Several months ago I ran across a manga at a reading site (mangapark, if I'm allowed to mention it), thought it looked potentially interesting and made note to revisit it later--then lost the name of the manga. It has been bugging me ever since then that I can't track it down again.

So, here are my very vague memories of the manga.

1.) It had a fairly small number of chapters--probably under 30.

2.) The chapters tended to be short--probably under 10 pages.

3.) The art style was fairly realistic--no moeblobs or such.

4.) The one chapter I clicked on featured some sort of giant mushrooms (growing in the ground--not chasing someone or anything.)

5.) It was implied that each chapter was more or less offbeat/"weird" and stand-alone--no long story arcs.

Any chance this is enough for an ID?

I'm pretty sure I haven't read it, but there's a few questions I have that might make it clearer for a person who has if you know the answers.

Do you think it was a manga or was it from a different country like manhua or manhwa?
Do you think it was shounen, seinen, shoujo, josei..?
Since the chapters were so short, do you think it may have been a web comic? Were the pages long? (Even if they weren't, it doesn't mean it wasn't a web comic.)

That's all I can think of for now.

Best of luck!

The first problem I see here is that it's been "several months" since you first encounter the series. It might have had just under 30 translated chapters back then, but it's hard to say how many translated chapters has been released ever since. For all we know, it could have been an old completed series that some release group decided to pick up and translate, and now there's 100+ chapters in the space of a few months. Given your description, I wouldn't place much hope that one of the people who saw your thread would miraculously have that particular manga in their reading list. I mean, I follow a lot of series, and even I've only seen one series involving mushrooms in it, and it's definitely not what you're describing. But just in case, this series is what i meant. Mashu Maji!

My best suggestion is, go through your browser history and search there. If you have never deleted your browsing history before, you'll definitely find it. It might take time, but it's your best bet.

My other suggestion is that you should narrow your search down by either identifying the author via the art style if you're that savvy, or at the very least, the genre or magazine. For example, most series with less than 10 pages are usually 4-koma (i.e each page consists of 4 panels only), or simple slice of life manga that are released weekly that fulfills the self-contained story criteria.

If you know that much, you can probably then eliminate all the magazines that are not published weekly from your search. This site lists the series that belongs to each magazine in order of year of release, so that can help narrow down your search to the titles released in recent years only. Then, all you'll need to do is visit each series that are listed under the magazine on this site and check the tags to see if it fits what you remember. For example, you can probably safely eliminate books that features horror, supernatural, harem, or books that aren't even translated from your pool of possible series.

Honestly, even though I've thrown out a lot of suggestions for you to try, it's still a super long shot and will probably take a lot of work, if it even works at all. Years ago, I tried to search for a random series that I briefly read a chapter of a couple of months prior and I was never able to find it again. I realised that the biggest problem was my memories just wasn't accurate enough for me to search for that series, and I'm afraid the same thing is happening for you now. Who knows what you mean by "realistic" art? You mean CG art like Gantz? Or just Initial D style? Off beat and weird? Like Kyou no Asuka Show? What's your definition of weird anyway? However, it's the fact that you didn't list whether the protagonist is male or female that made me question the authenticity of your memories of that series. Like, seriously, isn't that the first thing anyone would remember?

Either way, good luck.

Perhaps Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction?

If that's not it, you could try a search for "mushroom" in the series description (via manga search, selecting 'description' instead of 'title' from the drop-down list) or the titles in the Mushroom category tag.

Last edited by calstine at 7:34 am, Sep 12 2016

Mmm.... well, the only thing that comes to mind when I think of mushrooms that'd fit with at least some of your other criteria is Sakura no Sono (FUMI Fumiko), though it probably doesn't meet them all >_<

Good luck

I'm reeeealy plumbing the depths of my memory here, but the chapter I saw a couple of pages of featured a number of very large mushrooms sprouting out to the ground, but from the description I read of the manga, the subject of each chapter of the manga isn't strongly connected. It was described (more or less, no direct quote) as being "off-beat" and I believe it too place in a weird future fantasy world (think something slightly similar to Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō in setting and art style.)