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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 14:46:16 GMT -5
I read maybe half of Monster a couple years ago, but got sidetracked and never got back to it. It's the first, and still one of the few, sienen series I read. I can't recall details, but it left a good impression for the most part.
And, yeah, I was not prepared for how violent DW is. It's always kinda surprising how much more they "get away with" in shonen than they would in something comparable from a US publisher. I wanted to check out the anime, but I tried watching the first episode on Funimation's YouTube channel and it seemed like they probably edit it to death.
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Post by Jesse on Aug 3, 2015 4:26:35 GMT -5
Can anyone recommend a good horror manga? Preferably something that isn't 300+ chapters.
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Post by Warmonger on Sept 6, 2015 15:39:30 GMT -5
Haven't read much manga, but Lone Wolf and Cub is some of the greatest shit ever conceived.
I grew up a huge fan of old samurai and kung fu movies and was blown away when I first read it in the mid 90's.
Kojima's art is amazing throughout and Koike is probably one of my Top 10 favorite comic writers of all-time based solely on that run.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 6, 2015 15:45:39 GMT -5
Good horror manga :
Uzumaki (AKA Spirals), 3 volumes / Body horror, curse, psychological
Dragonhead, 10 volumes / Survival post-apocalyptic, cult, body horror
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Post by Jesse on Sept 6, 2015 22:45:19 GMT -5
Good horror manga : Uzumaki (AKA Spirals), 3 volumes / Body horror, curse, psychological This is likely the next manga title I pickup. Or Gyo as I've been meaning to check out the work of Junji Ito for awhile now. Dragonhead, 10 volumes / Survival post-apocalyptic, cult, body horror Haven't heard of this. Sounds interesting I will have to give it a look. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 7, 2015 4:25:34 GMT -5
Dragonhead somewhat ends abruptly, but it's a hell of a ride. They did a movie adaptation of it which only covers abut 10% of the book, avoid at all cost. The graphics are quite good and when I wrote cult, I meant cultists  |
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Post by Jesse on Jul 19, 2017 14:47:48 GMT -5
Just starting catching up on the most recent chapters of Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond which were published back in 2015. I don't think there have been any new chapters since. Musashi starts a new journey is his life after the death of his last mentor Shusaku. I love the art in this series and it amazes me how even a rice paddy can be so interesting to look at.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 19, 2017 18:07:04 GMT -5
I read a bit of Vagabond, but it didn't hold my attention.. that's some darn pretty art though!
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Post by Jesse on Mar 22, 2019 15:40:55 GMT -5
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Post by badwolf on Apr 9, 2019 15:56:24 GMT -5
Also, since the last few posts above, a number of Junji Ito works have been published in nice, singular hardcover volumes (Tomie, Uzumaki, Gyo, and a couple anthologies of short works.)
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Post by bran on Apr 10, 2019 0:48:27 GMT -5
Can anyone recommend a good horror manga? Preferably something that isn't 300+ chapters.
There is Museum of Terror anthology, a collection of shorter standalone stories by Junji Ito (~30-70 pages per story).
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Post by bran on Apr 14, 2019 3:04:57 GMT -5
Because I just read 4,000-some-odd pages of 20th Century Boys over 24 volumes in three days, and Oh! My! God! you guys, it was the best comic I've read... well, at least this year. Basically, it's about a group of kids in the late '60s through early '70s who come up with a plan to destroy the world - which one of them starts to actually implement 40 years later. The whole thing is just an incredible tapestry of effective plotting, jumping back and fourth between multiple time periods (and a virtual reality world) covering TWO almost-apocalypses... and it's never not-exciting. (And addictive!) It dabbles in thriller, mystery (which of the childhood pals is "THE FRIEND" the masked, messianic figure who;s out destroy the world) comedy, musical narrative and... uh.. bowling. There's lots of bowling. And there's a fair amount of actual content there, as well - There's some smart thinking about how childhood imprinting defines us as adults, and how the smallest of decisions can have far-reaching consequences. Just really great stuff. I'm kinda freaked out by how good the plotting in Manga can be, and I wonder why American comics can't do that.
Great stuff indeed, but they can. Y-Last Man and Ex-Machina are manga in everything but the name. Form is exactly the same - Limited big fat series that often have slower pacing/buildup, include sub-text alongside the face value of action/adventure/crime/sf, some great art, and all that executed by the original creators.
Now western manga do tend to include guest artists, probably due to daunting amount of work required (and low initial payoff).
In Y-Last Man our hero Yorick finds himself in a World where all the men are dead. So there is adventure but it's also his personal journey to becoming a man (so he can die like everyone else LOL). Along the way he interacts with bunch of women and travels a lot. Ex-Machina explores popular culture and superhero variety in particular (and includes every single trope you can think of - origin story, side-kick, costume and weapon of choice, police commissioner, super-villains, arch-enemy... you name it, it's there).
Now I like BKV's stuff so I'm bringing these examples but there are quite a few others.
Speaking of manga I just finished epic Death Note, it's 10/10 alright. I found this on youtube, gives you face-value basics (and believe me there is more, much more), and it does not spoil:
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 2, 2022 13:20:13 GMT -5
Lone Wolf & Cub, v1: The Assassin’s Road(Dark Horse, 2000)  Finally getting around to this manga classic created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima – although all I have (so far) are the first two of these digests that Dark Horse began publishing in 2000. This volume collects the first ten stories, which introduce the ‘Lone Wolf’, i.e., the disgraced former shogun’s executioner, Ogami Itto, who now travels through Japan as an itinerant assassin-for-hire with his ‘Cub’, i.e., his toddler son Daigoro. It’s a great storytelling device, and I like the historical setting, i.e., the wonderfully named Edo period. Don’t really have much more to say about this, except that I can see why it became an instant hit in Japan back in the early 1970s, leading to movie and TV adaptations, and then became incredibly popular and influential once it was published abroad in translations.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 9, 2022 6:33:26 GMT -5
The Walking ManJiro Taniguchi, 1992 (orig. title: Aruku Hito, French title: L’Homme qui Marche, this Cro. Edition: Šetač)  I paged through this book during a recent trip to the library and immediately decided to check out it and one more book by Taniguchi. The art style just captivated me – it’s so lovely and evocative. There’s not so much a story here as a series of brief vignettes in which the primary character, an unnamed ordinary guy in some medium-sized city goes on long walks, either alone or with his dog. Sometimes he wanders off when running errands like going to the post office, and other times he sets off fully intending to take in his surroundings.  It’s almost a picture book, as there is very little dialogue – just occasional snippets of conversations between the main character and his wife, or with passersby on the street. However, the scenes are like little meditations, and I found myself pausing at individual panels not just to savor the details of the gorgeous art but also just to put myself in the main character’s place.  That’s a splash page from a sequence in which he climbs a tree to retrieve a toy plane for some children. Sorry this post is so image heavy, but it's better than trying to describe how beautiful this book is. Taniguchi was a master of detail, and almost every panel as well as whole pages are stunning works that could easily be put in frames and hung on a wall.  Personally, I could really relate to this book, because wandering off on long walks is something I’ve always liked to do. When I first moved to Zagreb in the early 1990s, I spent a lot of time just aimlessly wandering around the city’s streets. Later, when we moved just outside of town and then got a dog (who just left this world a little over a month ago, unfortunately), I spent countless hours hiking around in the nearby forests and meadows with her. It’s been translated into English and published at least twice as far as I can tell. This is the cover to the most recent English edition: 
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 11, 2022 8:56:44 GMT -5
A Zoo in WinterJiro Taniguchi, 2003/2008 (orig. title: Fuyu no Doubutsuen; Croatian ed.: Zoološki vrt zimi)   The other book by Taniguchi I checked out of the library. In terms of its narrative style, this one differs considerably from the one I reviewed above, The Walking Man. While the latter is meandering and meditative with little dialogue, this one tells a more straight-forward story that’s full of dialogue. It centers around a young man named Mitsuo Hamaguchi, who’s about 18 or so years old at the start, during a three year period of his life from the beginning of 1966 through the end of the 1968. At its start, he’s living in Kyoto and working for a small wholesale fabric company, but he’s not necessarily thrilled with his job and he wants to be an artist. This and some problems in the company involving the owner and his daughter prompt Hamaguchi to move to Tokyo after he’s offered a job as a junior art assistant in the studio of a successful manga artist. The rest of the story sees him learning the ropes of the trade, and also acclimating himself to life in a big city and making friends, and then falling in love with a young woman who helps him conceive of and then finish his first manga story. While the other book showcases Taniguchi’s talent for depicting both urban and natural scenery, this one has less of that. Instead, it demonstrates that his figure work and mastery of facial expression is also top-notch.  Taniguchi is just a really good all-around storyteller who writes really believable characters that you care about and crafts some genuinely moving scenes. I also think aspects of the story are autobiographical. And yes, there’s an English translation that was published in 2011.
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