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Blhue posted:It may not go anywhere at all, but I think the mangaka has a thing for age gap romance as she has done a short series about a middle schooler and an OL winding up together.  Well that paints that sideplot in a rather creepy light. I mean, it's not hard to skip those parts entirely and pretend they don't exist, but geez.
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It's still a terrible premise, but the other story she did wasn't as horrible as it sounds, and iirc it timeskipped to when he was like 21 or something?
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Yeah. I actually rather like it. Its the title story of Game Over, which also has a few one shots by the mangaka.
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Horimiya updated. What do you guys think of the shorter hair?Blhue posted:It may not go anywhere at all, but I think the mangaka has a thing for age gap romance as she has done a short series about a middle schooler and an OL winding up together. Goddammit this almost reminds me of another romance series featuring a middle schooler and a working adult, except the schooler is female and the adult is male. I don't think it went anywhere, but looking back at it it sure felt really creepy. On an unrelated note, what do you guys think about Uwagaki? The premise: A guy named Ajiokawa has a crush on a girl named Terui. Terui notices this and tells Ajiokawa that she got a boyfriend and that he should give up. Their teacher notices this and creates a clone of Terui. This is all for an experiment on human love:  The premise horrifies me. It's odd how...content the girl is with the possibility of losing all her feelings or the clone is with...well, everything. The general tone of the manga so far seems to be lighthearted dramedy (comedy on clone, drama on original) and I quite enjoyed the clone's romantic bits, though. toanoradian fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Dec 4, 2013 |
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Kimi ni Todoke 85 I wonder how many can be left, it's clearly in its endgame. Couldn't help but laugh at Joe's troubles getting a girlfriend. Also Sawako's letter was adorable.
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Nate RFB posted:Kimi ni Todoke 85   Chapter ten of Kakukaku Shikajika is out too! http://www.batoto.net/read/_/210426/kakukaku-shikajika_v2_ch10_by_hachimitsu-scans Both of these series are hitting the ol' nostalgia button hard for me right now; KnT for the excitement and uncertainty of getting ready to leave home (or not) as graduation approaches and Kakukaku Shikajika for actually being in college and promptly becoming a dumbass who had a lot more fun running around like an idiot rather than, ya know, actually going to school.
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Man that's one great teacher. There's two new chapters of Fragments of Love. poo poo is about to go down. http://www.batoto.net/read/_/210341/omoino-kakera_v2_ch9_by_lililicious And an extra chapter from the first volume. http://www.batoto.net/read/_/210340/omoino-kakera_v1_ch5.5_by_lililicious Finally got my copy of Pink and in my opinion it's Okazaki's best work. I wasn't expecting it to be so hilarious. Hopefully it sells well enough for them to translate River's Edge.
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coathat posted:There's two new chapters of Fragments of Love. poo poo is about to go down. http://www.batoto.net/read/_/210341/omoino-kakera_v2_ch9_by_lililicious I mentioned it before in this thread, but I really like how Jin Takemiya handles homosexuality in general. It's underground, but still visible, with its own lifestyle, vocabulary, etc. and Maya is really struggling with her feelings. She doesn't fall madly in love or anything, and I love how Mika decided she was a lesbian, by watching a documentary on same-sex relationships as a kid featuring a couple that were girls, but still loved each other in spite of the hostility they faced, but that there were people who understood and respected them. It kind of reminded me another manga, called Honey & Honey. The author is a lesbian in a relationship in Japan, talking about the stuff she does in every day life and what living as a gay person in Japan is like.
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The only thing I don't love about her stuff is weird neck shadows she draws. Kinda freaks me out when I look at it to hard.
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toanoradian posted:Horimiya updated. What do you guys think of the shorter hair? Just got caught up. The reactions were great.
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coathat posted:The only thing I don't love about her stuff is weird neck shadows she draws. Kinda freaks me out when I look at it to hard. Acorn heads.
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Now that I've caught up and have to wait for new stuff, it really drives home how little happens in each chapter. I think it could definitely be a life's work for the mangaka. a kitten posted:
Kakukaku Shikajika is so good. I'm a fair way through Kuragehime now and, although I'm enjoying it a lot, I think I love the autiobiographical inserts Higashimura does at the end of each volume better than the actual story. I guess that's why I find Kakukaku so compelling. I'm kind of alienated by the knowledge that she crushed so hard on that K-pop guy that she visited Korea multiple times just to buy his photo book and stuff. I can't understand that kind of mentality. I could sort of understand when she wanted to actually meet Koichi Morishita, however. Are there any other 'autobiographical' mangas in the same style?
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It really sucks that Mao can only be with one of them. Though hopefully after this Daiki business is cleared up the focus will shift a bit more towards family cause I'm really interested to see both how Mao and her father reconcile and how the gang will get through to Hina.
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Yeah I used to want mao and hiro to get together but man gently caress that dude daiki rules so hard.
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Hiro wanted to sort out the rebuilding of families and lives before a relationship, and Daiki was just like "eff dat". I wonder if it'll cause a dramastorm(it will).
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I don't think Hiro was going to wait until Hina came back at least; I think his goal was to start dating after Mao moves back. The most obvious development then is that Mao's dad continues to act like the dick he is and that goes south. So Mao/Hiro/Daiki will be stuck in a weird, awkward limbo as she stays in the Nakamura house.
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I'm interested in how this is gonna play out, especially during the big family vacation. New Kakukaku Shikajika. http://www.batoto.net/read/_/211215/kakukaku-shikajika_v2_ch11_by_hachimitsu-scans And the new series by Nodame Cantabile's Ninomiya Tomoko is being translated. http://www.batoto.net/comic/_/comics/87-clockers-r1590 It's about competitive overclocking.
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So I just read the first chapter of Bunny Drop and it was pretty cute, however there are a poo poo ton of comments at the end of it of people warning others not to read it because it goes horribly wrong at the end. Is it not worth reading then? Someone inferred its like the ending of (anime show starting with an H) Honey & Clover . Is this true? Because I hated the ending of that.
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I'd just watch the anime. It covers all the good parts with none of the bad.
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I am sadly going to go with "yes, it's not worth it". The ending is probably worse than you are imagining (no clue what they're going on about comparing it to Honey and Clover). Someone can probably dig up the chapter where you could theoretically stop at to preserve your sanity. Everything about the ending retroactively ruined the rest of the manga for me.
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You guys have convinced me to read it, now. I'm getting flashbacks of LOST fandom.
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Nate RFB posted:I am sadly going to go with "yes, it's not worth it". The ending is probably worse than you are imagining (no clue what they're going on about comparing it to Honey and Clover).
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If you read Bunny Drop up til the 10 year time-skip, or just watch the anime which stops at just that point it will be one of the best things you've ever watched, or read. If you go past that it gets Real Dumb and you will only end up disappointed. Like Matrix sequels or Star Wars prequels or whatever disappointing story continuation is most appropriate for your tastes.
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People make way too big a deal about the Usagi Drop ending. Yea, it's bad, but it doesn't even come up in the anime and as weird as it is in the manga it could honestly be a lot worse. You can probably guess what it is from what everyone else is saying, so I'm just going to go out and say it: There's a ten year time skip (the daughter is 16) where the daughter confesses that she loves the dad character as something more than a father, and then there's a skip until she's 18 where there's a sudden revelation that they aren't blood related and yea you can see where this is going. He's 42 by this point, btw. My tastes are a little weird, but my main reaction to this is less "everything is ruined" and more "holy poo poo they're actually doing this". I can understand why people hate this so much, but it's not like this ever comes up in the story before the skip. All this post time skip stuff is very obviously not on the dad's mind during the bulk of the story (read the chapters if you want to see his steady evolution into a creeper!). It's also easier to take when you remember that the book is targeted towards women. This isn't a story about wanting to marry your daughter, it's a father figure fantasy with a bunch of elements designed to make it benign. There's so many things hosed up about that, but dear lord it's not like there aren't thousands of manga that are disturbing in so many worse ways. It's a weird little fantasy that I wish wasn't there, but it makes me laugh more than it makes me hate it.
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jackofarcades posted:You guys have convinced me to read it, now. I'm getting flashbacks of LOST fandom. The ending to Bunny Drop retroactively harmed my perception of the entire rest of the series, so I guess read it at your own risk? edit: Tesla if you can't see why a lot of people would be more than a little peeved that an otherwise slightly more dramatic Yotsuba suddenly takes a turn where the barely legal, blood-unrelated(which is not revealed until it's convenient) daughter marries the 42-year-old adoptive father, I don't know what to say, except that using a "there's so much worse out there" excuse is pretty weak. In summary: Just Watch The Anime. The entire thing's on Crunchyroll. As far as anime goes, it's one of my favorites, and doesn't have any of the stupid bullshit. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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The Devil Tesla posted:There's so many things hosed up about that, but dear lord it's not like there aren't thousands of manga that are disturbing in so many worse ways.
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Captain Invictus posted:Tesla if you can't see why a lot of people would be more than a little peeved that an otherwise slightly more dramatic Yotsuba suddenly takes a turn where the barely legal, blood-unrelated(which is not revealed until it's convenient) daughter marries the 42-year-old adoptive father, I don't know what to say, except that using a "there's so much worse out there" excuse is pretty weak.\ Oh I definitely get it, I just think people blow it out of proportion, that's all.
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Overreactions or not, it's not completely unwarranted. What the story pulled was incredibly out of left field and it made every other development up until that point, well pointless. It was not a payoff anyone expected or even wanted.
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Compendium posted:It was not a payoff anyone expected or even wanted. Honestly, it's even more depressing once you realize that a lot of readers probably did want it.
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Ytlaya posted:Honestly, it's even more depressing once you realize that a lot of readers probably did want it. I don't want to know those people.  Every time Usagi Drop gets brought up, I can physically feel disappointment when I recall the manga going downhill.
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I'm over the whole thing enough that I bought the blu-ray set and had no regrets about it. What a fantastically well-made show; the art, animation, and acting are all top notch.
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Skip Usagi Drop and read My Girl by Sahara Mizu.
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Ytlaya posted:Honestly, it's even more depressing once you realize that a lot of readers probably did want it. Who the hell reads a heartwarming single dad manga and then thinks "You know what? This should be more like tale of genji."
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Meanwhile... Kakukaku Shikajkika Chapter 12 Aag, what are you doing? Actually, I'm pretty much under the impression that's exactly what the author is asking her younger self.
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a kitten posted:Meanwhile... Augustin Iturbide posted:Does Taiyou no Ie ever get not weird or is that just baked into the premise?
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Augustin Iturbide posted:Does Taiyou no Ie ever get not weird or is that just baked into the premise?
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