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Serious Frolicking posted:What was that manga about a gay couple with a lot of cooking in it? It was good. Sounds like Kinou Nani Tabeta? Don't remember if it was mentioned previously in the thread, so here's a recommendation. It's a very chill series about these two guys, Shiro, a lawyer, and Kenji, a hairdresser. I quite like it, it's somehow very refreshing to see like, just an ordinary middle aged gay couple cooking and doing daily life stuff. Every chapter features Shiro (and occasionally someone else) walking the reader through the preparation of a recipe or meal, so it feels a little like a cooking show sometimes. The title means "What did you eat yesterday?" 
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Komori Quintet! It's kind of like K-ON, except it's about a music club.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:32
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VibrantPareidolia posted:Sounds like Kinou Nani Tabeta? It's actually been licensed. http://www.amazon.com/What-Did-You-Yesterday-Volume/dp/1939130387
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coathat posted:It's actually been licensed. http://www.amazon.com/What-Did-You-Yesterday-Volume/dp/1939130387 Well poo poo. This is the only BL/yaoi/whatever manga I've ever enjoyed, I'll have to pick at least a volume or two up. I'll go ahead and echo Panic!'s request: are there any other decent ones?
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I just caught up on the new work by Tomoko Ninomiya, author of Nodame Cantabile. The main character is a violin student in his final year of music school who is drifting, uncertain of what he wants to do in life, and with no job prospects. One night on his way home from school, he happens upon a beautiful girl standing outside her apartment barefoot in the snow. I'm sure you can figure out where this is going... That's right...  COMPETITIVE EXTREME PC OVERCLOCKING!!! 87 Clockers
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Nipponophile posted:I just caught up on the new work by Tomoko Ninomiya, author of Nodame Cantabile. You better not be throwing me for a loop here, this better actually be about hardcore PC hardware maximizing
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Jul 10, 2014 03:55
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I don't see a pot for liquid nitrogen, not hardcore enough. 
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Jul 10, 2014 05:30
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You two haven't even looked at the comic, obviously.
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Jul 10, 2014 05:34
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Nipponophile posted:
That is so not the best pic. This one has it all. Catfood, udon, liquid nitrogen... 
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Jul 10, 2014 09:42
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Not enough chapters. And are tournaments competing to see who can play Crysis with the highest framerate really a thing?
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Jul 10, 2014 09:52
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Clarste posted:Not enough chapters. And are tournaments competing to see who can play Crysis with the highest framerate really a thing? Over-clocking tournaments certainly are a thing. Crysis might be a bit outdated (I am not too sure, I dont really follow the overclocking scene) but a few years ago it certainly was used as a dickwaving benchmark tool.
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Jul 10, 2014 11:13
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Nipponophile posted:You two haven't even looked at the comic, obviously. Raskolnikov posted:That is so not the best pic. This one has it all. Catfood, udon, liquid nitrogen... This is the dumbest, most magically incomprehensible idea for a manga ever. I wish Intel would send me that replacement CPU soon because I feel the need to bench(mark).
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Jul 10, 2014 13:38
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God, I love stuff like this. Like, weird stuff that makes you go 'oh, Japan' is one thing, but when I come across a manga about EXTREME OVERCLOCKING or HIGH-STAKES BANK AUDITS, I can't help but fall in love.
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Jul 10, 2014 21:29
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87 Clockers is cool, I mean I rolled my eyes at the video game tournament but it's so perfect that the guy essentially throws away the violin and gets hardcore into a weird scene because he saw a cute girl crying.
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So I have been reading Gantz up til the Osaka arc and I am really digging the art and action. Any thoughts on the anime or the movies? Are they worth checking out?
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Miguel Prado posted:So I have been reading Gantz up til the Osaka arc and I am really digging the art and action. Any thoughts on the anime or the movies? Are they worth checking out? Let me do you a favor. Stop now and just enjoy it as a good manga. (the anime started out cool, finished meh, never watched the movies).
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Miguel Prado posted:So I have been reading Gantz up til the Osaka arc and I am really digging the art and action. Any thoughts on the anime or the movies? Are they worth checking out? Yea, shits about to get really loving weird. I mean it's weird to begin with but after Osaka it just...really doesn't fit anywhere with the storyline or progression to that point. Then right at the end they try to make it work by spoon feeding it to you with a dump truck.
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Gantz is the worst thing I have ever been tricked into reading more than a chapter of and I am totally baffled by it's popularity.
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What's with people thinking you're supposed to read Gantz with your brain on?
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There's a lot of tits and violence.
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:Gantz is the worst thing I have ever been tricked into reading more than a chapter of and I am totally baffled by it's popularity. I wish I could empty quote this but instead I will add that Tenjou Tenge is a serious contender for this prestigious distinction.
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AnonSpore posted:I wish I could empty quote this but instead I will add that Tenjou Tenge is a serious contender for this prestigious distinction. This, or that author's other famous work, Air Gear.
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resurgam40 posted:This, or that author's other famous work, Air Gear. At least early Air Gear was really entertaining until it went down the "fate of the world rests on a bunch of mentally unstable kids with super roller skates" route.
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Hey now, Air Gear is awesome As long as you read it expecting nothing else than a dumb shonen. It has amazing fight scenes, anyway. Speaking of which, Air Gear!  It's amazingly well-drawn, and amazingly dumb. And I love it. Mikl fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Jul 11, 2014 20:16
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Sometime I wish the author who drawn Air Gear would go design monsters for Yugioh because all those monster-persona things are amazing.
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Nyaa posted:Sometime I wish the author who drawn Air Gear would go design monsters for Yugioh because all those monster-persona things are amazing. Nah man, what needs to happen is O!Great needs to partner up with a really good writer and then collaborate the greatest shounen manga ever.
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Gantz is basically the modern follow up to the works of Yoshiaki Kawajiri.
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Ccs posted:There's a lot of tits Isn't Gantz about little kids? From what I do remember the premises was one that interested me but the manga itself sucks.
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Anatharon posted:Isn't Gantz about little kids? No, you're probably thinking of Narutaru, which has a vaguely similar premise but is very, very different. And much better than Gantz. It's about a bunch of kids that get transported to a mysterious island and have to pilot a giant robot to protect humanity. Gantz is about people about to commit suicide who are transported to a mysterious apartment and forced to take missions killing aliens because reasons. Reasons that are revealed very late in the manga and are just incredibly dumb. It has lots of T&A and the genre changes a couple times when the author gets bored.
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Miguel Prado posted:So I have been reading Gantz up til the Osaka arc and I am really digging the art and action. Any thoughts on the anime or the movies? Are they worth checking out? I only watched the first couple of episodes of the anime and it was alright. The movie is terrible. It is absolutely infuriating how often the characters will stand there watching a monster beat their friend to death, then act all sad about it. Like literally standing 10 feet away with a gun doing nothing.
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Begemot posted:No, you're probably thinking of Narutaru, which has a vaguely similar premise but is very, very different. And much better than Gantz. It's about a bunch of kids that get transported to a mysterious island and have to pilot a giant robot to protect humanity. I'd recommend Bokurano, Narutaru not so much. Sindai fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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Narutaru's decent but not worth reading since Bokurano is more or less the same story but much much better written, the art is a lot better (it is really hard to tell some characters apart in Narutaru), and it's a lot less of a pain to find read (it's jarring from going from the first half which is an official localization by Dark Horse, then the second half which is a scanlation). It's also a lot less nihilistic; they're both pretty bleak but Bokurano definitely strives to give a positive theme, ultimately. Although one amazing thing comes from the Narutaru anime OP which simultaneously is really cutesy and references some of the horrible poo poo that happens later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIF5BLyh3Mk To stay somewhat on topic, have an image from Bokurano.  In case the image doesn't make it clear, they're standing on top of a 100 foot robot.
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Genocyber posted:To stay somewhat on topic, have an image from Bokurano.
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Genocyber posted:
Actually it's 500 METERS, not that it makes it any better though. It actually makes it a lot worse! 
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Begemot posted:No, you're probably thinking of Narutaru, which has a vaguely similar premise but is very, very different. And much better than Gantz. It's about a bunch of kids that get transported to a mysterious island and have to pilot a giant robot to protect humanity. Could also be thinking of Gad Guard, which is not even vaguely similar to Gantz but I used to get their names mixed up due to both starting with Gs.
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Air Gear: Having read like all of it, I can tell you that it is a stupid, formulaic manga that loses its poo poo about 60 chapters in. The actual MacGuffin that the manga is named after comes in at like chapter 280. There is a love triangle. If I ever have to do a lecture about love triangles, Air Gear is my exhibit A on how not to do them. The fights are hella cool, but they get predictable very, very quickly. Are the heroes winning as the chapter ends? They will be losing next chapter. Are the heroes losing? They will suddenly pull out a special ability they never discussed before! Furthermore, the author has an awful loving habit of making the readers suffer through the back stories of minor villains. One of those backstories explains why one cross-dresses as a girl who's into abusing his manservant/partner. It is as awful as it is inconsequential. Oh and the manga in general is just extremely stupid and fanservicy, but honestly it works despite itself and you just kinda learn to go with it. Turning your brain off is a requirement if you want to try to enjoy this. If you are going to read it, get to the part where they win the first Regalia and then stop. That's the point where Air Gear stops being enjoyable. It's AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL downhill from there. Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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SSNeoman posted:Air Gear: Having read like all of it, I can tell you that it is a stupid, formulaic manga that loses its poo poo about 60 chapters in. The actual MacGuffin that the manga is named after comes in at like chapter 280. There is a love triangle. If I ever have to do a lecture about love triangles, Air Gear is my exhibit A on how not to do them. Don't forget the best part. The final "power-up" consisted of Crow taking the bird out of his hair because he has always held back a ton since the start to avoid hurting the bird. Oh, and the big bad has been using his skates without a power source the entire series (of all the 'gently caress this' bullshit power techniques across all manga this is top 3 worst0, so he plugs in some batteries and suddenly becomes a god, who loses anyways
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Is that the manga where Barack Obama turns himself into a magical girl or am I misremembering
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Tarezax posted:Is that the manga where Barack Obama turns himself into a magical girl or am I misremembering He switches bodies with one of the roller-blading girls on the protag's team, yes.
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