Manga that you're currently reading?, If there was a thread like this already, fuck it. Options

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Alice in the Country of Hearts

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Hitogatana - ch10
Break Blade/Broken Blade - ch50
The Breaker: NW - ch24
Let's Lagoon - ch15

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Caught myself up on Tegami Bachi a few days ago.
Going to start rereading Spiral: Alive since the translation got picked back up.

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...And now I'm behind in Tegami Bachi and I never read Spiral: Alive.

Caught up on Pandora Hearts.

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Printed:

• Dance in the Vampire Bund
• Franken Fran
• Gunslinger Girl
• Princess Sakura
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei

Online:

• Hozuki-sаn Chi no Aneki
• Kill Me Baby
• Prunus Girl
• Ravages of Time, The
• Sankarea
• Sun-Ken Rock
• Idol Pretender
• Wa! (Kojima Akira)
• Watashi ni xx Shinasai (I WILL NOT STOP ROOTING FOR AKIRA)
• Yandere Kanojo
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
• Yomeiro Choice

Would Instantly Jump On Any New/Newly Translated Chapter:

• Discommunication: Seireihen
• Manabiya
• Yume Tsukai

This post has been edited by P.P.A.: Aug 5 2011, 03:08 PM

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Bartender - Caught up to 58. Really interesting stuff.
Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru - Caught up to 107
Medaka Box - Caught up to 109. Dat Akune.

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The World God Only Knows - Dat Ayumi
Boku wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai - Dat Kodaka
Medaka Box - Dat Zenkichi
Bloody Monday: Last Season - Dat Falcon

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 I just finished readingMahoraba.

 While, till now, I stubbornly refused to try and futilely rank any manga I read or pick out particular favourites—for they are often so diverse and unique that it is simple impossible to evenly compare two and declare one ‘superior’ to the other when they are both great in their very own ways—this is the first time I felt I can confidently claim a manga to truly have been the best one I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

 Every single character is lovable and has depth and authenticity. Even minor side-characters who rarely appear all develop a unique personality, growing dear to me soon.
 Indeed, probably the one thing I adore the most about Mahoraba is how it leaves nothing and nobody behind. ‘Shallow’ joke characters are fleshed out, and sometimes even get entire subplots devoted to them that keep going on in the background, and, as time goes on, change them and their fates.
 Every story told, no matter how brief it is or how irrelevant it might seem, has a lasting effect on the cast and their world. Barely noticeable, seemingly unimportant details come back volumes later to reveal yet another layer of depth of a character, and turn out to have held a meaning all along, and nothing—nothing—is simply picked up once and then abandoned.
 So much love was spent on this manga, so much attention to detail, thought, and passion, that it could not show more obviously.

 Then there is also the magic—which I have felt already in the artist's newer and sadly frozen work Manabiya—which Akira Kojima filled Mahoraba with. His drawings are simple, and yet they convey such a lot; in the characters' ‘moe’ (a term, due to its association with shallowness and fanservice, undeserving of being used here) faces, even the most subtle nuances of expressions can be seen, and through very skilful use of spaces and of scenery, memorable feelings and impressions are created.
 Atmosphere permeates every page, and the pacing could not be more appropriate at any time: it sensibly changes between 4-komas during sillier or cute episodes, while longer, slower layouts are employed for more serious or emotional moments.
 At one point, during a particularly major scene, two (actually three) entire double pages are spent just to show how—in reaction to something—, a character's expression transforms from surprise into a delighted smile. The effect of this cannot be overstated.

 I would fail to name any other manga that has brought me to tears—of sadness and of joy, in equal proportions—as often as this one, and which has left me this happy whenever I read more of it.
 Somehow, and this is no exaggeration, every single page was delightful to read, filled either with condensed hilarity and cuteness, or, as little pieces of art, with feeling and wonder.
 Even the very last page of the last volume. As a bonus at the end of every tankobon, there is a “Subcharacters' Heaven” series, where a few characters who don't appear much in the main story fool around a bit. For the most part—in my opinion, these seemed a wee silly and expendable. But then, the last episode, after the epilogue of the main story, consisting of a single panel continuing the setup from the previous book, yet again managed to wet my eyes and made me appreciate it.

 Lastly, there is also the fact that the love central to the plot matches perfectly my ideal of “love”. That is, avoiding sudden and abrupt falling in love, foolish and desperate pursuit, and attempts to ‘win’ the object of one's affection as though it was a trophy.
 Instead, over time, a deep bond is formed between the two main characters; they grow closer and closer, and only eventually realise that they had been in love all the time.
There is no violently craving the other, no conflict arising from trying to force something to come true, no clinging—just pure love, grown naturally, slowly, and holding firmly as a result.

 I might sound overly sentimental, but it is this manga that has brought forth such emotions within me. While I have read a couple ones that have touched and amazed me already, none to date has reached this deeply into my heart. And there it has firmly lodged itself—Mahoraba is absolutely wonderful, and I will forever hold it dear.
 I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone, and, should any publisher ever bring it to Germany, or at least translate it to a language I can understand and import, I will be sure to pick it up immediately.


 Makes it even more depressing that Manabiya is still on a hiatus, and that the author—despite his genius—is employed as a mere animator at Square-Enix, apparently only drawing manga between his usual work there. orz

This post has been edited by P.P.A.: Oct 18 2011, 10:14 PM

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TWGOK - My body was not ready for chapter 164. HNNNNNNG

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^I feel like he's just messing with Ayumi and Chihiro fans.

There is no way this is going to end well.

Also I hope we get cameos of the past girls.

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A week and a year later...

TWGOK - Goddess Arc Finally Ends after almost 100 chapters and a year of AYUMI/CHIHIRO nonsense; I also hate every TWGOK /a/ thread ever. New Keimakid misadventures involving adulthood and reading porn mags. WAKAKI!!!!!!!

Bartender - Interesting and relaxing

Beelzebub - Picked it up sometime last year, and haven't missed a week.

Bloody Monday: Last Season - No Translation in Forever.

Break Blade - No Translation in Forever until last week.

Cavalier of the Abyss - I don't even know what he's doing with the story.

Fairy Tail - Short, interesting Arcs that don't get me bored. Actually interesting Tournament Arc.

GE (Good Ending) - Making me rage since god knows how many chapters ago.

-Hitogatana- - Haven't seen a translation in forever, might offer the people some helpish.

Jormungand - No Translation in forever and the manga finished serialization in January. Why.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! - Finished

Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru - Surprisingly interesting for a martial arts manga, getting translated very slowly

Kurenai - Last Volume, Translators are the same as Bloody Monday, so there wasn't an update since February. Until a month ago when they released two chapters.

Medaka Box - I'm not even sure where the story is supposed to be going now.

Mismarca Koukoku Monogatari - Finished it, really short. This is where I wish someone was translating the LN so I could continue.

Otoyomegatari - Getting released and translated very slowly. Getting my hands on the hardcover volumes soonish because hardcover.

Yandere Kanojo - Random goofiness interspersed with some slightly serious chapters.

Yamada and the 7 Witches - Kissing Shenanigans and Hijinks

Zetsuen no Tempest - Chapter 20. Dem feelings of love.

Those are pretty much the only interesting things I've been reading aside from random trash and the big 3.

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INITIAL D - RACING FUCK YEAH

Also read Tezuka's Adolf today.

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What I'm following:
07 Ghost
13 Club
13 Game
7th Dragon
81diver
Ability
Accel World
Accord
Akagi
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu
Arachnid
Berserk
Billionaire Girl
Black God
Bleach
Code Breaker
Deadman Wonderland
Dendrobates
Dorohedoro
Dousei Recipe
Drifters
Funbari no Uta
Gantz
Gintama
Hayate the Combat Butler
Hell Hell
Hinamatsuri
Hourou Musuko
Hunter x Hunter
It's Not My Fault That I'm Not Popular
Jesus
Jigokuren Love in the Hell
Jin
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita Yousei Shima
Jinsei Hensachi 48 no Koukousei ga Kamis
Kara no Kyoukai
Kimi no Knife
Kurosagi
Kuroshitsuji
Kurozakuro
Last Game
Liar Game
Luck Stealer
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha Be mine Hero I refuse
Mel Kano
Melty Blood
Melty Blood X
Naruto
Number
Oddman 11
One Outs
Onepunch Man
Perfect Twin
Piano no mori
Pokemon Adventures
Rappi Rangai
Rock Lee s Springtime of Youth
Saijou no Meii
Saito kun wa Chounouryokusha Rashii
Say Hello To Black Jack
Shaman King Flowers
Shindere Shoujo to Kodoku na Shinigami
Soul Eater
Soul Eater Not
Team Medical Dragon
The Breaker New Waves
The Legend of Koizumi
Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji
Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji Kazuyahen
Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji
Tokage no Ou
ULTIMO
User
Wild Adapter
Witch Hunter
Yaotsukumo

I'm in the middle of 12 others.

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Kaminomi, Denpa Kyoushi, and Shokugeki no Soma

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I really need to read the sequel to Tsubasa.

But first I need to read all of Xxxholic.