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Your favourite anime/manga?

Paixy

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What's everyone's fav anime/manga? Also, what do you think is the most popular for each of all?
 

Mota

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I haven't seen much anime, but my favs are Code Geass & Death Note, closely followed by The new FullMetal Alchemist.

I'd assume popular animes would be One Piece, Bleach and Naruto. They're far from the best.
 

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^ I don't think the last part was needed, considering its just your opinion and irrelevant to the thread.
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Favorite anime: Death Note / FMA
Favorite manga: Ippo / Gantz / Bleach

Most popular of my list
.FMA
.Bleach

Shonen's most popular manga are definitely One Piece and Naruto though.
 

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^ I don't think the last part was needed, considering its just your opinion and irrelevant to the thread.
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Favorite anime: Death Note / FMA
Favorite manga: Ippo / Gantz / Bleach

Most popular of my list
.FMA
.Bleach

Shonen's most popular manga are definitely One Piece and Naruto though.
Well One Piece is popular World Wide, and Naruto is somewhat popular in Japan and extremely popular here.

I usually only read manga but I might watch one certain anime but anyways

My favorite
One Piece
FMA
Mahou Sensei Negima!
Tegami Bachi

I also a read a few more as of now but they aren't worth mentioning.
 

SirroMinus1

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I'd assume popular animes would be One Piece, Bleach and Naruto. They're far from the best.
Same could be said about CG, DN, & FMA. Its just all Opinion in the end

on topic

As for favorite manga i have Quite a few

One Piece
Berserk
Vagabond
Soul Eater
Pluto
Battle Angel Alita
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
Hunter x Hunter
Battle Royale
Bakuman
Vinland Saga
FMA
Ookami no Monshou - Wolf Guy
Gantz
Onani Master Kurosawa
Ubel Blatt
Zetman

Anime
One Piece
Ergo Proxy
Gurren Lagann
Samurai Champloo
Blood Plus
Sword of a Stranger
Gundam 00.
My anime list is pretty limited and I'm too lazy to watch more than 1 series these days
 

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One Piece is my favorite anime.

My other favorites are Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ouran High School Host Club, Gurren Lagann, Monster, etc.

I'd assume popular animes would be One Piece, Bleach and Naruto. They're far from the best.
Popularity =/= Quality

It's also incredibly ironic that the animes YOU listed are popular as well. Both FMA and Death Note are Shounen as well.

I would not say that One Piece is far from the best, either. It may be popular, but it actually deserves that popularity. I'm sick of people assuming that because something is popular that it's crap. It's a stupid assumption.
 

tko112

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4 me:

Mahou Sensei Negima
Naruto
Love Hina
Bleach
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Code Geass
School Rumble

among others
 

Red the Ghost

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Death Note (the manga) deserves every bit of the popularity it gets. Very tightly written, even if the english translation was a bit wordy.

My favorite Anime series: (in no particular order)
Golden Boy
FLCL
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
The first half of Yu Yu Hakusho

Manga:
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
Trigun/Trigun Maximum
Megatokyo (it's a webcomic, but it's in manga format and is released in books. So I'll count it.)
Air Gear
Elfen Lied
NANA
Angel Sanctuary
 

Moozle

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One Piece is my favorite anime.

I would not say that One Piece is far from the best, either. It may be popular, but it actually deserves that popularity. I'm sick of people assuming that because something is popular that it's crap. It's a stupid assumption.
This, over and over again.

I also really like Code Geass, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Ghost in the Shell, and Yu Yu Hakusho.
 

majora_787

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Well, I've only seen three animes, and I liked all of them...
FullMetal Alchemist
DeathNote
Code Geass

Manga is usually my preference... Thinking on it, I like SEVERAL manga...
Bleach, Naruto(second part), DeathNote, Maximum Ride, Negima, MegaTokyo, FullMetal Alchemist, Tsubasa, Elfen Lied, Hellsing... All awesome. In my opinion.

I haven't seen ANY of those, actually, but I don't know if I want to: (Haruhi Suzumiya, Ghost in the Shell, Yu Yu Hakusho)

Any good?
 

killa k

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My favorite mangas are:

One Piece
Fairy Tail
Shaman King
Bleach
Naruto
Eyeshield 21

There's more, but I can't think of them right now lol.
 

Overload

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I haven't read much manga, but my favourite anime are:
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Baccano
Monster
Ouran High School Host Club
Bamboo Blade
Slayers
I'm glad someone else here knows about Monster. Monster is awesome.

Some of the ones I've enjoyed:

Monster
Death Note
Full Metal Alchemist
Ergo Proxy
Hellsing
FLCL
Elfen Lied
Berserk
Serial Experiments Lain
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
 

SirroMinus1

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JJBA is one of my new favorite mangas the action is great.
the battles are well thought out
Pretty freaking cool characters
nice art
the list goes on
 

Minato

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JJBA is one of my new favorite mangas the action is great.
the battles are well thought out
Pretty freaking cool characters
nice art
the list goes on
Oh, I forgot about JJBA. I read maybe 10 chapters or so. I need to start reading that again.
My favorite anime are Gurren Lagann, Evangelion, and Haruhi.
As for manga, I mainly read stuff from Jump. So the ones I like are pretty overrated, of course.

I'm still catching up on Katekyo Hitman Reborn. I love the manga.
 

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I don't read manga, the right to left business is confusing sometimes. However, I do enjoy anime. My favourites are:

1st: Fullmetal Alchemist, in my opinion the best anime I've every seen. Great storyline, great action, and great characters.
2nd: Code Geass, I haven't finished it, but from what I've seen, it's pretty good. Unfortunately there's a little suspension of disbelief here and there, and everyone except for Lelouche is an idiot. That get's on my nerves slightly. Aside from that, it's got good action, and storyline.
3rd: Familiar of Zero, probably the most addictive anime I've seen. I think it's just hilarious.
4th: Death Note, good plot, but it kinda goes downhill after a major plot twist. Also, Light Yagami is far too intelligent and it creates suspension of disbelief in a number of places.
5th: Lucky Star, it's just very funny, but no real underlying plot.
6th: Full Metal Panic, it was very funny, but the action was kinda terrible. I don't like Mechas...

After that, things get murky.
 
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I don't read manga's since most popular manga's get translated into animes.

My favorite anime is Yu Yu Hakusho. I'm actually shocked nobody actually said this one, it's really underrated (I heard it was kind of unpopular, I could be wrong thought).

I think the most popular animes are Dragonball Z, Pokemon, and Naruto. Out of those, the only one I think deserve it's massive popularity is Dragonball Z. Pokemon got stale after Johto and Naruto was good, but severely overrated.

I haven't seen ANY of those, actually, but I don't know if I want to: (Haruhi Suzumiya, Ghost in the Shell, Yu Yu Hakusho)

Any good?
Are you talking about the anime? If so, Yu Yu Hakusho is brillant. If you want to see the anime, go look at TehAnimatedGamer, who has uploaded all 112 episode of the English uncut episodes.
 

Death Arcana

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Manga: all time favorite
Elfen lied
you can't even compare how much better the manga is than the anime adaption

Anime:
my favorites right now are
Lucky star!
Karin
and paranoia Agent
uh can't forget about FLCL amazing!

elfen lied anime was still good though
 

SirroMinus1

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Manga: all time favorite
Elfen lied
you can't even compare how much better the manga is than the anime adaption

Anime:
my favorites right now are
Lucky star!
Karin
and paranoia Agent
uh can't forget about FLCL amazing!

elfen lied anime was still good though
the manga was pretty good but the ending was very questionable
 

CaptainEvilStomper9

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Anime:
Code Geass
Death Note
After that its gets really hard for me to rate because I liked a lot of anime in different ways, I could probably think of a list but it would take awhile (I've watched around 2X other anime)

Manga:
Gantz (ongoing) the anime ended shortly with a crappy alternative ending due to low budget, but watching the anime made me read it and I liked it a lot, its up there with Code geass and Deathnote probably.
 

wowoduend

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Favorite anime?

Gurren Lagann
Galaxy Angel
Pokemon(All seasons)
Full Metal Alchemist
Dragonball Z
YuYu Hakusho
Naruto(before the filler hell or the pre time skip)
FLCL
One Piece :)
 

soju

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Favorite Animes:
-Lucky Star( =w= )
-Samurai X(*Ruroini Kenshin)
-Gunsou Keroro(*Sgt. Frog)
-Samurai Champloo (R.I.P. Nujabes)

Favorite Mangas:
-Eyeshield 21( Japanese football to the extreme)
-Fruits Basket( Aww i feel bad for the cat too he missed all that sweet luscious food TT.TT)
-Yu Yu Hakasho(Spirit Shotgun FTW)
 

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I thought Death Note was great, but the English version was terrible. I couldn't get through an episode of the English version (mainly due to L's voice).

The first 15-18 episodes were fantastic, but kinda went a little downhill after that...but it was still an amazing show. I guess it is my favorite. The only other anime where I've seen the entire series is Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop. I liked both of them a lot too, but Death Note was just soo much better.
 

global-wolf

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My favorite mangas are:

One Piece
Fairy Tail
Shaman King
Bleach
Naruto
Eyeshield 21

There's more, but I can't think of them right now lol.
YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

EYESHIELD 21 RULES THE MANGA WORLD.


After that I like D Gray Man, Bakuman, Bleach, and Prince of Tennis, in no particular order. I also like Naruto and Katelyo Hitman Reborn but the recent chapters have been really crappy.

For anime, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Yugioh :D
 

UberMario

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Favorite anime: Pokemon, Digimon, Hamtaro.

Favorite manga: Pokemon Adventures
 
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