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Alchemist449
 Posts: 341 Location: LED ZEPPELIN! nuf said |
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Are there manga that you've stopped collecting? Please put some thought in to your're responses.
These are mine: Inu-Yasha and Ranma 1/2- Both of these series were fun and light in the begining (Inu-Yasha was the title that got me interested in anime and manga) but got really boring once I started to realize that both series were repeating the same formula over and over. And over. DN Angel- Shounen-Ai overtones no matter how small annoy me and I stopped reading around volume 5. Fushigi Yugi- First volume was interesting but I just didn't have the time or money to spend picking up the rest of this when I enjoyed other titles more. Prince of Tennis- If every match goes the same way it gets veeeery boring. The three formulas were comeback win, so-easy-it-was-Embarrassing-win, and suprisingly-difficult- match-win. These are used every time EACH of the 30 volumes. And a few more I can't remember. Last edited by Alchemist449 on Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:12 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Dranxis
 Posts: 591 Location: Ohtori Academy |
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For me, there were a few:
Dragon Ball Z: Got the first six volumes about 2 years ago, and since I was also collecting Dragon Ball at the time, I stopped and decided to finish Dragon Ball first. Finished Dragon Ball, but never felt like going back to DBZ. Kare Kano: I'm sorry for those of you who are fans, but I just could barely stand this series. The odd, almost short-story like pacing and the mediocre artwork kinda turned me off by volume 4. I liked the two main characters, but none of the other characters caught my interest at all. Getbackers: I actually started to like this series by volume 4, but when I learned that it was 30+ volumes ongoing, I just didn't think my interest in it was strong enough to follow it through. I was already collecting several insanely long shonen series at the time anyway. I'm also thinking about dropping Flame of Recca and Shaman King. I really find those two series enjoyable, but again, I'm not enthusiastic enough to collect another 30 volumes for them. |
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GoodLuckSaturday
 Posts: 567 Location: Indiana |
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GetBackers: I enjoyed the first four volumes, but the Infinity Fortress arc following just turned me off, even though it took me until volume 8 to come to the conclusion I just wasn't enjoying myself with this series. I still enjoy the first four volumes though.
Ai Yori Aoshi: I watched the anime, and just figured there wasn't anything really necessary here. I don't mind reading a manga I've already watched an anime on, but I don't care for the series enough to want to read it, especially since I was satisfied with the anime conclusions. Dr. Slump: I found it entertaining at first, but by the end of the second volume, I was done. I just felt it wasn't worth the read. I couldn't find any reason to think the series might change itself into anything more. I'm glad I got it, but I don't need to collect any more. Galaxy Angel: By the fourth volume, I felt this manga was so full of itself that it just stopped becoming fun to read and just became a mess. I think there was only one book left, and I couldn't even bear to pick it up. Alice 19th: I don't even know why I picked this series up, since the two other Yuu Watase series I've read have been just as unexciting as this one turned out to be. I kind of want to stop reading Whistle!, although I want to know what happens, but I don't know how much longer I want to keep buying it. The same goes for Case Closed. I don't know if I like it enough to want 50+ volumes. I'll cross those bridges when the time comes. |
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apple pro
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chobits: i stopped after volume 3 because i thought the story was getting stupid. how does he find and live and all the stuff that happens be so coincidental? but alas, it's only 8 volumes so i bought volume 4 last week. i'll slowly finish this one off.
kare kano: i like this series and may buy a few more but i do not believe i will finish the entire series. i stopped at volume 2 but may go back and get up to vol 7 or 8 video girl a.i: i read 1-4 at the store and started to buy it. i have up to 13 but i will have to eventually start picking up the first 4. ranma 1/2: my gf broke up with me and we both like ranma, so i stopped buying because it reminded me of her and the storyline was getting real far-fetched. i have 24 volumes, i think eventually i will buy up the rest of this too. |
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Yoshball
 Posts: 99 Location: Portland, OR |
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The only series I stopped collecting was X. I saw the movie and thought it was terrible, so I decided to go out and get the full material. After two volumes, it was not interesting enough for me to continue something where I kinda already know the ending. Mostly though, there was only one character I really liked. The rest were very stereotypical and shallow to me.
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.Sy
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Suikoden III - I bought this way back when I didn't give a lot of thought to buying manga, and Sucoast was having it 20% off, so I bought it. This manga isn't bad at all, but I just don't have the money to continue it anytime soon, so I have it down as dropped. I hate to drop manga, because I like to have the complete set of a title, but with some I just hafta do it.
Err...one more title I forgot to mention. 
Jing: King of Bandits - This is the first manga I bought, because I thought the one episode I saw on Anime Network was cool. Well, y'know, when you've only got the YGO anime to compare it to, it seems really good. But if I'm not going to continue the Suikoden III manga, this one's definitely out. Bleach, Gundam SEED, and Trigun are all sort of hanging between being dropped or paused for a long time.
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Kouji
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Shaman King- I mainly stopped reading this manga because Viz had edited some parts of the English version and I didn't want to support edited manga. Since I already had access to the Japanese version of the anime, I didn't see much point in continuing to collect the manga considering the English version was edited, so I stopped reading it, even though I was really enjoying what I read so far.
Digimon- Techincally, this is a manwha (Korean comics), but I stopped reading this series as well. It was based on the anime but there weren't any major differences between the plots, expect the manwha version felt a little too rushed to me. I also didn't really like Tokyopop's English translation. They used the dub names instead of the Japanese names which really annoyed me and I don't like how they added in so much sarcastic humor which wasn't in the original dialog. I didn't mind the added sarcasm so much in the dub of the anime but manga/manwha I think should strive to be more accurate to the original. Since I had already seen all the anime and the manwha was the same anyway, I just decided to stop reading this series. Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles- I was already collecting a lot of long manga series at the time and Tsubasa isn't supposed to be finished until sometime in 2007. I was also watching the anime and since the anime version was basically identical to the manga, I dropped reading Tsubasa so I could read something different for a change. It's not a bad series or anything; I just wanted to have a little change of pace. Tokyo Mew Mew- I also dropped reading this series since it didn't seem to be too different from the anime. I might go back to reading this again somewhere down the road, since I want to read Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode sometime, but there's too many other series I want to read more and I already have the anime of this title, which is pretty much the same as the manga. |
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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W Juliet - I might pick start up with this series again in the future, but I found that I just didn't like it as much as some of my other favourites and would rather spend money getting more Watase and CLAMP stuff. I found that it was glaringly obvious that: 1. this was the mangaka's first manga, and 2. that it was designed to be serialized, not collected in a volume (the recaps at the beginning of ever chapter were really getting tedious). I think it's a very interesting idea and MUCH fun with gender-bending...but because it's fairly substantial lengthed series, I just wasn't up to paying that money yet. I have vol 1 and 2 and may eventually pick up 3, but only once I finish off the series I am currently collecting (Fushigi Yuugi, Ceres: Celestial Legend, Chobits, and Tokyo Babylon).
Also, for the person who talked about knowing the ending of X from the movie...no, you really don't. The X movie is NOTHING like the anime or the manga, which are fairly close up to the point where the anime had to actually have an ending, which the manga doesn't. It doesn't help that the translation of the manga really is horrible (perhaps if it ever gets finished, Viz will re-release it with a better translation and in a non-flipped form...though the chances of it getting finished are rather slim). |
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Alchemist449
Posts: 341 Location: LED ZEPPELIN! nuf said |
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Yeah your right. I'll fix it now. |
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keichi san
 Posts: 161 Location: At any local bookstore that sells mangas |
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I dropped Ai Aori Aoshi because I ended up reading the later volumes at the bookstore, and didn't think it was worth my money to finish up the manga. To me, it was just another harem comedy.
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Kouji
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GoodLuckSaturday
Posts: 567 Location: Indiana |
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I was wondering that too. The dialogue from the anime seemed to be pretty similar with the dialogue from the manga, except Viz chose to change "The Seven Angels" to "The Seven Harbringers." That's the only noticible change I could see. That, and they changed spoiler[Seishiro and Subaru's lost eyes to left instead of right], but that can't be helped if you flip the series. |
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Kagemusha
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Not counting things I tried out for one volume, there are a few:
Get Backers-It was fun for a couple of volumes, but since the other 20+ volumes were probobly going to be the standard "good-guy-beats-bad-guy-in-elaborate-battles-with-vaugly-homoerotic-character-interaction", I decided I'm not missing much. Rurouni Kenshin-I got caught into this title's hype and after a couple of solid but disapointing volumes I decided to wait until the much lauded "Kyoto Ark" to begin again. I picked up seven and while a fun read it really wasn't anything amazing. I'm borrowing it off someone at the moment. |
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Haru to Ashura
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Hmmm.
I stoppped buying Tokyo Mew Mew. Besides pretty good artwork, I wasn't sure why I started buying it in the first place. I'm an animal and conservation buff...that was what lead me to keep buying it, but the insane amount of repetitiveness and predictability just ruined it. I used to love the Excel Saga comic, and I mean to start picking it up again someday when I have the funds. Volumes one through five were excellent, but once I hit 6, I hated it and stopped completely. The new characters, that perverted dcotor and his experiment, completely took all of the focus away from the plot and more important, more likeable characters. I assumed it was just a bad volume and would still collect it, but my money started to go elsewhere and I never got back to collecting it. I stopped reading Lone Wolf and Cub because I dislike darkhorse's publishing methods for that title. Why would I pay 16 dollars for a comic book that's too damn small to open without ripping the binding in half? When I first started reading Lone Wolf, I was reading much older, large, borrowed volumes from a friend. The new little volumes just aren't worth the hassle, unfortunatley. I stopped reading MARS because I can't even begin to fathom why I enjoyed this in the first place; there's nothing about that series that doesn't scream 'cliche' or 'mediocre'. It's like when you go to a movie and moderatley enjoy yourself...but as soon as it ends, you look around confused, like, "Did I just spend two hours watching that piece of crap movie?" |
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marie-antoinette
Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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The Seven Harbringers was pretty bad and the main thing that I disliked. But just knowing the actual dialogue from the anime (which seems to be essentially the exact same thing) and having read fan translations, there are just little things that are different. For example, in volume two, Sorata says that Yuuto looks like "someone in show biz". The fan translation of this is actually "I thought you worked in a bar or cabaret" and in the anime he says that Yuuto looks like someone from the red light district. It's just little things like this that make this translation rather inaccurate at points...the general idea is there, but the specifics are wrong, which makes me twitch when I read the manga. Also, some of the more recent translations are leaving honourifics in and leaving some Japanese words in, which I think would much improve any of the older and more innacurate translations (in fact, when Cardcaptor Sakura was re-released in non-flipped format, they did retranslate and leave such things in and generally do a better job...the earlier translations weren't as concerned about accuracy as the later ones, I think). |
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