Anime/Manga

[phantom1412]

This is my list.

Doraemon : Who doesn't love this blue cat?
Detective Conan
Magic Kaito
Yaiba mask
Yonban Sado
One piece : This is the most famous Manga in Japan
Bleach
Kindaichi : detective story

Hmmm, actually there are a lot more that I read.

[xZEROx]

Hmmm, actually there are a lot more that I read.

So that's the list of manga you read? Was more aiming to talk about anime but this'll work too. Do you read in Japn or Thai or Eng?
I always thought anime could give me a stronger feel of the story than manga, simply cause you actually see the actions. But I hate it when they put in extra things in between episodes and drag it out long. >.<

[phantom1412]

Hmmm, actually there are a lot more that I read.

So that's the list of manga you read? Was more aiming to talk about anime but this'll work too. Do you read in Japn or Thai or Eng?
I always thought anime could give me a stronger feel of the story than manga, simply cause you actually see the actions. But I hate it when they put in extra things in between episodes and drag it out long. >.<

I read it in all Thai, Japanese English.
For English, I read it online sometimes when I want to read new episodes.
For Japanese, I buy only the manga I like
For Thai, I buy a lot of manga in thai - It's cheap.

Additional to my list above

Deathnote
Pluto
Detective Q

P.S. I don't usually watch anime. Just only the big project that doesn't covered in books.

[digipunk]

Doraemon : Who doesn't love this blue cat?

Someone doesn't like it. When I asked "Hello Kitty or Doraemon" in "This or That", a bad guy said Hello Kitty.
Since 40 years ago, kids in Taiwan are growing up with Doraemon comics and anime.

[kc62002]

I've never really cared to watch anime but a couple of months ago i decided to watch a show called Sgt Frog on netflix. Is that considered anime? I would assume so since it's from japan but don't hate me if i'm wrong on that. The style seems like anime to me but again i'm no expert. It's pretty funny and i'm going to watch all the episodes at some point. I usually watch 2 or 3 a week.

[Don Boyer]

I've never really cared to watch anime but a couple of months ago i decided to watch a show called Sgt Frog on netflix. Is that considered anime? I would assume so since it's from japan but don't hate me if i'm wrong on that. The style seems like anime to me but again i'm no expert. It's pretty funny and i'm going to watch all the episodes at some point. I usually watch 2 or 3 a week.

It's an anime based on a manga by Ken Akamatsu of the same name (at least here in the States).  One of his biggest manga was "Love Hina", also made into an anime series with (if I remember correctly) a two-season show, an OVA and two specials, the Summer Special and the Holiday Special.  Good stuff, but not for pre-teens!

[Lara Krystle "Lane"]

Hey guys, I'm kinda reviving this topic because I don't want to start a new one just for cosplay whatever. I just wanted to share with you all my recent cosplay convention that I went to and actually dressed up in a costume.
I've been to other events but I was always just a spectator, but this time around for the first time ever I went and cosplayed as Perona.

So I want to know what you all think (please be kind) it was a last minute thing. My sister and I was only informed of it the night before so we had to make do with what we had available at home

Here is the link.

http://thinspirationaljourney.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/day-31-33-goal-weight-2-achieved-watch-me-cosplay-too/

[xela]

Those action shots are badass

[Don Boyer]

You and your sis looked great!  Where was that con?

[Lara Krystle "Lane"]

Thanks @alex and @Don!

@Don - The Con was held here in Beijing, at the Agricultural Exhibition Center.
It was a small one but I had tons of fun. It brought back so much memories from when I was younger. **sigh** my concealed love for anime has now been unleashed hahaha! Super obsessing on it atm.

[Utterfool]

I have a question for you Lara

do they have professional cosplayers in China
When I was in Japan at one of the way to many Comikets I attended, I met a woman who was a professional cosplayer.
I found out that some people in Japan , men and women (although mostly women) get paid a good deal of money to cosplay.
I am not talking about "Booth Babes" here. Women who get hired to stand around in outfits and look pretty. These are people who for a living design and make their own , and sometimes others, real like , extremely intricate and often amazing anime costumes.
I know there are people here in the US who make there own costumes and sometimes sell them, I even had a friend who moved it into a career (by getting a job with costume design at Cirque de soliel, not profesional cosplayer) but I have never seen anyone in the US do it professionally.
So I was curious if it happened in other asian countries or just Japan.

[zaganh]

i watch another its really creepy also i wath naruto guyver lovely complex bleach shaman king i love the studi ghibli anime too so heartwarming and beautifull plus the most epic anime film i have seen in a while is welcome to the space show its amazing

[Lara Krystle "Lane"]

Kuroshitsuji is amazing! both manga and anime. And they will start filming for the live action movie as well! So excited!
Phantom Rouge (hunter x hunter) the Movie will be aired in Japan on the 12th of January 2013.

Did anyone watch Rorouni Kenshin Live action movie? It was AWESOME!

[magnacat]

i was wondering what people here are watching /reading when it comes to anime and manga? 
it's not really difficult to find something to watch, but having seen so much, i like to have recommendations when i get ready to consider new series (or stories). if you are really enjoying a show, or a book, please mention a little bit about it, such as what it's about, who's writing it, producing it, is it a drama/comedy/scifi/etc., or a combination? 
feel free to mention favorites as well, it will give an idea of what your tastes lean towards... although, it may be hard to nail that down, with so many different types of stories in anime and manga- at least it is for me.

myself, at the moment, i'm watching Last Exile- Fam, The Silver Wing, and getting ready to switch from the manga to the anime of Attack on Titan. speaking of AoT, does anyone know how many episodes this series is going to run? (in the american release of the manga, i have only seen up to book 7, but it appears the anime is a bit beyond this already...) of course, i'm also keeping up with One Piece, starting Shippuden, finishing SAO, and rewatching a bunch of old favorites. (and some that are not even close to favorites, that my friends want me to watch with them) 

i have some questions, as well, if anyone can help out...
i'm wondering if anyone has seen the new Berserk movies... if so, how are they? do these contain new details, or are they just movie versions of stories from the manga? or do they include less, like the original anime series?

reading/considering (the short list)
Berserk
Blade of the Immortal
AoT
Vagabond
Loveless
/
Dogs
Biomega (enjoyed Blame!)
Yagyu Ninja Scrolls (what does this have to do with Basalisk, if anything?)

btw, i read the first GTO series- are the other spin-offs/prequels any good?  i'm also wondering if you have already read Claymore, is it worth it to watch it? does anyone know any details about all the "Alice in the kingdom of" mangas?

i'd like to know if anyone has seen Michiko and Hatchin.. with the people working on this, it has me very curious. i'd also like to know if anyone knows anything about the new GITS series. 

i currently have subscriptions to crunchyroll, and hulu plus, if anyone has recommendations that they know are on these services... i can always try finding anything else through rightstuf!.com, if not. although, if you bring up something you think is awesome, and know a good place to find it, please mention it, or provide a link!

  thanks everybody!  

[Don Boyer]

Magnacat, I hope you don't mind, but I merged your topic with a previously-existing topic on the same general subject.

I haven't done much anime watching or manga reading in a while, but when I did, some of my favorites were Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Yotsuba&!, Trigun, Love Hina, Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku and I'm sure there's a lot more I'm just not recalling at the moment.  Right now, though, the entire collection with the exception of one GITS Blu-Ray is in storage.  The apartment's too small, and having one collection in it is enough for my wife - I have about 800 discs in storage, about half of which are anime.

[Anthony]

Ah, Ghost in the Shell, one of my all time favorites 

Still one of my all time favorite covers too....

[Don Boyer]

Ah, Ghost in the Shell, one of my all time favorites 

Still one of my all time favorite covers too....

That cover's from one of the later manga series - GITS: Man-Machine Interface.  I always found the anime more accessible than the manga when it came to GITS.  Shirow tends to go off a bit on tangents and pack massive amounts of detail into an area that's too small to appreciate it all - and it's especially difficult to appreciate it when it's black-and-white.

[Anthony]

and it's especially difficult to appreciate it when it's black-and-white

Ya that was a constant complaint at the time, maybe still is, I didn't mind it very much, the drawings were still phenomenal and I loved the story lines.

[magnacat]

@Don- i don't mind you merging it at all, i just hope there is someone who can answer a couple of those (many) questions! 
i very much agree with you on CowBe, Trigun, and GITS most of all... i'm very curious about the new GITS series i saw a disc from a couple months ago...
@Sparkz- Man Machine Interface was an awesome book- fortunately, when i wanted to give a copy of it as a gift to a girl i was seeing, along with copies of the 1st GITS book, and GITS 1.5- Human-Error Processor, there was another printing (a larger book, with blown-up images) of the first book, and MMI, that were slightly edited- keeping me from looking like a perv for putting these in her hands (while MMI isn't so bad, if she had started reading with the first book, as one should, i don't think the beginning would have been very cool for her... [maybe had it not been the first set of manga i gave her, and were i not 32 while she was 20 at the time, it wouldn't have been as bad]).   

well, i guess since others were doing this on the thread this was merged with, i might as well mention some of the stuff i'm into...

as for anime series-
wolf's rain (one of my cats is named Darcia)
d. gray man, deadman wonderland
darker than black, one piece
naruto, naruto shippuden
attack on titan
bleach (hooray! Ulquiorra!)
bubblegum crisis 2040
gankutsuou, basalisk
mushi shi, moribito
ninja scroll (duh)
serial experiments: lain
appleseed, and a.s. ex machina
last exile (my first cosplay was alex row- this was awesome, as i didn't have to do anything to look like him, other than dress the part... "being" him was the challenge. i was waaay excited, and spent close to a thousand bucks having a silversmith make me items for the outfit.  i now display them, and i sometimes wear the whole uniform for fun. )
last exile: fam- the silver wing
samurai champloo, air gear
mezzo, burst angel
haibane renmei,
sword art online
heat guy j, kaze no yojimbo
voices of a distant star
the place promised in our early days
everything from Hayao Miyazaki / studio ghibli (got my Grandmother interested in anime by watching totoro, castle in the sky, and the cat returns with her. )
trigun, perfect blue
ergo proxy, samurai 7
fullmetal alchemist/ fma: brotherhood
berserk, kino's journey
hakkenden, gungrave
blue sub 6, big o 1 & 2
rurouni kenshin / samurai x
metropolis, eden of the east series and movies
elfin lied, coyote ragtime show
soul eater, jyu-oh-sei
s.d. kyo, escaflowne
hellsing, deathnote
king of bandit jing
gunslinger girl and pt. 2
cowboy bebop, witch hunter robin
casshern sins, x tv
samurai gun, sword of the stranger
-and on and on... but i'm starting to have trouble not repeating what i'm thinking of, so here at 3:48am, i'll leave it at these. i have lost my link to the site i wrote my list at a few years ago... i need to update it, too. does anyone know the site where you find and list your watched/watching/going to watch anime? 

a few manga i've enjoyed-
gto, deathnote
trigun maximum
blade of the immortal
vagabond, hero
shirahime-syo
king of wolves, and japan (both these by the creator of berserk, kentaro miura)
rebirth, loveless
ragnarok, basalisk
claymore, blame!
berserk, bleach
zombie powder, anne*freaks
dogs, full metal panic
biomega, gits 1 , 1.5, and 2
bobobo-bo bo-bobo
samurai executioner
k.o.b. jing, k.o.b.j. twilight tales
lone wolf and cub
cowboy bebop- shooting star
chobits, s.d. kyo
gunslinger girl, Es
now, the demon ororon
black cat
and many others- sometimes shonen jump was somewhat fun as well... 

boy, it seems it's actually kinda fun to type out an excessive amount of titles you're into once in a while. lol...
anywak, these are some of my more recent favorites... (strangely enough, i love cards, and i love anime, but i have absolutely no desire whatsoever to own a deck of licensed anime playing cards. why is that?  )
while i'd still like replies to my earlier questions, i'm also curious as to what everyone's favorite anime's are when it comes to the music they make for the shows. i'm sure a fan of Yoko Kanno myself, but i also have so much music from anime soundtracks on my MP3 player, i can listen to it for hours and hours and not hear the same track twice. [=)]

 

[bhong]

magnacat

If you haven't had the chance, check out Hellsing, the manga version; it's a lot better than the first tv series in terms of both story, action and art or check out the recent OVA Hellsing Ultimate, a more faithful adaptation of the manga series. There's also Blood Blockade Battlefront (manga) by Yasuhiro Nightow that's a lot of the crazy over the top action of the Trigun manga.

For anime there's 5 centimeters per second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices and The Garden of Words (which is amazingly beautiful) by the same director/write of Voices of a Distant Star; like a lot of his work, all the movies deal with relationships between people. The Girl who Leapt through Time is another fun movie to watch. The recent adaptation of Hunter x Hunter looks really good and is a fun shounen series. Gundam Unicorn (OVA) is another great new series; lot of robot fighting fun and it looks amazing.

I'm not sure sure what else to suggestion as I've gotten to the stage where I'm really really picky about what I watch, read and buy.

[MrMollusk]

Hayao Miyazaki may be my favorite director of all time.

Beyond his movies, I don't watch as much anime as I did a few years back. I watched Bleach, but everything got silly as soon as they got to the Bount arc. I finished Deadman Wonderland, got bored of Ghost Hunt, watched Umineko No Naku Koro Ni until it got ridiculous, finished Soul Eater, and watched a bunch of other sub-par anime. I'm watching Evangelion right now, and it's amazing. I tried finishing Higurashi, but it has as many parallel universes as Umineko. It's great, but it makes my brain hurt.

I also used to be super addicted to manga. I had bookshelves full of the stuff, but I condensed it down to a few of my favorites.  The first Excel Saga, an old Yen+ I got for Christmas, a few Shonen Jump, and some other stuff. I've read the entire series of HunterXHunter, Black Cat, Fullmetal Alchemist, Jing: King of Bandits (that one was great), and Ranma 1/2.

I had waaaaaaaay too much time on my hands.




Also, this mofo.

[magnacat]

@MRMollusk-
if you did enjoy Jing, you should check out Jing KOB: Twilight Tales. it's very good as well, and if you don't have as much free time as you used to, one 7 book series shouldn't hurt too much.
i really liked a lot of stuff about Jing, but the cities and the cultures within were always pretty cool. also, if you haven't already seen it, besides the anime for Jing, there is a movie called Seventh Heaven. )been meaning to get around to watching that, actually.(

[MrMollusk]

@MRMollusk-
if you did enjoy Jing, you should check out Jing KOB: Twilight Tales. it's very good as well, and if you don't have as much free time as you used to, one 7 book series shouldn't hurt too much.
i really liked a lot of stuff about Jing, but the cities and the cultures within were always pretty cool. also, if you haven't already seen it, besides the anime for Jing, there is a movie called Seventh Heaven. )been meaning to get around to watching that, actually.(

I actually did read one of the Twilight Tales books. I think it was the one about the art city, with all the paint?
I loved the style, but I could never get my hands on another one past that.

[magnacat]

@MRMollusk-
if you did enjoy Jing, you should check out Jing KOB: Twilight Tales. it's very good as well, and if you don't have as much free time as you used to, one 7 book series shouldn't hurt too much.
i really liked a lot of stuff about Jing, but the cities and the cultures within were always pretty cool. also, if you haven't already seen it, besides the anime for Jing, there is a movie called Seventh Heaven. )been meaning to get around to watching that, actually.(

I actually did read one of the Twilight Tales books. I think it was the one about the art city, with all the paint?
I loved the style, but I could never get my hands on another one past that.

if you are still interested in reading it, i did a little searching in some places i know of, and i managed to find books 1-4 and 6 at "right stuf!", for anound 4$ to $10. (but be quick, they have as few as 2 of some of them)
i also found all the books at amazon, where they are available new and used starting at $0.01! 
last, if you find you have no other choice, and don't mind reading a manga this way, check out manga365...
btw, sorry i can't post links, i don't know how to do so using my xbox360 for this.   

also, if you are looking for mostly manga (though they do have a ton of anime, and other related stuff...), www.animecornerstore.com has a really good selection, but no Jing at all...