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

This is the "Personally-followed manga, under-the-radar for everyone else" thread, not the "Personally-followed anime, under-the-radar for everyone else" thread.

Do we have a thread for that? If not I see no reason an occasional anime can't be brought up. Besides, Tsurezure Children was a manga first so it still counts.

General talk about more popular anime and manga can go into the Chatterbox thread, or you could make your own for the series. I think the rule of thumb for this thread is "Manga without a Works page on this Wiki or a (reasonably well-known) anime adaptation".

edited 19th Aug '17 6:57:04 AM by Pyrite

I don't think mention anime is big issue. After all it's not like there are no "under radar" shows.

There wasn't a thread, but thinking it over I could have posted in the Summer 2017 thread.

However, I have read some of the later chapters for it and love a lot of Patricia's scenes. Like Ubukata as well and the entire Light Music Club shines in the omake where all the students answer general questions.

Mattaku Saikin no Tantei to Kitara :Nagumo Keeichirou is known as genius high school detective. Or to be exact he used to be. Twenty years ago. Now he is only detective with bad hips, no cases and unpaid rent. Than high girl that ( doraemon meet Rambo in shape of cute airhead JK), show up and want became his assistant. And thus story of ex-great detective, ex-great detective assistant, ex-Yakuza and ex-stray cat begin. Expect D-frag kind of humour take on Hardboiled Detective genre and classic mystery.

edited 20th Aug '17 6:23:30 AM by Tenzen12

I don't know if it has been brought up before but ''Sprite'' by Yūgo Ishikawa is quite an entertaining series. It follows Yoshiko, a regular schoolgirl who, when visiting her reclusive uncle with her two friends sees black snow falling from the sky and then, when a large earthquake hits, finds that the entire apartment complex they were in has been transported to a strange world. It turns out that the black snow/water is time and they have been transported to a post-apocalyptic future then, after a fight against mutant beasts and feral kids, the building is transported through time again, this time to the Sengoku period when the Sanada try to capture the mysterious "castle". While the main character can be a little annoying at times she does have her moments and some of the rest of the cast are good but the main reason I like the series is that some of the art is brilliant.

Not another isekai, dammit!

No. time travel.

edited 23rd Aug '17 3:12:49 AM by SebastianGray

The title is 10 words too short for it to be an Isekai series.

It's also a little darker◊ than an Isekai series.

I remember reading that one a long time ago. There wasn't much of it at the time, though. If it's the same one, since it kinda sounds like it.

Yeah, as with many less popular series the scanlations are behind and are currently on Volume 9 of 15 but they have been updating recently (there have been three this month).

Is anyone else reading Birdmen?

Has anyone mentioned that Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san now has a spin-off Karakai Jouzu no (Moto) Takagi-san?

It's set when Takagi and Nishikata are adults, married, and have a daughter together. I find it more adorable than the main series, actually, thanks to the daughter.

A continuation of a school life romcom where the leads are adults? Sounds interesting.

The illustrator for that series is actually different from the original author, which means that guy's sure got a good hand to imitate the artstyle to this extent.

Would Golden Kamui be considered "under the radar"?

GK seems fairly popular in France, but I haven't read it… Apparently an anime has been announced too.

Haven't seen a thread for it though.

edited 5th Sep '17 5:57:18 PM by Lyendith

I know of its presence on France, but I heard reviews from there weren't too hot. Which is a real shame, because it is legitimately great as an action manga, a love letter to Hokkaido, and a (unlabeled) comedy.

Also yeah, super excited about the anime.

edited 5th Sep '17 6:15:47 PM by ChefFailure

All I know about Golden Kamuy is it's recently started getting released by viz

You should totally read it then. It's got Food Porn and Mood Whiplash galore. A recent chapter also features a man's finest achievement and glorious swan song: Anally raping a brown bear (male), and then passing away with his erection still inside.

Might as well put in a summary while I'm at it.

Golden Kamui - Named for his unstoppable rampages across the battlefields during the Sino-Russian War, "Sugimoto the Immortal" finds himself in Hokkaido desperately panhandling for gold to fulfill a promise he made to an old love. It almost seems a miracle when he's told a story by an old drunkard, that of an mindbogglingly huge hoard of gold whose location can only be revealed by gathering the tattoos of multiple convicts that recently escaped prison. Obviously, the escapees would very much prefer not to be skinned, and he's not the only one on the hunt for the gold. What's more, Hokkaido itself is a harsh, untamed world more life-threatening than anything save for what the most dangerous humans can come up with.

However, an Ainu girl (Asirpa) with a personal stake in that gold's bloody history joins forces with Sugimoto. Together, the two might just pull this grand quest off.

edited 5th Sep '17 8:52:55 PM by ChefFailure

Golden Kamuy is great. It has a nice balance of gory actions and black comedy. Each character is both an utmost badass and a dumb dork, the villains included.

x5 I know. I can see the differences from the original author, but the styles really are similar.

You know, watching the latest Tsurezure Children episode made me realize what exactly was it about Gouda's eyes that made him look really different from everyone else: They lack the typical "shine" of an anime character (you know, the whiteness you tend to see in one corner of the iris). Is there a trope for that?

That's usually associated with dead eyes, but outside of that… I don't know. =[

I usually associate the way Gouda's eyes◊ look with someone who is not "normal" in some way that is definitely not the "dead eyes" look.