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I continue on my unending quest to keep up with good Oneshots that I see get posted to Mangadex. It means I have to sort through the giant pile of Touhou doujin oneshots that get posted, but I do it for all of you out of love. Some of my favorites from the past week:
- Shishunki ni Rikai no Aru Ane no Hanashi - A silly story about an older sister trying her best to be understanding of her brother as he experiences the trials and tribulations of puberty.
- Futari no Kyori - A single page oneshot that nails the punchline.
- Android wa Bug wo Shiranai - Learning about human emotion through an android.
- Boing Ninja - Like Naruto, but with more boing.
- NSFW Shokujin Shokuyuujou - This isn’t the sexy kind of NSFW, this one is a horror oneshot. I am not usually a fan of horror in manga/anime, but I thought this one was well done.
Finally, I will wrap up this post with my weekly shoutout to read Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu.
I’ve been feeling nostalgic the past weeks so I decided to go back and finally give
a fair go. I’ve never read it, but I was really hooked on the anime when I was younger, and felt frustrated when the anime ended when it did.
It’s a bit of a dated style, but I’m still liking it so far. Early days, can’t wait to get to where I stopped.
Tha manga’s art definitely got better as it went along. Still my favorite manga ever. Imo the anime did not do the manga justice. I heard the new movie is really good tho, so I am patiently waiting for it to become available in US.
Also, if you’re into basketball manga’s thats more on the realistic side, I highly recommend “REAL”
Witch Hat Atelier - simple but engaging story, great execution
Pathfinder - nothing really happens. mid.I was trying to watch the hells paradise anime. Ended up reading a few chapters of the manga instead.
What do you think of it? I wasn’t really familiar with it but then saw the show got a lot of good buzz, so have been meaning to check it out.
I think it’s pretty standard. Not really ground breaking visuals. But not sloppy either. Kinda seemed average.
Also… they did try to do it but for some reason the manga panels did not translate well to anime . …
I reread D-frag, its one of my comfort reads so I read it now and again from beginning to end.
I also read The Bully In-Charge up to chapter 69, its another korean delinquent work in a world where adults dont intervene no matter how bad things get and kids are so vicious they send each other to the hospital in a daily basis. The catch here being that some higher ups at the education foundation decided to hire a 20 year old ex delinquent to go to school as a 16 year old and beat the crap out of the bullies, so he gets to dominate them. I don’t think it was trying to do comedy, but it ended up being hilarious in many situations I laughed out loud, it is pretty ridiculous at times. The fights were somewhat good, but near the end it is getting into the typical delinquent manwha territory where gangs and drugs get involved in every high school conflict and also some special bullshit ability is getting introduced, which kind of ruins the “somewhat plausible fiction” element of the fights into straight-up fantasy. (similar to what happens into kuroko no basket to give some reference)
Your description of The Bully In Charge made me imagine it as a mix between 21 Jump Street and Fight Club. It sounds absolutely wild. I am not too well read on manhwa (basically only follow Omniscient Reader and read Raeliana, an odd pairing I know), so I didn’t realize there is a whole genre for Korean delinquents, but I guess it makes sense since there are analogous manga genres. It certainly wouldn’t be the first story to start out great and then keep trying to outdo itself until it becomes farcical. Sometimes though, those can still be really fun, even if we end up laughing at them.
It just bugs me how repetitive the mafia involvement plot lines get in this genre, it is in virtually in every single one and when it gets there it does it in the most stupid or unnecessary ways.
Loved your analogy, I didn’t think it that way before but 21 jump street × fight club fits it really well. I’m probably gonna start using it to describe it lol
One last thing just in case you get somewhat interested, the korean delinquent manwhas are a completely different genre from the manga ones. Like, manga is usually more romantic about the figure of the delinquent, it also treats it as a weird in between of the worlds of adults and teenagers, stories usually show the protagonist as a noble delinquent. Manwhas are more like trashy entertainment, there is an absurd amount of bullying going around, lots of them are revenge stories from weak to OP, here the protagonist s usually act vigilante-like, and the fights are usually phenomenal, it feels like it is the biggest focus on most works and most manage to make shonen tier pacing of fight after fight being entertaining.
Not this week, but I recently finished Golden Kamuy. It was a really fun and suspenseful read, the manga was often really wacky despite it’s “mundane” premise. The characters were also very interesting, especially the 7th division, the way their pasts were all interconnected through Lt. Tsurumi was genius.
