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Anatharon posted:"Really? They're pretty fugly" says the Snatcher who is fake-dating a massive Yeah, I checked this out because I thought "Scumbag Loser is definitely a name that catches my attention". The way other posters in here have said Shinigami-words ended made me want to avoid it but now I at least think I'll go back and give that a look as well. Shame that this series apparently suffers the same problem though which makes me think the author needs a good editor or SOMEONE to help him out because being great at introducing series with interesting hooks and then giving up because you wrote yourself into a corner isn't a particularly good way to go about your creative writing career.
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Dimension W A man who dislikes electricity meets an android. (By the way electricity is produced by batteries that produce energy from the W dimension.)
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Neo Helbeast posted:Dorohedoro  But, seriously, it's kinda a weird manga, though quite fun. Lots of crazy stuff happens--that image's the least of it.
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Warning that Dorohedoro is ridiculously gory.
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RatHat posted:Warning that Dorohedoro is ridiculously gory. If you want a strange, strange, awesome comic, this is it.
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It starts off a little weird but if you can get into the world and characters then Dorohedoro is funnily enough one of he most ridiculously charming series out there.
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Pierson posted:It starts off a little weird but if you can get into the world and characters then Dorohedoro is funnily enough one of he most ridiculously charming series out there. I think the charm lies in the juxtaposition of a completely bizarre setting with characters that are almost too accepting and relaxed about it. "Oh, you have a gator head? That's cool." "Oh, our leader got horrifically dismembered and now there's lots of mushrooms growing everywhere? I guess we should go find a magic cat to fix it." "Oh, so you're kind of a spawn of satan now? At least your cooking is really good." While reading it, I kept waiting for one of those generic shounen "WAAAAAAAAH" panels with everyone's eyes bugging out about how amazing something was. Never happened that I can recall. Edit: Although the last few chapters I read were getting a little depressing.
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Same thing. Mirai Nikki gets pretty damned weird with its characters, despite appearing pretty normal at first.
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Bisse posted:Which volume/chapter is this? I took a look for Mirai Nikki but all I could find was a manga starring a kid with a beanie, doesn't look anything like this at all. That guy doesn't show up for a looong time. Not for at least 2 or 3 story arcs, quite a few things happen before they get to him.
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Pierson posted:It starts off a little weird but if you can get into the world and characters then Dorohedoro is funnily enough one of he most ridiculously charming series out there. Wow just blazed through this, amazingly entertaining. Really good gags too despite having a fairly dark and gritty setting. I was especially impressed when i found the author was a 23 year old lady, which probably helps explain why the nudity doesn't seem too fan servicy (though there is a lot of it)
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In retrospect that actually explains a lot, like Noi being built like a brick shithouse.
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Nov 12, 2013 09:38
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One of the things that I found interesting about Dorohedoro is that people can be as insane as can be, they also do other things. Antagonists are doing things besides causing a ruckus. They may visit family/friends, organize a dinner or w/e and get plenty of screentime for it all.
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I didn't like them trying to make me sad about Mushroom dude's tragic fate or whatever after the poo poo he pulled with his little Nazi dress-up mind control stunt. That really creeped me out after the character it happens to was handled so well the whole series. Not even Skull Mask's treatment, which gets pretty harsh, weirded me out that much. Apart from that, Dorohedoro is amazing and one hell of a romp. Even the most one-dimensional character and villain somehow gets a little time and development and i found myself attached to characters that i at first thought to be mere cannon fodder or plot devices. Also, my favorite character, and maybe page (warning, gore):  This brings the character to a point so elegantly. Look at that blush!  It's nothing special on first glance, but it gets better if you know who's under that mask.
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I'd been hurting for some entertainment recently, and somehow found myself in this thread. I don't read much manga (and incidentally haven't been terribly enthralled by most anime lately), but a few single images posted here did exactly what this thread was supposed to do. I've marathoned through several series that for the most part I've been really enjoying. Most notably, Voynich Hotel, from this image alone: I love this guy's sense of humor, and the rather simple art style actually compliments it really well I think. What's really nice is that it's not just a bunch of random gags; I was dying of laughter half the time reading this thing, but the story is quite interesting and fairly unique in its own right. I hope it gets picked up again. A couple others I've really enjoyed are Bonnouji and Otoyomegatari. The latter just constantly blows me away with how breathtakingly gorgeous it is, while at the same time somehow managing to be incredibly tense and gripping. I feel like I've only whet my appetite. I'm going back through the thread and looking for anything else that interests me, and I'll probably be going through the other manga threads soon too. So I just thought I'd pop in and say thanks to those of you who posted those great interest-piquing pages.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure not new or anything, but if you haven't read it you should
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I found out today that an xxxHOLiC sequel/prequel/whatever the gently caress is being serialised. If you liked xxxHOLiC, well, it's more of the same good poo poo. xxxHOLiC Rei
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I read the first chapter of Mozuya-san Gyakujousuru today and it's weird but strangely compelling. It's about a girl who's tsundere. Except in the manga's world tsundere is an established medical condition where the afflicted person can't help but react with violence and hostility to the people around them. I think the best way to describe it is as a black comedy sending up some of anime's silliest cliches. But it plays its premise completely straight in showing how messed up her life is as a result of her condition.
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This is more of a request but on the topic of Mirai Nikki I like things that start off normal and get stranger later. I am a hero is a good example of that too, so any image-suggestions for something like that would be cool.of bees posted:That guy doesn't show up for a looong time. Not for at least 2 or 3 story arcs, quite a few things happen before they get to him. He's gone really fast after he's introduced, which is an incredible waste of the series' best characters. Who cares about Yuno or Yuki, I want more of the Punishing Rangers.
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Anatharon posted:This is more of a request but on the topic of Mirai Nikki I like things that start off normal and get stranger later. I am a hero is a good example of that too, so any image-suggestions for something like that would be cool. Feel kinda like I should just put that on my clipboard forever so I can just paste it whenever I need to. edit: vvv 
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Anatharon posted:This is more of a request but on the topic of Mirai Nikki I like things that start off normal and get stranger later. I am a hero is a good example of that too, so any image-suggestions for something like that would be cool. Have you tried Qualia the Purple? Edit: Heh. I'm not surprised, since Qualia is definitely what I think of when someone mentions starting off (mostly) normal and then getting strange. Bremen fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Nov 18, 2013 |
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Nov 18, 2013 16:43
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There are more than a few times in Qualia the Purple where you can pretty much feel yourself falling over the edge into a far crazier story.
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I've been re-reading Bakuman recently: I forgot how much I liked this series. Great characters, art, and as much suspense and hot-blooded spirit as you could possibly cram into a comic about making comics. Edit: Also, I have to imagine Ohba and Obata saw it as a challenge when people made fun of the scene in Death Note where Light intensely eats chips and writes names in his notebook. Bakuman might be the only series in Shonen Jump history to frequently feature dramatic line graphs. 
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Vhak lord of hate posted:Wow just blazed through this, amazingly entertaining. Really good gags too despite having a fairly dark and gritty setting. I was especially impressed when i found the author was a 23 year old lady, which probably helps explain why the nudity doesn't seem too fan servicy (though there is a lot of it) She's 36 actually (or did you mean she started it at 23?) But yeah it's incredible, I love the relationship between the doctor and his wife who became a Devil. Like she's now this incredible being who's no longer limited by many of the world's rules, but their relationship is still good. I gotta reread it when I get the chance, I forgot so much of what happened.
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Mozuya-San is about a world where being Tsundere is a clinically diagnosed affliction, and follows a young girl who is infected with this terrible disease. It's pretty amazing. Unfortunately there's only two chapters out right now.
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I thought this was perfect for this thread  Saito-kun wa Esper Rashii It's a little fan servicey but a fun read
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 Saitehen no Otoku I'm not sure if I can recommend the manga but it's definitely a fun read.
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Let's change it up a bit: Convince someone NOT to read a manga with one image! Choku!: 
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nerdz posted:Let's change it up a bit: Choku was loads better than the author's other work, Watamote.
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nerdz posted:Let's change it up a bit:  pandaK posted:Choku was loads better than the author's other work, Watamote. There is no truer fact in this universe.
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Now look at all those dumb and wrong opinions.
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Afterschool Military Activities Start's slow, becoming amazing. Also a lot of heads and limbs being lopped off. 
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Oh man, I strongly recommend that Shingami-whatever comic from the Scumbag Loser writer. The ending is perfectly crafted to be as disappointing as possible. Once you've read this, you'll be able to handle any other botched ending, because goddamn at least the writer wasn't intentionally trying to gently caress with you. This is the honest to god last page of the comic:  Truly stunning. The balls you'd need to write something like this are just unprecedented.
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I don't even get how he wrote himself into a corner. Has he even said the specifics of it?
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Isn't it more likely the manga just was cancelled and he was "Oh, whatever."?
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It did get axed, but someone said they had read that somewhere last time the manga was brought up in some thread. No idea if there's any validity to it.
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