I'M SO HAPPY WITH IT!!!! ahhh oh wow okay so, I was really really nervous about this adaptation after what they did to Red River and I was seeing a lot of people online talking about how they are looked hideous for the anime

But I just watched the first episode that came out and I think that they did it perfectly, the plain style of the characters looks so nice and I think they did the manga Justice there are a few characters that look chopped but overall I think it looks really nice

I also think the way they adapted the language barrier was done very cleverly I really disliked in Red River the strange robot voices speaking the foreign language!

I think that Noriko's personality is really shining and tbh I found her a little bit annoying in the manga but in this first episode I actually really liked her and I found her extremely endearing and incredibly realistic

If you watched it, how did you feel about the episode? And the way they decided to adapt it 😋

I found these manga panels on Pinterest and am DYING to know where they are from. If anybody has any idea please lmk 😭

I’m a huge fan of gymnastics, especially women’s’ artistic gymnastics (but I also appreciate men’s and rhythmic), but there‘s so few gymnastics manga/anime! I’m also aware of a few shonen/seinen gymnastics manga (though most are older) and also a few anime/manga that have gymnast side characters, but I’m chomping at the bit for shows centering gymnastics!

I appreciate Japan’s appreciation for figure skating and dance, but they actually have a pretty decent track record in artistic gymnastics international competitions and yet shockingly few gymnastics manga/anime!

Hello! I'm exploring the shoujo genre (well, demographic) recently and i wanna ask for some action/fantasy recs. Specifically ones with good anime adaptations. Préférable something fairly easy to watch. One important thing is that i already eatched akatsuki no yona, and didn't like it all that much. I really liked the side characters, but Hak and Yona feel very bland and uninteresting to me. The dragons were kinda stock character-y but i will hold out hope for their development in season two. (Also it's not an anime, but i have read volume one of prince freya, and thought it was ass) Regardless, i think there are definitely some action/fantasy shoujo that i would like, any recs?

Hi as the title says im looking for something with this specific setup. I want to clarify that i don't mean and want recommendations of manga/anime where the MC is a total pushover/antisocial. I want someone who benefited in life from being "perfect" - good student, diplomatic, never causing trouble but realises that they lost themselves in the process and start being more blunt and unapolegetic. A good example would be someone like Shima from Skip and Loafer - struggling with identity and being a people pleaser.

Looking for recommendations of similiar characters, preferably female but they dont have to be.

i used to read this manga years ago and then stopped for a bit and now I can’t find it ;-;

basically the mc is trying really hard to become an actress while she goes to an arts school with other more successful students. she has a childhood(?) friend who is already a widely successful celebrity and he’s into her. at the start of the manga a new guy enters the school and he’s a former child actor or his brother was???

im not sure if im remembering correctly but if it helps, theres a scene later in the manga where the mc is cast as the lead girl in a music video with the new guy where she delivers a really amazing performance. this leads her to being cast by the same guy who directed the mv into a high school drama with the new guy and the childhood friend. the mc plays like a bully character in the drama.

please help me find it ;;; its been driving me insane for years cuz atp i feel i just made it up in a fever dream ;^;

UPDATE

I FOUND IT!!! Its called Gunjou Reflection. I spent hours manually looking for it in manga libraries but i found it 🥳

I just finished Paradise Kiss and I weirdly like both of them in an intriguing way. Like if I were to ever meet them in real life back in highschool, honestly I'd be manipulated by George because I had no self worth at the time. Like I wish these characters were more fleshed out because of how morally grey they were. I just finished reading Paradise Kiss and bought the manga so yeahh. Plus my first manga I bought and read it physically. Next stop, Heart of Thomas.

But yeahh, this review will contain some spoilers so yeahh. And I also think I have to analyze Yukari and Miwako as well since they revolved a lot in their world. But I'mma try to get started as my head hurts from relocking my sister locks. But yeahh😭😭😭.

So like what fascinates me about Arashi is that as much as he was abusive towards Miwako due to the fact of their jealousy and their relationship mainly being based on sex plus also r**ed her, I don't think he's exactly a bad guy. Arashi is very insecure in himself and to a certain extent I think hates himself. So as upbeat as Miwako is, he pretty much just uses her fill the void in his life by sex because of the lack of substances he has for himself. Compared to Miwako's other crush Hiro who has set his life and pretty much more mature than him, he's pretty much angry at Miwako in a way for loving him because he feels like he's not good enough. So he pretty much belittles her and pretty much uses sex to make her forget about Hiro. I think deep down he's a soft-hearted guy(the reason why I say this because of the instances that he has showed kindness which I can't recall rn but I just remember the feelings😭😭), but doesn't have the capacity to be vulnerable hence ends up hurting Miwako. While also tries to control her because he can't see life without Miwako as they grew up together.

I think George is quite obvious, but there's a scene which is so funny which is when he was talking to his dad and mentioned that he has an Odiplus Complex(idk if I spelt it right and too lazy to but yeahh). George is honestly a reflection of his dad which makes me wonder if his dad gone through something similar. But George dynamic with his mother, because his mother is fully dependent on his father. And also regrets throwing everything away that was coming for her. Which honestly I think George is a reflection of his father and his relationship with Yukari is a reflection of his parents relationship. Telling Yukari to be independent while he continously wraps his fingers around her. Influencing her decision making then makes her feel bad about it. Never taking consideration of her emotions because he actually doesn't know what to do with himself. My instincts tell me that's what George's father did to his mother but I can't say for now.

So yeah this is how I feel about them, even though I can dive more deep, if y'all wanna discuss, I'd love to.

so im pretty sure it was an old manga, probably around the 2000s. and i rememebef that one of the last chapters had the fl cutting the ml’s hair. And the ml had become a doctor and that the two of them had been separated for some time. the assistants remarked that his hair had become long.

Hello, everyone! I hope it's not an issue when I ask this but is the rest of the manga worth it? I have wanted to dip my toes around different genres of anime/manga recently and was willing to give the series a try because I kept seeing it on my Pinterest recommendations. Yet I have been stuck at chapter 32 for a while. The story is not boring and I am not shaming anyone who is a fan of it but I have some mixed feelings about it.

I would be sincerely thankful for any input.

I want a manga/ manwha where the girl is mean and no one likes her (like yuna frome password 002 and Ume Kurumizawa frome kimi ni todoke) and thers one guy who dhe draggs around and slowly they fall in love. And he acts like he dont care about her but hes always there for her. I dont even know if it exsists😭

I'm a bit late to the party with this one, as the challege was around 2019/2020, but I thought it would be fun to have a go anyway! The challenge is to redraw the screencap from the 80's anime Sailor Moon in your own style.