Manga Rec!
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At Yaoi Con, I bought a manga called In These Words. It was a random buy of a manga I'd never heard of by a group I'd never heard of, that I bought just because I liked the cover art and the blurb on the back. I read it yesterday and it is amazing. The story is about a psychiatrist who is hired by the police to interview a serial killer. After he takes the case, the psychiatrist begins to have nightmares about being abducted and raped by the killer - but are they nightmares, or did it really happen?
The story is dark, intense and creepy. The artwork is stunning on every page, including five colour double page spreads that are utterly gorgeous. If the subject material doesn't put you off, I can't recommend it enough! The police procedure side of things is completely off the rails, but just run with it XD
The drawback? It seems to be hellishly hard to come by. I bought it at Yaoi Con published by 801 Media, but I can't find any mention of it at their website. Amazon know of it, but given the limited number of sellers and ridiculous prices being asked, I would guess the only copies available are those bought at Yaoi Con or pre-release promotionals. Read the reviews though - it's not just me!
Alternatively, the authors have a website where they appear to sell individual chapters as separate doujinshi. Again that would work out an expensive way of buying it, but look at the art :-)
This is an ongoing work, and I'm really really hoping 801 plan to release it properly, including another volume. If you can find it at a price that doesn't bankrupt you, go for it!
The story is dark, intense and creepy. The artwork is stunning on every page, including five colour double page spreads that are utterly gorgeous. If the subject material doesn't put you off, I can't recommend it enough! The police procedure side of things is completely off the rails, but just run with it XD
The drawback? It seems to be hellishly hard to come by. I bought it at Yaoi Con published by 801 Media, but I can't find any mention of it at their website. Amazon know of it, but given the limited number of sellers and ridiculous prices being asked, I would guess the only copies available are those bought at Yaoi Con or pre-release promotionals. Read the reviews though - it's not just me!
Alternatively, the authors have a website where they appear to sell individual chapters as separate doujinshi. Again that would work out an expensive way of buying it, but look at the art :-)
This is an ongoing work, and I'm really really hoping 801 plan to release it properly, including another volume. If you can find it at a price that doesn't bankrupt you, go for it!
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Date: 2012-11-13 05:25 am (UTC)Ongoing work? Oh dear... I've been through the wringer with that. I've been waiting a couple of years now for volume 3 of The Crimson Spell. And what ever happened with Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo? They just sort of stopped at volume 8. That one didn't live up the the first series though.
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Date: 2012-11-13 07:15 am (UTC)What happened to Pet Shop was the same as happened with many other series - the economy tanked, and the publishers, in that case TokyoPop, got out of the manga business. CMX manga shut up shop and abandoned From Eroica with Love, go!Comi never finished Cantarella - I have quite a list of incomplete series. The manga business has always been notorious for abandoned stories though - sometimes the mangaka lose inspiration, sometimes it's a publishing row, but it's been happening for years, going back to CLAMP titles like X and Legal Drug.
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Date: 2012-11-13 05:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-13 07:19 am (UTC)