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2018 MANGA MADNESS brackets, pt.2!
🕑 Added 2022-03-12 14:00:06 +0000 UTCFollowing up on an earlier post, here are the results from the first round of competition in a set of "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up back in 2018:
(BTW, the correct title of the #15 seed at lower right is To Your Eternity, of course. Whoops!)
A few words on the more obscure manga titles that lost out:
*Dance 'Til Tomorrow was a rather different take on the romantic/sex comedy series; this one, I actually read in Viz translations from their adult-skewing Pulp line back in the day.
*Kenji was a late-80s, somewhat "old-school" manga about a globe-trotting young martial artist encountering well-referenced fighting styles from many hither and yon. (Influential on some key aspects of how I depicted fight scenes, mostly.)
*Ai To Makoto was a hilariously grim and violent high-school drama drawn by the artist who would later go on to draw the much better known The Legend of Mother Sarah (which was written by Otomo Katsuhiro, of course). I am not surprised at all that Takashi Miike apparently did a movie based on this comically gritty, early-70s-AF series; I am somewhat surprised that the resulting film was a g-d musical.
*Natsuki Crisis was a violently 90s martial arts dealie set at a high school, written and drawn by an artist who I think was an assistant to Kazushi Hagiwara on Bastard!!—a (winning) title from the same bracket, you'll notice.
*Da-You! was a 1999 ecchi slice-of-life comedy with a really engaging art style; not a lot available about this single-volume series online, but here's the artist.
(For the record, I wouldn't expect quite this much text about the brackets going forward, folks.)
Comments
JKurt
Huh. Evangelion over Monster, wasn't expecting that actually.
T.Geist
Man,I remember Orion never read it all....welp need to go hunt it down...
PixelThis
Well it was good text while it lasted :) I'd go with your picks mostly, though I might have taken Silent Mobius over Akira.
Mike Powers
I think I would like this much text, unless you just don't have anything to say...
