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. ^_^