Manga

[Neversoft]

Just finished reading Solanin. It was ******* amazing. The last few chapters were absolutely perfect. Damn... everything about it was perfect! I'm speechless. It's only 28 chapters long. Viz released it over here in one big 400+ page book. If you get a chance to read it, don't pass up the opportunity. It follows a group of college graduates who quite frankly don't know what to do with their lives, and feel out of place in the world. I'm sure pretty much everyone will be able to relate to this manga in one way or another. It deals with realistic topics and the characters are so human. They are believable as real people. Their actions, appearance, words... all of it is so humanly realistic that it doesn't at all seem like a work of fiction. If someone told me it was a true story I wouldn't be surprised.

[Southe,]

Finaly got my NHK 1 happy tho its a bit flimsy compared to my Viz books

[buttons]

hi

Do you read manga? yes

Do you prefer it to anime? well I usually read the manga first if it's out then the anime and I find I tend to be disappointed with the anime compared to the manga, if I watched the anime first I'll like it ... until I read the manga and feel it's inferior, mostly because the anime sometimes have to be limited and miss out a lot so yeah

What are your favourites? Ouran High, yeh I'm a girl it's allowed even though it's been on going for so long and takes ages to come out even in the Japanese versions ;_; Skip Beat!, Fruits Basket & Vampire Knight are my favourties although they're not my favourite anime excluding Skip Beat.

Don't think you'd have read any of them though

[Niall!]

hi

Do you read manga? yes

Do you prefer it to anime? well I usually read the manga first if it's out then the anime and I find I tend to be disappointed with the anime compared to the manga, if I watched the anime first I'll like it ... until I read the manga and feel it's inferior, mostly because the anime sometimes have to be limited and miss out a lot so yeah

What are your favourites? Ouran High, yeh I'm a girl it's allowed even though it's been on going for so long and takes ages to come out even in the Japanese versions ;_; Skip Beat!, Fruits Basket & Vampire Knight are my favourties although they're not my favourite anime excluding Skip Beat.

Don't think you'd have read any of them though

Ouran High has a gay couple in it now, I'll think I'll start it now.

[buttons]

They don't, it's just a thing they put on for the sake of the host club The main character is a bit of a gender bender though so you might like it

[Niall!]

Oh I thought it would develop into a proper storyline, **** that then.

[LuketheDuke]

I only really know of noob manga cos I aint read a lot; dont mind a bit of Death Note or the original Pokemon ones:eusa_whis

Prefer contemporary American comic stuff like Sin City and Watchmen. Also if anyone gets a chance to read Batman - Arkham Asylum and see the artwork its jaw dropping and you can sorta see Manga influence.

[Niall!]

I only really know of noob manga cos I aint read a lot; dont mind a bit of Death Note or the original Pokemon ones:eusa_whis

Prefer contemporary American comic stuff like Sin City and Watchmen. Also if anyone gets a chance to read Batman - Arkham Asylum and see the artwork its jaw dropping and you can sorta see Manga influence.

Don't, Chirs will go bat**** insane unless it comes from the land of the rising sun.

[LuketheDuke]

Cheers for the heads up; better find some place to lie low!

[Neversoft]

Don't, Chirs will go bat**** insane unless it comes from the land of the rising sun.

Huh? I'm a huge fan of the Spider-man comics and loved Watchmen. I've also read other stuff like Wanted, Kick-ass and Spawn. Why are you constantly under the impression that I hate everything that isn't from Japan? I've never bad mouthed American comics and graphic novels and I never will because a lot of them are really good.

Finaly got my NHK 1 happy tho its a bit flimsy compared to my Viz books

I realised the other day that excluding NHK, Peace Maker and Mahoromatic Tokyopop have licensed nothing but crap. Their titles ranges from really bad to... shoujo. What a selection they have... Viz have by far the best selection of manga. I'd say Del Rey and Dark Horse both come in second, then comes Yen Press and Tokyopop. CMX, although having published very few manga, get huge bonus points for Gon though.

The thing I hate about Viz though is that they're constantly changing their logo's on the spine of the mangas they publish. I have ones with a little swirly thing, ones that say sig, ones that just have a v, ones that are editors choice and of course the shounen jump ones. Why so many? What really pisses me off is that they change it in the middle of a series. I have the first three volumes of 20th Century Boys, all thats out so far. The first two volumes have the little swirly thing on the spine, but the third one has the 'sig' logo which I assume means it's a 'Viz Signature Edition' whatever the hell that is BECAUSE IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE SWIRLY ONES! Not to mention the swirly ones also say signature edition on the back... so does the swirly thing mean its a signature edition or does the sig logo mean its a signature edition or are they both signature editions and if they are why do they have different logos theres nothing different about them dammit im going to complain! Oh and the first five volumes of Vagabond I have all have the swirly thing but the sxith volume has a little crown which says 'editors choice' underneath instead. YOU'VE JUST RUINED THE CONSISTENCY OF MY COLLECTION WITH THAT EDITORS CHOICE! Damn you Viz!