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Brought To You By posted:It's been a consistent issue that the story has weak characters but decent to good spectacle in the art, but the latter cannot compensate for the former all the time. I think the main issue is that it’s better as an action-comedy than as straight action. For example the first chapters are full of exaggerated reaction faces to weird monster stuff. But now it’s trying to have a big climactic battle between lots of different fighters, but the B and C cast just aren’t very interesting and it doesn’t really feel like anything is at stake. A bunch of monsters suddenly pop up out of nowhere, it’s really heavy-handed at trying to portray them as this overwhelming deadly threat but it’s also transparently obvious that the monsters are all gonna job hard and immediately die. “Oh no this monster is a perfectly engineered countermeasure, the commander stands no chance, there is no way for them to defeat this .... oh they won” repeat x 10. And winning doesn’t really mean anything anyway since no.11 (was it 11? can’t remember) can seemingly just magic up a bunch of super monsters whenever he wants to.
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Not spoilering this because its not really about the speed scan chapter of black clover but i honestly don't remember why the final battle is happening. I know who is the villain I just don't remember the motivation
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May 26, 2023 18:17
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Jose posted:Not spoilering this because its not really about the speed scan chapter of black clover but i honestly don't remember why the final battle is happening. I know who is the villain I just don't remember the motivation I think he wants to create a utopia by brainwashing everyone, or something like that.
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May 26, 2023 19:18
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Darth TNT posted:Her opponent having the same issues was such a weird thing though. It’s standard yeah, but hey it looked neat doing it. Yeah, the issue isn't her family drama. The issue is that there's so little the story can draw from it just reflects this onto her opponent who jobs out in a handful of chapters. Elite posted:I think the main issue is that it’s better as an action-comedy than as straight action. For example the first chapters are full of exaggerated reaction faces to weird monster stuff.
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May 26, 2023 19:38
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Silver2195 posted:I think he wants to create a utopia by brainwashing everyone, or something like that. Well also kill everyone and bring them back in brainwashed immortal bodies.
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May 26, 2023 19:49
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Silver2195 posted:I think he wants to create a utopia by brainwashing everyone, or something like that. but was it always Julius' intention or did he have a second personality. thats the bit i sort of don't remember
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May 26, 2023 19:53
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The previous arc had a bunch of unexplained plot holes because Lucius is the fourth spade sibling, and used time and soul fuckery to conceal himself and his demon and also make sure the cast won. And yeah he was born with two souls like the golden deer captain, so hes always been that way but he erased himself from peoples memories.
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May 26, 2023 20:04
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MonsterEnvy posted:Well also kill everyone and bring them back in brainwashed immortal bodies. I haven't read Black Clover in forever so I can't tell if this is legit or you guys are just saying the bad guy is Madara as a bit.
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May 26, 2023 20:08
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Jose posted:but was it always Julius' intention or did he have a second personality. thats the bit i sort of don't remember Yes Julius was a “fake” personality created to act as a sleeper agent
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May 26, 2023 20:47
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Ok cool. I enjoy reading black clover for the action but it really doesn't linger in my brain what happened
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May 26, 2023 21:47
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The thing that gets me about Kaiju #8, is that it had a good thing going with the original squad. Kafka had dynamic relationships with Mina, Reno, Kikoru, and the rest of the squad overall that developed over time. Then the author broke up the squad and spread them all out while trying to introduce like a dozen new characters to set up for this big arc, and he just doesn't have the chops to make this work. None of these new characters are compelling enough to make me want more of them and I just keep wishing we could get the band back together. So many shonen manga do this, like they want to have their own version of the Gotei 13, but would be better off just sticking to their core cast.
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May 26, 2023 21:53
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i don't really have an issue with this arc but the once a fortnight pacing is an issue for something that is standard chapter length. I hope it'll be back to the regular squad after this but maybe not
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Rohan Kishibe posted:I haven't read Black Clover in forever so I can't tell if this is legit or you guys are just saying the bad guy is Madara as a bit. His goal is a bit similar, but it’s more kill everyone, revive them as immortals that unquestionably obey him, then rule the world as it’s immortal god king. Madara was more put everyone in a dream.
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Alacron posted:The thing that gets me about Kaiju #8, is that it had a good thing going with the original squad. Kafka had dynamic relationships with Mina, Reno, Kikoru, and the rest of the squad overall that developed over time. Then the author broke up the squad and spread them all out while trying to introduce like a dozen new characters to set up for this big arc, and he just doesn't have the chops to make this work. None of these new characters are compelling enough to make me want more of them and I just keep wishing we could get the band back together. The character work really is the weakest part of Kaiju #8. Despite his primary motivator being his childhood friend, I don't think we've seen Kafka exchange more than a few words with her at all, despite her apparently being cool with him being around. It also escalated things too much, too fast. It hasn't even been a year in-universe since Kafka became part of the troop and you already get this huge disaster against humanity, when you've barely even known the core crew, much less the new jerks it keeps introducing.
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New Versus chapter (translated) is out: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/Z2lzdC9nYXVjaGU3LzUzOWY4NDc0ZjVjZTI5YmE2ZTQwYjQ5ZDBiNzk0ZGQwL3Jhdy8/6/1/ While I genuinely love the premise of this series, and I enjoy reading every chapter, it's absolutely wild to me that we have spent the last 5 chapter releases, over the past 4 months, with all the characters essentially sitting in meetings... I'm so eager to dig into the different natural enemies - like gaming world, neo humans, giant tree, aliens, etc. ONE is the ultimate tease in this series!
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Alacron posted:
Hell end of the day Bleach probably woulda been better off storywise sticking with it's initial core cast and killing off/writing out most of the 13. Maybe not merchwise which is probably why authors keep doing it though.
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May 27, 2023 20:17
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Yeah captains that died or lost their fights in soul society should have stayed dead and their ranks unfilled
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May 27, 2023 20:31
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The fact that soul society as an organization survived the soul society arc is probably one of the first absolutely major failings of Bleach that underpinned its later downwards arc into poo poo, imo. Instead of having an alphabet soup of jobbers to manage the post-SS status quo should have been most of the captains dead, the survivors being too busy trying to rebuild poo poo to do anything else, and the karakura gang being the only ones free to actually do anything because they’re an unaffiliated third party.
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May 27, 2023 20:50
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If only Kubo hadn't made all the captains so cool. Suffering from Success
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well, he made some of them cool at least.
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Manatee Cannon posted:man I wish daemons of the shadow realm wasn't on such a poo poo app, it owns Finally got caught up with this, too, and yes, it is in fact a terrible app. Surely there aren't that many daemons in the village, or they'd have been in a much better place to defend themselves. The fake Asa seems to be made of/manipulate shadows, so I'm assuming that she's Danji's "other half", and that she took the place of his shadow while they were in the village (since he must have had one then or Yuru would have noticed). Honestly, what kind of organization is the village? They're named after the village, but it seems pretty clear that very little of their power or leadership lives there, so, what do they actually do? Are they another crime syndicate (I mean, they almost certainly are in some sense)? They seem to have world domination as a goal, but since they haven't had much success on that front, how are they recruiting so many people as to have internal factions and an apparent plethora of assassins?
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I assume they'll do the actual intended ending instead of going from an absolutely glacial pace to suddenly kicking off the final battle out of nowhere and closing out the series in five chapters. Not that there's much to get excited about, it's just endless fights against a literal alphabet army of villains and basically nothing else.
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I don't think there's any way to fix Bleach's ending to be honest.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:I don't think there's any way to fix Bleach's ending to be honest. End everything after the Hueco Muendo arc. Not like it was that great compared to the rescue Rukia arc but at the very least Kubo shouldn't undo Aizen's reveal so he has to follow through.
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Brought To You By posted:End everything after the Hueco Muendo arc. Not like it was that great compared to the rescue Rukia arc but at the very least Kubo shouldn't undo Aizen's reveal so he has to follow through. I mean, sure, if you end the manga earlier or wrote a *different* ending arc or whatever it'd be better, but as things stand right now, I can't imagine the anime adaptation will do a much more satisfying ending. After all, we're still gonna see Ichigo get a new couple of swords just for them to immediately get broken, except then he'll get them back again and then eventually he'll reveal that it was really just the old sword all along while the all-seeing omnipotent enemy gets depowered by a special arrow. We might get some foreshadowing I guess? And maybe some more info on the Quincy dad. We're probably gonna get *even more boring fights* though.
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Sakamoto Days was really good this week.
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Kind of funny how Sakamoto started out as more of a comedy series.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I assume they'll do the actual intended ending instead of going from an absolutely glacial pace to suddenly kicking off the final battle out of nowhere and closing out the series in five chapters. My brother in christ you are in the Shounen thread what the gently caress else you want
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i much prefer mangaplus as a website for reading manga but man its been ages since i kept up with a couple of series and have no bookmark of where I was yozokura family I think they had just started a fight with the dad? it would probably be 20+ chapters ago undead unluck i think they were just about to loop again? i forget if that even happened? would probably be 30+ chapters ago these are very vague I'm aware and I could just skip back 50 chapters and may but thought I'd post first to see if my memory is so bad i need the 50 chapters edit: undead unluck I last read on the SJ site so I know where to start probably. Chapter 106 lol Jose fucked around with this message at 21:20 on May 28, 2023 |
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The Viz app always gets busted on Sunday, I assume because everyone checking in, but Mangaplus doesn't have this problem.muscles like this! posted:Kind of funny how Sakamoto started out as more of a comedy series. I'm just happy they're able to incorporate the whacky gimmick assassins better into the series. The karma guy was real good.
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now my issue is i changed bank last month but forgot to update payment details and just updated my phone and i'm logged out of all the banking apps and can't resub on the website. good job viz lol
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:I mean, sure, if you end the manga earlier or wrote a *different* ending arc or whatever it'd be better, but as things stand right now, I can't imagine the anime adaptation will do a much more satisfying ending. After all, we're still gonna see Ichigo get a new couple of swords just for them to immediately get broken, except then he'll get them back again and then eventually he'll reveal that it was really just the old sword all along while the all-seeing omnipotent enemy gets depowered by a special arrow. We might get some foreshadowing I guess? And maybe some more info on the Quincy dad. I think it got mentioned that is apparently more context for Ywach's backstory in a light novel or something,  . But there really isn't anything that could be done to "fix" the plot of Bleach at this point. As far as the Quincy threat, it was the exact moment where it's revealed that the Head Captain was fighting a doppelganger and then the real deal showed up that nobody credibly stood a chance against Ywach. All that could happen to resolve him as a threat is some nonsense, which is also the problem with Aizen as he was basically ten steps ahead of everyone. And I can't exactly remember but the trap in the spirit orb thing seems like a left field kind of resolution.
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Yeah I figured Kill Blue wasn't going to go down that path.
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Dexo posted:Yeah I figured Kill Blue wasn't going to go down that path. Yeah this was basically guaranteed to be the thing to happen. Separate to that, rip to the person who hoped Do Retry would deal at all with the sport aspects of boxing.
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So, head's up, like the Shonen Jump app there are manga that are on the Viz website that aren't on the app.
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Meanwhile, Tenmaku's showing more interesting difficulties for the production, and focusing more on the how of films. It's not saying much to say it's my favorite of the new batch at the moment, but right now I'm enjoying it.
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If Tenmaku Cinema becomes a manga about guerilla filmmaking then I will be very happy.
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