Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

RWBY is coming back July 24th so excited!!! Who's looking forward to it?

Kazuki Takahashi created Yugioh and I just know that guy is crazy rich. The first volumes of Yugioh is really good. Classic Yugioh manga had everything right. Its a shame Takahashi hasn't bothered to create anything new AT ALL. He just does constant Yugioh partnerships over and over which starts NEW Yugioh series like Zexal and 5'Ds. I wish he would stop being so lazy and actually created something new. Toriyama, King of the Dragonball, has tried very few new things. I'm also sure that guy is pretty dang rich. He created a silly Dragon Ball spinoff manga that starred some kind of blue creator that could turn Super Saiyan. LOL

Apparently he does this because people are gonna keep making Yugioh even if he steps away from it.

I think Takahashi just approves any Yugioh idea that comes his way. Yugioh 5'Ds REALLY needed help. That Yugioh series with Jaden wasn't that bad... the manga for Yugioh: Zexal actually doesn't suck.

He's making loads a cash from anime, manga, the CARDS, the GAMES, clothing....

But yet... he won't make ANYTHING NEW. The original Yugioh series has ended a long time ago!!!

He doesn't have to work a day in his life again and he seems to be cool with. Toriyama pretty much spends his days approving DBZ games and rehashing Dragion Quest art.

DC is putting up the Bat manga on a weekly basis with actual volumes later this year.

This should make things clearer for you.
http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Pirate

Also, Luffy's not entirely good. For example, he conspired and "succeded" in stealing gold from the Shandians at the end of the Skypiea arc.

A pirate is more an outlaw in their world, and trust me, they break the law a lot (usually stupid laws, though).

Luffy's actions in Impel Down more than make up for his other non-pirate-like behavior...

Well, if he's rich, he has no reason to make anything new. I don't blame him.

Yo @Caniswolfred

You watch Knights of Soodonis yet?

But DBZ was never supposed to be the second half. It was the final arc, at least of Goku's story. Seriously, there was nowhere else to go once you've gone into space and saved pretty much the entire Universe from an Evil tyrant by achieving the absolutely height of your entire species, transcending that which could be called "Man" - at least nowhere else that would make sense and work as a part of the story that Dragon Ball originally was. Really, I feel like the Cell Saga working at all is more a credit to Akira Toriyama's skill as a writer more than anything else. Even if it was pretty much just the Frieza Saga all over again, but now with even more rediculous power-levels, and a much better Ending (thematically), IMO.

Yes, I have. I haven't finished it yet, but it's been a great watch, minus a lot of little oddities that I personally feel don't add much to the story. You get used to them, though.

Well, the manga version has Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z together under one series. (but not in America, where even the manga is separated)

Well me and my little brother finished Digimon Tamers. Gets me every time. We both cried at the end, lol. The dub is really good. In fact if it weren't for a few things I'd prefer it to the Japanese version.
Before now Adventure and Tamers were tied for my favorite but I think that was mostly nostalgia. Adventure was strong but Tamers is now my favorite.

Wasn't dragonball supposed to be similar to JoJo where the cell saga was the end of Goku's story and if there was anymore after that it would have followed Gohan?

Also I had a question that I was wondering. But why do you guys prefer Manga to Western comics.

That Jotaro's hat though on Jojo's Biazzare Adventures Stardust Crusaders. It's like it's becoming part of his hair or something.

Tamers >Adventure > Adventure II> Frontier > all the rest I haven't seen.

I never got into western comics. From what I know about at least mainstream comic book series, I probably wouldn't bother. Every series ever gets completely ruined at some point or another and starting at the beginning is a literally impossible task usually (ignoring the DC relaunch of course). Whereas with manga, I usually only have to worry about if a single writer declines in quality, which happens not that often imo.

I pretty much second this.

It's not that I don't like the ideas/characters in western comics (I usually enjoy the movies and cartoons), but I just never really got into them.

In addition to what was said above, I'm not sure how I'd like a series changing authors/artists multiple times throughout a run (whichs happens quite frequently in western comics, from what I understand). I'd hate to get into a series, only to have another writer come in and take it into a direction the original writer never intended to go (I'm not sure how much this actually happens, if at all, but I know I don't have to worry about it with manga, where the single author generally has an idea of where they want to take it from the beginning).

Creative team switches tend to happen fairly a lot in superhero comics but not in indie and creator owned work like Saga, Watchmen, and Y the last man. Even with superhero comics you do get an ending with what that writer wants to do with the character.

I think the main advantage of having revolving art teams seeing interesting things done with characters or ideas. Plus seeing different artist tackle things is pretty good.

I sometimes manga had a more flowing approach. I'd say Naruto get the Pluto treatment.

Am I the only person who thinks Jojo stardust crusaders is inferior to Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency.

I agree with the others here, and will add that I feel like Mainstream Western comics are too...unfocused. They're never made with a long-term end goal. I'm not saying they have to have the ending written down before they start, but trust me, stories tend to do better if you have a general goal that you're constantly inching your way towards, instead of just going from arc to arc, until you're forced to end it somehow, usually in a way that doesn't feel satisfying. I have this same problem with American TV shows, too. Not to say some manga/anime don't do that, too, but I usually hate those as well.

Obviously more obscure comics are better about that, but seriously, I have tried off and on for 8 years to find a good non-Mainstream comic that I enjoyed (and wasn't Scott Pilgrim, which is practically an American Manga), and I can't seem one...