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If you're mainly a BD / Euro comics reader, may I ask what are some of your favorite manga..?
(media.piefed.social)
Me, I'm head-over-heels for Osamu Tezuka's stuff, and a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki's work, both for a long time now, altho of course Miyazaki only made a small amount of manga, I believe. ("Nausicaä" etc) And of course, mad respect to Katsuhiro Otomo for the legendary "Akira" series, plus his other works.
For sure, I also enjoyed "Death Note," and a couple others, here and there. Moebius' and Jiro Taniguchi's Icaro was good, but stretched on forever, at least for me.
Anyway, if you're passionate and/or highly respecful upon certain manga, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
* Those above are the Western-style spellings of their names, FWIW.
My personal favorite of all time is absolutely Takemitsu Zamurai, it's a masterpiece if any manga I've read is... though at least one manga critic has described as more of a traditional japanese historical novel than a manga and I kind of agree, so keep that in mind if you ever pick it up. It is still a comic... well, at least art, definitely!
The visual style is just incredible, and although you probably need even deeper knowledge of japanese history and art than I have to fully appreciate it and it's themes, I'd imagine it'd still be quite rewarding to even a western person not knowing anything of the context. It's only for mature audiences though, it is not an easy read and includes themes like sex and gore (not viscerally though).
DANG... that looks so much different from the "usual stuff" ... and, that's a heron, or egret-bird, possibly..?
I've never seen anything else like it, so it's at least interesting to look at even if the story doesn't hit the mark... Personally I've enjoyed it so much I've read through it several times over the years, and not that many comics have captured me that way.
And yes, that's a great egret. Really beautiful birds!