What mangoo and comics are a Veeky Forums fan allowed to read?

Holy shit. I might actually check this out. JQ is my man.

I'm gonna buy the first trade once it releases. I rewatched the original JQ a few years back and I was quite impressed. It perfectly captured that pulp adventure aesthetic. They even used Hanna-Barbera's signature limited animation style as a boon, making the visuals appear akin to old school pulp comics. I'm excited to see the direction they take on this run.

I love this song from this Anime:

youtube.com/watch?v=enYX5tpKRe8

is hauntingly beautiful

nothing wrong with being a fan of different things
restricting yourself to just literature or just anime is pointless and you are only inhibiting your own enjoyment
i think code geass could be lit approved after that ending but again, i'm not trying to compare it to literature, just saying you can like both

The 1965 one right? Did you watch the one from the 90s?

Yup, the 60s series. Think I watched a bit of the 90s series as a child but I haven't seen it since.

Tokyo Ghoul (ignore the tumblr fans)
Bleach
Homunculus
anything by Kago Shintaro but especially Dance, Kremlin Palace

Oyasumi Punpun top tier
probably anything from Inio Asano or Kengo Hanazawa

Sandman by Neil Gaiman and Lucifer by Mike Carey (the semi-sequel to Sandman) will probably be liked by people on Veeky Forums. Sandman is packed full of not only many literary and mythological references, but also uses them in interesting ways. Lucifer is similar but focuses on a much more compelling story.

Berserk, obviously.

Eden: It's an Endless World for all the muh Gnostic symbolism already, and also best post-apocalyptic setting.

I would also second Homunculus

Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. Literally the best comic there is.

Go Nagai also did a straight mango adaption of The Divine Comedy at one point which was amusing to see.

vagabond or gantz are both mastery in the seinen genre.
prison school is honestly a masterpiece
for the genre it is, it is hilarious and brilliant

I read this all the time. Don't fall for the meme like i did.

Prison school is hilarious, yeah.

Recommend something better then.

>Gantz tells the story of Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, both whom died in a train accident and become part of a semi-posthumous "game" in which they and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens armed with a handful of futuristic items, equipment, and weaponry. Both the manga and anime are noted for their heavy violence and sexual content.
It's shit.

>gantz
>good

wew lad

its done quite well
perhaps you have only seen the anime which is shit, but the manga isn't centered around the story
its action survival with mystery surronding the mysterious events.
criticizing it for its premise when it is superfluous the actual purpose of the manga is misleading.
If you want story manga then there are lots of manga in this thread that would be better suited. Its good at what it does and that's all a good manga can do in my opinion.

I'm not him, but Gantz is only fun if you can appreciate it for what it is, which is a really wacky take on a grimderp nihilistic teenage sex & violence plot.

It's definitely not deep or anything, but that sort of thing can be amusing as cheap entertainment if you're in the mood for it.

The only part where it could have legitimately been getting good was after the entire Gantz team died leaving the MC alone and broken, but then they had to introduce that annoying brat of a girlfriend.

Nishi was best boy

Dorohedoro

Blame! / Abara / Biomega

I Am A Hero

Inio Asano's stuff

Mushishi

One Punch Man

Mononoke

As for Western stuff:

MAUS

Vampire Knight Requiem

Megahex

The rest I know that are worthwhile weren't translated

>Vampire Knight Requiem
Does it live up to the hilarious edge I've been lead to expect from the three screencaps I've seen posted?

Great series yeah

Lone Wolf & Cub and Nausicaa are the manga I read which have a sort of literary quality to them.

Enigma & Shade the changing Man by Peter Milligan are also great.

Bleach sucks.. Read a good shonen like Hunter x Hunter instead

Yes. Yes it does. There's a .pdf somewhere on the web. Do yourself a favour and read it.

I'll add:

Ladroit's other stuff, it's incredible

Some Punusher stuff, /x/ storytells sometimes

Jodorowsky's stuff

jesus christ fuck no. absolutely horrid revolting trash. if you like that shit then you're severely damaged

If Jodorowsky's comics are anything like his movies then they're a just wacky edgelord garbage

hating on it just because its an ecchi is retarded as fuck
its one of the best manga for its genre possibly ever
nothing wrong with a great story you can also jerk your dick off too

HxH is terrific until you get to CA.

Fuck off

If you think there's a good story then you're severely mentally retarded

Yeah, then it becomes a masterpiece.

This is a controversial opinion, but fuck Togashi. Bleach is honestly a lot more intricate and well-written than nearly everyone gives it credit for being. The religious/esoteric symbolism and meta-humor is on point, especially in the currently running arc.

Well not really. They're like Howard's Conan stories, epic and alien. Psychedelic, yes, that too.

Also adding the Persona 4 Anime/Game

Chie best girl

The only problem with Togashi is that he's sick all the time.

Even when he's not, he's nowhere near as good as people think he is. They just assume he's the best manga writer ever because he fills his shit with more text than art. In a visual medium like manga, over-reliance on text is a crutch at best.

If I want to read a book, I'll read a book. He's no Joyce or Gaddis.

>He's no Joyce or Gaddis.
No shit. Neither is anyone else mentioned in this thread. His manga is just an entertaining action thriller. It just happens to be a million times more entertaining than any of the others.

It really isn't because the action is stilted and the "thriller" aspects are too tryhard. I brought up actual authors because the retards who ride his brokeback cock usually praise his writing above everything else he does.

see
its not a story manga
this doesn't make it bad
you lit fags cant seem to understand that but its great for its exceptional character development, ingenuity and masterful comedic timing
(as well as its innovative ecchi moments)
the story is not a major facet of this manga and it knows that
another case of being great at what it does

Those are people who don't actually read, or if they do, it's probably 99% J. K. Rowling, Stephen King, etc. Not sure why you care about their opinions.

>exceptional character development, ingenuity and masterful comedic timing
If you actually believe that shit then go back to the anime ghetto

Because they're also 99% of Togashi's fanbase, so they need to be addressed. Literally no other reason than that.

>go back
implying i was ever there
i just happen to think prison school is a great manga for those reasons.

calm down you filthy ape.

That's because you are unintelligent and have no perspective and do not belong on this board.

Bleach is still boring as shit though lol

We're talking about Veeky Forums manga you dumb fuck.

If you don't understand what Kubo's doing, yeah, it must be. Ironically enough, it's actually the most literary thing in Jump.

Don't I?
I think you used "and" when a comma was needed. Who doesn't belong on the board now?
:p
ape

Apparently user thinks his gross sexist torture porn comics are literature

I realize that but i still felt like talking about it.
Since it came up, I felt that I had to defend it from being attacked. Is that okay or is absolute conformity to the thread required at all times?

I understand its not Veeky Forums approved or whatever but I wanted to give my opinion on why it was good anyways.

Berserk, Monster, Blame, Oyasumi Punpun and generally everything by Inio Asano. Oh and I am a Hero is a lot better than its title would have you believe.

If you feel like completely turning your brain off, there's also a wide, wide variety of manga that will cater to you. The sheer amount of utter trash is staggering.

How new are you to be a prescriptivist?
>I realize that but i still felt like talking about it.
That's your own fault, then. If it's being attacked for being non-Veeky Forums, and you agree it's non-Veeky Forums, why defend it?

This user is right.

I'm baffled by the fact nobody in here brought up Akira and Ghost in the Shell.

Like Berserk or Mushishi, sort of feels like a given.

I actually completely forgot about Akira. I agree that it's very good, definitely worth reading.

Akira is straight garbage and anyone who thinks it's good is a tasteless cretin. The only good GITS thing is Stand Alone Complex/Second Gig, which is annie moo rather than man go.

This may be a good place to ask; people who read manga, how do you find new manga to read that isn't utter garbage?

All best of lists and popularity ratings seem to be just awful.

Oh look, a tasteless cretin.

None of GitS is good.
Online and friends.

I am just not as special as you, so it's easy.

>Online
Gee user, thanks for clearing that one up. Don't worry, I don't need you to be more specific.

>and friends.
No need to show off.

If this is true, is there anywhere I can find a convincing and detailed analysis? I might actually start reading it again if it looks interesting

Yeah, you're right. Didn't think Mushishi was that famous.

Nah. Akira is good - if you don't appreciate the themes of faith, the loss of one's humanity and destiny, you're deluded. It made possible for countless other great works, like Tetsuo or Electric Dragon 80.000v

Randomly, by watching Japanese movies - after watching uzumaki I looked up the manga author, found his other stuff like Gyo

There's a lot of them you can find in movies

>Gee user, thanks for clearing that one up. Don't worry, I don't need you to be more specific.
Well, these threads, random threads on other boards, and -- I suppose (although I don't actually do it myself) -- /a/. It helps that I'm not a fast manga reader.
>No need to show off.
Sorry. It was a typo in any case. Friend.

What authors share a similar style to Inio Asano?

>if you don't appreciate the themes of faith, the loss of one's humanity and destiny, you're deluded.
You mean the same fucking shit that every other comic book/manga/cartoon goes on and on about?

I think you might be the deluded one, friendo.

>everything must be UNIQUE! Unique for uniqueness' sake!
I think there's a worldbuilding thread for you, user.

Japanese photographers.

That's not an argument man. Now if you were to say that they were executed poorly and say why, that'd be basis for discussion. You're just bitching.

There's not many things that deal as well as Akira does with concepts like worship, drug/power addiction and transhumanism (yeah yeah tip)

If anything, you'd be the one who'd appreciate something as retarded and generic as "worldbuilding".

Yes it is. When everyone does the same fucking thing, just doing it is worthless in and of itself unless there's something unique about it. With Akira there's absolutely nothing unique or new. It just runs on the same tired sci-fi tropes and cliches that have been done to death since the 60s and 70s without any sort of originality or inspiration behind them.

>tropes
>cliches
What are you even doing on this board, user?

Not true at all. First off, it's not worthless: once you essentialize it enough, you can said that almost anything has been done already, and experimentalism for its own sake leads to shit like GIMMICK::

Secondly, go on and tell me precisely what else covers Akira themes, especially in the 60s and 70s.

Never read comics but just started Animal Man. Heard the Grant Morrison stuff was supposed to be great.

The internet has ruined the word "trope".

mango :
Taiyo Matsumoto

comics :
Sergio Toppi
Moëbius

More specifically, tvtropes ruined the word trope.

That use of the word has been around for at least a few decades, to be fair. It came from people totally misunderstanding how literary critics were using it, though.

Anything? I mean, is he just plastering religious themes onto a silly fantasy story, or is he actually doing something interesting with them, and if so, how?

From Hell, Swamp Thing, Promethea, Providence

Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Invisibles, The Filth

Sandman

Shade the Changing Man, Enigma

Black Hole

Love and Rockets

Cerebus

Alec, Bacchus

Puma Blues

Buddha, Pheonix

A Drifting Life

Tekkonkinkreet

Watchmen, From Hell, A Contract with God, Kafka, Jimmy Corrigan.

Just read Preacher, op

Veeky Forums talking about manga is embarrassing, literally just circlejerking about the same classics everyone already knows are objectively good.

does someone know this short story manga collection I've been thinking about
there was one where the sick father suddenly woke up and started shooting at all the family members and other people in his home out of rage and/or disgust
it was a comedy

>just plastering religious themes onto a silly fantasy story
I'm just gonna assume this is the case until an explanation is provided.

American Splendor
A Contract with God
Watchmen
A Drifting Life

stray bullets

20th century boys
dorohedoro
boys on the run
punpun?
voynich hotel

those are the first few that come to mind. i could easily make a decent 50+ list of manga and comics, but they wouldnt all be as good IMO

Start here, then you can judge comics beyond just story and anatomy.

The only work of fiction that has ever made me cry—and I mean openly weep—was the final three volumes of a manga called Ten: Tenhou-doori no Kaidanji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto.

Unfortunately this series (and it's prequel, Akagi) have a nearly impossibly high barrier to entry for western audiences, namely the fact that a majority of the manga is spent discussing high level technical mahjong strategy. I would say you can get away reading Akagi (or watching the anime) without learning the rules of Japanese mahjong (it's a four player gambling game similar to poker and gin rummy with a hopelessly complex set of rules, not the single player tile matching game most people are familiar with), but Ten pretty much requires a base level of competency in your understanding of the game.

It was published serially in a magazine called Kindai Mahjong Comics between 1989 and 2002. Yes, mahjong manga is an entire genre unto itself in Japan. But the amazing thing is that there is a huge tonal shift after volume 15, and the final 3 volumes of the series don't deal with mahjong at all. Instead, the end of the series is a long meditation on one character's decision to commit medically assisted suicide. A totally ballsy move on Fukumoto's part, and the fact that they gave him so much leeway to tell a story like that in a publication that is supposed to be about a fucking board game is insane.

So yeah. Totally worth the read if you put in the effort. It's all translated and available online.

Mahjong isn't even the interesting part about the series, though certainly hooked me even harder due to my background, it's still a character study/moral drama that's executed extremely well.