How to read Manga?
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A friend who is not much of a reader discovered that she really enjoyed manga romance. And she treats it like a soap opera. She reads a chapter a day when she gets done with work and the next day another chapter. I don't think she stockpiles so she basically is reading what she has on hand.
That seems a good way to do it. What I've ended up deciding is something similar, but limited to reading at the weekend
Totally relate to the different mindset with Manga - I don’t read Manga yet but I definitely have a different experience and mindset when I read graphic novels compared to books. Great video.
Congrats on 24k, Olly! If you're ever done with the stuff you currently own, maybe check out these titles: Jigokuraku, Dorohedoro and City Hunter. Last one's bit old but worth the time 🙂
Thank you! I’m building up a long list of ones to get to next.
Is City Hunter the same as the one that was filmed with Jackie Chan?
@@CriminOllyBlog Yes, but I'm sure it's way inferior to manga and anime series 😄
Yesss Dorohedoro
I read manga on Thursdays and any extra time I might have on the weekends. I structure all my reading that way though. Monday is fiction, Tuesday nonfiction and so on. If I leave myself to mood read I spend most of my time deciding what is next. It is rigid but works best for me.
That does sound very structured, but if it works for you that's great! I think I've landed on reading manga at the weekend
I’m the last person to give advice because I have 5 or 6 things going all at once😂 but I quite like the serial approach you mentioned and I think I’ll try that also. It’s very nice to look forward to reading something a few days before you do.
I hope this is a great guide for people wanting to embrace Manga.
I'm afraid not!
The way I read manga is like a "pallate cleanser" in between novels. I have several on the go: Attack on Titan, Viland Saga, Witch Hat Atelier, and Junji Ito's collection.
I'm tempted to try Vinland Saga as it's on Kindle Unlimited
@@CriminOllyBlog top tier, I highly recommend it 👌🏽
@@sophhnavarro great to know!
I really enjoyed your manga reading vlog. Following an avid reader embark on a new medium could be a fascinating perspective, and I'd happily watch a vlog per week, or when you have the time, if you decide to continue.
I'm a new subscriber who have just tentatively started my own adventure into horror beyond Stephen King, and your videos have been a very helpful introduction/deep dive into the genre, and I love your insight.
🖤💚 Hola! For graphic novels and manga or any book series, if I have the whole series I just binge it lol. If I don't have the full series I make a short summary at the end of what I read so that when a new vol comes out I know where the story ended.
Ah that’s a great idea!
I have taken up graphic novels and manga to serve as pressure relief mechanisms, i. e., I sandwich them between regular novels. You can use them in this sense on a weekly basis, but I'd never spend an entire day just on manga. That's just me though. My current manga is 'The Way of the Househusband' by Kuosuke Oono. A really fun series about a former yakuza.
Oooh that sounds interesting!
My brain is not capable of telling apart different characters with associated storylines from different books. On the other hand, I love reading 2-3 books in parallel. Therefore, I always combine a novel with a comic/manga and a non-fiction book. If it's a comic series, I try to read it in one piece, otherwise I forget the storylines (same reason as mentioned as one could imagine). Maybe I should only read one book at a time...just kidding😅
On mangas in general: You should check out the works of Hideshi Hino and Osamu Tezuka.
That does sound like a good way to do it!
Gosh there's a bit of analysis parallysis going on here. 🤣 I would make them my toilet book or breakfast book 😗 If you're going to do the one day a week thing perhaps make it Thursday. Thursday in Japanese is Mokuyoubi. As both words start with the letter M, Manga Mokuyoubi has that symmetry about it. You know how I love my symmetry 🤭🤭
I think I have come up with a plan. Will report back!
I read a few graphic novels per year. None are series and maybe a few would be considered manga. I just read them like a book.
Ugh. You’ve got me knee deep in manga now. I know, I know… sorry-not-sorry 😜
100% !
I literally read all of Chainsawman as fast as possible and read every new chapter every other Tuesday. And I re-read my favorite parts sometimes. Going to read more Berserk today. 😤Ready for it to get good.
How far through Berserk are you?
@@CriminOllyBlog Still on volume 2; but I keep getting distracted. I'll read it tomorrow probably. I have some time before college lasses start. I have a lot of leisure reading to catch up on and some research reading too. But the Chainsawman chapter comes out tomorrow so I'll be in a manga mood.
@@CriminOllyBlog Just read Volume 3 & 4, very good. I empathize a lot more with Gutts now. Didn't know there was so many literary references. Also got a huge tummy ache from reading it.
@@kerilowman9257 Is that vol 3 and 4 or vol 3 and 4 of the deluxe editions? I've read the whole of vole 1 of the deluxe now (so vols 1-3) and know what you mean
@@CriminOllyBlog Just the regular volumes 3 and 4, so the First deluxe edition and the start of the second. Needed catharsis after the end of volume 3 so I had to keep reading. It doesn't get better for Gutts.
I've resisted including Manga in my regular diet of reading purely from economic standpoint. It requires a serious outlay of capital in my mind to deep dive into a manga series... I use to read lone wolf and cub and lady snowblood when the movies came out. Setting aside a day for Manga sounds like a go. "Manga Monday" or something similar perhaps but you have piqued my interest for manga again.
Yeah that is one big drawback! Lone Wolf & Cub is so great
I use to have a list of what manga and what volume I needed to buy and every once in a while I would make shopping trip to borders or Barnes and nobles and I would read chapter a day. This had major problems for one many series I was never able to finish because borders foreclosed and than the nearest Barnes and Nobles. I now just buy a couple volumes when I have the cash for it and try not to have too many series going at the same time. Much of these is made easier by Amazon of course. I don't rush through any series and admittedly I read them when my mood hits me. If I fill like a change of pass and want to read something other Han a novel I read a manga. But if you like some order to you read it might be best another way.
Greetings; I'm not the one to give advice, except maybe read whatever you feel like reading at the moment. I also have accumulated a lot of books over the years for a number of reasons. I taught English as a Second Language in Rio de Janeiro. Because of the nature of the job, teaching mostly working professionals, my schedule was 7 -10, 12 - 2 pm, and 5 pm to 9 pm; giving me free time to wander around Rio's City Centre (I lived too far away to go home and back again.) While wandering I would spend a lot of time visiting book stores, both of new and used books, and looking over books sold by street vendors. (Books spread out on top of newspapers or cardboard.) There were many English speakers working there for a short period of time and many would leave whatever books they'd read and didn't want to haul back home. Being a person that started to accumulate many books from a young age my pile grew and grew without the time to read so many. I became a practitioner of "Tsundoko" (The art of buying books and letting them pile up.). As I think I've mentioned before, I organize my reading but many times a book will jump into the line cutting in front of the others who are patiently waiting to be read because it looks interesting. Don't waste time figuring out how to read them, just jump in.
Good Luck
Thank you
I hear you gotta start from the back and flip backwards
Very good!
You go bankrupt by buying fifteen volumes at once. That's why I don't collect it anymore.
Yeah it does get pricey quickly!
From right to left, instead of left to right?
Ha ha very good
Manga Monday. Like Taco Tuesday ...
That is appealing!
You should give Fullmetal Alchemist a try.
I’ve heard great things about that one
@@CriminOllyBlog it's some kind of a classic. Heartbreaking, funny, with great charakters.
Manga is also pronounced “Munga”