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Not sure if this belongs in the seinen or shounen thread, but apparently Gamaran is ending in 3 chapters. I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I was sort of looking forward to some overarching plot involving the shogunate where Jinsuke is revealed to have some legitimate motive to his actions other than wanting a bunch of guys to fight each other. On the other, it will avoid all the things that can potentially go wrong with an action/fighting series that runs indefinitely and doesn't have an ending clearly thought out from the beginning.
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# ? Jun 17, 2013 08:24 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 06:36 |
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Happy Birthday papa. http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Cooking-Papa/12-Potluck-Party?id=167933
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# ? Jun 17, 2013 13:17 |
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Ytlaya posted:Not sure if this belongs in the seinen or shounen thread, but apparently Gamaran is ending in 3 chapters. I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I was sort of looking forward to some overarching plot involving the shogunate where Jinsuke is revealed to have some legitimate motive to his actions other than wanting a bunch of guys to fight each other. On the other, it will avoid all the things that can potentially go wrong with an action/fighting series that runs indefinitely and doesn't have an ending clearly thought out from the beginning. Most mangas either become so successful that they run forever, and I stop reading them because the interminable status quo just kills something inside me, or they get shitcanned with no ending/get a rushed tacked on ending due to being shitcanned. I very, very much appreciate every manga that can tell its story and finish (hopefully in a satisfying way...).
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# ? Jun 18, 2013 21:08 |
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New Deadman Wonderland is out. We're close to the end, is a happy ending possible at this point?
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# ? Jun 27, 2013 21:43 |
Is anyone translating Bambino Secondo, the sequel to Bambino? The first was a really awesome cooking manga and I'm really saddened by the fact that it seems like no one is doing the sequel. I know AnonSpore has said he won't be doing Secondo, which is understandable. But you'd think someone would have picked it up, seeing as how it's finally finished.
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# ? Jun 27, 2013 22:03 |
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JSnake posted:Is anyone translating Bambino Secondo, the sequel to Bambino? The first was a really awesome cooking manga and I'm really saddened by the fact that it seems like no one is doing the sequel. I know AnonSpore has said he won't be doing Secondo, which is understandable. But you'd think someone would have picked it up, seeing as how it's finally finished. Well, for starters, the raws available online for Bambino Secondo aren't complete. That means that if you picked it up, eventually you'd have to buy, debind, and scan the volumes yourself, or just throw up your hands and call it a day. I was actually at that point for the last three volumes of Bambino until an extremely charitable fan bought and scanned them for me (I'm still astonished that someone went to all that trouble--scanning manga is a huge loving drag). There's also the matter of Ban's Fukuoka accent, which can at points be hard to read even for native Japanese. For the average fan translator, poo poo's gonna be pretty hard to read. The source material also includes liberal smatterings of Italian in addition to the Japanese, which according to native Italians is rife with errors. So if you were a huge sperg like me you'd need to consult with someone on the Italian as well. Though, personally, I'm as surprised as you are. I've gotten more people asking for me to continue Bambino than I have for any other series I've picked up and then consequently dropped because I am a big poopyhead who burns out way too fast. Apparently that enthusiasm doesn't extend to translators, though. Go figure.
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# ? Jun 27, 2013 22:51 |
I found raws for up to volume 11 of Secondo. Isn't that how many volumes there are? I guess that doesn't solve all the other things though.
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# ? Jun 27, 2013 23:08 |
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A new soil chapter is out http://www.batoto.net/read/_/180334/soil_v08_ch57_by_rocking-horse-scans
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# ? Jul 2, 2013 06:50 |
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Finally! New Cooking Papa too. http://www.mangahere.com/manga/cooking_papa/c013/ It's for coffee lovers.
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# ? Jul 2, 2013 12:42 |
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I Am A Hero is so hosed. Holy poo poo. I just finished volume 9. Holy poo poo.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 05:02 |
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Would it be wrong of me to re-up/repost/otherwise-give-props-all-over-again to The Ravages of Time (Chinese title is more literally "Fiery Phoenix Scorches Plains") considering that by now (Volume 49, Chapter 397 in Hong Kong) the author actually did get up to the prelude to the Battle of Chibi (so much for having to leave it to his son) and the climax of Changban? My main gripe with where it currently is, is that the author's been really skimping on backgrounds ever since Chapter 380 (basically if it's in the daylight and out in the open, he's probably not going to bother with drawing anything other than characters, the ground, buildings and other "ground-level scenery") but I'm still liking where it's going, and hell the manhuajia's still maintaining the intricacy in his characters compared to most manga I've seen, a great example of which I have here from Volume 30, Chapter 244: Bro Dad's recommendation from the previous seinen thread: BroDad posted:
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 07:14 |
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Just a quick question, but is Bonnouji done or is it still being made? MAL says it is finished, but I see people on Batoto asking when the next chapter is coming out so
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 02:26 |
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coreycoryecorey posted:Just a quick question, but is Bonnouji done or is it still being made? MAL says it is finished, but I see people on Batoto asking when the next chapter is coming out so Looks like it's done in Japan. I'm guessing there's still a couple more unscanlated chapters. Should be close to being done in English though if it's only 3 volumes.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 02:37 |
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Allarion posted:Looks like it's done in Japan. I'm guessing there's still a couple more unscanlated chapters. Should be close to being done in English though if it's only 3 volumes. Thanks. I honestly couldn't figure out if it was or not. I didn't want to start it if it wasn't finished, so I will just wait some more.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 02:40 |
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I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE, AND I BRING YOU a manga I read last night: Boku Dake ga Inai Machi/A Town Where Only I Am Missing (Batoto link) I Am Missing is a monthly manga by Sanbe Kei, and follows Fujinuma Satoru, a 28-year-old, struggling mangaka and part-time pizza delivery boy. 18 years ago, Satoru was caught up in a serial kidnapping case that claimed the lives of several of his classmates, the memories of which he has struggled to forget ever since. In the present day, Satoru is plagued by "reruns", occasionally finding himself trapped in loops of time, repeating the same handful of minutes over and over, until he finds and corrects the "oddity", some small detail in his surroundings that just doesn't seem to fit, and usually presages a great tragedy. Frustratingly, I can't discuss the specifics of the plot without getting into spoilers. Suffice to say, it puts me in mind of Purple Qualia, in that it starts off a little odd and off-kilter, and then as soon as you think you've got a handle on things and have a feel for the story, suddenly it veers off into entirely new realms. Plot aside, I think the greatest strength of this one is how well it creates atmosphere and tone. It has a sense of genuine foreboding, all the time, and even the most innocuous and mundane details can seem to bulge with significance, simply by the context they are placed in. It's almost like reading a well-plotted mystery or thriller for the second time, where foreknowledge of what is to come freights early events with entirely new meaning. So: go read it. Then come back here and post about it, because I desperately need someone to discuss it with. Wall o' black bars speculation: Alright, so, the big questions here are, who is the killer, how can Satoru prove it, and how can he save Kayo/the other children/his mother? I think the clue here is to remember the point of the reruns: to find the oddity. Satoru forgot that, here; he's so focused on addressing the symptoms of the problem, on keeping Kayo out of danger, that he's neglecting the cause, the bit that isn't quite right. So, what's going on in 1988 that isn't quite right?
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 17:55 |
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I Am Mising: Hahaha, as soon as he said "As far as possible!", i knew what was going to happen.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 20:54 |
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Autonomous Monster posted:a manga I read last night: Boku Dake ga Inai Machi/A Town Where Only I Am Missing (Batoto link) I've been reading "Cradle of Monsters" by him which is not bad. I'll have a look at this one.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 23:23 |
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Munin posted:I've been reading "Cradle of Monsters" by him which is not bad. I'll have a look at this one. Cradle of Monsters I read as well, and was not terribly impressed. It's High School of the Dead in a capsized boat with generous ladlings of urolagnia This is another thing entirely; I don't know if there's a single panel of fanservice in the entire thing. The difference is like night and day. I don't know if that makes I Am Missing more or less appealing to you.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 23:43 |
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quote:Boku Dake ga Inai Machi I started reading this a while ago and have really enjoyed it so far. I kinda wish I'd waited until there was more before I started though, I hate waiting for the next update. I looked at some of the guy's other stuff in the mean time but none of it looked very appealing to me.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 23:45 |
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Oh, he wrote Hohzuki Island? That explains why the art seemed so familiar to me. He draws some mean angular face features. Also why i got a kind of sleazy vibe from the art style despite the complete lack of fanservice, i guess.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 00:01 |
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Autonomous Monster posted:Cradle of Monsters I read as well, and was not terribly impressed. It's High School of the Dead in a capsized boat with generous ladlings of urolagnia Frankly, I can't remember the urolagnia (Wikipedia to the rescue on that term as well)... What made me remember it is the distinctive art style which I quite liked. I saw it in the panels posted and then worked out what the other manga by him I had come across. Thinking about it I did also like the pretty diverse cast. You have several disabled characters (well, implausible for size of cast even) who all take a good share of the heroism which I appreciated. It would also say less fan-servicy than High School of the Dead. That said, most definitely not an all time classic. I wouldn't have mentioned it in this thread without "I am missing" being mentioned.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 00:03 |
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Woah, that's a pretty big wall of spoilered speculation! Lemme give my own take. (If I don't address a point, assume that I didn't have anything interesting to say about it.)
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 20:13 |
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Hopefully this is the right thread! I'm a Manga newbie, but was recently fixed by a post in the Convince someone to read a manga with one image! thread. In this thread I discovered I am a Hero. So obviously I got hooked! It's an amazing Manga with a huge twist a few chapters in. I've read all the available chapters up to ch-130 on mangafox.me. But now there a no new chapters!! The last chapter was translated in May. Is this normal? New Raws are posted all the time, but I don't read japanese. Should I give up hope for new chapters or is it normal for translators to take a pause from translating? I'm so hooked on this manga, I would even be ready to pay for new translations!!
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# ? Jul 31, 2013 23:52 |
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I think the scanslator only wants to work from tankobons, which come out less often and are expensive.
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# ? Aug 1, 2013 02:06 |
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AxeBreaker posted:I think the scanslator only wants to work from tankobons, which come out less often and are expensive. So, yeah, some scanlators work exclusively from tankobons. Kaja Rainbow fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Aug 1, 2013 |
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Tankoubon is just the fancy Japanese word for trade paperback. Magazines in Japan are printed on paper that once, long ago, had had aspirations of being toilet paper, so even with intensive editing work you often end up losing details of the original art. Tankoubon are actually printed on passable paper so you have a lot less editing to do, and your end result is better anyway. Buying tanks is also much cheaper than buying every magazine or getting a subscription, for those scanlation groups that want to do their own scans instead of relying on some dude in Japan. ^^ Some mangaka do it all the time, others never bother. Murata Yuusuke in particular is infamous for going back and touching up cuts/panels/scenes he thought he didn't do justice to the first time around. He'll also go even go as far as completely redrawing scenes so that they fit the flow of a volume as opposed to a weekly chapter, or doing the same for scenes that were originally in color so that they look good in black and white. Most mangaka don't go that far, but most of them do include end-of-volume extras at the very least, along with a few color pages at the front of the volume.
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# ? Aug 1, 2013 08:32 |
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"Long ago had aspirations of being toilet paper" sounds about right for magazine quality paper. Really, they're made to be disposable, while tankoubon're made to be colllected. In general, it all depends on scanlator priorities. Some of them go for quick releases while others focus on quality above all. Many fall somewhere in the middle. The more popular stuff tends to get the rapid-fire releases while those working on more obscure titles often go at their own paces.
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# ? Aug 1, 2013 14:09 |
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Oyasumi Punpun has updated
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# ? Aug 3, 2013 11:40 |
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Oh god This just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?
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# ? Aug 4, 2013 17:43 |
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Thank you all for the replies, they were all very illuminating. I guess there is still hope for the Manga to be continued to be translated!
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# ? Aug 5, 2013 02:22 |
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Here's a collection of Front Mission-themed short stories in manga format, featuring characters who don't get the benefit of plot armor.
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# ? Aug 8, 2013 04:49 |
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New Itsuya-San. Welp, looks like it's taken a turn for the unnerving.
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# ? Aug 8, 2013 05:08 |
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Crossposting with the "Convince Someone To Read A Manga With One Image" thread. Thermae Romae It's the story of a 2nd century Roman architect who is one day transported while bathing to a bathhouse in modern Japan. It's pretty hilarious, despite the somewhat rough art!
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# ? Aug 9, 2013 00:23 |
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DrSunshine posted:Crossposting with the "Convince Someone To Read A Manga With One Image" thread. Yeah, that one got a movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmFSflNiQU
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# ? Aug 9, 2013 00:36 |
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Autonomous Monster posted:Yeah, that one got a movie. Chip and Ironicus of LP fame did a retsupurae of the first Thermae Romae episode. http://chipandironicus.com/videos/anime/5.html
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# ? Aug 16, 2013 00:18 |
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Suicide Island is back with the next volume!
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# ? Aug 17, 2013 08:13 |
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:Suicide Island is back with the next volume! This makes me so happy, I have been waiting for months for this. It's one of my favorites, second only to SnK.
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# ? Aug 18, 2013 02:11 |
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Apocalypse no Toride got an update. oh my god
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# ? Aug 21, 2013 23:42 |
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It's a week old now, but I guess someone should post the Shamo update since it seems like the thread is long gone. Not much happens, but I can't wait to see more of the brothers.
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# ? Aug 24, 2013 20:09 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 06:36 |
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Does I am a Hero get less frustrating? After page 50 of "hey why are you biting me?! stop!" I just want everyone to die. I wish it was set in a universe where zombie stories and common sense existed.
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# ? Aug 24, 2013 20:12 |