The Manga craze

Aznoutlaw · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Apr 13, 2005 Posts: 232

Well basically the "Manga Craze" has been spreading like wild fire. So i wanna know. Has it spread to where u are? o.O. lol im basically bringing this up cause whenever i go to school i see alot of people carrying a manga book, and theres always someone that goes a bit to far like staring at a picture of a girl (im talking drooling, daydreaming staring).

Meh i find it kind of annoying cause people say its just a fad and that im just another person following it. (im not i liked manga way before this happend). So i just wanna know ^__^ just how far has this craze spread? So far its gotten alot of people in my school and alot more. What about u?

craziazn · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject:

lol, im not sure =D there are a few people that read manga and are really obsessice about it but i doubt that the majority of people actually read manga at our school

CGY · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject:

You should post this in the Free for All forum. Good topic!

kaitune · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:07 pm Post subject:

I am from Thailand, and yes!!! People in my home country like anime/manga! Very Happy

You can find manga/anime shope at almost every single corner of Bangkok(my city) Very Happy

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Aznoutlaw · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Apr 13, 2005 Posts: 232

Yea its spread fast. But no matter what theres always atleast that one person that takes it WAY to far.

1ce · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject:

Manga hasn't spread to this area. In order to BUY manga, I have to take the bus. So I don't buy it, and people around my neighbourhood don't either. Well not that I know of.

Izaki · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 53

youch. That's kinda rough. You know that there are most of them on the net right?

shankz · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:56 am Post subject:

I live in Hong Kong. Manga has been here since forever. There's manga and anime everywhere you go ^^;
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CGY · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:50 am Post subject:

Actually, I think it should be about the same around the world, I mean, teenagers and kids like manga and anime, but not a lot of the adult. I'm wondering if they, the teenagers turn into adults, will they still love manga and anime?

LeFleau · newbie! Joined: Aug 20, 2005 Posts: 10

France - Becoming a new trend down there Smile

And again, don't listen to what other people says, what you like is the only thing that matters.

Mikhal · newbie! Joined: Jul 23, 2005 Posts: 3

I noticed that the manga sections at Barnes and Noble and other bookstores have been growing pretty rapidly. The last time I bought some, the lady that rang me up was mentioning that a lot of people buy them nowadays, so I think they've spread here.

megazero911 · newbie! Joined: Aug 10, 2005 Posts: 49

im always gonna like mangas i really like naruto itz so cool haha i got lots of pics where naruto is a hokage heres one of them hope u like piece

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Moot · newbie! Joined: Jul 25, 2005 Posts: 21

I think when you become familiar with something you will notice it more often than you would before.. It’s like buying a certain kind of car. After that you will notice all the other people that have the same type of car that you do. I know manga reading is far from the norm here. It is still left to a smaller group of stereotyped individuals.

darknightmare909 · newbie! Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 9

There are atleast eight places within 10 mins from my house that i can get manga. At my college I have seen MANY people with manga during the day, mostly girls. I believe the growth is slow down soon though. It was too fast and now there is too much out there. Sadly, rapid growth can only lead to a massive downfall. Remember the WW2. (Forgive that last remark, been playing too much Call Of Duty latly)

Rya · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:08 am Post subject:

It's still very much an underground scene in Germany. You can get most mangas and animes at amazon or maybe even the occasional manga store in a city, but that's it. Our tv programs are sort of responsible for that. All we have here is animes that have tons of merchandise about it (pokemon, digimon, yugioh, beyblade etc.). Most kids don't realize there's more about anime than that and parents think anime is just a new way to sell toys.