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Favorite manga; A forum to discuss manga
Topic Started: Feb 16 2012, 03:25 AM (274 Views)
Appaku
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Pretty obvious from the title, but what are some of your favorite titles and authors?

I've got a long history with a lot of manga, but I really love a lot of Saki Hiwatari's works (Please Save My Earth was the first of hers I read, but Global Garden is a big favorite, too!). My Fushigi Yuugi fandom also runs really deep. Harukanaru Toki no Naka de, Skip Beat, and anything by Miyuki Yamaguchi are some other favorites. While I haven't read as much, I'm also a fan of Yukari Ichijo and Riyoko Ikeda, because they were geniuses of paneling!

Obviously I'm mostly a shoujo fan. XD (I even chose my university partly because of a professor who wrote a book about it.) But I read a variety. If I had to pick, my favorite gag manga is Sket Dance.

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Oooh this is a pretty hard question. My manga tastes run all over the place! On the one hand I like romances but on the other they get very repetitive and tiresome after a while, so I have to switch over to action or plot heavy manga often.

For shoujo, I have to say my favorite mangas are, obviously, Please Save My Earth, Skip Beat, Kaichou wa Maid Sama, stuff along this line. My absolute favorite "shoujo" is Immortal Rain, it competes on par with my love for FMA and is an excellent shoujo/shounen crossover. There's quite a lot here, but I don't remember everything!

For shounen, it's a lot more varied. My absolute favorite is Fullmetal Alchemist because Hiromu Arakawa is amazing and it was my first anime. I also loved the manga version of Eureka Seven (which is pretty gory, thanks to the authors Jinsei Kataoka and Kondou Kazuma) and the authors' other work Deadman Wonderland. On a girlier tangent (sort of) I never miss my weekly update of The World God Only Knows. Inuyasha is probably the only main-stream shounen I read all the way through and retained my fondness for.

There's a lot of stuff I either can't recall or can't fit in nicely to one category, but chances are if you name it, I either read it or know of it. :)
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I know, it's so hard to choose when you're read so much. XD

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever read a complete shounen manga that was more than 15 volumes or so (I'm still following some ongoing ones past this point). I was pretty loyal to Inu-yasha for a while, but eventually put it down and just came back to read how it ended! Skip Beat has me a little concerned about how long it'll wind up being, though. My guess is that it'll go on at least another ten volumes at this rate!
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Kairi
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I know what you mean, once a manga gets too long it's really hard to keep it up! When they're ongoing it's even more difficult since you tend to forget what was happening in the previous issue. I feel like Skip Beat has a long life ahead of it, it moves very slowly for a monthly series. I haven't read that many "main-stream" shounen for the very reason that they are so long and they do kind of get repetitive. I remember all the times in Inuyasha where I was like, "they have to power up AGAIN? Everyone is too awesome, it's getting ridiculous." This is part of the reason why I love FMA so much, it wasn't unbearably long (just long enough) and it had a great plot without any of the usual shounen "power-ups." In any case, lately I've been finding it harder to find good manga to read. I wonder if it's because I've read so many or because I have higher standards? :0
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I'm mostly a shoujo, josei fan and because of that my all time favorites are Basara, Cat Street and of course Please Save My earth. If you haven't red Basara and Cat Street then I really, really recommend it and I'm 99,99% sure that you wouldn't regret reading it. :)
Also one of my favorite mangas is a 1 volume long one called Heptagon.
As I really do not like to wait for the next chapters to come out and I forget what has happened previously I read only works that have been completely scanlated. I have tried to read an ongoing series but usually I just drop them so that I could pick them up when they'll be done. :P
As for shounen - as far as I remember the only shounen series that I have red (but haven't finished yet) is Samurai Deeper Kyo but somehow other genres beside shoujo and josei (and I must say that josei is my favorite) don't interest me that much. Oh, but I just looked that Chrno Crusade is also labeled as shounen and this one I liked quite a bit. :)
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Feb 21 2012, 12:09 PM
I'm mostly a shoujo, josei fan and because of that my all time favorites are Basara, Cat Street and of course Please Save My earth. If you haven't red Basara and Cat Street then I really, really recommend it and I'm 99,99% sure that you wouldn't regret reading it. :)
Also one of my favorite mangas is a 1 volume long one called Heptagon.
As I really do not like to wait for the next chapters to come out and I forget what has happened previously I read only works that have been completely scanlated. I have tried to read an ongoing series but usually I just drop them so that I could pick them up when they'll be done. :P
As for shounen - as far as I remember the only shounen series that I have red (but haven't finished yet) is Samurai Deeper Kyo but somehow other genres beside shoujo and josei (and I must say that josei is my favorite) don't interest me that much. Oh, but I just looked that Chrno Crusade is also labeled as shounen and this one I liked quite a bit. :)
Oh I've read Cat Street, that's a really good one. :3

I try to avoid ongoing manga as well, sometimes I drop ongoing stuff and pick it up again once it's finished instead. Sometimes it's okay though, just because the series in question is likely to end soon.

Yes, it's pretty hard to find good shounen, but then again the same thing can be said about shoujo! Both have their good things and their bad things. I personally find, strangely enough, that the most "realistic" romantic relationships (in terms of how characters interact, not their circumstances) are found in lesser known shounen works. I'm not talking about big franchise manga like Naruto or any of that, I mean titles that people have probably never heard of before (can't think of any right now at this moment, but I know I've read them!) It's an interesting distinction because I get very tired of shoujo conventions just as easily as shounen conventions. I could spend forever pointing out my pet peeves with each but I won't bore anybody with a dumb rant. xD Anyway, I find that truly great mangas, like PSME, blend genres like these well enough that they become distinctive. :)

Have you read Immortal Rain by Ozaki Kaori? It's an interesting mix of shounen and shoujo elements, and a good example of what I mentioned before. It's my personal favorite manga of all time. :3
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