Kazan, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Gamaran

A couple of manga.. wait is it mangas? Or mangae? Mangi? Anyway, 3 manga, kazan gamaran and Arakawa Under the Bridge.

1) Kazan is a story about the son of a famous tribe's chief, who had a childhood friend and an eagle. One day, a man came for them, claiming Kazan's father (who hadn't returned to the tribe for a long time) sold Kazan to him (the mysterious man) and came to take him. His childhood friend who was with him tried to stop the man, but ended up getting taken away in kazan's place. The man then destroyed kazan's entire tribe, leaving only him and his eagle. Kazan then travels with his eagle to find his childhood friend and take revenge on the mysterious man.






2) Gamaran is about kurogane Gama, the son of a legendary swordsman who is believed to have killed 1000 martial artists in Unabara.

The ruler of the powerful state Unabara, Washitzu Naosata, is looking for his successor. He calls upons all his 31 sons, and tell them to search for whoever they believe to be the strongest martial artist of all. Each of their chosen martial artists then are to fight against each other until only one is left standing. Whoever is the winner, whoever has the strongest martial artist in nation by his side will become his successor.

There, one of the son of Washitzu Naosata, Washitzu Naoshi, comes in search of the legendary swordsman, only to find that he had gone missing several years ago. After seeing the battle style of Gama, he instead chooses to ask Gama to come with him. Wanting to become stronger, Gama agrees to his offer, and that marks the beginning of Gama's battle to become the strongest of all .

Actually i just copy pasted most of the description from the internet. Gamaran is interesting as a swordfighting manga (or should i say martial arts manga), like ruroni kenshin, but of course i wouldn't compare them both. They have their appealing parts, though i still prefer RK. Gamaran is still good, though it is a more serious manga than RK. It's worth reading IMO.

Lastly it's Arakawa under the bridge. If you have read Bobobo-bo-bobo bo , gintama or the likes of it, Arakawa under the bridge belongs to this family or randomness. It is not as chaotic as Bobobo, but messed up enough for you to follow and have a laugh if you appreciate randomness and awesome drawing (like one of the scenes in "Today in Class 5-2"). In fact, AUtB is slightly more random than Today in Class 5-2, but more logical than Bobobobobobobobobo, lesser puns than gintama. Those who read all the abovementioned mangas (excluding AUtB of course) probably will understand what kind of manga AUtB is now. Whether you'll enjoy this manga is probably up to your mood.


More manga when i can remember them!

An additional blog post which is more like a follow up, but if it's of different content, do you call it a follow up?

I saw one of my older posts and realised that there were a few mangas that had deviated from their initial "theme" and became more mainstream- Examples like Katekyo Hitman Reborn! and Medeka Box. Both started out as humor manga but became more battle intense manga(esp KHB!, imo).. Not that it became worse, but I don't understand if there is a need for yet another battle manga. Personally I have had enough of battle manga and don't mind seeing more light humor mangas like what ky0t0 animation produces (Melancholy of suzumiya haruhi, K-ON!, Lucky star etc.), but if it's battle manga, make it unique and more realistic. I enjoyed pumpkin scissors alot, although it is a little unreal. Even now i read cyber blue for the same reason why there are people who still play contra- To relieve the good old times.

Speaking of this, I recalled reading 2 mangas that i think are quite good- "Sommelier", and "say hello to Black Jack". Sommelier has a similiar storyplot to "Bartender", but i would say both are worth reading . On the other hand, "Say hello to black jack" is a medical manga, but instead of focusing on the medical aspects of the story, most of the plot revolves around politics in the hospital. If you want to see doctors with amazing skills and techniques, this probably isn't the manga. But if you're interested in a different viewpoint of a ("jap")hospital, Say hello to black jack.

literally.


(Or Mangally?)

Abit more manga

A nice manga about how a highly wanted swindler who was caught, ended up escaping while being transported to prison... and becomes a teacher. It's similiar to GTO, but not as serious as it. Overall, Hammer Session! is a nice humorous lighthearted manga.

Cyber Blue is like a manga version of the video game contra, except with a slightly deeper story plot(I wasn't really aware of Contra having a story plot, pardon me if there is). A guy gets robbed, cheated his money of, framed for murdering someone and dies. Then he resurrects as a cyberbeing and kicks badguy ass. Oh yeah, Cyber blue is as oldschool as Contra. Abit of gore- not like avid manga readers would be surprised by.

There are a few other mangas, but i haven't read much about them yet. Perhaps next time.

Another medical manga

Here's a medical manga that I recently read and felt was quite interesting- "Say Hello to Black Jack".

Probably some of you may be thinking "Argh another medical manga on the Jap Healthcare system". Well it is, but like Naruto and Bleach, you know it's gonna be a battle manga like dragonball but you'll still read it. because it's kickass fighting!!!!!!

ok maybe not all of them. Still, there aren't many medical mangas anyway, so no harm checking this one out!

I posted this because it was under drafts and i probably forgot to click publish and left it there for a year or something..

no harm posting.

Onemanga returns to the wind...but manga lives on

It's been some time since onemanga closed down.. Which left an impact on us online manga readers who don't have a convenient source of manga available for us to read, especially when the manga you like aren't on shelves yet(or ever). But I believe that all of us have some way of getting our manga, somewhere.

A manga I have been reading recently is "HayatexBlade" (or Hayate Cross Blade), which is interesting. It's a female high school sword fighting manga with a hundred characters and a typical evil Student council chairman. It's a good manga to read and have a laugh at. One of my favourite character is Mizuchi Asakura, because of her deadpan humor and idiosyncrasy, especially after she fought Ayana and Hayate. Of course, I like Hitsugi (Kaicho) and AyanaxHayate too.












Spoiler pic below:

In biggest pic, from left to right: Sou, Mizuchi, Ayane, Hayate.