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@Crimson: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
/obligatory
Actually the only manga I've ever actually read the entirety of is Death Note.
Oyasumi Punpun, dark comedy bildungsroman about a depressed kid.
Tegami Bachi, shounenshit about delivering mail and fighting robot bugs.
Koi Kaze, incest romance. Not actually fanservicey or creepy.
SWWEEET, some kind of dark psychological romance thing. Weird.
Aaaaaaaaaand... I apparently don't read much manga, because I can't think of much else.
^^^ Yeah, I know. Fair enough.
@ Crimson:
Biomega
Yotsuba&!
Azumanga Daioh
And the obligatory One Piece
@Crimson: .hack//Another Birth
And you know what really lacks noses? Final Fantasy Tactics.
That was actually what I thought of when you first mentioned lacking noses... >.>
@ Crimson: Slam Dunk, Shamo, Prince of Tennis, Cross Game, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vinland Saga, Akumetsu, One Piece.
Metroid (manga)
Magic Knight Rayearth
Aoi Hana.
I would recommend Soul Eater, but with the caveat that it'll probably suck, it's just entertaining despite that.
Glenn, there are three Metroid mangas, one based on Zero Mission, another on Prime 2 and a gag manga based in Super Metroid (I think)
20th Century Boys. Best story ever told in sequential art.
Soul Eater doesn't suck.
Yes it does.
Well, I guess it doesn't suck, but it's not good, either. It falls firmly into the 'mediocre' camp, with nothing exceptional about it.
@nohaynicklibre I've never been able to figure out what their distinct names were.
I think the one I'm thinking of is the one based on Zero Mission. It is, specifically, the one featured as the Metroid e-Manga.
Your body is not ready for kawaii Samus
The Prime 2 one is Episodes of Aether, the one you are talking about is simply named Metroid and the 4koma is Super Metroid
No it doesn't fall on the mediocre camp, it has entertaining character dynamics, lovecraftian themed powersets, fun leads and good fights. You might not like the fighting genre, but for what it sets out to do, it does it competently.
Eh... giving something the "Best of X" commendation is damning it with high expectations. 20th Century Boys is very good, but it does drag in places. And in a way it is kinda like a flipped Watchmen, except instead of the premise being "comic book superheroes running around in the real world is a terrible idea" it is "comic book super villains running around in the real world is a terrible idea." Compared to 20th Century Boys, Monster and Pluto are a lot more focused and still get in character and plot work.
That said,
@nohaynicklibre
It appears that she is interested in nice round balls.
It also has really stilted dialogue, a plot that doesn't do anything new, and so on. It certainly has good choreography and avoids the usual shonen trap of constantly powering up (for the most part), but that's about it. And then it falls into the same bullshit of having a bunch of one-on-one fights all the time.
kawaii samus hurts my soul
Not saying it's perfect, just that there isn't anything in the medium I consider better.
>And in a way it is kinda like a flipped Watchmen, except instead of the premise being "comic book superheroes running around in the real world is a terrible idea" it is "comic book super villains running around in the real world is a terrible idea."
To an extent, but that was just a small part of it.
>Compared to 20th Century Boys, Monster and Pluto are a lot more focused and still get in character and plot work.
Haven't read Pluto. Monster is good, but I found it less realistic, mainly because by virtue of its nature as a sort of morality experiment, the most interesting character is entirely one-dimensional.
True enough.
Doesn't need to.
that genre convention is necessarily a bad thing?
Anyway, I've read very few mangu mostly because the different art styles and the lack of colours get on my nevers, but from what I've read Oyasumi Punpun is good.
That Metroid database is pretty cool, it allowed me to find this, which despite being a doujin has better story and art than most of the official mangas. Some pages are NSFWish, but don't worry, it's not *that* kind of doujin.
Regarding Soul Eater: if FMA is a shonen fighter without the shitty parts, Soul Eater is a shonen fighter with the shitty parts, but pretty well-executed regardless.
Not sure if serious.
Seriously though: It does fights, and does them well. But it is not really a fightining series, it's an adventure series first and foremost.
It does when half the premise is 'things happen and you need to watch it'. The other half is, of course, 'people interact and you need to watch it'.
Yeah, it's unnecessary and annoying. Even the anime does it better, which, considering the anime...
Soul Eater lacks the really shitty parts of most shonen. That is, things like having women characters being really weak, having extended fight scenes that only serve to show off their powers and pad out the manga, and constant power-ups. It has most of the genre conventions, and it does it okay, just... not notably.
It really is. It does not maintain a consistent focus on fighting like, say, Dragonball Z does, but it is a shonen.
It's a bit complicated, because like Alkthash pointed out, it's one of those things where there is no clear number 1.
I agree with the idea that Watchmen is far more important than actually good, but it's not a bad candidate.
But if I had to nominate stuff I've read, I'd say "Maus": A bit cliche of a choice, but I think it's one of the first comics books that actually uses the properties that the sequential art form possesses in order to make the story much more effective.
Shounen just means manga for boys; nobody is denying that FMA is that. I still don't see how FMA is a fighting series, but eh, fighting series is not a term I use anyway. If I want to say Dragon Ball clone (which FMA is certainly not) I'll say that, and if I want to say action/adventure, I'll say that.