Underrated Manga Titles
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ago. It has only released 6 of the 10 installments, and as good as it
was to me, I was surprised to find out that it was actually not that
popular. Its called "Hyper Police". I have started several other
threads about this particular manga and I have found noone else that
reads it. Which in my opinion is a bad thing. But the reason I am
posting this is not to find fans of Hyper Police (although that would
be nice) but to find other great underrated mangas (is that plural
right?). If you know of any post them here plz. I am tired of hearing
about mangas like "Fruits Basket". Yeah its a good manga but everyone
has read it, and I like to read stuff thats not that mainstream,
something new. Anyway please post.
Thank You
Farix
I'll give a list of some of the manga I read. Some of it is pretty
popular, the rest, I'm not so sure
Ai Yori Aoshi
Bleach
Fruits Basket
Genshiken
Kare Kano
Negima!
Pastel
RG Vega
Rozen Maiden
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
Tsukuyomi ~Moon Phase~
xxxHOLiC
Stuff I've read in the past:
Angelic Layer
Card Captor Sakura
Chobits
Crest/Banner of the Stars
Instant Teen: Just add nuts
Love Hina
Magic Knights Rayearth
Marmalade Boy
Psychic Academy
To Heart
Scanlations:
Ichigo 100%
Inu Neko Jump
Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~
Open Sesame
Otogi no Machi no Rena
Parallel
Seto no Hanayome
Suzuka
Toshiue no Hito
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than Urusei Yatsura, IMO. Viz has the rights to the
manga, but unfortunately it wasn't one of their better
sellers. Which means that they stopped the series approximately
1/3 of the way into it, and apparently have no intentions
of resuming it or even reprinting the older stuff.
After they stopped the first time back in 1990, I was able
to get the wideban set and was saddened to see the stories
that will apparently never ben seen here outside of scanlations.
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Fish Eye no Miko
> but to find other great underrated mangas (is that plural right?).
"Manga".
> If you know of any post them here plz. I am tired of hearing about
> mangas like "Fruits Basket". Yeah its a good manga but everyone
> has read it, and I like to read stuff thats not that mainstream,
> something new. Anyway please post.
Death Note. There's 6 volumes out in the US and there will be 6 more (the
manga is already over in Japan). It's pretty cool.
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<fis...@deadmoon.circus> wrote:
> Natsuk...@gmail.com wrote:
> > If you know of any post them here plz. I am tired of hearing about
> > mangas like "Fruits Basket". Yeah its a good manga but everyone
> > has read it, and I like to read stuff thats not that mainstream,
> > something new. Anyway please post.
similiar to Hyper Police? Geobreeders.
> Death Note. There's 6 volumes out in the US and there will be 6 more (the
> manga is already over in Japan). It's pretty cool.
Death Notes is the hottest shonen topic right now in the entire Japan
w/ the live movies release, (Nana for shoujo), I would not exactly call
it underrated.
Gilles Poitras
- Note this is not for kids!
Fish Eye no Miko
> Fish Eye no Miko <fis...@deadmoon.circus> wrote:
>> Natsuk...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>> If you know of any post them here plz. I am tired of hearing
>>> about mangas like "Fruits Basket". Yeah its a good manga
>>> but everyone has read it, and I like to read stuff thats not
>>> that mainstream, something new. Anyway please post.
>>
>> Death Note. There's 6 volumes out in the US and there will
>> be 6 more (the manga is already over in Japan). It's pretty cool.
>
> Death Notes
"Note" Singular.
> is the hottest shonen topic right now in the entire Japan w/ the
< live movies release,
I'm aware of this. And if we were in Japan, that would be relevant.
> (Nana for shoujo), I would not exactly call it underrated.
Really? How many people in the US know about it?
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> I like to read stuff thats not that mainstream,
> something new. Anyway please post.
>
> Thank You
My recommendation: Spiral - Suiri no Kizuna (The bonds of mystery)
No spoiler discussion.
Although Tokyo Pop seems to have run into some licensing delays, they
are supposed to release it. On the Tokyo Pop web site, somebody posted
a URL where you can preorder the first volume. It meets your criteria.
It's new and not mainstream.
If you've seen the anime, you can judge for yourself whether or not the
manga might appeal to you. If you haven't, I recommend it. It is
primarily a mystery series. Narumi Ayumu (given name Arumu) is a high
school student who solves mysteries by deciphering subtle clues. The
individual mysteries are set against the backdrop of a larger mystery
involving the disappearance of his older brother two years earlier and
the enigmatic "Blade Children." Characters are well developed, the
artwork and character designs are crisp and clean matching the
atmosphere of the series, and the story develops with an appropriate
mix of drama and lighter interludes.
Although the anime can be enjoyed on its own merit and is somewhat
self-contained, it never resolves the larger mysteries. For that you
need to read the manga. It recently wrapped up with volume 15
completing the series. There is a related series "Spiral Alive" that
started a few issues before the main series ended and is still
continuing. The end of the manga also advertises three volumes of
"Spiral - Suiri no Kizuna" novels.
I won't divulge the plot of the manga. Suffice it to say that if you
enjoyed the anime and were intrigued by the overarching story line, you
will enjoy how it is expanded and resolved in the manga.
Mata ato de,
Phil Yff
Logic’s melody will undoubtedly reveal the truth.
論理の旋律は必ず真実を示すんだ.
Ronri no senritsu wa kanarazu shinjitsu wo shimesu n’ da.
Narumi Ayumu - Spiral
Fish Eye no Miko
> My recommendation: Spiral - Suiri no Kizuna (The bonds of mystery)
> No spoiler discussion.
> Although Tokyo Pop seems to have run into some licensing delays,
> they are supposed to release it. On the Tokyo Pop web site,
> somebody posted a URL where you can preorder the first volume. It
> meets your criteria. It's new and not mainstream.
> If you've seen the anime, you can judge for yourself whether or not
> the manga might appeal to you. If you haven't, I recommend it. It
> is primarily a mystery series.
I got to about the 3rd DVD and I can't find the energy to rent anymore...
I got tired of:
Character #1: "Aha! I see through your clever scheme and have found a way
to counter it!"
Characfter #2: "Aha! I knew you would, so I came up with a cleverer scheme
to couter your coutering of my scheme!"
Character #1: "AHA! I knew *you* would! So I came up with an even MORE
cleverer scheme to counter your countering of my scheme to--"
ARGH!! Look, just whip 'em out and let us measure 'em, so we can get on
with our lives already! Jesus!
Catherine Johnson, who points out that there's a live-action Japanese
movie, _Uzuamki_ (_Spiral_), which has no relation to this series.
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elsie
"Fish Eye no Miko" <fis...@deadmoon.circus> wrote in message
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I liked Spiral (the anime) quite a bit, and I've been rewatching it since
Funimation has been showing it on Colours. The main thing I like is that all
the battles are mental battles, which is rare in anime and manga.
In terms of underrated manga, I'm currently collecting the following:
Hunter x Hunter - dammit, when will someone license the anime?
From Far Away - shoujo adventure
Hana-Kimi - shoujo school story
W Juliet - also a shoujo school story
Genshiken
Ouran High School Host Club
Samurai Deeper Kyo
The rest I'm collecting, like Bleach, don't fit the OP's question.
laurie
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>From Far Away - shoujo adventure
I really REALLY like this one. Consider that I buy almost every shoujo
manga that comes out when you read that statement. ^_^ It's one of my
ABSOLUTE favorites!
>Hana-Kimi - shoujo school story
Good, but I don't like the main character as much as Kyo from Girl Got
Game, and Girl Got Game is VERY similar, and shorter. The art is better
in GGG too (IMO). That said, I still like Hana-kimi a lot and buy it as
soon as it comes out.
>W Juliet - also a shoujo school story
I always dread starting a volume of this when it comes out but I always
absolutely LOVE it when I do read it. I don't know what's wrong with me
in regards to this title, but anyway, it is really good.
>Ouran High School Host Club
Ouran bored me during the middle of vol2 of the manga, so I stopped
buying it. I find the anime to be much better.
>Hunter x Hunter - dammit, when will someone license the anime?
>Genshiken
>Samurai Deeper Kyo
Not read/seen any of these, so no comment.
To this list I will add:
- Nodame Cantible
- The Wallflower (known as "Yamato Nadeshiko" in Japan, I believe)
Both are absolutely hilarious and have rather unique plot twists/points
for their genre (both shoujo). The Nodame "kotatsu" chapter is one of
my all-time favorites, and the Wallflower main character, Sunako, is my
absolute FAVORITE main character of any series.
Apparently my news server has dropped the rest of this thread prior to
elsie's post and one of catherine's, so I am extrapolating what the OP
wanted from what elsie had in her post that I am replying to (if anyone
understands what I mean...).
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Hmmmm, I like Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm in Japan), for the fun martial
arts, sci-fi, and Existentialism. The author had to wrap it up quickly
because of a near-fatal disease, so that explains why it 'ends' in
Battle Angel Alita: Angel's Ascenscion, and 'reboots' in Battle Angel
Alita- Last Order.
Don't know if Gunnm actually qualifies as underrated though, since Ping
Kuo mentions it as one of his consistent reads in rec.arts.manga...
I'd heartily recommend Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys a dozen times
over, but that won't be coming out until Monster is fully released...
might still be able to grab the scanslations, though. Again, a big
favorite on rec.arts.manga, so maybe not 'underrated' as such...
Please Save My Earth might catch your fancy if you like weird shoujo
drama about Reincarnation. Or maybe not, her art was less than
fully-developed at the series beginnings...
I dunno what else to say. Maybe I'll just second Nodame Cantible, which
someone else mentioned, and leave it at that. And despite being highly
rated, One Piece is surprisingly fun and continually inventive, even
with the latest Japanese releases... :)
And you've already grabbed Nausicaa, right?
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first 16 volumes or so were great, but over the past 6 months he hadn't
even done a single episode.
elsie
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> Hunter X Hunter is pretty murdered by the author's own laziness. The
> first 16 volumes or so were great, but over the past 6 months he hadn't
> even done a single episode.
>
laurie
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Yeah, that's what they always say when they're just burned out. ;)
Laters. =)
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elsie
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> elsie <lcub...@earthlink.net> wa rec.arts.manga ni hanashite imashita:
>>From Far Away - shoujo adventure
>
> I really REALLY like this one. Consider that I buy almost every shoujo
> manga that comes out when you read that statement. ^_^ It's one of my
> ABSOLUTE favorites!
>
I liked it when she was still learning her way around.
>
>>Hana-Kimi - shoujo school story
>
> Good, but I don't like the main character as much as Kyo from Girl Got
> Game, and Girl Got Game is VERY similar, and shorter. The art is better
> in GGG too (IMO). That said, I still like Hana-kimi a lot and buy it as
> soon as it comes out.
>
imagine anything more beautiful than the drawings of Sano we get in
Hana-Kimi. Sheer gorgeousness.
>
>>W Juliet - also a shoujo school story
>
> I always dread starting a volume of this when it comes out but I always
> absolutely LOVE it when I do read it. I don't know what's wrong with me
> in regards to this title, but anyway, it is really good.
>
American girlfriend affected my enjoyment somewhat.
>
>>Ouran High School Host Club
>
> Ouran bored me during the middle of vol2 of the manga, so I stopped
> buying it. I find the anime to be much better.
>
>
>>Hunter x Hunter - dammit, when will someone license the anime?
>>Genshiken
>>Samurai Deeper Kyo
>
> Not read/seen any of these, so no comment.
>
>
> To this list I will add:
>
> - Nodame Cantible
> - The Wallflower (known as "Yamato Nadeshiko" in Japan, I believe)
>
> Both are absolutely hilarious and have rather unique plot twists/points
> for their genre (both shoujo). The Nodame "kotatsu" chapter is one of
> my all-time favorites, and the Wallflower main character, Sunako, is my
> absolute FAVORITE main character of any series.
>
did in the beginning, but there just doesn't seem to be any narrative
progress.
laurie
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>>>From Far Away - shoujo adventure
>>
>> I really REALLY like this one. Consider that I buy almost every shoujo
>> manga that comes out when you read that statement. ^_^ It's one of my
>> ABSOLUTE favorites!
>>
>Me too, all though the most recent volumes aren't as good as the first few.
>I liked it when she was still learning her way around.
Ah, I haven't had a chance to read 7-9 yet. The to-read manga pile keeps
piling up and up and I am just not having time to keep up with
everything I buy. (that may sound ridiculous... but it's true)
Anyway, on to FFA... I really liked that they addressed her inability to
speak the language. I also find her selfless-shoujo-heroine thing to be
more believable than most others in other manga like her (and she is
*definitely* a huge stereotype).
I don't know what is different about her, but somehow I actually like
Noriko's personality instead of being mildly annoyed by it. Maybe it's
because they don't make it a minor plot thread of her trying to convince
herself to actually do something that any normal human would be able to
do, like most shoujo manga do with this type of main character. She
decides in a page or two that she wants to do something, and then she
does it with everything that she has.
>>>Hana-Kimi - shoujo school story
>>
>> Good, but I don't like the main character as much as Kyo from Girl Got
>> Game, and Girl Got Game is VERY similar, and shorter. The art is better
>> in GGG too (IMO). That said, I still like Hana-kimi a lot and buy it as
>> soon as it comes out.
>>
>Art is better in GGG? I'll have to take a look at it, because I can't
>imagine anything more beautiful than the drawings of Sano we get in
>Hana-Kimi. Sheer gorgeousness.
Well, it's really just a personal preference. GGG's art I find to be
cleaner and more consistent. I do prefer Sano as the main male love
interest rather than Chiharu (GGG), personality-wise and appearance-wise
(even though I like Shizuru Seino's art better).
My biggest issue with Hana-Kimi is that Ashiya consistently annoys me
with her stupidity. She looks too much like a girl (art-wise), and
certainly ACTS totally like a girl in public and in private. I don't
know how she can think Sano doesn't know with all the stupid stuff she
does when she's alone with him. She is just deluding herself.
I read the manga anyway because there are a lot of thinks I do like
about it a lot, but Ashiya's refusal to awknowledge that she's
blown her cover annoys me a lot, and sometimes she makes it really
difficult for me to finish a volume without yelling at the book. ^_^;;;
Keep in mind that I'm about 4 vols behind on reading this one, vol 7 or
8 was the last one that I've read. I'm just so behind on everything...
:/
>>>W Juliet - also a shoujo school story
>>
>> I always dread starting a volume of this when it comes out but I always
>> absolutely LOVE it when I do read it. I don't know what's wrong with me
>> in regards to this title, but anyway, it is really good.
>>
>I don't like it as much as I did in the beginning. The brother's insane
>American girlfriend affected my enjoyment somewhat.
I think it's the art that draws me in and forces me to like it. Most
stories resolve themselves satisfactorily in this series, so it's not
too bad. And I do like Itoh a lot. Sunako is still my favorite main
character (Wallflower), but Itoh is in the top three probably.
I've read too much about sissy female main characters so it's refreshing
to have someone who can body-slam people running the show for a while.
>>>Ouran High School Host Club
>>
>> Ouran bored me during the middle of vol2 of the manga, so I stopped
>> buying it. I find the anime to be much better.
>>
>I feel the opposite actually. The anime seems more frivolous somehow.
Admittedly, I stopped reading the manga after vol 2 and I also stopped
watching the anime. I am starting to think the character archetypes
interest me (the twins and their antics are amusing) but Tamaki (??) as
the main male lead is... well, there's really nothing I find appealing
about him at all so my interest in the series has dropped a lot.
>> To this list I will add:
>>
>> - Nodame Cantible
>> - The Wallflower (known as "Yamato Nadeshiko" in Japan, I believe)
>>
>> Both are absolutely hilarious and have rather unique plot twists/points
>> for their genre (both shoujo). The Nodame "kotatsu" chapter is one of
>> my all-time favorites, and the Wallflower main character, Sunako, is my
>> absolute FAVORITE main character of any series.
>>
>Yes, but is the story going anywhere? Sunako doesn't seem as autistic as she
>did in the beginning, but there just doesn't seem to be any narrative
>progress.
I just read vol 8 yesterday and as far as I can tell it is just a
situational comedy with no over-arching plot. Like a good Game Master
(hah hah), all Hiyakawa Tomoko did was throw in a good plot hook at the
beginning to get all the main players where she wanted them to be, and
then she just throws weird situation after weird situation at them to
see what they'll do.
I can like that if the characters are really interesting and the
situations are off-the-wall, and I get that in Wallflower for the most
part (IMO, of course ^_^). I checked recently, and I think Wallflower
is still running in japan.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4063414647
vol 15, released March 13, 2006
The boys' goal is so far from what Sunako is that I just don't see how
they can ever really achieve it. Sunako would cease to be Sunako if they
ever successfully turned her into a "lady". For me, what *should* be
contained in the final volume of the series is Kyohei and Sunako finally
hooking up, with Sunako retaining most of her quirkiness. At least,
that's what I feel this series has promised me as an ending so far. So
yeah, no over-arching plot. I am not sure if the OP requested that since
my server has dropped the first few posts.
elsie
to her that there is something she's capable of doing, she'll go ahead and
do it.
>
>>>>Hana-Kimi - shoujo school story
>>>
>>> Good, but I don't like the main character as much as Kyo from Girl Got
>>> Game, and Girl Got Game is VERY similar, and shorter. The art is better
>>> in GGG too (IMO). That said, I still like Hana-kimi a lot and buy it as
>>> soon as it comes out.
>>>
>>Art is better in GGG? I'll have to take a look at it, because I can't
>>imagine anything more beautiful than the drawings of Sano we get in
>>Hana-Kimi. Sheer gorgeousness.
>
> Well, it's really just a personal preference. GGG's art I find to be
> cleaner and more consistent. I do prefer Sano as the main male love
> interest rather than Chiharu (GGG), personality-wise and appearance-wise
> (even though I like Shizuru Seino's art better).
>
> My biggest issue with Hana-Kimi is that Ashiya consistently annoys me
> with her stupidity. She looks too much like a girl (art-wise), and
> certainly ACTS totally like a girl in public and in private. I don't
> know how she can think Sano doesn't know with all the stupid stuff she
> does when she's alone with him. She is just deluding herself.
>
She's definitely in denial, but I also really like Umeda and his
photographer friend.
> I read the manga anyway because there are a lot of thinks I do like
> about it a lot, but Ashiya's refusal to awknowledge that she's
> blown her cover annoys me a lot, and sometimes she makes it really
> difficult for me to finish a volume without yelling at the book. ^_^;;;
>
> Keep in mind that I'm about 4 vols behind on reading this one, vol 7 or
> 8 was the last one that I've read. I'm just so behind on everything...
> :/
>
>
>>>>W Juliet - also a shoujo school story
>>>
>>> I always dread starting a volume of this when it comes out but I always
>>> absolutely LOVE it when I do read it. I don't know what's wrong with me
>>> in regards to this title, but anyway, it is really good.
>>>
>>I don't like it as much as I did in the beginning. The brother's insane
>>American girlfriend affected my enjoyment somewhat.
>
> I think it's the art that draws me in and forces me to like it. Most
> stories resolve themselves satisfactorily in this series, so it's not
> too bad. And I do like Itoh a lot. Sunako is still my favorite main
> character (Wallflower), but Itoh is in the top three probably.
>
I like Itoh and Makoto's relationship, although he seems almost too good to
be true sometimes. I'm not so enthusiastic about the secondary characters.
> I've read too much about sissy female main characters so it's refreshing
> to have someone who can body-slam people running the show for a while.
>
>
>>>>Ouran High School Host Club
>>>
>>> Ouran bored me during the middle of vol2 of the manga, so I stopped
>>> buying it. I find the anime to be much better.
>>>
>>I feel the opposite actually. The anime seems more frivolous somehow.
>
> Admittedly, I stopped reading the manga after vol 2 and I also stopped
> watching the anime. I am starting to think the character archetypes
> interest me (the twins and their antics are amusing) but Tamaki (??) as
> the main male lead is... well, there's really nothing I find appealing
> about him at all so my interest in the series has dropped a lot.
>
I like Kyoya Otori. He's my type, and he almost seems to belong in a
different kind of story. In some other story, he'd be a young Akio Ohtori,
but he's in this kind of story so his potential for malice is blunted a bit.
>
>>> To this list I will add:
>>>
>>> - Nodame Cantible
>>> - The Wallflower (known as "Yamato Nadeshiko" in Japan, I believe)
>>>
>>> Both are absolutely hilarious and have rather unique plot twists/points
>>> for their genre (both shoujo). The Nodame "kotatsu" chapter is one of
>>> my all-time favorites, and the Wallflower main character, Sunako, is my
>>> absolute FAVORITE main character of any series.
>>>
>>Yes, but is the story going anywhere? Sunako doesn't seem as autistic as
>>she
>>did in the beginning, but there just doesn't seem to be any narrative
>>progress.
>
> I just read vol 8 yesterday and as far as I can tell it is just a
> situational comedy with no over-arching plot. Like a good Game Master
> (hah hah), all Hiyakawa Tomoko did was throw in a good plot hook at the
> beginning to get all the main players where she wanted them to be, and
> then she just throws weird situation after weird situation at them to
> see what they'll do.
>
> I can like that if the characters are really interesting and the
> situations are off-the-wall, and I get that in Wallflower for the most
> part (IMO, of course ^_^). I checked recently, and I think Wallflower
> is still running in japan.
I just read #8 too, and it just seemed like more of the same to me.
>
> http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4063414647
> vol 15, released March 13, 2006
>
>
> The boys' goal is so far from what Sunako is that I just don't see how
> they can ever really achieve it. Sunako would cease to be Sunako if they
> ever successfully turned her into a "lady". For me, what *should* be
> contained in the final volume of the series is Kyohei and Sunako finally
> hooking up, with Sunako retaining most of her quirkiness. At least,
> that's what I feel this series has promised me as an ending so far. So
> yeah, no over-arching plot. I am not sure if the OP requested that since
> my server has dropped the first few posts.
>
I think Kyohei and Sunako will definitely hook up. She's the only one who
isn't falling all over him because of his looks, and he appreciates that,
while he's the only one who can call her on her weirdness and still like
her. The boys do seem to be bringing her out into the world a bit. The
extras no longer seem to think there's a ghost in the room. So while I don't
think she'll become a lady, I do think she'll be a bit better able to
function in society later on.
>
laurie
Phil Yff
I guess you can't call in underrated but Kimagure Orange Road the manga has
certainly been overlooked. You can walk into a Borders Bookstore and find
virtually any title but KOR. When you consider that Animeigo's
distribution of the OAVs back in the early 90's was one of the early
footholds of anime in the US, you wonder why the manga has not found an
official publisher.
おにーちゃん凶相よ！女難の相に水難の相。。。
金運悪し。。。すべてにおいて最悪！
Oniichan kyousou yo! Jonan no sou ni suinan no sou...
Kinunwarushi... Subete ni oite saiaku!
Oniichan (my oder brother), you've got evil portents!
Your physiognomy shows trouble with women and you're in danger of drowning.
You've got the opposite of the Midas touch... Everything [in your future]
sucks!
Karumi to her Kasuga - KOR
Ethan Hammond
> first 16 volumes or so were great, but over the past 6 months he hadn't
> even done a single episode.
Welcome to my world!
--
All Purpose Culture Randomness
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/apcr/index.html
oaco...@tiscali.co.uk
Keiji Nakazawa's 'I Saw It' and 'Under the Eucalyptus Tree' (don't know
if this one's ever been translated) -- both are much less melodramatic
and sentimental than his 'Barefoot Gen' but just as powerful.
Phil Yff
What about Hikaru no Go. Who would have thought that a manga about a board
game could be so dynamic? It's got great characters and plot. The
characters include young kids and elderly adults. Far from being static,
the authors bring a dynamic quality to the Go matches which are set against
a backdrop of compelling drama.
いったいどんな碁だったんだ
Ittai donna go dattan’ da
What in the world kind of Go was that
- Hikaru no Go - Akira is looking at the final layout of the game between
Shindou and Yashiro. He's talking to himself, amazed and puzzled.
Gilles Poitras
DMP released 3 volumes before they decided to focus more energy on the
various Boys Love titles of their YAOI line. If sales continue we can
hope more volumes will come out.
The few stores in this area that stock it say it is a steady but slow
seller, as are many titles that have been out for more than a few months.
On the surface it is a fight manga, but not a kid's fight manga like
Dragonball.
The art is very well done, the characters have distinct personalities,
the inter-group politics is complex without being too confusing.
Relic
I've never seen the other, but I actually have a copy of
I Saw It; it was probably the first manga I owned (and
I still have it). My younger sister used it in one of her
high school classes back in the late 80s, and her teacher
borrowed it for use in her class for a few months.
oaco...@tiscali.co.uk
> I've never seen ['Under the Eucalyptus Tree'] but I actually have a copy of
> I Saw It; it was probably the first manga I owned (and
> I still have it).
The 'Eucalyptus' manga tells the story of a militaristic boy growing up
in 30s Japan whose patriotism falters when a friend's father is
tortured by the secret police; then his neighbour, a soldier, shows him
some atrocity photos from the Nanking Massacre (very brave of Nakazawa
to acknowledge that).
As for 'I Saw It', my opinion is that it manages to say just as well in
20-odd pages what took 'Barefoot Gen' at least a thousand. Longer isn't
always better -- I wish more manga-ka would realize that.
Phil Yff
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> I am reading a great manga that hit the American shores about 2 years
> ago. It has only released 6 of the 10 installments, and as good as it
> was to me, I was surprised to find out that it was actually not that
> popular. Its called "Hyper Police". I have started several other
> threads about this particular manga and I have found noone else that
> reads it. Which in my opinion is a bad thing. But the reason I am
> posting this is not to find fans of Hyper Police (although that would
> be nice) but to find other great underrated mangas (is that plural
> right?). If you know of any post them here plz. I am tired of hearing
> about mangas like "Fruits Basket". Yeah its a good manga but everyone
> has read it, and I like to read stuff thats not that mainstream,
> something new. Anyway please post.
Well, my recommendation for today is Read or Die. I believe Viz Media is
putting it out in the US. Not only that, but there are more novels than
manga tankoubon. Beginning this fall, Viz is going to start putting out
the novels. This is a really unique series set in the UK with a kind of
Carmen San Diego spin.
Mata ato de,
Phil Yff
読子さん、ピンチですよ
Yomikosan, pinchi desu yo
Yomiko! It’s crunch time!
Read or Die
Phil Yff
> I am reading a great manga that hit the American shores about 2 years
> ago. It has only released 6 of the 10 installments, and as good as it
> was to me, I was surprised to find out that it was actually not that
> popular. Its called "Hyper Police". I have started several other
> threads about this particular manga and I have found noone else that
> reads it. Which in my opinion is a bad thing. But the reason I am
> posting this is not to find fans of Hyper Police (although that would
> be nice) but to find other great underrated mangas (is that plural
> right?). If you know of any post them here plz. I am tired of hearing
> about mangas like "Fruits Basket". Yeah its a good manga but everyone
> has read it, and I like to read stuff thats not that mainstream,
> something new. Anyway please post.
Saishuu Heiki Kanojo, often referred to as Saikano, English title - "She,
the Ultimate Weapon". The Japanese creator came up with the English title.
It is a manga and anime series by Takahashi Shin (given name last).
The manga is quite dark. The 'she' in the title is a schoolgirl who has
been weaponized to help save Japan from a WWIII type of invasion. If you
don't like depressing stuff, don't read this because it can get quite
depressing. However, it does have some interesting, although bleak,
commentary on quite a number of topics.
By the way, its thematically relevant subtitle is the last love song.
It is realistic, it is SF, it is not mainstream, so it fits all your
criteria.