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Your First Takahashi Manga? |
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Ucchan's Okonomiyaki Patron
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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Kuno Family Servant
Posts: 85 (05/27/08 12:10 PM) |
Ranma 1/2 for me as well.
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Ucchan's Okonomiyaki Patron
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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Ucchan's Okonomiyaki Patron
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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Panty Thief
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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Panty Thief
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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