Anime & Manga

[Videl]

can anyone recommend any GOOD (as in, great storyline, not cheesy, nice illustration and not strawberry panic) Yuri anime to watch pweeeese?

I love Ranma 1/2 the manga. Absolutely hilarious

 

[flyingace]

describe great storyline, because in my experience great storyline and shoujo manga are opposite things . At least yuri is funnier I guess, but most of it is Strawberry Panic-like or the "we want to constantly have steamy hot sex" kind. I'm still waiting for a good martial arts yuri manga.

Anyway, Girl Friends by Morinaga Milk is readable, and it's not as explicit as her usual work... but I don't know if there is an anime version. It has the typical big eyes manga illustrations though, so don't go expecting a piece of art.

 

[maimon]

when it comes to Manga that is strongly connected to fashion there is definitely PARADISE KISS!!
and in japan there is live-action movie to come soon! it was shot in NY!!
http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/parakiss/

 

[_Andrea_]

wait wait wait...are you telling me that there is a paradise kiss movie coming out??? When????

 

[dorien]

in the trailer it says may 2011
but on the website it says june 4 2011

george doesn't look as cool as he did in the anime...

 

[ShatteredVisage]

What anime do you love to watch?

I'm a big fan of studio Ghibli!! I love watching all their creations.
I like anime with great story lines, often centralized around the protagonist.
Don't really have a specification towards genre as long as they're not yuri or yaoi

What manga do you love to read?

I love reading adventure, action, historical, supernatural and drama.
At times when I don't feel like concentrating much I opt for shoujo manga's, the equal to chick flicks I suppose

What do you recommend?

Howl's moving castle
Princess Mononoke
Cowboy Bebop
Vampire Hunter D
Wolf's rain

What's the first one you saw/read?

First anime I watched was Nausicaa and first manga I read was Vampire Knight.

 

[The_Ida]

The first anime I watched was Silver Fang It think it's called Meteor Gin everywhere else than in Scandinavia. Oh those where the days back in 1986. It became quite again cult when I was in college, we searched everywhere for old video tapes in the sales sections in supermarkets...it really was fun! That was before it was re-released though. And I still remember the theme song, so awesome.

 

[Desi]

ended up going to Otakon again and signed up for Crunchyroll. So now I am just watching Blue Exorcist, Saint Seiya: lost canvas, and Eyeshield 21. Guess I am getting back into anime again?

 

[Over the Sea]

What anime do you love to watch? Ghibli Films, I loved Cardcaptor Sakura when I was a kid. I don't watch that much anime right now.
What manga do you love to read? Monster, 20th Century boys, Vagabond, Deathnote, Gogo Monster, Tekkonkinkreet
What do you recommend? all
What's the first one you saw/read? first anime I saw was Sailor Moon and first manga I read was Black Jack

 

[BerlinRocks]

I didnt know where to post this ... really ... and the tokyo midtown thread's closed - i feel like it's because it was becoming a japanese thread. ahah.

but the BNF (French National Library) just upload on their website over 500 japanese litographies from (French painter) Henri Riviere's collection ...
it is HERE

PS: you can't change the language to english, yet ... but it is easy french to figure out, and titles are written in japanese

 

[gius]

Hi Berlin

I tried to look at two but they both have just listings, no pictures.

Do you mean woodcut? Ukiyo-e, not lithography

 

[BerlinRocks]

this is weird ... when you click the link there's no image ?
coz i have images (see screencap)
i know their site isnt the best, but i have images, and can click and zoom in even ...


also, i might have used lithography by mistake, indeed ... (was the technic in japan yet at this time?)
... now i've read a few labels it says they are engraved on wood, so ukiyo ...
and since i didnt know what was ukiyo, i googled and well the BNF has a big collection numerized on the same website I linked.
but hold on ukiyo is a technic or a genre ? im a bit confused...

 

[softgrey]

ukiyo-e...
it's a technique, i think- like water color or oil paint...or screen printing...
you carve several blocks of wood with different parts of the image- one for each color...
the more colors, the more blocks needed...

i think falls under the genre of printing...

 

[Alstroe]

I'm no fan of anime & manga. It sucked me into a very unhealthy culture at a young age - pathological obsession with female youthfulness. I ended up thinking that I was "on the shelf" at 12.

 

[gius]

this is weird ... when you click the link there's no image ?
coz i have images (see screencap)
i know their site isnt the best, but i have images, and can click and zoom in even ...
http://www.imagebam.com/image/dbb164450916535

also, i might have used lithography by mistake, indeed ... (was the technic in japan yet at this time?)
... now i've read a few labels it says they are engraved on wood, so ukiyo ...
and since i didnt know what was ukiyo, i googled and well the BNF has a big collection numerized on the same website I linked.
but hold on ukiyo is a technic or a genre ? im a bit confused...

Strange- the website is working for me now and I do see the pictures. I'm only using my phone. I do sometimes see error when I try to load a link. For example, the pages with text

Ah I think yes 'woodcut' is the right term for that. Or woodblock print
Sorry i understood the word wrong. Ukiyo-e is a genre. Woodblock printing is the main technique used for this genre and that genre's pictures look like this
It's amazing, isn't it.. The lines are so fine and the colours too-- You would think it was hand drawn, not carved.

Thanks a lot for the link =)

Hey does lithograph in French mean -any- kind of print? In English, it is a specific method

 

[gius]

I just started Sailor Moon Crystal B)