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Hypocrisy posted:I was just thinking that I was pretty meh on Kagurabachi but I assumed it was a popular series because it has a lot of eyes on Mangaplus. Maybe not. It was a meme on twitter for a little while, lol
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Oh hey, I forgot to read Blue Box!Shinji2015 posted:Blue Box: oh no
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if hinomaru no sumo got a real ending, I believe in mma to do the same
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MMA: was cool as usual. The rankings though give me little faith in its survival. Still though, the setup is such that I have good faith that the author can land a finish should he need to. So let’s enjoy the ride no matter how long it takes. Kagurabachi: I have no idea what’s happening, but at least it looks cool. I’m assume the battle is already over and they’re just having armless tea at the end. I still like the imagery of the fish on his magic sword. It just feels so fun dumb to have a guy running around with a fish sword when everyone else is using ice and lightning. Sakamoto: contrast Sakamoto choreography with Kagurabachi. In Sakamoto I know exactly what’s happening. Very cool ending that fits perfectly. Though I assume Gaku is going to pull something to survive, he doesn’t feel like the guy who would die now. More like he’s just going to be patched up again, same as his ear. Undead: somewhat related I guess. Watching the anime of the earlier chapters only reminds me how much I dislike Andy. So a chapter like this just gets a big shrug from me.
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Kagurabachi: I'm pretty sure the tea thing is just shorthand for how they're communicating through their blades. They're understanding each other and arguing as they fight and this is depicted with the tea party scene.
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Dawgstar posted:Oh hey, I forgot to read Blue Box! Yeah I legit gasped while reading the chapter. I wanted drama but not like this.
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Kingtheninja posted:Yeah I legit gasped while reading the chapter. I wanted drama but not like this. Yeah, that bummed me out. Such a heartbreaker  Dark Doctor Ikuru: finale is next week, and while I get the mangaka was sick, I honestly think that all of these ex chapters they put out while recovering did more to kill the manga than anything. I think people just stared tuning it out and so that by the time they started putting out new chapters, people just didn't care anymore. Daddy and Buddy: I do appreciate that the MC's family hasn't been forgotten about, but also pointing out that grumble bugs can be defeated by therapy makes the hero organization seem a little less useful
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Jan 22, 2024 18:09
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Kagurabachi essentially being about him fighting all the different people who have the swords and examining what they feel the purpose of the weapons are is a cool idea.
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My big issue with Kagurabuchi is that I am a huge dumb dumb and don't really understand the sword powers.
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Nue's Exorcist being mildly popular is baffling to me because the only thing it has going for it are the monster designs and landing a joke every few issues. The art is not good. The characters are not very interesting, nor distinctive enough to tell apart in personality or visual design besides Nue and the MC.
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It's lowest common denominator comic gruel that could be, and has been, executed in the exact same way, if not better, elsewhere.
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It's also the only horny manga running in Jump at the moment, unless I'm forgetting about any others
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Mamayuyu is going the harem route. Or was if not for its imminent cancellation. But so far really Nue's most has been as much as Ayatris least. In a time long past this would be about normal for any battle shounen with more than a few female characters. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Shinji2015 posted:It's also the only horny manga running in Jump at the moment, unless I'm forgetting about any others One Piece is somewhat horny, with those “three circles, one x” female character designs.
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Sure but we're... well, I'm not quite sure "missing" is the right word... but things are a tad boring without a full on Smut-Shonen in the pages.
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ConanThe3rd posted:Sure but we're... well, I'm not quite sure "missing" is the right word... but things are a tad boring without a full on Smut-Shonen in the pages. ConanThe3rd posted:It's lowest common denominator comic gruel that could be, and has been, executed in the exact same way, if not better, elsewhere. heed your own words and look elsewhere than the manga magazine marketed mostly towards the underaged for your bounteous 2d fix
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make the Exorcist Fall in Love: Imuri's demon angst aside. I just hope that Dante can help the priest course correct on how to approach his growing humanity. Heart Gear: Speaking of Humanity, I love it when sophisticated AI constructs can't quite grasp that the only difference between true human minds and theirs is what the brain is made of at that point.
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panko posted:heed your own words and look elsewhere than the manga magazine marketed mostly towards the underaged for your bounteous 2d fix
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I read through Dorohedoro and I have to say I found it just kind of unpleasant. It spends what feels like an uncommon amount of time inflicting violence on female characters in ways that happen to expose their breasts wherever possible in a way that reminded me of a gorier Dominic Deegan. The worldsetting/story was okay but felt like it was looping back over itself a bit too often with reveals that had already been made on several occasions and it suffered pretty hard from trying to get me to feel anything but utmost loathing for characters who spend their free time brutally torturing innocent people (to the point where the end of the series had to go out of its way to emphasize the non-abhorrent ones never actually did that at any point .) I couldn't really get past the first part though so I may be more sour on the plot/characters.
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I feel like nue's just one of those series where enough people arbitrarily decided to keep going from week to week that now they're invested like with a lot of mediocre series, people get bored or even just plain forget to continue for long enough that it's not worth catching up anymore. but sometimes you just happen to get a lot of people that stick around and that's when a nue situation occurs
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ImpAtom posted:I read through Dorohedoro and I have to say I found it just kind of unpleasant. It spends what feels like an uncommon amount of time inflicting violence on female characters in ways that happen to expose their breasts wherever possible in a way that reminded me of a gorier Dominic Deegan. The worldsetting/story was okay but felt like it was looping back over itself a bit too often with reveals that had already been made on several occasions and it suffered pretty hard from trying to get me to feel anything but utmost loathing for characters who spend their free time brutally torturing innocent people (to the point where the end of the series had to go out of its way to emphasize the non-abhorrent ones never actually did that at any point .) Q Hyashida loves two things, horrific violence and giant honking bazonkas.
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i liked the complete inane back and forth meandering in dorohedoro because it made it feel real whimsical and almost classic fairy tale-ish
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Why can't these Japanese teens just be horny for women in combat sports?
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Futaba Anzu posted:i liked the complete inane back and forth meandering in dorohedoro because it made it feel real whimsical and almost classic fairy tale-ish I'm not a fan of the meandering because it really bogs down the story. There are generally good character moments tucked within but it often amounts to a lot of people dying, reviving, or running around since death is more fast and loose in Dorohedoro. It's a series I struggle to re-read because the longer it goes on the less interested I am in the chapter to chapter struggles.
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Futaba Anzu posted:i liked the complete inane back and forth meandering in dorohedoro because it made it feel real whimsical and almost classic fairy tale-ish Yeah, and also the hyper-violence feels like it's supposed to be characteristic of the utterly bizarre world/setting in which the story takes place. It wouldn't be the same without that stuff, and I feel like some people just fundamentally don't "get" what it's going for. edit: The way I'd put it is that "someone personally not liking the hyper-violence" is completely understandable, but "someone thinking the hyper-violence is a problem with the series" is just objectively wrong
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My issue with the world building is that while we know other places than where the series starts exists we're not really shown them because its not part of the story. The magic users world though feels incredibly small. Like En rules it but it feels the size of a city essentially rather than a full world. I haven't actually finished the series because it wasn't finished when I read it but I was certainly feeling near the end so maybe that was intentional. I should probably just reread the whole thing as I really liked it otherwise
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Jose posted:My issue with the world building is that while we know other places than where the series starts exists we're not really shown them because its not part of the story. The magic users world though feels incredibly small. Like En rules it but it feels the size of a city essentially rather than a full world. I haven't actually finished the series because it wasn't finished when I read it but I was certainly feeling near the end so maybe that was intentional. I should probably just reread the whole thing as I really liked it otherwise That's the thing, it's not supposed to be some realistic setting. It's almost akin to reading some bizarre fairy tale.
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there are two whole worlds but all the story focuses on the nexus point on each side. they go a bit further out from the two cities a few times.
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I don’t really care for worldbuilding thats like btw this world is improbably more vast than you ever imagined with monsters far beyond your comprehension or power level (toriko, hxh) because I’m conditioned to associate it with padding and powercreep but I did like in claymore when that’s alluded to but then the story just ends neatly
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in claymore there's a whole world out there with an epic endless war on a scale unimaginable to any of the cast. they also don't really give a poo poo about any of that, because why would they?
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The world of the Dorohedoro is supposed to be weird and hosed up because it is ruled by an actively cruel and capricious god who is an active participant in the story.
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SpacePig posted:Why can't these Japanese teens just be horny for women in combat sports?  You might be on to something.
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has anyone read Soukyuu no Ariadne by the Claymore mangaka? I really liked Claymore and I feel like I attempted that series when it was relatively new but never followed it and I can't remember what my impression of it was, but it ended pretty recently MMA getting cancelled would suck, I hope it manages to survive. It's got great potential to be a good punchman manga
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Tosk posted:has anyone read Soukyuu no Ariadne by the Claymore mangaka? I really liked Claymore and I feel like I attempted that series when it was relatively new but never followed it and I can't remember what my impression of it was, but it ended pretty recently yeah. it's okay. it was overall more coherent than claymore, but it just never really grabbed me.
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muscles like this! posted:The world of the Dorohedoro is supposed to be weird and hosed up because it is ruled by an actively cruel and capricious god who is an active participant in the story. He's a vengeful and petty dick and we love him. All hail Chidaruma!
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:in claymore there's a whole world out there with an epic endless war on a scale unimaginable to any of the cast. they also don't really give a poo poo about any of that, because why would they? Because it would be a lot harder to draw.
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doomrider7 posted:Hmmm... I was honestly kind of bummed that series ended when it did. It was clearly setting a lot of things up when it got it in the neck.
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Dawgstar posted:I was honestly kind of bummed that series ended when it did. It was clearly setting a lot of things up when it got it in the neck. Reminds me of Hanakaku The Last Girl Standing which abruptly ended after introducing a bunch of potential rivals and whatnot.
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doomrider7 posted:Reminds me of Hanakaku The Last Girl Standing which abruptly ended after introducing a bunch of potential rivals and whatnot. Exactly the same deal for Saotome Senshu. It was okay, too. No Teppu, but what is?
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Tosk posted:has anyone read Soukyuu no Ariadne by the Claymore mangaka? I really liked Claymore and I feel like I attempted that series when it was relatively new but never followed it and I can't remember what my impression of it was, but it ended pretty recently
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