Right, since no one has done it yet I decided to take it upon myself to create a general anime & manga thread for discussing all things related to anime and manga: Discussions about the shows, the soundtracks, the openings and endings etc. Basically an all-purpose thread not limited to any specific part of the anime/manga phenomenon.
I'll start the thread of with some anime/manga recommendations:
Major - a baseball manga/anime about a boy named Honda/Shigeno Goro* that lasted for 6 seasons with about 26 episodes per season. The first 5 seasons are pure gold, but the 6th season doesn't quite hold up to the previous seasons. The show basically follows Goro's baseball life from pre-school up to and including the beginning of his career in the Major League. Two OVA's (Original Video Animations) were later released that covered the World Series and Goro's life as a father ten years after his retirement from the Major Leagues due to an injury.
Hajime no Ippo - A boxing manga/anime about a boy in highschool who is regularly beat up a group of bullies. After a particularly nasty beating he's rescued by Takamura Mamoru, a middle-weight professional boxer and taken to the Kamogawa gym run by former boxer Kamogawa Genji. At the gym Takamura gives Ippo a chance to vent his frustration by punching the sandbag, which reveals that Ippo has phenomenal punching power due to the strength he's built up while helping out his mother in the family fishing charter business. After this incident Ippo decides to pursue a path as a professional boxer training at the Kamogawa gym. The show follows Ippo's career as a professional boxer and the manga has currently been adapted into three anime seasons, the first running for 76 episodes, while the two subsequent seasons ran for 26 and 25 episodes respectively. As there is still a truckload of material left in the manga to cover, a fourth season is probably not too far off.
Fairy Tail:
This anime is definitely worth the watch, as long as you don't mind the excessive fan service (Nothing too explicit IMO, but your mileage may vary ). The story is awesome, but the high point of this anime is definitely the awesome Celtic and Celtic Rock style music that's used as the soundtrack for this anime. The show was put on hiatus last year, but a new show will begin airing starting this week, taking off from where the last one stopped.
Hunter x Hunter (2011):
This is definitely the shonen anime among shonen animes. It basically blows other animes like Naruto and One Piece out of the water, and that's not to say that these shows are bad by any stretch of the imagination, only that HxH is that much better. Unfortunately, due to the manga authors frequent bouts with illness the same cannot be said about the original manga; while the story is just as good in the manga as it is in the anime the drawing quality is at times nothing short of abysmal. Fortunately this is not the case for the anime, and it's there that the show really shines. If you want to know how a shonen anime should be when it's done right there's basically no excuse for not watching this anime.
*In this thread I will follow the practice of writing Japanese names in the traditional way where the family name comes first, and the given name second.
I'll start the thread of with some anime/manga recommendations:
Major - a baseball manga/anime about a boy named Honda/Shigeno Goro* that lasted for 6 seasons with about 26 episodes per season. The first 5 seasons are pure gold, but the 6th season doesn't quite hold up to the previous seasons. The show basically follows Goro's baseball life from pre-school up to and including the beginning of his career in the Major League. Two OVA's (Original Video Animations) were later released that covered the World Series and Goro's life as a father ten years after his retirement from the Major Leagues due to an injury.
Hajime no Ippo - A boxing manga/anime about a boy in highschool who is regularly beat up a group of bullies. After a particularly nasty beating he's rescued by Takamura Mamoru, a middle-weight professional boxer and taken to the Kamogawa gym run by former boxer Kamogawa Genji. At the gym Takamura gives Ippo a chance to vent his frustration by punching the sandbag, which reveals that Ippo has phenomenal punching power due to the strength he's built up while helping out his mother in the family fishing charter business. After this incident Ippo decides to pursue a path as a professional boxer training at the Kamogawa gym. The show follows Ippo's career as a professional boxer and the manga has currently been adapted into three anime seasons, the first running for 76 episodes, while the two subsequent seasons ran for 26 and 25 episodes respectively. As there is still a truckload of material left in the manga to cover, a fourth season is probably not too far off.
Fairy Tail:
This anime is definitely worth the watch, as long as you don't mind the excessive fan service (Nothing too explicit IMO, but your mileage may vary ). The story is awesome, but the high point of this anime is definitely the awesome Celtic and Celtic Rock style music that's used as the soundtrack for this anime. The show was put on hiatus last year, but a new show will begin airing starting this week, taking off from where the last one stopped.
Hunter x Hunter (2011):
This is definitely the shonen anime among shonen animes. It basically blows other animes like Naruto and One Piece out of the water, and that's not to say that these shows are bad by any stretch of the imagination, only that HxH is that much better. Unfortunately, due to the manga authors frequent bouts with illness the same cannot be said about the original manga; while the story is just as good in the manga as it is in the anime the drawing quality is at times nothing short of abysmal. Fortunately this is not the case for the anime, and it's there that the show really shines. If you want to know how a shonen anime should be when it's done right there's basically no excuse for not watching this anime.
*In this thread I will follow the practice of writing Japanese names in the traditional way where the family name comes first, and the given name second.
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