I've just passed the point in the H&C manga where I remember having fallen for the anime, and it makes me so happy. I like the beginning, but my adoration sneaked up on me gradually. By the middle I'm just like "I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!" (Except Morita, often, but when he has moments I love they're awesome.)
The self-destructive tendencies in NANA are a very valid criticism. I find they hurt more than being annoying because I find most of the characters and the ways they self-destruct extremely believable, but I can see how that wouldn't work for everyone. >.> I really love most of them a lot, though.
Have you read Suppli? There're only three volumes out, and I don't know what its odds of continuing in English eventually are, but I quite liked those volumes.
Other titles that're coming to mind that aren't so much with the shoujo are things like Hikaru no Go, 20th Century Boys (and Monster and Pluto--I really like Urasawa), and Wild Adapter (actually, I have no idea what its demographic technically is). And I haven't read more than a couple chapters of Children of the Sea, but it and Ôoku: The Inner Chamber are just coming out this summer and have the entire manga blogosphere in an uproar of joy. Dogs is supposed to be really good, and I like the prelude volume (it's pretty violent but has some interesting-looking world-building). I've never read Yotsuba&!, but I know several people who love it, and Yen Press just rescued the license from...ADV?
I really enjoy a LOT of manga. I just...don't love anything else like Furuba, is what it keeps coming back down to.
The self-destructive tendencies in NANA are a very valid criticism. I find they hurt more than being annoying because I find most of the characters and the ways they self-destruct extremely believable, but I can see how that wouldn't work for everyone. >.> I really love most of them a lot, though.
Have you read Suppli? There're only three volumes out, and I don't know what its odds of continuing in English eventually are, but I quite liked those volumes.
Other titles that're coming to mind that aren't so much with the shoujo are things like Hikaru no Go, 20th Century Boys (and Monster and Pluto--I really like Urasawa), and Wild Adapter (actually, I have no idea what its demographic technically is). And I haven't read more than a couple chapters of Children of the Sea, but it and Ôoku: The Inner Chamber are just coming out this summer and have the entire manga blogosphere in an uproar of joy. Dogs is supposed to be really good, and I like the prelude volume (it's pretty violent but has some interesting-looking world-building). I've never read Yotsuba&!, but I know several people who love it, and Yen Press just rescued the license from...ADV?
I really enjoy a LOT of manga. I just...don't love anything else like Furuba, is what it keeps coming back down to.
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