Manga-seekers and their search queries, part 2.

[snarp]

Today, I once again help people who've arrived at this blog by way of search queries involving the word "manga." Also books and porn this time, though.


manga possession male to female blonde goddess

I think that you want either Global Garden or La Chevaliere d'Eon, but those terms do not perfectly describe either one.

freud manga

If you want a manga that has Freud in it, maybe Afterschool Charisma? If you want a manga that is Freudian, just, you know, get a copy of Shounen Jump.

manga characters shouting

Bleach is basically just people shouting stuff now, right? Read Bleach.

manga that have clone

A, A' - Clones as a metaphor for grief.
Global Garden - Clones as a metaphor for grief, and possibly incest.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle - Clones that like fly through dimensions and don't have souls and there's wings and time travel and you lose an eye doing that. (They are still a metaphor for grief.)

novel telepathic spaceship cat

Anne McCaffrey has much to answer for.

perfunctory frivolity :)

:)

shota torture gore

Go away.

yaoi manga half brothers fuck each other

The worst thing about this query is that I'm almost certain I've encountered a manga which fits its specifications.

shoujo with tragic past

Is this a trick question? All of it. All of the shoujo.


Two Bonus Queries!


elena most annoying character nalini singh

You know, I'm worried about your priorities if your primary problem with a book in which the hero threatens to kill a baby is the heroine.

what kind of girl lays eggs?

Nanami isn't that kind of girl!

Comments

[yeloson]

shoujo with tragic past
Is this a trick question? All of it. All of the shoujo.

I'm reminded of my coworker asking, "What's that anime? you know, where the guy loses his memory?"
"That helps me not at all..."

[snarp]

My instinct would be to just start listing off everything I could think of that did not involve a guy who loses his memory.

[inkstone]

yaoi manga half brothers fuck each other

A manga? I'm pretty sure that's an entire subgenre, dude.

[snarp]

But it's not one I seek out! The likely presence of the information thus feels invasive.

(Fortunately for my sanity, the only title I've been able to think of is Penguin Brothers, a shoujo manga which involves only goggles-required UST between the half-brothers in question.)

[la_vie_noire]

Dude. I was like... the sub-genre is about brothers who fuck each other.

[kaigou]

Half-brothers are a sub-sub-genre, though I guess you could call them a sibling (?) genre to the shoujo sub-sub-genre of half-brother/half-sister who fuck each other.

[branchandroot]

yaoi manga half brothers fuck each other

Try Brother X Brother, searcher. (Courtesy of Branch Reads [or at least skims] Yaoi Manga So You Don't Have To)

[nijibug]

Oh man these search queries are always hilarious. I have nothing constructive to add.

[mikkeneko]

"novel telepathic spaceship cat" could also apply to the Honor Harrington-verse treecats.

[jinian]

I suppose six legs on a telepathic cat is pretty novel.

[rachelmanija]

How can I find search queries for my LJ?

[snarp]

You need to set up Google Analytics (or something similar), which requires a paid account. Here are the LiveJournal instructions and here are the DW ones.

[rachelmanija]

Okay, I think I set this up. And then I just periodically check "standard reporting" at my Google Analytics account?

[snarp]

Yeah. Information on search terms shows up under "Traffic Sources," and sites directly linking to you are under "Traffic Sources > Sources > Referrals." This can also be interesting. And faintly alarming, when you see that you have been linked in a forty-page anonymeme and can't figure out where.

[liannesentar.livejournal.com]

I love this so much I posted it to my facebook. Also, Shiuko Kano wrote a manga with the English words "Fucking" and "Brothers" right in the title.