@“whatsarobot”#p157213
Excellent! I'll check these out!
Been reading Usogui lately.
I don't know if others have checked it out, but it is kind of lost on me. I keep reading because it is extraordinarily ostentatious so I'm never necessarily bored, but I'm waiting to see what makes people who have read this thing all the way really love it. For reference I'm about 200 chapters in and it feels kind of like the real thing hasn't started yet.
Oda is taking a 3 week break in a move that I hope becomes very normal.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-03-21/one-piece-manga-takes-3-week-break-in-april/.208986
@“marxseny”#p147946
This may have been resolved but My Dearest Self With Malice Afterthought would probably scratch your itch, and the author's new manga Furitsumore Kodoku Na Shi Yo is also a pretty interesting thriller. Very very similar tones from what I remember of Boku Dake Ga.
New edition. Some color pages. All new translation. 2-in-1 omnibus format. The cover is the Kinokuniya exclusive one too which is a throwback to the original cover of the first volume. Also came with this cool art card:
before this was announced I just never thought it would happen. For those who don’t know the original translation from Tokyopop was just awful. They changed the names to be Western names: Takumi=Tak, Itsuki=Iggy, Natsuki=Natalie, Keisuke=K.T. etc etc etc for every character as long as they were translating the manga. This new translation fixes all that and just from reading a little bit of the beginning seems much better overall. I am happy :')
@“sabertoothalex”#p159014 Love to see manga dreams coming true. This rules.
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I read the first volume of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou over the past couple days!
I really liked it! Very lowkey setting without a real overarching plot. Mostly just tranquil apocalypse vibes. It seems very comfortable not needing to answer all the questions about the setting, it will show you things and encourages you to build the backstory in your head. I adore that! Coupled with the incredible art it’s living up to the hype I saw for the series when this translation was first announced. Very much looking forward to the rest and kinda want to get the physical volumes.
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I somehow missed this post until now, but yes, this is one of my favourite first volumes of any manga series ever. I say “first volume” because even here in Japan, I have never been able to find any of the subsequent volumes.
I know I could read it digitally, but even second-hand volumes that I’ve found on apps like Mercari are expensive.
So, Yokohama Maidashi Kikou is one of my “white whales” that continues to make going to second-hand bookshops a fun pursuit.
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It seems Land of the Lustrous has ended up its manga and I think I’m going to read it as soon as possible, since I feel it’s better to read that at my own pace than what I did after the anime was released.
Golden Kamuy actually ended last year but I was waiting on the official viz app to get it before reading it and they silently dropped the last few volumes in January so I was able to binge it recently.
I highly recommend the series, one of my favorite manga series period. It’s a historical fiction piece about a former soldier teaming up with a young Ainu girl to hunt for gold and it’s got plenty of action, cooking, humor, and well, lots of gore which might turn some off.
It’s also got a surprising streak of homoeroticism between burly bear types on top of some of the best fight scene choreography in the medium. Definitely check it out if you haven’t.
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I’m So Hungry I Could Eat Basashi was a short and satisfying 6 chapters on Manga Plus for free and just finished up today. Some very good reaction faces in the last chapter. I would warn that the Basashi from the title is depicted in enough detail that I could see it turning off someone against eating that kind of stuff.
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I also missed this post. YKK is one of my favorite pieces of media ever. I read it digitally and been on the lookout to get a phyisical set because of how much i like it.
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I have since bought all the physical volumes release so far and am so enamored with the series. I love it so much. I’m am so excited and a little sad that the last volume is coming so soon(August).
Can easily recommend these English volumes as they’re brand new and easy to find. They’re very nice and include original chapter and volume cover galleries in each one. I think it’s the only language besides Japanese they’ve been released in officially?
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reading yu gi oh. i thought it would be fun and famously the old stuff wasn’t brought over here in the anime / was deemed “too dark”. not to dump on my child self but man this sucks. sorry for any yu gi oh defenders but these first fifty chapters before it becomes all about the card game are so shonen jump manga epsiodic stuff before we find out what the manga will really be about (hitman reborn etc etc).
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Coincidentally I am also reading the first arc of Yu-Gi-Oh right now. It does totally suck lol. Kind of a huge mess. It is also wildly misogynistic. But it’s so outrageous at times that I just keep reading.
Do you know if the subsequent arcs are, like, actually good? Cuz I have zero frame of reference.
WRT misogyny, marginally? I’m at Duelist Kingdom currently which is probably THE arc of this thing - there are much less panty shots etc, but Anzu is never really much more than what she is in that first arc. Mai Kujaku is cool. Honestly they get too caught up in doing card games to do misogyny.
The later arcs are definitely more interesting but honestly without nostalgia I wouldn’t really recommend this to anyone. In the fanbase this is already widely mocked but reading it back it is shocking just how little rules the card game has in the manga.
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So is Slam Dunk really all that? I’ve been curious about it for a while and obviously it has a stellar reputation.
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