Currently reading

[oyceter]

rilina asked me how many manga series I am currently reading*.

"Errrr," I said.

I feel somewhat better about my list after seeing hers, but not quite. Reassure me by posting your own lists! We can't be the only people out there reading over twenty series at the same time!

Right?

* "currently reading" is defined rather loosely, as you will probably see in the parenthetical remarks. Said parenthetical remarks will probably also illustrate the phrase "hope springs eternal" (I'll finish, no really!).

Things I am currently reading*:

1. Bleach
   
2. Cain Saga/Godchild (I am counting these as one to cut down on my list)
   
3. Cantarella
   
4. Death Note (on and off)
   
5. Emma
   
6. Eternal Sabbath
   
7. Fruits Basket
   
8. Fullmetal Alchemist
   
9. Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden
   
10. Goong
    
11. Her Majesty's Dog
    
12. Hikaru no Go (I will finish! Really!)
    
13. Kare Kano
    
14. Koukou Debut
    
15. Land of the Blindfolded (2 more volumes to go!)
    
16. Monster
    
17. Mushishi
    
18. Nana (which I count despite the 3 year long hiatus on my part)
    
19. Naruto
    
20. Omae ga Sekai o Kowashitai Nara
    
21. Oyayubihime Infinity
    
22. Paradise Kiss (sort of)
    
23. Rose of Versailles
    
24. Saiyuki (Reload and Gaiden)
    
25. Tramps Like Us
    
26. Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
    
27. Vampire Knight
    
28. Wild Adaptor
    
29. xxxHolic

Things that I sort of gave up on but may resume at any time:

1. Absolute Boyfriend
   
2. Kaze Hikaru
   
3. Qwan
   
4. W Juliet

Things that I intend to pick up again but possibly in the distant future:

1. Good Morning Call (first shoujo manga I ever read! Awwww)
   
2. Gunslinger Girl
   
3. Hana Kimi

Things that I really mean to read but maybe after I catch up on some other series first:

1. Global Garden
   
2. Please Save My Earth
   
3. Ribon no Kishi
   
4. Samurai Deeper Kyo
   
5. Silver Diamond
   
6. To Terra
   
7. Wallflower
   
8. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Things I really mean to reread but maybe after I catch up on some other series first and tacke the "Things I really mean to read" list as well:

1. Gokinjo Monogatari
   
2. Kagen no Tsuki
   
3. Mars
   
4. Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai

Comments

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad.
Currently Reading:
Sugar Sugar Rune**
Pet Shop of Horrors**
Faeries Landing**
Tokyo Babylon**
RG Veda**
PHD: Phantasy Degree-
Ghost Hunt-
1001 Nights+
Nausicca
Fushigi Yugi+
Nana**
Death Note
Wild Adapter
Saiyuki Reload
Trinity Blood
D Grayman+
Hana-kimi
Bleach
Tsubasa
xxxHolic
Penguin Revolution
Emma+
Fullmetal Alchemist
Hellsing
Fruits Basket

This is all that I could think of at the moment, so if something has slower releases I may be reading it and forgetting to put it on the list.


I would name the series I need to catch up on like DN Angel, but that list would just be too long.


Things I want to reread:
Sailor Moon
Fruits Basket
Mars
Fruits Basket


+ means I borrowed from a friend
** means I own some and borrowed some from the library
- means I got it all from the library

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Dang it, I forgot Host Club! Also out of curiosity why did you put down Hana-kimi?

[oyceter]

Oh! I started reading Hana Kimi back when I was still in high school in Taiwan, and I just never kept up when I was in college here, since I only went back to Taiwan twice a year and kept forgetting which volume I was on.

It took a lot longer for it to get licensed in the States, and by that time, it had been years and years since I'd read it and I've completely forgotten where I left off and what happened.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Ah okay. Hana-kimi is one of my favorites so I was going to be sad if there was some horrible plot point or something.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

1. Bleach
2. Death Note
3. Loveless

But I have read the entire back-catalogue of Bleach in about the last month.

[oyceter]

Entire back-catalogue of Bleach is indeed frightening, though I've found it makes the endless fight sequences a little more tolerable if they aren't spread out over weeks and weeks.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

I do tend to skip over the fights. Unless Rukia is involved.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Things I am currently reading*:
1. Bleach
2. Cain Saga/Godchild
3. Angel Sanctuary (as soon as I found out that my favorite character was not, in fact, dead, or was dead but this didn’t count. Or something. Anyway, it’s back in the TBR pile.)
4. Honey Boys Sweet
5. Last Client
6. Hana Kimi
7. Princess Princess
8. Fruits Basket
9. Our Kingdom (hope springs eternal that I’ll get my last side story!)
10. Her Majesty's Dog
11. Kare Kano
12. Vampire Knight and the rest of Shojo Beat titles, because, hey, I must know what happens next.
13. Nana (which I can’t seem to get into, even though I have several of them)
14. Naruto
15. Saiyuki (Reload and Gaiden)
16. xxxHolic
17. Wild Fangs/Wild Rose
18. Glamorous Lip
19. Ouran High School Host Club, though I’ve inexplicably fallen out of love with it. Odd.
20. Blade of the Immortal
21. Boy Princess
22. Er…the nifty one telophase sent me at yesterday…Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
23. Day Of Revolution
24. Loveless
25. Challengers (course, what I REALLY want is the Tyrant Falls In Love)
26. Junjo Romantica
27. Passage to Servant Boy

Things Lurking In My TBR pile, staring at me with beady eyes of DOOM (but I have looked at the art…):
1. Land of the Blindfolded
2. Sword of the Dark Ones
3. Tenjho Tenge
4. The World Exists Without Me
5. Nana
6. Hana Kimi


Things that I sort of gave up on but may resume at any time:
1. Gravitation
2. Girl Got Game
3. Black Knight
4. Tramps Like Us
5. Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles
6. Chobits
7. Wild Adaptor (hey, in mylittle world, Tokitoh and Kubota pair up with the Chinese medico and live happily ever after—yes, I’m sappy).
8. Rin!
9. Let Dai
10. Earthian
11. Eerie Queerie

Things that I really mean to read but maybe after I catch up on some other series first:
1. DeathNote
2. Please Save My Earth
3. Cantarella
4. Samurai Deeper Kyo
5. Wallflower
6. FAKE
7. Off*Beat
8. Petshop of Horrors
9. Mushishi
10. Hands Off
11. Afterschool Nightmare
12. Revolutionary Girl Utena
13. Antique Bakery, although the art always bugs me too much when I pick it up in the Borders to buy it.
14. Emma
15. Eternal Sabbath
16. Assorted shonen-ai and yaoi, mostly bought by art.
17. Various others recced to me.

Things I really don’t mean to reread but almost certainly will because I have no selfrestraint when it comes to rereading favorites:
1. UGH
2. Mars
3. Glamorous Lip
4. Her Majesty’s Dog
5. Our Kingdom, especially the bits with Shigure and Okumiya.
6. Yellow, even though it bugs me, because I love Goh.

[octopedingenue]

Oh God. My abortive start of a list terrifies me.

[oyceter]

Hee! Your list is giant, yay!

as soon as I found out that my favorite character was not, in fact, dead, or was dead but this didn’t count. Or something.

OMG YES! What volume are you on? Because [spoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoiler] FLAIL OMG EEEEE!

Also, what is this Tyrant Falls in Love that everyone is mentioning?

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Yes, my list is embarrassing! When I got home I realized I'd left some off. Alice 19th, and um, now I forget. LOL.

I'm still in the very first volumes--it takes me forever to read it because the art makes no sense, and I have a hard time keeping track of everyone (it got easier once I realized that they have multiple identities/genders/etc), but I love the crackiness and it is hitting all my story buttons like WHOA and so I hoard it to read in long guilty swathes.

Oh, dear. The Tyrant Falls In Love. Okay, so you know how I have this bizarre love for high school/college BL. Well, Challengers is this not very good (IMO) light BL comedy about two guys. One of them is an absentminded, good-hearted guy (the pursued). The guy happens to have a rabidly overprotective older brother. That's the 'tyrant'. He's a scientist post-doc student or something, and his assistant is madly in love with him, but the tyrant is homophobic (for, as it turns out, rather understandable reasons). It sounds cliche but it is really well done. This mangaka's other series, Little Butterfly, was a lot more moving than it had any right to be. Full of cliches, and dumb plot points, but I didn't care--I actually got sniffly, which never happens to me. Strangely, though, the art in Little Butterfly creeped me out. I want the Tyrant Falls In Love very badly. It was supposed to be published already. Argh. Must Have Story Now.

[oyceter]

Huh, that sounds interesting!

Oh Angel Sanctuary! So many story kinks! So incoherent! I got better at reading it once I decided that I would never be able to figure out what happened no matter what.

[chomiji]

But think of all the inspiration that you (and the others) are giving to those of us who are just starting on the long, strange trip that is manga reading!

Of course I'm glad to see SDK on your "to read" list. My daughter has just started Please Save My Earth and is enjoying it, even though evil Mom is making it educational by buying it for her in Spanish ... .

- Cho

[oyceter]

Heee!

Ahhh manga, how you have completely eaten up my brain.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Oh, I highly, highly recommend Global Garden and PSME (as well as her other series, Mirai no Utena, which also deals with weird reincarnation stuff).

[oyceter]

Oh cool, thanks!