MANGA RECCOMONDATIONS

Anyone read any good manga recently? Here's my recommendation for today--

TEKKONKINKREET: BLACK AND WHITE

White is an innocent eleven-year-old who's just a bit dim. Black is a street-wise, slightly off-balanced thirteen-year-old with a big metal pipe. The two boys live in an old broken-down car in Treasuretown, a district of Osaka that's seen better times. Flying (yes, flying) from building to building, they fight off rival gang members, yakuza, alien assassins and whoever else is unlucky enough to trespass into what Black calls "his city". But when an old yakuza known as the Rat returns to his roost, change may be in the air. Unfortunately, Rat isn't even the worst of it...

Yes, it's extremely violent, and the art style takes some getting used to. But the story is presented extremely well, the art looks like no other manga on earth, the relationship between Black and White is expertly rendered and the ending is absolutely insane. Plus, it's just been reprinted in an omnibus edition--600 pages, with color, blown up to full size. Can't go wrong with that!

There was also a Tekkonkinkreet movie that came out a few months ago as well, although reactions have been rather mixed, to say the least. Most agree it's a really good-looking movie, but from that point on people either seem to think it's the best animated movie they've seen in years or a boring, nonsensical piece of rubbish, or somewhere in between.

A trailer is below, and...well, it's a pretty awesome trailer, whether you like the movie or not. Good music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWOCf1wNlk0

The manga's definitely worth reading, though. At least.

Yeah, Fullmetal Alchemist is absolutely insane. The show was pretty good (arguably one of the best), but the manga has three times the scale, much higher stakes and it hasn't even finished yet.