Mizura

Basara, most definitely.

Kubera more or less fits too, though it takes a while to get there.

Song of the Long March - China, one of the best female protagonists anywhere

 

Gunka no Baltzar - Fictional 19th century Europe. Badass art, badass protagonist.

Jin - Modern-day brain surgeon gets sent back in time in Japan. More intense than most battle-series, surprisingly.

 

Nobunaga no Chef - Like Jin, but with cooking.

 

You may think that these aren't what you're looking for, but hell, I didn't think I'd enjoy them either until I started reading them. Give them a go.

Hear My Voice? ^^

http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=93489

You know, guys, the translations actually sound a lot better now that they've had a proofreader look over it. The proofreader was obviously in a hurry, but his language level is obviously quite decent. If he looks over the translations one more time, that should be enough to make the translations decent enough.

 

As for the names, I can't agree with you either. The Line translators have obviously already made concessions with the names by not using what SIU originally intended, to try to make them sound a bit better to western readers, while simultaneously not straying too far from the originals.

 

You'll have a much easier time getting yourselves heard if you at least acknowledge the improvements that Line has done so far. Unlike most of you, I've actually tried to proofread the now better translations, and there are significantly fewer issues compared to before.

Japanese folklore? Let's see... there is a Shoujo one (probably not what you're looking for), there was an hen... scratch that.

Probably:
- Sengoku Youko
- maybe Spirit circle from the same author
- Nurarihyon no Mago - typical Shounen though
- Kekkaishi - I haven't read it, so no comments

A bit different:
Hyakki Yakoushou
Natsume Yuujinchou

I'll skip the Shoujo-romancy stuff like Inu Yasha (wait, it's actually Shounen? Whatever, skip it. Kyoukai no Rinne is not worth it either) and Kamisama Hajimemashita.

There were a few other ones, but I don't really remember their titles.

Hmm, I wouldn't say that Kubera suddenly becomes good after 20 chapters. It's hard to say. When you arrive at certain points, your understanding of the entire story up till then suddenly changes, and the older chapters are suddenly read in a very different way as you place things into context. To give some slight examples, the boy who was hit apparently in a comedic manner? Turns out that is the first in a chain of suspicious things about him. The stuff on the desk? Connects to events 100 chapters later. Some of the earlier pauses? You realize there's a whole plot point before those pauses (most people don't even Notice them at first). The depressed behavior some of the characters display? Once you get the context (like, over 100 chapters later), the weight of their words is suddenly different. It's like the fact that Rachel's eyes were shown in a very early chapter of Tower of God, but Kubera does it much more and connects everything in much more complicated ways. But it is nearly impossible to see upon first reading. Basically, Tower of God has some mystery elements, but Kubera's whole story is shaped like a giant mystery.

Anyway, if you don't actually Like mysteries (especially ones who don't spoon-feed you), Kubera is likely to be more frustrating than interesting. I'm not saying it's your case, just that I see plenty of comments of people complaining that they were frustrated because they had no idea what's going on.

Of course, the flip side of it all is that Kubera unfolds really, reaaaalllly slowly. xD And there are no intermediate feel-good victories. It cuts out all the intermediary gratifications.

Is the "so much" referring to the quantity of recs or some form of exasperation? >_< But those are all series I enjoy immensely, for what it's worth.

 

Gunnerkrigg is one of the more original worlds I've seen in English online comics. As I said, it is a very strange mix of (non-conventional, indigenous like) fantasy, sci-fi and supernatural. It has an Awesome cast of weirdos. The school setting will initially give an appearance of 'normalcy', but the school itself is far from normal (and I'm not talking Harry Potter). One of the characters, she appears to be a normal human, albeit a genius nerd, but there's this one character who is super afraid of her (she herself being a rather supernatural one) and neither she nor anyone else understands why, and them bam, at the end of the chapter, we see her from said other character's POV, and from that POV the nerd-girl is this freaky awesome-looking demonic robot-goddess (which may be why all the robots are worshiping her as an angel, something even the girl herself finds weird). Stuff like that. You keep discovering all sorts of stuff about the characters. And then there's Coyote. Demonic god and total troll. It has some AWESOME art, especially once the author went full-time. (there will often-be a lot of normal-looking scenes, but when those special scenes come, man they're gorgeous)

 

Long blabla about the Kubera world (in spoiler tags because everyone is probably fed-up D: ):

Are you maybe talking about Mana?

http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7669

 

I don't think it's on Batoto, and I haven't read it in a while, so I'm not sure.

Aww, this thread is a bit old but... I just wanted to point out something about the popularity of Tower of God:
- Naruto/Bleach/One Piece are well-known and popular because they've had their anime and manga spammed all over the world. They are The most heavily publicized franchises, and rode an initial wave of popularity of manga/anime in general.
- Tower of God (and other popular webtoons) became popular through Nothing but word-of-mouth!

Despite that, a number of webtoons have quickly soared to the Top 50 on many sites. I also suspect that Tower of God's numbers are skewed downwards on other sites because everybody reads them here (where they can use the more convenient one-strip mode).

On mangaupdates.com, Tower of God is ranked #3 for 6-months ranking and #5 in 3-months ranking (current monthly ranking is lower, but that's probably because SIU took several breaks). And on mangaupdates.com , it has the highest rating.

Given how many manga readers are still "not used to webtoons", I think that's absolutely remarkable, and says quite a few things about the appeal of the series itself.

Aww yeah! Proper language settings! Thanks a lot Grumpy!

Huh, so all the likes are gone? My total still shows in the profiles though.

... OH, you mean we can't see who liked a post now, is that right?