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I don't really know what I read....I guess I would call it sci-fi/fantasy....I haven't voted yet though, because I'm really confused.
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I really don't have a specific genre that I like the most... although I have seen a lot of ecchi animes. '^_^
Quamp's discount manga/anime fan fiction The Texas Conventions a Collection of artwork I've collected over various conventions.
I voted Shoujo, but my tastes are more eclectic.
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I also frequent this forum.
I sort of already explained.
I think my friend accidentally sent my skeleton article to you on accident. I am sooooo sorry!!
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Same as NikeYoung.
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Because I'm a girl.
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weeeeeeeee...i'm the first YAOI vote...
*Giggles*
I'm advid yaoi fangirl. hehe..
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Shoujo, with the occasional shoenen-ai(Because I suck to bad toget yaoi).
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Whoo, I'm the only one who voted for yuri! *dancedance*
Long-haired male is at Otakon right now and he bought me some yuri.
<.<; you know you've got a good boyfriend when he gives you naughty lesbian romance comics.
Pull down the future with the one you love. ~Television.
Narf, I don't really have a particular genre... as long as it's pretty and the muscles aren't the size of Escalades, I'm good to go. ^-^
Oooh, Kat; do we get a LHAM update soon? =3
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Ew ew ew double post... erm erm erm... -thinks of something to further the conversation-
Does anyone know what genre the manga Petshop of Horrors is? =3
Shoujo horror. I think.
Shonen's the best, what can I say?
~ Barking at the Moon ~
I read whatever catches my eye at the book store. I mostly like funnier ones, ie Yotsuba&! or Guru Guru Pon-chan, but i really can't resist something done in a beautiful style, mostly CLAMP stuff.
I also really like Dramacon and Sorcerers and Secretaries, ooo, and Sokora Refugees.
(>.O)' If you happen to find yourself in a terrible situation, one word can sum it up, no matter how horrific the situation is..."Shit."
Yay for Shoujo!!! eep...De ja vu.... I loooooove Shoujo, like Hana Kimi and Meru Puri and Ultra Maniac and definetley Crimson Hero!!!
Me + Shoujo= Happiness for an hour....boo hoo! why do they have to be so short!!!
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say most everything I read is Shonen, well the majority of it is...kinda. I read stuff like Trigun, Gunnm, Gold Digger, Dragon Arms, and Legends from Darkwood, but then I also have read some Land of the Blindfolded, X1999, and Comic Party...I'm just going to go with the ones I have the most copies of, which would be Shonen Action stuff...I think.
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I have no idea about genres cause I've only been reading since March. I like stuff like Battle Royale but I like the cute stuff too, like Chobits
Slashed and I cut, and I do it for you...
I've only actually read two mangas.... Fushigi Yugi, and Fruits Basket. I can't afford any more!!!!!!
Live.Love.Burn.Die.
I've got about 16 but I still know absolutely nothing! And don't think I'm rich, it's just that I have a lot of friends who like manga too!
Do you know there are supposed to be 22 volumes in Furuba? o.0 That'd be approximately $220.00 on Tokyo Pop. I know it's more than that, though...^.^;
I love manga, but I only continue reading it only if it interests me. My bookstore only has a few manga titles, and the majoritey of them are either OT or not my type. I've discontinued DNAngel because they don't have any more and I can't afford to buy a whole new series...But I'm reading Full Moon wo Sagashite and Furuba. At least til my money runs out.
Yayy! Shonen's second only to shoujo!
Go shonen!!! XD
I like shonen. A lot. Don't get me wrong, shoujo is a beautiful, beautiful thing(literally and figuratively), but all of the pretty characters just make my head hurt after a while...so I plop down with my usual stack of shoot-'em-up comics and its all good. =]
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whats the difference really? Isn't it all just manga?
It's all manga, just different genres. Shoujo means girl in japanese, so shoujo manga is directed towards girls. Shonen means boy and so its directed towards boys. Yuri is comics about girl on girl action, yaoi is guy on guy. Hentai is porn.
I think I got it all right...
Ohhh, you know that explains a whole lot...
Wow, I AM slow.
Voted for shoujo! Fluff, Romantic angst and relatively happy endings for the win! =P Though, if you want to get specific I'm a sucker for anything fantasy/sci-fi or horror or anything involving mythology. So, yea.
That's not to say, of course, there aren't a couple more *ahem* mature titles on my list of faves. haha.
Yaoi Yaoi Yaoi! Yay, I'm writing one, too.
Actually, yaoi, yuri, and hentai all mean porn. Yaoi is gay porn, yuri is lesbian porn, and hentai is porn in general. "Shounen-ai" and "shoujo-ai" are homosexual relationships minus the "graphics."
Out of curiosity, how do you pronounce all these words? I said yaoi the other day, and my friend just laughed at me. x__x
It's "Yow-ie (as in "Owie")," "You-rie (as in "Owie")" and "Hen-tie"(as in "pie"). At least, that's how RIers say 'em.
I always pronounce yaoi like y, sharp o, sharp e, but I'm probably very wrong.
Japanese is phonetic like Spanish--everything's pronounced exactly how it looks.
Yaoi=Yah'oh-ee
Yuri=You-ree (Note: The Japanese "r" sound is like the middle ground between "l" and "d"--you flick your tongue just slightly against the roof of your mouth to make it)
Hentai= Hen'tah-ee
Hope that helps.
Perhaps I wasn't as wrong as I thought.
Sorry...mine didn't make any sense. Well, that's basically how we pronounce it. You get some wise-cracks messing it up intentionally, though, so I didn't know for sure.
This is going to sound lame, but how do you pronounce "manga"?
Is the first a sharp or normal?
Manga= mahng-gah
Note: "mah" as in "mama"
Thanks...me and my friend have always said it very American like and the other day some girl jumped on me for not saying it correctly...
I just had really never heard it said outloud, so I just assumned in my head it had a sharp a.
Nah. Like I said somewhere else before, Japanese (as well as Spanish) is phonetic. Each letter has a specific sound and that's how it's going to sound every time you see it. "A" always makes the "ah" sound.
Well...now I know (and people won't laugh at me). ;)
I just read whatever I think is interesting xP I don't even buy that much manga, but I have a folder full of webcoms that pretty much update every other day that I am obsessed with.
But I have no idea what catagory they would be under...
i voted yaoi, but really i'm a shonen-ai fan (naked people creep me out 0.0). yeah... shonen-ai is what i eat sleep and breath really... hence my wonderful name.... lol. but a lot of places online have just blanketed it all under yaoi, and i'm hearing shonen-ai less and less often.
i have a hamster..... yesss...... *insert evil laughter*... *insert hacking cough*
I agree....I like shonen-ai, so I voted other.
Hmmm, I used to think shonen-ai fell under yaoi. No one says shonen-ai anymore...which is why I get them mixed up.
Note: 'Ai' means 'love' in Japanese. And 'shonen' means boy and 'shoujo' means girl right? Something along the lines of that. So 'shonen-ai' would be boy love and 'shoujo-ai' would be girl love, if you were to translate them. Right?
I think so...but I'm not really someone to trust with stuff like this.
Yeah, that's right.
It should be noted that shounen-ai and shoujo-ai do actually fall under the umbrella terms Yaoi and Yuri. The two Y-words don't necessarily denote porn, they just usually imply more mature themes than the -ai words. Shounen-ai is essentially just PG-rated yaoi.
Yaoi and shoujo! (as you can see from my website - www.chouneko.net)
My first, gut answer will always be shonen, but as I get older, it gets harder and harder to find shonen that isn't too simplistic to hold my attention. So, I turn to shoujo, the less sparkles and butterflies shoujo usually suits my tastes pretty well.^^ And I'm not gonna lie, about 1/3 or my collection is yaoi, and always will be.
Shonen will always be my favourite manga but hentai isnt even manga is searched it on the internet.(not like i wanted to look at it. i just searched when i 1st heard of it)
