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pentyne: Nov 7, 2012

Bambino chapter 19

Finally someone shuts down Tsuchimiya for being an insubordinate rear end (Bacanale Chef Asuka, Ban's temporary replacement) in the right way, a firm verbal warning that his disrespect will not be tolerated and further outbursts will jeopardize his job. Although now its looking like he gets his own sad sack story so people feel sympathy for him. Something about a woman he lives with milking him for all he's worth, or possibly he's crazy and its a body pillow.

pentyne fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Aug 16, 2014

# ? Aug 16, 2014 10:43

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# ? May 10, 2024 07:23

DoubleDonut: Oct 22, 2010; Fallen Rib

pentyne posted:

Bambino chapter 19

Finally someone shuts down Tsuchimiya for being an insubordinate rear end (Bacanale Chef Asuka, Ban's temporary replacement) in the right way, a firm verbal warning that his disrespect will not be tolerated and further outbursts will jeopardize his job. Although now its looking like he gets his own sad sack story so people feel sympathy for him. Something about a woman he lives with milking him for all he's worth, or possibly he's crazy and its a body pillow.

Even Bambi realizes that this plot hasn't gone anywhere.

# ? Aug 16, 2014 14:37

Allarion: May 16, 2009; がんばルビ！

New chapter of Boku Dake ga Inai Machi.

# ? Aug 19, 2014 22:38

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

Hahahaha. I hadn't read I'm In Mari in quite a while. I caught up a minute ago and welp, the latest chapter is literally porn. I wasn't expecting it to go this far when I recommended it to be picked up by crunchyroll! :v:

# ? Aug 20, 2014 04:31

Law Cheetah: Mar 3, 2012

pentyne posted:

Bambino chapter 19

Finally someone shuts down Tsuchimiya for being an insubordinate rear end (Bacanale Chef Asuka, Ban's temporary replacement) in the right way, a firm verbal warning that his disrespect will not be tolerated and further outbursts will jeopardize his job. Although now its looking like he gets his own sad sack story so people feel sympathy for him. Something about a woman he lives with milking him for all he's worth, or possibly he's crazy and its a body pillow.

It's funny that being a abusive gently caress might be the solution to Bambi's problems, maybe someone should smack Tsuchimiya around like Bambi used to get

# ? Aug 20, 2014 05:05

Ruby Prism: Aug 7, 2011; With this, I'll be able to make the ultimate pie!

Captain Invictus posted:

Hahahaha. I hadn't read I'm In Mari in quite a while. I caught up a minute ago and welp, the latest chapter is literally porn. I wasn't expecting it to go this far when I recommended it to be picked up by crunchyroll!

Honestly, if you buy into the premise, it was a bit unrealistic how Isao didn't explore her body earlier. But yeah, it was an arguably needlessly explicit chapter. That said, I don't think it was framed in a way to make it titillating. The whole "melt into you" train of thought alongside the manic silhouette towering over her did a pretty good job of keeping it all incredibly awkward and off-putting.

Some of the reactions to the chapter are predictably super negative, and while I can relate, I find it curious that it's not the context of the situation (Or for the older readers, the fact that it portrays a teenager.) that creeped most people out, but just the act of masturbation itself, as if that was what was wrong with the scene.

I'm intrigued by that phone call though. I basically force myself to forget about this title for a month or so and then catch up in one sitting. It's the only way I can cope with the cliffhangers.

# ? Aug 22, 2014 05:14

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

Oh yeah, there's plenty about it that is needlessly skeevy, but I didn't really want to get into the creepier aspects.

# ? Aug 22, 2014 06:25

toanoradian: May 31, 2011; The happiest waffligator

After I found Yowamushi Pedal from the Shonen thread, I went around looking for other hot-blooded sports manga featuring less popular sports. I came across Gunjou, a manga about ekiden, a long-distance relay race done on roads. The manga stars a female protagonist whose only joy in the world is to run in ekidens and specifically registered to this one school where everybody good at anything is already on their own great team because one of the teachers is a legendary ekiden runner. I went in expecting some hot-blooded running and hot blooded convincing the teacher to return to the majestic road of relay racing, some awesome burning camaraderie and lots of running terms and special abilities. Turns out it's actually a drama and most of the focus was on personal tragedies. There is competitive running somewhere in there, but after that is a multiple chapter flashback about an energetic sports coach slowly dying from a disease.

I balked then, but now that I re-read it, it's not a bad story. It didn't focus much on the competitive aspect of a sports, but more on the effects of how a sport affects the athletes. The way the teammates are 'recruited' is, while not unique, quite interesting. How the tragedies sort of relate to each other is also, I think, nicely done. Also also, a sports manga featuring all girls. Haven't seen that one too often. Can't name one off the top of my head. It spent about four volumes just getting the main five person and the coach together, and turns out it ends in five volumes. Oh well.

For all I said about how this isn't hot-blooded though, the latest chapter of this tragedic sports manga is of course five girls trying to outrun a train, one of them running solely on ~friendship~ and another being motivated by the sweaty efforts of the other. Try the series out.

# ? Aug 23, 2014 15:04

gimme the GOD DAMN candy: Jul 1, 2007

I just thought it was weird how that girl was so fixated on one particular race.

# ? Aug 23, 2014 15:10

Puukko naamassa: Mar 25, 2010; Oh No! Bruno!; Lipstick Apathy

Another chapter of Kakukaku Shikajika

Sensei is the best. :allears:

# ? Aug 23, 2014 15:39

Laputanmachine: Oct 31, 2010; by Smythe

toanoradian posted:

Also also, a sports manga featuring all girls. Haven't seen that one too often. Can't name one off the top of my head.

Teppu. While it's not exactly hot-blooded in the sense that it hasn't got spike-haired teenagers shouting nonsense words at each other until their heads explode, it is entertaining and even funny at times and some of the connecting punches and kicks during matches look downright painful (the name of the game is MMA).

# ? Aug 23, 2014 15:41

toanoradian: May 31, 2011; The happiest waffligator

Laputanmachine posted:

Teppu.

How could I forget Teppu :doh:

To be honest, I could name one sports manga featuring mostly girls, but it is filled with fanservice, so...

# ? Aug 23, 2014 16:33

a kitten: Aug 5, 2006

Puukko naamassa posted:

Another chapter of Kakukaku Shikajika

Sensei is the best.

That's josei and goes in the shoujo/romance thread. :colbert:

_{_{where I just posted pretty much the same thing}}

Not that it actually matters to me, because everyone should read it.

# ? Aug 23, 2014 16:44

Puukko naamassa: Mar 25, 2010; Oh No! Bruno!; Lipstick Apathy

a kitten posted:

That's josei and goes in the shoujo/romance thread. _{_{where I just posted pretty much the same thing}}

Not that it actually matters to me, because everyone should read it.

poo poo, you're right. I may have actually thought I was posting in that thread :shobon:

# ? Aug 23, 2014 17:52

Randallteal: May 7, 2006; The tears of time

Captain Invictus posted:

Hahahaha. I hadn't read I'm In Mari in quite a while. I caught up a minute ago and welp, the latest chapter is literally porn. I wasn't expecting it to go this far when I recommended it to be picked up by crunchyroll!

I had the exact same reaction when I opened up the latest chapter of Sun-Ken Rock to see if the translation had improved. Literally just an entire chapter of explicit sex. The translation did feel more natural to me than when CR did their catch-up dump. The dialogue wasn't that complicated, though. :v:

IIRC Cannon God Exaxxion also had a chapter where the main characters went at it. It's almost refreshing to see after reading so many shonen romances that sexualize their female characters with panty shots and bathing scenes without ever letting them have any sexual thoughts or agency for themselves. Not that Sun-Ken Rock or CGE are good examples of healthy sexual politics, but I think I like that better than the Ken Akamatsu approach.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 10:54

DoubleDonut: Oct 22, 2010; Fallen Rib

New chapter of Bambino Secondo. I guess we're gonna have a cooking manga showdown instead of firing this blatant idiot for some reason.

# ? Aug 29, 2014 19:08

pentyne: Nov 7, 2012

DoubleDonut posted:

New chapter of Bambino Secondo. I guess we're gonna have a cooking manga showdown instead of firing this blatant idiot for some reason.

I love how much this is being shoehorned in by this point. 20 entire chapters (was this a weekly manga?) and Ban has been ineffectual as all hell, Asuka comes in and starts laying down the law but the guy is so consistently bad that even she starts to doubt her own sense of taste for a moment, and he's still employed by the restaurant.

After the first 2-3 days of screw-ups the head chef would fire the gently caress out of this guy. I bet the cooking contest will be judged by the other chefs, and the bad cooks chef buddies will pick his food because they don't like Ban, and the whole thing continues on for another 10-15 chapters.

# ? Aug 29, 2014 20:34

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Hopefully midway through the contest the head chef just walks in and cans a couple of people.

# ? Aug 29, 2014 22:13

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

I'm now understanding why nobody wanted to scanlate this

# ? Aug 30, 2014 02:06

DoubleDonut: Oct 22, 2010; Fallen Rib

I don't think I've ever been as disappointed with a work of fiction as much as I have with Bambino Secondo so far. The original series was so drat good and Secondo apparently gets even worse than this.

# ? Aug 30, 2014 02:38

trucutru: Jul 9, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

DoubleDonut posted:

I don't think I've ever been as disappointed with a work of fiction as much as I have with Bambino Secondo so far. The original series was so drat good and Secondo apparently gets even worse than this.

The first series had an excellent first half, but near the end you could see that the author was running out of ideas (What with Coyote Tango in there). It was still decent at that point but secondo is way shittier.

# ? Aug 30, 2014 02:54

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

DoubleDonut posted:

I don't think I've ever been as disappointed with a work of fiction as much as I have with Bambino Secondo so far. The original series was so drat good and Secondo apparently gets even worse than this.

I warned you about Secondo bro

I told you dog

:smith:

# ? Aug 30, 2014 02:59

Cake Attack: Mar 26, 2010

Coyote Blades :911:

was silly but at least in a good way, this is just dumb.

# ? Aug 30, 2014 03:28

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

Did something happen to the author of Fortress of the Apocalypse, there hasn't been a new chapter in months

# ? Aug 30, 2014 03:37

coathat: May 21, 2007

New chapter Monday and at least get the name right. http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/fort-of-apocalypse/volumes

# ? Aug 30, 2014 13:13

Wild Horses: Oct 31, 2012; There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.

Did they stop translating All Rounder Meguru or what? That was the best martial arts manga i've read and ... nothing or little forever

# ? Aug 30, 2014 15:07

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Wild Horses posted:

Did they stop translating All Rounder Meguru or what? That was the best martial arts manga i've read and ... nothing or little forever

Kotonoha is where scanlated manga go to die

# ? Aug 30, 2014 15:11

Sindai: Jan 24, 2007; i want to achieve immortality through not dying

What do you mean? ARM has been getting translated fairly steadily for months now.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Aug 30, 2014

# ? Aug 30, 2014 17:34

Another Poster: Apr 12, 2008

Yep, slower than I want but it definitely comes out regularly.

# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:11

Turin Turambar: Jun 5, 2011

Wild Horses posted:

Did they stop translating All Rounder Meguru or what? That was the best martial arts manga i've read and ... nothing or little forever

what

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Date 	Title 	Vol. 	Ch. 	Groups 	DL
08/04/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	10 	91 	Silent Sky
07/13/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	10 	90 	Silent Sky
06/26/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	10 	89 	Silent Sky
06/12/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	10 	88 	Silent Sky
05/20/14 	All Rounder Meguru 		87 	Silent Sky
04/22/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	9 	86 	Silent Sky
04/12/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	9 	85 	Silent Sky
04/04/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	9 	84 	Silent Sky
03/27/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	9 	83 	Silent Sky
03/20/14 	All Rounder Meguru 	9 	82 	Silent Sky

# ? Aug 30, 2014 20:06

coathat: May 21, 2007

October needs to get here soon. I need the next volume of Sunny badly. Especially after reading this.

# ? Aug 30, 2014 20:24

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

coathat posted:

New chapter Monday and at least get the name right. http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/fort-of-apocalypse/volumes

Thanks, there hadn't been an update in months. Sorry I slightly misnamed the series babe, hopefully you'll get over it

# ? Aug 30, 2014 21:34

Kaja Rainbow: Oct 17, 2012; ~Adorable horror~

Myself, I momentarily misread it as Fist of Apocalypse, before I mentally corrected myself.

# ? Aug 30, 2014 21:45

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Just caught up with Liar Game. The Four Kingdoms game looks pretty interesting. Some exploitable wrinkles, and it looks like the endgame is going to be interesting.

Just looking at the rules, a few things jump out. Attacking everyone else is, at best, equivalent to doing nothing (-3 to all players). And it looks like if you get down to 1 hp, there's no incentive to attack or defend at all, since the attacker dies before their target does. I would not be surprised if the final game comes down to someone sacrificing their victory by doing that.

And it doesn't seem like being the boss or general is - technically - restricted to members of your own team. I could plausibly see Nao or Akiyama ending up with control of multiple factions.

# ? Aug 31, 2014 00:27

Silver2195: Apr 4, 2012

Tunicate posted:

Just caught up with Liar Game. The Four Kingdoms game looks pretty interesting. Some exploitable wrinkles, and it looks like the endgame is going to be interesting.

Just looking at the rules, a few things jump out. Attacking everyone else is, at best, equivalent to doing nothing (-3 to all players). And it looks like if you get down to 1 hp, there's no incentive to attack or defend at all, since the attacker dies before their target does. I would not be surprised if the final game comes down to someone sacrificing their victory by doing that.

And it doesn't seem like being the boss or general is - technically - restricted to members of your own team. I could plausibly see Nao or Akiyama ending up with control of multiple factions.

By the way, I noticed something interesting: Since Yokoya's knowledge of the Liar Game comes from the novel, he doesn't actually know what happens to the losers. He must have just made up the stuff about human experimentation because it sounded suitably scary.

I actually don't like the whole novel idea; I feel that making Artier a plagiarist makes him a lot less threatening.

# ? Aug 31, 2014 00:49

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Silver2195 posted:

By the way, I noticed something interesting: Since Yokoya's knowledge of the Liar Game comes from the novel, he doesn't actually know what happens to the losers. He must have just made up the stuff about human experimentation because it sounded suitably scary.

I actually don't like the whole novel idea; I feel that making Artier a plagiarist makes him a lot less threatening.

Unless he wrote the book himself.

# ? Aug 31, 2014 01:55

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Silver2195 posted:

By the way, I noticed something interesting: Since Yokoya's knowledge of the Liar Game comes from the novel, he doesn't actually know what happens to the losers. He must have just made up the stuff about human experimentation because it sounded suitably scary.

I actually don't like the whole novel idea; I feel that making Artier a plagiarist makes him a lot less threatening.

Well, I'm wondering
If Artier was the original author, and used his big stacks of money to start the LGC? Authors with tons of cash are pretty far to suspend disbelief, I admit it, but I think the series has been going long enough for such fantasies.

EDIT: Oh, there's the whole 'the liar game company pays out a billion if you can prove they cheated' or whatever from Nao's second discussion with the fake lawyer. I wouldn't be surprised if that came up.

Tunicate fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Aug 31, 2014

# ? Aug 31, 2014 02:37

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Wild Horses posted:

Did they stop translating All Rounder Meguru or what? That was the best martial arts manga i've read and ... nothing or little forever

Same for Teppu

# ? Aug 31, 2014 04:00

gimme the GOD DAMN candy: Jul 1, 2007

With Teppu, the actual manga is on a very slow release schedule on top of any scanlating woes.

# ? Aug 31, 2014 04:12

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# ? May 10, 2024 07:23

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

New Fortress of the Apocalypse finally, wherein the murderer makes a heroic sacrifice as he turns into ONE OF THEMMMM

Now there just needs to be some more new chapters of Magical Girls of the End, and my Lovably Dumb Shlocky Nonsense deficiency will be cured!

# ? Sep 3, 2014 11:01

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