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Your First Takahashi Manga? |
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 73 (05/26/08 08:44 PM) |
Okay, So I'm just wondering how you all first got into the great Takahashi-Sensei. My first Takahashi manga, as I've said in the Ranma board was Ranma
1/2. It was so funny and the characters were so well concieved that I couldn't stop reading it! After only two volumes, I was determined to read all of her
works that I could.
So what was your first experience and what made you seek out her other manga? |
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Obnoxious Alien
Posts: 236 (05/27/08 01:06 AM) |
I first started with Ranma 1/2 as well. This was a while ago when the manga section of B&N was only a shelf or so long, and out of the manga on there I
was attracted to Ranma #1's simple red cover (I know, I know, you're not supposed to do that...) and really enjoyed it. From there I branched out
So honey...
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Naraku's Slave
Posts: 85 (05/27/08 12:10 PM) |
Ranma 1/2 for me as well.
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 76 (05/27/08 06:51 PM) |
Wow, I guess alot of people strated with Ranma 1/2
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How about our webmasters? *Poke* 
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Posts: 3337 (05/27/08 10:41 PM) Long Suffering Ronin |
Ranma 1/2 for us too.....*lol*....this might end up being a boring topic! Although it wasn't the manga but the video games, back in 1993.
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 79 (05/28/08 07:54 AM) |
Takahashi has several great series, I thought fans would have seen different ones first, but I guess most members of this board fell in love with the Ranma 1/2
first. So is that her most famous work? From all of the Lum you see around Japan, I'd think Urusei Yatsura would be more popular. Though, It didn't
reach alot of people here in the USA, so I guess Ranma would be more popular here. It IS interesting, though, that you guys were introduced to Takahashi
through the video game adaptation of her manga first.
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 330 (05/28/08 09:11 AM) |
Ranma 1/2 for me too. It makes sense, since Ranma was the first of Takahashi's work to really become popular in America. I'm sure there are plenty of
more recent fans who started with Inuyasha, though.
Actually my first exposure to Takahashi's work was when I read an article in a video game magazine about one of the Ranma 1/2 video games. The article mentioned the plot was about a boy who turns into a girl and I being only about 11 years old at the time thought it was an extremely bizarre idea, and it stuck with me somehow. Years later when I got into manga and anime I think that memory influenced me to check out the Ranma 1/2 manga out of sheer curiosity. I agree with Captain Hummingbird about the old Ranma 1/2 volume covers. I thought they were quite simple and attractive too, and I miss them. |
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Onsen Mark's Favorite Pupil
Posts: 8 (05/30/08 12:58 AM) |
It's interesting. Many English speaking fans are firstly attracted by the idea of a boy turning into a girl. In the eye of Japanese fans, this concept is
not unique to Ranma1/2. It occurs to me that Japanese fans are more attracted by the love relationship between Ranma and Akane, which is not so notable as
transformations. So, everytime they reaired Ranma1/2, it gained more and more Japanese fans as many Japanese people came to know the love relationship between
Akane and Ranma. This is why, the first series of TV anime were cancelled out so soon due to the lack of ratings. To read how English speakers are introduced
to my culture is very interesting because I have no acquaintance with English speaking people except the webmasters of this site.
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05/30/08 02:05 AM.
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 331 (05/30/08 11:01 PM) |
That's an interesting point. But you know, I think a lot of readers are initially attracted to the humor or some other aspect of Takahashi's work, but
it's the romance aspect that keeps them coming back to her series. That's the way it was with me, anyway. I started buying Ranma 1/2
thinking it was just a funny comic book, but I ended becoming much more interested in the characters.
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Onsen Mark's Favorite Pupil
Posts: 9 (05/31/08 10:35 PM) |
Yusaku Godai wrote: But, Yusaku, Yoiko writes,
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Obnoxious Alien
Posts: 126 (06/01/08 06:56 AM) |
I started watching Ranma 1/2 first when I was 9 yrs old, I'm 13 and still lovin' it. I coudn't help but read Ranma 1/2 (and all the other things
she wrote.)
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Ryoko Mendo's Kuroko
Posts: 593 (06/05/08 05:06 AM) |
Mine is actually kind of different, I think. The first Takahashi manga I ever read was One or Double- one of her short
story anthologies. I picked it up from the manga section of a store once for a trip. I knew she was extremely well known so thought I should give her work a
shot. I read it, really enjoyed it, but still didn't try anything else of hers for quite some time. Then I got into InuYasha with Ranma 1/2 shortly after, and all the rest of her stuff several years later.
I was initially really turned off by Rumiko's art. I simply did not like it. That's why I avoided picking anything up by her for a few years after I
got into animanga. Now I adore her art and will praise it heavily when it's on. I think she handles emotion (via her artwork) better than all but a very
few mangaka. Go figure.
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Posts: 3347 (06/08/08 02:18 AM) Long Suffering Ronin |
Tachihaki wrote: *lol* Good question! It was really because at 12 years old, I liked being able to look at boobs in a comic book too, but I just wanted to give Yoiko a hard time about it. hahaha |
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Joketsuzoku Villager
Posts: 2 (06/08/08 10:42 PM) |
Urusei Yatsura. Bought it in comic book form when Viz was pumping them out. (300 or so chapters at $3 a piece, that would have been expensive
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 284 (07/24/08 03:42 PM) |
Actually the first manga of RT's I started reading was Urusei yatsura. I think it was the early to mid 90s when Viz started publishing Return of Lum in
english, and I had to go off of the graphic novel *after* the perfect collection since the bookstore never had it.
The funny thing about it is at the time i was like 10/11 years old at the time and flipping through it at the bookstore I thought it looked really boring w/ all the school scenes and when Ataru was getting into mischeif at home. Then I got a copy of the perfect collection and read from the beginning and it started to grow on me and is still my #1 fave of all her works. I then started reading Ranma and the Mermaid saga as well
"Miss Shinobu won't you have some tea with me?"
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Kuno Family Servant
Posts: 131 (08/06/08 02:02 AM) |
Urusei Yatsura was my drug of choice.
Actually, it was probably about 10 years ago that I first got into the manga. The anime caught my eye in Feb 1998. As my artistic sensibilities had labelled me strange and weird in high school, the craziness of Urusei Yatsura seemed a perfect match with me. After this, I got into Ranma 1/2, and then it was onto Maison Ikkoku and the other Rumic issues. I never did latch onto Inu-yasha, even though I have the first 7 US volumes. Having originally enjoyed the more condensed storylines that Urusei had to offer, many of the longer multi-part storylines just couldn't hold my attention. Of course, the one treasure I have is my Vol 15 Wideban of Urusei Yatsura, which Takahashi signed at Comic-Con 2000 in San Diego. It was a madhouse to get tickets to the autograph session. Though if Takahashi comes back to the Comic-Con, I'd definitely want to attend (I could see Viz doing that in the future when she releases her next big series). |
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