Manga

[MZimm]

In my countless hours of pondering the meaning of life, I began to question the affinity people have towards manga. Why do people enjoy this form of art, what about it makes them so excited by the presence of out of proportion chartoon characters in the act of love? If anyone has the answer to any of these questions please post them here and remember to keep it clean.

[HiddenAssassin]

ok first making judgements on stuff when you don't know is a bad thing

 

secondly your thinking of hentai, manga is the same drawing style but it isn't sex or anything usually it's good quality comics like ranma 1/2 and so on

[Atreides]

Definitely, but it is time consuming. Kaori Yuki's Angel Sancutary is very well done. I'll read Kenshin when I have more time.

 

Btw manga's not usually hentai.

[Hell Kitty]

Manga is Japanese for comic book. In the west, the word is used specifically to refer to Japanese comic books. That is all.

[Equus]

In my countless hours of pondering the meaning of life, I began to question the affinity people have towards manga. Why do people enjoy this form of art?

Same reason people enjoy any other film/tv programs, something well done is almost always worth watching. Films such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Macross plus are all great (One I'd definatly recomend is Katsuhiro

[HiddenAssassin]

manga is comic book anime is cartoon differance if anyone didn't know

 

anyone seen yuyu hakasho i thought that was pretty sweet but toonami only showed the first season in aus

[roshan]

i dont consider manga as art.

[samm]

i do consider manga as art, just as western comics as well. while the mickey mouse, superman (and all these schtupid hero-stuff) and - on the manga-side - dragonball or sailor moon kind of comics are much too comercially oriented and lack in style (imo), there are still gifted persons drawing them.

owning only record of lodoss war (yeah, you've got to start somwhere ), akira, eden and short stories by hiroki endo, but having read all the available dragonball (see rolw), kenshin, angel sanctury, 3x3 eyes, fushigi yugi (shojo, ayayay ...) and ranma, i am sort of a "manga fan". especially the ones created for a more adult reader (not listed here, we do have younger children on these boards ) are intriguing in terms of drawing furiosity and storytelling, and are disturbingly gorey. the filmlike technique of sudden cuts or slow fades, brutal scenes and absolute idylle make mangas to a piece of art to me.