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

[Matti]

New translated manga coming soon.

[Wrangler]

Re: Monster is descent manga, but its not for everyone.  especially when everything and everyone is on the menu.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Re: Monster is descent manga, but its not for everyone.  especially when everything and everyone is on the menu.

It is only cannibalism if you eat a member of your own species. *whistles*

[Matti]

Ooh LOL! They're gonna make Tomo-chan crossdress! ROFLMAO!

[HobbesHurlbut]

Just finally read KURO.
Wow, what a mind bender.

[Matti]

Just finally read KURO.

What is it about? Who is author?

[HobbesHurlbut]

Soumatou.
Mystery genre. A girl and a cat live alone in a mansion, she tend a greenhouse full of white flowers for the town (flower caretaker or such). You're drawn in the more you read on. It's very compelling.

[Wrangler]

Started reading , Renai Boukun, its pretty funny book. Cupid, who happens to latch on to our poor main character who draws in gallery of really wacky and crazy woman..

[HobbesHurlbut]

Started reading , Renai Boukun, its pretty funny book. Cupid, who happens to latch on to our poor main character who draws in gallery of really wacky and crazy woman..

Oh that is a very fun manga.

[Matti]

And this is why Tomo-chan is called air-headed lady killer O0

[HobbesHurlbut]

I was just thinking how this manga I finished a few days ago contained all the elements of a classic Lovecraftian horror.
6000 by Koike Nokuto. It got everything including people losing sanity and becoming gibbering.

[Mecha82]

I read Neon Genesis Evangelion volumes 13 and 14 from 2-in-1 published by Viz. Well ending was lot better than original anime ending and EoE that's for sure with some elements from EoE but done much better.

 

[HobbesHurlbut]

I read Neon Genesis Evangelion volumes 13 and 14 from 2-in-1 published by Viz. Well ending was lot better than original anime ending and EoE that's for sure with some elements from EoE but done much better.

 

I heard the anime ending was really rushed? If so that would explain for the manga ending being better since that had more time to wrap up.

[Mech42ace]

I heard the anime ending was really rushed? If so that would explain for the manga ending being better since that had more time to wrap up.

Aff, I hear it was because of a couple of factors, the wiki states that the show was running close to it's deadlines through out it's run, causing the script to be rewrote and the original planned ending to be abandoned by episode 13.

Due to the time constraints, already finished scenes for the ending had to be reworked to match the new deadline. Because of this, most of the ending stayed unfinished.

http://wiki.evageeks.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion

[elf25s]

not manga but inspired by it at least style wise...forever war from 1990s
 i do not remember the publisher

[ANS Kamas P81]

Finished reading Prisma Illya 3rei.  Wow, uh...that's a tonal shift.

[elf25s]

gunnm mars chronicles capt 16.1

is it my imagination but ever since ZOT the story line feels more like dbz lately?

[Matti]

gunnm mars chronicles capt 16.1

So umm... WHAT!?

is it my imagination but ever since ZOT the story line feels more like dbz lately?

If my memory doesn't fail, it's Z.O.T.T.

[idea weenie]

not manga but inspired by it at least style wise...forever war from 1990s
 i do not remember the publisher

If you mean author, it is Joe Haldeman

[Wrangler]

So umm... WHAT!?
If my memory doesn't fail, it's Z.O.T.T.

What you talking about? Isn't this in the past of Battle Angel manga?

I was bit upset that author decided not go ahead into the future instead after Last Order was done.

[elf25s]

you guys are right it was zott
the new series just jumps back and forth between past present after the last order

[MadCapellan]

I try not to sweat the terminology in Gunnm too much. Practically every localization introduces some new, bizarre name alteration.

[Vash The Stampede]

Was reading Fullmetal Alchemist up until volume 10, but then I started watching its TV adaptation FMA: Brotherhood. Love FMA! Still need to see the last season though. The manga is really fun to read.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Was reading Fullmetal Alchemist up until volume 10, but then I started watching its TV adaptation FMA: Brotherhood. Love FMA! Still need to see the last season though. The manga is really fun to read.

Brotherhood is way more faithful to the manga than the first series. But both are fun to watch.

[Vash The Stampede]

Brotherhood is way more faithful to the manga than the first series. But both are fun to watch.

Yeah I had been watching the first series up until it started deviating from the manga, that's when I found out Brotherhood was, as you said, much more faithful to the manga. I really dig the art style in FMA. It's got this grit and specific way the characters are all drawn, especially during the funny sections (plenty of that!)

[Wrangler]

Been reading the comedy/supernatural South Koren Manga - I'm a Loser.  20th something guy who has been blessed or cursed with blood that can kill demons, unfortunately he himself isn't that good at anything when Trouble finds him.  There not alot volumes i've found of it, but it's funny and good read.

[Mecha82]

I am reading Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring as finnish translated version. I don't know what I expected but this is even worse than end of Naruto as manga. I already regret buying it.     

EDIT: On positive note I am liking volume 11 of A Certain Scientific Railgun.

[Wrangler]

Been Steadly following UQ Holder, their up to Chapter 128, where they've ended their weekly publication to switch gears to a monthly starting in....October.   That's while to wait for slightly longer publication. 

Also, they announced their going release Anime version of UQ Holder.  Which is fine, even if it gets cut off at 13 and with ending that doesn't have anything to do with manga.  It's good advertising for manga, it needs more people reading it. I think it maybe struggling.

[MadCapellan]

Been Steadly following UQ Holder, their up to Chapter 128, where they've ended their weekly publication to switch gears to a monthly starting in....October.   That's while to wait for slightly longer publication. 

Ken Akamatsu has been indicating on twitter that he's been in a bit of a slump with the manga and struggling to meet his weekly deadlines. My biggest concern with it is that Akamatsu-sensei doesn't seem sure where he's taking the story - the characters and art are great, but it all feels a bit aimless.

[HobbesHurlbut]

Ken Akamatsu has been indicating on twitter that he's been in a bit of a slump with the manga and struggling to meet his weekly deadlines. My biggest concern with it is that Akamatsu-sensei doesn't seem sure where he's taking the story - the characters and art are great, but it all feels a bit aimless.

That's kinda a serious problem for a story teller. If you don't have an ending in mind when you start it or see possible endings for your story as it goes on.....