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DrSunshine posted:It makes sense to me now why the kill-a-roid didn't just splash down like a reasonable Newtonian object. Geno's beam apparently slowed its velocity enough such that it was momentarily nearly motionless. You were just seeing things. 
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PaganGoatPants posted:Saitama pushed the entire building into the ground when he jumped, I didn't see it before. It's such an amazing detail. The comic just continues to impress the hell out of me with every chapter.
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Mar 24, 2013 02:21
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Oh my gooooooddddd, this chapter just blew away our minds! There's goddamn details everywhere! EVERYWHERE! This chapter needs to be preserve in a museum of art. 
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Mar 24, 2013 03:11
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A lot of them were just aerial photos that had been run through Photoshop filters. Check the building in the last 3 pages.
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Mar 24, 2013 03:31
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I just love how this whole chapter strived so hard to look so impressive, and then on the last page Saitama is basically a cartoon character. Just beautiful. Also loving the building being pushed down into the ground. That's an impressive touch.
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Mar 24, 2013 04:03
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KittenofDoom posted:A lot of them were just aerial photos that had been run through Photoshop filters. 
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Mar 24, 2013 04:26
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Nyaa posted:Yeah, those are filters, but I'm wondering if he did it just because he ran out of time to draw it. Yeah, the overall quality seems to drop in the last few pages. I think he just got tired or ran out of time.
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Mar 24, 2013 04:34
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"Well the issue is settled"  I really can see poor Saitama getting demoted/sued for the damages the meteorites caused to the City in the next chapter. Poor guy.
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Mar 24, 2013 04:35
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I doubt it. The old guy saw what happened, and even if mass destruction was wrecked upon the city, it's still orders of magnitude less than it would have been.
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Mar 24, 2013 04:40
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Yeah, busted up buildings and streets, and hundreds or thousands of deaths is certainly better than a crater where the city used to be and nearby cities being wiped out. Seriously doubting Saitama will get credit for it, but we'll see! Wanna see more of Bang though, love the badass old guy trope and his character is great.
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Mar 24, 2013 05:41
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Goddamn murata is a supersaiyan mangaka. He is levels far above everyone else.
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Mar 24, 2013 13:04
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Obscil posted:Yeah, the overall quality seems to drop in the last few pages. I think he just got tired or ran out of time. It was almost certainly time constraints. I think it was earlier in this thread someone said he missed the deadline by a few hours. It's great seeing this chapter complete after seeing getting slowly coloured over god knows how long. I was watching him do the panel where Genos is reflected in Metal Knights armour in three places and wondering what the gently caress he was doing, repeating these same little stokes on the different sections then him moving the paper so you saw Genos was also in the scene. "Oh poo poo, that's what he's colouring in!?" Because of OPM I've been reading Eyeshield 21 as well which has been fun. Got to a colour page and saw the football pitch reflected in one of the players helmets. "Yup, that's our Murata..."
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Mar 24, 2013 15:18
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Obscil posted:Yeah, the overall quality seems to drop in the last few pages. I think he just got tired or ran out of time. Yeah he was pressed for time. The chapter was supposed to be up on the 21st, but he didn't get it turned in until 5am on the 22nd. Many of the backgrounds were left to the assistants. But Murata did probably at least half of them (I didn't really count though), maybe more. The building Genos and co. were on collapsing for one, that was pretty crazy to watch––he freehanded the whole thing! He also colored at least two pages in their entirety twice because I guess he wasn't happy with how they turned out the first time.
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Mar 24, 2013 15:28
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Holy poo poo, that was some of the most gorgeous art I've ever seen in a comic.
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Mar 24, 2013 15:55
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VanSandman posted:Holy poo poo, that was some of the most gorgeous art I've ever seen in a comic. I know people are pointing out how it's basically just a photo of the city run through photoshop, but I still think this is absolutely awesome: 
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Mar 24, 2013 17:57
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Murata has shown himself more than capable of drawing cityscapes before (that zoom out to show the meteor way back when this arc first started was hand drawn) so yeah, it was probably just to save time. This chapter was originally supposed to be out on the 14th, and then Murata decided to go with all color and extended the deadline by a week, and it was still a day late, after all.
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Mar 24, 2013 18:04
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All that proves is how little deadlines sometimes matter in retrospect. Who isn't thankful for the fact that he went and made something truly exceptional out of the chapter?
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SHAOLIN FUCKFIEND posted:All that proves is how little deadlines sometimes matter in retrospect. Who isn't thankful for the fact that he went and made something truly exceptional out of the chapter? If I had to wait an extra month to see this chapter I would have considered it worth it. Sometimes you can't rush genius.
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Mar 24, 2013 19:06
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That last panel just absolutely perfectly sums up this manga. 
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Mar 24, 2013 19:52
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Liar posted:I know people are pointing out how it's basically just a photo of the city run through photoshop, but I still think this is absolutely awesome: Honestly, I barely even noticed the city scape in that picture. I only really noticed the city when Genos's take off basically shatters a building and surrounding pavement and the very final pages with Saitama landing. The only thing I noticed in that picture was the clouds and dust, which are amazing looking.
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Mar 24, 2013 19:58
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I was wondering if anyone had noticed that Saitama's jump literally shoved the loving building into the ground. Anime physics (you'd have just made two really neat foot-shaped holes in the floor rather than somehow efficiently transfer all that power to the whole building to jump) but cool as poo poo.
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If I had any sort of skill in making movies or .gifs, I'd be putting together some of the crazy flowing sequences. They are really stunning to watch.
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VanSandman posted:If I had any sort of skill in making movies or .gifs, I'd be putting together some of the crazy flowing sequences. They are really stunning to watch. Well luckily for you other people do, and they've made gifs out of all of them. There's also some pretty amazing AMVs... Amazing if you consider this is a comic, not an anime, and yet you'd swear you were watching one.
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Mar 24, 2013 22:17
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You know, in one of the movie forum threads, someone was posting how it seems like all superheroes do three point landing/launches. I really like how Saitama just did a simple jump and land on two feet without any fancy hand gestures.
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Mar 24, 2013 22:58
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I was making sound effect sounds with my mouth for the entire chapter, it was that good.
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AgentHaiTo posted:You know, in one of the movie forum threads, someone was posting how it seems like all superheroes do three point landing/launches. I really like how Saitama just did a simple jump and land on two feet without any fancy hand gestures. If you look it looks like he just landed on his toes fairly softly and then set down his heals. You'd think with it being Saitama that he'd crack the road in half or something, but no. Somehow he just lands there, absolutely confident that everything's find despite the fact that he just killed a million people saving a billion people.
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Liar posted:If you look it looks like he just landed on his toes fairly softly and then set down his heals. You'd think with it being Saitama that he'd crack the road in half or something, but no. Somehow he just lands there, absolutely confident that everything's find despite the fact that he just killed a million people saving a billion people. Well at that point he didn't have much choice.
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His deadpan response might indicate a unique character flaw. I think by this point we can say that he isn't a hero for the purpose of saving people, rather to be a hero for its own sake. At the begging he acts to save the kid from the giant crab, and the girl during issue #1... but other than those I can't think of an example of him being a hero to save anyone, his motives have always been self-centered or to meet a quota such as a weekly requirement or a special sale day.
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The Gorp posted:His deadpan response might indicate a unique character flaw. He even admits this in the 5th issue 
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That last page with Saitama's chill-as-gently caress face while poo poo explodes behind him. I can't remember the last time a manga made me laugh that hard.
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Swillkitsch posted:That last page with Saitama's chill-as-gently caress face while poo poo explodes behind him. I can't remember the last time a manga made me laugh that hard. It's not just that he's chill for me. It's that through this whole issue everything was drawn so drat well, and then on the very last page Saitama is a goddamn cartoon. I love how he's drawn in contradiction to everything else.
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Swillkitsch posted:That last page with Saitama's chill-as-gently caress face while poo poo explodes behind him. I can't remember the last time a manga made me laugh that hard. One has a really good sense of comedic timing.
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I'm not sure why I fell for it, but with all the scenes of devastation and the slow reveal of Saitama's face I kind of thought he would be concerned or upset about the carnage playing out around him. That fucker tricked me again.
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Just marathoned through this manga in a few hours, I'm glad I discovered it when there wasn't a ton to catch up on yet. I wasn't familiar with any of Murata's work before this, but drat, the man can draw. I love the constant juxtaposition between super detailed badasses and clueless cartoon Saitama. Am I the only one who thinks Bang is suspicious just because he looks like Dr. Gero from Dragon Ball?
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I laughed more at the translation of the last panel because I thought Saitama went all "whoops" in the raw version but nope, he doesn't give a gently caress.
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Star Platinum posted:I wasn't familiar with any of Murata's work before this Then go read Eyeshield 21. Really, it's a fantastic series.
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Just substitute "the natural power possessed by geniuses," for, "the unique abilities only the blacks possess," and it's a perfect sports series.
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I never post in this forum so here goes: I love this loving manga. It's really inspiring how Saitama got powerful through just squats and push-ups. Yeah yeah it's a silly manga, but pushing yourself your hardest is great advice for all areas of life so it's always cool seeing badass protagonists espousing that kind of lifestyle.
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Star Platinum posted:Just marathoned through this manga in a few hours, I'm glad I discovered it when there wasn't a ton to catch up on yet. I wasn't familiar with any of Murata's work before this, but drat, the man can draw. I love the constant juxtaposition between super detailed badasses and clueless cartoon Saitama. This is now the lockscreen wallpaper on my phone: 
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Edged Hymn posted:I never post in this forum so here goes: I love this loving manga. It's really inspiring how Saitama got powerful through just squats and push-ups. Yeah yeah it's a silly manga, but pushing yourself your hardest is great advice for all areas of life so it's always cool seeing badass protagonists espousing that kind of lifestyle. This is a gateway drug of a series in that you could show it to anyone even remotely on the fence about manga and they'd be hooked.
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