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Conot posted:police don't lay claim to being heroes. lol
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Elfgames posted:lol Within the context of the series, anyway :V
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Jan 28, 2019 12:53
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https://twitter.com/CDCubed/status/1089697832993357824 My Hero Academia is now avaliable worldwide so we don't need to rely on Jaimini's Box's dodgy translations. Sadly, Vigilantes is still restricted to the US side of things for some reason.
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Jan 28, 2019 12:59
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I certainly won't mind getting manga legally for a change
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Jan 28, 2019 13:04
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Bizarrely, manga plus has English translations for series that aren't on the Shonen Jump site? David-kun, I'm from Japan, and Hinomaru.
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Conot posted:To criticize All Might for selling merch is a pretty high level "missing the point". All Might's (public) face is meant to be our platonic ideal of heroism. He is a hero who makes people feel safer just because "I am here". It's been explicitly spelled out multiple times that All Might's merch serves a explicit purpose of making his presence even greater then his actual superheroing, making villains scared to act out because everywhere they look there's reminders of All Might as an insurmountable wall who you can't even hope to scratch. All Might's merchandising had an important role in his plan to become the Symbol of Peace. That's clear to the reader, because we understand that the Symbol of Peace was a deliberately planned idea of All Might's instead of something that arose organically. The general public isn't aware that All Might's entire plan for his whole career was to deliberately engineer events to set himself up as the Symbol of Peace, so it wouldn't really make sense for someone like Stain to know that "All Might signs off on letting people manufacture a billion tons of All Might branded merch" was Actually Selfless Heroism. Trying to apply Stain's world view to judging All Might the same way he judged random beat
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Also, even if yes All Might has a bunch of merchandise he's been active for decades at this point and was so impressive he literally redefined society by his sheer presence. He's kind of on a pedestal no matter who you are, just look at how the All for One fight ended, literally everyone watching (besides villains) was wishing for All Might to win, to be the hero, to save the day. All Might is everyone's hero, so Stain being kind of blinded by that and ignoring the bits that don't fit with the heroic ideal he places on All Might absolutely make sense, he ignores the bits that make heroes match the heroic ideal if he doesn't immediately see them. He's not so much arbitrary as extreme and as Izuku shows you can be a good enough hero for Stain to choose not to kill you, it just has to be his first opinion because he doesn't change his mind about "heroism" as far as I can tell. Which doesn't make him not an rear end in a top hat or a monster who happens to have a point, but it does mean he's at least consistent about his level of bullshit.
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Fabricated posted:I need to find the interview again since it's one of the early ones but Horikoshi was asked for American comics he'd recommend to a new JAPANESE reader, and his first recommendation was Astro City which is pretty telling. Care to fill us who don't read cape books in on what makes Astro City telling?
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Blaze Dragon posted:
I'm not sure where I read it but I recall someone complaining that the Viz translations sucked a lot of character out of the dialogue.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Care to fill us who don't read cape books in on what makes Astro City telling? Astro City is a cape comic that's kind of about the world of cape comics, using analogues of major heroes to tell more personal stories instead of the endless cycle of events. Like, it's not the comic that asks "What would Superman REALLY be like? He can't be that good.", but it is a comic that goes "Alright. So there's a Superman, and he acts like Superman. What's it like to live in a world where that's possible?" For example, the first issue is a day in the life of the Samaritan, the Big Blue Boyscout of the setting, with flashbacks of how he came to be here, and how much he's always doing. One of the running themes in it is how little time he has to himself, how he's had to deal with the fact there's always things he can't get to, even as he does more good in a day than most people can imagine doing in a lifetime. It's not bitter or cynical. It's just... how this guy's life goes. One of the longer storyarcs is about this C-list supervillain, Steeljack, who's gotten out of jail and is trying to go straight while investigating the murders of a bunch of his fellow schlub villains, focused on how hard it is to leave the life once you've gotten into it.
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SKULL.GIF posted:I'm not sure where I read it but I recall someone complaining that the Viz translations sucked a lot of character out of the dialogue.
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If anyone here is even slightly interested in cape comics then Astro City is a must read. Busiek is one of the best cape writers of the old guard and there are some really great stories in it. It's only 52 issues, too.
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Fabricated posted:Bizarrely, manga plus has English translations for series that aren't on the Shonen Jump site? hinomaru's a nice one since I don't think the scans keep up to date
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Blaze Dragon posted:https://twitter.com/CDCubed/status/1089697832993357824 Don't scanlations still come out 3-4 days before the SJ issue?
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Yes. Either way you still don't have to rely solely on scans for big shounen stuff anymore, since you can just wait a few days or read both; one to satisfy the urge and the other to actually know what's being said.
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Jan 29, 2019 08:14
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it should really apply to this manga where the scans can have such garbage translations that it ruins meaning
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SKULL.GIF posted:Care to fill us who don't read cape books in on what makes Astro City telling?
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Astro City gave a lot of focus to the little people swept up in a superhero universe. The cast skews older than most of the usual superhero fare, and they're treated with weight and compassion. For folks who feel MHA doesn't do enough with the worldbuilding, Astro City has a rich setting jammed full of human details. It deals a lot with regular folks adjusting to the consequences of living in a world full of super-people. In one arc, a scumbag lawyer starts using superhero precedent in regular courts. "Is the jury SURE it was my client, and not a shapeshifter from the Neptune dimension who did the murders? Because that's happened like, thirty times. And are we sure the victim is REALLY dead? Because lots of heroes die and come back." Each arc is self-contained with it's own cast, so you can start reading at any trade. Like chiasaur11 says, the Tarnished Angel arc is a great place to start reading. 
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That sounds really neat, thanks. I'll check it out.
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Oh hey, well if the spoilers are correct. Using Black Whip now loving HURTS, to the point Deku has to drop from 20% to 8% of OFA, because he absolutely cannot use Black Whip without seriously screwing himself up. So as suspected, no, he hasn't magically mastered the quirk, and even as he unlocks new ones they won't just be the solution to the next problem, because even using Black Whip as he did is not something he can physically handle. So, once more, there was a whole bunch of crying and thrashing about like children for something that wasn't what it appeared to be.
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monoma musta used copy on class 1-a and thats why he's loving useless as poo poo, i really wanted him to do something cool with all my soul Onmi posted:Oh hey, well if the spoilers are correct. Using Black Whip now loving HURTS, to the point Deku has to drop from 20% to 8% of OFA, because he absolutely cannot use Black Whip without seriously screwing himself up. So as suspected, no, he hasn't magically mastered the quirk, and even as he unlocks new ones they won't just be the solution to the next problem, because even using Black Whip as he did is not something he can physically handle. So, once more, there was a whole bunch of crying and thrashing about like children for something that wasn't what it appeared to be. it can't be that bad since the next panel deku is shown again he's already goku zooming around to catch shinsou, and still has 5 get out of jail free cards drjuggalo fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Uraraka is good https://readms.net/r/my_hero_academia/215/5648/1?mobile=1
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A powerful cinnamon bun.
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drjuggalo posted:monoma musta used copy on class 1-a and thats why he's loving useless as poo poo, i really wanted him to do something cool with all my soul "Deku's finger flicks can't be that bad because he used his already broken fingers. There definitely won't be any long term ramifications from them."
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Well if this going to continue shaping up to be Dragon Ball Z I hope it gets to Ultra Instinct and Q-Cells quicker than DBZ did.
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Viridiant posted:A powerful cinnamon bun. Uraraka made the decision early in her high school career to focus on how to beat the poo poo out of people. So far, it really seems to be working out for her.
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Manatee Cannon posted:hinomaru's a nice one since I don't think the scans keep up to date Isn't that over. Also, I'm still in the camp that thinks OfA was more interesting when it was "just" super strength.
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Manatee Cannon posted:hinomaru's a nice one since I don't think the scans keep up to date I think they do but only on the scanlator site
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EDIT: My life is a mess
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thats the one i linked
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Jose posted:thats the one i linked then why did I read it on Box? ... What is my life?
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Onmi posted:then why did I read it on Box? According to top experts, "being alive is pretty much a constant stream of embarrassment."
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uraraka and ashido got to be cool so I'm v happy with this chapter
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Deku just faffed around with Shinso while Uraraka cleaned house. Very good chapter 
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ashido's pretty clever her acid quirk is just a ruse to distract you from her true power, uppercut inna jaw
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Green Intern posted:Turns out combining martial arts with zero-g is really good. Imagine a bicycle kick that never had to stop
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