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Shame, I feel like Oga's trip to America is going to be left hanging until the final chapter then as it would be a good place to end things.
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Tosk posted:Centuria has also turned out to be quite good so far, imo. Yes. I want to second this. 
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I'm actually gonna steal that for the panels thread, lol. their art style reminds me a lot of the Sunken Rock/Dr Stone guy but maybe even cleaner. but yeah, for a first longform manga attempt by this mangaka (Tohru Kuramori), it's great. there were some comments on the pacing in the first two chapters in this thread when they dropped, but I think the pacing has been a strong point so far.
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Mumbling posted:I was incredibly invested in this week’s Witch Watch It was bizarrely compelling
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Tosk posted:Centuria has also turned out to be quite good so far, imo. yea I've been liking it too
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ImpAtom posted:It was bizarrely compelling We were all Morihito in that chapter
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Tosk posted:I'm actually gonna steal that for the panels thread, lol. their art style reminds me a lot of the Sunken Rock/Dr Stone guy but maybe even cleaner. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of manga would have had this happening in chapter 3 but instead we got a bit of world building which shows confidence which is promising.
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Apocron posted:Yeah, I'm sure a lot of manga would have had this happening in chapter 3 but instead we got a bit of world building which shows confidence which is promising. I thought it showed more uncertainty. The first few chapters have felt like they were trying to find a direction, rather than going slow with a direction in mind. We end chapter 1 with a promise the hero can go safely to the land, chapter 2 is a monster fight with the same monsters told to offer passage. Chapter 3 and 4 are just slice of life, then chapter 5 introduces a monster threat that could have been offhandedly mentioned in 3 or 4 without disrupting their tone. It's a good looking manga, but I feel like it's got some of the standard rookie difficulties, amplified by not being in Jump, where the axe always looms for the slow to start, forcing a more rapid choice of direction. Not saying it's bad. Just considering patterns. (Compare to Space Baby. Mangaka managed a moderate hit already, and perhaps in part because of that we get a much clearer sense of purpose from early on, even when the story is drifting around to show what life's like in the area.)
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Maybe you’re right about the start being shakier than I’m presenting it. I did think it was weird the immediate attack in chapter 2 but perhaps it’s building up some more myths about these dark creatures and potential internal conflict? I do think that the slice of life chapters are not a safe move when there must be pressure for action every chapter and so it must take some level of confidence. Guess we’ll see if we can stick the landing since they can’t just live a happy life in the village but they don’t have much by way of a quest.
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Witch Watch is really on a streak in the post-witch era. The anime adaptation of that show is going to be weird.
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Kill Blue: Final page mentioning Noren’s family having a private estate called Hexagon Manor sounds like it’s setting up for some real Resident Evil bullshit. Deep Raputa: ”Boy dates skynet” is an incredibly funny premise but alas said boy seems to have had his personality surgically removed. UU: Dunno if I suddenly turned into a moron but I had to read the chapter twice to follow what was going on. First time I somehow thought Nico’s super long named railgun attack was a word and wondered how he got multiple turns in a row. And didn’t immediately follow that Language suicided by saying the word marriage.
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Me every week: god Sakamoto's firing on all cylinders again
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Ibblebibble posted:Me every week: god Sakamoto's firing on all cylinders again I am simply in awe, every week, of how creative the fight choreography is in Sakamoto. The power sets and the way theyre used and the emphasis on the environment and found weapons is just so loving sweet. Hollywood needs to be reading this poo poo.
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So apparently Mashima started a new manga last year in addition to Eden’s Zero https://dead-rock.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_Rock_(manga) Is it any good out of curiosity?
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uh, not really. it's mashima experimenting by not using his usual plot armor or guaranteed good endings. so bad and frequently lethal poo poo happens all the time.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:uh, not really. it's mashima experimenting by not using his usual plot armor or guaranteed good endings. so bad and frequently lethal poo poo happens all the time. Ah, so worse than his usual fare then. Good to know
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Larryb posted:Ah, so worse than his usual fare then. Good to know Eden's Zero is him trying to weirdly subvert his "nothing ever matters" writing but it's also the typical Mashima work where it's a smorgasborg of his fetishes, lovingly rendered.
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Fabricated posted:Literally nothing ever mattering is probably one of Mashima's biggest problems. I haven't read much of Dead Rock though. Yeah, I’ve been following EZ fairly regularly (not sure how much is left in the can but we’re definitely in the final arc now) and that’s a pretty good summary of it (also he steals more designs from Fairy Tail than Fairy Tail stole from Rave Master)
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in dead rock the mc turns into acnologia. once. briefly. and then he seems to have been semi-permanently weakened. but well, i'm always down for mashima to draw dragons. i love his dragon designs.
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Does it have an Erza?
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:in dead rock the mc turns into acnologia. once. briefly. and then he seems to have been semi-permanently weakened. How much does Mashima rip himself off in that series design wise?
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there's like 15 chapters of it. go read it yourself if you are curious.
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you call it ripoff. yet tezuka-sensei and urasawa-sensei did the same. star system ftmfw. all the strapping congoing youth of the 2000s-2010s with fairy tail tattoos are in their thirties and forties now 
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Time is a river that flows one-way.
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This is weird, there's been rumors but nothing confirmed right? For this to show up this way is kinda odd https://x.com/MangaReporter/status/1791468420493422756 https://www.licenseglobal.com/publications/magazine-issue/may-2024?page=1 it's here if you scroll to the Netflix section
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It's not odd at all, if you think of it from the perspective of some low level employee that needs to have access to this information for their job, but doesn't really know if it's been officially announced yet, and frankly looking that up or asking someone would be pain in the rear end.
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Makes sense. After Yozakura Family and Undead Unluck, Sakamoto is next in line in terms of length. Except Elusive Samurai, which is a bit of an odd duck with very little appeal outside of Japan.
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I'm honestly slightly surprised it's not more popular given that it's the same guy that did Assassination Classroom but I may just have a soft spot and rose tinted glasses for that series.
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Sindai posted:Makes sense. After Yozakura Family and Undead Unluck, Sakamoto is next in line in terms of length. Huh Elusive Samurai is getting an anime in a month or two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFRMKQIPO4E
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Man I hope the Sakamoto Days anime has a budget
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Shinji2015 posted:Man I hope the Sakamoto Days anime has a budget Yea its really worrying that theres not been any news of it?! Thats either going to be an all time banger or the biggest disappointment of the season. After striking it rich with Dungeon Meshi & Frieren both getting epic adaptations, I want Sakamoto to get the same love. It can do for well choreographed action what Frieren did for idyllic strolling through the country sides!!
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It's Netflix and every notable studio has stuff in the hopper. I think Bones could do it but I actually can't remember what they have going on outside of MHA (which has it's own team) and it's movie.
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Am I missing anything where it actually says it's an anime? Most (all?) of the stuff in that list is live action, and Netflix has plenty of live-action anime stuff at this point. Just seems too weird that Shueisha would fumble a Sakamoto anime like this, even accounting for the issues with some of their more recent adaptations.
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I swear I saw an anime announcement for sakamoto last fall.
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I caught up with Undead Unluck. It's weird just how it more or less immediately started with its brand of fights but took an extremely long time to figure out how to do character work and make Andy a character who isn't extremely repulsive. Even when Andy was toned down, there was a long stretch of chapters where I was reading more out of curiosity and inertia rather than full enjoyment, and it wasn't until Fuuko versus Spring that it fully clicked with me and I got emotionally invested. Which is way too long to ask to someone who values their time (so... not me) and so I'm surprised the manga managed to succeed, but the current set of arcs is extremely good and I'm glad the manga got the chance to evolve into this version of itself.
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Robviously posted:I'm honestly slightly surprised it's not more popular given that it's the same guy that did Assassination Classroom but I may just have a soft spot and rose tinted glasses for that series. I mean, both of his previous series are my favorite of all time but I just could not follow Elusive Samurai past a certain point.
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Iirc Decay was when I was actively enjoying reading even if it wasn’t setting my world on fire, and the end of Autumn with the Unknown fist bump was when I was fully onboard.
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Holy loving poo poo Sakamoto Days what the loving gently caress.
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