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MrTerrorist
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Love this manga. Both the male leads and Alex are interesting characters.
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SpacemanHardy
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I had never heard of this series until this review, and already I'm hoping it gets an anime adaptation. Sounds awesome.
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here-and-faraway
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Out of curiosity, does it have hints of shonen ai? The artwork looks like it will be a yaoi, but I'm guessing that would have been established right away if it was.
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Princess_Irene
ANN Associate Editor
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I didn't get any shounen-ai vibes from the story, so I think not. (Not in this volume, anyway.) I suppose there could be some question about Nic, but I feel like he and Ally may be being set up as a couple. She's certainly more interested in him than in Worick, at any rate. You're right, though - the art looks very typical of some yaoi manga. |
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rabrek
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I've read well into volume 4, and... nope. |
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vashfanatic
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Monthly Comic @Bunch is most definitely a seinen magazine. The chances of it every having any shounen-ai (explicitly, anyway) are pretty much zilch. |
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DangerMouse
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Same here, this sounds really cool. |
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sugarwater
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Err tell that to MAMA currently running in @Bunch. Despite being a seinen magazine on the label, @Bunch hosts a varied assortment of titles (Itsuka Tiffany de Choushoku wo running alongside BTOOOM! is a thing that happens monthly). However, in saying that, there are no gay male character romances in GANGSTA. at this point in time. There is a very physical lesbian relationship though. With regard to the review, uh, "Ergastulum" is an extremely appropriate name when you are given its full context. Likable perhaps not, but for once Kohske didn't just pick something that sounded nice. I'm not really sure where "everyone is tall" came from though, Nic is rather short and Alex is depicted bobbing her head down to speak to him in a couple of panels in this volume. More than that though, um " Kohske also reuses the same image" - although they look similar they are individually drawn and differ slightly (Nic's tags being clearly drawn in one, then unable to be seen in another panel ostensibly at a greater distance). |
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vashfanatic
Posts: 3495 Location: Back stateside |
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*Looks up title on Japanese amazon, sees reviews comparing it to Heart of Thomas and The Song of Wind and Trees* Whoa, really? Cool! A decade ago that would've been unheard of. "Seinen" as a self-labeled demographic has always seemed to be the loosest around the edges in terms of bringing in people form different ages and genders. I know that by including shounen-ai they're probably angling for female readers, but I hope they get some male ones too. |
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simona.com
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Fujoshi love it because of the "buddy" theme and the utter gorgeousness of male characters [the girls are gorgeous too] but this manga is as BL/yaoi as Dragonball [if not less]
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sugarwater
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Yeah I'd heartily recommend MAMA to fans of Kaze to Ki no Uta, it's very 70s/80s shounen ai with an emphasis on dark themes and tragic characters. It's been something of a sleeper hit for the magazine too. After it relaunched as a monthly, @Bunch started to put a greater emphasis on launching new talent than it had before. So often you get some serious genre-bending titles being launched alongside some very mainstream seinen works. You get the darkly moving MAMA and adorable Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari alongside thugs being eviscerated in GANGSTA. or bullets riddling players in BTOOOM! It's a very interesting magazine, honestly. |
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simona.com
Posts: 337 Location: Tokyo |
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I totally agree with sugarwater, Comic@Bunch is one of the most interesting manga magazines out there.
It really has something for everybody. its new sister mag, quarterly Go! Go! Bunch is awesome as well. http://www.comicbunch.com/gogo-bunch/ |
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Knoepfchen
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This sound really interesting, indeed. The whole @Bunch magazine looks quite interesting, for that matter.
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sugarwater
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Go Go Bunch is amazing, there's an even bigger variety of titles housed in that quarterly (including Kohske's other series, DOODLE). And don't forget Kurage Bunch, their digital serial. It's got some spin-off stuff but some good little digital first titles too. Like most mags there are some duds, but overall @Bunch seems to work hard at fostering new and inventive artists in their magazines. |
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simona.com
Posts: 337 Location: Tokyo |
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If you can read Japanese or want to check out the manga anyway, aside from some free samples on their website
http://www.comicbunch.com/comicinfo/ [some series have a link to the first episode available to read online for free, just click on the one you want to check out and see if you're lucky] Comic@Bunch has also got a spot on Pixiv with a lot of free manga, but I am not sure whether it's accessible through the international site [I am accessing it through the Japanese site] http://comic.pixiv.net/magazines/33 And, as sugarwater was saying, there is also the free web magazine Kurage Bunch, that has got some rather quirky manga on there [Comic@Bunch is much more mainstream, if you like ;>] http://www.kurage-bunch.com/ |
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