I
got to say it was really interesting to fall back into the world of manga. I
haven’t really read any new ones since my junior year of high school. While I have out grown the genre, I noticed
on the list of suggested manga a comic that was my first official introduction
to manga; Ranma ½ by Rumiko Takahashi. Seeing that title took me back to my early years of middle school of
when I found out about that comic and binge watched the anime for a whole
summer.
Since I never actually read the first few volumes of the series I
figured that this would be a perfect opportunity to actually read it from the
very beginning. As I expected the anime portrayed the manga quite well, I
honestly saw nothing different between the two. While reading I got a few
chuckles here and there due to reactions of some of the characters towards
Ranma and his father about how their alternate forms came to be.
Now did this make
me want to return to the world of anime and manga? Not to a certain extent, my
feelings remained the same as before; the love was still there but I chose to
leave it as a positive past experience that I would like to leave in the past. Of
course that’s not to say anime/manga is bad, I just don’t see myself wanting to
revisit something where I have already left satisfied. An exception to this
however is psychological/thriller anime like
Lain Serial Experiments or Paranormal
Agent. Both really great works of art that never ceased to amaze me.
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