Manga Alphabet - Foreword
Sep. 9th, 2012 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainsometimesI haven't been around all that much on my journal lately, and I thought it might be cool sometimes to talk about all the manga I like that I'm not hideously fannish about. The excuse I could think of was to copy erstwhile manga blogger David Welsh (who I would love to see start blogging again; he's got great taste and have led me to discover several cool gems) and make it into an alphabet. Unlike the "30 Days Of [X]" format, this wouldn't necessarily entail posting every day, just whenever I felt like listing a new letter.
Way I thought I'd do it is for every letter, I'll list one or more manga titles that begin with it (in translation, which is how I read my manga after all) which I have enjoyed reading, and say a few lines or more about the manga in question. Now, this might not contain pure praise; I might well express reservations and problems I had with the work, too. But I won't bring anything up just to attack it; so any title I mention should be taken as an implicit rec on at least some level. If all I can think of for a given letter is a manga that just didn't work for me, I'll just jump to the next one.
Besides the manga titles, I might also list other things more in passing that begins with the letter if I feel like it, like names of creators, perhaps a genre, or even a trope. Finally I could put an "Anime Corner" at the bottom for anime series where I don't know the manga (if the manga exists).
I'm pretty sure I won't be able to list something for every single letter. At least two seem impossible, and one more I have big doubts about ^_^.
Of course comments are much appreciated, whether to add views on the ones I list or to mention additional titles of the same letter that you have read.
I'll begin right away, not with A but with numbers!
Way I thought I'd do it is for every letter, I'll list one or more manga titles that begin with it (in translation, which is how I read my manga after all) which I have enjoyed reading, and say a few lines or more about the manga in question. Now, this might not contain pure praise; I might well express reservations and problems I had with the work, too. But I won't bring anything up just to attack it; so any title I mention should be taken as an implicit rec on at least some level. If all I can think of for a given letter is a manga that just didn't work for me, I'll just jump to the next one.
Besides the manga titles, I might also list other things more in passing that begins with the letter if I feel like it, like names of creators, perhaps a genre, or even a trope. Finally I could put an "Anime Corner" at the bottom for anime series where I don't know the manga (if the manga exists).
I'm pretty sure I won't be able to list something for every single letter. At least two seem impossible, and one more I have big doubts about ^_^.
Of course comments are much appreciated, whether to add views on the ones I list or to mention additional titles of the same letter that you have read.
I'll begin right away, not with A but with numbers!