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Darth TNT posted:I don't know how I feel yet about Sakomoto. The first and second chapter were pretty fun, but not nearly as fun as MAshle, nor nearly as cure as Magu. I'm not sure if it will be able to build a solid identity to hold my interest. But I'm still on board for now. The clear art style and above average action direction is carrying it for me right now.
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i never much cared for manga like sakamoto that lean so heavily on the tsukkomi constantly and completely losing his poo poo to the extent that it overshadows everything else. like, shut the heck up sometimes!
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i never much cared for manga like sakamoto that lean so heavily on the tsukkomi constantly and completely losing his poo poo to the extent that it overshadows everything else. like, shut the heck up sometimes! Imagine my face in the bottom-left corner of the panel, reacting dramatically to this statement!!
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i never much cared for manga like sakamoto that lean so heavily on the tsukkomi constantly and completely losing his poo poo to the extent that it overshadows everything else. like, shut the heck up sometimes! TIL what tsukkomi is. It’s basically Moriking. It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t. I think Sakamoto not talking is going to get dull or annoying aat some point.
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Sakamoto's biggest hurdle will be getting compared to another manga with a spy/hitman/mind reader cast. I like the art though and I'm always down for manga with a main character who is in an established relationship. You don't get a lot of that in Jump.
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Darth TNT posted:TIL what tsukkomi is. It’s basically Moriking. nah, in better comedies the gag is the focus and the tsukkomi doesn't overstay its welcome.
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Mulderman posted:Sakamoto's biggest hurdle will be getting compared to another manga with a spy/hitman/mind reader cast. That or Way of the House Husband. Neither are comparisons that flatter Sakamoto.
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I know there's a dedicated thread for it already, but Chainsaw Man is only a chapter away from its conclusion - it's a phenomenal manga that does some really cool things with Shonen tropes. It has a very similar start to Jujutsu Kaisen but goes in a completely different direction. If you're okay with quite a lot of gore it's definitely worth reading, it's easily one of the best manga running in jump at the moment. Sad to see it going, but if you wanna be there for the finale now's the time.
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Wait did a speedscan come out or is the chapter coming this Sunday the final chapter?
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Electric Phantasm posted:Wait did a speedscan come out or is the chapter coming this Sunday the final chapter? Speedscan came out, which comes out officially this Sunday. The chapter after that is the final chapter.
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i like that Fujimoto is willing to just end things, happened with Fire Punch before this. CSM has gradually lost me post-Gun Fiend so i'm ready to see whatever they're going to put out next, whenever it comes around. though it seems like CSM could at least end up with an anime
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dogsicle posted:though it seems like CSM could at least end up with an anime CSM is really tight top to bottom but I do feel like he kinda lost interest a little around the Gun Fiend and skipped some stuff that felt like it was brewing. On the other hand there's room for other stories inside the CSM universe so maybe that's what the spoiler is.
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A Sometimes Food posted:That or Way of the House Husband. Neither are comparisons that flatter Sakamoto. Look, isn't it impressive enough that a cat wearing a bandana can draw at all?
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So one of my favorite manga, 'Alice in Borderlands' is getting a live-action netflix adaptation this month. In the lead up this, the author has been putting out a short series that acts as a sequel to the main one titled 'Alice in Borderlands Retry' and the series really does capture the core of what made AiB a superb death game series in a genre where it's all too easy for the writers to be gorey and excessive. Instead borrowing some surface elements from 'Alice in Wonderland' and creating a situation where players are forced to participate in card themed games. The suite of the card dictates the type of challenge: ♠ emphasizing physical effort, ♣ emphasizing team effort and a balance between strength and wits, ♦ emphasizing knowledge and reasoning, and finally ♥ which emphasize psychology and betrayal. And the value of the game: Ace - 10 determines the overall difficulty of the game. With players being mysteriously transported and stuck in a dystopian Tokyo and forced to compete in order to extend the amount of time they are allowed to continue live. It does a lot right both as a suspense manga but also as a death game one with some really devious challenges. And the author isn't shy on just shelving the MC to focus on other players and groups so the outcome of any given game is never certain. Retry technically contains a spoiler in that It reveals the fate of the MC who survives, not a terribly big spoiler I think and outside of that I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't read the original but wants a taste of what it contains. And if you do like Retry, or my post has interested you, please give 'Alice in Borderland' a read as well. Retry also doesn't hold back either giving us a pretty hard challenge up-front. Challenge Name: "Earth Invasion" Difficulty: 9♥
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My big problem with the sequel is the mystery of the Borderlands was already revealed in the last series so it loses a lot of the atmosphere. Still, I like the games. For the sequel plot I’m guessing the two psychos from the Jack of Hearts game are in charge now and the games will be much crueler/unfair.
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RatHat posted:My big problem with the sequel is the mystery of the Borderlands was already revealed in the last series so it loses a lot of the atmosphere. Still, I like the games. For the sequel plot I’m guessing the two psychos from the Jack of Hearts game are in charge now and the games will be much crueler/unfair. My first thought was you were referring to other sequel, Alice on Border road. Which I should tell people is a fever dream and never happened, please don't read it. re: spoiler If the author does at least reference those two as the architects of this game it will justify that entire arc when the author could have focused on Yuuji who took out the Queen of Spades. He and the Doctor were the only other notable characters from the Beach I cared about and they both off-screened their challenges
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Alice in Borderlands was really good, had some powerful messages considering its genre is usually just torture porn, actually delivered on the pretty hard to write "psychological end boss", and nailed the landing. All around good read, and i still occasionally think about it years later. And even the little oneshot side stories are excellent. The one with the selfish girl in the collapsing stadium(?? it's been a few years) was great and had an incredible ending. Read it.
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I went through a death game phase a few years back, and Alice in Borderlands was one of the best, for all the aforementioned reasons. Had no idea there was a sequel, I'll check that out.
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Thread convinced me to check it out. First chapter or two were a little rough imo, and I'm irrationally angry they translated the protag as Arisu when it's so clearly supposed to be Alice, but I'm invested and enjoying it now. The one major dark-skinned character being given a pretty, uh, questionable accent is sure a thing, though! I was going to chock that up to what I assumed was early 2010s manga fan translations, but it looks like it's only from like 3 years ago lol
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Jujutsu Kaisen: How does it feel, Mahito? To be a biiiitch.
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Blockhouse posted:Jujutsu Kaisen: How does it feel, Mahito? To be a biiiitch. That as a very cathartic chapter, I hope the body stealing guy "saves" him in a way that isn't good for him.
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Blockhouse posted:Jujutsu Kaisen: How does it feel, Mahito? To be a biiiitch. I was hoping for an HxH reference. Story did not let me down.
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Juju: Hell yeah gently caress him up yuji Aww man does todo have to retire now
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Ethiser posted:That as a very cathartic chapter, I hope the body stealing guy "saves" him in a way that isn't good for him. It really is and I hope you're right. God that was so cool. Also I know that that wasn't him actually using domain, but you think that snowfield might be a peek at Itadori's domain? Jose posted:mashle is very good A Sometimes Food fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Dec 7, 2020 |
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I think what I liked most about that fight is how there wasn’t any big last minute power up from the heroes. Mahito was the only one throwing out asspulls. Everything else was stuff that we’d seen before, and in the end, they tricked him into eating the final blow
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A Sometimes Food posted:Also I know that that wasn't him actually using domain, but you think that snowfield might be a peek at Itadori's domain?[/spoiler] As cool as having his domain be a snowy field where he hunts his enemies would be, I'd imagine his domain would be based on Sukuna's in some way since that is the source of all his cursed energy.
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Brought To You By posted:So one of my favorite manga, 'Alice in Borderlands' is getting a live-action netflix adaptation this month. In the lead up this, the author has been putting out a short series that acts as a sequel to the main one titled 'Alice in Borderlands Retry' and the series really does capture the core of what made AiB a superb death game series in a genre where it's all too easy for the writers to be gorey and excessive. Instead borrowing some surface elements from 'Alice in Wonderland' and creating a situation where players are forced to participate in card themed games. The suite of the card dictates the type of challenge: ♠ emphasizing physical effort, ♣ emphasizing team effort and a balance between strength and wits, ♦ emphasizing knowledge and reasoning, and finally ♥ which emphasize psychology and betrayal. And the value of the game: Ace - 10 determines the overall difficulty of the game. With players being mysteriously transported and stuck in a dystopian Tokyo and forced to compete in order to extend the amount of time they are allowed to continue live. It does a lot right both as a suspense manga but also as a death game one with some really devious challenges. And the author isn't shy on just shelving the MC to focus on other players and groups so the outcome of any given game is never certain. Wow, I just binged Alice in Borderlands and it's pretty interesting. It definitely indulges in silly edginess at times, but it's still a lot smarter and less nihilistic than it looks. My biggest complaint is that we only got to see half the face card games.
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Agravity boys Appears to be ramping up to do some fun insanity again while at the same time removing one of the lesser fun jokes. Grislow's Zangetsu looks amazingly appropriate. Magu Chan Teaches us about gambling. Sakamoto I haven't written it off, but it's not grabbing me either. Roboco We're talking Gohan vs Cell good. It's that good.
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Ethiser posted:As cool as having his domain be a snowy field where he hunts his enemies would be, I'd imagine his domain would be based on Sukuna's in some way since that is the source of all his cursed energy. I dont really think Yuji's domain would look like Sukuna's since they have different movesets (force punching vs slicing/cleaving) and we still dont know exactly whats up with that whole thing where dudes suddenly remember Yuji being their BFF all along, but it seems like that could be related? Do sorcerors have some level of conscious input into the design of their domain? I might be misinterpreting that first time Megumi pulled his out but I assume they do since domains can be incomplete and refined over time.
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I'm liking Build King so far. It's really charming, and the world feels big and mysterious, with exciting things right around the corner. The Promised Neverland's new side chapter focuses on Krone, and gets pretty bittersweet. It's more TPN, which is nice. And god, Roboco is so good.  I'm always saving it for last because reading anything else after would be a letdown.
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Ethiser posted:That as a very cathartic chapter, I hope the body stealing guy "saves" him in a way that isn't good for him. I've seen the prediction that "Geto" takes the opportunity to absorb/collect Mahito with his technique while he's beat to all hell since Mahito's power is still pretty strong, and y'know what, I'm kind of down for it.
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amigolupus posted:
Bondo is the only normal person in the world. But he's slowly learning to accept that and just let things happen. So many shoutouts to other fighting sries this time too... as well as the obvious DBZ, we've got HxH in Gorilla's robot-takedown, and Mom channeling Mihawk vs Zoro.
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mahito needs to go away, permanently. he's overstayed his welcome.
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amigolupus posted:I'm liking Build King so far. It's really charming, and the world feels big and mysterious, with exciting things right around the corner. I'm pretty meh on Build King's first couple chapters. It almost feels like a parody of "themed" shonen manga, if that's a genre? The kind of shonen where the manga is about one major concept, and thus EVERYTHING in the world seemingly revolves around that concept. It honestly kind of feels like a joke?? Like oh the protag wants to build houses, so let's have there be house monsters and trolls that exist only to destroy houses and the island he's on is a giant hammer and there are legendary houses that the ancients built and we'll have him talk about how he's going to "build" a better world etc. I guess it just feels so....artificial? It makes it hard for me to really get invested because it just feels like the setting is built entirely for the protagonist, rather than it being a real living world that the protagonist is a part of.
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CodfishCartographer posted:I'm pretty meh on Build King's first couple chapters. It almost feels like a parody of "themed" shonen manga, if that's a genre? The kind of shonen where the manga is about one major concept, and thus EVERYTHING in the world seemingly revolves around that concept. It honestly kind of feels like a joke?? Like oh the protag wants to build houses, so let's have there be house monsters and trolls that exist only to destroy houses and the island he's on is a giant hammer and there are legendary houses that the ancients built and we'll have him talk about how he's going to "build" a better world etc. I guess it just feels so....artificial? It makes it hard for me to really get invested because it just feels like the setting is built entirely for the protagonist, rather than it being a real living world that the protagonist is a part of. it's a retread of toriko with a different theme. and i liked toriko, but bk needs to bring something new to the table.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it's a retread of toriko with a different theme. and i liked toriko, but bk needs to bring something new to the table. Yeah, Toriko was the same thing, just with food/cooking.
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CodfishCartographer posted:I'm pretty meh on Build King's first couple chapters. It almost feels like a parody of "themed" shonen manga, if that's a genre? The kind of shonen where the manga is about one major concept, and thus EVERYTHING in the world seemingly revolves around that concept. It honestly kind of feels like a joke?? Like oh the protag wants to build houses, so let's have there be house monsters and trolls that exist only to destroy houses and the island he's on is a giant hammer and there are legendary houses that the ancients built and we'll have him talk about how he's going to "build" a better world etc. I guess it just feels so....artificial? It makes it hard for me to really get invested because it just feels like the setting is built entirely for the protagonist, rather than it being a real living world that the protagonist is a part of. Like, build king is gonna be like: "Oh yeah, I built a house in the center of a category 8 hurricane that has existed for 2000 years and is the size of a continent", to "this guy turned a range of mountains where each one is bigger/taller than Mount Everest into condos", to "Oh yeah motherfucker? The EARTH is a house someone built" then the manga will end and it'll zoom out to show the universe which is in the shape of a house
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Welp, never read Toriko, so egg's on my face I guess for not realizing that's the author's schtick.
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