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People are allowed to make big huge posts with spoiler tags about series they've finished and want to review/reflect on. Other people are entitled to skip those posts entirely, if they feel like it. Let's all settle down.
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Oct 18, 2015 03:25
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Jose posted:is pengyou nakama or what its annoying me It means friend in like Cantonese or whatever the language of SnK's setting is.
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Oct 18, 2015 06:58
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Four varied short stories, none of them were good, so just one line impressions: Twisted. It tries to do to much (mid life crisis story, ghost that posses the mc story) in just 32 pages, and it fails. Dialog specially feels stilted. Kingdom of Stars. Pseudo-high school romance story of a guy whose girl he always liked happens to be into a weird religion/cult. It basically ends before going anywhere. At least it has a pair of funny moments  Loop A ghost trapped in a loop of having to revive the night of his murder, until he can solve his regrets. Which doesn't sound that bad as stories go, but it fell into a mediocre execution for me. Cruel Fairy tales. Not technically seinen, but whatever, as what I wanted to say it also wasn't good. It has some interesting ideas: missing siblings, obsessed serial killers, family tragedy, twist at the end, but it's told as an uninteresting mess. Pity, Yuki Kaori can do better.
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Oct 18, 2015 14:52
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There are only two chapters thus far, but Golden Kamui is pretty great. http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Golden-Kamui/Vol-001-Ch-001--Sugimoto-the-Immortal?id=244187 It is about a veteran of the russian-japanese war and an ainu girl teaming up to find a hidden cache of gold.
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Oct 18, 2015 19:35
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I remember seeing some RAWs of that floating around awhile back. Looked interesting. Glad someone's finally translating it. Bit more gruesome than I expected, but that lends it a certain weight.
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Oct 19, 2015 19:13
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Hotel Harbour View As some of you may recognize, Jiro Tanaguchi is behind the pencils, though the writer it's another mangaka. The drawing is good and detailed but a bit stiff, the characters all feel a bit staged, which is explained as this was published in 1983, being one of his earlier works. It's a two short stories set, both joined by a character and a strong hard boiled noir style. In fact in the first story, about a man that knows a hit is coming on his head while being in Hong Kong, that was my main problem, the hard boiled flair was so hard that falls into parody. For example  Thanks god that was only a bad first impression, a bit of patience and one can see it all made sense. I really didn't expect that twist! The second story is more straightforward, but still good in its honest noir, about past lovers fated to cross bullets. Very classic, you could say. --- Heh, I think I wishlisted Golden Kamui, just seeing this cool cover 
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Oct 19, 2015 23:57
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Can anyone remember some collection of short stories where one was a guy who got a book from the future, full of pictures of girls he could date instead of his lovely girlfriend. Then when he goes to break up with her, he decides not to spontaneously and the picture book was all pictures of her at various stages of life after they got married E:whoops meant to post this in surreal daily life thread Fellis fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 16:01
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Fellis posted:Can anyone remember some collection of short stories where one was a guy who got a book from the future, full of pictures of girls he could date instead of his lovely girlfriend. Then when he goes to break up with her, he decides not to spontaneously and the picture book was all pictures of her at various stages of life after they got married I read that, I remember the twist at the end, in fact. But hell if I can remember the title.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:37
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Turin Turambar posted:I read that, I remember the twist at the end, in fact. But hell if I can remember the title. It is here: Squidster posted:You want Terrarium in Drawer! It is super great.
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Oct 20, 2015 17:58
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Fellis posted:It is here: Oh, that one. That means that knowing I had read it before, I should have linked to my MU list and see if any of the names ringed a bell for you.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:46
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Secret Comics Japan   Anthology focused on indie / underground authors, or should I say auteurs... Some are new, others more known, like Shintaro Kago and Usamaru Furuya. If you recognize these names, you may know what type of material we are dealing. From normal seinen to surreal stuff, almost experimental at times, adult or extreme themes, lots of irreverence. This is the list of short stories, pasted of MU The Life of Momongo Story by Norimiza Ameya & Art by Junko Mizuno Gedatsu Man by Hironori Kikuchi Swing Shell by Yuko Tsuno Jr by Yoshitomo Yoshimoto Heartless Bitch & Painful Love by Kiriko Nananan Punctures by Shintaro Kago Mutant Hanako by Makoto Aida Editor Woman by Benkyo Tamaoki Palepoli by Usamaru Furuya I found pretty funny that they use a cover from Furuya, which is perhaps the most famous artist of the bunch, but he is the only one who didn't make a new story, but just reused a portion of his work Palepoli. In fact they even reuse the cover of Palepoli?! Well, there are nine stories, the ones I disliked were the first two, that goes way too much off-kilter (the Kago story is normal, in comparison!). The rest ranges from kind of acceptable to pretty decent. The Palepoli stuff varies a lot, his humor can be pretty hilarious but also be a total miss sometimes. Mutant Hanako has a lovely drawing and is totally wild and crazy and irreverent and gross and have a ridiculous social message but it's worth to be experienced. Punctures is classical good Kago, surreal and crazy but not too crazy, fun and it has a punchy end. And no scat this time, that's a plus. Jr and the ones by Kiriko Nananan were interesting little poignant stories. I think the next thing I will read will be something lighter, like The Dragon's Seven Adorable Children or 3 a.m. Dangerous Zone.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:20
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Just started on Blood Alone. This seems pretty  so far.
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Oct 21, 2015 00:10
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The Dragon's Seven Adorable Children   Uh, I've seen before this cover. And I read before the first chapter! So for a moment I thought I already read this volume, but no, it was only the first chapter. Maybe I did it when the translation was starting and only the first one was out. In any case it's a good time to read this, as it's by the author of Terrarium in the Drawer (or the already more known Dungeon Meshi, so it's an up and coming author!), mentioned before. It's a short story volume that moves around heart-warming stories, mostly. Some of them with romance, other of a boy helping a siren, or the relationship between mother and son. This author has a very interesting qualities in her writing, it's kind of an amusing flair or quirky style, and all stories have an important fantasy element on them, but in truth her stories feel very... natural, a down-to-earth feel good style of writing, with a honest, straightforward style in the narration. There is a good variety of stories, in fact, from the three already mentioned to artists who can make drawing alive to a family where everyone have superpowers, to a world where being a werewolf is a known and problematic condition (that reminded me a bit to Wolf Chilren, in fact it has a similar tone). The author also shows a good handling of several art styles. He uses a more detailed one for his story of medieval fantasy, a more simple and kind one for one of a girl taking care of a fish god, and he imitates a bit the Japanase feudal style for a story set in that time.
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Oct 21, 2015 13:27
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Turin Turambar posted:
Be warned, the ending to 3 am dangerous zone sucks major rear end and will leave you insanely emotionally unfulfilled.
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Oct 21, 2015 13:43
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K. Flaps posted:Be warned, the ending to 3 am dangerous zone sucks major rear end and will leave you insanely emotionally unfulfilled. Mmm. What to do now. Any second opinions?
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Oct 21, 2015 13:55
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K. Flaps posted:Be warned, the ending to 3 am dangerous zone sucks major rear end and will leave you insanely emotionally unfulfilled. its really bad and i hate it
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Oct 21, 2015 14:16
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momoko's a stupid effin b
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Oct 21, 2015 14:17
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Lmao hey Sharkie, some crazy swede decided to cosplay as Pete from Keyman and killed two teachers with a sword.
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Oct 23, 2015 12:29
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Dungeon Meshi is insanely good, everyone. Wish there was more of it. The art is nice and the concept is perfect.
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Oct 23, 2015 15:59
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Chas McGill posted:Dungeon Meshi is insanely good, everyone. Wish there was more of it. The art is nice and the concept is perfect. please be excited for the ShindoL dungeon meshi doujin
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Oct 23, 2015 16:04
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mate I didn't know what that was and shouldn't have looked it up at work...good thing no one is here, haha.
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Oct 23, 2015 16:16
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I'm gonna cry when we're caught up the latest chapter.
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Oct 23, 2015 16:25
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Chas McGill posted:Dungeon Meshi is insanely good, everyone. Wish there was more of it. The art is nice and the concept is perfect. If you haven't already, be sure to look up the author's earlier anthology series. She has a knack for taking a unique setting and telling a funny or sometimes poignant story.
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Oct 23, 2015 16:39
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Dick Spacious CPA posted:please be excited for the ShindoL dungeon meshi doujin gently caress you.
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Oct 23, 2015 16:42
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Nipponophile posted:If you haven't already, be sure to look up the author's earlier anthology series. She has a knack for taking a unique setting and telling a funny or sometimes poignant story.
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Oct 23, 2015 16:45
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K. Flaps posted:gently caress you. 
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Oct 23, 2015 16:46
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That was a troll?
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Oct 23, 2015 17:05
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The latest chapter of Teppuu came out today. I guess the story will continue. I think that's probably a good thing; there seem like there are a lot of neat character match-ups that haven't happened yet and they all seem fleshed out enough that they have room to grow. I don't really know where else to ask this, but since I'm on the subject of Teppuu, does anyone know what the deal with Natsuo's crescent kicks that she uses a lot? Is there some style of karate that emphasizes them or something? I've never seen anyone actually throw a crescent kick against an opponent before, but Teppuu is usually pretty good about the types of moves that get thrown around.
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Oct 24, 2015 06:01
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I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be the final chapter,must kinda open ended. The author is having lots of health problems and had to warp things up.
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Oct 24, 2015 06:05
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New immortal hounds. Maybe don't read it if you're averse to violence and gore way more prevalent and detailed than most of the rest of the series has been! http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Immortal-Hounds/Ch-023--At-Battle-s-End?id=245288 Most of it I was in a constant state of yeesh Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Oct 24, 2015 |
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Oct 24, 2015 07:53
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Nine of Eight posted:I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be the final chapter,must kinda open ended. The author is having lots of health problems and had to warp things up. The first page straight up says "The new MMA manga comes to its conclusion here". Plus the match between Natsuo and Eyebrows is as good a stopping point as any. The question that the manga's been posing for half its run, is Natsuo gonna ditch another sport or actually be passionate about it for once, has been answered and the whole brother subplot has been solved, even if it was done super quickly. Also you can't just name that girl and not end the manga right there. I woulda loved to see more of Teppuu but all in all it had a good run.
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Oct 24, 2015 17:09
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Captain Invictus posted:New immortal hounds. Maybe don't read it if you're averse to violence and gore way more prevalent and detailed than most of the rest of the series has been! That comics really bad but its funny to me that the whole protaganist cast is gone or something approaching it now. Sharkopath fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Oct 24, 2015 |
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Oct 24, 2015 17:48
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It wasn't bad at first, the whole immortal mystery was really interesting, but it's getting a bit torture/snuff porney at this point I'm deep in at this point so I'll just ride the train right off the cliff
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Oct 24, 2015 18:04
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It seems like they had an idea but no real clue about what to do with it so it just turned into a shonen battle thing with more torture.
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Oct 24, 2015 18:05
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There is only one manga that is not a porn And that is Dorohedoro
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Oct 24, 2015 18:06
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Pretty sure it's mask porn.
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Oct 24, 2015 20:00
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Teppu is (or was) pretty extraordinary in that it was about girls/young women MMA and it wasn't beachballboob bimbos making out with each other. It's a drat shame it ended way too soon.
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Oct 24, 2015 20:03
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TheFallenEvincar posted:There is only one manga that is not a porn Dorohedoro has plenty of awkwardly illustrated titties, and the devil that's the doctor's wife is pretty sexy in her human form.
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Oct 24, 2015 21:43
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Captain Invictus posted:New immortal hounds. Maybe don't read it if you're averse to violence and gore way more prevalent and detailed than most of the rest of the series has been!
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Oct 24, 2015 22:03
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That part in a recent chapter where Rin makes a lunch for Kenzaki was pretty funny.
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Oct 24, 2015 22:43
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