Nominate the best Manga you ever read.
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I haven't reall read many Manga books. I read more of the Viz pulp graphic novels and even that is limited. It's pretty harsh at times and very violent, but I really like "Sanctuary" and "Strain" with art by the masterful Ryoichi Ikegami. I am not sure if I can name my fave Manga, but my fave artist is Ikegami. You really need to check out his attention to detail in some of the landscape drawings he does to know the upper end of magnificence in comic-book art
Shinmeiryu
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Love Hina for me. It's the only long running manga I've completed in its entirety. Though a typical shounen-romance storyline, the character development was a strong factor.
Motoko Aoyama is good. Why else would I have this forum name.
Motoko Aoyama is good. Why else would I have this forum name.
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Vagabond is by far the best I know. I love Miyamoto Musashi, it's a great story.
moyashi
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Have you read the novel series too by the name "Miyamoto Musashi", Eiji Yoshikawa?
Also, Musashi also has a book out called "Go Rin no Wa" or "Book of 5 Rings".
It's Musashi's interpretation of his technique with a mixture of the classic milatary Arts of Sun Tzu.
Also, Musashi also has a book out called "Go Rin no Wa" or "Book of 5 Rings".
It's Musashi's interpretation of his technique with a mixture of the classic milatary Arts of Sun Tzu.
- 8 Jul 2002
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Yes, i read the novel, but it was a shortened german version. One day i'll try the japanese full version.
I've also seen the Mifune movies. They are really good, too. The "gorin no sho" is quite interesting, but i don't know anybody who understood the sword-technique part. I do Iaido and Aikido, but if you just read it it's very hard to understand.
Eiji Yoshikawa also wrote a niece piece on Toyotomi Hideyoshi. I think it shows the life in the sengoku period really good. Well, it's a novel.
I've also seen the Mifune movies. They are really good, too. The "gorin no sho" is quite interesting, but i don't know anybody who understood the sword-technique part. I do Iaido and Aikido, but if you just read it it's very hard to understand.
Eiji Yoshikawa also wrote a niece piece on Toyotomi Hideyoshi. I think it shows the life in the sengoku period really good. Well, it's a novel.
MHtrStevie
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Although I really did enjoy "Video Girl Ai", it recently was replaced on the top of my manga list by "Lone Wolf and Cub". Absolutely stunning...
I really did like Kenshin as well, though...
I really did like Kenshin as well, though...
- 8 Jul 2002
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Yeah, Lone Wolf and Cub (or Okami) is really good. But it is more "art" than the usual manga-style, what makes it a little more difficult to read i think.
- 15 Apr 2003
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RANMA 1/2! RANMA 1/2!
lineartube
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Ikegami... love it! I have a few manga issues of Crying Freeman and the artwork is beautiful.
But my favourite manga has to be Ghost In The Shell by Masamune Shirow. The guy doesn't just draw, he writes some of the best sci-fi covert-ops stories I have ever read.
On a merit note, the first manga I read and still love was Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira. The movie didn't made justice to it.
But my favourite manga has to be Ghost In The Shell by Masamune Shirow. The guy doesn't just draw, he writes some of the best sci-fi covert-ops stories I have ever read.
On a merit note, the first manga I read and still love was Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira. The movie didn't made justice to it.
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The best manga:
Ranma 1/2
Mars
Paradise Kiss
Inu-Yasha
X/1999
I.N.V.U.
Ranma 1/2
Mars
Paradise Kiss
Inu-Yasha
X/1999
I.N.V.U.
Originally posted by animecartoons
RANMA 1/2! RANMA 1/2!
I don't know if it's the best, but it's the funniest I've ever read
Inuyasha is great but it's almost identical to the anime, so there're no surprises. Rurouni Kenshi is a classic. Nah, I don't know, there so many great artwork that I can't nominate one.
Wait, wait! Just remembered, Crayon Shin-chan is the funniest manga ever
