Top 100 Quotes & Sayings About Manga

The name of the human who is written in this note shall die. — Tsugumi Ohba

Humans lose focus of the big picture when they're drunken in the midst of their feelings. - Tojuro Hattori — Yuhki Kamatani

The things that stress me out haven't changed.
But I don't wanna lose anything.
So I thought that at least I would change.
I'm lucky ... that I'm afraid of losing something. — Ai Yazawa

In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone. — Hotaru Odagiri

I am. I've been enduring! Why must it be you?! I don't get it at all!
You're a pervert who annoys me all the time. You're always running ahead of me and teasing me.
It's your fault! I wouldn't have realized it if not for that game! I wanted to join hands with you since a long time ago!
One moment you're sexually harassing me, and then gone the next ... Just what are you thinking? Why is my heart beating so fast? Why do I feel lonely when you leave me? Why are you ... the only one causing me so much confusion?
You idiot, why do you always tease me? — Ayuzawa Misaki

Dattebayo! (Do you get what I am saying?!) — Masashi Kishimoto

Besides it's better to have Miyoshi around. You and me have a been together since Jr. High. Without her around people might think we're gay. — Tsugumi Ohba

(Suguri) You had an extra long walk, didn't you ... ? Let's go home ... — Yukiya Sakuragi

If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. — Tsugumi Ohba

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death. — Ai Yazawa

Yuki: "What can I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn't even know that Jason isn't really a bear. He's a character in a horror film."
Kyo: "Yeah? So what if I didn't? Like I'd waste my time watching some movie about a bear!"
Yuki: You truly are an idiot. — Natsuki Takaya

Manga just needs to be interesting. If it is then it will get serialized. — Tsugumi Ohba

Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is. — Yuki Urushibara

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them. — Nobuhiro Watsuki

Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"
Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."
Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."
Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself. — Natsuki Takaya

Tohru: "Call a doctor, or a vet, or something! Mr. Postman! It's terrible! You see?! They're animals!"
Mailman: "Well, uh, yes, they certainly are. Here's your mail."
Tohru: "No, no, we've got to do something!"
(Shigure in dog form grabs the letter.)
Mailman: "I wish my dog was as smart. Good day! — Natsuki Takaya

A rabble-rouser from the UN high commission for refugees ... the former magi who resigned in protest against purification ... plus a girl ... and a dog. — Mamoru Oshii

What's tragic isn't that we can't retaliate...
What's truly tragic is...
...being consumed with vengeance and not being able to live your life. — Sui Ishida

Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'
originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people
nearly the same social status as novels and films. — Frederik L. Schodt

Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else. — Pseudonymous Bosch

You know what happens to me! — Satoshi Kon

You can always die. It's living that takes real courage. - Himura Kenshin — Nobuhiro Watsuki

I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!! — Minoru Furuya

If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me. -Hatsuharu — Natsuki Takaya

And where shall we go from here? The Library is vast and infinite. — Hideyuki Kurata

Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down! — Alane Ferguson

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is. — Naoyuki Ochiai

I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy
er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess. — Mizuki Nomura

A crossroad. What a pain in the ass spot to end up in. (Abarai Renji, Bleach) — Tite Kubo

I'm going to stab you through the heart with the same blade ... not for the good of the world ... but for myself. — Kaori Yuki

She's strong! And scary ... I bet she's single ... I'd put money on it.. — Masashi Kishimoto

Kiriwar: "I thought I smelled shit stinking up the hallway."
Shiki: "I butchered a hyena ... maybe that's why. That's what you do to a dog that betrays its master's wishes, right? — Suguro Chayamachi

Hey Nana,
If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show? — Ai Yazawa

There's only one way to satisfy a ghoul's hunger. — Sui Ishida

...And haven't you already changed their fate just by meeting them and coming in to their lives? — OKAYADO

Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me?
Kagome: I guess so.
Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child. — Rumiko Takahashi

Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.
~Kyoya — Bisco Hatori

Just because he's good at something, doesn't necessarily mean he likes doing it.

- Azuma-sensei, (Kimi to Boku, #1) — Hotta Kiichi

If I were rain,
That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,
Could I join two hearts as well? — Tite Kubo

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this."
But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all."
His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit. — Hiromu Arakawa

Gintoki: Listen up! Let's say you drink too much strawberry milk, and have to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, but it's cold outside your bed. You don't want to get up, but the urge to urinate is just too strong! You make up your mind to go! You run to the bathroom, stand in front of the toilet, and let loose! You think that all your life has led to this moment! But then you realize. It isn't the bathroom! You're still in bed! That feeling of lukewarm wetness spreads like wildfire! But you don't stop! You can't stop! That's what I'm talking about! That's the truth of the strawberry milk! Do you get it? — Hideaki Sorachi

Do you like manga?" she asked after a minute. "Anime?"
"Anime's cool. I'm not really into it, but 1 like Japanese movies,
animated or not."
"Well, I'm into it. I watch the shows, read the books, chat on the boards, and all that. But this girl I know, she's
completely into it. She spends most of her allowance on the books and DVDs. She can recite dialogue from
them." She caught my gaze. "So would you say she belongs here?"
"No. Most kids are that way about something, right? With me, it's
movies. Like knowing who directed a sci-fi movie made before I was born. — Kelley Armstrong

People are only what they think of themselves. — Ai Yazawa

I must have dislocated my pelvis!" -Rurouni — Nobuhiro Watsuki

Keisuke: "It's alright for you to kill someone?"
Akira: "As long as they have tags. According to the rules, if there's three people present, it's an official battle. I'm not sure how you're supposed to start it, though."
Keisuke: "So killing people is just a game, huh?"
Akira: "It's the only way to survive. — Suguro Chayamachi

Even though it is piracy, scanlation has had positive impact. — Toni Johnson-Woods

I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club. — Gene Luen Yang

Kindness is weakness. Your weakness will delay the trigger by a moment. This world doesn't treat kindness kindly. - Koko Hekmatyar — Takahashi Keitarou

In this world of memories, there's no need for strangers.
-Kenshin to Kaoru — Nobuhiro Watsuki

I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself. — Jim Lee

I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime. — Toyin Odutola

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not. — Tite Kubo

Thatz: "Why'd you have to get him all worked up? He'll drag us into it.

Rune: "You're just lazy, Thatz. — Mineko Ohkami

She's not tsundere. She's just an unpleasant woman. — Wataru Watari

I draw manga, therefore I am! — Hiromu Arakawa

Truth only exists for those who cling to it.
Sosuke Aizen — Tite Kubo

I'm a huge anime and manga fan. — Ryan Potter

To be tricked by something so simple... How peaceful must your world must be — Nana Haruta

...Yes... I am perfect. A perfect 'impostor'. B-ko — Suzumu

The Japanese have two words: "uchi" meaning inside and "soto" meaning outside. Uchi refers to their close friends, the people in their inner circle. Soto refers to anyone who is outside that circle. And how they relate and communicate to the two are drastically different. To the soto, they are still polite and they might be outgoing, on the surface, but they will keep them far away, until they are considered considerate and trustworthy enough to slip their way into the uchi category. Once you are uchi, the Japanese version of friendship is entire universes beyond the average American friendship! Uchi friends are for life. Uchi friends represent a sacred duty. A Japanese friend, who has become an uchi friend, is the one who will come to your aid, in your time of need, when all your western "friends" have turned their back and walked away. — Alexei Maxim Russell

I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines. — John Scalzi

I'm not some character from a boys' manga." ~Yukio — Kazue Kato

This manga is held together by the quirks of messed-up characters and the good will of our wonderful readers. — Yutaka Tachibana

In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors — Nobuhiro Watsuki

Personally, I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams. It's a period of life when young people appear to have a great deal of freedom, but are in many ways actually opressed. Just when they find themselves powerfully attracted to members of opposite sex, they have to really crack the books. To escape from this depressing situation, they often find themselves wishing they could live in a world of their own - a world they can say is truly theirs, a world unknown even to their parents. To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.
I often refer to this feeling as one yearning for a lost world. It's a sense that although you may currently be living in a world of constraints, if you were free from those constraints, you would be able to do all sorts of things. And it's that feeling, I believe, that makes mid-teens so passionate about anime. — Hayao Miyazaki

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots. — Cassandra Clare

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. — Shigeru Miyamoto

The person that I like is someone that I am uneasy about ... — Yukiru Sugisaki

Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends for as long as you live. — Hiro Mashima

I'm going to gently scramble up your insides for you now, okey?~Rise,Tokyo Ghoul — Sui Ishida

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little. — Susumu Katsumata

Radical Edwards's profile? He's a seven-foot tall ex-basketball pro hindu guru drag-queen alien.
-Jet Black, from the Cowboy Bebop anime script — Keiko Nobumoto

'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first arc of 'Pretty Deadly,' and I was really surprised how much I was influenced by it. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

Keep flying higher, so that others are inspired to fly with you! — Oh! Great

People seem weak, but they're strong.
They seem strong, but they're weak.
No matter how much you cry, you still have to sleep.
And you even get hungry.
You suddenly realize you're doing the same things you did yesterday.
You say hi to your friends and smile just like you did yesterday.
Life goes on as if nothing ever happened ...
I want to go somewhere ...
Anywhere ...
Somewhere where I can forget everything.
... where I'll forget everything
... and be reborn.
Mars Volume 18 — Fuyumi Soryo

On a freezing night like this, someone, please warm him up for me- Nana — Ai Yazawa

Kiriwar: "It doesn't matter. Bitro's gonna sew your eyebrows to your eyelids when we get back."
Gunzi: "Whaaat?! Then I won't be able to sleep!!"
Kiriwar: "That's the idea, dumbass. — Suguro Chayamachi

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?
Humans are full of contradictions. — Ai Yazawa

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games ... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it. — Tite Kubo

In town, there's a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the summer.

I used to like walking there, looking for stuff.

Like old fireworks.

Or kelp.

A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind.

You basically never find what you were expecting to.

And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start... — Inio Asano

May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future. — Nanae Chrono

I didn't know the real reason that she was crying. I was just carried away by the feeling of her in my arms, trembling and warm. — Kaori Ozaki

An eye for an eye my friend. — Tsugumi Ohba

I don't know if ghouls are allowed to live either. But there has to be a reason we exist. — Sui Ishida

Fear is necessary for evolution. The fear that one could be destroyed at any moment. — Sosuke Aizen

Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze! — Keiko Nobumoto

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist. — Hiroyuki Takei

Because the first time they met ...
Y-da: "You know, Y-naga-san, the more makeup you put on, the more you look like a guy in drag. So I'm going to call you F-mio!"
Y-naga: "I-I like this person!"
The moment she fell in love. — Fumi Yoshinaga

There's only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all! — Akira Toriyama

Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it. — CLAMP

Being insulted by a smart-mouthed little punk like you.. really pisses me off! — Sui Ishida

I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who's too perfect to be real - Nana
The only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi — Ai Yazawa