Your Top Ten Favorite Manga

Fan Boy Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 3

My favorite manga is:

1. Harlem Beat-Nishiyama Yuriko
2. 20th Century Boys-Urasawa Naoki
3. Boy Action II-I forgot
4. Kotaro-I forgot
5. SHOOT!! (any kind of SHOOT!!)-I forgot
6. Bleach-Kubo Tite
7. Naruto-Masashi kishimoto
8. Det. Conan-Gosho Aoyama
9. Slam Dunk-Inoue Takehiko
10. Master Keaton-Urasawa Naoki

these are my favorite

Fan Boy Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 3

Hmm. This is hard.

1. Rurouni Kenshin - Now and Forever. Always gonna be my fav.
2. Fullmetal Alchemist - this may go down once the manga ends.
3. Hikaru no Go - 3rd only because of an unsatisfying ending.
4. Fullmoon wo Sagashite
5. Everything/Anything by Adachi - since I don't have a particular favorite out of them.
6. Hana Kimi
7. Imadoki - sucker for shojo...
8. Black Cat
9. Naruto
10. Chrno Crusade

Actually. from 7 on, they're all among stuff that I like, but not necesarily a favorite.

Fan Boy Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

Well, here are some that I truly enjoyed reading, and some still do

Planetes, Berserk, Mushishi, 20th Century Boys, Monster, Vagabond, Great Teacher Onizuka, Hotman, Adachi's later works such as Touch, H2, etc.

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:16 pm

Well, the best I can think of off the top of my head is:

10:YKK
9:Sexy Voice and Robo
8:20th Century Boys
7:Helter Skelter/Rivers Edge (I honestly can't decide)
6:Blade of the Immortal
5:Hanaotoko
4:Domu
3:Believers
2:Music of Marie
1:Black and White

Probobly left out things I shouldn't have, but maybe I'll update it later...

Fan Boy Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Spain

My top 10 would be something like this:

- 20th Century Boys (Naoki Urasawa) - the best manga ever, from far Razz

- Beck (Harold Sakuishi) - incredible, fantastic, Koyuki roolz
- Bleach (Kubo Tite) - I've never read a manga like this and I'm completely fan of the manga
- Slam Dunk (Takeshi Inoue) - i love this game!
- Real (Takeshi Inoue) - another basketball manga, I love the originality in this manga
- Pluto (Naoki Urasawa) - another excellent work from my god Urasawa
- One Piece - the people can say whatever they want, but this manga is incredible, good fights, jokes, adventure and funny characters.
- Dragon Ball (Akira Toriyama) - really good
- GantZ - I don't like war, violence and weapons; but this manga is great
- PlanetES (Makoto Yukimura) - I'm not sure about to put this one in the third place, it's a great work

Yes, I think it would be something like this. That's it.

And sorry if my english is still bad, I'm already studying it ^^U

myanimelist profile · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:08 pm

about time to update my crap-a-dee-doo-dah list

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikô
Koroshiya Ichi
Arigatô
Believers
Asatte Dance
Ryuguden
Nijigahara Holograph
Yotsuba&!
Ciguatera
Homunculus

I mostly chose completed series; and filled out the list with a few absolute favorites.

Fan Boy Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Posts: 6

Not in a very-well-thought-out order:

1) Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita (although the Last Order stuff kind of blows)
2) 20th Century Boys... the first half. Pretty much post-Bloody News Years Eve, I've been liking it less and less. Still, an amazing series.
3) Maison Ikkoku (the last couple volumes are heartrending)
4) Adachi's stuff. All of it. Short Program fucking kills me.
5) Monster/Pluto. Don't really get me as emotionally as 20th CB, but still great.

Beyond that. dunno. I have inexplicable fondnesses for Fullmetal Alchemist, Hellsing, and Sanctuary. Also I quite enjoy Shikamaru in Naruto, although a lot of the rest of it I find pretty tepid. One Piece has its moments too.

Fan Boy Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 8 Location: France

Those are my favorite manga ^^

Gantz
Berserk
Vagabond
Shamo
Blade of the immortal
Angel Denetsu
Bokurano
Claymore
Psychometer Eiji
Red Eyes

Fan Boy Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Singapore

...in something that does not in any way constitute and order... of sorts:
Harukana Machi-e,
Victorian Romance Emma,
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou,
Monster,
PlanetES,
Beck,
Eden,
G Senjou Heaven's Door,
Hikaru no Go,
Nodame Cantabile,
Dance! Subaru,
... and probably many more that I've stupidly forgotten... like anything by Mitsuru Adachi, or The Journal of my Father by Jiro Taniguchi, or Sing Yesterday for Me, or Nasu, or Pluto, or Piano no Mori & Historie... and too many One Shots to even bother mention.

myanimelist profile · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:49 am

Piano no Mori, and a Masahito Soda manga... I like this guy.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:53 am

Anyone who likes YKK is OK by me. Not to mention I like most of the other titles he mentioned, too.

Fan Boy Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Singapore

Always nice to please... I guess. On a side note, what is fun is to see how one's favorite series evolves over the years. I can still remember back in the early 90's I was all over Video Girl Ai, the had my Gunnm phase (how I went from one to the other I have no idea), then through to Kenshin... I can still remember the time many year go I mentioned Kenshin as my all time favorite manga *shudder*, ah the follies of youth!

As for Masahito Soda, always enjoyed Daigo but it was Dance! Subaru that blew me away, following that series was one of the best things about living in Paris and having access to so many great series, instead of Singapore where all you get are English editions, and not to insult anyone, but the range of choice in US editions SUCK, much more variety, and much more seinen, josei, and indie series available in France. Though I would like to read Capeta, loved the anime but can't help but feel that his manga must be better.

Oh and since I'm here, and still writing, I thought I'd mention the great Kami no Sanrei by Jiro Taniguchi (love that man), translated in France as The Summit of the Gods... highly recommended!

And yes... YKK rules... wish there were more series like that... sigh...

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:18 am

Eh, i guess everyone of us had to start with sth "shonen" to move to better titles (damn, i used to love Love Hina, i still have like 20 vols of Oh! My Goddess, when i first discovered scanlation community i read almost every Shonen Jump title ot there...) The funny thing is that ppl who are in the "bussiness" for long enough like almost the same manga - most of those you mentioned, MS titles - there is group of authors whos almost every manga pleases us - Adachi, Urasawa from big shots, Furuya, Kuroda, Igarashi, Yukimura... And tons of less know mangakas Smile

good manga is good manga an nothing can change that Smile

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:51 am

Yeah, I had an unfortunate shounen phase as well, when I loved titles like Bleach. But what drew me to mangascreener and seinen was Pluto. Astro Boy was my first manga, so when I saw somebody made a spinoff, I had to check it out, and that was my introduction to seinen.

Fan Boy Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Singapore

Amen!

On that note, what are some of he 'lesser' known Mangaka's that you've all discovered over the years? Mine would have to include the likes of Kiriko Nananan, Ebine Yamaji, or Daisuke Igarashi, Kyoko Okazaki, Iou Kuroda, Hideji Oda, Usumaru Furuya (gotta love The Music of Marie), Fumiko Takano (The Yellow Book is a MUST read), Kenji Tsuruts (Love-me-not, what can I say, I fell madly in love with it), etc.

Another quick side note, I've found that the more people read manga, and the more their taste's evolves there always reaches a point when they find themselves drawn back to Osamu Tezuka and his works (and no, not only his early Astroboy or Metropolis, but Buddha, Phoenix, Adolf, or Ludwig B).