The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

[Cloudman]

BraLoD said:
Oh, and if we are into recommendations, I'll let two of mine that I believe are very, very under appreciated.

Vagabond (still going on)
History Strongest Disciple Kenichi (finished)

Vagabond: it's simple amazing, it's just a shame it's not the author's priority, he treats it as a free expression and has been on a very long hiatus, he just goes back to drawing it when he feels completely on it, so when you reach the current chapters it'll be sad it'll be long until you get more, but dammit, it's very worth of it.
It has one of the best senses of fighting I've seem on any media, you feel the weight of them, it's really, really amazing, the way the art also bounds around it's so damn good, it's based on Miyamoto Musashi's (and Kojiro later) life based on a novel called Musashi. Seriously, deep dive on that one.

History Strongest Disciple Kenichi: it's also very damn good, it's both fun and serious, it's based on a less than regular guy becoming disciple of a couple of the very strongest martial artists in the world and training with them to become the strongest disciple. The fights and progression on the manga are both very good, a lot of good characters and some both serious takes on martial arts and also light takes on stupid fun moments, it always had a bit of ecchi on it, which is usually part of the fun moments that happen constantly, but I felt like near the end the author started taking too much on that matter, it's usually fun but I really don't like when this kind of stuff starts taking to the stage too often, it becomes annoying and even lame to be honest (Kill la Kill even being short also did it), but it gladly got more too much on that just near the end with a particular event, so it really didn't became a problem (sadly the next work of the author went head on with it from the beginning, which put me away from it, I hope it becomes more sutile later as I plan on giving that other manga another try in the future), so I highly recommend it, it's not very popular so I think it might be a great surprise to some of you.

Alright, I'll add them to the list. I gave them both a look. I have a feeling you have a preference to action mangam since I think most of the ones I've heard you mention seem to focus on that. These seem that way as well, but more so with Kenichi. I've seen that one many times on manga sites and I think it was ranked high on popularity. I think a friend of mine suggested it as well. I never picked it up for some reason... : S Looking through the 1st chapter, it looks like a fun light hearted battle manga that could be a bit on the ecchi side, with the girl in the glasses. It looks funny too. One kid looked like a goblin or something xD

Vagabond looks like the opposite of Kenichi o_o The art style is very detailed and realistic, and rather graphic and gory. It kind of reminds me of Kenshin, but more serious. I'm not too fond of the art style, but it's one I can greatly appreciate since the art is very good. I think it's cool the story is based on an actual person.

Gosh, I'm starting to get more manga than I can handle... xD