Without knowing your tastes, or what you've enjoyed thus far, thats a hard call. Thats like asking what food we reccomend. I prefer Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Mexican. I also like KFC and Taco Bell, which is so not mexican.
As for Manga, I hereby drop the hammer and send you to OneManga. You should be able to while away many an hour there.
If you want some more reccomendations, post back with what you've enjoyed so far. Great to have another manga fan in the community!
Edit: As an overall bias-less partaker (I read shojou/shounen, action/romance/drama/comedy/ecchi/supernatural/etc) here are some I consider really good and worth the time.
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Eyeshield21
History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
Negima
Family Compo
Kaicho Wa Maid-Sama
Skip Beat
Ai Kora
Karin (not on OneManga, unfortunately)
Fairy Tail
Ichigo 100%
One Peice
Angel Densetsu
Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro
Those are the first to ring bells in my head as good. Your mileage may vary.
My 2 cp...
Love Hina
Great Teacher Onizuka
Sgt. Frog
Case Closed
Excel Saga
Battle Angel Alita
Muhyo & Roji B.S.I.
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Blame!
The exclamation mark is in the title.
I say check out Eyeshield 21 and Bastard!!
Two exclaimation points in THAT title. Heh.
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Thanks for the recommendations, guys. Keep them coming!
Without knowing your tastes, or what you've enjoyed thus far, thats a hard call. Thats like asking what food we reccomend. I prefer Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Mexican. I also like KFC and Taco Bell, which is so not mexican.
Good point. As for manga I('ve) enjoy(ed):
Any CLAMP manga, it seems (I've read X and Tokyo Babylon)
Genshiken
Trigun: Maximum
Ghost in the Shell (1, 2, 1.5)
Death Note
Great Teacher Onizuka
The Neon Genesis Evangelion manga
Battle Angel Alita
Cheers! :D
Berserk - perhaps the darkest and most epic sword & sorcery manga ever.
Monster - extremely provocative and intelligent murder thriller dealing with serial killers, neo-Nazis, Czech secret police, and brainwashing.
Monster - extremely provocative and intelligent murder thriller dealing with serial killers, neo-Nazis, Czech secret police, and brainwashing.
Great music and atmosphere, but I got bored of it after episode 25. Did anything interesting happen afterwards?
Does anyone here read Tou Ubukata's Le Chevalier D'Eon or Kia Asamiya's Junk: Record of the Last Hero?
Watched Le Chevalier D'eon. Two thumbs up.
I don't read, I watch anime, so my opinion may not be especially wanted, but before anyone stops me, I would add to Chevalier my following favorites:
Full Metal Alchemist
Samurai Champloo
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Ghost in the Shell
Sayuki (only the first series, everything after that stank)
Last Exile
Gilgamesh
Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales was also pretty enjoyable. Never did make it to the end of Inuyasha.
I assume that good anime would indicate better writing in the original manga, but I leave it to people who know to say. Tried to leave out those that I just thought were OK, and those that are simply features.
Vampire Hunter D and Ninja Scroll the originalnot reserrection are my favorites.
Rune Soldier/Rune Soldier Louie is another anime/manga series that might be worth checking out, if you don't mind your fantasy genre to be a bit light-hearted.
Another possibile avenue is to try the Guin Saga, a sword and sorcery style series starring a character that could be described as "Conan the Luchadore"- 'cause the main character Guin wears a cursed unremovable jaguar/leopard mask. Already out in manga form by Vertical and novelization form by Dark Horse Publishing and will be coming out with an anime series this coming year too.
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Oh man, Rune Soldier Louie was great(and surprisingly set in the Lodoss Wars universe!). I still want to a high STR/CON, low INT wizard someday.
Does anyone here read Tou Ubukata's Le Chevalier D'Eon or Kia Asamiya's Junk: Record of the Last Hero?
I don't really have much in the way of positive feelings towards the Le Chevalier D'eon manga, primarily because the anime was fantastic and the manga is a very different animal. This is personal taste here, and your milage will vary, but I while I wholeheartedly recommend the anime, I just can't do the same for the manga. Where the anime was a great fantasy/horror/mystery/political suspense/historical drama mash-up, the manga came across as more-or-less a magical girl series.
Of course that might appeal to some readers more than the anime. It depends on what you're looking for.
Berserk - perhaps the darkest and most epic sword & sorcery manga ever.
I'd do away with the "perhaps", but then I remember there actually are moments of hope here and there in the series. But hot damn if this series isn't hell on its cast...
Monster - extremely provocative and intelligent murder thriller dealing with serial killers, neo-Nazis, Czech secret police, and brainwashing.
Reading, haven't seen the anime yet. I also really enjoyed the Master Keaton anime, which is based on the manga by the same author. It was a real fresh of breath air back then.
Token recommendation for Nausicaa here.
Akira is great. If you thought the move was cool but convoluted, reading the manga helps out immensly.
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Watched Le Chevalier D'eon. Two thumbs up.
I don't read, I watch anime, so my opinion may not be especially wanted, but before anyone stops me, I would add to Chevalier my following favorites:
Full Metal Alchemist
Samurai Champloo
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Ghost in the Shell
Sayuki (only the first series, everything after that stank)
Last Exile
GilgameshAyakashi Samurai Horror Tales was also pretty enjoyable. Never did make it to the end of Inuyasha.
I assume that good anime would indicate better writing in the original manga, but I leave it to people who know to say. Tried to leave out those that I just thought were OK, and those that are simply features.
I would also add Samurai 7 to that list of anime! Oh and Steamboy...
I don't know if these qualify as manga, bute these are comic and japanese:
Orion (5 stars)
Dominion, Tank Police
Appleseed
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (movie= awesome, manga, a LOT better than the movie)
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I don't know if these qualify as manga, bute these are comic and japanese:
Orion (5 stars)
Dominion, Tank Police
Appleseed
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (movie= awesome, manga, a LOT better than the movie)
yeah, Manga
when they bought the licenses years ago in USA they made them in comic format
I have Dominion Tank Police and the follow up, Dominion was a big Manga, 100 pages (maybe more :S) I think, the follow up was 5 shorter ones.
mmm need to read Appleseed :D
One of my favorite graphic novels is Domu, by Katsuhiro Otomo.
Very cool, very Otomo.
Basilisk: The Kōga Ninja Scrolls
my favorite ninja manga.
MPD Psycho is cool and suspenseful!
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
Deadman Wonderland
GANTZ
Banana Fish
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Only the first one is out but, if you were a kid who liked monsters and spent countless afternoons trying to spot bigfoot in the woods near your house, I recommend Yokaiden. It's about a kid who studies yokai and ends up finding their hidden world after a kappa kidnaps his grandmother. The second volume should be out in October.
I'd also like to recommend Apocalypse Meow (Cat 5hit One in Japan*) if you're into war stories. The American release is only three volumes so it doesn't take alot of effort to get through and it's about bunnies fighting the Vietnam conflict. I mean, how cool is that? Bunnies! With M-16s and grenade launchers! An animated series is due out this fall.
*I can't put an "S" in that second word of the title but that shouldn't have been a 5 if you catch my meaning.