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Captain Invictus posted:First rule of romcoms or romance series with multiple potential love interests: the best girl never wins. There's only one series I can think of where they did, the one with the crossdressing boy and the "ice queen" girl who just had a severe phobia of men Haha, before scrolling over your spoiler I had guessed the series. MonsieurChoc posted:Shukan Shounen Hachi and Jitsuwas both had best girl win. In Jitsu wa it wasn't even really a competition, though, right? Like, in the case of Hatsukoi Zombie the main character is actually personally uncertain over what he wants to do romantically. The same can sorta be said for that Gotoubun manga. Speaking of Hatsukoi Zombie, one thing I liked is how the protagonist figured out on his own that Ibusuki is a girl, and had likely known for a while. It's also nice that that series is a regular romcom instead of a harem manga (since there are only two love interests). The whole thing with Eve being fascinated by the examples of people putting their first love to "rest" was also a pretty clever/appropriate way of showing that Tarou himself was trying to decide that maybe he should put his first love behind him and consider moving on (and maybe dating Ebino or whatever). Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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Apparently World Trigger switched to a monthly magazine? That'll help a lot with the author's health.
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Dec 5, 2018 08:51
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o is that why there wasn't a chapter last week?
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Dec 5, 2018 09:00
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Yeah, it's monthly now. Which means we now have a good monthly series in WSJ. It will be running in the English release as well so that's good. Same as Blue exorcist and Boruto probably.
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Dec 5, 2018 10:08
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I can't believe they haven't done this with hiatus x hiatus yet
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Dec 5, 2018 10:32
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Manatee Cannon posted:I can't believe they haven't done this with hiatus x hiatus yet
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Dec 5, 2018 10:38
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find it hard to believe he couldn't get breaks for monthly too, especially if it were better for his health and led to a more consistent stream of chapters
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Dec 5, 2018 10:52
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Dexo posted:She was always the right girl, and the second best girl overall nope, ayumi 
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Dec 5, 2018 12:04
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My Monster Secret was never a harem, from the word go he was only interested in one girl. Sure, there were almost half a dozen others interested in him, but it was almost more a series about them getting over that in various ways than him being indecisive for 200 chapters over ~what girl should I go with~
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Dec 5, 2018 12:07
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Manatee Cannon posted:I can't believe they haven't done this with hiatus x hiatus yet Implying Togashi could keep up with a monthly schedule.
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Dec 5, 2018 14:11
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Thanks to the thread, I've caught up in Marry Grave. I smell a battle manga incoming.  I also started Hatsukoi Zombie. I just recently started the First Love Killer story so I've got a bit to go. Nagatoro is interesting but I'm not 100% sure I'll stick with it if it just keeps being her bullying him without any progress.
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Dec 5, 2018 15:11
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Nagatoro definitely has progress. It gradually shifts into bullying as a thin pretext for flirting.
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Dec 5, 2018 15:35
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Nagatoro became a lot better when it softened a bit and became much less... Cruel/femdom fetishy.
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Dec 5, 2018 15:53
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Captain Invictus posted:nope, ayumi What.
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Dec 5, 2018 17:12
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Invictus continues to be the most wrong person in the world. Ayumi caps out at 3. I can see her being better than the other canidates. But Chihiro and Yui are a tier above her.
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Dec 5, 2018 17:15
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Dexo posted:Invictus continues to be the most wrong person in the world. e: silly grammar. 
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Dec 5, 2018 17:21
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Like 90% of harem stories are foregone conclusions from the start Jitsu Wa is harem it just also happens to be good
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Dec 5, 2018 18:57
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Oh, no doubt about it. Jitsu wa Watashi wa is fantastic and one of my favorite recent manga period. I just like that part that Asahi never wavers wrt the one girl he likes: He likes the cute, dumb vampire (dumbire? dumpire?) girl and so he's all in on Youko, who's an incredibly endearing character herself. Plus, the fact that everyone has stuff going on besides "Imma score" is what makes the series what it is.  Well, that and the gags. I love those dumb gags.
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Dec 5, 2018 19:34
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I'm still wondering where Gotoubun is going to go with who will win. Pretty much everyone other than Yotsuba (poor girl) has got something going for her atm.
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Dec 5, 2018 19:36
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hxh remains one of the most popular jump titles despite only running for 2 months a year at most. they don't switch it to another magazine because they want to sell copies of jump.
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Dec 5, 2018 20:51
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If it's a harem series it's bad
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Dec 5, 2018 20:58
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Jose posted:If it's a harem series it's bad Knights of Sidonia is good.
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Dec 5, 2018 21:30
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Jose posted:If it's a harem series it's bad You really don't have to tell us this every single time someone talks about a harem manga
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Dec 5, 2018 21:32
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Pewdiepie posted:Knights of Sidonia is good.
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Dec 5, 2018 21:34
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Pewdiepie posted:Knights of Sidonia is good. How can you tell every character looks the same
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Dec 5, 2018 21:53
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uh, at least one character has some rather distinctive traits.
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Dec 5, 2018 22:01
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Jose posted:How can you tell every character looks the same Took me multiple times reading the whole thing while it was coming out and also I had to watch the anime to finally understand which character was which. One of the girls has green hair...
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Dec 5, 2018 22:14
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man it's weird how much stuff the karakuri circus anime has skipped over. reading the manga is a real trip after watching that first. there's a ton of chapters spent on characterizing people aside from the main 3 that the anime just ignores, which leads to them needing to change the way a lot of scenes work maybe they'll get introduced later but idk. just weird. I do like the explanation for why the puppets can easily wipe out armed groups but lose to single, unarmed humans. there's some pretty neat ideas in the manga to make the circus conceit work, tho other stuff is oversimplified or just doesn't really make sense
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Dec 5, 2018 22:39
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Dexo posted:Invictus continues to be the most wrong person in the world. Jose posted:If it's a harem series it's bad
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Dec 5, 2018 23:20
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:hxh remains one of the most popular jump titles despite only running for 2 months a year at most. they don't switch it to another magazine because they want to sell copies of jump. Also since they make sales on tankobans too, all Togashi has to do is to pump out enough chapters to print a tankoban each time he comes off hiatus, and then he can go back into hiatus. It is almost a win-win for everyone there...except us.
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Sindai posted:Nagatoro definitely has progress. It gradually shifts into bullying as a thin pretext for flirting. Yeah even knowing there's progress and seeing some pages posted that were kind of cute or funny on their own, kind of hesitant to read a series based on grade school level "they pick on you because they like you" style abuse.
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Dec 6, 2018 01:28
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Jose posted:If it's a harem series it's bad Acclaimed austrian novel the man without qualities is a harem series. one of the harem members is even his sister so its basically a manga. a committee of 99 leading german critics and scholars declared it the greatest german-language novel of the 20th century so the academic consensus is that harem series are good.
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Dec 6, 2018 02:09
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The committee went on to declare chihiro the greatest girl in the world god only knows.
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Allarion posted:I mean we had Death Note several years ago, and Bakuman after that. Jump's pretty willing to experiment and stick with things at times as long as it basically hits a big home run right away. As for grittier shonen more recently, I'd argue that's more the influence of Attack on Titan being such a big success that the industry has had to re-evaluate some of their standards for shonen, hence why a bunch of Jump Starts opened their first chapter with a child being brutally murdered, including Neverland. I feel like the grittiness has been around basically forever and we're all just thrown off because we all got into anime in the comparatively brief time period where that relatively wasn't cool. Like, keep in mind the codifier for the shonen battle series as a concept is Fist of the loving North Star and that shonen as a whole was basically invented by Go Nagai.
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New Gotoubun Nino train becoming a runaway train. I'm expecting her to crash and burn spectacularly.
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Dec 6, 2018 11:07
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Robber Baron Miku will assuredly derail Train Nino...!
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Not sure if it got posted, but we got another chapter of Jujutusu Kaisen yesterday. Things wind down and salaryman made it out alive afterall. But emo kid is lost forever, so is his hot mom. So it's still a bittersweet affair.
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Ibblebibble posted:New Gotoubun Choo Choo!  All aboard the Miku train for marriage! Nino's gonna go too fast and fly off the rails.
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new watamote Kato is either flirting a lot or hiding her from ucci, either way is entertaining.
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...new edens zero at jaiminis Not linking because its p much censored softcore.
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