Forum - View topicAnyone ever read Mitsuru Adachi?
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Lance Wrongbow
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I have always been an avid fan of Adachi, and I've read most of his series. He's a humorous mangaka that often write sports / romance stories, and he's famous in Japan, but almost unknown in the west. Anyone else read his works and appreciate it as much as I do? I believe he's my #1 favorite mangaka of all times
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dormcat
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I've read many (wouldn't say "most") of his works too. I like it when he makes fun of himself or made characters talk to the reader (i.e. break the fourth wall). His character design makes identification a headache.
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fighterholic
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Yes, a lot of his characters, to me the female characters especially, look alike. So far I've been able to read a part of H2, but I really want to get into Touch and then there are some of his other works that I've seen but have had to pass over due to not having enough money to get them in the first place.
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Althalus
 Posts: 47 Location: NRW / Germany |
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He's also one of my favorites (right up there with Tsukasa Hojo and a few others). A lot of his series are published in France, and I've got all of those.
~Althalus |
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Urd
 Posts: 317 Location: Paris, France |
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I have read all his series since Nine and some anthologies.
My favourite one is the one I read first: Touch but I also love many other of his series like Miyuki and Jinbe. Mitsuru Adachi is a great mangaka but I prefer Rumiko Takahashi that is funnier and doesn't always create the same kind of series. |
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Lance Wrongbow
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Ah I agree, one of my favorites quirks that he does is when he adds himself or makes the characters refer to random things that have nothing to do with the story (shameless advertisements of his manga, or ripping off other manga occasionally, i.e. Ranma 1/2), and especially when he discusses how all his characters are exactly the same, which is true
 And the main characters almost ALWAYS look the same, lazy mangaka he is 
However, he is still one of my favorite mangaka, often his stories have realistic issues which he deals with, for example with Niji-iro Togarashi I just recently finished which dealt with the environmental issues in our society. And he's just too funny 
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Wooga
 Posts: 916 Location: Tucson |
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Yes, I have Short Program, Niji-iro Togarashi, short cuts, and a random vhs of the Touch anime. They need to release more of his stuff in English though!!
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fighterholic
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Problem is that a lot of if not all of his stuff is older, released back in the late 80s to the 90s. Anime and manga companies these days aren't willing to license something that is around that date range because they won't even be sure if it will sell. Let alone if you look at some of his manga series they're over twenty volumes long, do they really want to take the time and effort to license something that long and then not have it sell. Unfortunately we may never see all of his stuff in English. |
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Cloe
Moderator
 Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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I've been thinking of picking that title up for a while now. Is it enjoyable? |
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Lance Wrongbow
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Personally, I find all of Adachi's series to be enjoyable, so I'm biased when it comes to his works xD Short Program is a series of multiple stories involving the difficulties of love and its outcomes, I believe it to be one of his best works. However, if you live in the United States and was hoping to pick this up, I'd recommend Amazon or some other form of online retailer as this book is out of print and is very difficult to find in book stores. |
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Swissman
Posts: 823 Location: Switzerland |
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Well, I guess I do love his manga as well as stuff from his anime series like the music, avaible on cd or lp. I was enough fan of him to actually buy a presigned picture when I visited an exhibition of his work in Japan I not only do love how Adachi regularly breaks the fourth wall by directly adressing the reader with his cameo but also how he breathens life into his lead characters. Unlike the leads of a lot other shounen/shoujo manga we as readers don't really get into their mindset completely and that alone makes them in some way more mysterious, unpredictable and thus interesting. Think about the typical male shounen lead in Adachi's long running series like Touch, Rough or H2. In one way, they're the average nice guys, always righteous and helping other people, but in another way they're real pokerfaces, not showing or telling their affection for the heroine or other people by words or by being drawn in an obvious way (so that we reader get the point) but rather by subtle actions like wordless cases, glances, ect. Adachi gives us a lot of hints of the characters feel for one another (or how earnest they truly are with their sports exercise, for example).
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Princess_Irene
ANN Associate Editor
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I'm not a huge Adachi fan, but I really liked Short Program. (It also went over well with my students.) The stories are very quiet, but there's always a moment where you have to really think, which makes them that much more enjoyable (in my opinion). |
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