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Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. "Manga is for otaku and neckbeards who never see sunlight" "Naruto lol" and so on...
Let's break that taboo.


Possibly the greatest one ever made. A man naming himself "Friend" starts a sect that quickly grows beyond everyone's control and hides a dangerous agenda. A shopkeeper realises Friend uses references, stories and ideas that only he and his group of childhood friends know... Who is Friend and what does he want ?


The story of Miyamoto Musashi, most influencial swordsman in Japan's history, told and drawn by Inoue. Starts as a pretty standard samurai seinen then turns into the spiritual journey of a man who wants to end the circle of violence.


From the same author as 20th century boys. A story that postulates there is an evil force at work behind every major event of history. VERY well researched and interesting, there's the assassination of JFK and a memorable conversation where Hitler asks Einstein about time travel to get accepted into art school (IIRC).


Please keep the thread civil and serious. I'm not gonna give you links for where to read them but if you have fingers and know how to use google it shouldn't be too hard.

Just give those a try... Please ?

obviously tekkonkinkreet


bureiko is probably some of the most fucked up manga i have ever read.. i would link some imagery but i would probably get banned for it. which leads me to garo magazine where this stuff was originally published... there's tons but here are a couple images i found.




anything by yuichi yokoyama, new engineering is amazing


lonewolf and cub. if you havent read any of this, do yourself a favor.


oishinbo (the gourmet), a manga all about japanese cuisine. yes please.

lemme know some good anime / japanese songs that are ripe for sampling when making dope instrumentals

topmo3, you may have already heard it but the clown battle track from akira has some amazing percussion in it

The funny thing is all the current Japanese kids won't read the classics, they just read Naruto, Dragon Ball, One Piece, and whatever else is in print. Anything old in Japan is forgotten, or old to the young generation anyway (fax is still more popular than email between businesses, go figure)...

what's the difference between anime and manga?

anime is the animated cartoons, manga is the comic books.

ahh ok nice one

Mason who's your favourite in sailor moon?

sorry m8 i am unqualified to answer that

soronery wrote:topmo3, you may have already heard it but the clown battle track from akira has some amazing percussion in it

i hadnt heard it. interesting, thanks. more??

the whole of the akira soundtrack is a great listen. the sort of stuff you might be after (if you liked that one) you'll find in more of the cyberpunk flavoured anime film soundtracks, so i'd also recommend neo tokyo soundtrack (harder to find though i've not looked online) and the ghost in the shell soundtrack.

Are we including hentai in this?

jaydot pls no

Hentai actually means weirdo in Japanese, I don't know the word they use for but my students sometimes bring their tsecni and breast milk drinking comics to school

check out gantz, and blame!

I know this might not count, but what's the original source of the video screenshot?

esfandyar wrote:obviously tekkonkinkreet

yea this film is sicccccccccccccccccccccc



can we have an anime thread plz???????

i dont do manga cos i cant read


so someone make anime thread

test recordings wrote:Hentai actually means weirdo in Japanese, I don't know the word they use for but my students sometimes bring their tsecni and breast milk drinking comics to school

Shamo

A tokyo student snaps under the pressure and kills his parents. Sent to a special youth prison where violence is the rule, his only chance to defend himself is to take up Banryukai - The dirtiest style of karate, which aims to disable and kill the opponent by any means necessary. But when the time comes to get out, the only thing he can do in a world that no longer cares about him is hurt people... physically and mentally.

A wonderful and deep manga, beautifully drawn, and you can't help but root for the main character even though he almost only makes shitty decisions and ruins lives of people that are better than him in every way.






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Oyasumi Punpun

Punpun's life, from childhood to an adult. Shaped by his dysfunctional family, his failed love life and his own flaws. You'll never see the protagonist's actual face - the author chose to draw a representation of his state of mind at each point of the story. You'll get a lot of strange feelings from this because there's always something in the story that hits very close to home.