Your Top Ten Favorite Manga

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 9:48 pm

1) Touch (i can´t believe this one didn´t make it into any top five...)
2) Captain Tsubasa
3) H2 - Katsu - Ranma - Slam Dunk - Hajime no Ippo - Beck
9) I¨S - Hikaru no Go
special mentions go to Monster, Kenshin, 20th, One Piece, Noritaka and all those Adachi and Rumiko mangas out there.
damn... really square list, mostly sport mangas... i thought i had better taste, more refined... damn...

This reminds me of that movie, HiFi, they kept making rankings out of everything... are we fans all the same?
Is there a way out????

Street Musician Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 419

Well after reading about 30 more manga titles out there I have updated my list.

1. Dragonball (yet again, shut up)
Bleach
GTO
Naruto
Berserk
Eden
Rurouni Kenshin
Houshin Engi
My Name is Zushio
Beck
Angel Sanctuary

Couldn't place the last 10 in order.. and couldn't remove one..

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:44 pm

Tomeya wrote:

This reminds me of that movie, HiFi, they kept making rankings out of everything... are we fans all the same?
Is there a way out????

Yeah, I've seen the movie and read the book. I can only speak for myself, but I'm kind of resigned to the fact that I'll always be like that. But I do try to not sound like a snob, although I'm really not quite sure how successful I am...

Groupie Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 120

01 - Any Tsuge manga. Uwasa No Bushi, Tsuya, Neji Shiki, Gensen-kan syuujin [not sure about the spelling of the last title]. There's just something about Tsuge's manga that I find intriguing. It's something I can't point my finger at but it's there and it sucks me in like a black hole.

02 - 20th Century Boys. Aside from Tsuge's work this is, by far, the most interesting manga I have ever read. Sure the story builds up slowly but it doesn't change a thing. The characters, the events and friend.

03 - Akira. Otomo did it and I have read it over and over again. I was digging through each volume waiting for next thing to happend. It was just so exciting. It was years ago but I still come back to it from time to time.

04 - MPD Psycho. It's not the dead bodies and violence that made this title to number four. It's the story and its dark mood. I like it and that's that.

05 - Black Jack. Osamu Tesuka at his best. It's not often you read a manga about a brilliant runaway surgeon who saves lives. This one is really old but I still don't have enough of it.

06 - Blame!. Techo thriller to die for. When I first read Noise I wished there was more. And there was. Only under a different title. The characters' arms and legs are a bit too long, so what. Another dark post apocalyptic world to explore together with Killy.

07 - Beck. It just doesn't seem so obvious and simple as other manga about teenage musicians who try to make it big. They try and try and try and there's always something in the way. And that's cool.

08 - One Piece. [Notices three last titles begin with "b"] This title is more of a symbol for all the manga you can laugh at while reading. It's great and I enjoy a good laugh. Ruffy and his friends kick it nice.

09 - Agharta. Water, tamarix and a girl with strange powers. It's kind of intriguing and I liked it since the day one. It's progressing pretty slowly though.

10 - Dragonhead. Last but not least. Claustrophobic feel of this one really is great. This one TOO is progressing too slow if you ask me. And I mean the translation, not the story itself.

Ok. So maybe it isn't exactly top ten of all times. In a top ten like that you would rather expect to see more of Tezuka and other great classics. But that's pretty much what I like and it's my top ten.

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 11:23 am

I'd like to redo my list after a couple of months of searching scan sites.

1. Zombie Powder- Its like trigun but better
2. Naruto - shut up...
3. Bleach- awesome manga
4. One Peice- its really good if you follow it long enough
5. Beck- its pretty good
6. Love Hina- again, shut up
7. Alive- snoopycools only one i like.
8. 666 Satan- a little childish but hey
9. Fullmetal Alchemist- Toriyamas World has a lot off mangas i like
10. Ryuuroden- its history acurate

Street Musician Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 516

yeah, i have some new manga i like so, in no nessecary order...
beck
naruto
shaman king
hunter x hunter
bremen
black cat
zombie powder
akira
zushio
bleach
+anima (hey, you know you wish you could sprout wings)
i think that's 10...

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 3:45 pm

its eleven just to tell you. my god i feel so laid back right now even though i have to read to kill a mockingbird and do a paper on it. And its due in two or three days, i dont even know. I feel like laughing for no reason, its really weird, i swear to god.

Street Musician Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 419

I have read too many good mangas. so now I realize that it's impossible to rank manga...

You should all stop too before you start feeling guilty...

big idjit Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 280

In no order and likely to change all the time

Uzumaki - Delightfully twisted. It has a pretty thought out world, it's dark, weird, and disturbing and leaves you with a sense of... hopelessness. I really like Junji Ito's messed up imagination.

Beck/20th Century Boys - No need to explain this one since it's being done by Mangascreener.

Naruto/Hikaru no Go - I think both of these series are popular enough to not explain.

Perfect Girl Evolution - Heh, I just really like the female lead in this manga. I like it because you see guys get the perverted nosebleed all the time, but this one reverses the situation. She makes funny faces and has a really cute personality. I've only read the 4 chapters released so I dunno if it gets better or worse. A lot of times for Shoujo I really like it early on but later I lose interest.

GANTZ - Bizarre. Bloody. Way better than MPD Psycho in my opinion. I loved MPD Psycho at first, but I lost interest in it when it seemed to get too complicated for it's own good and it didn't really seem to be going anywhere. This one is still early so it might go the same way, but I enjoy it a lot now.

River's Edge - It reminds me of American Beauty in that you take a normal setting but everyone's kinda f'ed up in the head. I was bored at first and skimmed the early pages but then around 25% of the way in I got hooked and I read it over a few times and found it very poetic.

Touch - Entertaining and touching. Ok, I know that was bad, but I had to put it in there. A lot of typical Adachi humor, but personally I like Adachi's sense of humor.

I'll leave the #10 spot open because there's too many others I want to put in.

Groupie Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 120

my list, favorites of all time, ranking isnt important, they r all good

1. One Piece (great art style, excellent story)
2. I"S (as real as it gets)
3. DNA (......)
4. Hikaru No Go (the best of old style manga)
5. Dragon Ball (well, it's still the best)
6. Doraemon (grew up wit it)
7. Yu Yu Hakusho(legend)
8. Dr. Slump (the funniest)
9. Saint Seiya (legend)
10. Ranma 1/2 (.......)

also as good as above:
Black Jack
Vagabound
Naruto
Love Hina
City Hunter
Dragon Quest
Astro Boy

Roadie Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Belgium

random order:

20th Century Boys
Berserk
Kiseiju
Hikaru no Go
Nana
Gon
Under the dapple shade
Akira
Nausicaä
Video Girl
3 Adolf
Beck

12 titles, because it's a cooler number than 10 (well not really but hmm... nevermind)

Street Musician Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 516

my new favorite manga: PRETTY FACE! i love this kind of comedy! it's just completly laugh out loud funny. it's great. it's kind of annoying that akatsuki-manga's only releasing it on irc. http mirror downloads are so much easier (yes i did finally get irc to work)

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:05 pm

I haven't seen anyone mention Please Save My Earth. Before I read 20th Century Boys this was my all-time favorite manga, and I still think it's very high quality. Extremely gripping story (after volume 2), great characters, and an ending that actually provides a satisfying conclusion to the story (the manga does not seem like it was artifically extended beyond what the mangaka wanted to do).[/i]

Fan Boy Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 7

only seen 2 peeps with I''s in their list...
Quite dissapointed:
My list: (not in order)

I''S
LOVE HINA
GTO
BECK
20TH CBoys
ICHIGO 100
Hana Kimi
Hikaru No Go
KareKano
Fruits Basket

Fan Boy Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 3

Hmmm, interesting. In no particular order (coz I can't order 'em without thinking too much Embarassed

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Monster. No need to say more.
20th Century Boys. You know why...
Maison Ikkoku. I have a soft spot for romance manga, and this one is the one I read over and over. It's damn funny and basically I'm a living Yusaku Godai... Sad

Touch. Every picture tells a thousand word. Nice and subtle.
I''s. Err, romance...? Well, manga is part words part pictures. The art is simply astounding.
Uzumaki. Weird. And..., ah, just weird Razz

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Bokko. Who knows that a baldy beardo can make a good character? A very clever manga.
Kare Kano. Let's admit it, even guys read shoujo sometimes. This one has deeper stories than most.
Strain. How did he draw that????
Vagabond. Well known story, great art. Hyah!!