Your Top Ten Favorite Manga

big idjit Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 280

kern wrote:

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]

I like the way PSME started and went for a while. Then I think the mangaka tried to add too many layers of complexity in their relationship. I didn't get the feeling that they actually loved each other by the end.

I mean the whole "I loved him. Wait, maybe I didn't. Maybe I did. No, I think I hated him. No, I take it back, I loved him. No wait, I hated him so much I wanted him to suffer. No.... maybe not. THE END!" made me sick. :-/

I remember watching the anime and thinking it was great, if not too abruptly ended. But I much prefer the anime's removal of the whole "love to hate to love to hate to love to hate to who knows what?"

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 7:46 pm

I have to add Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip) to this list now -- I may even like this better than 20th Century Boys (gasp!)

http://ykk.misago.org

-Chris

Street Musician Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 402

Quote:

by me
video girl ai
mr fredwards duck
nausicaa
dr black jack
cowa -akira toriyama
monster
musashi no ken -motoka murakami
vagabond
storm riders (do hong kong comics count?)
naruto
secret confessions - reiko momochi

updating my list..

video girl ai
mr fredwards duck
dr black jack
musashi no ken -motoka murakami
vagabond
naruto
secret confessions - reiko momochi

*NEW*-
area 88 (kaoru shintani)
TOUCH (adachi)

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 5:07 am

1. One Piece
2. Naruto
3. Bleach
4. Ichigo 100% (AND NOT OF THE YOU KNOW WHAT IN IT)
5. Milk Crown (All of them not just the 1st one)
6. Hunter X Hunter
7. Gun Blaze West
8. Dr. Slump
9. Slam Dunk
10. Zombie Powder (Crys sad it ended at 4 Vols crys more)
To add I like all Manga and Anime (Am 17 Now and I see kid and read kid to see 18+ or read 18+ BIG JAPAN FAN (PS nickName is The Japan Fan)
So its hard to pick 10 (crys) any way (goes to sleep)

Edit: on 4. Ichigo 100% hmmm Wied I put (AND NO AM NOT READING IT FOR YOU KNOW WHAT) In there and it now says (AND NOT OR THE YOU KNOW WHAT IN IT) and Thats not even how to say that It would be more like and no one knows whats in it?????? Shocked

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 5:18 pm

MilkCrownJump wrote:

4. Ichigo 100% (AND NOT OF THE YOU KNOW WHAT IN IT)

Anyone who reads this title for fanservice would be disappointed -- there's really not that much compared to a lot of other manga, even Shonen manga (I"S and Kotaro Makaritooru both have a lot more than Ichigo).

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:54 am

my top 10 fav. manga eh...?
(not in order fyi..)

1.)Rurouni Kenshin
2.)Gensomaden Saiyuki
3.)Berserk
4.)Fruits Basket
5.)Juvenile Orion
6.)Seimaden
7.)Angel Sanctuary
8.)Hellsing
9.)Love Monster
10.)Naruto

Street Musician Joined: 16 Feb 2003 Posts: 530

Random favorites in non-order:

- Tsurumoku Dokushinryou
- Master Keaton
- Planetes
- The World Is Mine
- Eat-Man
- Dai-Tokyo Binbou Seikatsu Manual
- Anything by Sakura Tamakichi
- Kokumin Quiz
- Kamigami no Sanrei
- Sugoiyo! Masaru-san

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:04 am

good taste nanashi

Fan Boy Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 3 Location: France

1- beck
2- monster
3- 20th century boys
4- bleach
5- h2
6- fma
7- gto
8- rose hip rose
9- gantz
10- route 20

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 11:54 am

can't disagree with this man's top 3

Fan Boy Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Europe

-Monster
-Blade of the Immortal
-20th Century Boys
-Berserk
-Subaru
-Banana Fish
-Roses of Versailles (I like historic stuff :B )
-HunterXHunter
-Maison Ikkoku
-Domu

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:19 am

10 recent favorites, in alphabetical order:

20th Century Boys, Believers, Death Note, Gantz, H2, Kimi no Kakera, Narutaru, Planetes, Real, Stopper Busujima.

Most recent of those being Death Note, which I read all the available material of a day or two ago and was thoroughly impressed. A Jump series that manages to be well thought-out, artistically impressive, and not totally cheesy! Who'd have thunk it.

Street Musician Joined: 16 Feb 2003 Posts: 530

I just realised that I somehow managed to exclude Moonlight Mile.

Fan Boy Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 3 Location: California

not in any particular order, just the order that comes to me

1 yami no matsuei - matsushita yoko
2 count cain - yuki kaori
3 gururi - kita ???
4 earthian - kouga yun
5 merupuri - merchant prince - hino matsuri
6 13 nichi wa kinyoubi - enomoto chizuru
7 gravitation - maki murakami
8 kamikaze kaitou jeanne - tanemura ???
9 bloodhound - yuki kaori (it's a one-shot)
10 lawful drug - clamp
11 yorozuya toukaidou honpo - ???
12 paradistar - oda aya
13 sono te wo dokero - katsumoto kasane
14 dragon voice - nishiyama nuriko
15 card captor sakura - clamp

wow, i never realized how many of those are... shoujo... or shounen-ai... >.> ah well, i like them. now, if i could only read all the kanji in the mangaka's names... T_T

Roadie Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 66

here's my list, quite a bit different than most here

1. Phoenix -Osamu Tezuka (in particular the Space Chapter)
2. Adolf - Osamu Tezuka
3. Sexy Voice and Robo - Iou Kuroda
4. River's Edge
5. No. 5 - Taiyou Matsumoto
6. Drifting Classroom - Kazou Umezu
7. Benkei in New York
8. Hanaotoko - Taiyou Matsumoto
9. Orochi: Blood - Kazuo Umezu
10. Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga