Anime/Manga/Game Identification Help [See first post]

[kouneli]

Hello, I am looking for a certain anime.

The anime is about a few girls (don't remember how many), stuck in a bathroom. They don't know how to get out, and they eventually all die in disturbing ways. I saw it around 2010(?) or maybe even earlier and I recently remembered it, but I can't find it anywhere.

If anyone knows anything about it, please tell me, that would be great!

[TnAdct1]

Trying to spread the Saki Sanobashi urban legend to Animesuki, eh?

[0cean]

Originally Posted by kouneli

Hello, I am looking for a certain anime.

The anime is about a few girls (don't remember how many), stuck in a bathroom. They don't know how to get out, and they eventually all die in disturbing ways. I saw it around 2010(?) or maybe even earlier and I recently remembered it, but I can't find it anywhere.

If anyone knows anything about it, please tell me, that would be great!

Minus the bathroom it sounds like Another (2012).

Or maybe your memory is foggy and you really are thinking about Corpse Party (2013), which would be a confusing watch if you didn't play the related game. It features students being trapped in a school and there's a prominent scene involving a bathroom. Also lots of disturbing deaths.

They kinda condensed what could have been 12, maybe even 24 episodes down to 4 OVAs that are 30min each.

[kouneli]

Originally Posted by 0cean

Minus the bathroom it sounds like Another (2012).

Or maybe your memory is foggy and you really are thinking about Corpse Party (2013), which would be a confusing watch if you didn't play the related game. It features students being trapped in a school and there's a prominent scene involving a bathroom. Also lots of disturbing deaths.

They kinda condensed what could have been 12, maybe even 24 episodes down to 4 OVAs that are 30min each.

Mmmmm, no it's not it unfortunately, it had a bit of a different art style to it.

[SaoriShun]

Hi! This is my first time posting here, so I hope this goes well...

I had purchased a print copy of the May 2007 issue of Vogue Nippon (now known as Vogue Japan) and was excitedly reading it when I found an article about John Galliano and his spring couture 2007 collection for Christian Dior that contained a few pictures of the collection's 'Japan research diary,' which resembles a cross between a mood board and a multi-page brochure. Even though this article was published in 2007 the actual research diary was created from October to November 2006.

Among the pictures of this mysterious research diary I found this image featuring this equally mysterious manga that I am dying to have identified:



The image has multiple other photos obscuring the manga panels so I made an edit in GIMP where I made everything covering the manga panels transparent:



I've asked people on the Lost Media Wiki forums to help me ID this manga and there are two clues. First, tirgo, a Lost Media Wiki forum user, read my post on the Lost Media Wiki forums and posted it to Tumblr, where someone else said that the art looks as if it was drawn by Masakazu Katsura and that the manga could be I"s. https://www.tumblr.com/etrianodyssey...u?source=share

Second, doubledis, another Lost Media Wiki user, replied to me and posted this image where they attempted to make a mock-up of what the original panels could have looked like:



However, these clues are not enough for me to identify the manga on my own. Could someone please tell me the name of this manga? I've been searching for the original manga for months and I'll be over the moon if I could finally find the original.

Also, if you're having trouble identifying the manga, I've heard of the use of AI to restore or finish images. I have no idea which image restoration service to use because I know barely anything about AI image restoration, let alone the names of each image restoration AI, but maybe someone could use AI to make a mock-up of what the original manga panels looked like. Here's a Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_...l_intelligence

Kind regards,

SaoriShun

[anime2004]

Hi SaoriShun, I don't know it yet myself but I got a random first impression of "Cheeky Angel" but it's from up to 2003, and the eye might be a bit high on the unknown character, the other main character would have spikey hair but his top half is white, taller and flairs out more including bangs. Though it could be some other minor character in the bottom panel. I assume not a match, but it's been a long time since I read it. I wouldn't look too hard at that thought as a possibility. I just mention it since it some how popped into mind for a moment. I see/know what they mean regarding I's like style. I've watched the ovas but don't own any manga for it.

I'll have to give it some thought for a while, but do give it time for others to come by and see your request. Sorry to post so quickly without anything good ready to go. I'm very busy this weekend but it of interest I may poke around too regarding Vouge Nippon and that issue. Not sure I'll find anything but if something maybe useful comes up I'll let you know. Luckily 2007 is also around internet times, even if the clipping might be older.

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EDIT2: I just had one pop in for SaoriShun

I think it could be "Remote" but can go look some and see. It may not be it as it's been a long time but that one is probably worth looking into.

Title(en): Remote
Title(jp): リモート
Years: 2002-2004 in Weekly Young Magazine
Artist: Koshiba Tetsuya (小柴哲也)
Author: Seimaru Amagi (pen: 天樹征丸 ／ 樹林 伸)
Links: Wiki(en)(jp)

It got a English release by Tokyopop too.

I don't think I have a copy but I tore through several volumes in a short time back then. Maybe a guilty pleasure in that I was not completely hooked but it had a bit of appeal for me in some potential detective mystery, etc. I don't think I finished reading it.

That darn fiance that pops up! I think Haha. Not the bishonen brilliant detective.

The characters profile images may not be in every place but I think I can find some examples and return here. I'm not 100% on it yet but much more then the random mention earlier.

TL;DR…

Rambling about the (not so complicated) path to considering it

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So if it's Remote then please let the person that did the mockup art know I think that helped in a way!

[SaoriShun]

Originally Posted by anime2004

Hi SaoriShun, I don't know it yet myself but I got a random first impression of "Cheeky Angel" but it's from up to 2003, and the eye might be a bit high on the unknown character, the other main character would have spikey hair but his top half is white, taller and flairs out more including bangs. Though it could be some other minor character in the bottom panel. I assume not a match, but it's been a long time since I read it. I wouldn't look too hard at that thought as a possibility. I just mention it since it some how popped into mind for a moment. I see/know what they mean regarding I's like style. I've watched the ovas but don't own any manga for it.

I'll have to give it some thought for a while, but do give it time for others to come by and see your request. Sorry to post so quickly without anything good ready to go. I'm very busy this weekend but it of interest I may poke around too regarding Vouge Nippon and that issue. Not sure I'll find anything but if something maybe useful comes up I'll let you know. Luckily 2007 is also around internet times, even if the clipping might be older.

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EDIT2: I just had one pop in for SaoriShun

I think it could be "Remote" but can go look some and see. It may not be it as it's been a long time but that one is probably worth looking into.

Title(en): Remote
Title(jp): リモート
Years: 2002-2004 in Weekly Young Magazine
Artist: Koshiba Tetsuya (小柴哲也)
Author: Seimaru Amagi (pen: 天樹征丸 ／ 樹林 伸)
Links: Wiki(en)(jp)

It got a English release by Tokyopop too.

I don't think I have a copy but I tore through several volumes in a short time back then. Maybe a guilty pleasure in that I was not completely hooked but it had a bit of appeal for me in some potential detective mystery, etc. I don't think I finished reading it.

That darn fiance that pops up! I think Haha. Not the bishonen brilliant detective.

The characters profile images may not be in every place but I think I can find some examples and return here. I'm not 100% on it yet but much more then the random mention earlier.

TL;DR…

Rambling about the (not so complicated) path to considering it

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So if it's Remote then please let the person that did the mockup art know I think that helped in a way!

Thank you! From what I can tell the art style is incredibly similar or identical to Koshiba Tetsuya's manga Remote, and they could even be the same manga.

I've done some searching online and found scans of the official English translation of all volumes of Remote on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/manga_Re...ge/n3/mode/2up

Sorry to bother anyone by asking this of them, but could someone please go through each Remote volume in the link that I gave to check if the manga panels from John Galliano's 'Japan research diary' are from Remote? I'd do this myself but unfortunately I'm extremely time-poor because I constantly have to spend hours at my grandmother's house due to her dementia, and then I have to do hours of work every day, and by the time that I've finished both these tasks it's time to wash the dishes and go to bed.

I'm excited that I might finally identify this manga!

EDIT: I am sorry to say this, but no-one would go through the scans of Remote for me so I went through all ten volumes myself in the link that I gave and unfortunately the manga panels that I found in the 'Japan research diary' are not from Remote.
Also, if you check the images from this research diary the manga panels have Japanese text instead of English, which means that John Galliano must have taken those panels from a manga magazine published in Japan. Furthermore, he created the Akihabara page of the research diary (the page where those manga panels appeared) in October 2006, so the manga whose panels he used was published in a magazine issue published around October 2006. Remote was released in Japan from 2002 to 2004, which means that the manga panels are from a different manga.
However, the art style of the unidentified manga looks awfully a lot like Tetsuya Koshiba's, and he did have another manga of his, Mankai Otome (aka Mankai Shoujo, aka 満開少女 in kanji) published in July 2006 in issue 19 of Weekly Young Magazine. Unfortunately there are no scans of Mankai Otome/Mankai Shoujo online, only a preview of the first 20 pages of that manga (you have to buy the manga to read the rest). Could someone check if the unidentified manga is this other Tetsuya Koshiba manga?

[anime2004]

Sorry to hear it didn't turn out to be found in Remote. You may not need to review all things so quickly but continue to take suggestions and then compare and prioritize any checking. Since it is only one obscured page and is small/blurry, unless it's a famous scene set in readers memory for that specific manga (even if not a well known title) or unless someone recently saw the exact character, it may take some time to see which suggestions come up for consideration. I'd continue to collect suggestions and then see what else may seem close enough to check.

Regarding these:

Originally Posted by SaoriShun

Furthermore, he created the Akihabara page of the research diary (the page where those manga panels appeared) in October 2006, so the manga whose panels he used was published in a magazine issue published around October 2006.

Even though this article was published in 2007 the actual research diary was created from October to November 2006.

• Was there specific evidence on the date range in the article (about the 'diary')? I see the blurry page titles of Day 1 xx October 200x and am not sure if they are 2004 or 2006. While 2004 may not make sense, it looked like at least two random sources noting a 3 week trip to China and Japan in 2003 as well.
• I'm not sure if it was taken from a magazine or a tankoubon/mook, but I'm guessing magazine. (Unsure about size)
• There is a chance it comes from an older magazine/mook but acquired in 2006 (further back from the 2003 trip?)

It's good to narrow it to 2006/2003 to see if something comes up first, but there could be a chance it's older (just not newer). May be good to stick to 2006 if the Akihabara page is labeled anywhere with a date or the others that are blurry are indeed 2006 and not just a book put together after/during the 2006 trip but later containing some things from the 2003 trip.I'll try to stick to 2006.

The full text from the article may be helpful, or at least the part(s) referring to the "diary". I'm wondering what specific terms it was referred to as in Japanese text (and other details) as others discussing the article online/elsewhere may use those.It seems that there is an vogue interview with Galliano about the 2006 trip where he refers to it as a "scrapbook" in responses multiple times, but this could just be a translation if it was not conducted in english. It might help with searches. (prior to finding that, "travel log" and "journal" did not turn up much more as you've probably also found)

Other thoughts that are less likely to be it (but more about style): I don't think that it is Gantz (graphic violence/etc) but Oku Hiroya has some females with the eyes that are wider apart while small; (later characters in Gantz; but usually the hair is flat and black matte, maybe some screen tone but not quite like the "I`s" like hair if comparing to that; also puffs the cheeks a bit and tapers in to the chin, but some 3/4 angles or characters/shots may not have the tapering). For that artist there was "Me-Teru no Kimochi" (ecchi/mature) (め～てるの気持ち) in 2006, with a male that shaves his head and it grows back in short for a while, but I'm pretty sure that that is not it. Just noting someone with maybe a similar style or at least with the farther apart and smaller eyes on females. There is also an adult-only artist (Haruki) that has a couple character with "similar" hair style to the "I`s" example (and the smaller wider spaced eyes), but has more pointed nose contours and again I don't think that's a match here for something picked up around 2006.

Regarding the Maid photo (in case you've not gotten this info yet):

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@home maid cafe outfit (links, ex. photo, article)

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That one is a bit off-topic (and wasn't requested here) but I figured I'd note it since my friends have been to @home cafe so it looked familiar and some quick searching turned up some things (and the article).

I'll keep it in mind and if something maybe worth noting comes up I'll let you know.

[BaaBaaBlackSheep]

Okay, I need help finding this manga, but I don't remember the title, character names, or author. I remember one chapter in a lot of detail, though. It's in black and white, with a pretty but simple art style. It shows a slim, teen girl in shorts and black tights and a blonde teen boy wearing a baseball cap and a very loose shirt walking down the streets of their city, carrying sparklers in a white plastic bag. But then the girl gets grabbed by a thuggish man, and it's implied that he was going to assault her. So the boy grabs a wooden plank and hits the man with it, and the girl escapes from his grasp. But the man then grabs the boy and then says that he "isn't bad himself" and that he has a 'pretty face'. After hearing this, the boy kinda freezes up, and is really scared, until the girl hits the man with a metal pipe, and they both run away and escape. Then, it shows them on a swing set on a hill. The boy tells the girl that his step-father r*ped him after his mother died because his face looks like his mothers. There is some pretty graphic images of the step father pushing the boy down on his bed and putting his hand under his shirt. Then, his father forced him to become a prostitute to help out with the money. He then reveals that sparklers that they had in the plastic bag were given to him by a 'client', because he was so excited to go light them with her, so he begged the 'client' to get them for him. Then, it shows the girl and the boy crying, as she comforts him, and tells him that she's like a brother to her, and she's really sorry for what happened to him. Pls tell me if you know the title!!
Tl;Dr: A boy is r*ped and forced to become a prostitute by his step-father after his mother died, and he meets a girl and goes to light sparklers with her on a hill.

[anime2004]

Originally Posted by BaaBaaBlackSheep

Okay, I need help finding this manga, but I don't remember the title, character names, or author. I remember one chapter in a lot of detail, though. It's in black and white, with a pretty but simple art style. It shows a slim, teen girl in shorts and black tights and a blonde teen boy wearing a baseball cap and a very loose shirt walking down the streets of their city, carrying sparklers in a white plastic bag. But then the girl gets grabbed by a thuggish man, and it's implied that he was going to assault her. So the boy grabs a wooden plank and hits the man with it, and the girl escapes from his grasp. But the man then grabs the boy and then says that he "isn't bad himself" and that he has a 'pretty face'. After hearing this, the boy kinda freezes up, and is really scared, until the girl hits the man with a metal pipe, and they both run away and escape. Then, it shows them on a swing set on a hill. The boy tells the girl that his step-father r*ped him after his mother died because his face looks like his mothers. There is some pretty graphic images of the step father pushing the boy down on his bed and putting his hand under his shirt. Then, his father forced him to become a prostitute to help out with the money. He then reveals that sparklers that they had in the plastic bag were given to him by a 'client', because he was so excited to go light them with her, so he begged the 'client' to get them for him. Then, it shows the girl and the boy crying, as she comforts him, and tells him that she's like a brother to her, and she's really sorry for what happened to him. Pls tell me if you know the title!!
Tl;Dr: A boy is r*ped and forced to become a prostitute by his step-father after his mother died, and he meets a girl and goes to light sparklers with her on a hill.

That should be this oneshot (pretty sure):
Title: Sodom no Hana ni Kiraboshi （ソドムの花にキラ星）
Author: Aoi Haru （碧井ハル）
Year: 2019 / 2020 (In Shueisha's Margaret（マーガレット）(Wiki(en)(jp))
Links: (Author's Page of Books / Works ; Publisher's Digital Listing with first few pages; In authors list (under A's) here)
※(Part1 Jan. 01 2020; Part2 Jan 10, 2020 issue, per Author's site & Margaret's jp wikipedia; Mar. 2020 printed volume; Kinokuniya(jp) listing )

I did some quick targeted searches regarding "Forced Prostitution" and later "Runaway/s" to narrow it down but there were other candidates. Based on synopses and title with Hana / glittering/spakling stars- I believe that's what you're looking for but if not then just let us know as there may be a few others to look over or suggest you look into to see.

Hope that helps!

[BaaBaaBlackSheep]

Originally Posted by anime2004

That should be this oneshot (pretty sure):
Title: Sodom no Hana ni Kiraboshi （ソドムの花にキラ星）
Author: Aoi Haru （碧井ハル）
Year: 2019 / 2020 (In Shueisha's Margaret（マーガレット）(Wiki(en)(jp))
Links: (Author's Page of Books / Works ; Publisher's Digital Listing with first few pages; In authors list (under A's) here)
※(Part1 Jan. 01 2020; Part2 Jan 10, 2020 issue, per Author's site & Margaret's jp wikipedia; Mar. 2020 printed volume; Kinokuniya(jp) listing )

I did some quick targeted searches regarding "Forced Prostitution" and later "Runaway/s" to narrow it down but there were other candidates. Based on synopses and title with Hana / glittering/spakling stars- I believe that's what you're looking for but if not then just let us know as there may be a few others to look over or suggest you look into to see.

Hope that helps!

Yes, it is this!! Thank you, I've been looking for it for months!

[SaoriShun]

Sorry to post again so soon, but I have the mystery manga from John Galliano's Japan research diary in better quality:



Could someone please identify this manga? All I know is that these panels were published no later than 29 October 2006.

[Angelred1453]

I'm trying to find the name of the show in an old video. The video was deleted, but I recall what happens. A group of robot servants are crushed under a chandelier, and a girl proceeds to jump on top of another one, before she is hit in the back by some kind of headpiece(looks like a tiara, reminds me a bit of sailor moon(definitely NOT that)), only for it be revealed the girl is a robot as well as she lays there, leaking oil or something brown. Another girl then proceeds to kick off a robot's head before fleeing, with the servants in pursuit. I know the style, it was very similar to Kill la Kills style.

Robot servants look identical.

Tiara or whatever the headgear is I believe looks like Wonder Woman's tiara only fully silver.

One of the maids survives the impact, and half of her face is destroyed, revealing the circuits under it.

It's not from: Najica Blitz Tactics, Gintama, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

I don't think its from these, but I could be totally wrong: Chobits, Magical Teacher Negima, Mahoromatic or Lupin III

Art Style is similar to original Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2 and Ghost Stories(in the animation, not in any particular art)

[Penpa]

I am looking for a manga I read some time back. But one scene I remember is he uses magic and calls a Goddess that breaks through the sky looking down at the monster and crys blood tears that fall onto the monster and dissolves the monster and when it's done the broken sky broken like a broken window glasses closes up. And he tells the lady knight to tell the soldiers coming she killed the beast. But the other knights that investigates says the monster has no insides and was a undead or someone created the monster but now it just a mass of clump of monster. And I think that monster that got dissolved was a zombie monster.

Update:
Ok, since it harder nowdays for these sites to identify mangas. I posted to another site well visited and got a post for it. And that was the manga I was looking for. I guess that other site will be my go to find manga that I am looking for now.

"nito isekai"

[RaZi3l]

Need some help. I'm looking for the manga title/name:

I read it about 10~15 or more years ago, All I remember is that it is a collection of short stories about an ongoing war (might be a spinoff of a series) and I partly remember one of the short story, which is as follow:

The story takes place in a modern city devastated by an ongoing war.
A stranded sniper from a high-rise building scoped on a group of opponent soldiers on the streets. The group of soldiers just took a captive of a surviving female civilian and are about to r*pe her.

The sniper waited until they proceed to the act, thinking they would lower their guard down during the act. And as it happens, he quickly snipes the group of soldiers.
Later on, the soldier rescues the girl, and as he waits for rescue, he forms a bond with the girl.

A few days later, a small group of enemy soldiers sweeping the battlefield comes. As he proceeds to snipe at them, things go south quickly as a soldier manages to call for reinforcement before the protagonist can finish him off.

Soon a large group of soldiers sweeps the building he is in, and he turns pessimistic about the situation. He has a short conversation with the girl before the soldier decides to make a last stand and promises to protect the girl.
Unfortunately, he doesn't manage to do much about the situation and soon dies from gunshots. Leaving the girl at the mercy of the enemy soldiers and the story ends.

The art style was old manga realistic (Kinda similar to 20th-century boys, but darker and grittier).
I don't remember the title or where I read it.
Wanted to read more, as there are more short stories aside from this one, but I have no luck trying to find it.

P.S. There may be some inaccuracy on the part I wrote here since I can't exactly remember it.

[anime2004]

This might be part of one of the saikano spinoffs? (noted below)

NOTE: I will bold parts of your quote below, that seem to match. Underlined are parts that are similar but might not quite match.

Originally Posted by RaZi3l

Need some help. I'm looking for the manga title/name:

I read it about 10~15 or more years ago, All I remember is that it is a collection of short stories about an ongoing war (might be a spinoff of a series) and I partly remember one of the short story, which is as follow:

The story takes place in a modern city devastated by an ongoing war.
A stranded sniper from a high-rise building scoped on a group of opponent soldiers on the streets. The group of soldiers just took a captive of a surviving female civilian and are about to r*pe her.

The sniper waited until they proceed to the act, thinking they would lower their guard down during the act. And as it happens, he quickly snipes the group of soldiers.
Later on, the soldier rescues the girl, and as he waits for rescue, he forms a bond with the girl.

A few days later, a small group of enemy soldiers sweeping the battlefield comes. As he proceeds to snipe at them, things go south quickly as a soldier manages to call for reinforcement before the protagonist can finish him off.

Soon a large group of soldiers sweeps the building he is in, and he turns pessimistic about the situation. He has a short conversation with the girl before the soldier decides to make a last stand and promises to protect the girl.
Unfortunately, he doesn't manage to do much about the situation and soon dies from gunshots. Leaving the girl at the mercy of the enemy soldiers and the story ends.

The art style was old manga realistic (Kinda similar to 20th-century boys, but darker and grittier).
I don't remember the title or where I read it.
Wanted to read more, as there are more short stories aside from this one, but I have no luck trying to find it.

P.S. There may be some inaccuracy on the part I wrote here since I can't exactly remember it.

• (for others reading the quote above, note the bold emphasis is my own)
• (note about the "pessimistic" part - I think is generally matching; though it is worth noting that the spinoff below is told/narrated at times from the perspective of a friend, and it comments with heavy opinion on the situation/story a few times; which aligns with this as well)
• (note about the "rescues the girl" / "waits for rescue" - this part is blurry in my memory as well but there was a joke that stood out about this. Also, he does essentially give her protection later.)

The lead in to this and general concept that you've described sounds close to one of the spinoff / side story of Saikano ? :

Title(en): Love Story, Killed
Title(jp): LOVE STORY, KILLED.　
Years: 2002 (2002年7月15日) (oneshot, spinoff; set in Saikano's time/world)
Author: Shin Takahashi （高橋しん／高橋 真）
Links: Wiki(en)(jp) (more below)

It was serialized in "Big Comic Spirits" / 「ビッグコミックスピリッツ」and commemorates the TV anime adaptation of Saikano.

It may have ended up in a collection (published in 2006) with a few others related to Saikano, see the Japanese wikipedia link above:
「最終兵器彼女外伝集 世界の果てには君と二人で」

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Some places don't note that it was in the collection, but it's noted in places like:

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However, I'm not sure if you're thinking of Takahashi's 2006 collection, but if not that then maybe it was along side the other authors in the original 2002 July 15th serialization.

List of other titles along side it in the serialization (jp archive.org) i are on the publishers old site at least.

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List of other titles in that 2002-07-15 publication (quick convenient/preservation paste from link above; in japanese)

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I'm not sure if it it matches Urasawa's 20th-century boys style thought/memory, but:

• "Love Story, Killed" shared the same Big Comic Spirits publisher as 20th-century boys, in the same issue in fact),
• I remember a clash between more realistic nameless/faceless soldiers style and Takahashi's typical protagonists' styles.

Though it has been a while and I'm not sure if it matches up enough, but it is the most similar that I know at the moment, and it seemed worth noting. It's possible you read "Love Story, Killed" and then also another title in that serialization (20th century boys, even) and so memorys could blur some.

Side notes:

• the (japanese) bookwalker samples of the 2006 collection will be the first part of the book's spinoff and may not show this 2002 spinoff, and it may be better to look into reviews/samples for the specific (2002) serialization / publication of the story noted above if considering if it looks familiar. Though you might see the characters on the back cover, it won't really get across the actual grittiness/darkness of "Love Story, Killed" (beware, it is Not Safe For Work and was meant to stir emotions/feelings "in more of a bad way" compare to Saikano, etc.).
• The author said it/he was somewhat inspired by Leiji Matsumoto's 戦場マンガシリーズ (Battlefield Manga Series) but he thought it would be rude to make/claim that it was an homage. But that will be much older and distinct style/time.)
• Just adding the full title of the parent series for others searching in the future: (Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet ) (最終兵器彼女) (Saishuu Heiki Kanojo) (She, the Ultimate Weapon)

Otherwise when I think of older and more realistic (or more comic-like) style I started to think of Yoshihiro Tatsumi (but those mostly historical war like settings), or the couple non fantasy/foke-lore/horor from Shigeru Mizuki; and I wouldn't at first suspect;. or Golgo 13, but I did't end up reading much of it in the past so I can't say if that is relevant at all (or just for the style/time discussion). I don't think these last ones are worth looking too deeply into at the moment beyond style. There are likely many others with style/themes that I don't know that may fit better than these other ones I note, so if it isn't by chance "Love Story, Killed" and or one/some of the ones in that 2002-07-15 weekly serialization list above, then it may need time for others to also take a look here or for me to poke around.

Hope that that may be it or helps with thoughts and considering others in that serialization in case you read more that one or they blended together in story/memory. If that is not it then take a look at the others in that list just to be sure since they may look more familiar if you happened to be remembering "Love Story, Killed" but also some other series in that weekly issue.

[BWTraveller]

I've ended up forgetting the names of two romcom manga that I thought I might look back at.

The first one I thought was called "Gamer Girlfriend" but what I recall doesn't show up for that. A guy plays a cute girl character on an MMO and has a friend there (with a male avatar) that gets along great with him. They decide to meet up offline, and he's worried what the guy will say when he finds out he's not a girl. Then he hears someone mutter his username and stumbles on a small girl around his age. Not only were both crossplaying, but she eventually has him start crossdressing to hide their relationship from her strict parents or something like that.

The other one has a guy who's big on dating sims. He dumped a route in fury at the start when it was revealed that his favorite character had a boyfriend before the player character. He's got a really big thing about innocence, generally dislikes real girls and particularly hates non-virgin girls. He ends up coming across a Gal who's been cornered by some guys, and against his better judgment speaks up to help her. Turns out she's a classmate of his and pretty quickly starts trying to alter her appearance to match his ideal (2D) girl.

EDIT: Oh, one other series. It's technically a soccer manga, but a bit off. The MC made some kind of promise with his two childhood friends (who I think go to a different school) and desperately tries to join the soccer club at his high school, but the only ones in the club are a pair of strange, rather perverted girls. They have their own goals and eventually get serious, but it's a struggle. Only other thing I remember is the girls have a rival who goes to an all-boys school while crossdressing. She thinks she's got them all fooled, but every time she makes an excuse to change and shower separately or at different times, after her departure the guys and coach start gushing about how cute she is, what a hard worker she is, and how adorable it is that she actually thinks she's got any of them fooled.

[RaZi3l]

Hi,

I appreciate your help.
So I checked "Love Story, Killed", and I think it is most likely to be the one.

Although some things I remembered differently, it's likely due to memory blur (It's been long time ago since I first read it).

And it is also very likely that I'm reading "Takahashi's 2006 collection"
Since I'm sure that the previous work and the next work after "Love Story, Killed" I've read are from the same author.

Once again thank you very much for bringing this ongoing curiosity of mine to closure.
Bless you brother/sister.