Originally posted by joebab

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DH Shame on you!!!!
Haha nar jokes, I love DBZ I know it's pretty lame and they stand there screaming for like 10 episodes straight but I still love it. I definitely understand why people don't though.
Also does anyone else like avatar????
I haven't seen much of it but some of my friends love it.

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I think you're referring to Anime. The thread is talking about Manga. Ya know, the books?

Dragonball Z isn't much different for either version. It isn't the greatest show or book, but it is an honorable mention (Especially since it inspired Naruto)

See, now in my books thats a bad thing, a negative against DBZ.
I dont like Naruto, I think it is a plague that should be wiped off the face of the planet
But seriously, the Naruto cartoon should be sent far far away.
The manga of it is pretty meh as well, nothing special to me sorry.

I don't read any Manga, I'm more into Comics. But I've always wanted to read Katsuhiro Otomo's works such as Domu and Akira.

i have alot of favorites. one piece is the best by far. i like bleach, naruto, mahou sensai negima, rave is great, and fairy tale. theres more but i dont want to type anymore

this is 3 unpopular choices 1 rurouni kenshin 2 rosario+vampire 3 gakuen alice [alice academy]

Well I have to say that my favorite so far is either Absolute Boyfriend or Ouron Highschool Host club. I also like theLove Hina and Kindom Hearts Manga. But my favorite is Absolut boyfirend or Ouro. I can't choose. I don't care muchfor One Pece tough.Itjut didnt catch my attention.

Houshin Engi is a great manga. It's action, comedy and drama all in one. With maybe some fantasy mixed in? It's a pretty long manga and it's better then it's anime counterpart(which went into a completely different direction then the manga, but I still like the anime but the manga is the superior one of the two).

Detective Conan/Case Closed is also a great manga. I mean I like a lot of manga but those are the two I can think of off the top of my head right now. Oh and anything made by CLAMP. I'm into Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and xxxHolic now. I like Holic over Tsubasa though.

The basic plot of Houshin Engi...Well that's difficult to put in words. It's pretty epic, or at least I believe so. Basically you have your typical youkai/demons and immortals. However later on you find out that maybe the immortals aren't all that immortal. All powers and magic and the like are basically weapons known as Paopei. Hoshin Engi was inspired by an ancient Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi. Basically the incompetent(or is he?)immortal apprentice to the great Sage Gens***enshin is sent down to the mortal war to defeat the evil So Dakki. Dakki has corrupted the Dynasty and it's emperor as she's his new Queen. (Though his wife is the empress so another way to describe Dakki would be concubine but she's manipulated the emperor's mind to the point where he's appointed her to the position of queen, but not empress.)

Dakki is actually a demon, and while her and her demon sisters enjoy life in the palace everyone else is suffering. In fact Dakki loves to make them suffer more so she's actually made sure everyone else is suffering. She conducts plans to assasinate those in her way and make it so she's always going to be cozy. She has lots of allies and spies who are demons like in their army and what not.

Taikoubou, whose over fifty despite his young appearance(remember immortal), comes off as a stupid, selfish, ignorant idiot. Okay those are pretty much all the same thing but you get the idea right? In fact he's quite the opposite. He could have probably gotten a really high rank(even though just being Gens***enshin's apprentice gives him a high rank already)if he wasn't so lazy. Taikoubou is what you'd call a general, he's rather intelligent despite he rarely acts it. He's also self-sacrificing, another thing you'd never guess unless you were one of his friends.

So Taikoubou has to stop Dakki and save the human world, as he too once suffered because of this demonic vixen over fifty years ago when his human village and family was destroyed. So along the way he'll make allies and rally a army against the enemy. The cast is actually rather large and I don't know how you could not have at least one favorite character.

Another thing is Dakki is probably my most favorite villain of well anything. So you see it's a great story.