Ok this is going to be a little hard to explain, but I would like manga suggestions that have the following:

Sword Fights: It can be anything from Real Life techniques, to super lies ala Bleach and Samurai Deeper Kyo.

Magic: Magic as in stuff that makes no sense... could be giant energy balls, or stuff like MxO.

Technology: as in the creation of Items, battle armor, and why not? a fucking Energy rifle or whatever... NO GUNDAM.

It can have only 2 of the 3 above and still be interesting... and you can also check my wish list for reference


Lets add Badass Characters as a Bonus (ala Jester, Hiruma, Jack Rakan and possibly Jae Hyuk... and If you don't know of who I am talking about... you are so sad)

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Fate Stay Night is one example.

[m]Tenchi Muyo[/m] kinda fits. Not certain about magic.

uhm

To Aru Majutsu no Index Tech and magic o3o

Witch hunter Tech ad magic, swordfight sorta



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Well try Escaflowne (well the anime , the manga is not scanlated ) , Vampire hunter D, ID, Slayers (again the anime, although there are couple mangas scanlated). For technology Patlabor, Red eyes, Full metal panic, Break blade.

Angel Beats! ? Has magic & tech but not sure if it has swordfights.
Air Gear? Has magic & tech but no swordfights.
The ones below are the ones I've never read before but I searched for you.
Edens Bowy? Swordfight + magic.
Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu? Swordfight + magic.

Actually, you can just try searching here.
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?category=Sword+and +Sorcery
You can just use categories to find manga

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Made the set. Credits to Rae from Offrecord who drew Dante in my Avatar.

Rozen Maiden
Maburaho One character is a swordswoman as well as a magician.
[m]Ah Megami-sama[/m] has magic & tech.

[m]Ruruoni Kenshin[/m] has cool swordsman moments.

I have YET to read anything about Fate Stay Night... I know it has a lame anime... I mean a cool anime... and is a light novel...

Tenchi Muyo has sword fights? who would had known that...

Anyway I will give them a try, but keep them coming people

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D_Dragon, I am reading both of those... then again I stopped To Aru Majutsu no Index at chapter 19, so there is some catching up to do, thanks for remind me that.

and I am on chapter 51 of witch hunter, but is a good recommendation indeed

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ID sounds fairly interesting and I will surelly give it a bite to taste it
Slayers was eaten loong time ago... The anime at the very least o.o
Escaflowne seems a little gayish... No to be honest, I watched a few chaps, but doesn't seem to be my thing... GUNDAM!!!
Patlabor was one of my first non main stream animes!!!

Red Eyes sounds cool, but doesn't sound like what I am looking for... may give it a try later
Full Metal Panic... wait I see the pattern... Lots of Mecha...

Lets ask you something... I don't want something a la power rangers, or evangelion aka Little action on ground with a little mix of romantic nonsense or comedy (whatever) that always leads to the climax of a mecha fight in the end.... ALWAYS

Don't get me wrong, BIG AS SUPER ROBOTS ARE COOL, but If everything in the story is around them... then me don't want... I can't think of a manga right now, but Xenogears for PSone comes to mind... in it Mechas got the better dealt of the plot, BUT didn't exactly outshine or replaced the fights on foot.

Just my 2 cents.


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Ok let's think of some others:
Banya
Blame!
Evil's Return
Hyper Police
Junk - Record of the Last Hero
Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä
Nephilim
Ares
Shin Angyo Onshi
BioMega
Kaibutsu Oujo
Kazan

Shangri-La
Apocalypse Zero

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I have read more than a few of those... Banya seems interesting and may have what I am looking for... I will leave Blame for another time, same with Nephilim... Ares seems to be a little long, so will save it for later....



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half prince!
It's hilarious, has great characters and sword + magic ^^
I'll check for some more & maybe edit this post..

EDIT:
I'm so annoying and just put a link to all the mangas who didn't have one before or where the name was uncomplete(missing "!") or wrong written....

Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki
Escaflowne - anime
Vampire hunter D
ID
Slayers - rather anime than manga
Angel Beats!
Patlabor
Red eyes
Full metal panic!
Break blade
Edens Bowy
Air Gear
Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu
Aa Megami-sama
Rurouni Kenshin

Also have no more mangas to add...sry

Last edited by dreamer00013 at 8:29 am, Sep 3 2010

one that have all of what you are looking for is

Ozanari Dungeon

umm what about 1/2 Prince ?
[m]D.Gray Man[/m]
Ubel Blatt
Berserk

Last edited by sweetnsour321 at 4:40 pm, Sep 3 2010

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