Best NEW unlicensed manga, manhwa, and manhua

[rachelmanija]

What are your favorite manga, manhwa, manhua, and other Asian comics that a) have not yet been licensed in English, b) were created within the last ten years or so?

Other than Yokohama KK mumble, which is delightful and which I am already reading, and Yoshinaga Fumi's Ooku, which I already know about... and would really appreciate scanlation links for, if scanlations exist. If not, maybe I should bid on scanlating services from livelongnmarry.

If you describe why I ought to read them, and provide or email scanlation links if they exist, I may read and review them here. Also, I am in a position to occasionally suggest licenses. Just sayin'.

Comments

[homasse.livejournal.com]

I can'T find you a link, since I'm at work, but Watase Yuu's "Sakuragari." It's her first foray into honest to god yaoi, but more than that, it has to be the single most fucked up thing by her I've ever read, and there is no magic, no curses, no people going missing, and nothing supernatural at all. It's just got a character who is completely fucked up in the head who gets obsessed with this nice, normal, naive, painfully honest kid (I say kid, but he's eighteen). It takes place during the Taisho era (between the Meiji and Showa), so around the 1920's, and...yeah, I can't think of anything to say but "it's fucked up." Because the bad guy, the fucked up one, is the super-pretty Watase-Yuu-brand long-haired hottie ala Hotohori, so you're not expecteding the MESSED UP IN THE HEAD, and messed up in a disturbingly human way--he's cold, he's callous, and then all of a sudden he's obsessed.

There's a scanlation of it, because, hell, it's Watase Yuu doing yaoi, so of course someone snapped it up to scanlate.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I've seen a few chapters of that posted recently on yaoi_daily and, um, yeah, word to the fucked-up-ness of it all. o_O

Scanlations of the first two or three chapters can be found at http://www.yuuwatase.org/sakura.shtml