recommendations?

[samatethecookie]

A post on my flist got me thinking.

Does anyone have any anime/manga recommendations?

It's been awhile since I've gotten into a series or a new fandom. Like, I tried to go back and read past manga that I've looked at before, but I can't get into like. Like Negima!, for instance. Too many panty shots and too many "innocent boy gets smacked by overreacting naughty girls" cliches that bother me. Anything like that, if it's every other page, I'm not interested.

Help a girl out, people. Please? D:

Comments

[bangflip.livejournal.com]

bakuman goes through close to three years in less than 30 chapters. it does move fast but the characters move so smoothly with it that you don't even realize it. people complain "blaah it's boring :I" and that it's sexist but the sexism is because of the characters (they are teenage boys. what teenage boy isn't at least a little sexist) and if it comes off as boring, it's because too much focus is being put on the story. the story is basically how a manga is published. interesting enough, but chapter after chapter is that is bound to get boring. bakuman is all characters for me and i think if you keep that in mind before you read, it makes it a lot more likable. they really are ordinary kids which is something i just eat up. people keep expecting ohmygaw amazing characters but they're just...normal. :|

when you finish the first chapter tell me what you think! c: and it updates weekly so there's no month long break between chapters. ooh how nice it is.

bakuman is done by the same duo that did death note but hey baku > dn. i was just impressed to see how well they pulled it off considering how much death note confused me even after trying to read it numerous times. :U dn fandom really is scary that's why i hope bakuman never gets popular ahaha;;;;

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

Normal characters are fine with me! I'm reading the first chapter on onemanga.com right now, and so far I'm enjoying it!

As long as it's not near-comatose slow, I'll probably be all right with the plot. Sexism, ... it depends on the context, I think. I can handle a little bit depending on who the characters are; especially if they're teenage boys. I grew up with two older brothers so it takes a lot for my buttons to be triggered. XD;

Good, I'm glad it updates weekly. I'm still waiting on that Nana series to update any time soon. */eyes it*

shit, glad I'm not the only one who got confused over Death Note. D: After volume ... five or six, I just stopped paying attention. And the main character was completely unlikable to me; unlikable main characters kill fandoms for me. The fandom scared me because they take the characters and .. I don't know, turn them into different people for the sake of slashing? idk, that's how I saw it.

[bangflip.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH i'm glad~

oh yeah you're good. it's not like molasses or anything, it's just a lot of little steps to reach the big goal. LFMAO TWO OLDER BROTHERS you'll definitely be fine. it's just shuujin's observations and they seem to be pretty accurate but i know quite a few fans went THE CREATORS ARE SEXIST!!!!! and i didn't see it all until they went up in arms.......

i don't even have the patience for monthly series anymore i've been spoiled ):

YES. THIS. i have no idea how light/l could be anything. i sort of get the whole hatesex thing but people seem to think that twu wuv puppy love is somehow plausible? I JUST...FLAMoskf mikami/light i could see. that would be cool, i won't lie. but anything else? i wouldn't be able to look at it.

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

Pffft. I doubt Bakuman is that bad. I can't judge yet though because I don't know the exact complaints and I'm still in the middle of chapter two. TIME WILL COME, THOUGH. I gotta start crash reading on this and a bunch of other series to come.

yes to all that, light/l makes no damn sense to me unless it's got hate sex involved. especially when people trying to play them off as the greatest love of all love or something. And then there was that one character with the obsession with chocolate and the other dude who barely gets any lines/any personality, and it's some OTP? I don't get it. Near the end, I was like, "Fuck this shit, does Light die?" and went on YouTube.