Thread: Recently added series recommendations

Okay, now that I've sifted through, here's some others that stand out -- taking them alphabetically:

Ludwig Kakumei - All you need to know is two words: Yuki Kaori. Though the odds are, if that makes you want to read it, you already have, Yuki Kaori fans being what they are.

Mademoiselle Butterfly - Early Showa era (pre- and during WWII) drama about the romance between an apprentice geisha and an illegal tattoo artist. Most excellent and complete at 2 volumes. What are you waiting for?

Mai no Heya - From the author of Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa, three girls named Mai room together. No plot, but no porn (yet) either. Pretty, though, and kinda funny.

Marugoto Anjyu Gakuen - If you're looking for a dumb ecchi boy-crossdressing-in-a-girls-school-for-spirits series, this one's got you covered. And the girls uncovered.

Midnight Secretary - Josei romance about a secretary and the vampire she works for. The sex, when it finally gets there, is red-hot, and the art superb. I finished it, and I don't read vampire stories. Complete at 7 volumes.

Miiko Desu! - Classic (and still running under another title, Kocchimuite! Miiko) children's series about a hyperactive fourth-grade girl. Stories are good, if squarely aimed at its age bracket, but the art style made me give it up.

Mind Game - Middle-school romance from the author of Penguin Brothers. Good, not great.

Momokan - It's like Chii's Sweet Home, only with a puppy.

Mukashi no Hanashi - Excellent collection of creepy josei supernatural (bordering on horror) short stories. Art is faboo, as well.

Mx0 - Loud, slightly ecchi shounen fantasy series. Boy without magic but badass levels of stamina accidentally is admitted to a high school for magicians. Not great, but I was disappointed when it ended.

Natsume Yuujinchou - "Even since I was little, I've seen strange beings. Since no one else seems to see them, I guess they must be what you'd call spirits." Quiet supernatural series based on traditional Japanese folklore, sort of a shoujo version of Hyakkiyakou Shou. Orphaned Natsumi, who has been passed from family to family because he doesn't quite fit in, inherits his grandmother's "book of friends," in which she inscribed names of spirits she has captured, and decides to return all the names to their rightful owners. Who, of course, all want the whole book for themselves. Highly recommended.

Octave - Seinen yuri romance, played for the thoughtful drama.

I forgot to expand on that summary of Octave: A young woman who is a former idol singer (part of a failed idol quartet) is now working as a manager for a talent company. While having a crisis of confidence (one other former member has hit it big under another name, while a second is now a porn star) she meets a freelance music composer (thus the title) and, slowly, falls in love. The first couple chapters are confusing, with the intercutting of snippets of backstory and narration, but are worth toughing it out.

And while I'm here, reports on new reading:

Midnight - All I needed to try this was two words: Osamu Tezuka. If you need any more, it's about a taxi driver who gets into adventures while driving a taxi late at night. But really, you should be reading everything by the creator of manga.

Mel Kano - Read that as short for "E-mail Girl". Series of braided stories about various high school couples who meet through email. The creator of High School Girls has gotten better. Not brill, but a worthy entry in the genre of anthologies of loosely connected shounen romance stories.

M to N no Shouzou - Literally "Portrait of M and N", and I'm pretty sure the title's similarity to His and Her Circumstances is deliberate, because it's kinda like Kare Kano only much, much pervier. About as pervy as you can get in a chaste shoujo series, in fact. (Yes, there are decidedly non-chaste shoujo series, but this didn't run in one of those magazines.) I won't give more details, as the reveals are too delicious to spoil them.

Maigo no Kemonotachi - Literally, "Stray Beasts". It's a young (ran in Ribon) shoujo romance between a mermaid and a demon, of a kind that eats mermaids. As a young shoujo story, the romance is sweet enough to be almost insipid, despite the instent intraspecies tension in the premise; as a mermaid story from a culture with an only mild nudity taboo, it has a lot of naked breasts. That's right, there's lots of BOOBIES here in a series aimed at middle school girls. What you do with this information is your business alone.

Maimiko Touko no Jikenbo - Literally "The Case Files of Priestess Touko", in which the titular miko is the 17-year-old heir to a financially strapped Shinto shrine who keeps finding encounters with the supernatural (by way of gods more than youkai) get in the way of earning money as a priestess. The art is, to put it mildly, above average, making Touko look drop-dead gorgeous, even when not dancing -- as in, because of her, this shoujo manga beats just about every bishoujo series I can think of for Really Beautiful Women. Unfortunately, this has the effect of making one wonder why she doesn't have more than just the one boy after her. Complete at one volume, more's the pity -- there's room for more adventures here.

Ninohime no Monogatori - Or "Tale of the Second Princess", which is actually a story collection, but the title story is more than half the volume. Which said Tale starts with a quote from the "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", setting the stage for something a) classically Chinese and b) tragically romantic -- and it follows through on the promise. Warring States period, cranky retainer and pathologically shy princess, dying king, arranged political marriage, et cetera. Tasty stuff, especially the princess's Crowning Moment of Awesome, which is awesome. Skip the other two stories, which are lame in the way that only stupidly misogynist shoujo can get.

Matsuri Special - Well, THIS is different: Youko Kamio (Boys Over Flowers) is writing a shounen sports series, pro wrestling variety. Srsly. Art style is just like Cat Street, but running in a Jump SQ. Tough high school girl Matsuri, whose trainer father has made her join the women's pro wrestling circuit, wishes she wasn't tough because her crush object classmate doesn't like tough girls. Let me just state for the record, I Do Not Like this sort of set up. A guy who doesn't like strong women doesn't deserve one, leaving less competition for those of us who appreciate 'em. Fortunately, in this series, Matsuri quickly meets a tough guy who APPRECIATES her strength. It takes a while for her to accept this, though. 12 chapters scanned, serialization is ongoing.

Liar game - It's a game about lying,honesty, millions in dollars, a cross dresser, a con artist and one vey honest girl.oh did i mention millions of dollars? 78 chapters scanned on going sikiries
i havent seen these two on this site but i reccomend anyone to read it
zippy ziggy- cross between fighting /psychological(in my view)/ecchi. Lots of cross dressing. its a korean manga and its only had 14 chapters serialized so far.
Aiki - where to start on this one? a fighting mature senien ecchi that starts of being generic but goes off kilter with its main male character. 55 chapters so far in this series.

Yes, but were all of those series recently added in the last couple weeks? The way these were:

Kuroko no Basket - Or "Kuroko's Basket". Imagine how useful it would be in basketball to have a guy on your side who fades into the background so completely the other team doesn't notice he's there till he steals the ball or is free in an unmarked part of the court. Well, now you can read it instead of just imagining it.

Landreaall - High fantasy with a somewhat contemprorary look; I'm especially amused by the ninja retainer in a black turtleneck sweater and horn-rim glasses, looking like nothing so much as a beatnik with three levels of badass. Also, the younger sister who's too inexperienced to realize just how strong she is is a hoot. With only three chapters available, the story is only just getting going, but those three chapters are very tasty indeed. Watch this one: it shows every sign of going places -- if the scanlaters can get back on their feet.

Mayonaka no Ariadne - "Midnight Ariadne", another psychological drama from the creator of Coelocanth. Only two chapters, but the disturbing atmosphere is thick enough to cut with a plastic school cafeteria knife. I'm amused, though, at how the heroine is short even by Japanese schoolgirl standards (141cm = 4'7"). Another one to watch.

Lady Georgie - Classic old-school (early '80s) shoujo drama about a girl with a secret being raised on an Australian outback station. Adapted as a classic anime no less.

Kyou Koi wo Hajimemasu - Lit. "Today, Our Love Begins." Gah. It's trash -- and worse, insulting trash. As bad as Hot Gimmick. And just like with Hot Gimmick, I can't stop reading it. Why? WHY? WHY?

First, a retraction: I should admit that, when I mentioned Magic Tower Pass above, I had only read the first half. The second half, the plotting gets by turns implausible then incoherent. So scratch that recommendation.

NG Life - Boy A is the reincarnation of a Roman man who died in Pompeii in 79 A.D., and remembers his past life; he is friends with Girl B, the reincarnation of his past life's best buddy, who does NOT remember their past lives together; moving in next door is Boy C, the reincarnation of his past life's beloved fiancee, who also doesn't remember -- and who falls for Girl B. Got that? It's a gender-swapped reincarnation fantasy love triangle. Sounds like a winner to me, especially when it's this funny -- which makes it inexplicable that scanlations have halted at two chapters. Why, oh universe must you taunt me -- WHY?!

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Max Lovely! - It's like Arisa retold in the style of Kodocha/Marmalade Boy, with bonus kick-ass heroine. The mixture is surprisingly entertaining, even if said heroine is close to being too perfect.

Mana - Contemporary Korean girl with shaman powers unwittingly binds the ghost of a rock musician as her guardian spirit in a Confucian ceremony. I'm only a couple chapters in but, yes, the result is Hijinx ensue. (Who knows, maybe later we'll get They fight crime.) So far amusing. Series complete, if that matters.