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@mdmrn Looks like that hashtag has plenty of posts and conversations. Try searching and/or following it to find your people.

@wordsmith Oh, I have. A lot of folks using this particular hashtag use it for blog posts. Which is helpful for finding them, but I'm leaning more towards finding folks chatting about manga.

I haven't followed that hashtag, yet, tho, that's a good idea to set it up as a column so I can see it more continuously.

@ishambard Oh I hear you on getting a backlog. I have a handful of new manga I got (and library reads) waiting to be read.

OOOH! I loved the FMA manga. Hope you are enjoying it.

And you got this!

@mdmrn

Oh yeah, I started reading it back in 2011. After watching the original run of the anime with my then Girlfriend.

I have only now gotten around to buying all the volumes that I hadn't bought.

That is the original TokyoPop run of the manga as well!

Annoyingly, i can't find the most recent picture. I took my copies of FMA, but you can see them in the bottom right!

@ishambard Oh wow! And is that the TokyoPop run of Love Hina I see too?

Wow!

I read FMA via my library network, which was very helpful. Some day, I may get it myself. Today is not that day

@mdmrn

That was the first series I bought. Volumes 5 and 6 were the first ones to be precise. They are looking a little dogearred these days

I also recently picked up copies of the Love Hina Light Novel. Should be an interesting read.

I should note that bookcase is double deep. Behind those volumes is a bunch load of other things.

My current goal is to finish the series I like, and get rid of things I have no intention of reading or completing.

@ishambard Oh neat!

And I totally get that about clearing out stuff. I tend to only buy physical of anything if I think I'll re-read it again OR I think my kids will end up reading it. Otherwise, I tend to get things digitally or use my library network.

And the Love Hina Light Novels? Wild!! That series was such a mess, but a fun mess. I read the manga digitally and watched the anime what feels like a LIFETIME ago. I was 18 back then...and I'm 41 now. So yea, it was a lifetime ago

@mdmrn

A friend of mine showed me the anime when I was 17, and I loved it.

I remember reading somewhere that the manga was quite different, I believe it was a forum post about which girl was the worst in terms of punishing Keitaro. Someone mentioned that Shinobu is a harmless darling, to which someone replied that she totally kicks him in the balls in the manga (accidentally).

It being different was enough for me to look for the Manga. I managed to find in a bookstore chain (Waterstones), this was back in, like, 2008? At that time, the Manga section of the store was a shelf on a tiny bookcase. They had volumes 5 and 6 there. So I snapped them up.

Much to my delight volume 5 has the aforementioned kick to the balls delivered by Shinobu.

@ishambard Wild! I watched the anime in like...2001-2002. I read SOME of the manga Around then too. But, not much of it.

Then I read the whole thing about two years ago. It hit differently at 19 than it did at 40

@mdmrn

Before I read the Light Novels, I intend to re-read the Manga, as the Light Novels take place at... Umm.... Some point.

I have been meaning to re-read Love Hina anyway, so it will be interesting to see how an older Ishambard views it.

I might have to give a lot of series I have a re-read as it has been a very long time since I read, like, Yotsuba&!, Lucky Star...
Might give Mahoramatic a skip though... I liked the concept, but the level of nudity really caught me by surprise and owning it now feels a little seedy

@ishambard Fair

Re-reading series you read before at a different place in life can be very interesting.

@mdmrn

For sure.
I remember re-reading Comic Party a couple of years ago. I had to take a moment and digest how much the chapter on Ohba Eimi resonated with where I was mentally at that time.

I might have to pull up the exact panels and pages tonight

@COMPU73E @mforester Oooh! That's a nice mix. I love me some Spy X Family. And I read all of Battle Angel Alita and the sequel series, Last Order. I still haven't read "Mars Chronicles" Have you? Or are you not yet that far into the series?

I got all of Lone Wolf and Cub in a Humble Bundle a while back. I like it, but I keep forgetting about it At some point, I need to go back to it and keep reading it!

And I have heard great things about Bocchi. Never read any of it or seen the anime.

@mdmrn @mforester I read the original Alita series, then bought the 5 volumes of Last Order omnibus thinking that would be the whole thing, got to the end of omnibus volume 5 and then found out that it continues in the individual issues 16-19 which aren't collected. 16 and 17 are out of print and very expensive, and I'm really not happy lol

I love Bocchi so much. The manga is fantastic (it's my first 4koma) and they did an amazing job with the anime (Kessoku Band rule)

@COMPU73E @mforester Ooh nice on the 4koma. I've only read a few, my favorite being Azumanga Daioh! I own the omnibus of that one.

Last Order was also in a digital Humble Bundle a while back, so I own all of that, original Alita, and some of Mars Chronicles digitally. But, of course, this was years ago and more Mars Chronicles has happened since!

@maxalmonte14 Nice! My kids read...some manga. Largely silly stuff like the Animal Crossing manga or Chi's Sweet Adventure. The Pokemon ones are good too.

I love Fist of the North Star. Just got the most recent physical release at Christmas. Still need to read it! It's so intense and has a LOT to say about toxic masculinity for a series about big, beefy dudes beating each other up until they explode.

@mdmrn little dude likes all the Shōnen stuff like Jujutsu Kaisen and Solo Leveling, I don't necessarily approve but if his parents are OK with it I won't be the one to tell him no

I'm not gonna lie, I mostly want to read Fist of The North Star after watching the J drama My Housekeeper Mr. Nagisa, they kept dropping references to it and I was at a loss.

@maxalmonte14 Maybe Demon Slayer may be another good one. My 13 year old got super into it in the past year.

Fist of the North Star is great, but oh so violent. Early 80s beefy dudes beating on one another. I love it, though.

@mdmrn Demon Slayer is pretty good, I already read the manga, the ending was kinda weird tho... I'm thinking of getting the whole collection for little dude but I'll have to check with him first, these kids nowadays change interests pretty quickly. And yeah, I know Fist of The North Star is this violent, over the top, weird thing, I hope the humor is good so it can balance the whole thing.

@maxalmonte14 The ending was...odd for Demon Slayer. Felt very rushed.

There's not a TON of humor in Fist of the North Star, per say. It's very 80s post-apocalyptic. I really enjoy it, but I recognize what it is.

@mdmrn I totally dig a post apocalyptic story, I usually like a bit of humor with my Japanese media — I find Japanese humor hilarious — but that's OK, I liked Akira and the tone was pretty serious, Vagabond was good too, pretty violent and serious story, created by the author of Slam Dunk of all people

@FalconMarkSix Very cool!! I have heard a lot of good things about DanDaDan, but never actually checked it out before.

Oh goodness! Saint Young Men! I've read a handful of volumes of it. It's so quirky and goofy.

I did enjoy Demon Slayer, didn't love the ending, though. It felt rushed IMO. But, that's just me! Overall, still a good story. What did you think?

@mdmrn You should try out the DanDaDan it's pretty good! I like the vibe it gives off.

Saint Young Men is such a fun laid-back read! So interesting to see their shenanigans!

@mdmrn@urusai.social @mdmrn@pixtagram.social anyway, me! More frens always good! :D

boosted for visibility too :)

curently reading marriage to kitsune-sama (BL manga) and guardian (danmei novel aka Chinese BL novel - like heaven officials blessing you must have heard off). Yes that's a theme, but I read all other genres too lol. Just mostly a ton of BL/danmei XD

@mdmrn@urusai.social @mdmrn@pixtagram.social I don't have pixelfed, I have mastodon, insta, discord, reddit, and now thanks to the great efforts of the US congress my new most used app with all my new Chinese (and all over the world really, and vice versa XD) fandom friends, rednote (truly, couldn't have done it without them, we'd never have heard of it, especially since I'm not even anywhere near the US XD).

And X, but never post almost, just lurk.

I don't post much on insta, so no reason to get a pixelfed. :D

@mdmrn@urusai.social @mdmrn@pixtagram.social I love talking about it and such more then posting images. Though IG I'm posting my new danmei novels over on red now XD but I mean, I mostly chat, cheer on cute cosplayers, and chat in our new danmei reading club xD

I talk more (openly i mean outside of DM's) on here and reddit and such xD. Mostly here.