I'm surprised that some of these titles are on direct download. I end up going to Lurk via IRC more. I don't know which one costs more for bandwidth though (but Lurk needs support to keep it up). IRC opens up lots, and lots of manga. You won't know what to do with the stuff as I see it, after flipping through the "How many manga do you read at a time?" thread. XD http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=445

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Personally, I think you only need to know Japanese if you want to read manga that hasn't be scanslated or a specific title that won't get scanslated, like the Tale of Genji in manga format (that's a very different title to read due to the poetry, according to Shoujomagic's info page on it), or even if the manga title that you were following got dropped and no one picked it up and it's not licensed. It ends up maybe being maybe equal or more expensive with having the book mailed (probably from Japan or near there) compared to a licensed book in that country, plus the effort of translating the work (there's the easy stuff and there's the harder stuff). Of course that depends on the country. Of course I'm not 100% sure on this stuff.

Besides, to get the good raws, I think it also comes back to IRC. The stuff ended up on IRC partly to weed out (lazy) people and obviously the matter of bandwidth.

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bah i guess i'll jus have to get mIRC and learn how to handle it
well i'd also like to learn japanese cause it's such a rich and beautiful language imo (did that sound gay?)

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WTF!!!!!!! how can you possibly read 254 mangas at a time?? Do they even have a life my 600gb hard drive (yes i'm bragging) wouldn't handle it

fuck this has totally gotten out of track
plz advise me some more manga from now on

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Aww, you can't be that scared about swinging the other way that you worry saying that Japanese is a "rich and beautiful language" is gay, can you? XD But just to read manga, it shouldn't require as much compared to speaking and writing it when the easy stuff is picked, but translating for other people is probably another issue. ^^;

But for myself (and maybe other members), just how many recommdations do you want and which ones have been good picks by us for you? Otherwise, couldn't this thread just go on forever with recommendations? ^^;

(Yay, 103 forum posts... I missed 100 and 101. XD)

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well i've started reading a few cause of this post:
20th century boys
Ranma
Yokohama kaidashi kikou (actually finished it already)
Maison Ikkouku
Trying to get Akira and deciding if i should try Kotaro


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Well it's still going on, but Hajime no Ippo debuted in 1989, and uses the old school art style, very strong outlines, etc. Beware, if Ippo catches your interest, it's just like crack. It took me 3 days with very little sleep to start from volume 1 to get to volume 76.

ippo has over 70 volumes? wow i thought inuyasha at 50ish was alot

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79 Volumes and still going. Even Longer than Berserk!

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I'm willing to bet that Detective Conan is pretty old too. Almost 60 volumes now and still going.

lol Hajime no Ippo is longer then Berserk in length. But its not older then Berserk (Hajime no Ippo: 1989, Berserk: 1988).

Isn't that weird? I mean... Hajime no Ippo is serialized in a weekly magazine while Berserk is bi-weekly right? So how come Ippo is more than twice as long as Berserk?

Easy, Kentaro Miura just looooves to takes looong breaks... and that kills me..
But, what to do... as long as he finishes it in his lifetime (and mine)... I'll be happy.

Really old classics would be like Doraemon or Astro Boy. I don't think I've seen either of those scanslated though.

Slam Dunk is a somewhat newer classic. I don't know if you can find it all scanslated, but I've found the last few volumes (what wasn't covered in the anime).

Detective Conan just celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2006.

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