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How I stalked some dude with an exposed nipple and stumbled upon the Zenithian Sword. Just discovered this, it's another one of those 2ch thread inspired comics apparently. It's pretty decent, especially if you're knowledgeable about Dragon Quest V.
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Allarion posted:How I stalked some dude with an exposed nipple and stumbled upon the Zenithian Sword. It's an interesting read. And by the way, there's a LP of Dragon Quest V on the LP archive, so anyone curious about what this manga's referencing can check that out. But it's got solid enough characterization that DQV knowledge probably isn't really necessary. (It manages to make the tale of a bum who does nothing but build bonfires interesting and insightful.)
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Oct 16, 2014 00:32
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Update on the Kaiji situation. That's kind of good to hear. All schools should have an ethics class where Kaiji is required reading.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:44
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3 new Kaiji chapters!
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Oct 19, 2014 02:00
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I found something that's pretty cool. Ponko of the Stars and Reiko of the Tofu Shop It's an adorable story where two young kids meet a space alien saleswoman who sells them a magic box that can copy anything. It's very  up until the moment when Ponko eats the little brother's soul, turns into a succubus, and then Reiko grows up and leads an armed raid on a Yakuza compound. I have no idea where it's going, but it's the perfect combination of  and  !
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Oct 23, 2014 01:03
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That's awesome! Good find, looking forward to reading more
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Oct 23, 2014 02:35
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So, Bambino gets weird ...Is it a Japanese thing where if your cowoker violently assaults you in the street, makes promises of future violence and then storms off you come into work the next day and tell no one, report nothing, and plan to just beat him by doing a better job? What the gently caress.
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Oct 24, 2014 02:16
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pentyne posted:So, Bambino gets weird Ban is just a loving idiot.
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Oct 24, 2014 02:44
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So apparently someone started translating an old Katsuhiro Otomo manga called Apple Paradise. Only one chapter so far, but looks interesting with labor disputes and weird sci-fi implications at the end. It's from 1980, so about two years before he started writing Akira. While searching on google for more info about this, I also found out Otomo also once wrote a Batman story. So that's something else I need to read.
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Oct 31, 2014 15:26
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Latest Ponko of the Stars. S-Somehow it's turning out as a happy story again..? Wh-what? This can't be fine, can it?! 
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Oct 31, 2014 16:07
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Bambino 2nd is terrible don't read it.
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DrSunshine posted:Latest Ponko of the Stars. It seems like the little brother would still find out at some point that time passed, though I guess we're supposed to assume that the transition will be easier for him now. Looks like the series will focus on the "oldier" sister in space now either way.
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pentyne posted:...Is it a Japanese thing where if your cowoker violently assaults you in the street, makes promises of future violence and then storms off you come into work the next day and tell no one, report nothing, and plan to just beat him by doing a better job? korrandark posted:Ban is just a loving idiot. Dunno, I've actually seen a lot of similar scenarios in anime/manga. rear end in a top hat character haughtily tells the protagonist something like "Everything you do is terrible and I'll never approve of you because you don't follow tradition/are a commoner/I'm secretly jealous/etc." and instead of the protagonist saying "Well, good thing I don't need your approval to be successful, rear end in a top hat" and then giving them the finger, the protagonist gets all fired up and decides they need to make the rear end in a top hat acknowledge them by working extra hard.
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Nov 1, 2014 19:23
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DrSunshine posted:Latest Ponko of the Stars. Dang this is a great premise. I hope the pace keeps up. Anyone know if the translation is current or are there a bunch of raws to work through?
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Nov 1, 2014 23:36
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Fellis posted:Dang this is a great premise. I hope the pace keeps up. Anyone know if the translation is current or are there a bunch of raws to work through? Mangaupdates says its only one volume long.
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Nov 1, 2014 23:37
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Blhue posted:Mangaupdates says its only one volume long.
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By the way if anyone else is reading insane muscle-worshipping Baki series poo poo is about to get even crazier than unfreezing a Neanderthal dude for them to fight, because they're about to resurrect Miyamoto Mushashi by getting an old spirit medium to make his soul again, after re-creating his body from old bone marrow outta his skeleton.
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Pierson posted:By the way if anyone else is reading insane muscle-worshipping Baki series poo poo is about to get even crazier than unfreezing a Neanderthal dude for them to fight, because they're about to resurrect Miyamoto Mushashi by getting an old spirit medium to make his soul again, after re-creating his body from old bone marrow outta his skeleton. I wish the art wasn't so ugly. That sounds to be right up my alley, otherwise.
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Serious Frolicking posted:I wish the art wasn't so ugly. That sounds to be right up my alley, otherwise. I unironically enjoy Baki's art. It just fits so well with the story.
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AnonSpore posted:I unironically enjoy Baki's art. It just fits so well with the story. Oh sure, I agree in theory. It is only right that everyone looks like an inhuman muscle monster. I just can't stand to look at them, is all.
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Pierson posted:By the way if anyone else is reading insane muscle-worshipping Baki series poo poo is about to get even crazier than unfreezing a Neanderthal dude for them to fight, because they're about to resurrect Miyamoto Mushashi by getting an old spirit medium to make his soul again, after re-creating his body from old bone marrow outta his skeleton. I really need to start reading this at some point.
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Nov 6, 2014 04:05
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Serious Frolicking posted:I wish the art wasn't so ugly. That sounds to be right up my alley, otherwise. Baki is one of the most beautifully drawn manga on the market. Just admit it... You aren't comfortable reading a manga featuring extremely jacked nude men.
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Nov 6, 2014 04:58
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Pewdiepie posted:Baki is one of the most beautifully drawn manga on the market. Just admit it... You aren't comfortable reading a manga featuring extremely jacked nude men. Are you suggesting that there is anyone on this subforum who would be uncomfortable with JJBA?
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Nov 6, 2014 05:14
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Pewdiepie posted:Baki is one of the most beautifully drawn manga on the market. Just admit it... You aren't comfortable reading a manga featuring extremely jacked nude men. Not when they are made entirely from sebaceous tumors, no. Stick a needle in a Baki character's face and it would burst, spraying gritty pus and hair all over the place.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Not when they are made entirely from sebaceous tumors, no. Stick a needle in a Baki character's face and it would burst, spraying gritty pus and hair all over the place. The dudes with insanely jacked jawbones & chins are the best.
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Baki is kinda like Prison School et al; it is totally honest about what it's about and the author loving loves to make Nasu-style speeches mid-fight in totally grandiose language about muscles and how Real Men Fight and poo poo like that. I actually read the second series first (the one where due to synchronicity six serial killers all come to Japan looking for good fights, and Muhammed Ali and his son cameo, and Baki kidnaps the president of the US to go to prison to meet some giant jacked dude who lives like a king, and then Neanderthal man arrives, and etc) and I was fascinated. The art is janky as gently caress but it fits perfectly because the plot is all about the focus on the insane loving character's insane loving bodies and so is it. All the main guys are actual ubermensch sociopaths with no connection to or thoughts in common with anything resembling a real human being and it's perfectly fine and normal and easy to break into military bases to fight primeval man, or punch someone with your arm-stump after your hand gets cut off, or practice shadow-boxing with imaginary giant praying mantises for a fight with your dad. Everything is played absolutely straight. All these things happen. If you enjoy JoJo I heartily recommend it.
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Its George Bush rather than a generic US president and you forgot that Che Guevara is in it. Obama also appears later on
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Baki is a series where a side character tunnels through some poor man's intestines and bursts out of his mouth and it is played totally straight
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Jose posted:Its George Bush rather than a generic US president and you forgot that Che Guevara is in it. Obama also appears later on Che Guevara being one of the world's strongest fighters and a pirate was hilarious. I just binged through the second series up until the part with the dinosaur-man last night.
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Is the Baki anime a good adaptation at all?
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I would like to add that in the world of Baki, ~60 year old Muhammad Ali trained so hard he overcame Parkinson's in order to beat the poo poo out of his own son. Also the main antagonist for the majority of the series is a man so strong he went around having kids all over the world so that hopefully one day they'd grow up and provide him a decent challenge. Basically the entire world is metal as hell and you should read it.
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Nov 7, 2014 03:33
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only 96/371 chapters of the first part are translated 
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Relin posted:only 96/371 chapters of the first part are translated The anime is 2 seasons and covers the entire first manga series afaik.
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AnonSpore posted:Basically the entire world is metal as hell and you should read it.
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What part of Baki is Miyamoto in? Or are they making another series after the end of part three? Also, best is totally when a guy fights with a mouthful of bullets and gets punched so hard they blow his face off and he still wins.
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Nov 7, 2014 16:27
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There's a fourth one now, Baki Dou.
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Yeah the first one isn't really translated but from what I inferred from part 2 is just a big tournament. Second one was the psychopaths, prison, Muhammed Ali and neanderthal man. Third one was all about him vs his amazing troll of a dad. Fourth one just started and so far is psychics and Musashi.
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Prison with Che Guevara and Neanderthal man were both the third series. Series 2 is serial killers then Chinese kung fu tournament then Muhammed Ali. The anime if you can track it down covers the entire first manga series and introduces almost all of the characters that appear later on, but honestly isn't particularly necessary since the series is entirely people beating the poo poo out of each other. Garouden is by the same artist but based on a series of light novels and features similarly muscled people beating the poo poo out of each other, slightly more realistic though. Teeth get smashed out all over the place because nobody wears a mouth guard
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Jose posted:Prison with Che Guevara and Neanderthal man were both the third series. Series 2 is serial killers then Chinese kung fu tournament then Muhammed Ali. The anime if you can track it down covers the entire first manga series and introduces almost all of the characters that appear later on, but honestly isn't particularly necessary since the series is entirely people beating the poo poo out of each other. What's the point of a light novel of people beating the poo poo out of each other? Is it some kind of meta thing where the terrible prose beats the poo poo out of the reader's dignity?
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No idea, I think its written way more serious than this manga adaptation since there is some other more serious manga series based on it but I've not read the novels, since I don't know any Japanese
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