Antique Bakery - Really takes off in v2; yaoi but has real characterization and plotting. I didn't expect to like it at all, but I do.
Card Captor Sakura - Started it for the Tsubasa connection; found it much better than expected.
XXXholic - takes a while to get going, but gorgeous art and v7 is a total heartbreaker
East Coast Rising - Becky Cloonan's Tokyopop book. Multi-ethnic pirates in post-apocalyptic New York.
Of GoComi's other series, I can't stand Tenshi Na Jai -- you can have my copy of book one if you're interested. Cantarella is almost as cracked as a Kaori Yuki manga, and has lovely art. I am very fond of Crossroad, but no one else seems to be.
Dokebi Bride - the most interesting manwha I've found yet. Proofreading is awful and translation is worse, but the art is good and not very standard shojo
MeruPuri - I think of Matsuri Hino as the lighter, less certifiably insane version of Kaori Yuki.
Brian Lee O'Malley has a non-Scott Pilgrim book, Lost at Sea, which is also very good, if not as amazing as Scott Pilgrim. But then, so few things are.
Kare Kano and Land of the Blindfolded are two of myfavorite high school manga you're not reading yet.
Versus is about violin prodigy and his teacher and I'm kind of fond of it if only because of the scene where one kid attacks another with his violin. Ah, melodrama! That might have just hit me at the right time, though.
Don't forget to look for Demo and Hope Larson's Salamander Dreams in the non-manga racks.
Oh, and if you liked Planet Ladder, the mangaka has another series coming out from CMX, The Young Magician, which is growing on me as it continues.
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Date: 2006-07-15 02:30 am (UTC)Card Captor Sakura - Started it for the Tsubasa connection; found it much better than expected.
XXXholic - takes a while to get going, but gorgeous art and v7 is a total heartbreaker
East Coast Rising - Becky Cloonan's Tokyopop book. Multi-ethnic pirates in post-apocalyptic New York.
Of GoComi's other series, I can't stand Tenshi Na Jai -- you can have my copy of book one if you're interested. Cantarella is almost as cracked as a Kaori Yuki manga, and has lovely art. I am very fond of Crossroad, but no one else seems to be.
Dokebi Bride - the most interesting manwha I've found yet. Proofreading is awful and translation is worse, but the art is good and not very standard shojo
MeruPuri - I think of Matsuri Hino as the lighter, less certifiably insane version of Kaori Yuki.
Brian Lee O'Malley has a non-Scott Pilgrim book, Lost at Sea, which is also very good, if not as amazing as Scott Pilgrim. But then, so few things are.
Kare Kano and Land of the Blindfolded are two of myfavorite high school manga you're not reading yet.
Versus is about violin prodigy and his teacher and I'm kind of fond of it if only because of the scene where one kid attacks another with his violin. Ah, melodrama! That might have just hit me at the right time, though.
Don't forget to look for Demo and Hope Larson's Salamander Dreams in the non-manga racks.
Oh, and if you liked Planet Ladder, the mangaka has another series coming out from CMX, The Young Magician, which is growing on me as it continues.