Comments on: Sweet and Wonderful!

By: Rakshasa

Rakshasa — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:56:42 +0000

I’m in love… But I couldn’t find SWEEET’s tankoubon in any of the stores around here. ;(

By: Huff

Huff — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:02:50 +0000

Yeah, it was my client that was acting up. I got a diffrent one that seems to be working fine now, but thanks for postint the HTTP releases anyways. As for the new projects, Asano continues to interest me. Definitally a diffrent type of story than Solanin, but similar atmosphere (WaWW being a bit more bizarre obviously). Both stories were well written, and I particuarly liked how he delivers his serious themes with a bit of humor to them. Definitally looking forward to more of this (as well as MS’s project). SWEEET looks solid as well. I love the artwork, and the quirky “kind of dark, kind of goofy” tone of the story is suprisingly well executed.
HM is amazing as always, and while I still can’t comprehend why it would be placed among the best of the samurai epic genre (yet), Shigurui is fun in a kind of retarded old-school seinen kind of way (nice action sequences).

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:12:32 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up, Nomad Soul.

By: Nomad Soul

Nomad Soul — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:43:45 +0000

Http links for the latest HM, Swweeet and WaWW are up. Check the project pages. Torrents seem to be working fine though. The tracker just gets a bit slow at times. Try again later.

@Penny: It’s difficult to say if SBF is seinen or josei/shoujo. Manga Erotics F, the magazine that houses the series, is kind of a hybrid. It has titles that are clearly seinen (e.g. Uncivilized Planet, Hallucination from the Womb), but also some that are aimed at women (e.g the works by Q-ta Minami, Asumiko Nakamura, Satosumi Takaguchi just to name a few).

I only put SBF under seinen because all other works by Shimura so far have been seinen. However, if you want to think of it as josei/shoujo, then by all means please do so. It’s a perfectly legitimate classification in this case.

By: me

me — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:33:06 +0000

seems that there are already zero seeds for “what a wonderful world”

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:39:08 +0000

I just found out about Kotonoha, and I’m impressed! It’s great to find another scanlator that does josei.

Speaking of ongoing series, is Sweet Blue Flowers seinen or is the Shojo heading on the Ongoing Series page just missing?

By: hi there

hi there — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:55:08 +0000

Huh, I gotta disagree with the comment that SWWEET and Wonderful World are comics through a 30-40 year-old’s perspective. They really read like the works of 20-somethings to me — sure, maybe 20-somethings with personal hang-ups, but I’m really not sure how they come off as much older than that.

By: jess

jess — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:25:40 +0000

wooot! new horou musuko! thank you!!!!

By: Huff

Huff — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:50:52 +0000

Yeah, I’m also having trouble accessing the torrents (driving me crazy too since I love Solanin). I’ve had this problem before though so I’m going to assume somethings wrong with my tracker. Anyone have an HTTP link in the meantime?

By: elae

elae — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:20:15 +0000

don’t think I’m much of a fan of SWWEEET, though I’m looking forward to more What a Wonderful World. Just wanted to say thanks for the new Horou Musuko release!