Do you read foreign mangas ?

[moon44]

Hello !

Lately there are more and more (BL) mangas licenced in the US. I really hope this will continue - I especially can't wait to read *Ai no kusabi* :rolleyes:

But also in other countries mangas become more and more popular. It's a good chance to get your hand on "readable" mangas and also a possibility to improve your language skills. :blah:

The only problem is - how to know which mangas are where published ?? :confused:



For french Mangas:

mangaverse.net

(http)mahousu.ifrance.com/mahousu

mangavore.com

the-ryoweb.com

manga-news.com

animbel.com (Belgian)

Where to buy ?

archonia.com

alapage.com

bdnet.fr

dailymanga.fr

konci.com

mangastore.com

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Mangas in Italy:

shoujo-manga.net

paninicomics.it

Does somebody know more sites for italian mangas ? :confused:

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German Mangas:

Best information you get is from the publisher sites:

manganet.de [EMA]

tokyopop.de [Tokyopop Germany]

carlsen.de

planetmanga.de [PM] (=Panini)

Very good is also mangaguide.de


Where to buy ?

You find almost everything at amazon.de

hugendubel.de

bol.de

tuttocomics.ch

Used mangas at booklooker.de

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I don't know any sites for spanish mangas. Aren't there also polish mangas ? Or russian mangas ?

:confused:

[Cireus]

For me, it doesn't matter what nationality the author is who writes a manga so long as the story is good--just like anything that I read. I thoroughly enjoy reading anything that has a solid story, so if I found manga that were created by a German, for example, I would buy it though I would also be limited in the languages since I'm only fluent in German so the others wouldn't really make sense to me in their native language.

[moon44]

Especially Tokyopop Germany and Carlsen give german mangaka a chance.
So far the stories are sometimes a little simple - but that's mainly because they are made for young readers.

But I think that mangas in other languages also give you the chance to discover new stories which you never would have found through scanlations. And you can continue a series which has been stopped in your own country.
This happened to me with *Gantz* - I loved tonkam for publishing GANTZ

[Aluminum]

Of course I read. In Finland there aren't that many series going...

[neji-erstaunlich]

in Portugal is the same thing...

if we want to read manga we have to buy it or we have to go to the internet and search for it...or we have to ask a friend that have it to give us...
it's so boring when we don't have the things we like...

still that we have sites that they supply sleeve gratuitously and with permission to make it well…

[Sophia]

ummm I read manhwa (Korean Manga) as well as Japanese Manga.. but as long as the stories are well put together, I'm all in~ If the art is beautiful, then it's even better!! There's so many different styles of art and writing, I feel very fortunately that I can enjoy these!!

[oxaloacetate]

hmm... I'm not exposed to foreign comics though? But the comics i read are from japan (manga) and korea (manhwa). Probably chinese ones too. sometimes i just dont know where the comic i read are from. but the majority of it are from japan, korea, and chinese ones? from taiwan probably. But the stories of the comics are very important. Also the artwork is what i'm interested in, especially the korean manhwa, beautiful artwork the authors drew....:P

[marukawa]

i only read manga by japanese artists. the names in manhwa are weird and hard for me to pronounce (too used to japanese syllables), but the art is amazing- i just can't get past the names and such. i haven't yet seen an american-made manga that captured my interest. i used to like megatokyo when i was around like, 13 and such but after i "grew up" a little, the art started to look amateur to me. < ___<;

[shdowknives]

i read manhwa.... and the japanese manga.... but other than that... it kind of just depends what i cant get my hands on.... some of the culture things for manhwa will confuse me at times... but ill read anytime if it interests me.... i think the only thing i dont like is american comic books...no offense to anyone that does.. but its just not my thing....

[marukawa]

i agree with you, shdow...i cannot STAND american comic books. i remember looking up the graphic novel version of the Anita Blake novel series and all of the characters are just plain fugly. the guys were supposed to be on the lean side and have a slightly-fem-but-masculine look to them, but the - ugh - they were all muscle-ly and their hair looked greasy.

as for american comics that resemble japanese manga...i don't like those either. i dunno...the art always looks too plain or uniform whereas japanese manga and korean manhwa are stylized.

american comics don't have any good plots, either, IMO.

[firesong]

For me, the plot and the artwork comes before the nationality of the author. But sometimes the context of the manga is too different. I mean culturally there are some thing you will not understand ( like puns and jokes ), so that may make the story harder to read.

[shdowknives]

O_O marukawa... u r connected to my head.... lol... i looked up the anita comic too!... i was so sick when i saw it...*dies*... i wanted to burn them all... they were sooooo not how the book describes.... yuck....

the art in american comics just suck.... they dont have the asian cultures in the,,... an yet they still try..-__-;;; they shoudl just give up...

burn american comics burn!!!

[Sasami86]

Well I myself don't really look at where the artist is from just as long as the art and story line are to my liking, then I'm happy. But I do buy manga from German licensing (like: Tokyopop, Carlsen, and EMT) because some works get licensed by the Germans way before they get licensed here in the States. So I tend to order some titles off the Internet from my favorite mangaka.

[marukawa]

O_O marukawa... u r connected to my head.... lol... i looked up the anita comic too!... i was so sick when i saw it...*dies*... i wanted to burn them all... they were sooooo not how the book describes.... yuck....

the art in american comics just suck.... they dont have the asian cultures in the,,... an yet they still try..-__-;;; they shoudl just give up...

burn american comics burn!!!

LULZ

*high fives* :3

[Epyon]

I like comics from Korea (manhwa) and China/Taiwan (manhua), I've also read a few manga-like comics from Germany, but I didn't like those. I prefer manga. :)

[queenyfm]

i don't really care, where the artists are from...the names sound strange to my ears most of the time, but that's a thing one can get used to very quickly (well, i can get used to it) :D
as i come from germany i get to read german mangas rather often. most of them have a simple plot and are for girls between 10-14 maybe...but some are really good. a couple of weeks ago i read a manga called "god gauss". it's really funny! it's about a guy who's only got bad luck and has a crush on his neighbour, who is surpressed by her boyfriend and therefore is depressive. both try to escape their lives by chatting on the internet. one day they "meet" god gauss (he controls their comps). this god is the god of probability (well, he says so)....and he has a great sense of black humour...
the plot got running a bit slowly, but i really enjoyed it. i'm looking forward for vol. 2.
but i guess you're right with american comics...i didn't get to read one i liked, yet...

[gatita]

Well, I'm French, so of course English is a foreign language for me. Therefor, yes, I do read those manga. I can, with difficulties, read spanish manga too.