Which manga do you read? Which do you recommend?

[Kinsao]

I'm quite new to manga. I've only recently started to be interested in them. I loved European comics when I was at art college, but then my interest when on the back burner. But I'd like to find out more about manga.

OK, what do you recommend? So far I really enjoy Battle Royale manga (I've got up to volume 10 and can't wait to get to the end!), and also the series One and Wild Act. I've read some of Blade of Heaven, Dragonball and Dark Angel, too, but those first 3 I mentioned have been the ones I like best so far.

I just thought I'd make a general thread to discuss what are your favourite manga.

 

[Hyde_is_my_anti-drug]

X/1999 has my HIGHEST recommendation!!! D.N. Angel (angels and demons and sexy thieves ^-^), Confidential Confessions (Emo warning!!!), Angel Sanctuary (high on contrivercy but just as high quality), Gravitation (mochiron ), Hands Off (best comedy manga out there), Demon Diary (dark comedy), Magic Knights of Rayearth (It's CLAMP what more do ya want?), Brain Powered (MECHA!!!), Eerie Queerie ( lotsa shmexy shounen-ai...the first two vols. are the best, 3 and 4 kinda suck), Kill Me Kiss Me (gender bender).

 

[Mycernius]

I think it depends on what type you are looking for. I do recommend Akira. The ones available in the UK are in European style books, so the drawings are reversed. You'll notice that a lot of people are left handed when they do that.
I have the Battle Royal collection, except 15, as it has not been released yet.
I found Love Hina very amusing and Chobits is a good read. Can't really get into Fruits Basket, but I might continue with it. Bought the 1st book of Doll. That seem to be a collection of short stories over a series of books. How many, I'm not sure. Other I have included Uzamaki, The 4 Ring books and Ghost in the Shell. What I would like, but seem to be rarer than hens teeth is the Dirty Pair. I once read them in a short lived magazine called Manga Mania and loved it since, but finding it is a swine.
BTW I would buy manga online. I have found it averages about a quid to 2 quid cheaper than a bookshop. Play and amazon are the two I use.

 

[-rika- shinya`]

Definately NANA! more of the story in wikipedia i love it..

and Deathnote! pure genius and good plotting. please give this manga a read

other than that, i like a lot of shoujo mangas too..and one shots..Pretty Face (humorous), Midori no Hibi(very funny too), Brilliant Magic(Akino Miyawake),zettai kareshi and so on..

yaoi..YnM and gravi is famous..if you like things to be more graphic, there is always the gravi remix which has no clear plot. the manga exists solely for the purpose of sxx although many shoujo manga has that as well

 

[Da Monstar]

A couple of years ago I read the full Dragonball manga and some of the Dragonball GT books for the first time. I have read every book 2-3 times each.
I have read the first book of Ranma 1/2 and DNAngel. Both was okay I guess, but I couldn't keep spending the money nor the time on reading manga

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

MANGA which I recommend.
"VINLAND SAGA"

Adventure MANGA to describe activity of a viking in on the stage of Europe of the eleventh century.
(previewed/FLASH)
http://kodansha.cplaza.ne.jp/e-manga/common/whatnew/news_050401b.html
(Sory)
- - - that I am accompanied by a black cloud from the far-off north, a distance of the freezing sea, and they come.
It is the end of Chitoshi period in - - -.
In endless war of the European Continent, I hung every ground on a crotch, and there was the race which I had it by overwhelming power, and conquered people.
It is a pirate group called "a viking".
In the robust soldiers, there was one boy.
The name of the boy whom held a legendary soldier declared that was the strongest in father, and merely ran through ghastly a great number of battlefields in a hand only with two daggers || "a torr fin."
Promise revenge earnestly, and continue fighting || fight to live, and live to fight.
However, only the admiration to the old tale that mere one, time somebody who were young told was not able to throw away a torr fin.
"The new world existed in an end of the far-off west sea".
I added the name to the earth of the dream.
With "Vin land."
The fleet which picked up a torr fin on ﾂ」 today sets sail to a sea of a fight.
(model)
Torfinn Karlsevne Tordsson (Christian era 970 years-) that accomplishes the Vinrand migration seems a model in the theme named Vinrand (North America continent) and the father's name from Torlz Snorreson.
He is Musme Gdorid and marries about Eric of the red hair, and the appearing child and Snorre Torfinnsson are done with one European ..birth ....
Hats.. people in the North America continent, and follow as Bor ky ..the descendant.. person even at the present age (perhaps Norway) in 1011.
The name of father of Tolfin of this historical fact calls Tord hesthovdi Snorresson (Christian era 945 years-), and is a person who appears in 'Saga of Eric of the red hair'.
"Eric of the red hair" is father of "Ralph of luck (..-..
Ericsson)" with characters even by oneself.
ヴィンランド・サガとは マンガの人気・最新記事を集めました - はてな
(MANGAKA)
ﾂ幸窶伉ｺﾂ青ｽ (YUKIMURA MAKOTO)
http://www.manga-g.co.jp/interview/int02-09.htm
OTHER MANGA
"Planetes"
Episode 1 is free of charge
http://kodansha.cplaza.ne.jp/e-manga/club/manga/planetes/pack_index.html

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

"MAI'S ROOM"
STORY
窶慊ｯﾂ青ｩ窶慊ｯ窶督ｼ窶堙??堋｢窶堋､窶ｹﾃｴ窶漏窶堋ｩ窶堙ｧ窶堙絶?堙??堙や?堙娯?｢窶昶?ｰﾂｮ窶堙俄?慊ｯ窶ｹﾂ鞘?堋ｷ窶堙ｩ窶堋ｱ窶堙??堙俄?堙遺?堙≫?堋ｽ窶啌ﾂ人窶堙個鞘?版ｽq窶佚･ﾅ?wﾂ青ｶﾂ 窶啀窶扼ﾂ青ｶﾂ・MAI窶堋ｿ窶堙｡窶堙ｱ窶堋ｽ窶堋ｿﾂ。
Three women's colleges student first grader which were to live together from accident of having exactly the same name in one room / MAI.
窶堋ｨﾂ色窶ｹCﾆ停ぎﾆ停?愴停ぎﾆ停?懌?堙姑鱈ﾆ椎槌辰窶堙遺?堋ｨﾅｽo窶堋ｳ窶堙ｱﾂ（窶凖環湘桑AME-CHANﾂ）ﾂ、ﾆ陳哉椎?ﾆ陳哉椎?窶凪?ｦﾅ地ﾆ坦ﾆ湛ﾆ致ﾆ椎槌辰ﾆ停?楪ーﾂ（窶凖環湘薫TOME-CHANﾂ）ﾂ、窶督ｾ窶堙ｩ窶堋ｭﾆ鱈ﾆ停?ｦﾂーﾆ暖窶堙?陳ｳ窶ｹC窶堙按鞘?披?堙固ｽqﾂ（窶凖環湘袈SHI-CHANﾂ）ﾂ。
Pretty older sister (popular name KAME-CHAN), Koss player (popular name OTOME-CHAN) of sex appeal ﾆ停ぎﾆ停?愴停ぎﾆ停? of ﾆ陳哉椎?ﾆ陳哉椎? younger sister line, a girl (popular name USHI-CHAN) whom it is light and is cute, and is cheerful.
ﾅｽOﾅｽﾃ椎ｽO窶罵窶堙娯?督｣窶氾坂?堋ｪ窶堋?窶堙凪?堙ｪ窶堙ｩﾂ、窶堙??堙≫?堙??堋ｨ窶堋ｫ窶堙娯?敕ｼﾂ渉ｭﾂ鞘?披?堋ｽ窶堋ｿ窶堋ｪﾅ谷窶堙ｨﾂ広窶堋ｰ窶堙ｩﾂ、窶堙??堙≫?堙??堙?ﾆ竪ﾆ鍛ﾆ蛋窶堙遺?慊ｯ窶ｹﾂ鞘?愿ｺ窶ｹLﾂ。
The living together diary which is naughty even if I take you which 窶堙??堙≫?堙??堋ｨ窶堋ｫ窶堙 beautiful girls full of tripartite charm of 3 develop.
By 窶韮 窶徙ﾅｽﾂ最ｽﾃｷ(YUI Toshiki)
I pass through Kyoto traditional industrial textile designer and make my debut as MANGA-KA.
With an attractive character like the beautiful girl whom I use digital freely, and was drawn, I have an enthusiastic fan a lot.
It is "KIRARA" "my two wings" "YUI-SHOP" majority in a main writing.
Now separate volume young people magazine / Kodansha is publishing a work serially in a popular monthly.
http://ultra.shueisha.co.jp/0comics/AutherLists/Kagome_comics.html
Episode 1 is free of charge
http://kodansha.cplaza.ne.jp/e-manga/
OTHER
"YUI-SHOP"Attention:A child must not look)
http://kodansha.cplaza.ne.jp/e-manga/

 

[Clawn]

Full Metal Panic, dotHACK, Comic Party, and Magister Magi Negima!

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

The sales number of MANGA in Japan
DRAGON BALL.................140,000,000-160,000,000
こち亀(KOCHIKAME)..........130,000,000-150,000,000
ONE PIECE ................... 115,000,000
SLAM DUNK....................108,000,000-120,000,000
北斗の拳(HOKUTONOKEN)....47,000,000-100,000,000
NARUTO..........................59,000,000

http://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/service/question_detail.php?queId=7336863

サービス終了のお知らせ

 

[Kinsao]

Wow, thank you everyone for those infos! I'll be sure to check out as many as I can...

beautiful girls full of tripartite charm of 3 develop

I love online translators.
I learned a new word.... "tripartite"......

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

窶堙ｭ窶堋ｽ窶堋ｵﾂ、窶ｰpﾅ津ｪ窶堙ｭ窶堋ｩ窶堙ｧ窶堙遺?堋｢窶堋ｵﾂ・ﾂ・ﾂ・ﾂ・
窶堋ｨ窶堙懌?堋ｯ
SAZAE-SAN
http://asame.web.infoseek.co.jp/newsaz1.html
ﾂ鋼窶堙戸廝窶ｹﾃ?ﾂ術ﾅｽtﾂ 4ﾆ坦ﾆ筑窶毒ｸ窶ｰﾃｦ
http://books.yahoo.co.jp/special/hagane/4koma/index.html

窶愿ｺ窶佚問?堙ｭ窶堙ｨ窶毒ｸ窶ｰﾃｦ
http://kodansha.cplaza.ne.jp/e-manga/sample/temp/index.html
窶敖ｪﾂ神窶堙絶?堙ｫ窶堋ｫ
http://www.iijnet.or.jp/yagami/

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Today's recommendation
"ﾅ陳昶?慊ｬﾋ?δ坂?｢窶彖ﾆ短ﾆ湛ﾆ耽ﾆ湛(CESTVS)"
Imperial government Rome.
People's culture is the flower opened brilliant times.
However, contrary to the pizazza, fist guys fighting in boxing the ancient times done at the Colosseum are inferior || environmental.
Fist guy CESTVS which fought to obtain true freedom was inferior to a build, but sustained myself by born speed and technique of the teacher ZAFARU training.
Young genius soldier Ruska that what such he came across is troubled with friction with great father.
And Nero whom I was age younger identically, and was made to assume the emperor and fate.
After a short-lived chance meeting, the road of three boys was divided again.
However, ﾂ… that a whirlpool of the history swallows all without a pardon.
This MANGA is not at all only it it is it in fight MANGA ﾂ… because it is the subject and the story that it did in boxing the ancient times when I do genre reason daringly.
Because it is a boy that is laid by a chief character, not to mention a promise, love and the friendship of sports MANGA, friction with father and the element which said, a spectacle of a TV saga because of a turning point of the history is included!
For the width area, a thing at the time of a magazine publication with much suspension of publishment is disappointing, but a weak point is it!
http://www.sunmusic.co.jp/sun/book/o_comic/61-90/67.html
MANGA magazineﾂ "younganimal"
http://www.younganimal.com/index.html

 

[Flashjeff]

Well, I'd say it depends on your taste, my friend.

If you enjoy slapstick comedy, nothing beats Love Hina

For straight fantasy, Fushigi Yugi is tops on my list

For the best in girls and guns action, Gunsmith Cats blows everything else away

A very good but little talked about series from the sci-fi genre that I liked from jump street was Silent Mobius

For some sweet and charming celestial hijinks, check out Ah, My Goddess

If you wanna enjoy lots of wild slugfests and fan service, the best is Battle Vixens.

And that's just a few off the top of my head as there's so many genres to enjoy!

 

[kevinsano]

Try Ranma 1/2. It's kinda old, so I don't really know if it's still available.
Love Hina and Negima are really funny too. And ofcourse Yakitate Japan.(A manga about bread)

 

[-rika- shinya`]

oh yah. Yakitate Japan too. it is good

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

I feel nostalgic for "Silent Mobius".
Wall paper
http://www.tron.co.jp/weborigin/wallpapers/wallpage1.html
As for ANIME, the TV series and a movie were made
(STORY)
In 1999 Gigelf Liqueur, aided by the Magician's Guild and the Maverlick Corporation, set into motion a plan to open a gate between Earth and the world of Nemesis. The intent was to exchange Earth's polluted air and water with clean air and water from Nemesis. To aid in this endeavor, a huge cyclotron was built under Tokyo. Unfortunately for all involved, Ganossa Maximilian - Gigelf's old apprentice - sabotaged the plan, opening the gate early and perverting the gate for his own means. Following this event, Gigelf and the Magician's Guild battled an invasion of Lucifer Folk (the name for the inhabitants of Nemesis) for a number of years. Gigelf was killed in 2006 and it would seem that the rest of the Guild met similar fates over the next few years.
In 2023, Rally Cheyenne, daughter of Guild member Lufa Cheyenne, started the Attacked Mystification Police. Of mixed heritage (her father was from Nemesis), Rally felt partially responsible for the growing attacks on innocent humans by marauding creatures from Nemesis. She started the organization with a mere three officers (Kiddy Phenil, Lebia Maverlick and Nami Yamigumo). Over the next few years, she added Katsumi Liqueur and Yuki Saiko to the team; aiding in the fight to protect Earth from the vicious Lucifer Hawk.
Silent Möbius - Wikipedia

 

[Flashjeff]

Try Ranma 1/2. It's kinda old, so I don't really know if it's still available.
Love Hina and Negima are really funny too. And ofcourse Yakitate Japan.(A manga about bread)

I don't know if you're aware of this, but the Negima anime will arrive in the States sometime this year, around summer or fall I think. I'm looking forward to that.

Silent Mobius is my favorite sci-fi series. Really gripping and exciting. I've watched both the anime and the manga and enjoyed it immensely.

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Love Hina , Negima , Yakitate Japan , Ranma 1/2 , Gunsmith Cats ...
I comment later

History MANGA (European mainly) which I recommend
"ﾆ智ﾆ湛ﾆ暖ﾆ椎?ﾆ竪(Historie)"

The story that assumed secretary, Eumenes who served Alexander the Great of Macedonia kingdom a chief character.
Eumenes is the actual person who appears in "hero biographies" (comparison series of biographies) of Plutarchos.
A current story is boyhood.

This MANGA is terrifically interesting.

MANGA-KA:ﾅ?ﾃ｢窶督ｾ 窶ｹﾃ渉（IWAAKI HITOSHI)
Representative MANGA other than it
"ﾅ?ﾃｱﾂ青ｶﾂ獣(KISEIJYU)Parasyte"
Parasyte - Wikipedia

 

[Mahoujin Tsukai]

recommended manga

hikaru totomoni (ﾅ津ｵ窶堙??堙??堙?窶堙可）
This manga tells the story of a mother raising an autistic son. Her struggles, misunderstandings by others, the son getting teased at school are shown. At the same time, they recieve encouragement and help. The manga also gives descriptions of autistic traits and actual accounts of autistic people. A recommended read.

I bought this manga since I wanted to know more about the above condition beyond 'Rain Man' & 'Mercury Rising'.

**** out of *****

I've read up to vol. 4 so far, and intend to buy the remaining 5.

Other manga:
mahoujin guruguru (窶凪?壺?邸ﾂ陣ﾆ丹ﾆ停?ｹﾆ丹ﾆ停?ｹ)

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

hikaru totomoni (ﾅ津ｵ窶堙??堙??堙?窶堙可）

You are the connoisseur of MANGA.
This MANGA is known well in Japan.
It also became TV drama.
光とともに… - Wikipedia
The site of the person who became a model
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/sucre/
The Site of TV drama.
光とともに… ～自閉症児を抱えて～

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

MANGA sales ranking Top 100

http://www.accessup.org/anime/j_arank_manga.html

1. The wide version The "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" seven-volume set. "TORUMEKIA version"
2. FULL METAL ALCHEMIST (13) SE comic premium
3. NODAME cantabile(15)
4. "KODOMO NO JIKAN(A child's time)"
5. NODAME cantabile(14)
6. EUREKA seven (3)
7. KAMI CYU(1)
8. KYOU NO NEKOMURA-SAN
9.KASHIMASHI - Girl MITSU girl (1)
10.KASHIMASHI - Girl MITSU girl (2)

 

[Kinsao]

omg... thanks everyone... I think I'll never get time to look at all these! hehe... but that's good, too...

 

[Flashjeff]

One of my favorite manga series which isn't talked about much because it doesn't have giant robots, magical girls or samurai but, in my view is a well done series is Remote:

The heroine of the series is Kurumi Awaki, a somewhat whiny meter maid who's had to put off early retirement from the police department because she doesn't have the money for her impending wedding. She's assigned to Unsolved Crimes Division, Special Unit A where she meets Inspector Himuro, a young genius who is unable to leave the underground room in which he resides, and is physically unable to feel emotions. She acts as his ears and eyes on the street as they solve murders and other crimes.

The closest thing in America I can compare remote to is The Bone Collector, a movie from 1999 starring Denzel Washington as a detective rendered a quadriplegic after an accident during a case, so he recruits Angelina Jolie as his eyes and ears to help him track down a serial killer. If you haven't read Remote, check it out, I think it's an excellent crime/mystery manga.

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

"Remote"
I was surprised.
Flashjeff-san is a connoisseur.
It did not know that there was MANGA of "Remote".
I saw TV drama.

 

[Flashjeff]

That's me, the connoisseur! It was out of curiosity that I gave the Remote manga a read and was hooked only halfway through the first volume. Admittedly, the sight of short skirted Kurumi on the cover drew me in! HA!! I've heard of the live action series, is it good? Inquiring minds wanna know!