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Borders (and, therefore I think, Waldenbooks and all the bookstores owned by that company) is having a buy-three-get-one-free manga and graphic novel sale. I think it's on until the end of the month.
You can tell what I did at lunch today.
You can tell what I did at lunch today.
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This is incredibly horrifying considering that number of series is something like TWENTY.
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Most recently I cheated on the Must Own Eventually list and got the second Samurai Champloo manga volume, which is awesome. I cry inside that the Champloo manga is a two-volume oneshot deal and not an ongoing companion/AU/continuation of the anime. I will be stalking the artist, Masaru Gotsubo.
And now I am going to die of squeee, because while writing this I just got Salty Dog 2 as a present. OMG MINEKURAGASM.
*except when I crack. Naruto #9 was on sale for $5! Wah!
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Is there anything you recommend that I'm not reading?
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Now that I have read the first three volumes of Gunslinger Girl, although later volumes (if they come out in the US) might have interesting plot lines, I prefer the anime to the manga. So unless later volumes blow me away, I probabably won't recommend the manga.
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Barring that, Blade of the Immortal ALL THE WAY BABY!
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The list you've already got sounds great, though. :)
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Samurai Champloo manga! It's not deep as the anime, but it's got new stories that can fit into canon and the same kicky irreverence as the anime, and some surprisingly entertaining original characters. I love it and cry that it is only 2 volumes long and not an actual continuation of the anime. I think I have scans of a chapter if you want a sample.
Hands Off!, Tramps Like Us, Merupuri, and W Juliet makes me a happy shoujo girl. Tokyo Boys & Girls is an early Miki Aihara (the addictive Hot Gimmick, etc.) series that starts off very blandly in story and art, but they pick up after a couple of volumes, and the series isn't as immured in questionable gender politics as some of her later series (the addictive Hot Gimmick, etc.)
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I like Tramps Like Us, and might pick up more of it. Hands Off was too fluffy for me, and I've been scared of Merupuri and Hot Gimmick.
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I need to dig through my scanlations for unlicensed series I've been meaning to rec people.
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(My bank account's going to hate you for it, but...) Thanks for the heads up. : )
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Beyond that, I'll prolly pick up 2, 3, and 4 of Death Note; I'm caught up with Bleach, Peacemaker Kurogane is in limbo, Claymore has only the single volume out, and I'm not roused about anything else. My wife on the other hand, my go a bit . . . nuts.
So, here's a question for you Death Note fans: Do we get an actual character I can care about? I love the art, and the story is really good thus far, without any major cliches/tropes to make me go oy, and did I mention I really like the art?
But I cannot stand Light. I mean, the character is repulsive -- and I get he should be. I'm just not seeing why I want to read .his. story.
I've only ready vol 1, so does it get better?
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Death Note: when L shows up, he steals the show, IMO. Light is currently cocky and obnoxious, but L is smarter than he is. Not by incredibly much, but enough that Light is given a serious run for his money.
The story eventually bogs down when it widens a bit (probably around book 7-ish? - I've read the chapters as they've been scanlated and don't know where they fit into the books), but picks up after that, and then spends the rest of its run until current being incredibly rocky and up and down. The quirky characters that are introduced are really the saving grace. Well, and the art. I would read a shopping list in a foreign language if it were illustrated by Obata-sensei, so no matter how good or bad Death Note ends up being in the long run, I will stick with it to the end just for his art. Other people's mileage may vary.
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The story has been going around in circles for a while and bogged down again much like it did with the Yotsuba arc, but the writer's thrown a wrench into the works once more in recent chapters. I'm starting to sense a theme: suspenseful, suspenseful, dull, dull, OMGWTF?!, suspenseful, suspenseful, dull...
I get the feeling that she's not much good with ongoing series that have no end and would really be better suited to a series that's plotted to have a definite end from the very beginning.
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As to Death Note, it depends on how adorable you find L. :D There are a couple of detective-y characters later who are popular, though I haven't gotten to them yet, and there's a prominent female character I like who I hear gets annoying later. But nobody's a shining pillar of justice and kindness and lovableness.
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There's nothing about Light that I find sympathetic. I like L for the moment, but he is, at least as far as the first volume, not so much a character as a force, some environemental actor that has no depth or dimension other than his name. I'm glad that he becomes something more of a central character.
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And yeah, it becomes a cat-and-mouse game with L and he gets more rounded once he starts interacting physcially with other characters.
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