Manga thread

[DeltaEdge]

My current reading list:
Naruto
Bleach
One Piece
Magi
Hunter x Hunter
The World God Only Knows
Fairy Tail
History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
The Breaker New Waves
UQ Holder!
Ao no Exorcist
Anagle Mole
Adventures of Sinbad- Prototype(See: Magi)
Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru
I think that's about everything I am reading currently, although I plan to pick back up reading JoJo, I just have to actually get around to it. I mostly read the top 3 out of habit, the top two moreso than One Piece, which I more actively enjoy, versus Naruto which I sometimes enjoy, or Bleach which I just downright hate and read solely out of habit. Fairy Tail, Kenichi, and The Breaker are somewhat habitual reads now, but I still mostly enjoy them even if I don't take them all that seriously anymore, although I feel that The Breaker is kind of losing it's grip on me.

I still actively enjoy The World God Only Knows and Ao no Exorcist, I'm hoping that UQ Holder will eventually become as interesting as Mahou Sensei Negima was, Anagle Mole and Hunter x Hunter are both on hiatus so I'm not really reading them per-say, The main manga that I am enjoying right now that is actually active is Magi, and I still enjoy Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru a fair bit too, as it's basically Kenichi, but in college, and without the super-humans.

I definitely watch more anime than I read manga.

 

[Elfgore]

Reading

Everyday Life With Monster Girls

Heaven's Lost Property (Last Chapter is out this month. So excited!)

Papi is best monster so far, yes?

And how can you be excited about it ending? I'm sad. I'm going to miss Nymph...and, uh, I suppose everyone else too, but mostly Nymph. :-(

Wrong, Mia is the best. Lamias FTW!

And I'm really excited to see how it turns out. I am sad to see it go. Astrea was the saddest death in the series btw, Nymph's was good, but I liked the kindness in Astrea's death instead of the hatred in Nymph's. But I see the writer doing a fast one and bringing everyone back somehow.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Reading
Naruto (Stopped around recently 500 and something)
Pokemon Adventures (Finished the the HG/SS arc)
Black Lagoon (IT RESUMED *cries tears of joy*)
One Piece (stopped around the gas fruit guy arc)
Berserk (own vol. 1-4, Miura slowly dying is sad)
Vinland Saga (own vol 1, is real good)
Watamote
Ubel Blatt
Attack on Titan (own vol. 1-6)
Otoyomegartari (young bride's story)
Cromartie Highschool (need to get back on that)

Finished
Gunslinger Girl (own vol. 1-15, is by far my favorite)
Elfen Lied (read through instead of studying for AP Physics, still got a 5)
Monster
Fullmetal Alchemist
A Message to Adolf
Hellsing
Saikano
Welcome to the NHK
20th century boys (and 21st century boys)
Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm)
Girlfriends
Wandering Son (own vol. 1)

 

[Zak757]

I wasn't a fan of the sequel series which felt a bit too much like mainstream fighting shonen but with cyborgs in space, but the original Battle Angel Alita (or Gunnm, if you prefer) is pretty fantastic. It's incredibly dark, but the tone and characters are too over-the-top for you to be bothered by said darkness. The art work is probably the best I've seen outside of Berserk and One Punch Man. I can't recall any filler throughout the story, which was fairly well done I must add.

James Cameron was going to make a movie for it, but decided to make another 3 unnecessary Avatar sequels instead. And that's terrible.

 

[kurokotetsu]

My favorite of all time is Urasawa's Monster. Great characters, great story, intelligent. I don't know I love it. I reread it every couple of months. I'm a huge fan of Urasawa

CUrrently reading

One Piece
Bleach
Naruto
Toriko
Iron Knight
Beelzebub
Kuroshitusji
Histories Greates Disciple Kenichi
Fairy Tail
Billy Bat
Terra Formars
Nanatsu no Taizai
Shokugeki no Soma
NIsekoi
World Trigger
Berserk
Vagabond
Magi
Shingeki no Kyoujin
Silver Spoon
Liar Game
Area D
Assassination Classroom
VInland Saga

And probably some I'm forgetting. I don't watch anime anymore but I do read a lot of manga. Some I leave behind, because I forget I was reading it, some other lose my interest of make me want to wait longer (Claymore, D.Gray-man).

 

[FPLOON]

Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends. I'm enjoying this so far, but if Yorza doesn't start changing, she is going to kill this series for me. There's bitchy, and then there's just, "You're a *****."

...I not even going to say anything about that...

Spoiler: ...except this...

*snickers in the corner* Don't you worry too much about that... *wink*

OT: Well, I'm currently re-reading both Gunslinger Girl and Ghost in the Shell... As for my favorites (besides Gunslinger Girl and Ghost in the Shell) in no particular order (and off the top of my head):

Hell Girl (WAY different than the anime of the same name, despite having the same occurring main characters...)
Guardian Hearts (The suppose LAST harem series I would actually invest my time in... until Hanagai came around...)
Tenchi Muyo! (Still prefer the first two OVA series, though...)
Azumanga Daioh (Thank you Omnibus!!)
Kashimashi (Predictable ending... but, whatever...)
Blue Exorcist (Have NOT sen the anime version yet...)
Pluto (Just finished it after buying the rest of the volumes I don't have... TOTALLY worth it!)
BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo (Manga beats anime by a LONG MILE in my book!)
Haruhi-chan Suzumiya (Recommended to those that either like or dislike the main series... But, that's just me...)
Afro Samurai (Both the manga and anime series/movie are AWESOME in their own right!)
Kingdom Hearts [General] (...What? I love Kingdom Hearts...)
FLCL (Not the ONLY Gainax series I own the manga to... [DAMMIT, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World!!])

And, so far, only Gunslinger Girl, Tenchi Muyo, Afro Samurai, and FLCL (unless you count owning the Kingdom Hearts games as well) are the only series that I own both the manga AND anime series... Otherwise, I tend to either read it or watch it... If I end up doing both, I rarely own both... (i.e. FullMetal Alchemist and Gurren Lagann)

[Made a few little edits here and there...]

 

[Childe]

my favorite is bakuman. Other than that ability, noblesse, and legend of the sun knight are great

 

[Little Woodsman]

The only ones that I am currently reading/collecting are
Yotsuba&!
Oh! My Goddess!
The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato

Ones that I have finished/own in full are (in no particular order)
Azumanga Daioh
Urusei Yatsura
3X3 Eyes
Love Hina
Red River
Fruits Basket
Unico
Sugar the Tiny Snow Fairy
Ranma 1/2
Fushigi Yugi
Rumic World
Rumic Theater
Pita Ten
Kodomo No Omocha
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku

I loved Bunny Drop up until the time jump, and now having finished the series I am trying to find a way to pour bleach in to the appropriate parts of my brain to erase everything after the time jump....

 

[SlaveNumber23]

I just finished reading Junji Ito's Museum of Terror volume 2, which was strange but awesome, I just wish I could get my hands on volume 1 for a reasonable price.

My favourites would have to be Uzumaki, also by Junji Ito and the Kodansha Ace Attorney series, which really captures the spirit of the Ace Attorney games. I haven't read all that many manga so far however.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I'm currently reading Missions of Love and rereading Ai Yori Aoshi and K-On. And every time a new volume of Sankarea comes out in Barnes & Noble, I just have to stop everything and read it, even though that series creeps me out to high heaven. Also, it's slowly sinking in that B&N has stopped carrying Hayate the Combat Butler, and I'm going to have to find it elsewhere (same with The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan).

Favorite? Fruits Basket, hands down, with Negima closest in second. Think I'm due to reread one or both. Major honorable mentions to Ai Yori Aoshi and Fullmetal Alchemist.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends. I'm enjoying this so far, but if Yorza doesn't start changing, she is going to kill this series for me. There's bitchy, and then there's just, "You're a *****."

...I not even going to say anything about that...

Spoiler: ...except this...

*snickers in the corner* Don't you worry too much about that... *wink*

Good. Hopes have been raised. I was thinking something might happen, but when I finished volume four and still nothing, whereas all the others are starting to show some signs of growth, I was getting worried. You better not be lying to me...

Wrong, Mia is the best. Lamias FTW!

And I'm really excited to see how it turns out. I am sad to see it go. Astrea was the saddest death in the series btw, Nymph's was good, but I liked the kindness in Astrea's death instead of the hatred in Nymph's. But I see the writer doing a fast one and bringing everyone back somehow.

...You and I cannot be friends. Harpies are better!

I do agree that Astrea had the saddest, tug-on-your-heart death. Combined with the pity I already had for chaos, it was really brutal. Nymph's though I liked because she finally got her revenge. I was freaking out though when she agreed to be his Angeloid again for a bit, until it was revealed what she was doing.
And yeah, the author is totally going to bring everyone back, especially since there's a machine that is designed to do just that. I'm just worried it's going to be one of those things where only Tomoki will remember anything, and thus the girls will not be with him anymore, but he'll make sure they're free at least.

 

[stroopwafel]

My favorite manga by far is Biomega. I absolutely love it. I've read it like probably 3 times. It reads like my favorite videogame never made. I like Blame! quite a lot as well. Other than that I'm not really the biggest fan of manga.

 

[TehCookie]

I'm reading 266 series according to Manga updates so I doubt you'd want to me to list them all. The most recent things I've read was Lasboss x Hero and Naqua-den. The first one is about a manga who falls in his manga, except it's a cliche shounen manga which was about to be canceled. The mangaka was going to end it with the heroine's death and he thinks ending it is the only way to escape it. The second is by the same mangaka as Princess Resurrection/Kaibutsu Oujo and the same world following the spider god.

My favorite ongoing series would be:
Ao no Exorcist
Gin no Saji
Natsume Yuujinchou
The World God Only Knows
Tokyo Kushu
Iryuu Team Medical Dragon
Loveless (which is also where my avatar is from)


My favorite series of all time would be Full Metal Alchemist. I've lost count of how many times I watched/read it and it's great every time.

 

[james.sponge]

I read mostly European stuff, although I still highly recommend going through:

Berserk
Blame
Biomega
Vagabond
GITS
Akira