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Insurrectionist posted:I really am not a fan of Koe no Katachi because it's centered on, and narrated by, the original bully. Not because I think he's a terrible person or irredeemable or anything, but because his story isn't the interesting one, and being shown events from his POV isn't very appealing to me. More to the point, I really don't like the dynamic it gives the comic, again not because it's bad but because it's not the one I want to see - by not being focused on her troubles specifically, but instead the reformed bully, it really feels like a story that's more interested in making excuses for the dude and saying 'hey he wasn't that poo poo forever see, you can improve too' rather than focusing on the actual victim's problems and issues. It's not a bad message, but it could have been delivered just as well if he was the secondary protagonist, and not the girl. Yeah I felt the same. The first chapters were so goodnsince were focused on Nishiyama and such, something really different and original. Now it kind of feels like your average shounen and Nishiyama's reduced to your generic love interest.
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Two more new chapters of Sket Dance, and they're both real winners (even though competition is a fool's game and ranking brings strife).
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Nov 12, 2013 19:11
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King Golf, the most shonenest of golf manga has received a shitload of updates. Thrill as a mostly less assholeish Agon from Eyeshield goes from king of the bullies to a scratch golfer in 2 months after repetitive shonen training and teaching sessions from a camp of children.
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Nov 13, 2013 02:32
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Fabricated posted:King Golf, the most shonenest of golf manga has received a shitload of updates. Thrill as a mostly less assholeish Agon from Eyeshield goes from king of the bullies to a scratch golfer in 2 months after repetitive shonen training and teaching sessions from a camp of children. Dude what. The title of most shounenest of golf manga indisputably belongs to Dan Doh!!, a manga where an Japanese grade schooler goes pro because he wants to earn enough money to bring back his absent mom and ends up golfing against the likes of Jack Nicklaus. Also he can literally see the wind.
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Nov 13, 2013 03:11
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AnonSpore posted:Dude what. The title of most shounenest of golf manga indisputably belongs to Dan Doh!!, a manga where an Japanese grade schooler goes pro because he wants to earn enough money to bring back his absent mom and ends up golfing against the likes of Jack Nicklaus. Also he can literally see the wind.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:25
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AnonSpore posted:Dude what. The title of most shounenest of golf manga indisputably belongs to Dan Doh!!, a manga where an Japanese grade schooler goes pro because he wants to earn enough money to bring back his absent mom and ends up golfing against the likes of Jack Nicklaus. Also he can literally see the wind. Now, to be slightly fair, he didn't exactly golf against Jack Nicklaus, he acted as caddy to someone who played against Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicklaus can also see the wind. To be even more fair, in the sequel (Dan Doh!! Xi) he did go to St. Andrews (after getting his golf set stolen in Thailand) and played his way into The Open, eventually colliding against a man so anti-golf he humiliated like a whole set of pro-golfers by playing an entire course using only a putter and a black ball. The man has an evil dog as well. Also this same man basically played ping-pong using a golf ball against Dandoh's teacher while simultaneously killing a bunch of wasps. Dandoh of course won shooting his ball so it can ride the winds of a storm from a museum inside a golf club into the green. Dan Doh is nuts. I think the author's other Golf manga is a bit more grounded, though. Dan Doh at least has their golf matches on actual grassland. Pro Golfer Saru has them on a fuckin' volcano.
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Nov 14, 2013 15:17
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This thread is getting pretty shounen itself, what with all the stronger people showing up out of nowhere!  But yeah it's been like over a decade since I read Dan Doh!! My greatest memory of it is one scene where a bad guy gets an albatross and everyone reacts like he personally executed Mother Teresa and Gandhi at the same time.
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Nov 14, 2013 16:01
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AnonSpore posted:This thread is getting pretty shounen itself, what with all the stronger people showing up out of nowhere! My anime power is more true and more powerful than yours. 
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I'm a much greater salmon than any of you x2AnonSpore posted:This thread is getting pretty shounen itself, what with all the stronger people showing up out of nowhere! He was using a special golf stick that will ruin his arms if he used it too often! So Dandoh used a putter to make a 100% accurate shot through a space between the tree leaves to score an eagle on the final hole! Dan Doh!! was great, Dan Doh!! Xi was a bit less and the fanservice is kind of creepy, Dan Doh!! Next Generation was just a bit too rubbish.
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Koe no Katachi Ch 11 Sorry to interrupt your feast of hot bloodness but this chapter was pretty  , focus on Nishiyama and gotta say that her sis is quite the little rear end in a top hat. Can't really blame her though.
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Clearly what we need is a hot-blooded romance. Witness, the face of fury and wrath and unbridled umbrage! 
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Nov 15, 2013 03:10
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Koe no Katachi Ch 11 Sheesh, I didn't realize this got made into anything other than a one-shot. It's rather good.
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Nov 15, 2013 03:43
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Again!! 73! In which Imamura, after loving up his plan to gently caress things up with Shibata on purpose, fucks things up.
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Nov 15, 2013 05:38
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toanoradian posted:Clearly what we need is a hot-blooded romance.
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Nov 15, 2013 07:52
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More Hot-Blooded Romance (Koe No Kotachi 12) I'm liking the way plot's going even if I would prefer Shouya not becoming your classic protagonist that got everything work out because his acceptance of things, seems kind of cheap. Also I'm confused by the family relationships here, the woman living with Shouya is his sister or his mom? Where the hell was that little brazilian-japanese kid before?
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Nov 18, 2013 17:52
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Also I'm confused by the family relationships here, the woman living with Shouya is his sister or his mom? Where the hell was that little brazilian-japanese kid before? His older sister.
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Nov 19, 2013 00:19
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Mary Annette posted:Again!! 73! I dunno, I can't really think of anything he could have done differently in this specific chapter, though he's at blame for not being more straight-forward previously.
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Nov 19, 2013 00:40
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SpazmasterX posted:His older sister.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:More Hot-Blooded Romance (Koe No Kotachi 12) Yeah, as much as I like Shouko and how...'saintly' she's been acting, Shouya is forgiven far too easily. Not saying all the bullying Shouya's been through isn't horrible, just that well...there's not much he has done to redeem himself to Shouko. I'm kind of hoping Shouya starts thinking that Shouko's forgiveness isn't enough for him to forgive himself and he attempted to do more. Also why is there that jocular emoticon on your post Koe no Katachi is nothing if not hot-blooded: 
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Nov 19, 2013 01:45
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Koe No Katachi 13 Pretty awesome chapter if lower on the hot bloodness. toanoradian posted:Yeah, as much as I like Shouko and how...'saintly' she's been acting, Shouya is forgiven far too easily. Not saying all the bullying Shouya's been through isn't horrible, just that well...there's not much he has done to redeem himself to Shouko. I'm kind of hoping Shouya starts thinking that Shouko's forgiveness isn't enough for him to forgive himself and he attempted to do more. Is like the author's reading us, he pretty much tackled our complains and gave a pretty good answer.
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Nov 20, 2013 05:09
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Also I'm confused by the family relationships here, the woman living with Shouya is his sister or his mom? Where the hell was that little brazilian-japanese kid before? It's his mother. And the little girl would be his half-sister, from the Brazilian guy who showed up in like one panel introduced as her boyfriend. I read through all this earlier today, and I definitely echo the complaints people have already mentioned. But it looks promising, I've got my fingers crossed it turns out to be pretty good.
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One of the things that I hope gets addressed is exactly how Shouko's mother and sister treat her. Her mother especially who's overprotective to the point where she acts like her daughter is incapable of making her own decisions. I dunno, I don't have any problem with the focus on Shouya and his trying to rebuild his life from the ground up. Especially because, as this chapter has shown, it's not as easy as just going "I was terrible once and now I feel bad, please forgive me" (well for everyone who isn't Shouko anyway).
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Gils posted:It's his mother. And the little girl would be his half-sister, from the Brazilian guy who showed up in like one panel introduced as her boyfriend. Pretty sure the little girl is Shouya's niece. http://mangafox.me/manga/koe_no_katachi/v01/c001/17.html and http://mangafox.me/manga/koe_no_katachi/v01/c001/41.html We don't actually see his sister at all apart from her feet and she may not be around in the present. EDIT: Oh wait we do, we see her feet asking Shouya to pick his niece up. Man just show her already! Reclines Obesily fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Nov 20, 2013 |
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Is like the author's reading us, he pretty much tackled our complains and gave a pretty good answer. My problem with Koe no Katachi is that there isn't enough hot-blooded conversation in Japanese Sign Language.
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Visidan posted:Pretty sure the little girl is Shouya's niece. http://mangafox.me/manga/koe_no_katachi/v01/c001/17.html and http://mangafox.me/manga/koe_no_katachi/v01/c001/41.html We don't actually see his sister at all apart from her feet and she may not be around in the present. If this doesn't end on a Cow & Chicken kind of reveal for the sister I'm gonna be really dissapointed
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Sorry to double post Koe no katachi 14 Where Shouya finally realizes Yuzuru's dark deep secret ( ), we get more of his buddy and the romance really starts. All around a solid chapter and I liked that Shouya don't want the easy way out.
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Nov 25, 2013 05:36
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Remember Tokyo ESP? http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Tokyo-ESP/Vol-007-Ch-030--Charming-After-School-Bomber Apparently since part 1 ended Rinka became a fighting game character. And beat up Blanka.
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Sindai posted:Remember Tokyo ESP? http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Tokyo-ESP/Vol-007-Ch-030--Charming-After-School-Bomber She seems to be imprisoned in an underground slave arena, and given that she is wearing two of the tracking bracelets the government is likely responsible. I was curious as to where she was, but I wasn't really expecting this.
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Sindai posted:Remember Tokyo ESP? http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Tokyo-ESP/Vol-007-Ch-030--Charming-After-School-Bomber I was going to say that guy on the left looked a lot like Jack Cayman from Anarchy Reigns too.
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Two more chapter of Koe no Katachi Chapter 15 Chapter 16 For all my previous bitching, I liking a lot the recent plot developments. Shouya's manning up and owning his mistakes and is working hard to compensate Shouko, his buddy is pretty drat awesome (if a little melodramatic) and the returning character seems pretty cool. The romance is also gaining prominence but it feels really natural plus, Shouko is ADORABLE
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I like the big X's on Kawai's face. It's like a unique way of having a character wear an eyepatch.
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I like it because with everyone else it completely covers their face making their features indistinguishable. He becomes friends with Nagatsuka and it goes away. He has a small positive opinion of Kawai and it's moved a little bit to expose part of her face. It's a pretty neat visual trick.
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What's sad about the earlier parts of that Koe no Katachi series is that kids are every bit as bad as that in real life. I was bullied some in elementary school, yet, as much as I hate to admit it, I would jump at the chance to make fun of someone lower on the totem pole than myself. I remember feeling disgust towards this unpopular girl who sat in front of me when she peed her pants this one time (you could smell it), even though in retrospect I'm sure she was absolutely mortified. Ultimately, it's all because kids are more or less incapable of empathy just by virtue of their brains not being close to fully developed. Putting yourself in someone else's shoes never enters the equation unless you're watching/reading something that explicitly describes someone else's situation.
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Folks, what do bugs, elementary school children, demonic teachers, and the meaning of grammar and punctuation have in common with each other? They all come together in this one shot.
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DrSunshine posted:Folks, what do bugs, elementary school children, demonic teachers, and the meaning of grammar and punctuation have in common with each other? That's the most twisty manga chapter I've read in a long time, and I say this as someone who's read Qualia the Purple. Thanks for finding and sharing this one-shot, DrSunshine.
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DrSunshine posted:Folks, what do bugs, elementary school children, demonic teachers, and the meaning of grammar and punctuation have in common with each other? What the gently caress did I just read? 
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Honestly I can't remember if was in this thread or the 'convince someone to read a manga with one image' where I was introduced to Bonnouji, but I just have to share that it has just ended Bonnouji's Final Chapter The series was adorable from beginning to end and this chapter left me pretty  One of the most realistic depictions of romance that I've seen, and is kind if weird that nowadays I'm on a Touhou's doujin binge and I've found a lot of works from that author.
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We posted about it a lot in the shoujo thread.
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jackofarcades posted:We posted about it a lot in the shoujo thread. I've never been at the shoujo thread, otherwise I've would posted there
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Koe no Katachi 17 What does that symbol at the end mean? Is it some kind of emoticon?
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