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Lazaruise posted:Any recommendations for a none tragic romance? I'm in the mood for something sappy. I don't mind some tragedy as long as it ends happily. Is there anything you've read that you like so we can get a good idea what you're into? Would you prefer stories about adults? Is high school stuff okay? Edit: Oh, this is the Seinen thread. There's a Romance thread too although it tends to focus on shoujo/josei/yuri. jackofarcades fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Started Aoi Bungaku and it's been a wonderful ride so far. Is there anything in similar vein?
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New chapter of Bambino Secondo. http://www.batoto.net/read/_/262531/bambino-secondo_v2_ch18_by_v16 One some level I can see that the restaurant is seriously lacking in the front of house and during his time there Bambi did a phenomenal job and could help fix the current problems of reviewers complaining about service. However on the other hand it turns the entire pasta section over to a taste-challenged moron who is probably going to then sink the store's reputation regarding the food. You know what, gently caress it. The head manager is an idiot and deserves to fail at the second restaurant.
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Jul 31, 2014 21:43
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Ana Satsujin This is one of those "  This is really dark/strange/disturbing, but I can't stop reading it" mangas. Basically, a suicidal shut-in peeps at female serial murderer who murders in her bedroom, and things kind of go on from there. It's pretty messed-up, but strangely compelling.EDIT: Got rid of url -- available on MangaBox. DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 03:52
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DrSunshine posted:Ana Satsujin It's also available for free legally with pro translations in the Manga Box app on iOS.
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Literally The Worst posted:It's also available for free legally with pro translations in the Manga Box app on iOS. I'm pretty sure the scanlations for all the Mangabox series are literally just the Mangabox stuff ripped and uploaded. But yeah. I couldn't get into Ana Satsujin. It felt like it was fetishizing serial killing, which even I can't really find *~moe~*.
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DrSunshine posted:Ana Satsujin is pretty apt for this one. Just met the...furniture designer. Huh.
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AnonSpore posted:I'm pretty sure the scanlations for all the Mangabox series are literally just the Mangabox stuff ripped and uploaded. This is even dumber then, especially the untranslated title for extra weebness.
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Aug 1, 2014 05:04
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I kinda want to know where mangabox gets it's stuff, because somehow they seem to cherry pick the shittiest manga I've ever seen in get translated into English.
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Blhue posted:I kinda want to know where mangabox gets it's stuff, because somehow they seem to cherry pick the shittiest manga I've ever seen in get translated into English. That mystery one with the magic tricks was pretty good, that's the only one besides the peep hole one I remember reading.
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Blhue posted:I kinda want to know where mangabox gets it's stuff, because somehow they seem to cherry pick the shittiest manga I've ever seen in get translated into English. The protagonist owns a dog, and when that dog is inside his apartment he sees it as a sexy high school girl. She talks like a human, but has the mind of a literal dog. The central conflict of the manga is that the protagonist must overcome the temptation to gently caress his sexy dog. Then he gets a cat. When he's alone with it, it is a sexy teenage tsundere. It's like - who the gently caress sees a pet curling up beside its owner, and is all "yeah, I'd tap that." And who the hell at Mangabox went "yeah, that is totes a thing America will dig"?
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Squidster posted:I would like to especially highlight Wanko Number One as the single grossest harem ever. Two s in a row.
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Squidster posted:I would like to especially highlight Wanko Number One as the single grossest harem ever. I dunno man I don't have a cat but if I did have one who was a sexy teenage tsundere... Just sayin
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Squidster posted:I would like to especially highlight Wanko Number One as the single grossest harem ever. I misread that as "Greatest harem ever" until I reread it to make sure you weren't being creepy. But yeah, I don't exactly see a burgeoning market for zoophile manga.
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New chapter of Boku Dake ga Inai Machi. Teacher is still sketchy as hell, and our hero is still not catching on. Ending panels are also a bit of a downer on the general nature of loving with the future. I actually forgot about Airi till he brought it up since he's been time-slipped for a while now.
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AnonSpore posted:I dunno man I don't have a cat but if I did have one who was a sexy teenage tsundere... To be fair all cats are tsundere. Sexy though...?
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Aug 1, 2014 07:10
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New chapter of Misappropriation Investigator Nakabo Rintaro.
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Allarion posted:New chapter of Boku Dake ga Inai Machi. (snipped) Those comments're kinda spoily, you know. Might want to put them in spoiler blocks. Not that I care as much as some people but still. Kaja Rainbow fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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The best way to point out spoilers is to quote them and not tag them yourself.
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Elysiume posted:New chapter of Misappropriation Investigator Nakabo Rintaro. You made me sad. 
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Captain Invictus posted:The best way to point out spoilers is to quote them and not tag them yourself. Can't believe that slipped my mind. Fixed.
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pentyne posted:New chapter of Bambino Secondo. Man, the conflict with the awful chef just seems so manufactured. Bambi runs the pasta section, right? If one of the chefs below him is bad at his job, gives bad advice to his co-workers, and refuses to improve, it's literally Bambi's job to go to the manager and get his dumb rear end fired, isn't it? This isn't like early on in the first series where Bambi, as the lowest on the totem pole, didn't really have a right to complain; if this guy's loving up the pasta so bad, it's Bambi's responsibility to do something about it. Ugh, I'm just mad because the first series was so great and didn't seem to have bullshit like this. Edit: In Boku Dake ga Inai Machi, the teacher seems a little too obvious at this point. I mean, between his facial expressions last chapter and the fact that he literally has tons of candy in his car, he seems like a red herring. I don't know; I'm kind of hoping it's not him just because it's so obvious. DoubleDonut fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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DoubleDonut posted:Man, the conflict with the awful chef just seems so manufactured. Bambi runs the pasta section, right? If one of the chefs below him is bad at his job, gives bad advice to his co-workers, and refuses to improve, it's literally Bambi's job to go to the manager and get his dumb rear end fired, isn't it? This isn't like early on in the first series where Bambi, as the lowest on the totem pole, didn't really have a right to complain; if this guy's loving up the pasta so bad, it's Bambi's responsibility to do something about it. Its weird and a symptom of the downward spiral series became. Someone who worked on the first series was going to translate the second for a while until they read it and it was just plain bad. The pasta sous chef is a clearly incompetent moron that no one chastises or corrects but then they humiliate Ban when he loses his temper at the chef, and now the pull Ban out of the kitchen to fix the front of house? I don't own a restaurant but if the quality of the food takes a dive at a supposedly high class Italian restaurant people will notice real quick and stop eating there, no matter how nice the staff is. I'm just waiting for the extreme nationalism to show up before I give up on it. At some point the writer decided he really hates Koreans and started putting that into a cooking series.
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Okay, I don't usually toot my own horn in these threads but this could use some more exposure in my opinon and I'm curious as to what you guys think. Recently I've been working on Gonensei, sequel to Yonensei which I did a while ago (holy poo poo has it been a year and a half already). It's the story of a young college couple and their relationship. Kinda ugly, kinda funny, doesn't really conform to manga romance tropes but I like the raw feeling of it. Has a little sex (nothing above what you'd see in an R-rated movie). It's not perfect; Kio has come a long way since he drew this and I think he can to meander a bit during some scenes, but again, I really liked it. 
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Laputanmachine posted:You made me sad. 
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I finished Shigurui. People said the ending sucked but I thought it was fine.
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New chapter of Nobunaga no Chef is pretty much food porn Every single one of those dishes Ken presents just makes me starving for some French cuisine.
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Speaking of food porn, Aiki updated recently. I'm used to the usual manga habit of Japan > the world, but man Isutoshi likes to poo poo on Western food and Western tastes.
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That's actually one of the things I like about these historical series like Jin and Nobunaga no Chef. The authors straight up admits that Western methodology ends up being better than so called Japanese Superiority. Nationalism is great and all, but sometimes you just have to admit that your people were hicks compared to the rest of the world at certain periods in history.
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jwang posted:That's actually one of the things I like about these historical series like Jin and Nobunaga no Chef. The authors straight up admits that Western methodology ends up being better than so called Japanese Superiority. Nationalism is great and all, but sometimes you just have to admit that your people were hicks compared to the rest of the world at certain periods in history. Jin is good because it addresses the intense distrust between western doctors and traditional Japanese doctors at the time, and how difficult it was to get people to adopt a new set of practices. Since any real doctor can't promise a 100% cure Jin would come into conflict when someone died under his watch and the traditional doctors would try to use it as proof that Western medicine was ineffective. With Nobunaga, the Japanese isle lacked a lot of the staple foods of European cuisine. Mainland Europe was trading with Africa, Arabia, the Ottomans, Spices from Persia, and later exotics like sugar and potatoes from the New World. I may not recall correctly, but I think that for centuries the presentation style, appearance, table ware, etc. was what defined high end Japanese food. Master cooks followed traditions to the letter, making it perfect every time. The only cooking techniques open to them were roasting, steaming, and boiling. Meals were formal rituals that followed a long tradition and there was no push to develop new cooking styles or techniques. Also, the Buddhist culture for a long time emphasized vegetarian diets for vast swathes of the population. It is strange that even into the late 1500s Japan never absorbed the cooking styles/skills from China or Korea given how much trade there was between the two. I'd love to know if/why the Japanese never developed the method of making butter, given that butter had been used for thousands of years in Europe, Africa, India and so forth. I think even the most die-hard Japanese nationalists would have to admit that Japanese food lagged far behind the rest of the world until the 1800s, at the very least from a lack of options of ingredients. One of the common "1950s-80s Japanese-businessmen visits America" cliches in TV is that naive business people take them to sushi restaurants, while savvy ones take them to steak-houses, because steak wasn't a thing in Japan. As far some unique methods for the time Ken uses in preparation of food (besides simply knowing foreign dishes) its - use of animal fat i.e cooking vegetable ingredients in duck fat - using alcohol to flambe - frying with oil - knowing the 9 stages of sugar syrup - using truffles - able to make rudimentary soy sauce - make mayonnaise - make butter - make bread and even out of those, the sugar syrup is the only thing Japanese islands lacked the resources to develop. Probably the most notable dish is bread, something with a 30,000 year history in the rest of the world that Japan never developed. pentyne fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Aug 9, 2014 11:50
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Me and the Devil Blues coming back September 5th.
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Is he using his Prison School money to fund a return of Devil Blues? If that was the case, it'd be hilarious.
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coathat posted:Me and the Devil Blues coming back September 5th. Are you making GBS threads me, this is the best news I've heard all year e: Do you have a JP source for this, I see an article on ANN but no source outside of that image, and there's nothing on the Young Magazine the 3rd homepage or elsewhere on the Japanese net that I can see. e2: Never mind, manganewsjapon has it and they're usually reliable. AnonSpore fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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coathat posted:Me and the Devil Blues coming back September 5th. Listening to all my music on shuffle resulted in Hellhound on my Trail playing as I read this
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The GTO sequel is finally up on Crunchyroll. http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/gto-paradise-lost/volumes Good poo poo.
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Seriously that's amazing news and the existence of Prison School is retroactively justified.
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If this ushers in a new era of mangaka doing guilty porn to get money for ambitious projects, I will not know how to feel.
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Well transitioning from porn to non-porn a fairly standard thing that happens (AIKI, Shokugeki no Soma, Hellsing I think?) so I guess doing it the other way around is only a little more skeezy,
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But Prison School is really good too. I've posted about it before, but it's basically the author, after having Devil Blues get cancelled, go "you want lowest common denominator smut, you horrible shitbags? Have all the censors will allow!" and made one of the most cynical, condescending, over-serious, absurd, insulting, borderline porn series out there. It actively rubs the smuttiness in your face, to the point where the vice-president's word bubbles point to her crotch, rather than her mouth. Where every character has the rationality and common sense of a plank of wood, but plays each and every situation 100% deadly seriously no matter how mindblowingly stupid it may be. Prison School is not a good series, on its face. But when you learn a little bit of the history of the author's prior work and the result of it, it makes PS make so much more sense. It's also just really amusingly stupid at times, like the fantastic boobs-are-fake-butts page. 
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Pierson posted:Well transitioning from porn to non-porn a fairly standard thing that happens (AIKI, Shokugeki no Soma, Hellsing I think?) so I guess doing it the other way around is only a little more skeezy, If Hellsing started out as porn it sure made its transition to being about Alucard killing poo poo pretty quickly.
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