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

[nenena.livejournal.com]

My number one rec is definitely Chii's Sweet Home. I find it not so much absorbing as "hypnotic" - once I started reading it, I literally couldn't put it down - and I don't even like cats.

I posted a sample chapter here. There are also a million and two scanslations available.

Caveat: I'm sure that this one will be licensed any minute.

Other recs:

Ashita no Nadja. It would be like if Charles Dickens did shoujo, and everyone actually got a happy ending. Anyway, it's about an orphan girl traveling with a circus across a very manga-fied version of Europe. She's also on a quest to find her birth parents. Oh, and she gets tangled up with a handsome masked thief. The manga is only two volumes long, nice and short and sweet, and the artwork is really beautiful. The whole thing is rife with shoujo cliches, but they're really well done, if that makes any sense. Most unfortunately, I don't think there are any scanslations currently available. But as it's such a short series, I can only cross my fingers and hope that somebody will pick it up soon.

Deadman Wonderland. It's like "the Fugitive" only starring a fourteen-year-old boy framed for mass murder, and also showcasing a bunch of grisly and gruesome science-fiction ideas about how criminal justice will work in the future. The artwork is by the fantastic Kazuma Kondou, who also did the Eureka Seven manga. There are lots of scanslations.

Mirai Nikki. Basically the same as "Death Note": take one outlandish fantasy premise and show, in excruciating (and thought-provoking) detail, how that would play out in the real world. In this case, it's a diary in which users can read entries from their future selves. Oh, and said diary users are also locked in a kind of Battle Royale-esque game of survival. The characters are really fascinating, the main girl doesn't suck, and overall it's a great read. There are lots of scanslations.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Amusingly, I'm writing about a teenage boy who got framed for mass murder right now. There really are no new ideas.