Guess I should of come here right off, but 3rd post is close enough. Oh well.

Hey all, I'm Pritcher a 25 year old guy currently in Chesterfield, Virginia, USA. I've seen quite a lot of anime, but the only manga I've read much of are Bleach and School Rumble. Bleach I started reading somewhere around chapter 200 or so because I caught up to the anime and wanted to know what happened next so I switched to the manga, now I'm caught up with them and still have wait each week. But at least there's no filler.

School Rumble is the only manga I've actually read from beginning to end. Well not end but you know what I mean, up to Townsocks' current release. I watched both seasons of the anime first and just wanted more. I started from the beginning again since they're such short chapters anyway.

I'm watching Gintama at the moment and I like that quite a bit so I may take up the manga for it as well.

Anyway, nice to meetcha. I'm not sure how much I'll actually post but I may pop up from time to time. See ya out there.

hello to you too.
dont forget there are loadds of un-anime-ed manga worth reading out there!! i started out watching the stuff too. but it eats too much time. so then i turned to manga. there is no turning back in that i guess.
anyway have fun!!

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well welcome and glad to see you've discovered a love of anime/manga like all of us here. good luck finding more good stuff and see ya around the forums. enjoy your stay however short or sporadic it may be ;p


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Dude nice that meet you but manga is way better as it's the artist's original work untouched by stupid cronies or played around with by stupid writers. Although anime is appealing visually it usually leaves a lot to be desired when compared with the manga Anyways stick around and Read more manga! I reccomend Bowling King it doesn't have an anime and it's taiwanese but it is the funniest thing I have read in a while oh and it's done by a woman

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Welcome to you...Only thing I can say is that you should think about expanding the horizons to more series. You can do it as slowly as you want though...

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Thanks for the welcomes everyone and a special hello back again to the lady from Virginia.


I'd like to expand more into manga, that's why I'm here after all. The thing is it's a little overwhelming. I mean I can get pretty much anything I want through sites like stoptazmo, torrents or in #lurk and other irc channels. If I really get nuts I can actually buy some stuff ( ) at local bookstores, so getting the stuff isn't a problem. It's just that there's so much it's hard to single something out and run with it.

I may give Bowling King a shot since I do like comedy, even though I've never really been interested in any sports stories, bowling barely counts as a sport anyway.

I've been poking through the encyclopedia of manga here, getting acquainted with the search functions and whatnot, trying to find something that grabs my eye and hasn't been animated or that I haven't seen. Nothing has really jumped out at me yet, but I've only scratched the surface.

Another one I did decide to start reading is Berserk. I saw the anime years ago and that was good but it's also just a fraction of that story and I've wanted to read it for a long time. Even after only reading the first volume last night, I can tell it's a good bit different than the anime.

Greetings! ^_^

Have a good time here, ne? Hope to see you in the forums!

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Well I know anime series such as Full Metal Alchemist have angered people with the alterations and Trigun (haven't read or watched), but sometimes a different spin is good and plus these two series had closure to them (Full Metal Alchemist will be a wait, as far as I know).

And some shoujo were more interesting that way. I don't know if I really need to bother to read the Sailor Moon manga but if Usagi is still a wishy-washy basic shoujo character, I don't know if I care to read it. Sailor Moon anime was a formula and mostly filler, but when the end of the season came or that the anime writers were really nify to "fake us out" with Sailor Moon S. And I don't know if Full Moon wo Sagashite is as moving when the story is about music and yet you have to imagine what the music evokes (I have read the manga and haven't finished the anime yet; only 20 episodes in and then stopped).

Besides, if we want "pure" manga, then I guess we would have manga that never had the mangaka with an editor that said that certain story elements wouldn't work. Marmalade Boy would've been a tragedy (read the mangaka's notes in the last volume), and I would've been *angry*! But anyhow, I moved to the serious side of anime vs. manga, and it's probably too much for an introduction thread. I think manga is easier on HD space as 1 anime episode in good quality is about 200 to 250 MB while 1 manga volume is about 30 MB usually. I don't know how one could survive being an anime fan on dial-up (even with bittorrent).xD

Oh yeah, and maybe "pure" manga is doujinshi since those are published by the mangaka themselves and it's not really for the money there, or less so if they are digging into their pockets to publish it and have it seen.

Anyhow, welcome, Pritcher, and I did notice that you made your first post in the first thread I started. ;) I think your user lookup is the first one with all the info on it that I've viewed--age, location, date of birth along with avatar and sig. That's the "member info" part but, ah, I find humour in it nonetheless. ;)

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Welcome, Yes glad you discovered manga has no filler and it has a much more natural feel to it, i hope you enjoy postin around with us.

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Ahh!!! You're that witch from the restaurant birthday thing, you've tracked me down via nefarious means no doubt. Very well; have at thee villain!

Seriously though, I don't really care to partake in any kind of versus thing between anime and manga. I enjoy both. I've seen much more anime than I've read manga though. I did read lots of American comics when I was little guy, (Go Spidey!), but that's different. I think what I like about manga, aside from being filler free, is that I can read more at my own pace. With subtitled anime you have to read and watch the action all at a pace not set by you. Not that it's difficult to keep up or anything, but with manga you can sort of stop and focus on a scene to let it sink in better. That might be what ranmaru means by a more natural feel.


Oh you're definitely right about that. School Rumble for instance, the entire manga from beginning to current is a little more than half a gigabyte. Two seasons of the anime, a little of over 10 GB. I've a total of ~5 gigs worth of manga so far, but ~90 gigs worth of anime. That's almost a quarter of my total storage capacity just in anime.

hallo there.....^.^
enjoy yourself and welcome ^^ <3

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