Hmmm... any non-spoilery notables about this series?
Not Actually Indie
Well, it's got a pretty significant Cast of Snowflakes deal going on. While most of the main characters have generic manga-ish good looks, the artist is pretty good at averting Generic Cuteness and drawing a bunch of average looking or ugly characters, including a bunch of realistically middle aged or elderly ones.
The story so far tends well towards the idealistic side of the spectrum, but it's not afraid to delve into darker subjects, like child abuse and neglect and drug addiction, and display them pretty graphically. It's a shounen series that would fit in pretty well in a seinen magazine, even putting aside the fact that it's one of very few shounen series to have an adult protagonist.
edited 18th Feb '13 7:32:24 AM by Desertopa
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
Not Actually Indie
Okay, now it has a page.
Anyway, I highly recommend checking it out.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
I breathe life into this topic!
I didn't think much of it at first, but then the cast got larger and more developed and I got pretty attached to them. There's a good variety of cases, dealing with all sorts of issues the youth face, even drugs and sexual exploitation, which I appreciate.
The latest arc is the most intense. Already Rika's been killed, possibly Shindou too. And all sorts of past issues are coming out of the woodwork.
Chapter 127: We already knew, but man is Katou messed up.
I knew we were going to see a cavalcade of familiar faces!
Chapter 129: I will never be as kind as Taketora.
And it's done. Shows us a bit of everyone, which is nice. Shibata and Mizuki hook up, so Yuuji's drinking away.
The shinigami hands seem to have restored Mizuki's eyesight. Huh.
Here's another excellent work which has managed to slip completely under the wiki's radar.
Shibatora
tells the story of a police detective in the Youth Division of his local police force, despite looking younger than the teens he's supposed to be policing. Shibatora is a major example of The Messiah, constantly looking for and bringing out the best in the people around him, and willing to forgive even truly heinous behavior when the perpetrators are prepared to turn their lives around, but at the same time, in spite of initial appearances, pulls off some impressive displays of Good Is Not Dumb.
So far, despite being highly rated on Baka Updates with over eleven volumes translated (out of the fifteen volumes at which the series is complete in Japan,) and enough popularity in its home country that it had a live action drama based on it in 2008, we not only do not have a page on it, we don't seem to have a single reference on the entire site. Which is a shame, because it's seriously good.
I intend to make a page for it, but right now I'm only up to chapter 24 out of the 102 currently online. If anyone else has secretly read it and not felt the need to bring it up before, feel free to jump in.
edited 21st Feb '13 10:08:13 AM by Desertopa
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.