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Starbubbles, Respected Elder
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Sep 22, 2010 12:15AM
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Ao no Exorcist is a great series that people should check out. It's a great shounen!
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how much fighting is in it? i've been looking for a shonen, but i'm not an epic battle fan.
Not too much. I actually think it's lacking some. I'm pretty sure you will like it. I am eagerly waiting for the next chapter.
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I usually read a lot of shoujo too. I'm picky about shounen, it has to have a perfect plot. My favorite genre is psychological, even though I read more shoujo.
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Is goong about a girl who is forced into marriage with some traditional guy. And it is like a 100 or more chapters?
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so, are you a big clamp fan? tokyo babylon might just be up your alley.
Hmm. I'm not a big fan of the art. I am really picky. That's how you get when you're used to Death Note and Monster.
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Death Note has beautfiul details in the drawings, plus a great plot. http://media.photobucket.com/image/de...It being old or new doesn't really matter. Monster first started in 1994, and the art there is also detailed.
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i think you might like descendants of darkness too. but i'm a little thrown off since i consider clamp to be one of the better artists out there, and i consider descendants to be of similar quality to clamp. not that there's much detail in xxxholic, but magic knight rayearth is full of details.
you might also like mermaid saga, but i'm not exactly sure where to classify it in regards to if you would like the art.
Ah! I kind of understand what you mean about the style. It somehow feels a little older than what you see today.We have a very different taste in art I see. I checked the mangas out, and the art didn't quite catch my sense. Though I am thankful for trying to find something that I would like.
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i guess you're right. but that's okay, there's lots of mangas out there
That's okay. It's just me being picky.
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Starbubbles wrote: "i was wondering if anyone knew of a pirate manga other than wanted and one peice. i would love to read something pirately, but i not in a one peice/wanted mood."If you like OEL manga, there's Destiny's Hand from Seven Seas or East Coast Rising from Tokyopop.
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Kimi ni Todoke all the way!!! ^-^
Show Princess , trying to become famous so your brother can go to the art academy isn't all that easy... (btw very beautiful arts! there is even a drama based on this story it's called Summers desire, named to the heroine)
Starbubbles wrote: "well, that wasn't exactly what i meant. kenshin was an early '90s series, but those characters are drawn in a style that's closer to today. clamp tends to rotate who draws, so the style in clover..."Has anyone noticed how uncomfortable the xxxHolic artwork looks? Seriously though, How do they walk?!?! The movement however makes up for the artwork fail. The story flows like all good manga should and it has a supernatural twist that's got me hooked. I highly recommend we do this one for a month.
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i really like the artwork in holic. i love the clean lines and simplistic look. sort of reminds me of the big o. but i love holic pretty much through and through
Starbubbles wrote: "Marissa_san121 wrote: "Has anyone noticed how uncomfortable the xxxHolic artwork looks? Seriously though, How do they walk?!?! The movement however makes up for the artwork fail..."i really l..."
Sad part about XXXHolic is, I spent most of the morning listening to a friend complain about the ending...adding it to the list of reasons to smack all the women who make up CLAMP(first being the Tokyo government's fault in telling them they couldn't write X/1999 anymore because of all the teens committing suicide like the characters, so that series was sadly dropped).
Check out 20th Century Boys, it's easily one of the most amazing series i've ever read.reviews of it seem polarized and it can be a bit confusing at times but they'll answer all your questions in due time.
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reviews of it seem polarized and it can be a bit confusing at times but they'll answer all your questions in..."
i seem to keep picking up confusing series, so that wouldn't be anything new for me. haha
And I've been picking up mainly 4-KOMA series like Hetalia and GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class and .hack//4-Koma...and so on.
Rave Master is a must read for readers of Fairy Tail. Word of warning: the most perverse volume is #13.
Lear wrote: "Check out 20th Century Boys, it's easily one of the most amazing series i've ever read.reviews of it seem polarized and it can be a bit confusing at times but they'll answer all your questions in..."
So you would say that it's a great psychological manga? I really like Naoki Urasawa's manga and anime Monster, therefore I've been wanting to read 20th Century Boys, but it doesn't appeal to me. If you could compare it to another manga or anime, what would you compare it to?
That's a hard one because I've never read anything quite like 20th Century Boys. It's certainly got psychological aspects to it, but I'd call it more thriller or mystery. If I had to pick something to compare it to I'd say Death Note and Higurashi for aspects unrelated to their plots. Death Note because of compelling characters and the pacing that fits well, it doesn't seem rushed at any points. Higurashi because it likes to answer questions at it's own time. It gives out answers only as they become important.
I choose Akira, because... Okay anyone who hasn't read or watched Akira won't understand why I'm comparing it to 20th century boys.
Lear wrote: "That's a hard one because I've never read anything quite like 20th Century Boys. It's certainly got psychological aspects to it, but I'd call it more thriller or mystery. If I had to pick somethi..."
Death Note and Higurashi. Hmm, alright. I guess I should give it a try then.
Marissa_san121 wrote: "I choose Akira, because... Okay anyone who hasn't read or watched Akira won't understand why I'm comparing it to 20th century boys."I haven't read or seen Akira so I guess I can't relate to it.
*adds akira to the short list to read*I've seen it, and while a great movie I'm not sure I'd compare them. That said it's also been a while since I've seen it so it.
I started to read Akira(last year) but I'm still in the first volume since I lost the site I was reading it at...>_<20th Century Boys isn't my type...
I've watched some of the anime to Monster(since the manga isn't in any of the stores where I live).
MPD Psycho is the one I like out of the psychological genre.
awesome, choice, too bad the english only goes up to volume 9
Lear wrote: "awesome, choice, too bad the english only goes up to volume 9"MPD Psycho? There are ten volumes out in the states and thirteen out in Japan. So ten are in English now.
oh? didn't realize it got picked back up.
Lear wrote: "oh? didn't realize it got picked back up."I know this since I pay attention to Japanese magazines, and one of my friends owns the ten volumes that are out.
lol i'm current in the japanese, but i checked a local bookstore and he couldn't order it for me about a month ago. Wasn't even an upcoming title.
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That sounds like a distributer issue. Just b/c a product is out, it doesn't mean the distributer has access to it. But I'm really not versed in book distributions and such
It is most likely the distributor, since I had a friend who went to every book store where I live, trying to order a book that had been out for over a year, and ended up having to order it online.
shouldn't be a problem for me, they'll check amazon if the distributor doesn't have it. that's how i got the first couple issues of higurashi.
