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Monaghan posted:I always found the romance is Fairy tail oddly charming and I would to see him write a non action manga. Don't be too hard on yourself. Mashima is probably one of the better romantics amongst shonen writers. Granted, that's not a high bar to clear, but he's more middle-of-the-road overall romance-wise.
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Great romances like the following: -Obsessed stalker and guy who ignores her -Girl and guy who tried to use her as a sacrifice -Girl and guy who literally crucified her -The one we don't talk about Though I'll give you Elfman/Evergreen, Bisca/Arzac, and I guess Aquarius/HER BOYFRIEND (her boyfriend), so that's at least three. chumbler fucked around with this message at 17:36 on May 13, 2017 |
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May 13, 2017 07:40
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chumbler posted:... so that's at least two. Kuroyama posted:Mashima is probably one of the better romantics amongst shonen writers. Yup. It adds up.
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May 13, 2017 12:10
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Don't forget Cat X Cat
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May 13, 2017 13:25
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chumbler posted:Great romances like the following: He only historically accurately crucified her. Then he was cleansed in holy fire fists, holy friendship, and the consequences of the stocks sans night time buggery. Then she wrote IRON in magic and their love is beautiful you mean man.
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May 13, 2017 15:13
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chumbler posted:Great romances like the following: What's the one we don't talk about? Zeref and Mavis?
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May 13, 2017 15:49
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chumbler posted:-Girl and guy who literally crucified her To be fair, the guy did have to clean up his act first.
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Silver2195 posted:What's the one we don't talk about? censored x censored ? Way to talk about what we don't talk about. <  >
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Gyges posted:So the "cliff hanger" for the latest chapter has got to be the least suspenseful cliffhanger ever. To be fair, it's not really a flame attack, just a flame aspect to his attack. I think. So it'll probably work, just not enough to matter. chumbler posted:Great romances like the following: What's really sad is that these could describe romances in at least a few different shonen. Just for stalker and ignorer, Naruto has Naruto and Hinata, Sasuke and Sakura and probably a few others I'm forgetting, Bleach has Orihime and Ichigo, One Piece has Sanji and...almost every attractive female in the setting as well as Boa Hancock and Luffy - though at least Oda portrays his purely as comedic rather than trying to make them dramatic as well as comedic. Still, it's there regardless. And there's probably other examples I'm not familiar with since I'm not a huge shonen nerd and am only really passingly familiar with other ones.
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May 13, 2017 18:35
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I like that even Precht is grossed out by the Zeref and Mavis thing.
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May 13, 2017 19:04
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Zeref may be the first manga villain to be defeated by a fanfiction writer.
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May 14, 2017 04:31
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It's kind of lovely that Fairy Tail has several members whose whole thing is magic language writing, and the climactic magic writing is instead done by a celestial mage winging rewriting the very essence of somebody. Because she's been writing a novel for like 9 years and otherwise has no knowledge of either Demonic languages and their syntax or even magic runes outside seeing other people do it. Which, if that was a valid method of learning, means she should be spitting fire and ice while equipping magical cat wings.
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May 14, 2017 05:24
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To be fair she's been depicted as one of the most scholarly mages of the lot. Also something something bonds.
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i feel like this chapter redeemed the whole terrible series
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Jose posted:i feel like this chapter redeemed the whole terrible series Surprisingly not awful, I should say.
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May 19, 2017 21:30
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So Zeref was just suddenly one shot by Natsu because of Emotions, despite everything making it so that it was impossible for him to win. And Acnologia in the same chapter was pushed into a blackhole. Thus removing all threats, and Ichiya was the only casualty
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MonsterEnvy posted:So Zeref was just suddenly one shot by Natsu because of Emotions, despite everything making it so that it was impossible for him to win. Please tell me you meant Jellal, and not Ichiya.
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May 19, 2017 23:17
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It's interesting how the unpredictable writing style restores the sense of mystery to scenes. I really don't know if X or Y is dead/defeated. Also FT is certainly worse than better manga at peak but his willingness to punch away lovely arcs and just move on has kept the average, barring a couple ridiculously poo poo chapters, at a pretty good measure. And given most manga poo poo the bed in the last tenth that has worked pretty well here. Naruto certainly crapped itself. Coolest guy indeed. (the Burrito anime is actually decent, though, for anyone who pines for early Naruto) Bleach meanwhile poo poo the entire hotel. And then yelled at the editors and audience about it.
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May 19, 2017 23:35
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I may have been spoiled or whatever but if they just Neji'd Ichiya i'm going to be Angry At Anime.
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May 19, 2017 23:42
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chumbler posted:Please tell me you meant Jellal, and not Ichiya. Nope Ichiya. He and Anna (Who only just showed up now so I don't count her) were the only casualties of the battle. They sacrificed themselves to defeat Acnologia by ramming him with the airship into the time black hole that was only just introduced so there was a way to defeat Acnologia. For Ichiya fans Nichiya is still alive.
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May 20, 2017 02:23
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How quickly you all forget Christina. Her most noble sacrifice shall not be forgotten.
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May 20, 2017 04:59
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But did Christina have a truly noble parfum? One that will never grace this world again? Anna and Ichiya will be revealed to have gotten off Christina at the last second, making Christina and Makarov the only casualties for the heroes.
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MonsterEnvy posted:So Zeref was just suddenly one shot by Natsu because of Emotions, despite everything making it so that it was impossible for him to win. I thought Zeref lost because he'd been drawing power from the Ravines of Time, and they were closed when Acnologia was shoved into them.
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May 20, 2017 13:10
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*read 500+ chapters of a manga over several years* hey this manga is kind of bad
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Centzon Totochtin posted:*read 500+ chapters of a manga over several years* hey this manga is kind of bad *Reads 500+ chapters of a manga over several years* "Wait. There was 500 chapters of this? Why don't I remember any of it, but I know it's kinda bad somehow? Why does the room smell like pennies?" Fabricated fucked around with this message at 01:44 on May 21, 2017 |
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May 21, 2017 01:28
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I don't think Fairy Tail is as bad as most people but it has many many enormous flaws and the second I switched from watching the anime to reading the manga my ability to remember what happened absolutely tanked so that bit is definitely accurate, at least in relation to the manga.
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May 21, 2017 01:35
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I read the whole thing in one go. The most confusing thing was how the translators would keep changing the spelling of people's names. Gerard became Jellal, etc.
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May 21, 2017 02:08
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Gajeel Gajil Gazelle.
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May 21, 2017 02:55
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"Flame of his wild emotions". What a loving dumb line.
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Giselle, with the haunting spin-off ballet about an angry magic punch man who eats steel, and his love for a fellow magus who, uh, was good at rune making I think? ...it's weird but it actually does feel like my brain pulled the plug on Fairy Tail related memories a while back and now they're just gurgling down the drain. Like, "oh yeah, the girl who wore feathers, wasn't she part of the big tournament? I had no idea she debuted in the same arc as Wendy, what the hell."
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Rangpur posted:Giselle, with the haunting spin-off ballet about an angry magic punch man who eats steel, and his love for a fellow magus who, uh, was good at rune making I think? No thats her sister. But I understand not remembering.
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TriffTshngo posted:I don't think Fairy Tail is as bad as most people but it has many many enormous flaws and the second I switched from watching the anime to reading the manga my ability to remember what happened absolutely tanked so that bit is definitely accurate, at least in relation to the manga. I got into Fairy Tail after hearing about Acnologia's attack before the time skip on a manga reviewing podcast. One of the hosts would not stop laughing about how stupid it was, and I decided to read a few chapters to see if it was really that dumb. So I think my opinion on FT has been shaped by that. I'm more amused than angry whenever it goes in a ridiculous direction. Plus, thinking "what would be the stupidest way for this to turn out" has given me a decent track record on my FT predictions.
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Kuroyama posted:I got into Fairy Tail after hearing about Acnologia's attack before the time skip on a manga reviewing podcast. One of the hosts would not stop laughing about how stupid it was, and I decided to read a few chapters to see if it was really that dumb. So I think my opinion on FT has been shaped by that. I'm more amused than angry whenever it goes in a ridiculous direction. Which podcast would that be?
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Fairy Tail has occasional moments of brilliance(mostly during the tournament arc) but it ranges from painfully mediocre to hilariously bad the rest of the time.
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Welp, at least this chapter is classic fairy tail, just Natsu doing what he always does, defeating the big bad with fire punching and friendship, nothing fancy involved. Kinda sad for Ichiya though, it was one of the more unique characters.
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Natsu punching things with fire is why I started reading this waaaaaaaaaaay back when. I'm pretty okay with Zeref being defeated by a fire punch fueled by friendship.
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Mraagvpeine posted:Which podcast would that be? Weekly Manga Recap. Here's them reviewing the comic by Gene Simmons's kid that plagiarized Bleach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJA0EZieDnI
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Is that the one that plagarized from Jojo Part 3 too, or as that a different western manga. Cause I vaguely remember there being some hubbub about something plagarizing the N'Doul fight, only with blood instead of water? I think? It was way back, before I watched Jojo. EDIT: Oh wait nevermind it was Diesel. And it was from the late 90s. Holy poo poo. http://www.funnyjunk.com/Diesel+by+joe+weltjens+aka+oc+donutsteel/funny-pictures/5840812/
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Overlord K posted:Natsu punching things with fire is why I started reading this waaaaaaaaaaay back when.  I have zero expectations for this manga other than burning spirit and punching guys with fire so I really don't mind that the plot is bad and that I can't remember anything that happened more than a few chapters ago
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I'm guessing that some magical maguffin will bring back Acnologia for a final showdown. His ending felt kind of abrupt.
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