Salsa McManus posted:

Holy gently caress, I'm literally cumming. Someone is finally picking up the final two volumes? I bought the series awhile ago to try and piece the end together and yeah, not a good idea. It's loopy as hell.

NAME REDACTED posted:

I already read... most of One Outs, and I enjoyed it, even though I went in with a total baseball knowledge of "someone throws a ball at a guy with a bat". Although I remember there being a thing where for some reason a bunch of chapters just don't exist translated online?

NAME REDACTED posted:

On a similar note, does anyone have any recommendation for manga similar to Gambling Emperor Legend Zero and Liar game? I'm looking for stuff to read where the story arcs are "protagonist given a challenge or game; after game is over, protagonist explains reasoning". I've also read Gordian Knot and Gamble Fish, for other examples. If anyone knows any series based around heists or cons, I'd also be interested.

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There are gamblers out there who even bet their lives as ante. But to secure the integrity of these life-threatening gambles, a violent and powerful organization by the name of “Kakerou” referees these games as a neutral party. Follow Baku Madarame a.k.a. Usogui (The Lie Eater) as he gambles against maniacal opponents at games – such as Escape the Abandoned Building, Old Maid, and Hangman – to ultimately “out-gamble” and control the neutral organization of Kakerou itself.

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White swindlers (shirosagi) are those that cheat people to take their money, red swindlers (akasagi) are those that swindle the opposite sex, and black swindlers (kurosagi) are those that cheat the white and red swindlers. After his family is swindled by white swindlers, Kurosagi sets out to avenge them by becoming a black swindler.

Vesi posted:

If you tolerate Homonculus and Franken Fran you might be ok with Fourteen, I struggle to recommend it outright but it has some of the most ridiculously memorable chapters in manga history. Mostly just screaming though.

Serious Frolicking posted:

Basically, every single line of spoken dialogue in Fourteen is shouted.

Everything Burrito posted:

Usogui:


Kurosagi:


I've only read part of Usogui and it was alright, but I'm not super big into gambling manga so I can't really compare it quality-wise to anything else. I like Kurosagi quite a bit though. Each con gets 2-3 chapters or so, kind of a con-of-the-week format and there's a bit of an overarching plot that weaves through the whole thing. There's a considerable amount of detail explaining each con or scam, both on the villain side and what the protagonist is doing.

coathat posted:

Cease all other activities Kurosawa has returned. http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-new-kurosawa-r13421

coathat posted:

Cease all other activities Kurosawa has returned. http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-new-kurosawa-r13421

Desuwa posted:

I went and read what's translated of this because I like those kinds of escapist premises. I have a high tolerance for the creepy/gross bits but the later volumes borders on being erotic novels, even if only very softcore ones, and it pushed past the limits of what I can stand without being put off. It's a shame because the first couple of volumes, which kept it to a minimum, were really quite fun.

If I'd known it was going to be like this I doubt I would have picked it up, but now that I'm already so many volumes in I might keep going if it doesn't get any worse.

pentyne posted:

Hey, its a new Bambino Secondo!

http://mangapark.com/manga/bambino-secondo-sekiya-tetsuji/s2/v2/c22/1

In which the front of house staff, people who don't cook nor have highly develop palates, end up narrowly choosing the other guy making Ban feel like a moron. "Oh, I'm wrong" even after people at his level or superior have backed his decisions on the food, yet we need a scene of other chef stealing food to progress the plot? Quick question, why the gently caress did Ban expect the front of house to be experts on food and cuisine such that they could pick the best risotto? In his own words the other guy does a good job but not to the same level as the Baccanale, so how would waiters be able to know that difference?

gently caress this series, it's taken a food driven interesting series into some banal paint by numbers "an enemy appears" series, and every more towards resolving it just circles the waters, I half expect the "Ban accuses other chef of theft" to take up 5+ chapters because no one believes him because he's sore from losing.

ZerodotJander posted:

You're right it never gets back to "jerking off to child porn of your niece during your parents' funeral" levels of creepy but there is a lot of general groping and panty jokes that would be dumb gags in anime and come off extra stupid in a novel, and throughout the whole series rape is generally treated as a trivial "oh he shouldn't have done that" kind of thing.

The entertaining parts actually are pretty decent though, I just wish the owner didn't feel the need to inject so much bad ecchi humor and treat women like objects.

furiouskoala posted:

I am loving Secondo, it might just be the one character though. The bad chef is trolling Bambi so hard.

pentyne posted:

I'm only reading Bambino because it seems like no one cares about translating the best cooking manga there is, Nobunaga's Chef. It's been 2 months since updates, I guess the scanalators have abandoned it.

Kaja Rainbow posted:

2 months honestly isn't that much, certainly not long enough to say that it's been abandoned. Scanalators' release paces can vary widely based on assorted factors, and some are just slower than others. It's a hobby after all.

In fact, looking at their release dates on Mangaupdates, a few months between releases isn't unheard for them. Plus there're good odds it's a monthly series anyway.

coathat posted:

Stop reading that poo poo. A whole volume of The World is Mine just dropped. http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-world-is-mine-r6002

Coaaab posted:

And now, two more volumes have come out, with one more to go. http://bato.to/read/_/276069/the-world-is-mine_v12_ch128_by_gantz-waitingroom

coathat posted:

It would probably be better if they had the Japanese ones really.

Everything Burrito posted:

Shibatora is about a baby-faced cop who goes undercover as a high school kid, it has a pretty good balance of lightheartedness and drama from what I remember.

Mordja posted:

I'm digging it. It's still early on, but the fantasy-Persian setting is interesting and sometimes it has pages like this:

Pewdiepie posted:

Why are these turks white & why do they have white facial features. For a so called 'historical' manga thats quite the glaring omission.

Captain Invictus posted:

Dr. Hitomi's Infirmary is about a cyclopean school nurse in a world of monster-people. Teachers include a four-armed dude, Basically Chewbacca, a plant-girl, and a woman who has control of her hair.

It's unfortunately jam-packed with fanservice but is otherwise actually pretty charming and funny a lot of the time with dealing with monster-students who are developing new characteristics, and how they deal with'em(growing wings, uncontrollable invisibility, zombification, etc)

Relin posted:

Probably Fuan No Tane/Plus

Also the author of Franken Fran is a man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JA9_9Y5ktY

Syrant posted:

I really like the Incan or Mayan or Aztec stuff that is involved in this. I honestly couldn't place it but it just seems like one of those.

Kubla Khan posted:

Can someone recommend something similar to Sumire 16 sai!! ? It's brilliant. Just nuked my heart, completely.

Subject matter doesn't really matter. I want them feels!

toanoradian posted:

Everything Burrito posted:

Manhole is both (biological) horror and police procedural.

TheFallenEvincar posted:

Sakamoto desu ga, still awesome, still hilarious.
This chapter...the perfect heist?! Nightmarish next-level porn?!
http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Sakamoto-desu-ga/Vol-003-Ch-014--Sakamoto-Really-is-a-Freak-?id=209755

FKMTKrazy posted:

I don't think it would be right to just pretend the discussion in the comments last post didn't happen, so I guess I'll address it. The reason why I implied I wanted to focus on Akagi more than Kaiji is for several reasons, but most importantly because I just feel like Akagi is a better read per-chapter at the moment. Those of you who don't get mahjong probably can't see how, but I feel that, even though both series are going at roughly the same pace at the moment, Kaiji is just focusing solely on hitting home one idea really really hard while managing to throw hooks in an the end, while in Akagi there's a new development every chapter that they analyze a ton.

But that said, putting aside what I would LIKE to do, the reality is that we have quite a few kaiji cleans just laying around whereas we just ran through all of the available cleans for Akagi. So in the end I'll probably wind up catching up to the cleans we have for Kaiji, anyway. So I anticipate you'll see more Kaiji than Akagi for a while.