The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

[Cloudman]

pokoko said:

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:

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.

Darn, it sounds like it was really rough for the mangaka of Chihayafuru after getting into trouble, but to come back from that to make a very popular and excellent manga, it is indeed. I read the 1st chapter, but could really get into it... : S I should give it another shot...

Also, I forgot to mention Kiyohiko Azuma. His work is some of the best I have ever read. I reread them from time to time just for a couple of laughs. His is so good at comedy xD

 

 

BraLoD said:

Cloudman said:

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...

One Piece and Naruto are also good answers. I may not like Naruto, but it was and still is a very popular and liked manga, so it's gotta be a good story. The style is pretty cool too with some good characters. I really liked Kakashi and Gaara. They were cooly designed characters.

Haha, Toriyama sort of suffered the problem Watsuki had. After DBZ, he just kind of... disappeared, making small manga that couldn't matched DBZ and they just keep using his work and style constantly. I think they're oversuing it to the point where it loses its charm. His older stuff is still pretty great though.

Yes, that's Berserk XD

I really love Naruto, it was what got me into really wanting to follow manga, though I was already quite used to anime, with Dragon Ball, Saint Seya, Yu-gi-oh, Pokemon, Digimon, Beyblade, Captain Tsubasa, Tenchi Muyo and even goin on with the old Fullmetal Alchemist, was Naruto that got me into manga, was also quite the experience, watching it and talking about it daily/weekly with friends to the point where I couldn't wait anymore and started reading the manga to advance the most I could, plus the great games it kept getting from Accel onwards, Naruto grew to be part of me, I'm very fond of it, I followed it since around 2007 until it finished 2014 and it was really an amazing experience to me, I'm too personally attached to the Naruto series, so don't mind me XD

Cool, I got it! I've never read it, but from what I saw, it looks pretty graphic and dark... The artwork is really awesome though.

Wow, you followed some anime I really liked too. I rarely ever meet people who've watched Tenchi Muyo. I loved that anime~ And it sounds like Naruto was for you as Kenshin was for me xD It's cool that Naruto was your gateway to manga. It was through Kenshin that I started reading more and found even more manga I enjoyed.