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So, it's the end of the year for Shonen Jump and I thought it would be fun to reminisce on the new series of 2023. Plus the ones that came out at the end of 2022, because I want to dammit. From the Wikipedia page The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins: A family is caught in a I actually kind of liked this, but I feel like being a weekly series hurt it more than helped. The pace was kinda all over the place, lingering on some plots for too long speeding through others that could have used time to breathe. Probably should have been a limited, monthly series. Still though, it had it's share of moments that hit me like an emotional truck. Cipher Academy: Nisioisin's quest to drive translators to ruin. I feel like it does a good enough job at telling its story that I don't really need to understand the riddles to enjoy it, but I would probably like it a lot better if I did. Ichigoki's Under Control: Comedy where a guy turns into a robot, or something? I've forgotten it already. Fabricant 100: A boy and his Frankenstein fight other Frankensteins. A really neat premise, but I feel like it never really came together and lived up to its potential. Tenmaku Cinema: Hikaru no Go but for movies. This one had a weak start, but once you got into the actual craft and the protags had to use guerilla filmmaking to get their shots it improved by a lot. Shame it didn't last. Kill Blue: A literal manchild must kick the poo poo out of tweens. It's funny, and it's got good action. Not much else to say other than it's a really solid series. Do Retry: Boxing in reconstruction era Japan. I already read Hajime no Ippo, so I don't really need a mediocre replacement. Final chapter was neat, though. Nue's Exorcist: A harem manga disguising itself as a shonen action/adventure. I keep going through a cycle with this manga, where I get close to dropping it entirely and then something happens that keeps me just interested enough to keep reading. Martial Master Asumi: Beat Up Your Brother Simulator 2023. I like it a lot. Good characters, attention to technical details of MMA, female cast isn't treated as sex objects and get cool fights. Again, just a really solid series and I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't get axed. Also, very funny to me that this debuted like 2 months after Do Retry and completely ate its lunch. Ice Head Gill: We have Demon Slayer at home. The only series on this list that I completely gave up on. Not even interesting enough to hate. MamaYuyu: Across the Dragon Questverse. Consistently teeters on the edge of being interesting, but then again I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder with how the protag's mom got completely sidelined at the start of the series. Kagurabachi: A man wakes up every morning and chooses hate. A series that seems really generic, but has managed to be consistently interesting. With the bad guys being gangsters/mafia/yakuza, the action and drama can be surprisingly brutal. It would also be really funny if the internet managed to meme it into success. Two on Ice: I can't even think of a joke. Every time I see this come up, someone says to go read Medalist instead. I should probably get on that. Green Green Greens: Hangin' out at the driving range with your buds. Not a lot of chapters yet, but I'm enjoying it so far. Shadow Eliminators: [Insert generic exorcist manga here] On top of having a really uninteresting premise, I think it's really poorly paced. In both a page-to-page basis, and a story basis it just seems all over the place. I'd be shocked it this one gets past 25 chapters.
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Alacron posted:Martial Master Asumi: Beat Up Your Brother Simulator 2023. Agreed really enjoying this so far, and I think it has a lot of potential.
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Jan 1, 2024 06:44
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Yeah, it is kind of wild that MamaYuyu just removed the mother character. It seems like it completely forgot she exists.
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Jan 1, 2024 06:48
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MMA & Cipher are the standouts imo.
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Jan 1, 2024 06:52
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I wish Tenmaku Cinema stuck around
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Jan 1, 2024 07:15
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Kill Blue easily my favorite.
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Jan 1, 2024 07:15
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Alacron posted:Cipher Academy: Nisioisin's quest to drive translators to ruin. Yeah, agreed. Not that I expect to be able to solve the riddles with the limited information we're given, but it'd be nice to at least be on the same page before they do the rear end pull solution. (I think the current arc's doing a good job of sidestepping the riddles in favor of focusing on the situation they're in.) As far as my favorites for the year, MMA and Kill Blue are the standouts that will probably stick around for a while, MamaYuyu despite probably being on its last legs, and Fabricant 100 and Tenmaku Cinema for the "cancelled too soon" pile. If we include Mangaplus/SJ+ titles, My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps, Red Cat Ramen, Beat and Motion, Mikane and the Sea Woman, and Shibatarian have also been pretty enjoyable
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Fabricant 100 was a shame, but it clearly had enough warning or at least foresaw its own demise to steer its way to a satisfying conclusion, enough to recommend reading it.
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Jan 1, 2024 10:42
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at least it stuck to its guns and left 100 as a cold, inhuman monster from start to finish.
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah, it is kind of wild that MamaYuyu just removed the mother character. It seems like it completely forgot she exists. It's annoying. I get why people would dislike the sidelining of her but on the other I like the current cast and the whole idea in play. I'm genuinely worried that the author, upon the comic getting papped, will take the wrong lessons and replace the genuinely good character work with boring sluge for their next work and that lasting for years on end. It's happened before- Double Arts dying so Niseikoi could burst screaming out its chest- and I'd rather it not. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Jan 1, 2024 |
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Jan 1, 2024 11:48
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Is Earthchild already that long ago that it doesn’t even make the list? MMA is currently for me a standout. Fun characters, decent premise, lots of detail, clear art. Fabricant was fun while it lasted. I still read Kaguraibachi and I have no idea what to think. It’s interesting enough at least.
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Jan 1, 2024 13:39
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Man MMA is the only one on that list I'm paying attention to. I really like GGG, I made a post a while back about how I'm a sucker for a good "bored normie with a bit of talent finds his passion" vs "genius kicks all asses from ch1" stories, but golf series don't seem to last long so I don't wanna get too attached yet.
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Jan 1, 2024 13:46
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Shinji2015 posted:My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps: She just utterly destroyed him there. Good on her saving her man That was pretty satisfying. Liked the "no, I was never really a true Yandere, that was just you projecting your fantasies on me and me willing to go along with them for a bit" twist. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this ends in a few chapters, it really felt like the author just concluded the story he was set out to do.
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Jan 1, 2024 13:54
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Darth TNT posted:Is Earthchild already that long ago that it doesn’t even make the list? I had the same thought, but despite feeling like 5 years of plot crammed into about 30 chapters, it ran from February to September 2022.
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Lt. Lizard posted:That was pretty satisfying. Liked the "no, I was never really a true Yandere, that was just you projecting your fantasies on me and me willing to go along with them for a bit" twist. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this ends in a few chapters, it really felt like the author just concluded the story he was set out to do. Yeah, I'd be pretty happy with it if that was the climax of the series. As I've said before, I wouldn't mind seeing the mangaka explore the fallout of this (most series understandably skip the recovery portion, and he's got a lot to unpack now in therapy), but if there's like another time skip to the conclusion I wouldn't be mad
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Jan 1, 2024 15:04
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how the gently caress have viz not updated the shonen jump app to stay full screen if you're reading a series and moving onto the next chapter
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Alacron posted:So, it's the end of the year for Shonen Jump and I thought it would be fun to reminisce on the new series of 2023. Plus the ones that came out at the end of 2022, because I want to dammit. Yes you should. Same for Me and My Gangster Neighbor.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:at least it stuck to its guns and left 100 as a cold, inhuman monster from start to finish. Yeah, I am sad it died but at the same time I'm glad it never got to the point of feeling pressured to make 100 anything but the worst.
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Just stumbled on a newer series I felt like highlighting cause I found it fun so far. Called Dragon and Chameleon. It's a manga about making manga series with a fun little first page twist. 11 Chapters are out and I have read three so far. https://mangadex.org/chapter/dbd4f7c0-6615-4f81-9604-a4e8b3d77360 MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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MonsterEnvy posted:Just stumbled on a newer series I felt like highlighting cause I found it fun so far. Called Dragon and Chameleon. It's a manga about making manga series with a fun little first page twist. 11 Chapters are out and I have read three so far. I powered through all 11 chapters and its pretty good! I like anything thats neck deep in a specific field and the art style/character designs remind me a lot of Blue Period. I also like the creepy anthropomorphic soul creator appearances. Its going on the read pile.
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Jerkface posted:I powered through all 11 chapters and its pretty good! I like anything thats neck deep in a specific field and the art style/character designs remind me a lot of Blue Period. I also like the creepy anthropomorphic soul creator appearances. There's a post that's just not quite coming together for me here about how an artist's experience seems to influence manga about manga, with Bakuman being clearly a manga about being in Jump that only the Death Note team would make, and how Downfall and Look Back contrast each other in part due to the very different careers of their creators, but... yeah. Not quite tying back here. (Although the author having had a short lived series in Jump probably comes into play.) One thing, though, is I feel like the manga would be better if it got a bit more into the nitty gritty. With Bakuman, or even the short Look Back, you felt like you knew how the protagonists approached making manga as specific people, but here, it's more generic "He's really good!". Just seeing what the characters chose to focus on in The Sting would tell us a lot, but we skip over that to get to the next scenes of drama. It means we're building on sand, a manga about manga that doesn't tell us much about manga.
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Yaknow. Shojo Null is low-tier slock but its my kinda low tier slock.
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the typical sunday releases posted today on the app, thanks new year disruption for the work week reading material
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I missed Mashle.
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ImpAtom posted:I missed Mashle. Same. I lolled pretty hard at this dumb rear end chapter. It also reminded me of the time Mash denied patient zero his sad sad backstory.  Sakamoto: Oh yeah, it’s going down! I fear for Gaku though, he’s pretty cool. Roboco: lol Kagurabachi: I find it all fairly confusing, but still I’m reading. It’s just fun enough and I do want to see where this is going. MMA: Oh yeah, Nao rocks. Undead: is wasting absolutely no time. On the one hand I’m disappointed we didn’t see more, because this felt a bit rushed? On the other hand, I do like it when the story doesn’t linger. Witch watch: I literally heard about the Suika game this week and didn’t know what it was…and now I do. Thanks witch watch! Demon lord exchange: I guess demon lord doesn’t like spiders.
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ImpAtom posted:I missed Mashle. I love that Mash the Hero(citation needed) could tell that teacher's "especially you" was directed entirely at him.
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ImpAtom posted:I missed Mashle. Many of the best elements of the series in one excellent chapter.
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MMA is back from break and we may breathe easy again. Edit: Nao is cool and good and my friend. Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Fabricant 100 was a shame, but it clearly had enough warning or at least foresaw its own demise to steer its way to a satisfying conclusion, enough to recommend reading it. It and Embalming made me realize you can't have a Frankenstein shonen for long
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Witch Watch: I like to think the author just gets these occasional kusoge ideas and keeps them in a back pocket for when they need to do a filler chapter. They did it with Sket Dance too. Akane-banashi: It's been kind of leaning into this whole "empty yourself" theme ever since she didn't make the cut for the New Breeze. I'm pretty sure we're not about to see a rakugo story done in totes qt abbrevs OMG, but this manga has been working pretty hard to set up this atmosphere of unpredictability, both with Akane's gambits and how they'll turn out.
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I've only read JJK and Sakamoto Days so far this week but god drat i love Sakamoto's fight choreography. The locations, usage of the locations, and the interesting ways they have the assassins fight each other is so good.
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ImpAtom posted:I missed Mashle. Big same. Come back Mashle Witch Watch: Morihito is just like me fr fr MMA: Dawgstar posted:Nao is cool and good and my friend. Kill Blue: Gotta admit, this is the last manga I expected to have a bath scene Blue Box: man, as much as I liked this chapter, we should have gotten a basketball-focused arc much sooner than this. Seeing the story behind the inciting incident to the manga should have happened years ago tho Mamayuyu: yeah, the end has to be coming Hope You're Happy Lemon: again, this manga just does not like letting things build. Besides, Sunao could have just said he was gay! It had already come up with Suzuka before! It's a plot point that you could have built on! Alternatively, Suzuka, you didn't fall for Lemon, you fell for Sunao! Confessing to Lemon meant nothing!
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early days still but I'm really liking the god before me so far
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Not sure if anyone noticed, but my girlfriend gives me the creeps also had an update and ended with the mention that the final chapter will be next week.
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Darth TNT posted:Not sure if anyone noticed, but my girlfriend gives me the creeps also had an update and ended with the mention that the final chapter will be next week. Didn't catch the extra chapter. Shame it is ending so soon but I'll always appreciate short-but-sweet series.
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Manatee Cannon posted:early days still but I'm really liking the god before me so far I just read this after you mentioned it and it actually is so good so far. Very early on but the art style is interesting and the humor is superb
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Undead: the 100 rounds of fencing is a fun way to do a callback.
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Akane-banashi was really good for this https://x.com/mahzes/status/1743610991307284653?s=46
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SgtSteel91 posted:Akane-banashi was really good for this That 3 panel progression made me actually laugh out of loud. So great.
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Hurrah, Heartgear is back again. I am getting a little tired though of every making GBS threads on Chrom. Or more accurately him getting shat on and not learning anything. Twin stars has no idea what anyone is doing or why at this point. Though at least we’re not surprised Yuto would come back. Darth TNT fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Jan 9, 2024 |
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