Forum Meta => Archive => Arts and Entertainment Archive => Topic started by: Allama on January 10, 2008, 02:05:54 PM
Title: Manga
Post by: Allama on January 10, 2008, 02:05:54 PM
Alright, I had to do it. What genres do you enjoy? Specific titles? Preferred art styles? Manhwa: yes or no?
In other words, just talk about manga in some way, shape, or form. ^_^
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Please don't bother posting if you're just going to say "I don't like manga" or "I never got into it." That gets old fast. ;D
Title: Re: Manga
Post by: Delfos on January 12, 2008, 02:04:43 AM
Is this only for manga magazines or all genres? If all, I love Akira, god of all classics.
Title: Re: Manga
Post by: Eientei on January 13, 2008, 12:17:38 AM
Mahjong Legend Akagi, although the anime they made based on it is even better. Yes, it's about a guy who plays mahjong, and it might be the best thing ever.
Title: Re: Manga
Post by: Allama on January 14, 2008, 02:49:48 PM
Mahjong Legend Akagi, although the anime they made based on it is even better. Yes, it's about a guy who plays mahjong, and it might be the best thing ever.
That sounds quite interesting, who writes/illustrates it?
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These are the titles I follow/ed and own, excluding 1-shots and the ones I wasn't really into:
Complete: .Hack//Legend of the Twilight (3 volumes) DeathNote (12 volumes) Kamichama Karin (7 volumes) Rurouni Kenshin (28 volumes) Someday's Dreamers (2 volumes)
I have a fairly decent collection of seinen manga, and a fair smattering of shonen. Lately I've been getting more into shojo manga for some reason, despite having gotten to the age where a lady normally starts growing out of that kind of thing. The Tarot Cafe is really the only josei series I've read, which is obviously odd as I'm exactly the demographic they're targeted towards. ::)
I've looked up a couple other series intended for the adult female audience lately, so that might change; shojo manga, especially romance, tends to be too idealized and is thus highly unrealistic (not to mention silly). They're fun for those moments when you want to quit thinking for a while, but josei is probably more my speed these days anyway.
Why I enjoy seinen so much, though, I have no clue. Series marketed for more mature men, like Yotsuba&! and xxxHolic just appeal to me somehow in their humor, mix of realism/surreal themes, and lack of boobs all over the place (a great improvement over most shonen).
Title: Re: Manga
Post by: geek girl on January 15, 2008, 10:10:56 AM
Van Von Hunter (awesome though I cant afford to buy it so I have to do it over the internet and it takes forever to update bah)
Chobits (as a friend had it)
those are the only series I've got into really, everything else has just been I've read a bit as I found some mainly I watch the anime and read various webcomics
Title: Re: Manga
Post by: Eientei on January 18, 2008, 11:37:17 PM
The Akagi manga was written by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. I'm not familiar with him, but I know Akagi is a prequel to an earlier work, Ten, about Akagi's later years. I need to find that translated somewhere.