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yup da best. for so so so so so many reasons just simply the best
Showcasing pages ultimately doesn’t do much to sell a comic, even the most awful shounen can have some good pages.
Imma actually go and read Akira though because I may as well and comment back on what I thought.
One of my personal favorites
Have fun! its 6 really big volumes, but you blow through it pretty fast because the pacing is is pretty fast, so you just kind of want to keep going.
Those aren’t really my favorite by any means, just the ones I could find quickly through google, but I think a few of them show some really intersting things, like his really really strong eye for composition, really great poses.
His strongest ability is probably in his expressions, he does a really great job of showing off his character’s personalities through expressions rather then words, which I think is really hard to do.
It certainly has good composition.
But MANY seinen manga look similar to Akira. I mean it was a classic, and inspired lots of stuff after all. Therefore I can’t be wow’ed by lone pages because so many seinen give a similar feel.
As for the facial expression thing, meh, I find even many terrible shounens can get good facial expressions (they still back them up with countless words though, haha), and seinen even more so. To me the craft of the storyteller is far more important than the craft of the artist when we’re discussing manga. The context is what creates emotions far more than the art itself.
Of course this is talking generally, and I can’t actually critique the series until, oh, what, 5-6 hours from now?
I have been reading and enjoying Gantz recently. Also going to second that Watchmen nomination, but that page was inappropriate to post even in spoilers.
I originally had it out of spoilers, then I realised how much of a dick move that would be. Deleted now.
Sin City’s pretty great too.
Gantz becomes shit really quickly.
I remember when Kurono first jumped down those stairs; it felt amazing. Now it’s just garbage.
Live update on Akira:
I’m finding the unrealistic Hollywood explosions mildly annoying.
That series is bad and you should feel bad.
i do thanks! what a nice thing to say!
Haha, but no really, if you don’t always read manga but read that, you may as well always be reading manga.
EDIT: Akira update; Volume 3 needed to be about half the length that it was.
i think you are just trying to get back at me for proving that wes anderson is bad at things
manga is spensive i think thats mainly why i dont read much , not that i ever read all that much in the first place lol. spending 6 quid on a book that lasts under 2 hours is not cheap.
same reason i quit warhammer actually.
I thought we agreed he was very good at just one thing that he re-renders multiple times.
But nah, I’m about halfway through Volume 4, and so far I can say that Akira is pretty good, but just that. Pretty good. Nothing overly spectacular or amazing about it, definitely wouldn’t call it a favorite. It’s definitely a classic though because TONS of future manga were influenced by it (in reading Akira AFTER having had read many other manga with similar themes or atmospheres, it’s quite apparent, beside it also being a factually established thing).
I halted reading Monster half-way through about 6 months ago (I really need to resume it and then get to Pluto), and while a completely different setting and story, it’s just one of many seinen I find to be far more enjoyable.
Of course this is tentatively speaking, the last 2/5ths of Akira could ramp the game up, we’ll see if it happens.
You realize that 99.9% of all manga that’s read is read online, where it’s free, right?
Hell, my favorite series isn’t even licensed so I wouldn’t be able to but it if I wanted to (which I do).
Only manga I own right now are FLCL and Q·Ko-chan: The Earth Invader Girl, and that’s because Hajima Ueda’s storytelling is… pretty hard to describe… I’d call it rabid. It’s a ton of content and thematic depth shoved into two 180 page volumes.
hah yeah i was just joking 
i can actually understand why someone might not like Akira as much as me. I just really like pacing and the way he handles the characters, and I think his paneling is really good. Like, He is really good at leading your eye in a way that effects how you take in the story/emotional beats.
but i can see spots where maybe someone won’t buy something that happens in the story, and i since he has to work so hard to justify a lot of what happens, i can see how some people don’t buy in at times.
Ah, I’m not a fan of his style of pacing. I think a big reason is because that type of pacing is very commonplace (nowadays, may have been another thing Akira helped influence) and grew sort of boring over time for me (and I like there to be a more fluid flow as preference). Though not to say I dislike it either, it does the job just fine; I simply have a neutral stance toward it (minus some hiccups, as I said, volume 3 was dragged out far too much for what actually occurred within it).
Kaneda and Tetsuo drifting out with each other was also jerky and felt out-of-nowhere, the forced coupling of Kaneda and Kei felt flawed (and not to mention Kei herself is another addition to the generic cliche female role in manga from the 80s and 90s), and Tetsuo’s personality shift, even being psychokinesis craziness induced or whatever, also felt badly done. Actually, hell, that whole “Dude Tetsuo is leading that gang that’s destroying all these other gangs let us get on our vroom vroom bikes and tear this shit up!” scenario just felt erratic and uncoordinated, I think for that moment the pacing got totally screwed up.
Oh, and the fighting got REALLY dumb after the first volume. If everyone is incompetent and 20 enemies can be plowed through with no damage to the protagonists, I stop caring entirely for their safety and the fighting itself and it just turns into a chore to read.
yea i know you can read manga online but it just doesnt feel right to me for some reason. may be to do with the fact that i only have a tiny laptop with 10inch screen so i have to scroll and zoom the pages to be able to read the text. tried reading once piece like this and gave up from annoyance less than half way through.
Ah, that blows. And old One Piece scans are really poor to boot. Buy a bigger screen!
(You have tried online readers right? You still have to scroll down but you shouldn’t have to zoom).
