Anyone here have a taste on Filipino manga (and please, no jokes about the fruit mangga/mango, don't even try it's too stupid)? Locally it does have a larger following than foreign ones, which is understandable since very few foreign mangas ever penetrate our local market or even decide to in the first place. I'd like to know if there's anyone outside our country that is somewhat interested in them. Possibly one of the well-known names in the Filipino manga industry is the now inactive Culture Crash (Kubori Kikiam, YEAH!).

Personally though I think Filipino manga is still too young and underdeveloped. I have yet to see an original concept come out from the market. Almost everything has something to do with, mysticism, technology, display of powers, etc.

Yeah, I think so too. I can't even find one anymore in National Bookstore... and that's in Super Mall!

Maybe if it were to be released in the international market?

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whoa phillines know tamil your the first person i met that i know of that even got that joke


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I only know of manga which is translated
in tagalog, I believe.
But filipino-style manga is still
very underground and yeah, underdeveloped.

There are quite a few classic filipino
comics though...

That's generally because they can't buy the expensive shelf place. Filipino mangas are not that profitable yet, that's why they still depend on conventions to show them to the public, which is imo the best place for mangas to be.



Ah, you mean the mangga/mango joke? Actually, the Filipino dialects are mixed with other Asian countries' vocabulary since the early times, specially those from India, China, and Japan.



And still very few originals. Funny Komiks had a few originals, like Jonax, Eklok and Super Blag. Combatron is a bit like MegaMan/RockMan in design. Tomas En Kulas, well, is pretty much too obvious. Bata Batuta Komiks had a few good ones like Cosmic Quest. Some truly original comics back then were Komedy Komiks for an all-comedy theme with the Doc as the frontliner, Engkantada, and Engkantasya (not sure if I got their spelling right) for Filipino folklore. And let's not go to the Kick Fighter comics, that's too much of a rip-off for me to stand.

Do they even have Filipino manga? lol

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What happened to Culture Crash? I used to buy it like... 5 years ago? I think.

terrible. all are just rip-offs and a poor attempt at imitation. the carlo j. caparas comics were bettter.

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OMG, I remember that!!! Awww... not I feel so nostalgic... or old... XDDD I remember those little bits of comics that were found in newspapers before...

I'd rather have the Filipino comics written in Tagalog though... because some of what I read are in English and... a bit on the slang side... >.>

Oh, yeah.. and in powerbooks, I think I only saw one Filipino comic... and it was in English...

Wait... Zsazsa Zaturnnah counts, right? ^^

I used to collect Culture Crash, but after the 10th issue the stories were still going absolutely nowhere. (How long does it take to set up a plot!?) I knew it was time to give up on it. I've seen quite a few good one-shots in conventions, but none really that can be up to par with Japanese manga. Most of them just come off as poor imitations. Moca's right, it's still underdeveloped, which is understandable...we don't have as much manga artists here.

I have a couple of books by Arnold Arre, just because I wasn't willing to give up yet. His works are supposed to be award-winning. But when I read them, it just felt like webcomics to me^^;;

Do I sound terribly hopeless?^^;

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I don't get what you mean by this -.-



Technically, Culture Crash stopped its publication. They weren't getting any significant profits, and expenses eventually took its toll on them. The artists in Culture Crash have individual projects now, though.Not sure if they'll continue their works someday, but Kubori Kikiam is still going with its webcomics. I have a friend in Canada who has completed Culture Crash, including the limited 5.5 issue. He bought his last missing copy in the November 2007 Komikon when the Culture Crash booth was present there.



Haven't read that one, but I think it's more of a Filipino comic book than a manga.

i didnt know they had filipino manga
i gotta get some of that...just have to actually learn tagalog first xD
im a failure at being filipino

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Well they haven't really given a term for Filipino-style manga. They won't call it comics because there's a margin between them. And there are those already who start calling them mangas. Personally I prefer if they call it another, like how Japan already has manga and Korea has manwha.

About CCCom (Culture Crash Comics): I think its because they released colored issues. It would be cheaper if it was black and white... Plus some of them are getting negative comments which can break a mangaka's morale...

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I don't think it's an issue of colored pages or not. For me it's...'how many pages does it take to set up a plot?'
A regular manga only takes one chapter (40 pages) to set up a plot and to present all the important elements of the story. Others may take a bit longer (a double chapter--80 pages). But with CCCom, even after 140 pages (In 10 issues, with 14 pages per story per issue), I still have no idea of where the story is going. o_O Not to mention the inconsistent release frequency of the issues (now that's where the issue of the colored pages comes in...).
Anyway, I did a google search and just now found out they discontinued in 2004. It was only a matter of time, I guess.

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