Let's discuss Japanese comics!!

★Can't be bothered to buy?☆(ﾟДﾟ)
#lurk
http://gotlurk.net + #lurk@irc.irchighway.net
Biggest and most complete English scanlation archive on the intarwebs.
It's worth learning IRC to use this.

MangaUpdates
http://www.mangaupdates.com/releases.html
Latest scanlations releases can usually be found here

MangaJouhou
http://www.manganews.net
It's like MangaUpdates, but shittier.

[Manga Upload] COMIC BOMBER
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Lots of quality stuff here to be read. :*

http://www.manganews.net/forums/showthread.php?p=24431

MEGA FACEPALM

http://zin-seinen.vnmanga.com/series/
Assorted DDL raw manga if you're weeaboo for it.

RIKI-OH must be read by everyone who appreciates manliness and violent comics. I don't fucking care if you don't know Japanese, because I sure as hell don't. THE SHEER MANLINESS OF RIKI-OH BREAKS THE LANGUAGE BARRIER.

It's up there with Hokuto no Ken and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. You will be amazed.

>>3

Not to try to change the subject, but the RIKI-OH movie is also incredibly awesome. The sheer kickass level blows any other martial arts movie away, by far.

Recommended Manga:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W5NKW2AQ - MPD Psycho

http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb Nijigahara Holograph, G Senjou Heaven's Door, Homunculus and SANCTUARY

>>4
I think the movie only covered the first volume or two. I'm not quite sure because I haven't seen the movie except for a few scenes, but that's still a lot of awesomeness uncovered considering the manga is 12 volumes!!

I should upload more stuff to COMIC BOMBER.

Especially THE WORLD IS MINE. Yes yes, especially that.

Has anyone read Freesia? Really really great. Also in Nijigahara Holograph what is the importance of the butterflies?

>>8
Freesia is fucking awesome. Can't wait for volume 9 to come out.

I'm not quite sure about the butterflies yet in Nijigahara. That had me kinda puzzled.

http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
You guys should read A Spirit of the Sun. It's fucking awesome so far and it'll leave you begging for more.

>>8
I'm guessing they were about the same as the butterflies in Boogiepop Phantom. Something about bringing back bad memories, etc.

http://www.colonthree.org/manga.html
Uzumaki, Tomie and some of the other shorter manga on there are very awesome and worth reading.

>>10
I started reading it and thought, "Well this has a pretty old art style and doesn't seem like a plot that would really interest me." BUT THEN I STARTED READING IT OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME!

http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Just uploaded Baka & Gogh and Kami no Shizuku.

Baka & Gogh is really good so far. The art is super stylish.
Kami no Shizuku is about wine. Yeah.

http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Hanaotoko, Japan Tengu Party Illustrated and Nasu.

The art styles of all three may be troublesome to people who are too used to the generic animu look.

Hanaotoko is about this kid named Shigeo moving in to his baseball-crazed idiot father's place. Great character development and it's so fucking funny at times.

Japan Tengu Party Illustrated is about tengus in modern society. The author's art is simply stunning. The guy doesn't even touch the screentone.

Nasu is by the same author of Tengu Party. A bunch of short stories that involve eggplants in one way or another. More entertaining than it sounds, I assure you!

I uploaded Hanaotoko when I was half way through volume 2 and just finished volume 3 right now. Now there's a good fucking ending.

I think I'm going to download everything else by Taiyo Matsumoto.

Yes, yes I shall.

Thank you so much comic bomber all of these have been really really great!

>>17
No prob :*

So I've been working through the Matsumoto stuff. I just finished reading BLACK & WHITE (Tekkon Kinkreet) and it was pretty good. Like Hanaotoko, things got really rolling towards the end.

Viz is releasing the omnibus of Tekkon Kinkreet soon which has all three volumes in one book, unflipped and what not. Maybe I'll buy it.

Alright, onto the next Matsumoto work, it's time for PING PONG.

Tengu Party is pretty awesome. The story wouldn't normally be something that appeals to me but I just can't stop reading.

>>20
Yes! I can't wait till volume 4 (the finale) is translated!!

Multi-track decantering manga is hilariously awesome.

>>22
What is that?

Also what is the source of Multi-track drifting and Thrust Vectoring owns the sky?

>>23
He's talking about Kami no Shizuku. It's this ridiculous wine manga.

Multi-track drifting comes from this Initial D doujinshi called "Densha de D".

STEEL BALL RUN volume 5 was awesome.

Are the starting volumes of Jojo's on bomber?

>>26
The rest of Jojo (minus just about all of Part 6 because it was never translated) can be found here:
http://jojo.highervoltage.net

>>27
Thank you, just started reading it. Young Dio is the ultimate bad guy.

Last night, I read "The Push Man and Other Stories". It's a collection of one-shots that was published in 1969. It's really good!

http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7448

>>28
Fucking right he is!

I've been neglecting to update COMIC BOMBER as of late. So I updated a few series and added the first volume of Cesare.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb

Cesare is by Fuyumi Soryo, a popular shoujo mangaka that suddenly started writing seinen manga in recent years. She wrote stuff like MARS and Eternal Sabbath, both of which are excellent reads.

Soryo (with help from a historian well versed in this time period) writes this "serious historical fiction" about Cesare Borgia, a figure from Italian history. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia). Seems like a lot of popular mangaka these days are drawing history. (Inoue Takehiko with Vagabond, Hitoshi Iwaaki with Historie, etc.)

You start the book with the most blandest, plain black-and-white cover ever. Something that you'd easily pass in a bookstore if it wasn't for prior knowledge about the manga or the author. But the inside is the complete opposite of bland. Soryo's refined art really shines in the backgrounds and the clothing. I'm no historical expert, so I can't really say anything about the authenticity of it all, but everything looks so well done and it's just incredibly detailed. It feels like you're stepping back in time to Italy in the end of the 1400s.

Just read New Grappler Baki v11. You can't take this series seriously. You just can't. If you want an in depth story with delicate character development, Baki will be pure hell for you. The manga does one thing amazingly and that's the violence. The fights and the action are top notch. If you're looking for something filled to the brim with raw testosterone, this is it.

Volumes 1-11 are available here.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb

http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/

Kotonoha released the first five chapters of Hitoshi Iwaaki's Historie. It fucking kicks ass, check it out.

RIKI-OH. It's ranks up there with Hokuto no Ken and Jojo in manliness.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb

Thank you very much dearest Comic Bomber I have enjoyed your manga immensely. Riki-oh is even better than the movies. ww

>>34
You're so very welcome. ;*

>>36
I love that group, even with their blinding slow speeds, because they're the only ones out there manly enough to translate hot blooded Kazuhiko Shimamoto comics.

I just started Berserk, it's AMAZING.

I like Umishso and Yotsuba&!.

>>38
Just wait till you get caught up with the latest chapter in Japan. Then you'll be impatient and bored like the rest of us!

I've been pretty gay for NANA lately. I've been reading a bunch of josei manga lately.

>>40
Yep I'm caught up now. Fuck. Is it just me or was the arc with the original Band of the Hawk all the way up to the Eclipse much better than it is now? I mean it's not bad right now, it's still great but still. Maybe it'll become better when Caska is back.

http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Read Goodnight Punpun and Boku to Issho if you guys haven't.

ಸ ಜ ನಾಗಲೋಟಿ ಮಠರವರು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಖ್ಯಾತ ವೈದ್ಯರು ಹಾಗು ಸಾಹಿತಿಗಳು. ಸಜನಾ ಎಂದು ಖಾ್ಯತರಾಗಿರುವ ಇವರ ಪೂರ್ಣ ಹೆಸರು ಸದಾಶಿವಯ್ಯ ಜಂಬಯ್ಯ ನಾಗಲೋಟಿಮಠ.

೨೦ ಜುಲೈ,೧೯೪೦ರಲ್ಲಿ ಗದಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಜನಿಸಿದ ನಾಗಲೋಟಿಮಠರವರಿಗೆ ಜನಿಸಿದಾಗ ಸದಾಶಿವಯ್ಯ ಎಂದು ಹೆಸರಿಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಇವರ ತಂದೆ ಜಂಬಯ್ಯನವರು ನರಗುಂದ ತಾಲೂಕಿನ ಶಿರೋಳ ಗ್ರಾಮದವರು.

ನಾಗಲೋಟಿಮಠರವರು ಪ್ರಾಥಮಿಕ ಹಾಗು ಪ್ರೌಡ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣವನ್ನು ಸದಾಶಿವ ಬನಹಟ್ಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂರೈಸಿದರು. ವೈದ್ಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣವನ್ನು ಇವರು ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿಯ ಕೆ.ಎಂ.ಸಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂರೈಸಿದರು ಹಾಗು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರಥಮ ರಾಂಕ್ ಗಳಿಸಿದರು. ನಾಗಲೋಟಿಮಠರವರು ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿಯ ಕಿಮ್ಸ‌ನ ಪ್ರಥಮ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಇವರು ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲೇ ಅತಿ ದೊಡ್ಡ ದೇಹದ ಹರಳುಗಳ ವಸ್ತು ಸಂಗ್ರಹಾಲಯವನ್ನು ಬಿಜಾಪುರದಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಿದರು. ಬೆಳಗಾವಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇವರು ಸ್ಥಾಥಪಿಸಿರುವ ಪ್ಯಾಥಾಲಜಿ ಮ್ಯೂಸಿಯಂ ಕೋಡ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ದವಾಗಿದೆ. ಇವರು ದಿಕೂ್ಸಚಿ ಮಾಸಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯ ಗೌರವ ಸಲಹೆಗಾರರಾಗಿದ್ದರು.

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Let's talk comics again everyone! Who here has been reading Berserk lately?

>>46
Yeah, that latest chapter was pretty badass. I like where this is all going.

>>44
I lol'd

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ec21d390b89568eaf089d577516ac47b23da7e6891d52b72
Mangascreener finished Japan Tengu Party Illustrated.
I recommend you all read it. It's only four volumes. （・∀・）

>>44

Please rewrite in a non-Indic language. Preferably English.

If not, then plzdiekthxbai

>>49
I am going to start reading it in a few days.

>>51
You won't regret it! The surreality of it all makes it so magical.

I need some seinen to read, requesting suggestions.

>>53
THE WORLD IS MINE by Hideki Arai. The first two volumes are incoherent, confusing and is filled with senseless violence. Afterwords, you get some of the best storytelling and character development you'll see in manga. If you like and want more senseless violence, check out RIKI-OH.

General tip, check out anything and everything at Mangascreener and Kotonoha. Off the top of my head you should try out Japan Tengu Party Illustrated, Children of the Sea and Historie.

http://hokutoarmy.wordpress.com/downloads/#Souten2
Holy shit, somebody is scanlating Fist of the Blue Sky again （・∀・）ィィィィ！！

ROOKIES by Masanori Morita is epic manliness.

>>56
It's really cheesy. I mean, it makes me cringe at times. I don't think a volume goes by without Mikoshiba crying. But yeah, it's fucking great stuff. I need to get caught up with Rokudenashi BLUES (by the same author) since somebody has been translating that again.

Morita also did a bunch of one-shots. If you look on COMIC BOMBER (link near the top of the thread) in the ONE-SHOTS folder, look for one called ALL THE WAY DOWN. It's 5 pages of fucking awesomeness.

Drawing-wise, Morita is a deity.

Mikoshiba cries the less un-manly tears of the series, though he must show the people home that he's becoming a man through that tears. And about manliness, there's Shinjo anteing up every SINGLE FUCKING TIME:

"How long have you been playing? Four months?"
"No, that's actually three."

Rokudenashi Blues is slightly less epic, I read it all easily downloading it from scansites though. Must look at the one-shots.

>>59
I think that should replace the normal ｷﾀ━━━━━（　ﾟ∀ﾟ　）━━━━━!!!!! in SAoVP.
Aaaaaaaaaaand added to my notepad.

>>59
Master is such a cool character.

http://www.kefi.org/twim.php

Please do yourself a favour, and read THE WORLD IS MINE. You'll thank me later.

http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/one-shots/#eyes
LOOK ME IN THE EYES WHEN YOU TALK

A one shot by Hitoshi Iwaaki, the author of Parasyte and Historie. It's about a man who can no longer see people's eyes after he's beaten up by a bunch of thugs.

No one ever reads Stone Ocean. It's one of the better JoJo series.
http://www.onemanga.com/JoJos_Bizarre_Adventure_-_Stone_Ocean/

Jolyne is manlier than most JoJo's out there.

I've been meaning to catch up with STONE OCEAN. Really!

Holy shit, three new chapters of THE WORLD IS MINE. Things keep getting better and better and it all ends on such a bad cliffhanger.

do any of you VIPPERs know a good handheld device with which i might read my virtual manga? i was thinking psp because im interested in its PSX emulation capabilities and the ease with which games can be pirated and its image viewer seems just right for reading manga, but do you know of anything better?

also i've been reading Soul Eater which is alright, not super impressive - though i really like way the sun and moon are drawn

>>62
I just caught up with it. What the hell happened to the bomb kid (I forget his name) after the dream fight against the Higu? Ever since he's been COMPLETELY different. I don't understand why.

I THINK DRAGON BALL Z IS THE BEST ANIME EVER!!!!!!!!

I GOT A IQ OF 160!!!!!!! I GO TO MIT!!!!! I DONT SUCK AT CHESS!!!!!!!!! I GOT A LOT OF SMARTS SEE????!!!!!

>>70
Before he was so frail and was such a pussy, but now I think he's snapped. It's like him and Monchan switched personalities after that.

>>72
Yeah I guess that's the case. I'm really curious what that scene was supposed to represent, when you see the bear with an umbilical cord etc. I wish they would scanlate faster! We need a VIPPER scanlation group or something.

>>73
KEFI has a translator, but no editor. I'd learn how to edit, but my PC doesn't want to run Photoshop ('A`)

I just purchased the 5 volume ENTERBRAIN reprint of TWIM. I've been slowly reading (just barely grasping what's going on) it starting from where KWIM left off. Only a few chapters beyond it now and it's so great. This has to be one of the best manga ever.

>>75
Man, I'd love to have those Enterbrain reprints, even if I can't understand the language. Those books are fucking THICK.

Also also also, check out Hideki Arai's other stuff like KIICHI!, SUGAR, I LOVE IRENE and his short story collection, "AMANATSU", if you happen to have easy access to them. I can testify that KIICHI! and SUGAR are PRETTY AWESOME, however, I haven't read the latter titles I listed, but I've heard GOOD THINGS.

Man oh man, I love this fucking author.

SHIGURUI is pretty fucking awesome, holy shit. It gets better and better with each chapter.

>>78
http://www.mediafire.com/spore

This comic is so good, it's scary. I mean, it's been consistently awesome and that awesomeness hasn't slowed down for a second. It keeps shoving pure awesome in your face chapter in and chapter out and leaves you begging for more. I can't get enough of it.

It's like if something like Vagabond was fused with something over-the-top like Grappler Baki (complete with the grotesque beauty of manliness).

Shigurui is ridiculously good, it's maybe my favourite manga ever. I was kinda disappointed when it started being more about the fighting for the sake of the fighting, but that feeling diminished a little bit every time it made me say "holy shit did that really just happen", and that was pretty much every other page. Also I'm about 10 chapters behind, maybe it's changing again.

My only worry is the ending, I really hope it gets beefed up a lot or changed totally from the original story. Even in that, with the characters pale shadows of what they are in the manga, it was not what I would call entirely satisfying; in the manga it could be an absolutely crushing letdown. Still, it's not a big worry, I'm fairly confident it will be made awesome.

I think I'm in love with Miu.

Tuesday, 9PM: If chapter 3 was the ending, that was a little sudden. Maybe it's better this way. I don't think I could read several volumes of masturbatory hijinks.

I think I have a manga crush on Iku. Something about her is amazing.

Dear SAoVQ manga experts,

What good seinen is there other than what's already been posted in this thread? I absolutely loved Shigurui. My other favorites are: TWIM, Berserk, MPD Psycho, Freesia, Ciguatera and 20th Century Boys. Any recommendations?

>>84
Me and the Devil Blues. Scanlations ended right before volume 2 ended because it got licensed, but check them out. Everything about this comic is top notch. A story about Robert Johnson shouldn't have this kind of over-the-top suspense and "magic" to it, it's just amazing. It's rare when a comic sends shivers down my spine constantly like this does. The North American editions don't have the color pages, but they're well worth the money.

To branch off some of your favourites, check out stuff by the same authors if you haven't. Kiichi!, Boku to Issho, Himizu, MONSTER and PLUTO instantly come to mind. As for other authors, I'll just name names off the top of my head:

Hitoshi Iwaaki (Parasyte/Kiseijuu, Historie)
Iou Kuroda (Japan Tengu Party Illustrated, Nasu, Sexy Voice and Robo)
Makoto Isshiki (Piano no Mori, Hanada Shounen-shi)
Shinkichi Kato (National Quiz, Baka & Gogh, Ranman)
Inio Asano (Nijigahara Holograph, Solanin, Goodnight Punpun, What a Wonderful World!)
Taiyo Matsumoto (Black and White/Tekkon Kinkreet, Hanaotoko, No.5)
Daisuke Igarashi (Children of the Sea, Witches, Hanashippanashi)
Nihonbashi Yoko (G Senjou Heaven's Door, Shoujo Fight)
Makoto Yukimura (Planetes, Vinland Saga)
Ryuichi Ikegami (SANCTUARY is fabulous, STRAIN was alright... a lot of his other stuff wasn't all that great...)
Kiba Koichi (KILICO)
Fuyumi Soryo (Eternal Sabbath, Cesare. MARS is the only shoujo manga I got really gay for.)

If you wanna keep things simple, just look at what Mangascreener and Kotonoha have to offer. You really can't go wrong. All the one-shots they've done are really good too.

>>85
Thanks VIPPER! I really appreciate it. Going to get to work on this list ASAP~

KEFI released three more chapters of THE WORLD IS MINE
ｷﾀ━━━━━（ﾟ∀ﾟ）━━━━━!!!!!

STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADAN

>>87
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YESSSSSS

http://senfgurke2.wordpress.com/
This guy is uploading cool stuff like MUSHISHI and HONEY AND CLOVER.

Some guy is scanlating Historie where Kotonoha left off at a FEVERISH PACE.
http://www.mediafire.com/hox

If you haven't read it before, check it out. It's seriously some awesome stuff by the guy who did Parasyte/Kiseijuu.
http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/ongoing-series/historie/

>>91
Is Historie realistic or is it sort of fantasized?

>>92
Super realistic.

>>93
(with points here and there fantasized for the sake of character development becuase how are you supposed to get that out of historical texts)

Any VIPPERs read Change 123?

bampu

The World Is Mine seems like it's going to get really fucking awesome in the next chapter or so. I like where this is all going.

Toyoda Tetsuya is slowly becoming one of my favourite mangakas.
Check his stuff out:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=7375

TWO MORE CHAPTERS OF THE WORLD IS MINE (ch 92-93)

>>64

Stone Ocean was translated comparatively recently, so nobody had ever really talked about it. It's great like all of JoJo, but the ending was a bit of a clusterfuck.

On another note, I just finished 20th Century Boys. I'm going to have to get my hands on that live action movie (Apparently it was released on Monday)

http://www.onemanga.com/20th_Century_Boys/1/00/

http://www.4digitalmedia.com/20cb/dvd-20thcenturyb.html

I have started reading Jojo from the start and it's pretty awesome. Gotta love the inane narration with all the useless powerlevel stats.

Oh fuck. I hear these are the only existing scans of part 4:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2577/jojo29004.jpg

That made me think of the colored bubble GTO scanlations. Ah, those were the days...

Also I'm convinced there are better scans of part 4 but I am usually wrong about these things, so unless you enjoy false hope and bitter disappointment you should probably just ignore me.

>>102-103
There's someone rescanlating Part 4.
http://www.mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=2650

I wish they would translate Manyuu Hiken Chou a bit faster. It is quite possibly the greatest story ever told.

>>104
It's not that much of an upgrade given that he can't read Japanese, but at least it's bearable.

A bunch of THE WORLD IS MINE chapters came out recently. Holy shit, this is getting good.

This is silly, but I can't seem to find any Hokuto no Ken scanlations. I can find the anime twice over in numerous languages, but the manga is illusive.

>>108
It's all on #lurk if you know IRC. (http://www.gotlurk.net)
There's a gap in between volume 4-8 that hasn't been scanlated, but it's still worth reading after.

>>108
Delinquent manga is scanlating 5-7, but they release a chapter once every 6 weeks. The Hokuto no Ken movie from 1986 kinda fills in that hole in the scanlations.

The other night I read Shamo for 14 volumes straight. You need a pretty strong stomach to read this, in the first chapter you see how the main character, Ryo Narushima, murdered his parents the day of his 16th birthday, in the second and third chapter there's some graphic male prison rape; and it's very slow paced, there's a fight supposed to last 30 minutes of real-time that can take you twice as long to read.
In prison, Ryo finds a very special karate teacher, and it's through karate he manages to survive the two years he has to serve in a prison for minors. The story really starts in the third volume, as we follow him outside, and see how he ends up challenging the champion of the largest MMA tournament around.
It's really worth reading. You feel like the only person in the world rooting for the asshole, and you know you shouldn't.

Unfortunately I hear it goes to shit where I stopped reading, and even goes supernatural a bit later. But even if it ends up being as bad as I was told I strongly recommend volumes 1-14 to anyone who can take it. Scans at http://www.manga-sketchbook.org/ (except for one stupid shopped "joke" in the middle of the 3rd or 4th volume the general scan and editing quality is consistently high).

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-07-16/viz-adds-saturn-apartments-kingyo-used-books-manga

Viz is getting pretty hardcore with IKKI. I hope it does well enough for them to bring over G Senjou Heaven's Door.

RIKI-OH v12 was released not too long ago.

The only ending manlier than this was Hokuto no Ken's.

Kotonoha is somewhat alive again. Pretty much anything they release is worth reading.

>>113

It was the most JEWISH manga I have ever read.

The live action movie is QUALITY, too, but I haven't found a subbed release of the OAVs.

Tetsuo Hara's CYBER BLUE. This looks too good.
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/samehat/150498.html

Especially the main villain being PRINCE.

>>116

AWESOME.

Hox translated the first volume of Nobuyuki Fukumoto's LEGEND OF THE STRONGEST MAN, KUROSAWA. This is really hard to read because I identify myself with the main character's social awkwardness way too much. It's like I'm looking at myself in 20 years, but doing construction.

Hox also did some Noramimi. It's great stuff that I'm surprised Viz didn't pick up on for their Ikki site, becuase it's a lot better than most of the stuff they have on there.

http://www.mediafire.com/hox

http://www.mediafire.com/shizukajoestar
If you haven't read STEEL BALL RUN yet, I suggest you do so.

Everyone should check out Pluto whenever they have some spare time. I thought Monster and 20th Century Boys were great but Pluto is even better. Urasawa is amazing. Highly, highly recommended.

>>121
What happened to Kurosawa though? Are we ever going to see vol 2?

>>123

>Project Status:
>Medium Priority
>Legend of the Strongest Man, Kurosawa ("probably" will not continue work on this until early 2010 or so)

('A`)

>>123
Hox released another chapter...!

I've mentioned it earlier in this thread, but man, Takemitsu Zamurai is must read stuff. Hox finished up the second volume and it's jaw dropping. This is some of the best stuff I've read in a long time.

http://hox.fluffypress.com/archives/109

So apparently Tsuruta Kenji wrote something new. He the guy who made "Spirit of Wonder" and "Forget-me-not". He's a guy that only makes comics once every 10 years, but every time he does, it's pretty good stuff. His latest book, "Memories of Emanon", is an adaption of a novel (that he happen to draw the cover for) and is about a woman with a memory that dates back to the start of life on Earth.

Kotonoha released the first half of the comic. Check it out.
http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/

Shigurui is being scanlated again.
http://www.mangaupdates.com/releases.html?search=2304&stype=series

>>131
Oh dang, that's some fantastic artwork there. And the story isn't half bad either.

Anyone care to recommend some decent Josei? I'd like to try it out but the art usually turns me off, not to mention a lot of it seems pretty dumb.

I would like to revive this thread. We need more good manga discussion and sharing.

>>134
I went through a period of reading josei manga because I thought a lot of it was more truthful about life and emotions and all that crap. Then one day I realized it's not and a lot of it sucks and I can't relate to it properly and went back to my old reading habits. The only thing I can really think of that I like is Honey and Clover and everyone's read that.

I haven't been able to keep on top of new manga or even keep up with ongoing series for a year or so now, I've only read one new release in that time and that was a collection with a couple of stories I'd already read. I have the problem that there's so much stuff I want to read I'm not sure I'll ever get around to starting any of it.

>>134
River's Edge and Helter Skelter are really good.

Is josei mostly like the manga equivalent of romance novels or something?

>>138
Not exactly. Josei is a demographic.

Shounen - Early teen boys/All Ages
Shoujo - Early teen girls/All Ages
Seinen - Late teens/20-somethings/Business guys/etc.
Josei - Same general audience as seinen, except female.

Also, more josei recommendations: Usagi Drop and Nodame Cantabile.

I don't know if I could recommend stuff by Ai Yazawa with a straight face. They're guilty pleasures. (´・ω・｀)

Comic bomber are you still around?

>>140
I've been bumping this thread anonymously with stuff I've read.
I'm thinking of uploading cool free comics again.

Total number of files: 300
Total size of all files: 6.78 GB
Total downloads: 16,507
Total bandwidth: 636.78 GB

Holy crap.

>>141

>I'm thinking of uploading cool free comics again.

I highly recommend this. I find that downloading and tracking down good manga is always a hassle. I would love to help if I could as well. Comics are great.

>>143
I uploaded three collections by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (The Pushman and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Good-Bye). Stuff's bleak and depressing, but it's very well done. I really need to buy his stuff one of these days.

http://www.mediafire.com/comicbomber

>>144
I feel the same way, makes me wish I knew Japanese fluently.

>>146
WAHOOOOOOO. I haven't read it in a months.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28vGi7jPNrY
Lego video for Monster fans.

I AFFIRM MYSELF

http://telophase.livejournal.com/1120897.html

A manga about train bentos? Well now I've seen everything

>>151
Haha, oh wow.

What manga is everyone reading at the moment?
As for me, it's Steel Ball Run!

>>153
I've just finished Piano no Mori v07. I love this shit.

>>149
Cogito, ergo sum

Anyone have suggestions for some good comedy manga?

>>157
Sugoiyo Masaru-san: Sexy Commando, Gyagu Manga Biyori, Yakitate! Japan, Short Cuts

>>157
Boku to Issho. This stuff is so absurd.

>>159
This entire time I thought this had something to do with Boku no Pico. Just took a look, reading immediately.

I'm debating getting an iPad, pretty much just for comics. Any opinions?

>>161
As a satisfied owner of a jailbroken iPhone, on which I have read many e-Books (but no comics), I strongly recommend you don't.
You need both a filesystem you can access and intelligent software that is allowed to access it. The iPad has neither.
Expect tons of non-obvious gotchas and limitations.

Do not buy unless you can get a chance to borrow an unit and verify for yourself that you can read 500 pages of diverse material without swearing a lot about all the things the machine won't allow you to do because it was optimized to display albums with 30 photos.

Slightly related, I use a widescreen display in a vertical position to read scans myself, using Xee (a mac program done by the same guy who did the text board and image board software saovq runs!)
It's not mobile but really convenient.
You could reproduce this sort of setup with a half-as-expensive-as-an-iPad laptop rested on its side, or one with hinges that can open at a 180º angle. Almost every laptop produced in the last 3 years allows you to change the display rotation for the whole system, often right from a system tray icon, so would not be limited to software that supports a default rotation.

If you were getting an iPad or a laptop just for comics could you not just use that money to buy the actual comics...?

>>163
Given the thread we're in, I don't think his interests are limited to stuff available both on paper and in English.

>>166
You could get a kindle dx, or a similar large screen e-ink reader. I bought one for general reading, and didn't think much of putting my comics from glorious Nippon on it in advance. However, when I tried it worked very well. It's not as general, or "fun" a device as the Ipad I suppose, but it does the reading part very good. It also has a much more comfortable screen to read.

The Kindle doesn't have a filesystem directory by default, but since most of the manga I've read have been packaged in rar or zip-files, it hasn't posed big enough a problem for me to try to rectify. Note that 10" really is the minimum screen size for comfortably reading comics, so I'd advice against the smaller devices for this purpose.

>>169

>Tanabata no Kuni

This sounds brilliant. Wow, I cannot wait to read this.

>>171
...I just looked at that Cyber Blue description in the first link. Good lord, the translation isn't like that. Don't worry.

mediafire.com/?nvmuhmln00k
Very very interesting manga. I have no idea who it's by but it's pretty refreshing and interesting.

http://www.mediafire.com/zawanons
part 2 of Kaiji is getting translated, though it's kinda old news

Would anyone be interested in having a manga book club? We could all read one manga (something on the shorter side I guess) over the course of two weeks. Once the two weeks are over we can chat about our impressions in this thread. What do you think?

>>175

Depends on the manga.
I only like slice of life and shoujo, really.

>>175
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( ´･ω･) That sounds lovely
( つ旦O　
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>>175
That'd be great.

Can't be bothered to buy? Anyone who knows anything about economics know that if a product isn't being bought they wont produce it. Why bite the hand that feeds when you can work for the food.

Let's read one piece

>>182

>>176-san here. We could do Solanin, or Onani Master Kurosawa.
But I've already read both, so it'd be cheating ('A`)

>>183
I agree with this, anything more than a couple chapters and I'd be way behind, even if you do give us two weeks.

>>186

Well, Onani Master is about 31 chapters long and Solanin is 28 chapters long. Pretty short, but they are amazing.

We could also read Absolute Boyfriend, it's 33 chapters long and it's pretty entertaining.

I actually started reading Onani Master a while ago, but never finished it. I'd be fine with choosing that.

I recommend Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. It's 14 volumes, but it's a very light read. We'll burn through it no time.

Come to think of it, I really miss reading new chapters of this every month.

There was another manga by the same person who did Solanin, but the name eludes me...

>>191
There's Nijigahara Holograph, What a Wonderful World, City of Light and Goodnight Punpun.

>>192

What a Wonderful World, that's the one I was thinking of.
Thank you, VIPPER!

Well let us get this started. For the next two weeks lets read Solanin!

2 chapters a day, it's perfect.

Make sure you're ready for tomorrow VIPPERs, chapter 5 is a good one!

I've got some catching up to do.
I was worried we would not start this.

How do the other VIPPERs like it so far?
I wish my life was as free as theirs...

Well, I just marathon-read Solanin in one sitting. It was excellent. However, reading it so quickly was probably a mistake, because I could not fully digest the tragedy before moving on to the uplifting parts, leaving me in a terribly depressed mood. I'm graduating soon and wondering, where will my life go? The characters in Solanin at least had friends to help them through life. It's lonely struggling alone.

I read through it two chapters a day and everything but then forgot about posting in this thread. I've actually read it before, and thought it was great, but this time I didn't like it much. I have a feeling I was just drunk the first time.

I started realising I didn't like it because the dialogue was annoying me - a lot of it felt false and over-dramatic. I guess it's intentional to a degree, especially with Taneda, but I don't think it's all due to a deliberate portrayal of the characters acting that way. Then that feeling extended beyond the dialogue. Based on my bad memory and the reviews I'd read I'd pictured a subtle, sensitive, and realistic story, but it felt more like a particularly subdued but still shallow and melodramatic j-drama or soap opera. It also has a lot of Japanese pop culture tropes that I don't like, in particular the obsession with how being young and innocent is good and growing up sucks and somehow corrupts you (since this is what it's based around I suppose I should have realised I wouldn't like it, even if it is about overcoming the supposed problem), and the bittersweet "life goes on" ending.

If the whole thing was meant to be viewed negatively as a criticism of this kind of (particularly Japanese?) story and attitude I would like it but I don't think that's the case, although I suppose I can just call death of the author and read it that way regardless.

>>200
I have. I thought it wasn't executed perfectly and after a couple of readings maybe isn't as complicated or clever as it seems at first, but I like it quite a lot.

I've also read some (2 or 3 volumes?) of Goodnight Punpun, which I mostly liked, and It's a Wonderful World, of which I can only remember a couple of stories but I liked them and have the feeling he's strongest at shorts.

I also like his art and noticed last week that the reason some of his characters look similar is probably because they look a bit like him.

I've been reading Pugyuru lately. Some guy brought it up and I just wanted to check it out, but it turns out that it's pretty VIP.

>>199
I can relate. If you want a more realistic depiction of relationships/human interaction check out Nasu. It's amazing.

http://www.mediafire.com/?06cu71gy0mk312l

>>204
You should mention why we should download this 112.32 MB file, please.

>>205
Sorry.
It's a bizarre scat/gore manga by Shintaro Kago that parodies Japan's former wartime mentality. I found it by chance and wanted to post it here.

Japanese Tengu Party Illustrated was fantastic.

THX COMIC BOMBER d(^_^)

>>207
I just finished Japanese Tengu Party a few days ago myself. I found that his messy art style made it hard to tell what was going on sometimes, especially when it came to telling the differences between the characters. Overall though, it was a wonderful manga. Well-paced, interesting plot, multi-dimensional characters and just the right amount of humor.

I started and got completely caught up with Hourou Musuko just the other day. Highly recommended.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Son
http://www.mediafire.com/houroumusuko

>>208

>I found that his messy art style made it hard to tell what was going on sometimes, especially when it came to telling the differences between the characters.

I'm just happy that he didn't use any screen tone, digital or not. So many bad artists these days relying on that to cover up their bland art.

Reading Eden, I'm wondering when will I see Kenji again.

Hox picked up Ashita no Joe.
This stuff is seriously good. It's one of the best sports comics ever made.

http://hox.fluffypress.com/archives/1573

>>213
My analysis is that Ashita no Joe is actually a criticism of modern Japanese society. The character Joe is not at fault, but rather his need to succeed over all circumstances eventually leads to his death rather directly correlates to the average Japanese business man.

Somebody translated a ton of Ushio & Tora, like 19 volumes. It's a great 90s shounen classic from the guy who did Karakuri Circus.
http://www.mediafire.com/?33mgl68wl9v6d

Fist of the North Star is completely translated.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ju33ixuo5fltf
http://www.mediafire.com/?5vbev4pgh3h5v

What do you fellow VIPPERS think of "I am a Hero"?

>>217
I need to start reading it. I wish BOYS ON THE RUN from the same author was translated

>>218
"Boys on the Run" sounds pretty good, but I'm not all that into sports manga, which is why I couldn't get into "Hajime no Ippo".

I did look up more of the author's works though, and "Ressentiment" seems to be pretty interesting.

Also, I recommend "Gintama" because it's (in my opinion) a really good, and funny manga. I mean, sure it's stupid at times, but it's still pretty good.

>>213
Ohhh, exciting. I'm a big Hajime no Ippo fan, it'll be fun to read its biggest influence.

On the subject of Hox, Legend of the Strongest Man Kurosawa was finished a while ago. The ending left me depressed and happy at the same time, it's such a weird but pleasant feeling.

I'll check out Legend of the Strongest Man Kurosawa. Thanks.

>>219
Ressentiment was strangely disappointing for me. The whole "she's this special being" seems sort of canned and chobits-esque.

What manga have you been reading recently, guys?

>>223

Otaku no Musume-san, Yotsuba and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

>>222
At the time I said that it was interesting I was reading the description. I didn't actually read it yet. Although, I do agree that it isn't all that original, it's still a bit decent or something.

>>223
Berserk
Boku to issho
Ibitsu (Seems decent enough)
Sprite (Only three chapters out, but it seems to have some potential)
Helen ESP (I like it...though it can get stupid when they try talking to Helen directly)
Destroy and Revolution (Only three chapters out so I can't give a proper thought on it, but I don't dislike it)
Gintama

I know that I don't have very good tastes in manga so I'll sage my post.

>>224
Why do you like crap?

>>223
Bakuman

>>228
It's shitty!

>>228
We have a wonderful thread full of great manga recommendations! No need to read Otaku no Musume-san!

>>217
Volume 3 of "I Am A Hero" came out yesterday, so I thought I'd start reading this comic. Wow. This series is just something else, isn't it? I can't wait for more.

>>231
It's really good! Though I wonder if he'll ever actually use his shotgun...

>>232
It'd be hilarious if the series ends without him ever using the shotgun. I love how this comic is put together. The flow and pacing is great, the foreshadowing is delicious.