Tuesday, 20 September 2011

GTO

I'm wondering, do you guy's still remember that I posted the songvid driver's high that was sung by L'arc~en~Ciel... Well, that is GTO's anime opening song theme... the anime was adapted from the manga with the same title.. The manga is about Onizuka Eikichi, a former biker gang... He's a crude, foul-mouthed and has a split-second temper. He wants to be the greatest high school teacher in the world. Of course, his only intention was so that he can try and hit the hot highschool's student. Before he can become a full instructor, he's got to work as a student teacher to earn his credentials. Eikichi might think he is tough.. But when he finds out that his class was filled with delinquents, it look like he has prove his thoughts...

Gold or Love?

Well' its me again you guys... Have you ever wish you can turn all the stone outside your house into gold? Well, I know i do... But, damn it... It's impossible..  but if such thing ever exist, all i know is that people would called it Alchemy... For today i would like to recommends a manga entitle, Fullmetal Alchemist. It's a story of a two brothers who lost their dear mother while they never met their father for years... so they decided to revive their mother using alchemy.. A year past and when they think they're good enough, they find all the material they need to replace the chemical composition of a human body and try to make a substitute body for their past beloved mother.. It didn't work so well in the end and they have to pay a very high price for it.. you guys can read it here..

Flame of Recca

Hey, did anyone read Flame of Recca yet? Damn it's good... The plot was too easy, but I guess it's easier for kids to better understand the story.. It's about a guy named Recca who wants to be a ninja.. He promise to be the ninja to anyone who can beat him in fights... Well, no one could... One day he met a girl named Yanagi, who was in trouble and helped her.. It turns out that Yanagi had a healing power bestowed to her since she was born.. After she treated recca and a dog that was hurt, Recca saw the kindness inside the girl's heart and decided to be her ninja.. He called yanagi 'princess' and sworn to protect her to the end.. If you like this post and wanted to read the manga, you can do that here.. Oh, did I mention that Recca had a gift too, just like Yanagi? Well, Recca can manipulate flame... Hell yeah, i got you attention now.. Come on, you know you wanted to click on that link...

A Little Notice

Hey guy's, you must have realized... I haven't been posting into this blog regularly... yeah.. sorry 'bout that... Well you see, to my surprise, it's not really easy managing a blog... life as a student has also been a piece of hell for me sometimes, it's hard to keep up... The only reason I kept on doin' this blog is for my deep affection towards manga... but seriously guys, it's not easy... Struggling between studying and blogging can be damn hectic.. and I'm not that good at managing my times. after all, I'm just a kid.. But still, there is no way that this blog is going to die. as long as I'm not. I will keep on posting things whenever I had the chance.. It's a promise..

Main Types of Mangas..

 Since Manga is so widely popular in Japan, different kinds of Manga has become known. Each has its own title and when getting into Manga, it can help to know what is what. Below is a list of the different kinds of Manga.

Shonen – Boy’s manga
Shojou – Girl’s manga
Seinen – Men’s manga
Josei – Women’s manga
Kodomo – children’s manga


Don’t let these different titles scare you; they are just there to help differentiate the many kinds of Manga. Generally, you will be able to know if you will like an upcoming Manga title by what group it is a part of. Shonen Manga is usually action packed and humorous, Shojo Manga is often more lighthearted and involves romance. These are only the main branches of manga.. There are more.. You can read it here.

Sports Manga

Sport manga is type of manga that mainly focus on a character that involved in a sport.. This type of manga was usually targeted for boys, but, of course manage to draw attention from female readers as well. This type of manga can give a very good inspiration to people that engage themselves in sport.. not to forget that they also gives a whole new perspective of a particular sport to people who only read mangas, and never really have the urge to try any kind of sports... : P  With this kind of manga, people can really see why some sport are so full with beautiful things for many people.. Why some athletes would strive with all their breath for victory, the sweetness of the victory.. and the determination of some very common persons to reach the top.. seriously, this kind of manga can really bring tears to the eye of a tough guy.. For example, take a look at Eyeshield 21.. This manga circles around the life of a high school student, Kobayakawa Sena. He just became a freshman in Deimon high school and plans to change his life from an errand boy and a push over in middle school but only himself going through the same thing during his high school too.. Until one day he met a true 'devil', the most feared person in Deimon, that happen to be the school's american football club president, none other than the genius evil, Hiruma Yoichi. He force Sena to join the school team, thus begin Sena's life as the mysterious runningback, Eyeshield 21...



Monday, 19 September 2011

The Process of Making Manga

Good evening everyone... Well, i don't think i wanna talk much... so here goes... Since this blog was targeted for people that enjoy mangas, it just not fair if i don't, at the very least, tell you guys how that masterpiece was created...
Here are the steps:
1. Create a name. Names are pre-manuscript sketches that a mangaka (an author of a manga) create to be submitted to his editor. Names are like poor drawn mangas. They contain rough sketches and the dialogues. Its main purpose is for the the editor have a way of gauging whether the chapter you are creating is interesting or not. That way, you won't waste too much effort doing a finished manuscript (which is way harder to do) if in the end the editor says no to your chapter. Accomplished mangakas like Kishimoto may skip this part though. The editor always assume that the next chapter is interesting. But for all other mangakas, they must go to this step.
2. After the editor OKed your name, then you begin drawing the manuscript. It's really drawn. The mangaka don't do the whole thing though. He may hire assistants who do the background and put screentones.
3. After you finished the manuscript, you'll submit it to your editor. It will then be published in your serializing magazine. The publishing house may do some digitized changes with it but it will be minimal.

Also, why not read Bakuman? It's a manga about how two 14 year old boys doing whatever it takes to be successful mangakas. Here's the link:
http://www.onemanga.com/Bakuman/

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Friends


Is it just me? Or does it really seem like every manga that contain the above theme could easily surpass other mangas that don't? It's weird isn't it? So why does this phenomenon occurs? Why would people chose to read a manga that contain a theme that so common to us? Weren't people nowadays are trying so hard to create something different and new? Well, the same goes to me too... despite of my effort to piss you guys off in the last few annoying sentence with my cynical criticism towards the theme of friendship, I too........ (*sigh)..... has become one of your comrade.... (*cheers, everyone..)... Well, right after I was infected with your virus, suddenly I just realize, manga with this kinda theme, along with its commonness has such a big effect on us because childhood was certainly the best part of our lifetime.... the time of childhood when people become friends without hoping for any benefit in return... Damn it, it has just been a year since I left high school, but I'm missing it already... having friends that climb trees together and getting scolded, friends that skip school together because the teacher scolded only one of them, friends that at anytime willing to put their breath on the line, just to save each others' asses... I could never found myself to be saying this kinda things when I'm in elementary school. I'm actually someone that happen to be lucky enough for not having even a single person which I could've called a friend... Shit, how I hate myself at that time... Everyday ends with me asking God, "why the hell did he put me into this world... did he hated me so much, and like everybody else, just wanting me suffered..." I spent my day that time just getting bullied at school and coming home later, expecting myself to be beaten just like any other day before... but when I sit here today and i tried look back to my darker past, that hell I've gone through wasn't that bad after all... because when I was 12 and going to 13, I started to leave my past behind and entered a boarding school... and there, to my surprise, are a few gentlemen that are willing to stood next to me in hard times... and since i have a very scary solitude in my earlier childhood, I learned to value my friends even more. From that moment, more and more people came to trust me and becoming my friend... Finally, I understand, what god gave me isn't so bad after all... and I won't have my childhood any other way, just to gain a true friend when i grow up... These are some pics to remind everyone about the beauty of those hardship we had before when we were kid...for those who had been through them...