@@britneynicole8903 It hits hard, def one of the more impactful manga, not for the feint of heart, has SA, murder, and much much more, but the beauty of its quiet moments are what we all know it for. eyepatchwolf did a great video regarding it with little to no spoilers iirc
But I wouldn't recommend it as a starter manga at all. At least that's not my philosophy when it comes to manga recommendations ("bottom" to "top" but not so strict)
Merphy mentioning Calvin and Hobbes just solidifies why this is such a great channel. Easily the best newspaper comic of all time and imo one of the greatest pieces of fiction ever created.
@@merphynapier42 I'm 17, and my dad (55) got me into Calvin and Hobbes as a kid, and I still am a huge fan of it. It's a piece of my childhood now, and I can't ever forget it.
I think it’s helpful to understand the different market groupings: shonen being for young boys, shoujo for young girls, seinen for adult men, and josei for adult women. Not that there isn’t overlap, but once you know what the different tropes associated with those groups it’s a lot easier to find something catered to your tastes. Romance lovers shouldn’t look to shonen manga, for example, to find a love story. Even if there are some shonen with good romance subplots, it’s just not what it’s known for and more often than not you’re going to be disappointed
I'm really enjoying my first manga experience with Vinland Saga (Thank you Merphy!). I think it's just a matter of finding a story that clicks with you.
thank you for promoting manga to your booktuber friends and subscribers, been reading manga and novels (books) since my early teenage years. and it's kinda rare for me to find someone who enjoys both like i do. often times people are on different sides of the spectrum in this thing. either they love books and don't like manga and some are the other way around, when both are excellent mediums for a great story and gives different kind of experience
My recommendations for any new manga reader: -If you are gonna start a series because you see it ranking high in myanimelist/anilist or is very popular and you don't like it after you've read some of it, DO NOT DISCARD IT COMPLETLY Try to find some other series that YOU like and then go back to those popular titles to see it with a deeper understanding of the medium, I've seen a lot of people going into series that they've loved on a second try because they could get a better grasp of what the author was going for -At least read an arc, don't drop a series after the first chapter or volume, give the series the time to show what is trying to do. Many series have wikis where you can find information about the length of the arcs... and that gets me to the last tip -If you can do long reading sessions, DO THEM, something that Merphy didn't say is that mangas are published in magazines chapter by chapter, meaning authors have a limited panel length for each chapter because they have to publish every week or month with many other series. So take advantage of having everything available and if you can, let somebody that knows the series tell you where are the best stopping points so that you don't stop a chapter short of some climax (like I've done and you bet it is frustrating)
Also, anime/manga are very different from the other mediums, so FIRST I would try to start getting into it little by little with stories that make me acquainted with the medium. For example, even though imo Chainsaw Man is magnificent I would NEVER recommend it to a beginner because that person wouldn't get the most of it because that person hasn't embraced some things that are unique to manga/anime, that person hasn't passed that "initiation" stage.
This is so true. Gotta give it an arc to really get the flow and understand the full scope of story telling. For example, so many people drop One Piece early, but if you get to Arlong Park... well... we know what happens lol
I agree with the community parts. It is more fun to involve yourself with others who love the same story. Not to mention, it is really interesting to see other's interpretation of the story or their take that could make you go "ah! So, it can have that kinda meaning/implication too!". Or in case of long running series like One Piece, it's fun to share theories and details that you might miss yourself.
I got into manga because of you. The library is another great option for getting mangas if you don't want to put into it. I finished Attack on Titan not to long ago and it is now one of my favourite series of all time.
Have loved manga since I first discovered the medium as a kid. There's so many different types of stories! And now with the explosion of manhwa (Korean manga) and manga from outside Japan those stories just expand! It's great
I think one reason why I personally prefer manga over books, is the fact that you get everything visualized. Sure you can explain someone's facial expression or a fight scene or a action scene through words but nothing is more effective than actual seeing it in person in a visualized form.
@@britneynicole8903 Yeah, but this also depends on the mangaka (artist). Some mangaka's draw better some worse, the quality also depends on the schedule, some Manga release weekly and some monthly some even only once a year get 1 chapter. Obviously with more time the art can be improved upon.
@@britneynicole8903 Hmmmmm... I like the abstract body horror artwork of Junji Ito's work, I like Vinland Saga and Berserks more detailed "realistic" art style mixing western culture ideas with Japanese story telling and artwork. When it comes to weekly shows obviously a weekly manga will have a lesser art quality (still some artists go all in and try do they best), I think a good example would be Tabata the mangaka from Black Clover his art specially when he draws Demon's is just breathtaking, how does he do such detailed arts in a weekly manga? I have no idea. If you don't care about art but story telling there are obviously better mangas than Black Clover like One Piece, Chainsaw Man, Jujitsu Kaisen...
I've been a manga reader since late middle school/early high school. I probably read more manga than books but loved this channel even before you started covering manga. It's so great to see this progression. :)
Same, i discovered the channel before she started covering manga. I was initially wondering why booktubers don't cover manga as it is a great medium and here we are, happy to see how things have changed :)
@@oliverapaquet2511 Yeah!! Honestly I've been so happy seeing manga progress into the mainstream! :) It feels like this year especially I've seen so many references to it even from people I wasn't expecting.
personally Berserk by Kentaro Muira is the "Peak" manga experience and what makes Manga different from other book mediums. how he drawn every panel is nothing short of "Art", i just wished he was able to finish it. Rest in peace.
manga can be a great way to learn, many authors tend to do extensive research on a topic for their stories and then explain in it easy to understand ways or build upon it for absurd storylines. a thing to note is new readers may stumble on manhua (chinese) and Manhwa/webtoon (korean) comics as well and tend to be in full colour, these sometimes are read like western comics. you can usually pick up the structure fairly quickly if reading feels a bit off. My suggestion for a great korean webtoon is Solo Leveling.
Here are some other recommendations! -The promised neverland, the anime is not that good but my god the manga is top tier. I can’t explain it because the plot is a spoiler, but is a house of orphans who fight to scape after they discover the truth about it. -blue period is about an artist and how art changes the way he looks at real life. -Tokyo ghoul, ghouls eat human flesh and they live amongst the people. Kaneki is just trying to get a date. -little witch hat atelier is a really fun fantasy story. -the way of the house husband is a comedy focused on an ex yakuza mob boss who’s now retired and in charge of maintaining the house for his wife. -chainsaw man, if you like a little gore this is for you, is about a guy who becomes friend with a demon as a kid and bad things ensues. It’s also a comedy, similar to jujutsu kaisen if you’ve seen it. - children of the whales is a sad fantasy story about a collapsing world. It has a one season anime and it’s really good, but it pales to the manga. To your eternity, another sad manga that focus on a compilation of different story perspectives all linked to one medium. You will cry in the first volume, I don’t make the rules. -seraph of the end is a vampire saga, a little more juvenile but it has a really good story. The anime was good tho it was cancelled.
Im so happy you’re getting into manga since I’ve just started to as well. I’m currently reading KINGDOM and it is one of the best fictional books I’ve ever read! I’m not even halfway through, but I have been hooked!! I keep telling my close friends how great it is but because it’s so dense all I can say is “I don’t know where to start”, that’s how fast pace it is. I can only read it digitally, but because it’s extremely long it works best in that format. I hope you give it a go! Mangas On my list to read: 20th century Boys, BESERK, Great Teacher Onizuka, Yona of the Dawn, Good Night PunPun, Dorohedoro, Is, Vagabond and Monster. Other recommendations are welcome, especially slice of life/ romance as there’s not a lot on my list. 👍
These are really good ones! I can add some slice of life/romance/other recommendations: Natsume's Book of Friends: slice of life about a boy who can see fantasy creatures. Beautiful, funny, and very tender. March Comes in Like a Lion: slice of life about a young man slowly recovering from depression. Your Lie in April: Romance between two young musicians. Ouran High School Host Club: Romantic comedy that pokes fun at all the romance tropes. Mushi-shi: quiet, eerie series about encounters with the supernatural. Gorgeous art.
Love to see some Yona of the Dawn representation and I'm glad it's on the list. It's spoken about so little, but it's so good. For slice of life/romances, I would recommend you *Blue Box* Komi Can't Communicate *Tomo chan is a girl* *Ouran Highschool Host Club* Sweetness and Lightning Our Precious Conversations
@@elfchild9 Thank you so much for the recommendations!! I’m really intrigued about Your Lie in April, I’ve come across the anime and heard that it’s heartfelt. I’ll also give the rest a go. 👍🔥
@@bastion4975 Thanks for the list of recommendations, I really do appreciate it! And you’re right about Yona of the Dawn, I only saw two TH-camrs discussing the manga and stated that it’s one of the best they read- but other than that i haven’t come across others discussing it. 🔥👍
Great Teacher Onizuka is absolutely amazing, it’s probably my favorite of the ones you mentioned! Fair warning for Oyasumi PunPun, it’s the kind of story that works best when you’re in a certain head space, it’s somewhat depressing and trippy but also a very beautiful story. Hope you have fun!
A lot of family members and friends grew up watching anime and reading manga, but I wasn’t able to get into. I started during the pandemic when I needed something to pass the time and I’m so obsessed now. My favorite anime and manga has to be Haikyuu! I actually picked up the manga after season 4 of the anime bc I needed to know what happened next and it really changed my watching/reading experience
Love the shoutout to digital. As someone new to Manga(reading 60% comics digitally from many years), it really helps me to explore more titles and complete/drop based on interest, and the discounts/huge price difference helps too.
Also "Bakuman" is 100% worth watching since it's dedicated to the manga-related processes themselves (conceptualizing, plotting, drawing, approval, issuing, adaptating, etc.). The whole story is quite sensitive and investing 😌
I feel like manga authors writing about manga is as creatively bankrupt as hollywood writers writing about hollywood. I even liked Bakuman but it being a manga about manga just put me off
My wife isn't really a manga person, but loves mystery books. That being said, she owns 80-something volumes of Case Closed. There's literally a manga for everyone.
Good to see Case Closed mentioned and being liked. I loved that one when i initially got into manga twenty or so years ago. Precisely because i'm a big mystery novel/Sherlock Holmes fan. :)
the single biggest tip I have to anyone trying to get into anime/manga is to realize that it is a medium, not a genre. Just like movies, just like books, there's something out there for everyone, it just depends on what you like, A personal recommendation: March came in like a lion. Breathtaking anime, amazing manga, one of the best depictions of depression every put to paper.
Manga is much faster to read because you don't need to describe the actions of a person and the way they look in a situation and even the background/scenery, all that information is provided by the artist. All you have to do to gain context on those parts is look at the artwork and then read the dialogue. This alone probably cuts like half of the content in traditional books.
@@noname3609 Ooh yes! I am planning on picking up VS and OP in December. I am thinking I will need to order the first volume of VS off of Amazon. I heard that they do not make print copies of it anymore.
Shout out to the Shonen Jump and Tapas apps. They've revived my childhood love of reading stories especially with my lack of active free time nowadays with a family. I was never into reading manga until I watched One Piece then switched to reading during Wano. That interest blossomed into reading many manga series although I have a particular love of Isekai (especially those with literal kingdom/nation/country building): Reincarnated as a Slime, Re:Monster, How the Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Mushoku Tensei, etc. Recently, I've hopped on the manhua/manhwa train with Tapas. I subbed to at least 10 different series just this week on there: The Beginning After the End, Estio, Solo Leveling, The Enchanting Villainess, Wicked No More, and many, many more. Interesting stories of all genres and almost always in color with beautiful art. There's so much reading content to take in.
If you like comedic fantasies like Discworld or D&D-adjacent humor, and also like cooking, I highly recommend "Delicious in Dungeon" (aka Dungeon Meshi)! It's an excellent series about a group of adventurers in such a rush to save one of their companions deep in a dungeon that they decide they'll just eat whatever creature they find, learning to cook slimes, walking mushrooms, or even mimics. The series is also going to have an anime adaptation by Studio Trigger.
Never thought I'd stumble upon a channel with reviews from Harry Potter to Avatar the Last Airbender to even fully caught up One Piece manga. You're insane. It's been so fun reliving all of this through your experiences. Where has this channel been all my life!?
Something important I want to add is that manga can be very different from comics, not just in the direction you're reading, but also in the paneling. For many comic readers, there are many manga that seem to have very chaotic panel structures because manga tends really emphasize structuring things by how it'll make your eyes flow through the page & using the panels jutting out or characters breaking through panels & sometimes even crazier things to convey stuff to the reader at the cost of the traditional structure of paneling you see in comics. Another big difference is that manga tends to do something different from the "moment-to-moment" structure of comics. In comics, the next panel usually is always depicting something that happens after the previous panel. In manga though, the next panels aren't always depicting what happens after the previous panels. Sometimes they're depicting things that are happening at the same time as the previous panel(s). This is especially the case if it's establishing atmosphere, but it isn't only done when establishing atmosphere. It's done a lot. It's a spacial sort of structure that might confuse you if you're an avid comic reader. (There are some comics that use spacial structures in it's paneling so many it won't be too difficult. But you might still get confused) There's also the soft rule that smaller panels are usually panels the author allows you to skim. These panels usually contain characters explaining what's happening or talking about something or other, and sometimes you can skim that dialogue if it's in a small panel. There's also dialogue that's not in a speech bubble. Usually text that isn't in a speech bubble means that it is either someone's inner thoughts or it is some kind of narration. But there are times where you'll see little bits of dialogue that isn't in a speech bubble but is right next to it. Those pieces of dialogue are basically unimportant dialogue, meaning they're something the character says either because they have to say it for the scene to be realistic & make sense or because of the character's personality, but it isn't really important for anything in the scene or story. There's also small, empty panels, like a bunch of little black rectangles right next to each other, which usually means an ending of a scene or a big leap in time. Usually it means the next scene after that collection of small empty rectangles takes place a long time in the future or maybe a long time in the past in the case of flashbacks. Either the next few hours, the next day, or the next decade, any big leap in time. There are many more things that separates manga from comics, such as Kishoutenketsu story structure(which is especially prevelant in comedy scenes or comedy manga), Mono no Aware, etc. But these are the basics. In general, going from comics to manga is pretty easy, but there are things that might initially confuse you or overwhelm you a bit.
I got into reading manga by going to a Barnes and Noble and just randomly picking things and just sit down and read them. I think it starts with the actual physical volumes. But yeah a tablet really is a game changer. I usually read the latest One Piece Chapter on my IPad. I don’t read books much but if I ever find something that interests me, it goes straight to the IPad XD
Having a community to share your thoughts with as read advance in a series is really fun. I was half way into Alabasta when Merphy started releasing One Piece reviews and we moved step by step through the run of the series. I always so looked forward to my Friday morning videos updating the progress we had both made on the series. It was really a cool experience I had never engaged in before. Thanks Merph
Speaking of Calvin and Hobes, A lot of humorous manga are actually done in a 4 pannel setup (Azumanga Daioh is a prominent 4 panel series with a really great adaptation) If you want to see how varied Manga can get, one of the curent ongoing series in Shonen Jump is Akane-banashi, which is about Rakugo, a traditional Japanese style of storytelling told by a storyteller who remains seated the whole time and can't use any props other than a fan. Other prominent Manga from further back have been about Go (The strategy game), about writing Manga (Bakuman gets very meta at times), And I've heard of a title about a man who's a master of apologizing.
A fair warning to anyone pocking up manga for the first time: Once you’ve read enough of it you will get used to reading from the "wrong" side. I still get confused at times about which way I’m supposed to read.
I think one of the things that made Manga click for me is just actually reading every panel. I know that sounds obvious but I often just instinctually went to looking at the dialogue instead of paying attention to how the author uses panels to break up the pacing of conversations and events. Once I understood that god did I love everything about Manga. My favourite thing is the page turn, when your reading an intense scene and the tension keeps building and building as you read and then suddenly you turn the page and it’s just one or two big panels that make your jaw drop. My favourite example is Goodnight Punpun in vol 6 which I won’t spoil but that moment has stuck with me ever since. Manga’s that perfect the page turn are always the most memorable ones for me, it’s why I love Tatsuki Fujimoto’s works or Inio Asano or Hajime Isayama because their page turns are always so effective.
one thing i think readers should keep in mind is that it's not uncommon for a good series to be a bit dull for the first volume. For me Naruto wasn't interesting at first but the Zabuza/Haku arc in vol 2 and 3 are my favorite story of that whole series.
I’m currently reading Basara online, it’s excellent Shoujo fantasy from the 90’s. I wish I could own it but it’s out of print and some of the volumes are very expensive 😞💀
For people who like books, the better equivalent would be light novels. Manga are more a counterpart to comic books. Manga and light novels are both worth reading. Especially if you get into an anime that only lasted a season and was mainly created to drive the sales of a manga or light novel. It worked for me, because I got tired of watching an anime I liked end after one season and wondering what happened afterward. Although sometimes seeing the story completed still doesn't pan out if the novel or manga gets cancelled. Still, there are a ton of great light novels out there.
There's so much out there that even most people who've been reading manga their whole life don't even know about. There are small publishers who publish manga out of passion for the authors, which most well-known publishers wouldn't even consider to publish, since they're so niche. I highly recommend checking out the manga published by Glacier Bay Books, Star Fruit Books, Last Gasp, Drawn & Quarterly and Fanfare (small English branch of Ponent Mon). Their titles are all very unique and far from the mainstream. If you'd like a mature story with an art style that has realistic proportions and a lot of detail to it, check out Jiro Taniguchi's masterpiece "The Summit of the Gods". I consider this manga the best story of any medium. It's based on a novel, and even the author of the novel himself (Baku Yumemakura) said that the manga is the definitive version of his work, as it changed things he regretted about his novel for the better. If you like surrealism and abstract art styles, check out Glaeolia or really any other title published by Glacier Bay Books. Glaeolia contains many short stories by different authors. These kind of collections are usually referred to as "alternative manga collections" and there are many of them. "AX: Alternative Manga" is another one of these, published by TopShelf Productions. If you haven't read these collections, you haven't seen what the medium is capable of.
Manga feels easier to consume imo because the chapters are short enough to be consumed in one sitting and are separated enough to be remembered with a single number the chapter number (plus remembering a picture is vastly easier than remembering a sentence for instance), compared to say in a book where the chapters may be long enough that you'll have to stop on an arbitrary page and even with a bookmark you'll might have to remember which word within that page you left off of or smth. The chapters also greatly condense the info, wherein a book might have a sentence to describe the landscape or the expression of characters manga simply draw them so that immediately cuts out the reading time spent on those, making consuming manga much faster for me at least. I'd imagine if One Piece was a novel or smth I'd probably still not be caught up to it to this day. The chapter by chapter consumption thing also helps curb the fear of a long manga imo. I feel vastly more intimidated seeing a massive book than I do seeing a long-running manga because it's easier to stop, and easier to go back to certain parts as well without even having any bookmarks besides the chapter title and/or number for manga. Sure you might be able to remember a page, but more than likely a scene or event would take a couple pages, and remembering which group of pages constitute the scene you want to view is far harder than say just checking a chapter title/number seeing if the title matches the scene you have in mind or at least is remotely related to it and checking that chapter to see if the scene you wanted to revisit was there. If I wanted to do that with a book I'd be lost because while some novels may contain chapters they're not as specific as manga chapters so you're forced to remember page groups instead, and checking if it's the right page group is much harder because you'll have to leaf through words as compared to just staring at the illustrations on the chapter pages.
watching this video felt like merphy passing her final oral exam after taking a manga class lol. i remember your first one piece videos and now you are one of us. you actually read more manga than i thought. thank you for spreading the love for manga and trying to get your novel subscribers to join us.
This is exactly the well balanced take that is refreshing to see. I too am an avid reader doing 1-2 books a week. my mum reads too but she refused to give any manga a chance due to a prejudice I guess
I remember when I started reading manga in college being a bit confused at first, but I got the hang of it by the end of the first volume I read. Now, I always try to go right to left reading regular comics/graphic novels 😆 …also, Japan has a piece of my heart ♥️
Good timing for this lol. I read a ton of manga in my teens and early twenties, and I've recently felt the urge to get back into it. I actually went to the store yesterday and bought a small stack of new manga for the first time in almost a decade. Getting back into the hobby, I decided to go back to the stuff that really got me into it in the first place, so I bought the first volume of Dragon Ball, as well as a few horror books. Just finished reading the first volumes of "Parasyte" by Hitoshi Iwaaki and "Orochi" by Kazuo Umezu right before watching this video. Highly recommend both for fans Junji Ito.
I've basically only read manga since about 10 years ago and never considered myself as someone who actually reads. I decided at the start of the year to read more novels etc and came across your channel, so I'm glad you've started where I've ended. Decided to start reading Mystborn due to your recommendation and I'm half way through the first book! I will say its hard to find people who read anything, even regular books.
@@joshuawalters7520 without spoiling it for anyone, I'm enjoying the pace of it. Even though there is jumps in the timeframe, I don't feel like its going too fast. Laughed more at Kelsiers antics than I thought I would lol
OK, sorry if I'm posting too many replies, but I will say that because you encouraged me to read Spy x Family, I am experiencing for the first time the joy of: 1)Reading new manga chapters as they are being released; 2)Experiencing the anime as it releases new episode adapting said manga. 🙌
Reccomendations (trying to only mention things I haven't seen from others): Gon by Masashi Tanaka is probably a really good starting point because it is completely textless. It's entirely told silently through its pictures. So if you're just trying to get used to panelling and page layouts, Gon is a really good starter. The art is also gorgeous, so it's got that going for it as well. Do be warned though. Some online scans are flipped to read left-to-right because at one point in the past, it got an official English release which flopped it over to read left-to-right, which many online scans pull from. Urusei Yatsura or Ranma 1/2, both by Rumiko Takahashi are really good starting points if you're interested in the history of the medium, since the former basically laid the groundwork for Japanese romcoms in the late 70s, and the latter is an arguably more narratively refined work from the same author a decade later. Both are well worth the read though. Pretty much anything by CLAMP (a group operating under a single penname comprised of Satsuki Igarashi, Nanase Ohkawa, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona) is golden too. Surely you've heard of Cardcaptor Sakura, but they've also made plenty of other bangers, such as; -Chobits -Tsubasa Chronicle (Wing Chronicle) -X -xxxHOLiC -Magic Knight Rayearth -Tokyo Babylon -Angelic Layer -Kobato -Clover and plenty more stuff Yotsuba& (Yotsuba to) by Kiyohiko Azuma, who some may recognise from Azumanga Daioh, is one of the most delightful things you'll ever read that will immediately restore your faith in humanity. And a personal favourite, Letter Bee (Tegami Bachi) by Hiroyuki Asada is a gaslamp fantasy set in a world with no sun, built around a caste system of proximity to an artificial replacement in which we follow postmen travelling between districts and keeping the segregated regions connected through their letters. Highly recommend all of these.
I love to discover mangas that are sooo overlooked but so FUCKING GREAT that you can't believe how nobody talks about them. And of all the hundreds I could add xD, I will add just one because I don't have time to write, Vanitas no Karte.
libraries and library apps also often have volumes digitally! that said, i think you'd really enjoy dungeon meshi/delicious in dungeon. it's a comedic high fantasy with surprisingly dark themes and plot points. also gorgeous art 😆
I'm a big book readers (I'm a librarian) and I personally never really got into manga until I read some mangas that were totally outside my usual genres. I read/watched Death Notes, Full Metal Alchemist, One Punch Man, etc. But I really fell in love with manga when I tried Shoujo manga which I was kinda judging before I tried the first one... Then I was doomed ahah
if you ever feel like watching an original anime, I highly recommend A Place Further Than The Universe. One of the main things I love about the show is the bond between the main characters, which seems like something that would appeal to you A manga I would recommend is Erased. It's a great mystery thriller about a guy who time travels back to his childhood a few weeks or so before a serial killer starts murdering some of his classmates. It does a really good job at making you invested in what happens to these kids, and the dark & sometimes seemingly hopeless situation greatly enhances the heartwarming moments when they happen
My favorite comedy manga is Hinamatsuri. It's premise is kind of insane, but it's such a good time. Murphy says she likes the "falling into success" characters like Buggy from One Piece, and Hinamatsuri does it great in my opinion. It's also like Spy Family in a way, which I also recommend.
I just finished Pokemon Adventures this week. I really enjoyed the series. The next series I want to check out are: Sailor Moon, My Hero Academia and One Piece.
Out of the "Anime is not for kids" I suggest the classics, Hellsing, Ghost in the Shell and Akira. There is some not for young kids stuff there but these are classics. For "How about something cute and sweet" Try Bunny Drop. Or Usagi Drop. It is about a young kid being taken in a family and all it entails. And at the sideline also the hunt for the real mother. I wont' spoil the rest. It is cute and parents will recognize things.
I have alsk been in the same boat as the rest of you, I started with reading books and novels and then manga to manwa(Korean) and light novels. There’s so many stories out there in so many formats that can be enjoyed by everyone at a given age. Manga are stories that’s plblack and white that read from right to left. Manwa is usually on digitall platforms, reading from top to bottom and in color. Found on WEBTOON and maybe others) Light novels are similar to manga and novels, most coming from an online website in Japan. They’re read a bit more quickly with simple structure. Most would have black and white pictures with some color illustration that is the character page (so one could know what they look like) I Love many types of genres of what you could get into from manga or light novels. My personal favorite have been sports/slice of life) most would think this could be boring from the looks of it but digging deeper would bring a story of characters who not only play the sport to win but live out their young lives. One of my favorites that have an English translation available in America is called Cross Game, written by Mitsuru Adachi. He’s made over 20 mangas over the course of decades and is quite a known figure in Japan but only one is available in America, most are fan translationed by dedicated fans. Cross Game is different sports series. It’s more than just sports, it’s life and how the characters deal with something( not gonna spoil) and how they cope with it. Please give this a try, it’s mostly available im digitally, since not enough copies were sold. I mean you don’t have to I’m not going to force any of you but I am inviting most of you who are reading this to at least try if you want to try a sports slice of life drama series.
I thank you so much, for so long I've been looking for a way to read the demon slayer mangas for cheap and shonen jump actually is the best place. All the chapters for 2.79 CAD when everywhere else you'd have to pay 8 dollars. I am actually so excited to be able to finally get into manga so thank you Merph
2:39 One thing important to mention about reading digitally: while their screens aren't that big or detailed, I find e-ink devices like Kindle are great for reading manga. The screen's already black and white, they're lighter than tablets and they don't hurt your eyes after extended reading.
Manga is one of my favorite mediums to read. Reminds me of reading comic books when I was a kid and the story immersion was incredible. Manga is great.
Incredibly thoughtful and well produced video. Thanks for spreading the good word of the medium! To any novel readers out there -- do try out some manga, however unusual or intimidating it might be for you initially. After all, it opens a whole new world to the experience of enjoying great stories, which is what we're all here for. And, of course, never judge a book by its cover . :)
I do remember the first Manga that got me going headdiving into the world of it. I grew up with Anime most of my life (Vampire Princess Myiu OVA, Blue Seed, and Sailor Moon were the main ones when I was in Elementry and Middle School with bits and peices of Ninja Scrolls. It was around maybe the end of Middle School I got into Neo Genisis Evagalion and Escaflowne... And Only Sailor Moon is good for Young Children just need to put out there. There are much more I did grow up with but that's just to give you the idea of the range I grew up with) But I hadn't read the Sailor Moon Manga yet (It is darker than the anime as it talks about some more adult themes than they do in the anime until much later). What got me thinking to reading more Manga was actually this unknown story that is even not well known to this day: Kazan. It's only 7 volumes long, and I'm still wanting to finish the series as they don't have it as an Ebook... (I also want to finish my collection of it as I still have books 1-4) But that was what sparked my love of the medium. From there, I was able to pick up the Sailor Moon Manga and even When in collage, Pick up the Vampire Princess Myiu Manga and fell in love with the manga of Mushishi and Sayiuki after I watched the animes of those. Sometimes the Anime isn't a one to one adaptation, and sometimes not even a good one. But the ones that isn't a one to one, sometimes adds to the Manga stories as well, Like the Vampire Princess Myiu OVAs and 1990 Series adds to the Manga experience through exploring other things. (Sadly Escaflowne is *not* in Manga form, so I can't really suggest that for Merphy. Well it is, but the Anime came first before the Three versions of Manga that go three *compleately* different ways, which is a wild story on how that came about in the first place, and Escaflowne also has a Movie version (also anime) that is also *vastly* different and follows different themes than the anime series and I don't think it would work well for Merphy to searching for three versions which are hard to find in the first place *and* she's newer to the Manga world and thus may overwhelm her trying to find all the versions which doesn't even follow how the actual story goes in the first place. From what I also Understand, Eva is also in a weird place with Manga and Anime versions as Eva is another that started out first as an Anime and the Manga came after but at least was written by the same person. But someone can correct me if I'm wrong.)
Junji Ito was my introduction to reading manga seriously as oof what a decision. So fun and the art is incredible. Highly recommend the Beastars Manga too. It's great
Please read the manga of Osamu Tezuka, who is said to be the god of manga in Japan someday. He created the prototype for all comics that exist today. His lifework "Hinotori (Firebird)" seems long and unwieldy, but I'd like you to read just the dawn, phoenix, and future chapters. You can see how this work continues to influence current manga artists from here and there
I’m working my way through fullmetal alchemist which is my first manga (not counting the first volume of Tokyo Ghoul). I have a few others on my TBR and as someone who prefers an actual book the whole digital vs physical is becoming an internal battle I’ve been having with myself for the sake of my bank account 😢
Here are my recommendations: 1) Grandson of Nurarihyon (if you like ghost stories, but don't want to lose sleep over nightmares) 2) I was a sword when I reincarnated. (Found family, fantasy, alternate world, father daughter dynamic. Main character has supporting role to his adopted daughter) 3) that time I got reincarnated as a slime (Kingdom building, politics, epic fights, power scaling, etc) 4) Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon? (Fantasy, level system, weak to strong protagonist, slow but steady build up, dungeon crawling)
So since Merphy made a video about manga recommendations, I have to give my obligatory recommendation to everyone I can get my hands on: *Yona of the Dawn*. This is my favorite manga next to One Piece and I wish more people talked about it. Now, I know Merphy is already aware of it. She quoted from it by chance in her "Book Quotes I Love" video, and mentioned it by name in her Birthday Livestream. Hopefully, she'll discuss it on her main or second channel, but I can only hope for now. Therefore, this is less directed towards her, and mostly to people that come upon the comment. Yona of the Dawn is a Shoujo (means that it's a story targeted towards young girls). Now, if you're put off by its demographic categorization, don't let it fool you. This is a story full of action, fantasy, adventure, politics, war, sprinkled romance, found family, and so much more. The story follows the sheltered and pampered Princess of the Kingdom Kouka, named Yona. On her 16th birthday, tragedy struck, and she has to flee the castle with the help of her bodyguard, Hak, who's also her childhood friend. Now out of the castle, some events occur, and Yona realizes how sheltered her life was, and decides to go on a journey around the Kingdom with Hak by her side to gather some allies and help the Kingdom, that unbeknownst to her before leaving the castle is basically in tatters, in any way she can. I left many details vague because spoilers, even of the first 2 chapters, but hopefully this will get someone to read it, if they even finish reading this block of text.
Great video. I’m so used to the back to front format that it’s probably not something I’d immediately think of letting a beginner know about beforehand. 😂 Knowing some of the tropes you like I recommend Assassination Classroom. I think you’d really enjoy that manga. Haikyuu as well. But I’m really only suggesting that because it’s my all time favourite series along with One Piece. 😂 It’s really good. Both of these series’ are finished as well.
Not sure who will read this, but I feel like it's related. There's a lot of niche mangas out there of all different subjects and fans of those series who painstakingly translate, clean and upload chapters online for others to view and enjoy as well. So broaden your digital search to online readers, find these scanlation groups who do the work voluntarily for series that have not yet been picked up in the US for translation and maybe, just maybe, you'll find another series to love. And obviously, if it's translated officially in english, support them too!
I just started reading Berserk and Dragon Ball. But Berserk... SO DAMN GOOD! I'll be jumping into One Piece soon as well. I tried watching the anime, watched 10 or so episodes but the number of remaining episodes is kinda intimidating, so I think reading 1000+ chapters is easier and faster than watching 1000+ episodes. Please let me know if I'm wrong.
Reading manga helped me overcome my dyslexia. I started to hate reading in middle school, my teachers gave me shit, I got kicked out of college for having low grades, but I'm starting to enjoy reading again. I'm getting into light novels too.
There is so much manga to read, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. Even if you sort by genre, your options are endless. But I like that there’s so much variety.
here is my 2 cents for anyone getting into manga. it helps knowing what are the demographic terms used for manga. this is a list of some that i am personally familiar with along with examples using manga Merphy has already read and some that are well known titles. Shonen, manga for teenage boys (One Piece, HxH, A Silent Voice, FMA, Spy x Family, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Chainsaw Man, Haikyuu) this is the most popular and a lot of anime fall in this demographic. Shojo, manga for teenage girls (Fruits Basket, Sailor Moon, Ouran High School Host Club, From Me To You) Seinen, manga for young adult and adult men (Vinland Saga, Uzumaki, Berserk, Blame!, Real, Oyasumi Punpun) Josei, manga for young adult and adult women (as far as i can tell Merphy has not read any yet. Chihayafuru. out of the 4 here, this is the one I read from the least)
Manga series I totally recommend you to read are Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, The Promised Neverland, Food Wars, Rosario+Vampire season 1 and season 2, Oresama Teacher, Skip Beat, Working!!!, Haikyuu!!, Shaman King, Yu Yu Hakusho, Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, Tokyo Mew Mew, Shugo Chara!, Ouran High-school Host Club, Seven Deadly Sins, Demon Slayer, Ultra Maniac, Horimiya, Maid Sama, Yamada-Kun and The Seven Witches, Saint Seiya, Runonen Kenshin, Hajime No Ippo and Captain Tsubasa
This video and your previous one came at the perfect time! I have so many people in my life saying "I wish I could read more." Well, thanks to you, now they can!😊
Who doesn't like looking at pictures and reading something at the same time, but Berserk is my go to recommendation for people that have never read manga and are into horror/fantasy and shows like Game of Thrones and The Witcher.
I'll recommend please read "kingdom" its a perfect mixture of seinen and shonen I'll bet there is no other story which has such detailed warfares its has wars, national politics, internal politics,dreams, despair, inherited will, freindship,classism and much more please it's a must read
I will once again repeat my recommendation for Bakuman. It's from the creators of Death Note, but it has a completely different feel. It follows two young students as they break their way into the manga industry. It's wonderful and here's why: It offers an excellent look into not only the writing process, but the publishing process as well. Both in general and for manga specifically. The writing is spectacular. The characters are fleshed out and whole, the story comes from first hand experience, there's so much sneaky meta-commentary; it's freaking great. The various manga series that the different characters create and write over the course of the story almost become characters in and of themselves. It's like getting a dozen stories for the price of one. I've been reading manga for over 20 years and this series remains to this day one of my absolute favorites. Even if you don't want to talk about it on the channel, I definitely think you'd enjoy reading it.
So I grew up on anime, I started watching Naruto when I was 4, and then got into DBZ, Bleach, and a couple others. Once I had access to a computer I started reading Naruto weekly when I was about 9 and already owned a couple volumes. I was a big book worm, but I only read manga when it came to comics, and to this day I read memes wrong because I’ll start in the top right corner 😂
Thanks for this! I've been wanting to get into manga for a while now and this was an encouraging nudge. Especially thank you for the Shonen jump and Book Walker recs - the price of manga was definitely a huge factor holding me back. 💛💛💛
The greatest thing about Manga to me, there’s something for everyone. So glad she said Berserk. The saga continues.
That one sounds soo good!
@@britneynicole8903 Berserk is a wild ride but it has so much heart and human conflict at the core of it and the main character defeats demons too.
@@artandourentertainment.2077 Ooh
@@britneynicole8903 It hits hard, def one of the more impactful manga, not for the feint of heart, has SA, murder, and much much more, but the beauty of its quiet moments are what we all know it for. eyepatchwolf did a great video regarding it with little to no spoilers iirc
@@zirontheimpaler That one sounds great. I will need to add that to my reading list! I really enjoy those kinds of stories
Monster is a criminaly underrated manga, the anime adaptation is excellent aswell
That one sounds very good!
But I wouldn't recommend it as a starter manga at all. At least that's not my philosophy when it comes to manga recommendations ("bottom" to "top" but not so strict)
Wouldn't say underrated. It's very well known.
yes, yes, and yes, I 100% agree
It's not really under rated, it's highly praised. Maybe it's not talked about too much these days because it ended a few years ago
Merphy mentioning Calvin and Hobbes just solidifies why this is such a great channel. Easily the best newspaper comic of all time and imo one of the greatest pieces of fiction ever created.
It’s one of my favorite things!
I need to try that one out! Okay, I just added this one to my list! I am living for this!!
@@merphynapier42 I'm 17, and my dad (55) got me into Calvin and Hobbes as a kid, and I still am a huge fan of it. It's a piece of my childhood now, and I can't ever forget it.
100% agree
Love Calvin and Hobbes so much. Growing up, I would always get the newest C&H book for my birthday every year.
I think it’s helpful to understand the different market groupings: shonen being for young boys, shoujo for young girls, seinen for adult men, and josei for adult women. Not that there isn’t overlap, but once you know what the different tropes associated with those groups it’s a lot easier to find something catered to your tastes. Romance lovers shouldn’t look to shonen manga, for example, to find a love story. Even if there are some shonen with good romance subplots, it’s just not what it’s known for and more often than not you’re going to be disappointed
Yup, exactly-Much like with regular novels 🙂
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing this info!
Unless it's Rumiko Takahashi.
@@s3studios597 She is an INCREDIBLE author!
I'm really enjoying my first manga experience with Vinland Saga (Thank you Merphy!). I think it's just a matter of finding a story that clicks with you.
I am looking forward to starting it and being able to be a part of the discussions!
@@britneynicole8903 Looking forward to it! :)
@@Dougeb7 Me too!!
I’m just waiting for my first book to be delivered. Can’t wait to start reading.
@@jamiewyman7213 I am ecstatic about starting it in a few weeks!
thank you for promoting manga to your booktuber friends and subscribers, been reading manga and novels (books) since my early teenage years. and it's kinda rare for me to find someone who enjoys both like i do. often times people are on different sides of the spectrum in this thing. either they love books and don't like manga and some are the other way around, when both are excellent mediums for a great story and gives different kind of experience
Yes! I love read both and the correlation is small.
SAAMMMEEE!!!!!
Which one do you gravitate more towards?
@@britneynicole8903 i consume a lot of manga and lite novels at the moment.
@@bananatown3381 That is awesome! What have you been your favorite mangas and novels lately?
My recommendations for any new manga reader:
-If you are gonna start a series because you see it ranking high in myanimelist/anilist or is very popular and you don't like it after you've read some of it, DO NOT DISCARD IT COMPLETLY
Try to find some other series that YOU like and then go back to those popular titles to see it with a deeper understanding of the medium, I've seen a lot of people going into series that they've loved on a second try because they could get a better grasp of what the author was going for
-At least read an arc, don't drop a series after the first chapter or volume, give the series the time to show what is trying to do. Many series have wikis where you can find information about the length of the arcs... and that gets me to the last tip
-If you can do long reading sessions, DO THEM, something that Merphy didn't say is that mangas are published in magazines chapter by chapter, meaning authors have a limited panel length for each chapter because they have to publish every week or month with many other series. So take advantage of having everything available and if you can, let somebody that knows the series tell you where are the best stopping points so that you don't stop a chapter short of some climax (like I've done and you bet it is frustrating)
THANK YOU!! 😁😁😁
I think dropping after a first volume is fine, if the storytelling isn't that interesting. Time is limited in life.
Also, anime/manga are very different from the other mediums, so FIRST I would try to start getting into it little by little with stories that make me acquainted with the medium. For example, even though imo Chainsaw Man is magnificent I would NEVER recommend it to a beginner because that person wouldn't get the most of it because that person hasn't embraced some things that are unique to manga/anime, that person hasn't passed that "initiation" stage.
This is so true. Gotta give it an arc to really get the flow and understand the full scope of story telling. For example, so many people drop One Piece early, but if you get to Arlong Park... well... we know what happens lol
Merphy mentioning that there are manga for rock climbing gives me hope she will read Kokou no Hito.
GOATED AF
I assumed that was what she was referring to tbh
I just started it!
@@merphynapier42 you want something to hit you like a truck try the pandora hearts manga
That sounds very good!
Watching these has definitely gotten motivated into picking up manga again! December is going to be an exciting month!
I agree with the community parts. It is more fun to involve yourself with others who love the same story. Not to mention, it is really interesting to see other's interpretation of the story or their take that could make you go "ah! So, it can have that kinda meaning/implication too!". Or in case of long running series like One Piece, it's fun to share theories and details that you might miss yourself.
I got into manga because of you. The library is another great option for getting mangas if you don't want to put into it. I finished Attack on Titan not to long ago and it is now one of my favourite series of all time.
I’ve never been able to get into manga but watching you cover things like Tomie and HxH has really convinced me to try again
Try something different like Grand blue or Dandadan or One punch man
I'm sure you'll like at least one of these if not all
It is definitely worth it!
I love starting to delve into new mediums in media. You get so many choices for certified greats and renowned authors right at your fingertips.
Have loved manga since I first discovered the medium as a kid. There's so many different types of stories! And now with the explosion of manhwa (Korean manga) and manga from outside Japan those stories just expand! It's great
I think one reason why I personally prefer manga over books, is the fact that you get everything visualized. Sure you can explain someone's facial expression or a fight scene or a action scene through words but nothing is more effective than actual seeing it in person in a visualized form.
The artwork is so incredible as well!
@@britneynicole8903 Yeah, but this also depends on the mangaka (artist). Some mangaka's draw better some worse, the quality also depends on the schedule, some Manga release weekly and some monthly some even only once a year get 1 chapter. Obviously with more time the art can be improved upon.
@@Official_RetroMania True. In your opinion, which manga has the best artwork?
@@britneynicole8903 Hmmmmm... I like the abstract body horror artwork of Junji Ito's work, I like Vinland Saga and Berserks more detailed "realistic" art style mixing western culture ideas with Japanese story telling and artwork. When it comes to weekly shows obviously a weekly manga will have a lesser art quality (still some artists go all in and try do they best), I think a good example would be Tabata the mangaka from Black Clover his art specially when he draws Demon's is just breathtaking, how does he do such detailed arts in a weekly manga? I have no idea. If you don't care about art but story telling there are obviously better mangas than Black Clover like One Piece, Chainsaw Man, Jujitsu Kaisen...
@@britneynicole8903 vagabond berserk one punch man
I've been a manga reader since late middle school/early high school. I probably read more manga than books but loved this channel even before you started covering manga. It's so great to see this progression. :)
Same, i discovered the channel before she started covering manga. I was initially wondering why booktubers don't cover manga as it is a great medium and here we are, happy to see how things have changed :)
@@oliverapaquet2511 Yeah!! Honestly I've been so happy seeing manga progress into the mainstream! :)
It feels like this year especially I've seen so many references to it even from people I wasn't expecting.
personally Berserk by Kentaro Muira is the "Peak" manga experience and what makes Manga different from other book mediums. how he drawn every panel is nothing short of "Art", i just wished he was able to finish it. Rest in peace.
Pfff reading is for nerds.
Im a nerd. 🥰
Somebody's trolling his friend.
manga can be a great way to learn, many authors tend to do extensive research on a topic for their stories and then explain in it easy to understand ways or build upon it for absurd storylines.
a thing to note is new readers may stumble on manhua (chinese) and Manhwa/webtoon (korean) comics as well and tend to be in full colour, these sometimes are read like western comics. you can usually pick up the structure fairly quickly if reading feels a bit off.
My suggestion for a great korean webtoon is Solo Leveling.
As a avid manga reader it always makes me happy to know you promote it so heavily on the channel. Brings a needed spotlight on the medium
Here are some other recommendations!
-The promised neverland, the anime is not that good but my god the manga is top tier. I can’t explain it because the plot is a spoiler, but is a house of orphans who fight to scape after they discover the truth about it.
-blue period is about an artist and how art changes the way he looks at real life.
-Tokyo ghoul, ghouls eat human flesh and they live amongst the people. Kaneki is just trying to get a date.
-little witch hat atelier is a really fun fantasy story.
-the way of the house husband is a comedy focused on an ex yakuza mob boss who’s now retired and in charge of maintaining the house for his wife.
-chainsaw man, if you like a little gore this is for you, is about a guy who becomes friend with a demon as a kid and bad things ensues. It’s also a comedy, similar to jujutsu kaisen if you’ve seen it.
- children of the whales is a sad fantasy story about a collapsing world. It has a one season anime and it’s really good, but it pales to the manga.
To your eternity, another sad manga that focus on a compilation of different story perspectives all linked to one medium. You will cry in the first volume, I don’t make the rules.
-seraph of the end is a vampire saga, a little more juvenile but it has a really good story. The anime was good tho it was cancelled.
The way of the house husband ❤️
To Your Eternity has an incredible first chapter, but gets progressively less enjoyable the longer it goes.
Im so happy you’re getting into manga since I’ve just started to as well. I’m currently reading KINGDOM and it is one of the best fictional books I’ve ever read! I’m not even halfway through, but I have been hooked!! I keep telling my close friends how great it is but because it’s so dense all I can say is “I don’t know where to start”, that’s how fast pace it is. I can only read it digitally, but because it’s extremely long it works best in that format. I hope you give it a go!
Mangas On my list to read:
20th century Boys, BESERK, Great Teacher Onizuka, Yona of the Dawn, Good Night PunPun, Dorohedoro, Is, Vagabond and Monster.
Other recommendations are welcome, especially slice of life/ romance as there’s not a lot on my list. 👍
These are really good ones! I can add some slice of life/romance/other recommendations:
Natsume's Book of Friends: slice of life about a boy who can see fantasy creatures. Beautiful, funny, and very tender.
March Comes in Like a Lion: slice of life about a young man slowly recovering from depression.
Your Lie in April: Romance between two young musicians.
Ouran High School Host Club: Romantic comedy that pokes fun at all the romance tropes.
Mushi-shi: quiet, eerie series about encounters with the supernatural. Gorgeous art.
Love to see some Yona of the Dawn representation and I'm glad it's on the list. It's spoken about so little, but it's so good. For slice of life/romances, I would recommend you
*Blue Box*
Komi Can't Communicate
*Tomo chan is a girl*
*Ouran Highschool Host Club*
Sweetness and Lightning
Our Precious Conversations
@@elfchild9 Thank you so much for the recommendations!! I’m really intrigued about Your Lie in April, I’ve come across the anime and heard that it’s heartfelt. I’ll also give the rest a go. 👍🔥
@@bastion4975 Thanks for the list of recommendations, I really do appreciate it! And you’re right about Yona of the Dawn, I only saw two TH-camrs discussing the manga and stated that it’s one of the best they read- but other than that i haven’t come across others discussing it. 🔥👍
Great Teacher Onizuka is absolutely amazing, it’s probably my favorite of the ones you mentioned! Fair warning for Oyasumi PunPun, it’s the kind of story that works best when you’re in a certain head space, it’s somewhat depressing and trippy but also a very beautiful story. Hope you have fun!
A lot of family members and friends grew up watching anime and reading manga, but I wasn’t able to get into. I started during the pandemic when I needed something to pass the time and I’m so obsessed now. My favorite anime and manga has to be Haikyuu! I actually picked up the manga after season 4 of the anime bc I needed to know what happened next and it really changed my watching/reading experience
Would love to see her review the haikyuu manga, it feels very similar to one piece from a storytelling perspective
Love the shoutout to digital. As someone new to Manga(reading 60% comics digitally from many years), it really helps me to explore more titles and complete/drop based on interest, and the discounts/huge price difference helps too.
Also "Bakuman" is 100% worth watching since it's dedicated to the manga-related processes themselves (conceptualizing, plotting, drawing, approval, issuing, adaptating, etc.). The whole story is quite sensitive and investing 😌
Ahhh!!
I'd recommend the manga since it itself is about writing manga lol, but yes, very underrated series more people should experience.
Bakuman is absolutely phenomenal. It has drama, great characters and it is super wholesome as well.
@@sarumane5380 That sounds very good!
I feel like manga authors writing about manga is as creatively bankrupt as hollywood writers writing about hollywood. I even liked Bakuman but it being a manga about manga just put me off
My wife isn't really a manga person, but loves mystery books. That being said, she owns 80-something volumes of Case Closed. There's literally a manga for everyone.
Good to see Case Closed mentioned and being liked. I loved that one when i initially got into manga twenty or so years ago. Precisely because i'm a big mystery novel/Sherlock Holmes fan. :)
the single biggest tip I have to anyone trying to get into anime/manga is to realize that it is a medium, not a genre. Just like movies, just like books, there's something out there for everyone, it just depends on what you like,
A personal recommendation: March came in like a lion. Breathtaking anime, amazing manga, one of the best depictions of depression every put to paper.
Manga is much faster to read because you don't need to describe the actions of a person and the way they look in a situation and even the background/scenery, all that information is provided by the artist. All you have to do to gain context on those parts is look at the artwork and then read the dialogue.
This alone probably cuts like half of the content in traditional books.
I love mangas so much.I've been reading them since 2008 when Naruto chapters used to be uploaded on TH-cam.
Currently i've read over 60 series. 😊
Wow! What was the first one you picked up?
@@britneynicole8903 Yup.I was a huge fan of the anime, I checked The manga and I totally loved IT. 🥰
One Piece The g. O. A. T though😍😍😍
@@noname3609 Ooh yes! I am planning on picking up VS and OP in December. I am thinking I will need to order the first volume of VS off of Amazon. I heard that they do not make print copies of it anymore.
@@britneynicole8903 so different yet both awesome. Definetly recommend both. They Will entertain you. 😊
@@noname3609 I am excited ☺️
Shout out to the Shonen Jump and Tapas apps. They've revived my childhood love of reading stories especially with my lack of active free time nowadays with a family.
I was never into reading manga until I watched One Piece then switched to reading during Wano. That interest blossomed into reading many manga series although I have a particular love of Isekai (especially those with literal kingdom/nation/country building): Reincarnated as a Slime, Re:Monster, How the Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Mushoku Tensei, etc.
Recently, I've hopped on the manhua/manhwa train with Tapas. I subbed to at least 10 different series just this week on there: The Beginning After the End, Estio, Solo Leveling, The Enchanting Villainess, Wicked No More, and many, many more. Interesting stories of all genres and almost always in color with beautiful art.
There's so much reading content to take in.
Getting more ppl into manga? Always a good thing
I always love your takes on things so much , and your enthusiasm.
If you like comedic fantasies like Discworld or D&D-adjacent humor, and also like cooking, I highly recommend "Delicious in Dungeon" (aka Dungeon Meshi)! It's an excellent series about a group of adventurers in such a rush to save one of their companions deep in a dungeon that they decide they'll just eat whatever creature they find, learning to cook slimes, walking mushrooms, or even mimics.
The series is also going to have an anime adaptation by Studio Trigger.
Never thought I'd stumble upon a channel with reviews from Harry Potter to Avatar the Last Airbender to even fully caught up One Piece manga.
You're insane. It's been so fun reliving all of this through your experiences.
Where has this channel been all my life!?
Excellent video as always these are great tips
Wait 18 hrs ago??? HOW
@@al_4ddin450 Patreon viewers get early access to videos
@@britneynicole8903 ow
I didn't know that
@@al_4ddin450 Yes. Somebody else told me that before and I just thought I would pay it forward.
Something important I want to add is that manga can be very different from comics, not just in the direction you're reading, but also in the paneling.
For many comic readers, there are many manga that seem to have very chaotic panel structures because manga tends really emphasize structuring things by how it'll make your eyes flow through the page & using the panels jutting out or characters breaking through panels & sometimes even crazier things to convey stuff to the reader at the cost of the traditional structure of paneling you see in comics.
Another big difference is that manga tends to do something different from the "moment-to-moment" structure of comics. In comics, the next panel usually is always depicting something that happens after the previous panel.
In manga though, the next panels aren't always depicting what happens after the previous panels. Sometimes they're depicting things that are happening at the same time as the previous panel(s). This is especially the case if it's establishing atmosphere, but it isn't only done when establishing atmosphere. It's done a lot. It's a spacial sort of structure that might confuse you if you're an avid comic reader. (There are some comics that use spacial structures in it's paneling so many it won't be too difficult. But you might still get confused)
There's also the soft rule that smaller panels are usually panels the author allows you to skim. These panels usually contain characters explaining what's happening or talking about something or other, and sometimes you can skim that dialogue if it's in a small panel.
There's also dialogue that's not in a speech bubble. Usually text that isn't in a speech bubble means that it is either someone's inner thoughts or it is some kind of narration. But there are times where you'll see little bits of dialogue that isn't in a speech bubble but is right next to it. Those pieces of dialogue are basically unimportant dialogue, meaning they're something the character says either because they have to say it for the scene to be realistic & make sense or because of the character's personality, but it isn't really important for anything in the scene or story.
There's also small, empty panels, like a bunch of little black rectangles right next to each other, which usually means an ending of a scene or a big leap in time. Usually it means the next scene after that collection of small empty rectangles takes place a long time in the future or maybe a long time in the past in the case of flashbacks. Either the next few hours, the next day, or the next decade, any big leap in time.
There are many more things that separates manga from comics, such as Kishoutenketsu story structure(which is especially prevelant in comedy scenes or comedy manga), Mono no Aware, etc. But these are the basics.
In general, going from comics to manga is pretty easy, but there are things that might initially confuse you or overwhelm you a bit.
I got into reading manga by going to a Barnes and Noble and just randomly picking things and just sit down and read them. I think it starts with the actual physical volumes.
But yeah a tablet really is a game changer. I usually read the latest One Piece Chapter on my IPad. I don’t read books much but if I ever find something that interests me, it goes straight to the IPad XD
I'm trying to get into Manga thank you Merph
Having a community to share your thoughts with as read advance in a series is really fun. I was half way into Alabasta when Merphy started releasing One Piece reviews and we moved step by step through the run of the series. I always so looked forward to my Friday morning videos updating the progress we had both made on the series. It was really a cool experience I had never engaged in before. Thanks Merph
Speaking of Calvin and Hobes, A lot of humorous manga are actually done in a 4 pannel setup (Azumanga Daioh is a prominent 4 panel series with a really great adaptation)
If you want to see how varied Manga can get, one of the curent ongoing series in Shonen Jump is Akane-banashi, which is about Rakugo, a traditional Japanese style of storytelling told by a storyteller who remains seated the whole time and can't use any props other than a fan. Other prominent Manga from further back have been about Go (The strategy game), about writing Manga (Bakuman gets very meta at times), And I've heard of a title about a man who's a master of apologizing.
A fair warning to anyone pocking up manga for the first time: Once you’ve read enough of it you will get used to reading from the "wrong" side. I still get confused at times about which way I’m supposed to read.
This has totally happened to me several times😅
I think one of the things that made Manga click for me is just actually reading every panel. I know that sounds obvious but I often just instinctually went to looking at the dialogue instead of paying attention to how the author uses panels to break up the pacing of conversations and events. Once I understood that god did I love everything about Manga. My favourite thing is the page turn, when your reading an intense scene and the tension keeps building and building as you read and then suddenly you turn the page and it’s just one or two big panels that make your jaw drop. My favourite example is Goodnight Punpun in vol 6 which I won’t spoil but that moment has stuck with me ever since. Manga’s that perfect the page turn are always the most memorable ones for me, it’s why I love Tatsuki Fujimoto’s works or Inio Asano or Hajime Isayama because their page turns are always so effective.
one thing i think readers should keep in mind is that it's not uncommon for a good series to be a bit dull for the first volume. For me Naruto wasn't interesting at first but the Zabuza/Haku arc in vol 2 and 3 are my favorite story of that whole series.
I’m currently reading Basara online, it’s excellent Shoujo fantasy from the 90’s. I wish I could own it but it’s out of print and some of the volumes are very expensive 😞💀
For people who like books, the better equivalent would be light novels. Manga are more a counterpart to comic books. Manga and light novels are both worth reading. Especially if you get into an anime that only lasted a season and was mainly created to drive the sales of a manga or light novel. It worked for me, because I got tired of watching an anime I liked end after one season and wondering what happened afterward. Although sometimes seeing the story completed still doesn't pan out if the novel or manga gets cancelled. Still, there are a ton of great light novels out there.
There's so much out there that even most people who've been reading manga their whole life don't even know about. There are small publishers who publish manga out of passion for the authors, which most well-known publishers wouldn't even consider to publish, since they're so niche. I highly recommend checking out the manga published by Glacier Bay Books, Star Fruit Books, Last Gasp, Drawn & Quarterly and Fanfare (small English branch of Ponent Mon). Their titles are all very unique and far from the mainstream.
If you'd like a mature story with an art style that has realistic proportions and a lot of detail to it, check out Jiro Taniguchi's masterpiece "The Summit of the Gods". I consider this manga the best story of any medium. It's based on a novel, and even the author of the novel himself (Baku Yumemakura) said that the manga is the definitive version of his work, as it changed things he regretted about his novel for the better.
If you like surrealism and abstract art styles, check out Glaeolia or really any other title published by Glacier Bay Books. Glaeolia contains many short stories by different authors. These kind of collections are usually referred to as "alternative manga collections" and there are many of them. "AX: Alternative Manga" is another one of these, published by TopShelf Productions. If you haven't read these collections, you haven't seen what the medium is capable of.
Okay, I'll give manga a try! 😁
Manga feels easier to consume imo because the chapters are short enough to be consumed in one sitting and are separated enough to be remembered with a single number the chapter number (plus remembering a picture is vastly easier than remembering a sentence for instance), compared to say in a book where the chapters may be long enough that you'll have to stop on an arbitrary page and even with a bookmark you'll might have to remember which word within that page you left off of or smth. The chapters also greatly condense the info, wherein a book might have a sentence to describe the landscape or the expression of characters manga simply draw them so that immediately cuts out the reading time spent on those, making consuming manga much faster for me at least. I'd imagine if One Piece was a novel or smth I'd probably still not be caught up to it to this day. The chapter by chapter consumption thing also helps curb the fear of a long manga imo. I feel vastly more intimidated seeing a massive book than I do seeing a long-running manga because it's easier to stop, and easier to go back to certain parts as well without even having any bookmarks besides the chapter title and/or number for manga. Sure you might be able to remember a page, but more than likely a scene or event would take a couple pages, and remembering which group of pages constitute the scene you want to view is far harder than say just checking a chapter title/number seeing if the title matches the scene you have in mind or at least is remotely related to it and checking that chapter to see if the scene you wanted to revisit was there. If I wanted to do that with a book I'd be lost because while some novels may contain chapters they're not as specific as manga chapters so you're forced to remember page groups instead, and checking if it's the right page group is much harder because you'll have to leaf through words as compared to just staring at the illustrations on the chapter pages.
watching this video felt like merphy passing her final oral exam after taking a manga class lol. i remember your first one piece videos and now you are one of us. you actually read more manga than i thought. thank you for spreading the love for manga and trying to get your novel subscribers to join us.
This is exactly the well balanced take that is refreshing to see.
I too am an avid reader doing 1-2 books a week.
my mum reads too but she refused to give any manga a chance due to a prejudice I guess
I remember when I started reading manga in college being a bit confused at first, but I got the hang of it by the end of the first volume I read. Now, I always try to go right to left reading regular comics/graphic novels 😆 …also, Japan has a piece of my heart ♥️
Good timing for this lol. I read a ton of manga in my teens and early twenties, and I've recently felt the urge to get back into it. I actually went to the store yesterday and bought a small stack of new manga for the first time in almost a decade.
Getting back into the hobby, I decided to go back to the stuff that really got me into it in the first place, so I bought the first volume of Dragon Ball, as well as a few horror books.
Just finished reading the first volumes of "Parasyte" by Hitoshi Iwaaki and "Orochi" by Kazuo Umezu right before watching this video. Highly recommend both for fans Junji Ito.
I've basically only read manga since about 10 years ago and never considered myself as someone who actually reads. I decided at the start of the year to read more novels etc and came across your channel, so I'm glad you've started where I've ended. Decided to start reading Mystborn due to your recommendation and I'm half way through the first book! I will say its hard to find people who read anything, even regular books.
Glad to see you getting into novels as well. How is mistborn so far?
@@joshuawalters7520 without spoiling it for anyone, I'm enjoying the pace of it. Even though there is jumps in the timeframe, I don't feel like its going too fast. Laughed more at Kelsiers antics than I thought I would lol
OK, sorry if I'm posting too many replies, but I will say that because you encouraged me to read Spy x Family, I am experiencing for the first time the joy of: 1)Reading new manga chapters as they are being released; 2)Experiencing the anime as it releases new episode adapting said manga. 🙌
Reccomendations (trying to only mention things I haven't seen from others):
Gon by Masashi Tanaka is probably a really good starting point because it is completely textless. It's entirely told silently through its pictures. So if you're just trying to get used to panelling and page layouts, Gon is a really good starter. The art is also gorgeous, so it's got that going for it as well. Do be warned though. Some online scans are flipped to read left-to-right because at one point in the past, it got an official English release which flopped it over to read left-to-right, which many online scans pull from.
Urusei Yatsura or Ranma 1/2, both by Rumiko Takahashi are really good starting points if you're interested in the history of the medium, since the former basically laid the groundwork for Japanese romcoms in the late 70s, and the latter is an arguably more narratively refined work from the same author a decade later. Both are well worth the read though.
Pretty much anything by CLAMP (a group operating under a single penname comprised of Satsuki Igarashi, Nanase Ohkawa, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona) is golden too. Surely you've heard of Cardcaptor Sakura, but they've also made plenty of other bangers, such as;
-Chobits
-Tsubasa Chronicle (Wing Chronicle)
-X
-xxxHOLiC
-Magic Knight Rayearth
-Tokyo Babylon
-Angelic Layer
-Kobato
-Clover
and plenty more stuff
Yotsuba& (Yotsuba to) by Kiyohiko Azuma, who some may recognise from Azumanga Daioh, is one of the most delightful things you'll ever read that will immediately restore your faith in humanity.
And a personal favourite, Letter Bee (Tegami Bachi) by Hiroyuki Asada is a gaslamp fantasy set in a world with no sun, built around a caste system of proximity to an artificial replacement in which we follow postmen travelling between districts and keeping the segregated regions connected through their letters.
Highly recommend all of these.
Thank you for the recommendations!
I love to discover mangas that are sooo overlooked but so FUCKING GREAT that you can't believe how nobody talks about them.
And of all the hundreds I could add xD, I will add just one because I don't have time to write, Vanitas no Karte.
Gon sounds so cool!
Tsubasa chronicle is sooo underrated
@@amuro9624 That one stuck out to me. It sounds very good!
I gotta say shonen jump is a killer deal for all of the awesome series in production at the moment
“I strongly believe in being able to quit stories you don’t like.” You just set me free 😭 Especially from hxh lol
libraries and library apps also often have volumes digitally!
that said, i think you'd really enjoy dungeon meshi/delicious in dungeon. it's a comedic high fantasy with surprisingly dark themes and plot points. also gorgeous art 😆
I'm a big book readers (I'm a librarian) and I personally never really got into manga until I read some mangas that were totally outside my usual genres. I read/watched Death Notes, Full Metal Alchemist, One Punch Man, etc. But I really fell in love with manga when I tried Shoujo manga which I was kinda judging before I tried the first one... Then I was doomed ahah
if you ever feel like watching an original anime, I highly recommend A Place Further Than The Universe. One of the main things I love about the show is the bond between the main characters, which seems like something that would appeal to you
A manga I would recommend is Erased. It's a great mystery thriller about a guy who time travels back to his childhood a few weeks or so before a serial killer starts murdering some of his classmates. It does a really good job at making you invested in what happens to these kids, and the dark & sometimes seemingly hopeless situation greatly enhances the heartwarming moments when they happen
My favorite comedy manga is Hinamatsuri. It's premise is kind of insane, but it's such a good time. Murphy says she likes the "falling into success" characters like Buggy from One Piece, and Hinamatsuri does it great in my opinion. It's also like Spy Family in a way, which I also recommend.
I love seeing you and Daniel falling in love with manga!
I just finished Pokemon Adventures this week. I really enjoyed the series. The next series I want to check out are: Sailor Moon, My Hero Academia and One Piece.
Out of the "Anime is not for kids" I suggest the classics, Hellsing, Ghost in the Shell and Akira. There is some not for young kids stuff there but these are classics.
For "How about something cute and sweet" Try Bunny Drop. Or Usagi Drop. It is about a young kid being taken in a family and all it entails. And at the sideline also the hunt for the real mother. I wont' spoil the rest. It is cute and parents will recognize things.
I have alsk been in the same boat as the rest of you, I started with reading books and novels and then manga to manwa(Korean) and light novels. There’s so many stories out there in so many formats that can be enjoyed by everyone at a given age.
Manga are stories that’s plblack and white that read from right to left.
Manwa is usually on digitall platforms, reading from top to bottom and in color. Found on WEBTOON and maybe others)
Light novels are similar to manga and novels, most coming from an online website in Japan. They’re read a bit more quickly with simple structure. Most would have black and white pictures with some color illustration that is the character page (so one could know what they look like)
I Love many types of genres of what you could get into from manga or light novels. My personal favorite have been sports/slice of life) most would think this could be boring from the looks of it but digging deeper would bring a story of characters who not only play the sport to win but live out their young lives.
One of my favorites that have an English translation available in America is called Cross Game, written by Mitsuru Adachi. He’s made over 20 mangas over the course of decades and is quite a known figure in Japan but only one is available in America, most are fan translationed by dedicated fans. Cross Game is different sports series. It’s more than just sports, it’s life and how the characters deal with something( not gonna spoil) and how they cope with it.
Please give this a try, it’s mostly available im digitally, since not enough copies were sold. I mean you don’t have to I’m not going to force any of you but I am inviting most of you who are reading this to at least try if you want to try a sports slice of life drama series.
I thank you so much, for so long I've been looking for a way to read the demon slayer mangas for cheap and shonen jump actually is the best place. All the chapters for 2.79 CAD when everywhere else you'd have to pay 8 dollars. I am actually so excited to be able to finally get into manga so thank you Merph
I've read Ds online but im planning to buy The box set. Excelent plot. Absolutely loved IT!
2:39 One thing important to mention about reading digitally: while their screens aren't that big or detailed, I find e-ink devices like Kindle are great for reading manga. The screen's already black and white, they're lighter than tablets and they don't hurt your eyes after extended reading.
Merphy PLEAAASE try KAGUYA SAMA it’s awesome!! I’m loving it
Manga is one of my favorite mediums to read. Reminds me of reading comic books when I was a kid and the story immersion was incredible. Manga is great.
Preach it and my first manga were Bleach with HxH some of the best times of my life have come from reading manga and books so great video about this
Incredibly thoughtful and well produced video. Thanks for spreading the good word of the medium!
To any novel readers out there -- do try out some manga, however unusual or intimidating it might be for you initially. After all, it opens a whole new world to the experience of enjoying great stories, which is what we're all here for. And, of course, never judge a book by its cover . :)
I do remember the first Manga that got me going headdiving into the world of it. I grew up with Anime most of my life (Vampire Princess Myiu OVA, Blue Seed, and Sailor Moon were the main ones when I was in Elementry and Middle School with bits and peices of Ninja Scrolls. It was around maybe the end of Middle School I got into Neo Genisis Evagalion and Escaflowne... And Only Sailor Moon is good for Young Children just need to put out there. There are much more I did grow up with but that's just to give you the idea of the range I grew up with) But I hadn't read the Sailor Moon Manga yet (It is darker than the anime as it talks about some more adult themes than they do in the anime until much later). What got me thinking to reading more Manga was actually this unknown story that is even not well known to this day: Kazan. It's only 7 volumes long, and I'm still wanting to finish the series as they don't have it as an Ebook... (I also want to finish my collection of it as I still have books 1-4) But that was what sparked my love of the medium.
From there, I was able to pick up the Sailor Moon Manga and even When in collage, Pick up the Vampire Princess Myiu Manga and fell in love with the manga of Mushishi and Sayiuki after I watched the animes of those. Sometimes the Anime isn't a one to one adaptation, and sometimes not even a good one. But the ones that isn't a one to one, sometimes adds to the Manga stories as well, Like the Vampire Princess Myiu OVAs and 1990 Series adds to the Manga experience through exploring other things.
(Sadly Escaflowne is *not* in Manga form, so I can't really suggest that for Merphy. Well it is, but the Anime came first before the Three versions of Manga that go three *compleately* different ways, which is a wild story on how that came about in the first place, and Escaflowne also has a Movie version (also anime) that is also *vastly* different and follows different themes than the anime series and I don't think it would work well for Merphy to searching for three versions which are hard to find in the first place *and* she's newer to the Manga world and thus may overwhelm her trying to find all the versions which doesn't even follow how the actual story goes in the first place. From what I also Understand, Eva is also in a weird place with Manga and Anime versions as Eva is another that started out first as an Anime and the Manga came after but at least was written by the same person. But someone can correct me if I'm wrong.)
Junji Ito was my introduction to reading manga seriously as oof what a decision. So fun and the art is incredible. Highly recommend the Beastars Manga too. It's great
Two highly underrated Masterpieces: D.Gray-man and Pandora Hearts !!
Please read the manga of Osamu Tezuka, who is said to be the god of manga in Japan someday. He created the prototype for all comics that exist today. His lifework "Hinotori (Firebird)" seems long and unwieldy, but I'd like you to read just the dawn, phoenix, and future chapters. You can see how this work continues to influence current manga artists from here and there
I’m working my way through fullmetal alchemist which is my first manga (not counting the first volume of Tokyo Ghoul). I have a few others on my TBR and as someone who prefers an actual book the whole digital vs physical is becoming an internal battle I’ve been having with myself for the sake of my bank account 😢
Here are my recommendations:
1) Grandson of Nurarihyon (if you like ghost stories, but don't want to lose sleep over nightmares)
2) I was a sword when I reincarnated. (Found family, fantasy, alternate world, father daughter dynamic. Main character has supporting role to his adopted daughter)
3) that time I got reincarnated as a slime (Kingdom building, politics, epic fights, power scaling, etc)
4) Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon? (Fantasy, level system, weak to strong protagonist, slow but steady build up, dungeon crawling)
So since Merphy made a video about manga recommendations, I have to give my obligatory recommendation to everyone I can get my hands on: *Yona of the Dawn*. This is my favorite manga next to One Piece and I wish more people talked about it.
Now, I know Merphy is already aware of it. She quoted from it by chance in her "Book Quotes I Love" video, and mentioned it by name in her Birthday Livestream. Hopefully, she'll discuss it on her main or second channel, but I can only hope for now. Therefore, this is less directed towards her, and mostly to people that come upon the comment.
Yona of the Dawn is a Shoujo (means that it's a story targeted towards young girls). Now, if you're put off by its demographic categorization, don't let it fool you. This is a story full of action, fantasy, adventure, politics, war, sprinkled romance, found family, and so much more.
The story follows the sheltered and pampered Princess of the Kingdom Kouka, named Yona. On her 16th birthday, tragedy struck, and she has to flee the castle with the help of her bodyguard, Hak, who's also her childhood friend. Now out of the castle, some events occur, and Yona realizes how sheltered her life was, and decides to go on a journey around the Kingdom with Hak by her side to gather some allies and help the Kingdom, that unbeknownst to her before leaving the castle is basically in tatters, in any way she can.
I left many details vague because spoilers, even of the first 2 chapters, but hopefully this will get someone to read it, if they even finish reading this block of text.
I love Yona of the Dawn too 🥰🥰🥰 definitely one of my favorite mangas 😊
I love yona of the dawn! It’s my second favorite next to one piece atleast in Japanese manga/anime.
Very helpful to a new reader exploring this part of comic culture
Great video. I’m so used to the back to front format that it’s probably not something I’d immediately think of letting a beginner know about beforehand. 😂
Knowing some of the tropes you like I recommend Assassination Classroom. I think you’d really enjoy that manga.
Haikyuu as well. But I’m really only suggesting that because it’s my all time favourite series along with One Piece. 😂 It’s really good.
Both of these series’ are finished as well.
Not sure who will read this, but I feel like it's related.
There's a lot of niche mangas out there of all different subjects and fans of those series who painstakingly translate, clean and upload chapters online for others to view and enjoy as well. So broaden your digital search to online readers, find these scanlation groups who do the work voluntarily for series that have not yet been picked up in the US for translation and maybe, just maybe, you'll find another series to love.
And obviously, if it's translated officially in english, support them too!
I just started reading Berserk and Dragon Ball. But Berserk... SO DAMN GOOD!
I'll be jumping into One Piece soon as well. I tried watching the anime, watched 10 or so episodes but the number of remaining episodes is kinda intimidating, so I think reading 1000+ chapters is easier and faster than watching 1000+ episodes. Please let me know if I'm wrong.
I really hope one day u will try sports manga like haikyuu and kuruko no basket.. Since one piece is my no1 manga.. I think u will love it too..
Reading manga helped me overcome my dyslexia. I started to hate reading in middle school, my teachers gave me shit, I got kicked out of college for having low grades, but I'm starting to enjoy reading again. I'm getting into light novels too.
I'm reading One Piece currently and am caught up on Spy Family. Want to read 20th century boys, FMA, and Hunter x Hunter.
Yes! If you still dubious about it, than just Start Reading Manga!
There is so much manga to read, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. Even if you sort by genre, your options are endless. But I like that there’s so much variety.
here is my 2 cents for anyone getting into manga. it helps knowing what are the demographic terms used for manga. this is a list of some that i am personally familiar with along with examples using manga Merphy has already read and some that are well known titles.
Shonen, manga for teenage boys (One Piece, HxH, A Silent Voice, FMA, Spy x Family, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Chainsaw Man, Haikyuu) this is the most popular and a lot of anime fall in this demographic.
Shojo, manga for teenage girls (Fruits Basket, Sailor Moon, Ouran High School Host Club, From Me To You)
Seinen, manga for young adult and adult men (Vinland Saga, Uzumaki, Berserk, Blame!, Real, Oyasumi Punpun)
Josei, manga for young adult and adult women (as far as i can tell Merphy has not read any yet. Chihayafuru. out of the 4 here, this is the one I read from the least)
Merph's two last video titles:
"How to start reading books again?"
"Start reading manga"
Indeed.
Welcome to The NHK got me into manga. I fell in love with that story
I watched the anime a long time ago and it's an absolute hidden gem. Still one of the top 20 anime of all time I have seen.
Manga series I totally recommend you to read are Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, The Promised Neverland, Food Wars, Rosario+Vampire season 1 and season 2, Oresama Teacher, Skip Beat, Working!!!, Haikyuu!!, Shaman King, Yu Yu Hakusho, Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, Tokyo Mew Mew, Shugo Chara!, Ouran High-school Host Club, Seven Deadly Sins, Demon Slayer, Ultra Maniac, Horimiya, Maid Sama, Yamada-Kun and The Seven Witches, Saint Seiya, Runonen Kenshin, Hajime No Ippo and Captain Tsubasa
This video and your previous one came at the perfect time!
I have so many people in my life saying "I wish I could read more."
Well, thanks to you, now they can!😊
Who doesn't like looking at pictures and reading something at the same time, but Berserk is my go to recommendation for people that have never read manga and are into horror/fantasy and shows like Game of Thrones and The Witcher.
i strongly recommend any work by naoki urasawa. writing and character development is top tier
I'll recommend please read "kingdom" its a perfect mixture of seinen and shonen I'll bet there is no other story which has such detailed warfares its has wars, national politics, internal politics,dreams, despair, inherited will, freindship,classism and much more please it's a must read
I'm so proud of how far Murphy has come with supporting/absorbing manga :'D
A good community to get into is the Trash Taste Podcast on youtube, they talk about anime and manga! Plus being pretty funny guys haha
I will once again repeat my recommendation for Bakuman. It's from the creators of Death Note, but it has a completely different feel. It follows two young students as they break their way into the manga industry. It's wonderful and here's why:
It offers an excellent look into not only the writing process, but the publishing process as well. Both in general and for manga specifically.
The writing is spectacular. The characters are fleshed out and whole, the story comes from first hand experience, there's so much sneaky meta-commentary; it's freaking great.
The various manga series that the different characters create and write over the course of the story almost become characters in and of themselves. It's like getting a dozen stories for the price of one.
I've been reading manga for over 20 years and this series remains to this day one of my absolute favorites. Even if you don't want to talk about it on the channel, I definitely think you'd enjoy reading it.
So I grew up on anime, I started watching Naruto when I was 4, and then got into DBZ, Bleach, and a couple others. Once I had access to a computer I started reading Naruto weekly when I was about 9 and already owned a couple volumes. I was a big book worm, but I only read manga when it came to comics, and to this day I read memes wrong because I’ll start in the top right corner 😂
Thanks for this! I've been wanting to get into manga for a while now and this was an encouraging nudge. Especially thank you for the Shonen jump and Book Walker recs - the price of manga was definitely a huge factor holding me back. 💛💛💛