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 Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:42 pm
I love forums that are oppinionated, so insted of just posting about weather or not someone likes a certaint seies, you just tell me and we'll discuss! Any of these topics are discussable-
-Your all-time favorite series and why!
-Series that you think everyone should own.
-Your first manga series, where you got it, and what drew you to it.
-When you first became an Otaku and how.
-Favortie manga character
-Your all-time favorite manga-ka.
-If you were on a desert island, which three manga or manga characters would you want to be stranded with and why.
Feel free to tell all! Pick the topic or topics that you really want us to know [or just do them all! What do I care!]~!
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:17 pm
Me?
My all time favorite manga series is Genshiken! for those who don't know what its about, its the story of Otaku Kanji Sasahara, a college freshman looking to join a school club. But he can't decide weather to join the Manga club or the Anime club. His conflictions are solved when he comes across the Genshiken, somthing sort for "The society for the study of modern visual culture". The Genshiken otaku break all the rules of Otakuism and focus on manga, anime, video games, and whatever else otaku love.
Its been called this generation's otaku bible. I'm going out of my mind waiting for the Genshiken fanbook to come out in a few weeks. Ah, the perfect otaku guide~ Also, the genshiken guys read this series within a series called Kijubiki Unbalance, of which the american manga version has just released! I recomend them both!
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:10 pm
My fav manga is Count Cain by Yuki Kaori. It is set in the Victorian Era in London, England. The story revolves around 17 year old Cain Hargreaves, the new Earl of the Hargreaves family with his butler Riff Raffit, and 10 year old half-sister Merriweather (but she doesn't appear in the story until a few chps. later)
It starts off with Cain solving odd and supernatural mysteries and finds more and more important characters or pieces of info as the story goes along. It's mainly a grim and depressing tale of loss, but it WILL have you on the edge of your seat trying to get more Cain! It's completely awesome despite the mediocre overview I'm giving it 3nodding It's available to read on onemanga.com
(It's sequel is Godchild)
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:55 pm
Wow, thats interesting. I've herd of Godchild, but never its prequel. Bizzar.
The only victorian manga I've ever read was a REALLY REALLY REALLY hardcore Yaoi. It probably scared my friend and I for life -_-.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:03 am
Babylon Blanco Wow, thats interesting. I've herd of Godchild, but never its prequel. Bizzar.
The only victorian manga I've ever read was a REALLY REALLY REALLY hardcore Yaoi. It probably scared my friend and I for life -_-. OMG, something similiar happend to me too. Only with two differences. It was romance from accient China, called Rikara btw, and I know it was Yaoi. I just don't suppose it will be SO hardcore. lol About Count Caine/GodChild. It's quite nice manga, perfectly in my like-style. I think, you heard only that second name, 'cause it official distribution name in USA and too in Germany. In Japan is it divided, 'cause first 5 book were drawn as Count Caine serie before Kaori Yuki start making Angel Sanctuary. And those last 8 after she finished it. My momentaly most favoured serie is Ghost Hunt by Shido Inada, based on novels by Fuyumi Ono. About an ordinary schoolgirl named Mai Taniyama, who end up as part-time worker in Shibuya Psychic Research (SPR). Her boss, Kazuya Shibuya, who is called narcistic Naru-chan aka Naru by her, is only year or two older than she, but he's the most annoying persons she ever meet. SPR often cooperate with wide sort of exorcist, as buddhistic monk Takigawa Houshou, shintoistic miko Matsuzaki Ayako, medium Hara Masako, catholical priest John Brown from Australia and, at least, highschool student "I know EVERYthing, just ask" Yasuhara. Manga is much more funnier than anime.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:56 am
You seem to know your stuff. Thats best part of being an Otaku. You can be a walking encyclopedia for manga. My friends tease me becuase I pull out random manga quotes that noone remembers in the least bit. Thats the difference from manga and anime. With manga, you actualy absorbe knowlege. Anime looses all educational value, along with other things.
I've seem Ghost Hunter a few times, but I've never picked it up. I'll try to next time. Its sounds more comedy than action.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:37 am
Yes, I must agree. Manga is more deeper (usually) than Anime.
I think, there exist some Anime which are excellent. Few rare Anime, which overcome Manga original.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:23 pm
Ah, my list of "Must Reads" just got a bit longer. >.< I'd share mine, but there's just so many that I like there would be paragraphs upon paragraphs in my post. @_@ Either way eventually I'll get around to talking about them all around the guild. ^_^
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:48 pm
My must-reads are Genshiken, The otaku bible [ofcorse!] and the otaku bible for yaoi fans, FUJOSHI RUMI!!!! If you've never read it and you love yaoi, go out and buy it! It will knock your socks off!
Its the story of Rumi, a young Fujoshi [yaoi otaku], who lives in her own little world of doujinshi and yaoi couples. But things go haywire when she comes across a "real yaoi couple", her classmates Abe and Chiba. When Rumi sees them together, shes convinced that they're involved in a secret tyste and immediatly professes her support for their love. But little does she know that these two hansome boys are completely straight [albeit a little too close] and soon Abe developes a crush on her. Not that he can convince her that its true with his romantic endevors being spoiled by his develish best friend, Chiba, and Rumi's best friend and number one lover girl, the totaly evil and sexy Miss Gomaki. That and Rumi's heart being set on he and Chiba as a couple.
Its got a dirty twist with the evil minds of teens and yaoi, but its totaly refreshing. When I first read it, I thought "Finaly! there are people out there who knows exactily what its like to be crazy!" Its the perfect book for any Yaoi otaku! Please go out and buy it!
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:22 pm
Babylon Blanco Wow, thats interesting. I've herd of Godchild, but never its prequel. Bizzar.
The only victorian manga I've ever read was a REALLY REALLY REALLY hardcore Yaoi. It probably scared my friend and I for life -_-. lol for some odd reason, I never got yaoi and it's wonderfulness (even though that isn't a real word) some of my friends like it. The only yaoi manga I've read was actually shonen-ai and that was Boys Next Door, the saddest manga I've ever read cry It's by the same author as Count Cain, so that's why I'm a Yuuki Kaori fanatic, All HAIL YUUKI KAORI SAMA!! And I agree that manga is more deeper and more detailed than the anime. The most obvious way to see is shoujo anime/manga, most of it's anime only lasts 26 episodes so it's better to stick to the manga, so the anime is optional.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:33 pm
Finaly! Some smart people who agree with me!
I spent the summer on a tour bus with a group of fugly anime otaku, travling aross Japan. Everything was PSP this and mecha anime that and "Oh, I saw this anime at so and so pachiko place, blah blah blah" and "Oh, I've never seen that anime, but I just had to have it!" They bugged the hell out of me becuase they were completely deficiant of any true knowledge of what they were talking about. They talked out of their asses, to put it simply.
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:54 am
lol I've seen a bunch of those wannabe otakus, they just want to seem like they know everything about anime and manga or just trying to seem like they are the biggest anime geeks out there. If they need to talk about anime, they need to talk about something they actually KNOW about rather than babble on about something that they'll never see
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:16 pm
These guys and gals were exactily that. Just wouldn't shut up! And they stole this friend we made! Our group from Florida had this really cool ,funny, and totaly awesome guy in it. From Florida to Japan, we were like so close, but then those little queers stole him away and the girls in their group tried to seduce him and it was all sad and junk! They totaly made our trip unbearable! I was so glad to part ways from them!
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:09 pm
My favorite manga series is Ceres Celestial Maiden! I just love the art...and the story line's AWESOME as well...also (as weird as it may sound) it got me through some REALLY difficult times.... It's by Yuu Watase(my favorite manga artist), who also drew/wrote(?) Fushigi Yugi(...did I spell that right?) neutral
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:20 pm
Yea, Yuu Watase is really prolific. Her work is some of the most easily recognised out there. They say that Fushigi Yugi is like the ultament shoujou manga [debatable, oviously, but a strong contender]. Her stuff reminds me of Arina Takemura because shes EVERYWHERE. Arina-san pops off mang alike nobodys buisness. I can't take two steps in my bookstore without seeing some of her stuff. I only like a little bit of it, thought. And the art is overblown. Fullmoon and ION are the only two of thers that I care for. Shes also got the Gentelman's Aliance, Short-tempered Melancholy, Magical Thief Jeanne, and....... there was somthing else. I can't remember.
Your dream avi there is cute, Ghost-chan~
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