japanese comics = manga

gamepoint said:

TimStitt said:

Years ago I used to read GTO (グレート・ティーチャー・オニズカ); but they stopped exporting the dual language versions to Australia so I stopped. I preferred the comics with both Japanese and English so I could practice Japanese.
Except for watching Afro-Samurai and Battleship Yamamoto (from my childhood lol), I really haven't read or seen much in the last couple of years.

u can speak japanese???

haha.. Some! But as a recent trip to Tokyo taught me, not enough. I haven't spoken much in many years. I need to build my confidence a little.

gamepoint said:

lehnerus2000 said:

gamepoint said:

but anime tends to be draggy isn't it?

Noein, Ergo Proxy, Death Note, Blood+ & GITS SAC tend to be more plot based (as opposed to action).
Black Lagoon tends more towards "over the top" gun battles (and other action).
Fullmetal Alchemist (I mean the original not the new remake) & Code Geass are in-between .:)
There are quite a few slow Naruto episodes (Naruto has lots of episodes and Manga books).

i mean there are certain unimportant things that are not in mangas r shown in anime version...

Oh sorry, my bad.
I read an Anime/Manga forum and there seem to be 2 main camps (like Windows & Mac).
Some people say the Anime versions are crap compared to the Manga versions and vice versa.
I haven't read the Manga (applicable to the shows I've mentioned), so I can't really comment other than to say, that people say that about book to movie conversions too.

I think that everyone has his/her own idea of how the characters should sound and behave and that the producers/authors ideas don't necessarily correspond to that.

gamepoint said:

i really wish someday i can speak japanese,not only "arigato"..ahaha

Just go and enrol at your local community college , it's actually a very easy language to speak because the sounds are all sounds that we make in English like KA KI KU KE KO (KAR, KEY, KOO, KEH, KOH). Reading most Japanese texts is easy once you have leant the alphabets and a little Kanji (the chinese style writing). Just do it, the only stopping you is you. :)

Gambatte!

gamepoint said:

haha..i once a student of a boarding school...then,we had to choose a foreign languange to study.i took french

Me as well in high school..... failed miserably.

lehnerus2000 said:

Death Note

The first season is good. The second season... should have not been made.


There are so many different sub-genres to Japanese animation/static drawings it boggles the mind.

smarteyeball said:

lehnerus2000 said:

Death Note

The first season is good. The second season... should have not been made.


There are so many different sub-genres to Japanese animation/static drawings it boggles the mind.

Yeah. Light certainly lost his grip, although if he'd been smarter at the start, he probably wouldn't have had any problems.

I've seen 2 Death Note movies. I thought that the 1st one was the best.