Spring Anime 2010

[zakkrusz]

Usually, they'd say something or ANN would announce their downfall though. Instead, everything is just up in the air at the moment because I can not confirm or deny the fact, though the signs point to Dr. Master being gone. If you're a reputable company you'd want people to be able to buy your products right? And you'd probably want to release a product sometime between September 2008 and now.

 

[firehawk12]

Well, I mean, I'm sure there's an easy way to find out like just sending someone to go to the storefront and knocking on the door. I feel like ANN is really not in the business of getting news though, but that's another topic (grrr, news blogs).

Most companies just disappear without a word because when someone fails, usually they want to advertise to the world (and potential investors) that they're failures. As someone who used to follow indie comic books, I learned that lesson the hard way.

 

[zakkrusz]

Well I used the customer service link to send them some questions two weeks ago but nobody from DM ever responded. *shrugs*

 

[SlaveOfSeven]

Well... just because I'm replying doesn't mean that I like you or anything! Hmph!

I bet you were blushing furiously when you typed that too.

Looks like my manga reading days are over. One of the sites I visit seems to have vanished already. Ah well.

 

[Meredith]

I am grooving out to Keikeishi lately, seems like a fun series.

 

[zakkrusz]

It's interesting enough to watch but I'm still waiting for some type of storyline.

 

[firehawk12]

Well... just because I'm replying doesn't mean that I like you or anything! Hmph!

I bet you were blushing furiously when you typed that too.

Looks like my manga reading days are over. One of the sites I visit seems to have vanished already. Ah well.

You bet!

All of the big sites seem to still be around and one of them even put up the final chapter of Fullmetal Alchemist... I wonder what will happen now.

There's a summer preview chart up. I wonder if someone should just post that here instead of making another thread. People seem to be grooving on House of the Dead while I'm just shocked that Strike Witches 2 is coming.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Well... just because I'm replying doesn't mean that I like you or anything! Hmph!

I bet you were blushing furiously when you typed that too.

Looks like my manga reading days are over. One of the sites I visit seems to have vanished already. Ah well.

You bet!

Aww.. No fair!

It's odd, but I don't really care for Manga. People buy me the stuff, and I can't never coax myself to read it.

 

[SlaveOfSeven]

The site's probably just having technical difficulties actually. I'm not a huge manga fan myself; just read a little now and then. Still, it's a bit worrying. How long till they go after the anime sites?

Now how come Strike Witches gets a second season but Saki still hasn't? (Rhetorical question obviously as the answer is clear. ) I want to know what happens in the finals damn it.

 

[firehawk12]

I bet you were blushing furiously when you typed that too.

Looks like my manga reading days are over. One of the sites I visit seems to have vanished already. Ah well.

You bet!

Aww.. No fair!

It's odd, but I don't really care for Manga. People buy me the stuff, and I can't never coax myself to read it.

Tsundere moe for everyone!

Speaking of Saki, that'd probably the major reason I go to manga. I haven't checked to see if the manga has caught up to the anime, but it seems to be a rare these days when the anime actually covers everything from the source material. I wouldn't be reading Kimi ni Todoke if I wasn't curious about how the main characters hook up anyway.

But The Legend of Koizumi has filled the MJ hole in my heart.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIO4Uw36-JE[/yt]

 

[zakkrusz]

It's odd, but I don't really care for Manga. People buy me the stuff, and I can't never coax myself to read it.

I'm more of an anime person myself, I've only completed a measly 14 manga versus 700+ anime. I read 10 series currently but most of them take f***ing forever to come out with a new volume here, so it comes out to me only reading about 9 or 10 volumes in a whole year or less.

They are:

Black Lagoon
Claymore
Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunally
Dogs: Bullets and Carnage
Fate/Stay Night
Gunslinger Girl
Higurashi-When They Cry
Lunar Legend Tsukihime
Princess Resurrection
Suzuka

All of them are cases where I've seen the anime first and read the manga because it continued on past the point where the anime ended or was some kind of interesting alternate take on events.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Yeah. There's just something about the nature of Manga that makes it hard for me to fully absorb the story like I would with an anime or even just regular narrative. I have the same problem with comics. (I've never really read them either.) and Manga is only exacerbated because it's backwards.

 

[zakkrusz]

Yeah. Pictures are nice, but I prefer them to be in color, move, and have appropriate sound effects, voices, and music. (Especially music actually.) Animation would usually slaughter manga any day in my book if I had to choose. Action based manga are the worst and I have some real difficulty telling what the heck is going on sometimes. Comedies and romance manga are probably te most universally understandable, but even they could benefit from the above things I mentioned.

 

[firehawk12]

Well, there's something elegant about being able to tell a good story in black and white on a comic page. I certainly appreciate the craft of that... I mean, even the way you place the word bubbles can ruin or improve the composition of a page based simply on the way your eyes move across the page.

That type of interaction is something you lose when a manga is turned into an anime. You may have the same shot for shot panels and plot, but the act of reading becomes drastically different.

That said, I'm with you insomuch as I just find it easier to watch anime nowadays.

 

[zakkrusz]

Reading the manga of an anime is sometimes a mixed bag of tricks too. For instance after being dissatisfied with the His and Her Circumstances anime I read the manga (Kare Kano) and well it's exactly what I was looking for and so completely satisfying that gives the anime a bad rep. Then on the other hand I thought My HIME was a pretty good series and then decided the read the manga which is a pretty far cry from it. Mai and Natsuki's...assets weren't enough to save it from being sub par.

 

[firehawk12]

Content is a funny mixed bag when it comes to adaptations, because you can never win. At least, as far as I know, anime fans don't go "it's not as good as the book!".

 

[clint g]

Reading the manga of an anime is sometimes a mixed bag of tricks too. For instance after being dissatisfied with the His and Her Circumstances anime I read the manga (Kare Kano) and well it's exactly what I was looking for and so completely satisfying that gives the anime a bad rep. Then on the other hand I thought My HIME was a pretty good series and then decided the read the manga which is a pretty far cry from it. Mai and Natsuki's...assets weren't enough to save it from being sub par.

Yeah a big problem with the Mai Hime manga is that it was adapted from the anime, not the other way around. As an avid manga reader (I prefer it over anime ) I've noticed that manga based off of an anime usually sucks. The only exception that I can think of is the Eva manga, which is better than the anime in some ways.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Mai Hime is next on my to watch queue after I finish Chobits. I've heard good things about it.

 

[zakkrusz]

When you watch it, be aware that it's one of those "sleeper" anime where the first half is episodic and the second is is pure storyline.

Spoiler: My HIME

It gets off to a great start, then there's a dry spell until the second half when the story kicks in. Basically it builds everything up and then tears it all down in an epic manner.

 

[firehawk12]

Random note, there was a teaser for the Kimi ni Todoke live action movie thingie the other day:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqfWZJBS_jo[/yt]

(As you can see, I learned the youtube tag and I'm loving it!)