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Title: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 29, 2017, 01:21:40 PM
I just finished Sailor Moon volumes 1-3.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on July 04, 2017, 07:45:40 PM
Cool! Are you still reading the series? Right now I'm re-reading Ouran and intermittently reading a few others -- Honey So Sweet (highly recommend!), Nisekoi, and Kamisama Kiss. When the next volume comes out, I'll be reading Kimi ni Todoke. (As you can see I mostly like to read shoujou manga and lean towards romantic comedy.) I was rereading Dengeki Daisy and occasionally Otomen recently.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 05, 2017, 09:02:29 AM
I'm up to Volume 4 of Sailor Moon. All of those you mention sound really interesting.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Firehooves on July 05, 2017, 02:58:44 PM
Fruits basket, Inu Yasha, and Azumanga Daioh
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Annie on July 06, 2017, 11:10:07 PM
Haven't read a manga in ages! I miss it. I find it so hard to start up a new manga so usually I just re-read my old favorites.
I recommend "Red River" or "Anatolia Story" as it's also called"- A time-traveling, magical, romantic adventure.
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Post by: True on July 07, 2017, 05:09:51 AM
I tend to like the dark/horror/gore type mangas xD
I am currently reading Tokyo Ghoul!
It's actually the first manga I've started collecting, previously I just checked things out from the library. :p
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Post by: Taffeta on July 07, 2017, 06:45:02 AM
I haven't read manga in ages, because it's a hassle getting it in Japanese and I don't have the space to store it. The last manga I read was Kakumei no hi after it came up in an academic talk at my university, but otherwise I really haven't for a long time.

I used to read and translate Bleach manga for a community but that manga ended up such a train wreck that I haven't been back to it in a long time.

I was reading Harukanaru Toki no Naka De 5 but then it got dropped and I haven't begun on Haruka 6 yet because really I would rather read Haruka 5 manga. :/

So now I'm really just left with my manga kids' history books that I brought back from Japan which relate to my research. Kind of depressing really. I do love manga. I just have no space.

Furuba (Fruits Basket) was one of the first manga I read, ten years or so ago? For some reason I have some volumes in English, some in French and some in Japanese.

Oh, I know a manga I will be reading/would be reading if the mangaka recovers and gets back to writing it. Saiyuuki. Saiyuuki Reload Blast, to be accurate. I love Saiyuuki, <3. But its poor creator is ill so often that it's constantly on hiatus.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on July 07, 2017, 07:55:41 PM
Oh, man! Here is where I declare myself fujoshi trash again  :biggrin: I usually read things that fall into the yaoi umbrella, but do branch out sometimes. My current reading list of active manga are :

I have Don't be Cruel but haven't settled to read it properly. I recently got Haikyuu! but again it's sitting on my pile waiting to be read. Most of my collection is sadly in storage ... Sooooooo many titles that are finished (or stopped) that I need to give a proper read through.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on July 08, 2017, 07:26:17 AM
It makes me happy to see other people read manga ^.^ I don't know many people IRL who do! It's such a beautiful storytelling form.

@Taffeta, I think it's awesome that you can actually translate the manga, too. I know one Japanese character, the hiragana one they use for "no," since it's so distinctive. Yay me :) I feel proud whenever I can find it, lol.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 08, 2017, 07:43:36 AM


@Taffeta, I think it's awesome that you can actually translate the manga, too. I know one Japanese character, the hiragana one they use for "no," since it's so distinctive. Yay me :) I feel proud whenever I can find it, lol.

You mean this one の? It is cute :D
I also like the 'a', because you can do silly faces with it like : あ。あ

...ahem, just destroyed your image of me as a translator >.>

I got roped into doing it basically because the fan scanlations of Bleach were being done  by a group who were simply rewriting bits and I was in a community of people who wanted to analyse every actual detail, not read a ton of swear words added in to juice up the fights. Bleach is/was a manga full of tons of easter egg type symbolism and clues to old Japan and stuff hidden underneath all the typical fight scenes, and so people wanted to know the specifics so they could discuss what those things meant and what they foreshadowed. Unfortunately the final arc, though still full of those things, no longer foreshadowed anything because it was a rushed finish that didn't answer most of the outstanding issues and killed off a character in a way that actually contradicts itself. That happened to be my favourite character, so yeah, I lost interest in the manga...

But yeah, translating manga is actually fun because it's not translating great blocks of text, just dialogue, so it doesn't take that long and is a bit of a brain break. And it is sometimes written in regional dialect or slang, but not in 500 year old Japanese grammar or stiff academic modern Japanese, which is what I mostly deal with for my PhD work -.-. So from that point of view I miss doing it :/. I do miss Bleach, but I miss it how it was, not how it ended up :/. It's literally the only globally super-mainstream shounen manga I have ever been a fan of, but the last arc ruined it. Sad times :/.

Japanese character babble in spoiler tags.

Spoiler
木 林 森
These are the only Japanese characters my mother can get her head around. The first one is tree (ki).
The second one is copse (hayashi)
The third one is forest (mori)
The bigger the gathering of trees, the more trees in the character :D I wish all kanji were that logical -.-.

I taught my support advisor at university the horse kanji because she had to see my work so much (which relates to horses and representation of warriors). It's meant to be a horse turning it's head back. I dunno if I see it...



My personal pet character though is the one for dream, because it looks like someone asleep in bed...



I love manga, but from the manga/anime I've seen that talks about manga creation, I think it would be a really sucky job. So many mangaka end up ill with stress and overwork because of the deadlines.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on July 08, 2017, 11:37:11 AM
You mean this one の? It is cute :D
Yes, that's the one! My favorite character, lol

I got roped into doing it basically because the fan scanlations of Bleach were being done  by a group who were simply rewriting bits and I was in a community of people who wanted to analyse every actual detail, not read a ton of swear words added in to juice up the fights.
I can sympathize; I really don't like it when translators take too many liberties and mess up the manga or anime. It happens way too often! In manga I never get to see the original wording (not that I could read it if I could), but in anime it's a pet peeve of mine. I can understand a bit of Japanese when I hear it, and my sister comprehends even more, so when we watch anime together in Japanese with subtitles, sometimes we look at each other and are like, "Wait, that character just said 'I won't forgive you,' right, not 'You *$%%#$*' " (to give an extreme example).

I taught my support advisor at university the horse kanji because she had to see my work so much (which relates to horses and representation of warriors). It's meant to be a horse turning it's head back. I dunno if I see it...

To me it kind of looks like a little square animal with five legs (four tiny ones and a curved front one) :biggrin:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 08, 2017, 11:45:00 AM
Thanks everyone. Sailor Moon is my first experience reading manga and now I know the Beauty and the Beast tie in manga I saw looked backwards.  I'm reading the Sailor Moon manga that's translated in to English since I can't read Japanese.  Taffeta I think that's amazing that you can translate manga from Japanese. :)

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 09, 2017, 04:21:07 PM
I can sympathize; I really don't like it when translators take too many liberties and mess up the manga or anime. It happens way too often! In manga I never get to see the original wording (not that I could read it if I could), but in anime it's a pet peeve of mine. I can understand a bit of Japanese when I hear it, and my sister comprehends even more, so when we watch anime together in Japanese with subtitles, sometimes we look at each other and are like, "Wait, that character just said 'I won't forgive you,' right, not 'You *$%%#$*' " (to give an extreme example).


That's why I don't read manga in English. I'm not a manga snob, I don't have any issue with people reading or buying manga in English, nor do I think that it's at all superior to read it in Japanese. I read it in Japanese only because I am a detail geek and these days, having seen what people do to the original manga (some scanlations get translated from Japanese into Chinese and then into English O.o) I became really suspicious of (especially unofficial fan) translations. Bleach was super-bad for this, though. I think a lot of less mainstream manga (and especially shoujo type manga) have better translations, but there was such a rush to get the Bleach chapters translated first that people either made mistakes or generalised and you'd find a character suddenly being related to his best friend or jumping divisions from 13 to 3. And those were just the people who weren't trying to make themselves epic by rewriting the dialogue with curse words and cringeworthy slang.

With Bleach, while it ran, I generally preferred the anime because even though there were scenes missing and filler arcs, the manga scenes that appeared were almost totally exact to the original dialogue in the manga, and I liked that. As you say, too, it gives you the chance to know if there's a mistake, as the original dialogue is there and most people who watch anime are familiar with enough Japanese to pick out stuff like you just said. Fans are smart and not easily fooled.

Official translations at least are less likely to insert gratuitous swearwords though I admit I still haven't forgiven the official translation of one of my pet manga series turning an onmyouji into a 'sorcerer' and the name Sefuru into "Sefle". So glad that the anime version never got dubbed, that's all I'm going to say.

@Ponyfan, manga is fine in any language. So long as the people translating do a good job, no reason why you shouldn't enjoy it in English and Sailor Moon is a classic xD though it does take some getting used to, reading from what we think of as the back to the front.

I totally think that, if you're going to go down the manga path, ones mentioned above such as Fruits Basket and Ouran Host Club are a lot of fun xD. Fruits Basket (some people also call it Furuba) is really lovely. Sad in places, but really lovely. And Ouran is funny and pokes fun at itself as well, which is nice. Although I have a feeling that's a really long manga, isn't it? Furuba is about 23 volumes or something, but I think Ouran is longer than that?

I was actually inspired to learn Japanese from a series called Fushigi Yuugi. It all had to do with a friend linking me a music video on youtube for one of Tasuki's songs in Japanese, and it got so stuck in my head that then I wanted to know the words.
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hTbjR6rym0
if you are curious
So I began watching the anime on youtube. And then one ep was in English and it sounded horrible after so many in Japanese. And the manga in English used Chinese names for things where the anime used the Japanese pronunciation, and it was confusing. So then I decided to learn Japanese (as you do >.>).

Yuugi was a bit brutal in places, and now the anime is pretty old really. But I really still have a super soft spot for it. It depends on how you feel about characters you like dying.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 10, 2017, 03:08:49 PM
I finished Sailor Moon Volume 5 today and am looking at Honey So Sweet for my next manga series.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: shelvesofwhimsy on July 10, 2017, 03:23:28 PM
I'm currently reading Volume 1 of Cardcaptor Sakura :) Right before that it was Kill La Kill Volumes 2 and 3 :D

I was also watching the Sakura anime, but took a break to branch out to learn about a few more shows before I go to Japan  ^.^
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tikibirds on July 12, 2017, 12:52:06 AM
Noragami but its on hiatus. I really hope it gets finished.
Bungo stray dogs
Kamisama kiss. I think the last volume was released recently.

Normally I read them off mangahere but some are so badly translated..I don't get what's happening. I don't have room for actual books.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on July 14, 2017, 08:37:31 PM
Official translations at least are less likely to insert gratuitous swearwords though I admit I still haven't forgiven the official translation of one of my pet manga series turning an onmyouji into a 'sorcerer' and the name Sefuru into "Sefle". So glad that the anime version never got dubbed, that's all I'm going to say.
Sefuru sounds so much better than Sefle. Sometimes translators make the strangest decisions when it comes to names. Maybe there's a reason for it and I shouldn't complain, but I've been confused by a few before, as well (mostly in anime). In Gundam SEED, for instance, a character's name is given as Tolle, but my sister and I are pretty sure it should have just been transliterated as Tohru. Most of the characters in that series have pretty hilarious made-up non-Japanese names, though (Kuzzy Buskirk, Dearka, and Yzak come to mind), so the translators probably were just following suit.

So I began watching the anime on youtube. And then one ep was in English and it sounded horrible after so many in Japanese. And the manga in English used Chinese names for things where the anime used the Japanese pronunciation, and it was confusing. So then I decided to learn Japanese (as you do >.>).

Yuugi was a bit brutal in places, and now the anime is pretty old really. But I really still have a super soft spot for it. It depends on how you feel about characters you like dying.
That brings back memories! The character I remember most from that series (besides the leads) was the one who said "no da" at the end of every sentence :lol: And I think he popped out of a hat. He was my favorite. I have strange favorites. XD

I finished Sailor Moon Volume 5 today and am looking at Honey So Sweet for my next manga series.
Yes, yes! Read it! It's so good!

I'm currently reading Volume 1 of Cardcaptor Sakura :) Right before that it was Kill La Kill Volumes 2 and 3 :D

I was also watching the Sakura anime, but took a break to branch out to learn about a few more shows before I go to Japan  ^.^
Cool, so you're heading to Japan?

The Cardcaptor Sakura anime is one of my all-time favorites (in the original Japanese! one old English dub butchers the series; the other one is newer and I've never listened to it). My sister and I watched it in our "formative anime years" and are constantly quoting it. Zettai daijobu dayo! I should read the manga, too. I think my sister has volume 1 that I could steal.

Noragami but its on hiatus. I really hope it gets finished.
Bungo stray dogs
I loved Noragami and am in the middle of Bungo Stray Dogs. I like the mix of humor and action.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 15, 2017, 11:20:36 AM
That brings back memories! The character I remember most from that series (besides the leads) was the one who said "no da" at the end of every sentence :lol: And I think he popped out of a hat. He was my favorite. I have strange favorites. XD
Chichiri :D He became my favourite ultimately, too. I still have so much love for Yuugi, its so nostalgic <3

I don't know about Gundam; I tend to think anime should be banned from attempting to use westernised made up names because they end up being written in katakana and that means trying to work out what they SHOULD say as opposed to what they DO say is impossible. Kyou Kara Maou is the ultimate example of this, with some really odd Germanic names that get totally torn up in Japanese script.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Uninu on July 15, 2017, 12:41:15 PM
I'm still reading The Ancient Magus' Bride. I am loving it so far and so I'm  taking my sweet time reading it. :lovey:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 26, 2017, 09:10:12 AM
I'm still looking at Honey So Sweet. I was going to buy volume 1 the other day but the bookstore didn't have volume 2 in stock and I wanted to buy both at the same time.

Ponyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on July 27, 2017, 10:52:09 PM
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Chichiri :D He became my favourite ultimately, too. I still have so much love for Yuugi, its so nostalgic <3

I loved Tauske, chichiri and the emperor. And the crossdressing guy too.

I kinda want to buy the royal tutor since I saw the anime on crunchyroll.
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 07, 2017, 10:25:51 AM
The bookstore finally got Honey So Sweet volume 2 in so I bought volume 1 and 2 today.


Ponyfan
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Post by: terabithianprince on August 11, 2017, 10:45:20 PM
I'm rereading Gravitation Volumes 1-4 and I just started reading Attack on Titan and Fairy Tail.
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Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2017, 03:54:12 PM
I haven't read Gravitation in years...

The only BL manga I read now is Sekaiichi Hatsukoi just because a friend got me watching the anime for that and Junjou and it was so funny I got hooked. THe manga is more hardcore but I like it anyway. I met Ritsu's Japanese voice artist this summer in London, which was very surreal but cool...

I miss reading Bleach manga but it really died a death at the end.

I wanted Haruka 5 manga but it kinda disappeared in favour of Haruka 6 manga :/ I would still recommend Harukanaru toki no naka de 1 (Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time) manga because Yorihisa and Yasuaki are <3.

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Post by: Lady Frostbite on August 13, 2017, 01:08:50 AM
Aw, man, Gravitation! That was one of two 'starter' yaoi titles that most people in my time got in on. The other was Sanami Matoh's FAKE, the one I got into XD I tried Gravitation, got the first two volumes but I honestly couldn't get into it because of the characters.

Junjou Romantica is a classic I simply haven't read, I probably should. I love World's Greatest First Love by the same manga-ka, weirdly

EDIT: Sorry Taffeta, didn't realise you were also talking about that title  ^^; I really got into that title since, well, I sympathised with the tight deadlines parts and nods towards manga publishing as at the time I was working in a comic shop soliciting online titles for the company website. I am waiting on Vol.7 but manga titles are suddenly having weird releases in the UK, it's damn annoying
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Post by: Einhornbaby on August 15, 2017, 10:59:38 PM
Im reading Detective Conan these days and Im having Biohazard (Heavenly Island) waiting. Well not only that series but also No 1 of Angel Sanctuary (trying to like it lol, we´ll see...) and Highschool of the Dead 1-4.
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Post by: Taffeta on August 16, 2017, 04:38:22 PM
Aw, man, Gravitation! That was one of two 'starter' yaoi titles that most people in my time got in on. The other was Sanami Matoh's FAKE, the one I got into XD I tried Gravitation, got the first two volumes but I honestly couldn't get into it because of the characters.

Junjou Romantica is a classic I simply haven't read, I probably should. I love World's Greatest First Love by the same manga-ka, weirdly

EDIT: Sorry Taffeta, didn't realise you were also talking about that title  ^^; I really got into that title since, well, I sympathised with the tight deadlines parts and nods towards manga publishing as at the time I was working in a comic shop soliciting online titles for the company website. I am waiting on Vol.7 but manga titles are suddenly having weird releases in the UK, it's damn annoying

xD It's my bad for using the Japanese name, probably. For some reason I've never read the Junjou manga. I watched the anime, but I've only read the Sekaiichi manga. I love the anime for both though I think the start of Junjou kind of waves a big flag in your face THIS IS YAOI! The problem with Sekaiichi is that half of it is in manga and half of it is in novel form as far as I can tell. Manga is just Ritsu and Shouta's stories and the others- Chiaki and Yokozawa's stories are novels. I've got some of the latter but none of Chiaki and Hattori's storyline :/

I didn't realise there was an issue with the translated volumes coming out. I can't remember if the last one I read was 10 or 11...? Which means there is still a bunch to come out in English and no excuse for no translations O.o.

I like Sekaiichi better except that I adore Hiroki in Junjou Egoist and his book-throwing wall-headbutting general incompetence at anything that isn't academia.
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Post by: Haruna on August 20, 2017, 12:23:44 PM
I tried QQ Sweeper over vacation, but I'm not warming up to it, which is a disappointment. It's by the author of my favorite manga (Dengeki Daisy), so I really wanted to like it. It's about a guy who cleans up monsters/spirits (not sure which as the manga hasn't specified quite what they are); he meets the protagonist girl and, much to his surprise, he finds she can see the "door" to the "otherworld," unlike normal humans. (rough summary, but that's the gist of it) It's slow but could get more interesting; I'm only mostly through volume 1.

The bookstore finally got Honey So Sweet volume 2 in so I bought volume 1 and 2 today.

Ponyfan
Awesome! I hope you liked it :) I feel like it strikes a good balance between sweet and realistic, and the artwork is lovely.

Im reading Detective Conan these days . . .
I've never read the Detective Conan manga, but my sister has; I have watched pretty much every Detective Conan anime episode Westerners can get their hands on. It's my sister's favorite series and so we often get her foreign DVDs of the series as gifts. There are so crazy many!  Close to 800 episodes at this point, I think. I want Conan to finally get big again and end up with Ran and to finally find out who the Black Org boss is! It's been, like, 20 years, lol . . .
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 21, 2017, 04:01:50 PM


The bookstore finally got Honey So Sweet volume 2 in so I bought volume 1 and 2 today.

Ponyfan



Ponyfan
Awesome! I hope you liked it :) I feel like it strikes a good balance between sweet and realistic, and the artwork is lovely.




I did. :) I will definitely be picking up more volumes of Honey So Sweet.
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Post by: Einhornbaby on August 22, 2017, 10:11:06 AM


Im reading Detective Conan these days . . .
I've never read the Detective Conan manga, but my sister has; I have watched pretty much every Detective Conan anime episode Westerners can get their hands on. It's my sister's favorite series and so we often get her foreign DVDs of the series as gifts. There are so crazy many!  Close to 800 episodes at this point, I think. I want Conan to finally get big again and end up with Ran and to finally find out who the Black Org boss is! It's been, like, 20 years, lol . . .


Lol I tend to ask myself WHY am I still reading / watching this as every episode / story comes out the same or pretty much like the 799 we watched before... but then its still kinda funny how the mysterys get solved, so I still read and watch it :P
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Post by: Haruna on August 25, 2017, 07:22:48 PM


The bookstore finally got Honey So Sweet volume 2 in so I bought volume 1 and 2 today.

Ponyfan

Ponyfan
Awesome! I hope you liked it :) I feel like it strikes a good balance between sweet and realistic, and the artwork is lovely.


I did. :) I will definitely be picking up more volumes of Honey So Sweet.
I'm so glad you liked it!


Im reading Detective Conan these days . . .
I've never read the Detective Conan manga, but my sister has; I have watched pretty much every Detective Conan anime episode Westerners can get their hands on. It's my sister's favorite series and so we often get her foreign DVDs of the series as gifts. There are so crazy many!  Close to 800 episodes at this point, I think. I want Conan to finally get big again and end up with Ran and to finally find out who the Black Org boss is! It's been, like, 20 years, lol . . .

Lol I tend to ask myself WHY am I still reading / watching this as every episode / story comes out the same or pretty much like the 799 we watched before... but then its still kinda funny how the mysterys get solved, so I still read and watch it :P
Yes! I do like the normal episodes/chapters but I enjoy it most when the main story is moving forward or when Kaitou Kid is featured. :biggrin:
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Post by: Lady Frostbite on September 21, 2017, 09:19:04 AM
Aw, man, Gravitation! That was one of two 'starter' yaoi titles that most people in my time got in on. The other was Sanami Matoh's FAKE, the one I got into XD I tried Gravitation, got the first two volumes but I honestly couldn't get into it because of the characters.

Junjou Romantica is a classic I simply haven't read, I probably should. I love World's Greatest First Love by the same manga-ka, weirdly

EDIT: Sorry Taffeta, didn't realise you were also talking about that title  ^^; I really got into that title since, well, I sympathised with the tight deadlines parts and nods towards manga publishing as at the time I was working in a comic shop soliciting online titles for the company website. I am waiting on Vol.7 but manga titles are suddenly having weird releases in the UK, it's damn annoying

xD It's my bad for using the Japanese name, probably. For some reason I've never read the Junjou manga. I watched the anime, but I've only read the Sekaiichi manga. I love the anime for both though I think the start of Junjou kind of waves a big flag in your face THIS IS YAOI! The problem with Sekaiichi is that half of it is in manga and half of it is in novel form as far as I can tell. Manga is just Ritsu and Shouta's stories and the others- Chiaki and Yokozawa's stories are novels. I've got some of the latter but none of Chiaki and Hattori's storyline :/

I didn't realise there was an issue with the translated volumes coming out. I can't remember if the last one I read was 10 or 11...? Which means there is still a bunch to come out in English and no excuse for no translations O.o.

I like Sekaiichi better except that I adore Hiroki in Junjou Egoist and his book-throwing wall-headbutting general incompetence at anything that isn't academia.

I'm terrible, I just go with the manga version, I barely watch any anime ... eventhough I probably should, considering how YOI is taking over the world >_> I've seen Ai No Kusabi and Loveless' anime versions, but not much else. SuBLime keep getting questions about translating and releasing it but it's been a no for a while ... actually, the Twitter has been real snippy lately, rather worried about them. Jennifer that comments on the boards on the site is always nice, don't know if it's someone else on the Twitter but the replies come across as snarky and bad-mooded <_>

I don't know about translations, for me it's more Previews release date vs. when it actually arrives in the UK to my local comic shop. I usually purchase from Wordery when the price goes down enough, but they have a bad habit of listing titles with 6-12 days before dispatch, when I know they probably don't have it in stock. (Compared to if they say dispatch is between 3-5 days, better chance it's in stock to-hand). Most of the time, the Previews release date is about the same for the UK as US, but lately it comes in a week or two later and it's annoying  :mad:

Still waiting for Awkward Silence Vol.6 ... I love my sugary boys so much ;^; Curious when the next Crimson Spell is coming out, I'm going to get my friend hooked on that one.
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Post by: DazzleKitty on September 22, 2017, 01:49:02 PM
Speaking of SuBlime, I just finished the last volume of Love Stage (number 7). I am sad it's over. I loved the anime and the manga. 

I need to finish Midnight Secretary (start volume 6) and start Everyone is Getting Married.
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Post by: Einhornbaby on September 24, 2017, 08:17:25 AM
Finished what I had concerning Resident Evil Mangas...
Now what to read? Anybody with an advise on what horror / zombie stuff I should try next?
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Post by: mlly on September 25, 2017, 01:06:08 PM
The last one I've read were the latest chapters of Golden Kamuy. Really good so far!
I guess I also try to keep up with the latest Berserk chapters.

There's actually so much more other titles I plan to read or continue but I either keep forgetting or I am too lazy to start or resume, or I just don't have the time!  :freak:

Finished what I had concerning Resident Evil Mangas...
Now what to read? Anybody with an advise on what horror / zombie stuff I should try next?
^It's not zombie related or similar to RE but Fuan no Tane is a really good horror manga.

And I've only reached the 1st few chapters(where nothing has happened yet) so I don't have an opinion on it yet, but I've heard good reviews on I Am A Hero, which apparently, will have zombies in it.

There's also School Live! which is a zombie survival manga I actually have read til the later chapters, but while it had a few interesting bits, I honestly found it pretty boring overall and I don't care for the art style so I don't plan to continue catching up with the series. That's just my personal opinion though. If you like zombie survival stories you can still check it out you might still enjoy it (unlike me).

Oh yeah I forgot, there's also Devilman. No zombies but it does have the apocalyptic themes and is a horror classic.

Parasyte is another horror classic I recommend.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 04, 2017, 01:01:00 PM
Finally got another volume of Honey So Sweet. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Rainshower on November 06, 2017, 02:18:24 PM
I was rereading D gray-man, but I have stopped reading at the moment due to having to tracking down missing volumes. Once I track down the missing volumes I will continue reading it. I am also working my way through The Full Metal Alchemist manga. 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on November 06, 2017, 05:55:39 PM
How does everyone storing their manga? At the moment I keep mine in special DVD storage boxes for the most precious ones, and large DVD moving storage boxes for all the rest. They're nice and snug inside, even holds the over-large Juné volumes! But once I finally get a bookcase for my manga ... I had the DVD tower from IKEA but I found it a) too tall! I'm only 5'2! and b) the chambers far too narrow. Manga were either packed a slight too loose or REALLY tightly which had me worried about damaging edges taking them in/out.

I am trying to find a bookcase that has glass doors so I can admire the collection (I know, I'm weird over a bunch of £6-£10 books -_-) and keep out dust, but doesn't have huge gaps at the top and front, and doesn't have pegs holding the shelf in place that could press into the back/front of bookending manga.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tikibirds on November 06, 2017, 11:36:02 PM
I cheat and read the free, badly translated ones online  :lookround:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Storybelle on November 09, 2017, 03:03:15 PM
Storybelle's top five manga!

1. Sailor Moon. I read this series literally every day. There are very few days where I don't pick up a volume to read a few pages of it.

2.Sakura Hime Kaden

3. Fruits Basket

4. High School of the Dead

5. Vampire Knight.

Right now though, I'm reading another Arina Tanemura series Idol Dreams. I'm not reading much ongoing manga series rn, to be honest. I buy random volumes at comic con and then don't like them enough to pick up the second.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on November 10, 2017, 06:48:20 PM
Finally got another volume of Honey So Sweet. :)


Ponyfan
Yay! Which one are you on now? I'm trying to pace myself, but I think I'm going to buy the last volume soon.

How does everyone storing their manga? At the moment I keep mine in special DVD storage boxes for the most precious ones, and large DVD moving storage boxes for all the rest. They're nice and snug inside, even holds the over-large Juné volumes! But once I finally get a bookcase for my manga ... I had the DVD tower from IKEA but I found it a) too tall! I'm only 5'2! and b) the chambers far too narrow. Manga were either packed a slight too loose or REALLY tightly which had me worried about damaging edges taking them in/out.

I am trying to find a bookcase that has glass doors so I can admire the collection (I know, I'm weird over a bunch of £6-£10 books -_-) and keep out dust, but doesn't have huge gaps at the top and front, and doesn't have pegs holding the shelf in place that could press into the back/front of bookending manga.
I just have mine on a cheap white bookcase. It's about five 1/2 feet tall and three feet wide, and the way I have the shelves arranged they fit pretty nicely. I love lining up my manga in order and looking at them, ha ha. It's a very satisfying feeling. Missing a volume in the middle triggers me a little, though. :lol:
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 11, 2017, 12:31:08 PM
 

Finally got another volume of Honey So Sweet. :)


Ponyfan
Yay! Which one are you on now? I'm trying to pace myself, but I think I'm going to buy the last volume soon.



I'm on Volume 3. :)


Ponyfan
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Post by: Stormness_1 on November 11, 2017, 12:49:34 PM
How does everyone storing their manga? At the moment I keep mine in special DVD storage boxes for the most precious ones, and large DVD moving storage boxes for all the rest. They're nice and snug inside, even holds the over-large Juné volumes! But once I finally get a bookcase for my manga ... I had the DVD tower from IKEA but I found it a) too tall! I'm only 5'2! and b) the chambers far too narrow. Manga were either packed a slight too loose or REALLY tightly which had me worried about damaging edges taking them in/out.

I am trying to find a bookcase that has glass doors so I can admire the collection (I know, I'm weird over a bunch of £6-£10 books -_-) and keep out dust, but doesn't have huge gaps at the top and front, and doesn't have pegs holding the shelf in place that could press into the back/front of bookending manga.

Mine are inside A5 document containers, in my bookcase, so the pages don't spread and warp. I just bought some more yesterday. Daiso used to have them, but they stopped selling them, so now I get them from a cheap shop down at the Gold Coast that I only get near about once a year or so. Almost double the price, but they're better than putting them in the A4 ones and having them stick out from the shelves and only half the spines on display.

Right now I'm not reading any manga regularly, but I have been looking for something new to start, so stalking this thread for popular stuff.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: DazzleKitty on November 12, 2017, 06:46:31 PM
Lady Frostbite, I have mine on huge bookshelves and spread throughout various places of my room. My collection needs organized.

I have two series I am gonna start soon. Kiss Him Not Me, and Fluffy Cinnamaroll (I love cute, children's manga).

I am reading Everybody's Getting Married and this one is not really clicking with me.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on November 17, 2017, 01:48:30 PM
Interesting, I'll have to keep looking ...

So, it's come to my attention that Juné Manga is moving to direct-selling only. I am SO angry at this! I don't import manga as I can't afford it, and usually I can get them from UK sellers. But with this? I might just have to drop all Juné titles! They said they're looking into making it cheaper for international customers, I'll believe it when I see it. Plus, we in the UK have customs to deal with if we order too much (my last Juné order cost me £20 in fees for one box set!)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 22, 2017, 03:25:03 PM
I finished Vols 3 and 4 of Honey So Sweet. Hoping I can pick up some more volumes soon.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on November 22, 2017, 07:41:24 PM
I finished Vols 3 and 4 of Honey So Sweet. Hoping I can pick up some more volumes soon.

Ponyfan
It's so good, isn't it? :heart: I just bought the final volume recently.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 24, 2017, 10:00:17 AM
It is.  :lovey: :lovey: It’s only my 2nd manga series (the first was 1-5 of Sailor Moon) and I’m really enjoying Honey So Sweet. Have you read the last volume yet?

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: kakenterprise on November 24, 2017, 08:03:48 PM
I'm current with the promised neverland and The Ancient Magus' Bride.

I was reading another one that I can't remember the name of and the bookmarks on my work computer about a girl who switches body's with lipstick.  It's good but I don't think they've had an update in a while.
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Post by: Stormness_1 on November 27, 2017, 03:30:42 AM
Just finished Ouran at long last (loved the anime, but the manga is sooo much better!!), and ordered Honey So Sweet today. Can't wait - it's my Christmas present to myself!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 27, 2017, 12:35:37 PM
Just finished Ouran at long last (loved the anime, but the manga is sooo much better!!), and ordered Honey So Sweet today. Can't wait - it's my Christmas present to myself!

I’ve only up to Volume 5 of Honey So Sweet but I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read so far.

Ponyfan
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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on November 27, 2017, 04:17:25 PM
My husband and I own a LOT of manga...  it's in storage at the moment but we actively bought from 2008-2011, plus there was stuff from before we met each other.

According to this spreadsheet I made, there's ~430 unique titles, about half of which are complete sets.  I am not even sure HOW MANY books that actually is, or how many books it would be if all the series were complete! 

But we haven't been active in the consumption of animated Japanese culture in ohhhhh about 5 years now.  Sometimes we watch an episode or two of anime, but it's difficult to read subtitles for hours and we don't speak well enough to survive without it. 

We do sort of want to get back into it... but it seems like we are SO FAR behind already!  *shrug*  So eventually we will probably just dive in again, but I think it's more probable that we create a manga ourselves...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Stormness_1 on November 27, 2017, 09:29:35 PM
Just finished Ouran at long last (loved the anime, but the manga is sooo much better!!), and ordered Honey So Sweet today. Can't wait - it's my Christmas present to myself!

I’ve only up to Volume 5 of Honey So Sweet but I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read so far.

Ponyfan

I read the vol 1 fan translation online, and I liked it, so I decided to jump in the deep end and get the rest of the set!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on November 28, 2017, 03:59:31 PM
My husband and I own a LOT of manga...  it's in storage at the moment but we actively bought from 2008-2011, plus there was stuff from before we met each other.

According to this spreadsheet I made, there's ~430 unique titles, about half of which are complete sets.  I am not even sure HOW MANY books that actually is, or how many books it would be if all the series were complete! 

But we haven't been active in the consumption of animated Japanese culture in ohhhhh about 5 years now.  Sometimes we watch an episode or two of anime, but it's difficult to read subtitles for hours and we don't speak well enough to survive without it. 

We do sort of want to get back into it... but it seems like we are SO FAR behind already!  *shrug*  So eventually we will probably just dive in again, but I think it's more probable that we create a manga ourselves...

This collection sounds amazing!!  :freak:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on December 02, 2017, 11:49:37 AM
My husband and I own a LOT of manga...  it's in storage at the moment but we actively bought from 2008-2011, plus there was stuff from before we met each other.

According to this spreadsheet I made, there's ~430 unique titles, about half of which are complete sets.  I am not even sure HOW MANY books that actually is, or how many books it would be if all the series were complete! 

But we haven't been active in the consumption of animated Japanese culture in ohhhhh about 5 years now.  Sometimes we watch an episode or two of anime, but it's difficult to read subtitles for hours and we don't speak well enough to survive without it. 

We do sort of want to get back into it... but it seems like we are SO FAR behind already!  *shrug*  So eventually we will probably just dive in again, but I think it's more probable that we create a manga ourselves...

This collection sounds amazing!!  :freak:


Yeah about 8 years ago when our public library was purging out books 10 for $1, we went a little... uhhhh.. wild.  We drove to every library branch and bought nearly all the manga...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 02, 2017, 11:56:27 AM
Your magna collection sounds amazing, lovesbabysquirmy.

I picked up Volume 5 of Honey So Sweet today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: DazzleKitty on December 10, 2017, 07:22:31 PM
My husband and I own a LOT of manga...  it's in storage at the moment but we actively bought from 2008-2011, plus there was stuff from before we met each other.

According to this spreadsheet I made, there's ~430 unique titles, about half of which are complete sets.  I am not even sure HOW MANY books that actually is, or how many books it would be if all the series were complete! 

But we haven't been active in the consumption of animated Japanese culture in ohhhhh about 5 years now.  Sometimes we watch an episode or two of anime, but it's difficult to read subtitles for hours and we don't speak well enough to survive without it. 

We do sort of want to get back into it... but it seems like we are SO FAR behind already!  *shrug*  So eventually we will probably just dive in again, but I think it's more probable that we create a manga ourselves...

If you ever get it out on display......omg it would be amazing.

I have two series I need to start......a children's manga called Fluffy Fluffy Cinnamaroll (I love cute things) and Kiss Him, Not Me.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 26, 2017, 12:57:21 PM
I picked up Volumes 6 and 8 of Honey So Sweet today. Volume 7 was sold out.:(
But I will wait to read Volume 8 until I read Volume 7.
Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Stormness_1 on December 28, 2017, 12:01:26 AM
I picked up Volumes 6 and 8 of Honey So Sweet today. Volume 7 was sold out.:(
But I will wait to read Volume 8 until I read Volume 7.
Ponyfan

Vol 7 is so hard to get right now it seems! I ordered it, but it hasn't come yet... It's on back order apparently - I have the rest of them, just waiting on 7.

EDIT: ...aaand they just refunded me. Grrrr...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 28, 2017, 02:37:15 PM
I picked up Volumes 6 and 8 of Honey So Sweet today. Volume 7 was sold out.:(
But I will wait to read Volume 8 until I read Volume 7.
Ponyfan

Vol 7 is so hard to get right now it seems! I ordered it, but it hasn't come yet... It's on back order apparently - I have the rest of them, just waiting on 7.

EDIT: ...aaand they just refunded me. Grrrr...


I wonder why there's a problem with keeping Volume 7 in stock? It seems like Volume 8 would be harder to get since it's last. I'm sorry you didn't get your Volume 7 that you ordered.  I hope we both get volume 7 soon.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 29, 2017, 03:32:08 PM
I just finished Volume 6 of Honey So Sweet. Now the wait for Volume 7 to be restocked begins.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on January 01, 2018, 01:25:07 PM
I picked up Volumes 6 and 8 of Honey So Sweet today. Volume 7 was sold out.:(
But I will wait to read Volume 8 until I read Volume 7.
Ponyfan

Vol 7 is so hard to get right now it seems! I ordered it, but it hasn't come yet... It's on back order apparently - I have the rest of them, just waiting on 7.

EDIT: ...aaand they just refunded me. Grrrr...
I wonder why 7 is so hard to get! Everyone decided they wanted it at the same time, I guess? It's so tough waiting for the next volume of a manga to come out, and doubly frustrating when you just can't get it at all . . .
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 05, 2018, 07:31:33 PM
Volume 7 is still out of stock at the store where I buy my manga.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Stormness_1 on January 05, 2018, 10:52:52 PM
Volume 7 is still out of stock at the store where I buy my manga.


Ponyfan

I'm seriously considering ebay. If the sellers there didn't have such awful feedback, I'd probably have done it already, but I don't want to support their lack of customer service!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 10, 2018, 04:28:59 PM
I finished reading it before I came back to London, so maybe it's cheating, but Saiyuki Reload Blast #3. The manga for the most patient people on the planet. But I am made happy by the very faithful anime adaptation that I've also now been able to finally watch. If only they had gone back and animated Even a Worm. Then I'd be truly content. Sigh. Oh well.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 11, 2018, 11:15:04 AM
Volume 7 of Honey So Sweet is still out of stock at the bookstore I buy my manga at.

Taffeta Saiyuka Reload Blast sounds very interesting. :)

Does anyone have any good manga recommendations ? I’m not sure what else to try after I finish Honey So Sweet.  I’ve also read the first 5 volumes of Sailor Moon.

Ponyfan

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 11, 2018, 11:33:16 AM
Saiyuki's been going on so long that I have to wonder whether the scene where the characters get scolded for taking too long on their journey is a nod to the fact it's been a 20 year journey across China to India so far ;)

I have absolutely no idea how to explain Saiyuki. No explanation is possible :/
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 25, 2018, 03:10:34 PM
Has anyone had any luck getting volume 7 of Honey So Sweet? My Barnes and Noble is still out of stock and has been for several weeks now. :(


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on January 26, 2018, 07:09:16 AM
Has anyone had any luck getting volume 7 of Honey So Sweet? My Barnes and Noble is still out of stock and has been for several weeks now. :(


Ponyfan
I bought mine online from Barnes and Noble. Amazon tends to be cheaper, so that's an option, too, but sometimes B&N has coupons. Hope you can get it!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 30, 2018, 07:26:30 AM
Almost all the series I am trying to complete, they all got switched over to digital versions when TokyoPop went out of the print manga business.  I refuse to buy digital books, I want to hold them in my hands.  So depressing... they don't really print much manga anymore... 

Random thought:  does anyone else LOOOOOOOOVE the artwork of Narumi Kakinouchi ?  You know, Vampire Princess Miyu? 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: otocolobus_manul on January 30, 2018, 07:42:02 AM
I FINALLY sat down and binge-read Tart Magica recently... now just to wait for Oriko Magica: Sadness Prayer to be fully released in English.

I'm also currently skipping around BNHA, while waiting for season 3 to come out in a few months.
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Post by: Einhornbaby on January 30, 2018, 07:47:20 AM
Started with Angel Sanctuary volume 1. Nice style, I love the artwork but I dont like the story much yet. But wait and see, Im only halfway through yet!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on January 30, 2018, 08:21:40 PM
Almost all the series I am trying to complete, they all got switched over to digital versions when TokyoPop went out of the print manga business.  I refuse to buy digital books, I want to hold them in my hands.  So depressing... they don't really print much manga anymore... 

Random thought:  does anyone else LOOOOOOOOVE the artwork of Narumi Kakinouchi ?  You know, Vampire Princess Miyu?
I'd never heard of Narumi Kakinouchi but I googled her. Her artwork is really pretty! Kind of watercolor-y and flow-y (to use very sophisticated terms!) I like her style.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 31, 2018, 08:13:50 AM
Almost all the series I am trying to complete, they all got switched over to digital versions when TokyoPop went out of the print manga business.  I refuse to buy digital books, I want to hold them in my hands.  So depressing... they don't really print much manga anymore... 

Random thought:  does anyone else LOOOOOOOOVE the artwork of Narumi Kakinouchi ?  You know, Vampire Princess Miyu?
I'd never heard of Narumi Kakinouchi but I googled her. Her artwork is really pretty! Kind of watercolor-y and flow-y (to use very sophisticated terms!) I like her style.

I think the last thing she wrote was Juline.  But I know she has worked heavily in TV production.  My Japanese is in no way skilled enough to try and read anything about her IN Japanese!  There's not much info that I have found out about her...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Flitter on February 01, 2018, 10:03:45 PM
I haven't posted here yet somehow.
I used to collect manga and artbooks but sold my collection recently (actually still trying to off the last 2 pieces, a Lamento Beyond the Void doujin and a BL anthology I can't seem to sell somehow)
I do still read online though when I have time. As far as currently running series, I've been keeping up on
Kuroshituji
Spoiler
which I think is probably on its final arc? I'm really wondering how this is going to pan out. I've been following this for so long.
& Ten Count
Spoiler
So is it over now or will it continue? I'm dying. I mean I could totally be satisfied if that was the ending but there was no final remark from Takari Rihito confirming, that I saw, and now it could just go next level which OMG could my fujoshi heart even handle? One image from her twitter in particular reposted from Dear+ really is killing me right now.



 
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 18, 2018, 04:32:08 PM
It looks like I will have to order Volume 7 of Honey so Sweet as the bookstore that I usually buy my manga from still doesn't have it stock. It's been over a month now and there's no Honey So Sweet volume 7 on the shelf.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: ringwraith10 on February 21, 2018, 04:53:49 PM
I just finished Fushigi Yugi vol 2, but I really didn't like it. I read the first volume and wasn't super impressed, then I read the second volume because I happened to already have it and I really disliked it. There's a transgender character who gets picked on by the other characters and I'm just not down for that. :( It's sad because I've enjoyed other things the author wrote.

I'm now about to pick up Kamisama Kiss. I've also been off and on reading In This Corner of the World, but I don't love the art style and it's not super holding my interest.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 23, 2018, 01:33:31 PM
At last I have my copy of Honey So Sweet volume 7.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: beajjai033 on March 28, 2018, 02:13:46 AM
Oh, I know a manga I will be reading/would be reading if the mangaka recovers and gets back to writing it. Saiyuuki. Saiyuuki Reload Blast, to be accurate. I love Saiyuuki, <3. But its poor creator is ill so often that it's constantly on hiatus.

I love Saiyuki as well! :lovey:
Glad we're the same.
Yes, so sad that the creator is ill. Well, I can be sure that I will always wait for it, even if it feels like forever :lol:

Parasyte is another horror classic I recommend.

I like Parasyte as well. I have always adored Migi :P

Currently I am reading Nanatsu No Taizai and Shingeki No Kyojin.
I love me some adventure/action manga.



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Post by: poniiprincess on March 28, 2018, 06:08:48 AM
I need to get back to reading Magical Gitl Apocalypse, but recently I was looking at the MLP comics. Realized thougg i have some catching up on the FIM show before I do that.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on April 05, 2018, 12:17:57 PM
I got Awkward Silence Vol.6 today and SQUEEEEEEE I love it!!! A happy ending, so sugar-sweet and cute! The only downside is a very short and light end to the second couple, but the mains get a BEAUTIFUL ending and I love love love it!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: ringwraith10 on April 22, 2018, 02:33:04 PM
I've been continuing with Kamisama Kiss, while also reading a bit of Citrus. I'm not a big fan of the story in Citrus but the artwork is breathtaking. I mean, wow. I wish the creator of that manga would do some sort of fantasy story.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Stormness_1 on April 23, 2018, 05:18:55 AM
At last I have my copy of Honey So Sweet volume 7.

Ponyfan

Glad to hear it. I got tired of waiting for my regular source and ebay'ed it. I've since moved onto Kamisama Kiss and Fullmetal Alchemist - I adore the anime's of both, and figure the manga could only get better.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: ringwraith10 on April 23, 2018, 12:56:41 PM
At last I have my copy of Honey So Sweet volume 7.

Ponyfan

Glad to hear it. I got tired of waiting for my regular source and ebay'ed it. I've since moved onto Kamisama Kiss and Fullmetal Alchemist - I adore the anime's of both, and figure the manga could only get better.
I've heard the manga of Fullmetal Alchemist is waaay better than the anime, though I've only read the first two volumes so I can't confirm. I'm planning to get back into the manga, though.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 17, 2018, 05:43:45 PM
I just finished the last 2 volumes of Honey So Sweet. It was a great manga series. :) Does anyone have any suggestions for another series to start?



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 18, 2018, 05:38:32 AM
I just finished Fushigi Yugi vol 2, but I really didn't like it. I read the first volume and wasn't super impressed, then I read the second volume because I happened to already have it and I really disliked it. There's a transgender character who gets picked on by the other characters and I'm just not down for that. :( It's sad because I've enjoyed other things the author wrote.
This comment made me sad because it's not the case at all.

The initial meeting between Nuriko and the others is not the best. I don't think any of them come over too well in the early scenes, because Nuriko is not behaving like Nuriko really is, and she's winding up Tama and Miaka, and ultimately it ends up in a big tactless reveal disaster. BUT the important thing is that the others accept Nuriko for who she is. And actually, part of the story itself is really Nuriko discovering who she is. I use she, but I am never totally sure that's correct, because I don't really feel that Nuriko is transgender - maybe gender fluid is more accurate. It's a bit complicated. But ultimately I think it's Miaka who says something like, whether a man or a woman, Nuriko is Nuriko.

The characters all pick on each other to a degree over the course of the story. But I think you're jumping to conclusions about how they treat Nuriko. I think she's the glue that binds them all together at points in the story. And it's definitely true that Tama, Miaka and Tasuki get picked on by the other characters much more than Nuriko does (and by Nuriko). But most of that is in good humour. Tamahome and Tasuki have an ongoing thing between them of adolescent male one-upmanship, for example, and Nuriko and Tasuki have ongoing banter about Tasuki's lack of delicacy.

Yuugi is mostly about not jumping to conclusions and judging on appearances, because often there's a lot more going on underneath. Most of the characters in Yuugi have more going on than the surface and the novels especially help expose that even more.

In any case, I can think of a lot of reasons why people might not like Yuugi, and if you don't like it then you don't. But I wanted to set the record straight, because Nuriko is so much beloved by them all...

I also hate the English manga because it changes all the names from their original Japanese pronunciation into more correct Chinese pronunciation. The mangaka did ask for that to happen, I believe, but it's still really disconnecting. I saw the Yuugi anime in part before I read the manga, and I couldn't get on with the English manga so I stopped reading it till my Japanese was good enough to read in Japanese. Yuugi was the reason I learned Japanese, because I wanted to read the novels (which are awesome but only translated into German -.-).
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Einhornbaby on June 18, 2018, 05:46:17 AM
Im currently on  book 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh! Its kinda great, sooo different from the TV series at least from what I saw on TV and what Ive been reading so far. The TV series seems to be all about cards while the mangas are more about different games. Well, I didnt watch many episodes, so it might change over time. And I have to say I enjoy "Jonouchi" way more than "Joey" :P
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 18, 2018, 12:26:03 PM
I looked through the manga section of Barnes and Noble today to see if anything really caught my eye but there are so many series it's a little overwhelming for me to try to figure out what a good next series would be for me.

I did look at a few but left with no new manga.  The ones I looked at today or am considering picking up.

My Love Story

Codename Sailor V

Sailor Moon 6

In This Corner of the World


I really enjoyed the anime of Your Name and heard there is a manga series also. 

I read a few pages of In This Corner of the World but it seemed a little confusing? I saw the anime recently and I thought the monster at the very beginning (when she's in the big city)  was only in Suzu's imagation but it seemed like the monster was real in the manga or maybe I didn't read far enough to find out.


Ponyfan


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Post by: SparkleSkye on June 18, 2018, 01:13:22 PM
I'm always in the process of rereading Fullmetal Alchemist, I adore it so much (side note, the manga is way better than the second anime adaptation Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, but the first anime adaptation, commonly called fma 03, split off pretty early in the story as it was made before the manga finished and in my opinion easily stands on its own as an anime if you dont compare it to the 'source material')
I'm also reading Legend of Arslan, and I've been looking around for physical copies of Junji Ito's work as I've only ever read legally-grey digital versions and I want to support the author. Uzumaki in particular is one I'd love to have in hardback on my shelf.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 21, 2018, 03:55:09 PM
Has anyone read Twinkle Star?



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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 22, 2018, 03:00:37 PM
Guess what, today I found a manga at the thrift store.  LONG out of print.... HyperDolls Vol 1 by Shimpei Itoh!

 YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY  It was published by Studio Ironcat in 2000 so I am pleasantly excited to have found it.
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Post by: Haruna on June 24, 2018, 07:43:24 PM
I looked through the manga section of Barnes and Noble today to see if anything really caught my eye but there are so many series it's a little overwhelming for me to try to figure out what a good next series would be for me.

I did look at a few but left with no new manga.  The ones I looked at today or am considering picking up.

My Love Story

Codename Sailor V

Sailor Moon 6

In This Corner of the World
I've been meaning to watch In This Corner of the World; I got the DVD as a gift and it looks really good. I haven't read the manga you mentioned (including Twinkle Star), but I've seen some of their animes. I've seen most of Sailor Moon and I can say that my sister really likes it; I don't personally like Serena/Usagi's personality, so that pretty much ruins the series for me, lol. Her friends -- Rei and Makoto esp. for me -- are likeable, though, and the series is a classic. To be fair, I watched the English dub for the most part, and they changed the storyline in some ways, so the manga might be better than I think.

The anime of My Love Story was cute and funny; interestingly, although the manga is technically about Takeo's love story with Yamato, in some ways it's more of a slice-of-life manga and focuses very much on his platonic male relationship with his best friend Sunakawa. The anime was a little slow, but the manga is probably worth a try. It's written (though not drawn) by one of my favorite mangaka, Kazune Kawahara.

Speaking of which, she writes a series I can recommend: High School Debut. It's a romantic comedy about a tomboy who is so clueless about trying to get a boyfriend that she ends up enlisting the help of a girl-hating bishounen who becomes her dating coach. It's really funny and often sweet, although the plot loses some steam as the series goes on.

Another recommendation is a newer, ongoing manga, Takane & Hana. This one's hard to describe but I love it. Hana goes to an arranged marriage meeting in place of her older sister and meets the prospective husband -- a rich, handsome, apparently stuck-up heir to a company. Of course, since this is a manga, the marriage meeting ends in a terrific disaster, but to Hana's surprise the dude takes an interest in her and starts to date her for real, or try to. Most of the humor in this series comes from her mercilessly teasing him and it's hilarious. XD

Guess what, today I found a manga at the thrift store.  LONG out of print.... HyperDolls Vol 1 by Shimpei Itoh!
Awesome, manga at a thrift store! What's Hyper Dolls about? A quick Google search tells me the main characters are alien androids? (par for the course for manga, ha ha!)
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 07, 2018, 11:18:41 AM
Thanks Haruna. I'll be checking out High School Debut and Taknae & Hana :)


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Post by: CactusBloom on July 14, 2018, 09:13:38 PM
I don't read much manga anymore, but right now I'm rereading the Pokémon Adventures manga! I'm on the second one where Red meets Green.

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Post by: Lady Frostbite on July 23, 2018, 04:29:04 PM
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 06, 2018, 02:32:29 PM
I think I’ll be starting the Your Name manga soon. :)


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Post by: Carrehz on August 07, 2018, 01:05:31 PM
Picked up Fruits Basket Another vol 1 the other day :) I LOVED Fruits Basket, I totally forgot that it was getting a sequel! I'm excited to start reading, just can't decide if I should reread Furuba first or not :P
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Post by: CactusBloom on August 07, 2018, 08:52:15 PM
Picked up Fruits Basket Another vol 1 the other day :) I LOVED Fruits Basket, I totally forgot that it was getting a sequel! I'm excited to start reading, just can't decide if I should reread Furuba first or not :P

I never read the Fruits Basket manga, but the anime is one of my favorites. Do you recommend reading the manga or is the series really long?
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Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2018, 09:29:59 AM
Furuba isn't really a complete story in the anime. I love the anime too, but the manga completes the whole story so :/

I didn't know there was more stuff going on with that series. Interesting to know :D Although I am not sure how it would work, given that...(major plot spoiler)
Spoiler
The curse is broken at the end of the manga, meaning no more animal henshin?

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Post by: Carrehz on August 09, 2018, 10:58:55 AM
Picked up Fruits Basket Another vol 1 the other day :) I LOVED Fruits Basket, I totally forgot that it was getting a sequel! I'm excited to start reading, just can't decide if I should reread Furuba first or not :P

I never read the Fruits Basket manga, but the anime is one of my favorites. Do you recommend reading the manga or is the series really long?

I definitely recommend the manga! I've never gotten round to watching the anime (been meaning to for ages - I did watch a couple of eps but couldn't quite get into it, but I would like to get back to it one day..) but from what I've heard, the anime ended halfway through the manga's story? The manga has a really nice ending. It's kinda long, but not hundreds of volumes long or anything. I'd definitely recommend it ^_^
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Post by: Ivaness on August 09, 2018, 11:46:55 AM
I've been wanting to get the Ancient Magus's Bride manga! I binged the anime and loved it. Right now, I'm reading a webtoon called Lore Olympus.
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 09, 2018, 02:43:48 PM
I picked up Vol 1 of Your Name today. The bookstore I buy manga at didn't have High School Debut. I was going to check out Takane & Hana but the manga section was crowded today.


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Post by: Taffeta on August 09, 2018, 04:44:09 PM
Picked up Fruits Basket Another vol 1 the other day :) I LOVED Fruits Basket, I totally forgot that it was getting a sequel! I'm excited to start reading, just can't decide if I should reread Furuba first or not :P

I never read the Fruits Basket manga, but the anime is one of my favorites. Do you recommend reading the manga or is the series really long?

I definitely recommend the manga! I've never gotten round to watching the anime (been meaning to for ages - I did watch a couple of eps but couldn't quite get into it, but I would like to get back to it one day..) but from what I've heard, the anime ended halfway through the manga's story? The manga has a really nice ending. It's kinda long, but not hundreds of volumes long or anything. I'd definitely recommend it ^_^

Yeah, it does end in the middle. I always think it's a shade misleading actually...
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 10, 2018, 02:19:50 PM
I finished the first volume of Your Name. It ends after Taki’s date with Miss Okudera.


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Post by: Ribbs on August 11, 2018, 05:48:32 AM
Just started the original Pokemon Adventures again, but I'm usually more of a magical-girl type of guy. ;)
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 11, 2018, 06:00:26 AM
Reading a spin off from Attack on Titan calked Spoof on Titan. There's an interesting image in it that I want to show.

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That's some weird shaped carrots  :blush:
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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 11, 2018, 10:12:11 AM
HAHA sometimes they DO grow like that!  I have had some truly hysterical inappropriate produce come from my garden...
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 11, 2018, 10:27:49 AM
HAHA sometimes they DO grow like that!  I have had some truly hysterical inappropriate produce come from my garden...

My mum had a potato that had a nipple on it
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 30, 2018, 06:07:01 PM
I was going to pick up the last 2 volumes of Your Name today at the bookstore and Volume 2 was sold out. :sad:

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Post by: Ponyfan on September 03, 2018, 03:46:37 PM
I picked up Volume 6 and 7 of Sailor Moon today. I really want to start Takane and Hana but want to finish Your Name first. :)


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Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2018, 06:38:04 AM
It looks like my bookstore has restocked most of the manga I was interested in but I will have to wait a while before I can get new books. :)

I've been reading the Kodansha Comics English version of Sailor Moon. I just finished volume 8. I know they are releasing Sailor Moon Eternal edition soon but since I've bought most of my Sailor Moon manga within the past couple of years I don't want to spend money on a new edition just yet. Is anyone planning on picking up the new version?



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Post by: banditpony on September 10, 2018, 08:17:40 AM
It looks like my bookstore has restocked most of the manga I was interested in but I will have to wait a while before I can get new books. :)

I've been reading the Kodansha Comics English version of Sailor Moon. I just finished volume 8. I know they are releasing Sailor Moon Eternal edition soon but since I've bought most of my Sailor Moon manga within the past couple of years I don't want to spend money on a new edition just yet. Is anyone planning on picking up the new version?



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The thought crossed my mind... but I don't think there's any real reason to for me. ack. looking at a comparison, I feel like it's too big for me : https://twitter.com/thesailorbook/status/1039121968522358789
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Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 10, 2018, 08:37:26 AM
There are quite  a few I would get except due o sudden bills, and what now I dont have the money right now.
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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 10, 2018, 09:31:14 AM
It looks like my bookstore has restocked most of the manga I was interested in but I will have to wait a while before I can get new books. :)

I've been reading the Kodansha Comics English version of Sailor Moon. I just finished volume 8. I know they are releasing Sailor Moon Eternal edition soon but since I've bought most of my Sailor Moon manga within the past couple of years I don't want to spend money on a new edition just yet. Is anyone planning on picking up the new version?



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Gaaaaaaaah.  My bookshelves would break under the weight, ahahaha  I will be happy to have ONE complete set - despite having three different editions/printing, I don't have the complete series yet.
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2018, 11:29:25 AM
Thanks for the link to the comparison pic banditpony. :) I like the size of the current edition books. I do wonder if the Sailor Moon Eternal Edition will have more Acts in each volume or if they will just put more pages of full color art in the book.  It looks like the English translation has been revised a little also but again I’m used to the current English version. :)


I’ll probably skip Sailor Moon Eternal unless I can’t get the current versions if the last few volumes.

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Post by: banditpony on September 10, 2018, 11:35:02 AM
Thanks for the link to the comparison pic banditpony. :) I like the size of the current edition books. I do wonder if the Sailor Moon Eternal Edition will have more Acts in each volume or if they will just put more pages of full color art in the book.  It looks like the English translation has been revised a little also but again I’m used to the current English version. :)


I’ll probably skip Sailor Moon Eternal unless I can’t get the current versions if the last few volumes.

Ponyfan

I believe that there will be 10 volumes...
Sorta offsets the retail of $28ish.. but eh.
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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 10, 2018, 12:40:53 PM
i have most of the SM artbooks already...  no need to re-buy the manga just because it would have said content in it...
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Post by: banditpony on September 10, 2018, 12:45:34 PM
i have most of the SM artbooks already...  no need to re-buy the manga just because it would have said content in it...

I kick myself so much for not buying those when they were affordable.. or semi-affordable.. *sigh*
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2018, 06:04:54 PM
Thanks banditpony. :) It sounds like each volume of Sailor Moon Eternal will be a little longer than the current ones. I think there are 12 volumes right now and two short stories collections.

 I didn’t know Sailor Moon had artbooks. :) I love the full color pages in the manga. It’s so pretty. I’m not sure if my bookstore will even carry Sailor Moon Eternal. They have a pretty big manga section but don’t carry a lot of copies of each volume in the different series.

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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 11, 2018, 06:41:01 AM
The artbooks were in Japanese, I don't think they ever made English versions...
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 12, 2018, 06:12:05 PM
Someone posted a lot of pics of the new Sailor Moon Eternal book on Amazon. From those pics I was able to compare it to the regular English edition of the manga. 😀 There are 7 Acts in each volume instead of the usual 6. The translation is slightly different but not much. I don’t see the point of buying Sailor Moon Eternal just for a few different words and different full color artwork.

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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 16, 2018, 04:37:50 PM
Just finished reading Battle Royale and whoooompf that was an emotional wringer...
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 23, 2018, 01:26:19 PM
I just bought the 2nd volume of Your Name(I’ve been wanting it for quite a while) and also bought Codename Sailor V recently.

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Post by: Taffeta on November 23, 2018, 01:50:50 PM
The other weekend I was rereading bits of Haruka. Because the best scenes are not in the anime and that's annoying.
Real nostalgia kick. It must be 10 years since I first read it...
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Post by: CinnamonOnions on November 24, 2018, 03:35:51 PM
Manga is a bit too cheap here, so mountains of second hand purchased manga have started piling up. I SHOULD read all these mangas I have hoarded in the last four years, and I could start maybe with Tactics or Chobits. I think there were some other interesting ones in this book ocean of mine.
But instead I decided I could reread Black Butler! Not like this. Got stuck with it though since I 'm missing the 11th and 15th volumes and I'd like to read only physical copies this time. That, and due to poor lighting it's hard to find comfortable sitting positions in my room.
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Post by: Taffeta on November 24, 2018, 03:39:59 PM
I have the opposite problem in that getting hold of manga that I want here is sometimes tricky. I only read it in Japanese these days anyway, but that's actually a good thing because it means I conserve space and only ever buy the series I'm really intent on. I have some older manga that I got before I learned Japanese. I think I have all of Fruits Basket but across 3 languages (English, French and Japanese) which is destabilising xD.

The only ones I can really get to these days though are Haruka, Fushigi Yuugi and Saiyuuki. I have to go digging for the others...
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Post by: CinnamonOnions on November 24, 2018, 03:59:07 PM
I have the opposite problem in that getting hold of manga that I want here is sometimes tricky. I only read it in Japanese these days anyway, but that's actually a good thing because it means I conserve space and only ever buy the series I'm really intent on. I have some older manga that I got before I learned Japanese. I think I have all of Fruits Basket but across 3 languages (English, French and Japanese) which is destabilising xD.

The only ones I can really get to these days though are Haruka, Fushigi Yuugi and Saiyuuki. I have to go digging for the others...

I have the issue that I buy every even slightly interesting seeming manga I see, haha. Now when it comes to series I'd actualy like to read and get a hold of like Tactics and Dogs: Bullets and Carnage / Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark and those few missing Black Butler volumes?? I can't find them. Then again the two first are veery obscure...
Also if you only read japanese manga you have a lot wider amount of manga to read! I'd love to read manga adaptions of some video games I like, but what are offical or fan translations, sigh.
Also I know some japanese webstores with wide selection if I can help?
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Post by: Taffeta on November 24, 2018, 04:25:18 PM
Thanks xD but it's not really about finding them, it's the mixture of space and expenditure. I tend to only buy series that I have a strong attachment to for that reason. I've bought in bulk second hand online before but the shipping is costly even if the books aren't overall. So you might pay 500 yen for 15 volumes but then get stung on postage xD.

For new stuff there's always places like play asia, cdjapan, amazon etc. When I was in Japan I also saw whole sets of manga being sold cheap in second hand stores like bookoff which also sell online - but I knew I couldn't get them into the case to take home :( I brought second hand DVDs of retired anime back with me but no manga :/

There;s quite a lot of manga in English here but I am not really a fan of translated manga. There have been series for which I've preferred the anime because even though anime often abridges thing, frequently the dialogue is closer to the original in the Japanese version than any translated version, at least in English. Dunno about other languages but in English there's also a trend to westernise terms or name order and you lose the nuances. Having also spent some time on a forum retranslating scenes from a series for a fandom because the only online scanlators played loose and fast with the original, made mistakes and inserted swear words and colloquialisms instead of actually rendering it properly, I lost faith in online translations. This one community I'm talking about, they'd translate in a hurry from a Chinese translation of a Japanese original and stuff got muddled. There's still one key aspect of that manga that fans are hugely divided on because the actual canon says it one way, and fan translation says it another. I'm a detail geek so I like to know what's actually being said or happening...and picking up nuances in the language that don't get translated.

Tactics isn't that obscure, is it?

I have a few games that go with franchises. I also like the live seiyuu events because they have such twisted senses of humour and they're so funny with how they spoof up their characters in hugely unlikely scenarios. I think sometimes that makes me more connected to a franchise than just the manga on its own. I feel like a lot of stuff doesn't get translated outside of Japan, which is a real shame.
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Post by: CinnamonOnions on November 24, 2018, 05:11:31 PM
Thanks xD but it's not really about finding them, it's the mixture of space and expenditure. I tend to only buy series that I have a strong attachment to for that reason. I've bought in bulk second hand online before but the shipping is costly even if the books aren't overall. So you might pay 500 yen for 15 volumes but then get stung on postage xD.

For new stuff there's always places like play asia, cdjapan, amazon etc. When I was in Japan I also saw whole sets of manga being sold cheap in second hand stores like bookoff which also sell online - but I knew I couldn't get them into the case to take home :( I brought second hand DVDs of retired anime back with me but no manga :/

There;s quite a lot of manga in English here but I am not really a fan of translated manga. There have been series for which I've preferred the anime because even though anime often abridges thing, frequently the dialogue is closer to the original in the Japanese version than any translated version, at least in English. Dunno about other languages but in English there's also a trend to westernise terms or name order and you lose the nuances. Having also spent some time on a forum retranslating scenes from a series for a fandom because the only online scanlators played loose and fast with the original, made mistakes and inserted swear words and colloquialisms instead of actually rendering it properly, I lost faith in online translations. This one community I'm talking about, they'd translate in a hurry from a Chinese translation of a Japanese original and stuff got muddled. There's still one key aspect of that manga that fans are hugely divided on because the actual canon says it one way, and fan translation says it another. I'm a detail geek so I like to know what's actually being said or happening...and picking up nuances in the language that don't get translated.

Tactics isn't that obscure, is it?

I have a few games that go with franchises. I also like the live seiyuu events because they have such twisted senses of humour and they're so funny with how they spoof up their characters in hugely unlikely scenarios. I think sometimes that makes me more connected to a franchise than just the manga on its own. I feel like a lot of stuff doesn't get translated outside of Japan, which is a real shame.

Ahh understandable.

Definetly. And yes, my visit to Japan was quite quick but I bought in like new condition for around 1500 yen some three volume manga from the 90s, it's definetly not that valuable there.
That's so sad though!

Ahh I see. I see indeed.
And yes. It's especialy present on childrens series, names get changed to total nonsense.
Oh my. That's why offical translations most of the time are better. Then there are the rare opposites though: one old old anime I like has better fansubs than offical subs. The offical subtitles even mess up character names.
Yeah understandable.

I myself have never heard anyone know it? But who knows.

Oo that sounds awesome!
Understandable. No matter what translated manga will always be only a fraction of what exists.
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Post by: Taffeta on November 25, 2018, 02:50:40 AM
I admit I don't see or hear much talk about Tactics these days though back when the anime series came out it was a bit more talked about I think. I have never looked at the manga, somewhere I have the anime on DVD for some reason though I don't think I actually ever got around to watching it. For me a really obscure manga is one that never got picked up for translation, like Sotsugyou M (which kind of had a whole seiyuu doing live concerts thing, plus novels, etc, but nothing ever got translated into English. The animated special is on youtube but is only about 0.1% close to the actual overall storyline or characters.

I think this is a problem particularly with older anime/manga that predate internet mass uploading or scanning or whatever. Even ones from the dialup internet period (like SotsuM). Now it's much easier for many series to be translated online and there's a wider understanding that there's a global interest which maybe wasn't always there before?

And then there's series like the Haruka one I mentioned before - the manga was released in English, the anime main series was also released in the US on DVD with horrible subtitles that make a mess of the names and the cultural aspects of Heian Japan. But the thing is Haruka is a six game franchise now spanning almost 20 years of production and six different settings. Although there are animated OVA for 2 and 3 (both on youtube except the last part of 3) they've never had the full release outside of Japan. There's no manga except random chapters also not released outside of Japan. Haruka 4 has no animation and only brief chapters of manga, not translated. It will also never have an anime now because the voice artist for the central female character has passed away. Haruka 5 had manga for two or three volumes then got dropped which I still feel is a shame, also didn't get translated. Haruka 6 has manga at the moment - as far as I know, no translation. Both Haruka 1 and Haruka 5 have live stage shows as well and they have regular annual seiyuu events. None of this is available in English or even with subs. And the games of course are only available in Japanese. The most successful Haruka games seem to be 1 and 3 as they keep reformatting, rereleasing and upgrading them - but nothing from 3 has ever been released in English. So to most people outside of Japan, Haruka is a 26 episode anime series and a 17 volume manga series and that is all. I don't even think they released the movie in English or with English subs.

So what is a pretty successful and popular Japanese franchise spanning almost 2 decades...is not really that well known in other places. Whereas other series are picked up and the foreign language market is flooded with them. I tend to have a rule that if I've seen a manga or anime in a shop in the UK, it's mainstream xD If not, it's not...

But I can't remember with Tactics because I never looked for the manga.
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Post by: CinnamonOnions on November 25, 2018, 05:58:08 AM
I admit I don't see or hear much talk about Tactics these days though back when the anime series came out it was a bit more talked about I think. I have never looked at the manga, somewhere I have the anime on DVD for some reason though I don't think I actually ever got around to watching it. For me a really obscure manga is one that never got picked up for translation, like Sotsugyou M (which kind of had a whole seiyuu doing live concerts thing, plus novels, etc, but nothing ever got translated into English. The animated special is on youtube but is only about 0.1% close to the actual overall storyline or characters.

I think this is a problem particularly with older anime/manga that predate internet mass uploading or scanning or whatever. Even ones from the dialup internet period (like SotsuM). Now it's much easier for many series to be translated online and there's a wider understanding that there's a global interest which maybe wasn't always there before?

And then there's series like the Haruka one I mentioned before - the manga was released in English, the anime main series was also released in the US on DVD with horrible subtitles that make a mess of the names and the cultural aspects of Heian Japan. But the thing is Haruka is a six game franchise now spanning almost 20 years of production and six different settings. Although there are animated OVA for 2 and 3 (both on youtube except the last part of 3) they've never had the full release outside of Japan. There's no manga except random chapters also not released outside of Japan. Haruka 4 has no animation and only brief chapters of manga, not translated. It will also never have an anime now because the voice artist for the central female character has passed away. Haruka 5 had manga for two or three volumes then got dropped which I still feel is a shame, also didn't get translated. Haruka 6 has manga at the moment - as far as I know, no translation. Both Haruka 1 and Haruka 5 have live stage shows as well and they have regular annual seiyuu events. None of this is available in English or even with subs. And the games of course are only available in Japanese. The most successful Haruka games seem to be 1 and 3 as they keep reformatting, rereleasing and upgrading them - but nothing from 3 has ever been released in English. So to most people outside of Japan, Haruka is a 26 episode anime series and a 17 volume manga series and that is all. I don't even think they released the movie in English or with English subs.

So what is a pretty successful and popular Japanese franchise spanning almost 2 decades...is not really that well known in other places. Whereas other series are picked up and the foreign language market is flooded with them. I tend to have a rule that if I've seen a manga or anime in a shop in the UK, it's mainstream xD If not, it's not...

But I can't remember with Tactics because I never looked for the manga.

Honestly the Tactics anime is terrible, one of the worst I've seen, I'm just extremely curious is the manga better. I have the two first volumes so I should read them.

Hmm then can we settle with there being three levels of obscure? The forgotten ones, the ones that never were popular, and the ones that never made it over the ocean.
Ah I see! A basic case of a series that is well known in it's own country but nowhere else. One old old anime I like, Shinzo Ningen Casshan, was apparently quite popular in Japan still in the 70s and in general Tatsunokos animes were apparently big back in the day. But in US very few of Tatsunokos series are known even somewhat, as most never got localized. I'm honestly surprised there's even a (terribly) subbed DVD box of the original Casshan. (This is the offical sub that even messes up character names!!!)
Though Shinzo Ningen Casshan was apparently dubbed in south European countries like Italy and maybe Spain so it is atleast poorly known there.

I agree, anime/manga that goes beyond 1985 is nearly impossible to find online and even some newer series have managed to slip trough the cracks into obscurity.

Very interesting to read, very interesting!!! It's always interesting to hear about these more forgotten series release stories.

I wouldn't classify all translated manga mainstream, especialy some older ones. I'm not home as I'm typing this, so I can't try to find some examples from my manga ocean.
For example though, here we get some one shot mangas translated and released, and like two months after release they fade back into the unknown, never to be talked about again.
There also also cases of the opposite: Zetsuai is one of the most known older series of the yaoi genre, even in the west. The manga never was translated to english, but to other languages like spanish and german yes. The anime only has a fansub, yet the series is far from unknown.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 28, 2018, 11:50:07 AM
So this is kind of not anime or manga but it relates to me more to manga so I'm going to put it here.

Bleach is literally the only really mainstream manga I have ever followed for an extended period of time. Although it has a fair amount of fighting and stuff (being a shounen manga), there are a lot of cool cultural aspects shoved into it (like reference to the shinsengumi, etc) and some great characters and character relationships. So I've always been fond of it, going back quite some time.

I remember a while back talk about a live action Bleach movie. I just randomly found it on Netflix so decided to watch it for kicks. It actually wasn't as cringey as I thought it would be, but I have big issues with two things...
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Firstly, they mess horribly with Byakuya's moral compass. And his hair, but yeah, it's a live action anime movie, so I'll let that one go. But the moral compass is a problem for me. Byakuya comes to get Rukia and kill Ichigo. He doesn't give Rukia choices. It's kill Ichigo and then come back and be judged by the law of Seireitei. It definitely isn't "I'll give you to the full moon, kill him and we'll let you off". It makes it sound like he's willing to cover the whole business up to let Rukia get away with rule breaking. It's so much more complicated than that and he sounds completely corrupt and thuggish as a result. He has a higher purpose. He ought to stick to it.

Secondly, Rukia goes back to SS but anyone who knows Bleach knows she's going back to be killed so it's hardly a great ending. I can only think they plan more of these. It's so weird that this happens so long after Bleach finishes (and the last arc of Bleach was a train wreck anyway on every level).


But weirdly, I found myself less repulsed by a weird live action version of a manga series with some clear deviations from the original plot structure than I do by the last arc of the manga.
Spoiler

I followed Bleach for a long time, but the last arc kind of drove me away from it. I only spent so much time dealing with it because I was translating large sections of it for people in the fan community, and therefore couldn't escape from the trainwreck. It's an arc in which most of the established character relationships disappear, things contradict earlier stated facts from previous arcs, a whole flood of unnecessary new characters get poured in and events fail to connect to each other in the way they always did before.

I think I counted two and a half actual years between the defeat of one character and the acknowledgement of it and any further reference to him...two and a half REAL years, not manga years - in which not a single one of the character's allies or friends commented on his absence, his defeat, or anything else. In fact, even if he had been killed, his body itself vanished from the rubble, only for him to randomly appear there again 2 and a half years after as if it had been there the whole time...and alive.

Characters died in unexplicable ways. They also survived in unexplicable ways. I mean, if you're going to kill a character, make it make sense within the plot and everything else. And yeesh, remember who you've killed, where and when. And don't have a character get attacked then completely forget the attack happened and never mention it again so that even now nobody knows who was responsible...

And the ranting could continue, but yeah.
It just makes me wish over again that the manga had ended at the Fullbringer arc. I mean, that was at times ridiculous, but at least there was still some semblance of plot and character involved...but as it is, watching a shady live action movie is as close as I get to watching or reading Bleach these days. All because the taint of the last arc is still hanging over it...

Maybe one day the writer will write a final chapter in which it turns out that the last arc was all just Ishida's dream...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 29, 2018, 01:13:40 PM
I don’t read Bleach and haven’t watched the live action movie on Netflix but I know what you mean about movies messing with a character’s moral compass. My absolute favorite musical is Les Miserables and I was dissapointed in the 1998 movie. I was so excited for the musical movie version when it came out in 2012. It’s kind of a combination of the book and the musical meaning some points followed the book and others the musical. There is one scene (can’t say too much because it’s a major spoiler) where the movie followed the book instead of the musical making one of the major characters look like he didn’t care that other characters’ lives were at risk.

I can’t read Japanese so I read translated manga but I know that there might be translation errors or other issues with the translated versions.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 03, 2018, 06:05:19 AM

I can’t read Japanese so I read translated manga but I know that there might be translation errors or other issues with the translated versions.

All my negative experiences of translated manga admittedly come from scanlations rather than official translations, and particularly in the Bleach fandom, where things were really done messily. I am aware of this perhaps more because I did a lot of retranslating for a forum there more than I have done with any other - Bleach being a mainstream popular manga and on a weekly schedule meant everything was done with a rush and there were lots of people clamouring for it so people didn't take time to correct their errors.

My issue with Bleach in English in terms of the official is not so much the translation but the lack of awareness of cultural paradigms. This in the anime too, but the chief example I use is a character called Ishida Uryuu, who in both manga and anime in Japanese hates being called by his given name (Uryuu) and gets quite snarky at people who call him that because they don't know him well enough to be that familiar. Yet in the English he's "Uryuu" from the start and that just tramples over his character before he's had a chance to state it. Just because in the west it's normal to use first names doesn't make it acceptable to change the whole nature of a character in order to force western norms on the story. He could have stayed Ishida, but they didn't do that. So I guess my issue with officially translated manga is they westernise things too much and thus sweep over cultural nuances. There's less unnecessary swearing or reckless or bad translating, but it's not necessarily accurate to the original and I'm a detail geek.

I also hated that Fushigi Yuugi in English uses the Chinese readings of all the names. I understand why they do, as it's set in Ancient China so that makes sense. But I hate it. Especially since their stellar names are still Japanese, but the character names and place names are suddenly entirely unrelatable to the original :/ The same happened with Saiunkoku for the same reason. Although in that case I think the original author actually wanted that to happen in translation so *shrug*.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 03, 2018, 09:48:14 AM
The official translations sometimes have mistakes also. The Kodansha translation of Sailor Moon before the Eternal edition was released has a pretty famous error where they mistranslated Jupiter's attack "Sparkling Wide Pressure" as "Spark Ring Pressure" and even when they became aware of the error they made no effort to fix it in the version that's been in print since 2012. :lol:

I think keeping that characteristic in Bleach would have added another layer to the character. I've noticed in Honey So Sweet and Your name translated versions they keep the nuances of the honorifics. In one scene in Your Name Mitsuha  in Taki's body is scolded by another member of the wait staff for using san instead of senpai when addressing Miss Okedera. In Honey So Sweet the characters don't refer to each other by their first name unless they are close or have permission to do so. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 03, 2018, 09:58:47 AM
The official translations sometimes have mistakes also. The Kodansha translation of Sailor Moon before the Eternal edition was released has a pretty famous error where they mistranslated Jupiter's attack "Sparkling Wide Pressure" as "Spark Ring Pressure" and even when they became aware of the error they made no effort to fix it in the version that's been in print since 2012. :lol:

I think keeping that characteristic in Bleach would have added another layer to the character. I've noticed in Honey So Sweet and Your name translated versions they keep the nuances of the honorifics. In one scene in Your Name Mitsuha  in Taki's body is scolded by another member of the wait staff for using san instead of senpai when addressing Miss Okedera. In Honey So Sweet the characters don't refer to each other by their first name unless they are close or have permission to do so. :)


Ponyfan

Yeah, I'm pretty sure even in the English version of Fruits Basket (And it's a long time since I read it) Touru's friends are still referred to by their nicknames as in the Japanese, even though their actual first names are Arisa and Saki if I remember rightly. I may be wrong but I think they're still Uo and Hana..?

So it is really a twitch I inherited from Bleach, but yeah. It happens.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on December 03, 2018, 08:24:49 PM
Haven't started reading any of it yet, but I did get several volumes of InuYasha in a trade with Sapphire_Rain recently!  That is a series that will take a long time to collect ... there are so many volumes... but each book gets me a little closer!  :D
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on December 04, 2018, 07:11:22 AM
Yeah, I'm pretty sure even in the English version of Fruits Basket (And it's a long time since I read it) Touru's friends are still referred to by their nicknames as in the Japanese, even though their actual first names are Arisa and Saki if I remember rightly. I may be wrong but I think they're still Uo and Hana..?

Dunno about the more recent translation, but the old Tokyopop translation definitely has them as Uo-chan and Hana-chan. IIRC they were really good about leaving the honorifics in that series.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 04, 2018, 12:59:23 PM
I’m looking at the Friuts Basket manga now since I’m watching the anime.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 04, 2018, 03:29:32 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty sure even in the English version of Fruits Basket (And it's a long time since I read it) Touru's friends are still referred to by their nicknames as in the Japanese, even though their actual first names are Arisa and Saki if I remember rightly. I may be wrong but I think they're still Uo and Hana..?

Dunno about the more recent translation, but the old Tokyopop translation definitely has them as Uo-chan and Hana-chan. IIRC they were really good about leaving the honorifics in that series.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I read Furuba a really long time ago so I actually have a weird mix of volumes (some in English, a few in French, and a few in Japanese, LOL) because when I started reading Furuba I think it was either when I started learning Japanese or right before it. And I picked up the French ones in Belgium because the French translation was ahead of the English back then...which tells you how long ago it was as it was still being translated O.o. And I was pretty sure they were still Hana and Uo, not Saki and Arisa.

I don't buy manga often but I just bought a few volumes of Akatsuki no Yona from amazon.jp. Because I basically watched the whole anime in about 2 days when I really should have been doing something else. And cliffhangers are annoying when there's no season 2. But it has some interesting characters and there's some multidimensional things going on which I want to know the answers to. Which I guess is the basic point of the anime, to be a glorified advert to lure people in to reading the manga.

Sigh.

I have no space for manga but whatever. It;s worse when it's a long series too. This one is 28 and counting so I thought I'd buy a few volumes and see if I like reading it as I'm probably not going to save much on bulk buying it when it's still going and the shipping would kill me with current exchange rates :/

I try to avoid really long series if I can, albeit not always successfully.

Inuyasha's one of those which I watched the anime for years back and Final Act when it came out but I steered clear of the manga because it's so LONG. And I just see long manga series and cry blood at the potential shipping cost. I hope you enjoy reading Inuyasha, LBS.

I have to admit that I would enjoy Inuyasha more if Kikyou didn't exist, but anyhow...for me it was worth watching pretty much for Sesshoumaru >.>
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 02, 2019, 11:01:57 AM
I bought the first 3 volumes of Takane and Hana today and also found volume 1 and 2 of Fruits Basket in stock on Amazon.com :cheer: :cheer:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 02, 2019, 04:19:28 PM
Yay Ponyfan :D

So I am now on volume 25 of Akatsuki no Yona (out of 28 currently in print), after deciding to read it only slowly to see if I liked it and ending up buying the whole manga within a short space of time. Sigh. If not for Christmas, New Year and my thesis, I'd probably have read the whole thing by now. Well, at least I can recommend it...?
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Einhornbaby on January 06, 2019, 01:01:34 PM
I bought a copy of I am Hero in Ibaraki! Will start reading today when I got to bed <3
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Einhornbaby on January 10, 2019, 10:39:43 PM
I bought a copy of I am Hero in Ibaraki! Will start reading today when I got to bed <3

Cant really reccommend this book :/ Drawings were nice but the story lacks a lot! I feel I wasted my money on this.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 11, 2019, 10:44:07 AM
I bought a copy of I am Hero in Ibaraki! Will start reading today when I got to bed <3

Cant really reccommend this book :/ Drawings were nice but the story lacks a lot! I feel I wasted my money on this.


I'm sorry your book was disappointing.  :hug:

 I bought some of Takane & Hana based on recommendations from other people. I hope it's as good as they said.  My first two volumes of Fruits Baskets should arrive today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on February 08, 2019, 01:43:14 PM
I am starting volume 4 of Red River.  I really am enjoying this series, but that's because I adore the art style...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 09, 2019, 10:23:04 AM
I finally started Fruits Basket. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Einhornbaby on February 10, 2019, 01:15:15 PM
I finally started Fruits Basket. :)


Ponyfan

Heard quite a lot people saying its good :) Have fun! (and let us know if its good :P) :D



I am starting volume 4 of Red River.  I really am enjoying this series, but that's because I adore the art style...

The title sounds interesting, what is it about?





Ive got 4 copies of Attack On Titan on the way from medimops.de :D Yeah!! So I guess Ill be reading book 9 of the series by the end of the week!

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on February 10, 2019, 05:05:46 PM
I am starting volume 4 of Red River.  I really am enjoying this series, but that's because I adore the art style...

The title sounds interesting, what is it about?

The typical "middle-school girl magically travels back in time" to ancient Turkey/Anatolia in Bronze Age times... 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Einhornbaby on February 12, 2019, 07:16:37 AM
ah ok, thank you :)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 16, 2019, 07:57:07 PM
I enjoyed the first 2 volumes of Fruits Basket and will be getting more volumes. :)  I still need to read Takane & Hana.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tikibirds on February 18, 2019, 05:50:20 AM
I think I am going to buy some for my kindle, since nothing here is in English.
I'm thinking of Blue Exorcist and the last volume of Kamisama kiss. Maybe Bungo Stray Dogs..
The only thing is I HATE DIGITAL FORMAT.  -_-
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on February 18, 2019, 07:14:31 AM
The only thing is I HATE DIGITAL FORMAT.  -_-

Ugh I understand that!  It has put a serious damper on my collection - now I have to order from Amazon and pay so much shipping because most of the bookstores have a small selection compared to what it once was.  And sooooo many of the series I have are now out of print!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 18, 2019, 12:59:07 PM
I agree. When I read manga I want a real book in my hands, not a digital book on my tablet.

I picked up Volume 3 of Fruits Basket today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 18, 2019, 01:15:47 PM
One reason I buy so little manga - it's so expensive to import from Japan :/

I also like actual books. For my research too, I like hard copy. I am a dinosaur among my students who do their reading on their phones, sometimes -.-

 I am waiting for vol 29 of Yona to get a release date, which completely steamrollered me as a series, sigh. And vol 4 of Saiyuuki Reload Blast which could take literally years. Saiyuuki's been going 20 years already (in the story I think their journey's been like, 2 or 3 years, but we've been waiting a whole lot longer). I don't even know if Blast's been picked up by a translator yet or what though the anime adaption was pretty accurate (with added flashback stuff). But since the manga thus far kind of ended
Spoiler
with the death of Dokugakuji/Jien, the appearance of Nataku, signs Goku might remember him, the Sanbutsushin basically taking Sanzou and co off the job and the prediction that they're all probably going to die horribly like they did 500 years ago, except Goku who is basically immortal...
it feels like the cliffhangers mount up and then take YEARS to be figured out.

Spoiler
I still want to see Hazel and Ukoku again. Especially if Hazel is kicking Ukoku's butt again.

If only Even a Worm had been properly animated. Sob. It's the one bit of the Saiyuuki franchise still effectively missing.

Although manga is usually better than anime, anime is sometimes easier to get hold of :/

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tikibirds on February 19, 2019, 02:05:15 AM
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For my research too, I like hard copy.

Me too. I find it a lot easier to look up something in a book then on a tiny phone screen. I had to buy a new phone in China and it's such a pain to type on because if I hit the wrong button-which I frequently do - it switches everything into Chinese characters and then I spend the next 5 minutes trying to switch it back.  :pout:
 And EVERYTHING is done via cell phone here. Ordering food, paying for groceries, paying for a taxi or DIDI (chinese uber) via Wechat or Alipay. I was surprised at the amount of places in Okinawa that accepted wechat or Alipay.  :|
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 19, 2019, 03:19:11 AM
I guess they get a lot of visitors from China. In mainland Japan it is still mostly cash...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on February 25, 2019, 03:06:44 AM
I'm strictly a print person when it comes to manga; the only digital piece I have is a tiny side-story for Awkward Silence, because the series is so sugar-sweet I just had to have it. Anything else, no. The only other exception I'd make is for FAKE Act 2 by Sanami Matoh, because FAKE is the series I started with ... And buying it off Amazon for Kindle directly benefits her! Once it's translated to English, of course XD

For comics, I'm 50/50. I prefer print, but I do own Comixology and have the digital versions of some of my favourite series as the print used to be VERY hard to get before they started directly selling from their own store (Amigo Comics). I now own both in order to support a dearly-beloved series (Rogues!)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 02, 2019, 09:28:20 AM
I picked up more Fruits Bakers volumes today. One of the books has some cosmetic damage to the cover(looks like it got stuck in the printing machine with black streaks on one cover) bit the inside pages look fine. I do prefer my books to look as nice as possible but the store I buy manga from is really hit or miss when it comes to restocking manga as I am still waiting for them to get another volume of a different series and when they restock they never order the missing volume

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on March 02, 2019, 09:41:12 AM
All the Sanami Matoh series I have in print format got cancelled and are not available fully in North America.  AUGH
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 02, 2019, 09:52:16 AM
All the Sanami Matoh series I have in print format got cancelled and are not available fully in North America.  AUGH

Is that because of digitisation or did a license go bust somewhere? I remember that there was some big issue with releasing anime of Kyou Kara Maou and Saiunkoku in the US because of a collapsed company and licence somewhere, hopefully this isn't the same deal??

Finally have a date for #29 of Yona. :) Not till April though.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on March 02, 2019, 11:54:14 AM
Pretty sure it's because some of the manga companies went out of business:  Broccoli and ADV Manga in this case.  I need the second volume of Until the Full Moon  and the third volume of By the Sword. 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Einhornbaby on March 02, 2019, 12:12:21 PM
Im reading Attack on Titan atm :)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 06, 2019, 01:53:08 PM
Still reading Friuts Basket :)

I find it amusing

Spoiler
how the episodes take place in a different order than what the anime showed




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on March 12, 2019, 06:30:28 PM
Pretty sure it's because some of the manga companies went out of business:  Broccoli and ADV Manga in this case.  I need the second volume of Until the Full Moon  and the third volume of By the Sword.

Under the Full Moon (https://kodanshacomics.com/series/until-the-full-moon/) was reprinted and there's a sequel! @ Full Moon!! (https://kodanshacomics.com/series/at-full-moon/)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 22, 2019, 02:23:34 PM
I picked up volumes 4-6 of Takane and Hana today. I need Fruits Basket 7-12 but 7 is out of stock at my bookstore, Amazon and a major bookstore online. :(
Why does this always happen when I get interested in a manga series? There's always at least one volume I have trouble getting.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 22, 2019, 02:33:35 PM
I picked up volumes 4-6 of Takane and Hana today. I need Fruits Basket 7-12 but 7 is out of stock at my bookstore, Amazon and a major bookstore online. :(
Why does this always happen when I get interested in a manga series? There's always at least one volume I have trouble getting.


Ponyfan

I guess cos the new series is coming, everyone is doing the same thing as you!

It's not quite reading manga, but I have the drama cds for the Even a Worm arc for Saiyuuki manga here on my ipod. I'm reminding myself just how badly they wrecked the arc in the Gunlock anime.

Really hope to see Hazel again in the manga, even it it makes anime creator brains hurt. With Furuba getting a remake, I still hold out hope one day Gunlock will be replaced with a proper Even A Worm animated arc.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 23, 2019, 04:12:18 PM
I bet you're right Taffeta about why I'm having trouble finding volume 7 of Fruits Basket.

I think the new anime starts airing in April in Japan? I wonder when other countries will get it?


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 24, 2019, 02:34:21 AM
I bet you're right Taffeta about why I'm having trouble finding volume 7 of Fruits Basket.

I think the new anime starts airing in April in Japan? I wonder when other countries will get it?


Ponyfan


I imagine not that long after since as far as I can see Funimation already has a placeholder for it...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 25, 2019, 06:38:36 AM
I didn't realize Funimation already had a placeholder for the new Fruits Basket anime,


I think anything can happen with animie. Hopefully another version of Saiyuuki will do justice to the Even the Worm arc.  :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 25, 2019, 06:49:43 AM
I didn't realize Funimation already had a placeholder for the new Fruits Basket anime,


I think anything can happen with animie. Hopefully another version of Saiyuuki will do justice to the Even the Worm arc.  :)


Ponyfan

I think it's doubtful since they already skipped over it to do the next arc. Though this arc refers back to events in EAW, it's still like water under a bridge. But Saiyuuki has been going on and off for 20 years and has had on and off anime in that time, so I live in hope.

And yes, Funimation already has a placeholder :D exciting times.

Meanwhile I need to get around to ordering #29 of Yona.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 25, 2019, 02:14:22 PM
Oh I see. Sailor Moon ,Fruits Basket and Your Name are the only manga that I’m reading and seen the anime /most of the anime for.

I just finished Volune 6 of Fruits Basket

Spoiler
It might just be me but the further I read the more Shigure seems to be playing both sides (looking out for Tobru and also trying to keep in good standing with Akito.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on March 25, 2019, 03:48:44 PM
YAY my volume # 5 of Juline arrived!  almost have all of this series from my FAVORITE mangaka! 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 24, 2019, 09:12:55 AM
I picked up Volumes 7 and * of the Fruits Basket omnibus editions today. :)

YAY my volume # 5 of Juline arrived!  almost have all of this series from my FAVORITE mangaka! 



Congrats :cheer:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 08, 2019, 12:33:26 PM
I picked up Volumes 9 and 10 of Fruits basket today. After I got home I noticed that Vol 9 is missing the mini jacket with the summary. At first I thought maybe the book I bought was flawed but then I noticed a reviewer on Amazon said that their Volume 9 was also missing the mini jacket. I even checked the book covers to see if someone had torn away the mini jacket but it looks like this edition just wasn't made with mini jacket. It seems a little strange for 1 volume out of the series to not have it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 08, 2019, 02:50:06 PM
I picked up Volumes 7 and * of the Fruits Basket omnibus editions today. :)

YAY my volume # 5 of Juline arrived!  almost have all of this series from my FAVORITE mangaka! 



Congrats :cheer:


Ponyfan

Is * an actual volume or did you just hit the shift key when hitting the 8? :)

I still need to go buy Yona #29. I just don't want to pay shipping from Japan for just one book...*sobs*.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 08, 2019, 07:21:48 PM
I picked up Volumes 7 and * of the Fruits Basket omnibus editions today. :)

YAY my volume # 5 of Juline arrived!  almost have all of this series from my FAVORITE mangaka! 



Congrats :cheer:


Ponyfan

Is * an actual volume or did you just hit the shift key when hitting the 8? :)

I still need to go buy Yona #29. I just don't want to pay shipping from Japan for just one book...*sobs*.


I hit the shift key when I typed the 8  :lol:


Is shipping from Japan expensive? 



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: MerryAnvil on May 08, 2019, 07:35:09 PM
Currently re-reading Uraboku (aka Uragiri wa Boku no Namae o Shitteiru...there's a reason everyone just calls it 'Uraboku' ahaha) from the beginning <3 I can't actually count how many times I've read it by now, to be honest. This series is so good and seriously underrated. Also re-reading No. 6 from the beginning, as well. I need to re-read the novel again too.

Aside from that, I'm keeping up with the translations of the Mo Dao Zu Shi manhua!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 09, 2019, 10:07:14 PM
Currently re-reading Uraboku (aka Uragiri wa Boku no Namae o Shitteiru...there's a reason everyone just calls it 'Uraboku' ahaha) from the beginning <3 I can't actually count how many times I've read it by now, to be honest. This series is so good and seriously underrated. Also re-reading No. 6 from the beginning, as well. I need to re-read the novel again too.

Aside from that, I'm keeping up with the translations of the Mo Dao Zu Shi manhua!

I still need to buy the last couple of volumes of Uraboku actually. I could do that :) The problem I have with Uraboku is that Hotsuma is my favourite character so the moment main attention slips onto the third set of zweilt I kind of lose interest and get distracted xD. Though I do like Tsukumo.

@Ponyfan - it is, so when you're paying say $5 for a book and then $20 for the shipping, it makes more sense to try and get your money's worth. The problem then though is the custom threshold as they do charge custom fees for that too. But they don't stock Yona in the Japanese book shop in London. I've checked :( They used to stock Haruka, which was lucky, but not Yona.

Still waiting to see if Haruka 6 makes it to anime. Albeit I still need to read all of Haruka 6's manga, I just have kind of lost the first four volumes at home somewhere so volumes 5 and 6 are folornly sitting with my Yona ones waiting...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 22, 2019, 05:43:26 PM
I'm hoping to pick up the last 2 volumes of Fruits Basket or the next 2 volumes of Takane & Hana soon. Has anyone read Shortcake Cake?



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 25, 2019, 05:20:24 AM
I got the next 2 volumes of Takane & Hana as the last 2 volumes of Fruits Basket were sold out.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 29, 2019, 09:50:43 AM
I just finished volume 8 of the omnibus Fruits Basket


Spoiler

Now I know the whole story about the hat.  :) Although I'm a little confused why Kyoko would reveal so much to Kyo about her past life when Kyo was still a young boy unless there's some kind of connection between Kyo and Kyoko that hasn't been revealed yet




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Haruna on May 30, 2019, 07:03:31 PM
I just finished volume 8 of the omnibus Fruits Basket
Spoiler
Now I know the whole story about the hat.  :) Although I'm a little confused why Kyoko would reveal so much to Kyo about her past life when Kyo was still a young boy unless there's some kind of connection between Kyo and Kyoko that hasn't been revealed yet


Ponyfan

Spoiler
I'd forgotten about that. Yeah, it is kind of strange, lol.

Right now I'm reading/beginning too many manga at one time -- Komomo Confiserie, Yona of the Dawn, and (beginning) The Ancient Magus' Bride. Got some of these for $1 at my library's store :biggrin:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 31, 2019, 03:51:13 AM
Yona!!! <3

I finally ordered Vol 29 of that from Amazon.jp. But I am still so desperate for them to animate beyond vol 8 because Zeno barely has a chance to appear and there's SO MUCH going on with that character it's a waste not to see any of it in motion. Sure, he has an OVA, but even so...

I still can't decide which character in Yona is my favourite, either. After 27 (still haven't read 28) volumes I keep switching depending on scenes. They're really well crafted characters albeit I am really worried something horribly tragic is going to end this series, given the way it began...

Spoiler
I have this really bad feeling the Dragons will die. There's not a great precedent for longevity in the Green, White and Blue dragon cases, while the Yellow Dragon is a completely different problem and somehow worse. I don't suppose Zeno can die, since he hasn't done so far - but I guess all bets are off in the long run. 

But I really like how the manga has crafted the current incarnations of each Dragon, with their strengths and weaknesses and personality twitches.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 03, 2019, 11:35:39 AM
I will probably be getting Yona soon :) It sounds really interesting.

I just finished Volume 9 of the omnibus edition of Fruits Basket. ( I think I've read through volume 18 of manga)

@Taffeta

Spoiler

Is the thing that you didn't want to spoil for me regarding Akito the fact that Akito is actually a female instead of male?




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 03, 2019, 12:15:37 PM
I will probably be getting Yona soon :) It sounds really interesting.

I just finished Volume 9 of the omnibus edition of Fruits Basket. ( I think I've read through volume 18 of manga)

@Taffeta

Spoiler

Is the thing that you didn't want to spoil for me regarding Akito the fact that Akito is actually a female instead of male?




Ponyfan

Yes. Yes it was. :D

I will be interested to hear your views on Yona if you decide to delve into it :D

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 03, 2019, 07:18:50 PM
I found a volume of Slayers Unleashed at the thrift store.  #4 I think
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 04, 2019, 03:50:43 PM
Congrats lovesbabysquirmy. :)


@Taffeta

Spoiler
Knowing Akito is female puts a different perspective on why she acts the way she does to the other characters although I still think she is extremely cruel at times. 


I picked up the first 3 volumes of Yona today.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 04, 2019, 04:20:34 PM
Woo!  Another volume of Vampire Princess Miyu has arrived from Amazon!  :) 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 04, 2019, 09:23:07 PM
Congrats lovesbabysquirmy. :)


@Taffeta

Spoiler
Knowing Akito is female puts a different perspective on why she acts the way she does to the other characters although I still think she is extremely cruel at times. 


I picked up the first 3 volumes of Yona today.



Ponyfan


Spoiler
I never liked Akito and never really thought her behaviour was justified. I mean, Yuki's basically traumatised by the way she treats him, and as for what happened to Hatori's eye...*shakes head*. The way that aspect of the plot ends up has always left me somewhat uncomfortable...some actions are not or should not be so easily forgiven, despite the core of the curse...

@Ponyfan, tempted to rewatch Yona after this discussion :) Although I am waiting for vol 29 to arrive first and finally I'll catch up with the story. Given the extremes this story often goes to, I do tend to worry a bit with each volume what might happen to them next XD. IMO the writer does a great way of developing characters in ways you don't expect.

Edit to add: Vol 29 arrived :D Now I just have to find 28 so I can catch up...and try to remember what happened last...

Have a feeling it was something to do with Jaeha...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 05, 2019, 04:36:25 PM
Congrats lovesbabysqurimy. :)

@ Taffeta

Spoiler
I completely argree with you about Akito. I was shocked when I watched the anime and saw what Akito did to Hatori. And then seeing her blame Kana for it over and over until even Kana herself believed she was responsible. It seems Akito treats the other characters like toys that she can do what she wants with.




I'm leaning towards begining the Yona manga and watching the anime at the same time since the manga has so many volumes.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 08, 2019, 07:16:55 PM
The last 2 volumes of my omnibus Fruits Basket arrived. :) It's really nice having the complete series. I still need to read 10-12.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 09, 2019, 07:56:52 PM
One of these days, I will re-read Furuba to the point where I can participate in the discussion.... lol
I am on like, volume 6, 7 of Red River at the moment.... but I have so little time to enjoy manga.
Uh in non-related manga, I did find my kid both of the hardcover Sailor Moon English storybooks they made back in the 90's DIC release at Value Village, paid like $1.49 a book.... wow
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 10, 2019, 04:02:08 AM
I usually buy a few volumes of a series and then put them on the shelf until I have time to enjoy them. After I finish Fruits Basket I want to start Takane and Hana. :) I think I will start  Yona after I finish the anime.

Those Sailor Moon storybooks sound really neat. :)



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 10, 2019, 10:10:16 AM
I saw manga in a charity shop here for the first time ever today (bear in mind the UK caught on to manga a bit slower than the US in general and where my parents live is about as backwards in catching on to anything as you can imagine for a place that actually has roads...)

I hadn't heard of any of the series (and I don't read English manga anyway) but it was kind of nice because they'd banded volumes together in sets so that you didn't get someone coming in and buying all the first volumes xD.


Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 10, 2019, 12:34:38 PM
I think it’s great that the charity shop bundled the volumes today. I get annoyed when I’m wanting to start a new series and all of the volumes are there except volume 1.

I found a new/used bookstore here that sells manga but the last time I went there I wasn’t impressed with the quality of the used books. I don’t expect used books to be absolutely perfect but I don’t want stained/damaged books either.

I seem to have run out of shelf space for my manga so I will have to find a place to put new books until I get more shelf space. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 12, 2019, 10:07:15 AM
I finished Fruits basket. :)  Overall I really enjoyed it and I will be reading it again sometime in the future. I still have the extra stories to read but found myself a little confused about the events in the last 2 books

Spoiler
During Tohru's confrontation with Akito  after Akito stabbed Tohru did the cliff just fall away from Tohru's feet? Or was there a lightning strike?  Also is what breaks the curse loving someone completely including their faults and being loved in return even if it's not romantically? 


I also bought the next 3 volumes of Yona of the Dawn. I hold Taffeta responsible for introducing me to Yona.   :P :D

I also got a really nice Fruits Basket poster advertising the new anime when I bought the Yona manga books. :)



Ponyfan

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 12, 2019, 10:16:18 AM
I finished Fruits basket. :)  Overall I really enjoyed it and I will be reading it again sometime in the future. I still have the extra stories to read but found myself a little confused about the events in the last 2 books

Spoiler
During Tohru's confrontation with Akito  after Akito stabbed Tohru did the cliff just fall away from Tohru's feet? Or was there a lightning strike?  Also is what breaks the curse loving someone completely including their faults and being loved in return even if it's not romantically? 


I also bought the next 3 volumes of Yona of the Dawn. I hold Taffeta responsible for introducing me to Yona.   :P :D

I also got a really nice Fruits Basket poster advertising the new anime when I bought the Yona manga books. :)



Ponyfan



But Yona is good O.O

It's been too long since I read the end of Furuba and I think I read it in French so I am not totally sure how to answer that question...someone else maybe can xD.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 12, 2019, 10:21:06 AM
I finished Fruits basket. :)  Overall I really enjoyed it and I will be reading it again sometime in the future. I still have the extra stories to read but found myself a little confused about the events in the last 2 books

Spoiler
During Tohru's confrontation with Akito  after Akito stabbed Tohru did the cliff just fall away from Tohru's feet? Or was there a lightning strike?  Also is what breaks the curse loving someone completely including their faults and being loved in return even if it's not romantically? 


I also bought the next 3 volumes of Yona of the Dawn. I hold Taffeta responsible for introducing me to Yona.   :P :D

I also got a really nice Fruits Basket poster advertising the new anime when I bought the Yona manga books. :)



Ponyfan



But Yona is good O.O

It's been too long since I read the end of Furuba and I think I read it in French so I am not totally sure how to answer that question...someone else maybe can xD.


Yona is good. :) I don’t think I would have discovered it if you hadn’t posted that clip in the other thread. :D


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 12, 2019, 10:43:39 AM
I finished Fruits basket. :)  Overall I really enjoyed it and I will be reading it again sometime in the future. I still have the extra stories to read but found myself a little confused about the events in the last 2 books

Spoiler
During Tohru's confrontation with Akito  after Akito stabbed Tohru did the cliff just fall away from Tohru's feet? Or was there a lightning strike?  Also is what breaks the curse loving someone completely including their faults and being loved in return even if it's not romantically? 


I also bought the next 3 volumes of Yona of the Dawn. I hold Taffeta responsible for introducing me to Yona.   :P :D

I also got a really nice Fruits Basket poster advertising the new anime when I bought the Yona manga books. :)



Ponyfan



But Yona is good O.O

It's been too long since I read the end of Furuba and I think I read it in French so I am not totally sure how to answer that question...someone else maybe can xD.


Yona is good. :) I don’t think I would have discovered it if you hadn’t posted that clip in the other thread. :D


Ponyfan

My only response to that has to be this then :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2mlfNs829w
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 15, 2019, 12:53:57 PM
I finished Fruits basket. :)  Overall I really enjoyed it and I will be reading it again sometime in the future. I still have the extra stories to read but found myself a little confused about the events in the last 2 books

Spoiler
During Tohru's confrontation with Akito  after Akito stabbed Tohru did the cliff just fall away from Tohru's feet? Or was there a lightning strike?  Also is what breaks the curse loving someone completely including their faults and being loved in return even if it's not romantically? 


I also bought the next 3 volumes of Yona of the Dawn. I hold Taffeta responsible for introducing me to Yona.   :P :D

I also got a really nice Fruits Basket poster advertising the new anime when I bought the Yona manga books. :)



Ponyfan



But Yona is good O.O

It's been too long since I read the end of Furuba and I think I read it in French so I am not totally sure how to answer that question...someone else maybe can xD.


Yona is good. :) I don’t think I would have discovered it if you hadn’t posted that clip in the other thread. :D


Ponyfan

My only response to that has to be this then :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2mlfNs829w


:D  :lol: :biggrin:


I'm thinking about starting Takane & Hana soon. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 30, 2019, 05:59:29 PM
Finally buckled and am reading DnA AII because I'm fed up with waiting for the anime eps to come out each week.

Unfortunately now I've read a bunch of stuff that is going to be hilarious animated with the seiyuu voicing the lines, and I am going to have to wait for those anyway.

Oh well.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 05, 2019, 09:54:19 AM
Barnes and Noble is having a Buy 2 get the 3rd book  free on all Viz titles.  I picked up 3 more volumes of Yona of the Dawn. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 17, 2019, 02:39:24 PM
Is anyone reading Komi Can't Communicate? I'm still reading Yona but am also looking for a new series to start and Komi looks interesting.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 17, 2019, 02:52:41 PM
Not familiar with that one o.O.

I have finally caught up with Yona completely to where it is thus far

Spoiler
Ponyfan seriously don't read this if you don't want to be spoiled!

Spoiler



Increasingly confused now by Keishuk's motivation compared with how he's come across so far. Having Zeno and Jaeha shot down from the sky was not a nice thing to do either, but his reaction to Hak was interesting and I am wondering now how much it's a case that his and Suwon's ideas align rather than a joint conspiracy. The assassination of Il is getting even more blurry under all these political layers as well...

Also that creepy priest Gobi came back o.O.

Zeno trying to persuade Sinha to pretend to fight him was hilarious, as was Sinha's insistance that he dun wanna xD


This remains one of the most cleverly written manga series I've read, considering it's going into 30 or so volumes, and could easily have jumped into cliche territory, it hasn't really. It doesn't let up on the plot, the humour, or the character development stuff at any point and it has a great balance between them.

 I have so much respect for this mangaka, seriously. I really really hope they do eventually get to making season 2 of anime :/ as we need more animated Zeno.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: banditpony on July 17, 2019, 06:53:01 PM
I haven't had time to read anything..

but I'm super excited. My dad is building me a shelf that tucks in the corner part of my closet. It should fit all of my manga.

If I haven't said in the past, I'm so happy that Urusei Yatsura is coming out again. <3 And now I have all of KOR. I've waited practically all my life for this, I feel...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 18, 2019, 03:43:17 PM
LUM is returning?  AUUUUUUGH *runs around like crazy*

I have more Vampire Princess Miyu on the way.  Also was able to buy like 7 volumes of Oh My Goddess at the thrift store the other day....
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: banditpony on July 19, 2019, 05:29:13 AM
LUM is returning?  AUUUUUUGH *runs around like crazy*

yes, yes, yes. I'm glad someone else is excited about it too! :D

I'm crossing my fingers that the whole thing will get released this round. They are up to vol 2 (2 old books in 1 vol).
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 19, 2019, 05:33:44 AM
I haven't had time to read anything..

but I'm super excited. My dad is building me a shelf that tucks in the corner part of my closet. It should fit all of my manga.

If I haven't said in the past, I'm so happy that Urusei Yatsura is coming out again. <3 And now I have all of KOR. I've waited practically all my life for this, I feel...

I may be wrong but isn't Urusai Yatsura pretty old? Is it a kind of anniversary reissue or a continuation or...?

It's Takahashi Rumiko, right?
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 19, 2019, 06:07:45 AM
I haven't had time to read anything..

but I'm super excited. My dad is building me a shelf that tucks in the corner part of my closet. It should fit all of my manga.

If I haven't said in the past, I'm so happy that Urusei Yatsura is coming out again. <3 And now I have all of KOR. I've waited practically all my life for this, I feel...

I may be wrong but isn't Urusai Yatsura pretty old? Is it a kind of anniversary reissue or a continuation or...?

It's Takahashi Rumiko, right?

INDEED!  I love her stuff , it introduced me to japanese culture and anime as a whole, not just thinking of it as cartoons for kids.
I have a ton of fan subbed UY VHS tapes somewhere.... I think it's in my deep chest freezer where we store VHS (dark and not plugged in)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: banditpony on July 19, 2019, 06:16:45 AM
I haven't had time to read anything..

but I'm super excited. My dad is building me a shelf that tucks in the corner part of my closet. It should fit all of my manga.

If I haven't said in the past, I'm so happy that Urusei Yatsura is coming out again. <3 And now I have all of KOR. I've waited practically all my life for this, I feel...

I may be wrong but isn't Urusai Yatsura pretty old? Is it a kind of anniversary reissue or a continuation or...?

It's Takahashi Rumiko, right?


Yes.
Urusei Yastura was around in the 70s~90s. Lum in particular is very iconic. And in Japan she gets merch all the time.

However what I was referring to was just the manga series. The Japanese original release was 38? books (and did have other incarnations), and the US only got 9. They were released back in the 90s-- before Sailor Moon hit shelves and the US got a wave of manga and VIZ changed their gears to more popular things. (Ranma squeeked by tho because it was newer... )
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 19, 2019, 06:23:37 AM
Ahh I see. So basically you didn't get all the manga you should have because licencing and reasons?

That makes sense.

I'm familiar with Takahashi but more for Inuyasha than anything. I did see the drama series of One Pound Gospel which was bizarrely cute but I don't know how true it is to the manga. I don't think I've ever read any of her work in the actual manga except bits of Inuyasha years ago in English - but I agree that her characters are quite iconic.

Someone at the Japanese event the other week cosplayed as one of the characters from Ranma 1/2.

I hope that the new manga release means you get the whole lot this time.

This is more anime than manga but I remember when one of the anime companies went bust, Season 2 of Saiunkoku Monogatari and 3 of Kyou Kara Maou kind of disappeared into the abyss. I think Saiunkoku eventually got released, I'm not sure about KKM. I saw it in Japanese, I don't know if it had a proper release in the US but I don't think it had one in the UK.

I think the novels from both are still not in English either. I have most of the Saiunkoku ones and the sequel ones but sitting down to read them when I've had to read pages of academic Japanese isn't really on my to do list so I admit if they were in English I might buckle :/ I think I've read to about #9 and there's about 22 or something that go on way beyond the anime and I'm just flicking through them looking at the pictures going...yeah, will read these one day...
Shameful admission is shameful...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: banditpony on July 19, 2019, 06:31:39 AM
Ahh I see. So basically you didn't get all the manga you should have because licencing and reasons?

They never lost their license.. it was just because VIZ went to focus on more popular things. Like Naruto.

It made sense businesswise.

ETA:
Has anyone read Card Captor: Clear Card?

I'm wondering if I should make space for it on my shelves.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 19, 2019, 12:21:54 PM
A manga I really enjoyed that I don't see mentioned much is Honey So Sweet  It's only 8 volumes long. I think it's a romance manga.

I've looked at Card Captor but haven't bought any of the volumes yet.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 29, 2019, 02:48:47 PM
I'm still reading Yona of the Dawn. Yona is so well written that I keep wanting to find out what happens next.  :)

I think I will pick up Komi Can’t Communicate too.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2019, 01:03:51 AM
I'm still reading Yona of the Dawn. Yona is so well written that I keep wanting to find out what happens next.  :)


Ponyfan

It so is. Though
Spoiler
figuring out what exactly Keishuk is up to is doing my head in right now.

Also keeping up with DnA (except right now the manga is boring because it's all focused on other characters that I don't care much about) and debating whether to read Boku no Hero Academia.

My Koruda manga is at home else I might reread some of that...I still need to find the Haruka 6 volumes somewhere in my room at home and finally read them.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 30, 2019, 06:04:22 AM
I'm still reading Yona of the Dawn. Yona is so well written that I keep wanting to find out what happens next.  :)


Ponyfan

It so is. Though
Spoiler
figuring out what exactly Keishuk is up to is doing my head in right now.





Spoiler

I know what you mean. I feel the same way when Suwon or one of his supporters does something I didn't see coming. :dizzy: It also happens when I'm trying to figure out Zeno  :)




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2019, 06:08:31 AM
I'm still reading Yona of the Dawn. Yona is so well written that I keep wanting to find out what happens next.  :)


Ponyfan

It so is. Though
Spoiler
figuring out what exactly Keishuk is up to is doing my head in right now.





Spoiler

I know what you mean. I feel the same way when Suwon or one of his supporters does something I didn't see coming. :dizzy: It also happens when I'm trying to figure out Zeno  :)




Ponyfan

You will know all you need to know about the li'l goldie in a couple of volumes though ;)

Edit to add -  minor rant, but seven straight weeks of DnA chapters focused on Yakushi/Sankou is annoying. And obviously more to come. The mangaka likes Yakushi way too much...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 06, 2019, 11:09:10 AM
Viz released several new titles today including a new volume of Takane & Hana and Yona of the Dawn 19.

@Taffeta

Spoiler
I took a look at Yona 19 and I think I'm going to have lots of questions.  ;)




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 06, 2019, 11:12:51 AM
Viz released several new titles today including a new volume of Takane & Hana and Yona of the Dawn 19.

@Taffeta

Spoiler
I took a look at Yona 19 and I think I'm going to have lots of questions.  ;)




Ponyfan

O.o xD.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Thimble on August 09, 2019, 10:03:28 AM
Ahh I see. So basically you didn't get all the manga you should have because licencing and reasons?


ETA:
Has anyone read Card Captor: Clear Card?

I'm wondering if I should make space for it on my shelves.

I'm eagerly awaiting the next book. It's a direct continuation, and the style is just as cute, just as fluffy and beautiful. (Also, obvious 'mysteries' remain obvious, but it's intended for kids, so eh.) I'd say yeah, if you loved the original, go for it.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 11, 2019, 06:35:41 PM
Ah, yes, me again. Just like anime I've gotten into Manga lately. I do like to have the actual book, however there seem to be a lot that probably never get translated into engish, as I've looked at a few sites online and see that there are tons I've never seen in stores. So I've been doing some reading with my ipad due to I'll probably never get a chance since they'll probably never been turned into book format or at least not english other than folks doing it online, etc.

The actual book series I'm into right now are as followed. Some I'm caught up, some I'm only starting, etc. but these are series I've bought more than one vol. in so far.
1. Black Butler
2. Takane & Hana
3. The Water Dragons Bride
4. Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts
5. kamisama kiss
6. The Demon Prince of Momochi House
7. Yona of the Dawn

Post Merge: August 11, 2019, 06:45:30 PM



I'm thinking about starting Takane & Hana soon. 

Ponyfan


YEs...YEsssss...do it and let me know what you think.

I know it's kinda sketchy because of the age difference between the two main characters but it's actually well written and Takane isn't some evil older guy that's just creepy for a younger girl...it's actually pretty adorable that I laugh out loud when reading some of the stuff that happens. Even going so far as to cry over the two characters and at one point I totally wanted to murder Takane's grandfather (LOL). Plus I don't know if 10 years is a completely horrible age difference considering I have an uncle married to someone 12 years younger than him :p and hell a former best friend who married someone with an even bigger age gap.

With Takane and Hana I'd almost consider them the same age in some instances as Takane seems so weirdly innocent and sheltered that the teenager is much cleverer than him in dealing with certain situations.

But I really love this series, I'm caught up right now as I ordered the last copy off amazon and blew threw it as soon as I got it. So now I'm like...dangit come on Vol#11.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 12, 2019, 12:27:49 PM
Thanks Karentheunicorn .  :) I haven't started Takane & Hana yet but will post my thoughts when I start. I bought volume 10 as soon as it came out too. My bookstore hasn't restocked volume 9 yet. so I am still missing that one.

I love Yona of the Dawn. :) It's one of  my favorite series.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 12, 2019, 12:49:47 PM
Thanks Karentheunicorn .  :) I haven't started Takane & Hana yet but will post my thoughts when I start. I bought volume 10 as soon as it came out too. My bookstore hasn't restocked volume 9 yet. so I am still missing that one.

I love Yona of the Dawn. :) It's one of  my favorite series.


Ponyfan

I'm actually going to reread the whole series of Takane and Hanna again, just cause. I'm all caught up on most of the others I read. Black Butler I've caught up online but I still like to have the books once they come out in english.

I watched the Yona anime online so I'm kinda behind on reading the manga, simply because what I've read so far is sorta a recap of what I've watched. I think I have up to vol. 5 right now but have only read the first 3 at the moment.


Oh, on another question where does everyone read manga online? I've been to a couple of sites but I don't know which are the best and some out there seem free or at least some seem to have a lot of manga that I've never seen in the store so as I said before I'm wondering if it's just some that are probably never going to get printed in english so people are translate them online and posting them? Since I'm kinda new to the whole manga thing I'm confused on what is really up with some of these comics/manga. Some sites I see have a few chapters and, I was reading one that said they had to stop since the manga got licensed? So I'm really confused over the whole manga online stuff and what is legit. Some of the translations seem kinda funny on some I read and make me LOL.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 12, 2019, 12:57:42 PM
Thanks Karentheunicorn .  :) I haven't started Takane & Hana yet but will post my thoughts when I start. I bought volume 10 as soon as it came out too. My bookstore hasn't restocked volume 9 yet. so I am still missing that one.

I love Yona of the Dawn. :) It's one of  my favorite series.


Ponyfan

I'm actually going to reread the whole series of Takane and Hanna again, just cause. I'm all caught up on most of the others I read. Black Butler I've caught up online but I still like to have the books once they come out in english.

I watched the Yona anime online so I'm kinda behind on reading the manga, simply because what I've read so far is sorta a recap of what I've watched. I think I have up to vol. 5 right now but have only read the first 3 at the moment.


I also watched the Yona anime first before I started reading the manga. The anime covers volumes 1-8 of the manga.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2019, 01:07:53 PM

I love Yona of the Dawn. :) It's one of  my favorite series.


Ponyfan

I am so happy I corrupted broke influenced you!

@ Uni - Yona is awesome, and there's some slight reshuffling I think in the early manga to the series but it's pretty close. But as Ponyfan says the anime covers 1-8. I actually only have volumes from 8 onwards for this reason at the moment.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 12, 2019, 01:59:08 PM

I love Yona of the Dawn. :) It's one of  my favorite series.


Ponyfan

I am so happy I corrupted broke influenced you!

@ Uni - Yona is awesome, and there's some slight reshuffling I think in the early manga to the series but it's pretty close. But as Ponyfan says the anime covers 1-8. I actually only have volumes from 8 onwards for this reason at the moment.

Great! That helps me know where the new stuff begins but I still wanna get them all and reread it but other books distracted me.

I really have enjoyed Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts - as it suggests it's got the beauty and beast vibe.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2019, 02:02:42 PM
When I have some money to I intend on getting the first 7 to complete the set because I know there are some omake chapters but for now it's not a priority as the anime exists xD.

I should probably read Hero Academia since a new series is coming out and the students/school is entertaining. I wish I was more enthusiastic about the bad guys, though. I am not interested in any of them, even the revelations about Shigaraki in the end of what has been animated didn't interest me and the main bad guy villain also doesn't interest me.

..Big problem. I kind of wish whenever they appear that they hurry up and go away so we can get back to meaningful plot...and since that is the plot, it's thus far discouraged me.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 12, 2019, 02:42:49 PM

I love Yona of the Dawn. :) It's one of  my favorite series.


Ponyfan

I am so happy I corrupted broke influenced you!


@Taffeta

Seeing one clip from the anime was all it took to get me hooked on Yona.  :)



I find it difficult to read manga out of sequence so read volumes 1-8  after I watched the anime. I'm actually caught up on the English translation (19 volumes)


Ponyfan



Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2019, 02:45:25 PM

I love Yona of the Dawn. :) It's one of  my favorite series.


Ponyfan

I am so happy I corrupted broke influenced you!


@Taffeta

Seeing one clip from the anime was all it took to get me hooked on Yona.  :)



Dragons are weaker than bugs ;) who knew xD.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 12, 2019, 03:34:10 PM
When I have some money to I intend on getting the first 7 to complete the set because I know there are some omake chapters but for now it's not a priority as the anime exists xD.

I should probably read Hero Academia since a new series is coming out and the students/school is entertaining. I wish I was more enthusiastic about the bad guys, though. I am not interested in any of them, even the revelations about Shigaraki in the end of what has been animated didn't interest me and the main bad guy villain also doesn't interest me.

..Big problem. I kind of wish whenever they appear that they hurry up and go away so we can get back to meaningful plot...and since that is the plot, it's thus far discouraged me.

I'm kinda over the whole high school dynamic in anime/manga. Don't get me wrong, I'll still read something if it's good but I think because I'm in my 40's now I feel like I just wanna see something different. And I think I have to have the combo of fantasy/romance/drama/action for me to like it. If it's just some fighting action...nada...if it's just standard girly superhero with tiny bit of romance...naa. Like I used to like Salor Moon, now I'm kinda meh, over it. I'm still into silly fantasy/love triangle manga drama so shoot me...but hay at some point you figure out you don't care and just wanna see angsty drawings argue, fight, misunderstand each other and then kiss and make out at some point.

AND whats up with these time travel manga where the girl goes back in time...no usually she dies tragically and goes back in time to end up in some tragic girls body of a family who hates her. But then ends up having 3-5 princes from the royal palace fall in love with her...LOL...how come I keep falling prey to this cheesery.

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Seeing one clip from the anime was all it took to get me hooked on Yona.  :)

Yesssss, I cried...I will admit multiple times watching the anime. But heck, I just cried watching the latest fruits basket episode with the little tiger girl...I'm a big softy.


Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 12, 2019, 07:33:21 PM

I love Yona of the Dawn. :) It's one of  my favorite series.


Ponyfan

I am so happy I corrupted broke influenced you!


@Taffeta

Seeing one clip from the anime was all it took to get me hooked on Yona.  :)



Dragons are weaker than bugs ;) who knew xD.




I don't think I'll ever forget that was my first experience with Yona. I just watched that clip again. It's still great. :D







Post Merge: August 12, 2019, 03:38:28 PM



Seeing one clip from the anime was all it took to get me hooked on Yona.  :)

Yesssss, I cried...I will admit multiple times watching the anime. But heck, I just cried watching the latest fruits basket episode with the little tiger girl...I'm a big softy.



The anime is brilliant and the manga is well written. Both of them really hook you and leave you wanting more. 


I love Fruits Basket too. :)


Ponyfan


Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 13, 2019, 06:57:26 AM
@Uni - with school things it depends on the plot and the characters. I hated school so sometimes it's cathartic to watch others having a nightmare there too xD no, I'm kidding. But some stories I don't really care. Others are just insipid/beyond me and I probably am too old to enjoy them. I dunno.

As I go forward, I have collected a small group of favourites and when I think about it, some of them begin with a school connection but most of them don't stay there.

And Saiyuuki, which is one of my absolute favourites, is full of drinking and smoking, neither of which I do, so that's interesting. Also driving a car that's a dragon. Which I also don't do. Dragons are good though :D

Yona is awesome. The more it goes on the more I'm impressed with her writing, and her art, and the humour that runs through what is often a really brutal story. Right now though it's doing my head in a little bit because
Spoiler
Keishuk I have always thought of as the bad guy, and now he's the bad guy but not the bad guy? And I don't really know how to take this whole shift that's going on..?

Spoiler
I'm putting this in double triple spoiler tags to try and deflect Ponyfan's spoiler curiosity, but...
Spoiler
In the most recent battle, Keishuk's forces and those of Yona join up together to fight the invading enemy and win. Prior to this Keishuk was a jerk and had Jaeha and Zeno shot out of the sky, and obviously Jaeha got hurt, so that annoyed me. But now Keishuk is all like wanting to be buddy buddy with them and I don't realy get his motives. In any case, he's dragged them back to the palace...and the last chapter was full of really awkward scenes with the dragons and Suwon, Yona, Hak and Yun...and Keishuk...

I have no idea where she is going with this. I don't often have a series where I have no idea where the narrative is going, but this is one of them. This writer likes to throw plot curveballs, and can make you love a character you begin hating. It's exciting and scary because I don't trust Keishuk, and I don't trust Suwon, but obviously the dragons are only going to support Yona...so...

This is not going to end well. I can't see Hak forgiving Suwon. I can't see Yona forgetting her father was murdered. I feel like something is coming and I don't know what...

But I am not convinced that Keishuk is as bad as I thought he was now. He explained he was taken in and supported by Yuhon, which explains his loyalty to Suwon and to Yuhon's line...and turns the whole "killing Il" thing back on Suwon.

Ah, my brain is spinning ><

Uni, if you cried at the anime so far, you're gonna probably cry more with the manga. I'm sure Ponyfan will agree with me with certain sections xD.

Furuba's new animation is absolutely lovely. I'm so glad they decided to do it so many years on as it handles every character with so much more sensitivity and care than the original anime. And somehow the moralising ghost of Kyouko doesn't seem quite so obnoxiously there in this version. She seems more human.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Einhornbaby on August 13, 2019, 07:06:21 AM
took a break from it but now im back on Attack on Titan (currently no 14).
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 13, 2019, 09:50:02 AM

Ah, my brain is spinning ><


I don't know if I need spoiler warning but I'll do it anyway. But just so you know, I am not afraid of spoilers...yea I'm one of those nuts who doesn't whine about them.

Spoiler
are you talking a bad guy that suddenly has some kinda legitimate reason for looking like a jerkpants? ooooo...my favorite kinda badguy. Did his mom not hug him enough? (jokes)

Although at the moment I can't quite remember which guy Keishuk is? Is he the dark haired dude who follows around the Murder/BFF/LOVE/Emperor, SooWoo or Soyou (I know I'm butchering the names).

Sorry I'm so bad with the Japanese names. Hak and Yona is easy but seriously sometime I just end up screwing up the name in my head.
I don't even know in Takane and Hana, if I'm reading/saying Takane correctly. I think it in my head like Ta (Like TA-daaaa) and Kane (like a walking cane). But I watched a video online and a girl said it totally different so I'm just saying it like a good southern American would (haha)

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Uni, if you cried at the anime so far, you're gonna probably cry more with the manga. I'm sure Ponyfan will agree with me with certain sections xD.

Like I said, I'm a big softy, fruits basic IS the worst. Stop making me curl into the fetal position and crying like a small child, evil evil anime.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 13, 2019, 10:12:52 AM

Ah, my brain is spinning ><


I don't know if I need spoiler warning but I'll do it anyway. But just so you know, I am not afraid of spoilers...yea I'm one of those nuts who doesn't whine about them.

Spoiler
are you talking a bad guy that suddenly has some kinda legitimate reason for looking like a jerkpants? ooooo...my favorite kinda badguy. Did his mom not hug him enough? (jokes)

Haha xD I dunno, it's not that explicit. But yeah, that's the guy :)

Takane would be Ta as in tap, ka as in cap, ne as in neck. Ta-ka-ne. Japanese is a very staccato language and every syllable is sounded and has basically the same length unless indicated with a macron or double vowel.

The names in Yona are mostly derived from Korean so you get Japanified Korean stuff going on. I write them as the manga does, kind of, but there are other more official spellings for some of them I think. Like some people write Yun as Yun, some as Yoon, and Sinha as Sin-ah, and so on.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 13, 2019, 10:52:00 AM
@Uni - with school things it depends on the plot and the characters. I hated school so sometimes it's cathartic to watch others having a nightmare there too xD no, I'm kidding. But some stories I don't really care. Others are just insipid/beyond me and I probably am too old to enjoy them. I dunno.

As I go forward, I have collected a small group of favourites and when I think about it, some of them begin with a school connection but most of them don't stay there.

And Saiyuuki, which is one of my absolute favourites, is full of drinking and smoking, neither of which I do, so that's interesting. Also driving a car that's a dragon. Which I also don't do. Dragons are good though :D

Yona is awesome. The more it goes on the more I'm impressed with her writing, and her art, and the humour that runs through what is often a really brutal story. Right now though it's doing my head in a little bit because
Spoiler
Keishuk I have always thought of as the bad guy, and now he's the bad guy but not the bad guy? And I don't really know how to take this whole shift that's going on..?

Spoiler
I'm putting this in double triple spoiler tags to try and deflect Ponyfan's spoiler curiosity, but...
Spoiler
In the most recent battle, Keishuk's forces and those of Yona join up together to fight the invading enemy and win. Prior to this Keishuk was a jerk and had Jaeha and Zeno shot out of the sky, and obviously Jaeha got hurt, so that annoyed me. But now Keishuk is all like wanting to be buddy buddy with them and I don't realy get his motives. In any case, he's dragged them back to the palace...and the last chapter was full of really awkward scenes with the dragons and Suwon, Yona, Hak and Yun...and Keishuk...

I have no idea where she is going with this. I don't often have a series where I have no idea where the narrative is going, but this is one of them. This writer likes to throw plot curveballs, and can make you love a character you begin hating. It's exciting and scary because I don't trust Keishuk, and I don't trust Suwon, but obviously the dragons are only going to support Yona...so...

This is not going to end well. I can't see Hak forgiving Suwon. I can't see Yona forgetting her father was murdered. I feel like something is coming and I don't know what...

But I am not convinced that Keishuk is as bad as I thought he was now. He explained he was taken in and supported by Yuhon, which explains his loyalty to Suwon and to Yuhon's line...and turns the whole "killing Il" thing back on Suwon.

Ah, my brain is spinning ><

Uni, if you cried at the anime so far, you're gonna probably cry more with the manga. I'm sure Ponyfan will agree with me with certain sections xD.

Furuba's new animation is absolutely lovely. I'm so glad they decided to do it so many years on as it handles every character with so much more sensitivity and care than the original anime. And somehow the moralising ghost of Kyouko doesn't seem quite so obnoxiously there in this version. She seems more human.



I completely agree with Taffeta. :) There are many details and scenes that aren't in the anime in the manga and certain sections will leave a lasting impression. Yona makes my brain spin too. :dizzy:




Ah, my brain is spinning ><


I don't know if I need spoiler warning but I'll do it anyway. But just so you know, I am not afraid of spoilers...yea I'm one of those nuts who doesn't whine about them.

Spoiler
are you talking a bad guy that suddenly has some kinda legitimate reason for looking like a jerkpants? ooooo...my favorite kinda badguy. Did his mom not hug him enough? (jokes)

Haha xD I dunno, it's not that explicit. But yeah, that's the guy :)

Takane would be Ta as in tap, ka as in cap, ne as in neck. Ta-ka-ne. Japanese is a very staccato language and every syllable is sounded and has basically the same length unless indicated with a macron or double vowel.

The names in Yona are mostly derived from Korean so you get Japanified Korean stuff going on. I write them as the manga does, kind of, but there are other more official spellings for some of them I think. Like some people write Yun as Yun, some as Yoon, and Sinha as Sin-ah, and so on.


 

This is exactly why I had trouble spelling some of the character names at first because different sources have them spelled differently. The English translation  hyphenates most of the 2 syllable names. So Suwon is written as Su-won and Iksu  as Ik-su but Sinha and Jaeha aren't hyphenated. 


I love Fruits Basket.  :lovey: I've still only been able to see the 1st episode of the new series since I don't have a Funimation or Crunchy Roll subscription but I really want to see it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 13, 2019, 01:49:30 PM
now I have to retrain my brain to say Takane the correct way...Ta Ka Neee....Ta Ka Neeee. Wait, is it Neeee or Neh?

The only way I could fix this is to try to set the correct way to a song...

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 13, 2019, 01:51:45 PM
now I have to retrain my brain to say Takane the correct way...Ta Ka Neee....Ta Ka Neeee. Wait, is it Neeee or Neh?

The only way I could fix this is to try to set the correct way to a song...



The second. Ne as if you were going to say neck, but not the end ck sound. Sing it around your workplace a bit. See if it brings in new custom. You may have a new jingle! :)

It's a quite nice rhythmic language. There are a lot of words that are satisfying to say because of that :)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 15, 2019, 11:53:15 AM
I've been thinking about my favorite manga series and there are some that feature high school age characters but being in school is not the main focus of the plot like Fruits Basket.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 15, 2019, 03:26:49 PM
I've been thinking about my favorite manga series and there are some that feature high school age characters but being in school is not the main focus of the plot like Fruits Basket.


Ponyfan



Ha, like Battle Royale? :)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 20, 2019, 06:23:08 PM
I've been thinking about my favorite manga series and there are some that feature high school age characters but being in school is not the main focus of the plot like Fruits Basket.


Ponyfan



Ha, like Battle Royale? :)

I had to look up Battle Royale as I haven’t heard of that series before. I think that would also fit in high school age characters but not focused on school. :)

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 23, 2019, 01:31:27 PM
I keep returning to Yona of the Dawn to re-read certain sections and it seems I always find something that I missed the first time. :)

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 23, 2019, 02:05:38 PM
I keep returning to Yona of the Dawn to re-read certain sections and it seems I always find something that I missed the first time. :)

Ponyfan

<3

I just ordered Yona vol 30 and DnA:ActII vol 18.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 23, 2019, 08:54:13 PM
I keep returning to Yona of the Dawn to re-read certain sections and it seems I always find something that I missed the first time. :)

Ponyfan

<3

I just ordered Yona vol 30 and DnA:ActII vol 18.

Congrats. :)


A very generous person helped me complete my set of the main Sailor Moon mangas.


Ponyfan

 

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on August 25, 2019, 11:20:20 PM
Ordered 9 manga as a gift to myself (because I deserve it!  :mad: )

Crimson Spell Vol.6
Finder Deluxe Edition Vol.7 (I noticed it was missing on my shelf somehow??)
World's Greatest First Love Vol.12
Go For It, Nakamura! Vol.1
Ten Count Vol.6 (this series ... it seemed to take a  VERY sharp turn from very understandable and great take with OCD to ... uh, skipping juuuuuust a few steps)
Hitorijime My Hero Vol.1
Candy Color Paradox Vol.1
The High School Life of a Fudanshi Vol. 4
Classmates Vol. 1: Dou kyu sei

I still need to get rid of some Don't Be Cruel volumes, series REALLY didn't resonate with me at all
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 27, 2019, 11:13:53 AM
Woo! So excited! I found the final volume of the original Battle Angel Alita.  OOP and the movie is coming out soon!
Yay Value Village!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 30, 2019, 06:56:33 AM
Congrats LadyFrostbite and lovesbabysqurimy. :)


I looked through the manga section of the bookstore yesterday but nothing really interested me except Komi Can't Communicate. :( I'm still enjoying Yona of the Dawn but I'm caught up until the next volume is released.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 17, 2019, 08:03:42 AM
I finally got the volume of Takane and Hana that I was missing. :) I was out of town for the day and found it at Barnes and Noble.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 17, 2019, 11:00:10 AM
I had to look through the manga in the local bookstore today (my cousin's daughter is all into Japanese stuff at the moment and parents wanted my advice on something she might like, she's eleven, so not the easiest question to answer xD) and I was amazed how much of a range there is now compared to when I first got into anime and stuff 12 years ago. I remember it being pretty hard to buy manga in a book store in the UK then.

It's a different world now O.o.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on September 17, 2019, 11:57:29 AM
12 years ago? Tokyopop was in Borders and Waterstones, it wasn't too hard until they folded. And if you have a comic shop or access to Amazon, you were sorted. Got so many titles off Amazon, I looked up my ancient 2005 orders and was hit by wave and wave of nostalgia
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 17, 2019, 04:53:02 PM
Taffeta: totally there is more selection and more genres for newer fans!  We had like 20 options. 25 if you count space mecha titles ;p

Tokyopop only died about 12 years ago: if your bookstores used them, you had a ton of options. Then VIZ is a big publisher though. A bunch did go out of business at the same time.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on September 18, 2019, 07:28:34 AM
I wonder if the manga selection varied from area to area? I had difficulty finding manga 12 years ago, too - all I could find was one small section in Waterstone's and it was mostly just stuff like Naruto and Bleach, not much girly stuff or anything like that. But that was in a small town, so maybe bigger towns/cities/whatever had more of a selection??
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 18, 2019, 03:50:44 PM
It was a huge selection in all our bookstores and comic stores. I would say it dwindled after 2012 because of the publishers going out of business. Most of my collection was bought from 2008-2012

In actual personal updates:  found and bought nearly complete sets of Path of the Assassin as well as Lone Wolf and Cub. $35 for them both. They are missing 2 volumes apiece
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on September 18, 2019, 03:59:11 PM
The Tokyopop thing still bums me out a lot because they were publishing a translation of Koge-Donbo*'s Pavane For a Dead Girl and didn't make it past the first volume before they died. No one else has tried translating it since, no fan translations, nothing. :huh:

I really want to know what happens in Pavane For a Dead Girl beyond volume one, but oh well.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 18, 2019, 06:16:42 PM
I have Pavane vol 1 and haven't read it. I am still finishing my manga collection by the artist. There were like 12 series that Tokyopops demise cut off for me.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on September 19, 2019, 07:44:35 AM
I've ordered the entirety of the Pita-Ten manga on eBay, so I'll start reading those when they arrive. They're beat up, but according to the seller are still perfectly readable. I've seen its anime before but I guess they made a few large changes when adapting it, so it'll be fun to read it as Koge-Donbo* originally intended the story to be. :)

I have Pavane vol 1 and haven't read it. I am still finishing my manga collection by the artist. There were like 12 series that Tokyopops demise cut off for me.

It's such a shame because Koge-Donbo* is my favorite artist, too. I'm trying to work on getting my hands on all of her works, both her major published stuff as well as her self-published doujinshi works. I mean of course I'll still be buying the remaining Pavane for a Dead Girl volumes in Japanese at some point (I think it'd be fun to own all of the books of hers that did get put out in English in both English and original Japanese... just for collection's sake), but I won't be able to read them. I can't imagine holding my phone with the Google Translate app up to the books would get me very far....
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 19, 2019, 04:08:46 PM
I absolutely love that Koge-Donbo* makes her own doujinshi!  Many are fan-made but it's awesome when the original mangaka is like, "Um... here's some stuff from my imagination that my publisher would NEVER approve or print."  ;)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 19, 2019, 04:19:06 PM
I also read the English translations of manga since I can’t read Japanese.  Right now my favorite manga series that’s still ongoing is Yona of the Dawn. It’s been hard to wait patiently for the next volume to be released in English since the last volume ended on a cliffhanger.  The English translation is several years behind the Japanese so it’s hard sometimes not to run in to spoilers.

I have all the volumes of Takane and Hana but have yet to read them.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on September 19, 2019, 04:54:51 PM
I absolutely love that Koge-Donbo* makes her own doujinshi!  Many are fan-made but it's awesome when the original mangaka is like, "Um... here's some stuff from my imagination that my publisher would NEVER approve or print."  ;)

She began doing doujinshi some years before she began doing professional work, but still never stopped putting it out once she became a professional!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 21, 2019, 02:32:00 PM
Absolutely no word of a lie, I started learning Japanese because I wanted to read the Fushigi Yuugi gaiden novels and the only translation was German (-.-). I jokingly said that it'd be quicker than waiting for an English translation.

Fast forward 12 years. I've read the gaiden. Guess what? Still no translations ;)

I am seriously going to start rereading Furuba's manga. Since season 1 has ended now and season 2 looks like being next year, maybe spring...I will have to crack open the volumes again. The anime  cannot leave me with a teaser like that and expect me to ignore it, dammit ><.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on September 21, 2019, 02:57:53 PM
Absolutely no word of a lie, I started learning Japanese because I wanted to read the Fushigi Yuugi gaiden novels and the only translation was German (-.-). I jokingly said that it'd be quicker than waiting for an English translation.

Fast forward 12 years. I've read the gaiden. Guess what? Still no translations ;)

I am seriously going to start rereading Furuba's manga. Since season 1 has ended now and season 2 looks like being next year, maybe spring...I will have to crack open the volumes again. The anime  cannot leave me with a teaser like that and expect me to ignore it, dammit ><.

Maybe at this point I should just learn more Japanese in order to read Pavane. I've already learned a bit back in high school so I have some prior knowledge... :P
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 24, 2019, 05:42:57 AM
One more week until the next volume of Yona of the Dawn is released in English. :D



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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on September 25, 2019, 06:05:24 PM
My Pita-Ten manga arrived today! So I've begun reading it!

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Post by: Ponyfan on September 30, 2019, 11:05:39 AM
My Pita-Ten manga arrived today! So I've begun reading it!

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I love the artwork.

Tomorrow is a major release date for Viz Media. They are releasing several new volumes  including Takane and Hana 11 and Yona of the Dawn 20.

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Post by: Taffeta on September 30, 2019, 11:24:47 AM
My Pita-Ten manga arrived today! So I've begun reading it!

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I love the artwork.

Tomorrow is a major release date for Viz Media. They are releasing several new volumes  including Takane and Hana 11 and Yona of the Dawn 20.

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Ah I still owe you a PM don't I? I was away this week without my PC and then the Arena went down so it slipped my mind. Do you want me to wait till you read 20 and can spam me with new thoughts first?? XD
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 30, 2019, 12:25:50 PM
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Tomorrow is a major release date for Viz Media. They are releasing several new volumes  including Takane and Hana 11 and Yona of the Dawn 20.

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Ah I still owe you a PM don't I? I was away this week without my PC and then the Arena went down so it slipped my mind. Do you want me to wait till you read 20 and can spam me with new thoughts first?? XD


No worries Taffeta. I'll send you a PM after I finish 20. :D



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Post by: Ponyfan on October 03, 2019, 11:25:41 AM
My bookstore didn’t have the new manga books I wanted out on the shelves on Tuesday but did today.  :D They had 3 copies of Yona 20 but 2 of them were already damaged.

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Post by: Ponyfan on November 16, 2019, 06:41:44 AM
Has anyone read A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow? It looks interesting.



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Post by: Ponyfan on December 02, 2019, 03:16:06 PM
Several new titles will be released tomorrow including Yona 21 and Takane and Hana volume 12.

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Post by: Taffeta on December 02, 2019, 04:23:10 PM
Several new titles will be released tomorrow including Yona 21 and Takane and Hana volume 12.

Ponyfan

*fanfare*
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Post by: Ponyfan on December 05, 2019, 03:06:06 PM
Hopefully I will be able to get a copy of Yona 21 soon. :D



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Post by: Ponyfan on December 12, 2019, 02:56:07 PM
Barnes and Noble is having a Buy 2 get the 3rd book free sale on all manga. :D

I picked up  volumes 1, 3 and 4 ( 2 was out of stock) of Komi can’t communicate.



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Post by: Ponyfan on December 26, 2019, 03:38:53 PM
I finally read the Dream Arc in the Sailor Moon manga.



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Post by: Ponyfan on January 08, 2020, 08:40:54 AM
Anyone have anything interesting to share? My bookstore is still out of Komi Can’t  Communicate vol 2. An Incurable Case of Live looks promising.

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Post by: Thimble on January 20, 2020, 03:21:05 AM
Did I reply to this already? I feel like I did. If so, my bad. lol.

 My current favorite comic of any flavor is Solo Leveling. It's a gorgeous full-color korean webcomic and it is *outstanding*. Has by far some of the best action art I've ever seen, and I have read a lot of comics. It starts a tad slow, but only a tad. By the end of chapter 3, things are pretty crazy and it only gets better from there. 

You can read it online at manganelo or mangakalot. You will want a strong adblocker though. I wouldn't go there without one, I have no idea what kind of ads they run, but they are probly NSFW. I can't say for sure, though, since I don't see internet ads.
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 06, 2020, 11:51:28 AM
I bought Yona 22 today along with Takane and Hana 13 :D  My bookstore is still out of Komi Can’t Communicate vol 2.

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Post by: Taffeta on February 11, 2020, 09:22:10 AM
I bought Yona 22 today along with Takane and Hana 13 :D  My bookstore is still out of Komi Can’t Communicate vol 2.

Ponyfan

I owe you a PM. I haven't forgotten. I promise :)
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Post by: Lady Frostbite on February 11, 2020, 04:27:44 PM
I have a huge back catalogue it's not even funny ...

This is a random thought, but does anyone remember Descendants of Darkness ( Yami no Matsuei))? I gave away my books to charity a couple of years back, it was one of the first lots of not-strictly yaoi manga I bought. I remember that it was hugely popular back in my time, I liked the art, I really appreciated the dark and horrible nature of the evil doctor character ... but the attitude of the manga-ka REALLY, REALLY put me off. I especially remember them berating fans for sending in letters written in pencil rather than ink, and I think there was also an admonishment for sending gifts? These were in the LINER NOTES of the main manga pages, I was just so put off by how bitter, angry and just overall irritated with fans they sounded. Like, seriously what is your problem?!

I recently looked it up again, looks like it's never getting continued. The gif of Tzusuki with ears and a tail was a lot of people's go-to avatar on message boards for a long time, and the 'gateway to yaoi' thing is ... kinda justified as a comment XD It had an anime, but I found the summoned attacks in the manga sort-of confusing, but that doesn't help when you are not clued-up on your Japanese mythology.

[Still think Tatsumi and Tzusuki would have been a good pairing, despite myself]
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Post by: Taffeta on February 11, 2020, 05:46:18 PM
I have a huge back catalogue it's not even funny ...

This is a random thought, but does anyone remember Descendants of Darkness ( Yami no Matsuei))? I gave away my books to charity a couple of years back, it was one of the first lots of not-strictly yaoi manga I bought. I remember that it was hugely popular back in my time, I liked the art, I really appreciated the dark and horrible nature of the evil doctor character ... but the attitude of the manga-ka REALLY, REALLY put me off. I especially remember them berating fans for sending in letters written in pencil rather than ink, and I think there was also an admonishment for sending gifts? These were in the LINER NOTES of the main manga pages, I was just so put off by how bitter, angry and just overall irritated with fans they sounded. Like, seriously what is your problem?!

I recently looked it up again, looks like it's never getting continued. The gif of Tzusuki with ears and a tail was a lot of people's go-to avatar on message boards for a long time, and the 'gateway to yaoi' thing is ... kinda justified as a comment XD It had an anime, but I found the summoned attacks in the manga sort-of confusing, but that doesn't help when you are not clued-up on your Japanese mythology.

[Still think Tatsumi and Tzusuki would have been a good pairing, despite myself]

I have Yami no Matsuei's manga in Japanese but I never got past the first volume for some reason. I think I still have it, anyway. I did purge some stuff years ago but I believe it's in storage in a box somewhere. I did watch the anime, it was one of the first anime I watched when I got into it as an adult in 2007. I'm weirdly fond of it and the 'solving mystery dark creepy' despite the fact Muraki creeps me out and people fangirling over him creep me out even more than that.  (The boat episode was clever though).

No kidding about the gif of Tsuzuki. Also the fact his name means continuation is basically not lost on me. Not least since in the theme song for the anime (a song I genuinely still have on playlists despite not touching this series for literally years) also includes that word...I feel not accidentally either...

I never knew anything about the mangaka. I followed the seiyuu and went from the anime to the manga but couldn't get into it :/

Speaking of old series, I recently found I still have several volumes of DNAngel's manga propping up my bookcase (yes, literally). I thought I got rid of that years ago O.o
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 12, 2020, 07:27:56 AM
I bought Yona 22 today along with Takane and Hana 13 :D  My bookstore is still out of Komi Can’t Communicate vol 2.

Ponyfan

I owe you a PM. I haven't forgotten. I promise :)


No worries Taffeta. :D


I rearranged my manga the other day so all of my Yona volumes fit on one shelf instead of being split between two shelves. 

I might start Takane and Hana soon. I have all of the books in the series so far but haven't read them yet.


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Post by: tikibirds on February 13, 2020, 09:22:14 AM
I want to finish up Kamisama Kiss. Maybe I will check and see if Amazon has a digital version.
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Post by: Lady Frostbite on February 14, 2020, 04:38:03 AM
Just ordered Seven Days, Given (since I know there's an anime, but I honestly prefer manga), and Yarichin ***** Club (there's a bad word I can't say here). The latter I wasn't going to, but Amazon have pulled it so I want to see what's inside.

To my eternal disgust and sorrow, Caste Heaven has been licensed by SuBLime. I saw a copy in Germany (since Tokyopop is alive and well over there), looked it up to read it and ... yeah. It's DARK dark, which could be okay, I liked the basic system idea, but then when the second couple came, I was getting whiplash from one guy's mood swings. Going from nice to possessive and controlling and back again against the shy guy. And THEN ... Uh, a scene happens, and my brain snapped and I mentally threw it out the window. Nope. Not touching that again. I contacted SuBLime and there's no plans to change the scene, so Gods help those who aren't prepared for it.

EDIT: I googled to maybe read parts again to see if I misread it, and came across the reviews. People are split between disgust and outrage and wondering how it is possibly scored so high, and others are raving about it and defending the messed-up characters. Now, I can forgive questionable choices in stories depending on overall tone (I read Viewfinder, for example), but others I just cannot get over (Lies are a Gentleman's Manners, Jazz). This is absolutely in the latter. Yeesh. I might have the courage to give it another go, but I am most certainly not buying.

EDIT II: I re-read the scene. Yep. Just as horrific as I remember. Heck to the NO.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 18, 2020, 03:20:41 PM
I looked through the manga today at the bookstore but nothing really caught my eye enough for me to buy. Komi Can't Communicate vol 5 has been published but I didn't buy that one because my bookstore still doesn't have volume 2.


Would anyone like to see a pic of my Yona books?


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 20, 2020, 11:59:32 AM
I've learned not to trust the website's in stock status for the bookstore I usually buy my manga from as it is often misleading.  Many times it will tell me that a book I want is in stock but when I get to the store that book is nowhere to be found. The website doesn't update in real time so there's always a possibility that someone else bought the book before I got to the store.

However, it has been several months since I've found the book I'm looking for in store and I think I will just order it from Amazon.

I took a long look at the manga section today to see if I could find a new series that looked interesting to me. A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, An Incurable Case of Love and After the Rain all look promising.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 07, 2020, 10:06:29 AM
I finally have Komi Can't Communicate volume 2 :cheer: Maybe I will start that series while I'm waiting for Yona 23 to be published.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 16, 2020, 03:25:43 PM
I found out that Ace of Diamond and Fughi Yushi manga are still available digitally even though the books are aren't in print any more.  I prefer hard copies of manga instead of digital ones though.


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Post by: Taffeta on March 16, 2020, 05:09:10 PM
I found out that Ace of Diamond and Fughi Yushi manga are still available digitally even though the books are aren't in print any more.  I prefer hard copies of manga instead of digital ones though.


Ponyfan

Daiya is only translated up to something like 24, which is not a good place to stop, and frankly ridiculous since there are well over 60 volumes now in Japan. The animation covers almost everything in the manga mind you.

Yuugi...have you tried amazon's second hand sellers? Albeit now might be a more difficult time to do that...
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Post by: StarDapple on March 18, 2020, 05:02:13 PM
I am currently caught up on Beastars.  I am working on getting caught up on The Promised Neverland.  And Berserk is back on hiatus, so I am patiently waiting for that to update again.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 03, 2020, 12:55:47 PM
I started reading Takane and Hana.  I bought the books a few at time so when I got ready to read them I would have most ,if not all of the volumes that have been published.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on April 03, 2020, 01:36:27 PM
I’m re reading Ouran High Host Club.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 09, 2020, 09:42:10 AM
Yesterday was a huge release day for Viz Media but with everything except essential businesses shut down due to coronavirus I doubt many people were able to get the new releases yesterday. There's also a delay with Amazon.com


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 24, 2020, 04:09:20 PM
I still need Yona 23 and Takane and Hana volume 14.

I’ve been reading manga that I bought and was saving until I had time to read them. I recently read Takane and Hana 1-5 and Sailor V 1 and 2. I like Takane and Hana so far but I was a little disappointed in Sailor V.

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Sailor V tells the story of how Venus become the first Sailor Guardian and met Artemis. That part was pretty interesting but there didn’t seem to be much of a connection to the main plot of Sailor Moon until the end of Volume 2 and that seemed to be an more of an afterthought than being a well thought out plot twist at least to me.

Also the translation felt off in a few places although I expected that since there are errors in the older English Sailor Moon manga that was released before the Eternal Edition.


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Post by: Carrehz on April 25, 2020, 07:07:58 AM
the Eternal edition retranslated things? :o Oh man, now I'm even more tempted to get those... I thought Kodansha's translation for the first releases felt a little stiff and awkward in places.

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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 25, 2020, 08:58:03 AM
The Eternal Edition is a new translation. :)  I don't own the Eternal editions either but I've heard many of the mistakes that happened in Kodansha's first releases have been corrected.



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Post by: Ponyfan on May 28, 2020, 08:07:44 AM
I'm not sure how many people here read Demon Slayer but the manga has officially come to an end in Japan.  Also the English translation publication has been moved up to release one new volume a month.


Tuesday is a major release day for Viz Media including the next volume of Yona (Vol 24) and the next volume of Takane and Hana.



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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on May 28, 2020, 12:18:17 PM
Re-read "Claudine...!" the other day :) I do love that manga (even though the ending is soooo sad).

It does bug me that the cover shows Claudine with blue eyes, though, when they say on page 9 (or so) that their eyes are "a deep mahogany brown"! I hate it when illustrations do that :U
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 06, 2020, 07:18:52 PM
I have Volume 23 and 24 of Yona now. :D :cheer: I am hoping I will find some time to read them this week.

Takane and Hana  Volume 15 will be published in July.

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Post by: tikibirds on June 08, 2020, 10:03:48 AM
How many volumes are there of demon slayer?
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 09, 2020, 12:53:03 PM
I'm not sure how accurate the info I found is since I don't follow Demon Slayer but it looks like there are 20 volumes published so far with Vol 21 being released next month.  There are also some chapters that have been published but not combined in to a book yet.


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Post by: LivioKelem on June 10, 2020, 04:37:05 AM
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaidou Hen! Few days ago I found sequel of original Watsuki Nobuhiro's story! So much happines!
 :frolic:
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 16, 2020, 10:40:21 AM
I’m catching up on Yona. :D 

I was very surprised to see manga on sale at Walmart. :shock: They weren’t many titles or series but it was interesting to see.

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Post by: Taffeta on June 17, 2020, 01:45:01 AM
I was going to order the most recent volumes of Daiya and Yona yesterday from Amazonjp but 32 of Yona is out of stock -.- so I'm gonna have to wait till I can do all of them together. I'm hopeful that Act II vol 22 of Daiya might come out in the meantime. I know where Daiya is in the manga better than Yona right now, since I haven't been keeping up to date with Yona's latest developments for a while (they come out more slowly). But I don't really want to read translated scanlates of Daiya online either, because I've seen them and they're quite horrible in places...

I need to get back to reading the youtube raws when they come out. They're only there briefly but I figure it's ok to read them since I'm going to buy the volume when it's released anyway :P The only volume I'm not buying is 20 because the whole volume is a game between Yakushi and Ichidai and frankly I don't care xD.

Yay for Walmart Manga sales!

A while ago I also heard there was finally at least one chapter more of Saiyuuki RB, but since that moves slower than a glacier (they've been travelling across China to India since 1996, for goodness' sake) I'm not surprised to see there isn't yet a fourth volume of RB. (For anyone who cares, the Saiyuuki anime is awesome except for some of the fillery bits, but the manga is better because it makes more sense in terms of its order and doesn't butcher the best arc, Even a Worm.)

I am also debating whether to get the final volumes of OreBoku since I have most of it, but the problem is although I've read a lot of it, I always lose interest after Hotsuma's arc ends in the anime :/

And not quite manga, but I do sometimes look at the Fushigi Yuugi Gaiden on my shelf...

I have been translating one of the short stories for people on tumblr, because I basically use tumblr to dump translated anime and manga related stuffs on these days, and it got me thinking about rereading some of the Gaiden novels.
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 01, 2020, 04:47:07 PM
I bought vol 5 of Komi Can’t Communicate today. :)

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Post by: Ponyfan on July 10, 2020, 07:49:24 AM
I had a rant prepared about the local bookstore not keeping up with the newest manga releases lately but I checked the store's website this morning and it looks like they are starting to catch back up :D


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Post by: Ponyfan on July 13, 2020, 11:30:12 AM
I picked up Takane and Hana vol 15 today.  I need to read several of the previous volumes before I am ready for 15 but I picked it up anyway so I will have it when I get ready to read it.  Volume 16 will be released in Jan next year and I think it might be the final volume.

I am going to try to wait until Yona 25 is released before I buy more manga. :)

Viz Media has been announcing several titles that they will be releasing later this year including Mermaid Saga and Fly Me to the Moon.

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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 13, 2020, 03:54:45 PM
i have the monthly serials of Mermaid's Tale from wayyyyyyyy back in the day
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 27, 2020, 07:14:39 PM
Here's a pic of the manga one of the local Walmart stores has for sale.


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Post by: Ponyfan on August 04, 2020, 06:55:20 AM
The latest volume of Yona comes out today in the US.   :cheer:  It looks like my local bookstore doesn't have it in stock yet though.  I'm hoping they will get it in a couple of days.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 06, 2020, 10:14:08 AM
I'm still waiting on the bookstore to get the new Yona book in stock.  I checked the bookstore today to see if the online inventory was wrong but the new Yona book wasn't there. 

I got excited when I heard that Viz was releasing Fushigi Yuugi because I thought it was the main series but it's a prequel called Byakko Senki.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 06, 2020, 12:04:46 PM
I'm still waiting on the bookstore to get the new Yona book in stock.  I checked the bookstore today to see if the online inventory was wrong but the new Yona book wasn't there. 

I got excited when I heard that Viz was releasing Fushigi Yuugi because I thought it was the main series but it's a prequel called Byakko Senki.


Ponyfan

Ooh, she finally wrote Byakko?

I've wondered if she ever would. Although the problem is that if you've seen/read FY you know how both the Byakko and Genbu stories end before you begin reading them. Genbu's is quite horrible and Byakko's is just sad...so...I don't know if I will read them or not.


Although that basically buries my fanfic from 12 years ago in the dust xD LOL


FY (the main run) was published in English. I have the English volumes somewhere, because I started learning Japanese because of FY. But I don't remember who published them and I don't know if they're still in print. The anime is on CR, though, and if there's going to be a Byakko story they may well reprint the original series. With Furuba doing so well it would make sense as they're of similar vintage.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 08, 2020, 09:58:49 AM
I'm still waiting on the bookstore to get the new Yona book in stock.  I checked the bookstore today to see if the online inventory was wrong but the new Yona book wasn't there. 

I got excited when I heard that Viz was releasing Fushigi Yuugi because I thought it was the main series but it's a prequel called Byakko Senki.


Ponyfan

Ooh, she finally wrote Byakko?

I've wondered if she ever would. Although the problem is that if you've seen/read FY you know how both the Byakko and Genbu stories end before you begin reading them. Genbu's is quite horrible and Byakko's is just sad...so...I don't know if I will read them or not.


Although that basically buries my fanfic from 12 years ago in the dust xD LOL


FY (the main run) was published in English. I have the English volumes somewhere, because I started learning Japanese because of FY. But I don't remember who published them and I don't know if they're still in print. The anime is on CR, though, and if there's going to be a Byakko story they may well reprint the original series. With Furuba doing so well it would make sense as they're of similar vintage.





From the comments I saw on Byakko I’m figuring there can only be one person from the outside transported in to the book at one time and that means that something bad must have to the others that were brought in to the book before.

I think the  main FY series is out of print.  I found one volume at a used bookstore but I don’t remember what volume it is.  I hope they will reprint the series though. I’m getting really intrigued by FY. :D

I got Yona 25 today. :cheer:  Hopefully I’ll have a chance to read it soon.

Ponyfan

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2020, 10:07:27 AM
Without spoilering it...erm...it's a bit more complicated.

But the Genbu and Byakko priestesses knew each other...in the book world they were about 100 years apart but in the real world it was a matter of a few years I think. But the Byakko priestess is a very old lady at the time the main storyline begins with Miaka and company.

That's all I'll say but...yeah.

So.

Yay for more Yona! Still haven't read 31 and 32...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 18, 2020, 11:16:38 AM
All the manga I've put into the Little Library Box has finally returned some goodwill :)

I found Onegai Teacher vol.1 today!  it's been a long time since I saw the anime but I think I remember the comedy premise of this one...

oh and happy  21,300th post for me.   :accomplished:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 18, 2020, 12:28:14 PM
All the manga I've put into the Little Library Box has finally returned some goodwill :)

I found Onegai Teacher vol.1 today!  it's been a long time since I saw the anime but I think I remember the comedy premise of this one...

oh and happy  21,300th post for me.   :accomplished:

Yay for it being volume 1!
Nothing worse than there being one random manga volume and it's something like vol 27...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 18, 2020, 12:55:31 PM
Congrats lovesbabysquirmy :cheer: :cheer:

I found one volume of Fushigi Yuugi once at a used bookstore but didn’t but buy it because it wasn’t volume 1 and I can’t read manga out of order.

I still need to read Yona 25.

Also, the Walmart store that had carried a few mangas for a few months stopped stocking them.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 18, 2020, 04:30:49 PM
i admit this problem never occurred to me when my primary source for cheap manga was when the library would have book sales of their discarded items.  I bought hundreds of books ; DH and I would drive to all the library branches  on a weekly basis to check out their sales section LOL 

they were 50 cents each - wouldn't you?

problem is, now we have so many series that we only have a few of, not the whole series.  I think I will be hunting in thrift stores FOREVER to finish the collection because Amazon is expensive.  my internal voice moans, "another volume 1... another series started..."
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 19, 2020, 01:37:12 PM
That reminds me of when I was in Japan and the BookOff stores and their second hand manga shelves. Kyoto had multiple BookOff stores and the one in the main shopping district was really big. Shelves and shelves and shelves of stuff...

They'd be selling the entire run of a manga (even ones with 70 or 80 volumes!) shrinkwrapped together for like 10-15$ equivalent (obviously in Japanese, but that isn't an issue for me).

Not my image, but an example of what I mean...
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But I didn't have case space to bring ANY OF THEM back with me.
It was heartbreaking :/

Kind of glad I hadn't discovered Daiya by then though. Or I would've felt compelled to try...so many of the early volumes go out of print and it's a pain. I still don't have a complete run of act 1.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 19, 2020, 03:48:03 PM
Oh sweet goodness  that looks dangerous...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 20, 2020, 04:00:33 AM
That reminds me of when I was in Japan and the BookOff stores and their second hand manga shelves. Kyoto had multiple BookOff stores and the one in the main shopping district was really big. Shelves and shelves and shelves of stuff...

They'd be selling the entire run of a manga (even ones with 70 or 80 volumes!) shrinkwrapped together for like 10-15$ equivalent (obviously in Japanese, but that isn't an issue for me).

Not my image, but an example of what I mean...
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But I didn't have case space to bring ANY OF THEM back with me.
It was heartbreaking :/

Kind of glad I hadn't discovered Daiya by then though. Or I would've felt compelled to try...so many of the early volumes go out of print and it's a pain. I still don't have a complete run of act 1.


Wow!  :shocked: I wouldn't be able to resist if I saw a bunch of manga series bundled together like that.



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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tjenni on August 20, 2020, 04:55:31 AM
I´m actively reading One Piece and Detective Conan as manga ^^
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 23, 2020, 12:46:32 PM
I’m looking for a new manga series.  There’s so many titles at the bookstore that I get overwhelmed trying to find a new series.

Ponyfan

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 01, 2020, 05:00:55 PM
The next volume of Yona of the Dawn (26) will be released on Tuesday in the US. :D

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: eveningstar79 on October 07, 2020, 01:46:34 PM
I've been keeping up with Spy X Family and Burn the Witch.(I use the Shonen Jump app for those) There are a lot of manga I've been reading but those are the main two I try to keep up with. Some of my other faves are Komi Can't Communicate, Bungo Stray Dogs, The Girl from The Other Side and Kaguya Sama Love is War.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 07, 2020, 02:02:38 PM
I still need to finish Bungo Stray Dogs. I began it ages ago and then got distracted by something else as often happens to me...xD

I need to order next ,manga volume of Daiya...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tikibirds on October 10, 2020, 04:06:38 AM
I should probably finish Kamisama Kiss...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 12, 2020, 01:41:18 PM
I picked up Yona 26 today. :cheer:  and the next volume of Komi Can’t Communicate I needed. Komi is on my to be read list. I’m also reading Takane and Hana.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on October 14, 2020, 02:23:11 PM
Just finished re-reading Musume no Iede, it's good! Kinda difficult to track all the different characters, but I still like it. Wish it'd get officially released in English -w-
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 23, 2020, 11:24:25 AM
It looks like Viz underestimated how popular Mermaid Saga would be.  It seems to be out of stock everywhere.



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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 23, 2020, 01:09:20 PM
Ordered vol 33 of Yona and 23 and 24 of Daiya Act II this morning. I'm up to date with the Daiya manga more or less because I read the Japanese raws when they hit YT, but I still like to buy it anyway. I'm not up to date with Yona because I'm a coward and would rather have a stock of books before catching up...wary of cliffhangers xD.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 23, 2020, 02:13:57 PM
I was torn between reading Yona 26 before I got 27 or waiting until 27 was released but I read 26 today. 

I wish Diamond no Ace was still published in English in physical copies.  The digital version is up to vol 29 of Act 1 but I prefer reading physical copies of manga.

I’m behind on Takane and Hana.  Volume 16 will be published in Jan but I still need to read vols 10-15.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 30, 2020, 08:29:23 AM
I read Takane and Hana 10-13 since my last post. 

My pile of "to be read" mangas is getting smaller.  I have vols 1-6 of Komi Can't Communicate but haven't read them yet.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 01, 2020, 12:52:39 PM
Yona vol 27 was released in the US today. :cheer:   The local bookstore doesn’t have it in stock yet though.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 06, 2020, 07:30:40 AM
Still waiting for the bookstore to get their Viz shipment so I can get the next volume of Yona.  I even checked another bookstore yesterday that isn't as good as the one I usually go to because sometimes they also have the latest volumes in stock but they didn't have it either.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 24, 2021, 01:55:43 PM
I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted in this thread.  I did get volume 27 of Yona along with Mermaid Saga 1 but haven't read either one yet.  Yona 28 will be released in Feb so I'll probably wait until I have 28 and read then read 27. I think the next volume of Mermaid Saga come out in February too.

I'm missing the latest volume of Takane and Hana.  My bookstore had it out before the release date and when I went back after that date the book had been sold.

Does anyone have any recommendations for manga series?  I am looking at starting a new series but I get overwhelmed  by all of the series at the bookstore.   


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 24, 2021, 07:50:29 PM
I hope my copy of "My Codename is Charmer" vol1 comes soon... a little known series by one of my favorite artists! 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: starrynights on January 24, 2021, 10:58:31 PM
I am in the middle of reading JoJo part 6....but I can't focus to read anything lately.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 23, 2021, 12:31:15 PM
I'm caught up with Yona until the next volume is released in the US.  :D


I picked up Mermaid Saga volume 2 and Komi Can't Communicate vol 8 yesterday.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on February 23, 2021, 04:36:08 PM
I just started reading a manga called An Incurable Case of Love. It's a cute romance and the humor sort of reminds me of Takane and Hana. It's a nurse/doctor romance story and I guess you'd call it slice of life as it's not fantasy in it, just regular folks, although the main guy got deemed the dark lord, which is really funny in story. But I've gotten through vol 1 and 2 and have just ordered 3 and 4 from amazon. Not sure how many vol in all, and not even sure if it's finished.

That's the only issue I ever have with manga series, it's hard to tell for sure if a series is ongoing or if it's finished? Some of them if you do a google search I can never find for sure info sometimes If they're over or if we get everything. I saw something about Takane and Hana is ending soon but I'm confused on which issue is the last and something about the last vol is going to be sold with some kinda color extra thing (sorry I can't remember exactly now what I read), but I'm sorta confused is the english version going to come with the extra or is that just in japan? Another series I watched first as an anime, I can't figure out if it's over or still ongoing. Kakuriyo bed and breakfast for spirits. I've got vol 1-4 of the manga, but I was confused when searching amazon if vol 6 is the end...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 24, 2021, 08:55:37 AM
I haven't really looked in to it but I also think Takane and Hana will be ending soon. Viz used to release a new volume every 3 months or so (I noticed because the release day always matched Yona. :D) but now it's down to one volume every 4 or 5 months.  Maybe they are waiting to see if the series will continue beyond vol 17?  The extra thing sound like something that will only be included in the Japanese version but Viz might surprise us.

It can get confusing though.  I saw some posts when a volume of Yona was released a while back where people were speculating that it was going to the ending arc. Thanks to Taffeta I knew this wasn't true because  she told me that volumes past that number had been issued in Japan. :D

I might check out An Incurable Case of Love.  :) I glanced at it once before and thought it was interesting but the bookstore was missing a volume.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on April 10, 2021, 09:29:44 AM
I've just been checking up on release dates and discovered Daiya Act II 26 and Yona 35 are both due out this month, so I'll hold off on 25 and 34 from Amazon.jp until the end of the month. I don't like Ichidai Sankou players being on the cover of Daiya manga. I'm getting territorial. ;) Having Nori on 25 is nice though.

The image on 34 of Yona is cute but I like the one on 35 better. <3

I really need to actually read the last couple of volumes I have of that though. I'm up to date with Daiya but not Yona.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on April 10, 2021, 02:53:54 PM
I just binged through a re-read of Fushigi Yugi again :D
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on April 11, 2021, 10:30:37 AM
I just binged through a re-read of Fushigi Yugi again :D

Always a classic <3
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 12, 2021, 09:02:48 AM
I've just been checking up on release dates and discovered Daiya Act II 26 and Yona 35 are both due out this month, so I'll hold off on 25 and 34 from Amazon.jp until the end of the month. I don't like Ichidai Sankou players being on the cover of Daiya manga. I'm getting territorial. ;) Having Nori on 25 is nice though.

The image on 34 of Yona is cute but I like the one on 35 better. <3

I really need to actually read the last couple of volumes I have of that though. I'm up to date with Daiya but not Yona.

I looked up the Yona covers and  I love the one with Yona and Ao and also 35. :) 


I haven't read Mermaid Saga or Takane and Hana vols 16 and 17 yet.   I need to get Yona 29.

I'm also looking at maybe starting a new series but I can't decide which one.   :what:   I have a few volumes of Komi Can't Communicate that I haven't read and have also been looking at A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Tropical_Sunset on April 30, 2021, 05:44:38 PM
I'm currently into The Way of the House Husband, Yotsuba!, and a few different webtoon comics.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 02, 2021, 11:39:57 AM
I got my manga and it came off our quarantine table today ;)

My first thing is always to look at the end of the Yona volumes to see who's still alive...

There's a whole random new character I never saw before though, so I guess I missed a lot.

The Daiya volumes have got as far as the start of the game that's currently reaching the end in the newly released chapters, so it's pretty up to date. Although it's an annoyingly long and frustrating game...;)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 02, 2021, 01:18:32 PM
The Way of the Househusband sounds interesting.


My copies of Yona 29 and Komi 9 came but I haven't read them yet. My Yona came with a big bend in one of the top corners of the cover but I don't want to send it back in case I would get a copy with more damage.

I got my manga and it came off our quarantine table today ;)

My first thing is always to look at the end of the Yona volumes to see who's still alive...

There's a whole random new character I never saw before though, so I guess I missed a lot.

The Daiya volumes have got as far as the start of the game that's currently reaching the end in the newly released chapters, so it's pretty up to date. Although it's an annoyingly long and frustrating game...;)


A new character in Yona? That sounds interesting. :D


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 03, 2021, 02:36:57 PM
It depends on whether they're new or I just don't remember them, but right now I'm not sure who they are o.O.
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I think it's always Jaeha I'm most relieved to see when I get a new volume. I don't know why but I always have it in my head that he's the most vulnerable...maybe because he's the oldest, but maybe also because he's had some pretty hard things happen to him.

I mean, not as hard as Zeno, but Zeno kind of doesn't count when it comes to character death...

Also on the Daiya front...
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Someone get him a punchbag. Stat.
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This sums up most of my feelings about the current ongoing game in the manga, for lots of reasons.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 03, 2021, 03:44:58 PM
It depends on whether they're new or I just don't remember them, but right now I'm not sure who they are o.O.
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I think it's always Jaeha I'm most relieved to see when I get a new volume. I don't know why but I always have it in my head that he's the most vulnerable...maybe because he's the oldest, but maybe also because he's had some pretty hard things happen to him.

I mean, not as hard as Zeno, but Zeno kind of doesn't count when it comes to character death...

Also on the Daiya front...
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Someone get him a punchbag. Stat.
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This sums up most of my feelings about the current ongoing game in the manga, for lots of reasons.



I haven't read Yona 29 yet but I looked at the description on the back and it worries me a bit. 

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It mentioned Jaeha and Yona being captured by Kai forces.  I worry about Jaeha too. He seemed to be the one with the most injuries in Xing and I don't think he had fully recovered yet and the end of 28.

 




Daiya

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Is that Mochi in the picture?  I won't ask what's happening in the current game that makes you feel that way...



I think Takane and Hana vol 18 will be the last volume in the series based on the cover art. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 04, 2021, 12:27:13 AM
Yes, that's Mochi. :)

I agree on Jaeha completely. No wonder he wanted to continue living free...

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on May 06, 2021, 12:45:07 PM
I am reading a manga I ordered from amazon called Fiancee of the Wizard, seems like there are only 3 vol so far or at least that is what I was able to order. I'm already starting #3 today.

It seems like i might have read a chapter of this online somewhere once but either way it's really beautiful to look at art-wise; which is always a plus for me with mangas. It's Sort of a reincarnation story, however that doesn't seem to play very much into the story or even the main character's life. I don't particularly know why it's even part of the story, unless maybe further along it comes up but the only thing I can see is the main female lead thinks about it, but other than that I don't see why it even needed to be in this story. I guess this is sort of a romance/slice of life. There is magic cause...uh, Wizard (LOL), but it doesn't seem to be the main aspect of the story, it's more a relationship/romance IMO, at least for the first two vol. so far.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 14, 2021, 07:40:25 PM
Right now that would be Tomie by Ito ,I really liked the  spiral obsession.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tikibirds on May 25, 2021, 11:36:31 AM
I need to read the last book of Kamisama Kiss.  :cry:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 01, 2021, 02:16:34 PM
I bought Yona vol  30 today along with A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow vols 1 and 2 and Way of the Househusband 1 and 2. 

My bookstore didn't have Takane and Hana volume 17 in yet.

I'm so happy to have the new volume of Yona so I can read both of them one right after the other. :)

I also saw some random Demon Slayer and My Hero Academia vols at Walmart today.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 15, 2021, 10:00:46 AM
I read Yona 29. It was intense.


My bookstore still doesn't have Takane and Hana 17 so I'm going to order it online.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 27, 2021, 03:37:50 PM
I finally got a copy of Takane and Hana 17.  I'm caught up on Yona until the next volume is released in August. 

I also bought the remaining volumes I needed of Komi Can't Communicate even though I haven't started yet.  I bought the first 2 volumes of Fly Me To the Moon.   

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: NovelNerd on June 27, 2021, 04:34:53 PM
I’m catching up on Black Butler
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Bekuno on June 28, 2021, 09:57:55 AM
I'm reading My Hero Academia as the weekly chapters come out. $2 a month isn't so bad for a digital shonen jump subscription.
My brother and I are also swapping various copies of Junji Ito's works with each other, we're both big fans.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 29, 2021, 06:51:27 AM
Yona of the Dawn 31 comes out next week in the US. :D

Does anyone know if there is some kind of distribution issue with Fly Me to the Moon volume 3?   My local bookstore doesn't have it in stock and it's not available on Amazon.  Viz media is usually great about publishing more once the initial stock is gone so it seems a little odd that one book out of the series is harder to find.  It was just released in January so it's not too old of a release.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 31, 2021, 10:43:22 AM
I'm reading My Hero Academia as the weekly chapters come out. $2 a month isn't so bad for a digital shonen jump subscription.
My brother and I are also swapping various copies of Junji Ito's works with each other, we're both big fans.

I unashamedly like BnHA but I've avoided the manga because the idea of obtaining that many volumes in Japanese is hurting my head. I already have problems storing Act II of Daiya and I don't even have most of Act I.

As much as I enjoy BnHA (still hate all the villains though, literally all of them, LOL), it's a difficult series to engage with in terms of online fandom. You either get people going on about how it's the best series they ever saw because they've seen about six series, or the people who are trying to look down on it because it's a shounen series and pretty mainstream. And both of those attitudes just annoy me xD.

I feel like for all it's a mainstream shounen series, the character development is pretty decent. Deku and Bakugou are not entirely what you expect them to be at times, and so many of both 1A and also 1B have some decent development as well. I guess it's always all about the characters for me, but yeah. I'm stuck with the anime because of the manga situation, but I'm glad it's still going thus far. I just wish I cared more about the villains, because I prefer it when they're not involved.

I do wonder sometimes how much it was inspired by Tiger & Bunny though, or if that's coincidence.

I still need to catch up my Yona volumes. @Ponyfan, I think you are about at the same place as I am, almost...I keep meaning to get to it and then I get distracted. :)

Daiya manga is still on hiatus. It's the only one I read online, but it isn't due to resume till next month. And frankly, where it ended before the hiatus bothered me on a few levels and pleased me on others. It was a logical place to break, if the writer needed a break, but there are things swirling around that chapter that raise questions.

In short, I've spent the last eight weeks wanting to shake Eijun xD and worrying about what the impact will be going forward...

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 03, 2021, 07:32:40 PM

I still need to catch up my Yona volumes. @Ponyfan, I think you are about at the same place as I am, almost...I keep meaning to get to it and then I get distracted. :)

Daiya manga is still on hiatus. It's the only one I read online, but it isn't due to resume till next month. And frankly, where it ended before the hiatus bothered me on a few levels and pleased me on others. It was a logical place to break, if the writer needed a break, but there are things swirling around that chapter that raise questions.

In short, I've spent the last eight weeks wanting to shake Eijun xD and worrying about what the impact will be going forward...



I picked up volume 31 of Yona today. :D  The description on the back makes  a little nervous about this volume though.

I heard that Eijun and Miyuki are on the cover of a Japanese magazine this week to celebrate the manga resuming.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Tropical_Sunset on August 03, 2021, 08:37:31 PM
I recently started a new (to me at least) manga called A Man & His Cat. I really liked it. Cute and a little bittersweet, but mostly lighthearted and fun.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on August 04, 2021, 12:28:17 AM
I accidentally started reading Beastars online because I was curious about fanart of a certain character. Well, accidentally read a large chunk of the latter arcs! Plus I really wanted to read portions of the backstory of some characters, I might give in and read from the absolute beginning
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 04, 2021, 03:14:20 PM
I picked up Way of the Househusband volume 3 yesterday when I bought the new Yona book.  After putting my new books on the shelf I realized that volume 3 is slightly bigger than volumes 1 and 2.  I can't not see it when I see them in order. I don't know why volume is a different size though.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 04, 2021, 04:34:57 PM
I recently started a new (to me at least) manga called A Man & His Cat. I really liked it. Cute and a little bittersweet, but mostly lighthearted and fun.

It feels like man plus cat is a popular manga theme lately ;)

@Ponyfan - Thanks for the heads up. I just went and found and read the new chapter which went out yesterday.
I still want to shake Eijun. Hard.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 06, 2021, 06:38:06 AM
I picked up Komi Can't Communicate vol 15.  and The Way of the Househusband vols 4 and 5 the other day.


The next volume of Yona comes out in the US in October.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tikibirds on September 09, 2021, 10:43:26 AM
I think the last one I was reading was Noragami
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 10, 2021, 03:08:04 AM
@Ponyfan - so I have till next month to catch up on Yona then? XD

I accidentally missed a volume of Daiya when buying the latest ones so that's annoying. I try and wait till I have several books together before importing them, so it will have to wait for now. The manga going on hiatus means that the published manga books for Daiya have reached the hiatus point, so Bk 28 ends with Eijun being annoying.

There probably aren't enough chapters yet to do 29, either. Sigh.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 12, 2021, 03:46:09 PM
@Ponyfan - so I have till next month to catch up on Yona then? XD

I accidentally missed a volume of Daiya when buying the latest ones so that's annoying. I try and wait till I have several books together before importing them, so it will have to wait for now. The manga going on hiatus means that the published manga books for Daiya have reached the hiatus point, so Bk 28 ends with Eijun being annoying.

There probably aren't enough chapters yet to do 29, either. Sigh.



 
Volume 32 of Yona comes out in the US on October 5th :D

I checked the digital English volumes of Daiya and and they are at the end of the Seidou v Ugumori game or right after that.

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That seems so long ago since it happened in early season 2 of the anime.



I didn't realize it but I have all of the current volumes of The Way of the Househusband.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 12, 2021, 04:16:41 PM
Wow. That means they're still in Act 1? That's nuts. O.o.

Ok, so I need to read vol 32 by 5th october so we can discuss it xD. Got it xD.

I decided to get some volumes of Mashiro no Oto but haven't read them yet.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 20, 2021, 01:54:40 PM
Wow. That means they're still in Act 1? That's nuts. O.o.

Ok, so I need to read vol 32 by 5th october so we can discuss it xD. Got it xD.

I decided to get some volumes of Mashiro no Oto but haven't read them yet.




I'm looking forward  to discussing Yona 32 with you. :D

I went to the bookstore today and saw another manga that the employees put out before the official release date.  I didn't try to buy it because I didn't want to go through the hassle of being told that I couldn't purchase the book even though  t was on the shelves early.  I know that the bookstore can't sell it before the street date but it's happened several times recently.  I don't bring it to the bookstore's attention because I don't want the employees to get in trouble.

I've been thinking of starting A Silent Voice or Haikyuu

Ponyfan



Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 03, 2021, 12:23:43 PM
I'm hoping to get Yona 32 and Way of the Househusband 6 this week.  :D  There's a few series I would like to start looking at but some of the volumes need to be reprinted since the first printings are exhausted.  There's also a paper shortage in the US that I'm sure is part of the reason that some books aren't being reprinted as fast as usual.

I also rain in to a  Daiya spoiler but I think it's a pretty small one.

Spoiler

Miyuki told Furuya that he's planning on going pro after the summer tournament and Eijun overhead even though Miyuki didn't realize it at the time?   Also we're getting closer to the Seidou vs Inashiro game?   




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 03, 2021, 02:22:44 PM
I'm hoping to get Yona 32 and Way of the Househusband 6 this week.  :D  There's a few series I would like to start looking at but some of the volumes need to be reprinted since the first printings are exhausted.  There's also a paper shortage in the US that I'm sure is part of the reason that some books aren't being reprinted as fast as usual.

I also rain in to a  Daiya spoiler but I think it's a pretty small one.

Spoiler

Miyuki told Furuya that he's planning on going pro after the summer tournament and Eijun overhead even though Miyuki didn't realize it at the time?   Also we're getting closer to the Seidou vs Inashiro game?   




Ponyfan

I still need to dig out 32 O.O.

On the Daiya spoiler...

Spoiler
Yep.

This is the moment when I wanted to shake Eijun. His reaction to that is so...yeah.

I can spoiler more if you want, but I suspect you don't want. Though I'd be more than happy to rant about this. xD

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 04, 2021, 07:35:34 PM
No rush on 32 Taffeta.  :) Even if I'm able to get it this week it will probably be a while before I can sit down and read it.


 Daiya

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I think it was mentioned in the anime at one point that there were scouts trying to talk to Miyuki but he refused to discuss anything with them until it was closer to his graduation. 

I know Eijun went through a lot during/after the last summer tournament and that probably is a factor why he reacted so negatively to what Miyuki said but based on what you've  told me and what I've read (Eijun refusing to leave his room)  his behavior after hearing that seems extreme.   



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 05, 2021, 07:43:46 AM
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He was a brat. I think that sums it up.

Right now I have some of my Yona volumes right here next to me. But they're helpfully 29, 34 and 35 xD.

I've not had much time for manga because I'm working on something else which requires me reading in Japanese, so I don't then feel like sitting down and reading whole manga volumes. I'm more prone to flop in front of anime. I'm guessing 32 is somewhere around/undeneath my Saiyuuki volumes though. It's here somewhere.

I still need to buy Daiya Act II 27 as I missed it.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 08, 2021, 07:44:57 PM
I understand.  As much as I love Daiya, sometimes I feel my eyes are too tired for me to be able to concentrate on the subtitles while watching.

I bought Yona 32 yesterday along with Way of the Househusband 6, A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow 3,  A Silent Voice 1 and 3 ( I thought I was buying 1 and 2) and My Love Mix Up. 

I was drawn to My Love Mix Up by the cover and the description on the back but after I started looking more in to it after I got home I'm not sure it's going to be a series I'll enjoy. I'll probably buy at least the first 2 volumes before I decide.

I'm debating whether I want to buy current volumes of a few series I'm thinking about reading like Fly Me to the Moon and Haikyuu and then fill in the gaps later or not.  Fly Me to the Moon isn't that long yet but Haikyuu is at volume 46. 

I'm going to rearrange my manga this weekend to make room for the new books I bought. 

Edit:  Amazon had something that I wanted to get back in stock this morning so I also bought A Silent Voice 2, and A Man and His Cat 1 and 2.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 11, 2021, 09:46:34 AM
My manga came today. :)



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 11, 2021, 01:31:04 PM
I'd watch some of the haikyuu anime before deciding if you want to buy all that manga ;) Since it's there on CR and I think on netflix as well, some of it :) I have not read the Haikyuu manga, although I know how it ends...ish. But it is a lot of stuff. It's not as long as Daiya mind you..

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 14, 2021, 07:08:14 AM
That's a great idea, Taffeta.  :D  I'll do that before I  decide if I want  to buy the  Haikyuu manga. 

I tried watching a little more of Fly Me to the Moon/Over the Moon for You but so far it hasn't impressed me enough to make me want to read the manga.  Luckily I only have volumes 1 and 2 right now.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 20, 2021, 09:51:42 AM
I'm also trying to decide if I want to buy Sailor Moon Eternal.  I was originally against it because I already had most of the smaller volumes at the time it was announced and the volumes are about 3x times bigger than standard mangas.

The publisher says that they have made Eternal a smoother translation than the volumes I have and have fixed many of the mistakes that were present in the original English version.  I'm not sure if that statement is completely true though because  I read online that  Sailor V Enteral has many of the same mistakes that still aren't corrected. 

I also saw that Sailor Moon Eternal will be reissued in 22 in a smaller size.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on October 20, 2021, 12:42:07 PM
I'm tempted by the Eternal editions too, especially Sailor V - I saw it while I was out today and omg, it's soooo pretty and shiny... *o* And the thought of a smoothed-out translation is nice too, I honestly wasn't a huge fan of Kodansha's translation... Yeah, it's better/more accurate than the old Mixx translation (from what I've seen of that), but I thought Kodansha's take was a bit too stiff a lot of the time. Wasn't a fan of their massive wall of translator notes at the end either (don't get me wrong, I like TL notes, but they could get a bit excessively long... a lot of those really could've just been quick footnotes...!). That's disappointing that there's still a lot of errors in V though :(

oooh, I wonder what size the 2022 reprints will be. Something right in between the old editions and the Eternals would be lovely.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 20, 2021, 04:35:59 PM
I bought Sailor Moon Eternal vol 1 today.  Surprisingly it fits on the shelf with my other mangas (It looks huge in the bookstore) with a little room to spare.  It's only a little bigger than The Way of the Househusband,  If I like the first volume I'll get the smaller versions of Eternal when they come out.

I'd be happy to post comparison pictures between the older Kodansha releases and Eternal if anyone is interested. :)   


I also bought A Man and His Cat 3, A Silent Voice 4 and Komi  Can't Communicate 15.  I like my books to be in excellent condition  but I didn't realize that the copy of Komi I bought has a bad bend in the front cover.  : (  I didn't catch it at the store so I don't know if it was already like that or got bent in the bag.  The other copy they had looked like it had been sliced with a boxcutter.  I don't want to take it back to the bookstore so I'll just have to be really careful handling it so it doesn't get worse.



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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 20, 2021, 04:42:38 PM
The thing about translations is that there will always be elements of Japanese that two different translators will render differently but both be technically correct. It's probably going to be a case of what sounds best to you when reading it and knowing the series well. There really isn't another way to do it, since you're never going to get a translation that is 100% conveying the original. Japanese and English are just built too differently.

This is especially true with Japanese and American English, because American English is pretty direct and Japanese is absolutely not direct and built often on implication and inference (hence the translation gaps). Most English scanlations are done in the US, so that's a factor as well.

I remember a massive issue in the Bleach community way back when that stemmed from a scanlation issue that was really hard to overturn and had a major impact on how a lot of people understood the plot. I remember going back to investigate it with the sense that the story was one way, and then realising that actually it wasn't, and that it could be traced back to a mistranslation of one small phrase some several chapters earlier. That was kinda scary...

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on October 21, 2021, 07:07:10 AM
I'd be happy to post comparison pictures between the older Kodansha releases and Eternal if anyone is interested. :)   

That'd be awesome if you could! :) I love seeing comparison pics for this sort of thing.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 26, 2021, 06:37:23 AM


That'd be awesome if you could! :) I love seeing comparison pics for this sort of thing.

I'll get some pics. :D   I'm hoping that Kodansha at least fixed the major errors like "spark ring pressure" instead of "sparkling wide pressure" for Jupiter's attack. 

I've noticed that Eternal still has translator notes in the back but I don't know yet if there are less than the original editions.   


I still need to read Yona 32.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 26, 2021, 01:56:23 PM
I still need to find Yona 32. *looks at manga pile mess and whistles innocently*
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on October 26, 2021, 02:19:26 PM
pff, I forgot about "Spark Ring Pressure" XD That reminds me of how Tokyopop messed up with their release of Tokyo Mew Mew volume 1, one of the attacks is meant to be something like "Strawbellbell" or "Strawberry Bell" (IIRC it's a sort of pun/wordplay that doesn't translate well, I think they ended up going with "Strawberry Bell" eventually) but they somehow ended up translating it as "Sutoro Bell Bell" x) Still surprised no one caught THAT one before it went to print. They did fix it for later volumes, but still!

Taffeta - re: your previous post (wanted to say this before but I was having trouble wording it at the time) - yeah, I get what you mean. The translator can really make or break a translation.. okay, that's obvious, but like, their "voice". I was watching a fansub the other day, and it was all accurate and stuff (well, at least as far as I could tell), but I just... couldn't get into it as much as I normally would've, because the translator had tried too hard to give each character their own speech patterns, voice, etc - to mimic how they originally spoke - and the end result just didn't work (IMO), it was too over-the-top. Sorta the opposite problem to what I was saying about Kodansha's Sailor Moon release, now I think about it. They had a problem with being a bit too stiff/not enough "character", this one had too *much* character :p

It's kinda like how a bad dub can kill your enjoyment of the program; you can tell there's a good story under it all but the acting, or script, or whatever, is just taking away from it. I dunno if I'm explaining this right, but yeah.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 26, 2021, 08:35:37 PM
Re Strawberry Bell - probably a victim of the r/l conflation?

I feel like subs are sometimes really hit and miss, for a number of reasons.

I remember when Dattebayo subbed Bleach and frankly, rewrote bleach to include more graphic threats, swear words and the like. I have no real idea why, but I remember a lot of Bleach fans then complaining about more accurately produced subs that they felt had been censored because they didn't contain those things.

It is definitely possible to go OTT on stuff as well. I think most people would prefer things like 'san' to be left in, and not silly words like 'sissy!' when the text actually uses 'neechan'. These are pretty common terms, but if you want to omit them, just use the character's name instead. It's simpler, you know?

Another issue is if a subber doesn't know the series that well. Some things are hard to understand without context, especially if there is special terminology. For example, the original fansub I have of the Haruka series, back before I spoke Japanese, mistakes the name of a character (Sanehisa) for something else, because Sanehisa's name literally appears once? in the anime (vs more times in the manga) and it's being yelled.

And then there are just mistakes. My favourite one is from Daiya, where the subber (this is CR) seems to have given up on the line, because the sub says, "what does he say?" What the character actually says is something like, "he held down the inning without conceding a run" or something on those lines, and it's pretty clearly audible even with the background noise. But I feel like that was a note for them to come back to it and they didn't and it accidentally got through.

I rewatched Season 3 of KKM in the summer. It never had an official DVD release in English as far as I know, since the company producing it went bust, so it's a fansub and I haven't watched it in years. My Japanese has improved a lot in that time, and I was genuinely horrified at how many of the lines are wrong. It made me feel like I'd actually watched the series for the first time, because it was the first time I'd understood the actual dialogue :/

On the style of speech though. A lot of characters do have specific styles of speech. Again with Bleach, there's a character where I think it's actually impossible to translate his lines in the way they're written. Not because it's complicated, but I just don't know how to render how he speaks into English that conveys the same intent. And there's another character who speaks entirely in katakana, including katakana that are seldom used in modern day Japanese writing. I just...how do you explain that, except that the speech pattern is unusual?

At the end of the day translators can just do their best to make a version that flows, that doesn't deviate from the writer's original intent and which conveys the actual plot rather than changing major plot points because of a misread phrase or misheard statement. There's never a perfect translation, but some are definitely better than others.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on October 27, 2021, 06:12:59 AM
IIRC the bell thing is a bit of a weird portmanteau of "bell" and "berry" originally. I can see why it tripped them up - the attack/weapon names in TMM are all odd puns that don't TL well, *I'm* still not entirely sure of some of them - but it's weird they got stuck on the "straw" part :p

Re: speech patterns, they're definitely important to try and convey in the translation, the problem was this particular fansub went a bit OTT with it - the characters ended up sounding like weird parodies or over-the-top goofy cartoon characters, instead of normal people x) There's definitely a knack to that sort of stuff. Personally if it's something that doesn't translate well (like the katakana thing you mentioned, that's a good example), I'd rather people just scrap it and add a note about it somewhere, rather than trying to shoehorn in some sort of equivalent.

My opinion on honorifics is, I'd rather they be kept, BUT if you're gonna not use them, at least try and keep to the spirit of the original dialogue. "Oneechan" being translated to "sis" is alright if the characters are actually sisters - but if it's being used in an admiring way - translating it that way is weird. I think ADV did a reasonably good job with this for their Wedding Peach fansub... when the girls were calling their crush "-sama" they translated as "dearest" or "dear", not totally perfect, but worked reasonably well. If it was one of the antagonists using "Raindevila-sama" for the baddie, they translated it as "Lady Raindevila", etc. That's what I mean - either keep the honorifics, or find contextually-appropriate substitutes for them.

It also really bugs me if a character calls another by their surname and the subs use their forename instead.. If I'm hearing "Harukaze-san" (for example) I don't mind if the subs say "Harukaze-san", "Miss Harukaze" or just "Harukaze", but it'd really annoy me if they said "Doremi". Even setting aside the fact that what one character calls another is often meaningful, it's just annoying to see one thing when you can clearly hear that's not what's being said.

I do agree some subs go waaay over the top with honorifics, suffixes, etc, though. I'd rather see "Your majesty" over "Jou-sama" for a queen character, for example.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 27, 2021, 07:41:39 AM
I also dislike when they switch surname for first name. Or, Fushigi Yuugi is a good example of this, but the characters mostly are Chinese, riight? So the English manga translation gives them all Chinese names and all the countries Chinese names, based on the characters they are written with. But the Japanese manga uses the same characters but with the Japanese readings SO...you get two completely different names. I don't even know most of the Chinese names for the Yuugi characters...I remember the country Kounan being 'Hong Nan' instead though. I get why they did it but it feels over the top.

Similar happened with the names Sefuru and Ikutidaru in Haruka - they became Sefle and Icktidarl (shivers).

I'm opposite when it comes to some of those things with honorifics though. I guess I'm just used to them? Lady xx for sama is fine, as is your majesty for jou-sama, or prince for ouji. They're quite straight forward. Also straight translations like Count for Hakushaku, )academic) Dr for Hakusei are fine.  But I'm not a fan of 'dear' for 'chan', nor 'hime' for princess. Sensei also has way too many possible translations, so it's definitely a case by case.

I suspect that opinion is massively biased though. In general I prefer to see honorifics preserved where possible because I'm not a fan of westernising cultural references, especially when they change the nuances of relationships. But that's just my perspective as a Japanese speaker, which is not really valid considering an English speaking audience.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 28, 2021, 08:04:33 AM
I've never understood why Kodansha never went back in the reprintings and fixed the major errors.  My copies of the smaller volumes still have "Spark Ring Pressure" and "Princess Beryl" instead of Queen Beryl.



And then there are just mistakes. My favourite one is from Daiya, where the subber (this is CR) seems to have given up on the line, because the sub says, "what does he say?" What the character actually says is something like, "he held down the inning without conceding a run" or something on those lines, and it's pretty clearly audible even with the background noise. But I feel like that was a note for them to come back to it and they didn't and it accidentally got through.



The first time I watched that episode I thought I missed Eijun's line instead of Kanemaru's because I  was still having trouble distinguishing voices when characters spoke off screen. 

I've lost count how many times the CR subs switch the name order back and forth between Japanese order and Western order even though the characters are always using Japanese order (except the American team but that's a another issue.)


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 28, 2021, 08:30:57 AM
...Let's not talk about the American team. >.>.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on October 28, 2021, 09:42:27 AM
I don't mind if translators use Japanese order or English order for names, just pick one and be consistent with it.

Kodansha never did fix those errors for the regular editions? Oh man, why?? I could understand if they were just tiny typos or nitpicky things, but...

I forgot about "Princess Beryl". Not sure how they managed THAT one, her name is completely in English to begin with...! "Spark Ring" I can see where they got that one from, the problem is that somehow no one caught in the QC stage.. but "Princess Beryl"... How...

edit: ooh, I did just find [this](http://missdream.org/editorials/sailor-moon-kodansha-release-vol-2-errors/), which suggests they were going for something along the lines of "Princess [Serenity], I am Queen Beryl.." etc etc... that'd make sense, but how in the heck did they end up botching it up into "Princess Beryl"? o.O
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: tikibirds on November 01, 2021, 12:28:02 PM
I can't even remember what the last manga I read was. I think Noragami..?

Although I do occasionally check on "You own my all" Manhua.
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Third Prince Jing Shao was victorious in war and always surrounded by countless beauties. However, he was wrongly framed and lost everything. Yet the only person who followed him was the unfavoured male concubine that he neglected for years…… After his reincarnation, Jing Shao decided to start afresh and chase after his male wife. Although it seems things will not go as planned, chasing a wife is harder than he thought!


It's based off the Chinese BL novel "The wife is First". It's actually a pretty good story but the manhua is  more PG, whereas the novel is less censored.

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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 01, 2021, 01:32:51 PM

Kodansha never did fix those errors for the regular editions? Oh man, why?? I could understand if they were just tiny typos or nitpicky things, but...

I forgot about "Princess Beryl". Not sure how they managed THAT one, her name is completely in English to begin with...! "Spark Ring" I can see where they got that one from, the problem is that somehow no one caught in the QC stage.. but "Princess Beryl"... How...

edit: ooh, I did just find [this](http://missdream.org/editorials/sailor-moon-kodansha-release-vol-2-errors/), which suggests they were going for something along the lines of "Princess [Serenity], I am Queen Beryl.." etc etc... that'd make sense, but how in the heck did they end up botching it up into "Princess Beryl"? o.O



That's really interesting.  I never thought about Queen Beryl addressing Princess Serenity and it changing somehow to Princess Beryl when it was translated.


I am so far behind on the manga I want to read. :(  I thought I'd be caught up on Takane and Hana by now since the final volume will be released in the US next month. 

Also ran in to a Daiya spoiler


Spoiler
Seidou won the game against Ichidai and is advancing to the finals




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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 01, 2021, 02:09:18 PM
On the Daiya spoiler....

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Yup.
That actually happened before Eijun losing the plot xD.
I am not up to date with the current manga as I'm too much of a coward to read the final. But there we are...

They'd better win this time -.-

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 03, 2021, 03:40:09 PM
On the Daiya spoiler....

Spoiler
Yup.
That actually happened before Eijun losing the plot xD.
I am not up to date with the current manga as I'm too much of a coward to read the final. But there we are...

They'd better win this time -.-




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I'm really happy Seidou made it to the finals.  I hope they win the final game. I will be devastated if Seidou loses again after everything that's happened since the last Summer Tournament.





Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 03, 2021, 04:06:30 PM
On the Daiya spoiler....

Spoiler
Yup.
That actually happened before Eijun losing the plot xD.
I am not up to date with the current manga as I'm too much of a coward to read the final. But there we are...

They'd better win this time -.-




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I'm really happy Seidou made it to the finals.  I hope they win the final game. I will be devastated if Seidou loses again after everything that's happened since the last Summer Tournament.





Ponyfan

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Well, the game has started O.o. It's really now or never for the whole series tbh. If they don't win with this team then the whole manga kind of has no meaning...

I've been rereading Yona! I rewatched the series and started on the manga again today. I still get so sad reading

Spoiler
Taejun's awesomeness that comes immediately after the animation ends. I want people to appreciate Taejun more.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 03, 2021, 07:23:42 PM



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Well, the game has started O.o. It's really now or never for the whole series tbh. If they don't win with this team then the whole manga kind of has no meaning...




I agree completely. 




I've been rereading Yona! I rewatched the series and started on the manga again today. I still get so sad reading

Spoiler
Taejun's awesomeness that comes immediately after the animation ends. I want people to appreciate Taejun more.



I watched the first episode in Japanese recently. :) 


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It still gets to me how amazing Taejun really is. 




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 04, 2021, 10:27:11 AM
On Yona,

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I just reread the volume after the Kai/Fire Tribe revolt where Suwon and Kyouga go to the village and see Taejun running around like a mad thing. It's both beautiful and hilarious and somehow it makes you feel so proud of the journey Taejun has been on from the spoiled guy laughing on the cliff face to this guy doing the laundry and caring for the sick villagers.

I'm amused also reading Zeno's dialogue in these chapters and how they have absolutely NO idea about him. Yet it's also kind of lovely that even though he doesn't appear to have any meaningful power or strength, they still include him and don't reject him.

 I don't think I really have favourites among the dragons but there are moments when I think Zeno speaks to me a little bit extra. 

I also found vol 32 although I haven't read it properly yet, just skimmed it, since I'll read it properly in sequence with the others when I get there. There are some interesting things in it. I have many thoughts.

I also realised I had got 35 but not 36 and so I ordered that today along with the missing volume I have for Daiya Act II. 37 comes out around Christmas in Japanese. The English volumes are almost caught up O.O.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 10, 2021, 09:49:25 AM
On Yona,

Spoiler
I just reread the volume after the Kai/Fire Tribe revolt where Suwon and Kyouga go to the village and see Taejun running around like a mad thing. It's both beautiful and hilarious and somehow it makes you feel so proud of the journey Taejun has been on from the spoiled guy laughing on the cliff face to this guy doing the laundry and caring for the sick villagers.

I'm amused also reading Zeno's dialogue in these chapters and how they have absolutely NO idea about him. Yet it's also kind of lovely that even though he doesn't appear to have any meaningful power or strength, they still include him and don't reject him.

 I don't think I really have favourites among the dragons but there are moments when I think Zeno speaks to me a little bit extra. 

I also found vol 32 although I haven't read it properly yet, just skimmed it, since I'll read it properly in sequence with the others when I get there. There are some interesting things in it. I have many thoughts.

I also realised I had got 35 but not 36 and so I ordered that today along with the missing volume I have for Daiya Act II. 37 comes out around Christmas in Japanese. The English volumes are almost caught up O.O.



You're making me want to reread 1-31. :D I still need to read 32. I keep hoping I'll be able to relax enough to sit down and read the story. 


Spoiler


Taejun has such character development. :D  I love how deep his character is and how he is willing to risk everything to help Yona. Also when he realizes how much the people of the Fire Tribe are suffering and  he starts helping them.
 
I also love that moment when Taejun is normal clothes so the villagers won't figure out who he really is and he meets Zeno who comments on the fact that Taejun is a noble.  Zeno's comments make a lot more sense once you find out that he was secretly following Yona but  until then you keep wondering how Zeno knows a lot of things that it seems like he shouldn't know.   

I love how the other dragons are willing to risk their lives to stop Zeno from suffering any longer than necessary after they find out he's immortal. 





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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 10, 2021, 12:05:20 PM
Dragon banter is king.

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I wonder about Zeno in that sense too. He says he can't hear the voice of God any more, since he gained his dragon blood but...what if he has some innate knowledge of things still because of that blood running through his veins?

I am up to the Shin arc with princesses Kouran and Tao (I think their names are) and I slowed down. I realised I really don't like a lot of things in this arc. I think it's the dragons being separated from Yona and also the whole Gobi involvement. But also..I don't know, I just don't like it so much overall.


Definitely, reread it! That gives me more time to catch up ;)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 10, 2021, 03:45:31 PM
No rush on 32. :D  33 comes out next month in the US and I might wait until I have both of them to catch up.

Spoiler
There's still many mysteries about Zeno. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the dragon's blood does give him that ability.  I keep wondering if he might have helped Iksu escape when Yuon executed all of the priests.

I completely agree with you about the Shin arc. It was hard for me to get through it the first time and there were a lot of things that I didn't like in it either.  I think Gobi and Kouran imprisoning the dragons and Yun are a large part of the reason I don't like it.  I did come to like Kouran more later on but I still can't stand Gobi. 

I don't like Yona being separated from the dragons (or Hak) either.  It always seems like really bad things happen when they're not together.



Just for fun I looked up the  English Daiya digital volumes (they're only published that way now and not in actual book form)  and they are at the Seidou vs Oya game.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 11, 2021, 04:33:07 PM
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This is the manga section at Target.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 12, 2021, 01:00:28 AM
So I got to rereading vol 29 of Yona, but since vol 29 annoys me a bit for reasons, I ended up skimming through the rest of the chapters I had on hand, with reading bits and pieces along the way. I'm going back to read it properly, but vol 36 came out of quarantine this morning so...

I'm not caught up exactly but I'm semi-caught up. And I'm afraid I still feel like someone needs to give Keishuk a good slap. I felt that right at the start and I still feel it 30+ volumes on.

Spoiler
The moment where he orders Jaeha and Zeno to be shot out of the sky really irks me. And then compounds it by ordering them to shoot at Zeno just to see if he dies. Grr.

Also

Spoiler
It's weird but it's very hard to hate against Suwon in this story, too.  I've given up trying.

Finally (and Ponyfan this is a spoiler for you too so read at risk)
Spoiler
There's a lot of chapters of flashback in these volumes, about Suwon and Yona's fathers and mothers, the priests, and other stuff. I'm not sure if it begins in 33 or 34 off hand but it's quite a lot of material.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 13, 2021, 07:46:16 PM
My copies of Sailor Moon Eternal 2 and 3 and A Silent Voice 5 came today. 

Yona: 

Spoiler
I've never trusted  Keishuk from the start and at the point I'm at now I have no idea what he is up to.  I think he must have ulterior motives for wanting Yona and the dragons back at the castle (then immediately separating all of them and Hak from each other) and forcing the dragons to compete in the tournament.


That whole scene where  Keishuk has Jaeha and Zeno shot down makes me uneasy.

 
I'm still conflicted about Suwon.  Sometimes I want to hate him but then he does something that I don't expect and even though I don't like a lot of the things he's done so far I realize he's not a completely evil person and has some good qualities.   

   




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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 14, 2021, 01:09:28 AM
To be honest, with Suwon,
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right now I think I feel sorry for him more than anything.
I don't like that he killed Il, but I also feel that he's a very sad character overall.

That said, I don't know whether the idea that he's a better king for Kouka is necessarily true.

Thinking on it, Suwon's actions have brought about a lot of conflict, and a lot of death and unrest on the borders. It's indirectly led to a lot of the bad situations Yona has had to get involved in and without her and her companions, there would've been much more bloodshed. It just feels like Suwon's way of managing Kouka would be a lot more disastrous if not for Yona and company as the makeweight.


Keishuk is just...I guess he's not a people person...but I've never really trusted him and still don't.
 

Also.

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The cliffhanger for 36 is worse than the one for 35 was *cries*. I admit I've still only skimmed vols 33-36 but I always look at the ending first...

I also got the missing volume of Daiya (Act II 27) that I somehow overlooked the other day.

I should be reading the new chapters but I'm scared to.

I still have a couple of volumes of Mashiro no Oto lying around here that I need to read as well.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 22, 2021, 09:05:20 AM
I'm hoping to get a chance to read 32 soon.



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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 26, 2021, 10:58:04 AM
I was planning on reading 32 this week but then I realized that 33 will be out in the US soon, so I think I'll just read them together.  Then we can talk about both of them. :D

Yona

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I agree with you about Suwon's way of ruling Kouka.  I know Il wasn't a perfect king and there were a lot of problems during his reign outside the palace but there have been a lot of bad things happen since Suwon took the throne. 

What you said about Suwon being a sad character reminds me of the scene during the Nadia arc where Suwon spent all that time with Yona etc.. and Jaeha, Kija and Sinha didn't know who he really was for most of that time.  I'm not sure what they were expecting but there's that conversation between Jaeha and Sinha (I can't remember if Kija's involved in it too) where they're discussing Suwon and how he wasn't what they expected him to be.   

It always makes me sad when Suwon says that he wanted Yona and Hak by his side forever. I don't think he regrets killing Il but I wonder sometimes if Suwon regrets the consequences (severing his bond with Yona and Hak) that decision caused.

 


I still need to catch up on Takane and Hana too. 


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 26, 2021, 01:01:49 PM
I have read 32 and half of 33 so far. Skimmed the others but will read them properly. I've got 37 on preorder too. Amazon thinks it's going to deliver to me on the 23-25th December. I suspect that won't be the case :P Maybe the 23rd. Probably NOT the 25th xD.

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Most people seem to talk about Suwon as a good King, and in some ways he is, but...if you really look at it, there'd have been a lot more problems if not for Yona and company being involved.

The cover of 32 kind of emphasises Suwon as a sad figure.

I don't think he wants either Yona or Hak dead tbh.

I think Kija(?) did say something about Suwon and Yona resembling one another.

The thing that still worries me the most however is the prophesy and what it means for the dragons in the long run.
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Post by: Ponyfan on December 07, 2021, 12:43:43 PM
Yona

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I don't think Suwon wants them dead either.  He had quite a few chances to get rid of both of them

I wonder sometimes if the story might have gone differently if Keishuk hadn't walked in on Yona and Suwon after Suwon killed Il and realized that Yona had seen everything. 




I picked up Yona 33 today along with Takane and Hana 18 (the last volume in that series) and Haikyuu 1 and 2.  :) I'm only buying the first 2 volumes of Haikyuu for now until I watch the anime or read 1 and 2 to see if I want to continue the series.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 07, 2021, 04:00:04 PM
I sneak peeked at the latest chapter of Daiya today. This game is going to go on a while. It's still only the 4th inning.

@Ponyfan I've read up to a point in Yona 33. The rest is on my to do list. When you read them you'll realise what that point is and why I stopped there.

I really dislike the first episode of Haikyuu. I actually gave up on watching it a couple of times because of that, but there are a lot of Haikyuu fans in the Daiya fanbase and they said it gets better as it goes on. I liked it from ep 2. So yeah, I don't know if manga vol 1 is much better than ep 1, but even if you're not sure, don't let the start put you off. It's a lot less heart destroying than Daiya but it's a good sports series with some decent characters imo.

That said I still need to finish the anime as far as it currently is.

Chihayafuru is another one you might want to check out, albeit it might eat your soul. Again, I've watched and not read, but there's a scene in Daiya where Eijun is reading Chihayafuru xD. And a drama where Jun has it in his bag as well :)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 14, 2021, 03:39:17 PM
I sneak peeked at the latest chapter of Daiya today. This game is going to go on a while. It's still only the 4th inning.

@Ponyfan I've read up to a point in Yona 33. The rest is on my to do list. When you read them you'll realise what that point is and why I stopped there.

I really dislike the first episode of Haikyuu. I actually gave up on watching it a couple of times because of that, but there are a lot of Haikyuu fans in the Daiya fanbase and they said it gets better as it goes on. I liked it from ep 2. So yeah, I don't know if manga vol 1 is much better than ep 1, but even if you're not sure, don't let the start put you off. It's a lot less heart destroying than Daiya but it's a good sports series with some decent characters imo.

That said I still need to finish the anime as far as it currently is.

Chihayafuru is another one you might want to check out, albeit it might eat your soul. Again, I've watched and not read, but there's a scene in Daiya where Eijun is reading Chihayafuru xD. And a drama where Jun has it in his bag as well :)

Daiya:

Wow. I thought the game would be over by now.  That explains why one of the fanfic writers that I follow hasn't posted in a while. Their last update basically said "see you after the final."


Yona:

I won't ask you for details but now I'm a little nervous to read 33.

Even if I don't like the Haikyuu manga I'll probably still give the anime a try.  I see the characters from that come up a lot in Daiya fanfictions. 

I bought A Silent Voice 6 and 7, A Man and His Cat 4 and Komi Can't Communicate 16 today.  I'm hoping to have some time soon to sit down and read manga. 

I looked for Chihayafuru at the bookstore today but didn't see it.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 14, 2021, 03:46:35 PM
I'll put you at your ease a little on Yona 33, I stopped because it's the start of a flashback and I want to read it all together. :) Although I got distracted by Christmas, my audiobook and some other stuff so haven't yet.

I think one reason Haikyuu characters flit into Daiya is because of the name Sawamura. The Karasuno team Captain is Sawamura Daichi, and of course people like to write him as related to Eijun...or something like that?

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 15, 2021, 10:15:00 AM
That makes me feel better about 33. :)  I was worried that you might have stopped reading there because something terrible happened to the characters. 

I've seen a lot of fanfics where Eijun and Daichi are cousins.  Although there is one that I'm currently reading where the two of them meet but aren't related and everyone on Daichi's team keeps asking "Are you sure you two aren't cousins or something?"  :lol:


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 15, 2021, 10:55:43 AM
No, the flashback just runs into 34.

...The end of 36 I am more concerned about but that's another matter. I don't have 37 yet...it's out at the start of next week.


Honestly, given that Haikyuu is younger than Daiya, I feel like the Sawamura name is a nod of respect from one manga writer to another.

I like the Haikyuu characters and such, but after Daiya it's very gentle as a rule :)

I'm not really into crossovers, though I know they're very popular. I guess it makes sense with sports stuff. I've seen some artists I know draw crossovers, eg Miyuki in volleyball gear, which is kind of interesting. But otherwise, yeah. Still, at least these two are in the same ballpark in terms of genre. Unlike the Daiya Harry Potter crossovers which...I am still scratching my head over, honestly. I don't think Eijun needs to learn to be a wizard, but that's just me...

(Massively now off topic).

Chihayafuru is also very strong on character, plot twist, etc. It's a bit different in the sense it focuses on a card game made from ancient Japanese poems, called Karuta. But it's pretty well written. Also occasionally emotionally destructive, but that's by the by.

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Post by: tikibirds on December 16, 2021, 12:15:03 AM
I am so out of the manga loop, its sad.
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Post by: Ponyfan on December 21, 2021, 07:31:36 PM
I finally read Yona 32. I have a lot to say about the events in it.  I'm hoping to get a chance to read 33 soon too.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on December 23, 2021, 12:49:00 PM
Doctor Who Reveltion of the Darleks
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 24, 2021, 08:45:59 AM
@Ponyfan, yes, I thought you might. o.O.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 28, 2021, 07:23:27 PM
I read Yona 33 today.  I have just as many things to say about it as I have about 32.


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There are a lot of twists and turns that I wasn't expecting.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 20, 2022, 04:08:39 PM
I made the mistake of checking in with the Daiya manga.
Yep, definitely should not read Daiya while this game is ongoing.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 21, 2022, 06:25:56 AM
I made the mistake of checking in with the Daiya manga.
Yep, definitely should not read Daiya while this game is ongoing.


 


I won't ask what happened but I'm assuming from what you said things aren't going well for Seidou right now. 


Yona 34 will be out soon in the US. :D  Fly Me to the Moon 3 has been reprinted but my local bookstore doesn't have it in stock.   

I have a lot manga I want to read/catch up on but I'm not sure where to start.  :what:


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 21, 2022, 09:37:52 AM
It's the usual way the author has of building up the tension and racking up the stakes, let's put it that way...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 02, 2022, 03:33:00 PM
I picked up Yona 43, Way of the Househusband 7 and A Man and his Cat 5 yesterday.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 03, 2022, 10:54:30 AM
I very much hope you mean Yona 34 xD. Else you're living in the future O.O.

I've been swamped by academic stuff, so I haven't read anything recently :(
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 04, 2022, 06:25:31 AM
I very much hope you mean Yona 34 xD. Else you're living in the future O.O.

I've been swamped by academic stuff, so I haven't read anything recently :(


*steps out of time machine*  :lol:

I meant 34 and not 43. :blush:  I haven't had a chance to read anything lately either.  I did take a quick glance through 34 and it looks like the flashback that started in 33 goes through most of the book.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Shaiyeh on February 08, 2022, 03:08:56 AM
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Hi peeps :) I've recently gotten back into manga after a ... lot of years x) I'm SO out of the loop, there are so many new things to check out! O:

I'm currently reading A Sign Of Affection (so cute!) - halfway through 1st book, have ordered 2-4 XD
Also reading Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun. I'm on book 6. This one I'm reading online, it seems difficult to get ahold of the books where I live >-< absolutely obsessed with the artstyle.

So now I'm looking to finish the series I started buying/reading before I dropped the manga-ing, while also finding lots of new series. Little bit overwhelmed, not gonna lie!
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 08, 2022, 12:42:06 PM
I get overwhelmed by all of the manga series too especially at the bookstore.  I know where to look to find my current series but sometimes I'll pick up other titles that look interesting and maybe buy a few volumes to see if it's something I would enjoy reading.

My to be read list is really long.  I know I have at least 20 books on there.

One of my favorite series is Yona of the Dawn.  :D  I watched the anime and the OVAs and was so captivated by the story that I had to know what happened after the anime stopped.   

I'd love to read Daiya/Ace of the Diamond but the volumes are only available digitally in the US and the English translation is far behind the Japanese version right now.


The newest Komi Can't Communicate (17) came out today.  I didn't feel like making a trip to the bookstore to get it but I did go to Walmart for a little bit.  I was surprised when I saw it on the shelf there. :)  Walmart has been stocking more manga later but it's usually older titles or ones that don't interest me.   


I still need to read Yona 34.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 08, 2022, 02:03:01 PM
My general rule with manga is only to chase up series that I already know I like from the anime, although there have been some exceptions. Sotsugyou M, for example, doesn't have a translation in English, but I got into it because of associated seiyuu related stuff that put me on the trail towards it. There's a weird OVA that appears on YT sometimes...but it barely touches the surface of the story, so it's almost pointless watching it honestly. Most of the story is on drama CDs, in manga and in various novels.

But most of the manga I have has had an anime adaptation of some kind. I used to read manga in English but wanted to be able to practice my language, and also got fed up with waiting for stuff to come out. I remember joking to someone when I wanted to read the Fushigi Yuugi novels - Yuugi was my trigger to learn japanese, as it was the first anime I watched in Japanese - that it would be quicker for me to learn the language than wait for a translation. Guess what? There still isn't an English translation of the Yuugi novels :P So yeah.

Because it's expensive to get manga from Japan, I manage to keep my collection down. But there are some long series as well. I don't have complete manga for Daiya or for Bleach. The latter I'm kind of done with for reasons, the first it's just so many volumes in Act I *sob*. I have most of Act II up to the latest game though.

I'm up to date with Yona volumes though I haven't read properly the last four or so. I have a complete set for Yuugi, Saiyuuki, Furuba, Haruka 1, Angelique and Koruda are somewhere in a box. Otherwise it's mostly odd volumes here and there I guess? Haruka is also in a box, which is annoying if I want to read it, since the best stuff never made the anime *sob*.

I have novels for Saiunkoku Monogatari as well as Yuugi and SotsuM. I think it had manga. I never read the manga though. I'm still only halfway through the novels; they're the real basis for the story but I get easily distracted. But they're really nicely written. It's probably good they didn't animate it right to the very end though.

Right now the only manga I buy is Daiya and Yona. Though I'm always open to new ones, it really has to grab me for me to go to the trouble.  I'm not up to date with Daiya manga at the moment, but normally I read the new chapters of that when they come up. I just don't want to right now. O.O.

If Saiyuuki would continue, then I'd buy that too -.-. But they've been travelling across China and India for the last 25 years already :/ Even though there are a few things I want to know about, in a way the fact they're finally in India now is kind of an anticlimax.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 12, 2022, 12:58:13 PM
My general rule with manga is only to chase up series that I already know I like from the anime, although there have been some exceptions.

I like the idea of watching the anime first before deciding to read the manga. :)  I have the first 3 volumes of Haikyuu but I'm going to watch the anime before I buy more of them. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Shaiyeh on February 12, 2022, 02:20:54 PM
I also think thats a good idea :D For me, though, I sometimes rely heavily on how much I like the art style of the manga - which sometimes doesn't translate well into anime ^^' but this is 100% from an artist inspiration perspective :)
flip the coin and I've recently started watching MHA, and now want to read the manga. that's not something I'm committing to collecting though. Not yet at least =A=
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 12, 2022, 04:41:17 PM
I don't think it's a bad thing to be attracted by the art O.O. It's perfectly valid :D

I like pretty art too, but I'm more tied up in the characters. Even than the plot. I can forgive a weak plot arc if the characters are strong. I admit I am a little fussy about the art style but there have been a few exceptions.

Yona has quite pretty art at times. And no matter how nicely they do the anime for Saiyuuki, they never quite nail the art detail as nicely as the manga.

Haruka definitely had beautiful art. I remember some people were into it because of that.
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I think the artist who drew for Angelique and illustrated probably the Saiunkoku manga - definitely the novels - was pretty decent as well. Kairi Yuura...I think.
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I haven't read BnHA, though I've watched a fair way through the anime. I do wonder whether it had some inspiration from Tiger & Bunny or if that's a coincidence, given the hero-world theme. I admit that pretty much the entire villain cast in BnHA annoys me, but I like the students, their interactions and chemistry.

...Not enough to buy all the manga volumes though xD.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 23, 2022, 10:10:43 AM



I think the artist who drew for Angelique and illustrated probably the Saiunkoku manga - definitely the novels - was pretty decent as well. Kairi Yuura...I think.
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I love the picture in the 2nd spoiler tag. It's so pretty. 

One of my favorite Yona covers is 5 with Kija and Yona on it. :) The amount of details the artist is able to fit on each cover never ceases to amaze me.  Sometimes I find myself looking at the Yona covers and just admiring the art. 

I read Yona 34 today.  There was a lot of things happening that I didn't expect.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 23, 2022, 10:57:23 AM
I have a soft spot for the cover with Zeno. You know which one. Although I like a lot of them.

...Also, 33 is quite impactful just because of what is going on in it vs the cover image. For me anyway.

I won't be able to catch up the yona manga properly now till I'm done teaching, probably :( So end of March. I have skimmed over it so I know the broad strokes. Just not the specifics.

I did dig out the Saiyuuki manga to work out how the episodes might pan out. I need to find a good example of that to post here because Minekura-sensei also has really beautiful art. But some bits of it are a mite violent.
Edit to add: here's a nice gaiden manga cover art of Gokuu up a sakura tree.
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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 23, 2022, 03:04:28 PM
I love that Zeno cover too. Also, the cover of Yona 10, 17, 19, 21 and many others. The cover of 35 is another one of my favorites.  :) 

Yona 35 comes out in the US in early April.  I don't mind if we wait until then to continue our in-depth discussion.  That way we'll have more to talk about and you'd have a chance to catch up on Yona. :)

I have a lot of questions about what's happening in 33 and 34.

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Some things that I thought were established facts about Yuhon's death turned out to be far from the truth. 

I understand what you meant now when you said Yona and Suwon are caught in a cycle of revenge.



Do you know what volume Yona is on in Japan?  I know the US releases are behind the Japanese but the last volume I can find scheduled for US release is vol 37. which will be published in October. 

That Saiyuuki cover is pretty.  The discussion about manga art made me start thinking about other series with pretty art and I found this one from A Silent Voice


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Some of the Act 1 Daiya covers are very nice too. :)

I've been looking at Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku but I'm not sure if it's right for me.  I found out there is an anime of it, but I think it's only on Amazon Prime.

I'll probably start reading the rest of Takane and Hana so I can finish the series.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 24, 2022, 12:52:11 AM
I think that would make sense. Like I said, I skimmed over it so I know the broad strokes of the flashback and stuff but that's all.

I think 37 is correct at the moment. I believe there are 2 chapters not yet in volume form, so I would imagine 38 to come out in the early summer maybe? Chapters are less frequent for Yona than Daiya.

I have been dipping in and out of Daiya manga. There was a break this week though. Of course, it was a cliffhanger. Sigh. This game is going to go on forever, I swear it is.

That Silent Voice cover is pretty :D

My favourite Daiya cover is probably this one...
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Mostly because of what it represents ;) The new boss and his two sidekicks. I genuinely love the bonds built up between Miyuki and Mochi especially, but also Zono. Zono needs more love.

My favourite actual volume is still act 1 vol 47. Although not all of it got animated and bits of it that did are in the OVA not the proper series. Yeah, I seem to have a habit of picking those bits.
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Post by: Mareacooda on February 24, 2022, 10:15:58 AM
I been read "Eleceed".... love series...
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 01, 2022, 08:28:30 AM
I think that would make sense. Like I said, I skimmed over it so I know the broad strokes of the flashback and stuff but that's all.

I think 37 is correct at the moment. I believe there are 2 chapters not yet in volume form, so I would imagine 38 to come out in the early summer maybe? Chapters are less frequent for Yona than Daiya.

I have been dipping in and out of Daiya manga. There was a break this week though. Of course, it was a cliffhanger. Sigh. This game is going to go on forever, I swear it is.

That Silent Voice cover is pretty :D

My favourite Daiya cover is probably this one...
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Mostly because of what it represents ;) The new boss and his two sidekicks. I genuinely love the bonds built up between Miyuki and Mochi especially, but also Zono. Zono needs more love.

My favourite actual volume is still act 1 vol 47. Although not all of it got animated and bits of it that did are in the OVA not the proper series. Yeah, I seem to have a habit of picking those bits.


That's a great cover with Miyuki, Zono and Mochi.  Mochi is one of my favorite characters now too. :D

I love the cover of Act 1 vol 47 too.  I couldn't find a clear pic but it looked like everyone was on the cover.  :)  Is that volume the one that covers what happens after the Fall Tournament final game with Yakushi?

I can't say that I'm surprised that the current game is still going based on how long it took that other game (you know which one) to play out in the anime.

The newer Sailor Moon Eternal covers are pretty also.  I don't have a good pic of one of them yet though.

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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 01, 2022, 08:35:31 AM
Yes, it's the end of Act 1, so ties up the stuff after that autumn final, including the stuff in the 4th and 5th OVA and some other things. There are some details it includes that the animation missed out, like

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Mochi's old friends being at Koushien to support him
Furuya with his family in Tokyo - I think that wasn't animated?
Mochi with his Mum and his Grandpa
The full scene with Miyuki going home.
Ochiai's daughter at the ground getting excited about ants.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 05, 2022, 07:08:47 PM
Yes, it's the end of Act 1, so ties up the stuff after that autumn final, including the stuff in the 4th and 5th OVA and some other things. There are some details it includes that the animation missed out, like

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Mochi's old friends being at Koushien to support him
Furuya with his family in Tokyo - I think that wasn't animated?
Mochi with his Mum and his Grandpa
The full scene with Miyuki going home.
Ochiai's daughter at the ground getting excited about ants.


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I guess the anime can't include everything in the manga due to time limits but I would have loved to see a lot of those scenes expanded instead of just the glimpses we got.  I'm really curious about what happened after Miyuki arrived at the hospital after the game. 




I bought Sailor Moon Eternal 4, Fly Me to the Moon 3 and Haikyuu 4 recently.  I'm still planning on watching the anime for Haikyuu before I get too many manga volumes of it.


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The "Princess Beryl" error has been corrected

It looks like all of the original full color pages have been restored for this release instead of just the ones at the beginning of each book. I've heard the bonus/short stories have been included in their original places again instead of being pulled out in to a separate volume but the books I looked at today didn't include any those and I don't know what volume they're in. 



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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 08, 2022, 09:46:20 AM
I've caught up a little bit with the Daiya manga lately. I'm not going to spoiler stuff related to the game, but there was a really touching scene which I love and am going to share (in spoiler tag)...

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Miyuki's Dad is watching the game :D

I think it's the first time we've EVER seen him directly watching like that.

It's a really lovely couple of scenes across these last two chapters, with a little bit of flashback of a conversation between them before Miyuki went to Seidou, where Miyuki is worried about leaving his Dad on his own if he goes into dorms.

I've always felt Miyuki and his Dad are close, just his Dad works really long hours.

It's lovely to see that in black and white :D

On vol 47...

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There is never any direct update on the hospital trip except what is in OVA 4, which is the coach telling the team he's out, which is a surprise to Miyuki as well, and putting Kuramochi in the captain spot for the Jingu tournament. There are some nice scenes of Miyuki being teased for failing to be a good cheerleader as well. But nothing at the hospital, just confirmation of his injury putting him out of Jingu.

The animated OVA includes almost all of that section, except the fact Miyuki is absent from class on the day after the final.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 09, 2022, 03:28:52 PM
I've caught up a little bit with the Daiya manga lately. I'm not going to spoiler stuff related to the game, but there was a really touching scene which I love and am going to share (in spoiler tag)...

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Miyuki's Dad is watching the game :D

I think it's the first time we've EVER seen him directly watching like that.

It's a really lovely couple of scenes across these last two chapters, with a little bit of flashback of a conversation between them before Miyuki went to Seidou, where Miyuki is worried about leaving his Dad on his own if he goes into dorms.

I've always felt Miyuki and his Dad are close, just his Dad works really long hours.

It's lovely to see that in black and white :D

On vol 47...

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There is never any direct update on the hospital trip except what is in OVA 4, which is the coach telling the team he's out, which is a surprise to Miyuki as well, and putting Kuramochi in the captain spot for the Jingu tournament. There are some nice scenes of Miyuki being teased for failing to be a good cheerleader as well. But nothing at the hospital, just confirmation of his injury putting him out of Jingu.

The animated OVA includes almost all of that section, except the fact Miyuki is absent from class on the day after the final.

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I love that Miyuki's dad is watching the game too.  I've read a lot of theories that Toku isn't a good father to Miyuki but I think it's probably more along the lines that he's having to support Miyuki as a single parent and needs to work long hours in order to make a living. 

It's interesting that nothing's mentioned about Miyuki at the hospital in the manga.  I was curious because I've seen some people say he fainted after he got there (or in the taxi) due to the stress from playing with his injury.

I need to look for the OVAs on Youtube again and see if there are more parts there now than there were last time I looked and also see if the subs are a little better (no more pet bowls or sudden trips to South America :lol: )
 



I saw a new manga series that looks interesting.  It's called Ima Koi, Now I'm in Love.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 09, 2022, 04:07:06 PM
Hrm.

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Agreed on Toku and Miyuki. He's an overworked single Dad doing his best. It made me really happy to see because it rubbished all the silly stories about Toku being a nasty unpleasant person. I've seen a few of those and they always rubbed me up the wrong way.

There's always those fans that like to twist things :/

I should add that he's not at the game, he's watching it on TV from his kitchen. :)

Re the Autumn game aftermath, the only thing I can think of is the moment at the end of the game where he flops all over Kuramochi and tells them he sucks at being Captain, but that's about all.  In the end titles they're in the car and Zono is clearly nagging him about something but he's definitely awake. Anything else is probably fanfic speculation, though honestly not unrealistic given the mess he presents as in that scene we do have.

Iirc the first half of OVA 4 is Haruno's scrapbooking and talking about the tournament and stuff. The second half starts with Kataoka reporting to the players about Miyuki's injury, and Miyuki is there too.

But it's not clear which day that is. The fact he's not in class on the Monday but is in uniform during that meeting makes me think it's probably *not* the next day. Maybe the Tuesday? So we really don't know what happened, canon-wise, in-between that car ride and Kataoka telling the team Miyuki is benched.

The OVA omits the empty classroom seat but that's pretty much all. It's literally one panel, I guess they thought it was unnecessary.

I did have a quick look on yt but I can't find the OVA with subs. I did find a montage of clips from it of Miyuki sidelined, but that was all.

The aftermath chapters from vol 47 are probably translated online somewhere but I remember someone saying that there were bits missing and so I don't know how they are listed. I have a feeling they have funny titles, but I can't remember offhand what those are.


Of course, Ima Koi could also mean now (I'm a) fish, depending on the characters used *innocent*
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on March 16, 2022, 12:42:33 PM
(I don't think anyone reads my yaoi musings but anyway  :biggrin: )

I got Therapy Game Vol.1 as a gamble, as I was more than a little put off by the recent crop of darker, more emotional fare that's come out in the genre recently like Caste Heaven (NO NO NO NO NO) or MadK (ugh ... and yet the story is very interesting and the art stunning?? I don't regret reading the first even if it was disgusting). The art for the cover did feel very 'this is going to turn out bad' but ...

I'm so glad I took the gamble!!!! The art is great, you think you know where this is going. but the top is just Too Dang Nice and the bottom is like well crap, I can't do my revenge plan now, heck. It gets complicated when feelings get involved, the bottom is super catty for little reason and it's hysterical, and the shock of formally-straight top falling for a man comes up for ... what? A hot second? Before he goes 'well alright then' and goes with it. I ordered the sequel series, ordered the prequel series that stars this pair's brothers, and went to hunt for Vol.2

.... Vol.2 is sold out  E V E R Y W H E R E. No suppliers in the UK or US, only place I can find it is eBay from Japan.

HECCCCC

Thankfully, an urgent message to a comic store sourced a copy, and I had it posted to me. Oh it was so worth it! I can't wait for more!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 19, 2022, 11:16:00 AM
Hrm.

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Agreed on Toku and Miyuki. He's an overworked single Dad doing his best. It made me really happy to see because it rubbished all the silly stories about Toku being a nasty unpleasant person. I've seen a few of those and they always rubbed me up the wrong way.

There's always those fans that like to twist things :/

I should add that he's not at the game, he's watching it on TV from his kitchen. :)

Re the Autumn game aftermath, the only thing I can think of is the moment at the end of the game where he flops all over Kuramochi and tells them he sucks at being Captain, but that's about all.  In the end titles they're in the car and Zono is clearly nagging him about something but he's definitely awake. Anything else is probably fanfic speculation, though honestly not unrealistic given the mess he presents as in that scene we do have.

Iirc the first half of OVA 4 is Haruno's scrapbooking and talking about the tournament and stuff. The second half starts with Kataoka reporting to the players about Miyuki's injury, and Miyuki is there too.

But it's not clear which day that is. The fact he's not in class on the Monday but is in uniform during that meeting makes me think it's probably *not* the next day. Maybe the Tuesday? So we really don't know what happened, canon-wise, in-between that car ride and Kataoka telling the team Miyuki is benched.

The OVA omits the empty classroom seat but that's pretty much all. It's literally one panel, I guess they thought it was unnecessary.

I did have a quick look on yt but I can't find the OVA with subs. I did find a montage of clips from it of Miyuki sidelined, but that was all.

The aftermath chapters from vol 47 are probably translated online somewhere but I remember someone saying that there were bits missing and so I don't know how they are listed. I have a feeling they have funny titles, but I can't remember offhand what those are.


Of course, Ima Koi could also mean now (I'm a) fish, depending on the characters used *innocent*

Daiya


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That's really interesting the manga doesn't explain what happened between the time Miyuki arrived at the hospital and the team meeting.  I guess the author thought that it wasn't important to show that part and more important to show Miyuki's absence in class the next day and the reactions of everyone when Kataoka announces that Miyuki is not allowed to play for a few weeks.


I get really irritated when I read stories that say everyone abandoned Eijun when he had yips and no one cared about his well being as punishment for losing the game.  I know that's not true, although I'm sure Eijun probably did feel that way when he was running by himself while everyone else was practicing.  It's clear that Mochi, Miyuki, Haruichi etc.. were very worried but I think they were also at a loss at how to help Eijun overcome the yips.



I picked up Sailor Moon Eternal 5, Haikyuu 5, and Ima Koi, Now I'm in Love 1 yesterday.


The Japanese title for Ima Koi is "Ima Koi wo Shiteimasu."


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 19, 2022, 11:52:51 AM
Ima Koi o shite imasu makes more sense ;)
On Daiya...
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I think that I've read the mangaka was pretty burned out by the time he got to vol 47. So probably there were things he didn't go into. I think it's a shame, though. I think a lot of fans wanted to see a dynamic in which Miyuki, Zono and Mochi had more bonding time tbh. I certainly think that by act 2 the friendship between Miyuki and Mochi especially is clear, but also Zono as well to some degree. And Shirasu, who seems to me like defacto vice vice Captain at times.

But I like character bonding moments, so.


On Daiya fandom...
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The Daiya fandom is frustrating, honestly. Sadly Eijun fans are the bulk of the problem.

Fanfiction is kind of fine in my view, everyone has the freedom to express how they want to express it. The problem I have is when people try and force their reinvention of the manga on the fandom. There's a lot of toxicity, I've seen a lot of hate aimed at poor Furuya, at Miyuki (that latter I've experienced directly)...I even saw an expletive filled rant aimed at Oota once, which is mad because he's a very unassuming teacher and I can't imagine how anyone could hate him enough to do something like that.

 

Just a note to add that Yona 38 is apparently due out in May.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Shaiyeh on April 02, 2022, 08:53:20 AM
I've posted before about reading Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. My plan was to read books 1-2 online to see if I wanted to collect the physical series. I'm... up to date with chapters now. which is several books ahead of what's come out in print. xD "oops" (read all except after-school hanako-kun and vol 0, which I both own in print xD I guess now I can slowly start collecting the series though - I'm really enjoying it)

so now I'm looking for new things to read. again xD I'm planning on buying Dekoboko Sugar Days (+ vol 2 if I like it) soon, and I heard about The White Cat's Revenge As Plotted From The Dragon King's Lap - such a long name haha, btu the art looks really nice, so I'm curious about that one too.
As well as Witch Hat Atelier. such gorgeous art ;A;
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: MissMagicalGirl on April 03, 2022, 01:38:49 AM
I've been reading Futaribeya and Yuzu the Pet Vet.

Futaribeya is a really wholesome slice of life that kind of a girls love, but it's also an EXTREMELY slow burn, it follows the life of 2 girls from the start of high school throughout their lives, I know that they end up going to college but I haven't gotten there yet. It's called Futaribeya because it means something along the lines "a room for two" and they met due to sharing a dorm in high school.

Yuzu the Pet Vet is a childrens manga, but it's cute, and pretty educational for any age, since they don't really teach you how to take care of pets in school. The art style gives me a really nostalgic feeling, of when I used to read shoujo manga for the library when I was younger, probably because it's drawn traditionally instead of digitally, including the covers.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on April 03, 2022, 07:03:26 AM
I got the latest volumes of Daiya manga to be released (act 2 29 and 30) and a handful of Horimiya volumes.
Vol 30 has Mei on the front and is the start of the current game so pretty close to up to date. I won't buy any more volumes until I know what happens in this game now.
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3 innings to go I think...they're either at the bottom of the sixth or top of the seventh.

I read the first volume of Horimiya today and the manga is filling in the gaps that bothered me in the anime, for example
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Yuki seeing Miyamura leap the fence
and
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building the friendships between Miyamura and Ishikawa as well as Miyamura's bond with Hori
. It's also nice to find out who the heck Yuuna-chan is as the anime mentions her but never shows her xD. I feel like there's more flow between discussions, like it makes more sense somehow?

I have the first 4 volumes, up to the point where
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he cuts his hair, which is a major plot issue for me in the anime - I still think he looks better with the long hair also
but I might end up getting more depending on how the next volumes go. I feel like they made some rushed choices in the anime as there are some great scenes and a couple of whole chapters missing that would make the whole anime make a lot more sense.


Dug out the last volume of Saiyuuki Reload manga last week before the final ep of Zeroin aired so I could figure out where the break between eps was; and reminded myself of the ending.

I will get Yona 38 in May. I need to get back to reading that properly now I've done teaching. Kind of stuck in a weird limbo this week because of that xD.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 06, 2022, 01:35:08 PM
Ima Koi o shite imasu makes more sense ;)
On Daiya...
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I think that I've read the mangaka was pretty burned out by the time he got to vol 47. So probably there were things he didn't go into. I think it's a shame, though. I think a lot of fans wanted to see a dynamic in which Miyuki, Zono and Mochi had more bonding time tbh. I certainly think that by act 2 the friendship between Miyuki and Mochi especially is clear, but also Zono as well to some degree. And Shirasu, who seems to me like defacto vice vice Captain at times.

But I like character bonding moments, so.


On Daiya fandom...
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The Daiya fandom is frustrating, honestly. Sadly Eijun fans are the bulk of the problem.

Fanfiction is kind of fine in my view, everyone has the freedom to express how they want to express it. The problem I have is when people try and force their reinvention of the manga on the fandom. There's a lot of toxicity, I've seen a lot of hate aimed at poor Furuya, at Miyuki (that latter I've experienced directly)...I even saw an expletive filled rant aimed at Oota once, which is mad because he's a very unassuming teacher and I can't imagine how anyone could hate him enough to do something like that.

 

Just a note to add that Yona 38 is apparently due out in May.

Daiya fandom

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I enjoy reading a good fanfiction too but I also dislike when people try to justify their hate of Miyuki and Furuya using certain scenes from the manga and twisting them to fit how they feel. I've seen a lot of writers mentioning the scene where Miyuki had promised to catch for Eijun and instead went off with Furuya because  Miyuki wanted to check on Furuya's control because it was slipping.   No one seems to mention the fact that Miyuki later apologized to Eijun and caught for him after he finished with Furuya.




I got the latest volumes of Daiya manga to be released (act 2 29 and 30) and a handful of Horimiya volumes.
Vol 30 has Mei on the front and is the start of the current game so pretty close to up to date. I won't buy any more volumes until I know what happens in this game now.
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3 innings to go I think...they're either at the bottom of the sixth or top of the seventh.



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I feel like I might be missing a post or maybe it was in another thread but I think you mentioned you have some theories on how the game will turn out?  I have no idea what the score is right now or anything but I have a feeling that it will probably come down to the last inning and will either be Mei and Eijun facing each other or Eijun and Shirakawa.



I bought Yona 35 today. :D  I also bought Sailor Moon Eternal 6 and A Sign of Affection 1 and 2.  Did someone mention A Sign of Affection in this thread?  I thought I saw someone talking about it but I can't find the post.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on April 06, 2022, 02:00:39 PM
Oh boy. *facepalm*  That scene.
And the biggest thing that got me is that
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there is essentially that worse scene where Koushuu refuses to catch for Eijun in front of everyone - which is refusing a senpai, which is rude - but you won't see any of the same people criticising that.

They live in their own world which is a selective reading of the manga. And honestly, I wouldn't mind that if they were not actively hostile and downright spiteful to fans of other characters. Furuya fans tend to get it worst. And bad translations of scenes don't help. There was a literal uprising in the fandom when CR subtitled one of Furuya's lines as 'you can still compete with me' even though the line is categorically and unquestionably 'we can still compete with each other'. 

I genuinely can't stand the Eijun portion of the fandom because so many of them subscribe to this nonsense that everyone is always picking on Eijun, which is fundamentally ridiculous, and ignores all the times Eijun is griping about other players/flat out rude/genuinely thoughtless. There was a very recent example of this in a scene you won't have read, so I won't go into details, but it was very frustrating...and of cours all the Eijun fans were like, aww, poor Eijun...when he was the cause of the problem.

So I am still reading the Horimiya manga. I love it so much more than the anime, even though some of the scenes in the anime are great. There's so much missing and some of it is truly awesome. I still don't want him to
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cut his hair though. That will take further time to adjust to xD.
.

I've also read properly to the end of Yona 34. I have the broad strokes of what happens in 35, I remembered it when I got to the end of 34. But now I've read the full flashback properly.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Shaiyeh on April 15, 2022, 12:11:46 AM
I'm re-reading Sailor Moon right now :) or actually, I'm past the point where I stopped reading it earlier. I adore the art, it's so inspiring.

I should read book 3 of A Sign Of Affection, but it's SUCH a fuzzy feeling read, I don't want to read it too fast ;A;

Annnd on TBHK - 4 days left until next chapter. can. not. wait!!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 16, 2022, 07:56:05 PM
Oh boy. *facepalm*  That scene.
And the biggest thing that got me is that
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there is essentially that worse scene where Koushuu refuses to catch for Eijun in front of everyone - which is refusing a senpai, which is rude - but you won't see any of the same people criticising that.

They live in their own world which is a selective reading of the manga. And honestly, I wouldn't mind that if they were not actively hostile and downright spiteful to fans of other characters. Furuya fans tend to get it worst. And bad translations of scenes don't help. There was a literal uprising in the fandom when CR subtitled one of Furuya's lines as 'you can still compete with me' even though the line is categorically and unquestionably 'we can still compete with each other'. 

I genuinely can't stand the Eijun portion of the fandom because so many of them subscribe to this nonsense that everyone is always picking on Eijun, which is fundamentally ridiculous, and ignores all the times Eijun is griping about other players/flat out rude/genuinely thoughtless. There was a very recent example of this in a scene you won't have read, so I won't go into details, but it was very frustrating...and of cours all the Eijun fans were like, aww, poor Eijun...when he was the cause of the problem.

So I am still reading the Horimiya manga. I love it so much more than the anime, even though some of the scenes in the anime are great. There's so much missing and some of it is truly awesome. I still don't want him to
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cut his hair though. That will take further time to adjust to xD.
.

I've also read properly to the end of Yona 34. I have the broad strokes of what happens in 35, I remembered it when I got to the end of 34. But now I've read the full flashback properly.



Daiya

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I love Eijun but I agree that he often makes situations worse or gets himself in deeper trouble due to being thoughtless or rude.

Another theory that I don't like is when people imply that Furuya and Eijun are willing to see the other one hurt if it means they will get the ace number.  They're rivals, but also friends. 


I'm hoping I get a chance to read Yona 35 soon.  There's a lot of details in the flashback that I want to discuss with you. :)

I got Haikyuu 6 last weekend and picked up Komi Can't Communicate 18 yesterday.


I'm re-reading Sailor Moon right now :) or actually, I'm past the point where I stopped reading it earlier. I adore the art, it's so inspiring.

I should read book 3 of A Sign Of Affection, but it's SUCH a fuzzy feeling read, I don't want to read it too fast ;A;

Annnd on TBHK - 4 days left until next chapter. can. not. wait!!!

I think I stopped reading Sailor Moon after the Dream arc.  I'm looking forward to reading the Eternal edition and the short stories that were taken out of the original volumes by Kodasha (In the Eternal edition they've been restored to their original places) .   A few episodes of the 90's anime and one of the movies were based on the short stories.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on April 17, 2022, 02:11:58 PM
Yes, we need to discuss the flashback. Definitely. O.o.

I am going to try and read 35 soon. I may stop at that point as the translation is now almost caught up and that way we can discuss things as we come to them a bit more, rather than me trying to remember something I read months back (because my brain is getting old now, LOL).

I've been reading the Horimiya manga still. I just finished vol 8. I am really stunned at how. much. is missing from the anime. For example...
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The class trip
Yuki thinking Miyamura is Hori's cousin
The sports festival
Miyamura talking out his feelings with Shindou
Miyamura and Sengoku trying to get out of swimming
A lot of just small interactions between characters.

Even the OVA releases have more manga content than the anime. Though the anime has some great scenes in it, it's really hard to work out why certain things were left out and others not. But I did feel like the anime was rushed and they tried to fit in too many characters. In the manga, though, those characters are fleshed out well enough to make them all relevant.

So yeah, it's a really cute manga.  I'm glad I took the jump to start reading it, because I feel like, as cute as it is, the anime just doesn't do it justice.

This week was a break for Daiya's manga. But from the preview of last week's chapter it seems likely that
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Eijun is about to hit the mound.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 19, 2022, 09:28:54 AM
Taffeta, you've got me interested in  Horimiya now.  I looked for volume 1 at a couple of places but it looks like the English version is out of print right now in the US.  :(



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on April 19, 2022, 01:31:36 PM
That sucks :( I guess vol 1 was quite a long time ago. :'/

I've read vol 35 of Yona. Although I'd skimmed it there were some things I'd missed.

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Like now I understand who Meinyan is. And it seems that her name only coincidentally sounds like a weird cat joke. Given the guy from Shin (? I think) who calls everyone someone -nyan in the Japanese version, I did wonder for a while.

Am also reading vol 9 of Horimiya, now I have the other ones to read as well.

I think the beauty in it is how often it makes humour out of little things that are normal parts of life.

And how easily people's perceptions of someone else can be changed by a chance meeting.

And my predictions for this Daiya chapter were right. So now I have an *idea* how things might continue. We'll see.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 23, 2022, 03:56:00 PM
I checked another place for  Horimiya and it looked like they had every volume except the 1st one.:(  I'll keep looking though. 

I haven't had a chance to read Yona 35 yet but hopefully I will soon. 

I've been looking at Toilet Bound Hanako Kun but I'm not sure if it will be interesting to me.  I know there's an anime.  I'll probably watch a couple of episodes of it first before I decide if I want the manga.





And my predictions for this Daiya chapter were right. So now I have an *idea* how things might continue. We'll see.

I have few ideas too although they're based only on what I think might happen due to the way things played out the last time these two teams played against each other. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 04, 2022, 01:33:49 PM
Half debating whether to begin reading Yuukoku no Moriarty. Although I am not sure I have space for more volumes. The anime is fun, even if I want to poke at the history a bit.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Mareacooda on May 07, 2022, 01:42:46 PM
I just got finish read early today latest  and fresh chapter Eleceed on  it own website which more chapters that on webtoon... I already wait next chapter to release.... Love this series.....Anyone who like cats and super power human beings might like this series... Good laughs, meaty storyline, action and great artwork...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 08, 2022, 07:22:47 PM
I still need to read Yona 35.  36 will be released in early June in the US.
 Hopefully my life will settle down soon and I'll have time to read.

I bought Sailor Moon Eternal 7 and A Sign of Affection 3 yesterday.   

I also had a chance to see the first volume of smaller size Sailor Moon Eternal edition (Now called the Naoko Takeuchi collection) The NT editions are about the same size as the original Kodansha realizes but at least twice as thick.  It looked like the same about of chapters are in included in the NT editions as the Eternal version.  Most disappointing to me was the fact that the color pages that were restored for Eternal are gone again. :(  Why make such a big deal out of restoring them in one release if the publisher is just going to take them away in the next? 


Ponyfan


Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 09, 2022, 01:04:25 AM
I had an email this morning from my Mum's friend and former English student in Japan, who helped me out a lot when I was over there doing fieldwork. He apparently found a volume of manga relating to my study and is sending it to me. So I guess I'll be reading that at some point :)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 09, 2022, 12:08:17 PM
I had an email this morning from my Mum's friend and former English student in Japan, who helped me out a lot when I was over there doing fieldwork. He apparently found a volume of manga relating to my study and is sending it to me. So I guess I'll be reading that at some point :)



That sounds like a really interesting manga. :)


I checked the first volume of Haikyuu and the first episode of the anime covers the first chapter in the manga.  When I get ready to start reading I might read a couple of pages of Chapter 1 and see if it's more interesting than the anime.  If not, I will skip to Chapter 2.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on May 11, 2022, 03:53:18 AM
I also had a chance to see the first volume of smaller size Sailor Moon Eternal edition (Now called the Naoko Takeuchi collection) The NT editions are about the same size as the original Kodansha realizes but at least twice as thick.  It looked like the same about of chapters are in included in the NT editions as the Eternal version.  Most disappointing to me was the fact that the color pages that were restored for Eternal are gone again. :(  Why make such a big deal out of restoring them in one release if the publisher is just going to take them away in the next? 


Ponyfan

Oh what!! I was excited when I started reading your post since the one thing giving me pause about buying the Eternal editions has been the size (I LOVE the bigger size but they would take up more space), so the thought of that edition in a smaller size was nice... but no colour pages?!? Surely those are one of the main draws of the Eternal edition? Gah.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Mareacooda on May 13, 2022, 06:38:19 PM
I still need to read Yona 35.  36 will be released in early June in the US.
 Hopefully my life will settle down soon and I'll have time to read.

Ponyfan


I soooo behind Yona that I may need re read as refresher... 
Sooo many mangas/ novels to read just enough hours in day :b
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 14, 2022, 10:29:28 AM
@Taffeta  I found the first volume of Horimiya today.  I'm holding you responsible for getting me interested in it. :D



Oh what!! I was excited when I started reading your post since the one thing giving me pause about buying the Eternal editions has been the size (I LOVE the bigger size but they would take up more space), so the thought of that edition in a smaller size was nice... but no colour pages?!? Surely those are one of the main draws of the Eternal edition? Gah.


I've doubled and (tripled) checked the NT edition of Etenral just to be sure that wasn't overlooking any color pages and only the very first page of the book is in color. :(  All the rest of the pages have returned to black and white.  There's also a Barnes and Noble exclusive edition but it just has a small pull out poster inside.



I soooo behind Yona that I may need re read as refresher... 
Sooo many mangas/ novels to read just enough hours in day :b

I probably need to reread Yona too as I've forgotten a lot of the details that happened at the beginning of the story. 

There's so many series that I want to start that I haven't yet but will eventually read them.

I bought Fly Me to the Moon 4 today.  I'm hoping that I will be able to get the other volumes in the series a bit easier (volume 4 is officially out of print until the Fall).


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 14, 2022, 10:41:32 AM
I will take that burden with pleasure ;)

I had to reread Yona through from the start in order to remember everything. Vol 38 comes out next week. I won't pretend I don't have massive concerns for the characters in this series with every new volume. But eh.

I'm going to read Yuukoku no Moriarty. *nods*.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on May 15, 2022, 05:48:02 PM

Oh what!! I was excited when I started reading your post since the one thing giving me pause about buying the Eternal editions has been the size (I LOVE the bigger size but they would take up more space), so the thought of that edition in a smaller size was nice... but no colour pages?!? Surely those are one of the main draws of the Eternal edition? Gah.


I've doubled and (tripled) checked the NT edition of Etenral just to be sure that wasn't overlooking any color pages and only the very first page of the book is in color. :(  All the rest of the pages have returned to black and white.  There's also a Barnes and Noble exclusive edition but it just has a small pull out poster inside.

Thanks for the heads-up, anyway - if I'd have seen these smaller editions before seeing your post, I'd probably have picked them up and then been annoyed when I realized they were missing the colour pages XD
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on May 16, 2022, 06:44:44 AM
(Small voice in)

I've found official douchinjis by the original author and I've been binging them repeatedly even if most of them are not translated. For some, I can guess the context but for others I REALLY wish I knew even a little Japanese to get the context, as the dialogue suggests heavy feelings and dangit I need more heart-to-heart with this couple!

Just the sheer fact sensei is continuing the series after so long seriously makes my heart glow  :lovey: This was one of the very first manga I ever bought, the first in the yaoi genre, and was my gateway to it. After so many years, to find out there was a series continuing and there were even official doushins? I seriously cannot explain the pure joy radiating from my heart at it!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 16, 2022, 07:44:02 AM
(Small voice in)

I've found official douchinjis by the original author and I've been binging them repeatedly even if most of them are not translated. For some, I can guess the context but for others I REALLY wish I knew even a little Japanese to get the context, as the dialogue suggests heavy feelings and dangit I need more heart-to-heart with this couple!

Just the sheer fact sensei is continuing the series after so long seriously makes my heart glow  :lovey: This was one of the very first manga I ever bought, the first in the yaoi genre, and was my gateway to it. After so many years, to find out there was a series continuing and there were even official doushins? I seriously cannot explain the pure joy radiating from my heart at it!!

Doujinshi are usually written by secondary parties so that's kind of cool. Although you didn't mention which series you meant, are you talking about the same one you mentioned before?

I started learning Japanese back in 2007 because I wanted to read the Fushigi Yuugi novels and they were only translated into German. Turned out that I made the right call as they're still not translated into English...;)

I ended up with a whole pile of doujin for one community a while back because they came with a bunch of the drama cds and song cds that I wanted. So I did translate some bits of it for people online and the manga-based ones are not too difficult. The textbased ones are more like little mini-novels or short stories and are a lot more complex.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on May 16, 2022, 08:15:02 AM
It's FAKE by Sanami Matoh. I managed to find a couple of them scanlated, but others are untranslated. They are explicit, and go by the name 'Backstage Pass', and I don't see them going up on Amazon soon. I'm super, SUPER lucky that 4 parts of the new series HAVE been translated officially and put up on Amazon by sensei, I just wish she could do the same with the side stories as there seem to be a lot of moments of heart-to-hearts that I really want to read (especially a couple that seem to be Ryo opening up. In the main series old AND new he's very reserved so it's KILLING me not knowing what he's saying!).

I don't know how to contact the scanlation team that did the original scanlations of a couple of the doushinjis otherwise I'd ask for the rest or at least a couple of pages so I can get context!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 16, 2022, 08:30:59 AM
That sounds vaguely familiar although I know I've never read it, I think I must've seen it mentioned way back when LJ communities were still a thing. Does it have an animated OVA or something? I can't remember now, but I definitely recall hearing the name before.

I'm really strict on only translating sfw stuff, not just because tumblr has rules but because otherwise I'd get swamped by this particular (non-yaoi) fandom to translate literally everything, and I really don't want to do more than I choose to do (translation takes time and effort, after all). But also because my main focus is the drama cds, and so any doujin and gaiden stuff happened as a coincidental diversion.

 But it is a good idea to try and reach out to the original scanlate group if you can. The trouble with these is that they form and disintegrate pretty fast over time, especially since I have a feeling this is an older series? If it is the one I think it is.

However, if you have the older scanlates there ought to be a group name on them and thus a way maybe to contact or track back to see if you can find any of them.

But even if you can't get in touch with them, there may be other scanlators who deal with yaoi doujinshi who would pick it up.

I've done translation stuff but never as part of a group so I'm not sure how that would work, but I know that even in the community I translate dramas and stuff for, there is a pretty active group who work on 'rare pairing' doujin translations, and it's not even a yaoi community. SO. yeah.

...Or you could learn Japanese, as a last resort ;)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on May 16, 2022, 08:55:51 AM
FAKE did have an OVA, I've seen it and it's ... not very good, the manga is far superior and I think it was a mistake to make it a one-off rather than a series, as the main series is very much a blend of the criminal cases Dee and Ryo work on, as well as them gradually falling in love (well, more like Ryo realising he IS falling in love, Dee has already decided Ryo is the man for him lol)

The doushins are VERY recent, they are done in sensei's new style. The original series was printed in English and is now available on Kindle with new covers in the new style. I've found the scanlations and normally I see a group name, but I don't see one, just names of the translators. I would love to order them directly from sensei's website but I don't know how to do that lol one day when I win the lottery I will literally hire someone to do that for me. The fact that these Backstage Passes are explicit makes me feel they won't go to Kindle, but I would need to check as I remember there being controversy over Saga being censored because of a single image ... I wonder if titles like Viewfinder are on Kindle. If they are, then the doushins should be fine to be translated, but that's up to sensei and not me.

The problem with a name like FAKE is that trying to post on Tumblr about it gets awkward with the tags! I find more success using the manga-ka's name than the series name. I BELIEVE I pulled the scanlations of two doushins off LJ when it was still around in the dying days
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 16, 2022, 09:14:42 AM
Ah, then it is the one I'm thinking of. Back when I first heard about it, there was only the OVA and it was a long time before I spoke Japanese, iirc, so I never pursued it at all. But it's not uncommon for that to happen. I don't really like OVA when there's no proper series around it. (Sotsugyou M - also very old now - is one of those. There's a pretty horrible if slightly amusing OVA that sometimes does the rounds on YT but the whole of the rest of the franchise, novels, manga, drama cds...etc has never been translated into English and is basically unknown outside of Japan.).

That makes it more complicated, if it's not a fan scanlate but an official translation :/ But I still think it'd be worth hitting up groups that specialise in yaoi scanlations and seeing whether they're interested. ALTHOUGH if some original stuff is being produced now and in translation, it may just be a waiting game.

I've never tried to read manga on kindle. So I don't know how that works or what their rules are :/

I can see the problem with the name although when I put FAKE doujinshi into google I did come up with a bunch of hits around backstage pass. So maybe if you keep digging? Though they may be what you already saw. Be careful about the spelling of doujinshi when you search, it might help you find better results.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 19, 2022, 09:45:11 AM
I read Yona 35 today.  :)  Now I'm caught up until 36 comes out in the US.

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Some parts of 35 are a little confusing to me though.

I want to finish Takane and Hana soon too.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 19, 2022, 10:00:31 AM
Things like Meinyan? And, well, Meinyan?

I ordered 38. It comes out tomorrow, so it should ship then.

I started reading Yuukoku no Moriarty. There are already quite a few detail differences from the anime which surprised me.

Will being driven to work at the university in horse drawn cart was amusing. I am sad they didn't animate it. Oh well.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 19, 2022, 03:28:55 PM
Meinyan is very confusing. :dizzy:

I'm not sure yet but I think the US releases are going to slow down after 36 comes out. Viz has been following a pretty steady schedule for Yona in the US, usually putting a new volume in print every 2 months but it looks like 37 won't be out until October.  I'm assuming it's because the US releases are almost caught up with the Japanese ones and Viz needs more time to get them ready for the US market.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 20, 2022, 09:18:02 AM
Meinyan is indeed super confusing. O.o.

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Though I LOVED Yona entirely owning the people from Minami-Kai and shocking Keishuk into the bargain, that was awesome xD

That would make sense, as it's almost caught up. They've actually done a great job when you consider where they are with Daiya. Still stuck in the middle of the autumn tournament of Act I, I think you said?

Speaking of Daiya...
Spoiler
Into the eighth innings O.o.

I'm reading Yuukoku no Moriarty, but I accidentally managed to not get book 3 when I bought the manga, so I now need to wait for it to arrive. It's coming with Yona 38. The story that's in book 3 is in the anime, so it's not like I don't know what it is, but I feel like I want to read it properly, given there are already some detail differences.
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I feel like John and Sherlock's meeting and his becoming Sherlock's roommate makes more sense in the manga. But I also think that with the Noahtic story, the anime adds some details in around one of the characters that actually helps the narrative seem more tied together.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 21, 2022, 11:58:31 AM
I bought vol 2 of  Horimiya today. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 23, 2022, 03:01:02 PM
Vol 38 of Yona arrived today.

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I am going to put this in double spoiler tags but
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Everyone is still alive! Woot. Well. Possibly excepting Zeno, but you know, that kind of doesn't count. Although I remain pretty worried about things in general.
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I also think Suwon is about to crack, and as for Keishuk...

Also, on the obi was an advert note about a cafe in Tokyo which for the next 6 weeks is Yona themed. I mean, if they can do a themed Yona cafe and can publish 38 volumes of manga, why we have no more anime? Seriously!.

I also finally got the missing volume of Yuukoku no Moriarty so I could continue reading. I'm up to vol 5 now.

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Good grief, the Baskerville story is horrible. Even if it does have some nice Louis character moments and one Louis and Will brotherly exchange. It's still horrible.

I'm not very familiar with real Sherlock Holmes stories beyond seeing a few televised adaptations and am deliberately not trying to find out beyond what I already know, so I'm not sure to what extent it follows Conan Doyle's real narratives of Sherlock's cases. Some of it is quite brutal. Some of the manga stuff also isn't animated, so there's some additional background and character information in there.

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There's an irony in the fact that, despite being the ringleader and the puppet master, William is probably the softest of the three Moriarty brothers when it comes to other people. O.o.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 27, 2022, 12:42:24 PM
I'm not clicking the Yona spoiler since I'm guessing it's about something that happens in vol 38.  I'm also not quoting because it will reveal the spoiler contents to me in the text box. 

A Yona cafe sounds amazing. :)  I hope there will be pictures of it. 

We always need more Yona anime. :D 

I've been catching up on Takane and Hana.  I have 2 more books left in the series.  I'm pretty sure I know how it's going to turn out though.  I'd be surprised if it didn't.

I checked on the English version of Daiya and they're up to


Spoiler
The intrasquad game that happens where Kataoka coaches the 2nd string players and Eijun pitches for them.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 27, 2022, 03:22:04 PM
It's not really that much of a detail spoiler, honestly xD I wouldn't do that to you.

Wow, that's a looong way behind on the Daiya front. I don't understand how they can be so up to the minute with Yona and other series but that one is so far behind. Literally YEARS behind. Not on the right series, even, since it's still stuck on Act I.

The new Daiya manga chapter this week was a bit fateful. I won't spoiler it at all but yeah. Some nice quotes to take out of it.

I'm on vol 6 of Yuukoku no Moriarty now. I'm not a massive fan of this arc and wasn't in the anime but it's fine. Albert is still creepy. I swear he's more creepy in the manga than the anime somehow.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 27, 2022, 07:27:50 PM
It's not really that much of a detail spoiler, honestly xD I wouldn't do that to you.

Wow, that's a looong way behind on the Daiya front. I don't understand how they can be so up to the minute with Yona and other series but that one is so far behind. Literally YEARS behind. Not on the right series, even, since it's still stuck on Act I.

The new Daiya manga chapter this week was a bit fateful. I won't spoiler it at all but yeah. Some nice quotes to take out of it.

I'm on vol 6 of Yuukoku no Moriarty now. I'm not a massive fan of this arc and wasn't in the anime but it's fine. Albert is still creepy. I swear he's more creepy in the manga than the anime somehow.



I went back and checked the Yona spoiler.  It makes me feel a little better about the current arc (assuming that vol 38 still has  Meinyan involved somehow, although I still think she's up to no good,) I'm also uneasy about the what's happening in the manga right now. 


I don't understand anything about the English Daiya releases. :dizzy:  I think it would be a popular series and would do well in print, but right now it's only published digitally and not even close to being caught up with the anime, let alone the Japanese version.  I have a feeling that Kodansha might put most of their efforts in to what they consider guaranteed money makers (they also publish Sailor Moon) and not pay much attention to lessor know series.

I don't understand why Daiya isn't more popular outside of Japan.  It seems like it would be a bit hit in the US since it's about baseball players.


Ponyfan



Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 31, 2022, 11:59:09 AM
I'm on the last book of Takane and Hana. :)  There's also a small bonus magazine with short stories that happen after vol 18. 

I knew I'd had the books for a while but a couple of them were published 2 years ago.  I didn't realize they had been sitting in my to be read pile for that long. 

Yona 36 comes out next week in the US. :D

I looked at Spy Family 1.  It looks really interesting and I almost bought it, but I should probably watch the anime first before I start the manga.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 31, 2022, 01:43:44 PM
I'm avoiding buying any more manga at the moment since I splurged on Horimiya and Moriarty and I still have Yona I'm keeping up with, plus Daiya (although at the moment I'm waiting to see on the end of the current game before I decide if I want to catch up with those xD).

Anya is probably cuter when you can hear her speak mind you. Her saying "daijoubu-masu" is probably going to kill me, eventually ;)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 07, 2022, 03:13:34 PM
I bought Yona 36 today along with Ima Koi 2, A Sign of Affection 4 and Horimiya 3. 

I flipped through Yona 36 and I've already seen some interesting things. It looks like there's more Zeno in than the last few volumes.

Also the release date for vol 37 in the US has been confirmed for October.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 07, 2022, 04:16:29 PM
I flipped through 36 a while ago, I can't remember if this is one of his grumpy old man Zeno moments or not though. (I weirdly love those for some reason mind you XD). Because I flicked through and then went back to read properly, I get really confused about the order of some of the events...

I'm on volume 8 of Yuukoku no Moriarty. Just finished the Whitechapel arc. Albert really had nothing to do this arc. He was probably sitting back in London drinking wine while his brothers and companions ran riot (literally).

Spoiler
Another chapter, another scene in which Louis and Will use murder to demonstrate their fraternal bond, this time by a well-timed weapon swap. Also, this Louis is still creepy in a good way:
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The whole arc and especially that scene is cut kind of short in the anime and they don't do the weapon swap, which is sad. Why shouldn't Louis get Will's cane?? He looks good with it too o.O.
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It's the second brotherly bond moment that the anime has skipped out, which makes it look so much more like Will is just using Louis (which is not the case at all, Louis's life is probably the only one - including his own - that Will doesn't see as a pawn in his puppet show).

Also, the moment in the anime for that picture above is so much less sinister.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 14, 2022, 08:15:04 AM
I decided to rearrange my manga last week.  Most of it lives in plastic boxes and I rotate some books to the shelves (Yona always stays on the shelves. :D) It was a bigger job than I thought it was going to be and after I dug out several of the boxes I realized that I had put most of my to be read series in the top 2 boxes so they would be easier to get to.

Yona 38 has a possible release date in the US in March 23. 

Yona

Spoiler

I keep hoping that we will hear what Zeno actually thinks about being in the palace.  It must be hard for him since he lived with Hiryuu there but so far I don't think he's mentioned anything.  Something I saw in 36 has me wondering what's going on with Zeno but since I don't know the context of the scene, I'm not sure what to say yet.


I'm hoping to pick up Komi Can't Communicate 19 this week.  I also took the first few volumes out of the boxes and put them on the shelves so I can start reading them.





I'm on volume 8 of Yuukoku no Moriarty. Just finished the Whitechapel arc. Albert really had nothing to do this arc. He was probably sitting back in London drinking wine while his brothers and companions ran riot (literally).

Spoiler
Another chapter, another scene in which Louis and Will use murder to demonstrate their fraternal bond, this time by a well-timed weapon swap. Also, this Louis is still creepy in a good way:
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The whole arc and especially that scene is cut kind of short in the anime and they don't do the weapon swap, which is sad. Why shouldn't Louis get Will's cane?? He looks good with it too o.O.
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It's the second brotherly bond moment that the anime has skipped out, which makes it look so much more like Will is just using Louis (which is not the case at all, Louis's life is probably the only one - including his own - that Will doesn't see as a pawn in his puppet show).

Also, the moment in the anime for that picture above is so much less sinister.

Spoiler

I don't know much about Moriarty since I don't follow that series but I agree with you about the picture.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 16, 2022, 10:25:02 AM
I picked up Komi 19 today. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 16, 2022, 10:34:13 AM
There was a very satisfying moment in this week's Daiya chapter, for anyone who suffered through the last summer final. (No the game isn't over, no it didn't change the score).

Spoiler
Eijun/Seidou got Shirakawa out. :D
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 16, 2022, 07:31:21 PM
There was a very satisfying moment in this week's Daiya chapter, for anyone who suffered through the last summer final. (No the game isn't over, no it didn't change the score).

Spoiler
Eijun/Seidou got Shirakawa out. :D


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This makes me really happy too. :)  I couldn't see the game happening without them facing each other again.  Getting Shirakawa out shows how far Eijun and the team has progressed since the that game. 

Did Eijun have flashbacks to what happened last time? I've always wondered if he would if he and Shirakawa were in the same positions again.   



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 16, 2022, 11:28:02 PM
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Nope. I guess it's not such a trauma inside of him anymore, since overcoming the yips.

It was the first time they faced each other since the last summer final.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 18, 2022, 07:43:58 PM
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Nope. I guess it's not such a trauma inside of him anymore, since overcoming the yips.

It was the first time they faced each other since the last summer final.

Daiya
Spoiler
Now that he's faced Shirakawa I wonder if the final moment of the game will come down to Eijun vs Mei.

Seidou better win this game.  How many months has the game been going on for? I think it started around October? 



I haven't had a chance to read Yona 36 yet.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 19, 2022, 12:14:14 AM
Daiya:
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I think either late Sept or early Oct. I joked back then about it ending in June but actually I'm not sure that it will.

I have been trying to work out the maths of who the final batters could be for each side, because I thought that same thing, but I don't think it can end with Mei.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 02, 2022, 03:35:15 PM
Daiya

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That's really interesting. I thought for sure it would either be Shirakawa vs Eijun or Eijun vs Mei.  Maybe it will be Carlos? I'm assuming it would most likely be someone involved with what happened last time since Eijun is pitching.



The US has a publishing date for Yona 38. :D It will be released in March 23.
 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 03, 2022, 12:15:51 AM
This is a little spoilerish, so click with care...
Spoiler
Mei should be the next batter Eijun faces.
But...
Spoiler
The next chapter should be the Seidou offence, I think starting with Zono.

I can't believe we're into July and it still hasn't finished. Since next week is a break, and since I can realistically see there being AT LEAST six more chapters before it does, I'm guessing august now.

I know that S.3 of Haikyuu anime is basically just covering one match. But I can see an entire season devoted to this game in Daiya as it stands - if they adapt it, but I can't imagine they won't.

I got to a chapter of Moriarty where for some unknown reason Sherlock's turned up at Durham university and is trying to get Will to go out for dinner with him. A slight change of pace. o.O
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 07, 2022, 03:31:36 PM
Wow, that's almost a year for one game.  I'm assuming this is the longest game ever in Daiya? 


Are you saying that you think that the next season of the anime will go up to this game and then the next one after that will be this game only (So 2 more seasons total?)  I heard a rumor that work has begun on the next part of the anime, but it wasn't from a reliable source. :(

Spoiler
I can't remember what game they were in when the anime stopped but I think it was pretty early in the Summer tournament.  Maybe the 1st or 2nd game?


I bought Sailor Moon Eternal 8 and Horimiya 4 yesterday.

On a sad note the creator of Yu-gi-oh, Kazuki Takahashi died today in a diving accident.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 07, 2022, 04:17:02 PM
I believe Act II's anime so far ended in a weird mashed up place.

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I think...it officially ended at the start of/right before the 2nd game of the summer tournament, because a lot of the annoying fans were whining about it ending after Eijun 'looked bad' in the first game (sigh). But I also remember that there were some sections of Act II that got rearranged and a whole game is actually missing for them to end it where they do. It feels like they realised they ran out of space so mangled it.

There are two or three scenes where lines are cut or the whole scene is reordered so that it gives a different impact. But I know that the whole Ichidai vs Yakushi game should have been animated but I think wasn't.

And there's a nice scene with Toujou and Haruichi doing their innocent evil act that also got cut out.

I'm hoping any new season will go back and re-cover this post first match stuff. The Yakushi Ichidai round 3 is very dull, but it probably shouldn't be missing either.

Daiya seasons tend to be long - so far I think it's like 52 eps in season 1, 75 in season 2? 51 in season 3. So they might be able to get the whole of this into one season. Or maybe not.

I think almost a year is about right.

Spoiler
This is the ninth inning but who knows if it will go to extra innings. It's too soon to say.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 11, 2022, 07:24:01 PM
Daiya

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I think one of the scenes that comes across awkwardly in the anime is the one near the end where several of the characters are saying different things to Eijun.  I think they're trying to encourage him, but half of the dialogue of that scene is missing in the anime so it doesn't make complete sense why the other main characters are saying some of the things they do. 

I'm very Seidou centric and don't enjoy the games much when Seidou isn't playing.  That being said if the Yakushi Ichidai game is important I agree it shouldn't be skipped.


Spy Family manga is selling well now.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Shaiyeh on July 13, 2022, 10:11:23 AM
I have had to put reading and collecting on ice for a bit because of RL being a bit too busy, and packing up to move. But I got volume 5 of A Sign Of Affection in the mail just the other day ^^ so excited to read it later :D
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 13, 2022, 03:32:07 PM
I have had to put reading and collecting on ice for a bit because of RL being a bit too busy, and packing up to move. But I got volume 5 of A Sign Of Affection in the mail just the other day ^^ so excited to read it later :D

I was going to get A Sign of Affection 5 last week but decided to get Horimiya 4 instead.  A Sign of Affection 5 is next on my list. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 16, 2022, 07:33:07 PM
I had to buy more boxes for my manga as the ones I have books in right now are full.   I wish we had more space for bookshelves.  I'd love to be able to put all of my books out where I can see them.  I'm going to label the boxes so I know which series are in each box.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 18, 2022, 07:17:25 PM
I have a bookshelf now for manga.  :D  I don't think all of the books will fit on there but a lot more of them will than what I was able to leave out before.  It's still a work in progress but here's a pic.

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So far I've completely emptied one box of manga plus put several other books on the shelves also.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on July 19, 2022, 12:01:12 AM
Post pictures when they're all out!! I love a fully-stocked manga bookshelf, mine is one of my pride and joys after keeping them in storage for so long <3
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 20, 2022, 02:14:37 PM
Ah, look at all those little Yona books :D

I have manga on one shelf of my bookcase, 2 deep, but most of it is in tubs or piled up by my unit. My bookcase is still so full of academic texts, and I only have one bookcase *sobs*. The manga on my shelf is all older stuff I've had ages, like Furuba, Yuugi, etc. Daiya is under my desk.

Speaking of Daiya, I'm feeling kind of up and down about the manga right now.

I will say this mind you.

Spoiler
We had a lovely array of Zono-faces in this week's chapter. I love me a good Zono face. ;)

Also:
Spoiler
The game hasn't ended yet. Last week was an evil evil cliffhanger break.

Neither of the above are proper plot spoilers.

The following includes one, however, so read at own risk.

Spoiler
It was so interesting seeing Mukai watching this game this chapter. It's been a LONG time since the game between Seidou and Teitou, and his observations about Toujou, how Toujou could hit his pitch, and how he shouldn't give up on being a pitcher. My memory is a bit fuzzy but I'm sure there was a comparison between Mukai the ace who went to Koushien already and Toujou who had to shift to outfield...and Mukai having the thought about Toujou giving up the pitcher slot to 'outsiders' (not from Tokyo).

So Toujou is now up to bat. Since the author went to the trouble of referencing that ancient rivalry, I really hope he can hit the ball.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 20, 2022, 05:19:53 PM
Ponyfan what a lovely shelf! 

I don't want to steal the thread so others should share their manga library photos before I show mine...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Itcheeee on July 20, 2022, 09:29:42 PM
I just started re-reading Sailor Moon (it has a new, more accurate translation now) and Pokemon Adventures which I never finished and I'd still ongoing but I intend to catch up this time.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Shaiyeh on July 20, 2022, 11:37:40 PM
Yay for shelves, Ponyfan :D I love seeing manga collections, they always look so neat ^^
I'll show my shelves once we've moved and set them up ^^ I haven't had a proper manga shelf since probably 2012-13? So I'm really excited we're getting shelves for it now for hubbys and my combined collections!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on July 22, 2022, 09:25:05 AM
Oooh I wanna see more manga shelf photos! :D Love seeing collection pics.

Here's mine, not the best pic admittedly but it's the most up-to-date one I could find - could've sworn I had a more recent photo (this is from April 2020) but apparently not... oh well, it still looks pretty much the same anyway.

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Not pictured - 16 vols of Kodansha's Sailor Moon release (inc. Sailor V), 3 vols of Madoka Magica, and the first 7 vols of Tokyo Mew Mew are just off-screen. Still trying to figure out where to put all those Sailor Moon books X_X Can't fit anything else on this shelf, as it is I barely managed to squeeze Furubana and Claudine in there (good thing Claudine is such a slim book). Space is at a premium as you may be able to tell XD really need to find a better place to put Tux. But yeah, atm my Sailor Moon books are all piled up on various other shelves ^^;

I've been debating whether or not to get Kodansha's re-release of Tokyo Mew Mew, I've heard the translation is better than the original.. I love Tokyopop's TL but it really is wonky in places, a bit too localized for my taste in places too. I just wish they hadn't released it in ombinus form, never been a fan of those. Atm I'm holding off on buying it since the series is currently being re-released in Japan with new covers, bonus comics, etc so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that release will make it over here eventually.

Looking forward to seeing more shelf photos :lovey:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 22, 2022, 09:59:58 AM
Thank you everyone.  I'd love to see more pics of everyone's manga too. :)

Here's some more pics of mine.  The shelf is so big that I can't get everything in one pic.  I tried to get pics of the first 2 shelves at different angles so everyone can see what's past Fruits Basket and Yona.

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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 22, 2022, 11:07:26 AM
Your shelves all look so neat :'(

When I get mine more organised, I'll take some pictures if I can. Although most of them aren't on shelves at all, and are not currently in a proper order. Sigh.

Edit: Ok, it's not as pretty as you guys, but it's at least a bit more organised now...

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Literally the only shelf I have on my bookcase with space for manga. It's 2 deep. I can't even remember what's behind these except more Furuba. The manga visible is Fushigi Yuugi, Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden and some of Fruits Basket. The single volume of Nana was a gift from a Japanese friend.

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Most of my manga right now is in these boxes or piled up here. The boxes contain the few bleach volumes I kept, Haruka,SotsuM, Kiniro no Koruda...on the top there's all my current Daiya no Ace Manga, Horimiya and some Mashiro no Oto volumes as well. At the back is Angelique but you can't see them.

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And the ones by my unit...which are currently Moriarty the Patriot, Akatsuki no Yona (the middle column with the red block text on the spine is all Yona) and Saiyuuki (on the right).

There are some more in one of the drawers of my cabinet that I can't currently get at. But this is the majority.

And I seriously don't buy that much manga because of space issues and cost of shipping ><.

I don't have any manga in English any more. I have a few Furuba volumes in French, also a few of another series, but otherwise it's all in Japanese.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 04, 2022, 07:34:49 PM
Wow! : :shocked: :shocked: I love seeing pics of your manga, Taffeta.

*grabby hands at Daiya and Yona*  :lovey: 

Seeing the Japanese versions of Yona is really interesting since the spines are so different from the English releases.


Speaking of Daiya, I'm feeling kind of up and down about the manga right now.

I will say this mind you.

Spoiler
We had a lovely array of Zono-faces in this week's chapter. I love me a good Zono face. ;)

Also:
Spoiler
The game hasn't ended yet. Last week was an evil evil cliffhanger break.

Neither of the above are proper plot spoilers.

The following includes one, however, so read at own risk.

Spoiler
It was so interesting seeing Mukai watching this game this chapter. It's been a LONG time since the game between Seidou and Teitou, and his observations about Toujou, how Toujou could hit his pitch, and how he shouldn't give up on being a pitcher. My memory is a bit fuzzy but I'm sure there was a comparison between Mukai the ace who went to Koushien already and Toujou who had to shift to outfield...and Mukai having the thought about Toujou giving up the pitcher slot to 'outsiders' (not from Tokyo).

So Toujou is now up to bat. Since the author went to the trouble of referencing that ancient rivalry, I really hope he can hit the ball.


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That's really interesting. I had forgotten about Mukai and Toujou being rival pitchers in middle school.  I think Toujou also pitched for Japan's Little League Tournament?


I keep wondering how much longer this game can go on.  It seems like it's taking forever.  It better be worth it in the end.  I will be devastated if  Seidou loses. 



I bought some manga from Amazon. :) 


I still need to read Yona 36.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 05, 2022, 10:27:40 AM
On Daiya...
Spoiler
I feel like the last 2 chapters were basically pointless.

Also, as regards the point in the game that we're at right now...
Spoiler
They're just about to go into the bottom of the ninth. Actual detail spoiler under next tag:
Spoiler
That's Inajitsu batting, Mei should be the next batter.

And...
Spoiler
Based on the pace of the last several chapters, I'm anticipating at least 3 or 4 chapters minimum left, and won't rule out extra innings at this point.

There's just one thing that sticks in my head (this is a proper spoiler, be warned)
Spoiler
When Eijun came off the mound after the eighth, he dropped the water bottle Koushuu gave him as though his fingers were messed up. Remembering Nori in the Yakushi game, I worry a bit about this. I can't see another option for the game except for Eijun to hold down the batters, because the game ought to centre on his performance vs the previous game vs Inajitsu...but...I never know with this mangaka.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 08, 2022, 07:34:06 PM
On Daiya...


There's just one thing that sticks in my head (this is a proper spoiler, be warned)
Spoiler
When Eijun came off the mound after the eighth, he dropped the water bottle Koushuu gave him as though his fingers were messed up. Remembering Nori in the Yakushi game, I worry a bit about this. I can't see another option for the game except for Eijun to hold down the batters, because the game ought to centre on his performance vs the previous game vs Inajitsu...but...I never know with this mangaka.




Spoiler
I hope Eijun's not injured.  Maybe he dropped the bottle for some other reason?  I will be really upset if Eijun has to be taken out of the game due to getting hurt.   


My manga from Amazon came today. :) I bought Sailor Moon Eternal 9 and 10 and Haikyuu 7 and 8.  One of my Haikyuu volumes looks a little rough on the spine but I don't want to send it back because I'd hate to get one that looks even worse.

I also bought Fly Me to the Moon 5 and A Sign of Affection 5 last week. 

Komi 20 comes out tomorrow but I'm debating on whether I want to pick it up right away or wait a bit.  I can usually find Komi pretty easily and I've already spent a lot on books recently.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2022, 02:21:44 PM
This week is a manga break so there's still no new Daiya progress to report anyway. On the previous spoiler...
Spoiler
They still have Furuya in the game so he could go back to the mound, but Nori is out, so there really isn't another option. If Furuya is switched back in, the stupid section of Eijun's fandom are going to implode the internet with complaining. I also think it should be on Eijun. I *want* it to be Nori...but...

I suppose there's Toujou. At a push.

I also hope Eijun can hold down this inning. I suspect he's going to have a hard time vs Mei.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 12, 2022, 07:18:09 PM
I ended up buying Komi 20 this week.  I'm going to try not to buy any more manga until Yona 37 comes out in the US in a couple of months.   Do you know if there is any Yona in Japan past 38 yet? 

Barnes and Noble was having an ebook sale and the first volume of Daiya in English was only $.99! :D  I like having physical copies better than digital, but I couldn't resist that price for a chance to read at least one of the volumes.  Usually, the ebooks are anywhere from $6.-$10.

This week is a manga break so there's still no new Daiya progress to report anyway. On the previous spoiler...
Spoiler
They still have Furuya in the game so he could go back to the mound, but Nori is out, so there really isn't another option. If Furuya is switched back in, the stupid section of Eijun's fandom are going to implode the internet with complaining. I also think it should be on Eijun. I *want* it to be Nori...but...

I suppose there's Toujou. At a push.

I also hope Eijun can hold down this inning. I suspect he's going to have a hard time vs Mei.

Spoiler

I think it should be Eijun too considering what happened in the last game.  I don't see him having an easy time against Mei either but I'm hoping Seidou and Eijun will win the game. 




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 13, 2022, 01:25:37 AM
Well...
Spoiler
He did manage to hold down Shirakawa, and Yamaoka, and so he should be able to manage Mei, if his hand is ok.

This is entirely my theorising but to ratchet up the tension, I can see Mei getting on base and some last minute fielding scramble to prevent a score...

There's also Itsuki, who I don't want to ignore.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 13, 2022, 05:47:32 AM
here is one shelf: 
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Now you have to imagine 3 more shelves just like that.  and yes, it's double stacked and shelved. 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on August 13, 2022, 01:38:12 PM
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Now THAT is a manga bookshelf!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 13, 2022, 03:23:34 PM
Well...
Spoiler
He did manage to hold down Shirakawa, and Yamaoka, and so he should be able to manage Mei, if his hand is ok.

This is entirely my theorising but to ratchet up the tension, I can see Mei getting on base and some last minute fielding scramble to prevent a score...

There's also Itsuki, who I don't want to ignore.



Spoiler
I can see that happening too.  Has Eijun faced Carlos yet? He's the last one I can think of on Inashiro's side that was directly involved in what happened during the last game between the two teams.



I love your shelf lovesbabysquirmy. :D


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 13, 2022, 06:10:02 PM
I think if you look closely you can see we have Fruits Basket 1-6 in Korean as well  :)  2nd shelf from the bottom, on the left
.

It frustrates me that for so many of the series we have, the last volume didn't get translated, or the printing gets cancelled... so they don't exist in English.  So the collection will be forever incomplete...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on August 14, 2022, 06:46:49 AM
LOVE that shelf photo Lovesbabysquirmy!!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 14, 2022, 02:59:12 PM
That's an impressive shelf :D I'd love to be able to do that with my manga :D

@Ponyfan re Daiya (*spoilers*)
Spoiler
It was months ago but I think the answer is yes. Inajitsu start their batting lineup with Carlos. I'm just trying to remember if it was Eijun or Furuya who got him out in the seventh (?). I know he did Shirakawa and Yamaoka, also Saotome with a little help from fielders in the eighth. Iirc the next batter is Mei and then Itsuki as batters 5 and 6. I assume Yane is 7 but I might be wrong.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 05, 2022, 03:33:30 PM
I bought A Man and His Cat 6 and The Way of the Househusband 8 the other day. 

I still need to read Yona 36.  37 comes out next month.  I might wait until that one comes out and then read both of them.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 06, 2022, 12:49:57 AM
I've only flicked through yona 36 and 37, so I have the broad strokes but not all the details.

Last week was yet another week off with Daiya, I am guessing that the writer may be under a lot of stress and needing more time - or he might just want a holiday.

I have a feeling that the next chapter may be pivotal to the whole story.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Shaiyeh on September 06, 2022, 01:01:38 AM
Omg lovely shleves LBS! ;3; eep, I spy Gakuen Alice <3



It frustrates me that for so many of the series we have, the last volume didn't get translated, or the printing gets cancelled... so they don't exist in English.  So the collection will be forever incomplete...

Ohh we have some like that too :( Hibiki's Magic is one, only 2 volumes exist in English, out of... 5? I don't remembe,r but I also had a hard time finding fanlations of it. Sad, because it's a very cute manga.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 06, 2022, 04:36:50 AM
I genuinely started learning Japanese because back in 2007 the Fushigi Yuugi gaiden novels were not translated into English, and there were a few fan translations but not the one I really wanted to read. There were German versions but nothing in English. I started learning Japanese then.

...Fastforward to 2022. They're still not translated into English. I have read them, though :) I obviously ended up doing Japanese more seriously for lots more reasons than just reading Yuugi novels - but the fact that it was quicker to learn Japanese than wait for a translation kind of highlights the gaps in some of these series, even really popular ones like that.

One of my favourite manga series from the late 1990s-early 2000s is entirely in Japanese. There aren't any scanlations. The only part of the material that exists in fan English translation is the OVA which is frankly not very good and misses 90% of the important things about the characters, let alone the overall plot. This series was really popular in Japan, inspired figures, a band, singles, music CDs, drama CDs, novels, and manga. All of which I have and none of which are translated into any language other than Japanese, even 20 years on.

It's so very sad to me that these are so unknown. I made a website about the series maybe 12 years ago and I think it's still up, as I get emails sometimes asking me if I have the songs for this series - which I do, but don't intend on sharing music online. It's just so hard even for people who can read the manga to access it.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2022, 07:07:41 PM
I've only flicked through yona 36 and 37, so I have the broad strokes but not all the details.

Last week was yet another week off with Daiya, I am guessing that the writer may be under a lot of stress and needing more time - or he might just want a holiday.

I have a feeling that the next chapter may be pivotal to the whole story.

Why do I have the feeling that when the Daiya manga starts again there might suddenly be a rainstorm or something else to prolong the story even further?  I think it's officially been a year now since the game started?   

I'm a Koi, Now I'm in Love 3 was released. I need to pick that one up.  I also need to move some of the books on my manga shelf around to make room for the new titles.

Ponyfan
 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on September 11, 2022, 05:38:04 AM
I got The Other World's Books Rely on the Bean-Counter Vol.2 (https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN222135) and enjoying it! The dynamic is hilarious and I get the workaholic trying to be persuaded to ... not be, and the irritation between the leads makes it funny. Dr. Cico is ADOREABLE, I have a huge soft spot for characters with his design.

I'm not normally a fan of hetero-romance manga but Happy Marriage Vol.1 (https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR228865) caught my eye and I might have to order it, as I like the premise.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 12, 2022, 05:24:28 AM
I've only flicked through yona 36 and 37, so I have the broad strokes but not all the details.

Last week was yet another week off with Daiya, I am guessing that the writer may be under a lot of stress and needing more time - or he might just want a holiday.

I have a feeling that the next chapter may be pivotal to the whole story.

Why do I have the feeling that when the Daiya manga starts again there might suddenly be a rainstorm or something else to prolong the story even further?  I think it's officially been a year now since the game started?   

I'm a Koi, Now I'm in Love 3 was released. I need to pick that one up.  I also need to move some of the books on my manga shelf around to make room for the new titles.

Ponyfan
 

Oh, you mentioned that rainstorm tongue in cheek, but you know, delaying tactics are brutal.
Spoiler
Last week's chapter was entirely a time out, with a messenger sent from the bench. THE WHOLE CHAPTER HAD NO GAME ACTION WHATSOEVER. Bear in mind that was the first chapter after a 2 week break and a cliffhanger. GRRR! xD.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 13, 2022, 06:04:50 AM

Oh, you mentioned that rainstorm tongue in cheek, but you know, delaying tactics are brutal.
Spoiler
Last week's chapter was entirely a time out, with a messenger sent from the bench. THE WHOLE CHAPTER HAD NO GAME ACTION WHATSOEVER. Bear in mind that was the first chapter after a 2 week break and a cliffhanger. GRRR! xD.


Spoiler
I was hoping I was wrong but given how many delays we've seen and how many times the game hasn't been progressing, I can't say I'm surprised there's a time out.

You mentioned that Eijun might be injured.  Does the time out have anything to do with that?


I checked the English version, and it's up to

Spoiler
The Fall tournament semifinal game between Seidou and Seiko.



It looks Horimiya 5 is out of print for a while. :(  Every place I've checked so far is out of stock.  Hopefully it will be reprinted soon.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 13, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
I like the first half of Horimiya a lot better than the second.

Spoiler
part of it is his hair, but that's a side issue.

The real main reason why is that
Spoiler
I got a bit fed up with Hori's negative relationship with her Dad and how physical everything got that way.

On Daiya...

Actual spoilers in spoiler tags.

Spoiler
The last chapter, the messenger was Nori, so it was actually quite a nice touch. I've just got shredded nerves by this time.

I only really skimmed it but I don't think it was to do with Eijun's bad fingers although
Spoiler
his pitches were problematic leading up to the time out and
Spoiler
he allowed both Mei and Itsuki on base.

As for this week...
Spoiler
Another cliffhanger.
If you want to know what happened, click the below spoiler tag...
Spoiler
I mean seriously, the real spoiler is coming up...
Spoiler
Yabe hit the ball, Furuya caught it, Furuya sent a rocket ball to the plate, Mei was trying to get to the home plate, Miyuki caught the ball and...we find out next week whether Mei is in or out.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 16, 2022, 03:31:19 PM
Daiya

Spoiler
All of that is worrying me a bit as it seems all signs are pointing to Eijun being injured.  I'm hoping that it's just another one of those things that builds the tension but ends up being nothing in the long run.

Now that I think about it, I think Eijun's the only pitcher that hasn't suffered an injury this whole time.  I know he had yips and that affected his pitching, but it's not the same as Furuya hurting his shoulder and ankle and Nori's fingers becoming numb from a pitch during a game.   I will be sad if Eijun is hurt so close to end.  He's come so far from his early character.

Also, Mei better be out.




I bought Ima Koi, Now I'm in Love 3, Fly Me to the Moon 6, and Haikyuu 9 today. 

I rearranged my manga shelves.  It's not a major reorganization, but it's a little different.

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Yona 37 comes out sooner than I thought in the US.  I'm going to wait to get it before I read 36 and 37. :)

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 17, 2022, 07:34:34 AM
Daiya.

Spoiler
Believe me, I agree Mei had better be out.

On Eijun, I think you're right. He's had psychological injuries but not physical ones. I think his fingers might be like Nori's, though. The impression I got was that he had used so much force in his pitching vs Yamaoka et al that they were suffering a bit. So I don't suppose it would be a longer term injury, just that his fingers need to get through this game. Terajima giving us reason to nailbite again, basically. Too easy for Eijun to come in and hold everything with nobody on base.

Even if Mei is out, Itsuki is still active I think, and I imagine will end up on third while Mei's heading to the plate. So it's not like everything will be done and dusted. There may yet be another nailbiting home plate call even if Mei is dismissed.

Your manga looks pretty:D I probably need to catch up with Yona manga volumes as well. I'm going to wait till the Daiya game ends though, before I order any more manga.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on September 17, 2022, 09:42:56 AM
Beautiful shelf! I'll get the courage to post mine one day  :lol:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 20, 2022, 10:03:46 AM
Not to be repetitive, but again with Daiya.

Real spoilers within.

Spoiler
I'm currently trying to work out whether
Spoiler
the game just ended or not. I know that should be obvious, but the way the pitches are, I'm really not 100% at the moment. Sigh. 

But...
Spoiler
Mei was definitely out at home plate.

Also...
Spoiler
Reading it over, I think it ended...but I guess we'll see next week if it did. The umpire certainly hasn't called it yet, but it does look very final and general conversation in the fandom seems to be that it's done and over with.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 21, 2022, 07:21:47 PM
Not to be repetitive, but again with Daiya.

Real spoilers within.

Spoiler
I'm currently trying to work out whether
Spoiler
the game just ended or not. I know that should be obvious, but the way the pitches are, I'm really not 100% at the moment. Sigh. 

But...
Spoiler
Mei was definitely out at home plate.

Also...
Spoiler
Reading it over, I think it ended...but I guess we'll see next week if it did. The umpire certainly hasn't called it yet, but it does look very final and general conversation in the fandom seems to be that it's done and over with.


Daiya

Spoiler
I'm glad that Eijun's injury (if he is injured) isn't too serious and it's just temporary like Nori's.

If the game ended with Mei being out, has Seidou won? 



Thanks for the compliments on my manga shelf.  :)  I love having so much manga out in one place where I don't have to rotate books as much. I might move some of the books on the bottom shelf to make more room after the next volume of Komi and Yona come out.  I keep saying I won't buy more  Haikyuu until I get further in the anime, but I keep buying them.  I will not buy all of the volumes though unless I really want to after finishing the anime.

I need to get started on some of the series I haven't read yet.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 22, 2022, 12:50:54 AM
Daiya:

Uberspoilers in this tag
Spoiler
The game didn't end with Mei being out, but if the game did end,
Spoiler
yes, Seidou won.

The general view in the fandom is that it's the end and the game is done. I think so too, rereading it multiple times, but the umpire has not called it yet and I'm so wary because this mangaka is such a naughty person when it comes to putting in cliffhangers.

Basically what happened was...
Spoiler
The last chapter ended with Furuya's bullet throw to Miyuki, which he caught in time to get Mei out. Mei acknowledged the back home throw was so good that he couldn't really complain about it. Itsuki was on first base and moved up to second during this time. The third batter, Jinguuji, came up to the plate. Eijun did some thinking about how he wanted to step up to the next level too, beyond this game. Miyuki's like, let's go there, together then. And then it looks like he strikes the guy out. I never take it for granted until the umpire calls it.

Something I can also say outside of spoilers, but it amuses me how some teams have 'themes' in the names of the characters. Inajitsu is a good example. Shirakawa is a place in Kyoto. Jinguuji is in Osaka. Tadano (Itsuki) is in Fukushima. Yabe is also a place name I think. I'm not sure Narumiya is a place name, but a Miya is a shrine, and so, technically, is a 'jinguu'. Yamaoka probably isn't a place name specifically, but the name is made up of 'mountain' and 'hill', which is also sort of in the theme. It just amuses me.

I should be checking out whether Ugumori's characters have names relating to the sengoku or Nobunaga, since in their game against Inajitsu and I think against Seidou, they were throwing out Nobunaga quotes and comparing their games to Nobunaga's battle victories...

Haikyuu does this too iirc. I certainly know that Ushiwaka is a not so subtle nod to Yoshitsune, not least because there's a comment about his teammate being 'Benkei', Yoshitsune's right hand man.


There's probably quite a lot of Haikyuu manga, even if it's not quite as old/long as Daiya. They've managed to squeeze multiple anime series out of it, albeit I think season 1 and season 3 are only about 10 episodes each.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 24, 2022, 12:34:05 PM
Daiya:

Uberspoilers in this tag
Spoiler
The game didn't end with Mei being out, but if the game did end,
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yes, Seidou won.

The general view in the fandom is that it's the end and the game is done. I think so too, rereading it multiple times, but the umpire has not called it yet and I'm so wary because this mangaka is such a naughty person when it comes to putting in cliffhangers.

Basically what happened was...
Spoiler
The last chapter ended with Furuya's bullet throw to Miyuki, which he caught in time to get Mei out. Mei acknowledged the back home throw was so good that he couldn't really complain about it. Itsuki was on first base and moved up to second during this time. The third batter, Jinguuji, came up to the plate. Eijun did some thinking about how he wanted to step up to the next level too, beyond this game. Miyuki's like, let's go there, together then. And then it looks like he strikes the guy out. I never take it for granted until the umpire calls it.

Something I can also say outside of spoilers, but it amuses me how some teams have 'themes' in the names of the characters. Inajitsu is a good example. Shirakawa is a place in Kyoto. Jinguuji is in Osaka. Tadano (Itsuki) is in Fukushima. Yabe is also a place name I think. I'm not sure Narumiya is a place name, but a Miya is a shrine, and so, technically, is a 'jinguu'. Yamaoka probably isn't a place name specifically, but the name is made up of 'mountain' and 'hill', which is also sort of in the theme. It just amuses me.

I should be checking out whether Ugumori's characters have names relating to the sengoku or Nobunaga, since in their game against Inajitsu and I think against Seidou, they were throwing out Nobunaga quotes and comparing their games to Nobunaga's battle victories...

Haikyuu does this too iirc. I certainly know that Ushiwaka is a not so subtle nod to Yoshitsune, not least because there's a comment about his teammate being 'Benkei', Yoshitsune's right hand man.


There's probably quite a lot of Haikyuu manga, even if it's not quite as old/long as Daiya. They've managed to squeeze multiple anime series out of it, albeit I think season 1 and season 3 are only about 10 episodes each.



Daiya


Spoiler
I hope it's confirmed that Seidou won the game in the next chapter.  That is the outcome I've been hoping for since the game started so long ago. :D

Do you think that Eijun wanting to go to the next level might hint at him going pro after he graduates?   


I don't really want the series to continue once Miyuki and the rest of his classmates graduate from Seidou. It would be nice if it ends with them winning and celebrating especially if Chris and the rest of his year mates join them. :D

I don't mind spoilers for this game. I'd rather know how it ends in case we get another season of anime.   





That's really interesting about the place names.  I think a lot of those details are lost if you don't understand the context behind it and I love learning all of those things. :)


I think Haikyuu has 44 or 45 volumes.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 25, 2022, 12:28:08 AM
Daiya...
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The more I read it, the more I think it's done. The momentum and the pitching - it's a bit more clearcut than I first though, though it's not been announced. I'm also going by Jinguuji's expression. Do you remember that scene in the Yakushi final where in the anime there was no dialogue and they put it to music? The manga also had no dialogue for those scenes, and while Eijun's is not quite as complete as that, it does feel like that kind of moment.

I have always felt like Daiya is really the story of Eijun and Miyuki's battery and the wider Seidou team. I agree with you about Eijun thinking on potentially going pro, because while he's reflecting on everything, he remembers Miyuki asking Furuya whether *he* has ever thought about it. Plus I remember right back at the *very* start, he narrates something about it being the beginning of his journey...which maybe suggests something more?

I have a lot of other things I'd like to say about Inajitsu and Seidou in general but I'm going to wait until the game is confirmed.

Hm, so Haikyuu is basically as long as Act I, almost.

Edit to add:
Daiya:
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Final confirmation as of today's new chapter...
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Seidou have won :)
This chapter was really very cool, and surprisingly, it was a great chapter for Mei and Itsuki as well as it was for Eijun, Miyuki and the rest. I've come to be fond of Mei, which I didn't expect to happen given how mad I was with him and his team over the previous summer final.

Daiya is now on hiatus till Oct 12th. I discovered there's only one volume currently out that I am missing atm, I'm going to wait a little while because I'm sure there must be another one coming shortly. The latest volume I think is Act II vol 31, and it has Shirakawa on the front.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 30, 2022, 04:17:32 PM
Daiya


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I'm so excited that Seidou won. :D  Now I can go back to hoping for another season of the anime.

I've been thinking about it, and I wouldn't mind the story continuing as long as Miyuki and the rest of his class stay active in the story and don't just become "guest characters" (not showing up all of the time).

I've always thought that line at the beginning of Act 2 (I think it's something like "That was the day it began...")  when Eijun takes the dirt from the stadium when they're leaving after losing to  Komadai is significant.  Is that the same line that's in the manga?


 I think Eijun would make a great pro player. :D   I'd love to see Eijun and Miyuki on the same pro team someday.



I'm hoping to pick up Yona 37 next week.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 01, 2022, 02:00:17 AM
I have vol 39 in my amazon.jp basket, along with vol 31 of Daiya Act II. I'm just waiting because I'm convinced there'll be another Daiya volume in October, given the usual span of time between them...and I'd rather save the shipping cost. Especially since the exchange rate right now is horrible thanks to our incompetent govt.

On Daiya, I'm going to babble in a spoiler, you can read or not as you see fit.
Spoiler
I really liked this chapter, and not just for the Seidou celebrations.
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I noticed that Inajitsu are cursed with the 2-1 scoreline. They lost to Ugumori by the same final score in the autumn tournament.

I guess Mei's fear that this generation was a weak link has come to pass, although Mei himself is not a part of that weak link IMO.

I don't feel like the rest of Inajitsu had to face the same challenges that Mei did, and thus didn't grow or develop like the Seidou lot did. They chose to go with Mei and picked the easy path - and it profited them while they had Harada etc to help them, but in the end they fell short.

BUT what I really want to mention about this chapter is how nicely it presents Mei.

First, as the senpai supporting Itsuki who is frankly broken, but secondly, with his interaction with Miyuki afterwards.

And now we move on to Koushien. But the manga is on hiatus until Oct 12th.

There are rumours that there will be a season 4 of Daiya in Spring 2023. It hasn't been officially confirmed but it would make sense. They tend to run long seasons with Daiya. The only question is whether they'll go back and animate the missing Yakushi/Ichidai Sankou game, or whether they won't.

I think most of the fanbase assumed the animators were waiting for the summer final to conclude in the manga before kicking off a new season. The anime and manga might not have been as popular stateside and in the west as Haikyuu (still not sure why) but it's very popular in Japan, and has a big following...so it seems unlikely there won't be a season 4 at some point.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 04, 2022, 11:00:04 AM
It looks like I underestimated how much people were waiting for Yona 37 to come out in the US.  I'm glad it's so popular but Amazon. Rightstuf, Barnes and Noble online and the bookstore in the mall don't have it in stock.  It's possible that the bookstore hasn't got their shipment in yet.
 Sometimes they don't get it in time for release day.  It's been a while since I wasn't able to get a Yona book when I wanted to at the bookstore. If I would have known it would be this hard to get I would have preordered it from Amazon.

Adding to the mystery is the fact that Viz announced today that vol 37 was released in physical and ebook form as scheduled.  If that's true does it mean that most of the first shipment went to those that preordered the book?

Yona has 39 vols now? I was wondering if there was anything past 38.  I think i mentioned this before, but we have a placeholder date in the US for vol 38

 Daiya

Spoiler
I want to make a comment about it taking way to long for a game that ended 2-1 to play (no pun intended) out, but I won't. :wink:

I'm glad Mei is being a good senpai to Ituski.  I don't have the advantage of knowing everything that's happened in the manga with Mei since the anime ended but Mei has grown a lot since the Ugumori game.


I hope Seidou has a better experience at Koushien.this time.



I really hope there is a 4th season of Daiya. Since they already started the tournament that just ended it should be easy to continue (that being said we have the Yona anime ending in a weird place).


 I like Haikyuu but I love Daiya  more.  I wonder if the fact that it's harder to get the manga and access the anime (no dub, anime is only on Crunchyroll) in the US is a factor in why  Haikyuu is more popular here.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 06, 2022, 12:30:17 AM
The availability might be a factor, which may also relate to timing since Daiya began in 2006 and if they were slow on the uptake in translating it it would've left them a lot of work to do. Haikyuu anime also has a dub version which helps increase people's attention. I agree that Daiya is better than Haikyuu overall, but I think the other thing is that Haikyuu is fairly gentle with no massive disasters, setbacks or emotionally destructive incidents. The characters are well-written but they don't get forced into the situations the Daiya ones do, because
Spoiler
unlike Daiya, the third years don't have to retire from the team at the same point
and
Spoiler
It follows a much more predictable line to get Karasuno to where they want to be.

The other thing about Daiya is that
Spoiler
it focuses on the powerhouse school, which isn't actually that common as far as I can see. The underdog narrative is more common (eg Karasuno as fallen champions, crows that don't fly, etc). I don't know whether that aspect resonates at all in the West more than in the East. I can't personally see why because Daiya is full of underdogs, both at Seidou and in opposition, but it's hard to know for sure.

I think it mostly comes down to the fact Haikyuu is gentler, though. It's an easy to watch/read sports series with good characters that probably isn't going to make you cry. Whereas frankly, it would be pretty weird to read/watch Daiya and not cry.

Vol 39 of Yona has Soo Won on the front, looking either startled or perturbed. Knowing roughly where 38 left things, this is a little concerning to me. I do think Yona is working towards a big finale but I worry about that finale quite a lot.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on October 07, 2022, 12:04:24 PM
When my manga was in storage, I kept a word file with all my titles so I could kinda keep track and half gloat over them. Decided to update it so it would make counting them easier (and kinda help if I ever need insurance).

... I am very foolish lol it's VERY out of date, and I chose a format that was close to the format of an old job, so it's a lot of work for stupid reasons!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 08, 2022, 11:51:09 AM

The availability might be a factor, which may also relate to timing since Daiya began in 2006 and if they were slow on the uptake in translating it it would've left them a lot of work to do. Haikyuu anime also has a dub version which helps increase people's attention. I agree that Daiya is better than Haikyuu overall, but I think the other thing is that Haikyuu is fairly gentle with no massive disasters, setbacks or emotionally destructive incidents. The characters are well-written but they don't get forced into the situations the Daiya ones do, because
Spoiler
unlike Daiya, the third years don't have to retire from the team at the same point
and
Spoiler
It follows a much more predictable line to get Karasuno to where they want to be.

The other thing about Daiya is that
Spoiler
it focuses on the powerhouse school, which isn't actually that common as far as I can see. The underdog narrative is more common (eg Karasuno as fallen champions, crows that don't fly, etc). I don't know whether that aspect resonates at all in the West more than in the East. I can't personally see why because Daiya is full of underdogs, both at Seidou and in opposition, but it's hard to know for sure.

I think it mostly comes down to the fact Haikyuu is gentler, though. It's an easy to watch/read sports series with good characters that probably isn't going to make you cry. Whereas frankly, it would be pretty weird to read/watch Daiya and not cry.

Vol 39 of Yona has Soo Won on the front, looking either startled or perturbed. Knowing roughly where 38 left things, this is a little concerning to me. I do think Yona is working towards a big finale but I worry about that finale quite a lot.

I looked up the release date for the English digital version of Daiya and they started in 2017.  I can see how that might be a factor in why it's less popular in the West.  10 years is a long time for a manga to be translated in to English.  It's also published by Kodansha who have a habit of pouring more marketing and resources in to the best sellers and not doing the same for releases that aren't a guaranteed money maker. :(
 
Warning:  Small rant ahead.  :argh: :argh:


I'm a little annoyed at Viz right now. :(  They have several different subdivisions that print certain mangas.  I've never paid much attention to what division publishes which series, other than to notice that some have series have different labels on them.  Right now, there's some kind of problem with Viz' Shojo Beat division and the newest releases of Yona and Snow White with the Red Hair among others weren't ready before the expected release date to be sent out to bookstores and websites.  I understand problems happen, but one of the reasons I'm annoyed is that this information was only posted on Twitter.  There's nothing on the Viz Facebook page, Viz website or anywhere else that I can find about the delay. The other is that is if Viz knew there was a distribution problem, why did they wait until release day to mention it, and it was only after people started complaining that they couldn't find Yona and Snow White with the Red Hair in stores or online?   It's been months since the last Yona book come out in the US so I don't see why they weren't more forthcoming with information that there was a problem with Shojo Beat titles  As far as I know there's not a problem with the other divisions so I have no idea why whatever is happening with Shojo Beat isn't affecting the other series.

 Amazon is now showing a November release date for Yona 37. They're also showing it at an increased price than the other volumes have been (Many Viz titles are around $10.  The price for Yona 38 on Amazon is $15).  I've been expecting the day when Viz would have to raise the prices on their books due to if inflation, so I'm curious whether that is another factor in the books being delayed.  I would still pay for the book even with the price going up 50% but again a little honest communication from Viz would go a long way.

I'm a little worried about Yona 37


Spoiler

Hak looks like he's been injured on the cover.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 08, 2022, 12:35:40 PM
Yona/37
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I haven't got 39 yet, but Hak was still alive in 38.

I wonder if they had a print run issue or something. I'm sure that there should be a volume of Daiya soon, but it's not been advertised and it's a bit odd. It's about average to be 1 every 3 months, and it's been 4 months and no announcement yet...

Though there were a lot of hiatus weeks over the summer so maybe that's it. Perhaps there are corrections to do...I dunno.

I ordered Yona 39 and Daiya A2-31 because I needed to get something else from amazon japan, and combined the orders.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 11, 2022, 03:38:47 PM
Yona 37

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That makes me feel better. :) I know sometimes the illustrations on the front don't have anything to do with the story but seeing Hak injured made me worried.  I also heard that 37 ends on a major cliffhanger.  I won't ask what it is though. ;)


Whatever the issue was with the Shojo Beat titles last week has been fixed and Yona 37 should be in bookstores soon.  I'm hoping the bookstore will have it in stock by this weekend. :D

I'm still a little confused though as some sites are showing different prices for Yona.  Rightstuf anime and Barnes and Noble show the full price as $10 but Amazon is still showing $14. I could understand if everyone increased the price, but why is Amazon higher than all the others when it's shipped and sold by Amazon and not a 3rd party seller? 

Edit:  Now Amazon is showing the same price as everyone else.  Maybe it was a mistake somewhere within Amazon.  I hope no one ordered it for the increased price only to see it go back down to the right one today. 

I'm waiting impatiently for Yona 37 to arrive at the bookstore or Amazon. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 14, 2022, 03:50:30 PM
Still waiting for Yona 37 to be in stock at the bookstore. :sigh:  I'll probably just order it from Amazon this weekend.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 17, 2022, 09:59:07 AM
So I was away for a few days, my manga arrived just before I left.

Yona 39
Spoiler
I think nobody died.

Daiya...the new chapter (Act II 306)
I don't suppose this needs to go in a spoiler as it isn't about the plot exactly...
The end of the chapter said "2 chapters from the end/final chapter".

...So. What does this mean...?

Spoiler
When Act I ended, it ended with the autumn final win. Koushien was just a kind of 'starting now' scene at the very end of the last chapter. Act II began with Koushien.
BUT.
Act II also began the new school year.

I did think there was a chance that he might decide to end Daiya with the summer final win and NOT take it further. Then again, because of how Act I went, I suppose I hope he'll take a proper break and then come back and write the summer tournament at koushien and finish it off properly.

...I guess we'll find out in a few weeks time.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 18, 2022, 06:54:14 PM
I'm still waiting for Amazon to get Yona 37 in stock. I ordered it over the weekend, but the page keeps saying "will ship in 1-2" days.  I know I'm just being impatient though.  I got a shipping notification yesterday and thought it was for Yona but it was for the other thing I ordered at the same time.

Yona

Spoiler

I'm glad no one died.  I get worried about that from time to time especially when the covers hint at someone being hurt.   I also worry about Jaeha and Zeno the most.  Jaeha seems a bit more vulnerable than the others and I feel sorry that Zeno can feel all of the pain of dying even though he immediately regenerates. 




Daiya


Spoiler

I'm torn between wanting the story to continue and wanting it to end.  I really don't want to see Miyuki and the rest of his year mates leave Seidou and become side characters. 

I thought that it might end with the game ending too. If they can win  Koushien I wouldn't mind the series going on. 

I had forgotten that Act 2 started the new school year.  Now that you reminded me, I remember all of subtitle errors in that episode where it was showing everyone's year and position.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 19, 2022, 12:05:23 AM
CR are so good at subtitle errors and Daiya has a few :P

Spoiler
I would like to see them play and win (?!) Koushien. I feel like this week's chapter (306) was a bit mean in that regard if he doesn't intend to come back and finish the story properly.

Spoiler
306 had the aftermath of the game still, but involved the reaction of a whole bunch of other characters, including those in Hokkaidou, so it felt like it was building up for the tournament...but also not? I don't know how to explain it really.

Miyuki had a text from Mima as well, a see you at Koushien one.

If they went on and won Koushien then I don't mind Miyuki and co retiring, because a: when Inajitsu were in the summer tournament the previous year there was some other tournament they were involved in right up to the start of the autumn tournament which meant the third years didn't retire yet and b: so long as Miyuki was still at the school, we'd see him maybe helping support the new team in some way.

It would be a positive not a negative.

I don't really want a third year for Eijun arc, but if there was an Act III that covered Koushien and then the rebuilding of the team to the new autumn tournament - I would be fine with that.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on October 19, 2022, 05:59:21 AM
I have learned that if there is a publishing delay in manga, find a way to buy your book by whatever means possible! 

Often that volume will NOT be re-printed and you'll be forced to search for it in other markets than just your local bookstore! 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 21, 2022, 07:27:23 PM
My copy of Yona 37 from Amazon arrived today. :cheer:  Ironically, the bookstore got their shipment in today too. 

It was just a few years back that I started buying Yona. Many of the earlier volumes are waiting to be reprinted now.  One day I noticed that the Viz logo was a little different on some of the volumes.  When I started looking closer, I saw that the ones with the different logo were part of the volume's first printing and some of the earlier volumes with the current logo are reprints.  I don't care what printing my manga is, but I find it interesting that some volumes hadn't exhausted their first printing yet when I bought them. 

Daiya

Spoiler
All of that is really interesting. I had forgotten about the other tournament that Inashiro was in, but now that you mention it, I think I remember a reporter saying something about Inashrio's 3rd years played longer than the other teams.

I'm just throwing ideas out now, but I think it would be nice to see Miyuki Eijun, Mochi and several of the other main characters on the same pro team for the final ending. :)  It's probably not realistic that they'd all end up on the same team, but we can dream. :D
   



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on October 22, 2022, 08:31:04 AM
Ponyfan I am so happy you were able to get your book.  :)  Publishing delays and cancellations are the WORST.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 22, 2022, 03:46:05 PM
Thank you lovesbabysqurimy. :D  I was a little worried that it might get lost or something before it arrived but I'm so happy it came and in good condition too.  I've seen a few people say they got books from Amazon that looked like they were returns even though the books were supposed to be new.

I picked up Fly to me Moon 7 and 8 and Haikyuu 10 and 11 today.

Has anyone read Snow White with the Red Hair?  I'm trying to decide if I want to start that one.  I looked at vol 1 today but the bookstore was out of vol 2.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 23, 2022, 01:13:03 PM
I watched the first couple of episodes of Snow White but the main character irked me and the main male character did too. There seemed to be a lot of convenient explication. It's no Yona, in my opinion. Though I do think it to be quite popular, I just couldn't get into it.

The manga could be better, though. It's hard to say with anime adaptations. I just usually begin there because of the import cost otherwise.

On Daiya...the 'last' chapter dropped today.

Spoiler
I've only skimmed it, and I'm really not sure at the moment what it means or if it is actually the end of the series. I do think it might be, though. It will leave a lot of people unsatisfied, because we all want to see the team conquer Koushien, but I don't remember seeing the 完 character at the end of Act I. I need to go check vol 47...

Ok, vol 47 says End of Daiya no Ace part 1, go to next (part). But I don't know what the original manga said, because I remember reading him saying he wasn't sure he would continue and then he did.

The other reason I have a smidge of doubt is that the very last statement on the last page of the manga is
Spoiler
Eijun stating this is the beginning of his new/next adventure.

I actually wonder what the potential is for a future manga spinoff in the pro league.

Also, since they only got to C in their money making spam spinoff alphabet with Daiya no Cat, I can't imagine the publishers will want to let it all go just yet.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 26, 2022, 11:46:15 AM
Thanks, Taffeta.  I looked at the synopsis for  Snow White vols 1 and 2 and they don't really grab me.  I'll probably give the anime a try before I decide to buy them.  I tried to get in to the Spy Family manga, but it's more interesting to me to watch the anime instead of trying to read the manga. 

 Daiya


Spoiler

I hope it's not the end and we will see Seidou go on and win Koushien.  That being said though, if it ends where it is now, at least we know Seidou won the game, enjoying the celebration and are going to Koushien.

I hope Eijun saying that is a hint that the manga will continue. :D

 I started thinking the other day about which characters will probably go pro after high school, but there's so many that my post would be really long if I named them all.  :lol:  I've read a lot of fanfics about Miyuki and Eijun going pro, but playing on different teams.  It makes for a good story, but I can't see that officially happening since forming a battery with Miyuki was the reason that Eijun wanted to come to Seidou in the first place.

I don't know a lot about the spinoff series, but I think I read that Daiya no B was about the characters being in a band?  I'm assuming Daiya no Cat has something to do with cats?




I'm hoping that I will get a chance to read Yona 36 and 37 soon. :D  I started looking at 37 the other day before I remembered that I needed to read 36.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on October 30, 2022, 12:42:16 PM
I finished updating my manga list!!! It was more fun updating this previously, now I'll need to keep on top of it @_@ But yeah that's it all up to date with pictures, authors and publishers! I came across Kiss Him, Not Me! again as that series has finished since I last updated the list and I am STILL mad at how it ended!

Spoiler
Kae should have ended up with the girl for SURE, and none of the boys ended up with each other, despite hints?? I kinda know part of the series is to show that Kae is kinda being weird by shipping real people who have no interest in each other, but I still genuinely thought with the set-up that she and the girl would pair, then the four boys would split to two pairs? It genuinely seems she settled with the sleepy-eyed chill one at random. THE GIRL WAS PERFECT FOR HER!!!!!! I DON'T GET IT!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 31, 2022, 07:30:00 AM
I need to update my manga list too.

I've been thinking about rereading Honey So Sweet. 

I noticed Amazon has restocked a lot of the Horimiya volumes.  My budget's pretty tight right now though, so it will be a while before I can get more of that series.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 11, 2022, 07:03:17 PM
It seems like every time I want to relax and read manga something comes up. :(  Hopefully soon I'll be able to read Yona 36 and 37.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 17, 2022, 04:57:28 PM
So, some Daiya news I just found online...

Daiya is to continue at least until the end of the Teitou and Ugumori game. (Ugumori better win). But Terajima sensei needs a break, which I think everyone had already assumed. He wants to at least finish that, I think it's important that he does as well, because you know, completion.

But the article is quite interesting. I wonder how that kind of chapter distribution might affect availability outside of Japan...we'll see what happens. It will obviously not be right away, but I can 100% understand that Jump's scheduling is not condusive to good health. He pretty much broke down after Act I so this was predictable and he needs to make sure he is ok before trying to go on.

Link to article (I can't see anything not site friendly but click with care in case of adverts, I don't know what they will show in other regions)
https://www.animegeek.com/ace-of-diamond-act-3-manga-sequel-east-tokyo-finals-daiya-no-ace-act-3-creator-yuji-terajima/
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 19, 2022, 05:52:54 PM
So, some Daiya news I just found online...

Daiya is to continue at least until the end of the Teitou and Ugumori game. (Ugumori better win). But Terajima sensei needs a break, which I think everyone had already assumed. He wants to at least finish that, I think it's important that he does as well, because you know, completion.

But the article is quite interesting. I wonder how that kind of chapter distribution might affect availability outside of Japan...we'll see what happens. It will obviously not be right away, but I can 100% understand that Jump's scheduling is not condusive to good health. He pretty much broke down after Act I so this was predictable and he needs to make sure he is ok before trying to go on.

Link to article (I can't see anything not site friendly but click with care in case of adverts, I don't know what they will show in other regions)
https://www.animegeek.com/ace-of-diamond-act-3-manga-sequel-east-tokyo-finals-daiya-no-ace-act-3-creator-yuji-terajima/

Daiya

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If I'm understanding everything, the Teitou vs Ugumori  game is the final game for the East Tokyo division and the team that wins will head to Koushien? I was confused for a second because I remembered Seidou playing against East Tokyo teams, but I think that was the Fall Tournament and the previous Summer one.

It must be hard to try to keep up with a demanding release schedule when you're writing a manga.  I remember reading the author of Fruits Basket had some kind of trouble when they were getting near the end of the story and if you look closely, some of the drawings especially of Machi don't look as polished as the drawings at the beginning. 

I bought A Man and His Cat 7, and Horimiya 5 and 6 today.  I'm still holding you responsible for getting me in to another series.   :P 

While I was looking at manga, I heard several discussions around me.  It made me smile because I heard conversations about Fruits Basket, Sailor Moon and My Dress Up Darling.  My favorite one was about Fruits Basket because I heard someone say "Look, Fruits Basket!" followed by someone saying  "Furuba!"  :)


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 20, 2022, 09:40:17 AM
I take pride in corrupting you to good manga :D

And you're correct on your Daiya assumptions :D

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The summer tournament is split into east and west, the autumn one isn't.

So Teitou v Ugumori is the East final and the winner will go to Koushien. Teitou are the east block equivalent of Inajitsu, but I'd love to see Ugumori win and take Nao there!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on November 20, 2022, 11:21:51 AM
Manga releases are quiet for me at the moment, I still look at Previews every week to see what's coming out. I'm waiting for Crimson Spell Vol.7 that MIGHT be the final volume according to what I'm understanding from a foreign listing.

There's a BEAUTIFUL Therapy Game box set that the Italian translation got?? I'm tempted to get it for the sheer loveliness of the box. Why can't we have that  :cry:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 28, 2022, 07:24:30 PM
I've seen some pretty box sets, but I don't own any.  Demon Slayer has an attractive one (it draws my attention even though I don't read that series).  The first releases of Sailor Moon had some nice artwork on the box sets. I was surprised that I saw a box set of Rent a Girlfriend at Walmart.   :shocked:  Most of the Walmarts in my area carry some of the most popular manga titles, but to see a box set is rare.

I try to keep up with Yona and Komi releases even if I'm behind on reading them. :)  I still need to read Yona 36 and 37.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 09, 2022, 07:27:22 PM
I bought more manga today.  I bought Ima Koi 4,  Horimiya 7, Fly Me to the Moon 9 and Rainbow Days 1. 

I'm taking a chance on Rainbow Days; hopefully I won't get in to the same situation I did with My Love Mix Up.  I bought My Love Mix Up based on the synopsis and after I got home and did a little more research about it, found out it wasn't a series I was going to enjoy.


I also saw the newest Komi at the bookstore, but the official release date in the US is the 13th.  I wish they'd stop putting titles out early. It's so annoying to see the book right there in front of me and know I can't buy it yet.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on December 10, 2022, 04:06:44 AM
I bought the Therapy Game box set as it came down in price and it's still so beautiful. I re-read a bit of it the other day and I'm still in love with how funny and spicy-sweet it is. The main lead is just so earnest in his love!

I am thinking about getting Case Files of Jeweller Richard (https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC212094) as I got hints there was something to this, and it turns out I might be right as
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according to a reviewer of later in the series, it's hinted that Seigi is in love with Richard's beauty, and Richard himself clarifies in a conversation that he has never had a male lover, implying only women before

I'll still consider it.

Under the spoiler I'm going to be talking about a VERY notorious series, with a lot of subject matter that's not allowed on this forum. I won't talk about specifics but yeah, it's a dark series.

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I somehow started reading Killing Stalking (https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR222144), a Korean series that was all over Tumblr a couple of years ago. At first, I didn't understand why people liked this series at all, it just seemed to be never ending torment with no let-up. I skipped a little and found a lightening of the mood, and it drew me in with how it keeps you on edge, and Koogi is VERY good at calling back to earlier scenes and moments, and some things make so much sense in context once background is revealed. The more we learn about Sangwoo, the more interesting it gets and it's VERY little wonder considering what's happened to both of them that both Sangwoo and Bum hallucinate. I still don't like how young Bum looks at time, especially when compared to Sangwoo who is YOUNGER than him, but that's due to the difference in builds and Bum's severely traumatising background. Bum really is treated so horribly by the universe ...

I read it online and I might get the paperback as it just refuses to leave me alone.

I know the ending, and I have many thoughts. I know it's controversial amongst the fandom, and I found it profoundly sad and yet fitting. Another spoiler below:

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I don't think Sangwoo is alive. I find it odd that both Bum and the detective are told to 'come back tomorrow', but I do believe he died considering how badly he was burned. I think Bum is hallucinating, especially considering his facial bandages are gone when he starts hearing Sangwoo call him in the house, and reappear when he sees him crossing the road. I think Bum is again hallucinating, and I think the implication is that he was run over and killed, especially taking into consideration the taxi driver's comments about Bum being in the middle of the road earlier in the chapter
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 15, 2022, 03:18:31 PM
I picked up Komi 22 today.  :)  I'm going to try to avoid buying new manga for a while now.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 17, 2022, 07:00:15 PM
Komi has a really pretty box set for the first 4 volumes.   I was surprised when I saw it at Target today.  The box art is so captivating but I'm not buying books I already have just to get a pretty box. :silly: 

I'm hoping to get a chance to catch up on Yona soon.  I still need to read volumes 36 and 37.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 18, 2022, 12:25:40 AM
I have both Moriarty and Yona to read. And I need to grab the latest Daiya release which was out a couple of days ago, although I will wait now till the new year and hopefully the last volume(S) before I order it. Still hopeful that we will see a season 4 anime some time early this year.

Moriarty is still ongoing but I really need to catch up before I think about buying any more.

I don't know about any fresh Yona releases either. In Jan, I shall find out.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 23, 2022, 07:35:38 PM
I want a season 4 of Daiya too.  :D  I keep hoping we'll hear some official news soon.

I read Yona 36 today

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Several things about 36 worry me a bit, espeically Yona's dream.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 24, 2022, 01:12:29 AM
Oh yes.

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Don't get me started on Yona's dream. It's been freaking me out ever since the volume was released. Bear in mind she had a sort of dream-predict at the start, didn't she? About having to flee the castle...and thinking of her mother, too :/
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on December 24, 2022, 05:28:42 AM
I've still to read Case Files of Jeweller Richard properly, but what I DID glance through was so promising I ordered Vol.2, 3, 4 and the first Light Novel! Sadly I somehow got the novel and Vol.4 before 2 and 3 and Wordery has advised that Vol.2 as well as my copy of Banana Fish Vol.1 is delayed.

I got Killing Stalking Vol.1 and I weighed it as it's an absolute BRICK! It weighs 847g!!!!!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 28, 2022, 03:33:57 PM
Oh yes.

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Don't get me started on Yona's dream. It's been freaking me out ever since the volume was released. Bear in mind she had a sort of dream-predict at the start, didn't she? About having to flee the castle...and thinking of her mother, too :/


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I really hope it's nothing more than a nightmare brought on by the current circumstances Yona finds herself in, but the fact that Yona seems to have inherited some of her mother's abilities to see the future worries me.

 Also, the fact that even though Yona was unconscious, she dreamed/saw Suwon's coronation.

I think when Yona told Hak about her dream that they were being chased out of the palace, she mentioned the palace was on fire?  If I remember correctly that didn't happen during their escape.


I also read Yona 37

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What a cliffhanger. :wail:  Between Yona's dream and Hak missing after the flood it's going to be hard to wait until March when 38 comes out in the US.  I refuse to believe that Hak is dead. I'm sure he'll turn up alive somewhere. 



Now that I'm caught up on Yona for a while, I'm wondering if I should start Komi or another series.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 29, 2022, 11:04:36 AM
IIRC
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Hak was alive in v.38 or 39. I haven't read any of these properly yet, but I always check to see everyone's still around...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 29, 2022, 03:12:25 PM
IIRC
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Hak was alive in v.38 or 39. I haven't read any of these properly yet, but I always check to see everyone's still around...


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*lets out breath Ponyfan's been holding since finishing v 37*

Knowing Hak is alive in later volumes makes me feel a lot better. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 07, 2023, 03:24:30 PM
I picked up Haikyuu 12, 13 14 and Fly Me to the Moon 10 today. :)


I'm going to try not to buy any more manga for at least a month until the next volume of Komi or Yona comes out. 

I've started taking pictures on my phone of the manga shelves so I can keep track of what volume of need next so I don't end up accidentally buying a book I already have.

I also heard an interesting conversation in the manga section today, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate to talk about here. It wasn't a conversation you hear about manga everyday.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 08, 2023, 07:25:50 AM
Has anybody picked up Spy X Family?  I saw some fanart on Pintrest and I am vaguely intrigued. 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on January 08, 2023, 08:22:32 AM
Could you tell us the basic gist or theme of the talk? I'm intrigued now.

I have a word document with a list of my manga, although it's just the paper ones, I don't have a list of my digital manga as I only ever buy digital if it doesn't exist in paper form (so FAKE Second Season in  English and Awkward Silence extra books). It's a long-winded way of doing it but it's kinda satisfying! It comes in handy with long series such as World's Greatest First Love. It has the title, author/artist, publisher (since I have both the Juné and SuBLime versions of the Viewfinder series) and a picture of the cover.

I'm not seeing much on Previews lately, Caste Heaven has come out but I'm still avoiding that series like an utter plague (yes, eventhough I have read Killing/Stalking, but the setup is quite different). I'm still waiting for Crimson Spell or Other World's Bookkeeper etc.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on January 08, 2023, 12:12:36 PM
I've got a .txt file list of all my manga (+ western comics), I keep a copy of it on my site server too so I can quickly check it on my phone while I'm out :)

I'm curious about the conversation too!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 08, 2023, 04:00:14 PM
I've only watched SpyxFamily, not read it. I've no space to add another series to my manga collection atm, though I do think it's a beautiful series and I love it :)

It's funny you say that about reading, Ponyfan. I got down to reading Yona 36 and 37 finally, and forgot I hadn't read 36 so I first picked up 37 and then went, huh, what is going on here? XD But I am fine now. I've got 38 and 39 on my unit here, ready to be read next.

Spoiler about the previous spoiler tag...
Spoiler
Confirm Hak is definitely alive.

New Yona on 20 Jan so I'll order that and 32 of Daiya Act II, which may or may not be the last official volume of Act 2, I am not sure if there will be another *sob*. I want to reread Act II but I'm sort of waiting for the anime to catch up since I'm lazy and cba to grab all my volumes. I did reread half of it last year but got distracted.

I will probably never like
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the Seihou game thanks to stupid/toxic fans trying to make it some kind of Eijun and Koushuu battery epiphany
but now the series has 'ended' I feel more comfortable with it, knowing that the fan nonsense was just nonsense and
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the battery that mattered in the end was the one built up from the start.

I intend to try and catch back up with Yuukoku no Moriarty once I'm square with Yona again. I think I'm around vol 8, and that's not even halfway. There's a lot more stories in the manga than in the animation. And Horimiya, as I haven't read the last few volumes, but the first half of that series is the best imo. It gets a bit redundant with
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Kyouko's relationship with her father and her other violent tendencies.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 09, 2023, 03:49:41 PM


It's funny you say that about reading, Ponyfan. I got down to reading Yona 36 and 37 finally, and forgot I hadn't read 36 so I first picked up 37 and then went, huh, what is going on here? XD But I am fine now. I've got 38 and 39 on my unit here, ready to be read next.

Spoiler about the previous spoiler tag...
Spoiler
Confirm Hak is definitely alive.
.




I did the same thing. I picked up Yona 37 and realized it wasn't where I remembered things being left off at the end of 35 and then remembered that I hadn't read 36. 


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It makes me really happy to know that Hak is still alive. I figured he would be, but the fact that Keishuk was talking like he was sure Hak was dead had me worried.





New Yona on 20 Jan so I'll order that and 32 of Daiya Act II, which may or may not be the last official volume of Act 2, I am not sure if there will be another *sob*. I want to reread Act II but I'm sort of waiting for the anime to catch up since I'm lazy and cba to grab all my volumes. I did reread half of it last year but got distracted.

I will probably never like
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the Seihou game thanks to stupid/toxic fans trying to make it some kind of Eijun and Koushuu battery epiphany
but now the series has 'ended' I feel more comfortable with it, knowing that the fan nonsense was just nonsense and
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the battery that mattered in the end was the one built up from the start.



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I like Koushuu, but I've always felt Eijun's best battery partner is Miyuki.  There's a special bond between Eijun and Miyuki that shows especially when they're partners that doesn't happen when either one of them are paired with someone else.   

Sometimes I wonder what an Eijun/Chris battery would have been like if Chris hadn't been injured the year before.

@lovesbabysquirmy

I've enjoyed the Spy x Family anime.  I've had the manga in my hands a couple of times, but I've never made it to the cash register with it.  That being said I'll probably end up with a few volumes eventually. :)


Since so many are interested in the conversation I overhead I'll try to put it in Arena friendly terms.

While I was deciding what manga to buy I heard a few people come in to that section of the bookstore also.  They were shopping for a young teenager's birthday. 

The teenage girl saw a series she wanted and had already read online.  The girl said her mom said she couldn't have it though because it had inappropriate pictures in it.  The person that was buying her something for her birthday said she didn't care if the teenager got it because she could find that kind of stuff easily on her phone. 

I don't know what series they were talking about.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 10, 2023, 01:11:51 AM
On Daiya,

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Koushuu was kind of ruined for me as a character initially since his fanbase were so toxic. Though I also started avoiding the sections of the internet where they were at their worst - making up stuff that didn't happen in the manga and so on - and after that I got to like him more. I liked him originally, but I started dreading him appearing because I knew someone would start.

...I do like him though, overall. Now he's in his proper place in the story. I like both Koushuu and Yui. Now they made Koushien, obviously I want an arc where they go on and win it, and then we see post-retirement Miyuki overseeing the rivalry between Koushuu and Yui for the number 2 shirt. Which is something I didn't think I cared for.

I remember Terajima saying that Chris took more of Eijun's attention than he expected, so I guess he didn't predict their battery having the same meaning. But I like Chris as Eijun's mentor and teacher. Also Miyuki's.

Catchers are fun. :)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: StarryEmerald24 on January 18, 2023, 01:51:08 PM
I bought the SpyxFamily manga as a bundle with just about every volume released in English so far and I read the first two. The anime is pretty spot on with the manga. I'll have to see if my opinion changes any as I continue, but so far I like it. I'm caught up in the anime and I really like it so of course I had to have the manga, too.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 20, 2023, 12:36:40 AM
Yona 40 was released today in Japan.

The cover...

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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 20, 2023, 05:45:06 AM
Yona 40 was released today in Japan.

The cover...

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I love the cover.  Is that  Meinyan with longer hair next to Yona?




I picked up Horimiya 8 last weekend.  I also bought the ebook version of Daiya 2.


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I won't buy all of the Daiya volumes as ebooks, but I will get the last volume of Act 1 when it comes ou.

It will be a while though because vol 41 just came out this month. 


Ponyfan

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 20, 2023, 01:34:16 PM
Yeah, the last volume is worthwhile given it has stuff in it not in the anime, or only in the OVA anime episodes which haven't been formally released outside Japan.

I think it is Meinyan, yes.

Also,
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I know Yona's carrying her bow, but it looks like a tennis racket if you just glance at it, LOL :)
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 23, 2023, 09:26:44 AM
Yeah, the last volume is worthwhile given it has stuff in it not in the anime, or only in the OVA anime episodes which haven't been formally released outside Japan.

I think it is Meinyan, yes.

Also,
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I know Yona's carrying her bow, but it looks like a tennis racket if you just glance at it, LOL :)


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Now, I can't unsee a tennis racket. :lol:


I was thinking that volume 47 of Daiya might still be quite a while away, but it looks like the digital volumes are releasing every other month. Volume 40 came out in November.

I might buy a couple of volumes of Spy Family.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 25, 2023, 09:12:17 AM
I got vol 32 of Act II and vol 40 of Yona yesterday. There will definitely be another volume at least before Act II volumes end because this one is still in the game.

Yona...Ponyfan, one massive Yona spoiler for you here if you dare to read it...

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At close of book 40, everyone still *seems* to be alive. Woot.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 25, 2023, 04:24:02 PM
Yeah I want to give my husband a few volumes of Spy X Family for his birthday.  we are tight on money though and we agreed that we are NOT actively acquiring graphic novels. 

Okay there are exceptions to this:  but  Japanese manga or cookbooks are NOT allowed to count LOL  but still..  wanting to buy presents...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 28, 2023, 03:30:29 PM
I got vol 32 of Act II and vol 40 of Yona yesterday. There will definitely be another volume at least before Act II volumes end because this one is still in the game.

Yona...Ponyfan, one massive Yona spoiler for you here if you dare to read it...

Spoiler
At close of book 40, everyone still *seems* to be alive. Woot.


I was going to say that I was debating opening the spoiler tag, but when I quoted you I was able to see it.  :P

Spoiler
That is good news. We don't have to worry about Yona's nightmare coming true for a while.


I bought Spy Family 1-4 and Fly me to the Moon 11 today.  I also rearranged the bottom manga shelf.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 29, 2023, 08:05:35 AM
oooo nice! 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on January 29, 2023, 11:25:27 AM
Sitll nothing in Previews ... January seems to be a dry month for my tastes! Still want to get all Jeweller Richard volumes that are currently out
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 10, 2023, 12:27:33 PM
My mom bought me Horimiya 9 yesterday as a Valentine's present. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 20, 2023, 03:32:13 PM
I picked up Komi 23 on Friday. 

I also got some ebooks on my tablet because manga was featured on Free Friday.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 24, 2023, 03:08:12 PM
Has anyone read Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand?  It sounds interesting.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on February 25, 2023, 11:41:17 AM
Saw it in Previews, you reminded me to share it with a friend as it might be her cup of tea lol

Still nothing really jumps out at me. I think I'm just impatient for Crimson Spell Vol.7 as something about the foreign listing indicated it was the last volume, and I want more Case Files and Other World Bookkeeper. Iv'e got a couple of things sitting in my wait list but they're all Spring.

I still have a TON I haven't read, it's getting stupid but I'm so busy I just don't seem to get the chance ;^;

EDIT: And Therapy Game: Reset because I saw Vol.3 in a foreign listing and I WANT!!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 25, 2023, 12:28:55 PM
I bought Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand today along with Fly Me to the Moon 11 and 12 and Haikyuu 15 and 16.

I'm impatiently waiting for Yona 38 to be released in the US in a couple of weeks.

I meant to get Rainbow Days 2 while I was at the bookstore but forgot that I needed it until I after I got home.  I'll pick it up when I get Yona though.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: MissMagicalGirl on March 02, 2023, 03:13:33 PM
I read the first volume of "She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat" recently, very enjoyable. I hope it lasts many volumes but unfortunately Josei GL doesn't usually last too long.
Wish I could have bought something from the charity shop but it probably would have been pretty difficult because I live in America and not Japan.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 08, 2023, 12:24:09 PM
I picked up Yona 38,  Ima a Koi 5, Rainbow Days 2, The Way of the Househusband 9 and Josee, The Tiger and the Fish today.  I'll still be buying books here and there, but this was probably my last big buy for a while.

Sadly, some books are having to go back in the manga boxes, because the beautiful shelf is really full. I said something to my parents about the shelf being full and just got a response of "You filled it up already?"

Here's pics of the top 2 shelves.  Yona 38 isn't in the pic because it's sitting on top of the books closer to the beginning of the series.

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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Marshie on March 08, 2023, 12:54:55 PM
The Way of the Househusband 9

I just picked up Househusband 9 as well!!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on March 08, 2023, 04:57:59 PM
oooo Ponyfan that is so pretty.

"filled up already"  ha!  they do not understand
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 09, 2023, 06:06:37 AM

"filled up already"  ha!  they do not understand

They don't get it at all.  :lol:  They were surprised how quickly I ran out of room.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 10, 2023, 03:31:35 PM
I forgot to mention in my other post that Yona 39 and 40 now have release dates in the US for August and December.  I don't see a release date for anything beyond December yet for future volumes.


Daiya 42 releases in ebook format next week.  That gives me hope that 47 might come out before the end of the year.


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 13, 2023, 11:47:29 AM
I bought the rest of Spy Family that I needed.  Now I'll just have to get the latest one as they are released.  I was feeling a little guilty that I bought the rest of them at the bookstore instead of at Target, but when I checked my receipt, I got one of the Spy Family books for half price.  :D


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on March 15, 2023, 06:10:05 PM
I forgot to mention in my other post that Yona 39 and 40 now have release dates in the US for August and December.  I don't see a release date for anything beyond December yet for future volumes.


Daiya 42 releases in ebook format next week.  That gives me hope that 47 might come out before the end of the year.


Ponyfan

That reminds me that I need to check see whether the next (last?) volume of act II is out/due to be out soon. I am not sure if it will be one or two more volumes to complete the run. Still hoping for anime.

Aaand yes, it is out. I think it might be the last volume, judging by the cover.

Yona 41 is out in May in Japan. Unless something comes up sooner, I might wait till then to get Act II vol 33.
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 18, 2023, 03:33:32 PM

That reminds me that I need to check see whether the next (last?) volume of act II is out/due to be out soon. I am not sure if it will be one or two more volumes to complete the run. Still hoping for anime.

Aaand yes, it is out. I think it might be the last volume, judging by the cover.

Yona 41 is out in May in Japan. Unless something comes up sooner, I might wait till then to get Act II vol 33.



I had to go back and reread your post, because the first time I read it, I thought you were saying that 41 one would be the last volume of Yona.  Then I realized that you were talking about the latest volume of Act II of Daiya instead. 

I saw the cover art for Yona 39.

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Suwon looks very shocked/surprised.  I wonder what that expression is about?  I'm assuming it has something to do with Hak.




I picked up the rest of Fly Me to the Moon that I needed today.  I saw the next volume of Spy Family too, but the release date is Tuesday so someone at the bookstore put it out before they were supposed to.  It happens all the time at that store. :(  I've gotten so used to it that If I'm not sure about a release date, I just look it up on my phone on Amazon to see if it has been officially released yet or if the bookstore put it out too early.


Here's a pic of the bottom shelf of manga.

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Post by: Ponyfan on March 23, 2023, 03:24:29 PM
I picked up Spy Family 9 and also bought the ebook of volume 3 of Daiya.

I'm also thinking about picking up Insomniacs After School. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 30, 2023, 06:42:32 AM
Has anyone read Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible?  It looks interesting.



Ponyfan
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 12, 2023, 03:12:34 PM
I picked up Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible vols 1-3, Haikyu 17 and 18, Insomniacs After School 1 and Komi 24 recently.

On the cover of Komi 26, there's a copy of vol 24 on Komi's bed.

I need to rearrange the manga shelves again, but I don't have the energy to do it right now.



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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on April 12, 2023, 03:30:45 PM
I got vol 33 of Daiya Act II. It's not the last one. I think there must be at least one more.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 06, 2023, 06:42:12 PM
The manga I need to rearrange keeps piling up. :(  I usually enjoy doing that but right now just the thought of getting the boxes out and doing that tires me out. 

I picked up the rest of Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible.  The new Fly Me to the Moon will be released Tuesday. I saw it today at the bookstore, but someone put it out too early again. :(

Has the new volume of Yona been released in Japan yet?


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on May 07, 2023, 02:09:03 PM
It's due out sometime this month but I haven't checked. I thought it was later in the month but I'm not 100%. We've had a lot of bank holidays here what with Mayday and now the Coronation, so I haven't really thought about ordering things that need to come by post. There must already be a lot of stuff backed up, since our postal service is not at its best.
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 25, 2023, 11:44:54 AM
I finally had the energy to rearrange the manga shelves.  It was a bigger job than I thought it would be.  :whew: I guess that's what happens when you keep adding books to the shelves and not rearranging them right away.

Here's pics of the shelves as of today.   As usual, I'm not completely happy with it, but that's mostly because I can't have all of my manga out at the same time and some of it has to live in boxes.  The only shelf I didn't rearrange is the one with Yona on it.  I wanted to leave that one as is for now so I have space to keep all of the Yona books together.

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I went back to the bookstore today to pick up a book that was supposed to be in stock, but it wasn't on the shelf where it was supposed to be. It seems like when I want a book, it's always there early and I can't buy it Then when they're supposed to have a newer release in stock, it's not there.  To be fair, it might have been in the back and not on the sales floor yet.  I'll keep checking back for it though.


I also found out the last volume on Horimiya came out last week.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on May 31, 2023, 02:48:01 AM
Yona 41 is out, but I haven't ordered it yet because DAiya act 2 34 is out of stock *growls Eijun-style*. At least, if I want to pay 3x retail I can get it, but I'll have to wait for the reprint run *sigh*. I'm sure it's because it's the last volume. Never mind...

I was in London last week, and I saw the Hana to Yume (I think it's that one) manga zasshi in the Japan Centre. I mention because Yona was on the front. I don't know why, though. I only saw it from the queue and they shrinkwrap the volumes so nobody can flick through them. I was interested to see it though. Wondering if something climactic has happened in the latest chapter. The image was just Yona herself, so no clues there....

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Post by: Ponyfan on May 31, 2023, 11:32:37 AM
Wow, I'm surprised that Daiya volume has already exhausted the first printing.  :shocked: I guess I shouldn't be since it seems to be really popular in Japan (maybe further proof that it would probably sell well in the US and other countries if the physical books were available and not just the ebooks).

I hope the reprint doesn't take too long.  That's happened a couple of times with some of Viz's titles including some volumes of Yona and Fly Me to the Moon.  In the US it takes around 6 or 9 months for the reprints to be available, but I think part of that reason is there's only a few machines in the US that can print manga properly.

That's really interesting about Yona on the cover of the magazine. I'm curious why she was on there too.  I just googled it and if I found the same one that you saw, there's a double sided Yona poster inside. :)  One side has Hak and Yona and the other has Zeno and Sinha. 

I still need to read Yona 38.  I've had a lot of stuff going on and haven't had a chance to get to it yet.

I'm thinking about picking up Honey Lemon Soda. 

I rearranged the manga shelves again.

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Post by: Ponyfan on June 06, 2023, 12:15:44 PM
Horimiya 16 came out in the US a couple of weeks ago.  I still need volumes 10 and up though.  There's also another volume called Horimiya  Memorial Book Page 100 coming out soon.  I guess it's an art book for the series?


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Shaiyeh on June 21, 2023, 02:04:31 AM
I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but I sort of recently picked up & started reading Vanitas. I like it so far :)
I'm also still waiting for my copy of A Sign of Affection 6. I preordered it on amazon, but it's still sold out - I guess they had too many preorders. It hasn't been sent yet ;A; I see you got yours, Ponyfan :)
I'm due a rearrange, too. ^^'
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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 21, 2023, 05:04:42 PM
I bought my husband 1-3 of Spy x Family which he immediately bought the rest of the series up until the next volume.  I guess that is a positive thing  :shocked:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on June 22, 2023, 09:18:02 AM
Still waiting for Amazon japan to restock Daiya Act II 34. I guess a lot of people bought copies as I am 99% sure it's the last volume. I know some folk who don't speak Japanese have also ordered it, which is fine of course but increases the demand. I may have to start looking at other options but the thing is that they're more expensive. I'd like to pay retail since I'll already have to pay shipping.

I also still have Yona 41 waiting in my basket so I can combine that. So annoying.

There are some lovely scenes in the last chapters. And I want to reread them -.-
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 24, 2023, 03:38:03 PM
I've thought about buying Daiya in Japanese a few times even though I wouldn't be able to read it, but I've never followed through with that idea.  I do have a few ebooks in English on my ereader though.   

I picked up Horimiyia 10, Insomniacs After School 2, Rainbow Days 4, Ima a Koi, 6 and Komi 25 recently.  :)  Both bookstores are out of Horimiya 11. I might end up ordering the rest of the series from Amazon.

I need to rearrange the manga shelves again.  It seems that's a task that's never done. :dizzy:

I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but I sort of recently picked up & started reading Vanitas. I like it so far :)
I'm also still waiting for my copy of A Sign of Affection 6. I preordered it on amazon, but it's still sold out - I guess they had too many preorders. It hasn't been sent yet ;A; I see you got yours, Ponyfan :)
I'm due a rearrange, too. ^^'

I hope you get your copy soon.   :)  The bookstore I usually go to was supposed to have it in stock the week it came out, but I had to wait an extra week before it was on the shelves.



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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 01, 2023, 03:30:49 PM
I did a slight rearrange of the manga shelves.  I had to open the last free box I had to put books in, so it looks like I might have to get a couple more boxes soon.

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Post by: Ponyfan on July 12, 2023, 05:23:13 AM
I saw the Horimiya 100 book at the bookstore yesterday.  The art is so beautiful that I want to get it at some point.  When I checked Amazon this morning, I found out that the release date is next week.


Ponyfan
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Post by: alaskaallie on July 13, 2023, 06:35:33 AM
I generally don't read manga, but for some reason I thought I ought to read the Nausicaa manga as they're at the library. I used to watch the movie all the time and wanted more to the story after being reminded of it by Shuna's Journey ,  which was AMAZING. Seriously, the whole thing is full color paintings basically and it's only been recently translated. I adore fairy tale retellings and explorations of folklore, so Shuna's Journey (which is also by Myazaki!) was so enjoyable. Anyway, I was (predictably) completely blown away by Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and I don't know why it took me so long to read it. It's right up there with Lord of the Rings on the greatest fantasy/stories of all time list for me.
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Post by: SweetScoops on July 13, 2023, 09:12:16 AM
I finally got a hold of the first volume of Who Made Me a Princess. It's beautiful even with the little weird croppings they sometimes do when making a book put of a webtoon. I also picked upp the first volume of My best boss and me. It's so cute!
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on July 23, 2023, 05:27:59 PM
I preordered the Nendoroids for Therapy Game, and I'm so sad to see Vol.3 of Therapy Game: Restart isn't out until next year!!  :cry:

I still wonder what is happening to Drug and Drop, the sequel to Legal Drug by CLAMP. I have the original Tokyopop volumes, the Dark Horse Omnibus Edition and Vol.1 and 2 of the sequel, where is the rest??
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on July 24, 2023, 09:22:08 AM
I preordered the Nendoroids for Therapy Game, and I'm so sad to see Vol.3 of Therapy Game: Restart isn't out until next year!!  :cry:

I still wonder what is happening to Drug and Drop, the sequel to Legal Drug by CLAMP. I have the original Tokyopop volumes, the Dark Horse Omnibus Edition and Vol.1 and 2 of the sequel, where is the rest??

The series has been on hiatus since 2013; CLAMP have kind of a habit (https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2014/06/clamp-hiatus-masters.html) of putting stuff on long hiatuses unfortunately :(
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Post by: Taffeta on July 25, 2023, 08:48:52 AM
Still can't order Daiya 34 :(

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: SweetScoops on July 25, 2023, 12:52:11 PM
I preordered the Nendoroids for Therapy Game, and I'm so sad to see Vol.3 of Therapy Game: Restart isn't out until next year!!  :cry:

I still wonder what is happening to Drug and Drop, the sequel to Legal Drug by CLAMP. I have the original Tokyopop volumes, the Dark Horse Omnibus Edition and Vol.1 and 2 of the sequel, where is the rest??

The series has been on hiatus since 2013; CLAMP have kind of a habit (https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2014/06/clamp-hiatus-masters.html) of putting stuff on long hiatuses unfortunately :(

Woah! That's just painstaklingly long! :-O I think I've waited a couple of years on some... but never that long. :-/
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Post by: Shaiyeh on July 26, 2023, 12:14:45 AM
my Sign of Affection 6 finally came! It took sooo long ;A;
I have been too busy lately to read and enjoy it, so I'm saving it for vacation in 2 weeks.
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 26, 2023, 09:49:14 AM
I generally don't read manga, but for some reason I thought I ought to read the Nausicaa manga as they're at the library. I used to watch the movie all the time and wanted more to the story after being reminded of it by Shuna's Journey ,  which was AMAZING. Seriously, the whole thing is full color paintings basically and it's only been recently translated. I adore fairy tale retellings and explorations of folklore, so Shuna's Journey (which is also by Myazaki!) was so enjoyable. Anyway, I was (predictably) completely blown away by Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and I don't know why it took me so long to read it. It's right up there with Lord of the Rings on the greatest fantasy/stories of all time list for me.

When I saw Shuna's Journey, it reminded me of Nausicaa too.  :D  In fact I think I even said something in the store about the artwork looked like Nausicaa.


my Sign of Affection 6 finally came! It took sooo long ;A;
I have been too busy lately to read and enjoy it, so I'm saving it for vacation in 2 weeks.
 

I'm glad your book came in.  Waiting for new books can be hard sometimes.




Still can't order Daiya 34 :(



I hope you can order it soon.


Yona 39 comes out soon.  I haven't read Yona 38 yet, but I guess this way I'll have 2 volumes to read instead of 1. :D


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Lady Frostbite on July 29, 2023, 01:32:58 PM
I preordered the Nendoroids for Therapy Game, and I'm so sad to see Vol.3 of Therapy Game: Restart isn't out until next year!!  :cry:

I still wonder what is happening to Drug and Drop, the sequel to Legal Drug by CLAMP. I have the original Tokyopop volumes, the Dark Horse Omnibus Edition and Vol.1 and 2 of the sequel, where is the rest??

The series has been on hiatus since 2013; CLAMP have kind of a habit (https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2014/06/clamp-hiatus-masters.html) of putting stuff on long hiatuses unfortunately :(

Woah! That's just painstaklingly long! :-O I think I've waited a couple of years on some... but never that long. :-/

 :wail:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on July 31, 2023, 04:21:09 AM
Amazon finally let me order Daiya 34 but it is now telling me they don't know when it will ship. Oh well. At least the order is in. I bet they're prioritising Japanese orders, which would be logical, but the site said there was 9 in stock so I'm not sure what's going on. It may be that they're waiting for the shipment from the publisher. Who knows. Fingers crossed it comes soon. Meanwhile I also ordered the Yona volume - which I suspect may arrive first/separately.

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Post by: Ponyfan on August 02, 2023, 03:28:34 PM
I picked up Yona 39 yesterday along with Honey Lemon Soda 1 and 2.

Yona

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I was glancing at the back of 39 and it said Hak has been in disguise in Kai (I think it's Kai)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 03, 2023, 04:38:04 AM
So, both of my manga volumes (Yona 41 and Daiya A2 34) arrived this morning.

On the Yona front,
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everyone seems to be still alive, I think...

On the Daiya front, I understand why this volume sold out so quick and has been so hard to get, as it has some extra material that wasn't included in the manga magazine run.

On Ugumori and Teitou - there's a side note saying that Terajima intends to write this as a 'gaiden' or outside story at a later date. I imagine it will probably get a volume of its own eventually...maybe.

It also came with a postcard congratulating readers for 'graduating Daiya no Ace manga' xD. The picture is from the final of the Summer Tournament with the two teams lined up after the game.

Spoilers under cut for the ending of Daiya.

Spoiler
The manga gives the results for round 1 and round 2 of Koushien, both of which Seidou won. Furuya pitched the first round, Kawakami and Eijun the second round.

There are then several blank pages, followed by a note from Terajima about what he originally intended when he set out to write Daiya 16 years ago.
Spoiler
He basically says that the game that inspired him was one which ran to fifteen innings and was ultimately settled as a draw - but that with the passage of time so much has changed in high school baseball that that kind of game would no longer be possible. He also mentions how the characters have grown beyond his original expectations and it would be hard to force them into that kind of a template given who they are now.

I think the implication is that he intended Seidou to reach a final and split the honours with Komadai, but with the changes that have happened over the last 16 years, that's no longer possible.

So I think we can read from that - and from the other details peppered into the epilogue, that Seidou at the very least made the top four, and probably the final. The fact that none of them seem particularly downcast in the epilogue makes me think that maybe they did win it after all. Who knows...

There is also a chapter, 308.5, which is a proper aftermath to the game, and which includes more detail of them in the second round of Koushien. This wasn't included in the magazine run I don't think.

Spoiler
While it's a small detail, in the bigger picture, I'm gratified to discover from this that Mochi has had multiple offers from good universities, and also that Ochiai and company tell him that if Seidou finish in the top four at Koushien, there's a good chance he'll get a scholarship to one of them.

Then there is a further small epilogue set in the autumn (Sept/early Oct).

Kanemaru is the new captain!

More specific detail under the next spoiler

Spoiler
The epilogue begins with Eijun and Furuya asking Miyuki how it felt to be selected for the Japanese under 18s team. It seems like Furuya and Eijun were also selected for the Tokyo Senbatsu competition as that is now in autumn. It's implied that Miyuki is expected to be pro selected but this hasn't happened yet.

Eijun asks Miyuki for a proper contest, batter vs pitcher, at full strength, and various of the other members (both retired third years and current team) get involved to field and so on for this contest.

It ends with Eijun at the mound and Miyuki - with a wooden bat - ready to hit. Eijun remembers his meeting with Miyuki and how it has changed his entire outlook. It ends with Eijun basically thinking that the pitch he's about to throw is his parting gift to Miyuki, and Miyuki's response is that he'll be waiting for him to follow (to the pro league).

Here endeth Daiya.

I did feel like the end was a bit abrupt in the manga, so he clearly also wrote something to just tie this off and make it make more sense.

But I feel more now that this probably is the end of Daiya.

And it is time they finished animating it -.-

Because I still want to see
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the scene between Miyuki and Mei at the end of the match animated
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 15, 2023, 06:52:37 AM
I picked up Komi  26 over the weekend.  Here's a couple of pics of my manga shelves.  I need to do some rearranging again, but the manga boxes are too heavy for me to lift right now.

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So, both of my manga volumes (Yona 41 and Daiya A2 34) arrived this morning.

On the Yona front,
Spoiler
everyone seems to be still alive, I think...

On the Daiya front, I understand why this volume sold out so quick and has been so hard to get, as it has some extra material that wasn't included in the manga magazine run.

On Ugumori and Teitou - there's a side note saying that Terajima intends to write this as a 'gaiden' or outside story at a later date. I imagine it will probably get a volume of its own eventually...maybe.

It also came with a postcard congratulating readers for 'graduating Daiya no Ace manga' xD. The picture is from the final of the Summer Tournament with the two teams lined up after the game.

Spoilers under cut for the ending of Daiya.

Spoiler
The manga gives the results for round 1 and round 2 of Koushien, both of which Seidou won. Furuya pitched the first round, Kawakami and Eijun the second round.

There are then several blank pages, followed by a note from Terajima about what he originally intended when he set out to write Daiya 16 years ago.
Spoiler
He basically says that the game that inspired him was one which ran to fifteen innings and was ultimately settled as a draw - but that with the passage of time so much has changed in high school baseball that that kind of game would no longer be possible. He also mentions how the characters have grown beyond his original expectations and it would be hard to force them into that kind of a template given who they are now.

I think the implication is that he intended Seidou to reach a final and split the honours with Komadai, but with the changes that have happened over the last 16 years, that's no longer possible.

So I think we can read from that - and from the other details peppered into the epilogue, that Seidou at the very least made the top four, and probably the final. The fact that none of them seem particularly downcast in the epilogue makes me think that maybe they did win it after all. Who knows...

There is also a chapter, 308.5, which is a proper aftermath to the game, and which includes more detail of them in the second round of Koushien. This wasn't included in the magazine run I don't think.

Spoiler
While it's a small detail, in the bigger picture, I'm gratified to discover from this that Mochi has had multiple offers from good universities, and also that Ochiai and company tell him that if Seidou finish in the top four at Koushien, there's a good chance he'll get a scholarship to one of them.

Then there is a further small epilogue set in the autumn (Sept/early Oct).

Kanemaru is the new captain!

More specific detail under the next spoiler

Spoiler
The epilogue begins with Eijun and Furuya asking Miyuki how it felt to be selected for the Japanese under 18s team. It seems like Furuya and Eijun were also selected for the Tokyo Senbatsu competition as that is now in autumn. It's implied that Miyuki is expected to be pro selected but this hasn't happened yet.

Eijun asks Miyuki for a proper contest, batter vs pitcher, at full strength, and various of the other members (both retired third years and current team) get involved to field and so on for this contest.

It ends with Eijun at the mound and Miyuki - with a wooden bat - ready to hit. Eijun remembers his meeting with Miyuki and how it has changed his entire outlook. It ends with Eijun basically thinking that the pitch he's about to throw is his parting gift to Miyuki, and Miyuki's response is that he'll be waiting for him to follow (to the pro league).

Here endeth Daiya.

I did feel like the end was a bit abrupt in the manga, so he clearly also wrote something to just tie this off and make it make more sense.

But I feel more now that this probably is the end of Daiya.

And it is time they finished animating it -.-

Because I still want to see
Spoiler
the scene between Miyuki and Mei at the end of the match animated


Daiya

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There's so much I want to say, but not sure if I'll be able to say it all in one post.

I would have liked to see Ugumori win the East Tournament.


I'm happy to hear that Mochi has had several offers to University. He's come a long way from the boy that got in trouble in middle school. 


What do you think about Kanemaru being the new captain.  As much as I wanted it be to Eijun when I stop and think about it Kanemaru is probably a better choice, considering how much he's been through trying to help Eijun and countless others through the years.  I think Kanemaru even helped some of the others study for exams when they were having trouble?

I've always felt that several of the main characters are good enough to join the pro league not just Miyuki and Furuya.   We've seen a lot of Eijun's growth from slapping the opposing team because they insulted his teammates, to the person he is now, but that doesn't mean that others haven't grown also.  I can see Haruichi, Mochi, Eijun and Furuya joining Miyuki and going pro eventually.  :D

I hope that Miyuki and Eijun end up on the same team in the pros.  I can't imagine them playing against each other all the time.



 


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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on August 15, 2023, 09:01:19 AM
@Ponyfan - I might send you a PM so as to spare the whole forum all my thoughtbabblings about Daiya xD.

But I agree that
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Kanemaru is quite logical. I had thought maybe Haruichi. They tend not to make pitchers Captain, Ugumori aside, so I didn't expect it to be Eijun.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 17, 2023, 04:22:54 PM
@Ponyfan - I might send you a PM so as to spare the whole forum all my thoughtbabblings about Daiya xD.

But I agree that
Spoiler
Kanemaru is quite logical. I had thought maybe Haruichi. They tend not to make pitchers Captain, Ugumori aside, so I didn't expect it to be Eijun.



There's more I want to say too. :D

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I didn't realize that pitchers aren't usually picked as captains.  It makes sense though.  Haruichi would have been a good choice too.


I picked up Love's in Sight 3 and The Way of the Househusband 10 today. 

I think I'm going to have to buy Horimiya 11 from Amazon, because every bookstore I've checked is out of stock.  I'm going to try not to buy new books for a while though.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 02, 2023, 10:21:16 AM
Daiya 45 will be released in the US digitally this month.  If I've got it figured out right, vol 47 should come out in January 24. 

Miraculous Ladybug has a manga too.  I've got the first volume. I haven't been able to look at it close enough yet to see if it's basically just episodes from the TV show turned in to manga or if there's some original ideas in there. 

I'm happy to hear that Yona will continue in vol 42. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 16, 2023, 11:06:08 AM
I picked up Honey Lemon Soda 3, Ima Koi 7 and Like a Butterfly 2 this week.  I wanted the new Fly Me to the Moon, but both bookstores don't have it in stock.  They also don't have Horimiya 11.

Sometimes I think I should stop buying manga because it seems I never have time to read it, but I think it's more of an issue of telling myself it's okay to make time to read it instead of not actually finding time.  I also want to read it when I'm relaxed and not stressed out.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on September 16, 2023, 01:11:03 PM
If it makes you feel better, I have something like 3 volumes of yona, 5 of spy family and maybe 6 of Moriarty to read. Plus I'm wanting to sit down and reread the end of Daiya, from the point the anime ends, which is about ten or twelve volumes or so I think...? (peers at pile). Now I have it completed.

I'm not sure if I've finished all of Horimiya either, come to think of it...

I keep meaning to catch up with Yona then get distracted by other things ;)

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Post by: Ponyfan on September 23, 2023, 11:26:25 AM
That does make me feel better Taffeta. :hug: 

I bought a few more books today. The bookstore finally got Fly Me to the Moon 19 in stock.  :)  I also picked up Insomniacs After School 3, Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible 9 and Haikyuu 24.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 10, 2023, 04:23:47 PM
I picked up the 2nd volume of the Miraculous manga over the weekend and Komi 27 today.   I'll be getting Spy Family 10 when it comes out too.

I've been expecting it for a while, but today I found out that Viz has increased the standard price of their books.  Most Viz books were $10.  Komi's list price is $12.  I bought my copy for $10 at Walmart.  I think the last Komi book was $8 at Walmart.  Spy Family 10 will also have a list price of $12.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 25, 2023, 03:21:33 PM
Stumbled onto some yona spoilers today...

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They're not especially good...and yet I am fascinated *lol*

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 26, 2023, 10:57:47 AM
Stumbled onto some yona spoilers today...

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They're not especially good...and yet I am fascinated *lol*




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I'm not sure if I should ask what they are yet or not.  :yikes:   :yikes:  You did say you were fascinated though so that gives me hope.
 


Hopefully I can catch up on Yona soon.  Vol 40 comes out in December in the US.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 26, 2023, 05:20:32 PM
Meh, I think you should prepare for the worst. It's just...yeah. Well. Anyway.
If you want to know I will tell you, but...yeah. I won't unless you ask :)

I just bought vol 42. Judging by what is going on atm, I think we might only have a handful of volumes left to go.

Would be surprised if it makes more than 45 honestly. But I may be proven wrong.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: NovelNerd on October 26, 2023, 07:05:17 PM
I recently read Doom and Donuts for the pony book group. I think it’s more of a graphic novel to be exact, but it was adorable.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 30, 2023, 10:07:38 AM
So vol 42 of Yona appeared this morning. I also got a couple of others (SpyxFamily 12 and 19 and 20 for Moriarty, which I am unforgivably behind on reading).

So erm. Well.
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Ponyfan, you may or may not want to read this...
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I am glad that I know what happens in a couple of the chapters ahead, although I will be honest, what happens in those chapters doesn't really make the cliffhanger of this volume any better. I am super glad I knew to expect it though, as otherwise I might be gnashing teeth and clawing the wall.

As it is, I've kind of built up my internal barriers a bit...

Reading beyond this point is at own risk.

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I think we should resign ourselves to/prepare for the probability that we have lost Jaeha. Although I can't say for certain that he has died, I think he may have stopped existing - at least on the mortal plane.

Moreover...
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Bearing in mind where the most recent chapter went, I think this is only the beginning.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 30, 2023, 03:53:49 PM
I'm not sure if I want to know what's in the Yona spoiler yet, so I'm not opening it. 

I saw the cover of 42 though.  I love that it features Jaeha and Kija. 

Speaking of Jaeha, Google just suggested something a bit disturbing when I was trying to make sure I'd spelled Jaeha correctly.  It also did the same thing when I was trying to look of Tadano from Komi, so maybe it's just something Google thinks I want to look up and not a confirmed fact.

I picked up Rainbow Days 6, Love's in Sight 4 and A Man and His Cat 8 and 9.


I didn't realize that the US was that close to being caught up on Spy Family.   Vol 10 came out a couple of weeks ago in the US.


I need to rearrange my manga again.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on October 31, 2023, 11:50:32 AM
I shall not comment and shall let you discover it at your own pace :) But I suggest not googling anything Yona for a bit xD.

On another Yona note, though, I reflect really often on how unfair it is that they churn out so many very. bad. anime, with second and third seasons, and yet Yona is still waiting a second. I know there is new merch out, and they even had some Tokyo cafe event thing going on a while back, according to what I have heard. But no second season? Really?

I am actually looking forward to it ending now, and seeing how it all ties up. I have a number of theories based on what has happened in recent chapters and what I've seen in online discussions...we'll see if it works out that way.

I srsly have so much manga to read *sobs*.

I need to make that my winter project. But I also want to pick up the Saiunkoku LN again. I want to pick them up roughly where the anime ends, because the ending diverges slightly and the novels continue. But...time...organisation...meh.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 09, 2023, 03:39:05 PM
Does the Daiya manga have more of Eijun's thoughts than the anime?  I'm reading a fanfiction story where  Koushuu is actually reading the manga to learn more about Eijun and I think the writer of the story is actually quoting parts of the manga.  In the scene where Miyuki and Eijun face off against Azuma, there a line that sounds like Eijun is speaking that says "At that very moment, I think I opened a door to a new world."



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on November 10, 2023, 12:22:04 PM
Does the Daiya manga have more of Eijun's thoughts than the anime?  I'm reading a fanfiction story where  Koushuu is actually reading the manga to learn more about Eijun and I think the writer of the story is actually quoting parts of the manga.  In the scene where Miyuki and Eijun face off against Azuma, there a line that sounds like Eijun is speaking that says "At that very moment, I think I opened a door to a new world."



Ponyfan

Erm, Iirc the very beginning of the anime also starts something like this. I don't have all the volumes to Act I so I am not sure about the Azuma scene, but from what I do have I don't think that there's a LOT more of Eijun's voice narrating like that. I mean, that the anime doesn't already cover, since there's quite a lot from Eijun's perspective generally.

That's a pretty meta concept, LOL. Reading the manga to learn about Eijun.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 20, 2023, 03:50:28 PM
I thought it was meta too.  It's a little funny though because Koushuu  keeps  questioning whether the events in the manga really happened since he wasn't there at the time. 


It looks like I'll have 3 volumes of Yona to catch up on soon.

I bought Haikyuu 25, Fly Me to the Moon 20, Like a Butterfly 4 and Honey Lemon Soda 4.  There was one other book I looked for, but didn't find it even though the bookstore was supposed to have it in stock.  The website doesn't update in real time though so it's possible someone bought it and the website hadn't updated yet.

I'm thinking about rearranging my manga soon.


Ponyfan


 
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 22, 2023, 10:31:31 AM
I did rearrange the manga a bit.  I didn't think it would be such a big job just  doing a small section, but I was worn out by the time I finished.

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Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 05, 2023, 03:22:33 PM
I picked up Yona 40 today.  :)  Hopefully I'll have a chance to catch up soon.  I also bought I'm a Koi 8. 

Suwon is on the spine of 30 and Meinyan is on the spine of 40.  I had to look twice because Suwon and Meiyan have similar hair colors.  When the books are next to each other and you just take a quick glance, it's a bit hard to tell 39 apart from 40 from the spine if you're not looking at the numbers.

I looked for the book I was going to get last time, but still couldn't find it. The website still shows it in stock though (I just checked.)  There was also another book that I thought I already had, but it turns out that I don't.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on December 10, 2023, 10:33:04 AM
Ah, that reminds me that there is probably a new Yona chapter out around nowish. If I'm feeling brave I may look it up. I think I'm immune to almost anything right now though...

Edit: Yep, there was one a week ago. Oh, I'm so confused now. I mean, seriously. I wonder if it is in a good way or not. So. many. questions.

I am still so behind with my manga because of reading Heaven official's blessing thanks to my colleague's influence, LOL :) But I'm almost done with that now. So maybe I'll finally get around to catching up properly on things.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 10, 2024, 04:05:36 PM
I was hoping to catch up on Yona during the holidays, but stuff happened. :sigh: Someday I will

I bought the ebook of Daiya 47 yesterday and picked up Komi 28 today.  :)



Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on January 11, 2024, 05:01:45 AM
I am caught up with yona...mostly...up to the most recent chapter although those aren't in books yet.

I am still highly intrigued by what's going on though I have my theories.

I need to actually go back and read the books I have only skimmed since I'm missing some key factors but I am not sure that's why I'm having trouble predicting what comes next.

I'm also reading Moriarty again. I'm about to begin an arc I don't much like in the animation, though. Never mind.

I do like this manga, especially psychotic little teddy bear Louis - but sometimes the anachronisms make me want to scream.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 11, 2024, 05:51:53 AM
I am super stressed... my husband is okay with purging manga titles that we aren't interested in anymore... he has always wanted to hang onto this stuff.  now with his surgery, we are pretty much open to anything that will net some money.  but he's always been so defiant about this collection.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 23, 2024, 06:58:10 AM
:hug:   :hug:  lovesbabysqurimy.


There's a new series coming out called In the Name of the Mermaid Princess that looks interesting.  I saw a couple of pages of it on Facebook and it looks like it's a mermaid in the water/human on land story with the twist that the merpeople family rules a kingdom of humans and have to kept their true aquatic nature secret.

I picked up Fly Me to the Moon 21, Kubo Won't Let me Be Invisible 11 and Blue Period 1 one recently.


The creator of Dragonball Akira Toriyama died earlier this month.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on February 09, 2024, 02:51:34 PM
Bought an artbook yesterday, Fruits Basket Complete Anime Natsuki Takaya Illustrations :) Still haven't watched the new anime (someday!!) but I couldn't resist this, it looks so pretty from what I've seen so far! Looking forward to sitting down and giving this a proper look-through :lovey:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 09, 2024, 02:55:50 PM
I literally just read the latest chapter of Yona. Oh boy.

And yet there's still so many big questions.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on February 09, 2024, 08:41:21 PM
ooooo I love artbooks.  I think we have a Fruits Basket one somewhere...
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on February 10, 2024, 05:16:44 AM
ooooo I love artbooks.  I think we have a Fruits Basket one somewhere...

:D

I just wish it was a bit bigger, it's pretty much the same size as an average manga volume. Still looks great though :lovey:
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 11, 2024, 02:41:23 PM
ooooo I love artbooks.  I think we have a Fruits Basket one somewhere...

:D

I just wish it was a bit bigger, it's pretty much the same size as an average manga volume. Still looks great though :lovey:

I have a Saiyuuki one somewhere. It has my absolute favourite picture from the series in it. I love it because it reflects a really key plot moment, but also because it's coloured, and HAKKAI's EYES ARE CORRECT - one green and one gold. A tiny tiny plot-significant detail that, despite how well done it was, the Zeroin anime failed to observe.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 11, 2024, 03:22:40 PM
Bought an artbook yesterday, Fruits Basket Complete Anime Natsuki Takaya Illustrations :) Still haven't watched the new anime (someday!!) but I couldn't resist this, it looks so pretty from what I've seen so far! Looking forward to sitting down and giving this a proper look-through :lovey:

I saw it on the shelf at the bookstore next to the Fruits Basket mangas..  I didn't pick it up yet, but I'm going to give it a closer look next time I'm at the bookstore.




I literally just read the latest chapter of Yona. Oh boy.

And yet there's still so many big questions.


I'm afraid to ask for any details about what you know that I don't yet... :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

I still have the last three volumes of Yona to catch up on.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Taffeta on February 11, 2024, 03:41:10 PM
@Ponyfan - well, if you want to know, I will tell you, but I feel like it will be better/easier on you if you ask when things are more complete and not still a bit...in the air. Since the last chapter answered some questions but asked a couple more.

This writer is really good at twists and making all kinds of things work. So...I would wait a while and watch this space.

Let's just say that something that has bothered me since way way back has been explained...but even though it seems one way, I'm still not 100% that it is.

And on that completely nonsensical message :D

I am waiting for season 2 of Apothecary Diaries to end in order to buy the novels (not quite manga but related). I am assuming each cour is a novel based on the synopses I've seen online.

I still need to finish Moriarty. Vol 11 is sitting on my bed. I know what happens in this arc. It's after this volume that I don't know. I think vol 19 is the last one so it seems like I have a full set...I should just get on and read it xD.

Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Carrehz on February 11, 2024, 05:12:05 PM
ooooo I love artbooks.  I think we have a Fruits Basket one somewhere...

:D

I just wish it was a bit bigger, it's pretty much the same size as an average manga volume. Still looks great though :lovey:

I have a Saiyuuki one somewhere. It has my absolute favourite picture from the series in it. I love it because it reflects a really key plot moment, but also because it's coloured, and HAKKAI's EYES ARE CORRECT - one green and one gold. A tiny tiny plot-significant detail that, despite how well done it was, the Zeroin anime failed to observe.

I wish more manga series got artbooks! I'd give my left arm for a Tokyo Mew Mew artbook, sadly I don't know if it'd happen now since the creator died a few years ago :( And I so wish the Sailor Moon artbooks would be released in English (or just re-released at all LOL because I don't want to think about how much they likely go for on the second-hand market these days xD), I'd buy those in a heartbeat.
Title: Re: What manga are you reading?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 10, 2024, 07:34:46 PM
I picked the Fruits Basket anime artbook. I haven't had a chance to look at it properly, but I love what I've seen so far.  :lovey:

Ima Koi, Now I'm in Love has reached its final volume at 9.  I haven't read that series yet, but I thought it would last a little longer.

Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible also published its final volume, 12.


I finally got Horimiya 11 from Amazon and picked up 12 at the bookstore.  I don't know why, but for some reason none of the stores in my area stocked 11.  I think there are 16 books in the series, plus the art book making a total of 17.


@Taffeta

Not asking for confirmation if this is one of things that's been revealed, but one thing I've always wanted to know about Yona is

Spoiler

How Iksu managed to escape execution and get out of the temple alive when Yuhon was eliminating all the priests.    I've wondered for a long time if Zeno had something to with that.

Also why Hak is powerful as the Dragons in terms of endurance and strength even though doesn't carry dragon blood. 

Ponyfan



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