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gorbal
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I highly suggest "Madness": the art and story are actually quite good. It starts with a mass murderer held prisoner in a church by a pretty priest he keeps trying to lure into his cell with him; but that is just how it starts, it gets much more interesting when the story moves from the church into the outside world.
The first time this series was suggested to me I didn't make it through the first chapter because the art style was a little old and the protagonist annoyed me. I tried it again later and found the story and situation made up for the things that bothered me and the art was actually quite intricate and beautiful, if dated and inconsistant in quality at times. All in all it's a good read, I would see if there was a way you could at least look at a few pages and see if you are interested. |
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poonk
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I want that Shiuko Kano title but as a real book. Those are the same characters featured in the side story in Maybe I'm Your Stepping Stone, right? The standoffish construction worker who initially had a crush on the main story's seme, I think? Anyway, I love the mangaka's tendency to create little interconnected storylines across several books, fleshing out the side characters and giving them their due.
As for the other list of titles... I already own 6 (as books) and have 3 on order/preorder.  Croquis, Love Honey and Scarlet are the only odd men out there (the last of which was considered but struck out after reading this month's Otaku USA review).
Between work and other leisure activities (watching anime and more significantly dramas) I already spend enough time sitting in front of a screen so I'm really reluctant to go digital for manga as well. If the issue is forced I guess I will-- eventually-- but I'll be buying actual books for as long as possible. |
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Beruda
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Can't agree more. B. |
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FeralKat
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Funny how BL has been the quickest genre to go digital, and yet us BL fans want physical books!
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Sunday Silence
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Funny how companies frell it up. Remember long long long time ago that the first BL manga was actually marketed to Gays? And they hated it? |
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mufurc
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What? Holy misaimed marketing! Tell me you're joking, please! |
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Sunday Silence
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I forgot who did it, but the first BL manga in the USA was actually targeted to Gays. I dunno why, or get into the willy-nilly of the gay lifestyle to even speculate how someone thought this way, but it happened. |
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CCSYueh
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I heard it was an anime, not a manga.
Central Park Media, in fact, claimed they screened a BL anime in front of a gay audience since they figured that was the target, but it went over like a lead balloon. This was at the launch of their Be Beautiful line so it was obviously some time prior to that. It was their editor who explained yaoi better than most I've heard. It's not really porn even though some can have a lot of sex. If it WERE porn the gays might have gone for it. The editor explained it as being about beautiful men to a fantasy extreme. The way she described it sort of reminded me of the films made here & there about the silent movie days with some starlet talking about actors as beautiful people bringing some joy to the humdrum lives of the masses. Yaoi is fantasy. It's not real. The one bit she said that draws the most violent negative reaction is that in shojo some female readers feel competative with the heroine & the appeal of yaoi is that female lead is removed. Most seem to react as though this means the reader wants to be part of the story, but I know I am far more critical of female characters in stories & very, very, VERY few please me. I see too many as male's ideas of what they want in a girl in shonen & in shojo it seems she has to be given traits to make her "human" that tend to annoy me to no end. I want to slap Miaka/Fushigi Yugi so bad & Yui I want to drive a knife deep into her heart. Love the guys in Fushigi Yugi, but the gals really kill it for me. Bulma Briefs is pretty cool because she's a strong woman. Sakura/CCS is so sweet she could cause a coma in a diabetic, but I love her & CCS. (Tsubasa...that's not her. She seems more a supporting characters). For the most part yaoi doesn't have those annoying chick characters. The male characters can do the same stuff as gals in shojo & it works because they're beautiful boys. Only one or 2 guys in yaoi titles have upset me as many shojo heroines have. |
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