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現視研有新人加入了！一位非常討厭御宅族，從漫研社跳下去的女人─荻上與一位被動研社趕出來的男人─朽木加入現視研！這兩人的加入會帶給現視研什麼風暴呢……？
169 pages, Paperback
First published November 22, 2004
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Shimoku Kio
104 books26 followersShimoku Kio (木尾士目) is a Japanese manga artist best known for his manga Genshiken, which was originally serialized in the Afternoon Magazine. It was later published in Japan by Kodansha, which produces Afternoon Magazine, and by Del Rey in the United States. Genshiken is an anime, manga, and light novel series about a college otaku club and its members.
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September 17, 2020
l'unica svolta interessante abbandonata così... bah...
May 24, 2021
Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Vol. 5 continues where the previous tankōbon left off and contains the next six chapters (25–30) of the on-going manga series with a bonus story.
Most of the tankōbon focuses on the road to Summer Comic-Fest for Genshiken as they were accepted as vendors. Things gets worse for wear as Kanji Sasahara and Mitsunori Kugayama are as a standstill as editor and artist as only two pages of the fanzine is done and those were done by new comer Chika Ogiue. They managed to get the fanzine published, thanks to the pressure given by Saki Kasukabe and the rest of the group, and manage to sell out during their first outing at Comic-Fest. Of course, in Genshiken style, they blew most of their profits on the post Comic-Fest celebration.
This tankōbon is written and illustrated by Shimoku Kio. For the most part, it is written and illustrated rather well. The first couple of chapters are centered on Chika Ogiue and Harunobu Madarame. Readers learn that Chika Ogiue is a closeted otaku and her hatred of otaku is an act to protect something bad that happened to her. Furthermore, readers finally get a story centering on Mitsunori Kugayama, but it feels like too little too late as he is about to graduate and his artistic-centric story could be taken over by Chika Ogiue.
All in all, Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Vol. 5 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.
Most of the tankōbon focuses on the road to Summer Comic-Fest for Genshiken as they were accepted as vendors. Things gets worse for wear as Kanji Sasahara and Mitsunori Kugayama are as a standstill as editor and artist as only two pages of the fanzine is done and those were done by new comer Chika Ogiue. They managed to get the fanzine published, thanks to the pressure given by Saki Kasukabe and the rest of the group, and manage to sell out during their first outing at Comic-Fest. Of course, in Genshiken style, they blew most of their profits on the post Comic-Fest celebration.
This tankōbon is written and illustrated by Shimoku Kio. For the most part, it is written and illustrated rather well. The first couple of chapters are centered on Chika Ogiue and Harunobu Madarame. Readers learn that Chika Ogiue is a closeted otaku and her hatred of otaku is an act to protect something bad that happened to her. Furthermore, readers finally get a story centering on Mitsunori Kugayama, but it feels like too little too late as he is about to graduate and his artistic-centric story could be taken over by Chika Ogiue.
All in all, Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Vol. 5 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.
January 4, 2023
Tackles important issues like trying to rationalize buying new clothes when they cost the same amount of money as an anime DVD boxset and general con etiquette.
Firmly a series that if you weren’t of a certain age in the mid-2000s, this will do nothing for you.
Firmly a series that if you weren’t of a certain age in the mid-2000s, this will do nothing for you.
February 15, 2018
Ah, the stress of trying to do a group project, trying to get team members to do the work without hurting their egos, etc. The Genshiken Circle is finally trying to do something, and it's turning out to be really hard!
June 25, 2021
En realidad, no hay mucho que decir al respecto, creo que es complicado reseñar algo que no va técnicamente de nada sin que termine siendo un sumario de sucesos. El Club Genshinken logro producir un fanzine y venderlo con éxito en la convención de cómics y hubo un atrevido e interesante cosplay de uno de sus miembros.
Esta clase de manga me es muy relajante ya que el mundo no está por acabarse en cada tomo, no hay un protagonista alcanzando su enésima forma final, no hay un malo maloso queriendo conquistar el mundo, sino que son pequeños fragmentos de la vida cotidiana de una cultura muy diferente a la mía. Además de que suelen tener un sentido del humor muy relajado y cotidiano.
Esta clase de manga me es muy relajante ya que el mundo no está por acabarse en cada tomo, no hay un protagonista alcanzando su enésima forma final, no hay un malo maloso queriendo conquistar el mundo, sino que son pequeños fragmentos de la vida cotidiana de una cultura muy diferente a la mía. Además de que suelen tener un sentido del humor muy relajado y cotidiano.
February 13, 2022
A series that you back to your college years when you joined the anime club, found a bunch of others who were into the same things you, and you started to get a better sense of where you were going. If you enjoy series that look at anime and gamer culture you owe it to yourself to check out this series.
March 28, 2022
Best issue so far. I love how all of the main cast are written with depth and given enough screen time to shine, despite how many of them they are.
Also, too relatable. The indie comic grind is real
also also, holy crap they managed to translate the preview into English now.
Also, too relatable. The indie comic grind is real
also also, holy crap they managed to translate the preview into English now.
April 15, 2019
An alright manga, A bit boring... The story wasn’t that great and the characters were boring, not much going on in this 👌📖😁💕
February 18, 2022
once again enjoyed reading about some losers in college
June 9, 2024
宅宅看同人畫同人就一定要是A書嗎?
總覺得有點太限縮自己了吧
總覺得有點太限縮自己了吧
December 3, 2024
This was an excellent volume. The Genshiken are creating a doujinshi for the Comic Festival and this adds a note of drama to the volume. Also, their appearance at the Comic Festival is interesting.
May 13, 2008
Overall Rating: A+
Synopsis: Written by Kio Shimoku, the manga version of Genshiken is nine volumes long. It covers the lives of a college club of Otaku, but does it in a way that makes them seem real and interesting instead of the usual stereotypes.
One of the reasons I love this series so much is the remarkable number of similarities between the Genshiken club, and the club I helped found at Guilford College, the Yachting Club. Granted, we didn't really have a Saki (who hates geeks and is only in the club because her hot boyfriend, Kousaka, is an otaku), and we had secret rituals, but otherwise very similar. What really made me fall in love with the series though was how it focuses on the lives of the otaku, and their relationships. When I read volume 8, I started running around wildly clapping (a habit I have when I am excited) until Leah read it, so I could gush about what happened. When you're that devoted to the characters, you are either insane or the book is really fucking good. In this case, it's a little of both.
Another crazy/awesome thing about Genshiken is Kujibiki Unbalance, a manga/anime made up for the series. During the chapter breaks in the manga, you learn more about Kujibiki Unbalance and its characters. Genshiken was also made into an anime, that covers the first five volumes of the manga, and you get to watch episodes of Kujibiki Unbalance as a special feature. How fucking cool is that?
If you're a geek, and if you're not I have no idea why you're reading this, pick up Genshiken now! You'll thank me.
For more manga and anime reviews, please check out Hobotaku.
Synopsis: Written by Kio Shimoku, the manga version of Genshiken is nine volumes long. It covers the lives of a college club of Otaku, but does it in a way that makes them seem real and interesting instead of the usual stereotypes.
One of the reasons I love this series so much is the remarkable number of similarities between the Genshiken club, and the club I helped found at Guilford College, the Yachting Club. Granted, we didn't really have a Saki (who hates geeks and is only in the club because her hot boyfriend, Kousaka, is an otaku), and we had secret rituals, but otherwise very similar. What really made me fall in love with the series though was how it focuses on the lives of the otaku, and their relationships. When I read volume 8, I started running around wildly clapping (a habit I have when I am excited) until Leah read it, so I could gush about what happened. When you're that devoted to the characters, you are either insane or the book is really fucking good. In this case, it's a little of both.
Another crazy/awesome thing about Genshiken is Kujibiki Unbalance, a manga/anime made up for the series. During the chapter breaks in the manga, you learn more about Kujibiki Unbalance and its characters. Genshiken was also made into an anime, that covers the first five volumes of the manga, and you get to watch episodes of Kujibiki Unbalance as a special feature. How fucking cool is that?
If you're a geek, and if you're not I have no idea why you're reading this, pick up Genshiken now! You'll thank me.
For more manga and anime reviews, please check out Hobotaku.
December 30, 2012
Saki-san challenges her otaku friends to get more fashionable and a project of drawing the club's very own doujinshi collection. The beginning of volume 5 with the fashionista storyline is too goofy an nonconsequential even for a light series like "Genshiken," but the drama of creation ensuing from the doujinshi project makes up for a lot. The volume opens with fluff but closes more seriously. Even though this is a comedy, the creative struggle is not only a laughing matter.
April 3, 2011
Correction, this is my favourite volume! Hehe, the shenanigans is never ending.
June 15, 2015
re-read
August 20, 2023
The club makes a doujin and goes to sell it at Comiket. Of course Ohno will use this as an excuse to debut a new KujiUn cosplay, and whats this.... Kousaka cross-playing coming in too!
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