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Er, Sunsengnim means teacher in Korean. It's not his name.
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Cbouncerrun posted:Er, Sunsengnim means teacher in Korean. It's not his name. I don't think his actual name has ever been mentioned in the series yet.
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Sep 2, 2012 00:16
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Yeah it has, it was mentioned when the guy in love with Sori was investigating him.
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Sep 2, 2012 00:24
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Cbouncerrun posted:Yeah it has, it was mentioned when the guy in love with Sori was investigating him. Ah, well! I missed that then. Still, literally everyone calls him Sunsengnim, but I'll edit my post to reflect that that's not his real name.
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Sep 2, 2012 02:54
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gnome7 posted: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? This is a really great comic. and I do encourage everyone to give it a try. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite fit the concept of surreal and absurd, I'd post about it in the Seinen Discussion thread.
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Sep 2, 2012 14:17
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I forgot the title (I can find it again if no one has heard of this), but I recently heard about a one-shot manga about a group of four highschool girls. Incidentally, everyone in the manga is a dinosaur (realistic-style art).
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Sep 2, 2012 23:36
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I saw that somewhere just a couple days ago, but it wasn't translated.
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Sep 2, 2012 23:48
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buttopticor posted:I forgot the title (I can find it again if no one has heard of this), but I recently heard about a one-shot manga about a group of four highschool girls. Incidentally, everyone in the manga is a dinosaur (realistic-style art). Nipponophile posted:I saw that somewhere just a couple days ago, but it wasn't translated. As is often the case, Hox delivers. http://hoxtranslations.blogspot.com/2012/08/dino-love.html
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Sep 3, 2012 00:23
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Ahahahahahaha! Now that's what I am talking about!! I am going to read this based on this image alone.
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Sep 3, 2012 00:40
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Rodyle posted:As is often the case, Hox delivers. Holy poo poo, just finished reading this and it was the greatest thing ever. Now if more stereotypical plots were done like this, then we'd be getting somewhere.
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Sep 3, 2012 00:47
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I can't believe I didn't think of mentioning this earlier, but if anyone's not seen it you should absolutely check out Oh! Mikey. It's a story about a Japanese boy... Except he and everyone else are just mannequins. Every character is about as absurd as hell. No, it's not a manga. But it's most certainly a prime example of what this thread represents, the Japanese at their goddamn weirdest.
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Sep 3, 2012 03:09
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I'm happy to see Seki Kun in the op. I got it as a gift a while back and I've been slowly working my way through it as a learning exercise. It's nice to be able to check my work against a translated version. Apparently a few misunderstood panels have given me a pretty different understanding to a few of the stories. edit: I just went through all of Sumire 16 sai in one day. Just couldn't put it down. I kind of figured it was coming but I'm still disappointed that we never found out the old man's deal. I assumed at the beginning that he was a rich guy bribing the school into letting him live out the childhood he never had, but It's pretty clear that he wasn't faking, and actually has a mental condition or something. I'm kind of curious why Sumire grew from a small puppet to a big one, but then got stuck repeating high school. What I really want to know is what's with the female puppeteer. She's clearly not as into it as the old man. I was thinking maybe they knew each other, he went insane, and she's doing that as a way to snap him out of it. She just kind of disappears though. Dr_Amazing fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Sep 3, 2012 |
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Sep 3, 2012 18:40
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Dr_Amazing posted:
I don't think she wasn't as into it; the puppets, as far as I could figure, were supposed to let people act out identities they couldn't otherwise. The old man couldn't be a flighty schoolgirl (not just because he was an old man, but because he seemed pretty serious and traditional), and the woman couldn't be a brash punk (because she was a scaredy cat pushover). That's just my interpretation so it's entirely possible you're right as neither was explicitly said, of course.
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In my mind, Sumire is explained thus: The Principal and the Old Man have a history together. They know each other through long friendship. The Old Man has served in this role for countless years and years, overcoming the reluctance and dismissal of others and bringing strange joy and friendship to the lives of children. Sumire must have lived countless lives, growing from child to adult. The Principal acknowledges this, and knows that it is for the best, and that is why he allows the Old Man to continue. And he will continue to do so for many many years to come, so long as he is able.
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Sep 4, 2012 00:12
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I don't know. People who've never met the Old Man have dead eyes, and we know someone can "catch" dead eyes. I'm not saying he couldn't have had an attachment to the principal, but what about the principal at the last school, or the new one?
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Liar posted:I don't know. People who've never met the Old Man have dead eyes, and we know someone can "catch" dead eyes. I'm not saying he couldn't have had an attachment to the principal, but what about the principal at the last school, or the new one? THEY ARE ALL IN IT. HE IS JAPAN'S BIGGEST SECRET!! 
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Liar posted:I don't know. People who've never met the Old Man have dead eyes, and we know someone can "catch" dead eyes. I'm not saying he couldn't have had an attachment to the principal, but what about the principal at the last school, or the new one?
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Let me show you guys a manga that is the very definition of this thread. I need to follow it with no words of pitch, the image speaks for itself. Donyatsu  My only wish is that there were more chapters. Is it just untranslated, or did it just end with those two chapters? DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Sep 4, 2012 |
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Sep 4, 2012 02:03
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DrSunshine posted:Let me show you guys a manga that is the very definition of this thread. I need to follow it with no words of pitch, the image speaks for itself. drat, I really wish there was more. It's definitely odd as hell.
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DrSunshine posted:Donyatsu It looks like there's a whole volume's worth on amazon.co.jp and lots of related merchandise. Edit: This may be the artist's Deviantart account. And this is their main site/blog. It looks like the volume just came out like a week ago. dirby fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Sep 4, 2012 |
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Sep 4, 2012 03:30
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Not a manga, but an artist Kago Shintaro. NWS!!!! http://mangafox.me/search/author/KAGO+Shintaro/ Seriously, nothing he writes is at all safe. His tales deal with sex, cannibalism, nipples battling it out, body parts taking on lives, castration, etc. Nothing this guy writes is at all sane. Like an entire story about what managas might look like if they were printed in 3D.  Or a tale about stuff mysteriously appearing where people are going to step or touch, and it looks and smells so horrible that they'd rather cut off their limbs than look to see what it was. I'm not even going to link to it because it's so goddamn disgustingly disturbing. The same goes for a story about Santa Clause terrifying the world by quite literally flooding homes with well packaged dildoes that he won't stop delivering unless you use them... ALL OF THEM! To the point of the military declaring war on Santa. SERIOUSLY ONLY LOOK AT HIS WORK IF THE INTERNET HAS ABSOLUTELY DESENSITIZED YOU! We're talking Goatse levels of disgust in some of this man's work. I just want people to be well warned. Liar fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Sep 4, 2012 |
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Sep 4, 2012 03:46
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Didn't Kago do that Lord of the Rings/Sumo Wrestling one?
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Dr_Amazing posted:I kind of figured it was coming but I'm still disappointed that we never found out the old man's deal. I assumed at the beginning that he was a rich guy bribing the school into letting him live out the childhood he never had, but It's pretty clear that he wasn't faking, and actually has a mental condition or something. I'm kind of curious why Sumire grew from a small puppet to a big one, but then got stuck repeating high school. My only problem with the series is how it just jumps ahead to the end. I'm sure it was suddenly canceled and had to be wrapped up, but I really wanted to see more with the guy puppet. It just kinda sucked to go 'oh yeah he left and that girl is a diva and now it's graduation time".  On the other hand the ending made me cry which is more than I can say about most manga. e: I take back what I said after reading Can't See Can't Hear But Love. The dog's backstory  .
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Sep 4, 2012 05:00
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Countblanc posted:I don't think she wasn't as into it; the puppets, as far as I could figure, were supposed to let people act out identities they couldn't otherwise. The old man couldn't be a flighty schoolgirl (not just because he was an old man, but because he seemed pretty serious and traditional), and the woman couldn't be a brash punk (because she was a scaredy cat pushover). That's just my interpretation so it's entirely possible you're right as neither was explicitly said, of course. This is pretty true, but it seems to me the man simply could not break character. He risked death and injury so many times, and it looked like there were multiple times that he really wanted to say something but couldn't. The woman didn't seem to have as much trouble separating from her puppet when in danger and sometimes seemed miserable. It was almost like an obligation not like she was acting out a fantasy. I'm more interested in their past relationship. The old man clearly recognized her when she came in and what are the chances that there's two people like that ending up in the same school? I had this theory that they were childhood friends both acting out young versions of each other, but there's really nothing to back it up.
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Sep 4, 2012 05:17
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Meh, personally I like it better to not know anything about the identities of the puppeteers. Revealing their past/reasons for doing this would put way to many things into a perspective that would send the whole manga crumbling down. It's better to leave things vague. Besides, this was not a manga about an old guy pretending to be a young girl, it was about how people can deal with an old guy pretending to be a young girl, and to what extend they can accept him and the change he brings to their lives
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Sep 4, 2012 14:15
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Just read Sumire. How can something that sounds so incredibly wrong be so incredibly good
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Sep 5, 2012 20:26
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New Tonari no Seki-kun - http://mangafox.me/manga/tonari_no_seki_kun/c015/1.html EDIT: I really love the interaction and chemistry between Seki and Yokoi. The best non-romantic romance in any series. JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Sep 6, 2012 |
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Sep 6, 2012 10:31
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JosephWongKS posted:New Tonari no Seki-kun - http://mangafox.me/manga/tonari_no_seki_kun/c015/1.html There's nothing on earth that can stop him from making amazing things. I love reading this drat thing. 
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This thread got me to read Sumire 16-Sai. That was fantastic. Is there a place with 17-Sai fully-translated? Everywhere I looked it only had up to the first two chapters of the second volume done, which is disappointing. Going to check out some of the other series in this thread later, too. There is some fantastic-looking stuff here. Liar posted:Kago Shintaro. Shintaro Kago is awesome in spectacular, horrible, brilliant ways. I wouldn't call his work slice-of-life (in fact he's technically a porn/hentai/whatever artist, even if he rather obviously doesn't find anything he writes sexy and has admitted in an interview to writing certain genres because no one else was, and that he also throws in a sex scene to take up a page or two when he can't think of what to write, which I found hilarious), but on the other hand it is definitely surreal and does deserve to be plugged, even if it is frequently pretty horrifying. And Superglue is not even close to his most disturbing thing (actually it was the first work of his that I read, it was hilarious). So, yeah. The guy's stuff is completely  and probably  , but it's hilarious and in some cases pretty amazing, and I really don't know of anything else like it.
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Sep 6, 2012 18:05
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Tonari no Seki-kun is amazing just for the crochet chapter. Now I want to make a plushie cactus. 
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Roland Jones posted:Shintaro Kago is awesome in spectacular, horrible, brilliant ways. I wouldn't call his work slice-of-life (in fact he's technically a porn/hentai/whatever artist, even if he rather obviously doesn't find anything he writes sexy and has admitted in an interview to writing certain genres because no one else was, and that he also throws in a sex scene to take up a page or two when he can't think of what to write, which I found hilarious), but on the other hand it is definitely surreal and does deserve to be plugged, even if it is frequently pretty horrifying. And Superglue is not even close to his most disturbing thing (actually it was the first work of his that I read, it was hilarious). I just wanted to say that I've read all of Franken Fran and every Junji Ito manga I've found, but Kago's work is so disturbing that I can't bring myself to read it. The screencap that Liar posted is from Abstraction, which I couldn't finish because the imagery was intolerably nightmarish at just the halfway point (yes, the screencap is from the first half). I don't really see what Kago's work has to do with slice of life, though. Franken Fran would be somewhat more appropriate, but not much.
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Kago doesn't really belong in this thread, but I must admit I find his stuff a lot more amusing than I do horrific. Apart from the one about the aborted foetuses, I guess, that was bleh.
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I knew I'd read something a long time ago that perfectly fit in with this thread topic, and it completely escaped me until just 10 minutes ago. Midori Days  As you can see from the image above, it's about a guy who woke up one day and inexplicably found a girl attached to his right hand. That guy is named Seiji Sawamura, local delinquent, known for his Devil's Right Hand that can punch out motorcycles. That girl is Midori Kasugano, she had a crush on Seiji for three long years, and apparently dreamed about being with him SO HARD that he is now literally stuck with her. Midori Days chronicles their daily life, as Seiji has to get used to living with a girl in place of his Devil's Right Hand, the only thing that got him any notoriety or attention in life. And that's before things get weird. There is also an anime adaptation, but like most anime adaptations before the past few years, it was Not Very Good. I'd recommend watching the first five minutes for seeing Seiji in action before Midori cripples him, and then just switch back to the manga version because it's really a lot better. The anime skips a lot of story arcs and the ones it keeps are not that great. 
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Sep 7, 2012 01:48
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Huh! I'd seen this, but read the premise and saw that Mangafox had classified it as "ecchi" so I kind of dismissed it as some sort of creepy fetish thing. If I were a cynic, I'd have snorted and said something like "What, so she's his hand so that she can suck his dick instead of masturbating?" But, if it's not that sort of manga, perhaps I shall give it a try.
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DrSunshine posted:Huh! I'd seen this, but read the premise and saw that Mangafox had classified it as "ecchi" so I kind of dismissed it as some sort of creepy fetish thing. Perhaps I shall give it a try. Well, he is a teenage boy, so issues like "I can't masturbate anymore because my right hand is a girl" come up, and there are sometimes boob shots, but it's not bad. Sumire 16 has way more panty shots than Midori Days, unless I erased them from my mind. It's been years since I read this, I'm gonna go give it a read over now.
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DrSunshine posted:Huh! I'd seen this, but read the premise and saw that Mangafox had classified it as "ecchi" so I kind of dismissed it as some sort of creepy fetish thing. If I were a cynic, I'd have snorted and said something like "What, so she's his hand so that she can suck his dick instead of masturbating?" I checked out some of the mangaka Inoue Kazurou's other series on Mangafox and, well, there's a definite trend in the kind of work he does. http://mangafox.me/manga/love_collage/ posted:
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I will not speak for any of his other works  I'm re-reading it right now, I will report back on whether or not my younger self was an idiot or if Midori Days is still as good as I remember it being. I do distinctly remember it avoiding being echhi, however, because Seiji is a surprisingly good dude.
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I dunno about Ane Komi, but Love Collage is funny. If you like TWOGK you'll probably like it.
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I'd normally want to avoid creepy poo poo, but I'd be willing to give Midori Days a try if it's not a frequent thing. I won't like it, but I could ignore it as long as it isn't thrown in my face every few pages. I'll wait until we know exactly how bad it is, I'm not taking any second chances. 
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I'll do a more thorough post later, but as I remembered, it's mostly front-loaded. I'm up to the end of volume one so far, and other than two parts in the first two chapters (which do explicitly show Midori's boobs), there hasn't been anything creepy. Not a panty shot in sight, and Seiji really does avoid anything that would take advantage of Midori in any way. If my recollection of later is right, there's one suspect bit later with his next door neighbor having a crush on him when she's still in middle school, but everything I remember about that is Seiji being completely grossed out by the idea and doing everything he can to discourage that. But, it's a thing that happens. When I get through the other 7 volumes, I'll post a more thorough report. I am taking notes.
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