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New Battle in 5 seconds The fight at the acquarium was alright, ended better when best grandpa showed up to school some kids as I really enjoy his character. But I am 100% down for this next encounter. There's a rhythm and cadence to some series as to how their fights feel, and the setup for this one comes straight out of Jojo and so does this character.    It's [Iron Maiden] vs [There's a hole at the bottom of the sea] and I'm not sure that Rin has enough plot armor to survive this late in the game. 
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They did know the correct song to use in that Bleach trailer so I'll at least give them that. Here's hopping that if they didn't make some edits to the story that it at least looks really pretty.
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That Bleach teaser has me so hyped! Also the art by the other mangaka were pretty sweet, my favorite one is Tabata's piece https://twitter.com/shonenleaks/status/1472277479691886602 https://twitter.com/daily_bleach/status/1472139891408527360
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why must we be cursed like this https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1472387001681080321?s=20 e: and PV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLeeulO8AU dogsicle fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Sakamoto:  Please be alright wire guy. You seem like a good fit. Mash: It's always satifying to see Mash finally punch someone.
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Ayashimon: drat the dude is creepy as gently caress. Lookin' forward to how poo poo hits the fan. Elusive Samurai: It's time for Toshiyuki to face his toughest enemy yet - a brat. Somehow surprised that the head priest dude had a grandkid, dude looks like he's in his 20s but his son looks almost the same age at him. I guess gods don't age. Mashle: Mash punch real hard. Roboco: Cute romance chapter, nice opening, would let Gachi Gori speak for me anytime. Sakamoto: Holy poo poo this is getting super hype. Old mana super strong.
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There was more to Mash this week then him punching someone and it loving rules.  Mash doing an echo while going up to bat had me dying. I love Mash. Magu trying to disguise himself as human is always good for a laugh and overall a very sweet chapter. Ginchiyo and Kusanagi are great in Doron, but Dora is kinda losing me a little. And I'm all aboard to where ever Ayashimon and Sakamoto Days is going.
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While the direction is fine on its own I am a little disappointed that Sakamoto has basically decided to lean into the action and isn't so much a comedy any more.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:. I thought he said this was his nephew. Edit: Nevermind, I am just very blind and missed all the references somehow.
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I normally don't really get into the comedy manga since a lot of Japanese humor kinda bounces off me but the more earnest parts of Magu are what I really like. I just like this thing where these eldritch gods are more like essential elements of life/death and not necessarily just pure evil- and you see how even the ones who represent even the most seemingly "evil", difficult-to-conceptualize-as-good concepts can in fact be good. Magu just straight up saying that "I will destroy Ruru's sorrows" in the previous chapter was really good.
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Fabricated posted:I normally don't really get into the comedy manga since a lot of Japanese humor kinda bounces off me but the more earnest parts of Magu are what I really like. I just like this thing where these eldritch gods are more like essential elements of life/death and not necessarily just pure evil- and you see how even the ones who represent even the most seemingly "evil", difficult-to-conceptualize-as-good concepts can in fact be good. Magu just straight up saying that "I will destroy Ruru's sorrows" in the previous chapter was really good. Same. Magu chan made me smile.  Such a sweet chapter again.Elusive Samurai: I'm not looking forward to this arc.  Doesn't seem fun at all.Doron Dororororon: NO! Don't do this! This chapter wasn't really good. It wasn't bad, but it didn't add anything new or progress the relationships/story in any meaningful way. They already made friends last chapter, so why would she test them again? Instead, it just makes the girl look like a dick. It's like Red Hood staying in the village after defeating the first wolf.  Ayashimon: Okay, creepy dude is creepy. This is cool. Undead Unluck: Umm, we already saw his flashback...3 times I think? Why do this again? Roboco was good again. Electric Phantasm posted:There was more to Mash this week then him punching someone and it loving rules.
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Darth TNT posted:Doron Dororororon: NO! Don't do this! This chapter wasn't really good. It wasn't bad, but it didn't add anything new or progress the relationships/story in any meaningful way. They already made friends last chapter, so why would she test them again? Instead, it just makes the girl look like a dick. It's like Red Hood staying in the village after defeating the first wolf. I've talked about the pacing problem for this, and this feels like a chapter 2, not a chapter 4. Getting to the point where you have the protagonist team, they kill a monster, and they have some goals is something you want really quick, but instead it's been kind of drawn out, which is something you don't want when you're going basic. If people are treating something as standard shonen, you want to at least, like early Black Clover, be snappy standard shonen.
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I've been re-reading Zatch Bell and that comic takes 5 chapters to explain it's basic premise and another 50 to move beyond monster of the week fights. And all that stuff is good so I am glad someone at Jump is remembering the classics.
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Aren't the first 5 or so chapters zatcb/gash trying to stop kiyomaro being so miserable though?
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That's mostly just chapter 1. Then a couple of chapters of shenanigans and wondering what's the deal with this kid before another kid pops up and explains the deal.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Ayashimon: drat the dude is creepy as gently caress. Lookin' forward to how poo poo hits the fan. Yeah, and considering how fond the author was about killing off side characters in his previous series, I was actually pretty nervous about the survival of the Chopstick Princess lady. Also, the onmyou agency is shady as gently caress, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were behind the death of the previous boss.
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Lt. Lizard posted:Yeah, and considering how fond the author was about killing off side characters in his previous series, I was actually pretty nervous about the survival of the Chopstick Princess lady. Also, the onmyou agency is shady as gently caress, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were behind the death of the previous boss. I wouldn't be surprised if all of the current faction leaders pooled their efforts and then took their pieces of the pie.
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I think what makes mashle work better than most of the other OPM-alikes out there is that mash actually has a fun personality and does more than just no-sell things all the time. they could’ve just written it as Mash just being That Fast and That Strong, but him doing his own little baseball announcer narration and then explaining that no, your projectile being super fast isn’t worth much if you have an obvious wind-up helps elevate the whole thing and makes it much more fun.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I think what makes mashle work better than most of the other OPM-alikes out there is that mash actually has a fun personality and does more than just no-sell things all the time. they could’ve just written it as Mash just being That Fast and That Strong, but him doing his own little baseball announcer narration and then explaining that no, your projectile being super fast isn’t worth much if you have an obvious wind-up helps elevate the whole thing and makes it much more fun. This is the reason this weeks Mash was one of my favorite in a long time and got me to read the entire chapter instead of power skimming. The art style in Mash is meh/whatever and the plot that surrounds the jokes can lose me at times, so I zone out when the non-mash characters are interacting unless the gimmick/gag is really good. Mash was definitely in top form and it was a really fun gag this week. I also really like the villain just implicitly buying into the baseball gag going "Well you were only able to foul tip it!!" - like a wizard knows all about baseball to have a specific critique of mash there. Its fun.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I think what makes mashle work better than most of the other OPM-alikes out there is that mash actually has a fun personality and does more than just no-sell things all the time. they could’ve just written it as Mash just being That Fast and That Strong, but him doing his own little baseball announcer narration and then explaining that no, your projectile being super fast isn’t worth much if you have an obvious wind-up helps elevate the whole thing and makes it much more fun. I’d say it also helps that Mash has a strong emotional core which it’s not afraid to tap but never lingers on. Mash is lonely. The world hates him. Jerkface posted:This is the reason this weeks Mash was one of my favorite in a long time and got me to read the entire chapter instead of power skimming. The art style in Mash is meh/whatever and the plot that surrounds the jokes can lose me at times, so I zone out when the non-mash characters are interacting unless the gimmick/gag is really good. Mash was definitely in top form and it was a really fun gag this week. I also really like the villain just implicitly buying into the baseball gag going "Well you were only able to foul tip it!!" - like a wizard knows all about baseball to have a specific critique of mash there. Its fun. That joke about the foul hit got to me as well such a good one.
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Darth TNT posted:I’d say it also helps that Mash has a strong emotional core which it’s not afraid to tap but never lingers on. Mash is lonely. The world hates him. the downtime bits in the chapters where they just go shopping or play cards are  love these goofs
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Electric Phantasm posted:There was more to Mash this week then him punching someone and it loving rules. The Christmas/New Years bits in Magu have been consistently some of the best in its short run.
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I Am Fowl posted:The Christmas/New Years bits in Magu have been consistently some of the best in its short run. Magu-chan has made it to 72 chapters. At this point, it's not a short run any more.
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I am so so glad Magu-chan has survived this long. I could have easily seen it getting axed around chapter 40-50, but it's still truckin' along. I hope it's selling decently well.
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CodfishCartographer posted:I am so so glad Magu-chan has survived this long. I could have easily seen it getting axed around chapter 40-50, but it's still truckin' along. I hope it's selling decently well. Depends on the curve you're using. It seems to be selling somewhere around 10K a volume. Not great, and axe territory for an action series, but Magu-chan seems to be treated more like a gag series, which tend to get much lower sales. They're more valued for adding to the magazine's variety than for moving collected editions. For a gag, 10K is... good. Not amazing, but not terrible either, and Magu-chan can move merch, from how the plushie sold. Might get canned at any time, and if it is, I won't be surprised, but for now it doesn't show signs of immediate threat. (If nothing else, just the fact it's been around for more than a year makes it somewhat safer than newbies. There are people who pick up Jump mainly for Magu-chan by now, however few, and losing readers for the core magazine is something to be avoided when possible.)
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I miss Samon-kun is a Saummoner.
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What are some shounen titles that just kind of abandon the initial premise? I have read all of whats available for "Battle in 5 Seconds After Meeting" and I think its funny how the entire concept of the manga as established, which is like you meet someone who also has powers and you have 5 seconds before you gotta battle them has just been abandoned completely. Its not that people aren't fighting, but that 5 second concept definitely got tossed out the window. I'm pretty sure a few of the first fights even had a clock count down thing on some panels and now no one gives a poo poo. They should have called this Battle with Magic Powers Against Weirdos.
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Sakamoto Days sure seems like it is headed that way. It started out as a comedy with some occasional fights but the fighting has completely taken over.
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Jerkface posted:What are some shounen titles that just kind of abandon the initial premise? I have read all of whats available for "Battle in 5 Seconds After Meeting" and I think its funny how the entire concept of the manga as established, which is like you meet someone who also has powers and you have 5 seconds before you gotta battle them has just been abandoned completely. Its not that people aren't fighting, but that 5 second concept definitely got tossed out the window. I'm pretty sure a few of the first fights even had a clock count down thing on some panels and now no one gives a poo poo. They should have called this Battle with Magic Powers Against Weirdos. Does My Hero Academia count? The entire first chapter is about how Deku can be a hero despite not having superpowers, but then in ch 2 it's like "nah jk imma give you my superman powers". Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro is probably a better example of this, where it starts off as a bad murder mystery manga, that about a third of the way in starts shifting into more of a character focused action manga with overarching mystery elements in it.
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There's Reborn which started as a gag manga then veered extremely hard into combat and for the better tbh.
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How long did it take medaka box to introduce super powers? Joke option: it took JoJo 2 years before they abandoned breathing magic for ghost magic. The Skeep fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Dec 30, 2021 |
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Jerkface posted:What are some shounen titles that just kind of abandon the initial premise? I have read all of whats available for "Battle in 5 Seconds After Meeting" and I think its funny how the entire concept of the manga as established, which is like you meet someone who also has powers and you have 5 seconds before you gotta battle them has just been abandoned completely. Its not that people aren't fighting, but that 5 second concept definitely got tossed out the window. I'm pretty sure a few of the first fights even had a clock count down thing on some panels and now no one gives a poo poo. They should have called this Battle with Magic Powers Against Weirdos. Extremely Medaka Box
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Hell Medaka Box changed premises a half-dozen times.
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Sindai posted:Hell Medaka Box changed premises a half-dozen times. 
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Jerkface posted:What are some shounen titles that just kind of abandon the initial premise? I have read all of whats available for "Battle in 5 Seconds After Meeting" and I think its funny how the entire concept of the manga as established, which is like you meet someone who also has powers and you have 5 seconds before you gotta battle them has just been abandoned completely. Its not that people aren't fighting, but that 5 second concept definitely got tossed out the window. I'm pretty sure a few of the first fights even had a clock count down thing on some panels and now no one gives a poo poo. They should have called this Battle with Magic Powers Against Weirdos. I don't think the series has changed premise so much as it's allowed for some fights to have a bit more setup once it stopped having the 1v1 format from the first two phases. Team encounters were a real improvement and necessary given the MC's skillset and ability. Overall, fights are still very much "two people meet on the street and the fight is on" and we just had a setup where the main group were on a date to the aquarium and ran into another team by chance which chaotic results. Same with the current hospital sequence. The timer however gets reserved for boss encounters nowadays and that's just a shame, but it's still great to see it ticking down.
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Jerkface posted:What are some shounen titles that just kind of abandon the initial premise? I have read all of whats available for "Battle in 5 Seconds After Meeting" and I think its funny how the entire concept of the manga as established, which is like you meet someone who also has powers and you have 5 seconds before you gotta battle them has just been abandoned completely. Its not that people aren't fighting, but that 5 second concept definitely got tossed out the window. I'm pretty sure a few of the first fights even had a clock count down thing on some panels and now no one gives a poo poo. They should have called this Battle with Magic Powers Against Weirdos. Bleach abandoned its initial premise when Ichigo and friends eventually joined forces with the evil authoritarian government instead of fighting against them. Jojo was initially all about fighting vampires. Not a shounen manga, but there was that lovely manga about teaching a gyaru to clean. The author got really really mad about it being cancelled, so they had a character get raped out of nowhere. It was really quite an amazing bit of self-destruction on the authors part.
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Jerkface posted:What are some shounen titles that just kind of abandon the initial premise? I have read all of whats available for "Battle in 5 Seconds After Meeting" and I think its funny how the entire concept of the manga as established, which is like you meet someone who also has powers and you have 5 seconds before you gotta battle them has just been abandoned completely. Its not that people aren't fighting, but that 5 second concept definitely got tossed out the window. I'm pretty sure a few of the first fights even had a clock count down thing on some panels and now no one gives a poo poo. They should have called this Battle with Magic Powers Against Weirdos. Kitsune Wife went the opposite way where it seemed like a small romancey comedy thing about a husband and wife and then it basically turned into a shonen series with the both of them constantly getting attacked by different Yokai every other day. Or so it seemed, I took a break after the owl fight and whoever the wife was fighting, I remember something about a dragon.
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Kinnikuman is the earliest one I can think of that went from gag (Ultraman parody) to full on wrestling fightman. Yugioh famously went all in on card battles when the initial premise was any game trick into horror endings. Mahou Sensei Negima went pretty hard into fights when it was just a harem romance comedy premise.
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