OKAY, WHAT FIRST LEAD YOU TO THE BITTERSWEET, SOUR AND LIGHTLY SALTY ROAD OF MANGA AND ANIME. FOR ME IT WAS LOVE HINA, FOLLOWED BY CHOBITS, GTO AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
GO!
hmmmm...... I guess it would be Nadesico
My first was Ranma½...
Hellsing. I didn't know it was manga at the time, though, just another comic at the shop.
Hmm... there were some that I tried to read. For awhile in my confused and naive youth, I even tried to get myself to like Fushigi Yuugi. The first manga that I really, deeply enjoyed was Angel Sanctuary.
My first was Gundam Wing, I read it so much that it fell apart.
I don't have as many manga because just having nearly 50 manga is pushing my father's tolerance of what he called my obession with all things Japan.
cant remeber which out of the two it was first but it was either:
Ghost in the shell
or
Akira
Quote from: randamonian on August 11, 2007, 01:44:27 AM
OKAY, WHAT FIRST LEAD YOU TO THE BITTERSWEET, SOUR AND LIGHTLY SALTY ROAD OF MANGA AND ANIME.
Well, if
that didn't succeed in making me thirsty.... :icon_lol:
The original Ghost In The Shell movie is primarily to blame for my addiction. I think it was Excel Saga that managed to put me over the point of no return though with both the anime and manga.
Then when the monthly Shonen Jump hit the stores, it continued to open doors even further to what was out there.
I picked up on manga later than anime, but Ghost in the Shell (the movies then the series) got me interested in the original source material and there I went. Been a little crazy from there.
Quotenow I have no less than 265 manga
Sweet jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, that's a helluva lot of manga. I have 26 graphic novel compilations all total, and a couple of individual issues of
Blade of the Immortal, which I only recently discovered was offered in individual installments, which is great since the wait for new volumes can take a year or more in some cases. I have
read a couple hundred manga maybe, but I don't own that many. Wee-ooh.
Quote from: starcat on August 12, 2007, 12:06:55 AM
I have pictures of them. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/starcat/Collections/collectionaug076.jpg) Just recently got a new bookshelf so I can fit them all on at once without having to stack them sideways! ^_^
*pushes his eyeballs back into his head* O_O
That is amazing. Reminds me of my local bookstore. :e_tongue:
Next to the comic shop I frequent, they have one of the largest selection of manga titles 'round here.
Quote from: starcat on August 12, 2007, 12:06:55 AM
I have pictures of them. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/starcat/Collections/collectionaug076.jpg) Just recently got a new bookshelf so I can fit them all on at once without having to stack them sideways! ^_^
What can I say? I love books, and I can't stop. :)
Sometimes i wish some parts of your room (and the content, obivously) would belong to me :o
I have no such thing as a bookshelf, nor do i have place for one :(
I just have a rather small one filled with my manga and various sci-fi/fantasy paperbacks. I'm at the point where if I keep collecting manga some of the paperbacks will need to be relocated elsewhere since I can't support a big bookcase like that in my room. Between the corner desk, bed, electronics case, TV stand, and sword rack I'm full up. I can't even get that old 155mm artillery shell casing I was planning to get as an industrial sized piggy bank - if I filled that thing I'd have bonza bucks. Don't ask me how I'd get the sonuvabitch out of the house though, I'd likely need a furniture dolly :D.
:e_love: :e_love: :elcry: :h_embarassed: :e_love: :elembarassed: :e_crying: :e_shocked: :eheart: :elvery happy: :h_embarassed:
:g_hail: :im_nabeshin: :elhail:
NEW SMILEYS!
yeah i have 93 manga titles, i had to get a bookshelf at the start of the year, but i need a new one.
i used to have a box, and thats all i needed...
when i had 20, people said it looked like a bookstore, what an exaggeration.
Quote from: Lord Il on August 12, 2007, 08:52:42 AM
Quote from: starcat on August 12, 2007, 12:06:55 AM
I have pictures of them. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/starcat/Collections/collectionaug076.jpg) Just recently got a new bookshelf so I can fit them all on at once without having to stack them sideways! ^_^
*pushes his eyeballs back into his head* O_O
That is amazing. Reminds me of my local bookstore. :e_tongue:
Next to the comic shop I frequent, they have one of the largest selection of manga titles 'round here.
as for me, i have to get someone to take me for a 20 minute ride to the nearest borders, yes, we have borders in australia. the borders there has no ai yori aoshi, or stuff like that, has unfinished series, has up to 14 excel saga books and recently only had 1, 2 , 9, 10, 11 12 13 14. only 8 excel saga books.
there is a small fan base here in the desert island(not that i live in the desert). luckily, i can order from amazon, convert the price, order, and have it sent here in a month... :e_crying:
i wanna live in sydney, they have a couple borders and a japanese manga store, not that i can read it. but it's and hour and a half drive away...
Quote from: starcat on August 12, 2007, 10:33:19 PM
LOL, 20 minutes? Man, I wish I had only a 20-minute drive. My bookstore is an hour away. (But I still make good use of it.)
Why not ask your Borders to order the books? Mine always could.
It's a matter of being too lazy to get the bus,not having anyone wanting to drive me too often than a couple of times a year, and being just too poor. If i ordered, i would have to go again, and no-one wants to take me, blah, blah, blah.
maybe if I wasn't lazy...
Quote from: starcat on August 12, 2007, 11:44:58 PM
Is there nothing else by the Borders that makes it worth going to? :/
They dont have what i want most of the time. i had to get excel saga 2 first. sometimes i have a plan of what i want to get and i have a very limited amount of money i can spend. But they dont have the book i want, sold the entire series and stopped selling it(W juliet) and it takes months to get new books in.
i have to then do the calculations in my mind, and fit the amount i have to pay with the amount of money i have, and it takes forever. it's part of the reason no-one wants to take me.
what may have been out in America may take months to get to Australia, and they might never have it. Im just too poor, and want too many books.
but they do have ian flemming books. that's good. but they only have 5 books or something.
and no. everyone hates the shopping centre that has borders, they hate the place.
Quote from: Lord Il on August 11, 2007, 05:44:35 PM
Quote from: randamonian on August 11, 2007, 01:44:27 AM
OKAY, WHAT FIRST LEAD YOU TO THE BITTERSWEET, SOUR AND LIGHTLY SALTY ROAD OF MANGA AND ANIME.
Well, if that didn't succeed in making me thirsty.... :icon_lol:
The original Ghost In The Shell movie is primarily to blame for my addiction. I think it was Excel Saga that managed to put me over the point of no return though with both the anime and manga.
Then when the monthly Shonen Jump hit the stores, it continued to open doors even further to what was out there.
That's a quote! in the episode where the excel girls go to school, excel says "its been a while since excel was at school. It reminds me of such bittersweet, sour and lightly salty days'
yeah...
is this discussion over?
yes.
really?
yeah.
that's all?
that's all.
okay, bye.
maybe it was....beserk or dragon ball
what was? :e_confused:
oh, yeah, right :e_embarassed:. That was the topic of this forum, wasn't it.
sorry, i forgot, got off topic.
Hey Look! I', not a newbie anymore, and i've been on this forum for 13 hours, not straight of course.
Quote from: randamonian on August 18, 2007, 08:35:01 PM
oh, yeah, right :e_embarassed:. That was the topic of this forum, wasn't it.
sorry, i forgot, got off topic.
Hey Look! I', not a newbie anymore, and i've been on this forum for 13 hours, not straight of course.
I've been on here for 2 days, 22 hours and 25 minutes. Most of that time is spent AFK with Firefox left on.
Yeah, I've propbably spent alot of time putting my pictures on my gallery. How long does it take for my picture to get approved.
Not that im complainin
(http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~daw/geboku_gallely/gallely11.htm)
Quote from: randamonian on August 18, 2007, 08:45:13 PM
Yeah, I've propbably spent alot of time putting my pictures on my gallery. How long does it take for my picture to get approved.
Not that im complainin
(http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~daw/geboku_gallely/koyori.jpg)
No idea. Oh, I fixed your image for ye.
Thanks!
I can't figure out how to do everything just yet. Here's another one.
(http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~daw/geboku_gallely/kos_mos.jpg)I just don't get stuff, sometimes. i mustn't be emergency food source for nothing. Or maybe I am...
Quote from: starcat on August 18, 2007, 09:25:24 PM
Also -- I was unaware we HAD a gallery, I'm approving your images now.
Approve both of mine too, please. :ehail:
ah, its so difficult, cause i don't have firefox. rrr, makes me wanna...
(http://www.rikudoukan.com/img/comic01.jpg)
Beserk after watching the anime
Quote from: randamonian on August 19, 2007, 03:01:18 AM
ah, its so difficult, cause i don't have firefox. rrr, makes me wanna...
(http://www.rikudoukan.com/img/comic01.jpg)
just so everyone knows, im Hyatt, looking very confused and puzzled..don't know what to do...
Oh yeah, i started a new manga:wild act. i read 8, but i got 1 the other day. girly but funny...
What got me interested in the anime world was DBZ, though wasn't truly interested much in anime at all. What got me truly addicted to the Japanese Culture was Excel Saga at the age of 12. Never turned my back on it.
so how long does that mean you've been an Excel Saga fan?
Quote from: excel-kleinwald on September 03, 2007, 03:28:35 PM
What got me interested in the anime world was DBZ, though wasn't truly interested much in anime at all. What got me truly addicted to the Japanese Culture was Excel Saga at the age of 12. Never turned my back on it.
add a couple years and you have where i started.
Well it means I have been an avid Excel Saga Fan for 5-6 years now. Basically since the manga first came out. My manga collection has just surpassed the 150 mark... I've got quite a ways to go *sigh*
And I can recognize Genshiken anywhere... even in Starcat's bookshelf of course! (second favorite series)
Quote from: excel-kleinwald on September 07, 2007, 07:49:44 PM
Well it means I have been an avid Excel Saga Fan for 5-6 years now. Basically since the manga first came out. My manga collection has just surpassed the 150 mark... I've got quite a ways to go *sigh*
A long way to go?! Hell, I have 21 manga books and don't plan to buy any more until Excel Saga Volume 17 comes out.
Where I live it is pretty commonplace to have many, I know of at least 3 other collections bigger than mine though, and I have heard of a fabled 600+ collection...
under 100 for me. My full collections above 8 are:chobits, love hina, marmalade boy (don't know why i even get that).
Gotta say that as you go along, you need more books. A person may think "i can leave it at 50 or something" but you read the books, you want more, MORE.
It seems funny to think i have so much, but once you've read the books about 5 times or something, you've moved on.
maybe i should open a manga bookshop and then i can read all the stuff and sell them afterwards.
I believe my first was DBZ... Excel Saga was one of the last series I picked up... but it's definitely my favorite out of all I've read. :] :elembarassed:
Quote from: Escargotage on September 10, 2007, 07:09:14 PM
I believe my first was DBZ... Excel Saga was one of the last series I picked up... but it's definitely my favorite out of all I've read. :] :elembarassed:
why blush?
Quote from: randamonian on September 11, 2007, 03:58:48 AM
Quote from: Escargotage on September 10, 2007, 07:09:14 PM
I believe my first was DBZ... Excel Saga was one of the last series I picked up... but it's definitely my favorite out of all I've read. :] :elembarassed:
why blush?
Meant to put it after saying my first manga was DBZ. Then I decided to add more and forgot to move the blush over. ;P
so...whats DBZ about?
could be bothered to look it up.
First anime I ever saw was def Sailor moon, then DBZ (I honestly had no idea these were anime at the time I just thought of them as cartoons)
First manga was I believe Love Hina, though only one book of it. It was actually fate because when I was on a boss heading home the bus broke down not once but twice (two dif buses) and it was the middle of the night. On the final bus this girl was reading a book that was from right to left and I asked if I could look at it. This was Love Hina. After I got back home a few months later I thought of that book and wanted to learn more about it so I watched the whole anime. But I owe my interest in manga to that unknown girl...
Quoteso...whats DBZ about?
could be bothered to look it up.
It's about a bunch of idiotic aliens (and a small number of powerful humans who are rapidly outclassed by said idiotic aliens in terms of raw power) that posture at each other for several episodes/volumes insulting each other before they finally fight in a flurry of cartoonish attacks and various other high-energy mass destruction powers which invariably destroy large tracts of land and severely lower property values. Popular if you are a 13 year old or younger boy.
But that's just my take on it :im_nabeshin:
sounds interesting...it's well known isn't it, as a manga?
As a manga? I'm sure it is, but it's as an anime that most people know it best, and if you include the first series Dragonball, the second and longer series Dragonball Z (the one most people are familiar with), and Dragonball GT (which even Dragonball fans would like to forget), then you have one of if not the longest running anime series in history. I have only seen a few volumes of the manga version locally as it's not really that popular anymore (most people in the age category to watch something in this vein tend to go for Naruto and Bleach now - though I will say I like Bleach but have never seen anything but the horrid English dub of Naruto).
I think One Piece has finally beaten the DB legacy in terms of length now.
Agreed, english Naruto was just butchered and should only be watched (even if its the japanese version) to like the 80th episode where Sasuke leaves. Then go watch Naruto's new anime based on the 2 year change. DONT watch the 100+ Episodes of fillers that they had running for god long 2+ years... Only about 3 of them were at all good...
About DBZ also you got to remember it was cut down a lot on the blood and boobs, it wasnt as kiddy as america made it out to be...
aaaaahhh DBZ what a series...
As I recall, my first introduction to anime was Akira, a movie that amazed me to no end, soon followed by Fist of the North Star, which I thought was just freakin' awesome, being a 15 year old boy.
Those two started it all.
I can't exactly recall which specific manga I bought first...
I have a lot. Could have been Beet The Vandal Buster, may have been FL CL, perhaps was DragonBall Z, and InuYasha is also a likely candidate. Pokemon?
:e_confused:
E^d
the pokemon manga actually pretty good, better than the anime. it's funnier and not just for kids, plus it follows the story from the gameboy, which i love that they did.
Quote from: randamonian on October 10, 2007, 09:13:06 PM
the pokemon manga actually pretty good, better than the anime. it's funnier and not just for kids, plus it follows the story from the gameboy, which i love that they did.
I enjoyed them much more then the animé. Although I'll still watch it, even the new ones, once in a while.
After checking my collection, I think Caravan Kidd Vol. 1, by Johji Manabe was the very first actual manga I ever bought, but it was large (american comic) size, and read left-to-right.
E^D
First manga I ever bought myself was Karin 1 like last year (all i used to do was borrow manga from my old gf)