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Darth TNT posted:Apparently, like me a lot of people hated her face. She did grow on me over time though. But character interactions are easily Doron's strong point. It's like Candy Flurry done right. I didn't really get enough of her to have an opinion, tbh. It felt she was meant to be developed out over time, but whoops she disappears and that's that I guess. quote:I'm fairly certain Shugo is about to die. And I won't miss it. It had some good gags, but it's just not good. I agree, the last chapter feels like it was meant to set up a final arc, or at least allow the creator to end things properly if it get canned. Jerkface posted:Really sad about Ayashimon. The art was great and I really liked all the weird yokai characters, and Maruo was a fun protag Same All these newer series on the verge of possible death and meanwhile PPPPPP is still chugging along
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May 25, 2022 12:48
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I'd have thought they'd keep it running at least until the jigokoraku anime started especially if it was at least selling well
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Honestly, Ginchiyo's great and it's a crime she's not getting time in the spotlight. She's a real go-getter who helps other people while still being driven by her ambition to rise in the ranks. I feel like it's hard to find a main female lead who's that cutthroat about things.Shinji2015 posted:All these newer series on the verge of possible death and meanwhile PPPPPP is still chugging along To be fair, PPPPPP has turned itself around by focusing on the family drama. Introducing the other siblings definitely helped keep me hooked, though the flipside is that none of the student characters left much of an impression. Maybe Furusu, but only because of how bad that her resolution is to basically be Lucky's cheerleader.
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Yeah, the fights are good but they've really just kind of taken over the series and I miss the original, more jokey early chapters.
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How could you hate her face? Her face owned. Her being written off because she didn't have a standard moeblob face would be the worst thing.
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah, the fights are good but they've really just kind of taken over the series and I miss the original, more jokey early chapters. I can’t blame a shonen author leaning more into (pretty good, above average) fights even if the comedy was better given the recent discussion, but the last chapter at least gave me hope that he’ll combine both with more regularity.
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https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1529391759926743041?t=4sf_FAS8Hsa6K0uW2dE_xw&s=19 Also: https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1529357894260506624?t=4r0sDBD5o76Ds1cP1eN7hw&s=19 CodfishCartographer fucked around with this message at 15:55 on May 25, 2022 |
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CodfishCartographer posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1529391759926743041?t=4sf_FAS8Hsa6K0uW2dE_xw&s=19 I wonder if they're going to change things up to make jokes about anime instead of manga.
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May 25, 2022 15:57
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I'm glad more people will get to know Gachi Gorilla.
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If you have the means of buying poo poo from japanese webstores, celebrate with your very own Roboco plushie https://shopsunrisems.com/shopdetail/000000001278/
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Wow, canning Ayashimon seems like a real bad call. Wonder what drove it.
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The fact they seem unable to fire Taguchi, for one.
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I Am Fowl posted:Wow, canning Ayashimon seems like a real bad call. Wonder what drove it. New series coming up. It performing like poo poo. Expect Shugumaru to die next week and Doron Dororon the week after that.
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Mulderman posted:New series coming up. It performing like poo poo. Ayashimon got a re-print for it's first volume so I don't actually know how bad it's selling.
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urban horror battle series with successful volume sales to the point of getting reprints, cancelled unceremoniously before ch30? deja vu
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Brought To You By posted:Ayashimon got a re-print for it's first volume so I don't actually know how bad it's selling. Over 10K, which is the usual rule of thumb dividing success and failure in new manga. Two reprints, as well, outselling Phantom Seer's first volume. Barring some weirdness behind the scenes, the only thing I can figure is that Ayashimon had too much competition in the "Dudes punch demons" department, so the jump surveys didn't help. Even if it was every single reader's fourth favorite manga, it wouldn't help. But that matters less than for Seer, which was overlapping with Chainsaw Man in the critical early months, giving a clear explanation for the low votes despite solid sales. It's odd. And like Columbo, these unexplained details eat at me.
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chiasaur11 posted:Over 10K, which is the usual rule of thumb dividing success and failure in new manga. Two reprints, as well, outselling Phantom Seer's first volume. I can only hope they are pushing it to Jump+ where the author's previous series ran and this isn't the end. Seems odd they would can him when an anime for his first work is right around the corner which would probably bump up even more sales for Ayashimon.
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CodfishCartographer posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1529391759926743041?t=4sf_FAS8Hsa6K0uW2dE_xw&s=19 And a lot of those manga gags. CodfishCartographer posted:
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Brought To You By posted:I can only hope they are pushing it to Jump+ where the author's previous series ran and this isn't the end. Seems odd they would can him when an anime for his first work is right around the corner which would probably bump up even more sales for Ayashimon. same but surely they'd announce that at the same time?
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Jose posted:same but surely they'd announce that at the same time? Chainsaw Man's finale being chapter 97 was announced in chapter 96. The continuation was announced in the final chapter. I don't think followup is likely, but there is precedent.
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what happened with crunchyroll having the arslan license? I had been reading it entirely through them but I guess not many were so they dropped it? Now I've looked at whats available on scan sites and it seems like it was a few months behind too lol
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It looks like it's still there, but the indexing for Crunchyroll's manga section is bad/inconsistent. If you look for the title under popular or alphabetical it's not there, but it shows up under Simulpub/Joint Promotions.
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Brought To You By posted:I can only hope they are pushing it to Jump+ where the author's previous series ran and this isn't the end. Seems odd they would can him when an anime for his first work is right around the corner which would probably bump up even more sales for Ayashimon. It's like everyone had their heads in the sand for this one. This is how it's always worked, but for some reason Ayashimon is different? Nah. The latest chapter had both a metafiction "I lost my battle" moment and an "our battle continues" moment so it's not like the writing wasn't on the wall. I know it sucks for anyone who really liked it, but the Jump editors do send a pretty clear message: being at the very bottom of the magazine consistently means it's getting axed sooner or later. I do think it's a shame because there was potential for a good series in Ayashimon but it was squandered at the start and there really wasn't any helping it even if things got better later on. I expect Shugomaru and Doron to meet the same fate in a few weeks' time.
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I'm curious, but what do you mean that Ayashimon was squandered at the start? I thought it was firing on all cylinders right from the get-go, so I'm not sure which point did it squander itself.
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Yeah when I think "squandered at the start", I think Red Hood. Not Ayashimon, which consistently did the right things early in terms of introduction and progression.
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i think people were way too in love with the goofy meta aspect when it was a thin and gradually more obnoxious character to center a series around. the shift to make Maruo feel a bit more grounded and less of an idiot was probably just too little too late.
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The main character was a kid from an abusive home life who used manga as an escape and idolized strength so he worked out a lot. Not sure what’s meta or goofy about that.
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ayashimon works when it's focusing on the culture and politics of yokai crime and it emphatically does not work as a fight manga. maruo was good in the opening chapters as an abnormality the other characters had to work around, but as soon as he started having drawn out fight scenes like with the biker gang, and a training arc? the series immediately lost its appeal for me
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Ethiser posted:The main character was a kid from an abusive home life who used manga as an escape and idolized strength so he worked out a lot. Not sure what’s meta or goofy about that. Maybe not goofier than the norm, but definitely meta. It’s a battle manga with a protagonist who is obsessed with battle manga protagonists and points out battle manga tropes like the protagonist never losing twice in a row. (Actually, One Piece breaks that rule in Arabasta and Wano, and in a big-picture sense in the last few pre-timeskip arcs.)
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Ethiser posted:The main character was a kid from an abusive home life who used manga as an escape and idolized strength so he worked out a lot. Not sure what’s meta or goofy about that. the part where he's an idiot in a shonen manga who talks about shonen manga and acts as if he's in one (wink). the sad backstory explains but doesn't offset that. from the standpoint of making battles not suck, i liked that the fight with Kotton actually had a gimmick and Maruo was getting some form of powerset, but can see appeal in if they had kept him inordinately/inexplicably strong and had the yokai society need to keep reacting to that.
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I'm just kinda tired of 'regular guy who is absurdly strong' stuff. OPM and Sakamoto Days both scratch that itch better for me. The concept is interesting but it hasn't really stood out since the first chapter or two
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I regularly forget Undead Unluck exists despite how over the top it is regularly.
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Ayashimon would've probably done better if it didn't have Hunter X Hunter levels of text on every page.
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I really don't care for the current storyline in Monster 8. Didn't ask for Ichikawa to just magically be compatible with a numbered weapon and then for a month of training and acclimation to be off-screened to get us to this point. Why'd we focus on this guy anyways when the vice commander and #10 were right there?
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