Dungeon Meishi for a recent one.
Otherwise my pick is Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (my favorite anime/manga)
Dungeon Meishi for a recent one.
Otherwise my pick is Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (my favorite anime/manga)
Hm, yeah, people do be talkin about dungeon meshi.
It's ongoing, right? I have a habit when I read/watch something ongoing and I get to the point where the content runs out, and then I just forget about it and never go back
Nah the manga ended last year i think, its complete the anime is like the first half of the manga
If you get into it, the comic will probably just blast by. It's a fun read.
I recently read Fullmetal Alchemist since a podcast I like was covering it, and it's definitely one of the best "battle shonen" manga (especially considering that it's like 27 or so volumes in a genre that has these endless books).
Since this is being asked on Hexbear and not r/manga, I'd recommend "Sensou wa Onna no Kao wo Shiteinai," the manga adaptation of Alexievich's "The Unwomanly Face of War." That book is a collection of interviews with female soldiers of the Red Army that fought in the Eastern Front of WWII. As with all things USSR that see the light of day in the English speaking world, the author is an anti-communist, which is why she won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this book. However, the work is still worth reading because the interviewees are all Soviet war heroes and their deeply personal stories are the focus. Alexievich's "capital T Truth" fetishist shtick means that she doesn't often editorialize or interject, for example, every time Stalin is mentioned with "By the way, dear reader, remember that he ate all the grain" like Western accounts of socialist history do (though there are a billion footnotes crammed in the book version that "clarify" the interviewees' narratives with the anticommunist correct-think "fact checks"). The illustrations really bring to life the stories of the interviewees in a vivid way and so it's worth checking out.
Some great historical fiction include "A Bride's Story," set in 19th century Central and West Asia, with a great cultural anthropology-lite style narrative, and "Song of the Long March," which is set in Tang China and has a great portrayal of the deeply interwoven relationships between Han Chinese and Uyghurs in that historical period. I actually came across that work before all the Western atrocity propaganda started clogging the airwaves in the late 2010s and I'm personal grateful to it for pre-emptively being my first impression to the Uyghur Chinese people rather than having some shoddy copycat Holodomor 2.0 plagiarized slop become the introduction to that culture.
As a purely personal aside favorite, I'd also recommend "Fire Punch." It has a lot of the typical anime genre nonsense and really, the only reason I'd recommend it is that it has one of the best portrayals of an LGBT character in manga and anime. I was deeply struck by it personally and I've also seen heteronormative responses to the manga remark that the character humanized "LGBT individuals" as something beyond a "concept" for them.
"Song of the Long March," which is set in Tang China and has a great portrayal of the deeply interwoven relationships between Han Chinese and Uyghurs in that historical period
Interesting. Any reason it's named after the long march despite being in a wildly different historical period?
I wanted to make a joke about that, but in seriousness, I would guess that the term "Long March" in contemporary Chinese culture, through the legendary status of that heroic campaign, has become rhetorically synonymous with a personal journey of perseverance and struggle basically akin to how Western cultures use the term "odyssey" from "The Odyssey." It's (justifiably) become one of those culturally enmeshed figurative terms, like how TERF island likes to append Dunkirk to the end of everything: "financial Dunkirk, political Dunkirk, etc."
The title likely is an allusion to that or maybe laconically pointing out just that the protagonist absolutely gets their daily steps in because they've meandered all around Tang China.
It's unfinished
Land of the lustrous
Set in a world inhabited by "jewel people", it chronicles their efforts to find the place where they belong and defend their way of life
Sounds like Steven Universe anime? O.o
Seriously, this might be it, tho. Seinen, slick art, fighting girls, and it's complete. Pretty much checking all my boxes.
Dungeon Meshi. It's the best thing in anime/manga in a long time. The anime's only halfway through the story, so I hear, though.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is my personal favorite.
I really liked BLAME! if you like cold, alien anime about people in a decaying concrete world.
Edit: manga* I don't know why I said anime. Got anime on the brain (always).
Ooooooh, that art is looking SICK
I love the premise of being lost in an impossibly large decaying city. House of Leaves vibes
seconded, BLAME! is a very thought provoking comic.
Definitely gonna check it out
Monster is pretty good and Pluto both by the same mangaka as 20th century boys, my favorite ongoing manga is Chainsawman which is a bit of a shonene but it has no high school stuff in part 1.
Yeah, I actually read Pluto and watched monster. I like urasawa, but I do feel like his stories feel a little too similar
Now that i remember the author of csm made good one shots stories in "look back" and "goodbye eri"
Maybe I'll check that out to see what the csm hype is about
Obligatory "Goodnight Punpun" recommendation. Also, the original Akira manga is a masterpiece, the movie doesn't do it justice (even though it's still pretty good).
Interesting, I haven't heard anyone rep the Akira manga before. It probably has a lot more context tham the movie
The movie covers a third of the actual story. It was made while the Manga was being published, so it left a ton out out of necessity. The biker gangs are more fleshed out, and there's a good amount of post apocalypse story telling. It is long as hell (2000+ pages), but there's still nothing like it.
Seconding the recs I've seen for Look Back and Goodbye Eri. CSM is good but it is shonen so eh.
Let's see, I'll just go through my ComicRack library and see what I'd actually recommend...
For non-highschool yuri manga:
Non-yuri manga:
I will always take the opportunity to recommend How Do We Relationship?. It's got some of the most realistic depiction of relationships I've seen in japanese media. Keep reading after the heartbreaks; that's when it gets really good.
Idk why it's labelled shonen; people I know who've enjoyed it the most are women. Ig shonen's become a more abstract label these days.
YESSS this shit is so fucking good oh my god
Fr, I have yet to find any other romance anime/manga that's just so... real. Most are too trope-y or tragic.
Getter Robo or maybe Tezuka's Phoenix
Oh, damn, you like it OLD school
I skew into older stuff when it comes to manga since it's easier to find translated than the anime adaptations lol
Well, Urasawa's Pluto is a retelling of an Astroboy storyline, if you're interested
They don't make manga that's not about high school :3
Would you like Manhwa? I like Ragnarok Into The Abyss. It's so edgy it's great and it has all the 90's to early 2000's anime tropes.
Ooh, I was obsessed with the MMO. I heard the anime was, like, terminally bad tho.
Would you say it's actually well written or just kind of fun and entertaining?
fun and entertaining?
This. I like the artwork too, same artists behind the MMO did it.
A few of these are from shonen magazines, and a few have high school age characters in them, but I don't think they break your requirements in spirit.
Boku no Mura no Hanashi — As far as I can tell, there's only one volume available in English, and it's only available online. It's a fictionalized retelling of the Sanrizuka Struggle which is an important chapter in the history of the modern Japanese Left.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou — This is a chef d'oeuvre of gynoid fiction and the most relaxing depiction of the middle of mankind's extinction I know of. I strongly recommend it. It's about a robot girl called Alpha who runs a quiet countryside café near a Yokohama which has been submerged underwater. Alpha takes photos, she has human friends and a robot friend, she plays music on her moon guitar and awaits her owner's return.
Non Non Biyori — This is about the lives of four kids in a small farming community in the middle of nowhere: a first-grader, a new kid, and two sisters; and there's also a fifth kid but he never talks. Sometimes the chapters focus instead on the grown-ups around these kids. The anime adaptation of Non Non Biyori is great as well and if you've seen it you won't mind re-experiencing it in manga form.
Akane-banashi — The main character Akane's dad failed a rakugo test and basically gave up on his dreams of becoming a rakugoka after that, and so Akane is sort of trying to avenge him by becoming a rakugoka herself, and she dedicates her all to it and kicks ass. It's top tier.
A Bride's Story — It takes place in 19th century Central Asia. I just think that's cool.
My Journey to Her — Autobiographical manga by a Japanese trans woman. I guess it's been translated into English since I last read it myself, judging from the fact that it suddenly has an English title on Anilist, when it used to be called "Boku ga Watashi ni Naru Tame ni". A positive note is that since this manga was first published, some of the information in it has become dated due to progress in trans rights in Japan.
Yotsuba&! — This one is an absolute classic. The main character is a five year old girl adopted from a non-specific foreign country by a single dad, and the manga is basically just this kid's random adventures. It's the number one most recommended manga for learning Japanese. I guess you can say that Yotsuba&! is kind of like urban Non Non Biyori in a sense.
Aria — This one pairs famously well with Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou because it's in a similar vein of relaxing manga depicting a future which, for all its new technology, is still pretty "rustic". Aria is about a terraformed and renamed Mars far off into the future, where a 1:1 replica of Venice has been built, and the main characters are all gondolier tour guides. It's really imaginative and optimistic. Note however that Aria was originally called Aqua.
Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji. (the anime is excellent, but adapts only the first two parts)
Helck. (the Manga is better)
SoreMachi: and yet the town moves. (the Manga is better)
I guess I like seinen, but I've also enjoyed josei like She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat.
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Edit: I take back my suggestion, see below.
Land of the lustrous. It has an anime and the manga is finished.
"Gon" by Masashi Tanaka. No words, just a story using images. You don't have to read them in any order. It's about a dinosaur who survived to the modern day and just vibes around other wildlife. One of the best drawn comics of all time.
I've been wanting an English translation of Shigurui: Death Frenzy, but no official one exists. If you can read Japanese or don't mind fan translations, you'll like it if you liked Berserk and Vagabond. It's about two rival samurai (one blind and the other with only one arm), how they became rivals, how they got their injuries, and how they finally have a chance to kill one another when a mad lord holds a tournament where people fight to the death.
It completely strips away the romantic version of samurai, while showing how awful the caste system in Japan was.
For some general wholesomeness with a good plot, I reccomend Hirayasumi. It's about a late 20s "free loader" who isn't interested in climbing the life ladder of getting a respectable job and making money, he just likes doing things that make him happy.
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