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?

Comments

[sailormac.livejournal.com]

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.

[silverthunder]

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!