Manga / Anime Discussion

[partyon 49,700]

Welcome to the Manga / Anime discussion thread!

This is the place to discuss your favorite mangas and animes, and give your chingus recommendations on what to read / watch.

 

 

Tagging: @Sleepy Owl @mirmz @Berou @Jillia

 

What are you reading or watching right now? Any recommendation for a newbie?

[mirmz 32,951]

@partyon rn im watching death note

[partyon 49,700]

3 minutes ago, mirmz said:

@partyon rn im watching death note

 

What is it about?

[Berou 14,406]

Yay a thread about mangas ! thanks for the thread @partyon 

 

 

It's been more than 10 years that I've watched an anime or read a manga. 

 

@mirmz Are you watching the anime  or the movie ? 

 

 

edit : @partyon It's about a guy that finds an abandoned agenda that has mistery properties, i.e by writing the names of the people, the cause of their death and the time, it has powers to kill them. So, the guy will use the properties of the agenda for his own gain. He becomes a serial killer basically. 

 

 

[Jillia 190,865]

Thank you, @partyon, for creating this thread!

 

I'm watching Fruits Basket Season 2 right now and I'm waiting for Haikyuu Season 4 to continue in October.

 

And I'm reading a couple of mangas as well... Ancient Magus Bride...

 

And a couple more!

[mirmz 32,951]

3 minutes ago, partyon said:

What is it about?

i dont really know how to explain it so here's the google version:

The story follows Light Yagami, a teen genius who stumbles across a mysterious otherworldly notebook: the "Death Note", which belonged to the Shinigami Ryuk and grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages.

and @Berou im watching the series

 

[partyon 49,700]

@mirmz That sounds really scary! Is it like a thriller?

@Jillia You certainly are busy with dramas, mangas AND animes!

@Berou What types of mangas or animes do you like?

[mirmz 32,951]

1 minute ago, partyon said:

@mirmz That sounds really scary! Is it like a thriller?

 

more of an action anime

 

[partyon 49,700]

Just now, mirmz said:

more of an action anime

 

 

How many versions of this story are there? I was just thinking since @Berou was asking you which version you were watching?

 

[Berou 14,406]

Death note is a classic .  I read the manga ( my favourites volum 1 & 2, in total there are 3 volumes), watched the anime and the movie

 

I read many mangas, I cant remember all of them ( I will come up with my list of recommendations).  I used to watch a lot Naruto and Bleach animes, and as a kid Captain Tsubasa 

 

 

 

[mirmz 32,951]

1 minute ago, partyon said:

How many versions of this story are there? I was just thinking since @Berou was asking you which version you were watching?

 

i dont really know how many there are but ik there are a few

[Jillia 190,865]

6 minutes ago, partyon said:

@mirmz That sounds really scary! Is it like a thriller?

@Jillia You certainly are busy with dramas, mangas AND animes!

@Berou What types of mangas or animes do you like?

I'm not actively reading mangas atm. I just squeeze them in when I got time. And anime is just 1 episode per week and for Fruits Basket since I know the manga since I was teenager I don't need to follow that hard. And each episode is around 20 episodes.

 

But yeah, I like a lot of things and unfortunately a lot of good things are being released the SAME time.

[Berou 14,406]

13 minutes ago, Jillia said:

I'm not actively reading mangas atm. I just squeeze them in when I got time. And anime is just 1 episode per week and for Fruits Basket since I know the manga since I was teenager I don't need to follow that hard. And each episode is around 20 episodes.

 

But yeah, I like a lot of things and unfortunately a lot of good things are being released the SAME time.

 You're multi-tasking, no wonder you always say you are behind 

 

I read fruits basket, idk it didn't leave an impression on me. Are you more shojo/ shonen/seinen ? 

 

 

@mirmz Since when are you a manga/anime fan ?

[Jillia 190,865]

37 minutes ago, Berou said:

 You're multi-tasking, no wonder you always say you are behind 

 

I read fruits basket, idk it didn't leave an impression on me. Are you more shojo/ shonen/seinen ? 

True! And I also like books.... but that's a whole other story.

 

I don't know... I don't think that much about what genre I like. Ancient Magus Bride is a shonen manga though. But I also like shojo and isekai (but more the old ones like Fushigi Yuugi). I also like highschool romances at the moment but I think that falls into the category of shojo. And I like josei for example Tokyo Tarareba Girls. 

Source: Google

 

I think with Fruits Basket... it looks like fun and lighthearted but touches on emotional abuse and depression. And I liked how every character had layers and reasons for why they're the way they are.

 

How about you? What do you like the most?

[Berou 14,406]

5 minutes ago, Jillia said:

True! And I also like books.... but that's a whole other story.

 

I don't know... I don't think that much about what genre I like. Ancient Magus Bride is a shonen manga though. But I also like shojo and isekai (but more the old ones like Fushigi Yuugi). I also like highschool romances at the moment but I think that falls into the category of shojo. And I like josei for example Tokyo Tarareba Girls. 

 

 

I think with Fruits Basket... it looks like fun and lighthearted but touches on emotional abuse and depression. And I liked how every character had layers and reasons for why they're the way they are.

 

How about you? What do you like the most?

The name Fushigi Yuugi is familiar . 

 

I mostly read shojo. I happened to read from time to time shonen mangas. I stopped reading them when I was around 18 y.o. That was time I discovered kpop and then dramas. Since I've been sucked into K-entertaintment. 

 

My friends in HS used to like a lot Fruits Basket and recommended it to me, I read it I was like 

 

Maybe if I re-read it I'll have a different opinion

[Jillia 190,865]

@Berou

Fushihi Yuugi is by the same manga-ka as Ayashi no Ceres: Yuu Watase. It's a kind of Alice in Wonderland idea where 2 friends end up in another world and they're separated and end up being somewhat enemies. I'm not good in giving summaries. But it got a LOT of handsome men.

 

Source: Google

[Berou 14,406]

3 minutes ago, Jillia said:

@Berou

Fushihi Yuugi is by the same manga-ka as Ayashi no Ceres: Yuu Watase. It's a kind of Alice in Wonderland idea where 2 friends end up in another world and they're separated and end up being somewhat enemies. I'm not good in giving summaries. But it got a LOT of handsome me.

 

 

 OH I remember it now, I've read it too. 

 

Hansome men 

 

 

 

cr

 

 

one of my faves is paradise kiss. They even did a movie

 

 

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[Jillia 190,865]

@Berou

Oooooh! Paradise Kiss! I loved that manga!

 

I'm just sad that the mangaka so far never finished her other manga "Nana". Forever on hiatus I think.

Source: Pinterest

[Berou 14,406]

A review that might interest @mirmz

 

DEATH NOTE VS. DEATH NOTE VS. DEATH NOTE

So, why did I title this post Death Note vs. Death Note vs. Death Note? Simply because I’m going to compare them all to an extent. By all, I am referring to the live action movie, the manga, and the newly airing live action drama. And only to the finding of the second Death Note.

 

 

Okay. I could go into the plot…but actually despite some different ordering of events…there really isn’t too much to go into between the versions at this point because I have not watched enough of the Japanese drama or read enough of the manga to give a good enough comparison on a whole with the movies series (which I have watched all of at this point…several years ago). I will say this, though. Initially, when Death Note starts, Yagami Light was 17 and a high school senior. I guess they frowned on a “child” having such a powerful notebook, so in the live action movie and drama series, they make Light a college student. Okay…so I could go into more detail about differences. Like the drama treats the FBI agent trailing Light differently, and idol Misa Misa has more prominence from the get go in the drama, and the movie version gave Light a girlfriend named Shiori. Sure, there’s more to offer, but I’m only 2 episodes in. Got that? 2 episodes! Plus…I need to finish reading the manga (which I’m actually enjoying now) and rewatching the rest of the movie series.

 

https://asianaddictsanonymous.com/2015/08/08/death-note-vs-death-note-vs-death-note/

 

 

13 minutes ago, Jillia said:

I'm just sad that the mangaka so far never finished her other manga "Nana". Forever on hiatus I think.

 

 

I've been out of manga world for a long time. Do you know the reason of the hiatus ?

 

I like the message behind paradise kiss. It may look like a superficial manga but  it teaches you about not following the crowd, finding what you like and chasing your dreams.

[Jillia 190,865]

1 minute ago, Berou said:

 

I've been out of manga world for a long time. Do you know the reason of the hiatus ?

 

 

I like the message behind paradise kiss. It may look like a superficial manga but  it teaches you about not following the crowd, finding what you like and chasing your dreams.

Sorry to cut your post.

 

I think she was ill, so the hiatus isn't without reason. I know a lot of mangka suffer because of their work. Like the mangaka of Hunter X Hunter - Yoshihiro Togashi - he does suffer from backpain due to the position when he is drawing. So he takes his time.

 

And I personally appreciate it. In the end we have no right to demand anything from them. The mangaka are gifting us with their work.

 

But of course it's sad when we need to wait for a new chapter to come.

 

I'm also coming from the generation CLAMP mangas and my favorite manga they will probably never finish: X-1999

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And that's very sad because if I remember correctly CLAMP stated in an interview they only needed a couple more volumes to wrap up the series. But I think they had issues with their publisher if I remember correctly.