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Mangas in French

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1roulette.russe
Jul 7, 2011, 2:34 pm

Hi everyone!
I used to read hell of a lot of mangas in the late 1990s, before I lost interest in that for some reason.... I only re-started reading mangas recently and found there are many interesting titles that finally got translated (I tend to be a fan of either old-school mangas or very marginal series by mangakas that are not so active anymore).

Er... Oh, yeah. All this to say: I usually read mangas in French. There seems to be a lot more "adult" (gegika or seinen) series translated in French than English.... Or am I wrong?

Anyway, my question is: is there a French group for manga readers on LT?

2keristars
Jul 7, 2011, 5:33 pm

Oh man. Are there really more like that in French? I need to find a way to acquire French-language manga, then. I so much prefer series written for an adult (or at least Grown Up) demographic.

(I can totally see it, though - comics aren't viewed as kiddy books quite so strongly in Europe.)

3novelandmangacrazy
Jul 28, 2011, 11:00 am

I actually read my first manga series in French, but now I tend to read them in English. There are a lot of French manga out there, one good one is Rurouni Kenshin. As for seinen, the only one that I can think of that I've read is Battle Royale and it is available in French.

With regards to the French manga group on LT, there are no French manga groups, but you can always create one. However I'd simply recommend starting a discussion on this group because it is the most active manga group on LT and there are no active French groups.

4roulette.russe
Jul 28, 2011, 1:52 pm

Oh yes, I used to read Rurouni Kenshin and liked it, but now I'm more into one-volume mangas or short series.

I've recently read L'Homme sans talent by Yoshiharu Tsuge in French. Unfortunately, the translation/adaptation in French was done by Frédérick Boilet, who is a complete snob. If you haven't heard of him, he's a French author living in Japan, but he claims he was the first one to write "real, serious manga". I've heard his own graphic novels can be interesting, but I won't read them since I can't stand the guy's racist remarks (he goes on about how Japanese are "like little kids" that don't understand quality, etc. etc.)
Too bad, since Stuge is rarely translated, even thought he is know in Japan as one of the most important gegika authors.

I've also read Kaikisen last week, one of the rare pre-anime mangas of Satoshi Kon. I like it a lot, which was not the case of the other LT reviewer, who wrote the art was very retro-looking (but how? Is anything from the more "realistic" school of manga "old looking"?). Reminded me a lot of Katsuhiro Otomo's work, which is not a suprise, since apparently Kon was Otomo's protégé.

I'm currently reading all of Shigeru Mizuki's work, from Kitaro to his very violent autobiographical account of being a soldier in the Pacific islands during WW2, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (which I absolutely loved). Seems he recently became very popular in translation. Is there a general groth of interest for youkai?

5novelandmangacrazy
Ago 17, 2011, 8:37 pm

I'm not much of a fan of one-volume mangas but I could consider trying one in French. Hopefully I can find one at the library. Any recommendations for some good French one-volume mangas?

6roulette.russe
Ago 19, 2011, 10:07 am

novelandmangacrazy, from what I see, you are very much into shoujo, right?
I'm really not a shoujo person, so maybe someone else would be more helpful for a recommandation.
The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda was written in 10 volumes, but is available in French in 2 volumes and is really a great (althought old) manga. It was very popular in Japan, and it is said that a lot of Japanese women travel to Versailles just to see the setting of the manga.

Any one else has a recommendation?

7novelandmangacrazy
Set 26, 2011, 10:30 pm

>6 roulette.russe:
I'm open to any type of manga. I read a variety of different genres, and it's refreshing to read something other the shoujo once in a while.

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