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Ojojojo is back, with the expected resolution to all that drama.
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Nate RFB posted:Ojojojo is back, with the expected resolution to all that drama. Expected and yet heartwarming all the same. 
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Jan 2, 2015 00:20
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The extra chapter is similarly 100% as expected and also great.
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Jan 2, 2015 00:23
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Double post but gently caress it. http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kimi-Ni-Todoke/Ch-094-Read-Online?id=217303 Oh hey, a new chapter of Kimi ni Todoke came out. Still don't care, looks like this stupid plot line will be ending soon though, maybe, I hope. On the other hand the new chapter of Don't Become An Otaku Shinozaki-san is hilarious. (Not actually sure if it belongs in this thread since it's apparently seinen and not particularly romance-y but I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned here before, so ).
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Jan 2, 2015 07:10
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Oh man why did I wait this long to start reading Bokura no Kiseki? I blew through five volumes tonight and would have kept going but it's already going to be hard waking up for work. Having so many characters at first was confusing but I've been impressed with how well it reinforces who everyone is -- not just with the cheat sheets, but within the narrative and how they all interact. I wasn't expecting to get so absorbed in this one because I kept passing by it thinking it would just be gimmicky but it really surprised me.
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Everything Burrito posted:Oh man why did I wait this long to start reading Bokura no Kiseki? I blew through five volumes tonight and would have kept going but it's already going to be hard waking up for work. Having so many characters at first was confusing but I've been impressed with how well it reinforces who everyone is -- not just with the cheat sheets, but within the narrative and how they all interact. I wasn't expecting to get so absorbed in this one because I kept passing by it thinking it would just be gimmicky but it really surprised me. It feels like I need to reread the entire thing between each release because I forget what the hell is going on
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Jan 6, 2015 18:00
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jackofarcades posted:It feels like I need to reread the entire thing between each release because I forget what the hell is going on Yeah I think if I'd been waiting between each chapter I would have no idea.
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Jan 6, 2015 18:18
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I don't really like the art style, but 7 Seeds has really grown on me. The cast of character is really interesting and it's pretty unique for a shoujo in terms of having a bunch of non-romance stuff going on (since unfortunately "nearly all shoujo/josei manga involves romance/relationships" is a bit of a truism in the same way as "nearly all shounen involves battles or harems" is).
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Jan 7, 2015 00:39
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She's one of the few mangaka that's actually good at writing long series.
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Jan 7, 2015 00:54
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Quick follow up of the next chapter of Kimi ni Todoke. Looks like things are tied up with this one, so hopefully the next issue will be someone else in the spotlight.
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Jan 8, 2015 06:52
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I remembered that Kuragehime exists and found 20 chapters waiting for me, score one for poor memory. (Also read Kuragehime, it's a thing that is good)
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Jan 8, 2015 07:03
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Baron Snow posted:Quick follow up of the next chapter of Kimi ni Todoke. Looks like things are tied up with this one, so hopefully the next issue will be someone else in the spotlight.
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Jan 8, 2015 15:45
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Baron Snow posted:Quick follow up of the next chapter of Kimi ni Todoke. Looks like things are tied up with this one, so hopefully the next issue will be someone else in the spotlight. At least that's over. Please end soon.
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Holy poo poo, the whole arc about team Summer A's origins in 7 Seeds is loving intense. This is by far the darkest, most violent shoujo/josei comic I've ever read.
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Jan 8, 2015 20:49
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7 seeds just owns in general. However, I just can't read the current arc as each chapter comes out. I have to wait and read it in batches or the slow pace drives me nuts.
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Jan 8, 2015 20:55
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I think I'm just going to wait for Kimi ni Todoke to end and read what's left in one go. I enjoy it more when I can go through several chapters at once rather than glacially reading through one at a time, and since it has lingered way past the point when it should have wrapped up IMO it'll be easier to skim past anything that I don't really care about.
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Jan 8, 2015 21:05
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quote:Kuragehime 72 ...I should probably just give up and start watching jdramas.
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Jan 8, 2015 22:11
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Rodyle posted:God drat it Tsukimi don't let that bad boy from Signapore get fresh with you, and GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME BIG BRO! If you haven't yet, read Higashimura's other ongoing manga, Kakukaku Shikajika. I want to watch more jdramas, but I don't know where to find many of them. Hulu & Netflix's selection seems pretty low.
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Gnossiennes posted:If you haven't yet, read Higashimura's other ongoing manga, Kakukaku Shikajika. Crunchyroll and Dramafever I assume, though you'll get a mix of Kdrama and Jdramas. Course, there's a bunch of kdramas based off of japanese manga anyways so you could always broaden your horizons.
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I *think* (but could be mistaken) that Dramafever's videos are also up on Hulu? So I don't know if you'll necessarily find a better selection there, though I haven't actually confirmed that to be the case.
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You could also check Viki. Sometimes they carry kdramas that Dramafever doesn't have, so their policy might extend to their jdramas as well.
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Read some more 7 Seeds and jesus loving christ this survival shelter flashback thing with the ventriloquist is extremely depressing. They dealt with the whole killing off excess population issue in a really mature way; normally in fiction you'd have it portrayed as an objectively evil thing and have the protagonists rebel against it, but in this case Mark realizes that there really isn't any alternative and that the best thing he can do is to try and send the people away with smiles on their faces. The scenes where the baseball player is staying with the dying children were really moving. 7 Seeds vaguely reminds me of LOST for some reason, except with a much better plot. It seems like it would work really well adapted into a live action of some sort. edit: I've been reading this for hours and hours today and it's easily one of the best manga I've ever read. I had trouble getting used to the art style and it took a while for the plot to really hit its stride (partly since there are so many characters), but 7 Seeds is seriously great. I can't think of many comics/books/shows/whatever that have done such a great job of introducing and developing such a large cast of characters. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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Dunno if anyone else is reading it but Shinrei Tantei Yakumo got an update today. As usual it isn't going anywhere very quickly but I kinda like Gotou being the damsel in distress this time. This is definitely one that's better to read in chunks and I always think "oh I'll wait til there's more" yet still end up reading every chapter as soon as it pops up. It isn't even that great but supernatural detective mysteries are one of my favorite genres and there just isn't that much worth reading so I keep my standards pretty low. 
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Jan 9, 2015 22:30
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Just started reading Golden Time and, like, am I supposed to feel sympathetic towards Kaga? Because she comes off as a deranged stalker and I was practically cheering at the part where Matsuo tells her to gently caress off because he has someone he actually likes.
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Sakurazuka posted:Just started reading Golden Time and, like, am I supposed to feel sympathetic towards Kaga? Because she comes off as a deranged stalker and I was practically cheering at the part where Matsuo tells her to gently caress off because he has someone he actually likes. Nope that sounds about right
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Sakurazuka posted:Just started reading Golden Time and, like, am I supposed to feel sympathetic towards Kaga? Because she comes off as a deranged stalker and I was practically cheering at the part where Matsuo tells her to gently caress off because he has someone he actually likes. If the anime followed it closely, then she'll eventually get sympathetic but comes off a super goddamn crazy at first.
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Ytlaya posted:Holy poo poo, the whole arc about team Summer A's origins in 7 Seeds is loving intense. This is by far the darkest, most violent shoujo/josei comic I've ever read. Similarly when they meet team retard was one of the funniest moments in shoujo 
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How bad and unfinished is the ending of the Golden Time anime, on a scale of 1 - 10?
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Sakurazuka posted:How bad and unfinished is the ending of the Golden Time anime, on a scale of 1 - 10? Like, if 10 is the worst? Like a 7?
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Jan 11, 2015 17:24
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Sakurazuka posted:How bad and unfinished is the ending of the Golden Time anime, on a scale of 1 - 10? it wasnt unfinished. i dont know what you are asking. i liked golden time and it is worth a watch. some people freaked out because the ending was a bit rushed but it is all there. ----------------
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Dick Spacious CPA posted:it wasnt unfinished. i dont know what you are asking. i liked golden time and it is worth a watch. some people freaked out because the ending was a bit rushed but it is all there. I just assume all romance anime based on a LN/manga is unfinished until I found out otherwise. I can probably deal with a bit rushed as long as it's an actual ending.
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Sakurazuka posted:I just assume all romance anime based on a LN/manga is unfinished until I found out otherwise. I can probably deal with a bit rushed as long as it's an actual ending. Yeah, it's an actual ending, it just felt rushed and silly
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Jan 11, 2015 19:18
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Ore Monogatari!! 1-3 and What Did You Eat Yesterday? 1-6 are on their way to my door along with a big pile of Kamisama Kiss volumes.  I like to use my credit card reward points responsibly.
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Sakurazuka posted:How bad and unfinished is the ending of the Golden Time anime, on a scale of 1 - 10? It's frustrating because if you stop watching the anime part way through the last episode, that acts as an internally consistent ending that is somewhat sad but not terrible. If you keep watching everything kind of goes insane. It was probably impossible for Golden Time to end cleanly given the way Banri, Linda and Koko were written. In general Golden Time's cast are a bunch of monsters who do horrible things to each other because they're overly emotional young adults - kind of a breath of fresh air, really! If you watch up to the last episode, my recommendation is to stop watching it around 8:38, when the doorbell rings. If you feel like that's not enough closure, you can watch the rest of the episode and go 'what the gently caress just happened???' It's my understanding that the novels leave off roughly on a note similar to where it is at that part of the episode.
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i liked golden time but i didn't like the ghost banri plot device toradora remains the better work
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Cake Attack posted:i liked golden time but i didn't like the ghost banri plot device At times the author flirted with some incredible complexity (the bit where Ghost Banri nearly kills the entire cast really had me excited to see the rest of the series) but never really followed through. It feels like it all got out of hand and the author couldn't figure out what to do, so we got the confusing anime ending and the (afaik) confusing but different novel ending. I'm not sure how the manga ends, it's probably different too? The manic intensity and uncomfortable nature of the second Golden Time OP theme/animation had me hoping that it was telegraphing an ending where one or both of them end up in a sanitarium to get treatment for their issues and eventually live healthy lives, but alas that was not what we got. Has anyone freaked out about Taiyou no Ie or A Method To Make The Gentle World in this thread recently? I lose my poo poo every time Taiyou chapters come out at this point because all the plot threads are coming together and the relationships have gotten more complicated. It's so goddamn charming. The art is cute, the characters are empathetic, and the setup is unusual enough to not feel tired and repetitive to me. The slow-moving nature of it is kind of agonizing at times, but it's paced pretty carefully and each chapter seems to be worthwhile one way or another. I love the whole cast, and the lead couple's weird relationship is really entertaining to me. Gentle World is interesting to me in that it is sort of a romance story but it spends most of its time dealing with interpersonal relationships, family drama, emotional issues, failures to cope, etc instead of just being a bunch of lovesick teens/adults. It's probably one of the most competent handlings of student/teacher romance I've seen in manga at this point. So far none of the story has gone how I expected, and I'm really excited to see how it resolves. Haruka, Aoi and Tohno are all complicated and empathetic and I like seeing how they bounce off each other and the rest of the cast.
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Taiyou no Ie is well loved in this thread and is my current favorite romance manga out right now, that being said, this most recent arc felt incredibly anti-climactic with the way it just kind of resolved the "hey mom thanks but no thanks" story. Still very interested in it but it feels like it's ending soon, which is probably good cause you don't want another Kimi ni Todoke.
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I'm current in A Method To Make The Gentle World and it's not bad but I'm not sure if I'd call it good. I like that it seems that the main couple are not actually romantically involved at all, and rather he's just helping her find her place in the world, but it still kind of feels a bit fetishy? I mean it did have that one older teacher and student have that weird arc. I dunno. Taiyou no Ie is super great, I love just about every thing about it with the exception of the previous arc which yeah didn't really go anywhere. It's kind of a weird series in that none of the romance stories are that great but the family drama is super compelling. Whatever happened to Inari Kon Kon? That was getting up there with Taiyou no Ie but it's gotten so sporadic.
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The group translating it (just one guy?) appears to have dropped off the face pf the Earth. The actual manga has kept going and is apparently entering its final volume.
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