Golden Age of Anime

[morgorath]

Yes Manga vs Anime... Look if it weren't for manga we wouldn't have all this great anime as for the price deal... We get the shaft. A yearly subscrption to Jump Magazine here in japan is ruffly a 50 bucks. That is if you have the coupon. While a yearly subscrption to Jump in the states is 30 bucks. http://www.shonenjump.com/subscribe/ So in my view it is cheaper to buy the manga but for me the anime offers a much better expierence.

[kakoi_sugoi_yama]

I love them both, but manga wins out.

[matthewmalay]

Well, english manga in graphic novel form is pretty damn expensive. 15$ a volume is pretty damn ridiculous

I love em both but I would say anime wins out.

[Vicious]

I'll stick with anime. Or as Stan Lee would say, Make Mine Anime (instead of Marvel).

[morgorath]

Yea Stan Lee one of animations greatest gifts. Could you imagine the manga style of charcters he would have turned out if he had been bron in Japan...

Anyways... If anime wins out it is only because we are comparing HK prices to manga sell prices and that isn't fair. If we compare R1 prices to Manga I'm sure mang wins out everytime.

Hell I'll ask the DB expert Kakoi... If you buy all the manga of DB, DBZ, & DBGT and the the R!'s which will you spend more money on.... weatdrop:

[Vicious]

R1's or not, I'll still stick with anime. I was brought up on comics, so I can't stand the fact that there's no color in manga. I bought a Lupin manga a while back and I was confused through the whole thing. They drew everyone so similarly, that it's hard to tell the difference between certain people. I was like "who the hell is saying that???" After that, I got turned off of manga.

By the way, you know that Marvel did put out some manga style comics last year of Spidey and some of their other more popular characters. It was so popular that they're doing a manga style mini series featuring wolverine soon.

[Steve_the_Talking_Pie]

Originally posted by "OptimisticOx"

no, I am not saying that it is more expensive than R1 anime. just saying that it doesnt match up to the prices of HK anime.

Your still comparing licensed stuff to non-licensed bootlegs. Come on now, ofcourse the prices won't match up. HK companies don't have to buy series and distribute it at a higher price in order to make a profit. Think about it alright.

[morgorath]

Vicious, Yea i got to read most of it and that is why i brought it up. I understand your view on Manga hell it took me a while to like it as well. But when I pay 5 bucks for Jump and get 10 comics (and it is almost 3 episodes for each series) I really am happy.

As for the Wolviey Manga that is going to rock the american comic book world...

[kakoi_sugoi_yama]

Originally posted by "morgorath"


Hell I'll ask the DB expert Kakoi... If you buy all the manga of DB, DBZ, & DBGT and the the R!'s which will you spend more money on.... weatdrop:

It comes out so much cheaper to buy manga. Considering there is only a "Dragonball" manga (which encompases all of the events in the show Dragonball and Dragonball Z). There is 42 volumes of this manga and they run about five to six dollars in the states (they are 350 yen a piece) firguring at a rate of seven dollars a book it would only cost you $294 USD for the entire set. Now DVD's on the other hand (especially R1) run about $20-$30 a piece. I think we all know which one comes out cheaper. :roll:

[matthewmalay]

I don't think its fair to compare Japanese manga with R1 DVDs. Japanese manga is alot cheaper than the translated english version. The Dragonball manga published by Viz runs at 15$ a volume, thats 600$+, its probably still cheaper than the anime but thats because they scretched out the Dragonball/Z anime like crazy. Dragonball and Dragonball Z are 444 episodes so thats abut 10 episodes to one volume of the manga. That ratio is alot higher than other series.

[morgorath]

Yes very true matthewmalay, but still even if we take a short series like Trigun the Manga prices are still better. In both countries...

[kakoi_sugoi_yama]

We could do it this way then, and compare japanese manga to japanese DVDs. The Dragonball manga will cost you about $294 USD, and the japanese DVD boxsets (just Dragonball Z) will set you back about $824 USD a piece.

Figuring the english translated version from VIZ, and a fair rate of $17 USD a volume the manga will cost you $656 USD. Manga still comes out cheaper than anime. Although here it barely edges out. $20 is hardly fathomable to me, for one volume of manga at around 193 pages. weatdrop: weatdrop:

[morgorath]

Ok anyways look here I have this to throw at you... I look at anime like a look at video games any more the best ones are older ones because they offer replay/reviewing. The new stuff is too centered on graphics/CG's then telling a story. Now there are a few great ones that get made Soul Reaver, MGS / Trigun, Cowboy Beebop. But if you were to watch animax like I get to you would see a bunch of crap too...

[kakoi_sugoi_yama]

Yeah, but that is the same for most things. weatdrop:

[morgorath]

No I don't see that in things like cars. It's just that now not only do the makers, producers, writers, and what not get to tap the Japanese market but they now tap the american market. Hell I need to find that article... Bandai is looking to make an anime directed straight to the american otaku htey are going to bye pass japan completely...
tell me that isn't an oxymoron...