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Haha, yeah, of course (still Sumire spoilers by the way):not everyone with the "dead eyes" had at one point in the past met sumire, but some of them could have. As for the "principal", you will notice that he is drawn somewhat similar as the caricature the mangaka uses to represent himself. He is literally dropping into the comic to tell his side characters to not ruin the premise
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Liar posted:I actually questioned how to interpret that. At first I figured this meant that Sumire had touched the lives of every person who put on dead-eyes, but then I remembered the issue where the principal walked into the police station and suddenly the officer in charge of the squad had dead eyes. So either the principal somehow managed to completely convince him that it was fine in a five second explanation, or dead-eyes are like a magical disease. I always presumed it meant that adults simply pretend to not see things that they don't want to have to deal with; a grown man with a life-size puppet pretending to be a real girl is simply so beyond the pale that they say "gently caress it, it's easier to just play along than make a scene."
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Due to this thread, I finally got around to finishing Sumire 16. It was awesome. I then went to reread Sumire 17, but it seems to have never been fully translated. Is this in fact the case, or does someone know where a man might find more comics about a grown man attending high school with a puppet of a high school girl?
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I just finished Sumire 16 and The Hating Girl. The former was fantastic almost the entire way through, but the latter left me pretty cold. Specifically, it was like 50 chapters of the same "she misunderstood his comment because she's socially incompetent and it offended her," or "she couldn't work up the nerve to give him something or say something to him," or a small number of other things. I'm pretty comfortable with repeating gags, but the level of stupidity required to misinterpret what the other person was saying was often times just really weird and forced. It wasn't the worst manga I ever read, but I feel it could be half as long and lose practically none of its heart. Also, the frequent "you're a girl so obviously you think this" (followed by that prediction being 100% correct) was sorta weird, especially for how many times the girl did it to herself.
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My favourite chapters of Sumire-16 are the ones where she flashbacks to her elementary-school days.
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Aug 28, 2012 03:18
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JosephWongKS posted:My favourite chapters of Sumire-16 are the ones where she flashbacks to her elementary-school days. They did lead me to want to know what became of the boy she was childhood friends with. I half expected him to show up at some point, so much so that after reading the series I had to look back to make sure there wasn't a random scene with the old man looking off at someone and crying or something.
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Liar posted:They did lead me to want to know what became of the boy she was childhood friends with. I half expected him to show up at some point, so much so that after reading the series I had to look back to make sure there wasn't a random scene with the old man looking off at someone and crying or something. There's no actual evidence for this, but I choose to believe he's the principal.
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Well, the live action adaption of Sumire did not impress me after all... The acting was terrible, it was laden with cartoonish reactions that were out of place, the switch between the doll and the real actress of Sumire only served the scenes were it was difficult to use the puppet instead of being a narrative tool, and watching a man basically grabbing a girl from behind was just creepy. Oh well...
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Cake Attack posted:There's no actual evidence for this, but I choose to believe he's the principal. That would be hard to imagine since the principal is so obviously much, much older than the puppeteer.
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Rexides posted:The acting was terrible, it was laden with cartoonish reactions that were out of place It never ceases to amaze me how the live action series can come across as less realistic than their anime/manga counterparts.
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I saw about five minutes of the Sailor Moon live action once. I almost died of laughter because of how that handled Luna.
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Rexides posted:Well, the live action adaption of Sumire did not impress me after all... The acting was terrible, it was laden with cartoonish reactions that were out of place, the switch between the doll and the real actress of Sumire only served the scenes were it was difficult to use the puppet instead of being a narrative tool, and watching a man basically grabbing a girl from behind was just creepy. This is par the course for most live action Japanese tv dramas. Even with all of their problems I still find them more enjoyable than Korean dramas but barely. I finished up the Hating Girl last night. Overall, I enjoyed it but it's really sad the author didn't really do any other work in manga. 
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Do you guys know any crazy series you'd want to recommend? It's easy to get hooked on these things.
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Fighting Falken posted:Do you guys know any crazy series you'd want to recommend? It's easy to get hooked on these things. Yeah, please! I made this thread more or less to solicit for others, because these are the only really crazy out-there ones that I've ever found. I just love that "Whoa  am I reading and why is it so good?" feeling.
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DrSunshine posted:Yeah, please! I made this thread more or less to solicit for others, because these are the only really crazy out-there ones that I've ever found. I just love that "Whoa Well, there's Onani Master Kurosawa. It's about... Lelouch as a serial masturbator I guess (it's not porn though). It's pretty  but also quite good.Edit: It doesn't really count as Slice of Life though, now that I mention it. The manga itself makes the comparison to The Catcher in the Rye. I just mentioned it because it's a weird rear end manga about high school kids.
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Rodyle posted:Well, there's Onani Master Kurosawa. I've always seen it compared to Death Note really, just that it doesn't actually turn into DBZ with autism. Has an excellent ending.
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It's not really like Death Note at all, it's just that the main character looks a bit like Light.
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This is a great topic. Thanks, DrSunshine! One of my absolute favorite surreal manga authors is Douman Seiman. Most of his earlier works were run in hentai magazines and were sexually explicit, but he seems to be moving away from that. His recent work, The Voynich Hotel deals with the everyday life of residents of a resort hotel on a small desolate island in the South Pacific. Topics covered include, in no particular order: A luchador...  Maids...  Yakuza...  Drug dealers...  Pagan goddesses...  Cute mascot characters...  Kid detectives...  First dates...  ...and Andyroid.  The first volume is complete, and the translator says more is being serialized, but he can't find any raws. It's well worth a read.
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Ikigamiquote:The japanese government has launched a brand new law: because of the lazyness and apathy of Japan's people it was decided that someone, daily and randomly, will be chosen and killed with a poisoned capsule in order to "bring to life again" and wake up the others. I'll be honest that I got started in this series and then lost track, but maybe I'll finish it now. 
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That's a pretty nice artstyle on the hotel thing, though it doesn't seem quite as weird at first blush. Wait is that Kikaider? SOLD. On Onani Master: It has a very similar feel in my opinion, just with way less deadly consequences. But hey, opinions.
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Oh yeah, Voynich Hotel is completely awesome, it breaks my heart that the raws can't be found. The first date is one of the better parts.
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Liar posted:Ikigami Holy poo poo! I'm gonna start reading this tomorrow Also, I'm pretty sure that there is enough similar media in Japan to start a Japan hates it's citizens and wants to kill the children genre.
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Voynich Hotel is fantastic, and I'm glad someone mentioned it here because I was going to but forgot. I really hope somebody finds raws someday. Ikigami's also quite good, although its (as I recall) heavily serialized nature means that it can be easy to simply lose track of it. I know I did a while back.
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Cake Attack posted:Voynich Hotel is fantastic, and I'm glad someone mentioned it here because I was going to but forgot. I really hope somebody finds raws someday. It's just a matter of time. Once the second volume is published, I'm sure it'll be scanned. The Japanese just don't seem to bother with scanning all the weekly and monthly magazines except for a few big ones.
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I just finished Voynich Hotel, it really goddamn weird but I liked that. What do these people have to go through to write crazy poo poo like this? I'm going to be a sheep and agree on someone needing to find more raws of it.
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Nipponophile posted:It's just a matter of time. Once the second volume is published, I'm sure it'll be scanned. The Japanese just don't seem to bother with scanning all the weekly and monthly magazines except for a few big ones. That's good to hear. I wasn't aware the second volume was yet to be published. At least once it gets released we'll get a bunch all at once.
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It's getting a bit ridiculous about how EVERYONE has a tragic backstory in Can't See, Can't Hear, But Love. Even the dog!
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So, I have been reading The Hating Girl, and I can't say I am impressed. I have read up to chapter 10, does it get better later, or is it just not my cup of tea after all?
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Rexides posted:So, I have been reading The Hating Girl, and I can't say I am impressed. I have read up to chapter 10, does it get better later, or is it just not my cup of tea after all? For me, I thought it started getting better around the middle, but felt a little bland towards the end. I liked it overall, but I can understand not liking it as much as Sumire.
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New Tonari no Seki-kun - http://mangafox.me/manga/tonari_no_seki_kun/c014/1.html
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Rexides posted:So, I have been reading The Hating Girl, and I can't say I am impressed. I have read up to chapter 10, does it get better later, or is it just not my cup of tea after all? Maybe it's not your cup of tea, then. It's mostly just about miscommunication gags and arrow-related quirks. Honestly, I had the same sort of reaction to Voynich Hotel, oddly enough. The art is super super cool in that one and kind of reminds me of Goodbye Mr. Despair by way of Hellboy, but I just felt it was a bit too laid back pacingwise. I kept waiting for some kind of punchline or climax and never quite got any. Oh well! v  vEDIT: JosephWongKS posted:New Tonari no Seki-kun - http://mangafox.me/manga/tonari_no_seki_kun/c014/1.html Oh no, she's being lured more and more deeply into his web of imagination! Seki is a bad influence on her! DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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JosephWongKS posted:New Tonari no Seki-kun - http://mangafox.me/manga/tonari_no_seki_kun/c014/1.html He has the right idea, all of these mecha shows need to know the proper earthquake procedure. I'm glad this is still ongoing, this guy's imagination is amazing. 
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Rexides posted:So, I have been reading The Hating Girl, and I can't say I am impressed. I have read up to chapter 10, does it get better later, or is it just not my cup of tea after all? Like I said earlier, I didn't care for it. It really felt like 90% of the jokes were "guy says a thing to girl, she assumes he's talking about something completely different and they carry on two separate conversations for a period of time that makes it impossible to believe no one would speak up and say 'hey, your reactions to these benign things I'm saying don't make sense, are you sure we're on the same page?'." Not to mention all the times the dude goes "man I just can't control my horney levels, time to grope or nearly assault my female friend (but something wacky happens to stop him so it's ok)," and it got really unsettling after a while, especially with how many times it ended in climax for one of them regardless.
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Fighting Falken posted:He has the right idea, all of these mecha shows need to know the proper earthquake procedure. I'm glad this is still ongoing, this guy's imagination is amazing. Wow, glad I gotta into this series, but I wish I had another hundred chapters to keep me busy! The first chess one is definitely my favorite so far.
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Fighting Falken posted:He has the right idea, all of these mecha shows need to know the proper earthquake procedure. I'm glad this is still ongoing, this guy's imagination is amazing. Seki's intensity and Yokoi's reactions and imagination play off each other really, really well.
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Countblanc posted:Like I said earlier, I didn't care for it. It really felt like 90% of the jokes were "guy says a thing to girl, she assumes he's talking about something completely different and they carry on two separate conversations for a period of time that makes it impossible to believe no one would speak up and say 'hey, your reactions to these benign things I'm saying don't make sense, are you sure we're on the same page?'." Not to mention all the times the dude goes "man I just can't control my horney levels, time to grope or nearly assault my female friend (but something wacky happens to stop him so it's ok)," and it got really unsettling after a while, especially with how many times it ended in climax for one of them regardless. Yeah, there are definitely some problems I can see, after reading your critiques. I mostly thought it was kind of cute, though, and didn't get creeped out or anything. Oh well, different tastes! Is it bad enough that I should take it out of the OP? I don't want to be seen as a peddler of smut or anything! Let's look at one of the classic and more beloved of the surreal daily life mangas. Cromartie High School (Amazon.com link)    This is licensed, as is the anime, so I encourage you all to stop by a local used book store or someplace and see if you can pick up a copy. It's that good. Takashi Kamiyama is a recently-enrolled high school student, going to Cromartie High. He's straitlaced and studious-- a model student! Unbeknownst to him, he has unwittingly enrolled in a school that's infamous for being full of badasses and delinquents! What's he to do?! Well, he takes it in stride, being quite stoic and adapting fairly well, in fact, and manages inexplicably to earn the respect of his classmates. That about does it for the plot, though, as most of it is about the various odd characters and the weird trains of thought that build from their dialogue with each other. This is pretty notable as one of the surreal daily life mangas for the fact that Kamiyama shares his high school with a lookalike of Freddie Mercury, a robot named Mechazawa, and a gorilla. And they're all pretty much taken in stride as well. If you're a fan of delinquent mangas, this will have plenty for you, as it almost entirely revolves around parodying the super serious delinquent manga style of the 80s-- most tellingly by the fact that for a school full of badasses, they sure are inclined to banter about minutiae and seem like the most well-behaved group of Yankees ever! DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Whoa I can't believe I didn't think of Cromartie. I guess that's because there was no point of any realism in it. In other words it was absolutely absurd, and that's why I love it more than I love my parents.
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Fighting Falken posted:I just finished Voynich Hotel, it really goddamn weird but I liked that. What do these people have to go through to write crazy poo poo like this? I'm going to be a sheep and agree on someone needing to find more raws of it. The guy who does Voynich Hotel goes by the pen name Dowman Sayman, he's done a bunch of one-shots which are even crazier than Voynich. Most of them have some sexual content though, so be advised in case you decide to go looking for them.
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It was mentioned a few posts up, but I'm going to make a serious post for Can't See Can't Hear But Love. It's not quite as absurd as some of the other stuff in this thread, but it's still pretty excellent, occasional weird translation issues aside. So what's this thing about? Well, first off, we've got this guy, known by Sunsengnim/Teacher, on the right. He was a very successful manga author, right up until the day he became completely blind. His real name is mostly hidden. On the left is his wife, Sori. She's a hard-working, energetic, and playful woman who also happens to be deaf. The manga explores the difficulties they have in getting through their daily life, complete with a host of other characters with all their own problems. I can't even mention any defining traits about the side characters without going into spoilers, so I won't. I'll just say that there are characters you will love, characters you will want to punch, and every single one of them has a tragic backstory that will probably make you cry.  Even the dog. The series is still ongoing, and I highly recommend it. I don't think it's quite wacky enough for that "What the gently caress am I reading" part, but it'll definitely trigger "and why can't I stop." gnome7 fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Sep 2, 2012 |
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