Introducing Me

[Cozen]

Just joined. I figured I would venture over here for a bit to see what's happening. Currently I have read over 4,000+ manga titles over the last 2 years. These range from Oneshots, Anthologies, to currently ongoing series. I currently am a staff member for the scanalation groups The Zero Alliance group, Lively Scans, and Bxsmanga.

You can see my most recent works on Nise no Chigiri, L-DK, and The conductor.

Right now I am following:

-Lost in London -(however it seems to be in Hiatus at the moment.
- pureblood Boyfriend
- Akagami no Shiraukihime (my #1 favorite)
- Momoiro Heaven (2nd best)
- Orange Marmalade
- Skip Beat
- The One
- Akatsuki No Yona
- Ao Haru Ride
- Amakusa 1637
- Crown Princess Project
- Nise no Chigiri
- Reimei no Arcana
- Scarlet Palace
- Spam Mail Hunter
- Gakuen Alice
- Gakkou no Ojikan
- Kimera
- Kiss made no kyori

My All Time Favorites are:

- Akagami no Shirayukihime
- Koi Hirai
- L-dk
- Momoiro Heaven
- Red River
- Youth Gone Wild
- Gakuen Alice

[Giselle]

Hello Everyone I'm Giselle And I L-O-V-E Anime's :D

[2gami]

Im 2gami

heLO

[Kaitlin]

Hey everyone! I just recently got into manga and I have to say... I'M OBSESSED!

So far my favourite is 'Ouran High School Host Club', so if anyone had any recommendation, I'm all ears! <3

[Doc]

Greetings to our newest Manga Maniacs. :)

I am always suggesting Black butler to folks. It has great artwork, interesting plots(most of the time), and very interesting characters set in jolly old England.

Recently Sailor Moon finished reprinting with 12 volumes that can be purchased in packs of 1-6 and 7-12 off of Amazon and probably other places. :)

Also Not sure if it was mentioned yet but in September Kodanasha is releasing the New Sailor Moon Short stories. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Kaitlin wrote: "Hey everyone! I just recently got into manga and I have to say... I'M OBSESSED!

So far my favourite is 'Ouran High School Host Club', so if anyone had any recommendation, I'm all ears! <3"

Oh boy, you don't know what you got yourself into with recommendations! Hahaha!! Here are a couple of my favorites:

Saiyuki
Black Bird
Fruits Basket
Alice in the Country of Hearts
Dengeki Daisy
Black Butler
Othello
Maid Sama (unfinished in book format in the US though unfortunately because it was published by TokyoPop)


And some that I really enjoyed!
Boys over Flowers
Honey and Clover
Blue Exorcist
Pandora Hearts
Chobits
Paradise Kiss
Model
Negima!
Future Diary (similar to Death Note but not as annoying)
Ranma 1/2 (unfortunately, for me at least, this series is so long so a lot of times I was bored with the volumes because I felt like they were just milking it for all it was worth to make it so long. But it's very funny and silly!)
Kimi ni Todoke (also very long and at times feels boring but otherwise pretty good!)

Well I'll leave it at that now, I could add lots more. There are two that I've only read the first volume for but I plan to read the rest of the available volumes very soon. I absolutely loved the first volumes so you could check those out too! And they are:

Jack Frost
March Story
Until Death Do Us Part (currently only two volumes available for this series cuz they just started publishing it in English)

I hope you find something you enjoy from this list ^_^

[Starbubbles, Respected Elder]

So many new people! It's also nice to see people sharing my obsession with shoujo as well.

I love recommending Skip Beat! and SA. But there are so many goodies out there! You can check out the Suggested Manga a Day thread for about 1/2 a year's worth of featured series. I got a little lazy towards the end of the first year, and didn't quite pick that ball back up yet. There are also Pick-a-Manga threads and Suggestion threads in various genres for other suggestions too.

I can't wait to see everyone around the group!

[Amber]

Hi all,

My name is Amber, and I have been reading manga for about 10-11 years now. Back when I first started, it was difficult to find good scanlations online, so I was limited by what my parents would buy for me at the bookstore 45 minutes away.

All in all, I've read a good mix of shoujo, shounen, josei, and yaoi. If I had to pick a favorite series, I'd be hard pressed to pick between Fruits Basket, Hana-Kimi, Usagi Drop, and Ouran. Or Saiyuki because that was the first manga I ever read.

I'm always looking for something new to read, so I'm excited to see what you all have to recommend!

[Cozen]

Omari Sister's are one of the better scanalation groups. You can compare Akagami no Shirayukihime from down loading it directly from their sight, and the manga that is available anywhere else on the web. Their translations, from what I have seen, are spot on, and they don't get the raws from that cheap quick newspaper thin quality (can't remember what it is called). They mostly get theres from the vol. themselves. Quality is always better with them. I am not sure if there is another group equally good. I won't say any one of my groups are, because I am too critical of my talents to know that there is still much to learn in cleaning a raw. I can always improve even after 2 years and still going. The Zero Alliance group and Lively Scans do have ties to Omari's Sister through joints. Bsxmanga, don't know what is going on with her. She's in college but hasn't been in touch recently. Except for a few titles she does mostly summaries. I happen to be cleaning and proofing L-DK and gave her the chapter 40 a few months ago. So unless it's a translator... I just don't know

[Megan]

HI

[Clara]

Hello. I'm Gerry. Been reading manga for about 13 years now. I don't remember what the first one I read was. Maybe Ranma 1/2? Yeah that sounds about right.

My favorite manga is either Great Teacher Onizuka or Pluto, and my favorite manga artist is either Hiromu Arakawa or Naoki Urasawa

I buy all of my manga and if you support scanlation sites, we probably can't be friends.

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Hello Megan and Gerry!

Yay! Nice to see someone else who is against scanlations too ;)

[James]

i to love real books and hate the pirate sites. (and fan subs).

[Starbubbles, Respected Elder]

It is nice seeing and meeting people who enjoy purchasing books. They are always better in a hardcopy.

[Doc]

Speaking of hard copy look what I found on Amazon. I never realized Tokyopop did hard cover books. :) It is just a shame after hearing about how cool the hard cover copy of "Vinland Saga" was going to be that suddenly there is no availability to it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591...

[James]

hi rom nice to see people making stuff around here. but fyi there is a part of this forum for post your own work. (but no one ever looks there)

[ληgєłα]

Hey there, I'm Angela and I love anime and manga!

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Hi Angela! Welcome!

[Doc]

So much energy on the board. I think I can take some of it to work with me. :)

[James]

Sarcasm gets you no were ian.

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

I don't think he was being sarcastic.... if he was I totally missed it.

[ληgєłα]

Sarcasm is a losers way of putting winners down! ಠ▃ಠ

[Doc]

Nope not sarcasm I really enjoyed the energy. I literally went to work with renewed energy because I really enjoyed this. :)

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

I suspected as much... I'm sorry for the jump of negativity you got in response :( But you know how the internet is :-/

Thanks for being an awesome member of the group!

[James]

sorry word "Sarcasm" was meant sarcastically, there was a smiley face but it got cut off.

face is I feel like the groups has been bit dead for the past coplue of mouths, you look and no body post any in days or even mouths. the last new person before angela (how was not a spam bot) was back in October.

but i don't what to discuss this matter.

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Well hopefully that'll change soon! We have some new mods to help Starbubbles with her work load so hopefully discussions will be ignited and people will enjoy the events! :) Thanks James for sticking around!

[Doc]

Good plan. We can power up like a Super Saiyan but hopefully it won't take half the year to unleash our revitalizing attack. :)

No hard feelings taken. The internet is often quick to anger and James just lost his smiley. I hope you get it back lol. :)

[ληgєłα]

Sorry about the added comment, I take it back ^_^
It was actually a quote from a funny movie I saw

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Ian - are you kidding, it'll take at least a year and a half ;) But only 5 more seconds until ultimate destruction! (4 seasons of the show later....) ;)

[Doc]

*Glamazon* wrote: "Ian - are you kidding, it'll take at least a year and a half ;) But only 5 more seconds until ultimate destruction! (4 seasons of the show later....) ;)"

lol. Well at least try not to kill Krillin before revitalizing everything. :)

[Abigail]

♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)

[Lena♫]

Hi everyone! My name is Lena. I started reading manga when I was in fifth grade. Yotsuba&! was my first manga. Lately, I been looking for some new manga to read, so I'm open to suggestions.

[ληgєłα]

Hey Lena! I absolutely adore manga as well. What kind of manga do you read?

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Hi Lena!! Welcome! Is there any particular type of manga you like to read? You can definitely check out our bookshelf... it is full of all kinds of manga!!

[Bella eve]

Hello guys, nice too meet you.
I love manga, reading them is a necessity as air for me. Lol sad I know but it's the only thing good about me.
It makes me so happy like sometimes its taking me far away to a different place

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Welcome Bella! I doubt reading manga is the ONLY good thing about you ;-) but I'm sure you'll find yourself among good manga-loving company here

[Bella eve]

*Queen Diva* wrote: "Welcome Bella! I doubt reading manga is the ONLY good thing about you ;-) but I'm sure you'll find yourself among good manga-loving company here"

Haha thank you!, always happy to make friends
Specially when they love manga ;)

[Ryn1]

Hello. My name is Rebecca and I love reading manga and watching anime. I don't really have a genre that I prefer since I read whichever I find interesting which even include shonenAi/yaoi and shoujo ai/yuri. My current favorites are Shingeki no Kyojin, Yamada-Kun To 7-Nin no Majo and Watashi Ni Xx Shinasai. But my all time favorites are Ranma 1/2 and Slam Dunk cause they are really funny.

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Welcome Rebecca!

[Ryn1]

Hi Queen Diva, happy to be here. But I have to admit I don't know what it is we do here yet...I'll learn :)

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Haha I'm happy to tell you! There are a lot of discussion threads you can join, but we also do monthly events. We do a Book of the Month manga read where we vote on what we want to read. Usually there is a discussion thread for what we're reading to share thoughts. We also do this with anime in our new Anime Watch series. Those run for two months and then on the third month we do a movie night. Also, there are lots of different reading challenges you can partake in, as well as a variety of polls to take. It's pretty fun! I've enjoyed being a part of this group so much that recently I became one if the mods. So I hope you enjoy our events and discussions!

[Ryn1]

Sounds great, really looking forward to it. Would look around when I have more time and see which ones I'll get into. I'm just glad to find people who are into anime/manga as much as I am, unfortunately, none of my friends or my family are as "enlightened" lol.

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Their loss ;)

[Ryn1]

Obviously lol

[Amber]

I forgot to introduce myself when I joined the group, so here goes - My name is Amber, I'm almost 34, and I've been reading manga for about 16-17 years now. Yes, that's a long time, I started reading when Sailor Moon first appeared in the US in MixxZine along with a bunch of other different comics such as Magic Knight Rayearth. I actually miss that magazine! I still have copies of it somewhere.

Right now I am following the Alice in the Country of Hearts/Clover/Joker/Diamonds/etc, Say "I Love You", Happy Marriage?!, Vampire Knight, Blue Exorcist, and Black Butler. I'd follow more if my budget would allow, but I am also pretty particular about the types of stories that I like to read. :)

I am really big on Anime, probably more-so than manga, but I only recently started reading manga again more regularly so both habits are pretty intense now!

[Miss Ryoko, Supreme Overlord ;)]

Welcome Amber! I LOVED Alice in the Country of Hearts!

Does your local library carry any manga? That is where I get 99% of the manga I read. I'm lucky cuz I live in a big metro area so we have lots of huge libraries with great selections. But it has saved me hundreds of dollars because I read roughly between 100 - 150 mangas a year (sometimes more) and they almost all come from the library!

[Amber]

*Queen Diva* wrote: "Welcome Amber! I LOVED Alice in the Country of Hearts!

Does your local library carry any manga? That is where I get 99% of the manga I read. I'm lucky cuz I live in a big metro area so we have lo..."

They do, but unfortunately they don't carry a very big selection. I just try to keep the series I read to a minimum so I'm not overspending and when I find a good job then I can go back and read the ones I didn't get around to reading. Until then I satisfy myself with anime and sometimes I will sit in a bookstore and read manga or read it online.

Also, playing Otome video games can scratch the itch very well!

[Doc]

Amber wrote: "I forgot to introduce myself when I joined the group, so here goes - My name is Amber, I'm almost 34, and I've been reading manga for about 16-17 years now. Yes, that's a long time, I started readi..."

Hi there Amber. I am not much older then you and I know of the temptations of over spending so I try to limit myself to 20 to 30 bucks worth every two weeks (when I get payed) I like to visit the local independent bookstore to try to support them but I can only so so much.:)

The most recent books I acquired were Magi volume 6 and Inu X Boku SS volume 1 which I hope to have time to review on this sight soon. At present the books I am most excited to get in July will be Black Butler 17 and the newest Maximum Ride which I am ordering on the 28th. Best wishes on getting more of your favorite titles. :)

[Starbubbles, Respected Elder]

Hi everyone!!! I'm avoiding sleep, since that is smart before a big conference call. Haha!

Anyway-
I own hundreds of manga before I took full advantage of the library. Well, I also moved and where I am now has a pretty awesome inter-loaning system. So all of them minus like 4 have been from the library. Well, that is the ones that aren't published. That's online. Or harlequin. But let's face it, I should have taken advantage of those sales when I saw them when I had the chance. They're gold I say, gold! haha!

Anyway- It's so nice seeing someone else loving Clover. Soooo good! Extremely detailed. But I love lots of CLAMP's stuff, so that shouldn't be a surprise.

Anywho- I hope to see everyone around!

[ash]

Hey guys please join this group if you love Anime! and Naruto! I need a lot more members for this group to work and it would mean a lot to me if you can join! Thank you! I hope to see some of you there so I can get to know you guys!
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...