'outdated' is a phrase i don't acknowledge.Ī few fave writers outside of manga: pg wodehouse. gimme strong characterization, writing, art: the meat. i'm honestly not sure if i have any actual deal-breakers. I mean, you can do those things and still, rarely, pull it off. putting a number on power levels? just kinda goofy. completely meaningless deaths in a series where you are virtually assured it'll be fine because no one really dies magic systems so detailed and elaborated on that they are Science, thus removing the 'magic' part Real life is either a tragi-comedy or a comedy-drama, but it's not just one thing leaving some things to the imagination or interpretation (that's why they call it magic, and not every mystery is meant to be solved) a break from all the fighting occasionally! actual characters (Dragon Ball is not terribly good at this) Not to mention DQ, which is like a living manga. Relatable too (I'm a Canadian).įist of the North Star: it might take a genius to make something this next-level dumb. Shirokuma Cafe: Cozy and funny, sweetness and light. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is a lot of fun. Gotta read more.ĭeath Note had me good and hooked, although for whatever reason my bookmark has remained almost exactly at the halfway mark for like two years.Īrakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist was great her end pages may have been even better. Ito's Uzumaki was a great old fashioned fun time of a horror show. I love what I've seen and read of Miyazaki.īerserk hooked me enough that I've read, I think, 21 volumes. I tried Naruto too and it was dead boring.) (Ergo, perhaps I don't dislike the fighty manga as much as I'd thought? Exhausting, though. Slump, along with the characters and monsters he's done for Dragon Quest & Chrono Trigger.Ĥ. I've found myself enjoying it despite myself, although there must have been ten bloody books in a row featuring what I would call a back-to-back-to-back lull (Freeza->Androids>Cell), and I do tend to think Birdie's best work is Dr. Why the fuck, then, have I read 37 books of Dragon Ball? I'm a huge fan of Toriyama's artwork. My working theory has been that I don't really like the sort of mainstream shounen battle stuff, where it seems a fight scene is mandated every five pages by Jump Law.ģ. It seemed likeable and I dug the style, but I remember little.Ģ. I did read a few issues of OP, but just a few and it was a while back, so I'm still in the 'not sure' zone. So I figured I'd set up a kind of taste profile and perhaps some of you kind psychics could scry those crystal balls and make an educated guess as to whether I'd dig this series.ġ. (I'm nearly done with Dragon Ball at the moment, somehow.) Recently-ish there's been something of an explosion of Japanese Stuff in my life, from starting to learn the language, lit, film, music and finally a bit of manga, a medium with which I'm passing familiar, but whose series I've finished very few of.
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