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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Because coughing blood is an easy way of saying "oh no this dude sick" without having to deal with any physical symptoms/impairments that might gross viewers/readers out. i had a chest infection so bad I was coughing blood and a single night on antibiotics basically cured it lol
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# ? Jan 20, 2023 02:47 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 11:00 |
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Because coughing blood is an easy way of saying "oh no this dude sick" without having to deal with any physical symptoms/impairments that might gross viewers/readers out. Scene of the character finding blood in their stool, revealing their colon cancer
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# ? Jan 21, 2023 03:34 |
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Stylish anime ways to signal disease: Trickle of blood from nose, followed by fainting. The pervasive mysterious cough (bloody when serious). Bedridden but otherwise looking fine for ages (then you die, having always had a weak constitution) No one in anime ever dies from dysentry, making GBS threads their guts out
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# ? Jan 21, 2023 13:35 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Stylish anime ways to signal disease: Need to get that Jin anime adaptation
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 01:57 |
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It's literally tuberculosis. A shitload of people died from tuberculosis in Japan in the past and it kinda stuck around in media tropes even though it's mostly gone now.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 03:59 |
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It's hardly unique to Japan as a trope, it just tends to be in period pieces elsewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGqIkeJCzAM
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 06:30 |
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We knew it was coming and it was fantastic. Ultra instinct Mash. Weakness mode
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 16:28 |
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i'm really getting fed up with movie guy in sakamoto
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 16:55 |
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Time to rescue
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 17:07 |
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Darth TNT posted:We knew it was coming and it was fantastic. Ultra instinct Mash. Weakness mode Is that a Baki reference? I feel like that's a Baki reference. Why has Itagaki infected my brain so?
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 17:29 |
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I don't normally like making posts just to dump on stuff but wow that Jiang-she series has the most boilerplate first chapter and general concept I've seen for a while. Wonder if it's going to make any swerves or be exactly as standard as it looks.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 17:49 |
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Darth TNT posted:We knew it was coming and it was fantastic. Ultra instinct Mash. Weakness mode Mashle is back to being perfectly dumb. Love it.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 17:59 |
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Pierson posted:I don't normally like making posts just to dump on stuff but wow that Jiang-she series has the most boilerplate first chapter and general concept I've seen for a while. Wonder if it's going to make any swerves or be exactly as standard as it looks. Seriously, it wasn't even remotely interesting
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 19:06 |
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Pierson posted:I don't normally like making posts just to dump on stuff but wow that Jiang-she series has the most boilerplate first chapter and general concept I've seen for a while. Wonder if it's going to make any swerves or be exactly as standard as it looks. It must have some kind of twist coming up because otherwise it is the most generic series ever. Although current editorial staff sure seems to love monster hunting stories since that seems like the majority that we've been getting recently.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 19:06 |
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Gotta get that Kimetsu no Yaiba 2.0 you know
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 19:22 |
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I don't envy a single person either working on one or trying to find the next big one because the pressure must be crazy.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 20:06 |
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The title made me think it would be about a Jiangshi - it'd maybe be compared to Fabricant then, but at least that'd be a bit more novel.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 20:21 |
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read the whole chapter waiting for the shoe to drop and it never did lmao. it feels like the most straight-and-narrow shounen in a decade
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 20:48 |
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Darth TNT posted:We knew it was coming and it was fantastic. Ultra instinct Mash. Weakness mode Brought To You By posted:Is that a Baki reference? I feel like that's a Baki reference. Why has Itagaki infected my brain so? He's activated the ultimate Kengan Ashura defensive motion: Going limp to disperse damage. The idea is just going with the flow, like say, an Airbender or smoke. As an actual reference, maybe Gum Gum Airhead/Daze/Space-Out when Luffy was being a tactical moron fighting Eneru. Or just unpredictable like drunken martial arts is shown to be. I said earlier that I missed that heavy wand but this form makes up for its absence all on its own.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 21:24 |
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Brought To You By posted:Is that a Baki reference? I feel like that's a Baki reference. Why has Itagaki infected my brain so? It reminded me of Gomu Gomu no Buh, even though that was more for dodging than dispersing the attack. Anyway, this Mashle chapter was the best in a long time the full gymnastics routine was fun.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 21:48 |
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A perfect 10. even the visionaries getting in on it
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 22:08 |
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Jon Irenicus posted:read the whole chapter waiting for the shoe to drop and it never did lmao. it feels like the most straight-and-narrow shounen in a decade It was boring was what it was. The audience has absolutely moved on from this sort of Kakashi vs Proto-Team Seven "Friendship in the face of dire adversity beats all" nonsense.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 23:06 |
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RareAcumen posted:The idea is just going with the flow, like say, an Airbender or smoke. As an actual reference, maybe Gum Gum Airhead/Daze/Space-Out when Luffy was being a tactical moron fighting Eneru. Or just unpredictable like drunken martial arts is shown to be.
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 23:13 |
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Oh that makes perfect sense now that I see the screenshots of the scene lol I never read Baki so my thoughts were like Jackie Chan Drunken Master and the landlady's husband from Kung Fu Hustle but they straight up reference the 'This is impossible, it's like trying to cut a floating piece of paper!' thing
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# ? Jan 22, 2023 23:25 |
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ConanThe3rd posted:It was boring was what it was. The audience has absolutely moved on from this sort of Kakashi vs Proto-Team Seven "Friendship in the face of dire adversity beats all" nonsense. Plus, Black Clover plays that note best among the SJ rotation right now.
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 01:40 |
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RareAcumen posted:Oh that makes perfect sense now that I see the screenshots of the scene lol Even relaxation -> Explosive force is here but it's not like these concepts or ideas were pioneered by the author Itagaki. I don't know if I'd ever recommend Baki to someone though. I basically follow it because seeing what wacky thing Itagaki will do next intrigues me. It's neither really good or outright terrible. Just a bizarre adventure with martial artists.
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 03:03 |
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Pierson posted:I don't normally like making posts just to dump on stuff but wow that Jiang-she series has the most boilerplate first chapter and general concept I've seen for a while. Wonder if it's going to make any swerves or be exactly as standard as it looks. Yeah, just finished it and I have to agree. Fabricant feels like a throwback, sure. But this feels like something that I've read already. There's nothing distinct about it, there's no unique hook at the end of the chapter to distinguish it from any other monster fighting manga, and even the possible complications from the protagonist's relationship with his dad are undermined at the end. The weirdest thing for me, though, is the page count. Most manga, even ones coming in molten hot, only kick off with a 60-ish page opening chapter. This one, though, has more than 90. That's more than a whole chapter's worth of extra pages, for a bog-standard looking series, in a week when none of the big titles are on hiatus. I don't know if Jump editorial thinks it has something big here or what, but it's about the only unusual thing in the whole chapter, which is otherwise the most bog standard new release in a while. (And considering some of the recent new series, that's saying something.)
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 05:55 |
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The thing that's weird to me about Jiangshi X is that normally a new series would get a big fanfare, it would dominate the cover and the banner on the SJ app/website. But instead it's Undead Unluck. Is this even actually running in the magazine? Or is it a web only thing?
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 06:14 |
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Alacron posted:The thing that's weird to me about Jiangshi X is that normally a new series would get a big fanfare, it would dominate the cover and the banner on the SJ app/website. Looking things up, it seems like it's a Jump Plus title, not a magazine one. I guess that explains things. (Also, looking at the TOC, Ginka and Gluna, Tokyo Demon Bride, and PPPPPP are all at the back, so if you're placing bets on the next title axed, it's probably going to be one of those three.)
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 06:29 |
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against all odds, pppppp has somehow managed to make it this far and at this point I'm rooting for it wouldn't surprise me if g&g went out but also I'm still reading it, unlike tokyo demon bride
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 07:09 |
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chiasaur11 posted:Looking things up, it seems like it's a Jump Plus title, not a magazine one. Tokyo Demon Bride is easily the worst of those three so that'll be the one that survives somehow
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 10:02 |
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As long as Fabricant and Akane Banashi stick around, of the new stuff those are head and shoulders above everything else. Hell, head shoulders and everything down to the loving knees above everything else in Akane Banashi's case.ConanThe3rd posted:It was boring was what it was. The audience has absolutely moved on from this sort of Kakashi vs Proto-Team Seven "Friendship in the face of dire adversity beats all" nonsense. I'd argue it can work, just this was done really sloppily. Naruto for example gave us a few chapters before the bell test to know Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura which was needed for the test to actually work. This just dumped right into it and didnt do anything new. It was poorly executed and rote. Edit: also a little surprised the EIC let the name through since Jump Plus is already running Choujin X.
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 11:13 |
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Hosting is magnitudes of order cheaper than ink and paper
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 13:48 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:also a little surprised the EIC let the name through since Jump Plus is already running Choujin X. Teens are evenly split between the greatest titles "Shadow Demons of Chaos Dimension X" and "Chaos Demons of Shadow Dimension X."
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 15:47 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:As long as Fabricant and Akane Banashi stick around, of the new stuff those are head and shoulders above everything else. Hell, head shoulders and everything down to the loving knees above everything else in Akane Banashi's case. I didn’t really have a problem with the implementation in Jiangshi X; the issue is just that it’s so blatantly copying the bells test from Naruto specifically. I think part of the intended “hook” for this series is meant to be the ominous foreshadowing via narration at the end of the chapter, though this is itself a cliche (MHA abuses it multiple times). There is actually an ambiguity to the villain reveal that I’m not sure was intentional; are the Rice Wine guys a rival sect of human chi users, or are they jiangshi who look human because stronger monsters usually look more human in this kind of manga? Or maybe they’re the evil sorcerers who created the jiangshi in the first place, and they lost the ability to make more jiangshi somehow? In other words, are they Akatsuki, the Espada, or Muzan? Edit: Or maybe they’re actually Vandenreich; guys who Went Too Far fighting the jianshi, so the monks wiped most of them out, so now they’re seeking revenge. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Jan 23, 2023 |
# ? Jan 23, 2023 16:15 |
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the answer is, whichever is most likely to get the manga past 20 chapters.
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 16:20 |
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Both Naruto and Black Clover are coming up on a decade since leaving/entering Jump, respectively. Of course they're still big but, aside from the different editorial behind Jiangshi X, it wouldn't strike me as odd that a(nother) "throwback" (it may not even seem this way to the intended audience) shonen would get the greenlight.
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 16:33 |
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Yomi no Tsugai is very good so far imo https://mangadex.org/chapter/dbdf2f3e-1091-4a35-943b-0133ba928b83
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 20:01 |
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Jose posted:Yomi no Tsugai is very good so far imo Comedic and menacing.
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 20:50 |
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Brought To You By posted:
I didn't take them seriously at first but honestly considering how simple Yuru's Tsugai's abilities are, I shouldn't have been so underwhelmed at first.
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# ? Jan 23, 2023 21:01 |