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Captain Invictus posted:Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer - Seinen, drama, action, comedy, adventure, mystery, growing up Listen to the man, it's a fantastic series. It's been licensed by Seven Seas in the states, and the first omnibus ships in November. 
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redreader posted:edit: reading the 'titans' one and GOD drat IT'S AWESOME! Starts out a bit slow but on chapter 32 and holy shitballs it's loving great! GODDAMN! It has a couple of twists that just make it fantastic, and the general story is pretty great.
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Immortal Hounds Welcome to a world without death. A utopia without disease, addictions, or fear of injury. Any human being who receives a fatal wound resets to their default healthy state. Got a cold? Die and be healed. Hungover? Physician, headshot thyself. But not everyone gets to share this utopia. A handful of people, called Vectors, suffer from Resurrection Deficiency Syndrome - they only die once. And RDS is infectious and spreading. To combat this, the Japanese government has scrambled a special police force to hunt and exterminate these plagued individuals. They're just too dangerous to be allowed to live. There's a conspiracy supporting the Vectors, and mysterious individuals known as Escape Artists help them infiltrate Japanese society, and cover their inevitably bloody exits when their covers are blown.  Pictured: a Tuesday. Immortal Hounds is a unique blend of ultra-violent romance. Characters are cut apart, sliced to ribbons and blown into chunks - and then pop right back up with a wry grin. But at its heart, its a Romeo and Juliet story of the cold-eyed warrior who protects Vectors, and the driven detective who hunts them. Their murderous rivalry and complete incompatibility make for some drat fine drama.  I love the fantastical - and yet oddly familiar - worldbuilding, the gallows humour and the incredible action sequences in the comic. But for all its action, it has a core of human melodrama that tugs. One thing I enjoy is that there is no audience-avatar in this story; everyone simply accepts that this topsy-turvey world is the way it's always been. And holy poo poo, the art and the action are incredible.  Read it at Batoto!
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I don't think Immortal Hounds has been licensed anywhere! You might be thinking of Ajin, licensed by Viz, which has a bit of a similar premise. In Ajin, a bunch of immortal regenerating badasses appear in our world, and go around shooting a bunch of comically evil government dudes while being emotionless badasses. It's beautifully drawn, but every characters' motivation is a monotone "Get to the next action sequence."
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Captain Invictus posted:Instead of that rapefest manga, why not read about a girl who gets struck by lightning and gets turned into Ultra This is legit pretty charming. I'm on board to see where this train goes. 
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To You, the Immortal. ( Fantasy ) By Ooima Yoshitoki ( A Silent Voice ) This is the story of an infant god. Immortal and without shape, its maker places it upon a frozen shore. It mimics a stone. Eventually, it became moss. Then a wolf passes nearby, and it takes that shape instead. But it’s just a shape - the thing doesn’t think, it doesn’t eat, and it has no purpose. It just… wanders. A boy finds it, and brings it home as a pet. The wolf-thing is his only company in a frozen wasteland.   The creature wanders, and in time accidentally saves a young girl named March, who adopts this non-person as her wayward child. It’s drawn into a world of politics and pain it's incapable of understanding. The human cast is fascinating and charming - March, the intended sacrifice, is silly and stoic, and has a huge heart full of innocent naivety. Her adopted older sister, who struggles with the value of tradition versus the value of the little girl no one else will protect. The first boy, lost on the tundra stubbornly refusing to give up hope. The author is dang good at twisting those heartstrings.   The author does a good job of making the creature fundamentally alien and unsettling. Even when it takes on human shape, there’s simply nothing happening behind the eyes. The world has an air of quiet tragedy, of something broken that can't be fixed. 
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Jan 7, 2017 05:23
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 Land of the Lustrous / Kingdom of Gems / Houseki no Kuni In an empty and beautiful world, 221 human-shaped gems live an idyllic life laughing, bickering and bonding. Every summer, the sky tears in half and a heavenly armada spills out to murder them. The sky people wears the corpses of gems as jewelry. It’s Stephen Universe meets Madoka Magicka, but somehow with… more body horror than Attack on Titan? The gems are intriguingly post-human - they get lonely, they study and feud, but they also don’t have genders or the concepts of reproduction or death. Like Aphrodite, they form from sea foam, and when smashed, can re-constitute themselves from shards. They still hope to recover their stolen family so they can re-assemble them and laugh together again. The gems are fixed points, maintaining their personalities and quirks static for thousands of years, and only the youngest gem, Phos, seeks out real change. She can integrate metal into her structure, and has rippling liquid gold where her arms should be. Her need for personal growth is continually shown to have terrifying costs to her sense of self, and I often find myself wondering what the hell she's becoming. Her love of her sisters, and her unbearable guilt for those they lost, drives her against millennia of tradition. The setting is built around the central mystery of what the sky people want, the true nature of the spiritual leader Sensei who governs the gems, and how they break out of their cycle. So far the reveals have been solid. The characters are fun and strange, and the artwork has a haunting ethereal quality to it. Very spare lines and sweeping blacks make the splash pages hella striking, even if the characters can be a bit tricky to tell apart at times.   
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Captain Invictus posted:Two things: My Monster Secret is finished, and the scanlations are nearly at the end as well. The finale is fantastic and it's one of my favorite romcoms ever. Managed to be consistently funny and creative throughout its run, though early on it was still getting its bearings. https://www.tumblr.com/video/patchoulism/166222496842/1000/
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