seinen week

well, read some mangas, something that actually makes my brain work, sometimes. Most of the time I just don't feel up to it moving my dying braincells to work.
So I discovered and be forever greatfull to Gant waiting room, for all their work. Cant say thanks enough. Especilly for Dorohedoro, oh I love this manga and I'll buy if when I actually have money from work.
Read all of Oku Hiroyas works, I found Gantz refreshing when I first read it. It kind of blood, blood, blood but maybe that's what most fun in it. But the other 3 titles, Hen which after reading the first volume I skipped every 3 chapter in search of any action but in the end gave up. I'm just not that big fun of "tease and denial" strategy in plot. Me-teru no kimochi was quite a good read, but can't say I feel very speacial about it. Finally I arrived at Zero One, which has a plot that contains more then 80% of cliches in any shonen. We have got the good, small boy that discovers a talent for a fighting game, which remided mi a bit of angelic layer but in virtual world. We have it arch-rival, an evil genius that is somewhat a sociopath (well maybe not sociopath, they seem charming at first glance), to prove that he is evil the autor lets us see that he doesn't even apologise when he hits the protagonist little sister. He is very evil, you can believe me, to prove it even more author draws him as he tears the leaflet father of protagonist gave him to pin up. In a very evil genius like way he despised every human being and treats them like bugs. Did I say that the family of protagonist is very very poor or that his father doesn't allow him to play in the game. Oh, and there is a Hikaru no Go spirit like on the disk that can take over the boys body, to distinguish that state his pupils show 01 at that time, so probably some secret organization is involved. Etc, etc. It is embarrassing to say somewhere after the first 7 chapters, maybe because I'm a big fan of tekken.
Read the end of Fressia, it is good. Read Wendy, it is good. Jiro Matsumoto is good.
Dorohedoro spent all weekend reading and re reading, it is also very good.
Ultra Heaven (Keiichi Koike), interesting idea and nice design of objects in the bars.
Desert Punk - Usune Masatoshi, after first volume, good but didn't make me get next volumes, maybe later.

Below : very evil genius, the touching scene and Mr.gay (all from Zero One)

week end ritual

At the end of every work week, probably due to accumulated frustration, I start to read a new manga about a catastrophe. Around the 3 volume I get discouraged and leave it be, because the "realism" in series as high school of dead or kanojo wo mamoru 51 no houhou ends at the explanations of some phenomena and very black and white character.




Also I can finally confirm I have a big soft spot for Hojo Tsukasa (City Hunter, Angel heart, Cats Eye) brave yakuzas leacherous main lead with soppy drama stories. Oh, how I love them.

Clamp

Yesterday, I read the last 18 volumes of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. It took me 8 hours, so it's about 2 volumes + an hour. I'm proud of myself.

Clamp started as a group of girls that made doujinshi. Most of them were short shonen-ai versions of currently running shonen mangas, i.e. saint seiya.
Clamp (and some others, like Kaori Yuki) made a big step in getting shounen-ai / shoujo-ai into mainstream. I just started counting the titles that did have this sort of themes going on. Mostly this kind of plots are really light.

Clamp titles featuring:

-shounen-ai
Clover
X
Tokyo Babylon
Lawful drug
Card Captor Sakura
Wish
Rg Veda
Suki
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles

-shoujo-ai
Card Captor Sakura
X
Rg Veda
Chobits
Angelic Layer
Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
Man of many faces

-not read/not sure
Clamp School Detectives (not read)
Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders (not read)
Shirahime Syo
Legend of Chun Hyang (not read)
Watashi no suki na hito
XXXHolic
Kobato
Dreyard
Magic Knight Rayearth ...I heard from some fans of Lantis x Eagle Vision, but well... no way

Power Axis Hetalia

It is the manga/anime of the moment. It is funny. It has useful information. I has enormous fandom, I can guess why. At first I actually was quite scared off by the amount of fanfiction/ fanart it generated.

Well the best thing is you can find your own cute country there. And the great think is that the author, instead of trying to redraw standar features of country, added a lot into characters. Anyway the way they behave in-sync with historical events is funny.

READ HERE

deliquents

Well, read recently Wofl Guy from author of Akumetsu. It's hilarious, I laugh nearly as hard as while reading High Art Light.
In stead I advice to read Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

the magical world of Dorohedoro

 

Dorohedoro by Hayashida Q

author of Maken X

all for girls

There are  of course  tons of comic books for girls, they divide in two categories shoujo (younger audience) and josei (for girls 18+). I always preferred other mangas, there is something uneasy when it takes 10 volumes of dating for the girl to get the first kiss, also all fiance, re-marrying parents business is starting to be extremely cliche. Not to mentioning all impossible scenarios of getting to live together by mistake or getting to be liked "by the most popular" guy at school. 

All of this stuff makes me shiver.

There are authors I find good are : josei - Nonomiya Tomoko (Nodame Cantabile, Tensai Family Company),  Yazawa Ai (Paradise Kiss, Nana), Yayoi Ogawa (Kimi wa Pet), shoujo: Ikuemi Ryo (Honey Bunny),  Suzuki Julietta (Kami-sama Hajimeshita, Karakuri Odetto). Also it would be good to mention that Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made by Takashima Kazusa (mostly author of yaoi), the story is really different from typical plot. 

Plus see Morinaga Ai, I'm kind of confused if I can call Yamada Tarou Monogatari shoujo.