Manga Quotes

YOU WILL REIGN IN TERROR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! To do otherwise would make a laughing stock of us both. ~ Lee Chi-Hyong

You must strive for individuality!! Got that?! Strive! ~ Bisco Hatori

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

When young people grow up ... they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze. ~ Tite Kubo

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

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

One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever.
- Shikamaru Nara (Naruto) ~ Masashi Kishimoto

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

What awaits at the end is light ...
... And at the same time, darkness. ~ Aya Kanno

You'll pay for making Genos look like modern art! Lead the way! ~ ONE

If one abandons all other abilities and focuses his strength entirely on a single specialized skill, then he can overcome even the greatest of powers. ~ Sosuke Aizen

Watching you guys makes me want to get my shit together... ~ Inio Asano

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

I give my love to the unloved. ~ Tehnominator

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

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred. ~ Masashi Kishimoto

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

Just tell me what's so irritating."(katsu)
That's none of your damn business!"(kyok)
Maybe not. But I'm curious."(katsu)
It's EVERYTHING you prick! God, you're annoying! It's everything,okay?! EVERYTHING PISSES ME OFF! Them! And them! And them! And YOU! Everyone and everything!I HATE YOUR GODDAMN GUTS! You just...You all treat people like garbage. But you're all just as bad!QUIT TRYING TO ACT LIKE YOU'RE ALL FRIGGIN' PERFECT! Leave me alone. I wish everyone would just...go. Get out of my life. I'd be better off with YOU DEAD! DIE! DIE! GO TO HELL! YOU DISAPPEAR! YOU FALL APART!"(kyok)
Really? I think you WANT them to care. You want them to look at you, don't you? All those people. You want them to need you. You want them.....to listen to you. To understand somehow. You want them to accept you. I think.... you want them to love you.You know something? I'm like that, too."(katsu)
... Wh-why? Why did I....turn out....like this?"(kyok)
You're asking me?"(katsu)
That's what..That's what I wanna know. Why? Why...did I..?!"(kyok)
Where did she go wrong? What was her mistake? "I'm miserable. I feel so alone!"(kyok)
-Katsuya and Kyoko Honda ~ Natsuki Takaya

Thanks to these eyes ... I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty.
... I love this world. ~ Jun Mochizuki

As a filmmaker, you've got to have a nose for what's going on culturally. You have to feel it. It doesn't have to be manga or music, but you need some kind of antenna. That's very important. ~ Takashi Miike

Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth. ~ Susumu Katsumata

Come on, don't look so serious. It's not like it's a Death Note. ~ Tsugumi Ohba

This world is wrong. We have to correct it. ~ Sui Ishida

Wha ... what are you smiling for ... ? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!! ~ Ryukishi07

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan. ~ Takashi Murakami

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality. ~ Frederik L. Schodt

You have worried, and though, have had painful memories, and learned about an unknown world… You have also cried a lot.
To know people... is to know love ~ Kanae Hazuki

If a guy can't handle it when you talk about quantum physics, Manga, or Dungeons and Dragons, then he probably isn't the guy for you. If he gets embarrassed by your bluntness, you're probably not a good match. If he doesn't get your jokes, references, etc., then do you really want to pursue it? We tend to feel flawed and want to change ourselves to be accepted. We are good mimics and we think that we can mimic being the kind of girl that guys will like. By all means work on yourself, but most important, be yourself. ~ Rudy Simone

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

Disappeare with the thunder....... Sasuke said ~ Masashi Kishimoto

What do I most look forward to when creating manga? Why, doing the bonus pages, of course! I wish I could just do a whole 180 of nothing but bonus pages! ~ Hiromu Arakawa

Aren't we all a bunch of weirdos? ~ Kaori Naruse

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji) ~ Hiromu Arakawa

Just so you know, Araragi-kun, I hate romantic comedies where it is obvious the two will get together at the end but lukewarm developments keep them at an in-between more-than-friends-less-than-lovers state chapter after chapter just to keep the story going."
" ... I see."
"Incidentally, I also hate sports manga where each match takes an entire year and yet you know they are going to win in the end. I also hate battle manga where it is clear they will defeat the final boss and bring peace to the world, but the battles with weaker enemies go on forever."
"I think you just covered every shounen manga and shoujo manga in existence."
- Senjougahara Hitagi & Araragi Koyomi ~ NisiOisiN

Yeah, even if I see a human with a Shinigami, I tell you.-Ryuk ~ Tsugumi Ohba

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way. ~ Natsuki Takaya

Why are you so fixated on that man? ~ Natsuki Kizu

I detested you, at the moment of my death ... My soul cannot move beyond that ... As long as you live, I cannot rest!
-Kikyo to Kagome ~ Rumiko Takahashi

When I was drawing this, I thought I'd put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I'm going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here's the six. ~ Naoko Takeuchi

A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito ~ Nobuhiro Watsuki

Life in Japan, nowadays, is nothing like a Kurosawa movie, and only the contemptible Weeaboo thinks that it is. In order to be a whole, well-rounded Otaku, you need to be up on Japanese popular culture, as much as you may be up on anime, samurai philosophy or the canon of Square Enix games. ~ Alexei Maxim Russell

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

Hey. I've just thought of something which I shouldn't think about. Hey. Whoa, wait a minute. I feel like I'm thinking of even ore things I shouldn't. After all, I can't want, nor wish for it, because I'll never get it. Even though there's no way that guy's life will belong to me. Why am I this upset? We met more than ten years ago. But even on the day we first kissed, and the day we first slept together, somehow, he has never... told me he likes me, much less that he loves me. I've never said it either. And yet, I've only told him to stay by my side. I thought that was enough. I hate this. Why am I fixated on that man? I don't want to realise that now. That I want him to love me. I want him to love me. I want him to love me so much I could die. ~ Natsuki Kizu

I like your voice the most in this world. ~ Natsuki Kizu

Strength is not just about brawn, but also brain. I know because I've had to use brute strength and willpower to live through my entire life. ~ Kim Dong Hwa

Any person who hurts Nami-san's feelings I won't let them live peacefully.

-Sanji ~ Eiichiro Oda

There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur. ~ Mark Crilley

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

Have you ever, for even a second, thought about how hard it is for people like me just to stay alive? ~ Inio Asano

Even if there are no new Mighty Atom manga or films created, the Mighty Atom character has become a permanent fixture of both Japanese and global pop culture. ~ Frederik L. Schodt

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

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

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

Girls should be protected by guys.' I think that idea is outdated. ~ Kyoko Kumagai

Kaoru." "Hikaru? How long have you been there? "Kaoru, how do you feel about Haruhi?" "She's a funny little tanuki." "You don't have to lie to me. Sorry that I didn't realize it until now. I know you've been worrying about me, but you don't have to lie anymore. You like Haruhi too, don't you?" "What are you talking about, Hikaru? I don't
" "Then how about this? You know we talked about adopting Haruhi. That's the best solution. That way the three of us will always be together." "Are you completely stupid, Hikaru? Adopting Haruhi was just a joke. We're not playing house. It'd never happen. I'm so fed up with your childishness!!" "Kaoru ... " "Besides, would you be happy being a threesome forever? You really want to share Haruhi with me? That's not what I want!" "Kaoru ... ?" "I won't share her with you or milord! Especially ... If your willing to just give her up like that! I'll never step aside for you if that's the case! ~ Bisco Hatori

From the time I was very small, I felt no resistance whatsoever to the feeling of love. I loved Marie, and I loved many other things as well. It didn't matter what the thing was; I loved it all the same. A book. A house. A bird. A song. They were all connected at their roots, and the feeling that people cannot help but love, because they are lonely, seemed utterly natural to me. ~ Moto Hagio

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.
-Kenshin to Eiji ~ Nobuhiro Watsuki

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call "reality". However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions? ~ Masashi Kishimoto

So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it. ~ Yaya Han

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

Maybe it's impossible to live life without any regrets. Even when you know the future... you'll still mess up." (p.163) ~ Ichigo Takano

Idiots, don't get ready to die, get ready to kill (Shuri, Basara, Vol. 9) ~ Yumi Tamura

The mutual warmth that is unknown, a single glass panel ... declares the beginning of everything ~ CLAMP

Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some were black-and-white, but most were in full color,
everything from character sketches to splash panels to full pages, done in a style that wasn't quite manga, wasn't
quite comic book. ~ Kelley Armstrong

Spoiling stories… is an unforgivable sin in this world. ~ Leo Baskerville Pandora Hearts

If you know everything, then how could you have troubles? You said you can see through to the answers to everything. Even though you can see through everything, there are still things you don't know? I found that to be so strange ... Perhaps you can't really see through everything? ~ Aki

In order to exist you need a purpose, to exist without a purpose is the same as being dead. ~ Gaara

I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians. ~ Akira Toriyama

Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?
L: Damn you, Kira ... ~ Tsugumi Ohba

In pursuing a 'way,' Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate. ~ Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was. ~ Atsushi Ohkubo

'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

So you have to accept facts as fact. ~ Ai Yazawa

Great, now I've turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said. ~ Ilona Andrews

Please... Don't make me a murderer. ~ Sui Ishida

Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it. ~ Sui Ishida

I have two rules:
First, I'm never wrong.
Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule."

L Lawliet ~ Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note

Everything in this world exists to wear you down. ~ Tite Kubo

You're not a killer, Seirin." Sweat coated his face, speckled his clothes. "You couldn't kill Vissyus, and you can't kill me."
Seirin grinned maliciously. "A woman's prerogative. I've had a very long time to think things over."
Botua's charred body floated out of some locked section of her mind. Her will hardened. She'd learned the cost of hesitation. Things were different now. Lon-Shan would face justice. ~ Keith Yatsuhashi

Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish. ~ Oikawa Tooru, Haikyūu

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

You're shy," Skylar whispered, nuzzling his ear. Reading his mind.
Xander swallowed. "Sorry."
"Don't apologize." Skylar laced their fingers together, drew Xander in close enough that there would be no hiding the evidence of Xander's arousal. And Skylar's lack thereof. "I find your shyness very attractive."
"Oh," Xander said, because he didn't know what else to say.
"I want to date you, Xander. I want to help you with your project, and sit for your paintings, and write a manga with you, and I want to date you ~ Heidi Cullinan

Girls are…kind. Tender. They're pretty and they smell good. They give me life. They're all like precious goddesses. I can't have such impure feelings for them ~ Hyougo Kijima

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

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

He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either ... some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess. ~ Banana Yoshimoto

IfI had never met them, I never would've known what it was like to run all out ... or to cry with all my heart and laugh with all my heart ... To say nothing of the way it feels to wish so much for another person's dream to come true. I never would've known what it's like to want something with all my heart. I want him to know that if I hadn't met him that day in addition to all the various new emotions I've felt,I never would've known this one overflowing in my heart.
-Haruhi ~ Bisco Hatori

You're the heroine of your own life!! So don't hold back!! ~ Bisco Hatori

stealing chocolates ~ Nicholas Reardon

Maybe all people who do bad things…are just really lonely. ~ CLAMP

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit of everything. ~ Holly Black

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins! ~ Hiromu Arakawa

Because we are amorphous we hold that in reverence, thus the blade is swung. ~ Tite Kubo

The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.' ~ Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'll kill them all! I'll wipe every one of them...off the face of this earth!"~Eren Yeager's bow to kill all the titans from Hajime Isayama's Attack on titan

"To become Hokage is my dream!"~Uzumaki Naruto from Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto

"It's meaningless to just live. It's meaningless to just fight. I want to win."~Ichigo Kurosaki from Tite Kubo's Bleach ~ Hajime Isayama Masashi Kishimoto Tite Kubo

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

The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn't have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that's what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children. ~ Hideaki Anno

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

At some point, I gave up on searching... but I've desperately needed to find... a place to belong. ~ Bisco Hatori

The Sōsuke Aizen you knew...never existed to begin with. ~ Sosuke Aizen

You shut up!You speak too much for someone who always keeps his mouth hidden behind a mask! ~ Masashi Kishimoto Naruto Shippuden