update with a rec (or four)
Actually, I was rambling all this in hphaeton's comment box ages ago. XDDDD But then I thought I should post this in a separate entry.
After a two year or so period of reading only the series I've been following since college, lately I'm rather obsessed with reading mangas again.
I found a few stories worth recommending, if you're interested. I'm currently in love with "Katekyou Hitman Reborn", "Tokkyu", and "Eyeshield 21". These three mangas had awesome storyline and very good artwork. There's also an old manga that I'd like to recommend.
"Katekyou Hitman Reborn!" was about an admittedly useless boy, Sawada Tsunayoshi, who was chosen to be the next leader of the most influential family amongst the mafias. So the family sent this one-year-old baby to Japan to train "Tsuna" into becoming a befitting leader. If you're thinking that this baby is a normal toddler, then you're seriously wrong. He carried around a suitcase full of weapons of all kind, and he could kick quite literally everyone's ass. Artwork was seriously good. [on-going series]
"Tokkyu" - a unit of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force that's specialized in rescue missions in the seas. Very captivating story with amazing detailed lineart. The author and illustrator did their homework, so it turned out both satisfying and educating. I have this serious love on Shimamoto, Sawada, and Hyouko that I can't even explain. You'll have to read the series to know why. [on-going series]
I even started writing a few lines of Tokkyu!fic >w<
( cut to spare y'all the pain of bad fic )
"Eyeshield 21" - Not your ordinary sport manga, this one. It has bloodthirsty-but-quite-harmless captain of the American Football team whose specialties lie in blackmailing and bullshitting into getting what he wants. It also has a very weak boy who was good at almost nothing but was forced into joining the American Football team at gun point (literally) because he can run in "the speed of light". There's also a polite and kind-hearted boy whose body is made just to be a lineman; big, heavy, and quite literally unmoveable. And don't forget the last founding member of the team, the carpenter-turned-punk-turned-kicker; the man who owned the title of "Sixty-yards Magnum". [on-going series]
( here's a few lines of my Shin/Sena ficcie X3 )
"Whistle!" - I actually read this manga many, many years back and own a copy of the series at home. I've read it more than dozen times already, which means it's highly entertaining in my book. Kazamatsuri Shou was a boy with average abilities. What he had more than others was perseverance. He wanted to be a football player (soccer for some of you) so, being an average as he was, he trained twice more than others to improve himself. His humble and determined self pulled his team members into throwing themselves into football even more. [finished series]
Just look 'em up on onemanga.com (except Tokkyu) :3
( on to my ramblings about manga )
After a two year or so period of reading only the series I've been following since college, lately I'm rather obsessed with reading mangas again.
I found a few stories worth recommending, if you're interested. I'm currently in love with "Katekyou Hitman Reborn", "Tokkyu", and "Eyeshield 21". These three mangas had awesome storyline and very good artwork. There's also an old manga that I'd like to recommend.
"Katekyou Hitman Reborn!" was about an admittedly useless boy, Sawada Tsunayoshi, who was chosen to be the next leader of the most influential family amongst the mafias. So the family sent this one-year-old baby to Japan to train "Tsuna" into becoming a befitting leader. If you're thinking that this baby is a normal toddler, then you're seriously wrong. He carried around a suitcase full of weapons of all kind, and he could kick quite literally everyone's ass. Artwork was seriously good. [on-going series]
"Tokkyu" - a unit of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force that's specialized in rescue missions in the seas. Very captivating story with amazing detailed lineart. The author and illustrator did their homework, so it turned out both satisfying and educating. I have this serious love on Shimamoto, Sawada, and Hyouko that I can't even explain. You'll have to read the series to know why. [on-going series]
I even started writing a few lines of Tokkyu!fic >w<
( cut to spare y'all the pain of bad fic )
"Eyeshield 21" - Not your ordinary sport manga, this one. It has bloodthirsty-but-quite-harmless captain of the American Football team whose specialties lie in blackmailing and bullshitting into getting what he wants. It also has a very weak boy who was good at almost nothing but was forced into joining the American Football team at gun point (literally) because he can run in "the speed of light". There's also a polite and kind-hearted boy whose body is made just to be a lineman; big, heavy, and quite literally unmoveable. And don't forget the last founding member of the team, the carpenter-turned-punk-turned-kicker; the man who owned the title of "Sixty-yards Magnum". [on-going series]
( here's a few lines of my Shin/Sena ficcie X3 )
"Whistle!" - I actually read this manga many, many years back and own a copy of the series at home. I've read it more than dozen times already, which means it's highly entertaining in my book. Kazamatsuri Shou was a boy with average abilities. What he had more than others was perseverance. He wanted to be a football player (soccer for some of you) so, being an average as he was, he trained twice more than others to improve himself. His humble and determined self pulled his team members into throwing themselves into football even more. [finished series]
Just look 'em up on onemanga.com (except Tokkyu) :3
( on to my ramblings about manga )