Manga vs. Comics

[Flexor the Mighty!]

The Big Eyes, Small Mouth and huge spikey hair style turns me off right away. Akira is manga that is drawn vry well. Ghost in the Shell was ok, some BESM stuff but it didn't annoy me that much, but then they would just throw these shots of the chracters with the ultra cartoony faces on them when they were mad or at the end of a chapter. It was a glaring flaw in the work for me and really took the work down several notches. Stick to one style, don't go from fairly realistic art to super cartoony and back again. But even at it's most "realistic" it doesn't hold a candle to Otomo's drawings which were amazing.

 

[WizarDru]

It was a glaring flaw in the work for me and really took the work down several notches. Stick to one style, don't go from fairly realistic art to super cartoony and back again. But even at it's most "realistic" it doesn't hold a candle to Otomo's drawings which were amazing.

Just remember, Manga features a variety of styles, just like American comics. BESM tackles a pretty big subject, and tries to hit all the bases. A show/comic like "His and Her circumstances" has a much different style and tone than Gantz, which in turn is dramatically and visually different than ARMS or One Piece. Manga and comics are vast. They contain multitudes, baby.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I know that. Manga has Akira and Dragonball Z so it's all over the place. Just like American comics have everything from John Byrne to Frank Miller to Todd McFarlane.

 

[Enchantress]

Just remember, Manga features a variety of styles, just like American comics. BESM tackles a pretty big subject, and tries to hit all the bases. A show/comic like "His and Her circumstances" has a much different style and tone than Gantz, which in turn is dramatically and visually different than ARMS or One Piece. Manga and comics are vast. They contain multitudes, baby.

Having such a wide variety of styles is part of what makes manga great IMHO. Sometimes different styles compliment the story more. Ex, if you used a Gantz style in the story of FLCL, it just wouldn't work. The corny stories need corny styles.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Having such a wide variety of styles is part of what makes manga great IMHO.

Personaly, I think the same thing of comic books... Even if you wanted to stay "mainstream" the diffrance between a Spiderman story and a Batman story is quite profound.

I've never read a magna, it’s allot like anime to me, to much to try and I never know if its a good one or not. At least with comics I grew up on them, hell to be honest I'm still growing up on them.

 

[Enchantress]

Personaly, I think the same thing of comic books... Even if you wanted to stay "mainstream" the diffrance between a Spiderman story and a Batman story is quite profound.

Oh, most deffinitely. And that is part of what makes comic books great as well. If you don't like a certain style of cartoon, then move on to a different story/style. There's no reason that just because you think some of them are stupid, you should believe that way about all of them. Be it comics, manga, or otherwise.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

There's no reason that just because you think some of them are stupid, you should believe that way about all of them. Be it comics, manga, or otherwise.

Yup, and very nicely put! That "advice" also pretty much works for anything or anyone.

 

[Enchantress]

Yup, and very nicely put! That "advice" also pretty much works for anything or anyone.

Hehe, me so smart!

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Hehe, me so smart!

yes you are... thoroughly rubs hair

 

[Geoff Watson]

Why I generally prefer manga to American comics:

Consistency: The same writer/artist for an entire series. Too many american comics change writers/artists often, and the new ones obviously haven't read much of the series they are working on.

Ads: Many American comics are half advertising.

Variety of genre: American comics are nearly all superhero, with an occasional gritty 'special-because-it's-not-superheroic' comic.

Of course, there are exceptions: My favourite writer/artist is Fred Perry, an American who does Gold Digger, an action/adventure comic.

Geoff.