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Chainsaw Man is great and remains the only shounen series I've read that I've really enjoyed, but like a lot of series I kind of felt the last arc was really convoluted and contrived.
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Communist Thoughts posted:drat caught up with chainsaw man and alita Claymore
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Dec 4, 2021 19:25
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Orb Crabmelt posted:Chainsaw Man is great and remains the only shounen series I've read that I've really enjoyed, but like a lot of series I kind of felt the last arc was really convoluted and contrived. Yeah the earlier bits are better where its demon fights then the downtime is the MC and Power being absolute trash people and annoying the straight man cool guy. I also kinda liked how the MC was a horndog but also he's learning about relationships like a real teen. Not to have drunken sex with someone you don't actually like, that it's OK to not be into every hot girl you have a friendship with, that you can fancy two people at once etc. It wasn't mind blowing but I feel like there's a lot of incels for whom this is good info
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Dec 4, 2021 20:45
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yu yu hakusho holds up
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Orb Crabmelt posted:Chainsaw Man is great and remains the only shounen series I've read that I've really enjoyed, but like a lot of series I kind of felt the last arc was really convoluted and contrived. Kinda, but I thought the resolution was both incredible and also incredibly ridiculous. Finding out exactly what happened and why it worked and it making complete sense within both the setting and for Denji's character makes it a masterpiece
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Dec 4, 2021 21:57
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Kit Walker posted:Kinda, but I thought the resolution was both incredible and also incredibly ridiculous. Finding out exactly what happened and why it worked and it making complete sense within both the setting and for Denji's character makes it a masterpiece I'd say it was convoluted but never contrived. Everything that happens makes sense, it's just that the pacing gets thrown off because it's all sort of happening at once. The bits leading up to the final confrontation didn't really feel like the final confrontation was happening. It's just like, oh I guess that was the climax. The bit at the end about the Control Devil especially comes out of left field - even if it does make a sort of sense - and it's just immediately over. There needed to be more to the falling action, and especially a little more time with Denji & the Control Devil. Still absolutely incredible. Can't wait for the next part.
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Dec 4, 2021 22:04
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christmas boots posted:So that's Stardust Crusaders (part 3) and it's probably the most famous part - especially in the west. Like nowadays that's not especially true especially since the anime helped make it mainstream but back in the day (when the manga wasn't even getting translated over here) it was the part that got some exposure. It was also neat when it came out because it introduced Stands and instead of doing a traditional tournament arc like everyone was it did a whole globe-trottingt thing. Compared to the parts of season 1 I managed to sit through it's great because it's so over the top yet self aware. Season 1 just reads like a bad show, but Stardust Crusaders or whatever is cleary bad on purpose.
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Dec 4, 2021 22:59
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Martha Stewart Undying posted:yu yu hakusho holds up
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Dec 5, 2021 05:38
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the part in chainsaw man where makima namedrops the holocaust and the government guy is like "what are you talking about?" and you begin to realize what is going on is, imo loving masterful writing. i was floored while reading it
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Serf posted:the part in chainsaw man where makima namedrops the holocaust and the government guy is like "what are you talking about?" and you begin to realize what is going on is, imo loving masterful writing. i was floored while reading it Finding out that there used to be other states of being that humans could achieve other than death, but not anymore because those concepts are gone now was also cool as hell
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Dec 5, 2021 08:29
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currently reading Great Teacher Onizuka. Got up to the part where Urumi is exposed as a girl that was born in-vitro with a genius sperm, which is why she is mega smart and she goes off the rails by creating a website for the girl that exposed her, featuring a bunch of videos of the girl sleeping, going to the toilet, getting changed etc. all filmed by secret cameras in her house Oh yeah, Onizuka also got a PS2 to watch some pron but the fire sprinklers kicked in and now the PS is toast. Current mood: https://vimeo.com/921220930
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The official TMS channel have been uploading some older Lupin III episodes and shits wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-G5DH4wQQo
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Just remembered the movie Patema Inverted. Cool movie I will recommend to my pals ITT
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Communist Thoughts posted:drat caught up with chainsaw man and alita Shigurui is right up your alley and also has a partial anime adaptation that's pretty good.
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Communist Thoughts posted:drat caught up with chainsaw man and alita I just binged through season 1 of Hellper, which is kind of like Dorohedoro lite. Only season 1 has been translated from Korean, though, but it's a solid arc. Speaking of, also go read Dorohedoro.
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Dec 7, 2021 06:55
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Every chapter of rent a girlfriend is more unbearable than the last and progresses the story by mere molecules gently caress this comic
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The whole premise of Rent a Girlfriend is completely insane and skeevy.
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What about the spinoff where the girlfriend is shy, is that one any good?
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Dec 8, 2021 01:32
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do they gently caress in this manga?
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The whole premise of Rent a Girlfriend is completely insane and skeevy. What if I told you it was a real thing? https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/renting-a-girlfriend-in-japan-relationship-goals-or-just-plain-awkward https://soranews24.com/2015/05/19/we-tried-tokyos-rent-a-middle-aged-japanese-man-service-and-it-was-awesome/ I like this one too. christmas boots has issued a correction as of 01:50 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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christmas boots posted:What if I told you it was a real thing? It's not even the concept of a person you pay to pretend to be your girlfriend that's so off putting, it's the guy falling in love with his fake girlfriend while they continuously go around in a will they won't they circle while a harem cast gets trapped in their orbit.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:05
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those services have got to be fulfilled by people who took on usurious loans to buy iphones right?
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Dec 8, 2021 02:16
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When's that Chainsaw Man anime supposed to be coming out?
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Dec 8, 2021 02:36
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Jymmybob posted:Shigurui is right up your alley and also has a partial anime adaptation that's pretty good. yeah it's about how the samurai were spiritually mutilated. how do we communicate this in a visual medium? well, how about through a lot of physical mutilation. also maybe a dude could suck his own dick? just spitballing here.
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Dec 8, 2021 03:34
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Can I get a dumb dumb explainer for chainsaw man because I think I missed all that
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Dec 8, 2021 05:25
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theres this man, alright? and hes made of chainsaws
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HootTheOwl posted:Can I get a dumb dumb explainer for chainsaw man because I think I missed all that
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Dec 8, 2021 06:32
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it's about how guns are scary and sometimes you just want a burger
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HootTheOwl posted:Can I get a dumb dumb explainer for chainsaw man because I think I missed all that It's a man who fused with the chainsaw devil so his head turns into a chainsaw
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Doc Hawkins posted:it's about how guns are scary and sometimes you just want a burger Extremely relatable.
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From the premise Chainsaw Man sounds like the 3564855th manga about a quasi secret organization of doofuses who hunt demons/ghosts/Yokai or whatever using the the monsters own powers. But it’s got this kind of I don’t know, cynical?, avant-garde surrealism to it (I’ll add more buzzwords later) that makes it the only shonen fightan’ manga I’ve been into since I was as teenager.
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galagazombie posted:From the premise Chainsaw Man sounds like the 3564855th manga about a quasi secret organization of doofuses who hunt demons/ghosts/Yokai or whatever using the the monsters own powers. But it’s got this kind of I don’t know, cynical?, avant-garde surrealism to it (I’ll add more buzzwords later) that makes it the only shonen fightan’ manga I’ve been into since I was as teenager. It has a similar vibe to Dorohedoro I feel, kinda like what if Dorohedoro was shonen, if that makes any sense.
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Chainsaw Man caught people off guard because it's a shonen that feels like a seinen. It feels like it was written by an adult who's lived a real social life instead of just being adventure fluff for teens. The easiest way to get the difference is to compare Chainsaw Man to Jujutsu Kaisen. Jujutsu Kaisen is definitely fine. It's good action stuff for teens, but it doesn't really break new ground the way Chainsaw Man did.
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No I red chainsaw man when it came out but I missed a lot of these great moments you're all talking about in spoiler tags and I'm not understand/remembering them because the ending was very compact and a lot of things happened at once
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HootTheOwl posted:No I red chainsaw man when it came out but I missed a lot of these great moments you're all talking about in spoiler tags and I'm not understand/remembering them because the ending was very compact and a lot of things happened at once it's been a minute since i read it but as i understand it makima was the devil of control all along, and was puppeteering events so that she could use denji/the chainsaw devil to take out other devils and essentially remake the universe. because any devil killed by the chainsaw devil is just straight up dead forever, which removes the thing that caused it to exist irl in the past, present and future all at once. so at some point in the past before the chainsaw devil peaced out and got reduced down to what fused with denji, he had killed things like the devils of the holocaust, aids and nuclear weapons
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I'm not caught up on Chainsaw Man but my take on it is that it gets you in with the promise of hyper violence, which it has in spades and is very good. But the actual heart of the story is about these people who know that they are going to die soon, and the conflict between wanting to stay apart from others so it doesn't hurt as much when they lose people and wanting to make connections with people because that's the only thing that makes life worth living and it's the only thing they can leave behind when they die
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The best part about chainsaw man is that it actually ends and in a world where you have stuff that runs 5+ and just turns into poo poo thats a big plus. Very good art as well gives me Miura vibes, a lot of wide panel stark scenes
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ranking of kings is very fun a+ it vaguely feels like an anime i could show my parents and they’d be like “oh this is like old stories” like they mysteriously said about howl’s moving castle
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lol the netflix bebop got cancelled after one month
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Terminal autist posted:The best part about chainsaw man is that it actually ends and in a world where you have stuff that runs 5+ and just turns into poo poo thats a big plus. Very good art as well gives me Miura vibes, a lot of wide panel stark scenes It ended twice though. The penultimate chapter could very well have been the very last chapter if they wanted to, leaving a few loose ends. The actual last chapter leaves a door open for a brand new part with the potential of closing those loose ends. I dont know if it was chainsaw mans author that said death should come unexpectedly for it to have an impact in the story but boy does he adhere to that. When other shonen authors do it, it sometimes feels like they are putting checkmarks on a quota sometimes with rando characters that hadn't been a proper part of the story in forever if at all. But in chainsaw man it legitimately felt like the author denied you the time to process it not once but twice with the same character
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