Comments on: Beginner’s Guide to Manga

By: Get Ex Back

Get Ex Back — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:52:27 +0000

well, I recommend the adolescent body guide as you don't see too many of those around

By: blauereiter

blauereiter — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:19:00 +0000

I personally love Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura, it has really beautiful artwork.

By: blauereiter

blauereiter — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:19:00 +0000

I personally love Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura, it has really beautiful artwork.

By: microbians

microbians — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:33:18 +0000

For me, the rest 10% is Otomo, Urasawa, Miyazaki, Morimoto & Satoshi Kon.

By: microbians

microbians — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:33:00 +0000

For me, the rest 10% is Otomo, Urasawa, Miyazaki, Morimoto & Satoshi Kon.

By: EXPLOSION

EXPLOSION — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:33:17 +0000

Dark Horse published a bunch of GNs of Astro Boy. Really, anything by Tezuka is going to be exquisitely drawn and paced. The only thing of his I didn’t like was that piece of crap movie “Cleopatra.”

As far as Sturgeon’s Law is concerned, once you get over the novelty you start noticing that only one of a thousand manga isn’t based on a well-worn stock plot. They beat cliches to death worse than we (meaning the Anglo-western world) do.

I am going to do some criticism of the referenced post. Junji Ito is good and probably deserves to be on that list for the fact that he is not just following the usual cliches, and the Lovecraftian storytelling is enoyable. However, I ultimately find his books unsatisfying. His ideas feel unfinished or something, the storytelling doesn’t pay off.

Maison Ikkoku and Ranma 1/2…Rumiko Takahashi is what got me into manga, but she totally pumps a good idea an then runs on autopilot for years. I finally dumped Ranma 1/2 because it went for years with no real development, then in the last few issues either resolved issues with a tidy deus ex machina or just left them altogether unresolved. The woman was pumping out 4 pages a day writing and drawing, multiple titles simultaneously. I don’t think she could have focused on story. Also, as far as quality I would say that her “Mermaid” series and later Urusei Yatsura are some of her best stuff. Art-wise, Inu-Yashya is up there with the best.

By: EXPLOSION

EXPLOSION — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:33:00 +0000

By: magus824

magus824 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:05:40 +0000

I have really enjoyed Hunter X Hunter, although it is a bit lengthy. Shaman King is the same way, but with better drawings in my opinion Also, Scryed was a fun read and D.Gray-Man is pretty interesting so far. Also, I loved Death Note, even though everyone else is saying the same thing.

By: magus824

magus824 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:05:00 +0000

By: jfml

jfml — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:50:46 +0000

Well, my favourites are: Mochizuki Minetaro’s “Dragon Head”, the works of Junji Ito (“Uzumaki”, “Gyo” etc.), Suehiro Maruo’s works (it’s very hard to find his works but he’s brilliant) and of course Tsutomu Nihei’s “Blame!”.
I also enjoyed reading the first volume of “Mushishi” by Yuki Urushibara though I think I like the OVA’s better maybe because I discovered them first. “Death Note” got a little boring in the later volumes but I enjoyed it in the beginning.