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Post by devogirl on Jan 11, 2017 8:13:47 GMT -5
I'm resurrecting a really old thread, hopefully there are more people now besides me and Val who like anime and manga! I've been searching out new manga lately, and turned up some good ones! Goshiki no fune mangafox.me/manga/goshoku_no_fune/Not the usual manga style, and not a romance. It's about a traveling freak show during WWII, also kind of alternative history. One character is a DAE amputee and another is DAE amputee and also deaf. It's really really good! Koko ni aru, kimi no oto mangafox.me/manga/koko_ni_aru_kimi_no_oto/m-m romance with a blind guy. It's pretty good but unfinished so far. First Love mangatan.com/chapter/first_love_shimokitazawa_mitsuo/chapter_0very short hetero romance with a blind guy. Any other suggestions?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 14:28:44 GMT -5
Actually I like that you resurrected this thread dg...I didn't even realize it existed. There have been many times when I am at the book store or comic store and I would really like to read Mangas with disabled characters (preferably SCI) but I don't know which one's to pick or how to find them, there are sooooo many. I would love to get recommendations.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 14:32:01 GMT -5
...and I just went back and read this from the beginning so I will definitely look at some of the recommendations.
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Post by triquid on Jan 12, 2017 18:08:31 GMT -5
I'm resurrecting a really old thread, hopefully there are more people now besides me and Val who like anime and manga! I've been searching out new manga lately, and turned up some good ones! Koko ni aru, kimi no oto mangafox.me/manga/koko_ni_aru_kimi_no_oto/m-m romance with a blind guy. It's pretty good but unfinished so far. .. Any other suggestions? There's an anime & manga thread here!! I'm so thrilled! Thanks for resurrecting this one, devogirl! Koko ni aru, kimi no oto definitely reminded me of the film The Masseurs and a Woman (按摩と女), a love story featuring a blind masseur in a hot springs village. I've definitely shared this in somewhere else on the boards here, but GANGSTA. is a grunge fantasy/action series with the other lead character Nicolas being deaf. The art style is amazing, the deafness is nicely portrayed, and it's worth a read even just for the thrill of the story. There's one season's worth of anime adaptation, and it's pretty neat.
Osamu Tezuka's legendary Black Jack is a medical drama that's episodic in nature. Tezuka, in fact, had a medical doctor's licence, so we see a whole range of really imaginative medical stories. These include such as a DAE amp sushi chef, and a boy with polio raising awareness by doing a walking protest! These classics are one of my favorite manga ever-ever. I hope to see this thread live long and prosper!
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Post by devogirl on Feb 17, 2017 8:35:48 GMT -5
Hey I just read all of Gangsta! Thanks for the recommendation. You're right, Nicolas' deafness is nicely portrayed, and I found it rather devvy, especially the flashback scenes to him as a teen. But unfortunately, even though he's one of two main characters, about halfway through, they become bystanders in their own story, and like a million secondary characters take over. I kept hoping the author would come back to him, but nope, she seems much more interested now in some of the other characters. And it's unfinished, I guess because she was having health problems. I might have to check out the anime though.
The Masseurs and a Woman is one of my all-time favorite movies. There are two versions, one from 1938 and the 2008 remake called My Darling of the Mountain. Both versions are good, but the remake is a shot for shot copy, with the actors imitating the original down to the little mannerisms, so it's hard not to see the original as superior.
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Post by elbs on Sept 29, 2017 8:16:01 GMT -5
My favorite disability portrayal in an anime would probably be Code Geass. Might not be that interesting from a devvy perspective for many of you, because the disabled character (blind & uses a wheelchair) is a young girl, but I love how they show her as a complex character when she could have so easily just been a plot device. And apparently the subs and dubs mistranslated how her brother describes her disabilities - he calls her crippled in the English translations, but in the original he just says she can't see or walk.
Basic plot is that Lelouch and his sister Nunnaly are orphaned nobility, and Lelouch gets mind control powers and decides to use his mind control and meticulous planning to avenge his parents' death and make the world a better place for his sister. It gets way more complicated from then on.
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