Is manga considered comics for this thread?
Is manga considered comics for this thread?
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
Sure is. My knowledge of manga is pretty limited...Akira, Ghost in the Shell and I just bought the collected Uzumaki.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is a manga worth checking out too, for all the Miyazaki fans out there.
Picked up Rat God (Corben!) and East of West #17 yesterday.
The one thing I don't like is that when some mangas get popular their adaptation (anime or movies) sometimes extends the stories with "fillers." It's as if they want to bleed the reader dry of the finances and make as much as they can. I'm fine with that, as long as the filler story is something worth it, but usually it is not.
The best manga of all time, without question to this day, is "Berserk." The artwork rivals none, and the story is dark. It is fantasy horror and one of the best stories I have ever read. However, the creator takes so much time with his art, that the manga started around 1990, and it is still ongoing. The creator's health is in question so the manga may never finish without someone else finishing it. There is a cartoon, but the ending is so abrupt that you will be very pissed how it ends. Your best bet is to find the manga online, read it to date, and then find the 3 movies that were just released about just the first arc. If you like horror, fantasy, violence, amazing storyline, and great characters, then you won't be disappointed.
Berserk 10/10- best manga.....ever. About Guts the dark protagonist against? You have to read it.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 9/10- great storyline and has ended. Has 2 animes for it, but you need to watch the one called Brotherhood as it follows the manga.
Inuyasha 8/10- funny, dark, about a half-breed demon and fighting the main antagonist Nuraku. I loved it and it also has anime and manga is completed.
Attack on Titan 8/10, ongoing, dark, bloody, very unique and about humanity against titans or giant man eating people. Manga is getting too political with dull story, but anime is state of the art.
Bleach 7/10, ongoing manga and coming to an end. Swords, good fight scenes, but like most anime and manga they add stupid childish humor witch annoys.
Naruto 7/10, manga finally ended. Overall above average but same childish humor sometimes added. About ninjas and always clashing clans.
Gantz 8/10- violent unique video game like story about dying and coming back to life with certain point system. Violent! Not sure if manga is still going but anime I think is done and not continuing.
Ubell Blatt 6/10- Think Link from Zelda but rated R with the violence. Manga only and not bad.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
That sounds pretty cool. I'll see if my library has any of those. I already have a bunch of titles in my amazon cart but none of these.
There are certain sites to read for free. onemanga might. I simply google whatever I'm looking for and add manga or anime to it. You would be surprised at what you can find online for free or for amazing deals.
Also, "Vampire Hunter D." There are 2 movies. The second is up to date with the anime while the original is really dated because of it's release. However. The story is really good but when you read the manga or short stories nothing happens. D is his name and he is a dunpeal. Spelling off hand I don't know. He is half vampire, half human (I hate that because realistically that is impossible to happen) but he hunts monsters. There is no real ongoing story, just D hunting vampires. Kind of like zombie movies where there are zombies, and no real plot.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
Berserk is a great manga, but sadly unfinished there's 37 volumes published so far
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I don't think Berserk will ever finish to be honest. The creator comes out with chapters once every 3-6 months these days. I'd take less detail for a finished product. I'm not sure what his financial situation is, but maybe hire a couple of people to help with the artwork to get the ball rolling. There are so many forums of people talking about it never getting completed, and even forgetting that it was still around. I'm not saying blast it out just to finish it, but maybe he needs help to continue such a great story.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
it'd be nice to see it finished, i tried to watch AoT story wise its great but its the way its executed on screen, maybe its just me growing up with Bubblegum Crisis, Robotech. Detonator Orgunn and more
It's weird because the anime I like is usually based on horror, monsters, and it being dark. I know the subtitle versions are what is never is never tarnished by Americans (Dragonball Z) but I do like viewing and listening instead of read and trying to pay too much attention. I never got into the robot type anime. Not sure why, and I did try a ton. Especially when I was younger with things like Robotech and Voltron.
Personally, I'm all in on Berserk, Vampire Hunter D, Attack on Titan, Bleach, Naruto Shippuden, Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Cowboy Beebop. I do love the Venture Bros. but it has kind of fallen apart with Brock Sampson not being the murderous nut he used to be.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
I just watched Nausicaa. Pretty cool stuff. I thought her flyer (among other things such as creatures and anything mechanical really) looked like something Moebius would have drawn. I was surprised to see the list of voice actors: Patrick Stewart, Uma Thurman, Mark Hammil, one of the people from Futurama, Shia LePompousAss.
Reading: Tales of an Imperfect Future
About that...Originally Posted by WeDealInLead
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Watch Neon Genesis Evangelion. Complete mind fuck.
When I was little I was a fan of Spawn. I haven't read it in over 15 years. Well last week Comixology finally got the rights to release all the comics digitally. Single back issues run $1.99 and volumes are around $11.99. Well they also had an awesome sale all 250 issues for 65% off so it just cost me $175 for every issue. That was too good a deal to pass up.
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Junji Ito - Uzumaki. Creepy Japanese horror. It's great. I pre-ordered two of his books on the strength of this. I've made a few Oh! and Aaah! sounds while reading it. I'll post a review next week with some choice pictures.
Just finished:
Station 16 by Herman & Yves H. It's a father and son duo of writers. Pretty cool stuff. It's about Russian soldiers who responded to an SOS signal from a supposedly abandoned outpost in the Arctic Circle. The book's like a lost episode of The Twilight Zone.
Tales of an Imperfect Future by Alfonso Font. B/W old school science fiction goodness. Like the title suggests, these stories don't turn out well for the protagonists.
Trees by Warren Ellis. It's not so much about the "trees" as it was about how they affected people. Great story and concept but it feels a little disjointed. I'm still not sure what all the characters have to do with each other.
Caliban by Garth Ennis. All right stuff. 3/5, maybe 3.5/5. This could've worked better as a short story in an Alien anthology. The alien is different, almost everything else is the same. Cool artwork though.
The TPB for Trees is out already?
Local stores get it a few weeks before Amazon and other online retailers. My discount is pretty deep and I didn't feel like waiting two weeks to save a dollar or so.
Reviews of Trees and Uzumaki are up. Check that Uzumaki artwork. Incredible line work. http://nottooterrible.wordpress.com
reading: Fear Agent Library Edition 2
Anyone have an idea for me regarding a new manga or anime I can read or watch? Something dark, perhaps horror? Though I enjoyed Bleach and Naruto Shippuden, I loved Berserk, Vampire Hunter D, Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. I didn't like Claymore that much. Thanks if anyone has ideas.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
tried Jormungand?
I will look into it, thanks
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
Ooh, Sex Criminal is going to be a TV show. That's pretty cool, the comics are great.
Allasorte, I posted images of what I think is exactly what you're looking for. It's pretty twisted stuff. Look a post above yours. It's called Uzumaki.
I need to get back into sex criminals. I only read the first few comics and they are hilarious.
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