2003-11-17, 20:13 | Link #4 |
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Hmm. Wasn't there a Suggestion thread for the Manga forum before the Great Reset happened? If so, I guess it hadn't been resurrected yet.
This would work in a pinch. So which title(s) have you read and liked? I can just give you a list of TokyoPop's titles that I had enjoyed, but ... |
2003-11-17, 20:18 | Link #5 |
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I like clamp's work! I own chobits and Angelic Layer by them. Then I have Fushigi Yuugi by Yuu Watase. If any of Tanemura Arina's work gets translated I'm definetly gonna buy it! Like fullmoon wo sagashite and Kamikaze kaitou jeanne. They're the best stories I've ever read!(japanese; can read little but it's not too clear lol!)
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2003-11-17, 20:18 | Link #6 |
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I recommend GTO.
And regarding TokyoPop, they butcher Initial D, and their editors are... well, *not good*. Also they translated 'Ikkitousen' as 'Battle Vixen', and yeah, that makes me officially hate them. Not that I really love Ikkitousen, but by the principal of the thing. |
2003-11-17, 20:45 | Link #8 |
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From TokyoPop, I'd go for "Wish", which is by CLAMP also. It's a four-book series about an angel's relationship with a human doctor; it's an early work. "X/1999", I hear, is good, but I've never read the books for myself.
Del Rey is also putting out CLAMP's "Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle" in early 2004. There's an associated title that is linked to this one, "XXXholic", but I hadn't picked up the book yet. Various CLAMP characters are in these. "Marmalade Boy", also from TokyoPop, is very good also. The manga covers eight books with the anime coming out in April 2004. It's shoujo and heavy on the relationships. Something of a feel-good soap opera. The author of this title, Yoshizumi-san, wrote "Ultra Maniac" also, which isn't available in English manga [yet]. "Clover" is... IMHO, a little bit weird. I've only read the first book; the quality of the book is higher than the usual so cost-wise, it's higher. Think of the main character as the predecessor of Chii, but human/mutant instead of an android. "Kare Kano" is the manga for "His and Her Circumstances". Also very good, and the anime is faithful to the manga. Book 6 should be out by now too. Quality of the art has gone down, I think, though. "Wild Act" is like a homage to James Dean(?). Girl loves dead but really famous actor and falls in love with good-looking and talented guy who is mentioned in the same breath as her hero. Last edited by LynnieS; 2003-11-17 at 20:58. |
2003-11-17, 20:48 | Link #9 |
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Wish is cute I've read the first one. Is there really 4 books? I thought there were 3... Well, I borrowed it from a friend and tomorrow I'm gonna borrow my other friend's book (x/1999). It looks good!
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2003-11-17, 20:51 | Link #10 | |
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And with Tokyopop, I really like their Peach Girl, even though they used a really horrid font for it. Peach Girl is typical shoujo, but it's GOOD typical shoujo. And it's almost complete too!
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2003-11-17, 20:53 | Link #11 |
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Not really. Viz is notorious for publishing their manga flipped and translating all the sound effects to English. Plus the release schedual for most of the manga sucks (one voulme every 3 months? I CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG!). They have been better lately though, releasing all the new stuff unflipped (Ranma re-releases are still flipped though).
Despite all that, ADV is still the best publisher I've seen so far, and they only have 2 titles (Full Metal Panic! and Azumanga Diaoh). The manga is all unflipped, the sound effects are left alone (and they even have translations written in small print underneith them, something TP started to do in Love Hina, but quit by volume 8), and they even do the "last name first" bit correctly; a feat which I have not seen in any other manga. |
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2003-11-17, 21:13 | Link #14 |
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tokyopop is the best group... i dont know wat u guys are talking about. they're translation is good for their works. Real Bout Highschool, Samurai deeper kyo and love hina were almost perfect. btw they make a volume a month for their books, while Viz can take up to 3 freakin months. Go to the Love Hina thread and read it.
I recommend Love Hina, its probably the best manga for tokyopop. |
2003-11-17, 21:33 | Link #16 | |
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.... The art's great... granted, maybe 5 years ago when volume 5 was released it wasn't up to this standard... but they based the anime on the art of volumes 7 and 8, and all of the little sketchy looking pictures in the end of the anime are actual manga pages, and they look wonderful... Also, from what I hear (I don't buy very many English mangas, so I can't speak from personal experience), KareKano is done very poorly, both in editing and translating. Some people I've talked to have sworn off all TP releases after reading volume 1 of KareKano. And these are people who generally read just about anything, so it hit me kinda hard. Anyway, this is my favorite shoujo manga of all time. I love it more than is natural for a man to love a manga written for 16 year old girls. |
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2003-11-17, 22:09 | Link #17 |
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I love Kodomo no Omocha, which Tokyopop also translated. I didn't expect to like it much, but it's now one of my favorites.
Others from tokyopop that I like are, as mentioned by others, Love Hina and Marmalade Boy. And Gravitation of course!!! They didn't exactly have to translate Shutterbox, but it's really good anyways. I'm really excited that they picked up Pitaten and Fruits Bakset as well! |
2003-11-17, 23:10 | Link #18 | |
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Book 15? Hasn't #16 been out for awhile now, though? I thought that I had seen it on the shelves for the past few months... |
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