And work themselves to an early grave.
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Manga is way more diverse and varied than I had imagined
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And work themselves to an early grave.
GoldCrusader
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The gods lie. It's a single volume, but it's oh so fantastic.
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Livingstone
Also
Livingstone
No need, I got this.
Cowboy Bebop
Gurren Lagann
Princess Mononoke
Naruto
Samurai Champloo
Death Note
Am I missing any? No? Okay we can go back to manga.
Lord of Ostia
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If you ever get the desire to go back to that style, do check out Oshimi's Inside Mari. It's very, very good.
You forgot One Punch Man.
No Billy Bat recommendation? I've read the following above, and Duckroll knows quality manga. All completed too.
Also I cannot recommend Oyasumi PunPun enough. It started to get English releases. Reminds me Mumei was supposed to have read this series.
More_Badass
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October, that's when I got into Parasyte
I had read Enigma sometime earlier, got to thanks GAF for that one
I'm trying to recommend stuff that's complete and easily available legally in English. Also I haven't read Billy Bat.
Frozenprince
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Yep. There's a reason the longer running series almost never finish. They get burnt out. Hell, Oda is all but being mandated to take weekly breaks now and again by his editors so he doesn't get seriously sick.
Togashi DID get seriously sick.
Yeah, fuck that.
I would not want that kind of life.
Do they have a lower life expectancy? Rumiko Takahashi is still trucking along, although her artstyle isn't very laborious.
Goodnight Punpun spoilers
If I were you I would remove that second image, it's basically the spoiler that defines the entire series. Normally I'm not too much of a spoiler nazi but thats a huuuuuge one.
Aaronrules380
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Not sure about volume format, but I think you can read the whole thing on crunchyroll if you have a subscription
I think it's counterbalanced by generally higher Japanese life expectancy.
A notable recent case of, not exactly "overwork" but the manga artist's work ethic is Tadashi Kawashima who finished his manga while on his deathbed due to advanced liver cancer.
Shinigami no Mori
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What do you use to read? A tablet or an e-reader? I'd like to get into reading manga again (sold all of mine long ago), but don't want to take up space. Also, do you use a manga reading app? (I think Viz has one)
Yes, I'm fully aware that Japanese artists are overworked like a motherfucker.
Does the story have a definitive conclusion? Or is it one of those "open" type of endings where things are left to interpretations?
The premise seems pretty unique.
Jeeeez
That's a lousy schedule, but I can only assume those authors/artists are passionate enough about their work to persevere though all that.
Trojita
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Did anyone ask you what genre's you usually like? Some of them are noticeable in the OP, but it would be good to get a baseline into what you usually like to then give recommendations.
Manga is diverse enough that one really popular manga is about Ball Room Dancing (Ballroom e Youkoso) and another popular award winning manga is about of dungeon crawlers that have to learn how to cook monsters in a dungeon so they can survive (Dungeon Meshi)
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Yeah, definitely can't get too attached to the idea of series ever finishing. Becoming a fan of Beet the Vandel Buster as a teen as one of my earlier manga experiences, right around when it originally went on hiatus, was a mistake.
George Oscar Bluth II
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I'd say to stay away from Knights of Sidonia (i say this as a huge nihei fan). It completely goes against what the author has done before it. The author pretty much sold out and included a bunch of generic, unnecessary, and distracting anime tropes just so he could sell more copies. Which is a shame because the premise and some of the ideas in it are amazing.
+1 to duckroll's 20th century boys recommendation. That manga is in my top 10.
I'm gonna go ahead and plug the manga version of Trigun. It's almost completely different than the anime and the anime only covered 3 volumes of the manga (out of 18). Has some of my favorite moments in manga.
+1 to duckroll's 20th century boys recommendation. That manga is in my top 10.
I'm gonna go ahead and plug the manga version of Trigun. It's almost completely different than the anime and the anime only covered 3 volumes of the manga (out of 18). Has some of my favorite moments in manga.
MHWilliams
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Yeah, definitely can't get too attached to the idea of series ever finishing. Becoming a fan of Beet the Vandel Buster as a teen as one of my earlier manga experiences, right around when it originally went on hiatus, was a mistake.
Beet is actually one of those, like Arslan, that splits the duties Western style. Beet was written by Riku Sanjo and drawn by Koji Inada. While Inada has been sick, Sanjo has continued to work, notably on Digimon Xros Wars, Kamen Rider W, Kamen Rider Fourze, Kyoryuger, and Kamen Rider Drive. All of which are damned good.
FMA isn't split though. The writer is the artist. Are you thinking of her other more recent work Aslan which is based on an older novel and she's only drawing it? Death Note would be a popular series which splits between writer and artist.
More_Badass
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I was under the impression that Knights was a more hard sci-fi mech combat/space adventure with some eldritch horror elements
And to be fair, anime/manga tropes don't mean much to me since I have no frame of reference for them. It's all new to me
You'll learn to hate them soon enough.
Oda also has meetings at toei for the anime and smokes a lot with 3 hour sleep most of his days now
Trojita
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We may have found someone unsullied by NTR.
Always kinda surprising to me how many people assume manga is this monolithic
blob, but better late than never to see the light. As others have said, it's a medium, just like western comics, and as a medium there's a lot of crap to sift through, just like western comics. But there's also some great stuff too.
moe
As others have said, it's a medium, just like western comics, and as a medium there's a lot of crap to sift through, just like western comics. But there's also some great stuff too.This is true when they're actually in the mechs, which is when the series is good. But a majority of what happens in-between the mech stuff is extraordinarily disappointing and turned me off(so the characters, their interactions, and the relationships).
ShironRedshift
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I was quite aware of the split, but I wasn't are that Riku Sanjo was involved in Xros Wars, which is definitely one of my favorite series of Digimon (mostly because I'm admittedly a terrible person and don't usually pay attention to writing staff and the like when it comes to anime, which I should probably be better about. >.<). No wonder I like it so much.
Never really got into tokusatsu/super sentai, but maybe I should. Hmm...Or love them.
Good lord no.
It is so good lol. I damn love the manga that i even buy all the volume here.^~^
Of course for more classic one,Kurosagi is also damn nice. Or Nobunaga no Chef.^~^
If you love football/soccer Giant Killing is easily the best realistic soccer manga lol.
More_Badass
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Far future sci-fi with that art? Yes, that's my jam right there
Is there a lot of world building? Are you familiar with the Image comic Prophet? Another series like that would be amazing
Nobody does!
I... would not classify anything in Sidonia as "hard scifi". I swear that the term gets watered down more with each year. Gundam is not hard scifi. Just because something is relatively serious and details scientific bullshit elements for world building doesn't mean it is hard scifi. These are just space operas!
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
More_Badass
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What about Planetes? That's another series I saw described as hard sci-fi
Always kinda surprising to me how many people assume manga is this monolithicblob, but better late than never to see the light.moe
People outside of Japan tend to think that manga and anime have the same sort of social position, I guess.
IN Japan, fucking EVERYONE reads manga. There are genres for every demographic out there. There are manga for older office ladies, there are manga for blue collar workers, there are manga for gamblers.
Anime, on the other hand...it's more the domain of either kids or long-running-for-fucking-forever shows like Sazae-san, in the same vein as something like Peanuts or the Family Circus. Being 'really into anime' is just as weird in America as it is in Japan.
I mean sure, there are masterpiece anime series still being made to this day (see Shinsekai Yori) but that's quite a rarity. It didn't really sell that well either IIRC.
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