×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
Manga Series in 5 Minutes




Anime News Network Forum Index -> General -> Manga
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Princess_Irene
ANN Reviewer


Joined: 16 Dec 2008
Posts: 2632
Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City
PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 2:18 pm Reply with quote
(Here's hoping this topic doesn't get locked down immediately for lack of content...)(Also, spoilers.)


We've all read them - long, epic (or epic-ish) series that are filled with angst, drama, teen angst, tragedy, and more angst. Have you ever hit that point where you scream "Come on! If you just ___________, the problem would be solved!!" ? When you think about it, there really are a large number of series that could have their central problems solved in 5 minutes or less. Now, I know that the major reason they aren't resolved that quickly is because that would make for terrible storytelling, but just for the fun of it, what are some series that could be solved and resolved in record time?


Black Bird:spoiler[ Kyo buys a condom.]
Red River:spoiler[ Judah renounces the throne in volume 1.]
Higurashi: spoiler[They build the dam.]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
EireformContinent



Joined: 30 May 2009
Posts: 977
Location: Łódź/Poland (The Promised Land)
PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 2:33 pm Reply with quote
Dragon Ball spoiler[Destroy that items]
Dragon Ball Z (anime) spoiler[Be nice to enemies. Then poison them, before it's to late]

Maison Ikkoku spoiler[Adult people talk to each other. Seriously]
Red Riverspoiler[You won't resurrect the dead boy, so just go into that damned teleport ]
Rose of Versailles spoiler[Oscar have one serious talk to queen about her duties]
Oniisama E spoiler[Everyone boycott Soronity ]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Princess_Irene
ANN Reviewer


Joined: 16 Dec 2008
Posts: 2632
Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City
PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 4:25 pm Reply with quote
EireformContinent wrote:

Maison Ikkoku spoiler[Adult people talk to each other. Seriously]


That is SO true. Actually, that would solve a lot of series, now that I think of it...and virtually all Takahashi ones...kind of like how most CLAMP series would be much easier if people would finish their damn sentences once in a while.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hidansama92



Joined: 14 Dec 2011
Posts: 12
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:16 am Reply with quote
Naruto: spoiler[Kill the Jinchuriki at birth]
Dragonball: spoiler[Keep screaming you'll power up eventually (not you Krillen)]
Bleach: spoiler[Kill Aizen while he's locked up, trust me you'll regret that someday. Kubo's run out of ideas he used him as a backup plan]
One Piece: spoiler[Somebody just find the damn treasure already, where did Roger hide it? Narnia?]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
st_owly



Joined: 20 May 2008
Posts: 5234
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:36 am Reply with quote
Kimi ni Todoke spoiler[Sawako actually believing Kazehaya when he says he likes her]
Hot Gimmick spoiler[Hatsumi actually having a backbone]
Inuyasha spoiler[Kagome and Inuyasha actually talking to each other properly][/quote]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
zawa113



Joined: 19 Jan 2008
Posts: 7358
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:58 pm Reply with quote
Hehe, I think this is a fun idea!

Monster spoiler[Tenma doesn't save Johan and operates on the mayor and saves him instead]
Uzumaki spoiler[Kirie believes her boyfriend and they leave the creepy town]
Tuxedo Gin spoiler[Ginji chooses to reincarnate as a mayfly]
Fullmetal Alchemist spoiler[Ed gives up his alchemic abilities like he does in the last volume except right after he's rehabilitated enough with his new arm, so 26 volumes earlier and about 6 months after the incident happens]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
cl-shojo



Joined: 04 Sep 2011
Posts: 70
Location: New York
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:06 pm Reply with quote
Princess_Irene wrote
Quote:
Black Birdspoiler[ Kyo buys a condom ]
.

So true. Or spoiler[Misao gets some birth control].

Also, Nana spoiler[Hachi gets some birth control].

And Marmalade Boy spoiler[Yuu asks his parents who his father is instead of jumping to the conclusion that he and Miki are half-siblings and breaking up with her]


Last edited by cl-shojo on Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:20 am; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
RGaspar



Joined: 04 Oct 2011
Posts: 243
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:46 pm Reply with quote
Nice little game.

Ichigo 100%: spoiler[Manaka wouldn't have needed to go back and forth like a zillion times with a bunch of girls if he stayed with Nishino ever since they started dating.]

Hellsing:spoiler[ I don't know why he took so damn long, because Alucard had all the power he needed to destroy the enemy from the very first chapter.]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hidansama92



Joined: 14 Dec 2011
Posts: 12
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:40 pm Reply with quote
One more

Fullmetal Alchemist: spoiler[Honehiem just tell your kids who Father is and kill him before the promised day]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
gsilver



Joined: 04 Nov 2007
Posts: 645
PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:16 pm Reply with quote
This is my favorite 5 minute manga series:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/sket-dance/episode-13-pixies-garden-580424

Every manga romance series, ever, in 5 (ish) minutes.


As for resolving every manga romance series ever in 5 minutes:
Manga characters need to learn the phrase: "wanna go out?" and also that they don't need to spend 10 years to get there.

Oh My Goddess spoiler[You know Keiichi, Bell totally wants you. She's wanted you for the last 20 years, and you still can't man up? Seriously?][/spoiler]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
The Goron Marshall



Joined: 21 Jun 2009
Posts: 111
Location: Canada
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:35 am Reply with quote
Apollo's Song. spoiler[Love is where a male and a female make children. Disregard the homosexuals and asexuals.]

^ That was mostly sarcasm. By all means, I love Osamu Tezuka's works, but Apollo's Song just really wasn't that great to me.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message MSN Messenger My Anime My Manga
Chagen46



Joined: 27 Jun 2010
Posts: 4377
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:45 am Reply with quote
Negima: spoiler[Harry Potter realizes that "Punching < Casting"]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
ElderlyGoose



Joined: 13 Feb 2012
Posts: 9
Location: Lincoln
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:42 am Reply with quote
This is so much win.

Naruto: spoiler[ If Sasuke was killed as a child by Itachi ]

Bleach: spoiler[ If Ichigo just said "sod it"]

FairyTail: spoiler[ They just let Natsu go in solo to every fight rather then just ending up fighting solo anyway.]

Hellsing: spoiler[ Alucard gets released at the start.]

Code Geass: spoiler[ Lleouch gets shot at the start ]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger
Agent355



Joined: 12 Dec 2008
Posts: 5113
Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready...
PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:06 am Reply with quote
Ooh, fun! Very Happy
Please Save My Earth spoiler[It was all in the past and it doesn't take away from the person you are now. Deal with it!] <--Love the series, though!

Inuyasha: spoiler[Kagome goes home and stays home.]

Ranma 1/2: spoiler[only the first engagement counts.]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
zawa113



Joined: 19 Jan 2008
Posts: 7358
PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:03 am Reply with quote
Bokurano spoiler[They lose. Not a happy ending, but a quick one]

Arisa spoiler[they wish for the King to reveal him or herself until the wish gets granted]

Hikaru no Go spoiler[Hikaru/Sai don't play Akira]

Dr Slump spoiler[Akira Toriyama stops taking drugs]

GTO spoiler[Onizuka gets fired for all his shenangians]

Battle Royale spoiler[There's that hour they have to leave the area after the last person has left the school building, seems enough time to go gunning down the evil dude in charge, and the guy who is there to stop the thing got a gun iirc.]

Petshop of Horrors spoiler[the Count only sells normal pets and not Gremlins]

Adolf spoiler[Aryan Adolf doesn't go to join the youth Nazis, going against his father's wishes] damn was that a depressing manga
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> General -> Manga All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Page 1 of 1

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group