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Oh Snapalope posted:Also would anyone suggest Wolfsmund? Reading Wolfsmund is technically possible, but highly inadvisable.
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Oh Snapalope posted:Also would anyone suggest Wolfsmund?
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Oh Snapalope posted:I just marathon'd both volumes of Thermae Romae that is released and holy crap it's amazing. Got the third volume pre-ordered already. Also would anyone suggest Wolfsmund? I would suggest not reading it, it's torture porn. More importantly, it's bad torture porn.
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Kingdom has some pretty over the top fighting and tons of bloodshed and people getting heads lopped off and limbs flying and cut in half and arrows in the eye and poo poo, but three more chapters starting with Chapter 312 dropped and I think I loving flinched. Augh gently caress his bone is poking through his wrist holy poo poo that must hurt like a son of a bitch. gently caress. The end of their fight is goddamn awesome though. 
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Mo_Steel posted:Kingdom has some pretty over the top fighting and tons of bloodshed and people getting heads lopped off and limbs flying and cut in half and arrows in the eye and poo poo, but three more chapters starting with Chapter 312 dropped and I think I loving flinched. This fight is the best 
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Breaky posted:There's good torture porn? Apparently the movie Zero Dark Thirty was well received by American audiences.
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swamp izzo posted:Is there a single (good) manga about European history that isn't Farmland saga. Thanks in advance. Mercenary Pierre has an awful start and premise (He tries to rape Joan of Arc but decides to help her because he wants to take her virginity), but it's about a mercenary in the Hundred Years War and has some really lavish battles. I didn't finish it though. Rose of Versailles is unironically good.
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Cynic Jester posted:This fight is the best Mouten though... I liked that guy.
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PaleIrishGuy posted:Mouten though... I liked that guy. I reckon he isn't dead. He'll be back with a bitchin scar to boot.
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PaleIrishGuy posted:Mouten though... I liked that guy.
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I just started reading vinland saga. I am so angry! I got all caught up in Askelad's adventure to guard the prince that I forgot they were all rear end in a top hat vikings who kill innocent people and now I'm mad at the author for making me root for a bunch of bad guys. Well I'm not that mad, I just feel weird because I was really rooting for Askelad and now I feel bad.
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Don't worry. Askelaad doesn't care for vikings much either.
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There's a small new Kingdom dump out filled with precious daddy moments. The extra panels at the end of the newest chapter are amazing!
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More awesome chapters of Kingdom. I'm really spoiled by the update rate, it's crazy and seriously accentuates the entertainment factor for me. Pretty cool new chapters too...My friend made the mistake of reminding me of the existence of Hou Ken though, god I hope that ridiculous DBZ character doesn't ever show up again. Especially given Riboku making some crazy move in the new chapters. I'd been hoping Hou Ken would disappear into the mountains forever but I seem to remember last we saw him he'd agreed to help when Kei Sha asked him, implying he's a confirmed permanent part of Riboku's arsenal now. I can't believe he actually ever existed, I remember it felt like he belonged in another series entirely (even with the Mountain Tribes and sword-dance Naruto ninja, he was an unbearable degree of bullshit). Kingdom is over the top and ridiculous but I really hate the occasional pure-fantasy magic stuff like "Bushin" and "breath" that sneaks in. Some guy capable of solo-ing an entire army really kills the awesomeness and tension of generalship and dramatic battle maneuvers that forms the core of Kingdom's appeal, even the craziest most powerful generals never got as stupid as Hou Ken. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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It seems to have happened just a little while back but Green Blood was fully translated. It petered out a bit towards the end but they ended it well. Also, the art is still drat good.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:More awesome chapters of Kingdom. I'm really spoiled by the update rate, it's crazy and seriously accentuates the entertainment factor for me. Boy are you about to be disappointed I don't like Hou Ken either. I really liked the duel that just happened, even if it was just two dudes hitting each other progressively harder with clubs, because I felt like somebody was actually going to win. Whenever Hou Ken shows up all he does is delay the conclusion for like 10 issues.
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Few more Kingdom chapters up. Although the "I have you!" "No, it is I who have YOU!" exchanges can get a bit tedious, it's worth it for the last chapter. "At least I'll be taking this arm with me!"
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KittenofDoom posted:Few more Kingdom chapters up. God I hate Hou Ken so much. He's starting to ruin this almost as much as that dumb loving Chi arc in Shamo.
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Ehhh, i don't mind Hou Ken. It's nice for Shin to have someone who he really really wants to give a kicking.
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Blinks77 posted:Ehhh, i don't mind Hou Ken. It's nice for Shin to have someone who he really really wants to give a kicking. That's all well and good. The part that ruins the setting of the manga is the Chi/Breath bullshit that he brings with him. TheFallenEvincar put more effort into explaining it than I will. If you're familiar with Shamo, you'd know why it's a giant poo poo in an otherwise fantastic manga.
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Hou Ken is going to win every time, until Shin powers up enough (and loses once), so he's a super boring character until he dies a chapter-long death. The rest of the Alliance arc is all gold. I wish they went further into depth about the different armies and their dumb gimmicks.
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How much better would it honestly be if Ri Boku were the one to have killed Duke Hyou, rather than some DBZ crossover character. It'd also create more direct personal bitterness and vengeance between Shin and Ri Boku (and create an inner dilemma and maybe hesitation within Ri Boku in future clashes? He did have that internal thought of not wanting to be forced to "kill a child"). I remember it was hinted at that he was as much of a deadly warrior as he was a master tactician, better to have him directly kill a general as awesome and powerful as Duke Hyou or kill him with some clever sneaky battle tactic. To make Naruto analogies, Hou Ken is basically our Sasuke, consistently defeating and maiming far more interesting and compelling characters than himself. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Feb 10, 2014 |
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I'm not certain how closely the author of Kingdom is going to stick to the character's historical counterparts, but Riboku (Li Mu) was taken down politically rather than militarily, and probably a good bit later, as this is most likely the 5 states armies attacking Qin in 241 BCE. Given that, he's not really Shin's enemy to defeat. This is likely why Houken was added to be the physical wall for Shin to overcome. That said, I don't really get this whole DBZ reject thing. Ouki was just as big and fought just as hard as Houken. Same with Renpa. And Moubu. And Hyou. These men are all shown as idiotically strong, really no different from Houken. Houken is basically just a really strong crazy guy dedicated to proving that he is the strongest and craziest of all. The only reason he's on the battlefield in the first place is because he lost to Ouki (even though Ouki died, it wasn't because Houken dominated him, but an arrow to the back). He's trying to find out why Ouki could summon that last burst of strength to bring his glaive down onto his neck despite the big hole he'd put through Ouki's chest. Now Hyou has done the same thing, then got Houken's arm. The idea is to reinforce that it's not simply martial prowess that makes a great general, with Houken serving as the example of what is wrong with just being a really tough guy. Also, on the whole Chi/Breath thing. It's not like Houken or Kai were even the first examples of that in the manga. Kai's breath thing is basically self hypnosis, and Houken's "I find the toughest dudes" thing has been done before. Besides, Houken might just wander from fire glow to fire glow, kicking the poo poo out of everyone and giving that whole "You summoned me here" speech to guy to block a blow. He is a crazy loner hermit obsessed with being the strongest thing in the world after all.
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Dilettante. posted:The raw for the latest Vinland is out, now we just have to wait for so did this ever get translated or are we waiting still?
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DamnGlitch posted:so did this ever get translated or are we waiting still? Hox is putting everything else he's working on on hiatus until he's done with Ashita no Joe if I remember right.
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Breaky posted:There's good torture porn? I would consider Mnemosyne pretty good.
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DamnGlitch posted:so did this ever get translated or are we waiting still? The raw's been floating around for about a month now 
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DamnGlitch posted:so did this ever get translated or are we waiting still? ANIME AKBAR posted:The raw's been floating around for about a month now On the bright side, we're a few days away from another raw! 
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You could pick up the second volume to ease the wait. It's been on sale for a while. Volume nine of Ooku is great as always. I highly recommend it.
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Yes we desAnonSpore posted:Hox is putting everything else he's working on on hiatus until he's done with Ashita no Joe if I remember right. We desperately need resolution on ashita no joe. Wait
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Mercenary Pierre was excellent. The ending fell a bit flat though.
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swamp izzo posted:Mercenary Pierre was excellent. The ending fell a bit flat though. It kinda makes sense to be uneventful, Pierre would either end as a guy forever on the battlefield, a corpse or a family man. It's straight fare for most of the military/mercenary commanders who became famous on the 100 year War (except for Gilles de Rais who became a
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Has anyone ever read the Rose of Versailles sequel, The Glory of Napoleon – Heroic? Is it any good? It's not been scanned ever, but I want to know if that's a Bad Thing.
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So I went and binged through all of Gisele Alain and really enjoyed what's available with the exception of one thing. The art is great, the characters are enjoyable (Henri, the naval architect introduced in the most recently translated chapter, is great especially), and the whole thing is just really light and relaxing. That being said, for the part I don't like, I REALLY hope there's swerve and author just sets Gisele up with Lucas or maybe nobody given that, you know, Eric's an adult and she's 13 which just makes him a huge creep.
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swamp izzo posted:Mercenary Pierre was excellent. The ending fell a bit flat though. I loved pierre, haven't read it in years but I remember thinking it was really great.
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Didn't realize it but there's a new chapter of Gunka no Balzer which includes some actual combat.
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Just blitzed through Vinland Saga these past two days and loved it. Time to skim the thread. If I enjoyed that, I suppose Historie is the next logical step?
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So when will there be a new chapter of Otoyomegatari? Or Vinland Saga? I'm on withdrawal from historic Manga. Does anybody have a release schedule for those two, so that I don't have to check all those manga-websites every hour? 
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