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Honestly I went and read the first couple of chapters of Toriko at about the same time as the first couple of Build King chapters and Toriko feels way more natural. I think there's something about the idea of a gourmet hunter that goes out and hunts extremely dangerous game that's so real, we've got plenty of rare and dangerous dishes in real life. Architecture...not so much.
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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. Silver2195 posted:My biggest complaint is that [spoiler]we only got to see half the face card games. Also, as a curiosity to anyone who read the series. Which games/arcs were your favorite? I'm always torn between the King of Clubs because Kyuuma is just an amazing antagonist and everyone got to shine during the arc. As well as the 2 of Hearts since it's by far the easiest hearts game to win if you throw caution to the wind but still emotionally taxing because it asks the question of whether or not you have the stones to bet it all before the last train car since we know that every setup was the same. Brought To You By fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Dec 7, 2020 |
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toriko started out as a slightly peculiar shounen fighting manga, but it quickly got very, very strange. it also got very gay, can't forget that.
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Dec 7, 2020 20:59
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Watching Mahito's smug rear end face start to panic has got me feeling good, even if it's temporary. Is this where it gets revealed who the brain inside geto belongs to? Edit: Also what a testament to Boogie Woogie and Todo that he can still use the threat of boogie woogie as a bluff.
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Dec 7, 2020 21:09
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BK having half the protagonist duo just suck at the central conceit and instead be a "builder" of intangible shonen concepts does make it feel weaker to me than Toriko starting out of the gate with an accomplished hunter and chef pair. and while the handsomeness of the guys may have improved (Shovel, Nana), the shift to standard shonen kid stuff means it doesn't have any of Toriko's fun "a bunch of giant men fight over who gets to date the tiny chef" vibes.
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Dec 7, 2020 21:26
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Elfface posted:Bondo is the only normal person in the world. But he's slowly learning to accept that and just let things happen. The Bondo's mom thing works so well since I can't remember a single panel in the manga where she isn't holding a knife. Gorilla might be the purest good boy in the history of manga.
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Dec 7, 2020 23:15
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hey, sometimes she is holding a katana.
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Brought To You By posted:It is, on top of not being as immediately gripping as Toriko's first couple chapters. Not that I dislike Build King but right now the only think keeping me on board is knowing the kind of insanity that is bound to follow. The MC's a lot more generic as well. King of Clubs was one of the better ones, yeah. I also read the Alice on Border Road spinoff. The setting makes a bit more sense now, I guess. When a bunch of people have related near-death experiences simultaneously, their minds create some kind of shared universe due to blah blah Jungian psychology blah blah quantum physics. (I accept this as the sort of handwave you have to expect in this kind of manga.) The events in the parallel world match who dies and how the survivors are injured presumably because Jungian psychology and quantum physics don't map to our conventional ideas of how cause and effect work; I guess the outcomes have both a real-world and a parallel-world cause. Since the mass near-death experience caused by the fireworks happened in modern-day Japan, and the victims were apparently disproportionately somewhat chuuni, their collective unconsciousness created a Gantz/Psyren-style world with a card game motif instead of, say, the River Styx. This might actually be slightly less satisfying than some of the fake answers the Queen of Hearts gave. Surely the collective unconscious of thousands of people should be able to imagine/create something weirder than a post-apocalyptic Tokyo? But it's at least a more interesting answer than "it was aliens" or "it was a vast conspiracy of rich assholes," which I believe are the standard explanations in this kind of story.
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i flunked out posted:Watching Mahito's smug rear end face start to panic has got me feeling good, even if it's temporary. He says something about the Jujutsu sorceror's of "this era" being pretty good at one point so I think it'll probably be this guy. 
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RatHat posted:He says something about the Jujutsu sorceror's of "this era" being pretty good at one point so I think it'll probably be this guy. that would make for an interesting combo too, the most evil sorcerer in history vs the king of curses when he and sukuna inevitably clash
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I could see fake Geto's end game being getting Sukuna to revive then taking control of him using his power.
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Dec 8, 2020 01:55
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Geto would need a pretty good trick to pull that off. Sukuna's title of "King of Curses" isn't just from his raw power but also because his technique/knowledge are on another level. He can use a domain without technically using a domain, which the manga describes as "Painting a masterpiece on thin air".
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Silver2195 posted:King of Clubs was one of the better ones, yeah. I wonder how this will go along with Retry, then, where the near-death experience seems to only be, like, seven people this time
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Blockhouse posted:I wonder how this will go along with Retry, then, where the near-death experience seems to only be, like, seven people this time I have the terrible feeling that if the theme of Alice in Borderland is finding a reason to live , then the theme of Retry is how to accept death  Alice is totally gonna die at the end of the manga, and when he does we're all gonna bawl our eyes out
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Dec 8, 2020 19:48
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CodfishCartographer posted:Welp, never read Toriko, so egg's on my face I guess for not realizing that's the author's schtick. I never read it either, so hearing that it's just a retread (and a worse one at that) of the author's schtick took a lot of the shine off Build King for me.
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Dec 8, 2020 19:57
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Reminder that the author of Toriko/Build King’s “schtick” is being convicted of paying a 16-year-old for sex
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It is something that bears repeating, especially if that author has currently running series. More power to anyone who can detach the work from author enough that they don't mind, but it's a dealbreaker for a lot of folks (me included) and not everyone is automatically aware about it.
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CodfishCartographer posted:Welp, never read Toriko, so egg's on my face I guess for not realizing that's the author's schtick. maybe you should
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Lt. Lizard posted:It is something that bears repeating, especially if that author has currently running series. More power to anyone who can detach the work from author enough that they don't mind, but it's a dealbreaker for a lot of folks (me included) and not everyone is automatically aware about it. Yeah, I read through all of Toriko earlier this year and if I had known this I wouldn't have.
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Silver2195 posted:I also read the Alice on Border Road spinoff. The setting makes a bit more sense now, I guess. quote:
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Brought To You By posted:Since Arisu and his friends entered the borderland and didn't see anyone until they got to the first venue. I think it's safe to say it's not impossible for new players to not meet other players for a day or so. But I do think that if this is a more direct sequel to the original, that whoever wins is in for a full deck of suffering since we're back to card themed challenges. Which means that Arisu is probably in for a hard decision if he manages to make it out of here since he'll have to compete all over again They already explicitly revealed what happened to him in the real world though, and it was an accident that only affected him and this small group of people. So I'm guessing that it's a sort of mini-sequel thing. Like someone else mentioned, I'm 99% sure Arisu is gonna die. Decent chance he ends up saving the young girl somehow.
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https://twitter.com/ActAgeManga/status/1336584634394664960
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That's the artist from Act-Age that got hosed over by the writer being a creep, not the creep himself, right?
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Lt. Lizard posted:That's the artist from Act-Age that got hosed over by the writer being a creep, not the creep himself, right? yeah sorry should have added that. She's not the sex pest
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Ytlaya posted:They already explicitly revealed what happened to him in the real world though, and it was an accident that only affected him and this small group of people. Hopefully it's just a bunch of different deaths connected together this time, because if it's just the one Arisu was in then this series will be pretty short.
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Ytlaya posted:They already explicitly revealed what happened to him in the real world though, and it was an accident that only affected him and this small group of people. Just saying that a borderland that features a 'Game' like the first series implies that both a citizen designed it, and that Arisu and the rest are stuck in the larger game and not just an isolated group like in Border Road
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Had this popup in my youtube feed Also a new trailer for the final Gintama movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H61PB6vMbos
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:toriko started out as a slightly peculiar shounen fighting manga, but it quickly got very, very strange. it also got very gay, can't forget that. Freaking corn aliens using the earth as a slow cooker for a Oogie Boogie looking Galactus monster was a weird loving direction. I'm on the same page as other that Build King's premise is flat and boring. Exotic food hunter, ever increasing food challenges and rivals makes some sense, even rare things like the place that had a billion ingredients frozen in a glacier that when melted made the perfect soup was interesting. Sentient houses? Building material themed everything? If it hadn't been pointed out that it was by the same author I'd have figured it was a cheap knockoff that was find/replacing "food" with "house".
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Oh buddy. Current arc for SHY hit one hell of an abrupt ending Just kidding, turns out stabbing a magical girl in the heart with a sword called Purity wasn't quite the killing blow the newly manifested kitsune intended. And where words might fail, a good old fashion Katana duel will prevail  And there's a new chapter of Alice in Borderland Retry. Arisu might actually be completely hosed here if what I think is happening is happening.
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So I've not read any of Alice in borderlands but a live action version just appeared on netflix
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I teared up HARD at this week's Magu-chan. IT'S JUST SO SWEET. Agravity Boys providing some quality out-of-context panels. Mashle is great ROBOCO, TEACH ME TWITTER
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Magu-chan and Mashle continue to be good.
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We Never Learn Sick burn on the other girls Yuiga to not invite them to your wedding. It didn’t say anything about ending next week so I’m curious to see how much longer it’ll run.
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Ethiser posted:We Never Learn Oh no, is there a harem ending still to come?
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CodfishCartographer posted:I teared up HARD at this week's Magu-chan. IT'S JUST SO SWEET. Mashle hitting some Iruma-kun vibes where we hit up Diagon alley and just chill. JJK holding back the demise of Mahito but delivering a scathing burn  I hope she's not dead.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Oh no, is there a harem ending still to come? I can’t see that. It’s always been a little too wholesome for that. If anything I’d imagine it’s just a few fluffy chapters to have all the characters together again. Nightmare Scenario Sister Arc
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Dec 13, 2020 21:00
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Ethiser posted:We Never Learn They were there  Just well hidden...
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Oh no, is there a harem ending still to come? Here's hoping.
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Ethiser posted:I can’t see that. It’s always been a little too wholesome for that. If anything I’d imagine it’s just a few fluffy chapters to have all the characters together again. Ah, the Bakarina-style "friendship ending".
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