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momimomi	Post #507843
Member 6:20 am, Nov 17 2011 Posts: 46	I'm looking for manga like Bokurano or Deep Love. That means optimistic start, seemingly cheerful characters, bright world, birds, blue sky and so on. "Happy beginning" in two words. But as story evolves, world around characters starts to crumble, everything goes wrong, as soon as you think it can't be any worse, there is new mishap. This shouldn't happen in one instant, but in a steady progression. Preferred: Seinen or Josei 5 or more volumes for completed 10 or more volumes for ongoing No yaoi or shounen ai, but ok if it's LGBT in non yaoi/yuri Japanese manga (not manhwa, manhua), doesn't matter if it's translated or not.
Aikanaro	Post #507883
Member 1:37 pm, Nov 17 2011 Posts: 540	SaiKano Milk Closet and Alien Nine Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni - this isn't consistently true over the entire series, but the first few arcs at least work
momimomi	Post #508018
Member 8:29 am, Nov 18 2011 Posts: 46	Saikano is a great example, but i've already seen anime. Alien 9 and Milk Closet are confusing. I was full with solving plot puzzles, no time for sympathy. Anything else? Preferably not an adaptation of game/novel, but original manga.
p3pelepe	Post #508019
Member 8:40 am, Nov 18 2011 Posts: 293	Is it something like fruits basket? or maybe Gakuen alice? dunno but I feel those two looks so cheerful at first to me, but as the story goes on, many 'dark past' revealed...
iheartramen	Post #508051
Member 3:24 pm, Nov 18 2011 Posts: 58	I think pretty much all Suenobu Keiko's works
Pebble_	Post #508083
Member 6:27 pm, Nov 18 2011 Posts: 324	(Too bad you don't want shounen-ai because I think Let Dai would meet your requirements rather well.) Maybe Clamp's X? It fits I guess, but the manga has been on hiatus forever. The Anime is complete though. But it's not supposed to be in a realistic world, and even though you don't say it in your desciption I kinda get the feeling that you'd prefer a realistic story... ________________
C117	Post #508090
Dark Otaku Member 8:19 pm, Nov 18 2011 Posts: 96	I've heard that School Days is like that, but I haven't confirmed it myself. Last edited by C117 at 11:13 pm, Nov 18 ________________
RIP131	Post #508097
Member 10:25 pm, Nov 18 2011 Posts: 526	Second School days and I recommend Chrono crusade - anime, I'm not very sure: Ga-Rei, Valkyria chronicles - anime - does not go entirely downhill but it is pretty close.
momimomi	Post #508174
Member 10:31 am, Nov 19 2011 Posts: 46	Thank you all! Your suggestions make a good list, though not a single entry comply with all preferences. Fruits Basket, Gakuen Alice, X, Suenobu Keiko's works - all shoujo. Let Dai - korean and shounen ai. School Days is based on a game and i've played that eroge. Ga-rei - shounen. But i'm going to look through all these titles.
reid1	Post #508194 - Reply to (#508174) by momimomi
Member 3:36 pm, Nov 19 2011 Posts: 1916	Quote from momimomi School Days is based on a game If you play games, I don't know if you already played it and/or are interested, but to me the most downhill stuff I ever saw is Chaos Head, route B. I don't think something can go as bad as that. Unluckily, I really can't think of a manga with all the features you want. Maybe Narutaru (same mangaka as Bokurano), but I still have to read it all. ________________ What I like in Trivial Pursuit style. Pick your category: