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To be fair, as far as I've read the reincarnated sword guy really hasn't used his human form very much, if at all, since he got it. He seems to be perfectly comfortable as a sword. Also he just helped his daughter/wielder stealth murder a whole building of slavers Dishonored style, because gently caress slavers. It's not a great story by any means, but it's inoffensive enough to follow the releases for. Edit: And on the other hand, Re: Monster is so goddamned terrible in every way. Avoid avoid avoid.
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Schubalts posted:She got a dump of Maine's memories, which is how she knew Turi's name. She is herself, but with Maine's memories attached. It could also be that they merged, but a frail little girl's sense of self isn't as deeply rooted as an adult librarian. There's a few details to the effect, like she immediately takes an interest in the same boy that the girl had a crush on previously.
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Eponymous posted:Edit: And on the other hand, Re: Monster is so goddamned terrible in every way. Avoid avoid avoid. Why's that? I assume it has nothing to do with the manga Monster, as an aside?  I've heard of it in passing, but it's kinda hard to keep all these terrible, typically rape filled, light novels straight.
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Cuntellectual posted:Why's that? I assume it has nothing to do with the manga Monster, as an aside? It's so bad and also full of rape Lt. Lizard posted:I like Kumo desu ga, because the main character narration is fairly entertaining and it has interesting fights that are all about weak MC overcoming far stronger opponents through skill and smarts, but yeah, the current trend of "Hmmmm...what will happen, if I invest skill points into this random skill with weird description? Oh, looks like all my stats increased tenfold and I got access to a dozen completely overpowered abilities, neat!" is getting tiresome. The manga is still pretty good IMHO, but I can see how it will all turn to poo poo, considering the main character is currently on express train into "boring invincible demigod" territory. lol
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Cuntellectual posted:Why's that? I assume it has nothing to do with the manga Monster, as an aside? Re: Monster is about a kung-fu genius esper who is stabbed to death by some crazy broad, gets reincarnated as a weak goblin in a fantasy world with video game elements, and embarks on a path of generic and listless adventure with an army entirely fuelled by his unearned overpowered abilities and literal farm-breeding rape camps.
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Hellsau posted:It cannot possibly be worse than Shield Hero. There was one face that the inexplicably now-adult sidekick character makes in a cover page where she is 100% walleyed that makes me laugh every time, she's supposed to be shouting something like look out or whatever, but is instead just making a literal  faceRareAcumen posted:Spirit Migration was pretty fun up until they gave the MC a child sized homunculus to inhabit.
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Captain Invictus posted:Did that one get cancelled? I recall it ended rather abruptly, didn't it? It was a fun series while it lasted though, certainly better than the likes of shield hero and such. Also that golem design was dope, like something out of gunbuster/diebuster. I dunno, I'm always surprised when stuff just ends suddenly. As far as I know, it's still going.
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Oh, is it a light novel that's still ongoing? The manga ended abruptly.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
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Captain Invictus posted:Oh, is it a light novel that's still ongoing? The manga ended abruptly. Okay lemme try again. I have no clue about stuff getting canceled or continuing. <- And that applies to every manga. Because of that ignorance, I just assume stuff is either still being made or translated. So I have no clue if it stopped forever or not, I just assume the next chapter is taking a while to be made.
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Pierson posted:Magi should have stayed the fantastical adventures of Aladdin, Ali Baba and Morgan going through dungeons and poo poo and having fun, instead of whatever it turned into when I eventually gave up.
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RareAcumen posted:Okay lemme try again. I have no clue about stuff getting canceled or continuing. <- And that applies to every manga. Because of that ignorance, I just assume stuff is either still being made or translated. So I have no clue if it stopped forever or not, I just assume the next chapter is taking a while to be made.
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Fourteen There's a least 3-4 pages every chapter that I could post, god drat. Zeratanis fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Sep 19, 2017 |
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Fourteen is really something else. It has to be seen to be believed. Heck, I've read the whole thing, and I still have trouble believing it was a thing that was actually published and sold for money.
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Eponymous posted:Re: Monster is about a kung-fu genius esper who is stabbed to death by some crazy broad, gets reincarnated as a weak goblin in a fantasy world with video game elements, and embarks on a path of generic and listless adventure with an army entirely fuelled by his unearned overpowered abilities and literal farm-breeding rape camps. You left out cannibal. Dude is also a cannibal, even *before* he gets isekai'd.
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But it's really cool because he has the power the absorb the powers of anything he eats!!!
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AnonSpore posted:But it's really cool because he has the power the absorb the powers of anything he eats!!! I'd rather just read a Kirby manga
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Hellsau posted:It cannot possibly be worse than Shield Hero. Re: Monsters is definitely worse. It's a story that has a man basically ascend to the position of "demon Lord" that always appears in these isekai stories by way of DragonQuest. Except the author tries to frame the main character as an admirable and morally righteous character. It's already been mentioned about the rapey nature of the story but allow me to elaborate. The main character is born into the goblin race, said goblins instead of using their own females breed with human women. Not by choice since they are an uncivilized and monstrous race. Main character once he gets old and strong enough mercy kills the battered and broken women (one of whom was his mother) and puts an end to the whole practice. So you would think that this means he'll try and find another way to handle the birth rate since kidnapping is off the menu right? No. instead the program switches to a combination of abusing P.O.Ws and utilizing an ability he later gains to secrete various substances to create the type of aphrodesiac that only exists in hentai logic. So anyone captured gets doped with the stuff and locked up in such a way that they will eventually succumb to their desires and "consent" to being a pleasure partner for the tribe. This is unironically treated as good and every single victim eventually comes to like their situation no matter how unwilling they were when they got into the cave. Not to mention the original band of women gravitating to him through Stockholm syndrome even before the drugs started flowing. The problem with Re: Monster is that the main character is the poster child for Gary Stu. Everything goes his way he never gets set back by anything. Injuries work out for him, loss turns into even greater gain. He gets as many powers as problems he will encounter and then some. And the story bends over backwards to have people stoke his ego and sing his praises. And he's always got the next evolution or powerup that "hasn't been seen in a millenia" and is favored by the gods themselves. Shield Hero is edgy and filled with idiots to make Naofumi look good by comparison; but his story is not on the same tier of bad as Rou's. Re: Monster is on the same level as Maou no Hajimekata and Dungeon Seeker.
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There was a comparison that kept intruding on me whenever this stuff was brought up and I finally figured out what it was: Western military sci-fi. Basically two entire genres filled with reactionary reprobate garbage with only a few standout jewels buoying it up at all.
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Brought To You By posted:Re: Monsters is definitely worse. It's a story that has a man basically ascend to the position of "demon Lord" that always appears in these isekai stories by way of DragonQuest. Except the author tries to frame the main character as an admirable and morally righteous character. It's already been mentioned about the rapey nature of the story but allow me to elaborate. The main character is born into the goblin race, said goblins instead of using their own females breed with human women. Not by choice since they are an uncivilized and monstrous race. Main character once he gets old and strong enough mercy kills the battered and broken women (one of whom was his mother) and puts an end to the whole practice. So you would think that this means he'll try and find another way to handle the birth rate since kidnapping is off the menu right? When you type 3 huge paragraphs about it, I kinda feel like I need to read it just to see for myself.
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Pierson posted:There was a comparison that kept intruding on me whenever this stuff was brought up and I finally figured out what it was: Western military sci-fi. And now there's a series that combines the two about an Isekai dude reincarnating as the AI of a mil sci-fi starship!
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Now what kind of Isekai- I learned a new word, yay!- would you classify Saga of Tanya the Evil as?
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I'm trying to wrap my head around the logic of a character tearing down the goblin rape camps like "this can't be allowed to continue. You have to drug them first" then restarts the goblin rape camps with extra steps. If I ever succeed, put a bullet in me.
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The only thing I remember about Re:Monster was a translators note complaining about how pointlessly complex and edgy all the names were in Japanese. It was then I realised chuunibyou aren't just an anime thing, they actually exist and they write poo poo like this. I'm glad I dropped it early.
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on the off chance somebody still hasn't already discovered the joys of grand blue  
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Grand Blue is great and has some incredibly good expressions in it.
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Oh right this thread is for recommending manga. Ninja Shinobu-san no Junjou Funny the whole way through and get this, the male lead actually has "attractive qualities" beyond simply being the main character. Honestly I had to do a double-take just writing this.    Not too long either, only 30 chapters.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:kimetsu no yaiba has the best boys Can now confirm. 
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Doc Hawkins posted:Can now confirm. The next pages are also fantastic. Kimetsu no Yaiba is presently in my top 3.
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PrinnySquadron posted:Grand Blue is great and has some incredibly good expressions in it. Grand Blue is also good because its a comedy manga that actually tells jokes instead of just presenting a wacky situation and having the characters look at the reader while saying "Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
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unseenlibrarian posted:And now there's a series that combines the two about an Isekai dude reincarnating as the AI of a mil sci-fi starship! It does say a lot that I'm not sure if you're serious or not.
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Nuramor posted:It does say a lot that I'm not sure if you're serious or not. There's a novel that's kind of the reverse of that, Ancillary Justice.
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jizzy sillage posted:There's a novel that's kind of the reverse of that, Ancillary Justice. this is a 3 book series and it is extremely good
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I found the no gender/misgender thing really annoying to read. She/it is a super powerful AI with perfect memory, you think she'd assign a gender in the languages she had to and stick with it, but characters who have sexes are constantly having their gender switched back and forth at random. I never read the other two.
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Could someone recomend me mangas/artists that are really good at conveying action sequences? I was told to start with Dragonball Z, but there are probably other (better?) examples out there. e: couldn't find a general manga q's thread
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I can't recall when it went all-in 200% on laserbeams and eye-powers but until it did Naruto had really good action. I have some pretty strong memories of a ton of well-drawn and actually clever fights until around about the big timeskip.
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mike12345 posted:Could someone recomend me mangas/artists that are really good at conveying action sequences? I was told to start with Dragonball Z, but there are probably other (better?) examples out there. That's a great question and I wish I could give you a ton of examples but sadly I have a terrible memory. So I can only give you two. Kengan Ashua- that's Ashua, not Ashura. Don't make the same mistake I did- by SANDROVICH Yabako and the One Punch Man redraw by the mighty Murata OPM:     If it's possible to slow a gif down, feel free to go ahead and do so. Kengan Ashua:      That's like the second fight of the series and now we're just a bit past this:       
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