Where Do All The Manga Readers Hide? 

As a predominantly manga reader I just want to look at the fun pictures

Manga readers are like monks, meditating in seclusion for ages at a time, only to emerge at the verge of a great event to say, "yeah, the manga did it better."

*Komi stans when Komi finally gets an anime:* "Now what?"

There's something so satisfying about following a manga for a while and then having it being adaptated into an anime

Title: Where Do All The Manga Readers Hide? Me: "The basement?"

Chainsaw Man readers will also rise up once the Anime trailer comes out

"Where do all manga readers hide?" "We are the final boss"

"Where do all the manga readers hide?" Me: in the comment section to spoil you of course... P.S. Do not read the answers because of spoilers that contain! I think I just attracted all manga readers to spoil me so I won't read your answer even if it is not a spoiler because only when I will have read it, I would know that it is a spoiler. And thanks for the spoilers...

The thing about us manga readers is that we rarely speak about these manga unless someone needs recommendations. Like I’ve been reading horimiya for years now and never spoke about it.

I think that 4th manga he was thinking of was "Kingdom"

Some of us Horimiya fans have been waiting a decade for an anime adaptation. Also, the manga isn't even finished.

From what I've learned about becoming a manga reader, is the fact that many studios like to skip over important details that explains why certain characters do what they do and why certain arcs turn out the way they do.

Manga reader readers are people who sit on their bed reading a manga then go to the next, but then as soon as it gets an anime they awake from their sleep and get OFF their bed

Shoutout to Oda for sacrificing his soul to write 1000+ chapters to explore his colossal sized world. Talk about daunting

I feel like the only manga readers who expose their identities are the ones who want to spoil anime’s

"Remember when they were vampires and they disappeared?" JoJo's bizarre adventure: *nervously sweating*

The "Big Four" of Seinen are all historical action Seinen: Berserk, Vagabond, Vinland Saga & Kingdom Edit: This title doesn't necessarily mean "best" or "most popular". These four series all being action based are typically compared to each other in a fashion similar to the Big Three. Hence the similar naming convention

It is actually the big 4 of seinen manga: Vinland Saga, Berserk, Vagabond, and Kingdom

Gigguk: its vinland saga, berserk and vagabond Kingdom: am I a joke to you?

Manga readers have always been there. The thing is anime fans in the west don't give a shit about reading.

The good thing about the manga community is that it still functions the same way it was 20 years ago, more or less. The easiest way to picture it is this: Remember how the anime online community used to be before anime became mainstream, before the anime community started to almost only focus on seasonal shows? That's the way the manga online community still is. With people reading stories without only following what's new, instead just reading whatever we find and whatever recommendation we decide to follow. Then, there's also the Fan Translation aspect to this. Like how people used to follow anime translators who fan subs, people follow scanlation groups and due to the way fan translators are, no matter what year we currently, we can still see old manga stories pop up in the manga reading sites when someone decided to translate an old series that hadn't had a translation yet. And so, we simultaneously follow manga stories that were released in many different years. We also talk a lot in the comments for the chapters and in forums about the stories we read. The main reason the manga online community isn't well known among anime fans is because it is incredibly lowkey on RU-vid, with almost no presence there. A lot of anime fans also don't want to delve into manga. Most of the time manga readers try to recommend stories and talk about said stories, we're instead brushed off and ignored because "reading." On a similar note, the web/light novel online community is in a similar situation as the manga one, except that in the novel community there's a much bigger tendency for people to follow the translators themselves and read on their sites instead of reading on aggregator sites. Most WN and LN fans find novels through the Novel Updates site (which only contains info about the novels and about who is translating them and where to find said translations, but you can't read them on Novel Updates) or from recommendations. The way I see it, the Anime Community hasn't been one with the Manga Community for YEARS (for almost a decade now). For example, Horimiya started being very popular in the manga community back in 2012, and back then it was even talked about by several anime/manga RU-vidrs. However, even back then the anime and manga communities weren't exactly the same. Those who focused almost entirely on anime (like Gigguk) never came in contact with it. Gigguk does read manga, but not that much (he mostly reads manga of anime he's watched and those that were recommended to him or those that are very mainstream (yes, Berserk IS mainstream in terms of manga)). The manga community is actually VERY active. It's not that we're not trying to reach out to the anime community. It's more so that we're being ignored and brushed off.

I don't really hide. But the problem is that those around me with whom I talk about anime/manga seem to shut down at the mention of "reading". They prefer content where they can simply "absorb" it without any effort.

In my bedroom... it’s me, I’m the manga reader...

I only know oyasumi punpun because I’ve heard Joey mention it several times

Romance manga never gets adapted It’s make me mad. Horimiya has been out for like 10+ years but now it’s just getting a anime.

My lifespan decreased by a few months when Garnt forgot about Kingdom

Oyasumi Punpun is amazing, literally one of my favorite manga. Asano's works are all amazing

We have discord servers for some good scantalation groups, there are some good subreddits... Apart from that we’re spending 60% of our time in our bedrooms reading manga/manhwa/manhua 😂 Edit: oh and you can get into some niches. You begin knowing the best sites (but we buy a lot too once official translations come out of course ❤️) like the yaoi community has their whole community of mangago and then there’s the otome isekai community, then the horror community, the webtoon communities, etc.etc. You begin meeting people in comments even lol

KINGDOM that's the mange Gigguk was thinking about. Last year not only Demon Slayer surpassed One Piece in Sales in that year, but also KINGDOM

Maybe you aren't active in the Manga community.I've now been active in the Manga community and pretty much know mangas that haven't been adapted yet and the mangas that are currently publishing. For example Spy Family was trending not so long ago which doesn;t even have an adaptation.

Recently I’ve realized I’m more manga reader than anime watcher.

As a manga reader it just feels so nice to have such a huge catalogue of stories. It's also nice to not have to think about if it's going to have good animation or bad animation since the only thing that can be a turn off is the art style in that sense.

I dont think Vagabond will ever be finished, gotta take that special chapter as the ending now.

4:08 I yelled bleach! and my wife thinks I’M the crazy one.

Most of the manga I read is slice of life and have heard that quite a lof of people found the genre boring. So, I just genuinely don't know what to say when other people talked about shounen and stuff

The second an anime is announced the manga readers have to shut their mouth and hide because from that point on everything they know about the show is considered a spoiler. In the public sphere anime viewers get the power to control what info is allowed to be public.

I've recently become a Manga reader and it is so weird. When I mention I read Manga to other weebs they look at me like I am an uber weeb despite my only outward weebinees being my Fire Emblem amiibos on my desk. Also I am here to preach the good word of Dungeon Meshi and I Sold My Lifespan for 10,000 Yen.

As a Horimiya manga reader, even I didnt know it was actually that popular. In fact, I didnt know if it was popular enough to get adapted when I first heard about it becoming an anime.

In r/manga

as both a manga reader and anime watcher, there's so many gems that deserves an anime but aren't really talked about even though there are so many readers

I remember seeing Spy x Family on a manga site I used way back when it first came out. Being a high school freshman at the time, I thought "naw, this is way too stupid to be good". So I passed the series up. Fast forward a few years to present day, and the first episode had me hooked.

Random page on Xianxia novel: "There is another/more to this world/realm"

manga readers are just the inner evolved weeb inside you that's waiting to be awakended. it's because when you finished the first season of an anime, you want more so you decided to read the manga and then time goes by you lost interest in anime and only read the manga. before you realized it, *_you've became a manga reader._*

*When you realize* if a Christian Story gets Animated people can say _"The Manga was better"_ as a joke reference for Manga readers but also possibly make people go and actually read the Bible 😅

i think that the reason why i like our manga community, it make me feel safe and if any bad hate toward a manga it completely ignored.

Made in Abyss is also in the tier of the greatest seinen manga ever made

In Hxh, the dark continent was hinted throughout, it wasn't truly ' a drop out of no where' Also, it makes sense since we never knew the origins of the chimera ant or 'Nanika'

they spend all their time reading. not interacting on internet boards

I don't talk about the mangas cuz I feel like I might spoil someone

I live in my room in the dark until I hear rumblings of an anime adaption is coming up.

"Where do all the manga readers hide?" We hide where the previous Titan shifters are, it's great here, we build sandcastles everyday with Zeke

I read lots of H̶e̶n̶t̶a̶i̶ manga

I felt the same why there are so many masterpiece manga that I haven't notice such as I Sold My Lif e For Ten Thousand Ten Per Year or others call Three Days Of Happiness. It is MASTERPIECE. I suggest people read this manga. It really make people cry. I also put Vagabpnd, Goodnight Punpun and Beserk on my reading list

The 4th manga they were talking about is Kingdom

I’d argue there are so many niches in the manga world that never make it to the anime. The reason why Garnt never heard of horimiya is problably because he never reads shoujos and joseis. Although some would argue horimiya is neither of the two categories mentioned above it would usually pop up as a recommendation to shoujos and joseis. I’ve been reading horimiya since the first 30chapters(that was like ages ago) but I don’t discuss it much with my Otaku friends since what they watch is mainstream and what they read is another niche I’m not very interested in. Which is probably what happened here to garnt, and I doubt any of the trash taste guys are remotely interested in shoujos to hear about the rare good ones that would appeal to a general audiance.

2:28 I am literally screaming Kingdom at the screen rn

How did they not remember Kingdom? It was the second most popular manga of 2020. Beating out One Piece even and only losing to Demon Slayer.

2:40 Kingdom, Garnt. It's Kingdom

Bruh, finding Jujitsu Kaisen like a year before the anime came out? I almost screamed 5 minutes into the first episode when I realized the story was familiar to me because I'd read the manga

Reminds me of the higher dimensions of the Magi universe. I figured up to the point where it was introduced that there was at least one higher dimension but there are apparently many more however, the ending of the series was rushed so we never got to explore any of them despite how it was built up and seemingly supposed to happen. Makes me wish the series would get a semi-reboot where it picks up from right before it started to get rushed so we could explore the higher dimensions for what was supposed to be the plot which, was actually a rather novel idea. I don't accept the lackluster ending we got.

To anyone reading this: The Fable, The Way of the Household Husband, and Chainsaw Man. Please enjoy.

Every kingdom fan internally screaming inside when Gigguk couldn’t remember it.

Personally, I prefer manga over anime because of how quick I can nyoom through the chapters and use my imagination to play the scene. Yeah, anime provides awesome music and voices the characters, but have you read a manga at your own pace, your imagination providing all the colours and sounds in your mind? Have you been so excited to turn the page, your eyes darting from word box to word box, your heart loudly beating in your chest, wondering what's going to come next? And that feeling when your favourite manga is adapted into an anime and its actually GOOD? It's a different kind of happiness.

Horimiya was the first manga I ever read on its own and not as a means to get to the ending of an anime I liked. Fast forward probably about 5 years and I don't even watch anime anymore but I still read a lot of manga. It's gotten to the point where I'll hear about a good anime currently airing and my first reaction is to seek out the manga.

Im not hiding. I enjoy reading as much as watching anime. Problem is, being the collector i am, manga stacks up pretty quickly XD

5:25 To be fair DB actually explored the other universe concept and has multiple arcs involving characters from other universes.

Komi-san anime has been announced We need to rise up manga readers let's spread the greatness of Komi-san now "LET'S GOO"

Vampires in Gantz? What about ESP in Gantz, two characters with it and that was it! Also, aliens. I wanted more of all of that honestly.

I don't know if I'm the only one here who's read wuxia xuanhuan but yeah... That's exactly what happens when protagonist becomes powerful, defeats every enemy and then we find out there another freakin continent with insanely strong people selling cabbages on the streets🙄

2:34 it's oyasumi punpun

"Vagabond is still going" Me: LOL

The vampire thing is funny but I read a bit of Gantz and adding vampires sound par for the course for that series

The answer to your question is: mangadex.

gigguks 4th manga was kingdom

Manga reccomandation: "Please go home,akatsu-san"

Kingdom is the fourth one gigguk is referring too

Kingdom Berserk Vinland saga Vagabond

This year/season I’m posting this comment (spring/summer 2022) a lot of the romance manga that I’ve been reading for some time or been catching up to it have been getting an anime adaptation. And I’ve been absolutely surprised how much manga that I’ve been reading that have been getting an anime adaptation. I really enjoy reading romance so this has been nice, but I might be putting extremely high expectations for the mangas getting adapted (because most of them I enjoy a lot or my favourites), so il be observing for now :D

They baited us with komi san.

I only knew about horimiya and goodnight pun pun bc it was in my HS library

When they said the big 4 seinen i already imagined kingdom..

Garnt forgot about Kingdom :C

As a manga reader, I just love the feeling of reading stories in solitude.... I love it when you can saviour a manga without being disturbed....

I only come down from my mountain cave each update of Berserk.

Joe: "the manga's fking awesome" Let's not forget how he put Hori at C level (on his tier list on waifus, if i remember it correctly) because he doesn't know heeeer 🤣🤧

4:46 straight up God of Highschool, or every high fantasy Wuxia manhwa

"Where do all the manga readers hide?" me: Eren Jeager has us hostage.

1:28 Oh, you talking about Horimiya! It's wonderful. It was a refreshing change of pace... 1:47 Ah, you were talking about "Oyasumi Punpun"... I see /s

authors: introducing new worlds readers: get super annoyed cultivation novel readers: first time

You guys make me remember all these anime/manga I forgot I read or watched. It's been years and I have a bad habit of never remembering the titles so thank you.

I just hide in a bunker with my 1200+ manga I read

Title: Where Do All The Manga Readers Hide Me: Mangadex obviously

I’m just so happy Horimiya is getting animated and the girl from the other side is getting a movie thats gonna try keep its original artstyle

4:22 not anymore my good sir

I find that people don't really have an interest in manga unless it gets turned into an anime Hence why masterpieces like Oyasumi Punpun, Vagabond, 20th Century Boys & REAL aren't that well known

3:35 that is why I don’t usually recommend manga they never finish

7:04 me watching stardust crusaders

I don't read Manga but I read Manhua, Manhwa and Webtoons(cuz they are in the same Webtoon style which I love to read). As for myself I only see the hype on Discord Servers and Webtoon apps. I'm most hyped for The beginning after the End. Cuz it had a LN and those who have read it have clearly hyped it up in the ongoing Tapas original series. It's a great one really.

I feel like the difference between manga enthusiasts and anime enthusiasts is that most manga readers don’t make manga an inexorable part of their identity. I see that WAY more in hardcore anime fans.

5:00 The thing about the introduction of the dark continent is that it also lend it self for us to know more about the actual observable world. They('trash podcast') say we know what we need to know, but when we get into the expedition arc, we get a lot of info about all the kingdoms and factions of the world and all the headfigures that we never really had a reason to know about yet are clearly important to the way the world has been working. You can't actually make a picture of what the makeup of society and the political sphere of the HxH world is, not untill the expedition arc starts, and Togashi has a fun interesting reason to show them to us as important players in this new "game" of conquest.(every arc we had a good chunk of knowledge based on different "games"/"peak of their respective worlds" that the respective arc plays on, first high class hunting games, then high class assassins, high class Fighting, the high class Underworld, the high class Videogame spehre, Exterminations, local politics/social-structure, and now expeditions/conquest.) So while I can sorta understand the criticism that can be had there, I also think saying it's a cheap "there's more" undercuts how every arc has been "there's more", and only now it feels like we are getting to the bottom of the barrel in terms of what makes up all the countries and kingdoms of hxh now that they have a common cause to band/fight/be involved in the expedition to this "new land". Not to mention that it happened due to a character/figure that has their own unique twist on "let's shake things up for fun"+"let's conquer new ground".