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I love manga, of any sort really. My favourite series' are Naruto, Fruits Basket, Love Hina, Negima, A.I. Love You, Shaman King (Or as one of my friends would tell me...Mankin. :P), Inuyasha, .hack//Legend of the Twilight, and some other ones that don't quite stand out enough at the moment. I would check my bookshelf, but I'm not at home. ^^;;
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On and off, on and off. Usually, I've caught one of the TV shows based on them and wanted to learn more. A few attracted my interest by interesting artwork or recommendation or something in the jacket copy. (See the "Does a Book Need a Hook?" thread in another forum for more on that.)
On the other hand, I was never much of a reader of American comic books, even in my first childhood. I did, however, watch a lot of Japanimation on TV in those days.
"Dragonball Z" is probably the one I've had the most interest in, having started by catching the beginning of it...but I grew weary of trying to figure out just where I was in the interminable stretches of episodes. I like a thing to have a beginning, a middle...and come to some kind of natural end, or at least a stopping point.
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Hm...I don't really take an interest to Dragon Ball Z. Although I'm the same way, I like to read manga of anime series' that I've watched/liked. =)
I've never seen Akira, I've heard that it's good.
I try to find things within my genre preferences, but there's lots of times when I go totally off and find something completely different from what I'm used to.
Today I bought some The Ring Manga. #1, #2, Birthday 0, and Birthday. =) I've read 3 of them so far. All very good. =D
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Oh, one other thing...I find the occasional policy of printing translated manga novels from right to left disconcerting. I know it's true to the art and concept and original Japanese publication, but it makes it hard to relate to in this part of the world. If I knew how to read Japanese I might be able to handle it better...
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I find the occasional policy of printing translated manga novels from right to left disconcerting.
Hm. I'm the opposite. I have more trouble reading Western-ized manga (left-to-right) than traditional style. It's easier for me, I read lots of them. =D In fact, I only have a few that aren't "authentic".
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In terms of changing the reading order, most manga artists insist that when translated, the original Japanese format is kept. Printers usually just use mirror images to make it left to right, and the artists feel that their art suffers from being flipped in this way.
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Oh, I certainly understand that point of view. I have a short list of things I'd like to see not done to my work in overseas publication, assuming I can ever get that far. (Not changing American spellings on publication in the UK comes to mind.) The right to left printing is merely disconcerting to *me*. It wouldn't---and, really, it hasn't---stopped me from reading something I wanted to read.
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Though I read alot of comics I have a hard time looking through most manga. Mostly what turns me off is the art in alot of the books, being that its black and white, are poorly done so as to fill huge amounts of pages.
That being said, I love anime. My favorites so far have been: Samuri Champloo, Cowboy Bebop (I liked the movie a bit more then the series), Trigun, Record of the Lodos Wars, Princess Mononoke, El'Hazard is very entertaining, Akira was strange, but well done, Evangalion was good except for the last few episodes, where it just go to wierd for its own good. Ninja Scroll is just a classic.
Thats all I can think of at the momment, and forgive my spelling in the case of some of those titles, Im pretty sure theres a few misspellings in there.
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I'm like many of the others in that I haven't actually read any manga but I do enjoy watching anime (usually just with english subtitles cuz far too few of them are dubbed into english without sounding... well, stupid.)
The ones I've enjoyed include: Full Metel Alchemist, Rurouni Kenshin, Naruto, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, Dragonball Z.
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I have read tons of manga (too many to list) that I read and watch some anime as well. I'll just list a few: Blade of the Immortal, Hellsing, Cardcaptor Sakura, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Absolute Boyfriend, Kaze Hikaru, Fullmetal Alchemist, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball Z, Yu-gi-oh!, Naruto, and Cowboy Bebop... These titles here are just the tip of the iceberg!
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Another update to my list: xxxHOLiC That is one of the best manga ever. I recently got volumes 1-3, and I got volume 4 for Christmas.
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I read some of the manly man mangas. My favorites are:
- Berserk (NOT for the weak hearted, it is very violent and gory, and has other elements that turn off a lot of people, but the story is fantastic, the art is amazing, and characters are beautifully brought to life)
- Blade of the Immortal (Another very violent/gory one about an immortal samurai swordsman. Not nearly as rough and tumble as Berserk, the story is nearly as good, the art is the best I've ever seen in a manga (or comic in general), and the charaters are very well done).
-Gantz (a little less violent than Blade, but with some nudity and gory. Fun SciFi story)
- Bleach (this is the tamest of the manly man manga I read. Had swrod play and other violent content, but safe enough for most teenage readers and above ... about as violent as an american comic like X-men, but a more interesting story)
- One Piece (good clean fun, and very funny at times)
Others that I have read in the past and liked:
-Akira (which is very different than the animated movie of the same name)
- Battle Angel Alita (also very different from the anime counterpart)
There's more, but that's the stuff off the top of my head. Girls I know tend to like the stuff from CLAMP (look them up, they're huge and have a ton of fan sites in many languages).
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I've taken a recent interest in the TV version of "One Piece"---I find it interesting, but, like so many of the long-running Japanimation series, it's difficult to jump in somewhere between the beginning and whatever passes for the end, and be able to understand the characters and situations and what's actually going on.
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Robert - I suggest buying the manga volumes for One Piece. That way you can be sure to begin from the start and stuff. I don't watch as much anime as I read manga because of that. I find it easier to begin a manga halfway, because they usually have a series explanation at the start.
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I was thinking of doing just that...but the bookstore I visit regularly has "One Piece" books seven and eight only---which, from the copy on the back (or is it the front?), book eight starts about where I came in. I'll hunt around a little more, and there's always online purchase as a final backup...
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Most manga and anime series aren't that great. So far there are three that I've really really liked:
Berserk - manga and anime series Gungrave - anime series Wolf's Rain - anime series
The storylines of these three are very good, and the characters excelently developed. Berserk, someone mentioned this before, is not for the faint hearted. The other two are pretty violent as well.
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Rcorporon - I'm pretty sure that they've published quite a few of them in English (Naruto). I've seen 8 at least, I think I saw 9 (or was that another manga?) But then again, I don't know how long the series goes for.
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Naruto is by far the best manga i'v ever read in the genre , the anime is also one of my favourites... The guy did a good job of engaging the reader's emotions despite using cliche characters , he gave them depth .
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Since this thread has come back...I seem to have a recent interest in something called "Code Lyoko"...which was running fairly regularly on the Cartoon Network up until the beginning of June, then got cut back. I was interested enough to buy three DVDs of it, though I found I'd seen most of the episodes on them. I gather, though, that it's not pure anime, though it's definitely in the style...comes partially out of France, I believe...
(It's a fairly common occurance in my life. I get intensely interested in something (TV series, movie, book, writer, whatever.) I obsess about details. Then it fades and I'm on to something else...but the interest usually stays with me and I'm on the lookout for more of the same.)
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I haven't read much of the Naruto manga (I usually prefer the anime over the manga when I have the choice), but what I did read I liked even if it is for a younger audience than the one I belong to.
And I completely agree, discipuli, that Kishimoto keeps the reader/watcher involved through engaging the reader's emotions. When I got a hold of the anime, I had to keep watching the next episode and the next because I cared about the characters and wanted to see what happened to them. I haven't watched the filler episodes, though, because I have heard that for the most part they are not that well-done, but I have read through Kakashi Gaiden. I was going to wait for the anime to get to that point, but as Kakashi is by far one of my favorite characters and because the filler episodes don't seem like they are going to end any time soon, I read it and throroughly enjoyed it.
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