kobun40
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Post by kobun40 on Apr 19, 2005 11:57:42 GMT -5
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.
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
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Post by Bureaucratic Model 1-3 on Apr 19, 2005 15:36:52 GMT -5
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.
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Post by Buster Cannon on Apr 19, 2005 16:03:09 GMT -5
I think it means lover boy or lover girl.
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Post by GustaffGlyde on Apr 19, 2005 16:27:03 GMT -5
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:
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.
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kobun40
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Post by kobun40 on Apr 21, 2005 8:30:13 GMT -5
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
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Post by aarond on Apr 21, 2005 14:37:50 GMT -5
If we're talking about manga, one of my favorites is Urusei Yatsura, by Rumiko Takahashi.
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kobun40
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Post by kobun40 on Apr 30, 2005 19:24:04 GMT -5
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.
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Post by GustaffGlyde on May 1, 2005 0:45:37 GMT -5
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. 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...
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kobun40
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Post by kobun40 on May 1, 2005 2:28:37 GMT -5
thanks for the help..has anyone heard of A.I. Love you ? is it good?
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Post by Santa Melty on May 1, 2005 16:52:40 GMT -5
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
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Glyde
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Post by Glyde on May 1, 2005 20:43:56 GMT -5
I really like Anime, haven't read much Manga though. Thier both really intresting to watch/read.
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Post by Reaverguy Rises on May 2, 2005 14:21:09 GMT -5
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.
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Glyde
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Post by Glyde on May 3, 2005 19:08:12 GMT -5
Spirited Away is a good one, I have it on DVD ^_^
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Post by Santa Melty on May 3, 2005 19:18:11 GMT -5
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...
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Post by UNIT 0918 on May 5, 2005 17:44:48 GMT -5
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).
Favorite anime: Full Metal Alcemist and MegaMan NT Warrior(it sucks but I watch it anyway just because I'm a MegaMan fan)
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). www.tokyopop.com/dbpage.php?propertycode=SAR&categorycode=BMG
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