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Becky ([personal profile] sarashina) wrote2010-02-10 07:28 pm
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Meme, and animanga recs?

THE CHARACTER ASSOCIATION MEME


Also, I have a vacation coming up, and I am beginning to fear that I have seen/read all the animanga worth seeing/reading, which I'm sure is not true. What are some of your favorite series? The more obscure, the better. Series with a creepy atmosphere, gorgeous art, and/or adorable characters are definitely a plus.

[identity profile] lacunarity.livejournal.com 2010-02-11 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if you've read this or not, but I read Bokurano last week and found it really creepy and interesting. Be warned it does have several instances of pedophilia, though they tend to be treated as a crime or at least something undesirable.

[identity profile] noelleno.livejournal.com 2010-02-11 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Kaiba. Kaibakaibakaibakaiba.




Kaiba.

[identity profile] ivory-and-horn.livejournal.com 2010-02-11 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I read more webcomics than manga so if you don't mind recs for those instead...?

[identity profile] glass-icarus.livejournal.com 2010-02-11 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Have you read Wild Adapter or Stigma? I forget!

[identity profile] evilsimon.livejournal.com 2010-02-11 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
For anime:

- Mononoke (obvious pimp) -- Medicine seller of unknown origins and unknown motives roams around kicking ass and taking names. Very stylized art.

- I thought .hack//SIGN was pretty fun.

- Yami no Matsuei is inferior to the manga form and did at least one thing that made me want to punch the screen, but amusing nonetheless.


For manga:

- Dolls by Naked Ape (again, the obvious pimp) -- Rising crime rate in Japan forces overhaul of the criminal justice system, ending up in the creation of three-man hit squads who operate anonymously.

- Switch by Naked Ape -- Follows the wacky hijinks of a n00b cop on a narcotics squad in a similarly futuristic criminal justice system. Wacky hijinks are complicated by the yakuza and by said n00b occasionally going berserk. It's pretty rad.

- Honey Comb by Kazuya Minekura -- Rising body thievery rate in Japan (there seems to be a pattern here ._.) results in armed teams going to retrieve all healthy corpses. The yakuza may or may not be involved. This is one of Minekura's back-burner projects, methinks.

- Bus Gamer by Kazuya Minekura -- A new pastime of the rich is to hire teams of fighters and hackers to steal other corporations' secrets, either by stealth or by force or both. One of these teams gets a little too clever. Craziosity ensues. Also one of Minekura's back-burner projects, it seems.

- Silver Diamond by Shiho Sugiura -- Several people trip through a wormhole and meet a boy who can make things grow by looking at them for long enough. Being as they are from a desert in a dying world, this is the most awesome thing ever. Also, group hugs.

- Uzumaki by Junji Ito -- Lovecraftian horror plus spirals.

- Yami no Matsuei by Yoko Matsushita (a.k.a. Descendants of Darkness) -- Follows a team of two dead dudes as they try to ensure that no one is messing with the natural order of people dying or not dying.


M-my tastes are very questionable.

[identity profile] themadpoker.livejournal.com 2010-02-11 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Basara by Yumi Tamura. A girl in post-apocalyptic Japan poses as her brother, the 'Chosen One', in order to lead her people to overthrow the king who killed him. I read it about three years ago and it's still one of the top 3 manga I've ever read. The art is gorgeous too, very distinctive. There's an anime too but it's only 13 epiodes and covers very litte of the manga, I'd definitely recommend you read it instead.

[identity profile] ambientlight.livejournal.com 2010-02-11 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
not a favourite series as such, since i've only seen episode 1, but are you watching Durarara!!? it's based on light novels by the same guy who wrote Baccano!, and i think it satisfies the third of your requirements (with a hint of creepiness, too).

manga:
- Liar Game takes a while to get going, but it's a clever and engrossing series, kind of like Kaiji in premise but not in tone.
- Kobatotei Ibun is a silly manga one-shot that's like Natsume Yuujinchou, but fluffier.
- Hyakkiyakou Shou is like Natsume Yuujinchou, but somewhat creepier and with a more problematic youkai-human relationship.
- Parasyte is a chilling sci-fi manga epic that does 'creepy' very well. the art isn't gorgeous, but it's serviceable.