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I'm curious, what in you guys opinion makes a good first chapter of a manga?

Outside of the concept of the series over arching story/plot.

In so many cases of most manga the protagonist is a semi blank slate, just a barebones archetype that becomes more as the series goes on and they usually have 1 interesting attribute of some kind of them.

Usually the conflict has an interesting twist to it, but there is a simplicity to all this I've caught.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hQyhLZsw7e4
Good shit.
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That one came right out of nowhere. Me and my buddy tried Carol & Tuesday on a whim, and so far it's been really fucking good. There hasn't been a song in it I've disliked, despite the pile of genres they dip into, and the animation is absolutely gorgeous. This is one f those weird cases where as soon as I know the soundtrack is dropping I'm gonna buy it in a heartbeat.
 
Characters die super fast in ChainsawMan. Maybe this isn’t going to be a very long series.
 
A Useless Fish said:
That one came right out of nowhere. Me and my buddy tried Carol & Tuesday on a whim, and so far it's been really fucking good. There hasn't been a song in it I've disliked, despite the pile of genres they dip into, and the animation is absolutely gorgeous. This is one f those weird cases where as soon as I know the soundtrack is dropping I'm gonna buy it in a heartbeat.
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Thanks to this thread, I just started watching Carole and Tuesday. It's super cute and the music is absolutely fantastic.
 
After four years, I've finally finished Ranma ½. I'm not disappointed with it like I was with InuYasha, kind of more indifferent than anything, but it feels pretty nice to actually finish it. It's actually one of the few anime I watched fully on DVD; I pirated episodes, but I didn't watch the files because....... I actually don't remember anymore. I only saved them in the off-chance any of the DVDs were too scratched up. Luckily, nothing was unwatchable, and although I only ever purchased used copies (unless season four was completely new for some reason; it was a Christmas present and it was plastic-wrapped), everything was in pretty good shape. Seasons six and seven had some questionable-looking discs, but they played.

I think overall, despite not being a huge fan, I'm okay with having purchased the series for prosperity. And the old Viz boxsets actually look nice on my shelf, for what it's worth. (Season five was one of the newer prints apparently, the one that has it rated 13-and-up when everything else is Older Teen, so it's bigger than the rest, but it has Panda!Genma on it and I think it's funny.)
 
This is by no means a frame by frame of the scene itself however I think it properly illustrates what I'm about to suggest. See, this is one of my favorite scenes on any anime because rather than taking an entire episode this scene in it's entirety lasts only a few seconds as though all the events therein are happening in real time. Overall I think this scene in particular and Scryed series as a whole are criminally underrated.
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Kari Kamiya said:
After four years, I've finally finished Ranma ½. I'm not disappointed with it like I was with InuYasha, kind of more indifferent than anything, but it feels pretty nice to actually finish it. It's actually one of the few anime I watched fully on DVD; I pirated episodes, but I didn't watch the files because....... I actually don't remember anymore. I only saved them in the off-chance any of the DVDs were too scratched up. Luckily, nothing was unwatchable, and although I only ever purchased used copies (unless season four was completely new for some reason; it was a Christmas present and it was plastic-wrapped), everything was in pretty good shape. Seasons six and seven had some questionable-looking discs, but they played.

I think overall, despite not being a huge fan, I'm okay with having purchased the series for prosperity. And the old Viz boxsets actually look nice on my shelf, for what it's worth. (Season five was one of the newer prints apparently, the one that has it rated 13-and-up when everything else is Older Teen, so it's bigger than the rest, but it has Panda!Genma on it and I think it's funny.)
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I would love to keep collecting the Ranma series but Viz seriously should have released the show (Sailor Moon too) by season instead of in parts.
 
I hate the "in parts" that Viz has done with just about every IP they have (Bleach is a load of bullshit, they only did like season box sets for the first five seasons everything else "Lol you get 12 episodes each"), though I can kinda brush it off for Ranma since it's still split into seven separate parts like its seven seasons originally, even though the first season really and truly is only 18 episodes. Each part has like 23 episodes on them, I believe, so yeah, kinda throws everything off.
 
Then again, if something like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya got a Hollywood live-action adaptation, god forbid, I suppose people would call that an "anime/manga adaptation" even if it was also a novel first.
 
garlicfarmer said:
The Promised Neverland and Kimetsu no Yaiba are two other series on the darker side and they're from 2016. Let's just say that it's trendier nowadays to have darker themes in WSJ. Chainsaw Man's Fujimoto is also a fan and a friend of the author of the series Jigokuraku, from the app Jump+ and next week there will be a collaboration page with both of the series in WSJ.
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I know anime only exists to sell manga but Neverland just ruined anime for me. It was the last anime I've watched and I'm now on my 30th manga or something. It took a few chapters and maybe 45 mins of reading to get out of the home in which the entirety of season 1 played out in. Anime is more about visuals than storytelling at this point. I can get behind K-on and feel-good kind of anime, but those are usually slice of life and have nowhere to go but daily child antics. Same shit with Made in Abyss. They're making an OVA out of a few chapters 1/3 through the manga. It's hard to get excited for anime anymore if not slice of life or a full original movie.

Yowamushi Pedal was my first anime and what got me into cycling most likely, and even such a slow series basically made for the generic shonen anime format, it still serves way better as a manga. It has a spin-off series telling short 2-3 chapter arcs to flesh out old side characters etc, which is faster to read through than an episode is to watch. On an unrelated note, it's actually on netflix now, which is pretty impressive considering how little attention the anime gets. 2-3 OVAs, 5-6 seasons, a real-life series, and a few promotion tie-ins with a cycling stadium they use in the show.

But oh no, abusive lesbo anime #28 gets all the adoring fans. :(
 
Cactus Wings said:
I know anime only exists to sell manga but Neverland just ruined anime for me. It was the last anime I've watched and I'm now on my 30th manga or something. It took a few chapters and maybe 45 mins of reading to get out of the home in which the entirety of season 1 played out in. Anime is more about visuals than storytelling at this point. I can get behind K-on and feel-good kind of anime, but those are usually slice of life and have nowhere to go but daily child antics. Same shit with Made in Abyss. They're making an OVA out of a few chapters 1/3 through the manga. It's hard to get excited for anime anymore if not slice of life or a full original movie.

Yowamushi Pedal was my first anime and what got me into cycling most likely, and even such a slow series basically made for the generic shonen anime format, it still serves way better as a manga. It has a spin-off series telling short 2-3 chapter arcs to flesh out old side characters etc, which is faster to read through than an episode is to watch. On an unrelated note, it's actually on netflix now, which is pretty impressive considering how little attention the anime gets. 2-3 OVAs, 5-6 seasons, a real-life series, and a few promotion tie-ins with a cycling stadium they use in the show.

But oh no, abusive lesbo anime #28 gets all the adoring fans. :(
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I'm more into manga myself.
 
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