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Monday Manga - Usagi Drop
By zenprime 02-23-2009 04:48 PM
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Did you know I save these up? Manga picks I mean? Alliteration is where it's at. The premise behind Usagi Drop is pretty simple: 30 year old, Daikichi annoyed by his relatives revelation of his Grandfather's illegitimate 6 year old daughter Rin discovered during Gramp's funeral, no less, decides to take the girl (technically his Aunt) in and raise her as his own. Okay, maybe that's not simple. But it's the setup for the daily ups and downs of this cute Father-Daughter story. From Daikichi's undertaking of a crash course in parenting, to unearthing why Rin was abandoned by her mother, if you're a sucker for cute, there is plenty to be found. The art style is very simple and clean and works well with the tone of the story. It's all very DAWWWW, as they say. |
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Monday Manga - Masamune Shirow
By zenprime 02-16-2009 09:39 PM
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Unlike most Monday Manga posts, today I'm focusing on a specific mangaka: Masamune Shirow. He is probably my favorite mangaka, and wrote one of the first mangas I've ever read; Ghost in the Shell. My actual first exposure to Manga has to be Dragonball, in Korean no less. Though it wasn't so much reading as looking through it, then asking questions to my Korean friends about what couldn't be figured out by just looking at the pictures. If you like girls, guns and mecha, along with political intrigue you might be interested in his works. His works are rife notes between the panels and with extra pages of details, mechanical, organizational and sometimes personal. |
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Monday Manga - Midnight Secretary
By zenprime 01-05-2009 07:03 PM
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Well you knew I had strange tastes so this shouldn't surprise you! With a title like Midnight Secretary, you'd expect there to be sex and there is. Except it's not the panty ripping, bare-back action you find in hentai mangas. It's the flowery, silhouetted, tender loves scenes of a josei (TL,DR josei is the female equivalent of seinen) manga. Though as the story progresses there does seem to be more of it, still it's not the overly explicit kind. Let's not mislead anyone, the story isn't about sex, it's about love. Basically it's a romance story about a female secretary and her vampire boss. Yeah nothing new to see here, and in all it's a pretty typical story for the romance set. While it might not do anything to rise about being decent, it really doesn't do make any mistakes either and mostly lays off the overly sappy stuff. I'm actually surprised at the lack... |
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Monday Manga - Highschool of the Dead
By zenprime 09-29-2008 05:50 PM
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What is your favorite Zombie Movie? Personally I love the original Day of the Dead, the Dawn of the Dead remake, along with 28 Days later, and of course Shaun of the Dead. If you want to talk Zombie novels, it's all about Max Brooks' World War Z (Audiobook version has an all star cast, I recommend a listen if you like the book). But when it comes to manga, the eventual Zombipocalypse doesn't seem to have the same attraction as it does in the West.
But this, this is love letter to genre. This is Highschool of the Dead. Highschool of the Dead is an ongoing manga written by Daisuke Sato and illustrated by Shouji Sato. Shouji Sato's work is better known under the name of Inazuma/Digital Accel Works by fans of h-manga (Apologies to Daisuke Sato if he is part of Inazuma/DAW as well, I'm unaware if it's one person, a duo or a cirlce). It follows a group |
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Monday Manga - Franken Fran |
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I like many types of manga. Sure I'm a fan of some of the shonen stuff, the cock-teases romance comedies, the mecha action, the slice of lifers, etc. But, this one isn't for everyone. So if you are disturbed by surgery, get out now.
Yeah, that's a bolt. And those are stitches. And yes there is more then one set of hands there, and they're all hers... at least now they are. best described on the scanlator's page, Franken Fran is: "...basically a super dark, slightly gore-ish comedy about being careful what you wish for. Fran can make anyone into anything, raise the dead, switch heads and bodies and give you those eyes that you've always wanted. But do you actually want them? Is it a good thing to raise the dead? Do the ends justify the means? And does Fran care?" |
Dual Identity
