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.

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. @_@

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.

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.

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.

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.