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Originally Posted by Lucky Seven
Well, you see Japanese animation is something I watch when I have nothing to do. I haven't watched anything since summer, in fact I deleted all the anime I watched this summer. While I agree with you that the comics are probably better, it's just not something I'm into enough to actually spend money on. The only manga I've truly read would be the Evangelion manga, which wasn't necessarily bad, but it really felt like a different series (of coarse the manga came after the animation).
I'd read those Hokuto no Ken comics if I could find well translated ones, but that'll never happen.
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I've never read a Japanese comic in English before, so I don't know how the general quality of the translations are (although I actually translate Japanese comics into English as a part time job). I do remember seeing Japanese comics in the US for INSANELY high prices. They were something like $18 a comic. In Japan, I could go to a used comic shop and get 10-18 comics for that price. Or new, I could get 4-6 comics for that price.
I only watch Japanese animation when I'm seriously interested in watching it. I haven't seen a "new" Japanese animation in over a year (as in, I've seen older stuff like Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, and City Hunter within the last year, but that's all stuff that I'd already seen before).
The Hokuto no Ken comic series and animated series have not been translated into English. Too gory for Americans? Too EXTREME? Dunno...
The type of comics Evangelion fits into are what I call "shit." If an animation is based off of a comic, the comic pretty much is ALWAYS better. However, if there's a comic based off of an animation or a video game, the comic almost always sucks. I've read a few of those before and every single one of them sucked. So, it does not surprise me at all that an Evangelion comic would suck. They only make them because the animation has enough fans and popularity that they know people will buy it.
I used to collect comics by Akira Toriyama. I've read almost everything he's ever released: Dragon Ball, Doctor Slump, his short comic collections (I owned all of them), Kowa!, Sandworld (I think it was called), and all the other ones.