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Merphy, You should read Bakuman. Its a manga about making a manga. Its really good
Hi Merphy, have you try manhwa or light novel before? Your comment on those material.
there is a 7 book series in your book shelf, its below lies of locke and above tolkien and left side of peter pan, background on spine is white with a woman almost in full black .
what's the name of that series?
Why not try Naruto?
Manga Nerds: getting back into novels
Book Geeks: opening up to trying manga
Avatar Merphy: I will be the bridge between our two worlds
That situation*was* literally Me 😂
Very true comment.
Now we just need to slowly make our youtuber develop to movies/shows lol. For the few, I think it's interesting that a person is more into books and their own imaginatin filling things in. I have trouble finishing books because I like pretty much all of them, but just stop reading. The visuals in a movie help me finish, that said our culture is even stopping with that, many movies are too long or our attention span has dwindled.
The mere fact this youtuber, didn't finish fullmetal alchemist, the most popular and highly rated but finished on paper a slower and less "deep" manga (one piece) shows something. It shows I was wrong when i assumed One piece wouldnt be a success in 2022 with fast paced stories. lol
Im on a tangent.
korra reference lets goo
@@gntyh Ew. Not Korra - "Avatar reference".
I have a friend with aphantasia. He hated books because his mind was literally unable to see what the story described. Then, he discovered manga and Graphic novels, which he had been told were not real books by many-- Literature teachers and the education system, his parents, ect-- and he LOVES them. They are his favorite way to consume media especially when he's on the go.
As someone with aphantasia, I concur. I read a lot of books when I was younger and had to force my self through the leangthy descriptions in most of them. It was a huge turn off but I thought it was a necessary sacrifice for stories. Then I discovered manga/comics and realized actually being able to see what's going on is pretty fun.
Interesting. I love books and actually also have aphantasia. I suppose it may be because my brain processes visual things like words on a page (sort of. When I'm trying to think of something or ""visualize"" I tend to describe things like a book does to myself in a way but there's no images or anything) that makes a difference. The issue comes in when conceptually there's nothing for me to latch onto, so sometimes descriptions of physical spaces can be iffy and certain ways of writing that are clever to use for people without aphantasia but become obviously meaningless and flat for those with it (think things like, "she smiled in the way only 15 year-old girls smile" or "the foreigner was bold in the way foreigners to a country are" without anything following to clarify what that even looks like. Although, abstract description can work phenomenally for me when done differently in a way that conveys information still: "he had the bearing of a life-worn man before even living to his middle age"). Oddly enough, I've actually really loved when a book delves into some description beyond the "y'know *gestures around it with words in a way that requires experience and an ability to visualize*". Like, so far I've loved how much description Robert Jordan puts into his Wheel of Time books--I can't picture a Grolm or the dress of any characters, but I understand or know what they look like--and some classic works because of how concrete they get things conceptually. I think that's part of why I've liked fantasy a lot, because of the need for descriptions and explanations of things without anachronistic language, including fantastical elements, ingrained into the genre. Same with some classics and literary works where description is believed to add something to an experience. In the end, when I read a book it ends up like a memory--I know about it, understand what happened, and can pull details from it pretty well at times.
I have also really liked more visual mediums of storytelling because I don't care about the medium--just make it impactful to me in a good way and I'll love it. Yeah. That's a ramble of my experience and I thank you for reading through this long comment if you have. Have a wonderful day.
Anyone who says manga, graphic novels, comics, or anything similar are not real books or real literature or whatever else they may say, are narrow minded and factually wrong. That's just elitist bullshit
@@mattbrown9631 Almost anyone who says that is just ignorant. They think they know what manga is, because they imagine it without actually trying, but they really don’t.
I have aphantasia too but I still like books. Descriptions of things are useless to me though.
Manga actually helped me get back into reading novels! I hadn’t read a lot post college until the pandemic hit and reading all of One Piece became my pandemic project. After that I just had such a desire to get into more massive detailed world and now I’m on book 4 of the Stormlight Archive. So in that way, manga was a nice stepping stone to get me to read novels again and now I read both interchangeably.
Same here. With the pandemic more specifically, but also coming out of depressive episodes where I haven't read for weeks, there are manga that just get me back into the groove. And for all the reasons I love manga, that's just one.
Same here, getting back into comics and manga made reading less intimidating for me, so when the Dune trailers came around, I started reading the book and that got me back into novels.
this is really interesting and helpful.
Manga is easier to read
Same :)
Reader of both, probably equally. A well told story is a wonderful thing, regardless of medium.
Facts 👍
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The right take
Same, I started reading with comic books at the age of 5, switched to manga and novels at about few years later and never stopped reading all of them. Its the story that drives me, not the medium
Manga reader myself, used to read novels back in the day, the artistry and talent of the mangakas pull me through to become a full time reader of manga.
I feel like the art in manga can push me to read a story that I otherwise wouldn't even try, or vice versa, deter me from reading a story I otherwise would read.
Tbh, this just happened to me with Call of the Night. If that story of Vampires, mystery, detective, romance cliche blah blah blah, I wouldnt read it in novel or short story format but in manga, with drawing, facial expressions and a couple of good fights and I was hook from the beginning.
@Pierre In it is, it has some cliches about vampires and other things, but the characters and some of their background are very well written. As well, as some of the choreography for some of the fights which came as a pleasant surprise.
I’m a traditionally published author who got into writing stories through manga. I always read, even as a kid, but I was inspired to create through manga like One Piece, Berserk, and HxH. After that, I became interested in books like Neuromancer and the Left Hand of Darkness which changed my writing style.
I honestly don’t believe there is one that trumps the other, or one is more sophisticated. It really is about what moves you at the end of the day. As you said Merphy, there are good books/manga and bad books/manga.
My manga journey has consisted almost entirely of continuing on from where an anime ended; that's why I read Hunter x Hunter, Attack On Titan (after s2), NANA, Chihayafuru, and Tonikaku Kawaii.
One Piece was the first manga I read from the beginning without watching, and I'm starting to read more manga from scratch now. That in turn gave me a desire to read novels again, after I'd fallen off literature years ago.
I started reading manga exactly like that. Then I realized that some things don't make it to the anime adaptation. So now after I finish the anime, I start the manga from the beginning. Of course I also read series that haven't been adapted (yet), but doing both simultaneously is a great experience for me.
Unfortunately, I am still struggling to get back to reading literature again. I have found a couple of writers I will definitely read, but generally I tend to leave the books off for later, even though I do find them interesting.
you gotta check the one piece anime sometimes they do better than the manga mostly not because of the pacing but i can recommend you episodes that are worth watching
Read Claymore
Never watch the anime
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Oh I've seen scenes of fights, emotional scenes, comedic moments etc. Everytime I hit a point in the story that I wanted to see animated, I looked up the episode to watch it.
@@user-sw4op9zg2w I am! It's the primary series I'm following in both mediums. I don't get people badmouthing the anime. It has it's lows but I really appreciate it's good points; even though it may be because I am watching it as a companion to the manga.
Maybe this is shallow, but I end up reading books more than manga because manga are more expensive for less content (not talking about quality of story or experience, but I need my media to last a little bit if I’m spending that much money in it so that I can save up in the meantime).
Of course this mostly applies to reading physically, but that’s how I prefer reading. Just ordered the Tokyo Ghoul: Re boxset yesterday and I’m looking forward to finishing that story. Boxsets are usually the best way to get a bang for my buck with a complete story.
That's always one of the unfortunate things about manga. It's crazy how expensive manga can be and frustrating how some series may/will never be translated. Even some series like 'Kingdom' which has out sold OnePiece has never gotten an official English translation. Books are just far more accessible
I love reading the inner thoughts of characters and novels have an easier time doing that. They can also do entire chapters with different POVs and I especially like to read the same event from different POVs, that really highlights the different personalities of the character of those POVs. Manga of course can do those things too, but I think it's harder and not so impactful.
What manga excels, IMHO, is making full use of their medium by adding a non-verbal storytelling element to the story. You can have details, emotions and "mini-stories" in the panel's background left completely "untold" by the main narration. It's up to you to pick that up. And, of course, manga being a visual medium doesn't leave much to the imagination, so it's up to the artist's ability to drag you into their world in awe without disappointing ou.
I'm sure that many like thr "leave it to their imagination" part of written media, and if an author is good they definitely can make you see what they have imagined, but personally I prefer to actually see it in picture, especially for fantasy stories. I don't want to rely on my imagination, I want to see what the author imagined instead, because if my imagination was enough, I could just daydream on my own. I want to see something that excels my imagination. This is why I personally tend to prefer mangas.
I also hope that you are going to pick up Ascendance of a Bookworm. I think it should be already on your reading list, but I think it would be a perfect balance between traditional novels and mangas. I'm also sure that you will love the story since you liked world-building and character-driven stories. It's about a bookworm too!
Couldn't have said it better, especially with the Daydream part. I want to see things that exceed my imagination, because I can only go so far with my own, especially when it comes to SciFi, Fantasy and Horror.
And so far, Manga is more often better in that, just as you said, the Non-Verbal Storytelling just adds a whole another layer.
I love anything with a fun story-doesn’t matter the medium. I’m a writer at heart and primarily read novels, but I’ve been drawn to video games, movies, and some anime/manga as well, always for their story. And it’s because of these visual mediums that I began to learn to draw. I want to illustrate the worlds in my head. All of it has value and honestly anything involving reading and/or creativity, I’m all for it!
I was surprised to not hear Junji Ito mentioned. the visual aspect just brings so much to his work, having the choice of manga or novels really lets the author express their story the way they picture it! love it.
sidenote: I recommend Bakuman a manga about manga writers working to get an anime made.
So when do we introduce Merphy to Japanese Light Novels, the inbetween between manga and books, and really confuse her
That sounds interesting. I’ve only read Overlord so I’d be curious to see people’s recommendations
Ascendance of a Bookworm, she needs to read it
Re:Zero is also top notch
@@therandom58 i think she would love to read Re zero
@@lucyadam9128 I think I’m the only person alive that didn’t enjoy Re: Zero (don’t stone me) I’ve only watched the anime tho, I’ve never read it.
I am going to recommend The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. It has literally everything you talk about loving in a series. It's one of my top stories. In regards to your video, I read multiple manga and books and have done so for many years. I don't think I prefer one over the other though. I love stories that have strong character work, beautifully written characterization is what i live for. World building is an aspect that I've grown to enjoy as I got older. Magic system hard or soft just need to be consistent for me.
I fell out of reading in my teens, but yiur channel helped me rediscover reading scifi/fantasy, and I'll always be grateful! That said, my heart will always be with manga, which I've read for years now. Not only is it able to communicate such deep meaning through both dialogue as well as art, its shown me how the medium can be pushed in ways not possible in ordinary literature. Theres one series (won't spoil which unless ppl want to know) that on top of being well written and drawn, had tarot card numbers as well as other literary references hidden in the work which, if interpreted, could foreshadow the characters future arc. What in literature would have been a potentially quick read for me was instead me spending many minutes scanning manga panels for additional meaning, and finding it. Never had another reading experience like that in another medium.
which manga is that?
A TG fan i see?
@@madaraclive66 whats TG
@@hei7846 Tokyo Ghoul
My Manga collection started, and exploded over the last couple years and I couldn't be happier. One thing that people forget about, is a lot of Manga's can start as Light Novels, aka, "real books" and I've got a few that I ahve both the Light Novel and the Manga because the stories are just that good.
I don’t k would ever buy physical it would cost to much I rember back in the day I spent like 10k on anime dvds. Damn 25 dollars per dvd
I love how this discussion went 😍 I haven’t quite gotten into manga yet but your content has definitely made me realise that there are deeper mangas out there.
Vinland was really hitting different I see
was and is
@@merphynapier42 It is quite the story for sure. Hope you get back into Fullmetal, 20th Century Boys, and Death Note! 20th CB specifically has a slow start and I dropped it too, but picking it back up was the best decision ever because I loved it.
I dropped FA twice, idk why it never got me hooked.
Yesss I've always wanted more content like this on UA-cam in general thank youuu
Loved the video!!! Don’t know if this is the right space to do this but I think you’d really love the book series “cemetery of forgotten books” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón!! It’s set in 1930s Spain but is steeped in a very gothic atmosphere and it talks about young love, the powers stories have and the stories that connect us to one another. It’s truly some of the best books I’ve read in a long time and I think the gothic themes as well as the fact that the books really are a love letter to books would make them right up you alley!
Wow!! I mean wow!! What a great video. I just seriously watched it three times in a row. I loved it! You really captured the feeling of what the power of story has to offer us and how magical it feels to become lost in a story. The way you explained the different aspects of novels and Manga and the artwork... how it grabs the reader and the adventures it takes you on. How you feel yourself walking through the world being created on the page and knowing this is your mind assembling the fantastical place you're now in. I could really connect with your enchantment and recognized that elation you experienced and were describing. I'm like Yes!! She really gets it!! How you can just get lost in a book and escape the reality around yourself, and when you return you feel refreshed and elated. I'd like to add that I am a fellow map-nerd 😄.. I remember one of your earlier videos where you hit that point home and I appreciated it.. I love when there are maps within the book 👍 Wow!! So cool. What a powerful video, Merphy!! I very much enjoyed it. Good stuff!! Thank you!! 😃😃👍👍👏👏👏👏
So excited to watch this!
This video was so well done! Probably one of your bests
One thing that I have come to love in my reading, is when the characters are looking back on something in a past book in the series, and you feel like it's not just their memories, but YOUR memories, too.
Love your vids. Seeing you get into manga has been great. Glad you're still enjoying it.
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Hey Merphy glad your enjoying reading manga. I suggest reading Witch Hat Altier because it has the best Hard magic system(yes its better than Nen) also houseki no kuni too thats also a wild ride for the reader and the MC
+1 on Witch Hat Atelier, you just need to read the first chapter to know you're reading something special. It also has such a beautiful art style that complements the tone of the story SO well.
Hard disagree on the hard magic system. However, it does have some of the best art and paneling I've seen in manga. And it's a very warm series to read
I don't think it's better than Nen BUT it is absolutely a TOP best hard magic systems ever!!!💯
Great recommendations
it's a unique and great magic system but i have to disagree. it feels way more restrictive in how you can use it and less creative in execution , it's like a science with mostly elements and set ways to use and control said magic.
while with nen you have general ground rules but it basically gives you free reign to create any whacky ability under the sun. and it also allows for a lot more potential for interesting matchups and strategies in foghts IMO.
I feel you! I have always been a comic book fan and avid novel reader and recently began reading Berserk and it BLEW ME AWAY! Just loving manga now as well
I've been wanting to get into manga for a while but have found it quite intimidating honestly and had no idea where to start, but I recently read the first Vinland Saga and loved it! (I was literally reading it while watching your vlog where you were reading it and it was a little spooky 😹) so I'm hoping to carry on with the series and hopefully try some other mangas
Manga and books just make me feel things so I’m here for both but manga got me into reading and served as a gate way in to novels I’ve spent the last year and a half finding new stories to immerse myself into from your channel as well as other book tubers so basically awesome video awesome community
As a long time fan of both mediums, I am regularly more impressed by Manga than I am by written books. I think it’s because I’ve read plenty of poor writing in books, but fewer poorly written manga. And I’m always impressed by the artistic skills the Mangaka’s have, and especially when they are able to do visual storytelling, using only the setting or characters and no words to convey something subtle to the audience.
I still love Books, but I think I have too high a bar for writing now. Manga I think is a lot easier to start reading, or get others to try. It’s a lot more accessible, and I really appreciate that with my limited free time.
Also… it’s a lot easier for me to stop when I binge read Manga, whereas I sometimes find myself up at 3 am, reading a really captivating book. So Manga is better for my health overall. >:\
I've read plenty of poorly written Manga, but it's usually covered up because the art is done well. For example, Fairy Tail is written poorly from a technical standpoint, but specifically the emotional moments hit perfectly, and the art is fantastic, which makes people ignore the otherwise poor writing. Sword Art Online, as well, isn't written well at all, but the novelty and art were so endearing that it gained a cult following despite its lack of quality.
There's definitely a lot of bad manga out there, and specifically manga that started out good but then turned bad near the end due to the author trying to rush things(looking at you AoT).
One thing I'll give books over manga is that you don't get many stories of authors being forced by a publisher to finish their story like you do with manga.
@@ryanhall5360 yep even outside bigger named franchises like you stated there's plenty of garbage Manga out there. I only know this because over the last 2 years I've picked up a habit of reading through less popular or niche Mangas and seeing what they do compared to the series that a breakout eventually.
Idk I think u gotta read more manga blindly if u haven't experienced as many poor series
@@blitz4506 both sides have shitty works xD
I've been reading manga for a while and had never really gotten into novels, but watching your channel has made me really want to get in to them! I'm currently reading book 1 of the stormlight archive and really enjoying it!
try Book of the new sun
@@junkoe3808i tried it now
It’s basically trash
It’s hard to read and imagine things
Manga makes it much easier
There are some events that i cant really understand
I genuinely love both. There's something beautiful about getting lost in a book but there's something equally as lovely as the pacing in a manga. There's a genuine skill and art to the "page turner" as you said. For example, Chihayafuru just finished and the author was extremely skilled and this poetic type of pacing to their panels that made every chapter feel like one of the 100 poems on which the series examines.
With a book, prose picks up a lot of the weight with pacing. How to end a paragraph, how to begin the next. Again getting sucked into a book's plot or world is like getting pulled into the rhythm of the prose.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that good writing works differently for each medium. But when it's done well it always feels like art.
thank you for introducing me to The Gentleman Bastards, I just finished the first book and I'm really loving it, I'm planning on re-reading the first book before starting the second one
So I've always been a book reader, only got into manga in the past year or so [well i was already an anime fan] but I think one thing about reading manga i love is how the panels are laid out. I think that sometimes for intense scenes or when the mangaka is trying to evoke a particular emotion, the layout of the panels that support the primary focus of the page is super cool. I'm not sure if I'm describing it super well, but that's just my two cents on one thing I think manga can really bring to the table!
Two Merphy Videos today what an amazing friday!
The name of the wing was amazing , it effected me very much i loved it
As someone who always loved both books and manga and got into this channel in 2020 because it talked about books, I was glad to see you getting into manga.
I wasn’t a big reader growing up until I started reading manga. After a while I started to read novels and now find my library constantly growing along with my tbr list. Lol since World building and magic is somethin that you’re into, I recommend checking out Made in Abyss (my favorite anime and manga series) and The Ancient Magus Bride (a series where magic feels magical). Dig your content and keep up the awesome work! Cheers!
Your video just showed up in my recommendations, and am so happy it did!
I've read voraciously my entire life (I'm 50 now), but recently had a massive reading slump where I barely read anything for many months. I'd never read Manga before, until 2020 when I decided during Covid lockdown to try new things - Anime and Manga!
I started with Berserk (ongoing) as heard it was a massive inspiration for one of my favourite gaming franchises, Dark Souls, so I picked it up & quickly fell in love with the strong storyline, amazing characters, depth of emotions conveyed purely through minimal words and excellent art...hooked me in! Also reading Junji-Ito, and I would like to try more in the future.
I also like to get my stories from video games, and I often get looked down upon when I say that games are also a wonderful source for story-telling, incredible characters & deep emotions.
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I was looking for fantasy book recommendations when I came across your channel (it was a video with Daniel Greene) and I really liked your „vibe“ so I sticked around. The day you started reading One Piece I couldn’t believe my eyes! I‘m so happy you are mixing the medium and enjoying both. Reading stories is a wonderful experience and we shouldn’t restrict ourself to just one type of storytelling.
I must say that I really enjoy your manga and book reviews, but I absolutely love these types of videos. Hearing a person openly gush about a subject they're this passionate about is beyond refreshing
I read both mediums since I was in my teens though I became a TV person since Netflix came. Over the last year I've been falling in love with books and manga. I can now read a book a week (short books or maybe if I have a lot of time) which was a daunting task before. I also noticed a difference on how I consume stories now that there is a community aspect to it which I love.
You and I don't even like the same things in books(which is great), but you got me back into reading after 15 years of nothing. I devoured books as a kid, grew up, and stopped making time. Now I'm a regular at the library, and I've enjoyed so many books I never would have heard of if not for your vlogs and rec videos. I've always been a manga reader, and now I have to try One Piece cause of how cool you make it sound. You just really put the wonder back into reading and discussion.
A manga I think you would enjoy is Azumanga Daioh. It is a 4 volume series. It is a humorous slice of life story about a group of high school girls and a couple teachers. Most of it reads like an old newspaper comic strip like Peanuts, Garfield, or Calvin & Hobbes.
Maybe you should try light novel that many mangas are based on. You could do a comparison between them. X) I personally love Ascendance of a bookworm. It might be a slow pace series but the world building and the characters are amazing! I am also starting I'm a villainess so I'll tame the final boss, and that time I got reincarnated as a slime, that all have a manga version. X) You also have Solo Lveling and Mo Xiang Tong Xius books Grandmaster of demonic cultivation and heavens official blessing that has a manhwa. XD
Indeed, there are a lot of *great* light novels!💯🙌🏻
Ascendance of a Bookworm is Merphy in a nutshell
Since I read novel I always look down on light novel, But here I am binging the whole Classroom of elite already xD in like 3 week
@@v.lighting3530 I hope you don't look down on entire mediums anymore thanks to that. All of them have crap that will make you want to rip your eyes out, yes, but there's always a gem to be found
@@v.lighting3530 Light novels are like literary crack. When I really get into a light novel series, it feels like I'm bending time to get through them so quickly. I burned through all of ascendance of a bookworm in less than 2 weeks, while going to uni. For reference, that's about 2,000,000 words. I absolutely love Worm, but that's around 1,680,000 words and it took me a year of reading it on and off to finish.
I struggle to read novels. Each page being a wall of text doesn’t get along with my ADHD brain. The pictures of manga and manhwa definitely help with that.
Amazing topic Merphy. There are two things that came up in me while listening to you.
First things first - the view of a reader
I started of with Novels as a teenager. I was reading a lot of books in this time. Manga was there, but not that present. Soon enough I found myself in my early 20is earning more than a hunderd Mangas in my bookshelf. In this part of my life I coundn't imagine going back to reading Novels.
Somehow I found myself consuming both mediums of storytelling.
Sometimes I felt lost in the descriptions of the author and cound't picture a scene or character. Still I have more a feeling and a rough notion of the things being described.
With Manga, on the other hand, the scenes past by as a film in my head. A crazy consecutive of pictures in my head building a chain in where I found myself adding vocaly the effects and emotions of the characters. Its as I am a director experiencing the movie with the actress and actors beforhand.
Both mediums holds crazy potentials. And as I am pursuing to write my story, I came into a clinch with both mediums. And here comes the 2nd part - the view as a writer
I was putting a lot of effort into sketching characters and parts of the world, while writing and building the world. So I started to had a feeling of losing the time and effort I put into it, if I just give the readers a novel, in which there imagination build the world I was crafting.
Right now I trailed back to write, but still I find myself taking the pencil and start to sketch my world. Pursuing both and maybe giving the readers a guildbook (of cours if they are intrested in) of the characters and/or the process that went into building and crafting the world.
I understand completly that the second part is a more in depth view of going into the process of writing and worldbuilding. But I will ask the queston anyways: What do you think about the mediums from the point of view of a writer?
In the end it is a way of expression and of intepretation of the mediums. I LOVE them both and will be keeping bookshelfs of both worlds meeting in my heart.
P.S.: Some suggestions for your Love of Manga:
BAKUMAN - from the creatos of DEATHNOTE a more realistic Story. A story about Manga itself and how two teenager dream of becoming Mangakas. Full of text and funny moments. Really recommended. I always come back to this series every year that opens my heart of the artist in me.
RADIANT - from the French Artist Tony Valente that combines the French way of comicbooks with the Japanese style of storytelling through Manga.
Thank you for reading and keep up the good work :)
I absolutely love this video 🖤 I'm not reading since childhood or something, somehow a new reader. I found reading interesting some years ago but I read a book or two a year. It wasn't untill three-four years ago (something like that) that I actually started to fall in love with reading and I started reading almost every single day and read more and more, and loving so much. I've never thought about the format, if something sounds interesting I want to consume it. I mainly read books and manga now, but I also read comics, webtoons, graphic novels, just everything. I'm reading super slowly (I just physically can not read faster) and I don't always have time, but I read at least a chapter of something a day. I love it so much. It makes me feel stuff, it makes me experience things and I am really happy 🖤
I've always wanted to make a story but I didn't want to write a book, I feel that my story wouldn't convey well with it. But at the same time, drawing takes a lot of work but I really want to make a manga/comic/graphic novel
I’m glad you made this video! I read both the same way and love going between the two. Sometimes manga is a good quick read for me when I’m too distracted to read longer novels, but I love a good novel too. Fruits Basket was my gateway in sixth grade so I’m glad I’ve enjoyed both so long, but equally glad other people have no matter when they start. It’s sad how mangakas are more under appreciated than authors these days though. Good discussion video.
I'm and avid reader both novels and manga, but don't really have a preference for one over the other.
I've started branching out in terms of genre since finding your channel. I've always loved fantasy in particular, but I've been reading lots of mystery and sci-fi lately. I'm also going to give the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" a try soon.
Hope you're having a great day!
Such a great video. I watched your channel before you even found Manga. I was a big fantasy reader from childhood and had just found the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson in 2020 when your videos and others on YT put me onto the series. But after reading as far as halfway into the third book my interest began to wane. And I tried some other books and my interest continued to wane even more until my interest in reading was completely eclipsed by other things (like gaming). I lost that spark for reading. Well I'm happy to say now in 2022 my interest has been reinvigorated by manga. I found some series that really spoke to me and drew me in and I realized that manga can do just as much if not more than books and anime to tell amazing stories. And I wish I had started sooner. I remember collecting a couple of random volumes of Naruto and Nausicaa when I was a kid but never continuing because they were too expensive. But now as an adult the hobby of collecting manga is obtainable and has been a blast. And I love now that your channel and many others have begun to bridge that gap as well for these forms of story telling. I really enjoy sharing the love of these stories and mediums with each other.
thank you so much for this. i work at an indie bookstore and there is this invisible wall between literature and comics/manga for some of them, so i'll be sharing this video on our slack channel. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
thank you for making this video!! i think it's normal for people to have ideas about manga (and anime) before actually diving into the medium themselves. i truly believe there's a manga series for everyone!
I really recommend you try Pandora Hearts and D.Gray Man ^^ The storytelling in both is absolutely amazing!
Great topic. I've been a book worm and a manga reader since so long, more than 30 years, and this was such a constructive and positive take on both media.
Personally I prefer manga for a really simple reason. I love pictures. I really love the intense and detailed art in works such as One Punch Man, Fire Punch, and One Piece. It feels like it's putting the inner depths of my imagination to paper in such a fulfilling and satisfying way. Even when the art style isn't incredible, still being able to see the emotion on a characters face can make me crack up laughing, or have a huge smile, or feel absolutely broken inside. Manga effects me like no other written medium.
I recommend Witch Hat Atlier and Our Dreams At Dusk, both manga really use the medium to the fullest potential and are very detailed and incredibly beautiful.
@@islasullivan3463 adding onto this and also reccomening hiraeth the end of the journey, by the same mangaka as our dreams at dusk, imo its even better especially artistically since they get to fully embrace the more mystical and pretty aspects of their artwork there
@@kaystar64 Thank you I'll check it out!
I love both! Manga is great especially with the art and usually faster pace. But books help me build up my imagination and normally have more descriptions in them. That also why I love Japanese light novels it the best of both worlds lol.
I love both novels and manga, but I do tend to read more manga. My brain memorizes narratives crazy well, so I can remember and review most fiction I've read in my head. I do have difficulty sitting down and focusing on a novel nowadays unless I'm really into it v.s. manga where I can just pick up a chapter and it's very self contained.
To me, book chapters are a part of a whole, but a Manga chapter is akin to a book of itself. The story of a singular chapter is ingested into the pool of the series as well as all media I've ingested.
This pooling of thought is one reason why I love your videos, along with other media analysis videos. Engaging with the thoughts of others is truly the peak of socialization.
Thank you ⭐️
Both mediums have so much to offer! Really love them both, I wish there was less prejudice against comics/mangas/graphic novels and also more appreciation for old classic books
I love both manga and novels and made a channel to talk about them too but I mostly just read manga now a days, I have a really busy schedule with school and I don't have the time to really sink my teeth into a novel but manga manages to scratch the itch for awesome story telling without feeling really slow and heavy like my epic fantasy novels. Plus the feeling of accomplishment is also much faster and happens more often since I can knock out like 10 volumes in the time it would take me to read a 300 page novel lol. I hope you also try out light novels at some point, there is an Ace light novel series thats only two volumes long which might be a good first step into the medium.
I sometimes have extreme ADHD reading novels. Even if I like the story, I get bored reading and will even page count. Manga is a perfect balance for me. Starting a novel is so daunting because it takes me weeks to get through
Same! I take SO LONG reading because I get bored/distracted easily.
I looove reading, but most of my time spent reading is spent lost in thought. For example: I'll read a part about a dog in a book and think... I love dogs! I love my dog! *stares lovingly at my dog* Oh, I need to schedule his groom. Oof, that means I have to talk to people. *plans entire conversation with dog groomer* and next thing I know, it's been over 30 minutes of me just staring at the book without reading and then too tired to continue and only got one page in. 😬😅😅😅
I used to read all the time in German when I was younger. I’d go to the city’s library weekly and just take as many books as I could, but never reading mangas. After getting into higher schools I had less and less time and barely read any books, and whenever I would start one and couldn’t finish it fast because I had so little time, it was hard to continue picking books up. Later on a friend of mine introduced me to anime, which is also around the time I had started to get better in english. This lead to me reading mangas, absolutely loving it, and starting to read more books again. Learning English had basically opened up a whole new world of books and a community with such a huge variety of everything, that I finally started to pick books up again and just take time off to read them. I’m currently reading one piece and am going to start reading the Mistborn trilogy. One piece is, just like you said, incredible. I completely fell in love with it. The way it combines comedy, goofiness with strong character build and emotionally compact plots is insane. It’s also very nice to see someone who enjoys books AND mangas like I do, because both have such different reputations, and I’ve encountered so people who judge and basically just trash on one medium but not the other. So, I’m very glad that I found your account! As soon as I’m done with one piece (which will probably still take a while) I’ll be exited to watch the videos you did on it and hear your thoughts :)
Nice video. 20th Century Boys would be my favorite manga. I'm more into manga but you got me to read The Lies of Locke Lamora and I really enjoyed reading that.
I love fma so much. Hope you'll finish it and would like it.
I love both! But as of late I've been really getting into reading manga! Mainly because I can sit down and just read it really easily. Recently, I've been having a hard time getting into books cause everytime I think about reading books, I get tired out just thinking about reading word after word after word lol.
For some reason, I can't get myself to re-read novels anymore. It just feels too taxing to me, but with manga I find it really easy to just sit down and get drawn in by the art and illustrations, even if I've already read it before
I love both mediums and will bounce between them depending on the moods. There are times when I want the visuals to narrates the story and there are time when I want the words to paint the story
I prefer manga/graphic literature because I find them so much easier to pick up and put down. Like in-between round of a game, I will read a few pages of a manga but it is impossible for me to read a few lines or a paragraph of a book like that.
I can relate to that, but also with fanfics. As a kid and a teen I read a lot, and I mean, a lot of books and loved them. I still like books but since Uni where I have to read lots of texts regularly, it's often just hard for me to pick them up, especially since when I want to read a book I really want to sit down and read a chapter minimum, I just can't open a book and only read a page. With fanfics, I don't really have that mental struggle, I just read whenever, wherever, how much I want, even if it's just one or two paragraphs while waiting for the bus. With manga it's similar plus there's the additional visual difference from Uni texts reading to fun reading wich I sometimes just need for my eyes and brain...
I have read novels for years but never really read manga or graphic novels.
This month I finally picked up my first manga, Spy Family, and read the first 2 books, and I love it! Today I just started the manga Monster.
I have also gotten more into graphic novels in the past year or so, and my 2 daughters (10 & 8) love to read graphic novels so I am always going through the junior graphic novels at the library.
I don't comment often but I have to step in here. Thank you for this!!
I teach high school special ed and manga and graphic novels take up a large portion of the shelves in my classroom. They are accessible for my students without making them feel like they are reading books for little kids. AMAZING!!!!!
But you would be amazed at how often I hear from coworkers or other adults that I should be encouraging them to read "real books." "Real books" for these students can either be far below age level and there for embarrassing for them to read or so intimidating that they never crack the cover. But graphic novels and Mangas they devour to the point that I have lost more than a few copies to students bringing them home and never bringing them back (and I can't bring myself to be mad about that).
So thank you again for this video and if you have any recommendations for my class library I'd love to hear them.
You inpsire me to read more Merphy. I really have to have a dedicated time slot in my life for it.
I've been wanting to get round to reading The Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson.
Also, what I love about stories is if it can change me on a fundamental level. This has only happened two times in the last 10-15 years of my whole life.
I adore both. I often switch between the two and it helps me stay out of reading slumps or take breaks from worlds. Both is beautiful forms of literature and should be appreciated as such.
I want to say that I dig how often The Lies of Locke Lamora shows up in your videos.
The author of the detective manga, Detective Conan, uses its illustrations to hide clues. This technique came across as ingenious and surprising when I read it. It’s something mystery novels can never do. Trying to go back to find clues in a novel is tedious work. Meanwhile, I’ve spent hours trying to find clues in the Detective Conan artwork to solve the murder mysteries in the manga.
I've seen 220 ep's of DC since I last put the anime on hold, and I have question that is it really possible to predict how the murder happens and the culprit? Like some of the murders were like hella creative and requires a ton of outside the box thinking in order to reach that conclusion. I'm not sure if it's any easier in the manga. But also I'm planning on starting the series again from the beginning in the manga :)
@@p99chan99 you can predict many of the murders as the readers, which is one of my favourite parts of reading the mystery genre, but there are murders you can’t predict as well. The ones you can’t predict are also fun to read for different reasons. Regardless, thinking about the case is so much easier with illustrations than with only words.
I find that Monster is easier to get into than 20th century boys
And generally prefer manga and comics though switching from manga to western comics is a pain because of the panel direction switch
U da best Merph dawg. I read manga more than I read books but i really miss laying jnto a good book. The inheritance cycle is my favorite. Idk if you have read them but Christopher Paolini is awesome
Reader of both manga and novels. What I love about novels is the look into characters’ minds, and the unique language/descriptions that I never would have thought of otherwise. It adds a personality to the work that manga can’t quite capture because of its lack of words. What I love about manga and other visual mediums is the ability to convey emotional beats without any words. Sometimes seeing something happen hits much harder than just imagining it. I also like the visual details that hide in the background but enhance the experience that much more.
I spent a lot of time in the library as a kid, and I really enjoyed reading. However, I love art, and I was always bad at imagining things from novels. I would tend to get lost in a scene and get confused. So when I started reading manga, it completely changed the game for me. Since then, Ive collected and read tons and tons of manga, and it brings me an amazing amount of joy in my life, and I love seeing other people enjoy it as well. I do still read novels, but sadly not as many as I wish I could.
This is a great video.
Whoa Whoa Whoa.... Did you put googly eyes on spensa's face!!!! (I decided to give manga a try for the first time for vinland saga still wating for the delivery)
Appreciate that Merphy (or Korey?) paused for a moment on the googly eyes on Skyward lol
Oooh, so I can't say much because I never got around to finishing it either, but bringing up 20th Century Boys (and this seems fitting since you also bring up Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) reminded me of another one of his works I read ages ago: Naoki Urasawa's Pluto.
It's a reimagining of an old Astro Boy (referred to by his original name "Atom") story arc, but as a murder mystery thriller. And we follow a german detective robot by the name of Gesicht as he's investigating the brutal murder of one of the most beloved, and most powerful robots, in the world.
There's a moment fairly early where where we're first introduced to Atom (of course one of the other strongest robots in the world), and he just looks like a kid, not the iconic bug-eyed toony character we're used to.
It's just an amazing reimagining of the world and characters, and I'd recommend giving it a look!
0:14 - Skyward had me in tears lol
I was never someone to read but I had a really boring job and found myself reading manga as I was watching anime. Years later and I've read most of the big/popular manga so now I've decided its time to read some proper books, reading through the Misborn series as my first Brandon Sanderson books. Thanks for the recommendations!
I just wanna point out how good that sponsor segment was. I’m too young to drink right now, but if I wasn’t you would have sold me on that service.
Ahahahah, the moment she recollects the Robin scene. So sweet. 😁
Please try Blue Period! I’m sure you’d love it
I've always loved manga, comics, and novels. So evey time I see a booktuber getting into manga I get really excited. For me I read all types of stories the format and genre doesn't matter to me as long as your telling a good story that allows me to be immersed in that world.
I wish you the best. And if you ever decide to venture into manhwa I suggest Solo Leveling and God of High School. Manhwa is Korean manga. 🥰😁
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I am now wishing for you to make a tier list about the geographical locations in one piece
A great book that explains the 'how' of Manga is Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It was informative when I was doing my own comic writing / drawing.
Your voice is very soothing
I love both, I also love it when webtoon authors write novels and a comic book of their stories 😍
I actually found you from your book reviews but most of what I've watched are your manga related videos, mainly One Piece.
As for your questions at the end, I used to be an avid book reader who never touched manga but now I'm an avid manga reader who rarely touches books. But as for what makes them great for me, I don't actually know.
Great video! ❤ Also why does skyward's spine have googly eyes😆 am I halousinating
I used to read a lot of novels, and then when school started picking up I stopped having time to read as much. I switched to manga cause it’s faster read and I’ve always loved comics and stuff. Fast forward like 6 years later and I’m currently working on my own manga. I just love how the paneling of a manga can emphasize certain aspect of a story, and how the art can tell so much without telling u anything. Manga is the epitome of the rule “show don’t tell”. Tho I do miss reading novels and am trying to make time to read them more.
Also I’ve recently been reading some American comics, and if your looking for a new series to read try Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing. I’m reading it rn, and I’m almost done with it. Oh my goodness it is amazing, I think it’s probably my third favorite comic/manga? (My top 2 being One Piece and Berserk) Saga of the Swamp Thing is a beautiful story about a man turned into a “monster” trying wrestle with his new identity. It does a great job exploring the concept of humanity, tackling environmental issues, and even pondering the true nature of good and evil. I’ve been having a blast with it and I would highly recommend you check it out if you have a chance.
It's pretty cool to see both communities connect like this. I'm extremely into manga because of the way it conveys raw, human emotions and how complex it can be. Manga and anime is my all time favorite medium
i've started reading manga recently too because they helped me get out of a reading slump and now i really really enjoy them. also fantasy is my favorite genre, and i find it a lot easier to get into a fantasy manga than a fantasy novel because the visuals really help me.
also, unrelated but about still related to stories, i was wondering if you've ever played a game called omori? if you haven't, i think you'd really like it because there's such a compelling story in it and it deals with a lot of mental health issues that are portrayed really well and in a way that books and manga can't. it's still a story, just a different way to experience one. (it is a really long game, though, i watched a play through of the storyline that was like 13 hours combined and that was with some farming and stuff edited out so actually playing the game would take longer. but i would still love to see your reactions and thoughts about the story)
I’ve always loved to read and when I was in college I discovered manga. Manga has often helped me get out of reading slumps, and is my go-to when I’m not exactly sure what I’m in the mood to read.
Love hearing your take on this!
As a reader of both, this seems like the perfect video to recommend an underground manga called R.O.D (read or die).
It's a story about a book nerd with phenomenal characters and really interesting magic based on famous stories.
For anyone who likes books and manga, it is a fantastic read!