The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

[pokoko]

Shadow8 said:

Poko, you're killing me with all these recommendations, I barely have time to keep up with all the mangas I got already :'( and now I have this and Fire Punch to read  too.

I can't either!  I have five open tabs of manga right now.  I really should stop reading something new while I'm reading several other things.  Oh, and that wasn't really a recommendation, as I'm only on chapter 2 of that manga (looks good so far, though), I just thought that the mighty Dragon Princess being a tsundere was so silly that it cracked me up.

Cloudman said:

BraLoD said:

Miura.
Not exactly because Berserk is my favorite manga, because it's not, but because of how much care and quality he puts in his work, so as a mangaka, Miura is the one that deserves the most praise, IMO.

Going by my manga preference it would be Oda, because he makes One Piece, but even so, I would still pick Kishimoto, because Naruto is the major reason I'm even into manga, even if One Piece still got to be my favorite over Naruto.

Toriyama is also a nice pick, but what he is doing, or at least giving an ok to, with this Dragon Ball Super... seriously, that's a serious stain to both him and the franchise just as well, it's so out of place and what was once at the highest level of quality and creativite is not even on an average level, it's so sad to see it...
I know there is no manga made by Toriyama himself about Super, but it's a sequel ok'ed by him with his supervision, and it's not even close to the level of the not his, spin off GT series... Toriyama should really have let DB go...

Is Berserk the manga with the character named Guts who fights with a giant sword? I hope I'm thinking about the right manga, haha...

Berserk is really nothing like One Piece but, then again, it's one of the few works that can rival One Piece in terms of scope.  Both of them are just so incredibly epic.  That's why there have been so many anime adaptations, as each of them only capture a portion of the whole.  Also, Griffith is a truly great character, one of the most interesting non-protagonists I've ever come across, and the real driving force of the story.  He's intelligent, complex, he goes through as much hell as also anyone, and his ambition is everything to him.

If anyone wants to get into Berserk, though, just know that it's a long, long ride and that it pulls zero punches.

As for mangaka that I respect, I'm going to go with one for an odd reason.  Chihayafuru is a great manga with excellent characters and art.  It sells extremely well for Josei and is credited with single-handedly increasing the popularity of its subject matter, competitive Karuta.  However, the mangaka, Yuki Suetsugu, was once shamed because she was found to have plagiarised art from another work.  Kodansha pulled her previous series and cancelled the series she was working on at the time.  She had to issue a public apology and her career was put on hiatus.  Yes, what she did was bad but to come back from that with one of the most popular and critically acclaimed non-shounen manga going, that's impressive.

Also, it's impossible for me not to respect the works of Kiyohiko Azuma.  Azumanga Daioh and Yotsuba& are both so funny and original.  His manga makes me happy.