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The Iceberg of Online Manga - A Reading List and Print Wishlist
We get a lot of manga in English, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. We get a hell of a lot of fan translated manga, but even that doesn't cover the whole thing. Separated by language and culture, the "untapped" potential of manga is foreign to a lot of readers, myself included really. But it's because of that deficiency that I decided to start taking a look at interesting fan translated titles to find series to recommend to publishers (and potentially read), so this is a sneak peek into my ever-growing list.
It's also an open request for people to share their favorites from the online manga sphere! As a single person it's impossible to find all the hidden gems, so being able to share titles between one another can really help widen horizons.
Sui and Neri of the Twilight Planet / Tasogare-Boshi No Sui To Neri
In a way, it reminds me of Girls Last Tour, a sunsetting planet that explores the oddity of a du in their life. Not quite as bittersweet or contemplative through what I've seen so far, but still very pretty and detailed. Lots and lots of hand drawn background art, and some really good layouts and paneling.
Poison Poison Forest Forest /Doku Doku Mori Mori
Mushroom on Mushroom violence, with a healthy side of grim visuals. It's got all the punch you could expect, and has a pretty novel approach to what you could consider a revenge story. Still early on so not a mountain of stuff to go off of, but at the very least what there is is good.
Captain Momo's Secret Base / Momo Kanchou No Himitsu Kichi
Tsuruta Kenji, the mastermind behind the art of Emanon (and other series), need I really say more? Regardless, with Tsuruta's art behind a lighthearted and curious series of a woman travelling through space alone with a cat, it's an undeniably enjoyable ride. Though do be warned, there is quite a bit of nudity featured as Momo prefers going commando to wearing clothes.
Every Every Night / Yona Yona Yona
An incredibly strikingly designed robin hood-esque story, Yona and her crew go on nightly missions to try and steal back art that was originally stolen by a corrupt police force. Creative, expressive, fun, and impressively detailed and unique, it's got quite a bit of potential!
The Feared Witch of Tasihou / Taishou Kitan Majo
Mixing the Western practices of Witchcraft with a Taishou-era Japan setting? A cultural combination that I'm truthfully surprised we haven't really seen yet. Add onto that the incredibly unique and sketch-like art style (and the wonderful color pages) and it's just a super easy pickup.
Welcome to Hotel Metsäpeura / Hotel Metsäpeura e Youkoso
A little hard to explain succinctly, but this is the story of a trio, two men and a teenager who they find standing outside their hotel in the Finnish wilderness in the middle of Winter. Characters with... interesting pasts, it's a story about providing not just a house, but a home to this young boy on his own.
The Ends of A Dream / Yume no Hashibashi
This is one that I'm really quite desperate to get in print. It's an emotional story of a pair as they retrace their forbidden romance through the years that have evaded them as they reach the end of their lives. A painfully beautiful concept that I really hope to see licensed someday.
Will You Clean This For Me? / Kirei Ni Shitemoraemasuka
Alright, something a little more light and fun! A story of a laundry (though it's really sorta general cleaning) shop as they go about their daily life, even offering a few tips and tricks to better cleaning things. Simple idea that has some pretty clear care put into it, and is just the right thing to relax with.
Amber Days and Golden Nights / Kohaku no Yume de Yoimashou
Let's keep the good vibes rolling! Another specific interest series, this time about craft beer. Kenzaki Nana's a burnt out employee at a Kyoto advertising firm, but happens to stumble across the Shirokuma bar. With just one night she ends up pulled into the world of craft beer, and our story begins! Very fun and light, and a really cool area to see explored by manga.
The Dragon, The Hero, and The Courier / Ryuu to Yuusha to Haitatsunin
Nothing like some good old comedy at the expense of someone else. Yoshida, a half elf, is a mail carrier for the Imperial City of Idazig that will deliver mail to anyone, anywhere. With the breadth of fantasy and middle-ages history expressed early on, there's a lot of creative potential for humor alongside the really wonderfully scratchy and sharp art.
Deep Sea Aquarium Magmell / Magmell Shinkai Suizokukan
My friend Phantom would kill me if this wasn't on the list. Anyways, it's a series about a deep sea aquarium employee in Tokyo. Very cool, very informal, and incredibly beautiful. I love how much they work with blacks and darkness in the art.
A Coffee Shop in the Unwaking Town / Samenai Machi no Kissaten
I love stories that are incredibly odd and quiet, and this is no exception. Suzume one day finds herself unable to wake up, stuck in the unwaking town Lutetia. It's in this town that she works at the coffee shop known as 'Quatre'. From the moment I laid eyes on it I knew I'd enjoy it, a unique concept paired with standout art, it has such a comfortable feeling to its experience (as well as offering a few recipes).
Living In an Antiquarian Bookstore of The Karakida Family / Karakida-ke no Kosho Gurashi
A simple story about three girls inheriting their grandfather's shop in the heart of the largest collection of used bookstores, Kanda-Jinbouchou. A very calm and borderline mundane story that is supplemented with some truly beautiful art.
And that's all this list has in it for now! Of course I've got more I can chat about, but I thought these to be the most promising in my perusing of the internet. Best of all though? All of these are available (to some degree) on MangaDex! If you want to give them a shot they're there. And really, do feel free to add to this list with your own online finds, I'd love to find all sorts of unique and creative manga that we don't get to hear about in the English sphere!
#tasogare-boshi no sui to neri#sui and neri of the twilight planet#doku doku mori mori#poison poison forest forest#captain momo's secret base#momo kanchou no himitsu kichi#tsuruta kenji#every every night#yona yona yona#the feared witch of taishou#taishou kitan majo#welcome to hotel metsapeura#hotel metsapeura e youkoso#the ends of a dream#yume no hashibanashi#will you clean this for me#kirei ni shitemoraemasuka#amber days and golden nights#kohaku no yume de yoimashou#the dragon#ryuu to yuusha to haitatsunin#deep see aquarium magmell#magmell shinkai suizokukan#a coffee shop in the unwaking world#samenai machi no kissaten#living in an antiquarian bookstore of the karakida family#karakida-ke no kosho gurashi
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Why do I subject myself to this again and again and again. It makes me depressed everytime. It's called the ends of a dream for anyone who wants to join me in my misery.
#fluffy yuri needed#the ends of a dream#yuri#gl#girl's love#shoujo ai#yuri manga#why must they be born in the 20th century
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The Ends of a Dream is a really good short story, it’s beautiful and melancholic and nostalgic and occasionally quite sweet. I think personally that it would be improved overall by being a couple chapters longer with more room to show some significant moments in the story; as it stands it feels to me like the perspective of the story is a bit muddled? I suppose that serves to reinforce the framing of Kiyoko recalling only pieces of the story as they come to her.
The story seemed at first glance like it was about the relationship between Kiyoko and Mitsu, but on reflection I don’t think that’s really the point. The story is I think primarily about getting old and dying. It’s about the relationship between Kiyoko and her own childhood self, and how her failing memory leaves her with little to reflect on aside from fleeting moments of intense emotion separated by huge gulfs of time spent going through the motions of a more normal life.
I’m tempted to think of the narrative as being regretful, that at each of the major turning points of the story Kiyoko made imperfect or even outright bad decisions. I want to think this, because the alternative is very sad. She wasn’t able to build a life that *I* would want in her shoes, quietly out of the public eye with the woman she loved since they first met in grade school. And the story doesn’t do much to redeem the life she built instead! We never learn much about her family aside from that she has a daughter, a granddaughter, and a great granddaughter. Those women aren’t really large actors in the story. Are they important to her? Were they, before her memory started to go? She doesn’t remember much of her recent life anymore, and we don’t see anything that would tell us much aside from that they loved her but never knew much about her life.
Mitsu is in contrast a resolutely un-tragic foil to Kiyoko. She is independent, energetic, and straightforward to the end. Even during their final meeting as old women she still wants Kiyoko to choose her, although she admits that perhaps their timing just wasn’t right. She relishes her time with Kiyoko and gives off the distinct impression of having never regretted anything in her entire life. Her resolute attitude during their attempted lovers suicide seems to have gone on to shape her character for the rest of her life as far as Kiyoko ever saw.
Suicide is a very prominent feature of the narrative, which i suppose is in keeping with the general literary space the story is playing in. Lover’s suicides are a common theme in japanese literature, and I don’t really think I have enough cultural background to fully understand their significance in the story. It’s interesting to me that Kiyoko is the one who suggests it in the first place, showing us that she was always somewhat passive and overwhelmed by her situation. It marks the first time in her life that she seems meaningfully able to fight against the expectations put upon her to grow up into a wife and a mother, and demonstrates her lifelong inability to imagine a constructive way forwards into a life she actually wanted. We never see much about what exactly made her feel so pressured despite having two brothers to continue the family in her place. It’s hard for me to imagine what it could have been.
At the end of the story Kiyoko and Mitsu are united in death. We see them together in the sailor uniforms from their school days, as if their suicide attempt and the fraught and dissatisfied lives that followed were only a bad dream. The sky is beautiful, almost terribly so.
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The math just adds up!
#dungeon meshi#falin touden#marcille donato#farcille#I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath.#not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first.#I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*.#Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about.#I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/#Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight -#The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room!#Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...
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I woke up and apparently the moon was gonna hit the earth, but everyone was like, really chill about it.
I talked to my mom and she said: “Yeah, the moon will hit the earth in about three months, you still have time to say goodbye to the people who you care about."
I was like "damn”, and then I said: “How do you guys knew before me?” And my mom said: “Its because we watch the news and you don´t.”
#dream#text#March 30th 2024#apocalypse tw#end of the world#death tw#mom#family#catastrophe#mother#queueueueueueueueueueueueueue
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dragon meat, you, and me
#marcille donato#falin touden#farcille#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#tw blood#tw body horror#tw gore#as a normal farcille fan this revival has been on my mind since i first read it and getting to watch it is like yippee!!#like messy revivals are everything - the consequences that will haunt u for the rest of the time they are alive#the initial hopeful moments where it all seemed well but quickly descend to That not being the case - losing not only the bit of evidence#evidence that your dream may work out but also someone you deeply care about in the process… marcille my Beloved#ofc wholly thruout the journey - at the forefront of it - getting falin back was the most crucial point but so wuickly :(( it was lost#on the other end its crazy to think about the compoments of falin now - human - dragon (dungeon) - marcille’s magic and desperation#the food the crew cooked (digested) - she is made of many parts!!#also i did not realize how medical it feels to draw smth like this. i dont usually explore the inner parts or use a lot of blood#in my work so rendering everything and looking up refs it felt quite magical (?)#ruporas art
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2023 Media Thread - Part 145
The Ends of a Dream
A melancholic and wistful story. The way the events are presented chronological in reverse lends the story this deep sense of regret. Despite this, there's an air of acceptance of the tragedy. There's no changing what transpired, but there is a hopeful wish that such tragedy will be less common in the future. Its beautiful and painfully sad.
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SEASON 2 ROUND 1
NOTE: The Ends of a Dream touches on sensitive subject matter such as heteronormativity, death, and attempted suicide. Gunjou is a veritable minefield of content warnings; it is incredibly bleak, and in particular if you are sensitive to any type of abuse or are just generally in a bad place, I suggest taking extreme caution. Other major warnings include murder, violence, rape, homophobia, suicide, child death, and miscarriage.
#matches#yuri#gl#manga#gunjou#yume no hashibashi#the ends of a dream#ultramarine#nakamura ching#sudou yumi#this match up feels relatively fitting i assumed gunjou wouldve been up against something fluffy and lighthearted in round 1 lol
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im begging you READ YUME NO HASHIBASHI seriously
ive read it a few months ago, and it is amazing. an wonderful josei manga who shows the story of two japanese women who shared many memories together, and of course, it is yuri. yume no hashibashi does a great job on showing the depths of each character, their differences and similarities, their love story. i think it could be considered a historical manga, since it shows different japan eras, but im not sure. either way, the manga has a very captivating story, and i highly recommend it. check for TWs
#yume no hashibashi#the ends of a dream#yuri manga#yuri#josei#manga recs#yuri recs#josei manga#josei romance#yuri posting
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definitely gonna have to take The Ends of a Dream slowly. it's a harsh one
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