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Mahou Tsukai Kurohime
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 10
Volume 11
Volume 12
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REAL (by Takehiko Inoue [Vagabond])
It’s a very intensive manga and its a story not to be told in so many other mangas. As characters are mostly (a bit overstated^^) either superhumans with quickly healing wounds or unimportant minor characters, physical handicaps are out of question. The good artwork should be known, with Vagabond as reference.
(ongoing)
vol. 01
vol. 02
vol. 03
vol. 04
vol. 05
vol. 06
vol. 07
vol. 08, ch. 43
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Fire Candy
Volume 1
Volume 2
Monster Collection
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
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Soooo, first we got Steel Ball Run by Araki Hirohiko. Yes, its the man who also drew “The Lives of Eccentrics”, “Under Execution Under Jailbreak” and finally the epic story “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures”.
That “Jojo’s” consists currently of seven parts and always revolves around characters with 2 “Jo’s” in his name, like Jonathan Joestar. “Steel Ball Run” is this seventh part and its ongoing with 17 volumes in Japan atm.
As far as I know, SBR is the only part of “Jojo’s”, you can understand without reading the other ones beforehand, because every other part builds up on the former ones. However, there are similarities to the other parts of “Jojo’s”, like several persons or the “Stand”- abilities (supernatural powers), but it will all be carefully explained for newbies (like me).
What do you get by reading Hirohiko or SBR in particular? Details, details and even more details. If he ever quits drawing manga, he could easily start a carreer as a fashion-designer. All characters are overflowing with crazy details. Their abilities are also very creative (it’s not 4-elements and stuff…) plus the story is an exiting page-turner, well designed and with a good amount of crazyness, too.
Storywise, SBR is a horse-race across the USA in the late 19th century. But we’ll soon see, that there is more to it than just a simple race.
So, a long introduction but imo its necessary, because of the huge “Jojo’s” franchise. On a sidenote, sometimes on the cover, the characters tend to look a bit gay but don’t let that change your mind, as the story is not yaoi at all.
Steel Ball Run [Stardust Crusaders & JoJo Project, Ignition-One, KO-Scans, Veggie's Jojo Page]
vol. 01
vol. 02
vol. 03
vol. 04
vol. 05
vol. 06
vol. 07
vol. 08
vol. 09, ch. 37
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Then, we have Record of Lodoss War, a franchise, most of you know for sure. At least the anime is very well known and is imo a very nice old school anime, with decent animations and no CGI stuff like you see nowadays often. The OVA consisted of 2 parts. The first part roughly coveres the manga “The Grey Witch”, the second part coveres the manga “Chronicles of Flaim” (which I couldn’t find). After that, more manga was made.
As you may know, ROLW is the manga to an rpg tabletop game and so for experienced RPG’ler the constellation may seem pretty lame and overused. But at its time, as far as I know this kind of stuff was nearly unknown in Japan.
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The Grey Witch
vol. 01
vol. 02
vol. 03
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Deedlits Tale [Ayanami's Manga Scans]
A side story, focused on Deedo. A must read, if you’re into this character. Though the art is not so good as in the first one.
vol. 01
vol. 02
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Deamon of Flame [Ayanami's Manga Scans]
This continues the story after “The Grey Witch”.
vol. 01
vol. 02
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The Lady of Pharis [Ayanami's Manga Scans]
This one is set long before the first adventure of Parn and Deedo. The artwork of this one is the most detailed among the posted ones and I think it has a more darker tone.
vol. 01
vol. 02
Finally, there also is “Chronicles of the Heroic Knight”, but I haven’t checked that one out, yet.
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Third, we have Samurai Legend, another one from Jiro Taniguchi. Same artist as “Benkei in New York” which we posted the other day… its reasonably good. Reminescent of “Samurai Executioner”
Samurai Legend (complete) by [Manga Sketchbook] (who else!?)
June 7th, 2009 at 6:33 AM
ohohoho jojo, I was going to pick that up at some point but I looked at mangaupdates and thought LOL WTF 87 volumes!? I think I’ll have to read this one
June 7th, 2009 at 7:27 AM
87 volumes doesn’t matter. You will become a fan of jojo after reading it. It has a lot of interesting characters. Like the heavens door’s user-
I heard that Araki was the first to use the effect of melting body. Like this part
http://www.onemanga.com/Jojo%27s_Bizarre_Adventure/23/019/
I heard…
Anyway, its too tad that Araki doesn’t want the DVDs to come out.
June 7th, 2009 at 8:23 AM
wow lodoss war.. i loved that series.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:30 AM
I added two more manga,both complete
Actually Fire Candy’s ending is a bit disappointing,while the manga is labeled as complete the mangaka never finished this manga so not all the questions are answered,still it is worth a try since the art is pretty good and it’s got some great fights.
As for Monster Collection,i have read 3 volumes of it and i like the art,very detailed,the characters are fun and the story is entertaining even if it’s nothing too special.
@CGorhant: actually i can’t see your mail either,but mono sent me a pm on jcafe with how to include images a few days ago so it’s fine,as it can be seen :)
June 7th, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Okay…jcafe is down. Sigh. I’ll put up ch111 later, then. As in next week sometime.
June 7th, 2009 at 1:53 PM
nice post guys
Will add some releases later
June 7th, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Love monster collection, the artwork is good.
Mediafire is acting up lately, download stopped before finish.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:19 AM
So The next Eden chapter release is delayed in till next week?
June 8th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
edenfan:
one chapter has been proofed, waiting for typeset
another teqq has just translated, so maybe we go for a double release within the next few weeks.
i dunno where crazy has gone!?
ALSO:
i have added Aiki50. maybe we should do a new update post when more stuff comes out
June 8th, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Yeah, that might be a good thing, made that new update post!
Gonna add REAL in this post, soon.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Real (reel?) is really marvelous – but is it on a hold or something?
Is has not progressed since a year or so?
June 9th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
I never thought that “Real” could also be read as “reel”, interesting.
And yes, its kinda odd, Inoue is working on Real and Vagabond at the same time. When Vagabond paused a month or so ago, I thought he’d go on with Real but then Vagabond just started again. I hope he hasn’t lost interest in this one.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Yes, I have actually seen this way to spell it down in various places and got confused, wether or not it was called Reel or Real or whatever.
Honestly I do not think that the author himself has lost interest, if I remember right it just started to pick up pace. It halted at the yet most interesting point in the story so to say.
Oh, well. /: