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Manga Vacuum
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5:58 pm, Jan 15 2011
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Any suggestions? Something like Eden: It's a Beautiful World or 20th Century Boys. Complete or close to completed scanlations are the best recommendations.

Here are some of the previously suggested ones that I've already read.
Biomeat - I love it.
Psychometrer Eiji -
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seriously? Only a kiss on the cheek at the end?

Remote - Nice ending.
B. shock! -Excellent choice, even if its a bit dated. This was more a romantic comedy, though.
Hoshi no Samidare -One of my all time favorites. It Charmed me.
Kurozuka -It's not really that happy of an ending, when you think about it.
Psycho Staff -So much lost potential here---it's far too short.
Sukimasuki -I had fun with it, but again, it's a short and sweet tale.
Hanako to Guuwa no Tera -I loved this one. Very much. But it seemed a bit rushed at the end.
Mahoraba -It's too harem-ish for me, and I sorta don't like the whole split-personality thing.
Mirai Nikki -Great Yandere moments. And nice ending.
psyren -I LOVE this series. So much. It's a straight shounen, though. but wow.
love roma (comedy) -It's wacky and striaghtforward. a bit Shoujo, though.
sanctuary - Excellent series. I've read all of the works of this author. And this and Crying Freeman are the best.
fullmetal alchemist- best mainstream shounen. Bar none. In my opinion, it's one of the all time greats.
Itoshi no Kana - was ok. But to slice-of-lifish, maybe?
Bitter Virgin - Left me happy and bitter at the same time.
Full Contact - It's cool. But I remember that I felt it was a bit too short or shounen-ish (I prefer KENJI)
Open Sesame - I like this series. 'Nuff said.
onani master kurosawa - Masterpiece.
little house with an orange roof - Excellent old-school seinen.
yume de aetara - same as above.
captain tsubasa (they get married...and she's pregnant) -TOO LONG!!!! TL/DR
major ( married ) - TOO LONG!
Parasyte - Read it when I was kid. biggrin
Suzuka - It's okay. A bit underwhelming.
Happy World - I've set it aside for reading later
Monster - Same as Happy World.
Emma - It made me rage at its subtlety.
ALL OF ADACHI's STUFF. Especially Touch, Katsu, Rough and Cross Game
Junk - A bit too dark? Maybe if I'm desperate.
Zetman - It's like Junk.
Battle Royale - I liked the movie better.
Planetes - I honestly liked the anime better.
Miman Renai - Cute.
Outlanders - Old. But good, I guess.

Well, that's all I can remember for now. In the hope of facilitating suggestions, I'm adding as an addendum my original post a few weeks ago.

"I've read too many manga to really list (to give you an idea, if I try a search on any category/genre except for Shounen Ai, Shoujo Ai, Yuri, Yaoi and genderbender, I've probably read every single manga of the first page and maybe half of the second page of the search results).

I'm looking for a seinen or mature shounen (like Biomeat, I guess) that ends with the main couple happily together. So far, off the top of my head, the only seinen I can really name is Eden:It's an Endless World (and even in this manga, the lead and copy lady sort of take a backseat to the proto-male-lead by the end of the story, so you only see their happy couplehood peripherally). Psychometrer Eiji and Remote are examples of semi-mature shounens, but both (as the author is wont to do) end with the leads only hinting at a possible relationship in the future, and no real resolution.

Having strong male and female leads is a definite PLUS! I'm kinda tired of the typical weak dork lead used in most shounen (especially HAREMs), and shoujo and josei is riddled with so many pathetic females that I'm sure I'm getting an unbalanced and skewed view of of the Japanese Female Population.

I'm especially in need of a good fix right now, since I just finished reading Hour of Mice (Hatsukanezumi no Jikan) and although it's a great seinen, the love-polygons that concluded with a bittersweet parting between the leads just made me feel like I've been screwed over.

Any suggestions? "



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on my completed seinen list i have allumage and chobits with happy end which you didn´t mention yet

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6:28 pm, Jan 15 2011
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Thanks for the suggestions! biggrin

I haven't read Chobits yet since I watched the anime a few years ago and decided that I really couln't get sold on the idea of a robot girlfriend. Especially one as submissive as Chi. But I'll try looking in to it again.

Allumage was great! But a one-shot--So short! sad

Any more?



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Bleh, Chobits was lame with the utterly contrived "can't have sex because there's a reset button down there" thing. Happily ever after for the platonic couple. none

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D-ASH
this manga was certainly not my style, but everyone has a different .

well, chobits end is kinda "in-your-face" for the main guy, but since chi is a computer, there wouldn´t have been any children even if they did it. but it´s cute

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Quote from jedinat
Bleh, Chobits was lame with the utterly contrived "can't have sex because there's a reset button down there" thing. Happily ever after for the platonic couple. none


There's still the ass o_o

Im bad at remembering names sorry but I read tonnes of these mangas. Looking for more too gl to us bigrazz

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Quote from guigui1992
Quote from jedinat
Bleh, Chobits was lame with the utterly contrived "can't have sex because there's a reset button down there" thing. Happily ever after for the platonic couple. none


There's still the ass o_o

Im bad at remembering names sorry but I read tonnes of these mangas. Looking for more too gl to us bigrazz

i don´t think CLAMP consideres buttsecks for females.

Majin Devil - this manga could easily pass as seinen, it´s even on te black list in my country and it´s forbidden to sell or buy it X3

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10:38 pm, Jan 15 2011
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Thanks for the input, guys.

I read D-ASH a year ago. True, it does have some points that made want to just give up on it, and I had to force myself through some areas (much like what I'm feeling for HetaKoi right now). Especially since I'm REALLY not a fan of love-triangles. They're okay if they're just entertaining and add some comedy to the OTP, but a serious love triangle, if not done right, just smells like infidelity to me.

I'll try the Majin Devil for now.

UPDATE: I just finished Majin Devil. I loved the concept very much. It was waaaaaay too short though. if anyone can recommend anything else like it, I'd be a very happy person. So far the only one I've been able to find (Though it's not a perfect match) is Aflame Inferno [The guy from AI is kinda an ass].

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Living Game This is the only seinen I've read all the way through.

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