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I enjoy books about monsters, creatures, and man killing animals.

I work a soul rushing nightshift job and reading helps pass the time. What are the best ones? Does anyone else like these too?

>> No.18608963

>>18608953
I know it's off topic, but should I get Chainsaw Man?
I want to get a good Manga, and wanted to start with it and Berserk

>> No.18608974

>>18608963
I think it's pretty good, I enjoyed it thoroughly

>> No.18608993

>>18608974
I know there's a sizable community of people who say it's new age trash, but I'm not sure.
I know Berserk is loved, and looks really interesting, both from an artistic and story standpoint, but I'm not sure with Chainsaw Man.
The Normies seem to have found it and caused a host of problems

>> No.18609006

>>18608953

Read Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Hemingway, or William Hope Hodgson

>>18608993

Chainsaw Man is without a doubt a classic but I think Fire Punch has way more merit.

>> No.18609007

>>18608993
I thought that it was trashy, dumb and violent but that is what I was looking for

>> No.18609134

>>18609006
I'll look into it. Thanks for the recommendation of Fire Punch btw
>>18609007
>it was trashy, dumb and violent
So that's why the normies got hooked to it.
I'm still interested

>> No.18609223

>>18608963
It's good, but don't expect a conventionally good manga like berserk. It's more like a very entertaining, but a trashy b movie that somehow ends up having consistent themes and a few great characters. It's entertaining and dumb, but it also has a soul.

>> No.18609301

>>18609223
Should I get both?

>> No.18609434

>>18608963
yes

>> No.18609471

>>18609301
Should I get Berserk as well?

>> No.18609481

>>18609434
Should I get Berserk as well?

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>>18608953
Well since manga is already being discussed I can't not recommend blame!

>> No.18609697

>>18609485
Is Berserk a good manga to pick up?
I'm new to Manga as a whole

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>>18608963
>but should I get Chainsaw Man

If you mean buying it nah, if you're thinking about reading it sure. Fire Punch is better btw

>> No.18609740

>>18609697
Maybe, are you fine with it having no ending? Also read Vagabond, another manga that probably won't end

>> No.18609744

I have one but no one will publish it.

>> No.18609755

>>18608963
Berserk is better starting point for manga. CSM is fun but doesn't have nearly the same emotional depth that Berserk gets later on

>> No.18609767

>>18609715
I will look into that. Thank you for the recommendation
>>18609740
>>18609755
Cool, Thanks guys

>> No.18610099

>>18609744
What's it about?
Like the plot and stuff

>> No.18610389

Bump

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>>18609767
Have fun, and don't forget to give Fire Punch a chance

>> No.18610525

>>18608953
Death In The Long Grass, Man Eaters Of Tsavo.

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>>18610396
Thanks anon.
I sound like a broken record at this point, but is Berserk a good manga to start out with as well?

>> No.18610824

>>18610574
NTAYRT. Yes. The first bit will likely seem like an edgy gorefest. Tough it out.

>> No.18610844

>>18608963
FP was better

>> No.18610883

>>18608963
It's kino, but it gets better the more you understand how it shits and metacomments on modern shonen, and how weird and fucked up it is compared to them

>> No.18611077

>>18608953
The Pines by Robert Dunbar. Jersey Devil eating and raping backwater inbred people (he is going through puberty)

>> No.18611259

>>18608953
Grieg Beck. Recently had a monster kick of my own, and found a couple good authors. Finding monster books on Goodreads is annoying because there are so many shitty YA monster books, but I found some good books under "Splatterpunk"

>> No.18611372

>>18608953
John dies at the end. It has a similar vibe to csm too

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Read this to know about the monsters that actually exist.

>> No.18611706

>>18608993
It is new age trash, but damn if it is really good trash.

>> No.18611731

>>18611706
>>18608993
Isn't New Age spiritual shit?
Do you mean Zoomer garbage or New Weird garbage?

>> No.18611858

>>18608963
>I want to get into manga so I'll read juvenile trash like Chainsaw Man and Berserk

>> No.18611866

>>18610883
>bro it's so heckin' weird and subversive so it's good

>> No.18611882

you people have such garbage lowbrow taste in manga, fuck.

>> No.18612040

>>18611882
The cultural elitism and intellectual arrogance of this board never ceases to astound me.

>> No.18612042

>>18608963
It’s good but it’s overrated and it’s not representative of manga broadly at all. Berserk is also good but overrated unfortunately.

>> No.18612051

Tokyo Ghoul and Attack on Titan have endings. You should read those.

>> No.18612242

>>18612051
Why would you recommend that shit

>> No.18612327

>>18612040
you are the /a/ equivalent of quentin tarantino and scorsese fanboys, kys.

>> No.18612330

>>18612242
They are without question some of the best manga of all time.

>> No.18612452

>>18612330
>Edgy Ghoul and Attack on Simp are the best manga
You have to be an adult to use 4chan

>> No.18612543

>>18611259
I just read the descriptions to a couple of his books. Is he like a Michael Chricton of monster books?

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>Berserk
>Chainsaw Man
Both pretty good, I'd also recommend the original Devilman and Death Note as some other entertaining and well received manga.
Once you're ready for some actually /lit/ manga then read:
>Voynich Hotel
>Onani Master Kurosawa
>Welcome to the NHK
>Waga Na wa Nero
The Nero manga you could really read at any time though, it's inspired by Roman history and not very Japanese except for in the direction you read panels.

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>>18609697
>>18609740
Yeah read berserk and vagabond they're great mangas, also fist of the north star since it kind of influenced berserk

>> No.18612642

>>18608963
it's kafkaesque

>> No.18612680

>>18612603
>Onani Master Kurosawa
>not even the good Kurosawa
pleb

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Glad to see this thread still up.
Thank you all for the recommendations.

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>>18610574
the first volumes are a bit edgy, but once it gets started it becomes something special, and the art improves over time

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>>18608963
20th century boys is a classic, though might not include everything that OP asks for. You wanted a good manga so I think it is okay. The Yotsuba manga is comfy. Angel Densetsu is great even if the art is so and so.

>>18610574
It is like >>18610824 and >>18612721 said. Try to pay attention in the first volumes too. Skip the chapter with young Griffith in jail unless you love to torture yourself.

pic related

>>18612680
Read both. They are great in their own way.

>> No.18612833

>>18610099
It's about a girl who slowly realizes her friends are cultists, and at the end it turns out the cultists' insane beliefs are all true and they did something to her that makes her transform into a monster. By the time she realizes what they did to her she's completely lost her humanity and can never return to her old life. The monster itself is completely original and disgusting, not visually, but what it eats and why it eats.

Agents say they want "genre bending" stories, but when you give them an actual story that switches genres halfway through they all complain that it isn't enough of one particular genre. Fucking morons.

>> No.18612946

any political manga

>> No.18613044

>>18612946
Mein Kampf got a manga adaptation
I think Marx' Capital did as well

>> No.18613060

>>18612452
> dismisses a story because he thinks it’s edgy and another because the main character isn’t a detached Chad
> calls me a child

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>>18613044
>Mein Kampf got a manga adaptation
Now THAT's a manga we can all get behind!

>> No.18613070

>>18608963
it has a lot of kino concepts but the execution comes across as a bit immature

>> No.18613371

>>18612327
Quentin Tarantino and Scorsese are both good, what's your point.

>> No.18613502

>>18611882
>>18612327
i bet you read moeshit

>> No.18613823

>>18613371
>I love to eat shit
Thanks for informing everyone. Elitism is a good thing so people like you don't make the mistake in believing you keep welcome company here.

>> No.18613923

Hm. I don’t know any actually. That’s a hard request. There’s plenty of man vs nature and man vs supernatural which involve a man vs a beast or monster at some point but they’re not about man vs monster explicitly.

>> No.18614113

>>18612833
Compelling concept. Would read based on synopsis alone

>> No.18614230

>>18612833
That... sounds really good actually.
Fiction isn't really my cup of tea, but I would read the shit out of that if ever got published

>> No.18614246

>>18613823
I am welcome company, you're just butthurt about other people's tastes.

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>>18608963
Yes it’s kino

>> No.18615036

>>18614281
That little dog looks cute

>> No.18615067

>>18612833
Anon, they were just being polite about the fact that they don't want to sell a book whose main twist is about monstergirls eating poo.

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>>18615036
It’s the protagonist

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>>18615076
Nice

>> No.18616394

>>18613502
What the fuck is "moeshit?"

>> No.18616398

>>18611689
Good.

>> No.18617042

Bump

>> No.18617938

>>18612833
I agree with
>>18614113
>>18614230
write it and publish it, pls

>> No.18617944

>>18616394
that's precious

>> No.18617948

>>18612330
no, that's FMA, you fucking heathen

>> No.18617955

>>18613923
you're being obnoxious

>> No.18619021

>>18615067
>poo
I think you mean semen

>> No.18619067

>>18615067
The monster doesn't eat poo. It eats fóstur. She finds out her friends have been secretly feeding her fóstur to prevent her transformations from happening. But once she tells them to fuck off and stops eating it she gets sick and begins transforming again. Once transformed she blacks out and doesn't remember what she did, but all she does is eat. The story is a mystery and about her slowly discovering the cultist's objectives behind why they're feeding her these things.

And the fact that she's a monster isn't even the real twist.

>> No.18619108

>>18617938
It's done. I've edited it several times and spent most of 2020 shopping it around. No takers. I've given up on the publishing industry as a whole and have started film making.

>> No.18619184

>>18619108
Aw, well post it online, at least

>> No.18619190

>>18619108
have you tried niche houses like lazy fascist?

>> No.18619202

>>18619108
>>18619190
okay, so lazy fascist actually shut down in 2018, but my point stands

>> No.18619355

>>18619108
Yeah, I agree with this anon >>18619184
It sounds really good

>> No.18619446

>>18619184
>>18619355
Well thanks for your kind words.

I'm not going to post it online because FNASR, but if you really are that interested in reading it then post a throw away email here and I'll send it to you.

>> No.18620555

>>18619446
I would, but then again I don't want to dox myself...
Thanks for the offer anon