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Today I have learned that the Viz app subscription is different from the Shonen Jump app subscription? Still cheap, at least.
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May 9, 2023 14:24
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saw a new manga on the web app called 'handsome must die'. incredibly bad.
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May 9, 2023 15:22
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Mother's Basement did a thing on Seven Deadly Sins, a show that like him I binged when it first came out and enjoyed the first season well enough before promptly forgetting about it and... good heavens.
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May 9, 2023 15:27
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Man that's a harsh title coming from him.
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May 9, 2023 15:32
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Seven Deadly Sins is a very meathead battle series but the manga is much better than the anime since it got a poorly staffed/scheduled mess of an adaptation The art in the manga is really good.
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May 9, 2023 15:34
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ConanThe3rd posted:US/CAN only. Its not quite the sawdust in the mouth Kodansha's offering is but its not far off it. Have they launched their app yet? Is it good?
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May 9, 2023 15:40
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Seven Deadly Sins the anime basically got the reverse streaming effect, where it was regularly recommended by the Netflix Algorithm and people would click after watching idk One Punch Man and see the outrageously poo poo final season. So to a lot of zoomers it became "the worst anime ever"
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May 9, 2023 15:40
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Electric Phantasm posted:Have they launched their app yet? Is it good? Not yet, but it's almost certainly going to be in the garbage purchase coins/limited chapters per day style that some other services use.
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May 9, 2023 15:43
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FrozenPhoenix71 posted:Not yet, but it's almost certainly going to be in the garbage purchase coins/limited chapters per day style that some other services use. Shame. Viz's "3 bucks a month to read a hundred chapters a day" is about perfect.
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May 9, 2023 15:50
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FrozenPhoenix71 posted:Not yet, but it's almost certainly going to be in the garbage purchase coins/limited chapters per day style that some other services use. I don't get why everyone just doesn't copy Viz(I get it why) poo poo like Comikey makes keeping up with series a pain if you miss out on their arbitrary window. Hate that I dropped Kengan because of it. Kinda related to SDS is Kongou Banchou a good read?
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May 9, 2023 15:51
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Electric Phantasm posted:I don't get why everyone just doesn't copy Viz(I get it why) poo poo like Comikey makes keeping up with series a pain if you miss out on their arbitrary window. Hate that I dropped Kengan because of it.
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May 9, 2023 16:13
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Electric Phantasm posted:Have they launched their app yet? Is it good? FrozenPhoenix71 posted:Not yet, but it's almost certainly going to be in the garbage purchase coins/limited chapters per day style that some other services use. The K Manga apps are scheduled to be released tomorrow - you can see their listings on both Google Play and the Apple Store. The images do show some sort of daily points system, which isn't great for catching up but maybe it's enough if you're just trying to catch simulpubs.
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May 9, 2023 17:05
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Electric Phantasm posted:Kinda related to SDS is Kongou Banchou a good read? Absolutely. I wish there were better quality scans but Kongou Banchou absolutely loving rules a lot and honestly I wish it got a sequel instead of 7DS.
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May 9, 2023 17:11
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Did anyone else lose their continue reading section after updating the viz app? I can't find it anywhere on there.
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May 9, 2023 17:34
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I first read Kongou Banchou because of this thread (or an earlier incarnation) and I far prefer it to seven deadly sins. SDS to my mind peaked very early with Meliodas catching and throwing back a spear over like 3 miles.
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May 9, 2023 17:50
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the first anime season of SDS was really good, and especially the early parts. It got pretty bad quickly after that though except for escanor
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May 9, 2023 18:02
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Best Kongou Banchou moment was when the party were running a gauntlet of 1x1 fights and Hikyou Banchou (AKA Midriff Batman) was set up against a dude with a Kabuki gimmick that looked extremely powerful but he had to forfeit because Hikyou poisoned him with laxative food a day earlier and forced Kabuki guy to go to the bathroom.
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May 9, 2023 18:15
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kongou banchou goes hard but at no point is the story even slightly coherent.
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May 9, 2023 18:57
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Kongou Banchou rules. Shark Banchou was my fave, he’s even got the outfit!
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May 9, 2023 19:12
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Kingtheninja posted:Did anyone else lose their continue reading section after updating the viz app? I can't find it anywhere on there. Apparently when they launched the new Viz subscription, they also added a new Shonen Jump app that you have to download and sign into separately to get that back, for Jump/Jump+ series only.
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May 9, 2023 19:28
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UnderFreddy posted:the first anime season of SDS was really good, and especially the early parts. It got pretty bad quickly after that though Escanor continually carried the story on his back and humbled an entire family line in the process. I do enjoy the sequel series about the four horsemen but it took a while to really get it's legs.
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May 9, 2023 21:56
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ImpAtom posted:Hooooly poo poo the Viz app just added an insane smount of new series I recommend reading Magi to people who haven't. It has a really neat atmosphere/feel to it that I found far more compelling than most fantasy shounen stuff. Can't exactly explain why I liked it as much as I did, but it's at least worth trying out.
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May 9, 2023 22:27
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I remember really liking Magi, but I fell off around when they went to the magic school and faced off with dumbledore and scharezade`s... clone?
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May 9, 2023 23:09
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Rohan Kishibe posted:I remember really liking Magi, but I fell off around when they went to the magic school and faced off with dumbledore and scharezade`s... clone?
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May 9, 2023 23:17
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Magi deserved more recognition, even though I do think its second half is significantly weaker than the first half. And it's pretty clear (to me, anyway) that there was a lot of friction between the the author and the magazine near the end - hence why both her series there just kinda abruptly end and she immediately goes to work for a different publication. She can't seem to catch a break. She's apparently suffering from health issues that have made her resort to monthly chapters of her current series, Orient. And now that's apparently going to be ending soon. I didn't read much of it because it wasn't really grabbing me with its characters and world like Magi did. What's worse is that the anime didn't receive nearly the same amount of care as Magi's, so I couldn't even make it past one episode of that. Still, it's a bummer to see her apparently going through a rough time.
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May 9, 2023 23:54
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I started to lose interest in Magi after The Alma Torran flashback which was a slog when reading weekly and firmly pushed the stakes into crazy territory. I also just stopped liking Sinbad as a character but the story kept him front and center That aside, Magi had some incredibly good worldbuilding, characters, art, and story for a good chunk of it's run. Ohtaka really did create a believable world of magic and myths and the core examination of politics and the qualities of those who would be king was really well done. Alibaba was a fantastically flawed character and Aladdin's own struggles during the magic school arc were two incredibly strong character arcs.
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May 10, 2023 00:05
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Rohan Kishibe posted:I remember really liking Magi, but I fell off around when they went to the magic school and faced off with dumbledore and scharezade`s... clone? That section didn't bother me because it ends pretty abruptly; in hindsight I think it's a strong part of the story. The late end-game stuff is much weaker IMO, but I think it still holds up better than the endings of most long-running shounen series.
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May 10, 2023 01:39
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Yeah I think the ending arc of magi got a real bad pacing to it that slowed down at parts and rushed others. I also wanted to see more of the epilogue as well.
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May 10, 2023 03:39
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UnderFreddy posted:the first anime season of SDS was really good, and especially the early parts. It got pretty bad quickly after that though An interesting bit of historical trivia? If memory serves, the first season of Seven Deadly Sins got the highest ever average ratings of any show in the Nichigo timeslot. The followup half-season got the lowest average ratings of any show in the timeslot's original run. Some of it was just the general decline for ratings in general, but it is a nice microcosm of the arc of Seven Deadly Sins in terms of popularity.
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May 10, 2023 06:36
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Magi's final arc is a mess of interesting ideas that aren't fully explored, as well as a cool roadmap that it ends up not following. I'd love to see a more refined version of it from an alternate timeline, but what can you do. Still a shame that Morgiana gets unceremoniously sidelined, but that's the being-a-woman-in-shonen problem. The wedding was very sweet, though.
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May 10, 2023 08:30
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the best part of season 1 of sds was that it had a man with a mission op
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May 10, 2023 08:41
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That bit where the main cast blew up the setting's version of the Tower of London by having, in effect, two sayians having a frat bro-off (inadvertently weaponising the power of friendship) was funny too.
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May 10, 2023 09:57
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ConanThe3rd posted:That bit where the main cast blew up the setting's version of the Tower of London by having, in effect, two sayians having a frat bro-off (inadvertently weaponising the power of friendship) was funny too.  "There is no escape"*Most intense back slapping and arm wrestling match ensues* "Impossible!!!!"
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May 10, 2023 12:07
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Futaba Anzu posted:the best part of season 1 of sds was that it had a man with a mission op The best part to me was realizing that at no point up until the climax were the SDS ever taking any of this seriously. I thought it was pretty funny at least.
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May 10, 2023 12:19
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FrozenPhoenix71 posted:Not yet, but it's almost certainly going to be in the garbage purchase coins/limited chapters per day style that some other services use. Released today and it is, indeed, absolute dogshit.
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May 10, 2023 15:06
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FrozenPhoenix71 posted:Released today and it is, indeed, absolute dogshit. Just copy Viz drat it 
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May 10, 2023 15:09
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Apparently it has a lot of censorship too
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May 10, 2023 16:11
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FrozenPhoenix71 posted:Released today and it is, indeed, absolute dogshit. Just checked it out today out of curiosity to see just how bad it was. You get 1 free chapter per series per day, 2 if you're willing to watch ads, and after that gotta use 69 (nice) hard currency points to unlock chaps. Live-updating series only let you use tickets on the first half of the series, the second half you gotta buy each ch - and the most recent couple chapters cost 99p instead of 69p. The cheapest non-limited way to buy points is 515p for $4.99 USD, so for the price of subscribing to both the Viz and Shonen Jump apps for a month, you unlock at most 7 chapters lmao.
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May 10, 2023 16:42
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RatHat posted:Apparently it has a lot of censorship too On a related note it is weird how many of the new Viz series just have totally uncensored T&A considering they banned entire series from the app for that prior.
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May 10, 2023 16:51
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ImpAtom posted:On a related note it is weird how many of the new Viz series just have totally uncensored T&A considering they banned entire series from the app for that prior. https://twitter.com/G0ffThew/status/1656107697497071616?s=20
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May 10, 2023 17:05
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