Forum - View topicHave you try getting other people (friends) into manga?
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darkhunter
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The forum is really dead lately. Manga still isn't as big as anime.
So the question is have you ever try getting a friend, stranger or family member into manga? What did you do and did it work? I thought this would be an interesting topic. And if you havn't, give it a try, perhaps we can get more manga discussion going on in this forum. |
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Acolyte
 Posts: 100 Location: Searching high and low for my missing waist line. |
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As a matter of fact, yes, I have. But obviously I suck, because I just can't seem to pursuade anyone to join the family of manga fans.
And I try anything up to and just short of bludgeoning people with a manga; maybe I ought to try that too 
Seriously though, none of my immediate friends are interested. But then again, I can't remember the last time any of them picked up a regular book to read, let alone a manga: and seeing how an interest in reading is a must I can see where they might be a lost cause.... Then there's the anime enthusiast from work. We can talk anime for hours, but for whatever reason the pilot light is out on his desire to pursue manga; even on those titles he likes that are out as an anime: but I haven't given up on him yet. And then there's Bill, a guy from work I buddy around with. We golf together and stuff. About a year ago I intorduced him to the world of PS2 (Dessert Storm I & II) and XBOX (Halo I & II) and now he refers to me as his "game pimp"  . He'll listen to me ramble on about the anime/manga that I've seen/read that week, and he'll even express an interest, but, yeah, you guessed it, I can't "addict" him to anime/manga. I even had a copy of Hellsing in his hands one afternoon (he likes Blade/Von Hellsing/Dracula movies); and he liked it!: but he's still reisisting ( and he's too freaking big to bludgeon with anything smaller than say, uh, a Mack truck ). Says he can't afford me to get him into any more hobbies  .
But I have made inroads into the younger crowd; specifically, my daughters and their friends. We're their manga "library". Most Fridays my eldest daughters group hustle out to my van as I'm waiting to pick her up just to see if I have any new titles they can swipe. There's about 9-10 kids in her circle, of which about 4 already knew about manga. My youngest hasn't had as big impact at her school, there's only 3 of her friends that read (counting her) and they already had some interest anyway: she's just has access to a big supply and can lend them out: that library thing again  Ah well, it's a start...
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quincyarcher
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I just read manga in front of them. Sooner or later they start getting curious. Pick it up, flip through it. They keep on doing this for a few days, I offer to let them borrow it. Works like a charm with most friends.
Other times it's just having an extra book at the right time or place. If things lag too much, just pull out a book and ask if they want to read one too. It's almost always a no at first. Wait a little bit longer when they start looking really bored and offer again. In my experience, it's easier to get people into manga than anime. Manga's something they can do on their own time, anime's something they have to make time for. It's also good knowing what people like and what series correlate with it, so your recommendations don't bomb. People also dig the fact that they can call out to friends and say, "Hey, I'm reading a Japanese book, man..." The thought of being multicultural is fun for most people. |
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lovehinafan1
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:D So true! Thats how i got influenced, I saw everyone reading it and at first i was like "how stupid" . But then my freind shoved one in my face and I got really into it and i read it over and over again (MARS vol. 8 was meh first). And i alrady got three people into it. And one of them is already starting her own little collection! I just went on and on about how funny Love Hina was (first manga title collection). And finally when she was bored she laughed her head off when I gave it to her. |
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Ulthrion
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I can't really say that I've tried that much
 although my friends have shown a little interest. One of them has borrowed a couple once and liked them, but she never has the money to spend on manga of her own.
I actually found it easier to get them into anime as we've already watched a lot of movies together and I knew that they would like the gothic-fantasy style of Vampire Hunter D, and after that I just played some solid movies like Mononoke etc. Now they enjoy it, but are not really into it. I hardly see the opportunity to get them into manga though, as we usually have other plans when we meet, and I don't really feel much for the ``Hey, let's read manga together'' approach. But I fully agree with Darkhunter here that there are still too few manga reading people. Farseer Ulthrion |
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darkhunter
Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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All interesting experiece, I really like reading them. So keep 'em coming.
From my own experience, I tried getting a friend into it one day when were playing games in my room. He wasn't intersted because he said it's comic and aim at kids. He said it's silly and it's not comparble to novel. He's also into anime. I told him why don't he try reading it first, but he wouldn't because it's comics. He would flip to a few pages but it never caugh his attention. Oh well, at least it was worth a shot. Other than that, I never really told many other people or friends about my manga hobby. I do feel it's a childish hobby. Actually people are suprise when they see my manga collection in my room, because I don't look like the otaku type that would be sitting around reading manga. |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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It took me awhile to really get into manga... A few years ago, it was all about the anime for me. That has changed a great deal for me however, since I've seen the light. 
Actually, it stemmed mostly from the fact that there would be things that would happen in some of the stories I loved so much that would only occour in the manga... or the anime was cut short, so I wouldn't get the whole story. (Flame of Recca is a perfect example of this, and the one that really changed my views on manga as a whole.) You want to get your friend into manga? Find some anime story they really get into. If it's one where the manga is very different... or continues the story beyond the anime - get him into that. It's a much better incentive than picking up "random title" because you can play on their interests. |
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ryokoalways
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I got 1/4 of my friends on the football team hooked with berserk awhile back. They've been looking into other genres as well.
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Cloe
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Most of my friends are already into manga, so I don't really have the chance. I suppose I could sit down, really think of who I know who's not familiar with manga yet, search out those last few "unexposed" individuals, shove a copy of Nausicaa in their hands and say "Hey, check this out!"
Most of them are artists so it just might work!
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Nimbus
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slickwataris
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Same here. They might pretend like they're interested but I know they're not even paying attention to me. I'm getting used to talking to myself. It kind of did work for this one guy. I let this one kid in my physics class borrow some of the G.T.O. graphic novels I borrowed from the library and he seemed to like it. I don't really know. Everytime I mention it to him now its like it doesn't even exist. I usually bring a manga with me to school everyday and force some people to look at "this one scene" but they don't care. Oh well. |
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DemonEyesLeo
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I've manged to get a few of my friends hooked, and another at least interested. One of them now has his own collection going. I got my friends hooked by simply having them read one, sometimes that's all it'll take. If more people would just give manga a try, most of them would like it. But I think that simply because they're comics some people are a little skeptical. But as the old saying goes: "You can't judge a book by its cover."
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DemonEyesLeo
Posts: 844 Location: Japan |
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Another strategy that might work would be to introduce the manga of a series to someone who likes the anime. That's how I got started, I picked up the manga series of Dragonball because I liked the show and I've been hooked on manga ever since.
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Nimbus
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Ulthrion
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I have the same thing. Strange though, because it really isn't a childish hobby, simply because of the wide range of manga's available these days. On the other hand, it is still a stereotype I think, and chances are that when you pick up a random manga from a store's shelf (at least here) you have one that is targeted at a lower age group (teen or lower age rating), so that could feed their prejudice.
My friends now know about it, so they are no longer surprised. In addition, they first noticed my collection when I only had something like 10-15 manga's, so it was pretty easy for them to accept it. I can understand that when you first see a 100+ manga collection, you can get kind of overwhelmed (which can scare some people off). Back on topic. One of my friends is also into manga quite a lot, and he was the one who introduced me to it. We discovered Anime together, and one day when I came to his house, he was reading GTO (volume 1). He explained what it was and when he was just finished, I started reading it (out of curiousity) until another friend came (we were going to do something else). I decided I was going to take a shot to see if it was something for me, and went with him to a store where I bought my first 2 manga's (X/1999 and Angel Sanctuary I believe, but am not entirely sure). Since then I've steadily increased my collection to 80 volumes now in less than a year. I think for me personally, the step to manga was easy, as I was already starting to get a bit into anime. Also, I am usually quite open to trying out new things, so actually buying a few manga's myself was also a relative easy step. Finally, I used to read a lot when I was younger, and enjoyed it quite a lot. That stopped when I had to read literature for school though, and I've never been able to get into books since then. I think that manga nicely filled the gap for me here. Anyway, that's how I got into manga ... through a friend  .
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