When I was teenager I doodle like dbz but after slam dunk came out I doodle like slam dunk ever since. It killed my ability to draw super saiyans lol
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One of the rare series where a lot of it has disseminated down to all the other sports manga, but it’s still THAT good. My perspective is that it still has its own lane of following someone fall in love with a sport rather than special boy wins championship or whatever.
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Alright this was enough to convince me to get the first 3 volumes lol. I guess they just reprinted them so they’re available again.
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After watching Godzilla Minus One i remembered i had this short manga series sitting in my bookshelf for 3 years now. It’s about the WW2 kamikaze. The movie touches it a bit and this manga’s plot is an excuse to go deep into it.
Eien no Zero (Eternal 0)
Just finished volume 1 and it makes you think a lot about how history can change in 60~70 years.
I’ll write my complete thoughts once i finish
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i was reading this rom com manga and the MC has Auditory processing disorder, it’s very sweet!
I loved how the scan staff (or mangaka, idk) used a GIF to animate the movements of the japanese sign language.
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Just completed a Bakuman reread into a first half of Death Note reread. Don’t know if I will finish Death Note but thought it was interesting how the ending of Bakuman more or less confirms that Death Note was extended longer than they wanted it, even down to the chapter length, as the in universe manga in Bakuman ends right at L dying..
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For me Bakuman was both Takeshi Obata and Tsugubi Ohba saying “so here’s how this fcks run this industry. It’s garbage most of the time!”
A decade later we live in a world that many authors self publish so there’s different stuff all around.
That’s how One Punch Man got 1st published. I wonder how many series from the 2000s where jump mangas were competing against Naruto, One Piece and Bleach wouldn’t get cancelled.
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Dead on, especially in that portion of the Nanamine arc where he publishes his one shot online and all the editors lose their minds, and now that just… Is the industry model.
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Bakuman is great. Lots of stuff started to make sense like why some anime had such bad plots at times or would instantly get bad overnight. Cause the manga did!
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Also it keeps the dream alive that I might be like that otter comic dude one day. I ain’t 40 just yet.
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Caught up on Kuutei Dragons the other day.
This one has been fairly controversial at least in reviews I’ve read, due to it basically being a whimsical story about dragon whalers. Some people cannot get past this basic thing - and I get it! Particularly since this isn’t critical in like, a Moby Dick sense.
What I will say is it also is fairly conservation focused, multiple arcs focus on being anti wholesale slaughter and being more about ecosystems, and it’s hard to make a 1 to 1 because the dragons are more like Pokémon than whales in that they seem to just be every animal?
This manga does not get enough shine IMO for having art only really matched by Witch Hat Atelier in terms of what it is going for, and a really really fun group of characters. This thing is a real Jules Verne esque adventure and I get so excited when a new crop of chapters drops.
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@freakscene suggested Blue Box so i’m commute reading it!
Really liking it so far. There’s a good balance of sports and relationships. Lf to the training and matches all animated.
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Hell yeah. Shoutout to my girl Hina
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Checking out Medalist. I was initially apprehensive, as I take anything anime/manga related dealing with little kids with a wide wide leash, but this thing is everything great about sports manga. Highly recommend. The author has this amazing sense of paneling that really sells the motion of figure skating.
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Does anyone else have a series that you regularly re-read?
Annually i read Angel Densetsu (1992) by Yagi Norihiro (the mangaka of Claymore)
It’s short and i love it!
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i will reread ushijima the loan shark 闇金ウシジマ君 from time to time. probably my favorite manga next to berserk, sometimes in front of it.
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i pick a urasawa series pretty regularly, typically 20th Century Boys. Also Beck, I read beck probably once or so a year.
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i read beck when i was a teen and again in my early 20s. Really liked it back then.
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