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ImpAtom posted:Considering the last series maybe she is supposed to look unnerving and creepy Considering the title is Anti-World Magical Girl Tsubame I am assuming she is meant to be unnerving, yeah.
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Futaba Anzu posted:a lot of the designwork gives me dai dark vibes which is cool Yeah its certainly cut from that cloth, the cosmic sorcerers themselves look like they came straight out of there.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Sakamoto Days: only showing Kamihate's rifle is paying off so well That visit to France 
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Sakamoto owns. Kagurabachi's author really likes that square mouth.
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Every character from the order rules in Sakamoto, we need more time with them
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Darth TNT posted:That visit to France Kamehate is 100% going to turn out to be a cute girl.
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ImpAtom posted:Kamehate is 100% going to turn out to be a cute girl. I hope we never find out what Kamehate looks like. The MC in Two on Ice might be one of the stupidest ones I've seen in a while. How does a kid who obsessed over figure skating never hear about pair skating until now?
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People have already commented on Sakamoto this week, so let me just say that The Elusive Samurai was also superb.
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ImpAtom posted:Kamehate is 100% going to turn out to be a cute girl. That's my assumption too.
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ImpAtom posted:Kamehate is 100% going to turn out to be a cute girl. The fight will end with Heisuke promising to help Kamihate ask out the cute weather girl.
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Mamayuyu borrowing some pages from the fma playbook but I'm digging it.
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Marriagetoxin: Erina rules. That is all.  Make the Exorcist Fall in Love: Yep, that went about as badly as expected. Although the way the chapter ended, I am almost certain something or someone will interrupt her,
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Well, Manga Plus is down for maintenance, so I assume that they're updating it for whatever changes that they're making to it
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Subscriptions are live in the app. 3 bucks for reading current titles until they are completed. 5 bucks to read everything. Both no ads. I can still read stuff on the website though Darth TNT fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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It's back up and like a lot of people suspected it's a subscription service. Seems like they're keeping the old format of letting you read the newest chapters for free though, you only need the subscription if you want the backlog. edit: beaten.
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Darth TNT posted:Subscriptions are live in the app. Just to add to this, all the current titles that are exclusive to MP now only allow you to read the first six and latest six chapters (as opposed to being completely free like they were before), while the SJ titles are all still first three, latest three free. All things considering, it's surprising that MP let things stay mostly free as long as they did, so if you don't mind paying the subscription fee, I don't think there's any reason to use the SJ app over MP anymore (if there ever was one)
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Yeah, I think the only thing SJ app has that Manga+ doesn't have is, uh, OPM? I guess Manga+ requiring $5 for completed series while SJ (for now) letting you read them without paying extra is another benefit of SJ. That said, I wanna reread Hell's Paradise so I might make the jump to Manga+. Plus, the Manga+ app has always been faster for me, so if it retains its superior speed then it might be a no-brainer.
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Wish they added new series to the completed ones. The offering isn't *so* compelling for Deluxe yet, and Standard is uh... not that impressive when you consider the free chapters offering + uh, the fact that you could easily trick the app before into letting you re-read free chapters (at the only loss of losing your progress with re-editions). On the other hands, this is some of the tamest and fairest monetization I've seen in a manga app yet based on the threads here, so like... that's really neat and cool?
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The update seemed to have remove free access to the recent releases of the re-editions of older manga like Claymore and Bleach. I was using that to read older manga that I did not read the first time. I hope this gets corrected.
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Alacron posted:It's back up and like a lot of people suspected it's a subscription service. Seems like they're keeping the old format of letting you read the newest chapters for free though, you only need the subscription if you want the backlog. That's a relief. No coins!
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Clarste posted:Considering the title is Anti-World Magical Girl Tsubame I am assuming she is meant to be unnerving, yeah. So I read the first chapter of this, I enjoyed it! I really didn't like the art when I saw the preview image, but in the actual chapter it has a quite fun kind of anarchic feel. I kind of feel like the Madoka-esque "magical girl but hosed up" thing is a little played out, but the first chapter intrigued me enough that I'll keep reading.
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Episode one of Undead Unluck aired, solid start. Animation's good, VAs are good, David Productions doing a solid job. Wish they had trimmed out the early chapter gropey stuff but ehhh shouldn't last longer than the first maybe 2-3 episodes, if I remember right.
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Captain Invictus posted:the new watamote is a side chapter set 15 years into the future. it's great Watamote has always been fun.
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CodfishCartographer posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1707290426967744771?t=n9sV9kosHbLwbRmI1zY7YQ&s=19 Lt. Lizard posted:I mean, I knew that the PPPPPP mangaka wasn't the best artist but uh....that face is certainly something. After reading the first chapter, there can be some potential. The author's art style seems to fit the aesthetics of what the story seems to be going for. Nonetheless, I wonder if the narrative of postmodern magical girls, especially given Madoka and its derivatives, is fruitful and can still have nuance.
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I mean Madoka, wasn't really the first of the those. Its kind of a standard part of the genre.
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Flair posted:After reading the first chapter, there can be some potential. The author's art style seems to fit the aesthetics of what the story seems to be going for. Nonetheless, I wonder if the narrative of postmodern magical girls, especially given Madoka and its derivatives, is fruitful and can still have nuance. Yeah, I agree. It's the kind of story that really invites a weird and off-putting atmosphere, so the mangaka's artstyle fits it pretty well. Overall, as someone who couldn't stand PPPPP, it was a lot better than expected, so I guess I'll check out the next few chapters.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:
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Yumeochi bit the dust. Not surprised because it seemed like the author didn’t know where to take it. I enjoyed it well enough, but I’m not upset.
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Yeah, I quite liked the first chapter or two, but when it became obvious it was just going to be sliding into male gazey harem bullshit that barely utilised the premise I dropped off.
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Wild strawberry is weird. It has this weird tone difference to me that makes it hard for me to get invested. It seems to want to play for the horror with the Jinka, but then you have the attempts at humor like the dvd and the wildly out of place naked woman takes a shower. It’s weird.
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The Black Stones posted:Yumeochi bit the dust. Not surprised because it seemed like the author didn’t know where to take it. I enjoyed it well enough, but I’m not upset. It was an interesting concept, but it just ended up being a psuedo-harem series that really didn't know what to do with itself. Also, despite being twenty-somethings who had experience in the real world, you couldn't tell at all in the dream world
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SyntheticPolygon posted:I mean Madoka, wasn't really the first of the those. Its kind of a standard part of the genre. I am not saying Madoka was the first to deconstruct the genre or introduce disillusion into its concept: I am just saying that Madoka became popular and inspired many other anime/manga in its genre to do the same. We got Magical Girl Raising Project, Magical Girl Site, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, etc. that came shortly afterwards. Anyway, my original point is that, given how many other stories there are of its like, how much can Tsubame do to stay out from the rest. It might end up a perfectly fine manga, but it might not be nuanced. To give a point of reference, Harry Potter was not the first story to have a world with wizards and a young adult as the protagonist, but it became popular and inspired many other stories across various mediums to have their own versions of the stories. At this current point, the ideas to stand out with a similar story has run pretty dry, but Mashle did prove me wrong. Here's hoping that Tsubame proves me wrong too.
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The interesting thing about “dark magical girls” anime is that there weren’t as many as people remember there being. Madoka, The Sun Penetrates the Illusion, Magical Girl Raising Project, Magical Girl Site, Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka, maybe Yuki Yuuna (not familiar with that one). And people were talking a lot about “dark magical girls” being omnipresent when only half of those had come out. I guess Selector Infected Wixoss blatantly copied the Madoka aesthetic despite not actually being a magical girl show. Edit: Oh yeah, there was also that one series that was like Fate/Zero with magical mecha instead of legendary heroes, and all the people fighting to become a super-wizard (the “Princeps Mage”) were teenage girls for reasons that were never actually explained. I can’t remember it’s name or its exact level of darkness or magical girlness, though, just that the way it kept repeating certain exposition while leaving other things vague annoyed me. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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