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Arist posted:Uh, there were plenty of moments (most of the big war arc, for example) that I wished there was a lot less of Black Clover does this with individual boss fights where there is basically like a half dozen things that seem like the climax of the fight, but it just *goes on*.
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chiasaur11 posted:Samurai 8 getting the marketing blitz isn't his fault, if memory serves. That was decided higher up in the chain. He was just a less experienced editor getting assigned to a pro because, hey, Kishimoto had made one of the biggest manga in the world, he should know how to handle the basics by now. The issue with Samurai 8 is that the world building and exposition never stops. The entire manga felt like it was setting up the story, and never got the plot actually started. Coincidentally, Earth Child has somewhat similar issues. It feels like the story is constantly abandoning or rushing through potentially good plot ideas (and some lovely ones) so the author can arrive at the point in the story he wants to actually be at. From what I have heard about Red Hood it also took forever for the main plot to start. For whatever reason, it seems like the editor likes twiddling around forever in the set-up part of the plot and never actually gets the main plot going.
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I don’t think I could have ever predicted how this week’s Witch Watch was gonna play out from the first few pages…
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Sakamoto Days: I like how the guy with the deer head is the most normal out of the group of weirdos. Also that he seems like genuinely good guy actually paying people and offering great benefits!
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Aliens Area: Dororon I think i figured out why its not great and just ok. It wastes a lot of panel space with nothing much. Shugomaru Ngl Ill miss the yugioh gags. Not much else. Mashle: Kind of late to introduce a jobber captain squad but ok Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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Jun 5, 2022 17:40
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Witch watch Why did i stop reading this is hilarious
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Shinohara has powerful comedy skills. Usually Antagonist-man from Super phone seems kinda culty.
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Indiana_Krom posted:That is the convoluted part, school festivals in media are usually presented as open to the public. Setting up the whole festival to get canceled on a hair trigger is just ham-fisted writing to force more stakes into the conflict. The parts just don't quite fit together right once assembled, like to make it work they had to make whats her name the accomplice a genius hacker who could disable the security system. Gentle is a criminal/wanted man/kind of a villain after two previous security breaches where villains ambushed the hero teens in training. If it continues to happen society's trust in the #1 best security hero training school really crumbles and now nobody feels safe sending their kids to hero school because who knows if serial killer Muscular, the Bone Atomizer, Colonel Killagain or Count Menace are going to just blow up a school bus or something? I dunno, it made sense to me that it was the straw breaking the camel's back leading to a game over for the good guys at that point.
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Yozakura: I'm glad Crazy Dad has finally taken center stage because he's delightful. You can tell he's truly unhinged because he's an ice chewer.
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Jose posted:sakamoto is great My favorite panel of the chapter
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Terper posted:I'm so hype for Jugemu
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Jose posted:sakamoto is great The best character in Sakamoto.
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Could Alien Area not come up with a more interesting visual for its main characters first big attack than 'literally just Haki Luffy'
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i can't tell if there's anything to aa besides all the derivative elements.
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I'm not the only one seeing Senku from Dr. Stone in that detective in AA am I?
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Electric Phantasm posted:I'm not the only one seeing Senku from Dr. Stone in that detective in AA am I? No the entire thing is basically slapped together generic brand things from other manga.
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It's rare for a manga to get as many breaks as jjk right?
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Jose posted:It's rare for a manga to get as many breaks as jjk right?
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i can't tell if there's anything to aa besides all the derivative elements. Bold move to compete against JJK and Dandadan when another similar 'boy gets involved in secret world' just got the axe two weeks ago.
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Once again enjoying Super Phone. Nagi will likely be confused when she goes to check her email.
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Jose posted:It's rare for a manga to get as many breaks as jjk right? 
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why on earth is tokyo revengers so popular? it's awful!
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Kind of crazy Demon Slayer is still up there despite ending over two years ago. I guess that shows the power of an excellent adaptation.
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ImpAtom posted:Could Alien Area not come up with a more interesting visual for its main characters first big attack than 'literally just Haki Luffy' What, you want his hand to fall off revealing the Psycho-gun like he's motherfucking Cobra? Go read a more interesting story for developments like that. Real talk though, it's not a bad first chapter just really, really generic.
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Pierson posted:It's not you it's an incredibly boilerplate first chapter that ticks the 'struggling young man with dead parents and siblings to care for' 'mysterious power awarded by chance' and 'secret government organisation' boxes. Dunno where it will go from there but it's got it's work cut out for it. Dandadan isn't direct competition, since it's Jump Plus, and thus not on the surveys. But yeah. Ayashimon and likely Doron getting canned in the same subgenre makes this newbie being so generic feel much riskier for its survival. Also, the little sister getting a 300 dollar backpack really does make it feel like Our Hero is no good at budgeting. Reduces the sympathy factor a little.
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it's a randoseru that should last several years (at least entirety of grade school) so you can definitely justify a cost like that long-term, though it's going to have a strong financial impact short term. they certainly get even more expensive, even if $300 seems more like mid-range price.
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Akane-banashi: Holy loving poo poo I am so hype for the next chapter, I love those cliched moments where a bigshot acknowledges a relatively unknown dark horse and everyone's like, "Wait, who the heck is this rookie?" God I am so excited about Akane-banashi, this is so friggin' good!!!!! Aliens Area: First chapter was okay enough for me to keep readin' it for a bit longer, I think. Elusive Samurai: Good chapter. Mashle: Wow Mashle got gory today. Also still pretty hosed up that other species exist only to get beaten by the evil wizards, turned evil, and then genocided by the good guys. Roboco: Fun chapter. Sakamoto Days: I was wondering how the movie freak became an Order member given his temperament, turns out he just murdered his predecessor. Makes sense. Also laugh out loud at the job offer, complete with the promise of no overtime.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it's a huge racket. It's a backpack, not a tennis racket.
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it occurs to me now that alien area is basically one of the manga roboco writes, but with adequate art.
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Yeah that was an incredibly hype chapter of Akane-banashi. For some mysterious reason Rakugo media are blessed to be excellent. Granted, my sample size is 2.
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I'm catching up on the last year's worth of World Trigger. It's such a strange series sometimes. The characters are all playing a video game based off of themselves, lol. Entire chapters of characters just doing random commentary while gaming. I think we're at a third level of abstraction now: real fights -> rank battles -> video game battles I still enjoy it, though!
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I agree with everyone else about Aliens Area being very derivative so far. I laughed at the whole “oh no, there’s a strange power in my right hand I can’t fully control!” bit, because that struck me as what TvTropes calls a Dead Unicorn Trope; other series use it as a joke about chuunibyou, not a serious plot point. (OK, there was Parasyte, which Aliens Area seemed to be vaguely visually referencing in one panel.) And then the strange power turns out to be basically the Gum Gum Fruit. Having said that, there have been good series with worse first chapters.
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dogsicle posted:it's a randoseru that should last several years (at least entirety of grade school) so you can definitely justify a cost like that long-term, though it's going to have a strong financial impact short term. they certainly get even more expensive, even if $300 seems more like mid-range price. Japan's low inflation and my memories of my backpack spending in my school days makes 300 USD feel pretty pricey even for the "entirety of grade school" thing, but as a price on its own, it just makes me go "Huh. Japanese kids get the expensive backpacks". But in the context of the protagonist barely scraping by, it's badly done. We don't get it shown as something that makes the little sister's eyes light up before the protagonist sees that it's $$$, making it a major sacrifice, or something the protagonist wants that he can't get because he's poor. Instead, it has the protagonist able to drop a hefty chunk of change out of the blue, which undercuts the whole sympathetic struggling in poverty angle they're going for. I know that Chainsaw Man is more extreme than they'd want, but Denji feels poor in a way we don't get here. A couple of the pages spent on fights being moved to, I dunno, the protagonist not being able to replace a ratty jacket because he has to get his kid sister the backpack she wants would help ground him and increase reader sympathy at the jump. Another unforced error is the last panel. The second to last panel is a punchline, so adding another panel of the protagonist going "Metal... Gear?" just dilutes the impact.
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Ytlaya posted:I'm catching up on the last year's worth of World Trigger. I get the feeling this arc will be very cool, in about a year or two after its fully published and you can read it in one sitting.
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Important news: They announced the Uron Mirage anime. It seems the fans and the studio did kinda keep at it.
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The new red backpack is apparently a big deal culturally and is one of those big milestones for kids growing up and you'd be marked as a poor/stupid person otherwise so it's 100% meant to show he's a good brother and not a bad budgeter.
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