What’s the best manga of this bunch? Which one should I actually follow in its entirety? Which one should I watch the anime instead (if available)?
I’m new to this, friend got me these ones to try to move me away from Dragonball and Saint Seiya only
What’s the best manga of this bunch? Which one should I actually follow in its entirety? Which one should I watch the anime instead (if available)?
I’m new to this, friend got me these ones to try to move me away from Dragonball and Saint Seiya only
Berserk amazing writing, amazing character development, and Beautiful art(just gets better and better). Superb writing. Im a non reader but berserk is the type of manga that will make even the non readers read it. So yea definetly berserk.
Probably Berserk as a manga given how poorly it translates into an anime. GitS's anime adaptions are pretty considered plot wise but definitely give Berserk a read. Its as lauded as it is because the author is a brilliant artist.
Guts is more badass than Kenshiro.
whoah, wasn’t expecting the first pages to be on fire like this, sex scene with a demon and all, sounds cool
Lol it gets better after that
This Ken dude looks badass to me
Ghost in the Shell and Gunnm have better artwork; sorry but it's true
I’m very impressed by Alita, let me check GitS next
Ofc he is and also iconic but guts is a more savage and cooler version of ken ngl
Guys is actually the dirtiest
It doesn't show up in every book as a result
Gits*
Don't phone post at midnight hung over
There's a weight and verisimilitude to Kishiro's art that Miura just doesn't have; it's like comparing Barks and Rosa
l-lewd
I love these colored pages, I wish the whole series had colors, don’t know if this is a meme opinion or not, but...
indeed, there’s something about these drawings, Yukito Kishiro is my favorite of this bunch
Damn why do you think so? To me Berserk's panels feel so grand and cinematic.
Good joke fag
GITS does really right by its genre, and the fanservice is great
Berserk also is a staple of it's genre, but probably has the highest variation in quality, you'll be fine as long as you don't catch up (since it's the only one still ongoing)
If Ken is anything like the anime it'll be the easiest to transition to from shounen shit
Haven't read any alita, it's the least well known of the bunch
Ikr these fags dont know what real art is
he seems kinda crazy and evil
Can you show me some panels that show this. It seems to have flown over my head while reading Gunnm?
I meant Gits, ghost in the shell, not guts
As you noted here
There is Huge reason why Guts is behaving like that just read it!!
Shoutout to your friend OP for trying to help you out.
My picks are Berserk manga, GitS anime and movie
His figures feel stiff and unnatural; copying Gustave Doré is cool, but excessive detail can only go so far. It's obvious that he's self-taught.
Listen that first arc is the weakest part of the story. The story gains a significant amount of depth and impact as you read on.
I think he means how the perspective/framing of the scenes in the panels isn't very dynamic in Berserk.
It gets more noticeable the more manga you read.
Yea just show a random scan from the manga and talk bs like a faggot
That's just his switching to digital drawing showing its cruftiness, you filthy cherrypicker
They are all good.
Putting aside hokuto no Ken.
Yes i said it. And if you guys would put off the nostalgia goggles you would realize that too. The story of a postatomic world were all ugly people are bad, and all decent looking people are good. Inwhich a martial artist with a muscular strenght enough to punch trough buildings and steel waste time and effort to poke his opponents to death instead of simply smash their skulls with a single punch.
He'll adapt to digital gradually my man. This is not a good example.
meant for
Yea just show a random scan from the manga and bitch about it fag
Gunnm just shows more organic dynamism in its 3D figures moving in space; Berserk is more akin to posed dolls with intricate detail.
Ken is probably the worst, it turns into absolute shit after timeskip, and worldbuilding just dies : authors pull new super secret martial arts and evil relatives out their ass every 10 chapters.
Good luck trying to find volume 5 for a reasonable price
My beef with gunnm come with the "plot twist" in last order.
This is my narrative kryptonite that kill all my passion for a story. I don't give a shit for robots. A toaster with a pretty anime face is still a toaster. And the attempts to humanize machines usually simply become cringy to me.
Only ghost in the shell was able to portray a concept of artificial lifeform that truly felt alive to me.
Cant believe people are comparing berserk with these other mangas in the bunch which are good but non of em comes close to Berserk.
Ah I see ok. Although, I don't think that is a flaw with Berserk. The detail kinda owes itself to the static nature of the panels. Miura gets all the impact and magnificence he's going for with the Berserk panels.
I wonder if they’ll collect it in big volumes like Alita, I just checked that many Berserk issues are hard to find
Ghost in the shell, as everything made by best mangaka in existance Masamune Shirow, completely deserve it. Especially now that berserk is only a shadow of his former glory.
Berserk stopped to be a masterpiece after the butterfly loli arc. From that moment onward it just became a generic fantasy manga.
>this stale bait again
Berserk. I dropped the other 3 a few volumes in because they felt pretty shallow and didn't hook me in.
You didn't like conviction?
Chapter?
Damn you're a massive faggot.
If you stick to only the original run, definitely Alita.
Might be willing to continue Alita but I keep hearing how Kishiro totally shat the bed later on.
HnK from what I've read was just the same shit over and over (brooding MC fighting ugly dudes) and the GITS artwork just couldn't win me over after watching all the anime adaptations.
Ok that's fine actually. Alita is the second behind Berserk.
Conviction was still good but is where the decay begin.
Gunnm is the perfect manga with the perfect pleb filter for an ending
>brooding MC fighting ugly dudes
No, it's brooding MC fights brooding handsome villains. Ugly dudes are mostly canon fodder
if you like Alita, you're part of the alt-right white supremacy. Also you will never get another movie because it sold like shit. Go watch Captain Marvel instead, incels.
Why man Fantasia was cool too. The fucking fantasy party shit is retarded at times but it isn't too bad. There so much other cool shit going on.
Gunnm>Berserk
>300000 times better world building
>Gally>Guts
>Nova>Twink
>Cyberpunk>Medieval
>It actually ends
>No shounen shit
I like Alita. Also if it helps it's actually complete.
As i said, is still good but no more a masterpiece.
Compared to the majority of fantasy and isekai shit is still outstanding. But it was until the "lost childrens" arc that was worth of the title of "best manga ever made".
Now the author is blatantly tired of this manga. He wish to make more lighthearted and shonenish stuff. And you can notice that in berserk.
She did wear the Berserker armor better
>Imagine being dropped 4 times on your soft spot as an infant
Ok now I can see why OP would think that
>Alita
>ends
I've been out of the loop for years.
Did Last Order end? Last time I checked there was some publishing fuckery happening and it was on hiatus or whatever.
Mars Chronicle is still going. It's only a year younger than Berserk.
Actually is still going on.
There is "last order" and "kasei senki". Last order is kinda crappy, look like lots of editorial meddling, to the point the author was so frustrated he decided to switch editor. A thing that doesn't happen often in japan cause of the bushido loyalty japanese people give to their workplaces.
Is were the "plot twist" happen and the manga get stuck in the Namek tournament. Oh, and there is vampires too... seriosly...
Kasei senki is much better but doesn't undo the plot twist.
You just described why the series is so fun
Last order and Mars Chronicle are still going on but the original series had an ending of it's own that's a fine cap to the series. The other series just sort of ignored the last few chapters of the original to keep going in a separate continuity type deal
I guess so. I'm hoping its a temporary tone shift.
Not really... but it would be spoilerous.
About mars chronicles is mostly about Gally's origins and her martians years. But is not a prequel cause switch continuosly with the events after last order.
The original series is perfectly fine in a vacuum and if you want more you'll understand when you go to read it
No love for Hoouto no Ken ? The first part is really good. I did not expect anything from it and it made me cry like a birch
Is another manga that people take too seriously. When is nothing more than the average trashy kung-fu movie in manga format. With all the tipical homosexual undertones from this author.
There is a certain amount of half naked men, biceps, turtles, and pectorals i can take while they are beating each other's meat.
I never got all those praises outside of the art. Berserk is such a pain in the ass to read.
Gunnm volume 1 and 2 art is kinda "ok" but it only really blooms with the motorball and the rest