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Cynic Jester posted:Honestly, I figure the reason the dentist thing works is because with how immortality is depicted here, you'd blow of your head to fix your mouth as opposed to going to a dentist. The medical profession doesn't seem all that useful when you can cure everything with death. this would make sense...if not for the fact that there are still some similar things to our world that don't make sense, like the police/army/whatever having the same kind of uniforms. There's no need to have that when you don't actually need protection from bullets and things.
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Genocyber posted:this would make sense...if not for the fact that there are still some similar things to our world that don't make sense, like the police/army/whatever having the same kind of uniforms. There's no need to have that when you don't actually need protection from bullets and things.
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Kaja Rainbow posted:The first thing that comes to mind is protection against disabling but not lethal injuries. There's already a certain doctrine stated by a real-life person that states it's better to cripple enemy soldiers than kill them, because then they become a burden to their own side. Likewise while they can just put a bullet in themselves, it's harder if they're suffering shock while slowly bleeding out. And that'd give the enemy more time to act. This. There's a lot of crime that doesn't involve bodily harm and having forces trained to deal with them is pretty key, especially when the risk of bodily harm on the part of the offenders is minimal.
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If we're going by the fact that civilians apparently have no trouble getting handguns in not-Japan, it's possible for them to handwave away firearms as being suicide/medical tools.
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Kaja Rainbow posted:The first thing that comes to mind is protection against disabling but not lethal injuries. There's already a certain doctrine stated by a real-life person that states it's better to cripple enemy soldiers than kill them, because then they become a burden to their own side. Likewise while they can just put a bullet in themselves, it's harder if they're suffering shock while slowly bleeding out. And that'd give the enemy more time to act. But wouldn't the only burden be "putting a bullet in the head of the disabled person"?
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Ytlaya posted:But wouldn't the only burden be "putting a bullet in the head of the disabled person"?
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http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Gigantomakhia/Vol-001-Ch-002-Read-Online?id=185528 ...huh? What the hell is the matter with you, Miura?
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Serious Frolicking posted:http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Gigantomakhia/Vol-001-Ch-002-Read-Online?id=185528 why does there always have to be something creepy why cant anything just be good
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Serious Frolicking posted:http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Gigantomakhia/Vol-001-Ch-002-Read-Online?id=185528 That is more then a little disturbing.
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Law Cheetah posted:why does there always have to be something creepy ...did she pee on him?
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I've gotta admit, I liked it a lot better when Miura's most obvious fetish was for drawing highly detailed spreads of Griffith.
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Sindai posted:Two more chapters of Immortal Hounds (that series where everyone is immortal and losing your immortality is a communicable disease). The action sequences are pretty funny because nobody involved cares about dying: http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Immortal-Hounds/Vol-001-Ch-004--Man--I-Really-Hate-Him?id=184790 I have mixed feelings on this. I'm curious about what direction they'll take with the world of immortals and I'm interested in the explanation for vectors but I didn't really care about the daily activities of the escape artist. Well a couple of immortal gunfights were funny, but after a while they're just a bit hollow because neither party has anything to fear. Cynic Jester posted:Honestly, I figure the reason the dentist thing works is because with how immortality is depicted here, you'd blow of your head to fix your mouth as opposed to going to a dentist. The medical profession doesn't seem all that useful when you can cure everything with death. Another question is why their medicine is seemingly non-existent but their weapons seem the same as ours. If killing someone just means they resurrect in prime condition then surely you start designing weapons for debilitation rather than lethality? Which leads to a weird inversion of normal combat - in a world of immortals weapons that knock people unconscious are arguably more effective than weapons that kill people (depending on the rules for resurrections). Yes animals don't resurrect so normal guns would still be good for hunting and maybe the absence of accidental casualties meant the idea of non-lethal weapons didn't really take off, but still I would've expected them to come up with something a little different. Another possibility is if human immortality is a recent development then maybe their society had enough time to abolish the redundant medical professions, but not enough time to redevelop their weapons. And human immortality only occurring recently would explain why their society seems similar to ours rather than being massively different, but maybe that's reading into things too much.
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Thread's been archived since it's been so long, but Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 28 came out finally. E: 
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Nate RFB posted:Thread's been archived since it's been so long, but Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 21 came out finally.
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Other thoughts: this would be a really bad time to have another 4 month delay.
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Looks like the raws are up to 32 according to the Extra Scans website.
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Ytlaya posted:...did she pee on him? Of course not. She just sprinkled nectar all over his body. (I feel dirty just typing that)
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Nate RFB posted:Thread's been archived since it's been so long, but Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 28 came out finally. drat, Gateway turning up was awesome. The end was not.
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Elite posted:(depending on the rules for resurrections). One particularly interesting thing about the immortality in that series is that it also removes all blood/etc from the scene as well.
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http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Suicide-Island/Vol-008-Ch-073--Intruder?id=185724 Seven new chapters of Suicide Island. They keep tiptoeing closer and closer to disaster, it's stressing me out.
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Shinjobi posted:http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Suicide-Island/Vol-008-Ch-073--Intruder?id=185724 Yeah. While I'm sure their shields/weapons will be pretty useful, this author doesn't seem to be the type that will let this sort of thing transpire without something really depressing happening. I imagine that hesitation to kill would be more of a factor than how good they are at fighting, since if both sides were equally committing to fighting they would probably have an easy time winning against Sawada's people, who are more or less completely unorganized; Kai even mentions that it's probably a bad idea to just spontaneously attack without any sort of plan. I think they mentioned that Sawada's side has more people, but I don't know if it was ever specified how big the difference is. Then again, even if they did completely "win," they'd still be dealing with the psychological effects of killing a bunch of people. But I'm still expecting at least one or two key, named good characters to die.
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Ytlaya posted:Yeah. While I'm sure their shields/weapons will be pretty useful, this author doesn't seem to be the type that will let this sort of thing transpire without something really depressing happening. I imagine that hesitation to kill would be more of a factor than how good they are at fighting, since if both sides were equally committing to fighting they would probably have an easy time winning against Sawada's people, who are more or less completely unorganized; Kai even mentions that it's probably a bad idea to just spontaneously attack without any sort of plan. I think they mentioned that Sawada's side has more people, but I don't know if it was ever specified how big the difference is. I feel a little bad for thinking this, but the character I would miss the most would be Sei's dog, If he dies that would just break my heart
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Anatharon posted:Whatever happened to Scumbag Loser? Did the guy who made it drop that too? It's still getting updated infrequently. EDIT: Can anyone help me remember the name of a manga? It was set in feudal Japan, about a fight between a one-armed guy and a blind guy. The whole story is a flashback of why they're fighting. I remember it was really gory and had an anime adaption that I don't think was very good. RatHat fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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RatHat posted:It's still getting updated infrequently. Shigurui.
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RatHat posted:It's still getting updated infrequently. I would say Shigurui but that clearly can't be it because the anime adaptation of that manga was amazing. 
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poo poo hitting the fan in the new chapter of Boku wa Mari no Naka.  Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Jan 22, 2014 |
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You might want to edit the link out. Chapter 23 has been out on Crunchyroll for a while.
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Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent serious manga? I liked/Enjoyed: - Attack on Titan - Knights of Sidonia - I am a Hero - Biomega I didn't like: - Claymore (i got bored of it half way through) - Blame! (I read the first volume and wasn't really interested) My friend is lending me bezerk next week, and someone recommended me Ants (spelling? i cannot find anything about it). I am looking for some sort of sci-fi/dark fantasy. (I swear i posted this somewhere but i can't find it)
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UberJumper posted:Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent serious manga? It's not sci-fi or fantasy, but you might like Vinland Saga. It's a historical fiction manga set in the late 900s/early 1000s about vikings and power struggles occurring at the time. It has great art, great battle scenes, and some really good character writing.
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UberJumper posted:Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent serious manga? You might like 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa. That and his other works are pretty good "serious" series. Also, even though it isn't really sci-fi or anything, everything by Inio Asano is extremely good and he is easily the best manga artist/writer I know of. He's one of the only manga artists I know of who writes stories that are as good as what you might read in good novels (even really good comics usually have pretty sub-par writing when compared with good novels; the writing in games is similar).
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Battle Angel Alita. Post-Apocalyptic sci-fi about a girl exploding people with cyborg martial arts. The original is finished, Last Order just got canceled, and we're supposed to get to Mars sometime in the near future when it relaunches again.
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UberJumper posted:Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent serious manga? Blame! is a serious slow burn compared to other Nihei stuff, I would not write it off so easily especially because it really doesn't get started until the second volume. Abara is pretty good though in getting the feeling of the crazy poo poo happening stuff from biomega.
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UberJumper posted:Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent serious manga? Only sci-fi will do for you? If you're open to others genres, Kokou no Hito tells the story of a boy aiming to be the best mountain climber in the planet, while having to deal with mental scars, puberty, and growing up. Can be pretty dark an depressing at times, but it's really, really good and the art is one of the best out there.
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UberJumper posted:someone recommended me Ants (spelling? i cannot find anything about it). I'm assuming they meant "Gantz".
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Ugh... Gantz... I don't know that it's even worth the disappointment. Started good, had a few good moments buried here and there in the series and then ended stupidly. I guess if you were gonna just marathon it all at once it would be tolerable, but I'd put it to the bottom of the pile.
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Genocyber posted:It's not sci-fi or fantasy, but you might like Vinland Saga. It's a historical fiction manga set in the late 900s/early 1000s about vikings and power struggles occurring at the time. It has great art, great battle scenes, and some really good character writing. I read the first few chapters, and it just didn't click for me. Does it get more interesting later? Ytlaya posted:You might like 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa. That and his other works are pretty good "serious" series. Thanks i will give this a shot. Unknownone posted:I'm assuming they meant "Gantz". Yeah i figured that out last night, and....  i didn't sleep at all, i burned through a hundred odd chapters in a single sitting. Honestly i read the summary of what it was about and was extremely skeptical (it sounded extremely stupid), and to top it off the chapter covers were pictures of pretty much almost completely naked girls. But its pretty drat interesting, the art is also top notch (i can actually see and understand clearly what is happening). There are some pretty  moments though (i don't mind this at all though). Its dark and its grim, and i enjoy it.Does anyone have an opinion on Eden: It's an Endless World!
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