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Shaman King Flowers is getting an anime adaptation in January: Not entirely sure how that’s going to work though since to my knowledge the manga was never finished
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Oct 27, 2023 16:05
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Larryb posted:Shaman King Flowers is getting an anime adaptation in January: Flowers and Superstar are the same manga p much. It was during the changeover when Takei got rights to Shaman King his back from Shueisha and put it in a different magazine with Kodansha.that he renamed it
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Dexo posted:Flowers and Superstar are the same manga p much. Ah I see, did Superstar get an ending then?
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Oct 27, 2023 16:17
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Larryb posted:Ah I see, did Superstar get an ending then? No  still ongoing
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Oct 27, 2023 16:20
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Julias posted:No Huh, neat. I figured that one stopped years ago
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Oct 27, 2023 16:36
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That’s a pleasant and welcome surprise. Anyone still reading Shojo null? It’s honestly going into comedy at this point. Meanwhile Demonlord exchange is still going strong. I assume the new guy was part of the hero party or something
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Oct 27, 2023 16:58
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Darth TNT posted:Anyone still reading Shojo null? It’s honestly going into comedy at this point. I dropped it after the black market, the art style sucks (personal opinion) and its not good.
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Oct 27, 2023 17:01
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Shoujo Null: Is consistently so edgy it's dumb and wavering between being so dumb it's amusing and so dumb it's actually just bad and boring. Demon Lord Exchange!!: I like that unlike almost every similar Hero story, this one addresses that our group is just one Hero party out of many. And I agree, the new priest dude is absolutely a former Hero party member, which is probably also why he was imprisoned in the first place. Magical Girl Tsubame: I Will (Not) Save The World!: For how much I was roasting it for it's art-style, I ended being really into it, lol. And with this chapter, it looks like the story will be some kind of reverse Madoka, where our heroine will pull Magical Girls out of
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Oct 27, 2023 18:48
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Lt. Lizard posted:
I liked it in PPPPP but the style really fits this manga much better. Combined with the writing it has a really dreamlike vibe I'm digging a lot.
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Oct 27, 2023 21:20
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Yeah, the art-style fits "Magical Girl Tsubame: I Will (Not) Save The World!" in a way it never fit PPPPPP. It does a lot to carry the super weird vibe the series has going on and is a legitimate strength here. The author very obviously thought about what kind of story can fit his art-style and went for it.
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Oct 27, 2023 22:25
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I never read PP but I adore whatever the hell is going on with Tsubame
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Oct 27, 2023 22:36
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Where is Tsubame translated? I don't see it on the Shonen Jump app.
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Oct 27, 2023 22:41
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It's on MangaPlus
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Oct 27, 2023 22:44
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It's on https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/updates Maybe other places I dunno.
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Oct 27, 2023 22:44
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Julias posted:No No scans since 2020 too
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Oct 28, 2023 00:15
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shaman king and endings are mutually exclusive.
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Oct 28, 2023 00:56
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Did he become the king of the shamans yet?
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Oct 28, 2023 00:59
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I think the villain did?
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A Sometimes Food posted:I liked it in PPPPP but the style really fits this manga much better. Combined with the writing it has a really dreamlike vibe I'm digging a lot. Yeah I'm 100% on board with Tsubame. Wasn't sure at first but I'm hooked. Also impressed that chaps 2 and 3 were each 30+ pages despite being weekly, hope the mangaka isn't totally burning themselves out.
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Clarste posted:I think the villain did? Yup, and then said villain got yelled at by his mom at the end and gave up on his initial plans for the world (I’m serious)
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Oct 28, 2023 02:25
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I respect Shaman King's commitment to "No really, the villain is actually unbeatable" and no amount of shonen powerups could change that.
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Oct 28, 2023 02:31
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Lt. Lizard posted:Shoujo Null: Is consistently so edgy it's dumb and wavering between being so dumb it's amusing and so dumb it's actually just bad and boring. Yeah, it's almost impressive how it's settled into just being bad now. The formula just seems to be "happy-go-lucky kid stumbles into atrocity, gets mad and kills the people responsible, rinse, repeat." It's not interesting by any stretch. CodfishCartographer posted:Yeah I'm 100% on board with Tsubame. Wasn't sure at first but I'm hooked. Also impressed that chaps 2 and 3 were each 30+ pages despite being weekly, hope the mangaka isn't totally burning themselves out. Same, I'm also enjoying it. Hopefully they did most of this between the end of PPPPPP and the series's launch, and that they have a buffer built up
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Oct 28, 2023 02:44
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Alacron posted:I respect Shaman King's commitment to "No really, the villain is actually unbeatable" and no amount of shonen powerups could change that. Mind spoilering how it deals with that? Do the heroes just lose and that's that?
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Electric Phantasm posted:Mind spoilering how it deals with that? Do the heroes just lose and that's that? I basically just said it a few posts ago. Hao’s mom (who’s some kind of deity I believe) shows up and convinces him to stop, he remains the titular Shaman King and the main characters return to their normal lives I might be forgetting some details but that’s basically the extent of it Larryb fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Oct 28, 2023 |
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Oct 28, 2023 02:51
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Yeah what LarryB said. It's kind of like Amazo in the Justice League cartoon, he was too powerful to be stopped by force so you had to talk him down.
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Oct 28, 2023 02:55
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Larryb posted:I basically just said it a few posts ago. Hao’s mom (who’s some kind of deity I believe) shows up and convinces him to stop, he remains the titular Shaman King and the main characters return to their normal lives I'm pretty raw on late shaman king as a whole and the spin-offs. But I still think the epilogue chapters dealing with how the cast move forward are really good.
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Oct 28, 2023 03:12
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Larryb posted:I basically just said it a few posts ago. Hao’s mom (who’s some kind of deity I believe) shows up and convinces him to stop, he remains the titular Shaman King and the main characters return to their normal lives Whoops wasn't following the conversation at all thank you! Alacron posted:Yeah what LarryB said. It's kind of like Amazo in the Justice League cartoon, he was too powerful to be stopped by force so you had to talk him down. you too!
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Sindai posted:Did he become the king of the shamans yet?
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Darth TNT posted:Anyone still reading Shojo null? It’s honestly going into comedy at this point. Are we reading the same manga? The manga has kept to its same tone of mixing between lighthearted and gloomy situation and aesthetics, and I have not laughed yet. Latest chapter just ended with a large pile of corpses again.
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So in other news, I've finally finished reading all 400 chapters of Hunter X Hunter and I have some complex feelings on it. When I was partway through I was totally ready to go across the internet shouting "HUNTER X HUNTER loving SUCKS AND YOU'RE ALL FOOLS FOR LIKING IT!!!" But ultimately, I can see the reasons why people would like it even if it's not for me. Togashi seems to have a real complexity addiction that I do not vibe with. Everything is rules upon rules, exceptions to rules, hidden rules that we didn't tell you about, those rules are actually a lie these are the real rules etc etc etc. And Togashi needs to explain all these rules to you in meticulous detail. And just, I don't need so many words to appreciate Hisoka using a human head as a flail, I think the drawings convey it pretty well. I get the feeling that Togashi would much rather be writing about his villains than his protagonist. For ostensibly being the main character, Gon is just such a non-factor for so much of this manga that I find it hard to care much about him. But we then spend so much time with the villains, learning their histories, their morals, their wants, and basically just everything about them. And I kinda... don't care? Not connecting with it emotionally is kind of consistent problem that I have with this manga. It's a page turner to be sure, I frequently lost track of time while reading because I wanted to see where things were gonna lead, but I rarely laughed, I never cried, I rarely even felt anything besides curiosity. That's not nothing, by all means it's a compelling reason to keep reading, but it's generally not what I come to comics for. Incidentally, I genuinely feel really bad for HxH fans. This manga feels like it wanted to be this 1000+ chapter epic, with so much worldbuilding and buildup and foreshadowing and I think it's never going to get paid off thanks to Togashi's health issues. I think I'm going to die of old age before we ever figure what Gyro's deal is. Some other stream of consciousness thoughts before I try and sleep off this migraine: - The Hunter's Exam is a genuinely strong opening, and personally I think it's the my favorite part of the manga. It's got the right amount of complexity and rules bullshit without going off the deepend. - Greed Island is easily the worst arc with the worst villains. Bomberguy was very boring and he looked like Egon from The Real Ghostbusters, and I can't remember anything about his partners. - Leorio is too good of a character to be wasted like he is. He had one great moment in the election arc and has gotten like, a single panel since then. - It's incredible to me how little Gon has had to do with his own manga for the past, what, 10 years? - Pariston and Ging may be assholes, but they're right to not want to dress up in stupid zodiac costumes. - From the Chimera Ant arc onwards, I kept thinking of that one scene from Mystery Men "I knew you'd know I'd know you knew" "But I didn't, I only knew that you'd know that I knew." - Finally, holy gently caress does this manga have a ton of 
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Leorio is the greatest example of audience insert in the history of man, and if that one panel was his only appearance in all of HxH he would still be considered an all time character. Man nearly rode to the top of the entire Hunter organization on the pure rizz of going "gently caress Gin!" and punching a bitch in the face.
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gon met a bunch of people who knew gin and they all praised him. it turned out that they were just being nice and pretty much everyone gin has ever met hates his guts. this now includes gon.
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He's like House in that everybody respects him being like the best at his profession, but nobody can stand to actually be around him for more than five minutes because of how terrible a person he is.
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Oct 28, 2023 07:42
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Flair posted:Are we reading the same manga? The manga has kept to its same tone of mixing between lighthearted and gloomy situation and aesthetics, and I have not laughed yet. Latest chapter just ended with a large pile of corpses again. Exactly. Again. It’s basically what Shinji said: Shinji2015 posted:Yeah, it's almost impressive how it's settled into just being bad now. The formula just seems to be "happy-go-lucky kid stumbles into atrocity, gets mad and kills the people responsible, rinse, repeat." It's not interesting by any stretch. It’s honestly comical at this point. It could actually be used to say something regarding consumerism or whatever, but we all know this warehouse is full of robot corpses and they’re there because some extremely lovely humans are being lovely again just cause. I still read it because I actually like the downtime moments quite a lot. They make a cute pair and I want to see how low we humans can go.
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Alacron posted:- It's incredible to me how little Gon has had to do with his own manga for the past, what, 10 years? I guess it’s subjective, but I never really saw Hunter X Hunter as “Gon’s” manga the same way, say, Yuyu Hakasho is Yusuke’s manga, My Hero Academia is Deku’s manga, or how One Piece is Luffy, and by extension the Straw Hat’s adventure. He’s basically just the focal character for a lot of it, and really he shares that spot with Killua.
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Alacron posted:So in other news, I've finally finished reading all 400 chapters of Hunter X Hunter and I have some complex feelings on it. When I was partway through I was totally ready quote:I get the feeling that Togashi would much rather be writing about his villains than his protagonist. For ostensibly being the main character, Gon is just such a non-factor for so much of this manga that I find it hard to care much about him. But we then spend so much time with the villains, learning their histories, their morals, their wants, and basically just everything about them. And I kinda... don't care? Cell Meruem going from heartless genocidal creature to kinda sorta having a conscience because he fell in love with a blind boardgame player is cool in concept, but I never really connected with it emotionally. As for Togashi's villains; I don't think he does much different from his contemporaries when it comes to fleshing out his major antagonists. It does feel like it hits differently in some cases like with Chrollo and Meruem though but Togashi was doing this in YYH for characters like Sensui and Toguro. I would agree that at some points I don't really care that much for Meruem's conflict of humanity but overall I do get drawn into his plot with Komugi. Togashi loves him an exploration of humanity and that was on full display the CA arc so Meruem winds up being a nice case study and somewhat tragic in the end if only because the potential for good was there but his own nature was incompatible with the world at the start and nothing could have changed that. quote:- Leorio is too good of a character to be wasted like he is. He had one great moment in the election arc and has gotten like, a single panel since then. quote:- Pariston and Ging may be assholes, but they're right to not want to dress up in stupid zodiac costumes. quote:- From the Chimera Ant arc onwards, I kept thinking of that one scene from Mystery Men All in all just glad you were willing to give the series a fair shake even if it ultimately isn't for you.
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Alacron posted:- Greed Island is easily the worst arc with the worst villains. Bomberguy was very boring and he looked like Egon from The Real Ghostbusters, and I can't remember anything about his partners. 
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Setting aside what my feelings might have been when I read the first ~18 volumes twenty years ago and then set it down for reasons I forget, when I got around to the 2011 anime a few years ago I was struck by how much I bristled against and in general disliked Gon as a character. He felt almost incongruous with the type of setting established in HxH and I certainly found myself with far less patience for that type of plucky overly optimistic shounen kid protagonist than I would have in the past. However Chimera Ant I feel retroactively snaps a lot of his character into focus in a way that makes a lot of his actions in the past make far more sense and feel more at place in a brutal setting like HxH's world. Doesn't hurt either that he and Killua basically cleanly exited the manga in a way that felt satisfying enough.
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Nate RFB posted:Setting aside what my feelings might have been when I read the first ~18 volumes twenty years ago and then set it down for reasons I forget, when I got around to the 2011 anime a few years ago I was struck by how much I bristled against and in general disliked Gon as a character. He felt almost incongruous with the type of setting established in HxH and I certainly found myself with far less patience for that type of plucky overly optimistic shounen kid protagonist than I would have in the past. However Chimera Ant I feel retroactively snaps a lot of his character into focus in a way that makes a lot of his actions in the past make far more sense and feel more at place in a brutal setting like HxH's world. Doesn't hurt either that he and Killua basically cleanly exited the manga in a way that felt satisfying enough.
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