Tezuka/Takahashi

Well for one thing I am an avid anime watcher and read mounds of manga all the time. I have ever since I was about 5 years old. Starting with the usual stuff like Pokemon and Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura and working my way up. But it was still nice to get back to basics. With reading the first volume of Buddhist which was an interesting read, I never knew that Tezuka delve into the kind of stories. What manga I was really excited to read again is Ranma 1/2, it's one of my favorite manga and anime series. The manga for Ranma 1/2 is always fun and zany but knows how to be serious. Though I would consider it almost like short stories. Though a problem gets fixed a new one arises and immediately gets handled. The characters are great and so are the fighting styles of each of them. It was great to see such a slew of characters with such pronoun mannerisms and looks so you never really forgot who was who and they never seemed out of character in any given situation. Also the fact in Ranma, Takahashi shows that sometimes being a girl can get the job done, not just to seduce a man or something like that but for fights or a weight issue like in one manga. Takahashi even writes relationships in an interesting way. She never shows her main couples as couples. She builds them up but never forces too much. She makes sure that all the characters are able to get together and establish who they are with one another without really saying so, it's done through actions and even fights. Characters that start out even soon because friends with Ranma and Akane through the use of help or something else funny. Like a ramen contest. Which really comes through at the end part of the manga. I even think Inuyahsa doesn't do this really well, even if it's the more popular, I still prefer Ranma 1/2. Maybe it's more modern or something I can't place it but I never get tired of reading or watching it.