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This looks like an interesting list, and I'm probably going to read a few of these. Rare Flavours in particular sounds right up my alley. It can be hard to tel

This looks like an interesting list, and I'm probably going to read a few of these. Rare Flavours in particular sounds right up my alley. It can be hard to tell with the newer graphic novels which ones are more fun than being a work of serious literary fiction to elevate the medium, i.e. often they tend to be downers, at least for a good chunk of the story. I do like the more serious ones myself, but my partner has a birthday coming up, she loves graphic novels, but she's much more into fun, escapist (but with interesting/strong characters) stories at the moment since her job's been pretty stressful. Does anyone have recommendations for those? This list doesn't seem like it has too many that would fit that. I got her Nimona for Christmas, after we saw (and loved) the film adaptation for the first one on Netflix, for example.

corethree 3y ago
Oh man. Manga has been honed over decades to be artfully escapist. The Japanese have this stuff down as an engineered art form and they divided it by gender too. As a dude I recommend stuff like, great teacher onizuka or Naruto or attack on titan or full metal alchemist... but that's stuff engineered for men. For girls you'll have to Google but it's definitely a targeted genre as well with tons of long running mangas.
- cableshaft 3y ago
  She doesn't seem to really be that into manga actually, even though we do watch some anime from time to time. Like we're churning through One Piece right now (although that's mainly thanks to seeing and liking the live action adaptation). I could give her the manga for it, but I don't think she'd be as interested as just watching the anime. She hasn't expressed any interest in it, at least, where as soon as we finished Nimona she said "I want the graphic novel." And she doesn't own any manga, whereas she owns several dozen other graphic novels.
  - corethree 3y ago
    It's no different really. It's just the volume of manga is much more higher and diverse then American comics. She can't really know if she's interested if she hasn't tried it. Though I will say manga does have it's cliche tropes the same way American comics do it with super heroes. If she picks the wrong book she can easily be turned off.
riffraff 3y ago
I'm not sure it's translated in a language you understand but "Les indes fourbes" (Guarnido/Ayroles) is a picaresque story with a wonderful main character, a gripping adventurous plot, and some of the best artwork I've seen in years.

corethree 3y ago

Oh man. Manga has been honed over decades to be artfully escapist. The Japanese have this stuff down as an engineered art form and they divided it by gender too. As a dude I recommend stuff like, great teacher onizuka or Naruto or attack on titan or full metal alchemist... but that's stuff engineered for men. For girls you'll have to Google but it's definitely a targeted genre as well with tons of long running mangas.

cableshaft 3y ago
She doesn't seem to really be that into manga actually, even though we do watch some anime from time to time. Like we're churning through One Piece right now (although that's mainly thanks to seeing and liking the live action adaptation). I could give her the manga for it, but I don't think she'd be as interested as just watching the anime. She hasn't expressed any interest in it, at least, where as soon as we finished Nimona she said "I want the graphic novel." And she doesn't own any manga, whereas she owns several dozen other graphic novels.
- corethree 3y ago
  It's no different really. It's just the volume of manga is much more higher and diverse then American comics. She can't really know if she's interested if she hasn't tried it. Though I will say manga does have it's cliche tropes the same way American comics do it with super heroes. If she picks the wrong book she can easily be turned off.

riffraff 3y ago

I'm not sure it's translated in a language you understand but "Les indes fourbes" (Guarnido/Ayroles) is a picaresque story with a wonderful main character, a gripping adventurous plot, and some of the best artwork I've seen in years.