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Uzumaki was really weird, but pretty good.
Madoka Magica was a good manga, but I somehow found it hard to sympathize with the characters.
Surely, everyone has read One Piece and Death Note by now? You should give them a change. (Altought some early One Piece arcs can drag on for too long)
And I know it's not a manga.
But HOMESTUCK is too good damned.
Also Franken Fran. It's NSFW though. Also body horror.
Madoka Magica was a good manga, but I somehow found it hard to sympathize with the characters.
Surely, everyone has read One Piece and Death Note by now? You should give them a change. (Altought some early One Piece arcs can drag on for too long)
And I know it's not a manga.
But HOMESTUCK is too good damned.
Also Franken Fran. It's NSFW though. Also body horror.
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I'm seeing very mixed reports of this, often complaining that the story is incoherent. Can you see why?
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Yes, yes, Bokurano is awesome. It's similar to Eva in some ways, but doesn't feel like a clone. It's got its own tragic feel
As for me, I've started reading Eiji Ohtsuka's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. It's pretty good, combines horror elements with detective/mystery action. It combines supernatural elements such as psychics and spirits with more modern-day detective work such as forensics and hacking. It's similar to Ohtsuka's earlier work MPD Psycho, although it's a bit less extreme and graphic. A bit. The tones of the two manga are also markedly different from each other. The story is pretty good and I personally found the scenarios very interesting. Both Kurosagi and MPD Psycho are definitely NSFW at several points though, if you haven't figured it out already.
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The only thing people seem to have liked about the Bokurano anime is the OP; it's a classic case of adaptation decay with a manga being animated while still on-going and getting a GONZO end. And that's before getting to the rumours that the director found the original material unpleasant and wanted to radically change the tone -- and even without that, from the very outset there was a level of "can't show that on TV".
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Pretty much what Mr. Tines said. The anime version has several altered events, some different character backgrounds and a different ending. Basically it's what Sadamoto's manga is to NGE and EoE. I prefer the Bokurano manga because of it just seems more gripping to me, but I guess if you read the manga and like it but want a different ending you can watch the Bokurano anime.
The Bokurano manga is definitely much, much better than the Bokurano anime IMHO. I would seriously reccomend you give it a try. Several of the characters and events are more hard-hitting in the manga than in the anime because the anime was altered to remove depressing stuff that the director didn't like.
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Now I know that it's true
Because I think you're so good
And I'm nothing like you
I always thought I might be bad
Now I know that it's true
Because I think you're so good
And I'm nothing like you
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I'd say so. This was my take on the differences in tone -- including the anime original comedy yakuza
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I really don't get what all the fuss is about Deathnote. It's good, but it's so text heavy at sometimes, it becomes to dry for me. Half of it's fanbase seem to be weeaboo fangirls that think Light is hot. Anyways, here's a list of manga that I recommend.
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-Berserk. So damn good, a lot better than the anime. I just recently bought all 35 volumes at a used book store.
-Uzumaki. A really great 3 volume series, extremely disturbing. It felt like one long horror movie.
-Dragonball. Dragonball is amazing, even better if you read DBZ. It really feels like an old epic. Unfortunately, DBZ gets really dumb near the end.
-Akira. My favorite manga. This is like the manga Bible, so amazing and so epic. It surpasses the movie ten fold.
-Eyeshield 21. Eyeshield is a really great football manga. It starts out so good, around the middle it gets boring, but it picks up again for the finale. Unfortunately, it has a really bad ending.
-Uzumaki. A really great 3 volume series, extremely disturbing. It felt like one long horror movie.
-Dragonball. Dragonball is amazing, even better if you read DBZ. It really feels like an old epic. Unfortunately, DBZ gets really dumb near the end.
-Akira. My favorite manga. This is like the manga Bible, so amazing and so epic. It surpasses the movie ten fold.
-Eyeshield 21. Eyeshield is a really great football manga. It starts out so good, around the middle it gets boring, but it picks up again for the finale. Unfortunately, it has a really bad ending.
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Kind of answered your own question there.
Berserk. So damn good, a lot better than the anime. I just recently bought all 35 volumes at a used book store.
Very lucky. I was thinking of getting around to reading it myself when I have some time (although I never actually finished the anime, it's on my backlog) but getting a hold of every single volume is a pain.
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Very lucky. I was thinking of getting around to reading it myself when I have some time (although I never actually finished the anime, it's on my backlog) but getting a hold of every single volume is a pain.
They are all in rough shape, even the newer volumes. The spines are pretty worn, there's some markings on the pages, and the previous owner dog eared all the pages with nudity, which is very unsettling. They are really hard to find now, especially in new condition. I wish Darkhorse would do an omnibus of the series. And once you start reading the manga, the anime just seems so worthless. It was really only made to sell the manga.
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I'll try to get a good version of Sidonia. I started reading it a few days ago, but the version I got was so crappy it bored me to hell. The file format was screwed somehow.
Anyway, when you get into FSS, keep in mind: it's a slow read, which requires patience. Don't try and read it all in one swoop, or otherwise it might feel a bit overwhelming and, well...boring. If you take it in a steady pace, you will enjoy it much, much more.
Anyway, when you get into FSS, keep in mind: it's a slow read, which requires patience. Don't try and read it all in one swoop, or otherwise it might feel a bit overwhelming and, well...boring. If you take it in a steady pace, you will enjoy it much, much more.
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