i used to read love roma waaay before it became popular. i didn't hear anything about the manga before i picked it up. if no one ever saw me read that one day, none of the people i know would have ever heard of it. then i found out that it was pretty common after 3 weeks of my picking it up.
so i thought i might share a few mangas that i don't think are that common and maybe discover some from those posting here ^_^
x-day (a group of people facing problems decide to blow up their school - more drama than anything)
translucent (a girl with a disease that makes her invisible learns to live with her sickness growing up)
confidential confessions (dealing with the dark side of high school; rape, blackmail, abuse, bullying, etc)
welcome to the NHK (waaay better than the anime; about life as a hikkikomori)
anne freaks (google it, hard to describe)
mitsukazu mihara: the embalmer (predjudice in japan about embalmers and the symbolism of embalming)
MSG ecole du ciel (training as a female pilot with a history with the zeons)
what did you guys discover??
everything by osamu tezuka that isn't astro boy
maybe it's more popular now that it's actually getting published in english, but i often hear "who the fuck is black jack?" from people
hmm... not sure what else... i liked hitsuji no uta (aka lament of the lamb) but then tokyopop raped it and shat on its corpse
how about spiral: bonds of reasoning?
If you want to bitch about NHK manga being waaay better than the anime, how about the fact that the original novel is waaay better than the manga?
>>3
well sorry but i don't really have access to tokyopop novels
the only ones i see in my area is twelve kingdoms, scrapped princess and something called witch's forest.
i'm still looking for kino's journey but if the nhk novel is so good then i'll check it out, if i ever find it
Joan by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu
Jesus by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu
2001 nights by Hoshino Yukinobu
Adolf by Tezuka Osamu
The Walking Man by Taniguchi Jiro
To Terra by Takemiya Keiko
Please Save My Earth by Hiwatari Saki
Gen the bare foot by Nakazawa Keiji
Hotel Harbor View by Taniguchi Jiro
Banana Fish by Yoshida Akimi
They Were Eleven by Moto Hagio
Baby and Me by Marimo Ragawa
The Drifting Classroom by Umezu Kazuo
Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu
A, A Prime by Moto Hagio
The Tale of Genji (Asaki Yume mishi) by Yamato Waki
Basara by Tamura Yumi
Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga by Takekuma&Aizawa
Urusei Yatsura by Takahashi Rumiko
Aera 88 by Shintani Kaoru
Nodame Cantabile by Ninomiya Tomoko
Apocalypse Meow by Kobayashi Motofumi
Rika'tte Kanji! by Tachibana Rica
HayateXBlade by Hayashya Shizuru
Otogi Matsuri by Inoue Junya
Red Flowers, Screw system by Tsuge Yoshiharu
Twelve Kingdoms (novel) by Ono Fuyumi
Guin Saga (novel) by Kurimoto Kaoru
Manga with no Eng ver.
Koukoku no Shugosha
Aoi Hana
Shigurui
Living game
Transister ni Venus
CARAT!
Ruku Ruku
Domu
Munakata Kyouju Denkiko
Glass Mask
Shissou Nikki
Narutaru
Sakura no Uta
Higurashi no naku koro ni
Hyougemono
Keimusho no Naka
Future Diary
Moyashimon
Hourou Musuko
>>5 you LIKE like too much stuff dude
and very diffrent things
i mean
Glass mask[even the creater was so bored that she[/he?]took a 20+year brake from it]? and then u have awesome stuff on that list like Urusei yatsura
>The Walking Man by Taniguchi Jiro
>Aera 88 by Shintani Kaoru
I really want to get those.
>Manga with no Eng ver.
>Living game
u r so wonderfully rong.
http://www.thehawks.org/hawks/bt/Living_game_v1-10%5BHawks%5D(complete).torrent
For me, it's
Firefighter Daigo(one of the rare good shonen. Full of hot blood and manly spirit, with no power levels so far.)
Emma(well, no one outside this forum read it)
Louie the Rune Soldier(fun little fantasy comedy)
Project X - Datsun 240Z(fascinating story about the creation of a sports car)
Japan Tengu Party Illustrated, and Nasu, both from Kuroda Io. I didn't like Sexy Voice and Robo that much tough :/ it kind of disappointed me.
Anything by Junji Ito - Uzumaki, Tomie, The mistery of the Amigara Fault, etc
Naoki Urasawa - 20th century boys, PLUTO, Monster (he also has other works, but I've not read them yet)
Maya's Funeral procession was interesting, but nothing too amazing. Makes for a nice read tough. Zashiki Onna was also good.
akira is a classic manga but expensive!