Help me corrupt my sister!

[firelizard5]

My sister has recently begun to show an interest in anime, so I have suggested that she start reading manga as well. As I am not a manga reader myself, though, I do not know what to suggest. So I thought I would ask you, my Japanese-culture-loving LJ friends, for recommendations that are

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[darksea]

I'd be happy to give you lots of recommendations, but I have no idea what's actually available in bookstores, let alone the library. Uh...

Well! First of all, sappy romance (girls) or action/adventure (boys) manga?

[firelizard5]

Action/adventure please. Nothing pink. Shantel is still not particularly interested in boys, let alone sappy romance.

[darksea]

O-kay... guns/cars/high school athletics OR big splodey/fight-fight-fight in another world OR slightly creepy mysteries OR I-can-see-ghosts stories?

[firelizard5]

Any of the above will work. She is a fairly voracious reader.

[keitess]

Um. I'm trying to think of something I've read that doesn't count as 'pink

[firelizard5]

I think we'll wait a few years for the slash, so I can avoid the following conversation:

Mom- Sylvia, what's this?
Me- Some manga I found for Shantel.
Mom- Mmmhmmm. And what are these two boys here doing?

I will dig up some of the other stuff, though. I might even find her a Miyazaki movie somewhere; I had never heard of him before I came to college, so I doubt she has.

Thanks!

[keitess]

^^; I started reading slash at her age, and I'm still thankful that dad didn't ever check our browser history and never looked through the manga I had laying around my room...

[darksea]

Battle Angel Alita has people losing limbs and getting killed on a pretty regular basis, but the losing-limbs part is slightly less permanent, so I'd put it on a level with Blood of the Immortal. One's just futuristic SF, and the other's historical horror/fantasy.

As for Ouran, would you like scanlations or do you have them already?