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Urasekai Picnic or if you prefer a less weeb title "Otherside Picnic", a LN adapted to a manga.
If you're a gamer or a fan of Russian 80's literature that was poorly adapted into a movie you might be hearing "Cheeki breeki" and "Get out of here Stalker".
The series follows Sorawo Kamikoshi, a young adult who is a bit of a loner and whose hobby is urban exploration. She comes across a doorway in an abandoned apartment that when walked through transports the person to another world that seems empty.
On her third visit she nearly dies to a creature she recognizes from an urban legend and is saved by Toriko Nishim, a woman who is searching the Otherside for a friend of hers that went missing there.
Motivated by the promise of cash Sorawo helps Toriko search the otherside for her friend. It quickly becomes apparent that the Otherside is filled with death traps-hazodous natural phenomena referred to as "Anomalies", and there are a number of hostile creatures who seem to correlate to myths and urban legends.
The title, "Otherside Picnic", is a reference to "Roadside Picnic", the game upon which the movie and game series "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." is adapted from. It shares a number of elements from it; the hostile environment and creatures, artifacts that can be found naturally or from dead creatures that esoteric collectors will pay good cash for if someone is brave or suicidal enough to hazard the trip, and the fact that the location itself seems to be breaking down the very laws of reality. It focuses a bit more on the supernatural aspect and the mystery of "What the hell is going on with that place" than S.T.A.L.K.E.R does, which is more focused on the day to day struggles of surviving and the nebulous legend of a wish granting place.
The series has some elements of yuri, the three primary female characters are pretty gay and Toriko very obviously had some sort of crush on the woman whose gone missing but it's not the main focus. The world building and mystery is well done and the characters are well written and have depth.
The character relationships avoid the usual romantic plots and such and focus on their development and learning more about the characters themselves without outright spelling things out for readers and subtly foreshadowing things- Toriko for example seems rather comfortable and knowledgable about guns for a woman her age, especially for Japan. Sorawo's money motivation seems to be more than just having money for the sake of having money or being greedy, and her loner nature seems to go beyond being an introvert-there are indications that she doesn't quite see the world the same way others do.
Anyways I really suggest checking it out, it's done with a level of quality that I would feel comfortable recommending it to people who don't usually read manga. Also it looks like it might be getting an anime adaptation so fingers crossed it doesn't suck.
If you're a gamer or a fan of Russian 80's literature that was poorly adapted into a movie you might be hearing "Cheeki breeki" and "Get out of here Stalker".
The series follows Sorawo Kamikoshi, a young adult who is a bit of a loner and whose hobby is urban exploration. She comes across a doorway in an abandoned apartment that when walked through transports the person to another world that seems empty.
On her third visit she nearly dies to a creature she recognizes from an urban legend and is saved by Toriko Nishim, a woman who is searching the Otherside for a friend of hers that went missing there.
Motivated by the promise of cash Sorawo helps Toriko search the otherside for her friend. It quickly becomes apparent that the Otherside is filled with death traps-hazodous natural phenomena referred to as "Anomalies", and there are a number of hostile creatures who seem to correlate to myths and urban legends.
The title, "Otherside Picnic", is a reference to "Roadside Picnic", the game upon which the movie and game series "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." is adapted from. It shares a number of elements from it; the hostile environment and creatures, artifacts that can be found naturally or from dead creatures that esoteric collectors will pay good cash for if someone is brave or suicidal enough to hazard the trip, and the fact that the location itself seems to be breaking down the very laws of reality. It focuses a bit more on the supernatural aspect and the mystery of "What the hell is going on with that place" than S.T.A.L.K.E.R does, which is more focused on the day to day struggles of surviving and the nebulous legend of a wish granting place.
The series has some elements of yuri, the three primary female characters are pretty gay and Toriko very obviously had some sort of crush on the woman whose gone missing but it's not the main focus. The world building and mystery is well done and the characters are well written and have depth.
The character relationships avoid the usual romantic plots and such and focus on their development and learning more about the characters themselves without outright spelling things out for readers and subtly foreshadowing things- Toriko for example seems rather comfortable and knowledgable about guns for a woman her age, especially for Japan. Sorawo's money motivation seems to be more than just having money for the sake of having money or being greedy, and her loner nature seems to go beyond being an introvert-there are indications that she doesn't quite see the world the same way others do.
Anyways I really suggest checking it out, it's done with a level of quality that I would feel comfortable recommending it to people who don't usually read manga. Also it looks like it might be getting an anime adaptation so fingers crossed it doesn't suck.
