Odd name right?
Well, I bought this book which gives reviews on all licensed manga till 2007. And I made this list of "Manga's to read" from there.
Manga --- Manga-ka
Cromartie High School --- Eiji Nanaka
2001 Nights --- YUkinobu Hoshino
A1 A' --- Moto Hagio
Abandon the old in Tokyo --- Yoshiro Tatsumi
Apocalypse Meow --- Motofumi Kabayushi
Adolf --- Osamu Tezuka
Apocalypse Zero ---Takayuki Yamaguchi
Area 88 --- Kaoru Shintani (I think this will be VERY tough to find all volumes)
Ashen Victor --- Yukito Kishiro
Barefoot Gen --- Keiji Nakawaza
Berserk --- Kentaro Miura (Very violent, I hear?)
Chiyuki Misaki --- Yuji Iwakara
Clover --- CLAMP
Comics Underground Japan - Variuos Artistes. (A collection of underground artists - underground artists are the guys who haven't yet caught their bit of fame)
Devilman --- Go Nagai
Disappearance Diary --- Azuma Hideo
Domu: A Child's Dream --- Katsuhiro Otomo
The Drifting Classroom --- Kazuo Umezu
The Four Immigrants Manga --- Yositaka Kiyama
Golgo 13 --- Takao Saito
GTO --- Tohru Fujisawa
Japan as view by 17 creators --- Various Artists (Name implies the meaning. Self explanatory)
Joan --- Yoshisaku Yasuhiko
Junko Mizuno's Princess Mermaid --- Junko Mizuno
Lone Wolf And Cub --- Kazuo Koike (A team up, if I remember correctly, one to to the story, and one for the art, like in Crying Freeman.)
Lupin III --- Monkay Punch
Maison Ikkokou --- Rumiko Takahashi
Mars 3 --- Fuyumi Soryo
Monokuro Kinderbook --- Kan Takahama
Ode to Kirihito --- Osamu Tezuka
Phoenix --- Osamu Tezuka
The Push Man --- Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Redprowling Demon --- Toshimitsu Shimizu
Sanctuary --- Sho Fumimura, Ryoichi Ikegami
Shojo Beat's Manga Artist Academy --- Various
Testa Rotho --- Kei Sanbe
Town of evening calm, country of cherry blossoms --- Various
To Terra --- Keiko Takayami (famous anime, right?)
Vagabond --- Takehiko Inoue
Venus War --- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Wounded Man --- Kazuo Koike
Yes, as you may have noticed, quite a few names repeated. Specially Osamu Tezuka. These are the manga that book I mentioned, gives a rating of 4 out of 5. (He hasn't mentioned 4 or 5, so I'm assuming 5, might be out of 4 for all I know.) I chose only those whose summaries looked like they'd have good story lines.
If anyone read these and found some lame storyline, do mention it to me. I haven't yet got around to DO the finding. Silly Assignments of mine for college. Will be doing so by this month, last week. Or otherwise next month.
Well, I bought this book which gives reviews on all licensed manga till 2007. And I made this list of "Manga's to read" from there.
Manga --- Manga-ka
Cromartie High School --- Eiji Nanaka
2001 Nights --- YUkinobu Hoshino
A1 A' --- Moto Hagio
Abandon the old in Tokyo --- Yoshiro Tatsumi
Apocalypse Meow --- Motofumi Kabayushi
Adolf --- Osamu Tezuka
Apocalypse Zero ---Takayuki Yamaguchi
Area 88 --- Kaoru Shintani (I think this will be VERY tough to find all volumes)
Ashen Victor --- Yukito Kishiro
Barefoot Gen --- Keiji Nakawaza
Berserk --- Kentaro Miura (Very violent, I hear?)
Chiyuki Misaki --- Yuji Iwakara
Clover --- CLAMP
Comics Underground Japan - Variuos Artistes. (A collection of underground artists - underground artists are the guys who haven't yet caught their bit of fame)
Devilman --- Go Nagai
Disappearance Diary --- Azuma Hideo
Domu: A Child's Dream --- Katsuhiro Otomo
The Drifting Classroom --- Kazuo Umezu
The Four Immigrants Manga --- Yositaka Kiyama
Golgo 13 --- Takao Saito
GTO --- Tohru Fujisawa
Japan as view by 17 creators --- Various Artists (Name implies the meaning. Self explanatory)
Joan --- Yoshisaku Yasuhiko
Junko Mizuno's Princess Mermaid --- Junko Mizuno
Lone Wolf And Cub --- Kazuo Koike (A team up, if I remember correctly, one to to the story, and one for the art, like in Crying Freeman.)
Lupin III --- Monkay Punch
Maison Ikkokou --- Rumiko Takahashi
Mars 3 --- Fuyumi Soryo
Monokuro Kinderbook --- Kan Takahama
Ode to Kirihito --- Osamu Tezuka
Phoenix --- Osamu Tezuka
The Push Man --- Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Redprowling Demon --- Toshimitsu Shimizu
Sanctuary --- Sho Fumimura, Ryoichi Ikegami
Shojo Beat's Manga Artist Academy --- Various
Testa Rotho --- Kei Sanbe
Town of evening calm, country of cherry blossoms --- Various
To Terra --- Keiko Takayami (famous anime, right?)
Vagabond --- Takehiko Inoue
Venus War --- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Wounded Man --- Kazuo Koike
Yes, as you may have noticed, quite a few names repeated. Specially Osamu Tezuka. These are the manga that book I mentioned, gives a rating of 4 out of 5. (He hasn't mentioned 4 or 5, so I'm assuming 5, might be out of 4 for all I know.) I chose only those whose summaries looked like they'd have good story lines.
If anyone read these and found some lame storyline, do mention it to me. I haven't yet got around to DO the finding. Silly Assignments of mine for college. Will be doing so by this month, last week. Or otherwise next month.
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