Me, I’m head-over-heels for Osamu Tezuka’s stuff, and a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki’s work, both for a long time now, altho of course Miyazaki only made a small amount of manga, I believe. (“Nausicaä” etc) And of course, mad respect to Katsuhiro Otomo for the legendary “Akira” series, plus his other works.
For sure, I also enjoyed “Death Note,” and a couple others, here and there. Moebius’ and Jiro Taniguchi’s Icaro was good, but stretched on forever, at least for me.
Anyway, if you’re passionate and/or highly respecful upon certain manga, I’d love to hear your thoughts!
* Those above are the Western-style spellings of their names, FWIW.
Akira is one of the greatest of all time. If you’ve only seen the movie, the manga is so much more, but I believe both are required to fully understand it.
Domu is also really really good but a bit more digestible!
That helps me out, since last time I tried the Akira manga, it was a bit too dense and long-running for me.
I mean it’s a total beast but the quality is so high. I saw the movie in the 90s, probably a bit too early to be honest! I have the full 6 volumes proudly on my shelf.
Oh man, the movie shifted me in to a whole new way of thinking.
What a magnificent beast that was.