It’s [checks watch] Friday! We made it to week one! I got pretty distracted by life this week, but since I make the deadline I can never truly be late. Gaze upon my works and despair.
(Hopefully I’ll have my stuff together by the next thread.)
By the way, I finished the Manga Club guidelines document! It’s like five short pages, look at it here!
Last Friday you all voted on Link to the Past, Shotaro Ishinomori’s adaptation of the titular SNES game. Ishinomori is most famous for Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider, as is even stated in the end credits of this volume. Also mentioned is his work on Hotel, which is a new one to me.
(I can’t believe they actually squeezed this Nintendo slogan in.)
What did everyone think? Was it entertaining? How did it fare as an adaptation? How was the comicking itself? Does Link talk way too much?
For next week we’re going to have two volumes to read. First up is a suggestion from @r-i, the single volume manga The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. It’s a mouthful.
(I…I think I can get away with posting this cover. Am I ban? Am I ban myself?)
quoted from bato.to:
Compilation of a manga essay originally published on pixiv.
The personal story of an aspiring mangaka, college dropout who’s led a lonesome, unfulfilling life.
It should go without saying but if you want to share panels from this, try to keep it SFW, or censor it or something. For whatever reason, the uploads on batoto lack the sixth/bonus chapter. But, mangarock seems to have it. Alternatively, you can purchase it online, since it has an english publication.
The second volume we’ll be reading is up to a vote, and both options are from multi-volume series.
- Sugar Dark: Umerareta Yami to Shoujo (Volume 1)
- Paros no Ken (Volume 1)
Sugar Dark: Umarareta Yami to Shoujo (aka Sugar Dark: The Buried Darkness and the Girl)
Story: Arai Enji, Art: Ooiwa Kenji and Mebae
4 volumes long. Finished. Based on a light novel.
Content warnings for graphic violence.
There’s no info online about what chapters are in what volumes, but there are nineteen chapters in all, so we’ll read the first five.
The story follows a boy named Muoru who has been falsely arrested and sent to a cemetery to perform forced labor. There, he calls himself the “grave keeper” and meets a beautiful girl named Meria. Muoru becomes fascinated with Meria as he spends his days digging a hole containing the undead monster named “The Dark.”
Paros no Ken (aka The Sword of Paros)
Story: Kurimoto Kaoru, Art: Igarashi Yumiko
3 volumes long. Finished.
Content warnings for themes of sexual assault and probably some outdated gender stuff.
There is a legend in the kingdom of Paros – a legend of the Sword. It is said that if one who is unfit to rule should wield it, it will mean the ruin of the kingdom. As sole heir to the throne of Paros, Princess Erminia must accept the Sword and a husband when she comes of age on her next birthday. But the princess refuses to wed any man who is less of a man than she – which excludes every man in the kingdom!