Do You Like Manga?

@jamz82 (1860)
Italy
December 1, 2006 4:48pm CST
I used to read manga some years ago. My favourite was dragon ball and evangelion. Do you like manga? If you are japanase, do you know if the word "manga" means something?
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• Philippines
12 Feb 07
I like manga a lot. Reading it is one of my favorite pasttimes. As to your question about the meaning of manga, well it simply means comics, but if you want the meaning of the individual letters, the first kanji used in the word means cartoon while the second one means pictures or brush strokes.
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@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
12 Feb 07
interesting I didnt' know that
• United States
11 Feb 07
I read Naruto, Shaman King, and Full Metal Alchemist. They're quite entertaining. I always get weird looks because they read backwards. That's a pain, because then I have to explain what manga is, and I feel like a complete dork while I'm doing it. Grown-ups reading comics aren't exactly normal.
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@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
11 Feb 07
hehe I liked to read backwards. It was strange, at the beginning then I get the habit.
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@ruby1459 (2600)
• United States
4 Dec 06
I read lot of manga when I was in Japan.I loved Dragon Ball as well.It was my favorte TV show/comic when I was kid as well :) Manga is..mm..hard to explain!!lol Manga is used proper sign,symbol and expression with movement line etc to make us(reader,viewer)understand/imagine what is going on without seeing an actual action.so you have noticed that there's a lot of details going on such as expression to situation in Manga. I think "Manga" has a lot of meaning and would be hard to explain in one way :)
@ruby1459 (2600)
• United States
4 Dec 06
I think it came to where I live,USA was late also. I was like..."WOW..I've watched this when I was 8" and people says "It's just came here!" lol Yes I guess it isn't that easy to explain the roots and true origin of Manga.I actually looked up the meaning but it didn't really make a good sense..lol
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
4 Dec 06
Ehehe don't worry I think it is something that couldn't be translated:P
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
4 Dec 06
Yes I loved watching dragon ball in tv! The bad thing is that Dragon ball came in Italy very late.:P thank you for the explanation I suppose it's really difficult to explain a word has lot of meanings.
@Neo_Knights (1882)
• Indonesia
27 Jan 07
Yup, I still reading AirGear, Shaman King and Naruto
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
28 Jan 07
a lot of people is talking about Naruto..but I dont know it :/ it is on tv in the noon but I never seen it.
@KruLxx (5)
• United States
28 Jan 07
I started reading the Naruto manga, since I got tired of the fillers in the anime. It's alright I guess, but seeing things in motion is tons better.
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
11 Feb 07
I like more mangas than anime. Dragon ball manga was better then the anime for me.
• Philippines
12 Feb 07
yes i like manga!! especially naruto!! do you watch naruto??
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
12 Feb 07
NO, I never seen naruto! everybody is saying it is cool. I will take a look.
@Karma71 (175)
• United States
1 Dec 06
My daughter loves reading manga. Her favorite is Naruto. She has an extensive collection. She just looked up the meaning of manga in a Japanese to English distionary and it means Results for 'manga' Japanese English manga comic, cartoon
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
1 Dec 06
oh this is interesting!:)
@lauczi (962)
• Poland
5 Dec 06
im not sure what's the difference between manga and anime however i guess i love both of them. my first touch with them wwas sailor moon. i still like the serie, i even watched it with real japanese actors (but was so stupid) and i like slayers too. generally i like every comedy anime (or manga) made in japan.
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
7 Dec 06
vegeta - this is my favourite character
well i explain you the difference. the word "anime" takes origin from animation, so anime is an animated movie with japanase characters. Manga means literally "random pictures" (finally i found what does it means) and they're japanese comics .Very often very popular mangas are turned into an anime serie like dragon ball or evangelion. Me too I watched sailor moon, my sister has the comics of them too. but my favourite one is dragon ball!
@Eruska (424)
• Italy
7 Dec 06
I don ´t like :/
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
14 Jan 07
thank you
@babyluna (54)
• Italy
1 Dec 06
Yes i like this very much...
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
3 Dec 06
I guessed, with your avatar:P
@katenkim (238)
• Singapore
23 Jan 07
we like manga not because of the quality of the drawing, of course quality comes in too, but actually it's the story that makes this comics worth reading since some can be based on true to life while others are children's fantasies
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
25 Jan 07
the important thing in manga must be the story but the drawing style quality counts a lot.
@arthenium (104)
• Philippines
26 Jan 07
no need for any longer explanations... im a japanese language teacher and i know what manga means... it simply means COMICS...
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
26 Jan 07
oh thank you very much teacher. I didn't know that.
@blindedfox (3315)
• Philippines
23 Jan 07
I usually prefer the anime over the manga. Back in highschool, I buy manga twice a week. As of now, it's been months since I last purchased one. Yet, the manga is more complete than the anime. And in the manga, there are no filler episodes! =P
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
23 Jan 07
i prefer too anime! I loved Evangelion and Dragonball!
• Italy
26 Jan 07
Mi piacciono un sacco i manga!! :) Visto che sei italiano te lo dico in italiano.... La parola manga significa letteralmente "disegni in movimento", poi in giappone ha assunto tutte quelle sfaccettature dei fumetti, poi si è specializzato in "shonen" e "shojo", letteralmente "manga per ragazzi" e "manga per ragazze"...e così via!! ^__^
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
28 Jan 07
grazie mille;) non sapevo degli shonen conoscevo solo gli shojo...avevo letto dna2 e juliet.
@annihilus (2181)
• Italy
1 Dec 06
no, not too much...
• New Zealand
24 Jan 07
i love reading manga..but is it only japanese? how bout those korean anime and stuff