Manga discussion

[Hard core Rikki]

If you remember the anime thread, this one is about manga ;p

Which mangas did you read recently or appreciate, by the way?

[cel123]

slam dunk
ranma 1/2
hunter x hunter
one piece

and a lot more...

and ofcourse NARUTO, if youre watching the anime quit it now, the manga is FAR MORE ADVANCED and has revealed deep sh** plots

[skoreanime]

Shaman King is the latest series I finished. Differs from the anime quite of bit of course, but still good nontheless.

And there's too many titles for me to list that I like I much more prefer reading manga then watching anime .

[Phil]

seconded. manga is better imo. i love reading bsckwards for some reason

[cel123]

yup, plus there are many censored stuff in animes like in tenjo tenge, unlike in the manga they show BOOBS!, BOOBS man!

btw i also read H-MANGAS/DOUJINS

[cottonvibes]

i like anime better.

only two manga i've read are Inuyasha and Suzuka, and i stoped reading them both after a couple months :/

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

I have read like less than 20 manga in total.

Ranma 1/2, Trigun (I have not yet read Maximum allthough I have it), Flame of Recca, Zombie Powder (which was discontinued), Naruto, Akira, Cowboy Bepop and Appleseed.

I started reading Love Hina, but then stopped as I did not have the other volumes same goes for Great Teacher Onizuka. And I read the first volume of .Hack Legend of the twilight. I have also read one volume of AI I love you. I had also been reading Maccross 7 TRASH but I got over it...

Manga is a lot harder to come by here in South Africa (at least where I live) and it costs about the same as anime...and seeing as I get more out of anime, I usually go for anime instead.

[Proto]

Hmm... ok let me see

on clamp: (they need they own category )
Tsubase Reservoir Chronicles (ongoing)
xxxHolic
Card Captor Sakura

on shounen:

Naruto
Bleach
Claymore
d.gray-man
Mahou Sensei Negima
Full Metal Alchemist
Kekkaishi
Dragon quest: Dai no Daibouken
Magical Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
Inuyasha (what!!! This one is actually going to end soon! )

on miscelaneous:
Pretty face
Mx0
Love Hina
Gakuen Alice
Beach Stars
20th Century Boys (from the creator of Monster!)
Elfen Lied
Phantom Wizard
Mahoraba

on ROFLMAO:
School Rumble

on shoujo:
Fruits basket
Perfect girl evolution
Vampire Knight
Maria Sama ga Miteru
Venus Cappricchio
Kashimashi
on the light novels section (they are not manga but I'm pretty sure we won't be making a thread for this):

Suzumiya Haruhi
Zero no Tsukaima
Juuni Kokki

on the visual novel section (aka games with text)
Tsukihime
Fate Stay Night
Planetarian
Umineko no Naku Koro ni (on going)

And a whole bunch I must be forgetting.

Added later:
Hellsing
Mai Hime
Mai Otome

[Hard core Rikki]

Perfect Girl Evolution sure was a freakishly entertaining read, haha (especially the first chapters/volumes)

[cottonvibes]

thats a big list Proto

btw, i've always wondered if comedy manga are actually funny.

it seems like School Rumble would loose all its humor if it didn't have colored animation, music, and voice acting.

same goes for Ouran Highschool Host club.

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Manga have a slightly different way of being funny, but they can be just as funny as an anime if not more so due to the lack of censoring and the possible missing of something due to the rapid action of an anime..

[Hard core Rikki]

PGE has an anime now too ;p
Perfect Girl Evolution :: Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

[cottonvibes]

censoring is sometimes more funny IMO.

for instance, if in a comedy anime the character gets mad and just says "BEEP!!!" **** @#$@

its funny.

but if you actually know the bad-words the character is saying, then it looses its humor.

Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

PGE has an anime now too ;p
Perfect Girl Evolution :: Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

i watched that anime

It reminds me of a less-funny Ouran Highschool Host Club.

i rate it 4/5 stars, whereas i rate Ouran 5/5

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Well yes...but for instance Dragonball when it got dubbed lost a lot of it's humour due to censoring....the Manga still has all of that...

O yeah...I forgot...I also read Dragonball.

[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by SCHUMI-4-EVA

Well yes...but for instance Dragonball when it got dubbed lost a lot of it's humour due to censoring....the Manga still has all of that...

well thats just because dubs sux0r, and those censors weren't intentional.


the original japanese uncut version of anime is usually given alot of freedom with its content. But in comedy anime, sometimes in order to be funny they censor things...
similar to in FFVII, Barret says stuff like @@#$!! all the time. and its funny.

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Still...the manga is usually the complete original....so it's even better than the japanese uncut version of the anime...

Not to mention manga is usually not forced to deal with time constraints.....

[ozzgx4]

Well the ones that I am reading are:
-Case Closed
-Naruto
-Yu-gi-Oh
And there was this one mange that I thought looked interesting but it turned out to be about 2 gay police officers, nd it just put me off lol-cant remember the name though

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Yu-Gi-Oh! ? How's the manga?

[Phil]

Dragonbal is better as manga....the anime seems more childish imo

And yu gi oh manga is addictive.......even though i hate yu gi oh, the manga is brilliant! and funny. very very funny

[skoreanime]

I liked the Mai Hime and Mai Otome manga better then the anime. They filled the anime up with a lot more drama...more then I care to have in a series