r/Seinen

Do you guys know any finished manga that has a relation with ocean or story based in a post-apocalyptic world or has good biological world building ?

Re Cervin: Fantasy seinen about a young princess with the power to summon powerful golems. The price for that power is losing a precious memory, and whilst protecting the world from a dragon she lost all memory of her father, Cervin. Promising stuff. 16 chapters scanlated so far (out of 8 volumes in Japan) so I hope it picks up the pace soon or gets an official translation. And that cover totally doesn't look like it came straight out of LotR.

Moscow 2160: Bounty hunter takes on dangerous missions dealing with cyborgs and mobsters in future Moscow, in order to buy the freedom of his ballerina lover and protect his siblings.

Innocents Shonen Juujigun (Innocent Boys Crusade): The story of a group of boys who get the brilliant idea of going on a crusade to Jerusalem. But things don't work out too well. This is seriously one of the most tragic things I've ever read, perhaps even more so than Wolfsmund. Also very explicit, this is by Usamaru Furuya after all - you have been warned!

Kijin Gentoushou (Sword of the Demon Hunter): I wrote about this one a few years back. It starts out as more of a tragedy/revenge drama, but then goes into a more episodic and lighthearted mystery series with different cases spanning a 100+ years. Still lots of murder and gore, but also some comedy and love as well, which was welcome after the sadness of Juujigun.

King of the Labyrinth: This reads somewhat like a reverse Goblin Slayer, where the bad guy monster (Minotaur) is the protagonist. To a certain degree at least. Anyway its about a Minotaur who gains the ability of levelling up and more complex thoughts, all the while slaying the hell out of the unlucky heroes it chances upon in the dungeon. Promising, but on hiatus at the moment I believe.

Keyman - The Hand of Judgement: Brutal detective/superhero seinen featuring a grumpy T-Rex police officer and a serial killer superhero. Art is American-comic inspired but very nice. The story fizzles out a bit towards the end but still worth reading.

Lili-Men: Now this is just a battle manga, with different schools of succubae (wow that's actually a word) fighting each other for... reasons. Seriously the story is pretty stupid but I love the body-horror superpowers and weird 3D + freehand style art.

Mahoutsukai to Aka no Pilgrim (The Wizard and the Red Pilgrim): Oh what a shame... this is really good but just ends in a very rushed manner after 10 chapters. Not sure if it was axed or not. Honestly I would gladly read 200 chapters of this weird tale of an immortal child and her strange wizard companion.

Mashira: Yet another manga that ends prematurely. In this case I think the mangaka just wanted to focus on another project. Or perhaps someone threw a monkey wrench into his work. Mashira is a decent enough horror manga about demonic monkeys who terrorize some trapped villagers.

Killer Shark in Another World: This might be the dumbest manga I've ever read... but I still keep reading it! It's about a country bumpkin girl that everyone hates for some reason, but who can summon an all-powerful shark beast. She tries saving the world from a demon invasion but usually ends up killing everyone else as collateral. There's a pot-smoking fairy and lots of references to movies. The last page here shows exactly what to expect. You might feel slightly dumber after reading it but that is totally normal.

Other manga I've read (not in pictures)

Jinmen: This demonic zoo animal horror started out good but the latter chapters have been getting progressively worse with bazooka wielding baboons and very bad translations (sorry scanlators I know beggars can't be choosers!)

It's Time to Go To His Stomach, OK?: Horror manga about a school of kids having to sacrifice one student a day to a beast roaming outside.

Kiichi VS: While I absolutely loved The World is Mine, I just never could get into Kiichi. And same with this follow-up, unfortunately. While TWiM was always very weird and exciting, Kiichi is just weird and... boring. Perhaps this is one of those cases where I, as a European reader, just can't appreciate the cultural references and significance of what is on diusplay in this manga at any given time.

Mother Parasite: While I enjoyed other manga from this mangaka (Suzuki Just Wants a Quiet Life/Shiga Hime) I just didn't like this at all. Kind of like a Oedipus horror with the kid from Omen.

Pierrot Man: Decent horror manga about a mangaka whose killer clown character start appearing in his own life. Only 12 chapters scanlated (out of 10 volumes) so far. The art is great, but sadly I discovered that the artist Takahashi Shinsuke had a cardiac arrest and went into a vegetative state soon after finishing the manga. That makes me really sad for this talented guy, and I pray he gets better, if possible.

And that's all folks! Till next time....

I've read Narutaru years ago, am now delving into Bokurano. I love his unique stories and the weird, Elfen Lied-esque violence directed at young/teen characters. Lots of his works are compared to NGE, too.

What do you think of him as an author and/or his manga?

Finished the anime today, not a so great ending to it.

But since the manga was finished years later, probably the anime freestyled the ending because of unreleased source material.

So i want to continue, but it adapted till what part?

>Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold diggers) currently on the Amazon forest, there is a Japanese known as Rio Baraki. Reaching their destination, her crew member is promptly attacked and she is raped as a warning to stop their work and return immediately to their home country. Determined to do her job, she stays and finds out from the attacker that he is none other than Baraki, a white haired muscular man with a large scar on his back. Later she discovers that his real name is Keisuke Ibaraki. Once a promising quarterback, he ended up falsely incriminated by a powerful organization known as GPX.

(Source: ANN)

Wounded Man is a fun(ny) one.

In under 7 minutes of the first episode, there is violence, nudity and rape with you sitting there going "what the f-". The rest of the first flavor of Wounded Man is some Amazon-setting "Raiders of the Lost Ark meet Tarzan" mixture with some added Fist of the North Star fights.

But if you manage to get through it and push on, the setting jumps around across different locations; the narrative becomes more adventurous and the whole vibe switches to some revenge-motivated action series. There's women who fall head over heels over our guy (very Bond-esque), there's creative albeit a bit goofy enemies, there's an evil corporation and there's tragedy. It becomes much more watchable and actually seems to follow a string of a story to the end.

The only subs in English available seem to be translated by someone whose 1st language isn't English but it's kind of charming and in lieu with many unlicensed OVA's of the time.

The ending songs , in my opinion, are wonderful. Instrumental jazzy tune, heavy metal one, synthwave, you've got it all. The art is consistent and the animation is solid; the charactes stand out design-wise from today's moe leads; how often do you see an adult woman with twintails like a school- Actually, let's not go there.

TL;DR if you can get past the weird mixture of everything cringey in the first episode, I think Kizuoibito is a solid OVA who would profit from some newer, more consistent subs. Supposedly the manga's better, but I can't vouch for that.

Like the title says, I came across this manga today and so far I'm hooked. In short, it's about a high school boy who is dealing with a lot of shit and is starting to have suicidal tendencies. But almost everyone in the manga is fucked up in their own way. It's a pretty interesting read. I'm only on the 2nd volume out of 18, I think, but like it so far. So here's my recommendation. I hope you guys enjoy

From manga Yami no Aegis. Story around a protector, with an arm of steel, able to deflect bullets, swearing never to take a life.

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This set doesnt include volume 8, it has Dark Horse and Titan Comics editions.

The volumes are lightly used and yellowed.

Spines of 4 & 5 are slightly damaged even tho 4 may still be save-able.

I ship from france, I dont split.

Asking 350€ but I'll let it go for 300€, I js wanna get rid of it