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is shonen jump not working for anyone else? Most of the manga are showing "Product Image Coming Soon" with the only exception being Jiang Shi.
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Desperate Character posted:is shonen jump not working for anyone else? Most of the manga are showing "Product Image Coming Soon" with the only exception being Jiang Shi. I assume it breaks a bit around Sunday update time cause everyone is flooding to the site. Usually switch over to Manga Plus if SJ isn't working.
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Oct 22, 2023 16:19
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kagurabachi has my interest now, i just hope it eases off the gas pedal a little bit. most new manga are obligated to get into the action at a breakneck pace but nobody wants another ginka and gluna and it looks like ichinose family might finally be winding down?
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Oct 22, 2023 17:56
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Undead Unluck: Yay, Andy is back. MamaYuyu: We have some rudimentary explanation of sigil sorcery now. I won't be surprised if it turns out that Escaba is faking it and this is how he decided to train Corleo. Kagurabachi: Cool, I guess. Continues being competent, but not super interesting. My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!: Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. I don't like this one bit. 
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Oct 22, 2023 18:17
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Lt. Lizard posted:My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!: Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. I don't like this one bit.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:34
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Kill Blue: "Aw drat, he's 1000 percent my type" with the look of disdain is a mood Witch Watch: Really seems like this might be the final arc  Lt. Lizard posted:MamaYuyu: We have some rudimentary explanation of sigil sorcery now. I won't be surprised if it turns out that Escaba is faking it and this is how he decided to train Corleo. That was my read on it from the beginning
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Oct 22, 2023 20:19
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Shinji2015 posted:
And then end with her rediscovering her feelings and aging back up. That seems pretty likely. This sequence has been pretty cool though. This mangaka can definitly write a climax. My girlfriend: I guess now is the winter of our discontent? Undead: poo poo, Andy's backish. It had better be temporary. Yes, I know he said it would tbe temp Sakamoto: Raising up the stakes, solid chapter. Good humor. Roboco: All right, who's taking the bet that there's a Roboco in the space ship? I'm also loving this dumb arc. We'd better see what happens when we kill Gorilla, he's the anomaly. Oxxidation posted:kagurabachi has my interest now, i just hope it eases off the gas pedal a little bit. most new manga are obligated to get into the action at a breakneck pace but nobody wants another ginka and gluna What about this chapter specifically caught your interest? It seemed pretty bog standard. Though I guess the war bit has some promise? MMA: Speaking of competent, this is trucking along nicely. I guess we're getting to know the rival now.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:37
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helck owns so much. he’s such a chad
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Oct 23, 2023 03:11
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Something Kagurabachi is lacking is something that makes you go "holy poo poo, this guy's unhinged!" Ashibi in Fabricant 100 had lots of moments like it. The MC in Kagurabachi had their dad murdered and their entire life blown to smithereens. They've decided to train for 3 years to get stronger and dedicated their life to killing his father's murderers. Yet the way he's portrayed makes it come across like he's bored with this. Also, funny thing just happened. I've seen people mention Undead Unluck in this server I'm in and lots of folks seem to like Andy. I felt like an outsider for being the only one who thinks he's a creep lol.
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Oct 23, 2023 05:02
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amigolupus posted:Also, funny thing just happened. I've seen people mention Undead Unluck in this server I'm in and lots of folks seem to like Andy. I felt like an outsider for being the only one who thinks he's a creep lol. going directly to helck after trying this was such a breath of fresh air!!! helck is such a heartwarming big brother figure  it’s way funnier too
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Oct 23, 2023 05:31
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Witch Watch continues to be a good series that could be great if it could just drop the pointless "witch" character. Seriously, everything about that girl's existence is just an endless train of plot contrivances rather than her actually getting to do anything for her own reasons.
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Oct 23, 2023 05:46
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vanquished boner posted:going directly to helck after trying this was such a breath of fresh air!!! helck is such a heartwarming big brother figure it's on Comikey, so it costs money(typical "buy a bunch of keys, each chapter costs x keys" setup) but it's really not that expensive. and Volundio is extremely good, I might say I like it more than Helck so far!
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Oct 23, 2023 07:29
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Rand Brittain posted:Witch Watch continues to be a good series that could be great if it could just drop the pointless "witch" character. Yeah I definitely do kinda wish The Most Powerful Witch In A Millennium had the strength to do anything besides sacrifice herself for her friends. Once this resolves, I hope we get to see her be Actually Powerful for a little bit. Maybe get her own arc to do some stuff herself.
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Oct 23, 2023 14:20
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Yeah, although it's not just that she doesn't really get to be powerful as that every piece of magic she knows is an absurd plot device that points directly to whatever beat the author wants to do next; it never feels like a tool that exists because it might actually be useful. (And as a result Nico mostly winds up feeling like an idiot because once again she's decided to use a spell that is definitely going to go awry, because her spells always go awry.) What I'm saying is that this would be a more interesting story if Morihito was dating Kanshi, because they actually have chemistry and character traits.
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amigolupus posted:Also, funny thing just happened. I've seen people mention Undead Unluck in this server I'm in and lots of folks seem to like Andy. I felt like an outsider for being the only one who thinks he's a creep lol. He massively improves after the first few episodes. It honestly feels to me like some editor at Jump really likes the 'comedy pervert' archetype and won't run a series that doesn't have one, but once the series has got noticed by someone else they can quietly drop it.
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Oct 23, 2023 21:55
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Elfface posted:It honestly feels to me like some editor at Jump really likes the 'comedy pervert' archetype and won't run a series that doesn't have one, but once the series has got noticed by someone else they can quietly drop it. This is peak "everything I dislike in a Jump manga must somehow be the editor's fault."
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Oct 23, 2023 22:24
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Darth TNT posted:What about this chapter specifically caught your interest? It seemed pretty bog standard. Though I guess the war bit has some promise? Not OP but so far I do think that Kagurabachi has pretty interesting paneling, even if the flow of the action is a bit hard to follow at times. The one bit where he's thinking about his No Good Horrible Day shows that off pretty well IMO.
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Rand Brittain posted:Yeah, although it's not just that she doesn't really get to be powerful as that every piece of magic she knows is an absurd plot device that points directly to whatever beat the author wants to do next; it never feels like a tool that exists because it might actually be useful. (And as a result Nico mostly winds up feeling like an idiot because once again she's decided to use a spell that is definitely going to go awry, because her spells always go awry.) Of course they always go awry. It's a gag manga. Them going awry is the central engine for maybe half of all the chapters in the whole drat series. (And they still succeed pretty often anyway. They just succeed in a way that encourages or resolves further shenanigans). The basic plot of an average non-main-plot Witch Watch chapter is "Nico's bubbly and outgoing nature makes her try to help one of her many friends at school using magic, magic creates problems, the rest of the cast has to deal with it". Remove that, and you don't have Witch Watch.
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I kind of agree, just looking at the early chapters shows the author has a pretty good grasp on how to make a shot look visually appealing.
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Oct 24, 2023 04:54
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Read more Undead Unluck, 75 chapters in now. This is a good goddamn manga
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Oct 24, 2023 04:58
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Arist posted:Read more Undead Unluck, 75 chapters in now. I think Undead Unluck is the only time I've ever been convinced a manga will be cancelled early on and then had it survive (not because I didn't like it, since I did, but it just gave me "won't survive" vibes for whatever reason).
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chiasaur11 posted:Of course they always go awry. It's a gag manga. Them going awry is the central engine for maybe half of all the chapters in the whole drat series. (And they still succeed pretty often anyway. They just succeed in a way that encourages or resolves further shenanigans). Yeah, I get that; it just means that Nico never gets to do anything but decide to apply a spell to a situation even though the spell is clearly tailor-made to cause hijinks rather than be useful. She never really gets to make choices; she just arrives in a situations where she can use a spell dumbly, or declare the chapter over and go home. It leads to her being the clear weakest part of a manga where she is ostensibly the main character. To put it another way, she's ostensibly very powerful, but in practice she just kind of gets what she's given. It's a shame because there's stuff that could be done with Nico? Like, I don't think the manga really understands how toxic and infantilizing it is that witches are supposed to be kept away from "dark" emotions, lest they go warlock, but if it did, there's meat in that. Rand Brittain fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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Oct 24, 2023 05:22
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We can have chapters that look into that but in exchange we have to get rid of those essay chapters about writing manga and the awful manga parody chapters. ... Wait, that actually sounds like a good time. Damnit.
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Oct 24, 2023 07:18
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the awful manga parody chapters just had a hilarious payoff a few chapters ago though edit: my sole qualm with witch watch is that the sket dance crossover chapters were underwhelming
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Oct 24, 2023 07:19
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Replace them with more chapters about denim.
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Oct 24, 2023 07:21
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ConanThe3rd posted:We can have chapters that look into that but in exchange we have to get rid of those essay chapters about writing manga and the awful manga parody chapters. I'm pretty sure trying to eliminate Udon Mirage is a felony offense in most countries. (In the remainder, it's grounds for immediate execution without trial.)
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Oct 24, 2023 07:22
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I'll take my chances.
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Oct 24, 2023 07:25
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Udon Mirage is the best part of Witch Watch
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Oct 24, 2023 11:13
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Silver2195 posted:This is peak "everything I dislike in a Jump manga must somehow be the editor's fault." More like 'this one thing I dislike that shows up in multiple manga'.
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Oct 24, 2023 11:25
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Maybe the ppl drawing and creating the stories for shonen media are just horny, op
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Oct 24, 2023 11:26
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Udon Mirage owns and the payoff with it showing up to end Kanshi's fight is one of the best laughs I've had all year.
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Oct 24, 2023 11:41
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I'm really enjoying MMA, the author is really good at introducing characters and giving you their deal in just a few pages. Any one of these fighters in these recent chapters could stick around for a long time. Two on Ice almost grabbed me back with this last chapter. I'm a sucker for gender based sports pathos, even if it's well worn territory. The female MC getting cut by her coach and turned into persona non grata because she wanted to focus on pairs rather than follow her singles prodigy life was a strong character beat. Too bad the manga is more focused on the other MC right now whose motivation is just, uh, "I want to skate with this near stranger" I guess?
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Mercury Hat posted:I'm really enjoying MMA, the author is really good at introducing characters and giving you their deal in just a few pages. Any one of these fighters in these recent chapters could stick around for a long time. yeah the author is really doing a lot with minimal pages. i really like his style.
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Marriagetoxin: I guess it's not a big surprise that Gero is extremely bad with aggressive and pushy women. And Himi is that, but I think she has a pretty good balance between being a bit of an rear end and being sympathetic. Aaand we are getting another opponent capable of brainwashing people, because I think it's pretty safe to say it's not the Sound user. Should be fun.
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Mercury Hat posted:Two on Ice almost grabbed me back with this last chapter. I'm a sucker for gender based sports pathos, even if it's well worn territory. The female MC getting cut by her coach and turned into persona non grata because she wanted to focus on pairs rather than follow her singles prodigy life was a strong character beat. Yeah, the male MC's motivations are extremely shallow (and would be creepy if he wasn't a kid), but giving him an opportunity to figure out what he wants to get out of skating will hopefully help a little. He definitely needs something atm
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i guess it's only natural for gero to meet ladies who aren't great eventually. but well, i'd put her below the scary beast clan lady for now.
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Lt. Lizard posted:Marriagetoxin: I guess it's not a big surprise that Gero is extremely bad with aggressive and pushy women. And Himi is that, but I think she has a pretty good balance between being a bit of an rear end and being sympathetic. Aaand we are getting another opponent capable of brainwashing people, because I think it's pretty safe to say it's not the Sound user. Should be fun. I would love to see the sound user again though. His violin attack was great. Not a fan of this potential girlfriend.
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My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!: The manga has taken a different turn from where it started, and now we have a timeskip which can be a sign that manga is or could be axed. It is a bit meta that the latest chapter has Haruka's internal thoughts berating himself for how his kindness (e.g. stopping himself from cheating on Kisaki even though it could have been thrilling and have led to a twisting narrative) has essentially left him with a sparse memory, and in reflection, we, the reader, have recently gotten very little of Haruka's life because there is no "excitement". I hope the timeskip leads to a nuance turn in the narrative, but it might be the final destination.
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Good news, everyone: https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1717405187172716976
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I've been enjoying Ichinose Family, but this is the right move. It's not a story that should go on for very long.
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