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Postby Tommy » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:41 pm

Fish and Chips wrote:Is The League of Extraordinary Gentleman any good? I've had mixed feelings about it.


Am I hallucinating or did you just ask how The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was in a manga thread?

Please elaborate.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:45 pm

Tom Dincht wrote:Am I hallucinating or did you just ask how The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was in a manga thread?

Please elaborate.

Well, if you read the post before his... and considering it's a comic...
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Postby Nate » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:51 pm

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Postby Fish and Chips » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:01 pm

Tom Dincht wrote:Am I hallucinating or did you just ask how The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was in a manga thread?

Please elaborate.

Hello Tom. Allow me to direct you to the post directly above mine.
Joshua Christopher wrote:I've found that basically every manga I read disappoints me.

The only ones that really keep my interest are Berserk, Hellsing, 20th Century Boys, and Fullmetal Alchemist. Every other time I pick up something, I just can't manage a single volume. These days I'm mostly just reading American/European comic books like Sandman, or The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Stuff like that.

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Postby Joshua Christopher » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:18 am

Fish and Chips wrote:Extraordinary Leagues


Yes, it's quite good. I can't say much about the second volume (I'm thinking of picking it up tomorrow), but the first one is really great. It's not really anything like the movie, which does a good job turning it into a horrible monstrosity.

But really, you just have to read who the author is: Alan Moore.

So yes it's good.
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Postby Fish and Chips » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:19 am

Hmm, might have to give it a second browse then.
Joshua Christopher wrote:But really, you just have to read who the author is: Alan Moore.

So yes it's good.

And that name means what to me? I'm sorry, I just can't see the argument in an author's name guaranteeing the quality of his individual works.

*Is completely hypocritical in that he does the same thing for Naoki Urasawa.*
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Postby Joshua Christopher » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:49 am

Fish and Chips wrote: I'm sorry, I just can't see the argument in an author's name guaranteeing the quality of his individual works.


Well, it doesn't. However, I have yet to read a single Alan Moore comic that wasn't excellent. So in this case, it does. :cool:
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:27 am

FLCL. I hear such great things about the anime, yet the manga is crap.

Same for Q-ko as well. I was hoping it'd be good, but the mangaka doesn't know how to tell a story at all.

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Postby Tommy » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:51 am

I never have high expectations for manga that comes out AFTER the anime.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:39 am

Raiden no Kishi wrote:FLCL. I hear such great things about the anime, yet the manga is crap.

Same for Q-ko as well. I was hoping it'd be good, but the mangaka doesn't know how to tell a story at all.

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Q-ko sucks? almost bought it for the art a while back...
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Postby uc pseudonym » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:15 pm

Raiden no Kishi wrote:FLCL. I hear such great things about the anime, yet the manga is crap.

Have you actually seen the anime and then felt the manga was poor? Personally, I think the two have a very similar feel and I dislike both, but perhaps that's just me.
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:34 pm

uc pseudonym wrote:Have you actually seen the anime and then felt the manga was poor? Personally, I think the two have a very similar feel and I dislike both, but perhaps that's just me.


I've seen precious little of the anime, honestly. I've just heard good things about it. Hilarious and such.

As to Q-ko, the art's kinda neat, but the storytelling just doesn't cut it for me. Your mileage may vary.

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Postby Tommy » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:25 pm

How can you see a little of a little series?

Did you watch a 0:05 clip? 0_o
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Postby WrestlingOtaku » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:50 pm

Tom Dincht wrote:I never have high expectations for manga that comes out AFTER the anime.


I actually quite liked the Scrapped Princess manga, but that's probably an exception. I had one qualm about it though, and that was that Raquel seemed to be an airhead in the manga. In fact, I'm thinking about continuing the series, once I get some cash of course...
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Postby uc pseudonym » Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:10 pm

Tom Dincht wrote:How can you see a little of a little series?

Did you watch a 0:05 clip? 0_o

It's possible. For example, my first exposure to it was about a third of an episode I caught randomly on Cartoon Network. I also saw about five minutes at an anime analysis event at a convention. Either qualifies as "a little" in my book.
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Postby ilikegir33 » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:22 pm

Cromartie High School. I didn't think it was that funny. The anime is much better. :(
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Postby mai » Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:58 pm

Suki by CLAMP and almost everything else by them -_- It was too short, there was a section of a porn novel in it and the main character seemed mentally imapaired.

Count Cain or The Cain Saga by Kaori Yuki... I should have known that I wouldn't like it...with her titles including yaoi and incest...this had abused cannibalistic children how ever. The characters didn't interest me that much and every story was basically Cain meets some one, people die, cain figures out what is going on, people die, cain punishes wrong doer, they die. I found the stories extremely depressing and pointless, really devoid of hope.
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