Favorite/Least Favorite Manga and Why

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Postby Allegro » Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:45 pm

Favorite: Azumanga Daioh - I was immediately hooked on the unique 4-koma style of the humor of this manga. The manga was what brought me to see the anime when it became licensed.

Least: Baby Birth - Never really thought of it as a "bad" title; it just wasn't that good of a fantasy series (even if it was only two volumes).
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Postby Tarnish » Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:36 pm

Favorite: Fruits Basket!
Why: The story, mostly. The art is good too, though. I love the characters (with the execption of Ritsu...). I can only echo what others have said about it.

Least Favorite: Parfait Tic
Why: It started out pretty well, but just kept dragging ON and ON...
It came to the point where I just couldn't care less about the characters anymore. I don't know who, if anyone, the girl (I can't even remember her name) ended up with. And I don't really care, to be perfectly honest.
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Postby mai » Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:54 am

I think Juvenile Orion would be my favorite series that I have finished. I liked it because it had a happy ending, maybe a little to happy, but non the less everything was tied up nicely in the end. Plus every volume had a colored insert ^-^

Alichino is another series I'm enjoying, the art work is just gorgeous! The characters are all different and interesting.

My least favorite is probably a tie between Suki by CLAMP and Count Cain [not God Child] by Kaori Yuki

Suki was just disappointing in the end, the main character seemed naive to the point of stupidity. I also didn't like that one of the characters wrote porn novels and a small part of one is shown.

Count Cain I read about a year ago and, well, it could have been a story I enjoyed except it seemed to cross the line in violence for me, also several of the stories were just so disgusting and depressing in the end. Also one I found personally insulting, it just hit to close to home. I only read two volumes.
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Postby Ashley » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:06 am

Favorite - easily Full Moon wo Sagashite. In some places I think the anime is stronger than the manga (*cough Eichi cough*) but on the whole the manga is a superb blend of depth, plot, humor, drama, and goooorgeous art I could stare at for days.

I'm a furuba fan, too. ^^;;

I'm also starting to really like Sea Princess Azuri; I didn't expect to, but the art is wonderful and it's a very non-typical piece.

Least favorite- hm, well, I only got 4 or 5 volumes into Faeries' Landing before selling my volumes in disgust. I think at the time I couldn't really take the homosexual overtones, and I think there was something else about it, too...been too long now.

Scrapped Princess the manga is a disappointment, since it seems to be NOTHING like the anime I adored and the art is, IMO, atrocious.

.hack is also on this list not because I didn't like it, I just hated the ending. It felt way too rushed and incomplete.
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Postby Tommy » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:46 am

Would it sound too picky to sticky these? I`m going to place them in every forum that would make sense.
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Postby Hitokiri » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:56 am

Favorite: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Love Hina, and Kare Kano.
Reasons: I have always been a big fan of the Eva franchise. The art in the manga is beautiful and the storyline is extremely deep. Love Hina was the first manga I read front to back and from it, I began liking romantic comedies more and more. The art is beautiful as well and the characters are memorable. Kare Kano is a series that is bittersweet to me that just shows how much life is awesome but can suck at times.

Least: Cowboy Bebop and RahXephon
I bought the first volume of Cowboy bebop and hated. Being a huge fan of the anime series, I would sorely dissapointed. Basically the same thing for RahXephon, I disliked how they changed all the characters and such.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:15 am

My favorites: Monster and 20th Century boys XD Also Death Note, Azumanga Daioh and Yotsubato are up there.

My least: That's a hard one. Not many I didn't like. I guess.... No, I can't think of any
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Postby uc pseudonym » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:49 pm

Tom Dincht wrote:Would it sound too picky to sticky these? I`m going to place them in every forum that would make sense.

At this point, I don't think it is necessary to sticky any of them. If the threads are popular enough they will stay near the top, but we have too many stickies anyway.
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Postby Pepper Kittie » Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:41 pm

Everyone's so different, it's fun to read ^___^

Favorites:
Definitely Angelic Layer! This was my first manga and even though it's really simple and childish, I think that's why I fell in love with it in the first place. It's simple and elegant and I love the way CLAMP drew it. And the fighting scenes are actually really fun ^^

Also Imadoki. I just started reading it (I'm only 3 volumes in) but I love the main character because she's easy for me to relate to, and the storyline is wonderful. Watase deals with a lot of really tough issues in a way that not many other mangas do, and that both shocked and amazed me. I love it.

My least favorite... that'd probably be Pita Ten. I read the whole series through but it just seemed really boring and flat to me. It just kinda drags on in some parts. I almost fell asleep. It only really caught my interest at the last volume ^^;
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Postby MomoAdachi » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:36 pm

Favorites:
-Peach Girl
-Sailor Moon
-Wedding Peach
-Cyber Idol Mink
-Miracle Girls

Least Favorites:
-DragonBall Z
-Initial D
-Cowboy Bebop
-Monster
-Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Postby jon_jinn » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:37 pm

[quote="MomoAdachi"]Favorites:
-Peach Girl
-Sailor Moon
-Wedding Peach
-Cyber Idol Mink
-Miracle Girls

Least Favorites:
-DragonBall Z
-Initial D
-Cowboy Bebop
-Monster
-Yu-Gi-Oh!

I'm just a girlie shoujo girl. No shounen in this house! ]

is that the only reason why you dislike those mangas? or can you give more reasons?
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