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Hmmm... Any opinions on Bakuman, Freezing, Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa and Great Teacher Onizuka?
My opinion will be silent for now.

Freezing is pretty much undiluted fan service seinen with contrived powers and plot points. But I like that they can flip the switch from fan service to Evangelion now and then. If it took itself more seriously it could be a pretty good sci-fi manga. But that's not what it is. Also all but maybe one or two characters pretty much turn a blind eye to obvious instances of sex abuse. Maybe it's a culture thing? Maybe Koreans don't reproduce without rape?

Bakuman is one of the better Shonen Jump titles that has been allowed to run for longer than 200 chapters without getting stale.

Freezing is trite, stupid, fanservice shit. That's all it exists for, to show off boobs and panties of the over-exaggerated anatomy of these high school girls. The plot is mostly pulled out of its own arse and as a result is covered in its own feces. BUT WAIT. THERE'S BOOBS. AND SKIN. AND YOU'RE A TERRIBLE PERSON IF YOU ACTUALLY ENJOY THIS.

Haven't read Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa. I'll get back to you on that one.

GTO is a classic. Don't cared too much for the spinoffs, but the original GTO is great.

Sweet. I guess I do understand what's good and what's bad. For now at least.

WELL SOMETIMES YOU'RE JUST IN THE MOOD FOR STUPID SHIT, GABE.

Well, as long as you know that it's stupid~ You're liking it because it's terrible as opposed to genuinely liking it.

This post has been edited by Kaxbe: 22 December 2011 - 09:18 PM

No, I rarely like something because it's stupid. I'll acknowledge it's stupid but also that it has some element in it that I want enough to read through the series.

Like tits.

I couldn't get into it. A manga needs more than just tits in order to keep my attention. Otherwise I might as well just read hentai instead.

Anyways, just finished reading what is translated of Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa. The concept is interesting and it isn't fanservice-y to the extent that t&a is randomly thrown at you all the fucking time. It looks like the series will be ending soon, though, which is best for a story such as theirs.

Hmm... Well, sometimes you want to read something stupid because you don't have to get into it much. For that I read stuff like Monk!.

Also a good manga (at least for me) I just saw on my favorites - Unbalance x Unbalance. Too bad it's rarely updated. It was on hiatus for a whilr before.

One more... Tena on S-String. The plot seems original, the series is released monthly from what I see, but released in bundles.

As for Freezing, I read it only to wait for it to get better. The current story is good and, as Jerk said, it has NGE-ish moments (but I can't even predict the plot in Bulletstorm sooo... yeah, a lot of things count as good). I would prefer it as a book instead of a manga, but meh, it is what it is and reading only text is possible.

This post has been edited by Arnas Baubkus: 22 December 2011 - 10:26 PM

Favourite manga's

Ouran high school host club
Claymore
Pilgrim jäger
NGE
Fruits basket
From far away
Bitter virgin
Sailor moon
Tenjho tenge
And I enjoy many many more
Never read Franken gran but everyone insists I should. I may just have to start.

Oh and Ludwig revolution

Since Tokyopop is going out of business, the local comic store was clearing out their stockroom of manga. They had a Black Friday deal that offered all Tokyopop issues for 50 cents each. Needless to say, I've caught up on a bunch of series that I had fallen behind on.

My list of favorite manga series includes:
Rurouni Kenshin
Shaman King
Yu Yu Hakusho
Sgt. Frog
Love Hina
Read or Die
Raxephon
Spice and Wolf
Negima
Peace Maker
Buso Renkin
Excel Saga

there are a few others that aren't coming to mind right now... I haven't looked at my manga collection in a while :s

Holy moly! Started reading Franken fran last night an I just finished chapter 30! It is soooooo good!

The best chapter is when Gavrill has to spend a month as a teacher at Fran's school. She's like a female me.

'Bout damn time, Tabris! Franken Fran is one of my all time favorites. Just when you know what to expect from them, they switch it up big time.

My sis got me the second volume of Toradora. I wasn't planning on reading the manga past volume 1 because I already watched the anime, but the split storyline has gotten me interested again.

Toradora is absolute shit.

The anime was good you have to admit.

But man I totally am going to get the spice and wolf light novels and be all yeaaaaah. Oh uh and manga manga... Hey! There's been plot development in detective Conan again! Only took like 30 chapters

Anyone read claymore? I started it after I found out the anime diverged and ended prematurely.

Claymore is great.

The problem with anime is that a lot of them are made in the middle of the series, meaning that the production crew has two choices: either sit and wait, or keep going on regardless if ratings are good, leading to bullshit.

I feel that manga usually outshines the anime.

I stumbled upon Phase 20 if anyone wants to read more stuff by the same author as Franken Fran and doesn't know of it yet.

Helen ESP as well, no violence in that one, but it was interesting for what it was.

This post has been edited by MintyLimeGreen: 25 December 2011 - 10:40 PM

While I did enjoy both Phase 20 and Helen ESP, I don't feel that they are as strong as Franken Fran.

The way I see it, Phase 20 < Helen ESP < Franken Fran

Tokoz, on 06 December 2011 - 04:50 AM, said:

I love the anime for soul eater but the manga is a little sketchy and hard to follow And full metal alchemist is amazing in every way

I read manga occasionally, but not often. I used to be a lot more into it than I am now. Let's see, I've read...

• One Piece
  
• YuYu Hakusho
  
• Shaman King
  
• Negima
  
• Buso Renkin
  
• Death Note
  
• Legendz
  
• Sgt. Frog
  
• Dragon Drive
  
• Bleach
  
• Fullmetal Alchemist
  
• Hikaru No Go
  
• Rurouni Kenshin
  
• Dragon Ball
  
• etc., etc.

There are some other particularly good titles I read a long time ago that aren't coming to mind right now, of course. Most of that list is Shonen Jump stuff, that was pretty much my only exposure to manga from ages 10 to 13 or so.

By the way, I was bored so I decided to take your recommendation and read some of The World God Only Knows.
I can't stop laughing now, thanks a lot Kaxbe.

This post has been edited by Boringamus: 31 December 2011 - 05:48 AM

I didn't notice until today that Shonen Jump's US monthly mag is going to stop publishing in essentially two months, shifting to a digital format. Part of me is going to miss it, since i much prefer reading something i can hold in my hand. Plus i saved a crapton of money from the subscription, not having to buy just over 100 volumes of things they published.

Finished Franken Fran, at least all the chapters I could find in English. Holy shit, so glad I did that. Can I read chapter 60 somewhere?

I need fucking annotated versions of Blame, Noise and Biomega.

I'm a big manga fan. Things I've read/am reading;
Yu Yu Hakusho
Soul Eater
Fullmetal Alchemist
Trigun Maximum
Hellsing
Akumetsu
Eyeshield 21
DNA^2
Bleach
One Piece
Claymore
Fairy Tail
Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Hajime no Ippo
Toriko
HunterxHunter
Bakuman
History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
Gantz
ZombiePowder
Berserker
Hellsing
Orange House
Legendz
Getter Robo
Getter Robo G
Shin Getter Robo
Getter Robo Go

Plus I read manga religiously. When I read Hajime No Ippo, I read 900 chapters in 3 days.

The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

This post has been edited by Snoregore: 03 January 2012 - 01:36 AM

Boringamus, on 31 December 2011 - 05:48 AM, said:

I liked YuYu Hakusho up until the Spirit Tournament Arch. I found it stupid and boring, so I stopped reading it. I don't have much patience when it comes to manga. I can't wait around for many series to get better.

Shaman King is a great series and for the most part hasn't strayed from the idea of a "Shaman Tournament" since it was introduced, like, twenty chapters into the original manga. It's a shame that the manga went into hiatus, but the author went back and closed up a few missing pieces and whatnot.

Negima was one of those manga that I just lost patience with. I stopped reading it because of the Magical World arch which was just too long and tedious and not at all what I liked about the manga at all. Now that they're out of the magical world, I'm reading it again, but from the looks of it, I'll probably lose interest again. The author himself said that even once he finished the magical world arch that he wasn't even a third of the way through with what he has planned.

I don't know too much about Buso Renkin. I keep meaning to read it all the way through, but I just can't make it past the third chapter. It doesn't seem all that special to me.

Death Note is legendary.

For a great tabletop game series, the Legendz manga is pretty disappointing.

Sgt. Frog is a series that I enjoyed a lot. I feel like a lot of the humor is lost if you know nothing about Japanese pop culture and politics, though. One of the worst ways to ruin a joke is to know nothing about it. Luckily, SGT. Frog has a lot of great characters. Unfortunately, my favorite ones don't get as much screentime as I'd like.

Dragon Drive is a manga I lost interest in as soon as part two of the manga happened.

Bleach is overrated and stupid and each story arch is the exact same as the one before it.

Fullmetal Alchemist is a must-read for almost anyone.

Hikaru No Go is one of my favorite manga. It was well-written and it shows. It doesn't rely on the cheap bullshit methods of drawing in new readers that other manga in the shoenen genre do.

Rurouni Kenshin is a manga that I have never read because I have a feeling that it's nothing but a poorly-written historical fiction piece designed to create terrible people.

Snoregore, on 03 January 2012 - 01:34 AM, said:

Soul Eater is an okay manga. I've kinda lost interest in it, though. The story can be hard to stay involved in or follow.

All of the Trigun books are worth reading, not just Maximum.

Hellsing is a great manga with tons of blood and gore. It has a tendency to be dull in parts, though.

I've never heard of Akumetsu

Eyeshield 21 is worth reading if only because it gives you an idea of what the Japanese think of our sports.

I'll be honest: I absolutely hated DNA2. The story felt fake to me and no matter what happened, I just didn't care about the main character.

I love Claymore and I really need to catch up on it. What I love most about it is the art. The manga as a whole is dirty and gritty and I love how it deals with the aspect of humanity.

Fairy Tail isn't as well-planned as the alternative that you should be reading, "One Piece", but it's still interesting. I could do with a little less fanservice, though. The way women are drawn in that manga make me think that if that world really existed, all the skinny women would have gazongas.

I enjoyed Reborn most when it was still primarily a humor manga. It became really hard for me to read once it became more focused on action.

I have not read Toriko. I can't make it past the first chapter.

HunterxHunter is another manga that I can't make it past the first chapter.

Hajime no Ippo is pretty good, but it's pretty okay. I'm not keeping up with it.

I can't get myself to read Kenichi.

GANTZ is fucking great. The art isn't the most expressive that there is (the process the artist takes for drawing doesn't leave much for that, to be honest), but it gets the point across. And that point is HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUTS FLYING EVERYWHERE.

Zombiepowder was an interesting concept that unfortunately got cut short. It would've been nice to see it continue and grow, but it probably would've ended up much like Bleach if it was allowed to do so.

Berserker is a great manga as well. I love the artwork. I pretty much call it my "ancient gantz".

Orange House... do you mean "Little House with an Orange Roof"? Because if so, it is a cute little manga. Not too much special about it that I can say that would get someone else to read it, though.

Getter Robo bores me.

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Akumetsu 1 - Read Akumetsu 1 Online - Page 1
You sir, are welcome.

but what is it about

Went to Barnes and Noble (a different one from usual) with my sister and a few of her friends (I have to be her chauffeur until like Summer), got some manga while I was there:
-Toradora~! Volume 3. It was the only volume they had, and the only volume I didn't have yet. I figured I might as well get it.
-A Certain Scientific Railgun. I've seen this show up in a lot of AMVs, and we watched part of an episode of it in Anime Club once (we got kicked out in the middle for some idiot reason), and I figured I should take a look at the manga. There was also a short preview of it in Volume 2 of Toradora~!.
-Black God. I took a very quick look at this during my last visit to Barnes and Noble (when I ended up getting "I am here!", which, oddly enough, was also at this B&N). I took a longer look at it this time and found it to be pretty interesting.

I also had a few "Konata moments" while I was there. Meaning the first volume or two (or the next one I didn't have) of a series I wanted would be gone and there would be a bunch of copies of the later volumes.
-Zetsubou Sensei. I have volumes 1 and 2, they had 1, 2, then 7-11 or something.
-Black God. I got the only copy of volume 1, the next volume they had was 8 or 9.
-Yotsuba&!. Have volume 1, thought I had volume 2, they had 1, 2, 6, 7, and a bunch of later ones.
There are also a bunch I don't remember, but there were definitely a few series that looked interesting that had only volume 5 and further, lol.

Oh yeah, and my sister found this short manga called "Stargazing puppy" or something. I noticed something was wrong with it immediately, since it opened the wrong way. As it turns out, every page had been flipped. Including the Hiragana and Katakana sound effects. >_>

Yotsuba&! is amazing. I wouldn't have started reading bcb if I didn't have a soft spot for slice of life stories.

I was finally coerced into watching episode 1 of Bludgeoning Angel Dokoro-chan (probably got the title wrong). Even though it was clearly fan service, the WTF moments gave it some strange kind of charm. Unfortunately, the damn title song is still stuck in my head...

Pi piru piru piru pi piru pi!

The Observer, on 03 January 2012 - 07:39 AM, said:

Dokuro-chan. I wasn't a fan of it for whatever reason. I did enjoy reading Yotsuba&! a lot.

I got the feeling that they were using all their material on the first episode, so I didn't watch more of Dokoro-chan.

Azumanga Daioh will forever be my favorite manga, but Yotsuba&! comes pretty damn close. Well, that and One Piece of course. That sums up my top three. I tend to forget things unless they really floor me, so I'd have to sit down and think of any others I enjoyed.

The Observer, on 03 January 2012 - 08:26 AM, said:

Dokuro-chan.

I enjoyed Yotsuba&! more than Azumanga Daioh. I think it's because Yotsuba is so damn cute.

The later monsters in Gantz are just...I get it, it's supposed to be scary, but I can barely see what it is when I'm looking right the fuck at it. It doesn't frighten me anymore than a picture finger-painted just because it's so damn amorphous. If it had even a few distinguishing features whatsoever, yeah, it'd probably be terrifying (well, to pretty much anybody but me anyway) but I just don't see anything. The approach is good, the battle is good, the effects the creature has on whoever's in the way is good, but the construction of the creature itself by now is disappointing. If you read the whole thing, you KNOW he can do it. So it's irritating as fuck that he doesn't try harder in that area, or if it was just an experiment in drawing monsters, recognize that it failed and moved on.

Unless fuzzy, vague, quasi-geometric shapes scare Japanese people shitless or something.

Detta, on 03 January 2012 - 06:01 AM, said:

I dislike Toradora. It's boring

Never heard of A Certain Scientific Railgun.

I lost interest in Black God after five chapters. The concept didn't grab me like it should have. There's probably some reason it's been running for so long, but if there is, it's probably a reason that attracts terrible people to it in swarms because it has a terrible fanbase from what I've seen.

Yotsuba& is very cute. It works well with Azuma's sense of humor.

Jerk, on 03 January 2012 - 10:17 AM, said:

Yeah, I agree. You'd think that with the manga supposedly scheduled to end sometime this year that he'd put more oomph into enemy design like he did earlier. Some of the earlier aliens were so scary because of how well they were able to blend into human life unnoticed. These aliens are just strange for the sake of being strange. The threat is there, like I was all "holyshitwut" when that one alien that spewed those things that mutated the human body past recognition, but the threat didn't seem all too "real" because of how it was drawn and how the enemy was introduced.

Fuck, I think these chapters would've done better with an all-out war like the Italy Mission with the statues or enemies so insanely strong that they're near impossible to handle even if you've beat the game several times over, like in the Osaka Mission.

Oh yeah, this is a manga that I've been meaning to recommend to all of you: Kanajo wo Mamoru 52, or, "51 Ways To Save My Lover". It's about this man and a woman who are reunited on a boring day during their daily lives in Tokyo when a terrifying earthquake hits. The story is about how they survive through the whole thing and the aftermath.

The story is great and the characters are interesting. The whole experience feels very real as well, with nothing seeming faked or insincere. My only complaint would have to be the heavy exposition used in the form of narration boxes. It's a pet peeve of mine when a comic has to explain everything. However, there are some areas in the comic where such exposition boxes are welcomed.

I just finished catching up with it. I stopped reading for a bit just because I couldn't remember the name all too well. It recently ended, so it doesn't drag on for too long. Honestly, it would've been terrible if it did. It would've become fake and tedious.

This post has been edited by Kaxbe: 04 January 2012 - 01:21 AM

Catsby: A certain Scientific Railgun is the English name for Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, or essentially a spin off of Toaru Majutsu no Index which focuses on a female character that is the common ship for the main character of Index. The anime was alright although the anime for Index season 1 was pretty good. I hear the manga is great though?

Kaxbe, on 04 January 2012 - 12:58 AM, said:

Actually? That floating alien city is about to turn into a fucking Italian Mission, only with humans playing the part of the predator this time around.

Fuck yeah.

Baka-Updates :: Manga :: Info

Favourites are all there. Taken a real liking to Ubel Blatt recently.

Ace, on 04 January 2012 - 01:29 AM, said:

I wasn't sure which one of the two came first. Guess I know now.
I watched the first episode of Index a while ago in Anime Club but I thought it was the newer one.

My favourites are:

Evangelion (although anime was better)
Hellsing
Cowboy Bebop (epic)
Slayers (I'm not sure if i should mention that, I have read novels on which manga was based)

and...that's all? I'm not really a fan...

eniena, on 05 January 2012 - 09:09 PM, said:

At least the anime didn't have Gendo projecting AT fields all over the fukken place

So I've just got around to reading Akumetsu. I personally love it. The author clearly knows their shit when it comes to economics, politics, and sociology. It's beautiful. The suspense makes the manga well worth reading and Akumetsu as a character is sick and twisted when it comes to his punishments. The only thing that I dislike about it is how exposition-heavy it is. It can get really annoying reading three chapters of exposition in a row. However, it isn't totally unnecessary, especially with who the general demographic for manga and anime is in Japan.

It's true that there's quite a lot of exposition. You're going to be dealing with that a lot. One thing that makes it really nice is the fact that it uses real people for the villians. The writer was speaking out against the corruption of Japan (as well as killing them in the coolest ways possible), in a way that people could understand and enjoy.

So I'm not at chapter 220something in GANTZ and I still don't really know what the fuck I'm reading. It's good, but every time I think I kinda have a feel for the plot it's BOOM aliens BAM vampires POW also demons SLAM tits in your face every ten chapters. Also, some of the people's reactions to stuff seems way off. I'm not gonna stop reading though, interesting shit.

Hi I'm the new guy well just for you but well to get to it here are the manga I read/finished.

Bakuman: Reading- Romance Manga Teachs you to write good junk ,the arte is going down now
Bleach: Reading- Fights Swords Epic battles and twists till the Aizen arc now its going downhill
Deadman Wonderland: guy in my school got me to read it the plot weakesn for half a season
Deathnote: since i saw the anime i read it when im bored
Dragonball sagas :only the young ones dont know of them
Dgrayman: good art til it was changed to mothly
Hajime no Ippo: Reading Boxing make it past the first 5 chapters and you'll get hooked.
Hunter X Hunter: Reading -Funny the author's back from his haithus and it got a new anime-
Hoozuki-san's chi no aneki: -hahahahahahahahaha no seriously hahahahahahahaha-
Katekyo Hitman Reborn!: Reading -no comment-
One Piece: Reading -no comment-
Soul Eater: Reading -love the art style, the plot thickens as you go reading it-
Toriko: Reading -you gotta love food to or fights to make it past the first-
Zetman: Reading -gantz' soulmate trulys a mans manga um and some few girls into violence-
Air Gear: Reading -the forth best manga to read when you like laughs and art is epic the rest is just fanservice-
Blue Dragon - Ral Grado: Completed -deathnote's artist drew this with another writer ,its short-.
Bobobo-Bo bo-bobo Reading -HAHAHAHAHAHA WTF HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Bowling King: Reading -Chinesse Bowling comic-
Chii's Sweet Home: Reading -I Have a soft spot for cats alright-
Eyeshield 21: Completed -japans angle to our sport-
Gantz reading Art okay plot epic violence epic gore epic fansercive (people actully bang each other) well it 18+ manga
Inuyasha: Reading -I havent finished it yet dont talk about its ending-
Kekkaishi :Dropped -never made it past the first-
Kimi ni Todoke: Reading -okay.. this is awkard-
Love hina -my sister ruined the ending-
Rave :Reading -the anime spoiled me-
Shamo :Reading -martial arts seinen style-
Sora no Otoshimono Reading -with out the fanservice the plot is actually quite deep read the first 5 chaps please
Zatch Bell -my fifth favourite-
Variante -its bloody for its only twenty chapters-
Zero -most recent interest-
and the best for last
Fullmetal Alchiemist - a read before die a something you read instead of eating for months-
others nura psyren gintama tegami bachi ultimo karakuridoji silver spoons(FMA writer wrote this)
Reminder this only my opinon I cant tell what you think, but my thoughts, I can and I dont see why I shouldnt share them (I I I I I tomany I's) hope you enjoy some and dont jugde my taste for romance though if im in this forum i should be more warry for my taste for violence dont ask for anime oh and naruto just to no how it ends ive got a bet on that as I was saying no anime because I havent even finished with the mangas
NYOHOHOHOHOHO(Digi charat)

This post has been edited by NeonDfro: 08 January 2012 - 11:20 PM

Carcharocles, on 06 December 2011 - 06:22 PM, said:

Allow me to give a more detailed description of this personal favourite of mine (it's "Elfen Lied", by the way).

A new "species" of human has appeared, a genetic mutation of homo sapiens. They are conscious that they are not common humans, and consider us a natural rival they wish to exterminate so they themselves can dominate the world, like we (according to the manga) did with the neanderthals. However, these mutants are not able to breed, and they infect humans with a virus of sorts so their child will be a "diclonius", as we call them.

These mutants have so-called "vectors" that are telepathic hands that have a reach and strength depending on the individual diclonius. They are invisible to humans but visible to fellow diclonii. The diclonii can control whether their vectors are tangible or not, and in the series they mainly use them to rip us and each other apart and to infect humans with their virus.

Panic (and politics) ensues when the diclonii's mitocondiral eve appears. She can breed and is hellbent to kill all humans.

Personally I find this manga one of the greatest of all time! Though it's mainly as dark as anything can get, it is well written, well drawn and really capturing. We've got rape, incest, torture, murder (oh, so many murders!) and infanticide, but there's also love, friendship, innocence, eroticism and both good and bad character development. It starts out dark, then it gets darker for a while, and at the end it's darker than anything a sane person should be able to conceive, and sometimes that's highly contrasted by happiness and love.

Oh, and there's this main characters that are human that I forgot to mention.

Cheers to Carcharocles and Sammy, I thought I was the only one who had read this.

This post has been edited by Captain Lechy: 06 January 2012 - 11:57 AM

I've seen the Escaflowne movie and show (the only anime I've ever heard of being more popular overseas than in Japan), can anyone tell me if the manga is any good? Apparently there are three versions (one shonen, two shojo).

This post has been edited by CaptainBaconMan: 06 January 2012 - 11:41 PM