A while ago I got all 20 GANTZ volumes in my dirrty hands (muhaha) and began to read.
After the first two or three V. i was addicted........i woke up at night and screamed

No, Kurono, behind you!

I totally could't sleep, my mind was spinning around and went throught every little detail I read til then.

It was hell on earth, but I think I became addicted because I felt for the charakter
(I mean, I was feeling with them, I ain't in love with ink&paper^^)

Maybe I'm to soft minded in that way, but now I'm "clean" and I watched over me strictly since that. It's kinda freaky for me, I'm a normal guy, never did anything criminal or strange, never took drugs and than THAT!

Have you went throught something similar?

I won't surprise anyone, but I had similar experience with 20th Century Boys. I often forgot to eat and didn't sleep until I would drop almost dead from sleepiness.

I took on the first 19 volumes at once. That's whay I call a masterpiece (duh...).

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

Well, let's see. I do remember reading/watching some animes/manga or what not then when I go to sleep, my mind will keep running through what I've watched and I'll wake up with a splitting migraine.

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I won't surprise anyone, but I had similar experience with 20th Century Boys. I often forgot to eat and didn't sleep until I would drop almost dead from sleepiness.

I took on the first 19 volumes at once. That's whay I call a masterpiece (duh...).

You and me both. <3 20th century boys.

Though I also remember back in like 2000-ish, I forget exactly when, but my dialup crapping out on me while downloading volume 10 of I''s. Being left off at a certain memorable scene and walking around school like a zombie not being able to think about anything but "what the hell is going to happen next".

Yeah, I''s was kinda heavy, same goes for Video Girl Ai, and all the other works from this autor/dude/hell-I-forgot-name-of-him.

I think DNA 2 was from this dude, too. (me, to lazy to look with Google after his name -_-)

Yeah, I really have this love/hate relationship with heavy manga's like I's or like Ai-Ren... Totally awesome manga, but I don't want to pick it up again because I'm going to NEED to read the entire thing in one go and afterwards I'm just going to be in a haze for awhile.

Yeah, and when you are finished with the volumes in maybe a few HOURS or DAYS, you must wait for this tiny chapter a WEEK to feed your hunger.
I will call this phenomenon: " The Shono/Hunger For More"-Syndrom

and no heal in sight^^

No cure except for the next chapter! and once the series is over, nothing left but a gnawing emptiness 🙁

hehe yea ;D
I have that all the time >_< for a lot of stuff (esp. Mangas & Books &some Anime shows)

I guess the worst was for me was when I read Ichigo 100% i read it till 5am and didn't even finish it >_< . I could barely sleep and all these thoughts etc. in my head =P
The next day I had driving lessons (~8am), well I guess you can imagine how happy the instructor was after my lessons were done XD. I was happy as well I could finally finish Ichigo 100% =)

Actually because of this "addicted feeling" I'm kinda scared to start reading new series. I dl them cus they sound good etc., but don't even read them ^^

Though I have to say this whole feeling doesn't happen very often anymore (still I'm scared of it! 🙁 ), either because I'm more "resistant" or because I read all the mangas which give me that feeling.

Well, here I am, I'm back again
From the Deadlands I descend'
back from the dead, back from The End
'I'm here to take Revenge!

I dunno about the resistant part...as long as you get really swept up in whatever you're reading you're probably going to feel the same regardless of how many times it happens...I think. I've read alot of mangas which made me feel like that, I think mainly because I was able to relate to it so much or I connected with what the characters were feeling or something...and I'll end up engrossed in the world that the mangaka made and just read the entire thing in one go, or as much as I can. Then it'll all be over! nooo! 😔

same thing happened to me with i"s,ichigo 100%, and unbalancex2
i cant read series like that unless i plan chunks of time with nothing to do

that "the next chapter is the only cure" is one of my favorite parts of mange
i guess its the same way crack heads feel about their junk, ill probly need rehad at some point

about the resitant part.....right now I'm reading battle angel alita again, and i'm feeling something....dragging, but I decided to stop right here and now. I think we don't get any more resitant, we just can control us better, because we learned to handle these feelings (I do, and I hope for you you can too 😀 )

And yes, yunkies are living for the moment, I had a friend but that belongs into another topic in another time.

I get more thouroughly addicted to anime, & for a couple of series I've watched it until 3am the next day because I couldn't stop. always "oh, just one more episode..."

actually, surprisingly, no i haven't. The problem i have is stubborness, i once stayed up till 4 pm the next day because i wanted to finish a series all at once, refused to leave it as it was.

Truthfully though, i think im addicted to manga on the general more then individual series

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Yeah, and when you are finished with the volumes in maybe a few HOURS or DAYS, you must wait for this tiny chapter a WEEK to feed your hunger.
I will call this phenomenon: " The Shono/Hunger For More"-Syndrom

and no heal in sight^^

That's so true!!

That is happing to me with School Rumble.

I flew through the first 208 chapters or so in like in like 3 days, and now i dieing over the 9 page chapters each week.

I mean, i have like 24 series that i am waiting for and only like 12 are released weekly 😔

Another experience, i remember reading GTO in like 1 day. Amazing series.

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