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 Tell me about GOOD manga, Looking for recommendations |
 Mar 9 2009, 04:37 PM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,178 Joined: 5-December 07 From: Lower UCAS, along the border Member No.: 14,507  |
Read the manga, skip the anime except for a few of the fight scenes. The anime suffers from Mai-Hime disorder; halfway through the show it stops being happy go lucky and goes straight to gutpunches every episode. EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
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Mar 9 2009, 11:33 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
That's probably because gutpunches are a big sexual fetish in Japan for some reason.
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Mar 10 2009, 12:12 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,263 Joined: 4-March 08 From: Blighty Member No.: 15,736 |
Ravensmuse,
Iirc, the anime covers more than the first series of manga. I.e. read far enough (into Maximum) and you'll start hitting the gut punches in the manga. |
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Mar 10 2009, 04:14 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Japanese gutpunching fetish, as in, http://newsimg.ngfiles.com/96000/96460_Fal...nchabortion.jpg
(I wouldn't call that NSFW necessarily but it's a little weird so I'd only click on it at home.) |
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Mar 10 2009, 11:11 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,178 Joined: 5-December 07 From: Lower UCAS, along the border Member No.: 14,507 |
Buddy, I hang out on 4chan. Weird sexual fetishes are nothing to me any more (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Heath: Yeah, I know that it swings over to gut punches in the manga too, but there it's handled a lot better. The anime just up and decides, "hey, you know what would be awesome? Doing nothing but making Vash's life hell for the next thirteen episodes." I mean, I know that that's kind of the point of the story, it just put a damper on what had seemed like a fun show til that point. |
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Mar 10 2009, 12:08 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,526 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
well, it's not as bad as NGE or Black Lagoon . .
but yeah, you start out with lightheartened fun show, and then you get psychotic serial killers and the such . . |
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Mar 10 2009, 12:41 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
QUOTE (Wesley Street @ Mar 5 2009, 05:06 PM)  I'm on disk four of the anime so while Black Lagoon offered nothing in the way of surprises, the art was quite good as well. My only complaint was that it seemed very jumpy in places. I'm used to a more leisurely 1-2-3-4-5 pacing in manga since it's printed in weekly anthologies and this was more Western in its pacing, 2-4-6-8 jump jump jump. Ah well, a minor complaint. Black Lagoon is monthly, if that explains anything (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ~J |
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Mar 15 2009, 06:40 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,851 Joined: 15-February 08 From: Indianapolis Member No.: 15,686 |
Ah, that does explain a lot. I'm used to reading serialized manga that's been reprinted form Kodansha's manga weeklies.
EDIT Gantz is awesome. That is all. |
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