Manga & Mangakas

Subject: Manga & Mangakas Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:55 am

Discuss your favourite manga series or stand-alones, and the wonderful mangaka who write them!

I'll list a couple of my favourites (listing them all would keep us here endlessly):

Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler - Yana Toboso
Vampire Knight - Matsuri Hino
Nabari No Ou - Yuhki Kamatani
Karneval - Touya Mikanagi
07 Ghost - Yuki Amemiya
Loveless - Yun Kōga

Plus I like a lot of yaoi series and ones that animes have been based off of, so the list truly does go on.

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Planetes - Makoto Yukimura

Pluto - Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka

Sidonia no Kishi - Tsotomu Nihei

Digimortal - Tsotomu Nihei

Noise - Tsotomu Nihei

(I tend to go by author.)

I've really liked Planetes so far. Kinda rare to find a story about space that doesn't include battlecruisers or aliens. the anime was decent too.

I'm considering trying to find the manga for FLCL since the anime series was so.... "Interesting" Speaking on that, FLCL the anime Was very short (6 episodes each around 20 minutes. Compared to FMA:B Which had 64 episodes at an hour each.) It was also quite confusing. Very funny in a absurd kind of way.

This isn't exactly Manga, But I've also enjoyed The Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan and DMZ by Brian Wood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaways_(comics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_(comics)

Subject: Re: Manga & Mangakas Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:21 am

To be perfectly honest, I haven't heard of any of those. I keep to the more supernatural/paranormal types of manga and the occasional Shounen-ai. Action and blood/gore is always welcome too.

I've never read any comics apart from Spider-Man (love him), so I'll check out the pages you linked. Could be interesting.

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Most of Tsotomu's stuff is post apocalyptic cyber religionish. It'd kinda sorta fit into the supernatural genre (Kinda sorta not really.)

Subject: Re: Manga & Mangakas Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:35 am

Haha! Post-apocalyptic stuff is always interesting, so long as it's interesting... you know... there's a fair bit out there. I suppose it could be considered supernatural. Maybe. Wink

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Depends on whether a guy with shark teeth is normal or not.

Subject: Re: Manga & Mangakas Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:39 am

... Probably not. ;D Grell from Black Butler has sharp teeth (not shark, but still). He's a grim reaper, though... but shark teeth could indicate something potentially very cool.

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Also helps it's case that the guy in Tsotomu's manga has a scythe. shark teeth + scythe = not normal.

Subject: Re: Manga & Mangakas Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:45 am

Kickass scythe and shark teeth can normally mean sexy badass character.