Walker Pierce

I've watched Samurai Champloo one or two--seven to be precise --times. Never seen Cowboy Bebop, and though Sailor Moon was slightly interesting at a younger age, it is supremely annoying now adays...until one of my friends came to school with a Sailor Moon shirt as a joke. (We all went out and bought Ninja Turtles shirts and went to school wearing them for a whole week. Some administrators called us to the office because they suspected we were a gang .

My favorite manga is Naruto. Granted, it is one of the most read mangas out there, but I find it also the most entertaining and well-done...for my taste, anyways.

I've also read DNAngel, which is hilarious, Rurouni Kenshin, Fruit Basket (odd, yet funny...I guess), and Inu Yasha (I've also seen some of the manga).
Good luck on the try-out Gauda.

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sangfroid

My fave anime is Bleach, I've only read one of the mangas but it seemed pretty good as well. Naruto is good if you want cool fight scenes and nothing too deep. Other faves are Rurouni Kenshin (the English dub is better than the original version, I think), FlCl (ditto) and Wolf's Rain. I saw the first episode of AD Police and found it kind of disturbing...I guess in a way that's a good thing. As for films, I think Miyazaki is pretty much the director to beat.

In terms of least faves, DBZ just seemed really stupid. Ghost in the Shell, though it's an interesting idea, seems to involve a lot of talking and politics and strings of numbers dribbling across computer screens. I had a go at watching Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 but the production values were really appalling. And giant robot anime in general just bugs me. How many different series can they come up with where humans pilot giant robot suits to battle other humans piloting giant robot suits?!

The Thing

Barefoot Gen is a really great Manga. Very moving. The Anime isn't bad either. Ranma 1/2 Manga is funny. Haven't seen the anime. My best Manga though is either Akira (epic) or Appleseed (when will it get finished?).

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Naruto.
Battle Angel Alita
Hikaru No Go :p

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New Moon

I love manga and anime! my favorite animes are naruto and bleach, and i've read the first manga volumes of those and they were good too.
I love the fruits basket manga.
I tried rurouni kenshin, but it became boring after the second volume.
trigun's pretty good too, but it's a little hard to read. @_@ lol.
I'd like to get into more mangas, but I'm a little leary since theres so much content that i don't consider myself old enough for.

MapleTea

Death Note.
Suikoden III.
One Piece.

Yeah, and Naruto.

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Haruka

Anime: Jigoku Shoujo, Evangelion, Lain, Rozen Maiden, FLCL, Utena

Manga: PetShop of Horrors, Red River, Bride of Deimos, Fruits Basket

and lots more...!

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perseph1ne

Manga has recently been eating up all my money. Currently I like Saiyuki, Kenshin, DNAngel, I really liked Legal Drug, but they discontinued that series, Loveless is very pretty, and Eerie Queerie is funny. I watch more anime then read manga though, some favorites are Kenshin, Getbackers, Iria, Read or Die, Saiyuki, Full Metal Alchemist, Grave of the Fireflies, Slayers, and Kyo Karu Maoh.

perseph1ne

*Never interfere in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.*

FayeCrystal

At the moment I'm reading RG Veda (really good, but not many people have heard of it) and Fullmetal Alchemist. As far as anime goes: InuYasha, FMA, Naruto, and--of course--the Miyazaki movies. Most of the illustrations I draw for my stories are in manga-style, because it's a lot easier to draw than realistic fantasy art.

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zoecat

"In my opinion, the greatest animated film out of Japan is Grave of the Fireflies.
It is the most serious piece of work I've ever seen on war (I've never seen Schindler's List or any other such works). It is realistic and disturbing. This is the only anime that I can call literature.
Go check it out if you've never seen it--you'd be doing yourself a HUGE favour."
God. I cried so much during that...

I like Naruto, Chrono Crusade, Inuyasham, Gunslinger Girl and Elfen Lied. Don't read/watch the last two if you can't stand violence.

Man_Of_Truth

I like .hack and Negima

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Yuishi

GRave of the fire flies rocks and made me cry

Chrno Crusade, Jing king of bandits
Fruits basket, and Deathnote
Are my favorites

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Min Min Light

Manga... What can I say? One of my little failings is that I read too much manga nowadays, and not enough real literature. I keep telling myself that i should read Clarke or Pohl for inspiration, but I can't bring myself to bite into any long reads for the while.

More on topic, I recently heard of a Japanese book format called the 'light novel.' It isn't quite manga, as the pictures are few and the focus is on text; but many light novels have spawned anime and manga, such as The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, Boogiepop Phantom, Crest of the Stars, and Shakugan no Shana, Some are being brought to America, so hopefully, it'll catch on here too. My new aspiration is to be a light novelist. Partially because I myself don't really read books that are too much weightier.

Ah, and about Grave of the Fireflies, I haven't seen it but really want to. I love Ghibli so much I place its collective work above that of most anime. It's too bad they didn't show that one during TMC's Miyazaki tribute. Now I will stop ranting after I note that I love Diana Wynne Jones and I love Hayao Miyazaki, but sadly have yet to see Howl's Moving Castle.

Blossom

I am a manga and anime addict!!!! I just love it! Some of my faves are:

Manga
- Fruits Basket
- Tokyo Babylon
- D.N.Angel
- Chobits
- Suikoden III
- Yu-Gi-Oh

Anime
- Any and all Studio Ghibli films
- Fruits Basket
- Shaman King
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- Tenchi Muyo
- Sailor Moon

I'd really love to read Tsubasa O Motsu Mono, but it's only in Japanese ... I really must learn that language! And I've been wondering about trying Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne ... if any of you have read it, would you recommend it?

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