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Speaking of possibly overrated manga though, has anyone read I Am A Hero? Because it has like a billion chapters and the mangadex page claims it won a bunch of awards, but my gut feeling from the description makes it sound like the manga version of an Oscar bait movie and those usually suck. I don't even know if that's a trend in the industry but whatever. I'll get to it eventually anyway purely on the back of it being a billion chapters and fairly highly rated, but I'm curious.
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I haven't read it myself, but a friend did (who is also a big movie buff) and he loved it
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Larry Parrish posted:Speaking of possibly overrated manga though, has anyone read I Am A Hero? Because it has like a billion chapters and the mangadex page claims it won a bunch of awards, but my gut feeling from the description makes it sound like the manga version of an Oscar bait movie and those usually suck. I don't even know if that's a trend in the industry but whatever. I'll get to it eventually anyway purely on the back of it being a billion chapters and fairly highly rated, but I'm curious.
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Larry Parrish posted:Speaking of possibly overrated manga though, has anyone read I Am A Hero? Because it has like a billion chapters and the mangadex page claims it won a bunch of awards, but my gut feeling from the description makes it sound like the manga version of an Oscar bait movie and those usually suck. I don't even know if that's a trend in the industry but whatever. I'll get to it eventually anyway purely on the back of it being a billion chapters and fairly highly rated, but I'm curious. When I read it a few years back from start to finish, it was something of a draining experience but in a good way? The MC is basically a guy falling on hard times with his manga work and when The poo poo happens, he has an opportunity to at least try to help people after things start to go wrong, even if all it amounts to is buying some people extra time because of how dire the circumstances are. I've not read anything else the author's done, but I think it's pretty good. It's also pretty violent, though, so maybe don't read it while you're eating unless you don't mind that.
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i don't usually read violent stuff but I'm cool with it, it's just not my go-to. I'll give it a whack after this other story about a random manga artist. something about that premise makes me laugh, maybe because there's not very many movies about movies. but there are a hell of a lot of books about writers.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/nakayosi_manga/status/1503204605882118144?s=20&t=gcsEJKIdu6H_MaHRpIG6qg 
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Coaaab posted:kengo hanazawa's first series, ressentiment, was where he made a name for himself and it's shorter, so maybe start there to see if you vibe with his worldview One of my favorite parts of I am a Hero is how it portrayed the outbreak and the "mechanics" of the infection as the story progressed. While it (vague spoilers for later on) never really explained much of what or how the infection began, just surmising possible origins and never exploring them, I did like it doing that because why would some random survivors find convenient tell-all answers for why everything went down like it did? It's a pretty draining series at times and not all the arcs are particularly good, but when it hits, boy does it.
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Larry Parrish posted:Speaking of possibly overrated manga though, has anyone read I Am A Hero? Because it has like a billion chapters and the mangadex page claims it won a bunch of awards, but my gut feeling from the description makes it sound like the manga version of an Oscar bait movie and those usually suck. I don't even know if that's a trend in the industry but whatever. I'll get to it eventually anyway purely on the back of it being a billion chapters and fairly highly rated, but I'm curious. I really liked it
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Larry Parrish posted:Speaking of possibly overrated manga though, has anyone read I Am A Hero? Because it has like a billion chapters and the mangadex page claims it won a bunch of awards, but my gut feeling from the description makes it sound like the manga version of an Oscar bait movie and those usually suck. I don't even know if that's a trend in the industry but whatever. I'll get to it eventually anyway purely on the back of it being a billion chapters and fairly highly rated, but I'm curious. I liked it, but by the end I was pretty 'done' with it. Although full disclaimer I was reading it while it was still ongoing and the scans would take ages between chapters by the end so that was definitely a factor. I think the whole final act sucks but I liked everything up until it.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I liked it, but by the end I was pretty 'done' with it. I think the whole final act sucks but I liked everything up until it. The Resident Evil VII of manga.
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i don't even remember if i read all of "i am a hero" or not. i remember it being compelling but idk if i'd call what i do remember a good read.
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INU-OH finally has a Japanese release date. It's coming May 28, and presumably the western release will be in fall or winter https://twitter.com/app_pia/status/1503506262650023936?s=20&t=I0hpWwdnCxrD4YrXh70aoA
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I dropped off of I Am A Hero when the narrative focus shifted to another group and then kind of got lost. It was also kind of icky (yet true to life) how the channels came up with Zomslur as a catch-all and also affected my enjoyment at the time.
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Drunk, but it's a failure of the internet that Rurouni Kenshin - Vast - Touched Otaku-Vengeance-lordrae-Kenshin has never been updated to higher resolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj9WrsyBcQ8
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I'm reading House with the Little Orange Roof which is great but the authors vague bible references in the afterwords are really funny since whatever quote has been fed through like 6 translators. It makes me laugh every time. It kind of reads like cheap fortune cookie stuff. Like, something I've heard before but phrased super weirdly.
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elden ring trip report: who the gently caress taught this wolf magic this is bullshit
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Zetsubou-san posted:elden ring trip report: who the gently caress taught this wolf magic this is bullshit Idk what you expected when you went to the Hogwarts level bro
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man speaking of hogwarts i really hope the hogwarts game is good. i doubt it will be, given the state of the AAA games industry, but it would be nice
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i hope it is bad 
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Engaging with the Wizarding World in any way at this point is at worst a tacit endorsement of Rowling's views and at best a mark of apathy towards the damage she's causing, so who cares if it's good or not.
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What if I buy it for less than £20 six months after release?
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However a Strixhaven game... That could be cool.
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i wouldn't go that far but yes it would be cool to see the IP collapse
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there are cool games in that kind of vein already so i dont need a good harry potter game
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Waffleman_ posted:Engaging with the Wizarding World in any way at this point is at worst a tacit endorsement of Rowling's views and at best a mark of apathy towards the damage she's causing, so who cares if it's good or not. Sakurazuka posted:What if I buy it for less than £20 six months after release? ...buy?
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you goign to a pirate bay and touching the smelliest thing there thats youre problem
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Waffleman_ posted:Engaging with the Wizarding World in any way at this point is at worst a tacit endorsement of Rowling's views and at best a mark of apathy towards the damage she's causing, so who cares if it's good or not.
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Waffleman_ posted:Engaging with the Wizarding World in any way at this point is at worst a tacit endorsement of Rowling's views and at best a mark of apathy towards the damage she's causing, so who cares if it's good or not. Pussy
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I don't think it's as simple as "engage with this massive multimedia franchise in any way and you hate trans people" but it's definitely worth considering that Joanne is going to receive direct royalties from the game while actively spouting her TERF garbage
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I don't think watching/playing Harry Potter stuff means you nessisarily endorse Rowling. However, it does mean you have bad taste.
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Its also hosed up you wont support hatsune miku
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Elephant Parade posted:What, like, any way? Is it bad to reread the original novels? Is it bad to discuss the original novels? Is it bad to think about them in the privacy of my own head? Or do you mean something closer to "buying Rowling's works or engaging with her modern ones"? Yeah, I mean more supporting any products in the here and now. It's perfectly fine to still have a place for the books or movies in your heart if you enjoyed them as a kid. Basically, just because you liked it as a kid doesn't mean you gotta buy the new stuff. Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Death of the author exists to let people detach the author from the personal ineffable meaning they derived from those works. Personally though I wish there was a better magic school of adventure IP so I wouldn't have to think about them; preferably in anime form that I could glom onto instead (no sadly LWA didn't quite for it for me). I never really liked how House Slytherin was written coming from Dragonlance and the Black Robe wizards who are like similar conceptually but so much better and more nuanced.
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Arist posted:I don't think it's as simple as "engage with this massive multimedia franchise in any way and you hate trans people" but it's definitely worth considering that Joanne is going to receive direct royalties from the game while actively spouting her TERF garbage she's not gonna get a cent from me lmao
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