I don't watch a lot of anime. I like manga better.
Shigurui is my favorite. Basilisk is cool too. I also liked Dragon Ball and Shaman King. Don't sleep on One Punch Man!
Shigurui ? Never heard of that one I must Searsh for it .
Dragon ball is a legend ..
I don't think Shaman King is good just my opinion .
Mate...what?! You cannot seriously believe that the shitfest of Anime is better than the One Piece manga. Do you even read the manga?! It is just incredible and the anime can’t be compared to its awesomeness. Your statement is obviously not thought out properly or you simply do t read the manga.
Anyway: The best in my opinion are One Piece, Berserk, Tokyo Ghoul: RE, Vagabond and Attack on Titan.
It's not only me who saying that One ...
One piece Manga never been in Top 20 Manga in Japan ....
If you're just going by the top manga in Japan then One Piece has been consistently number one for a while now. As for my personal favorites, I would say Berserk and One Piece.
You know, there is something slightly sad about the fact that when it comes to "best manga" discussions and all, it's always Seinen (or sometime pseudo Seinen that are in fact Shonen) manga that are advanced and shown as best taste and all. I do get it when the vast majority of people say bersek and vagabond, etc etc , because they ARE indeed great/good manga.. but it also shown in my opinion that most people stay in the demographic that is aim for them, and are not curious enought to try other departement like shojo manga for exemple.
I think it's a problem, because personaly , I think staying in a confort demographic/genre zone only offer a narrow view of all the possibilities that manga can offer. One way to really realize that is when you actually go to japan and you see how much, in fact, the seinen/shonen manga that are by far the most praised, consumed and published manga in foreign country are in reality the minority when it comes to number in japan. Shojo manga litteraly crush them in term of publication and have such a wider range of thematic of genre you would usualy think. For one reason or another, all the shojo manga that are published outside of japan are 99% of the time school romance thing, and they are usually of low quality = this result in a depreciation of the departement as being filled with cliche and uninteresting tropes and all, when, in fact, and I assure you I'm not joking, the most psychologicaly violent and "hard to shallow" works I have read in my manga explorations were definitly shojo works. It really amuse me to see so much people talking about Berserk as being the most dark and mature manga that ever existed and using as reference, because, as funny as it sound, it's in shojo manga that there is the most death of important protagonist, suicide, rape, lethal accident, murder, etc.. All those things are actually super common in "true" shojo manga. And the funniest thing is that for a lot of them those story are intended to be read for young girls, not even adolescent let alone adults.
All that to say, that there is some huge misconception in the west about manga demographics, because we can actually only read the emerged part of the iceberg consisting of works that are supposed to appeal to us, and so are the only one published in other language. Why do you think the most interesting shojo manga are not published for us ? It's because in a sexist way to think, we would consider those works to be too graphically stange or "out of confort zone" and psychologically hard/difficult/violent for woman to enjoy. And so, most girl and woman that are invested and curious about manga as a form of art have to read Seinen works to escape the mellow insipid and graphicaly blank romance that are published for them. Really makes you think.
... I'm not even sure myself why I made this wall of text to defend shojo manga as it's not even my departement of predilection since like most people that posted here, I'm most interested in seinen works, but I guess all that bugged me too much and I had to get it out of my mind. haha
By the way, my personal and subjective trinity of best manga author are Inio Asano (Oyasumi Punpun/Umibe no Onnanoko) , Taiyou Matsumoto (Sunny/Gogo monster) and Kazuo Kamimura (Kantou Heiya/Dousei Jidai/Rikon club).
Edit: I think I should give some dark/mature/psychological/graphically inventive shojo manga exemple to back up what I said, before I might be asked to - Zankoku na kami ga shihai suru (and other works my Moto Hagio in general) , Banana Fish (currently being adapted in anime) , ES: eternal Sabbath (would recommend for people that like the famous manga "Monster" by Urasawa) , Kaoru Fujiwara's one shot manga (not one in particular, they are all very morbid) , Copernicus no Kokyuu (and the other yaoi rape fetish things the author like to make.. not my type of things to be honest).. and then I could give good shojo drama, but I'll stay with the more "dark" ones to show my points.
For those who prefer anime it seems like there is is very little actual Seinen made at all. Like above I mentioned Parasyte, which came out, I guess, like 3 or 4 years ago. Seems like there has been nothing since but badly animated new berserk. But there is endless amounts of stuff I am not interested in - school romance/comedy, overly 'edgy' shonen and mmorpg gamer crap :(
If anyone has any recommendations I'd like to hear them.
One piece Manga never been in Top 20 Manga in Japan ....
I am sorry but this is wrong. One Piece IS the best selling manga of all time. Outselling every other manga when a new volume is released with a total number of over 400million sold copies.
My personal favourites are Azumanga Daioh and Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers) but I also enjoyed GTO and Bakuman a lot. The One Piece manga is good as well and probably the best shounen-battle manga I read so far.
I also read 20ish volumes of Berserk a friend of mine used to have but it's not really my cup of tea
Ah, and about anime. For some reason Gainax/Trigger works are the best for me. And the Neon Genesis Evangelion with The End of Evangelion are surly a masterpiece in the world of anime as Bible in the world of books. There is everything here: life and death, family archetypes, depression, sexuality, growing up and, most of all, Love as the meaning of God.
I don't watch a lot of anime. I like manga better.
Shigurui is my favorite. Basilisk is cool too. I also liked Dragon Ball and Shaman King. Don't sleep on One Punch Man!
Shigurui ? Never heard of that one I must Searsh for it .
Dragon ball is a legend ..
I don't think Shaman King is good just my opinion .
Mate...what?! You cannot seriously believe that the shitfest of Anime is better than the One Piece manga. Do you even read the manga?! It is just incredible and the anime can’t be compared to its awesomeness. Your statement is obviously not thought out properly or you simply do t read the manga.
Anyway: The best in my opinion are One Piece, Berserk, Tokyo Ghoul: RE, Vagabond and Attack on Titan.
It's not only me who saying that One ...
One piece Manga never been in Top 20 Manga in Japan ....
If you're just going by the top manga in Japan then One Piece has been consistently number one for a while now. As for my personal favorites, I would say Berserk and One Piece.
One Piece is the best selling in forigen counties but not in Japan ..
Japanese people in general have a defferent taste than other Counties when it comes to manga .
THe List you talk about is showing How many Copies Has been sold of ( Japanese Manga ) not ( sold in Japan )
Sorry man, but you need to double check where you're getting your information because you just said the opposite of what is actually true. Most of One Piece's sales come from Japan which far outnumber its international sales.
Death Note, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Berserk, Full Metal Alchemist
Jesus, I remember watching Samurai Champloo when I was like 12... such a cool anime!
Discovered the Trigun anime a few years later (ikr) on TV, meh... not that bad but the french dubbing has always been a catastrophy for the 80-90's anime, kinda ruined it...
If you're just going by the top manga in Japan then One Piece has been consistently number one for a while now. As for my personal favorites, I would say Berserk and One Piece.
What about Tasogare Otome x Amnesia, guys? Beautiful style, psychologically deep, slightly sad, romantically sweet. And i literally crush on Yuko...
For those who prefer anime it seems like there is is very little actual Seinen made at all. Like above I mentioned Parasyte, which came out, I guess, like 3 or 4 years ago. Seems like there has been nothing since but badly animated new berserk. But there is endless amounts of stuff I am not interested in - school romance/comedy, overly 'edgy' shonen and mmorpg gamer crap :(
If anyone has any recommendations I'd like to hear them.
Death Note, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Berserk, Full Metal Alchemist
I am sorry but this is wrong. One Piece IS the best selling manga of all time. Outselling every other manga when a new volume is released with a total number of over 400million sold copies.
My personal favourites are Azumanga Daioh and Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers) but I also enjoyed GTO and Bakuman a lot. The One Piece manga is good as well and probably the best shounen-battle manga I read so far.
I also read 20ish volumes of Berserk a friend of mine used to have but it's not really my cup of tea
Ah, and about anime. For some reason Gainax/Trigger works are the best for me. And the Neon Genesis Evangelion with The End of Evangelion are surly a masterpiece in the world of anime as Bible in the world of books. There is everything here: life and death, family archetypes, depression, sexuality, growing up and, most of all, Love as the meaning of God.
One Piece is the best selling in forigen counties but not in Japan ..
Japanese people in general have a defferent taste than other Counties when it comes to manga .
THe List you talk about is showing How many Copies Has been sold of ( Japanese Manga ) not ( sold in Japan )
i hope you can see the different
Sorry man, but you need to double check where you're getting your information because you just said the opposite of what is actually true. Most of One Piece's sales come from Japan which far outnumber its international sales.
And I could go on. Tons of great manga out there.
You can check Japanese sites and see their Voting results .
im sure you will change your mind after seeing one piece in # 55-60 most of the time .
Why does this topic excist? On a Hearthstone forum?
I'm sorry but objectively speaking One Punch Man is the best thing ever. After that comes everything else ONE has created.
I tried having fun once. It was awful.
GrimmProps, you said exactly what I was about to.
Seriously though, why is this conversation here on HearthPwn? This game has literally nothing at all to do with manga.
Couse it's general chat on the off topic board maybe?
Read the description of General Chat.
I was also surprised this thread was running. There's nothing compared to Berserk.
Berserk is and will be the best manga ever
Jesus, I remember watching Samurai Champloo when I was like 12... such a cool anime!
Discovered the Trigun anime a few years later (ikr) on TV, meh... not that bad but the french dubbing has always been a catastrophy for the 80-90's anime, kinda ruined it...
QFT! You can take a pass on Battle Royale 2 though lol
nah dude, those polls dont mean anything. Volumes sold matter. There are Sale statistics you can look up on ANN or MAL like this one here: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-05-31/top-selling-manga-in-japan-by-volume-2018/.132245 Whenever there is a new OP volume out it outsells everything else. It has been like this for years.