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it seems fair to wish the horny fanservice manga had better writing or treated its main romantic relationship differently, but it is misguided to wish it would put the horny fanservice on the back burner. that’s what the manga is. it’s like asking dr stone to cut the science, or one piece to stop introducing pirate characters, or world trigger to not be boring.
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Mikl posted:See, this is super weird to me. Does Yabuki really want to be known as the T&A guy forever? Why not try to tell a story with limited fan service? Does he think he wouldn't be able to? Given what he's supposedly been through (divorce, being left holding the baby), I'd allow the dood to draw t&a as much as he wants.
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Mikl posted:wait what It's pretty old but the dude's first wife cheated on him and left him for some dude. This was over a decade ago. EDIT: https://otakuartist.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/the-truth-behind-why-to-love-ru-ended/ Also I think it's less "left holding the baby" and more "dude loved his daughter and gave up a ton so he could retain custody of her." Also take the "ex-wife was responsible for the manga ending" with a grain of salt, that's just the fastest link I could find. ZepiaEltnamOberon fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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I don’t know what a To Luve Roux is but Jesus, that poor guy got it bad. Ecchi’s not my thing but I hope the author and his daughter are doing good now.
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He's making bank creating horny mangas that goons love and complain about I read a chapter or so of ayakashi triangle and it wasn't anywhere near as bad as uq holder
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If you're in the market for pure titillation then Ayakashi surely delivers in spades and it's nothing to be ashamed about. It's just a little frustrating to see how he accidentally stumbles into some really great plot points drops them all and goes "Lol tits and girls kissing!" And for some, that frustration is too much to enjoy the scantily clad well endowed ladies. And that's fine as well.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Also I think it's less "left holding the baby" and more "dude loved his daughter and gave up a ton so he could retain custody of her."
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Quite liked Eyeshield.
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Lock Knight posted:Quite liked Eyeshield. I'm excited to read the whole thing for the first time. I read it back in 2007 but by the time I dropped off, only the first 20-odd volumes had been released.
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I would kill to have Eyeshield 21 in digital, it was my first favorite back when I was first getting into manga.
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Alacron posted:I would kill to have Eyeshield 21 in digital, it was my first favorite back when I was first getting into manga. I just spent way too much to complete my run so hopefully that means they're digitizing it now!
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Eyeshield 21 is good, though it does have some weird bioessentialism thing going on, especially with regards to black people in sports. I still enjoyed it.
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 goddamn, i expected the free sticker inside the eyeshield 21 book to be related to eyeshield 21 thankfully, i know what to do with a Bleach sticker 
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i'd like to congratulate the posters of this thread, their focused energy has effected real change in the world https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1471379276301746176?s=20
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dogsicle posted:i'd like to congratulate the posters of this thread, their focused energy has effected real change in the world I just need to ambivalent harder at it!  ...also would anyone characterize Ayakashi as slaptstick? That's not something I associate with it, but maybe it was in all the chapters I didn't read?
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I'm so tired
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Yeah, slapstick seems an odd choice of description for it, regardless of you opinion on its quality or story.
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The added slapstick will be more girls kissing and fondling other girls
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Darth TNT posted:...also would anyone characterize Ayakashi as slaptstick? That's not something I associate with it, but maybe it was in all the chapters I didn't read? Slapstick = "tee hee I accidentally touched a boobie and now I'm naked how did this happen  "(Kentaro Yabuki, probably)
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It's gonna get an absolute bottom rung studio I'm gonna guess
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dogsicle posted:i'd like to congratulate the posters of this thread, their focused energy has effected real change in the world lol
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Fabricated posted:It's gonna get an absolute bottom rung studio I'm gonna guess Food Wars did fine, granted i wouldn't necessarily point at JC Staff for consistency lately. there's also broadcaster/timeslot as factors. nothing will stop it from just having worse art than the manga though, the almost constant thing about anime adaptation.
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never been that high on black clover but you gotta admit it has since cool monster designs
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Yeah Black Clover is the manga where people seem to never give it artistic props; the way Tabata draws with his black and white contrasts is amazing. All of his devil and demon designs are so absolutely fantastic. Speaking of that, scans are out for the last chapter of the year and holy poo poo things just got real. The reveal of Lucifero’s half manifestation was so loving cool.
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What did it have before? Serious question, I don’t know much about modern shonen other than I like the way jjk and demon slayer look and find mha detestable. Just a sometimes thread skimmer
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It had Mereoleona, who is the best girl and best character in the series. Alas, she shows up once in a blue moon nowadays, but when she does it's always a highlight. Also, the initial interplay between the two main character (Asta and Yuno) is very interesting. Childhood friends and rivals, Yuno is preternaturally gifted at magic and super good at everything he does, while Asta completely sucks and has zero magical power, his only strength is that he trained super hard (he's the only one in this universe who works out, apparently) so he's ripped and very strong. Both Asta and Yuno want to become You'd expect: Yuno looks down on Asta with a sneer on his face, and Asta is like "drat you, you bastard, I swear I'll catch up!" Instead: Yuno and Asta are actually friends, support and cheer each other on, and while Yuno is leaps and bounds beyond Asta, who is looked down upon by almost everyone, Yuno will absolutely destroy you if you dare badmouth his friend. Mikl fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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I really hated the reveal that Yuno actually is royalty because it just reinforced the classism that the story previously seemed like it was against.
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Sleng Teng posted:What did it have before? Serious question, I don’t know much about modern shonen other than I like the way jjk and demon slayer look and find mha detestable. Just a sometimes thread skimmer The cast is entertaining, had good chemistry and the story had a nice sense of pacing to it. It was generic but it was generic done well. Now, and for a long time, its been just fights where the momentum keeps wildly shifting from one side to the other, like a kids playing superhero. A series of consecutive asspulls. Theres been one (1) unironically good moment semi-recently that's been built up to, and It's magna's forced punch out deathmatch. And even that didnt fully take out the villain and they had to be taken out by another character. muscles like this! posted:I really hated the reveal that Yuno actually is royalty because it just reinforced the classism that the story previously seemed like it was against. I called that from the start of the manga. Yuno gets to be the super ultra special chosen one, Asta gets by with hard work and a little luck. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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muscles like this! posted:I really hated the reveal that Yuno actually is royalty because it just reinforced the classism that the story previously seemed like it was against. That's just a reoccurring theme in Jump, isn't it? Premise argues against _____, turns out to be, no, we've been secretly _____ all along
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muscles like this! posted:I really hated the reveal that Yuno actually is royalty because it just reinforced the classism that the story previously seemed like it was against. Yea I found him to be aggressively boring even before that reveal and that just cemented how much I fundamentally dislike how he's written. Though on the flip side I like Asta more than I usually like that type of character so heck, it's a land of contrasts.
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some of the characters are good and there have been a few excellent individual scenes, but overall the writing and pacing is complete garbage.
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Just to give an idea, the Black Clover thread has had zero posts in it for over a month and a half now (last post on October 28th), and was quite dead before then. Quoting from that thread, back in May: Rigged Death Trap posted:For a whole 2 chapters
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The problem is that right now the series has been pretty much nothing but fight scenes so there isn't exactly a ton to talk about.
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Most damning thing to me about Black Clover is it's pretty singular in tone, and its attempts to shake things up are either totally inconsequential or effectively reversed shortly after their occurrence. When I stopped reading it, its best qualities were the sheer breadth of characters (though the lack of interesting interpersonal dynamics is frustrating) and the fact that battles didn't drag themselves out too much (though as above said, this is hurt by how sometimes there are SO MANY FIGHTS going on concurrently)
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My impression of Black Clover the last time i cared was "this is a shonen by a guy who likes the big setpieces of shonen but hates the parts where they earn the big setpieces" Its a shame because sword magic is extremely my poo poo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78WIYzX_m98 A trailer for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, releasing October 2022.
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