Sunday, March 22, 2009

Manga - A New Addiction

Manga are comics and print cartoons, in the Japanese language.In Japan, people of all ages read manga widely.The genre includes a broad range of subjects: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror, sexuality, and business and commerce, among others.

With the development of the Internet, manga have made their way into the other parts of the world and gained wide audiences in the youths. Most of the well known manga are also made in Anime(Animated Cartoons). Now there are many ways to obtain an manga ranging from online order and few others. And best part of all its translated into english by the publisher.

The peculiarity of manga is, unlike the comics, its read from right to left. An illustration is given below :


And before ending the post, Few suggested mangas:
Naruto:
Twelve years before the events at the focus of the series, the nine-tailed demon fox attacked Konohagakure. It was a powerful demon indeed; a single swing of one of its nine tails would raise tsunamis and flatten mountains. It raised chaos and slaughtered many people, until the leader of the Leaf Village - the Fourth Hokage - defeated it by sacrificing his own life to seal the demon inside a newly-born child, whose origins are as yet unknown. That child's name was Naruto Uzumaki.

Air Gear:
Minami "Ikki" Itsuki, is a student and a delinquent. Also known as the "Unbeatable Babyface", Ikki is the leader of the youth gang by the name of "East Side Gunz". Upon his return home after being humiliated by a street gang of Storm Riders called the Skull Saders Ikki discovers a secret hidden from him by his benefactors, the Noyamano sisters. The sisters belong to a group of Storm Riders who go by the team name of Sleeping Forest. Keen on helping Ikki to regain his confidence and pride, they supply him with a pair of Air Trecks (abbreviated as "AT"). Ikki eventually settles his grudge with the Skull Saders, but in the process he receives more than the simple satisfaction of revenge. Determined to experience the sensation of flight for as long as he can, our headstrong protagonist is quickly sucked into the mysterious, yet irresistible world of Air Treck.

Until next time.
Regards,
Sumeet

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