actually tell me about your favorite niche manga that you'd recommend to a friend. a manga (or anime) that has stuck with you for a long time, but one that for some reason or another not many people have heard of.
(for me, it's spirit circle by mizukami satoshi and gunjou gakusha by irie aki.)
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The World in between Nº 5 - Several stories from Gunjou Gakusha by IRIE AKI sensei
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I see a fellow fan of Ran and the Grey World. An absolute banger of a manga in terms of art and story. Some of the pages are just to die for. (only gripe I have is Ran's relationship with a certain character (won't spoil as I don't know how far you've read)
Would recommend her other work like Gunjou Gakusha (more one-shot based, though some stories have more than one chapter) and Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike (very interesting concept, sadly I couldn't find more than 40 chapters, seems to be on hiatus)
a fellow connoisseur of taste! i loooove gunjou gakusha. so much so that i did a presentation on it/irie aki's work in college 🤓 you might've heard a quote by miyazaki that goes like this: “When I clap my hands, you hear the sound of the clap. You don’t hear what is in between the sound of the clap. In Japan, we have a name for what is in between the sound of the clap. We call it ma.” i see ma/間/negative space everywhere in the atmosphere she creates.
the nature of ran and outarou's relationship is very disturbing, but the purpose of it, to me, is magnificent: he has to die so ran can grow up. i can't help think that irie aki wrote ran in the gray world with her younger self in mind, from the perspective of an older woman. and with that perspective comes a desire to luxuriate in beauty and draw beautiful things, to not treat her stories so delicately, to be alive like an old willow tree. a few years ago, i used to think 'i love this story, but still, why would irie aki tie ran's emerging maturity/emotional development with an obviously sus adult man? there are way better coming-of-age narratives than that.' but the older i get, the more i see the letter that is sent across time from an older woman to her younger self. the more i understand what she is trying to say
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10 Awesome Short Romance Manga
☀︎ Gunjou Gakusha
☀︎ Udon no Onna
☀︎ Game Over
☀︎ Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan
☀︎ Tenshi no Su
☀︎ Kono Tabi Wa
☀︎ Love, Hate, Love
☀︎ Kamisama Ga Uso O Tsuku It’s somehow both very cute and heavy
☀︎ Shuukatsu !! - Kimi ni Naitei
☀︎ Koguresou Monogatari
Part 2: https://thotoke.tumblr.com/post/649569806403715072/10-awesome-short-romance-manga-2
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