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Thank god. That's merciful. It was so disappointing seeing that just start plummeting and plummeting into complete garbage, especially when Holyland and Suicide Island are decent enough. And to compound things it had the most annoying translator constantly making really stupid in-page observations and rooting for the dumb I WILL MAKE A UTOPIA ON EARTH AMERIKKKAAAAAAAA character guy. Time to finish reading whatever dumb poo poo happens and put this all behind me. This is what happens when you make a series where you can't include little author's notes about how you've also done this thing and this is how you do it like with fighting in Holyland and survivalism in Suicide Island. They were dumb and amusing, but it's not like he could've had them in his weird dumb fantasy manga like THIS IS HOW YOU DEFEAT THE GREAT IMPERIALIST POWER AMERICA WITH MIND POWERS I'VE DONE IT BEFORE AND IT'S REALLY SIMPLE It still has some of my fave dumb random pages though. Punkin Spunkin posted:shhhhhhhhhh it was a good run not Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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I like the fighting tips in Holyland because the author really did go out on the streets to brawl in his youth.
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Captain Invictus posted:suicide island is ok but maybe don't take anything it says about survival to heart without double-checking it, there was a chapter where he recommended eating some type of plant if you're ever stranded and need water(?) and the translator was like "uhhhh, no, do not loving do this, that plant is horrifically toxic and will kill you" or something to that effect which was hilarious. Also the perfect hunter boy has his perfect hunter girl who has now magically gotten over her trauma in time to bone him and they live happily ever after in their convenient beachside house with bananas nearby And I pretty much take all of the author's advice on everything with a chuckle and grain of salt, they're just good fun fourth wall breaking
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I'm still reading Survival and it's a good man against the elements manga. Absolutely no idea if all of its survival advice is correct or not though.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Thank god. That's merciful. It was so disappointing seeing that just start plummeting and plummeting into complete garbage, especially when Holyland and Suicide Island are decent enough. And to compound things it had the most annoying translator constantly making really stupid in-page observations and rooting for the dumb I WILL MAKE A UTOPIA ON EARTH AMERIKKKAAAAAAAA character guy. Those all sound correct and I'm gonna read this manga now. gently caress Amerikkka!!!!!!!!
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Those all sound correct and I'm gonna read this manga now. gently caress Amerikkka!!!!!!!! Controversial manga opinion
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I like Suicide Island
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Really? I'm behind on Suicide Island. Ah well, it was never Holyland level anyway. It def started getting weird when Cannibal Rapeman showed up and then teamed up with Lame Teen Nihilist Yeah, don't take the advice of either Suicide Island or Holyland seriously - it's very often very bad advice. Like how in Holyland, Tsuchiya, a wrestler, is basically unable to fight on asphalt, because the ground is too hard for his knees and hands. (newsflash: that's a minor issue compared to how it feels being grabbed and slammed onto asphalt compared to soft ground.)
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Who the gently caress takes life advice, or any advice, from manga
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HenryEx posted:Who the gently caress takes life advice, or any advice, from manga What about cooking advice from Cooking Papa?
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HenryEx posted:Who the gently caress takes life advice, or any advice, from manga
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it isn't like all manga is an innately inaccurate source for every kind of information just because the suicide island guy is full of poo poo.
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I'm not saying to take the advice you find in a manga, gosh. Except shojo mangas, because those are very accurate guides to dating.
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many manga include the important message of "hey, don't be a jerk". i have never been able to follow that advice, unfortunately.
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Exercu posted:Yeah, don't take the advice of either Suicide Island or Holyland seriously - it's very often very bad advice. Like how in Holyland, Tsuchiya, a wrestler, is basically unable to fight on asphalt, because the ground is too hard for his knees and hands. (newsflash: that's a minor issue compared to how it feels being grabbed and slammed onto asphalt compared to soft ground.) Shoulda trained greco roman instead. But Yeah the author absolutely despises grappling and made his hero a lanky striker with perfect timing on his knees so never has to learn a sprawl I just Love stuff like "Not many people know this, But the best defense against a kick is to put yourself in a corner, you will be immune from harm!"
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Captain Invictus posted:I'm not saying to take the advice you find in a manga, gosh. Except shojo mangas, because those are very accurate guides to dating. I took advice from a manga once. I'm more flexible now but I drifted away from a potential life partner oh well.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Thank god. That's merciful. It was so disappointing seeing that just start plummeting and plummeting into complete garbage, especially when Holyland and Suicide Island are decent enough. And to compound things it had the most annoying translator constantly making really stupid in-page observations and rooting for the dumb I WILL MAKE A UTOPIA ON EARTH AMERIKKKAAAAAAAA character guy. I had a lot more hopes for it even a little over halfway through. The authors other stuff has been entertaining at least but it felt like this was definitely a "hey this story is kinda starting to suck now gently caress it lets just end it" sort of thing.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Those all sound correct and I'm gonna read this manga now. gently caress Amerikkka!!!!!!!! Sadly it's not even good as "LF the manga" because the author chicken out in the end in favor of "moral ambiguity" or some other nonsense.
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Hellbunny posted:Sadly it's not even good as "LF the manga" because the author chicken out in the end in favor of "moral ambiguity" or some other nonsense. Honestly, it's not so much the "gently caress AmeriKKKa" that annoys me as the "Japan was so much better before America ruined it", which is super hosed up (though not uncommon among more right-wing Japanese people). Like, even if an "amerikkka" view is overly simplistic there are at least legitimate reasons to dislike/condemn America, but there aren't really any legitimate reasons to think that pre-WW2 Japan was better than post-WW2 Japan.
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Less irradiated
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Nostalgics for the Imperial times need to read a loving book. Sadly the government of japan is complicit in the problem.
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old farts in every time and place are nostalgic for the good old days. whether the old days were even slightly good or not is irrelevant.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:old farts in every time and place are nostalgic for the good old days. whether the old days were even slightly good or not is irrelevant. Sometimes it's also young farts (who know nothing about what the "good old days" were actually like).
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Most countries' last 100 years were loving benign compared to Japan's. There's a great difference.
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Wild Horses posted:Most countries' last 100 years were loving benign compared to Japan's. There's a great difference. This is nowhere near true lmao.
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imperial japan was a real lovely place but that's not exactly unusual.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:imperial japan was a real lovely place but that's not exactly unusual. The world is steeped in violence in all corners.
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Read about the modern history of Equatorial Guinea sometime, that's a place I was just studying recently.
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Y'all should read Shigurui which is a good and cool manga
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Sharkopath posted:This is nowhere near true lmao. at the very least they don't include having nukes dropped on them
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are there any good seinen comics about fightin that have been translated lately already read holyland and the good part of shamo
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:are there any good seinen comics about fightin that have been translated lately Rikudo is about boxing but it's pretty cool.
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That Works posted:Rikudo is about boxing but it's pretty cool. that counts as fighting
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:are there any good seinen comics about fightin that have been translated lately Teppu was a good thing that recently finished.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:old farts in every time and place are nostalgic for the good old days. whether the old days were even slightly good or not is irrelevant. That's part of why I like Tomino so much: an old fart powered by hatred of the good old days.
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Seconding Teppu as a very good fighting manga that deserves to be read more. It's very short too, because the author had to stop it due to health reasons. Because of that it kind of stops in the middle of things but does at least have an open ending of sorts. Shame, really.
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in the event you haven't read riki-oh read that imo kung fu man who punches through people and some insane sci-fi story involving nazi's i don't quite remember. Might have to reread it
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:are there any good seinen comics about fightin that have been translated lately All-Rounder Meguru is pretty good. (It avoids the 'ultra fast skinny strikers are the best' trope too, and the fights are cool)
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