manga time so what are you reading now? (Links may be NSFW)

[Wrangler]

Just read the last chapters of Jitsu wa Watashi wa (Actually, I am...) " also known as My Monster Secret.
It was nicely done, artist showing his skills as artist and his comedy bomb shells he like drop on the readers with weird funny twisted turn of events.  Crew now graduated, but i wonder if he will do another series while their in college.

One can only hope!  Funny book with great art.

[Weirdo]

I rather enjoyed the anime, might have to check out the manga.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Just finished the last chapter of Princess Jellyfish. great read. Editors and the author doesn't know why it's popular in USA. XD

[Matti]

Just finished the last chapter of Princess Jellyfish. great read.

I've seen anime. Anything different from it? Did anime cut scenes or add fillers?

Editors and the author doesn't know why it's popular in USA. XD

One Finnish rock (pop? Whatev) band gained some popularity in Japan. They were asked how they pulled it off. They don't know. 8)

[HobbesHurlbut]

I've seen anime. Anything different from it? Did anime cut scenes or add fillers?
One Finnish rock (pop? Whatev) band gained some popularity in Japan. They were asked how they pulled it off. They don't know. 8)

well you have to go to the manga to finish rest of the story. Obviously, the anime followed the manga up to a point then season/series end.

[iamfanboy]

So I tried reading How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend. Talk about a lousy manga. Couldn't even get halfway through the first volume.

Right now I'm in volume 5 of the LN for My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World. I really don't know WHY I keep reading it. It's not very good. Not BAD, but not good either. I mean, I can see WHY it has the standard tropes, because it's pretty obvious - basically the main character's big sister is Haruhi Suzumiya except that she WANTS supernatural adventures in her life, and she sees her little brother as the big damn hero that has them. So she inserts the tropes into his life - a growing harem, ridiculous martial arts, and so on - then watches him deal with it.

It has some vaguely interesting ideas about how EVERYONE is the main character of a story until their story collides with someone else's - then they either absorb or are absorbed by that other person's story. So Big Sister's story collides with other stories and then whoops them because she sees her little brother as invincible.

[Matti]

Right now I'm in volume 5 of the LN for My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World.

Is it isekai genre?

I used to know only handful of those: Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Narnia, Magic Knight Rayearth, and maybe couple others. Now it looks like Japan alone makes craptons of that genre every month. What the Hell?

[MadCapellan]

 Isekai has been the leading light novel genre for around 5-6 years now, to the point that Kadokawa banned isekai stories from its rookie novelist competition this year because they have more than enough of them!

[kato]

Is it isekai genre?

It's chuunibyou genre pretty much and not set in any parallel world.

[Wrangler]

I wonder what will come next with manga.  I do enjoy Iseka stories, but we need something else in the mix too.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Just learned that Seventh Seas just got a license for this particular manga. The official English title is now "Plus-Sized Elf". See if you can figure out which series that is about before looking it up!

[Tymers Realm]

Just learned that Seventh Seas just got a license for this particular manga. The official English is now "Plus-Sized Elf". See if you can figure out which series that is about before looking it up!

ANN had a news bit about it a couple of weeks ago.
I've looked through scanlations of this unique manga just to see what it was about. If it was just a one or two-off thing, it was interesting. But I stopped just before the fifth 'client' was introduced. Intriguing and headdesking at the same time.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Left out the title from my post. "official English title". Sigh.

[Wrangler]

I read "Plus-Sized Elf and i think its ok. Its essentially slice of life comedy-health manga.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Hataraku Saibou.
Well.....I finally found that manga where they made characters out of the human body's cells.

[Dies Irae]

Hataraku Saibou.
Well.....I finally found that manga where they made characters out of the human body's cells.

I think Kodansha was translating it as 'Cells at Work'. I love the book. It's awesome.

[HobbesHurlbut]

I think Kodansha was translating it as 'Cells at Work'. I love the book. It's awesome.

White Blood Cells.  :o

[Dies Irae]

The One-Winged Angel Cancer Cell...

Kodansha's been getting cash off me for that and Amaama to Inazuma of late.

[PsihoKekec]

I think I'll stick to Once Upon a Time... Life.

[Maingunnery]

I think I'll stick to Once Upon a Time... Life.

True classic  ;)

[Ruger]

Went to the local B&N to get the latest volume (65) of Case Closed, but had to order it instead as they didn't have it...

What they did have was the first volume of Card Captor Sakura Clear Card...

They also had a hardcover of Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch, but as that was almost $30 for a single book, I decided against that purchase...

Ruger

[elf25s]

i recently suffered some loses in my move to anew place lost some things to breakage some stuff i cannot get but some i can and did replace in particular akira and complete set of ah goddess as well as original collection of gits (these items will be missed)
i had been going there for ages even before it was changed to mitsuwa market shopping center to get my manga and anime needs...so any one in edgewater nj can hit it...the book store there carries a alot of manga mags like shonen and the like in a lot of cases both japaniese and english. i had to recently this weekend replace my 6 volume set of akira thanks to my move and some unfortunate accidents. i had not been there in a year or so but the trip there was worth it was able to tag few things for some of my friends and was surprised that a lot of old school stuff was available....particular set that caught my eye was please save my earth complete set both in japaniese and english and was very much surprised to see some one walk out before i could get my claws on it lum all volumes ...(lucky stiff)
but thanks to my trip there i had been re reading my akira manga and my set does include production report with all the merchendising stuff that came around the akira franchise...something i did not had before. i did not know there was a pinball game made ...damn now i really either want one or play one!

[Dies Irae]

Hataraku Saibou is getting an anime adaptation

Oh hell yes.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Reading Goblin Slayer again. This particular part gets to me every time I see it.

Once upon a time, in the days when the stars shone far fewer in the sky than they do now...
The Gods of Light and Order and Destiny vied with the Gods of Darkness and Chaos and Chance to see who would control the Universe.

They waged this struggle with dice. There were victories and defeats, but there was no resolution. The Gods tired of dice, so they created pawns and a board to place them on. They created a world and the many tribes therein. These pawns adventure. They achieve victory, suffer defeat, find treasure or happiness, and ultimately, they die.

In time the Gods came to love these characters and their doings. The dice fall against them sometimes, but so it goes. Into this world there appeared one particular adventurer. He was an unexceptional young man. A male warrior with no distinguishing traits at all. All of the Gods liked him...but great things were not expected of him.

But this adventurer was a little different from others. He was always thinking, strategizing, and acting. He did not let the Gods roll the dice. He was not highborn, not especially capable. Neither did he have any "cheating" powers. This rather surprised the Gods. He would not save the world. He might not even change anything. He was just another pawn.
...Even so, he did not let the Gods roll the dice. Hence, even the Gods did not know how his adventures would end.
His fight goes on, somewhere even now.

[Reldn]

Currently up to volume 13 of Berserk. Sadly, my collection currently stops with 14, so, I need to pick up a few more volumes here very shortly.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Currently up to volume 13 of Berserk. Sadly, my collection currently stops with 14, so, I need to pick up a few more volumes here very shortly.

*looks up the volume list* 39 books.....

[iamfanboy]

Currently up to volume 13 of Berserk. Sadly, my collection currently stops with 14, so, I need to pick up a few more volumes here very shortly.

Oh, man, the end of the first massive arc, and a cliffhanger for the second. It only gets better from there.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Hataraku Saibou (Cells at work or Working Cells) just got a big influx of chapters. So much hilarious.

[elf25s]

with live action Marmalade Boy i decided to dig the original manga out of my hell box ...

[elf25s]

ok does any one know if ever there will be or if it is even completed manga cos chu? i am only able to find chapter 1