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Apr 10, 2007 2:15 AM
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Good anime, but Manta is just........ well, a little bit over-the-top in his jestures. The boy is about to pop a vessel over the smallest things >_<
Apr 10, 2007 7:46 AM
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completely agree. Anna ftw~
Apr 10, 2007 9:59 PM
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lol, this seems a little random, but yeah, he's lame XP
Dec 3, 2007 2:01 PM
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aw, but he's cute

Feb 4, 2008 9:01 AM
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Wait, what?! No! D: I know this topic is a few months old, but still, Manta is hilarious and cute. If there's anyone I wanna hit, it's Anna for her mean attitude. But, of course, the consequences would not be good ;__;

May 12, 2008 12:01 AM
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lol, i don't think manta is too annoying but sometimes he is in the way, like he gets kidnap as a hostage for yoh during the fight with faust VIII and with the X-laws and stuff so for most of the series, he didn't do anything except be a burden.

but i also found lyserg to be annoying, when everyone was having fun, i felt that he was there to dampen the mood cuz he's always like "how are we going to defeat hao?". and the fact that he would switch from yoh to the x-laws to yoh was annoying
Jun 23, 2008 4:12 PM
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Manta was just unnecessary noise. I didn't really take him seriously. Maybe he's just there to remind viewers that non-shaman people exist
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Jun 23, 2008 8:59 PM
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I think it's more along the lines of him being Yoh's slap-in-the-face to Hao. Still, a glove would have probably worked just as well.
Jul 9, 2008 12:52 PM
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Manta is ok but in the manga yes, i do want to slap him with the legendary left hand!
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Sep 21, 2008 8:18 AM

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No way. I want to give Manta a hug ^^ he's cute and sweet.
Oct 17, 2008 7:26 PM

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Yeah for anna but I don't think he's that bad at least he doesn't pissed me off.
Nov 2, 2009 12:01 PM

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yeahhhhhhh thenx for making this topic!!!!!!!
I sooooooooo wanna slap him.
why the hell does he exist in the anime anyway?????
Mar 8, 2010 6:08 AM

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Apr 2008
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I would rather slap lyzerg first 1000 times before manta.
Manta is one of the best characters of the series.
Mar 8, 2010 6:10 AM

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Manta is a strange little creature. I wonder why is he the main narrator in this series...
Apr 21, 2010 8:06 PM

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werr-y said:
Manta is a strange little creature. I wonder why is he the main narrator in this series...
lol strange little creature.....xD....anyway he can be quite annoying sometimes >.>
May 5, 2010 11:49 PM

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As long as he doesn't make little Mantas all over the world, I'm good.

Yes, I want to slap him a couple times for being in the anime, for making rude gestures, for being annoying, for being so weirdly small, and for being Yoh's best friend. Yoh can do and deserves better!
Jun 19, 2010 3:09 AM
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Sad face:(. While I understand how he would be annoying to viewers, yeah, I believe his true purpose in the show was to help make clear the differences between Hao and Yoh, in that one wanted to destroy humans cause they were effing things up apparently, and the latter wanted to save them from being killed because, hey, we're all people here even we can't use spirits, which is why we're supposed to also love Yoh more. He's supposed to represent "us", essentially.

I endure Manta's character in the anime because of the manga. I'm not sure if the anime ever goes into this, but in the manga it told something of Yoh's backstory in how when he was a child going to school with non-Shaman kids, everyone thought he was really strange and he never had any good friends. That was until he met Manta who was afraid of him slightly at first but then became his very first (human) friend ever. It's incredibly touching, so for that we should love him.

I do agree his squeals get a little annoying from time to time though.
Mar 20, 2011 2:36 PM

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One of my friends actually loves Manta. Every time I begin talking about Shaman King, she asks, "Is that the one with that really short kid?" And when I tell her yes, she always replies, "I love that guy!" But in all honesty, she hasn't seen the series for more than an episode, so I don't think she really understands his purpose other than the fact that he is cute.

On the other hand, he is mostly there as the narrator from what I have seen, so I can tell as to why he would be important...but I never necessarily liked him. He was good for a friend to Yoh, and that was nice, but otherwise he was just kind of this cowardly thing that seemed to hold Yoh back. If I were there...I would tell him to shove off, but then I would feel bad because he would probably get sad...so if I could slap him...I would instantly feel regret and hug him. D:

Though the thought of doing so has crossed my mind from time to time :DD
Jun 1, 2011 4:28 AM

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As long as he doesn't make little Mantas all over the world, I'm good.

I doubt a chick would be dumb enough to bang him anyways unless the were piss drunk. Unless he finds another person the same size as him. xD
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May 14, 2017 12:29 PM

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Lol nope. He's just a cute lil guy.
More Anna, she's annoying as hell. Damn, I hate her since my early childhood.

"Please stop talking about math when I'm eating."
Dec 21, 2017 4:07 PM

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Don't care for small fries over there. He is good as a goner. Lord Woody raped him, he died. :3
Dec 21, 2017 4:08 PM

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rpn101 said:
werr-y said:
Manta is a strange little creature. I wonder why is he the main narrator in this series...
lol strange little creature.....xD....anyway he can be quite annoying sometimes >.>

First episode just kinda made me leave any interest in him.
May 16, 2018 11:44 AM

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im at ep 17 and god hes fucking annoying

hes constantly in the way, is a naive little pipsqueak, useless, and generally just fucking awful..
its not just that he looks like garbage, his entire character is just pissing me off
he has such an obnoxious personality, its not that hard to write good characters

remember the first time he saw spirits? who the hell would tell randoms that they saw spirits.. like, how can you be so dumb to not know that people pretty much wont believe in this crap
or when he continued to insult amidamaru even though yoh literally said hes not a bad guy based on the feeling he got when they merged

on the other hand im happy yoh told him to fuck off.. even tho it was just meant to avoid harming him :')

i cant believe how much this little piece of shit is pissing me off, i hope he just dies

anna is also annoying with how much she constrantly demands without doing jackshit, but at least she hates manta
ding dong ur wrong
Apr 26, 2020 9:33 AM
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Man, i loved Manta. I think he deserved to become a nice shaman and be more helpful to yoh and others.
Jan 10, 2021 1:05 AM
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Manta is so annoying that I want the character to die
Jan 12, 2021 8:42 AM

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At the beginning I thought he would be one of those characters that would be useless in a fight but would provide Yoh with information about the spirits since he's always reading.

But no. He's just plain useless.

Fight me.
Jan 12, 2021 6:00 PM
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Nah I never had a problem with that character plus he's Yoh’s homie 💯
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Aug 13, 2021 9:32 PM
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I hate manta with a fervent passion, honestly when Anna said in Ep 4 (2021) "If Yoh dies it's your fault" IT LITERALLY IS. WHO FKN WALKS PAST AN ABANDONED BOWLING ALLEY, HEARS NOISE AND GOES "oH WeLL LeT mE juSt gO hAVe a LOOk" and then CRAWLS away instead of RUNNING. As people have mentioned before, his overblown gestures, lack of substance character and his onion head, his disproportionately sized onion head I hate him so much. Considering dropping the anime to just speed run up to volume 7 honestly, the voice actor did so well in portraying how pathetic and useless he is. FK I JUST WANNA PUNCH HIM LMAO

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