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trucutru posted:Yeah, in Japan that may be the case, but that doesn't make for a very good basis for your manga. In plenty other places loansharks are scary as gently caress, specially if loan-sharking is just a side business for a criminal enterprise. If the loanshark you are indebted to isn't a legal moneylender you can just report them and have the entire debt invalidated, no matter what contracts were signed. I wasn't kidding about the police busting doors down with the swat team to take out sharks. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/two-arrested-after-police-raids-11028770
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The UK and Singapore take it the most seriously of all the national police I've seen, but Japan and the United States have their own forces dedicated to investigating and shutting it down. The illegal rings mostly profit off of immigrant populations that are afraid of getting the law involved, but borrowers aren't prosecuted so you should definitely report that sort of activity if you find yourself in contact with it. Ushijima is just a really maudlin parade of misery and a bummer for it. Sharkopath fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 1, 2016 |
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i tried reading it for a bit and it made me depressed so i stopped
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Davincie posted:i tried reading it for a bit and it made me depressed so i stopped Did you read Desert Rose yet? cuz theres a new Desert Rose: http://bato.to/reader#c8cb6766c3e6dfb8
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There is a certain brand of tragedic writing that permeate most nerdy mediae that I can't really express why, but it is pretty bad, it just lacks the poignancy that you'd expect from a tragedy. Maybe it has something to do with a lack of life experience or something to that effect. There is a very fine line between realism and cynicism.
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May 1, 2016 23:48
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If you wanna read a decently written tragedy, try Ikigami instead. The premise is kinda ridiculous, but some of the stories really nail the balance between uplifting and depressing. Been a while since i read it, but i remember the story about the junkie being pretty powerful.
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Sharkopath posted:If the loanshark you are indebted to isn't a legal moneylender you can just report them and have the entire debt invalidated, no matter what contracts were signed. I wasn't kidding about the police busting doors down with the swat team to take out sharks. That's quite nice. Around my hometown the loanshark would just pay the police to come break your knees.
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trucutru posted:That's quite nice. Around my hometown the loanshark would just pay the police to come break your knees. Are you colombian or russian? Those are pretty much the last bastion for loan sharks freely escaping punishment. In the US the agencies that regulate moneylending operate at the state and federal level, not the local police forces. The UK and a good portion of east asian countries set up operational task forces with their own funding and personnel. Prosecution varies a lot in south america but I know police in brazil and peru are cracking down on colombian loansharks operating in their countries right now. It can take time to build up a case but a majority of countries take the crime seriously.
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For all the insanely complicated relationships between law enforcement and crime and corruption, the Brazilian FBI actually does good work. Sure, some things end up slipping through the cracks, like a crazy sociopath that filmed himself harassing haitian and African immigrants but yeah, there has been a rise in intolerance for loansharking all around the world. Source: my uncle who works for the Interpol
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ahiwattamplifier posted:For all the insanely complicated relationships between law enforcement and crime and corruption, the Brazilian FBI actually does good work. Sure, some things end up slipping through the cracks, like a crazy sociopath that filmed himself harassing haitian and African immigrants but yeah, there has been a rise in intolerance for loansharking all around the world. Is your uncle Zenigata?
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If you want a cooler series that explores the underside of japanese society theres Bakuon.    http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/bakuon-rettou-r4534 about a disaffected kid falling in deep with a biker gang as his family life collapses around him. It's not happy but it also feels really grounded, a pretty cool character study series.
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That art style seems super familiar...this is the Sidooh guy right? I wonder if that's still good or ongoing, I remember getting pretty far into it way back and then completely dropping it for some reason
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Yeah it's Takahashi Tsutomu, also did tetsuwan girl. The art is probably the thing that sticks out the most to me, night scenes are really stark and gorgeous in it.   
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He also did Hito Hitori Futari which ended up being pretty good overall.
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Wow yeah, I really enjoyed HHF, I'll check that out too
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If Bakuon Rettou had ended in this latest chapter, I'd be happy with it
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Didn't he also do Sidooh? The art looks the same.
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whatever happened with zetman? i remember reading it years ago and then it got really weird/bad and then i stopped following it
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Ytlaya posted:Didn't he also do Sidooh? The art looks the same. He did
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Jose posted:whatever happened with zetman? i remember reading it years ago and then it got really weird/bad and then i stopped following it it got really weird/bad and everyone stopped following it
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Captain Invictus posted:The chapter that was just released exemplifies the worst aspects of I am a hero That character was one of Hideo's coworkers? I think I vaguely remember him from 100+ chapters ago.
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He is yeah, from the first volume. But it doesn't really need to spend multiple chapters on his frame by frame fight with the special infected, or his creepy train molester talk
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By the way, they used to translate whatever the original is into zombfag, does anyone know what the Japanese for it actually is?
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The movie trailer called them zqn I believe, so probably that
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The gently caress is zqn
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ahiwattamplifier posted:The gently caress is zqn Japanese for zombifag.
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ahiwattamplifier posted:The gently caress is zqn It's a pun on dqn (pronounced dokyun), Japanese net slang for "idiot."
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Today in Japan if you get in debt problems you are just thrown to toil in the mines and earn a billion "perica" currencies in order to buy your freedom back.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Today in Japan if you get in debt problems you are just thrown to toil in the mines and earn a billion "perica" currencies in order to buy your freedom back. To be fair, the early parts of Kaiji were written as well as set during the Lost Decade.
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AnonSpore posted:It's a pun on dqn (pronounced dokyun), Japanese net slang for "idiot." Great post 10/10 thank you for answering my question This IAAH volume's last chapter was so loving great, what a way to tie everything together you magnificent son of a bitch. I almost puched a hole in the wall out of excitement but my house has concrete walls
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Jose posted:whatever happened with zetman? i remember reading it years ago and then it got really weird/bad and then i stopped following it
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Speaking of turning weird and bad, it took me forever to realize that I Am A Hero is not the series people were talking about a few months ago, which starts as post-apocalyptic but supposedly drops it for really trippy sex symbolism. (EDEN, I think?)
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Eden is great. It is in no way perfect but it handles stuff like character arcs and having a multi-ethnic cast way better than most media. From any country. I'd definitely have an issue with fridging in this series, but most characters are kind of disposable in a way. In a world where we settle for 6s and even 5s, it is definitely a 10
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Nooooope Eden is a series with outstanding artwork and designs wasted on a trash garbage story with few worthwhile characters spread out over its nigh-interminable length Hell, one of the few good characters is straight up brought back for the sole purpose to be fridged, seriously. There's also the "POP!" scene which is straight up a narm moment
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I read through all of eden for some reason and wished i hadnt when I finished but it had some cool stuff. However, if u want to read an insanely long weird misanthropic cyberpunk manga that cant keep its characters alive for more than a couple chapters, the superior choice is Fourteen, by Kazuo Umezu.
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Fourteen is the only manga I know of where every single line is shouted.
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I guess Fourteen technically starts out as a cyberpunk story, but I definitely wouldn't classify it that way overall. It's main genre is Crazy.
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Speaking of genre: crazy, this popped up on the recent updates and it sure is...something http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Gleipnir Dude can transform into a killer mascot costume, saves girl, girl knows about it, uses him as some sort of meat-mecha only a handful of chapters but it sure is weird
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Captain Invictus posted:Speaking of genre: crazy, this popped up on the recent updates and it sure is...something that is absolutely some dude drawing his wank fantasies
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