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Aug 9, 2016 23:41
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Onmi posted:I'm tempted to post a recommendation for Goblin Slayer which is a new manga based on light novels (I believe two are out right. But I'm not sure I can because I can see a lot of people being turned off by its very dark opening and concept. The thing with Goblin Slayer I think would throw people off is the art looks very Shonen, but the content is very much not. goblin slayer, is bad
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Aug 9, 2016 23:53
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Aug 9, 2016 23:55
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*opens up first chapter whereupon a group of female adventurers get demolished by a gang of goblins, most of them being brutally mutilated and one being literally gangraped, with the last one about to eat it until Dark Souls guy comes to destroy the goblins. Cue the rest of the series basically devolving into generic harem garbage.
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Aug 9, 2016 23:55
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it's not dark, it's just generic LN ryona porn
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Aug 9, 2016 23:56
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Laputanmachine posted:All Jump series are trash.
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Aug 10, 2016 01:24
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Here's an absolutely outstanding long-running series recommendation: Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn) Buy Yona of the Dawn on Amazon Watch the Yona of the Dawn anime on Crunchyroll Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Shoujo, Comedy quote:Yona is the sole princess of the kingdom, living the luxurious and carefree life as a princess should. She has it all: the finest clothes and cosmetics, the most divine sweets, a loving emperor as a father, and the hottest cousin crush, Soo-wong, anyone could ever hope to have. Now, if only her bodyguard, Son Hak, wasn't so annoying to her and her hair wasn't so red. But her nearly perfect world quickly shatters as her father is assassinated, and her life put in danger as well. Son Hak escapes with Yona, and they lead a life on the run from that point on.   Yona of the Dawn is a shojo series set in a historical-style not-Korea setting, though I quickly learned just how little it being shojo means when this series gets serious. The characters are very well-written, the story well-told, and the romance grows naturally. It's also genuinely really funny when it wants to be, and can flip a switch from deadly serious to near-slapstick in a matter of a page and somehow pull it off without feeling awkward. The character interactions are absolutely fantastic and Pukyu is the best mascot character(keep an eye out for him in pretty much any panel). I absolutely did not expect some characters to get more than a few pages of screen time, but the author will surprise you with how much they can make you care about some that would otherwise be pretty much just side characters. There is an anime available on Crunchyroll but I have not watched it and cannot comment on its quality, I've seen some gifs though and they look pretty good and the story and characters are so strong that it'd be real hard to gently caress it up so it's probably good???
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Aug 14, 2016 06:43
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I'm actually gonna flip the script here, and ask the thread if UchiMusume is any good. It just popped up today on Kissmanga with two translated chapters, and I have fallen in love with it, but it's kind of a pain to keep up with a series this early into the translation and I don't want to get my heart broken by it turning into trash. Has anyone heard good things about it? Or possibly read it in the original japanese and can attest to its quality? It's adorable as gently caress so I'm hoping it's a series worth sticking with.
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Captain Bravo posted:I'm actually gonna flip the script here, and ask the thread if UchiMusume is any good. It just popped up today on Kissmanga with two translated chapters, and I have fallen in love with it, but it's kind of a pain to keep up with a series this early into the translation and I don't want to get my heart broken by it turning into trash. Has anyone heard good things about it? Or possibly read it in the original japanese and can attest to its quality? It's adorable as gently caress so I'm hoping it's a series worth sticking with. Well the novel translation is much further ahead and just flipping through it seems fine but the series isn't completed so you still got a 50/50 shot on things going south.
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Aug 21, 2016 16:16
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Hot drat, that's good news! In other news, I was recently pointed to a new series by a friend, who simply told me "Don't judge this book by its cover." Unbalance School Life seems like it should be really, really bad. Hell, the tags are "Comedy" "Gender Bender" and "Romance", that's usually a guaranteed pass. But in actuality, it's kind of a loving genius subversion of the "guy turns into a girl" bullshit that delves into some deep topics about gender, identity, sexuality, and friendship. The basic gist of the story is that an all-boys school that was turning co-ed was crashed into by an alien, and the impact accidentally released a gas that turned every male student in the school into a woman... except for the main character, because he was out sick. He comes back a month later, to find that all his friends are now women, and doesn't really know how the gently caress he's supposed to process this.   Thankfully, for his sanity, the alien that crashed is working on a medicine that will change everyone back into men after a year.  Unfortunately, for his sanity, some of the changed men are kind of way too into it, which fucks with his head pretty severely.   Although, to be fair, pretty much the best parts of the manga are his transformed friends loving with him endlessly.   And the other best parts are him loving with them back.   It's pretty funny at times, and the author is talented at using that humor to mask the deeper, underlying themes that are explored as the story progresses. There's a lot of weird tension going on, since basically the entire cast is unsure of how to approach their changed relationships. The main character loves the school nurse, but keeps getting strangely turned on by the superintendent. The main female lead loves the superintendent, but is extremely frustrated with how naturally he takes to being a woman. The best friend saw himself as a love rival with the main character, but now that he's got a female body he's kind of starting to get feelings for the MC and doesn't realize it yet. The promiscuous girl likes the best friend, but keeps throwing herself at the main character since he's the only "boy" left in the school, and feels really unsettled every time she looks at the best friend and thinks of how she likes/liked him. Nobody is throwing themselves at anyone else (Except her  ), the main character doesn't suddenly want to gently caress all his friends, and the changed boys aren't suddenly wanting to jump his bones. They all still have their same identities, it's just that the change is causing them to start seeing things from a different viewpoint, and explore more about what makes them them. My description can't really do it justice, but it is a fantastic little series with 13 translated chapters up so far that I highly recommend.
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quote:The basic gist of the story is that an all-boys school that was turning co-ed was crashed into by an alien, and the impact accidentally released a gas that turned every male student in the school into a woman... except for the main character, because he was out sick. He comes back a month later, to find that all his friends are now women, and doesn't really know how the gently caress he's supposed to process this. 
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Aug 22, 2016 03:56
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Fine, whatever, don't read it then. Give Can't See Can't Hear But Love a try instead. It's so loving good ya'll, a manhwa about the love between a blind man and a deaf woman. The art style is adorable, doubly so with how loving cute the main female lead is. The story is heartwarming, tragic, bittersweet, hilarious, beautiful... I can't give enough praise for this series. The story kind of bops around a bit chapter-to-chapter, detailing how the main male lead goes blind and loses his job creating comics, how he struggles to try and care for his mother who has dementia, and the modern relationship between the two. If you're on the fence about this one, skip ahead and read chapter 8. It will break your goddamned heart into tiny little loving pieces* and you will be hooked on this series. (*I might be a bit biased due to my grandparents being deaf, so a lot of the things about Sori kind of hit home pretty hard. )Edit: I should probably add, if your heart is completely and utterly crushed by chapter 8, read ahead to chapters 9 and 10. They'll glue it back together. 
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Aug 22, 2016 05:15
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Captain Bravo posted:In other news, I was recently pointed to a new series by a friend, who simply told me "Don't judge this book by its cover." Unbalance School Life seems like it should be really, really bad. Hell, the tags are "Comedy" "Gender Bender" and "Romance", that's usually a guaranteed pass. But in actuality, it's kind of a loving genius subversion of the "guy turns into a girl" bullshit that delves into some deep topics about gender, identity, sexuality, and friendship. I'm the translator who makes the conscious choice to translate something to "gently caress" and then self-censor that naughty language to "duck" e: I read five chapters and this translation is extremely distracting in its badness AnonSpore fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Aug 22, 2016 |
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Aug 22, 2016 06:58
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Captain Bravo posted:I'm actually gonna flip the script here, and ask the thread if UchiMusume is any good. It just popped up today on Kissmanga with two translated chapters, and I have fallen in love with it, but it's kind of a pain to keep up with a series this early into the translation and I don't want to get my heart broken by it turning into trash. Has anyone heard good things about it? Or possibly read it in the original japanese and can attest to its quality? It's adorable as gently caress so I'm hoping it's a series worth sticking with. abort, she's a memer 
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AnonSpore posted:I'm the translator who makes the conscious choice to translate something to "gently caress" and then self-censor that naughty language to "duck" ... It's me, I'm the person who actually thinks it's funny that "gently caress" is changed to both "duck" and "quack" depending on the situation. 
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Aug 22, 2016 07:03
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This next suggestion kind of requires a basic knowledge of Spanish, since I've yet to find an English translation of it, but it's definitely worth it. Jurassic Gakuen is a one-shot about a dinosaur high school. It rules. No further explanation is necessary. 
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Aug 24, 2016 04:32
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Has Yoshikazu Yasuhiko been mentioned in his thread yet? He draws some of the most expressive and organic art I have ever seen from manga. His standalone work is historically focused, but ultimately character-driven and minimally contingent to historical record. His licensed works consists mainly of Mobile Suit Gundam material, a series for which he was character designer. Alexandros    My Name Is Nero    afaik Nero and Alexandros aren't licensed, so you can find them here
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Speaking of Gundam, has no-one mentioned Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin yet? Because it's a real disservice to the thread if not.  MSG:The Origin is a retelling of the original Mobile Suit Gundam 43-episode anime series, keeping most of the series as it was but editing a few things to make them flow better. The original series was partly written by the seat of the pants week-to-week, along with a lot of toy-centric stuff like a clumbsy vehicle form for the RX-78-02 Gundam, and suffering from a cut episode order near the end that necessitated actual begging and pleading to get enough episodes to get an ending. The Origin streamlines the general plot of the show to flow better from start-to-finish across its 12 volumes. It also came in gorgeous hardcover editions for the english release  .If you don't know jack about Gundam, or at least the original series, here's the basic rundown. Earth (The Federation) is at war with its orbital colonies (called Sides, that orbit in groups called Bunches) under the banner of Zeon, and is getting its rear end roundly handed to it due to the Zeon's far superior Zaku Mk.II Mobile Suits just wrecking their day across the planet and over it. The story starts with Side 6, a neutral colony stay the hell out of the war as best it can, turning out to be the secret site of a Federation project for a new Mobile Suit - the RX-78. Unfortunately Zeon have learned of its existence, and the very start of the story is an infiltration team coming to destroy the project. The RX-78-01 goes down ruining three Zaku's with it (which was a big deal for the Federation compared to how most fights go), and buys time for everyone to get the -02 and -03 out the door to the ship waiting for it; White Base, a new battleship disguised as a mere cargo transport. It's the progenitor, or at least one of them, for the boy-falls-in-cockpit archetype with Ray Amuro, the Gundam creator's son, finding the convoy about two minutes from getting hosed badly by a pair of Zaku's and gets in the cockpit of the RX-78-02 to try and do something (the test pilots being very dead). The general gist of the story at-large is the Zeon heirarchy trying to stop the White Base and Gundam getting to the Federation's underground stronghold on Earth so they cant reproduce and continue development, sending ace pilots galore to try and sink them. And while it's not an original idea, The Origin actually takes it to its logical conclusion as to why the Federation starts pulling back from the brink late in the manga - with so many aces and commanders funneled towards killing White Base and the Gundam (not to mention getting killed fighting it), they aren't on other fronts and major operations where they might've won the battle.
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 Been reading Princess Jellyfish.  Its about a bunch of goons and fashionable Kurano that's forced herself into their lives and takes them on as a My Fair Ladylike project. Also their goon hovel is in peril of being demolished and they might have to get jobs and/or go live with normal people. Otherwise, fun comedy with horrible NEETS and a busybody.  
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Princess Jellyfish was great, though I kinda fell off of it after it switched to singapore and kinda got into a holding pattern for a while. Also, captain bravo, I sent you a PM but if you've got overly large images, please thumbnail them, like the CSCHBL one. Thanks!
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Aug 24, 2016 08:50
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Sorry, I'll edit the post right now!
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Aug 24, 2016 08:57
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Laputanmachine posted:All Jump series are trash. Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan owns and is good.
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Aug 25, 2016 00:28
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Captain Invictus posted:Princess Jellyfish was great, though I kinda fell off of it after it switched to singapore and kinda got into a holding pattern for a while. Ooops thats a bit further than where I was, I was just reading the collected volumes. Its still pretty great fun  Also oh noooo romantic misunderstandings. 
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Aug 25, 2016 10:51
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Just chiming in to agree that Princess Jellyfish is really drat good.
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Captain Bravo posted:Just chiming in to agree that Princess Jellyfish is really drat good. I've been holding off on it so I could buy the print volumes, and yes. Yes it is.
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Aug 26, 2016 03:57
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Fuuuuuuuuck I finished off vol 2 and I dont know if I have the willpower to wait for 3!
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Aug 26, 2016 11:48
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Spoiler alert: You don't.
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Aug 26, 2016 12:05
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I hadn't heard about this until a few days ago, but it seems A Silent Voice is getting an anime adaptation, and it looks quite good. Here's a short clip: https://mobile.twitter.com/moro0515/status/773328448076984320 Seems it won't beat around the bush, which is good.
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Captain Invictus posted:I hadn't heard about this until a few days ago, but it seems A Silent Voice is getting an anime adaptation, and it looks quite good. Here's a short clip: Well, this is the best news I've gotten all freaking month! 
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If anyone hasn't read BLAME! yet, Vertical Comics are releasing the first volume of the Master's Edition of the manga on September 13th. The Master's Edition of BLAME! reprints the original ten-volume run in six volumes that are larger than the original standard manga book size, and have new colour artwork for some pages. I own all ten volumes of the original print run and I'm still seriously considering getting the Master's Editions 
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Blame! is really good but I also am still not sure what happens in it despite having read through it twice.
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So, I just finished binging on Crows and had a pretty stupid good time.  It's a simple enough premise- Suzuran is the worst of the worst school where terminal gently caress-ups and delinquents wind up, and there's a constantly shifting hierarchy of thugs and brutes who are all attempting to punch their way to the top. Enter our hero - Bouya Harumichi, who is the best fighter. He's a lot like Saitama in that regard, you always know who's going to come out on top. However, the manga features a constantly rotating cast and Bouya is mostly used as a means to resolve plotlines rather than a more shonen-esque 'fight of the week' style. It's the type of story where every fight consists of the same 5 phrases, 'OYRAAA', 'MOTHERFUCKER', 'I'LL loving KILL YOU', 'EAT THIS!' and 'I'M NOT DEAD YET, rear end in a top hat' etc, but then by the end everybody is a bro and feelin' good. It's simple and it works. As for the downsides, the fight scenes are well-illustrated but rather plain in terms of brawling. Characters will trade a half dozen punches then one of them won't get up again, so nothing revolutionary there. However, one aspect of the story that I really like is that there's next to no padding whatsoever. There's several times where someone is in the hospital or otherwise occupied and a fight is scheduled for 'Next Week' or 'Next Month', but instead of having to sift through a few issues of sideplots, the only thing between the challenge and the fight is like 2 interstitial pages with some narration saying 'A week went by and nothing happened, LET'S THROW DOWN'. Another aspect that I really like about it is while the plot of most of the early issues is usually just 'then ANOTHER tough guy appeared and beat up a character you like', as the series progressed it really fleshed out the characters and their lives beyond just beating the poo poo out of each other. Most of the characters have some pretty introspective moments about what they're going to do with themselves beyond just being top-dog of some podunk highschool, and most of the villains, such as they are, are doing the only things that come naturally to them. Everyone feels convincing and honest, and there's very little obtuse, "anime-as-gently caress" stupid reasons for characters to do what they do. One other major plus in the whole thing's favor is that the style of the characters is "90's Japanese Coolguy" as HELL. Pompadours, Sukajans, Spikey blonde Hair, and more leather jackets than you can shake a stick at. McKilligan fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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Heya guys I have a couple of questions about One Piece. I've never touched anything related to it until a few days ago, and I'm absolutely loving it. But I can't decide between the manga or the anime. I've had a taste of, and although at first I prefered it, I'm kinda getting tired of the pacing of the anime. It feels like it has a lot of padding and it's overly-stretched, even though I don't really know how the story develops. Does this get better, or should I just go through the manga first?
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The anime starts out good, but the instant they catch up to the manga the first time(during the alabasta arc iifc) it begins a cycle of filler and padding that gets so interminable that at a certain point they started doing 1 chapter equals 1 episode, with about 10 minutes of intro and credits every episode. It's basically the worst. I will always tell people to read the manga over the anime, sadly one piece falls in the group of shonen series that had to have new episodes every week to keep its time slot (because Japanese TV is weird) and they don't do that anymore with more recent shonen, opting instead for standard 26 episode seasons. There's a colorized version of the manga on kissmanga, though it's got big chunks missing, sometimes entire arcs. Looks nice though, wish those could be had officially in english.
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Sep 27, 2016 13:14
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The manga won't take as long to plough through, a lot of visual gags work better and there are cover arcs that never made it into the anime that flesh out the world more. Definitely the manga.
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Sep 27, 2016 13:20
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Be careful when binging one piece, however. As it is over 800 chapters long, despite the vast majority of that being shockingly good, there are slow parts that are easy to burn out on and stop altogether. Most notably skypiea, one of the more divisive arcs, and Thriller Bark, which despite being one of the overall best arcs in the series with some of the best designs can still drag you down with its length. The current arc and the one before it are both some of the best arcs in the whole series, but before those were a couple that are often considered some of the worst overall (despite being mostly fine), the Fishman island and dressrosa arcs. And dressrosa has a ton of great stuff in it, but it's brought down by a few bad characters, one particularly awful plot device, and one fight that wayyy overstays it's welcome.
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Watch the One Piece anime until Ave Maria and New World Symphony, then read the Manga. Those are just two perfectly used musical stings that are worth watching, but then the manga is an inherently superior form to digest it in.
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According to Amazon, the first 12 volumes of Ôoku: The Inner Chambers will be available on Kindle and Comixology on November 15th. I've been waiting for that for a long time.
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Onmi posted:I'm tempted to post a recommendation for Goblin Slayer which is a new manga based on light novels (I believe two are out right. But I'm not sure I can because I can see a lot of people being turned off by its very dark opening and concept. The thing with Goblin Slayer I think would throw people off is the art looks very Shonen, but the content is very much not. I tried this! It opens with graphic mass rape, people being stabbed with piss-and-poo poo covered daggers, and then the dumb scenario bad DMs have thrown at Paladins since time immemorial to try and trick them into falling. I would not recommend this. The edge is so sharp I cut myself closing my laptop. e: In the same way Ennis hates superheroes, this author must loving loathe the fantasy genre. Clawtopsy fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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