| I just finished reading Metamorphosis and am looking for manga with a similar dark, hopeless vibe. I know Metamorphosis has a positive ending and I am open to that sort of thing or a ending that's as dark as the rest of the read. Other manga I loved are The Flowers of Evil, A Girl On the Shore, Goodnight Punpun, Welcome to the NHK, Onanie Master Kurosawa, Killing Stalking, Bastard, Boy's Abyss, Scum's Wish, and Inside Mari. I'm open to dark BL as well. If you've read any of these and have similar recs that you enjoyed, I'd like to hear. If you could let me which manga I listed your recs are far too if possible, I'd appreciate it! |
nvrknowsbest said: Metamorphosis The very 1st story in this anthology, "Samsa Revived" was inspired by Metamorphosis. https://xss.now.cc/manga/104365/Metamorphose nvrknowsbest said: I'm open to dark BL as well. https://xss.now.cc/manga/1365/Kaze_to_Ki_no_Uta |
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| @Retro8bit You've read that? In what language? And under what grounds do you recommend it? |
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@Retro8bit
You've read that? In what language? And under what grounds do you recommend it?
You've read that? In what language? And under what grounds do you recommend it?
| @Lucifrost Unfortunately there are no fan translations available for it, so I just used Google translate on my phone. Very tedious but I couldn't think of any other way. 😵💫 |
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| Not exactly hopeless and despair but if you get past the game-winning shenanigans of the protagonist in Tomodachi Game, it's a pretty depressing story. Especially what is revealed later on in the manga about the five friends and their past. Other than that, there is Our Happy Time, Texhnolyze, Wolf Children. |
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| Best ending line in anime history = "My name is Saiki Kusuo. I am a psychic." |
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@Lucifrost
Unfortunately there are no fan translations available for it, so I just used Google translate on my phone. Very tedious but I couldn't think of any other way. 😵💫
Unfortunately there are no fan translations available for it, so I just used Google translate on my phone. Very tedious but I couldn't think of any other way. 😵💫
| @Retro8bit Thank you, but I'd also like to know why you recommend it. I read 38th Parallel (if that's the story you're referring to), and I did not find it to be especially dark. |
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| Toki wo Kaeru Kage. Manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's novella. |
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| alive: saishuu shinkateki shounen is a darker take on the typical teenage shounen superpower manga. It's not perfect by any means, and it features a fair bit of fanservice targeting its girls, some of it pretty gross as i remember. Even with that, i remember it affecting me quite a lot when i read it in my teens. the character writing can be a bit inconsistent across its run, and I'd say it started to abandon its atmosphere a bit in later arcs. It got a fairly abrupt ending due to the author succumbing to cancer. It's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. I'm going to have to shout out Wanitokagegisu. again. the darkness and cruelty it offers is equally human and universal, intimate and impersonal, and it's shot through with beauty and humanity. The writer must have been a big fan of Cormac McCarthy. You're going to have to accept that it won't be visually pretty to look at and it features some pretty irredeemable people. Uzumaki is an obvious recommendation Blame! is a cyberpunk/biopunk action comic featuring very little dialogue, and what dialogue there is is very utilitarian. its style is equal parts HR Giger and architectural design student in the middle of a k-hole. the plot and setting are quite dismal and few of the characters Killy (yes, that's his name) meets get happy endings. |
| https://xss.now.cc/manga/149/Blame |
| ダクソと猫が好き。 |
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