I like both American and Japanese comics. I like them because I honestly hate reading but I love stories, and so this is a compromise for me.
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9:02 pm, Oct 20 2008
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Cause the art style is unique, it's addicting, there's nothing like it, and it's just so damn awesome. 
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9:52 pm, Oct 20 2008
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well its either manga or a novel....
I choose the one with the pictures
I dont have the life span for a novel
I choose the one with the pictures
I dont have the life span for a novel
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I think because the graphic
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Quote from rockstar72
well its either manga or a novel....
I choose the one with the pictures
I dont have the life span for a novel
I choose the one with the pictures
I dont have the life span for a novel
You have a couple days to live or something?
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manga is popular? i am still telling people what manga is here...
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Easier to take in the story than a "straight text" book & thus faster to read while still reading about a detailed "world" because you see the details rather than reading descriptions. This is a big plus for me because these days I very rarely have 2-3 hours to sit & read a book, and yet I don't like stopping in the middle (and somehow for me it feels less disruptive to, for example, pause after reading one volume of a ten volume manga series, than it does to pause after reading one chapter of a ten chapter book...).
Different kinds of stories than are told by English-speaking authors in any form of book/comic/whatever, plus all the cultural differences provide something new & different. Stories that just wouldn't work well as "straight text" can be told very well in manga; in addition to verbal jokes etc. there can also be sight gags that would be killed by describing them in a "straight text" book. (Ranma 1/2 comes to mind...)
Different kinds of stories than are told by English-speaking authors in any form of book/comic/whatever, plus all the cultural differences provide something new & different. Stories that just wouldn't work well as "straight text" can be told very well in manga; in addition to verbal jokes etc. there can also be sight gags that would be killed by describing them in a "straight text" book. (Ranma 1/2 comes to mind...)
I completely agree.
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manga is popular? i am still telling people what manga is here...
Well, he's probably only referring to the US.
He forgot that this is an international forum.
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Quote from aneste
manga is popular? i am still telling people what manga is here...
Well, he's probably only referring to the US.
He forgot that this is an international forum.
then now i feel ignored.. *goes to hide in a dark corner*
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Because American comics are targeted mainly for a male audience.
What are the girls suppose to read?
What are the girls suppose to read?
Please come back when you've actually done some research on that.
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10:20 am, Oct 21 2008
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it's because the girls have giant boobs! 
no but I think it's the art as well as the plot
american comics always look so serious and boring
no but I think it's the art as well as the plot
american comics always look so serious and boring
Crikey!
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I wish I could see that "popularity" in my geographic locations, u guys r the only real manga fans that I know of 
But to the topic, I suppose its the emoting and the "pretty" boys- at least for the gals
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But to the topic, I suppose its the emoting and the "pretty" boys- at least for the gals
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Quote from E-chan52
Because American comics are targeted mainly for a male audience.
What are the girls suppose to read?
What are the girls suppose to read?
yea i agree, the mangas nowadays, aim towards everyone, just remember the 6 Gs , can aim towards guys, gals, grunts, gays, grownups, and ummmm guys, lol, dodgeball joke...
but seriously, it does choose larger range of readers, kinda like "love hina", "chobits", and other romance/harem mixed with a big douse of eyecandy...
though im a big fan of marvel... the only reason i dont read the marvel comics... umm for start off, i dont even know exactly how many issues are released for umm lets say for just spiderman... they have like different versions or alternative dimensions and stories, like 1 version of spiderman was bit by a radioactive spider, and another was bit by a new species,,, and 1 version says he can naturally shoot webs and another he has to make his own web by using chemicals... and they have WAAAAAAY TOO MANY CHARACTERS, for starters there are more side/small/minor characters in like spiderman or x-men than naruto, bleach, and one piece combined.... SO BASICALLY I LIKE SIMPLE AND SHORT, though i do wish naruto, bleach, and one piece never ends, lol, especially berserk "long live MIURA
", damn mangas been around for over 20 years now, hope he doesnt die from some stroke or something from exerting himself....
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My favorite thing about manga is that their is always something great to read based on how I feel at that moment. semi-horny=ecchi, happy=comedy, angry=horror, normal=shounen. This wide berth of genres is great because it keeps me interested and offers some great things to do for fun.
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3:01 pm, Oct 26 2008
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i think becouse usually theres nothing good running on tv, people find out about animes, later they get to know about mangas, after some hesitation people beginn to read something and notice that this isn't bad and it becomes something like a drug to them
