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Jose posted:general question here: how many chapters do you generally give a series before you'll start reading it (assuming you like the content). I've mostly given up under 20 because I just can't be bothered with something so likely to be axed Usually i'll read the first chapter of a series and if i like it i'll continue it, and if i don't or if i'm lukewarm about it i don't. Usually it's paid off pretty well because for the most part what i've continued reading has continued to be successful and good, and what i haven't either gets the axe or is kinda of just middling and i can safely ignore its success. Occasionally something starts off kinda meh but gets better later, but in those instances it's usually past the point it would have gotten axed if it was continuing to be awful. tl;dr: just get good taste like me and you'll never be lead astray 
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since the mangaplus app has made it really easy to get into new and smaller series I’ve broken my thirty chapter rule a few times, with three disappointments so far (martial master asumi, me & my gangster neighbour, service wars)
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Apr 22, 2024 20:09
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Choosing to read isn't something I base on whether a series has or is likely to survive. Just interest, vibe, and feeling like I have room for something.
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Apr 22, 2024 20:12
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Yeah if a series is under ten chapters and it feels like a chore, I'm probably dropping it. Some stuff I've read for a while and gotten the same feeling and I'll drop those too. Unfortunately this has happened with elusive samurai and akanebanashi.
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Apr 22, 2024 21:43
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I read most of the things that come out on Manga Plus. It's gotta be pretty drat bad (Ice Head Gill, Earthchild) or very not my thing (Gift of Poison, Ron Kamonohashi) for me to really drop a series.
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I give most things a shot if I'm in the mood, some are just a 'nope' after one chapter, some I read for a while and eventually feel it's not really something I care about much. I dropped Sakamoto around when there was the fight in the assassin office building with the film guy because I just didn't care about anyone anymore in the series. The nice thing about the Jump app is that you can go back to it any time and it remembers where you were. Sometimes I just take a break on a series because I'm not really in the mood (Roboco) and come back to it when I feel like I want to enjoy the series again.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I give most things a shot if I'm in the mood, some are just a 'nope' after one chapter, some I read for a while and eventually feel it's not really something I care about much. I dropped Sakamoto around when there was the fight in the assassin office building with the film guy because I just didn't care about anyone anymore in the series. Same, the juxtaposition of assassin hijinks and sleepy convenience store was a fun concept, then it just descended into another fight manga where I had no idea what the extent of people's abilities were supposed to be so I stopped. Spy Family fills that gap for me now, there's no real sense of stakes in the spy stuff but it also didn't forget that the low level stuff is part of the appeal.
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Apr 23, 2024 00:12
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You're supposed to enjoy Sakamoto for the insane choreography and art 
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BTW I wanted to chime in and say while it's only two chapters, I've rather enjoyed astro so far. I like the setting and potential for it at least. That could dive real quick though.
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oh yeah the latest series I’m reading before it has legs is astro baby and it’s been really fun so far. this is in contrast to shibatarian which probably would have killed as a goodbye eri length one-shot but is still going for some reason
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I give most things a shot if I'm in the mood, some are just a 'nope' after one chapter, some I read for a while and eventually feel it's not really something I care about much. I dropped Sakamoto around when there was the fight in the assassin office building with the film guy because I just didn't care about anyone anymore in the series. that's funny since I did the exact opposite, dropping sakamoto on 1 ch initially because the premise was uninteresting to me but going back I like it because it's just a bunch of well choreographed fights between fun characters
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I usually don’t bother reading new Jump series that pop up unless the art / premise really catches my attention or someone here really starts gushing about them. I’ve read a lot of scanlated stuff so at this point I’m kind of accustomed to stuff getting randomly dropped for no reason so I’m okay with having brief fun with a series then it suddenly disappearing. For gag manga I don’t have any minimum number of chapters I need to try it out, for more story driven manga I’d say needs a minimum of like 5 chapters for me to give it a try but every jump title gets that so it doesn’t matter (just an issue with scanlated stuff).panko posted:since the mangaplus app has made it really easy to get into new and smaller series I’ve broken my thirty chapter rule a few times, with three disappointments so far (martial master asumi, me & my gangster neighbour, service wars) By this you mean series that didn’t last very long? Because whilst service wars was short it felt like it was designed to be a shorter series and reached an appropriate stopping point. Which IMO is pretty different from a series getting unceremoniously axed and needing to suddenly pivot to anything vaguely resembling an ending. panko posted:oh yeah the latest series I’m reading before it has legs is astro baby and it’s been really fun so far. this is in contrast to shibatarian which probably would have killed as a goodbye eri length one-shot but is still going for some reason Shibatarian was really good and had a solid ending, then just... kept going. I wasn’t sure what was happening with that, but I’m on board again since it suddenly swerved into unhinged territory again. Manatee Cannon posted:that's funny since I did the exact opposite, dropping sakamoto on 1 ch initially because the premise was uninteresting to me but going back I like it because it's just a bunch of well choreographed fights between fun characters I don’t think Sakamoto has had a bad chapter, think it’s been incredibly consistent at how good it is. But I only tried it because people here were gushing about it. “Retired hitman runs convenience store” wasn’t a premise that sold itself to me.
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you’re right about service wars but I could have happily had a hundred or more chapters of its sense of humor
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I don't pay for SJ/MP, which means I'm a lot less discriminate in what I choose to read; I don't want to miss out on something getting good, so I pretty much read every new series that comes out. I don't mind it, and while I've read some real garbage (Ice Head Gil, Earthchild), I would've have missed out on stuff that I grew to really enjoy, even if they didn't last long (MMA, Fabricant, Service Wars). Honestly if I was paying for it and didn't have to worry about missing chapters, I'd probably read a whole lot less manga
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I wish they'd make their official product not so poo poo I use dodgy scan sites instead for basic features like no advert to scroll through to get to the next chapter (pc only here uhh), a proper reading history off exAmple
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the watamote trainwreck continues unabated I really don't like Komiyama. She was kind of interesting when she was originally introduced as someone who really openly disliked tomoko, but she's been written into being intensely unappealing and pathetic in every way and isn't entertaining like tomoko. like, that one girl who kissed tomoki by accident during the play, she sucks a lot but it's specifically in a way that results in being entertaining because of other character's interactions, but Komiyama, every single time, just results in "ugh, not her again" from both readers AND the characters in the manga! the cast of watamote has gotten pretty bloated, but most of the characters manage to have one gimmick or amusing aspect to them, but Komiyama's gimmick seems to be "ruins the atmosphere whenever she enters the room".
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At least she gave Tomoko a chance to be the big sister and the tsukkomi for once.
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Not sure who might be interested, but I've been collecting the Shonen Jump banners into an Imgur post since 2024 started. https://imgur.com/a/CLBawYr
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Okay, I guess I should have paid better attention to the cover art of ByeByeBye. I'm a little more interested now
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Sakamoto Days: fuckthemkids.png
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UU has to be getting close to the end at this point. Characters are really powering up.
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muscles like this! posted:UU has to be getting close to the end at this point. Characters are really powering up. Yeah probably, but I feel like with Andy still gone we've still got a bit more to go. We're also still missing Backs, Unchaste, Tatiana, and anyone else I'm forgetting, but they'll all surely fill in before the final arc. It's possible Andy will be a last-minute reintroduction, but I'm having a hard time seeing half of the titular duo not have some role before the very end here. Then again, he's been gone for like a third of the manga, so I really don't know what the gently caress to think.
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muscles like this! posted:UU has to be getting close to the end at this point. Characters are really powering up. Well we already know how tough the final boss is so it makes sense.
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you and I are polar opposites with a banger of a chap this week
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UU is so fuckin' good, goddamn
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Sakamoto Days went hard this chapter.
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Centuria: hoo boy things are going way too well here Kill Blue: man I really enjoyed this arc Dear Anemone/Astro Royale/Nue's Exorcist/Kyokuto Necromancer:  Sakamoto Days: Last Celebration posted:fuckthemkids.png
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Feng must still refine his technique to the level of a Star Shatterer if he wants to help defeat Sol. Also yeah, god drat no wonder Nico absolutely folded Language on his own last loop. My guesses going forward: The third powerful artifact Juiz was never able to find is going to let them use UMA abilities. Because Nico's really doing some work with this Shiritori game. Also I'm gonna guess the solution to a Supernova is something like Nothing or the Void or something infinite and endless like that to throw all that energy at. RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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*rushes into the room* Undead Unluck is so loving good Nico is gonna say something like Negate or No or Nullify and it's going to be so badass
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Two new Black Clover chapters dropped if anyone is still keeping up. Mereoleona ftw
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Zeruel posted:*rushes into the room* Undead Unluck is so loving good Yeah I think it’s gonna be Negate Shinji2015 posted:Kill Blue: man I really enjoyed this arc I liked it too. It landed the right kind of stupid, and liked the smarmy Jardin boss getting his poo poo kicked in. Final line from last week’s chapter went pretty hard for what’s normally a light and silly manga. “Relax, you don’t gotta worry about the weekend. Cus you ain’t gonna live to see it.” Ice cold. Elite fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Electric Phantasm posted:Mereoleona ftw other things happened too, i guess but yeah shes still the best in the manga I continue to be in awe at how little happens in every chapter of BC, even when the author had 4 months Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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wait black clover is still going? wtf
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The thing I find with Black Cover is how incredibly lazy the major plot beats seem. Summary of latest arc: New bad guy shows up (previously unmentioned alter ego of existing character) and turns half the wizards of the kingdom evil. Again. Asta gets teleported to Not-Japan for his ~5th training sequence. Bad guy clones himself 10 times to give the good wizards more faces to punch. And Asta’s anti magic is now basically just magic-but-black. (Earlier on it felt like there was at least some distinction between magic and anti-magic.) Art is decent, some of the powers are cool, some of the characters are cool (do agree that Mereoleona was great this last chapter) but the fighting itself seems hollow because both sides kinda just pull powerups out of their rear end and the stakes are kind of bullshit. Wouldn’t blink an eye if Lucius said “oh no. This isn’t going to plan. Guess I’d better summon 50 more clones” then Asta reached level X+1 in Anti-Magic and unlocked clone negation magic that immediately banished them.
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Manatee Cannon posted:wait black clover is still going? wtf The author moved to a bimonthly schedule or something. They have like 5 chapters left or something so it makes sense.
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Tabata was supposedly in really poor health for a while, going on a lot of hiatuses before switching to publishing quarterly. Now he seems to just want to wrap things up, draw cool spreads, and not die in the process.
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Tataba's wife was also very ill and had to have surgery, which left him in charge of taking care of his kid.
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I started watching the Sentai Daishikkaku anime and as someone who never read the manga it has been a pretty weird ride.
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Nue's Exorcist is frustrating because it has one somewhat interesting idea (the tension between Nue and the exorcists' association), but mostly it coasts on "What if Bleach, but horny?" And yet it's still better than Dear Anemone, because at least I can keep most of the main characters and the general situation straight. I'm digging Green Green Greens and Kagurabachi, though, and I'm still reserving judgment on Astro Royale and Necromance. (Astro Royale really needs a more distinctive name, though.) Super Psychic Policeman Chojo is...intermittently funny, I guess, but still funny less often than Witch Watch.
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If I try to think of Wild Strawberry and Dear Anemone in my head they are the same series.
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