Welp, here goes.
1. Tokyo Akazukin - As the above poster mentioned, this isn't one for you kids. Deeply disturbing and horrific content are the staples of this horror-filled gorefest about an immortal little girl with a lust for killing and an obsession with her own impending death. Am I going to hell for liking this? Probably. Worth it? Totally.
2. Genshiken - It's the manga series about japanese otaku who comprise The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, aka "Genshiken". It starts with university freshman Sasahara Kanji as he learns to accept his otaku self and enjoy the company of the other club members. This series pushed Kio Shimoku into my top thrree for favorite manga artists. It's 9 volumes long and Del Rey has done an excellent job on the transistion from the Japanese release. My only gripe is that we miss out on all the color pages and extra limited edition content, but that's the norm for us here in America.
3. Baccano! - Although not technically manga, more like a light novel, Baccano! is quite possibly one of my favorite new obsessions. I caught wind of this novel series when the anime was broadcast on Japanese networks last year. After immensely enjoying the anime, I just had to sink my teeth into the source material. Soon after, the faithful bilingual translators pulled through and started tranlslating the light novels. A wonderful story about a group of people who become immortal through alchemy, and their own adventures a few hundred years later during Prohibition-era America.


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