thanks peeples il tell im to get fairytales and other shit and yes i am a big nerd and pretty pursuasive to the library man (dunno wy he buys em i always call him a wanker and crap) and also noone at my school really reads dunno wy i said that im in australia where theres all lebos and they all consider manga gay so my school library is like sex

thanks peeples il tell im to get fairytales and other shit and yes i am a big nerd and pretty pursuasive to the library man (dunno wy he buys em i always call him a wanker and crap) and also noone at my school really reads dunno wy i said that im in australia where theres all lebos and they all consider manga gay so my school library is like sex

Yeah our library teachers a complete pushover.
Anyways don't worry Atma Buster I already told him to get us Fairy Tail(We go to the same school)
Too bad we have over like 1 000 books and anyone hardly reads anything except for manga.What the hells the whole point of that.
Also he didn't say we can order any we want he said he'd let us buy a few every month.

yes ok jr see ya at school tomorrow yes me and jr are also like the only 2 kids who play rpgs at skool

i mean a regular library is ok (not ok because mangas suck)

but a school library should be trying to get the younguns back into books, no?

since there's so big a decrease in book readers

ordering any manga they ask for is giving them an excuse not to read an actual novel

I should think that manga would increase readership. If a kid's not going to read actual books, then he'll never go into the library. If he reads comics, then he'll go in there once in a while and check out comics or manga. Maybe on his way he'll pick up a novel that looks fairly interesting. Hell, at least he's reading, even if the words include pictures. And there's some legitimate stuff in comics, too. My high school had Maus. If it's the only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer, it must have some literary worth.

It's all a ploy to get more kids into the library. It actually worked pretty well in my school: you were only allowed to check out three volumes at a time, so if you came into the library and realized that someone had checked out Chobits #6-8 (lol), you wandered around until you found something that looked mildly entertaining. The librarians also positioned kiosks of books near the comics shelf, for that very reason. With brightly-colored covers, because you can totally judge a book by its cover. I do it all the time.

i have yet to see a manga that has anything really worthwhile in it.  in fact, this school should be getting some actually decent graphic novels that have some sort of literary worth instead of JUST getting manga.  it's like saying "i will buy you whatever book you want to have in the library, as long as it's a romance novel."

C'mon, this is like saying that it is from Japan, it is worthless (which may be what you're trying to say, IDK). I mean, try watching Grave of the Fireflies and saying it doesn't have any literary (cinematic?) significance. I definitely think that the school should get graphic novels (if only for some variety), but thre's a lot of interesting manga to purchase as well.

Hikaru no Go made a whole generation start playing an intelligent strategy game that otherwise might have become extinct. Akira opened the floodgates for manga and graphic novels to be a legitimate storytelling media. Manga like Monster and 20th Century Boys only increased that awareness. One of my favorites, PLANETES, deals with our gradual exploration of space and how humankind attempts to deal with that new frontier.

Not mention that we adults are often too focused on "THIS MUST BE DEEP AND MEANINGFUL AND TALK ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST/SOCIAL PERSECUTION/OTHER CORE TOPICS" to make things good, nowadays. (Not that there aren't manga that deal with those topic, too.) I think it's perfectly reasonable to show kids that you can tell a great story driven on pure entertainment, too, and that it can be in pictures. I think both SOME graphic novels and SOME manga accomplish that, and that the library should reflect that.

(And just because a book only has words doesn't make it better. I'd take high schoolers reading and enjoying Akira over Twilight, any day.)

I'd just like to point out that if anybody in this topic wants to put Maus down to the same level as love hina, dragonball or naruto or some shit... You're fucking subhuman.

If someone argues that ALL comics, manga, and graphic novels are worthless, regardless of their content, then that's exactly what they're doing.