Just realized anime confirmed, and from Madhouse! Hyped!
Just realized anime confirmed, and from Madhouse! Hyped!
Any Highly Advanced Medicine Is Indistinguishable From Magic is yet another isekai story, but it tries to be more “realistic” than most. It’s about a modern doctor in isekai world but goes into details about procedures like a regular medical manga. It reminds me of In Another World Where Baseball Is War, A High School Ace Player Will Save A Weak Nation which is a manga about baseball in isekai but they also try to keep it “realistic” and play it out like a regular baseball manga.
I’ve bee liking these mangas where they go into granular details about modern day stuff but in an isekai world. It makes the story that much more realistic and relatable.
Trillion Game is like the manga-version of Silicon Valley, sorta. Glad its serializing again.
Started a number of titles, the three that stood out to me were:
Pot calling the kettle black lol
I typically avoid oneshots. I’ve read the oneshot predecessor to some famous mangas, but I don’t think there is any that I enjoyed more than the serialized version. And if a oneshot is good but doesn’t end up as a series, then I’d feel bummed.
Started reading Go, Go, Loser Ranger!. Wasn’t expecting much going in. Thought it’s going to be similar to Hero Academia but the plot and characters are pretty interesting. The action isn’t very well drawn, but the overall quality is pretty good. I’m only on chapter 30 and it is starting to go down hill for me, but will see if it recovers.
Service Wars - saw discussion posts quite regularly but I typically only read manga with at least 20 chapters already, so didn’t start on this one until recently. Only on chapter 6 so far but holy crap it’s hilarious and the gags have been plenty and mostly unexpected. Looking forward to seeing how the author can keep things fresh.
Kimi Janakya Dame na Dorei Shoujo - unexpectedly wholesome with light humor. This is pretty standard stuff, and the art is good, not great. But the execution is superb so far
I’ve been slowly reading The Dragon, The Hero, and The Courier. It’s enjoyable and pretty unique but not something I can binge. There’s far too many words and dialogs. In some mangas, I don’t mind skipping dialogs here and there (eg when the author spends 2-3 pages on some backstory that I don’t really care for), but I feel every piece of dialog here is important or funny.
I first read Hikaru no Go, and that got me into playing go for a while (although I’m still terrible at even 20 years later). It’s amazing how Obata is able to bring to life something as “passive” (for a lack of better word) as Go. But that I think that’s really what sets him apart from other high caliber mangakas. Look at Death Note, Bakuman, and Showa Shoten that followed. The focus and most exciting scenes often come from “passive” activities — writing in a book, drawing, talking. It’s one thing to make a fight scene look cool and exciting, but I think it takes even more skill to do that with a dull activity.
I don’t know of many story mangakas but after he finishes with Showa Shoten, I want to see him write one that plays games or gambling. I feel many of the popular mangas of those genre can use better art, so I want to see how well Obata can draw one.
Lol one of my favorites thus far
Thanks for this recommendation, I binged the whole thing today. Gonna check out this author’s other works. Love this type if art style and story telling
Started reading Apothecary Diaries. It’s better and very different than what I expected. The setting is ancient China, in the imperial palace. The protagonist is an apothecary but the manga is only partially about medicine. The art is top notch. The stories are interesting. It’s a mix between drama, romcom, and mystery. Highly recommend to those who like any of those genres.
There were plenty of times where BJ failed to save someone or something unexpected happens. The one example I recall is where a patient got part of a needle into his bloodstream. BJ used every trick in the book to find, isolate, and extract it, but ultimately failed. The needle miraculously came out from another end, and the needle did zero dmg the patient. It was a “win” since the patient survived but BJ took it as a huge loss. I thought that story depicted BJs personality very well.
I’ve only read Phoenix, Black Jack, and Mitsume ga Tōru. I read them in the 90s and I thought his mangas lacked detail and wasn’t that well drawn. But despite that, and me being a kid, I was drawn to his stories. I was way too young to understand the nuances (especially in Phoenix), but I still enjoyed them greatly.
I really like how his protagonists constantly “loses”. It makes the characters more relatable.
I’d like to see a discussion of Tsugumi Ohba x Takeshi Obata, particularly how people feel about their latest works and info on whether they would possibly work together again
Read a number of new mangas. The two that I will continue to follow are - The Game Devil and Seraph of the End.
The Game Devil is about a game taking over reality. The concept isn’t anything new, but the character development has been pretty good so far. The story has also been moving at a fairly fast pace. The art style is probably the most unique part of it but it’s been good overall. Can definitely see this turning into an anime if things keep up
Seraph of the End has been serializing for some time now and have 2 seasons of anime already. I’m typically not into vampire mangas, but the focus really isn’t with vampires vs humans. It definitely started out that way, but slowly became much more. Tbh the only reason I am keeping up with it is cause I read the latest couple of chapters first, but I think even ppl who don’t care for vampire mangas will grow to like this one
You mean Chrono Cross? Chrono Trigger was already designed by Toriyama,
Side note, what’s gonna happen to Dragon Quest from now on??