Showing posts with label fuan no tane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fuan no tane. Show all posts

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Day 21 - A manga that deserves more recognition

Uhm, Oh Wow.... Lots and lots...

I tend to find myself enjoying rather obscure manga, things not even translated into english. I've alreade written about Baccano! which is a rather mild example, and I wrote a post about the lovely and strange Fuan no Tane.

As for something I haven't already written about I really liked Ibitsu, another horror manga. It's about a boy who encounters a Strange Lolita girl at the trash dump. Way better than it sounds but I don't have the energy to explain what happens while avoiding spoilers.

Another very underrated manga (once again, horror, though this one is more a thriller than anything) is Doubt. It was one of the first mangas (or whatever the plural of manga is...) I read.

It's about a group of teenagers who all play a game called Rabbit Doubt, a game where the players are rabbits and one of them are randomly assigned to be the wolf and hunt down the others, who must find and kill the wolf before they die. These players decide to meet up in real life and get involved in a real life version of Rabbit Doubt. Will they find the wolf before time is up?
Read Doubt here to find out!

Neither one of these have been translated but Baccano is a lot more popular than the others, followed by Doubt, Ibitsu and then Fuan no Tane. Fuan no Tane doesn't even have a TvTropes-page and that's sad.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Fuan no Tane

Created in 2004 by Nakayama Masaaki, Fuan no tane is a collection of very short and mostly atmospheric stories dealing with urban legends, ghosts and superstitions all organized around a specific theme (School, Visitors etc.).Some are just two pages long.

The name translates to Seeds of Anxiety. However, no official translation exists and it can only be read online, on sites such as mangafox or mangahere. It's great manga though. If I get the opportunity to buy it I will.








This is one of the stories from Fuan no Tane. They're all a bit weird and  I guess some are a bit pointless but I love them anyway. They're so pleasantly creepy. Read it here and purchase it when you get the chance!