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Reading Manga for the First Time

It amazed to me that I came this far and had not even learned about anime until a friend pushed me into it halfway through my first year. I've had rare sights of old friends collections of mangas all neatly shelved but filling the entire shelf itself. Point is, if I had opened one of those mangas back then, my room would be filled with hundreds of them. Going into this I almost forgot that there was a structure for reading them.

So first of all, I can now admit that I have read a manga, specifically "Battle Angel Alita" by Yukito Kishiro. Overall it was a very interesting story, Yoko (Gally) a cyborg finds herself waking up and realizing the town of Salem is completely filled with dead bodies and killer robots. She meets a couple people along and ends up fighting another cyborg, well three of them on her own. The basic premise after reading the entire volume was that she is looking for her friend and I'm guessing her friend from the first part of the volume. The art is visually appealing and interesting, honestly, I could not stop reading this and I certainly will continue to read the volumes in the future as long as they have not ended it like some television shows out there.

Ranma 1/2 was odd to me but interesting enough that I had to continue to see what it was all about with the father turning into a panda and his son turning into a woman when coming into contact with cold water. Though the art style is different and there is no actual plot to the manga, it is interesting because all the characters (I've read a lot of stories that have unique characters, this isn't the first one) are unique and humorous at some points. I would not read it again but I definitely would watch it as an anime if they have it. Overall I have definitely taken an interest in manga and will probably continue to do so in the future.


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