You certainly can't and in the literal sense of the phrase! XD
That big list of manga, I'm almost done...and I'm only in the middle of the B's...TT^TT
Well, that big list I made I put in some manga that I THOUGHT I should just TRY out even though the cover was either plain or hideous and the plot summary was OKAY and I read them and THEY WERE BRILLIANT!
Here are the two that I've become really interested in:
(Sorry the picture is so small) It doesn't even look like manga! XD It's not exactly in a manga style, but Gogh is...Oh, yeah, the manga is called Baka to Gogh, meaning The Idiots and Gogh (or the other way around...O.o I'm not that good with Japanese! TT^TT). It's really hilarious! XD
It's about two idiot guys who are trying to make a big bang with their concert for the culture festival at the end of their senior year (well, just in the first chapter) and they get involved with this girl named Gogh and try to protect her from bullies, but then the bullies beat them up, but along the way they become friends with Gogh and Gogh happens to be a brilliant artist (fashion, mon) and so they have her design clothes for their concert and it's just funny and happy at the same time. It really makes you pumped up with their determination (and stupidity). And the style is really weird...But I really love it because it seems that everyone is wearing '70's clothes and it just gives me this great feel while reading it! <333
Here's another one:
(Sorry, another small picture) Yeahh...doesn't it look boring? And you're looking at it probably thinking how silly it looks and how the art style looks really weird and blahh, BUT the art is actually FANTASTIC! Actually, I really don't know how to explain it, everything just looks perfect...it doesn't seem to stick to one specific style that carries over on each of the characters, they look like they're all picked out of different people's styles...I don't know how to explain it, but it really works. And it's pretty violent for a shounen manga...especially to be published in Shounen Jump, I'm surprised...O.o
It's about a boy with a puppet on his arm and his puppet does most of the talking and he's pretty wild, but the two solve mysteries.
Sounds...ummm...weird? Well, it';s really exciting and the puppet really makes me happy! ^ ^ I really love the main character's design with the puppet! It's really awesome, definitely check it out!
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And darn it! The art was done by Takeshi Obata (well, it was old and Obata-sama was still getting a hold on a style, you can tell, his old, old manga looks WAAY different from his manga now)! *face palms* Why do I only like shounen manga that Takeshi Obata does the art for? I don't get it! TT^TT
Seriously I had a lot of shounen manga on my list and now I think the only thing left on there is probably Ayatsuri Sakon and Baggataway (which I don't think counts since the style looks more shoujo-ish to me...plus it's about a bunch of girls)...Just from the first few pages I read I got disgusted or bored...>.> I don't know what it is! TT^TT
Most of the stuff on my list is either Shoujo or Seinen...>.> So weird how that happens...O.o
And by the way, I found another Kpop manhwa! But it's really cheesy and totally unrealistic...O.o It's about this girl who isn't into to Kpop boy bands like most teen girls, but she accidentally meets the most popular ones when her friend asked her to get an autograph of them (accidentally, because she didn't know what they looked like and just ran into them while she was one her way out of some mall thing...O.o) and so they get in a small argument and she tries to run away and one of the members runs after her and then they get suspicious and annoyed that she doesn't know who they are (Why? Are they really that self absorbed?) and so they let her have lunch with them so they can explain, but then they leave and KISS HER...WHY!? WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU DO THAT EVEN IF YOU WERE CELEBRITIES!? No, why would you do that WHEN you are celebrities? And then the next day after they didn't have an assistant for a while they go to her school and ask for her to be their new assistant...O.o WHAT!? I just don't get this manhwa....
But I'm going to read it anyway since I don't find many idol manga/manhwa...XD
It's called Ardour, in case you're wondering.
And then I read this shoujo manga about this girl who could summon demons and she liked to cook sweets and demons liked sweets...Makes me want to create a character who eats a lot of sweets! XD Wait....I created a demon who liked sweets...O.o Hrmm....strange coincidence, thar, but my looks different! XD
And then I read several manga that I liked, but they were all in a realistic style..either most of the manga I'm reading is old or I'm beginning to like cross hatching styles in manga...Not that I would ever do that. I have no talent in cross hatching! TT^TT Just ask my art teacher or my friends....TT^TT I can try, but it doesn't exactly work the way it's supposed to when I cross hatch...Like when it gets darker when you go over it more at different angles...yeah...for some reason that doesn't work for me...O.o it's just the same shade...O.o I might not be doing it dark enough or applying the wrong pressure or something...but I just think that's a bit weird...Though I can do it on the computer...O.o
Well, I like doing clean pictures and looking at clean pictures...So I'll stick with that (plus I think cross hatching is sooo yesterday...XD *laughs* No, it's just outdated a bit...since more mangaka are doing art on the computer cross hatching just isn't as useful).
I'm off to read some more manga! *piisu*
