Anime/Manga in General

[kobun40]

HAHAHAHAha i got miss Feldinaughts permission to do this so here goes this thread is to tlk about Anime and manga in General for those who dont know Manga is a japanese comic and is read right to left instead of left to right. so post anything related to this thread. just follow the rules and have fun ;D

Big thanks to miss Feldinaught for making this happen.

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i know i just posted above but that was for intro reasons here is the first official post ahem has anyone here heard of Saiyuki. i like it is a great manga. though they do you use some japanese . but very little. they even have a japanese glassory in the back cool huh. here are some japanese words to help you in your manga reading or picking.

Hentai- Pervert or perverted(Beware of sites that have this word with them i learned the hard way of what it means )
Arigato-thanks
Oi-hey or what
Kawaii-Cute
-san-used after the name of some one your close to or know very well
Oniisan-elder brother
oneisan-elder sister
Bi-shonen-prety boy
Bi-shoju- prety girl
ai-love
ainutseru- Ilove you (used for your lover)
i have other words but i will post them at a later date. but for now i will let you figure out what Shonen-ai and shoju-ai means. and if you would like for me to remove any of these words or all of them together i will gladly oblige i dont want to get in trouble

[Bureaucratic Model 1-3]

You know I wonder if I was like you at thrity four posts...

BUT ENOUGH HURTFUL SARCASM, THERE'S HENTAI AFOOT!

NO!

MANGA! I MEANT MANGA!

In anycase I've seen a lot of manga, and I think a lot of it's very interesting, but one of these day's Shonen Jump is going to fall into a plothole so big even a soul eating corperate machine like them can't get out of it. Not that I don't like their comics, but their intellectual quality is truly... disappointing.

I'm going to make a manga some day... I'll call it... I forget... I'll save it for later.

[Buster Cannon]

i have other words but i will post them at a later date. but for now i will let you figure out what Shonen-ai and shoju-ai means.

I think it means lover boy or lover girl.

[GustaffGlyde]

I'm going to make a manga some day... I'll call it... I forget... I'll save it for later.

How about The Return of Juno and the sequel BM 1-3 and Roll ~ A story of Love, Romance, and a Talking Cactus[/b]

Eh, I really don’t get into manga much. In fact, the only one I ever read was a random one my mom picked up for me to read before our glorious eight hour car ride to Chattanooga.

About as far as I go is anime, which usually comes from manga much like many of our movies come from books, and even with anime I don’t watch much. Basically, just whatever is on TV, which isn’t much at all. I like what I’ve seen, and I’ve even ordered a series or two… well, only one actually. I like the style, and it does seem that both anime and, to a lesser extent, manga are catching on despite such horrid wonders as 4Kids.

Eh, and you listed some terms? Might as well quote the list of manga-specific terms and several honorifics.

Manga Terms:

By target audience
• Josei (or redikomi) women
• Kodomo - children
• Seinen - men
• Shōjo - teenage girls
• Shōnen - teenage boys

Genres
• Alternative
o Gekiga (dramatic pictures)
o La nouvelle manga (Franco-Belgian/Japanese artistic movement)
o Semi-alternative (popular publication individualistic style)
• Battling companion (not an official name)
• Magical girl (mahō shōjo)
• Mecha (giant robots)
• Moé (also mahō kanojo or magical girlfriend)
• Shōjo-ai (lesbian romance)
• Shōnen-ai (gay romance)

Pornographic Genres
• Futanari (hermaphrodites)
• Ero-guro (erotic-grotesque; also genera in other Japanese art mediums)
• Kemono (humanoid animal)
• Lolicon (young girls)
• Shota-con (young boys)
• Yaoi (gay)
• Yuri (lesbian)

Honorifics

-san: The most common honorific, and its use is mandatory when addressing most social outsiders (for example, non-family members). -San is used unless it is superceded by some other title, and is often translated as "Mr.", "Ms.", "Mrs.", and the like, though such a translation is not always accurate. -San may also be used to create other titles; a bookseller might be addressed as "honya-san" (roughly, "Mr. bookseller").

-han: The equivalent to -san in the Kansai dialect

-kun: An informal and intimate honorific primarily used by superiors in addressing inferiors, or each other by the equals, usually male (though in some cases it can be used for women also). It is also used among friends of similar social standing, and by parents and relatives to address older male children

-chan: The informal, intimate, diminutive equivalent of -san, used primarily by children to refer to friends and family members but also applied to siblings, to close friends and lovers, and to children by adults.

-sama: the most formal honorific used in daily conversation in Japanese. It is used primarily in addressing persons much higher in rank than oneself (as long as some other title is unavailable), and is used in commercial and business settings to address and refer to customers.

-dono/-tono: It roughly means "lord." It is no longer used in daily conversation, though it is still seen on certificates and awards.

-ue: literally means "above" and, appropriately, denotes a high level of respect.

-shi: Seldom used in speech, this is used in formal writing, but in situations where, for whatever reason, the writer feels sama is inappropriate. It is preferred in legal documents, academic journals, and certain other formal written styles.

o- and go-: honorific prefixes which are applied to nouns (for example, go-han means rice and o-kokakōra means Coca-cola).

(o-)tō-san: used when addressing one's own father or referring to someone else's father

(o-)kā-san: used when addressing one's own mother or referring to someone else's mother

And a note on Hentai. That’s really only used by Americans to refer to more mature manga. Most Japanese refer to it as H Manga (the H is pronounced as etchi or ecchi) and the H’s meaning isn’t really known (though you could say it stands for hentai, no one really knows). Ero is also used. Hentai itself means metamorphosis, abnormality, or sexual perversion.

Eh, I think we’ve all hit puberty here and had “the talk” so words shouldn’t be bad. It’s just posting mature content (pics, etc.) that’ll get you in trouble…for obvious reasons.

[kobun40]

any body here like Big-o i like Dorothy she is cool cuz she is an android ..i like the episode where she has to save Roger. and you see her speed ing down the rooad on a bike..she rocks. ;D but not as hard as servbots they rock harder

[aarond]

If we're talking about manga, one of my favorites is Urusei Yatsura, by Rumiko Takahashi.

[kobun40]

I like any kind realy..especially the dark and mysterious ones..which reminds me does anyone know what the whole point is behind Big O i like the sjow i just missed to many episodes to understand what the point is alittle help.

[GustaffGlyde]

Basically, leaving out all the weird symbolism (the stage and the lights, the Behemoth, etc), it was basically to just forget about the past, that there is no need to cling to memories and that people need to focus on the future and what they’re going to do instead of chasing after ghosts.

… Of course, trying to figure out the meaning behind events is a bit harder. Just a few common questions are listed below.

What are those gears at the bottom of the ocean?
What was all that about Rogers coming off an assembly line?
Why was there a picture of young Gordon shaking hands with roger with an unfinished dome behind them?
What was their contract? What is Big Venus?
What is the point of those stage lights?
What was the vision of roger with a seatbelt and different clothes all about?
What is that underground place?
Why did angel grow wings?
What was that control room at the end?
Why was she rehearsing her own life?
Why was she designing a Dorothy doll?
Why did everything get erased?
What was roger doing driving at the end again?
He was still a negotiator.... why were Angel and Dorothy standing at the side of the road?
What is the nature of android/megadeus compatibility?
What is it that Schwarzwald wrote to roger?
What does Beck know about androids and megadei?
What exactly was Gordon’s tomato project going to do, preserve memories?
What memories?
What was that giant ball of light that turned the sky to a giant grid?
What is with Glinda and Dr. Wayneright’s mansion?
Why does he have a copper room?
What is the never fully explained the Soldano/Wayneright situation?
What is with winter night phantom and the repeating movie and young Dastun?
What was going on in that scene where there were three Rogers, including tomato child and an invisible man?
What did those images multiple Bigs fighting Leviathans and destroying Paradigm mean?
What happened 40 years ago?
Is there even such thing as 40 years ago?
Is paradigm even real?

Eh, for a series originally made to sell toys, it has a lot to think about. Still, it hasn’t had the best of luck considering it still isn’t finished (only one season was made in Japan. Cartoon Network then funded and co-produced a second season. The third and final season was never made).

As for my likes… The darker mystery series are things I do like as it makes me have to think. They just don’t say things, I actually have to figure it out, and because there is no definite or obvious truth it’s all open for discussion and debate. But eh, I also like more lighthearted series like Excel Saga… One Piece is also good… not the 4Kids dub though. That one has been butchered (see short list of edits for first several eps here).

I stick to fansubs for One Piece instead (and this is coming from someone who typically prefers dubs to subs). Really, it’s not the editing out of blood and swearing that gets to me, it’s the replacing guns with squirt and cap guns and editing out peoples' deaths (which makes Zoro’s past (I’ll stab you if you call him Zolo) confusing…). What they did to Sanji was also just so… I mean, replacing his cig with a lollipop? And changing Mihawk’s sword because it looked like a cross… Why, just why?

But anyways, it’s a good series (the sub and original, NOT the dub). Its long (still running new episodes in Japan. 362 Manga chapters and 228 episodes.), but it doesn’t feel dragged out or overly repetitive like DBZ. That, and people don’t have spikey hair and giant pupils (Well, it varies by character, but for the most part they don't). 4Kids just tries to make it into a kid friendly anime full of retarded puns instead of a serious anime with emotion (All those horrid jokes screwed up the morbid tone of the Arlong arc. For an example of 4kids “jokes” which ruin any sense of being serious, “It’s not a monster… it’s a moo-nster”, or maybe, “And he thinks we smell bad, that’s why he calls us PU-mans." DEAR HEAVENS! WHY!? Why did they have to ruin such a good series I ask you!? Why! … Ahem, now that I’ve noticed that I’ve started ranting I shall stop myself.

The only series I don’t like are pointless, repetitive, and dragged out series like DBZ (for those who don’t know, it was supposed to end after the Freeza arc, but alas… kind of reminds me of the X series. As for the DB GT … it has nothing to do with Akira Toriyama and was shot down in Japan after only 64 episodes).

But those are just my opinions. We all have differing tastes so what one considers cool another considers dumb. If you disagree with me, fine. Not everybody likes One Piece and some people like the DB series (poor souls…), and that’s life. Of course, if you disagree about my views on 4Kids, then maybe this quote from the CEO will prove their greed... And with that, I shut up...

"We look at things such as popularity, but also if it has a merchandising component; can we license it, can we license products for it? Thats really the main issue for us" ~ Al Kahn, CEO of 4Kids

[kobun40]

thanks for the help..has anyone heard of A.I. Love you ? is it good?

[Santa Melty]

Anime and manga... I dabble, yes. I lean towards the more commercialized ones myself, being that I'm too lazy to look up the more out-of-the-way ones that are never aired on network, and I've read perhaps one dojinshi, if any. I can't recall, as I probably wasn't paying attention.

4kids... They are the ones who were in charge of the Pokemon films, were they not? Then I hate them. Westernized or not, I found Pokemon to be a very entertaining series in it's first couple of seasons. The first movie was what truly marked the series’ subjugation, ultimately condemning it to the repetitive, overly childish trash that it seems to be now. It had potential. Dragonball and its subsequent series were the same way. I found the original dragonball to be fairly good. Z bogged it down with a repetitive storyline, slow progression, and terrible, predictable 'fighting'. I watched one episode of GT and pledged an eternal hatred for the entire series. Pokemon and Dragonball, the two greatest downfalls I've ever seen.

Except Team Rocket. I still love them, for reasons unknown.

Big O was all right, but, as stated above, incomplete. It looks good as far as I've seen though, granted a little confusing at times. It rings of Evangelion, with so much symbolism, obscure sub-stories, and allusions to religion or religious figures.

I suspected as much about One Piece. I've only seen a few of the dub episodes from various sources, but you can tell that there's been some heavy editing. I mean really, as if pirates would be running about with cork guns. I love the concept behind the series though. Such quaint pirating isn’t a common theme these days. Not to my knowledge anyway.

AI Love You is an older one. I’ve read the first book in the manga series, and didn’t find it to be that good. But then, perhaps that’s just me and my odd tastes. I just can’t stand to even think that such a farfetched thing actually sold. An artificial intelligence program saved onto floppy disks created by a boy that is so incredibly dim that he does not even realize the marketing potential for such futuristic technology which suddenly becomes a physical manifestation with complete control over all things computerized or otherwise metal and has complete access to all programs downloaded onto the computer from which she was spawned at any given time. The list goes on. I usually consider myself a lover of unusual stories, but this one pushes my tolerance a little.

I don’t have any favorites, but there are a few that I favor. The Love Hina manga (not anime, mind you) was very good, as was the Evangelion anime (not the manga). The Pokemon manga (not the anime) was good, along with Et Cetera, and Comic Party.
Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Naruto, Lupin III, Stand Alone Complex (if that is the name), Full Metal Alchemist, Big O, the .Hack// series, Banner of the Stars, Cardcaptors, One Piece, and the more recent Zatch Bell, manga or otherwise, are all worthy of mention I feel. There was also FLCL, although I only understood about 3 of the 6 episodes and never did read the manga.

I have somewhat loose tastes in entertainment. o.o

[Glyde]

I really like Anime, haven't read much Manga though. Thier both really intresting to watch/read.

[Reaverguy Rises]

I LOVE ANIME AND MANGA!!! Even thought I hardly read manga.
Shows:
Neon Genisis Evangelion
Cowboy Bebop
Noir
Vampire Princess Miyu[vampires are awesome]
All of Miyazaki's stuff
And a lot of movies like:
Metropolis
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Spirited Away
The End of Evangelion
I don't see what is so great Dragon Ball crap or Yugioh.

[Glyde]

Spirited Away is a good one, I have it on DVD ^_^

[Santa Melty]

Add to my previous list: Fruits Basket and Detective Conan.

All shows, Dragonball GT aside, have some good aspect to it. Yu-Gi-Oh, for example, despite being a show created for the sole purpose of marketing, has Pegasus. Who can resist Pegasus?

I've heard Spirited away was good, but I've never gotten a chance to see it. Perhaps I'll trick my dear aunt into buying it, forge a will to have it given to me after her death, and then have her meet an unfortunate yet timely end... Although that may be going a bit overboard... Naw, it'll do just fine...

[UNIT 0918]

Translated anime should always be handled by the experts like Toonami or Adult Swim, not junk stations like Kids WB or Fox Box(think MegaMan NT Warrior).

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Favorite anime: Full Metal Alcemist and MegaMan NT Warrior(it sucks but I watch it anyway just because I'm a MegaMan fan)

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Sgt. Frog/Keroro Gunso is a very funny manga . There may be a few perverted parts(Ok, maybe a lot), but I like it just because of the comedy. I've become a Sgt. Frog fan so I will get the imported DVDs(luckly the DVD can be played on US DVD players) and hopfully the Sgt. Frog PS2 game will come out in the US(there's a Japanese one already).
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