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Dawgstar posted:Exactly the same deal for Saotome Senshu. It was okay, too. No Teppu, but what is? I actually liked both over Teppu personally. Largely in part since I couldn't like the lead in Teppu.
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panko posted:heed your own words and look elsewhere than the manga magazine marketed mostly towards the underaged for your bounteous 2d fix 'cuse me for thinking Ayakashi was a better, if trashier, read than Nue's. 
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Tosk posted:has anyone read Soukyuu no Ariadne by the Claymore mangaka? I really liked Claymore and I feel like I attempted that series when it was relatively new but never followed it and I can't remember what my impression of it was, but it ended pretty recently I stuck with Ariadne from beginning to the end. Seconding what was said about the large hiatuses between scanlations making it harder to follow. Looking at it over the whole though The beginning is a wonderful scout the world thing, that sets up some cool mysteries and slowly segues into more standard shonen. Time travel is introduced as well as some other weird concepts that don’t really go anywhere. Ultimately, Ariadne was cut short so some story threads don’t go anywhere or are just suddenly resolved. It does have a pretty sweet ending though. It’s a weirdly uneven series that I did enjoy reading. But it’s not nearly as good as Claymore. Edit: regarding nue: I keep falling off. It feels like such a series that just has no idea if it wants to be bleach, harem or something else and as a result it just comes across as not quite anything even if I like the character Nue herself.
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panko posted:heed your own words and look elsewhere than the manga magazine marketed mostly towards the underaged for your bounteous 2d fix Related to this, is there a good English language resource for the various manga mags out there, other than the SJ app and Manga Plus? I'm aware that Mangadex sometimes links to official translations of series but I'd like to know more about the various weeklies/monthlies that are out there.
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You can basically count Viz's other app as the Shogakugan serials (So that's Shonen Sunday at least) as I understand things.
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ConanThe3rd posted:'cuse me for thinking Ayakashi was a better, if trashier, read than Nue's. ...y'know what, I don't disagree with this. You take away all the smut, AT is still the story of one girl realizing that she's trans and the other realizing that she's
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Jose posted:My issue with the world building is that while we know other places than where the series starts exists we're not really shown them because its not part of the story. The magic users world though feels incredibly small. Like En rules it but it feels the size of a city essentially rather than a full world. I haven't actually finished the series because it wasn't finished when I read it but I was certainly feeling near the end so maybe that was intentional. I should probably just reread the whole thing as I really liked it otherwise The magic users world is supposed to be small. The entire world was created by Chidaruma.
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ConanThe3rd posted:'cuse me for thinking Ayakashi was a better, if trashier, read than Nue's. false binary, you could just not read (or expect titillation from) either
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doomrider7 posted:I actually liked both over Teppu personally. Largely in part since I couldn't like the lead in Teppu. Oh, I didn't like her either as a person but she was very engaging, especially as a contrast to the stereotypical sports manga protag. "What if Sasuke was the main character" as somebody called it.
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Dawgstar posted:Oh, I didn't like her either as a person but she was very engaging, especially as a contrast to the stereotypical sports manga protag. "What if Sasuke was the main character" as somebody called it. I guess, but having been REALLY into MMA at the time it just reminded me of some fighters who really were like that and how unpleasant and terrible they were as people. Great and talented, but incredibly toxic. Of course, many fell and fell HARD.
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i'm still bummed that hanakaku got cut down so early, i really loved the art in that one
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kidcoelacanth posted:i'm still bummed that hanakaku got cut down so early, i really loved the art in that one Same.  Check out Medalist for something similar with also amazing art.
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Ok, the new Oneshot/Prologue/Sampler called No\Name from that "Creators" thingie is really drat good and I want it serialized.
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I know its actually a seinen series but since we've been talking about Dorohedoro I reread/finished it this time and the world didn't feel small on this read. I also think its wild that Hayashida Q wrote/drew the entire thing herself with no assistants even if it was monthly releases of 24 pages. Gutted that we're clearly not getting the rest of the anime
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Jose posted:Gutted that we're clearly not getting the rest of the anime https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-01-09/dorohedoro-anime-gets-sequel-as-streaming-series/.206148
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Jose posted:I know its actually a seinen series but since we've been talking about Dorohedoro I reread/finished it this time and the world didn't feel small on this read. I also think its wild that Hayashida Q wrote/drew the entire thing herself with no assistants even if it was monthly releases of 24 pages. Gutted that we're clearly not getting the rest of the anime
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So I read it on one of the many different sites but this one had the official Viz stuff so you got all the volume extras but included what she wrote in the final volume as a sort of thank you/goodbye. Unsure if its available to read online legally so i'll post this screenshot of that particular bit
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lol, guess Hoshino is dead. (Kaiju side story) that’s the problem with prequels.
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I really liked Dorohedoro for the bizarre fever dream thing it had going on, right up until just before the ending where things got even weirder and more confusing until I had no idea what was happening anymore and it somehow managed to feel “3 chapters away from finishing!” for like 15 chapters. That’s probably a bit unfair, it probably reads better in one sitting but one chapter at a time it felt like whole chapters were just... undoing what happened the previous chapter as people slowly get resurrected or the same chef’s knife gets randomly lost/found/stolen.
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Mikane and the Sea Woman:  This is an incredibly cute chapter even the professor could read the room. I just hope nothing gets between these two kids...nothing at all.
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Sakamoto:  MMA: Kagurabachi: That was pretty cool, though I'm very confused. Who are all these guys? Undead: This should be good.
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Darth TNT posted:Sakamoto:
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MMA:  Blue Box: Oh thank goodness, only a sprain.
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Darth TNT posted:Sakamoto:
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Brought To You By posted:Nope not falling for this one. That's going to be Gaku disguised as Nagumo and vice versa as he attempts to assassinate Slur now that you point it out idk how I don’t just make that conclusion.
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Last Celebration posted:now that you point it out idk how I don’t just make that conclusion. 
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Sakamoto: compared to most offscreen losses I'm kinda okay this, not sure why. Like this is shocking in a good way.
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Brought To You By posted:Nope not falling for this one. That's going to be Gaku disguised as Nagumo and vice versa as he attempts to assassinate Slur Honestly, best thing is that I thought of that. But I just can’t be sure. It makes sense for Gaku to beat Nagumo, but it would also be a huge if Gaku beat Nagumo.
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Sakamoto: All the weapons stuck in the body are Nagumo's.
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muscles like this! posted:Lol at the warning at the beginning of this week's Witch Watch. That chapter was just great, especially the sleigh gag. I was laughing the entire time. Dawgstar posted:MMA: Yeah, and that there's another tournament. I was afraid that was it for her basketball career. Cipher Academy: welp, guess it is the end after all Two On Ice: chapters like this are when the manga is actually decent, but it feels like too little, too late Green Green Greens:  Well, drat The God Before Me: okay, I needed the explanation here lol
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Sakamoto Days: Nagumo has always been tricky, he's just playing dead because Gaku proved to be out of his league.
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Electric Phantasm posted:
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Darth TNT posted:Sakamoto: Akane-banashi:
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