Let's discuss Japanese comics!!
Can't be bothered to buy?(฿D฿)
#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://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.
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!
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.
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.