This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)

#401 | Back to Top03-07-2012 10:07:29 PM

Tuliere
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Re: The Manga Thread

I'm currently reading Jellyfish Princess. I find it hilariously awkward because of
the geekiness of the characters. xD

I'm also reading Watashi ni xx Shinasai. Its sweet, but odd [main character
I mean]. That's just me though.


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#402 | Back to Top12-28-2012 05:39:17 PM

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Re: The Manga Thread

I thought I would mention it here, since it was someone's recommendation that got me to read Kaze to Ki no Uta in the first place, but the series has been picked up by another scanlation crew. emot-dance

A group called the Artemis Project has picked it up.

http://artemisproject.tumblr.com/post/3 … nd-we-come

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#403 | Back to Top01-04-2013 09:24:24 AM

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Re: The Manga Thread

Oh, a manga thread! Right on!

I'm currently reading Old Boy. I've always been interested in film and I've been just itching to watch the movie adaptation, but I thought I should read it's source material before I go on ahead. :3 I'm not too far into it, but I like it a lot so far!

I just finished reading a manga called Eternal Sabbath, which I thought was pretty neat. The ending was a bit anti-climactic imo, but I suppose you can't win them all. I'd recommend it to anybody interested in the psychological genre.

I also finished reading Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano. What a glorious mindfuck. I'd push anyone interested in incredibly emotional character pieces to read Inio Asano's stuff. @_@


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#404 | Back to Top01-04-2013 03:11:08 PM

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Re: The Manga Thread

Mylene wrote:

Edit: Just finished the first volume of Tramps Like Us (aka Kimi wa Petto) by Ogawa Yayoi.  I'm pretty sure someone else here is a fan...right?

Everything Ogawa Yayoi has done is amazing.  Insightful and real.


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#405 | Back to Top01-04-2013 06:36:38 PM

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Re: The Manga Thread

I haven't enjoyed manga in a while, but when I did, I was floored.

Recently, I've read Battle Royal. I couldn't put it down. It was amazing! If that wasn't enough, there's the original book, which is pretty good (from what I hear) and a movie! I highly recommend it if you're into thrillers.


On a darker turn, a few months ago I read Doubt [(no, not the play) also know as Rabbit Doubt]. Didn't expect to like it, as it had a semi-slow start, but once it took off, Ooooooooh, was that a nice ride. If you can handle a bit of gruesomeness and like twists, then I say find it if you can.


I've never been a fan of gore or any of that gross stuff, but Franken Fran is quite spectacular. The beginning of the series is breathtaking and will definitely make you squirm a bit. If you're brave enough, give it a shot.

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#406 | Back to Top01-07-2013 02:21:54 PM

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Re: The Manga Thread

TheOnlyFlorence wrote:

I haven't enjoyed manga in a while, but when I did, I was floored.

Recently, I've read Battle Royal. I couldn't put it down. It was amazing! If that wasn't enough, there's the original book, which is pretty good (from what I hear) and a movie! I highly recommend it if you're into thrillers.

The book it's based upon is great! Definitely worth a read. I tried to read the manga once but wasn't keen on all the gorey stuff. I can deal with it in fiction.

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#407 | Back to Top01-07-2013 02:33:14 PM

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Re: The Manga Thread

Is that the Kinji Fukasaku movie from ~2000? I loved that. Then I watched hunger games whenever that came out and was struck by how much it seemed to be a blatant (and lackluster imo) imitation of it. Like, verging on copyright infringement copying. I was pretty shocked. It can't have been a coincidence?

If this is the case I think it's fairly amusing how popular the Hunger Games ended up being, and how few people who saw/read it in the US probably know about Battle Royale.

But maybe it's not the case (it quite possibly isn't... maybe someone who knows more about the Hunger Games could explain), and there's simply an internationally shared communal fantasy of abandoning future generations gone astray by having our children kill each other. Which would be fair enough... I know I don't want kids.

But yeah, I enjoyed Fukasaku's movie. I thought it was pretty well done.

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#408 | Back to Top03-19-2013 10:50:18 PM

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Re: The Manga Thread

My ruminations are up now, on the death of Toren Smith, the benefits of a professional licensed translations, the use of scanlations, etc.

And, now I'm thinking about pro-done translations that aren't licensed, or amateur translations that have been given the talent or owner's okeh or thumbs up.

Especially since The Soul of Anime comes down so hard on scanlations (and fan culture/fan entitlement in general).

Anyone got any exemplary non-licensed translations they would recommend? Not comics that are great, on their own, but where the translation itself is boss. Where the translators did an awesome job.

(Also, don't pay for The Soul of Anime. Just saying. For all the interesting bits, it'll make you hate.)


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#409 | Back to Top03-19-2013 10:57:17 PM

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Re: The Manga Thread

Honey Bear wrote:

TheOnlyFlorence wrote:

I haven't enjoyed manga in a while, but when I did, I was floored.

Recently, I've read Battle Royal. I couldn't put it down. It was amazing! If that wasn't enough, there's the original book, which is pretty good (from what I hear) and a movie! I highly recommend it if you're into thrillers.

The book it's based upon is great! Definitely worth a read. I tried to read the manga once but wasn't keen on all the gorey stuff. I can deal with it in fiction.

The novel is great. It's a massive bastard of a book, but it's intense. The satire really comes through, I think, moreso than in the manga, which I've read parts of, and which, somehow, a good chunk of the audience seems oblivious to in the two movies. One of the best novels about war and drafting soldiers ever written.


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#410 | Back to Top03-20-2013 12:06:52 AM

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Re: The Manga Thread

You know, I always saw Battle Royale as a sort of philosophical meditation on the motives behind killing and survival. I thought it was a beautiful book and I reread it about once a year.

And I was super-pissed when I went to my local alt-theatre and the crowd was laughing at some of the most important and painful spots! emot-mad (Not really, I know it was funny, but still, teenage angst still hits home for me emot-frown )

I would like to read the manga, but I haven't yet done so. Someday.


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#411 | Back to Top08-17-2013 06:25:10 PM

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Re: The Manga Thread

Last week I read Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist (released in English by Vertical Press), and I've really got to recommend it for those who like mature manga. It's a complete page turner about the circumstances of a young woman's death (presumably a suicide) and how that leads to the unraveling of a novelist's life...since he was plagiarizing her novel.  More thoughts on it here if anyone's curious.

I feel like I'm sort of stumping for Vertical recently. It's silly, but I really love that they release some obscure and mature things. So when they mention yet again that they might be going under I go into promotion mode. emot-redface

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#412 | Back to Top12-15-2013 05:43:26 AM

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Re: The Manga Thread

Bought the first volume of Aoi House because I was ordering some Amazing Agent Luna and it was a recommended purchase.

Wow, was I let down.  For a comic whose basic set-up is two guys moving into a houseful of yaoi fans, the comic is homophobic, homo-paranoid, anti-trans, anti-drag, teehee on sexual invasiveness, tedious in characterizations, and all the fanservice is schoolgirls in their panties while any sexualization of guys is labelled "gross" or "creepy" both by the sane male characters and the author.

The absurdity (unintentional? probably) of two guys who champion La Blue Girl as making sense and being non-porn getting squicked out over Boku No Sexual Harassment is pretty funny, though.


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