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Overcast said:
Made it up to ch 49 in A Trail of Blood.

Jesus Christ those last three chapters were fucking heartbreaking.

Poor kid just kissed a girl he was running away with, creamed his underwear accidentally, then his crazy ass mom shifts through his dirty laundry after he took a bath when he finally caved in and returned home and questioned him over it.

The way she really dug into him and asked him very personal questions while he tried to explain through tears and stuttering. Only for her to throw his underwear onto his thread, scream at him and throw him out of the house only for her to force him to promise to hate everyone else besides her and to never see that girl again.

There's just something about having one of your parents attack you over a very vulnerable and awkward moment during the most vulnerable and confusing time in your life that just deeply unsettles me. Especially considering this same woman gaslit her son over what happened to his cousin just a few minutes before this exchange and had her hug him.

Read this manga guys, it is really something else.
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Holy shit, this manga. It's like a case file of psychological child abuse. Too fuckin' real, man.
 
Overcast said:
Made it up to ch 49 in A Trail of Blood.

Jesus Christ those last three chapters were fucking heartbreaking.

Poor kid just kissed a girl he was running away with, creamed his underwear accidentally, then his crazy ass mom shifts through his dirty laundry after he took a bath when he finally caved in and returned home and questioned him over it.

The way she really dug into him and asked him very personal questions while he tried to explain through tears and stuttering. Only for her to throw his underwear onto his thread, scream at him and throw him out of the house only for her to force him to promise to hate everyone else besides her and to never see that girl again.

There's just something about having one of your parents attack you over a very vulnerable and awkward moment during the most vulnerable and confusing time in your life that just deeply unsettles me. Especially considering this same woman gaslit her son over what happened to his cousin just a few minutes before this exchange and had her hug him.

Read this manga guys, it is really something else.
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So wait, Super Eyepatch Wolf wasn't exaggerating it?
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Finish Sexy Commando Gaiden, pleb. You need to balance out the moeblobs some more.

Fun fact: KareKano referenced Penicillin's "Romance", which is Sexy Commando Gaiden's OP. Probably just a huge coincidink, though.
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I had a lot more stuff on my list, but my account got deleted for some reason. Most of that list is restored from a really old backup and shows I remember having watched when I went through the top-rated stuff while trying to rebuild my list, but I'm still missing over 100 completed shows/movies and 200 I was planning to watch.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
So wait, Super Eyepatch Wolf wasn't exaggerating it?
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Only watched his intro summarizing where the story kicks off, it was enough to interest me, so I stopped the video and checked it out for myself. So I can’t say for sure. All I know is, I was crying a little during certain parts.
 
A Trail of Blood is incredibly fucking disturbing and the art is...Jesus fuck. It is horrifying. The story is hard to read, no joke. Its a very realistic tale of child abuse and BPD. It is probably the best written version of gaslighting I've seen.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Super unsettling and creepy.
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Secret Asshole said:
A Trail of Blood is incredibly fucking disturbing and the art is...Jesus fuck. It is horrifying. The story is hard to read, no joke. Its a very realistic tale of child abuse and BPD. It is probably the best written version of gaslighting I've seen.
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Well, I'm having second thoughts about giving it a go now.
 
Bender said:
Well, I'm having second thoughts about giving it a go now.
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Yeah, it is NOT an easy read by any stretch, and I'm relatively stoic about these kinds of things. He does a very good job of carrying a realistic depiction of someone with BPD and child abuse would do while still maintaining a compelling narrative.
 
Yuru Camp is still one of the best animes of 2018. The manga version is pretty good.
I still have yet to watch the movie version of it, but I know it’ll be good, too.
 
I think I would like to check out Lord of the Rin-I mean Dungeons & Dragons - Record of Lodoss War. The funi set looks spectacular and I'm including the tv show. I had Kiseki no Umi on my ipod for years and I did not realize it was from the show lol. Love Maaya Sakamoto. (Mameshiiba is, along with Escaflowne opening, two of her best songs and the Lodoss song adds to it. Ironic considering Arjuna is preachy dogshit)

The blonde elf girl is pretty. Just hope they don't chickify her.

Shield Hero blurays came in. I'll be watching that shortly
 
Do any North American publishers still publish manga in bilingual format for either for English readers learning Japanese or vice-versa? I was asked by someone looking for a Christmas present for a teenager who is learning Japanese if they sold bilingual manga anywhere but I don't know offhand.

I do have one bilingual volume of Ah My Goddess! The Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses (the 4-panel spin-off featuring mini-Urd, mini-Skuld, and the hapless rat Gan-chan) from around 1999, but that one was published in Japan by Kodansha and I think I either bought it from a Japanese bookshop in London or I special ordered it at a Montreal comic book store through Diamond. It's not the sort of thing you can just go buy at Chapters/Indigo in 2020.

Bilingual manga seems like the sort of thing that might have been a small sub-niche of manga localization 20 years ago but these days, if you want to read manga bilingually, you can just go to websites like this one (a site which I wouldn't be too surprised if the teenager in question knows about it already), which is convenient but you can't exactly gift-wrap that.
 
Scrapped Princess also looks interesting. I remember the trailer on the old Haruhi Suzumiya dvds. Bridget Hoffman is in it apparently.
 
Jelly Duvall said:
Scrapped Princess also looks interesting. I remember the trailer on the old Haruhi Suzumiya dvds. Bridget Hoffman is in it apparently.
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Just to let you know if you're expecting it to be high fantasy like Record of the Lodoss Wars you might be disappointed around the second half. It takes on some sci-fi elements that I don't want to spoil too much, but from what I remember of watching it way back the transition made sense and wasn't too jarring. Just made me go "wait, what?" when some things showed up, but they explain it pretty well in the show. Very vague spoiler Clarke's Third Law is used regarding the usage of sci-fi elements.
 
Moguro Fukuzou said:
Just to let you know if you're expecting it to be high fantasy like Record of the Lodoss Wars you might be disappointed around the second half. It takes on some sci-fi elements that I don't want to spoil too much, but from what I remember of watching it way back the transition made sense and wasn't too jarring. Just made me go "wait, what?" when some things showed up, but they explain it pretty well in the show. Very vague spoiler Clarke's Third Law is used regarding the usage of sci-fi elements.
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To be entirely fair, sci-fi elements showing up in classical fantasy is a long standing plot device.

Like Might and Magic had you unpetrify a king who was turned to stone because he was the world's only nuclear scientist.
 
Jelly Duvall said:
Scrapped Princess also looks interesting. I remember the trailer on the old Haruhi Suzumiya dvds. Bridget Hoffman is in it apparently.
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Scrapped Princess is interesting, it's like a mishmash of various genres while still keeping to its fantasy roots. I think it managed to adapt the entire light novel series (I could've sworn the light novel continued for a bit, apparently it didn't), so the ending's fitting for what it is. Pacifica might get on your nerves for a bit, but she has great moments with Shannon and Raquel that allows her to really work as a little sister while still being the titular character. It's also one of Bones' earlier anime, released a season after Wolf's Rain and mere months before FMA (2003), so it looks and sounds beautiful.

The OP doesn't sound like it fits the series because of how unconventional it is, but it actually does.

And an Oranges & Lemons ED to boot. Underrated imo.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Scrapped Princess is interesting, it's like a mishmash of various genres while still keeping to its fantasy roots. I think it managed to adapt the entire light novel series (I could've sworn the light novel continued for a bit, apparently it didn't), so the ending's fitting for what it is. Pacifica might get on your nerves for a bit, but she has great moments with Shannon and Raquel that allows her to really work as a little sister while still being the titular character. It's also one of Bones' earlier anime, released a season after Wolf's Rain and mere months before FMA (2003), so it looks and sounds beautiful.

The OP doesn't sound like it fits the series because of how unconventional it is, but it actually does.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L2I1mQVrCEM
And an Oranges & Lemons ED to boot. Underrated imo.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5SOiNZ2-IS0
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I absolutely adored Chaika, so hearing about Scrapped Princess got me interested. But I just disliked the main character and her bodyguard for being annoying and gary-stu, respectively. Not to mention, it cucks by making the revelation of the princess ending the world being a lie.

Chaika on the other hand has the characters being more likable (even if it's more anime-ish) and functioning as a small team of bad guys against a group of cliche RPG heroes.
 
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