i find that comicbook characters have more human personalities while manga characters are alot of times exaggerated making it that much harder to care for the characters. there are obvious exceptions but for the most part, thats why i think that comic book movies do so well. their more believable and much easier to translate their characters into live-action movie form.
i find that comicbook characters have more human personalities while manga characters are alot of times exaggerated making it that much harder to care for the characters. there are obvious exceptions but for the most part, thats why i think that comic book movies do so well. their more believable and much easier to translate their characters into live-action movie form.masterg2k
im more for comic books myself but err.... theres alot more "good" manga to anime/movies then there good comic book movies (other then batman they almost all suck and are horrible..)
i find that comicbook characters have more human personalities while manga characters are alot of times exaggerated making it that much harder to care for the characters. there are obvious exceptions but for the most part, thats why i think that comic book movies do so well. their more believable and much easier to translate their characters into live-action movie form.masterg2k
That or the American movie audience and the "creative" studios in Hollywood, has more exposure to American comics. I have much more experience with manga, so I like it more by default. The only comics I've read significantly are D.M.Z and The Walking Dead.
I really like manga, they seemed to have great stories and great action.. comics great when they're great artists on some, but lots of artists didn't draw very well. IMO
Though I've read series from both that I've very much enjoyed, I'll definitely have to go with manga. I really enjoyed graphic novels like Preacher, The Sandman, V for Vendetta, and Sin City, but in all honesty I enjoyed manga series like Rurouni Kenshin, Hayate the Combat Butler, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Blade of the Immortal, Busou Renkin, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Twin Spica more.
I prefer manga if only because I have honestly never even held an actual American comic book before in my hands. I was of a microscopic minority of kids growing up that didn't like comic books :o
I only got into manga reading as a passing hobby after I picked up dot Hack//Legend of the Twilight while I was at Universal Studios :P Sampled many since, only Mahoraba ~Heartful Days~ has ever stuck with me.
Comics. I want to start collecting again but I have no ideas where to start.
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That depends are you a Marvel or a DC? Quite frankly I find it easier to slip into marvel's universere because these cross over events make it easy. I start out with Darkhorse and mainly read Star Wars Comics but now I've branced out. BTW if caps arn't your thing Dark horse has some good no super hero offereings.
I like both. Western comic books don't have the same characters or weird stories like some eastern manga and manwa. Sure, you have Deadpool, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle in comics, but you don't have Uzumaki (horror manga, not Naruto) and the weird, effed up world of Franken Fran.
I've dabbling in some comics now and then, but I still mostly read manga (mostly because there's really no convenient way to read comics online *cough cough*).
In general though, I'm finding that comics still have too much of a story-teller type of narrative, with a bit too much narration at times, ie, they still read like a book, whereas manga in general tells much more visually.
[QUOTE="Deihjan"]I like both. Western comic books don't have the same characters or weird stories like some eastern manga and manwa. Sure, you have Deadpool, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle in comics, but you don't have Uzumaki (horror manga, not Naruto) and the weird, effed up world of Franken Fran.who cares about booster gold and Blue beetle. It's all about Red robin, Dick Grayson, and wolverine XD
Love manga. There is some kind of charm in black and white stories. I dont know why but the stories seem more appealing. I like that plots arent as convoluted and strange as XMEN stories...
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