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Looking for manga with furigana - Glacial - 2011-09-11
So I'm just beginning to read Japanese-language manga. I'm reading Death Note right now and wonderful as it is, one can only take so much Death Note. I have a couple other manga lying around, namely Saint Young Men, GTO, and もやしもん, but those are way above my current level, so I'm looking for something else. My main problems with what I've got is that it takes a ton of time for me to look up unknown kanji because I don't have the readings to go off of. Does anyone have any suggestions for manga with furigana? I'm not in Japan, so unfortuanately I can't just walk into a bookstore and flip though manga until I see one with furigana.
Looking for manga with furigana - TheVinster - 2011-09-11
ワンピース has furigana. I'm reading the 1st book now. As you may be aware, One Piece is quite popular, so it's easy to recommend.
Looking for manga with furigana - caivano - 2011-09-11
ONE PIECE rocks, also NANA.
Looking for manga with furigana - ta12121 - 2011-09-11
Read bleach, I love that manga and anime. Naruto is also good but I know not everyone likes that. I should get into one piece but I'm just lazy, i'd have to go on a anime+manga marathon to catch up.
Looking for manga with furigana - Rekkusu - 2011-09-11
Most Shonen manga will have it, i.e. Naruto, Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist, etc.
Looking for manga with furigana - ta12121 - 2011-09-11
Rurouni kenshin has furigana (Samurai X in North America). That is my favorite, next to bleach. But one thing I'd advise is, it is really hard for people who just started learning Japanese. It really needs you to be at an advanced level of reading/understanding kanji. (Due to the time period, it takes place in kyoto revolution,meji era). So the kanji usage,names,idioms are really in full force
Looking for manga with furigana - suffah - 2011-09-11
The younger the protagonist, the higher the probability of furigana.
Looking for manga with furigana - ta12121 - 2011-09-11
suffah Wrote:The younger the protagonist, the higher the probability of furigana.lol in rurouni kenshin he's 28 and the kanji usage,names,idioms,place names,phrases are in full force and there's furigana of course.
Looking for manga with furigana - SomeCallMeChris - 2011-09-11
Blood+ has full furigana, and if you like Death Note you might like that also.
Anything from CLAMP has full furigana, I believe, and also tends to be both easy to read and pretty to look at.
Looking for manga with furigana - Tzadeck - 2011-09-12
Evangelion and Dragon Ball both do. Generally, any Shounen or Shojo comics will have full furigana.
(Dragon Ball is actually a really good comic for the first 10 volumes or so, btw. Much better than the TV show. Then it jumps the shark.)
Looking for manga with furigana - kainzero - 2011-09-12
Tzadeck Wrote:(Dragon Ball is actually a really good comic for the first 10 volumes or so, btw. Much better than the TV show. Then it jumps the shark.)when DBZ starts, the shark has been beaten to death and harvested for shark fin soup.
*sigh*
Looking for manga with furigana - vonPeterhof - 2011-09-12
Yotsubato!, Love Hina (available for free in high quality at j-comi), Code Geass, Vinland Saga (only the first one or two volumes), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen (not sure about the other arcs, I only know that Onisarashi-hen does not have furigana).
Looking for manga with furigana - JimmySeal - 2011-09-12
kainzero Wrote:when DBZ starts, the shark has been beaten to death and harvested for shark fin soup.Don't be silly. Sharks harvested for fin soup aren't beaten to death. They're dropped back into the ocean so they can helplessly bleed to death and in some cases, suffocate at the same time.
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Looking for manga with furigana - Bokusenou - 2011-09-12
Hmm, I'll just suggest something off the wall and recommend "Nihonjin ga shiaranai nihongo". All the manga has furigana, and you learn a lot of obscure Japanese trivia.
other then that, like every else said, typically shounen series have furigana. I would look at the Shounen Jump, and Shounen Sunday wikipedia articles, to see if any of the series look interesting to you.
Looking for manga with furigana - Tzadeck - 2011-09-12
kainzero Wrote:when DBZ starts, the shark has been beaten to death and harvested for shark fin soup.I think I missed this episode of Happy Days.
*sigh*
Looking for manga with furigana - ta12121 - 2011-09-12
Tzadeck Wrote:Evangelion and Dragon Ball both do. Generally, any Shounen or Shojo comics will have full furigana.haha, dragonball is good (all of it) or maybe that's coming from a fanboy who watched it when he was a kid. I can agree that it really isn't about the story (since it;s everywhere). But the fights are amazing.
(Dragon Ball is actually a really good comic for the first 10 volumes or so, btw. Much better than the TV show. Then it jumps the shark.)
Looking for manga with furigana - phantombk201 - 2011-09-12
Meitantei Konan,It will be a bit difficult at first until you get used to all the crime related words.But its awesome.
Looking for manga with furigana - kainzero - 2011-09-12
Tzadeck Wrote:I think I missed this episode of Happy Days.it was part of the sequel, "Sad Days."
the fonz's "Ey!" was replaced by "meh."
Looking for manga with furigana - Glacial - 2011-09-12
I looked for Vinland Saga, its first volume was one of the few manga I read in English and I thought it was great, but unfortunately I haven't found a copy. Meitantei Konan is Case Closed, right? I watched the English version of the anime and it was pretty good, so I'll definitely have to check it out.
Thanks for your suggestions, everyone!
Looking for manga with furigana - Tzadeck - 2011-09-12
ta12121 Wrote:haha, dragonball is good (all of it) or maybe that's coming from a fanboy who watched it when he was a kid. I can agree that it really isn't about the story (since it;s everywhere). But the fights are amazing.I kind of disagree. In the beginning, the manga is like 70% comedy, 15% story and 15% fighting. By the time Goku becomes an adult it's like 35% fighting, 35% story, and 30% comedy. Once they leave earth it's like 90% fighting, 8% story, 2% comedy.
It was definitely originally a comedy series, but for whatever reason it gradually got more and more serious and more and more about fighting.
Especially the first five or so volumes of the manga are quite hilarious (Bulma using her 脱ぎたてパンツ to fish Wolong out of the water, stuff like that. Best use of the [masu stem]+ たて grammar that I've ever seen.)
From what I've seen of the English translation of the manga, the attempt to translate the jokes is such a failure that people probably wouldn't even get that it was supposed to be a comedy series.
Looking for manga with furigana - thurd - 2011-09-12
I just checked and New Prince of Tennis has furigana, it also takes place in a real world so you don't have to go through magic spells, monsters, techniques or other imaginary vocabulary and just focus on Japanese itself.
Looking for manga with furigana - ta12121 - 2011-09-12
thurd Wrote:I just checked and New Prince of Tennis has furigana, it also takes place in a real world so you don't have to go through magic spells, monsters, techniques or other imaginary vocabulary and just focus on Japanese itself.haha, but that's where the fun gets taken out.
Looking for manga with furigana - SomeCallMeChris - 2011-09-12
Ehh... When I subscribed to Jump I read Prince of Tennis a bit, and as I recall it was full of just as many 'useless' terms as any sf&f style manga; a handful of real tennis terminology only useful for understanding sports broadcasts and a various made up 'super-moves'.
There are manga out there that are purely mundane, modern-day world. Ichigo 100% was published in Jump so is probably fully furigana and would actually avoid the problem, if it needs avoiding at all.
Actually, I suppose I learned quite a bit of useful everyday Japanese from Ichigo 100%. Of course, the frequency of 'fan service' frames may repel some readers (and intrigue others). If you don't want to see a lot of girl's panties, don't read it! The majority of pages, however, are dialogue and plot heavy, and set in the real world.
Looking for manga with furigana - Tzadeck - 2011-09-12
SomeCallMeChris Wrote:Actually, I suppose I learned quite a bit of useful everyday Japanese from Ichigo 100%. Of course, the frequency of 'fan service' frames may repel some readers (and intrigue others). If you don't want to see a lot of girl's panties, don't read it! The majority of pages, however, are dialogue and plot heavy, and set in the real world.I definitely remember finding fan service odd enough to turn me off to a series before I lived in Japan. Now I don't mind at all if a series decides that it needs to show some panties every once in a while, haha.
I think of all the manga I've read, I learned the most from Lovely Complex (ラブ☆コン), which is really a series written for teenage girls to read, haha. But, it's entirely in Kansai-ben and about school life, and I read it while teaching at a school in Kansai, so it was perfect for getting me used to the kinds of things my students were saying. The only downside is that I live in Kyoto, so people speak a bit differently than in Osaka, which is where the series takes place.
Looking for manga with furigana - SomeCallMeChris - 2011-09-12
いいな、うらやましいよ
Thoroughly off-topic, but if I could live anywhere, it would probably be Kyoto. Without being -in- Japan it's hard to know for sure, but from thousands of miles away, it looks to me like Kyoto has a lot to offer and is more the 'real' Japan than Tokyo which seems to have its own international, cosmopolitan culture (less so than, say, New York or London which have the same issues in their respective countries, and perhaps my visits to those cities influences my views). In any case, Kyoto is certainly famed for its beautiful architecture while Tokyo is famed for its modern skyscrapers. Although I do need to see the view from the top of Tokyo Tower, and my change my mind after seeing both cities in person (whenever I manage to make that happen!)