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RAmmsoldat
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if we're talking about licenced english manga then YKK isnt out as far as i know. I hear its a frequently requested title and id get it myself but I've given up with the whole title requests thing as it turned into a big game of "tell me what manga you want and i'll tell you why you'll never get it"
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Tet
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I think you're right, I'm looking around and I can't find any evidence of an English localization. Well I guess that one's not happening. |
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zawa113
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The Rose of Versailles manga isn't available stateside. If she can read French, consider finding those elsewhere online. Maybe someday.... but the anime is awesome enough on its own. But hey, couples anime time!
For To Terra, get it ASAP before it's out of print. The TV series that Bandai put out is also well worth your time (The movie? Not as much, it's kind of like Cliffnotes. Shame that the only bit of Toward the Terra that will be officially in print after a few weeks is easily the weakest version of it) |
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Desertking22
Posts: 81 Location: Michigan |
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I'm in the mood for a good shojo manga, fantasy love it all except the one I'm interested in was Fruits Baskets but unfortunately to get used I'm paying a lot so what are some good alternatives?
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Mr Adventure
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So I've been reading One Piece in WSJ since January, since then I started reading it from the beginning. Usually taking advantage of Viz's digital sales. I'm at about volume 4.
But... there are 69+ volumes. Sooooooo... I was wondering if there was a better jumping on point closer to where the current story is. Is the New World arc a good jumping on point to get current? It looks like that's where the Time Jump happened. |
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RAmmsoldat
Posts: 1261 Location: North wales coast |
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not really as plot elements that are planted early in the story become relevant much later in the series plus you'd cheat yourself out of some great character development and world building
Stick with it, its well worth the time to read it all. |
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Desertking22
Posts: 81 Location: Michigan |
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I personally would love a good horror or suspense based manga, right now I have Death Note.
I was looking into either Doubt and Judge (love the art style) Another The Drifting Classroom Uzumaki Also how is Sanakarea: Undying Love (or something like that) How's Psyren? |
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canza
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone would have any recommendations for me.
My criteria would be a: Comedy School life Romance Maybe Shounen Not Shoujo Preferably something ongoing and newer, from 2005+. The male lead can't be boring or useless. I am looking for a male lead who is both strong and with a big heart, and through out the story, would have some love interests, but not a full harem. To be super specifically, a guy who isn't usually well liked by classmates from first appearance, but grows as a person, and oblivious of maybe the lead or supporting female character liking him. It would be cool for the MC to gain new friends throughout the story. And the concept can be anything, really. Notable examples would be School Rumble, Yankee-kun to Megane-chan, Yamada-kun to 7-nin no majo, and minor examples like Hanza Sky, D-Frag, Sket-Dan, Nyan Koi! and maybe Medaka Box. I've tried using the "search for manga with same genre" option with YanMega but I couldn't find anything. Anything remotely close will be enough, and I would appreciate the help with the bottom of my heart! I've been having free time, so I want to see what manga I can obsess over. |
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lys
 Posts: 1008 Location: mitten-state |
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Blue Exorcist? I don't read a ton of shounen manga, but I like that one a lot. The school setting is secondary to the action and rather fantastical, if that's okay. Everything else about it (especially the main character) seems like it'd be a great fit for your taste! I'm also keeping an eye on Cross Manage and Nisekoi from Shonen Jump. (Nisekoi might be a bit harem-ish? I haven't read beyond ch1 yet...) I don't know if either of those male leads are quite like you describe, but they've got the school/comedy/love-interest angles so may be of interest to you anyway. http://www.vizmanga.com/ should have the first chapter of all three series available as a preview, and full volumes can be bought digitally (print too for Blue Exorcist, and soon Nisekoi). Hope that helps a bit! |
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canza
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Oh, I shall check out Blue Exorcist, and Cross Manage, seemed interesting, though I was meh about sports manga. I did like Cross Game though. And NIsekoi, I enjoyed the first 20 chapters, but I lost interest because of the excessive harem concept. Thank you for the suggestions though! |
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Desertking22
Posts: 81 Location: Michigan |
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Hey I was thinking my collection needs a good mystery manga that I can reread over and over....it could be a detective kind just not long like 25+ volumes.
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Touma
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I suggest that you check out The Kindaichi Case Files. It seems to me that it is a lot like what Case Closed/Detective Conan might have been if Kudo had not been turned into Conan. Kindaichi is a high school kid who is a brilliant detective. Each volume is one complete story, except for "Kindaichi the Killer" which is volumes 10 and 11. It is really like a series of mystery novels in manga form. I do not remember how many volumes were published in Japan but Tokyopop published 17. Unfortunately some of them are very rare. You can find them easily enough but they are rather expensive. I still do not have volume 9 because the best price that I could find is $50. I do have all of the others but have not read the last three volumes yet. |
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shosakukan
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Just for your information, as to the Kōdansha Comics edition, The "File" series: 27 volumes The "Case" series: 10 volumes The New series: 14 volumes The 20th anniversary series: 5 volumes And 6 volumes of short stories were published under the KC Deluxe imprint, and 2 volumes of which protagonist is Akechi Kengo were also published under the KC Deluxe imprint. In the manga, Kindaichi Hajime is depicted as the grandson of Kindaichi Kōsuke, who is a detective created by Yokomizo Seishi. The Inugami Clan by Yokomizo, in which Kindaichi Kōsuke appears, was published by Stone Bridge Press. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1933330317 |
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Touma
Posts: 2651 Location: Colorado, USA |
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@ shosakukan,
Thank you very much for the information. I did not realize that Kindaichi had been that popular in Japan. I am not too surprised though since it did have an anime TV series that ran for about three years, I think, and a few movies. I have also seen listings on eBay for a lot of live-action movies. But usually I do not understand anything in the title except for the name "Kindaichi" so it is possible that they are about Kindaichi Kōsuke. I really wish that some North American company would license the anime and the rest of the manga, but I realize that there is almost no chance of that happening. It makes me sad. |
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shosakukan
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You're welcome. Yes, many Kindaichi Kōsuke stories by Yokomizo Seishi were made into films and TV dramas. Probably the most famous Kindaichi Kōsuke actors are Ishizaka Kōji and Furuya Ikkō. An interesting thing about Kindaichi Kōsuke is that the first murder case which he solved happened in San Francisco. Though Yokomizo Seishi mentioned it in The Honjin Murder Case (Honjin was an officially appointed inn for the use of daimyō), he didn't write a full story of the case. Later, a few writers wrote stories of this case, like Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr wrote stories of untold cases mentioned in the original Sherlock Holmes tales. If you saunter around San Francisco, in a sense, it means that you make a Yokomizo otaku pilgrimage. Manga artist JET drew some manga based on Kindaichi Kōsuke stories. Kōdansha International released some bilingual edition Kindaichi Shōnen manga, and Amazon Japan still sells a few of them. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4770040431/ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4770040415/ |
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