Manga and Anime Thread

edited June 2009 in Comics
Anyone here a fan? This is the thread for talking about it. Post away.
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    If you only like (Japanese) Manga/Anime and not simply good cartoons and comics, well, you're doing it wrong.
  • edited June 2009
    Manga? Hell, I don't even really like mangos.
  • edited June 2009
    I love mangos! Why don't you like them?!
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    I hate mangoes because I spent too long in Trinidad around mango trees with rotten mangoes on the ground. Do NOT step on one barefoot. *shiver*
  • edited June 2009
    I ate half a mango this morning.

    That fruit is pure pleasure.
  • edited June 2009
    Mangos grow everywhere here. I mean EVERYWHERE. I absolutely hate the smell of rotten mango that FF refers to. I just don't really eat much fruit.
  • edited June 2009
    Oh, I guess rotten mango would ruin it for me too.

    I eat a lot of fruit here. China has a wide variety of fruit. They have delicious kumquats when they are in season. Their waxberries are currently in season, though I'm afraid I may have a slight allergy to them, I'm not sure. On Saturday I bought a giant bag of waxberries from an old farmer sitting on the side of the road.

    It's also peach season now too. Yummmmmmm.
  • edited June 2009
    Waxberries? I've never heard of such a thing. Now bananas, that's the fruit of champions.
  • edited June 2009
    Waxberries!

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  • edited June 2009
    Those look delicious! Are they available in the States?
  • edited June 2009
    I never saw them when I lived in bumfuck Iowa or Indiana. Aren't you in Utah or some other bumfuck state, Queen? Waxberries probably are not available if you are.

    Though I would imagine they might be if you go out to California or something. They have large Asian populations there, enough to merit importing Asian foods and fruits and such.

    Edit: And they are delicious! They're very sweet and berry-ish.
  • edited June 2009
    Mike's Hard Mango Punch is amazing.
  • edited June 2009
    Not gonna lie, mangos are pretty awesome.
  • edited June 2009
    What the hell? I specifically said this is a topic for discussing manga and anime. Not a topic for discussing food!!!:hulk: If I'm not mistaken, there is a food thread, so how about you guys continue your discussion there and get back on topic NOW!!!!:hulk:
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    edited June 2009
    I'm not a very big fan of fruits in general, So I can't say I really like mangos.

    Edit: Speaking of mango's, look what I found.
    yakitatemango.jpg
  • edited June 2009
    Serephel wrote: »
    Aren't you in Utah or some other bumfuck state, Queen? Waxberries probably are not available if you are.
    I live in Idaho.
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  • edited June 2009
    I greatly enjoyed Oh! My Darling by Miwa Ueda, the creator of Peach Girl (also very good, the manga, but the anime is very poorly done.)

    translation of volume 1

    ... because in the manga, the girl marries her bestfriend/teacher and things are good, then bad, then good, and bad, and .. I'm sure at some point she tries to kill herself, or is almost accidentally offed, but that always happens. Maybe I'll reread it.
  • edited June 2009
    pickle962 wrote: »
    What the hell? I specifically said this is a topic for discussing manga and anime. Not a topic for discussing food!!!:hulk: If I'm not mistaken, there is a food thread, so how about you guys continue your discussion there and get back on topic NOW!!!!:hulk:

    Fuck off, kid.
  • edited June 2009
    Sorry. I may as well get used to topics going off topic. Anyway, my favorite two mangas are Fruits Basket and Rosario Vampire. There's no anime I like in particular.
  • edited June 2009
    Were there any mangos in Fruits Basket?
  • edited June 2009
    Most japanese media, just like most american media, is worthless tripe and anyone who is obsessed with it because of its country of origin and not because of its merits is a raging idiot.

    That said, anything Studio Ghibli makes is fantastic. I only watch anything lately that My wants to watch with me, so it all tends to be the cream of the crop because she doesn't bother with crap.

    I am not proud of those years where my brother and I would download shitloads of anime for no reason off of IRC other than we had an idle internet connection. Hell, we probably only watched about 20% of all that stuff.
  • edited June 2009
    In Japan I learned that Japanese people don't actually watch anime. They prefer live action dramas: sitting on the couch sobbing with their beauty masks on, downloading songs from it as ring tones, chasing grandma out of the room, etc.
  • edited June 2009
    Maybe we need some small print or something...

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    I don't eat mangos, and I watch very little TV, but a large block of what I do watch includes a few anime shows on Cartoon Network. They aren't always all that good, but whatever.

    I've read many comics online and some of them might be classified as "Manga" but I'm not sure. I don't really differentiate "Manga and Anime" from "Comics and Cartoons". If I like the story I read/watch it. Well, actually I don't really have to even like it. Really if the writing and/or the art is good enough in some way, it'll do.
  • edited June 2009
    Hamelin, Tanya, do you mind? We're trying to talk about mangos here. Stay off topic please.
  • edited June 2009
    I remember I really liked Spirited Away, but I think that's all the anime I've ever watched. As for manga, I have zero knowledge about it.
  • edited June 2009
    There's a topic?
  • edited June 2009
    Duh. Mangos.

    I don't really eat much fruit. But I'm pretty sure bacon and mango would go well together, so it's ok by me.
  • edited June 2009
    Is there anything that bacon doesn't go well with?
  • edited June 2009
    Antimatter bacon.
  • edited June 2009
    Brake fluid?