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Manga Book Club - What Do We Read Next?
🕑 Added 2023-10-05 19:04:08 +0000 UTCWe're 2.5 sessions away from finishing One Piece, which means we need to know what we're going to read next. Cast your vote now and decide our fate!
I've included a short description of every series, so please look them over before you cast your vote in the poll at the bottom.
Multiple choices are allowed. Please limit your voting to no more than 3 choices.
EDIT: OKAY SO STRAIGHT UP Patreon's new update literally doesn't let you do Multiple Choice polls. I ticked the box on this post AND a new one and it just didn't work. So just... comment below with your options. Sorry for the trouble.
EDIT x2: Now it does work. Patreon is gaslighting me.
DUNGEON MESHI - (Adventure/Comedy) 12 Vol.
Also known by it's extremely stupid English title, "Delicious in Dungeon". A series of adventurers work their way through a dungeon while cooking and eating monsters. Highly recommended. Cute art and a strong cast. All three members of the book club have been meaning to read this for ages, the manga just concluded, and it's about to get an anime adaptation. This is our personal pick, but we don't decide what to read, you guys do.
I would like to know more about the cute blonde elf.
PLUTO - (Mystery/Thriller/Sci-Fi) 8 Vol.
A dark retelling of an Astro Boy storyline about a robot murder mystery, told from the perspective of one of the side characters. The murderer appears to be someone set out to destroy the world's greatest robots. Much darker and more violent than One Piece. May require content warnings. A trailer for the anime series that has been in the works for years literally just dropped on Netflix two days ago. Comes highly recommended.
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND - (Fantasy/Post-Apocalypse/Sci-Fi) 7 Vol.
The manga Miyazaki had to make before getting the movie greenlit. In a world centuries into recovering from nuclear Armageddon, humans live in scattered clusters, separated by vast stretches of desert and poisonous jungles. Monsterous bugs the size of skyscrapers threaten to wipe humanity off the map. One girl, Nausicaa, seeks to understand the mysteries of her world rather than fight them, and in doing so may be the only person who can save humankind.
Nausicaa's manga has a story about seven times longer than the movie. Its conflicts are much more wide-spread and far-reaching. I read this one years ago and I like to describe it as "the place Miyazaki put all his dark thoughts while making children's movies". Much grimmer than you'd expect after watching the movie, which is pretty hopeful. One of the only good pieces of post-apocalyptic media I've ever engaged with.
GOLDEN KAMUY - (Western/Adventure/Cooking Manga Somehow/Also Yaoi) 31 Vol.
The single best Western I've ever read.
Years ago, a famous criminal hid a vast stash of gold in a secret location. After he was captured, he tattooed a complex map to the gold on the backs of dozens of other prisoners. The prisoners escaped in a violet riot, and now the only way to find the treasure is to hunt down the convicts hiding across the Hokkaido wilderness.
60% Western, 40% survivalist cooking guide, 100% gay. If you like drawings of big muscley men, this is the series for you.
Golden Kamuy is one of my favorite manga of all time. Unfortunately Bo, Aloha, and I have all read it before so there's not as much surprise on this one. The final physical copy isn't out yet. This might be one to save for later, but I have to put it here because I love it.
BOYS RUN THE RIOT - (LGBT+, Fashion) 37 Chapters
Ryou Watari is a boy born in the body of a girl. Rejected for being a "tomboyish girl" and a transgender boy, he cannot confide in anyone and suffers in the prison of his own skin. Subtly, he expresses his genuine self through a buzzcut and secret purchases of boys' clothes. Then he starts a fashion brand.
Highly recommended. Short. Might be a good breather between other series.
A BRIDE'S STORY - (Slice of Life, Historical Fiction, Romance) 14 Vol.
A series of vignettes about an expanding cast of interconnected lives on the silk road steppe at the turn of the century, each expanding on what the lives were like for the different types of people living there, from nomadic to pastoral.
PANDORA HEARTS - (Mystery, Fantasy, Shonen but like for Girls) 24 Vol.
Oz, heir apparent to a great noble house, attends his coming of age ceremony. However, he is attacked my mysterious men in robes and sent to another dimension where he meets a strange girl named Alice. Working together, they escape their prison, but find they have both been flung into the future. Oz joins a group called Pandora who fight by forging contracts with creatures like Alice known as "chains". Between fights, Oz and the others investigate the tangled web of mysteries behind his own disappearance and the world of chains known as "the abyss".
Yam has been explaining this one to me. She spent like 6 hours walking me through the arc of the mystery and the clues and when I thought we were at the 80% mark it turned out we were at the 30% mark so there's a lot more going on than I expected. Full of pretty boys. Made by the Vanitas lady.
Comments
Zayn Ryzen
Plenty of great choices here, I can't believe I missed when the poll came out... However, I would like to recommend a series for the next poll because I would genuinely like to hear Jello's perspective on it. It's Undead Unluck, you probably know it as the manga with the first chapter most people dismissed immediately due to the blatant sexual assault exclusively in the 1st chapter. However, this same manga also has the BEST female main and supporting characters in mainstream shounen manga to date, fascinating world building, and a plot that has only improved with time. It also possesses an interesting power system that gives me big Epithet Erased vibes. Probably won't be an option because of the aforementioned in the 1st chapter, but I might as well put it out there as I feel its a story worth the read. Also, the anime came out recently as well.
Beefy_Cat_Lover
My local library has every Pluto Volume and I really want to get into dungeon meshi so either of those would be good. I'd prefer to hold off on golden kamuy since I am not even close to being done with it.
Adam Beckwith
Dungeon Meshi or Golden Kamuy would be my vote
Shortstop is currently undefeated in Magic the Gathering Commander
Nausica being the only one I'm familiar with (although not the manga, so there's still new stuff for me no matter what), it'll be interesting to see how the book club streams feel when I'm not frequently wishing to defend certain writing decisions that the trio do not like. I'm looking forward to Dungeon Meshi, since the vote is very one-sided at this point.
Azelhi
While I'm sure Trigger's going to do great with DunMeshi, watching Ryoko Kui's artstyle evolve over the 10 years of making DunMeshi was so delightful. That said, Boys Run the Riot as a breather between two more fantastical series does sound like a nice palette cleanser. (This isn't a vote)
John S.
Dungeon Meshi is such a delight to read. Fun characters, excellent worldbuilding, and great art.
Harrison Shapiro
Dungeon Meshi is one of my newest favorites, I'd be stoked to hear you all go through it!
Blu
Little Witch Atlier is also a really good story. Plus the art is gorgeous
Clever Chaves
I'm not into the idea of a cooking manga, but I'd much prefer to hear you guys talk about something you're passionate about and interested in. Also curious to hear the difference between the Miyazaki manga from the movie, and any manga by Naoki Urasawa. Would you guys be open to maybe discussing Kentaro Miura's Berserk, Inio Asano's Goodnight Punpun, or any of Naoki Urasawa's other works like 20th Century Boys or Monster?
Foxowl
Dungeon Meshi seems neat, but Golden Kamuy also sounds very interesting
Brokennoodles
Dungeon Meshi! Would be very cool to hear all your thoughts on it
Julie Pugatch
I’d LOVE to hear y’all’s takes on Boys Run the Riot. It does many things well and some things arguably poorly, but in a fascinating way that would be interesting to discuss.
Endark Culi
Of these, the only one I've already read myself is Pandora Hearts, but I'm looking forward to hearing the crew's opinions on any/all of these!
psychogaze
Damn, hard picks btw Dungeon Meshi, Pluto, Bride's Story, and Golden Kamuy. For a future list, Ran and the Gray World maybe?
Bobby Baker
DUNGEON MESHI its so good and such a palate cleanser (no pun intended) after One Piece
Blue
I read Pandora Hearts years ago for reasons I cannot fully remember, and I just remember it being absolutely wild. Would love to hear what you guys think of it, or maybe just be able to explain to me what the hell was going on in it.
Another Warren
Right? It isn't super popular or anything, so I don't want to get my hopes up, but what a manga.
Another Warren
I am utterly in love with A Bride's Story.
Eve Newton
These are all so so gooooood damn I have a soft spot for Pandora Hearts cause it was one of the first manga I read and it kinda defined my taste in the medium and a Bride’s Story is incredible too and then there’s Dungeon Meshiiiiii ugh they’re all great
Daniel
Just in case theres still fuckery on the polls, I vote Pandora Hearts. This name has come up for years and I'm eager to find out why
Masofuts
Never thoughts I’d see brides story. Shit hit hard and was just a interesting read.
Chloe Auger
If there’s another vote for the manga book club AFTER this one, will the mangas from this list transfer to that poll? Or will the next options be different?
J Miller
I can't even see polls now unless I go to the creator's page directly. They don't show up under Notifications. Also don't love how the text size keeps flickering in Firefox now...
Ol' Blue Hat
The only reason I use Patreon’s app is Jello’s content and they ruined the UI overnight….Neat. Sorry for the difficulty dudes. On topic: As much as I’d love to hear the squad’s thoughts on Pandora Hearts (my partner is a fan and I’ve wanted to read it myself) - I feel Dungeon Meshi feels like the best choice as well. Topical + funny, hopefully that’ll be a worthwhile time.
Evalyn Grey
God they just broke polls So the multiple choices are working, just completely bustedly I click on one option When I clicked the second option, it toggled off the first one I clicked However turning off the second one turned back on the first. Then after clicking all three, only then did it show all of them clicked. Who knows if its properly saved or if it'll let other devices have the same thing happen. Adding onto how busted it is, trying to turn off the third option, none of the switches turn off. Then after turning of a second switch, both the third and second finally turn off.
SaikoW01F
Oh if you haven't read 'A Bride's Story' and the original 'Nausicaä', then you are in for a treat~! Read them both and love them, and not only is the art beautiful but the stories is so well written and good~.
J Miller
The new patreon UI is awful - I can only see this poll if I manually go to your profile, it does not show up on notifications (which is the only view that still works now, main feed is hopelessly scrambled / wrong order / broken). Also the site seems to be having serious consistency issues between views, like the database isn't updating properly or something.
JelloApocalypse
I ABSOLUTELY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT HIT THE "ALLOW MULTIPLE CHOICES OPTION" PATREON I'M GOING TO RAVAGE YOU
Fan Trades
The description says to limit our picks to three choices, but the poll only allows us to vote for one option.
