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    Any books change your life? Literally?

    I was going to say BotNS too! I feel like I discover a new way of reading the book every time I revisit it.
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    Western fantasy novels/books that would make good mangas?

    I think Jack Vance's Cugel novels (bizarre fantasy comedies from the 1960s and 80s) would be really well-suited to the format.
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    Isekai can involve sci-fi. Change my mind.

    Although I don't really care for isekai as a manga or anime genre, it's worth mentioning you actually see identical tropes in a lot of early science and "fantastic" fiction. I've been reading through Clark Ashton Smith's body of work over the past couple of years and this sort of story where an...
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    Velma Thread

    Awful show in the mold of a lot of new animation produced for streaming services-- It would not be worth mentioning except for the bizarre choice of making it Scooby-Doo. It was pretty clearly pitched as a different show and then had the Scooby-Doo IP painted over it as a caveat of acceptance...
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