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Grand Blue Dreaming

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This manga is for a mature adult audience. Grand Blue or sometimes called Grand Blue Dreaming (not to be confused with Granblue Fantasy) is a 2014 manga that includes slapstick and surreal humour that is targeted to a more mature adult audience for its inappropriate themes and jokes. The manga is about a guy called Iori who moves in with his cousins and gets coerced into joining a diving club. Now I've talked about a diving anime before so I can tell you this one is very unique. It’s like if you combined with Azazel-san, Gintama, Prison School and mixed in with Amanchu but with males in. Iori is forced to join the club, and wants to distance himself from the tomfoolery but instead ends up always being the worst one; the manga includes absurdity at every corner with crude jokes that are mostly inappropriate or opposite of exception or straight up illegal but done so well that it is hilarious. There’s juxtaposition all the time with comedy, with it having a plot of diving...

Kaiju No.8

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The manga I will be showcasing is one I found really interesting, called Kaiju No.8. The story revolves around a world like Earth, but kaiju exists, but instead of giant creatures, they can be any size; Kafka wakes up one day as a half kaiju half Human hybrid where he can transform and become very strong. He discovers his power, but despite that, he is an old geezer, so his confidence is low, being old and "out of service," as one would say. Nevertheless, Kafka and his friend Hibino join the Kaiju fighting force and must keep his power a secret because kaiju are killed. He has to transform and help save his comrades and gets into some altercations. The manga is a fascinating idea; as someone who loves Godzilla and other kaiju, combining it into a shounen manga with action is a fantastic concept I haven't seen before, so it's an original spin on a monster fighting manga. #comaaawikis #comaaablogs Kaijū No.8 has excellent action panels and enemies that are 1...