Personally-followed manga, under-the-radar for everyone else

What's more interesting is that the author's notes and the fact that the main character shares the author's pen name seem to hint that the story is is either a dramatization of or inspired by the author's own life. If that's true, then it makes me wonder... Do we know any other mangaka who is openly transgendered?

edited 29th Nov '16 11:48:17 AM by MarqFJA

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Not that I can think of. There are a few yuri mangaka who are openly lesbian (Takemiya Jin, Morishima Akiko) and some others… well, we can probably assume.

edited 29th Nov '16 11:52:33 AM by majoraoftime

I've always been a sucker for series that treat issues like this seriously rather than use them for laughs or titillation. It's the primary reason I read Wandering Son.

Read that, too.

edited 29th Nov '16 11:58:42 AM by sgamer82

Bokura no Hentai is good as well.

I'm sure many people would find it sinful just to read about this stuff.

edited 29th Nov '16 11:59:29 AM by majoraoftime

Heh, "hints" my ass, the author actually says it outright in the end-of-chapter notes for the last chapter. I think she should've put it in a foreward before the story proper, though.

I'm sure you'd be surprised to know that I do think of it as a sinful thing to do. Yes, it probably seems weird. I'm proud of being Muslim, but I am also a realist and have long had to admit to myself that there are vices that I seem unable to let go of.^* I've tried giving up porn a grand total of three/four times during the period stretching from late middle school to the end of my high school years, and it never truly lasted for more than a year except the first time around... which was actually the result of being caught red-handed by my parents (back then, I was really naive and overconfident about the security of my Porn Stash on the one and only computer in my home at the time).

EDIT: Minor clarification in the note.

edited 29th Nov '16 1:16:16 PM by MarqFJA

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That is awkward...

edited 29th Nov '16 12:31:32 PM by RAlexa21th

Where there's life, there's hope.

Which part(s)?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

All of it.

Where there's life, there's hope.

Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, and yet I am.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Life is full of surprises.

Where there's life, there's hope.

Couldn't you get in trouble with the law for this stuff, Marq?

This is getting rather off-topic. I'd rather not discuss it in this thread.

To toss in one I cam across along time ago: Nadenade Shikoshiko.

Totoki is shocked one day to find that Cherry, a girl from the bygone days of cavemen and dinosaurs, has somehow made her way to the present day and declares that she is the wife of Totoki, who somehow visited her era when he was a child.

Aside from the many obvious issues, Totoki has a very old-fashioned view of what he finds attractive in a girl, which prompts Cherry to decide she must learn to be a Yamato Nadeshiko.

A short, 4-koma style gag manga. Was a fun read.

OK, that premise is just downright hilarious.

Short answer: No. I'm more likely to get in trouble with my family than with the law, unless I decided for some reason to start actively selling/distributing the stuff to other people.

edited 29th Nov '16 10:57:00 PM by MarqFJA

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And it is. Among other things Cherry interprets the whole "follow your man from three steps behind" thing as "I watch my man's back when we hunt prey."

Damn,Maou-Jou de Oyasumi's princess is evil.Like EVIL evil.

Secret Signature

That poor Harpy, the princess just wanted her for her body. I remember reading and my first thought when the Harpy started talking to her was the princess is going to want a feather bed, isn't she?

I fully expect this series to end with the heroes rescuing the princess to find the Demon King's castle in ruins with the princess somewhere in the middle getting the best night's sleep she's ever had.

edited 30th Nov '16 9:31:56 AM by sgamer82

I'll second Nadenade Shikoshiko. It's been a while since it ended, but I completely forgot to bring it up here.

Love and Lies was brought up some time ago, so for one more Manga Box series...

Araidoki follows an Azuki Arai avoiding being killed by the new transfer student... an angel who wants to kill all demons. He does this with his very limited cleaning powers (making the floor too slippery, etc.), and otherwise convincing her that she would be arrested for murder. Not the best, but funny at times.

edited 30th Nov '16 10:07:22 AM by burnpsy

Forgot the title of the series. Or is the title Araidoki?

edited 30th Nov '16 10:02:16 AM by sgamer82

I've added italics for clarity.

edited 30th Nov '16 10:07:35 AM by burnpsy

OK, I seriously need to increase my Dynasty Scans reading quota, because Jewels is just so cute and funny.

Summary: A single chapter depicting snapshots of the budding relationship between two childhood friends that ends with them getting married (come on, it's even tagged "Marriage" on the site; ain't no way you can't be expecting that). Oh, and they're both girls. A Tomboy and Girly Girl pair, in fact.

edited 30th Nov '16 11:56:16 AM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Uh, yeah. It's Dynasty Reader, heterosexual relationships are so rare that they need a tag for it.

Where there's life, there's hope.

Same-sex marriage in Japan? What kind of parallel wordline is that?

Maou-Jou de Oyasumi is a story of a Princess Murderhobo who haunts the Demon King castle and torment it's inhabitants.

Apparently, it's not official; the two women just bought the appropiate rings and have already been cohabiting, and then one of the two's mother insists on a (probably unofficial) wedding ceremony when they finally decide to admit their relationship to their parents (at least one set of parents already knew their daughter was secretly dating her childhood friend).

They still have a tag for Yuri, though. And for all you know, it could've been another "pre-op male-to-female transsexual" story like Hanayome wa Motodanshi.

edited 30th Nov '16 2:32:18 PM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.