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Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 37] (ani.social)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Another week in the books. Let's chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

DanDaDan - Decided to give this a try since the anime releases soon. Wow! That was some wild stuff. Lots of really beautiful double-page spreads, and good art in general. I really look forward to seeing this get animated.
Blue Box - This is another one with an upcoming anime adaptation. It's an okay romance, but I think Kaguya-sama: Love is War and Skip and Loafer spoiled me. I put a bit of thought into what sets those apart, and I think the biggest part is seeing the perspectives of both sides of the relationship. I also like the art in those two just a little more. Blue Box has some serious same-face-syndrome between the two biggest female characters. I can only tell them apart by their hair! Overall it's pretty good though, and I'm only about 60 chapters in so maybe it improves.
Witch Hat Atolier - Wow. The art in this one is incredible. I'm only 7 chapters in, and it's slow-going since I'm reading it in Japanese, but this is easily one of the most beautiful manga I've ever seen. I think it's even better-looking than DanDaDan.
Boox Page - This one isn't a manga, but this week I picked up an e-reader. Wow. It's a huuuuge improvement over reading on my phone! The good: it runs Android, so I can install apps like Manga Plus to read manga conveniently, legally, and for free. I was also able to install some big Japanese manga apps like コミックDAYS using a VPN + the Aurora store. The 7" screen doesn't sound that much bigger than my 6" phone screen, but since it's almost precisely the same aspect ratio as a manga the difference is actually much much larger. Battery life is great of course, since it uses an e-paper display. Speaking of the e-paper display, it looks great, most of the time. It's a bit of a downer not having colored chapter covers but it maps the color to grayscale fairly well, even though it doesn't support a ton of different gray levels. The bad: it's stuck on Android 11, so I had to spoof another device to get my favorite offline Japanese-English dictionary (Yomiwa) installed. Fortunately none of the other apps I tried had any issues. Speaking of apps I tried, I installed 7 different manga reading apps developed by various US and JPN publishers. None of them supported the page turns buttons, and none of them had a setting to disable animations. E-paper displays do not like animations, and turning pages feels clunky as a result. I also tried one community-made manga app, Mihon. It supports my page turn buttons just fine and also allows me to disable animations. Very frustrating that once again buying media from the official source gives a worse experience than piracy would. The ugly: thankfully there isn't anything that falls into this category. Overall it's been a pretty good experience!

[–] Thade780 3 points 3 months ago

Witch Hat Atelier is not only a manga or a story for me. It's pure and unadulterated art. I absolutely love it.

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