anime/manga

ok...so i'm obsessed with manga and anime...and quite honestly, not many people i know in my area (aside from my brother) understand this obsession...which kinda makes discussing anime rather difficult.� If i'm not mistaken, there are a few anime fans around here yes? :-) what genre/titles do you like? anime or manga? for me i, i've totally gotten into collecting manga (at $27 a pop for anime DVDs it was the cheaper choice) in mostly fantasy titles.� I love the classics Ranma 1/2, Inu Yasha and Cowboy Bebop�as well as most anything Clamp has done (Cardcaptor Sakura being my fav title of theirs).� Other manga title/�series i have are Planet Ladder, Dragon Knights, Death (spin-off to Neal Gaiman's Sandman series), Shaolin Sisters, Aria, .hack,�xxxxHolic and�Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE.�

suggestions as to what else it good? new?

who do you think is hot in the anime world? (Li Syaoran...*sigh*)

or did i just label myself as one really big geek? ;-P

or did i just label myself as one really big geek? ;-P

You have an account here, and you have to ask that? ;-)

just kidding

no he's not.� besides, he's right.

i'm still just a curious onlooker to manga, but the current series i'm really enjoying is buddha, by osamu tezuka (astro boy). it's a half-reverential, half-slapstick-comedy interpretation of, you guessed it, the life of the buddha. it's really awesome, though probably not as cheap as other stuff as it's newly translated (it's not fully out yet) & the only copies i've seen are hardcover. but do check it out, if you get a chance.

the stuff that is not new, but i do have to recommend if you don't have, is the oevre of katsuhiro otomo. most people have seen akira, but the manga is much more mindblowing (as well as longer). it's what got me into manga at all. an earlier short graphic novel of his, domu, is a bit less sophisticated, but quite a bit more ... digestible & personally relatable, for me at least.

but the current series i'm really enjoying is buddha, by osamu tezuka

he also did one of my favorite movies when i was a kid - Unico and the Island of Magic...or something like that.� The Buddah sereis is on my list...once i get enough $ together to get the first 4 volumes.� I also love Hyaou Myazaki ( i KNOW i mis-spelled his name)...creator of Sprirted Away, Princess Mononoke and countless other films.� Hi sone manga sereis - Naussicia and the Valley of the Wind is a fabulous story.

from one Amy to another... i love the classics.� Trigun is my all-time fave, and yes, i am in love with Vash.� I've been trying to catch up on Bebop on adult swim.� i'll still sit down & watch Akira.� of course, if someone has scads of cash they want to spend on me... i will do unspeakable harm aganist their enemies for a complete Evangelion platinum collection.� i'm a big Gainax fan to be sure.� i'm just a little out of the loop as my past 2 boyfriends were the ones who introduced me & i've been too broke since i've been single to keep up.

not that long ago, i saw a really cute movie called millennium princess (or something like that).� it's the one with the actress telling her life story & it's acted out in her historical movies.� i was in tears at the end.� also liked Abenobashi (what i saw of it), my last ex stole it when he left... so i never did see the end of it.� i have a bunch of stuff that i'm never going to watch.� i was going to ebay it or sell it somewhere else, but i may just offer it up here if there's enough interest.� lots of Macross & some Robotech (outside of Eva, i'm not really into the mechas), some girly anime as well (like love hina & strawberry eggs).� i'll put up a list somewhere (probably on my lj) if anyone's interested in what i want to sell.

ETA: Gundam, not Macross... my bad

can neil gaiman's stuff be called manga? I know it's a graphic novel, but I always thought that the term manga was reserved for japanese stuff.

IIRC, it isn't Gaiman doing the writing.� it's just a manga featuring Death from Sandman.� actually, i'm not sure who did the writing, but i never saw it mentioned on Neil's page.� please correct me if i'm wrong. :-)

amy's right, the manga is based on gaiman's sandman series.� It's called Death: At Death's Door� written and drawn by Jill Thompson with Gaiman as consultant.� It more light hearted then gaiman's dark series and is classified as manga because that's Thompson's style (it been published in the classic manga style - right to left).� Her other Sandman book, The Little Endless Storybook, looks to be in the chibi style..tho i haven't seen it yet.� Death is the book that got me into the REAL Sandman series.

ok...i lied...Death is published in the normal style (right to left) but is shelved with the rest of the manga books in the stores