Anime and Manga? Options

[DementedCashew]

Alright, I have been wondering lately, I'm curious to know what anime do you people watch, and what manga do you like to read. Personally, I am still on the Bleach anime and manga (episode 20 and manga chapter 494), but as soon as I'm done with that I will go to my one-shots first then work my way up completing the smaller ones first.

So what anime and manga do you like?

[Poteat]

Alright, I have been wondering lately, I'm curious to know what anime do you people watch, and what manga do you like to read. Personally, I am still on the Bleach anime and manga (episode 20 and manga chapter 494), but as soon as I'm done with that I will go to my one-shots first then work my way up completing the smaller ones first.

So what anime and manga do you like?

I'm a fan of those "thriller" style anime's like death note and code geass (my two favorites).

I also like mirai nikki, un go, guilty crown, blue exorcist, and beelzebub (too funny). I used to be a big one piece fan (and i kinda still am) but the plot moves to slow for my liking though I was and still am in love with the setting of the anime (pirate fan).

Current anime's I'm watching are Accel world, and my new favorite Sword Art Online. I'll watch Phi Brain too if I'm really bored. lol

[Shaddow]

phew....this could take a lot of space if I listed everything. Instead I'll post a few of my favorites and what I am currently reading.

My favorite of all time, as you can tell by my avatar is Scott Pilgrim, and he is an manga character as he's appeared in other manga.

anyways I'm also a huge fan of Full Metal Alchemist, Love Hina, Negima, and Rosario + Vampire,

Several that I am currently reading are Bleach, Ao no Exorcist, Cage of Eden, D-Grayman and Fairy Tale.

This just names a few, I read a lot of them, though I'm always open to new manga or anime, so please let me know if you recommend any.

[Poteat]

phew....this could take a lot of space if I listed everything. Instead I'll post a few of my favorites and what I am currently reading.

My favorite of all time, as you can tell by my avatar is Scott Pilgrim, and he is an manga character as he's appeared in other manga.

anyways I'm also a huge fan of Full Metal Alchemist, Love Hina, Negima, and Rosario + Vampire,

Several that I am currently reading are Bleach, Ao no Exorcist, Cage of Eden, D-Grayman and Fairy Tale.

This just names a few, I read a lot of them, though I'm always open to new manga or anime, so please let me know if you recommend any.

Ah FMA how dare i forget to mention that. Also Rosario + Vampire is a good one. how is fairy tale these days. I stopped reading upto the excel arc. I think they were in an amusement park fighting.

Also I recomend Sword art online (SOA) to anyone and everyone.

[Jens of Zanicuud]

Simple and clean:

Death Note and Bakuman. They are short series (12 volumes the first, 20 the second), but never found a more interesting manga.

I'm not a huge anime fan, I've just seen some Code Geass episodes, recently, but my all-time-favourite anime remains Lupin III

Jens

[Strawberry]

I'm not a huge anime fan either (not to say I hate it - I mean I draw in the anime/manga style a lot), I just don't get around to watching it unless someone wants me to. XD

My all time favorite anime/manga series is: .hack

It is so complex, and interesting! I used to own .hack//SIGN, but I left all my DVD's at my ex's house when I move out in like 2007ish. XD Gah. I'm so stupid. >>;;

[Kaust]

Lotta good anime mentioned so far (Did you manage to get your hands on the .Hack games Strawberry?)

Over the years I've seen too many, and too many different styles, to be able to pick a clear favourite anymore (its hard to compare something like Serial Experiments Lain with One Piece for example), but its always a treat finding those 'I've put the sword behind me' kind of characters like Vash (Trigun) and Kenshin (Ruruoni Kenshin).

Thinking back, I'm pretty sure it was Elemental Gelade (think its official name was Erementor Gerad or something) that first really got me into anime, other than overexposure to dbz as a kid. It seems pretty generic looking back, a bog-standard adventure/romance/comedy, but the character's relations and emotions were so intense at times (genuine and fitting the character rather the tedious melodrama I've so often encountered since), and one of the ending songs was so ridiculously moving that it just blew my fourteen year old mind.

[Strawberry]

Lotta good anime mentioned so far (Did you manage to get your hands on the .Hack games Strawberry?)

I have played through most of them, but sadly, I never beat them. D=

Gah, I should really get them again and try all over!

[Poteat]

"Psychic Detective Yakumo" is pretty good, though he didn't do much detecting. lol I'm a big "Detective Conan" and "Un Go" fan so i expected more. but it had ghost and stuff so I still enjoyed it.

[Strawberry]

Oooo, I loved Detective Conan!

"WHY DIDN'T I SEE IT BEFORE!?" XD

It was an interesting anime actually. Probably why I liked it. ^___^

[Shaddow]

Oh! I totally forgot to mention one of my major favorites that I'm currently watching. Hitman Reborn! It's so awesome! Watch it if you haven't!

It's not gory or anything, despite the hitman name.

[Kaust]

Hitman Reborn was awesome but you obviously haven't reached the point where they spend half the episode recapping (and no I'm not even exaggerating), it was pretty annoying since I tend to watch episodes back to back for a few hours and its not like the story was ever so convoluted it needed to continually provide those details to the audience.
Anyways, it really does just keep improving (the first about thirty eps do not do the series any favours though), and the ring saga was pretty awesome.

[Poteat]

Hitman Reborn was awesome but you obviously haven't reached the point where they spend half the episode recapping (and no I'm not even exaggerating), it was pretty annoying since I tend to watch episodes back to back for a few hours and its not like the story was ever so convoluted it needed to continually provide those details to the audience.
Anyways, it really does just keep improving, and the ring saga was pretty awesome.

haha that's the crap they do in one piece. the first 12 minutes of each episode goes, World back story, Opening theme, Strawhat's backstory, recap. like seriously? every episode? lol.

[DementedCashew]

Wow, this topic will be hot I just know it. And I'm currently reading Bleach, Ao No Exorcist, haven't started reading Rosario + Vampire yet but I will. And then I'll start reading D.Gray-man and Mirai Nikki. I have 52 manga series to read, I've listed this in my notes. As for anime I would like to read Eden of the East, Devil May Cry, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Kuroshitsuji. That's only for starters.

[Jens of Zanicuud]

Devil May Cry anime + manga are almost nonsense... but Dante is such badass in that series that they're well worth a read / view
Just look at episode 1 and you'll understand what I'm saying

So... what about Black Butler (manga)?

Jens

[zacheatscrackers]

DMC anime is amazing because Dante.

I used to LOVE One Piece but I haven't followed it in forever. I recently watched the X-Men anime, which was REALLY good, but the ending was plain nuts (then again... it's Marvel).

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[DementedCashew]

Devil May Cry anime + manga are almost nonsense... but Dante is such badass in that series that they're well worth a read / view
Just look at episode 1 and you'll understand what I'm saying

So... what about Black Butler (manga)?

Jens

Black Butler is Kuroshitsuji, and I'm going to watch and read that after Bleach. And the only reason I want to read/watch Devil May Cry is because Dante is cute and he's good at what he does.

[Jens of Zanicuud]

As regards Black Butler:
Some good friend of mine told me that the manga was better than the anime, but maybe that's only their opinion...

Anyway, if anyone wants to read Kingdom Hearts II manga... DON'T DO THAT!
The author dropped after five volumes and the story ends with Kairi's kidnapping!

That was really rude...

Jens

[DementedCashew]

Normally, people say that the manga is better because it includes more, I like reading manga because I'm not a big fan of watching things, but after I read the manga then I'll watch the episodes back-to-back so I can finish it quickly. Because I have a great goal I have to accomplish, reading more than 200 different manga series and watching more than 500 anime episodes. Bleach will put me more than halfway there.

[Kaust]

Tsk DC, quality not quantity (and there is a lotta bad Bleach eps out there; they actually stuck two filler arcs in the middle of a fight scene). There's a lot of great 26 ep animes out there (I usually find 13 to be too short to accomplish a lot) and luckily that's just the right amount to watch it all in a day, which leaves an odd sense of accomplishment

If you are gna watch a long series through you should definitely watch DBZ, I mean it practically created the format for long running anime and revolutionised fight scenes; nowadays everyone knows you're a pushover if you cant produce a colourful wave 'round your body by shouting REAL LOUD and haven't named at least three different types of beams coming from your body.

I used to prefer anime over manga, still do I guess, simply because their more 'actiony'. Still a little Naruto manga collection has snuck into my room of late just 'cause this war event is too big for twenty minutes a week.