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animehouse-moe · 7 months

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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!

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Shuichi sometimes forgets some of his previous nightmares, because of the trauma preventing him or it happened long ago. He sees himself dying the same way again. His trauma resurfaced.

Oh dear, anon…oh dear. Poor Shuichi…

You know, anon, Shuichi’s fate of livingthrough a constant of nightmares and deaths without any end to it kinda remindsme of the fate of Diavolo, a Jojo character who I’ve recently read up on. Well,when I write “read up on” I really just mean I saw a tumblr postabout his fate and wanted to see/read about it myself. It turns out that he toois stuck in an eternal death loop where he lives and undergoes death afterdeath after painful death forever. Of course, it gets to him real bad, to thepoint where he loses his sanity and shrieks at this harmless girl to go awaybecause he doesn’t know when death will arrive to get him next. It’s awful, butI suppose the punishment fits the crime.

In Shuichi’s case, the punishment mostcertainly does not fit the crime! At all. Yet, he was thrust into deadlyscenario after scenario after scenario. I can see one of his death’s beingspeared all over just like Mukuro’s death in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.Another death is that he’s stuck in a burning building that eventuallycollapses on him, much like Inu no Taishou’s death in the third Inuyasha movie.A third could even be when he’s buried alive and dying a slow and painful deathalone. It certainly does leave numerous scars in his mind because althougheverything is just a dream, the witch’s curse is so powerful that it simulateseverything perfectly and fools Shuichi’s brain into believing that eachscenario is real. And some of these deaths are the results of betrayal by thepeople Shuichi was closest too. So, the witch Tsumugi really tried all that shecould to cleave those bonds tethering Shuichi to Kaede and the rest of hiscomrades to whittle down that impossibly high resistance stat. And it wasworking for a while…until Kaede arrived with her crew to storm the *real*castle and spoke to Shuichi’s sleeping form. He heard her voice that came tohim through the dream and a false image of her before his eyes, so he couldsense that she was there, and alive, which gave him the strength to carry onfor as long as he could. This drove the witch mad with frustration, and itlooked more and more like she would have to kill Kaede herself in order totopple Shuichi’s defenses, so she put all of her stock into one final battle,practically throwing Monokuma and the Monokubs along with her soldiers at Kaedein the hopes of swamping her. She was not to be trifled with during the lastbattle, and I imagine the last battle to be very similar to the final battle inFire Emblem Fates: Birthright, where Tsumugi sits upon her throne and Kaede’sparty is completely surrounded by all sorts of enemy units where it becomesvirtually impossible to strategize effectively and instead, one must placetheir units such that the tanks are in enemy range and the healers and frailerunits are away from said range and hope for the best.

Getting back to the point, sometimes, Shuichisees the ghosts of those nightmares in his dreams even long after Kaede hadrescued him and banished the witch. Those enchanted scar marks upon his backcertainly didn’t help the situation either as they throbbed during thesenightmares and forced him to relive the one particular dream where he was beingeaten by wolves. When he’s awake, he usually doesn’t see these nightmares, andif he tries to recall that year where he was under the witch’s curse, hedoesn’t remember much but a distant feeling of anxiety and fear, and mostlikely this is due to him deliberately and subconsciously repressing the hellout of those memories because they are just too unpleasant to recall, even whenKaede takes his hand and asks him if he’s feeling alright after she catches himstaring blankly out into space. He usually does that now, especially when he’sidle. Without even realizing it, Shuichi will adopt a thousand-yard stare,completely lost in a trance that isn’t very easily broken. Usually Kaede oreven Kaito would need to shake him a little bit to bring him back, but when hisyoung children Shinichi and Shiho try to get him to snap out of it and look atwhatever they’re doing, it doesn’t seem to work as well. In these times,Shuichi essentially becomes a zombie, nearly completely out of it and excuseshimself from his children. It happens more frequently with Shinichi than theother kids, and this annoys Shinichi. Even when he’s a little older and tellingjokes or performing sick new tricks with magic to entertain his father (orreally just to get his attention), Shuichi just turns away and brushes him offwithout really thinking. Of course, Shuichi isn’t like this all the time.Mostly he does pay attention to his children and spends time with them when hecan, but it’s these moments that really sting the kids, especially Shinichi,since they know that their father is suffering because their mother Kaede hadtold them (but she carefully omitted the details of the curse or how it hadoriginated and affected Shuichi) and wanted to do whatever they could to cheerhim up. Little did they know, however, just how deep the damage became inShuichi’s psyche.

His trauma resurfaces in more subtle ways mostof the time, like he would avoid certain objects that remind him of thememories he does remember, and for those he doesn’t, those objects would stillspark anxiety and mild panic within him if he saw them yet can’t describe whythat is so. It’s frustrating, and sometimes he feels so out of it that he staysin his bedchamber for most of the day. Therefore, Kaede takes over thediplomatic duties when they are officially married and communicates to him thedealings of the court whenever he cannot attend. She also tries to spend sometime with him, really whenever she can, to keep watch over him and provide allthe support he needs if the stress does resurface. Granted, she can’t be thereall of the time for him because she has other duties, so his long-timeattendant, Miaya, also cares for him and acts as a therapist, using healingmagic to soothe the headaches racking his brain. Therefore, the trauma affectshim in many ways than he or anyone else could realize.

#Shuichi Saihara #Kaede Akamatsu #ndrv3 #New Danganronpa v3 #Tsumugi Shirogane #sleeping beauty!AU #Shinichi Saihara #Shiho Saihara

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