Hi, could someone give me good Christian reviews on the following mangas?
Fruits Basket
Girl Got Game
Et Cetera
Jing: King of Bandits
Abenobashi: Magical shopping arcade
Thanks! I'm really uncertain because some of these titles are outside my normal realm of guns and swords. The only shoujo mangas I have are Angelic Layer which has plenty of fighting and Azumanga Daioh which is very funny. My interest in them was piqued only by reading manga previews at http://www.justmanga.com/preview.cfm. Thanks alot!
God bless,
Jonathan
Coulld some kind person give me some manga info?
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Coulld some kind person give me some manga info?
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wiggins - Posts: 613
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Iv'e only read these two:
Fruits Basket - very good story with great characters. very innnocent and the only thing that I can think of is that one of the characters comes off a bit gay (Ayame) and that when the members of the Sohma family transform back, they are naked from the waist up (girls neck up). I love this series!
Girl Got Game - read the first one and wasn't really my thing. A girl who dresses as a guy and lives in a guys dorm leads to all sorts of problems.... I didn't like how it was going.... o well....
Hope this helps!
Fruits Basket - very good story with great characters. very innnocent and the only thing that I can think of is that one of the characters comes off a bit gay (Ayame) and that when the members of the Sohma family transform back, they are naked from the waist up (girls neck up). I love this series!
Girl Got Game - read the first one and wasn't really my thing. A girl who dresses as a guy and lives in a guys dorm leads to all sorts of problems.... I didn't like how it was going.... o well....
Hope this helps!
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Kisa - Posts: 2927
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Magical Shopping Arcade
I've only read the first volume, and that was a while ago, so I don't remember much about it as far as language. However, I can tell you that there is a bit of fanservice in it, and a lot of crude humor too.
I've only read the first volume, and that was a while ago, so I don't remember much about it as far as language. However, I can tell you that there is a bit of fanservice in it, and a lot of crude humor too.
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Abenobashi's chief minx, Mune Mune, translates to "breast breast" in Japanese. Draw your own conclusions.
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I could still be champ, but I'd feel bad taking it away from one of the younger guys. - George Foreman
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I put this in another thread, but it took me along time to do. I'll just paste it, if you don't feel cheated by that. 
Paste begins now--->
Fruits Basket. My favorite manga. Ever.
Okay Synopsis time!!!
Fruits Basket is the story of the recently orphaned Tohru Honda. Tohru is a young, caring high school student who seems to have no regretter concern than making the lives of those she loves comfortable. Due to this desire, when he mother and caretaker dies and he grandfather needs her to move out of his house while he remodels, she decides her only recourse is to put up a tent and live in the woods.
But little does young Tohru know that she has inadventantly staked her tent on the land of Shigure Shoma and his cousin (?) Yuki Sohma. When the two young men find her, they offer her a room (one with a lock mind you) in their huge house in return for her cooking and cleaning skills. Not long into her stay, Tohru learns that the Sohmas have a dark secret. Whenever they are hugged by a member of the opposite sex or when they are very weak, the transform into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.
And so begins a touching story about loving people for who they really are-- no matter what.
Positive: Tohru Honda is, for me, the most inspirational fiction character that I've come across in a long time. She is what Christian girls schould me. Kind, caring, and selfless. And throughout the manga, it is obvious that she has no greater desire than to see the Sohmas happy.
Negative:
Sex/Nudity: Well, as was said in the synopsis, when the Sohmas are hugged, they turn into animals. Likewise, when they transform, they aren't wearing any clothes (They either got ripped because their animal form was too big or they slipped off because their animal form was too small. Luckily Takaya-sensei has spared us alot of embarrassment by placing a convenient cloud around most un-transformations.
There are a few instances where females tranform back. One instance when a little girl transforms back and we see most of her body but it is SUPER undetailed (there's not even a belly button of this chick). Another instance in the first volume, Kagura un-transforms and, while mostly eclipsed by another character and her arm strategically placed, we still see a good portion of her hip and a little of her chest (But I don't think we see anything that transcends clevage.
Lastly on the sexuality score: There are a couple of character who are questionably gay. It is the opinion of most on this board that they're not gay, but they say really obvious dumb stuff to weird people out. (And it works, too). In general, two fo teh cahracters (Shigure and Aaya exchange some sort of homosexual innuendo because getting all chibi and saying in a dumb font "ALLLLL RIGHT!!!") Honestly, it's played for laughs, and at one point a character who is a long time friend of the two in question says "You never got tired of that, did you?" And in my opinion, he means, "Y'all never got tired of those dumb jokes, did you?"
In volume three--- I think--- Aaya(who is pretty much a pervie.) tell one story that seems ot have homosexual undertones, but his object in making the questionable statement was to draw attention away from some friends who had gotten into deep trouble. It worked. Whether has was serious about what he said or not, the world may never know.
Language: Well, there's a quite a bit of language in Fruits Basket. First, Kyo is a major hot-head, and his mouth reflects that. Hatsuharu has a bit of a split personality, and when his "dark side" is showing, he can espouse some pretty colorful language. When Yuki is properly insulted, he can let a word slip too, but the first two are the main potty-mouth characters. As far as what is said, the profanities are more minor, IMHO. Things like: ****, *******, H***, are the words said the majority of the time. There are never any "F" bombs of anything thus far.
Violence: A little blood. Some of the characters like to kick eachother around and they get blood lips every once and a while, but no flying body parts.
Bad Religion: Well, there is talk of the Zodiac, but it's never used to predict fortunes or anything. It's more a backdrop for the story, rather than an active player in the plot. Honestly, most of the Zodiac talk is centered around a banquet where God invited all the animals. If you think there's somethign blasphemous about that, feel free to be offended. J/K.
There's really nothing more that I can think of. Sorry for the length of teh post, but when I do something, I try to be through. Hope it helped.
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As for Girl Got Game (a story about a gilr who pretends to be a guy so she can play on a Guy's basketball team), I've read the first five volumes. In those volumes I can remember that:
1) To prove that she's a he, she goes around pinching girls butts and watching porn videos (the latter of which makes her throw up, coincidentally). Luckily, we don't see anything graphic, but it's definitely going on.
2) Someone begins to suspect that she's a she and we see her with her shirt partily unbuttoned.
3) She rooms with a guy. Nothing happens between then in the first five volumes, but you're just gonna have to decide if that feels too weird for you. It bothered me a little.
4) Another she, believing that the main character's (whose name I can't remember, in case your'e wondering why I'm using all these pronouns
) a guy, develops a crust on the main character. At one point, this girl kisses the heroine. I thought it was sorta dumb, but it wasn't intended to be yuri or anything like that.
That's all I can remember about that one. You really should PM Chloe about this one, 'cause she's read upto the newest volume (7), if I'm not mistaken.
Is Shooby's comment wasn't sufficent, I'll just throw in that Abenobashi has ALOT fan service according to all the reviews I've read. I'd just steer far cleart of it.
*looks up* Yep, this has got to be my longest post ever.
Paste begins now--->
Fruits Basket. My favorite manga. Ever.
Okay Synopsis time!!!
Fruits Basket is the story of the recently orphaned Tohru Honda. Tohru is a young, caring high school student who seems to have no regretter concern than making the lives of those she loves comfortable. Due to this desire, when he mother and caretaker dies and he grandfather needs her to move out of his house while he remodels, she decides her only recourse is to put up a tent and live in the woods.
But little does young Tohru know that she has inadventantly staked her tent on the land of Shigure Shoma and his cousin (?) Yuki Sohma. When the two young men find her, they offer her a room (one with a lock mind you) in their huge house in return for her cooking and cleaning skills. Not long into her stay, Tohru learns that the Sohmas have a dark secret. Whenever they are hugged by a member of the opposite sex or when they are very weak, the transform into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.
And so begins a touching story about loving people for who they really are-- no matter what.
Positive: Tohru Honda is, for me, the most inspirational fiction character that I've come across in a long time. She is what Christian girls schould me. Kind, caring, and selfless. And throughout the manga, it is obvious that she has no greater desire than to see the Sohmas happy.
Negative:
Sex/Nudity: Well, as was said in the synopsis, when the Sohmas are hugged, they turn into animals. Likewise, when they transform, they aren't wearing any clothes (They either got ripped because their animal form was too big or they slipped off because their animal form was too small. Luckily Takaya-sensei has spared us alot of embarrassment by placing a convenient cloud around most un-transformations.
There are a few instances where females tranform back. One instance when a little girl transforms back and we see most of her body but it is SUPER undetailed (there's not even a belly button of this chick). Another instance in the first volume, Kagura un-transforms and, while mostly eclipsed by another character and her arm strategically placed, we still see a good portion of her hip and a little of her chest (But I don't think we see anything that transcends clevage.
Lastly on the sexuality score: There are a couple of character who are questionably gay. It is the opinion of most on this board that they're not gay, but they say really obvious dumb stuff to weird people out. (And it works, too). In general, two fo teh cahracters (Shigure and Aaya exchange some sort of homosexual innuendo because getting all chibi and saying in a dumb font "ALLLLL RIGHT!!!") Honestly, it's played for laughs, and at one point a character who is a long time friend of the two in question says "You never got tired of that, did you?" And in my opinion, he means, "Y'all never got tired of those dumb jokes, did you?"
In volume three--- I think--- Aaya(who is pretty much a pervie.) tell one story that seems ot have homosexual undertones, but his object in making the questionable statement was to draw attention away from some friends who had gotten into deep trouble. It worked. Whether has was serious about what he said or not, the world may never know.
Language: Well, there's a quite a bit of language in Fruits Basket. First, Kyo is a major hot-head, and his mouth reflects that. Hatsuharu has a bit of a split personality, and when his "dark side" is showing, he can espouse some pretty colorful language. When Yuki is properly insulted, he can let a word slip too, but the first two are the main potty-mouth characters. As far as what is said, the profanities are more minor, IMHO. Things like: ****, *******, H***, are the words said the majority of the time. There are never any "F" bombs of anything thus far.
Violence: A little blood. Some of the characters like to kick eachother around and they get blood lips every once and a while, but no flying body parts.
Bad Religion: Well, there is talk of the Zodiac, but it's never used to predict fortunes or anything. It's more a backdrop for the story, rather than an active player in the plot. Honestly, most of the Zodiac talk is centered around a banquet where God invited all the animals. If you think there's somethign blasphemous about that, feel free to be offended. J/K.
There's really nothing more that I can think of. Sorry for the length of teh post, but when I do something, I try to be through. Hope it helped.
<----Paste ends now.
As for Girl Got Game (a story about a gilr who pretends to be a guy so she can play on a Guy's basketball team), I've read the first five volumes. In those volumes I can remember that:
1) To prove that she's a he, she goes around pinching girls butts and watching porn videos (the latter of which makes her throw up, coincidentally). Luckily, we don't see anything graphic, but it's definitely going on.
2) Someone begins to suspect that she's a she and we see her with her shirt partily unbuttoned.
3) She rooms with a guy. Nothing happens between then in the first five volumes, but you're just gonna have to decide if that feels too weird for you. It bothered me a little.
4) Another she, believing that the main character's (whose name I can't remember, in case your'e wondering why I'm using all these pronouns
) a guy, develops a crust on the main character. At one point, this girl kisses the heroine. I thought it was sorta dumb, but it wasn't intended to be yuri or anything like that.
That's all I can remember about that one. You really should PM Chloe about this one, 'cause she's read upto the newest volume (7), if I'm not mistaken.
Is Shooby's comment wasn't sufficent, I'll just throw in that Abenobashi has ALOT fan service according to all the reviews I've read. I'd just steer far cleart of it.
*looks up* Yep, this has got to be my longest post ever.
Every year in Uganda, innumerable children simply. . . disappear. These children all stolen under the cover of darkness from their homes and impressed into the guerilla armies of the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army]. In the deserts of Uganda, they are forced to witness the mindless slaughter of other children until they themselves can do nothing but kill. Kill. These children, generally ranging from ages 5-12, are brainwashed into murdering in the name of the resistance and into stealing other children from their beds to suffer the same fate.
Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.
But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality, visit the Invisible Children home page.
Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.
But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality, visit the Invisible Children home page.
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Thanks guys! It seems Abenobashi is out the window, and Fruits Basket I'm definitely getting. I'll PM Chloe. Again, Thanks everyone!
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Ashley wrote:[jedi admin moment] you see no double post [/jedi moment]
There was no double post.
Every year in Uganda, innumerable children simply. . . disappear. These children all stolen under the cover of darkness from their homes and impressed into the guerilla armies of the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army]. In the deserts of Uganda, they are forced to witness the mindless slaughter of other children until they themselves can do nothing but kill. Kill. These children, generally ranging from ages 5-12, are brainwashed into murdering in the name of the resistance and into stealing other children from their beds to suffer the same fate.
Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.
But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality, visit the Invisible Children home page.
Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.
But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality, visit the Invisible Children home page.
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