YOU decide what manga I'll buy! (Read before posting!)
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Black Cat, Its comic with a girl with a sword for a hand, impossible gun fighting abilities, and a T-Rex all in one comic. Its light heartily written, has extremely likable characters, and is very imaginative. Its also very underrated, and the anime adaption kind of drops the ball so the manga is the only way to experience the story. Without a doubt my favorite manga ever.
LRT said:
Heh. Funny thing is, I'm such a huge fan of this manga that I recommended it to FargoDog a long time ago.FatherSpleen said:
I've already started reading Berserk, Monster, Battle Royale and Black Cat, and I've finished Akira. I'll check out Elfen Lied and FLCL. Though just to clarify, they're not my official "first-manga-posted-that-I-hadn't-already-read-and-that-the-bookstore-had".FargoDog said:
The only ones you haven't read are the ones that are far superior in anime form.. There isn't a chance you're as much an avid anime watcher as you are a manga reader?Queen Michael said:
Black Magic M88 AND/OR Dominion Tank Police
Reasoning: We already had a couple of Shirow works mentioned, and if you liked those heavyweight ones, these lighter and shorter ones (hence possibly making it one entry) will give you a good comic fix in a similar art style without taking up too much more of your time. Plus Tank Police is pretty funny.
Further reasoning: 0INT already mentioned Nausicaä, and Fargo - buried somewhere in his list - had Akira (both took until page 3 to come up, AND OP hasn't read them? SHAME ON YOU ALL. They're like the Dickens and Shakespeare of manga (if you discount the 3T's - Toriyama, Takahashi and Tezuka), and are excellent in their own right to boot. ESPECIALLY Akira) ... and I don't think the hardcore mangaists on this list would take kindly to me suggesting Adam Warren's interpretation of The Dirty Pair, as much as I love his hilarious, cheesecakey and artistically proficient take on the series. Plus, my print-manga knowledge pretty much stops at about 1996, it was animé after that (til about 2005... no time to keep up since).
Reasoning: We already had a couple of Shirow works mentioned, and if you liked those heavyweight ones, these lighter and shorter ones (hence possibly making it one entry) will give you a good comic fix in a similar art style without taking up too much more of your time. Plus Tank Police is pretty funny.
Further reasoning: 0INT already mentioned Nausicaä, and Fargo - buried somewhere in his list - had Akira (both took until page 3 to come up, AND OP hasn't read them? SHAME ON YOU ALL. They're like the Dickens and Shakespeare of manga (if you discount the 3T's - Toriyama, Takahashi and Tezuka), and are excellent in their own right to boot. ESPECIALLY Akira) ... and I don't think the hardcore mangaists on this list would take kindly to me suggesting Adam Warren's interpretation of The Dirty Pair, as much as I love his hilarious, cheesecakey and artistically proficient take on the series. Plus, my print-manga knowledge pretty much stops at about 1996, it was animé after that (til about 2005... no time to keep up since).
Rest assured I've read both Nausicaä and Akira start to finish, and I've also read one of Adam Warren's Dirty Pair-books. Quality work all of it.tahrey said:
Nope, I'm very limited when it comes to my anime knowledge. Spirited Away, Ponyo on the Cliff, the second Urusei Yatsura movie and Totoro when it comes to movies, and Kino's Journey, Hellsing, Paranoia Agent, and Samurai Champloo when it comes to series. That's it.FargoDog said:
Oh, and that old Moomin anime.
Oh, and at first I doubted that an anime could be superior to the manga it's based on, but then I remembered Sailor Moon.
Well, FLCL was an anime first, which is why it's superior to the manga and the Elfen Lied anime is better because it hacks off the terrible second part and puts in a better ending. Both anime and manga are great though, but I would recommend the anime version over the manga version. But it's up to you what you watch/read/batman.Queen Michael said:
GAH! Well, why didn't you say so? I did actually look at your already-read listQueen Michael said:
Get onto the Shirow, then.
I wouldn't call that too limited. Maybe not a great number, but fairly diverse. Probably better than my own experience in fact.
Except you've seen only one truly good Ghibli, and a couple of "meh" ones. For heaven's sake, if you do nothing else, find time for Laputa and Mononoke. You may hate them (doubtful), but at least you gave 'em a go.
I'd give the Akira anime a skip though, if you've already read the manga. Much like the film adaption of Nausicaä, it does a reasonable treatment of the first bit, goes slightly off-message about 2/3rds through, then stops relatively early into the manga story with a fairly ballsed-up ending. Both of them making the mistake of trying to cram 1000+ pages of graphic novel into 90 minutes. It's a good thing the live action adaption (if it ever appears, and if they can avoid the temptation to set it in new york with english character names) will be split into at least two parts.
EDIT: Rabarber Skurk - YES. Haven't read it but seen enough, like Scott Pilgrim, to know that I'd probably love it. And part of the reason I feel tempted to save this thread for my own research purposes, as there's awesome sounding stuff I've never heard of (same spirit as Queen M I guess
.I'll be looking in my city's central library first though. Ain't made of money.
You should definitely check out "Eden: It's An Endless World", it's brilliant! The art is incredibly detailed, all the characters are well developed and the plot is great. Definitely one of my favorite manga ever.Queen Michael said:
Tell me what you think of it once you've checked it out pl0x.
