On 1/23/21 11:33 AM, Yes wrote:
Does anyone have any tips or tricks for an English-only person to find
manga and novels that have been translated into English? I've
bookmarked a number of manga and novel (web, lignt, etc.) sites that
provide translated content but notice that the content on some sites
will stop at one point in the story only to discover that another site
picks up the story. Right now I'm using Google to search for a chapter number greater than the one available where I'm reading, but it tends
to be hit or miss.
For anime search on Anime Primer which used to be published
here. This is what it says when I type anime primer in the DuckDuckGo
search window.
The Anime Primer, or "What Anime Should I Watch Now ...
[Search domain robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/primer/index.html] robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/primer/index.html
This is intended for English-speaking fans who are new to anime, and
looking for some suggestions of what to watch next. anime in other parts
of the world mentioned as well. Additions and corrections to this
information are welcome; please e-mail them to < robkelk -atsign- gmail -period- com >. This Primer is mirrored at anime-faqs.org.
What brought this up for me was that I originally watched the anime
titled something like "I don't like pain so I leveled up my defense"
with the main character being named Kaeda a.k.a. Maple. So I wanted to
read the novel version of the story. I found it on one site, but that
one ended around chapter 53. So then I looked for chapter 54 and found another site picking up with chapter 65 or so. So went back to Google
and found yet another site with the 'missing' chapters except that the chapters were 'dropped' being translated, so had to do another search.
If you want to read manga just search on manga.
FanFox.net is place where lots of manga is published in fan translated
form. Crunchy Roll does the same thing but charges.
We used to have sites where we could download complete manga
but those seem to be limited these days, We have lots of good
fan-subtitled anime aka fansubs at various private sites. <
http://www.live-evil.org/project-status> is one to start you off.
At present some of the sites I've bookmarked include mangafarm,
wuxiaworld, isekaiscan, readnovels (??), scribble (??) manganelo (??).
I don't know what the reputation of those sites among the manga and lit community is, but they seem to be the most consistent with respect to completeness and continuity of a series.
Thanks,
John
Well I don't know those sites but wuxia is chinese manwha,
Isekaiscan must specialize in stories about other worlds, the others
I have no idea about but look up anime news network which reports
on current anime and they touch on manga.
Or drop me a line and I will pack up and send you a copy
of my manga log which has quite a few entries. My anime log is
much shorter but has about 100 older anime.
And if you want to learn about referenced culture and
history I have a shorter text file that covers those I have been
able to read. A good public library such as we have in San Francisco
has a graphic novel section that includes many good manga as well
and DC and Marvel publications. That is where I borrowed some of
the manga and most of the cultural and historical books. They
have lots of anime but I am not mobile enough to move the disks
back and forth.
If the people who produce manga interest you I can
recommend "Drifting Lives" which is a autobiography done under
another name which relates the author's experience from
1948 when he started with so called postcard manga to the
memorial dinner for his childhood hero Osamu Tezuka aka The
God of Manga and of Anime as well in the late 1980s or early
1990s. Another excellent book is Showa:History of Japan which
covers the life of a prominent manga artist who rose from
poverty to become rich and famous in Japan and abroad. It also
covers the history of Japan in the Showa Era from 1922 to the
death of the Showa Emperor (Hirohito)in the 1980s.
Another Good story is the biographical "Blank Canvas or my So-Called
Artist's Journey."
If you can afford to buy look up the The Right Stuff International or TRSI which sells every thing they can get
their hands on. Manga or anime fans-ship requires lots of
room to store manga and anime whatever format it is in.
My downloaded anime takes up about 250 Gigabytes
of hard disk space. My manga takes up about 40+ Gigabytes
but I have little shelf space left in my studio apartment.
But I have in addition to manga, US Graphic novels, computer
books and general literature collected over my long life.
bliss - sitting not so pretty in San Francisco for the
last 50+ years.
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