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Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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ChiTownEddie posted:

My god I love Noblesse.
I don't even remember why I started to read it, but despite the slow start and ...not my normal art style, its one of the few I read EVERY week. I was basically sitting here ignoring the Bulls losing going "yessssssss" this entire chapter.

I've always wondered why I found it so enjoyable. It's not remotely groundbreaking, but it just has a weird little charm to it.

I remember laughing like an idiot early in at the overpowered main character missing a fight because he couldn't figure out electronic locks and didn't want to break anything.

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Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Yeah EGS decided to be idiots there. Noblesse has been on a monthlong break between chapters.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Lyon posted:

Yeah I kind of figured no one else was really reading this but me so I stopped posting it. Any flashbacks about Rai, the Lord, Frankenstein, and the betrayal are all more or less A-ok with me. I'm still predicting that the Lord decides Frankenstein's fate is to serve Rai so that Rai will have a friend. Not sure how it is enforced or why Frankenstein is so devoted but I bet that is how it starts.

Well, I think the Lord is waaay stronger than most clan leaders, and therefore Frankenstein, so he would at least have the power to enforce it on that end. I'm more interested in how the hell he would get Rai to go along with it :v:

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Lyon posted:

Now I am sad too. Veritas really was awesome and the next story arc could have been amazing.

I just binged through it and now I'm sad about this too.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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I think the cutest touch is that Frankenstein has just kept wearing the clothes that Rai magically gave him ever since.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Noblesse 245 over at EGScans

Click this Naver link too to give the authors hits

e: Am I crazy or is that M-24, not dead. Weird.

Shugojin fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Aug 14, 2012

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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AtomikKrab posted:

I think it can add a great deal, but drat the union is incompetent as poo poo

It's got something to do with the fact that they evidently choose between mental stability and combat ability.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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"Steadily going away from?" Do you not remember the giant, island-obliterating handprint in chapter one? :confused:

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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I'm just saying you really should have expected it to go here at some point, since it started with that handprint.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Werewolves aren't new, M-21 is modified with a werewolf heart.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Tornhelm posted:

Rael Kertia. He's the one with the splintered off soul weapons and the crush on Seira.

Frankenstein could definitely teach him to badmouth properly, at least :v:

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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God of High School 100

I really hate that creepy fuckdoll expression girl, what an awful character design.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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gently caress all that noise, next few chapters will apparently be about Jin Tae Jin's past.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Past Jin Tae Jin is basically Big Boss in God Of High School 113.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Someone's clearly not a cool man in God of High School 115

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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For Asimov fans, someone has done a pretty cool adaptation of The Last Question as a one-shot sort of thing.

I wanna say I've encountered this before but I'm posting it in case I'm wrong.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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I swear, that series has charged off so far into crazytown I think it's coming up on the food in Toriko.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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So basically I should be really glad that I stopped reading Can't See Can't Hear some time ago because I couldn't remember to follow it?

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Racist Porn Daimyo posted:

You can't really just say "watermark issues aside" when talking about A-team, though. Did you guys forget this poo poo: http://www.mangapanda.com/the-breaker-new-waves/8 A-team's translation isn't that great either.

I thought about rereading The Breaker a while ago then remembered that I was going to encounter that poo poo again. Ugghhhhhh what a bunch of colossal whiners.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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I haven't seen it mentioned, I read it a couple weeks ago and would like to recommend Feng Shen Ji. I don't know if it's actually manhwa (I have no idea what the details of its publication are, I can't find it) but it's another absolutely gorgeous series.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Yeah you ain't seen nothing yet. It escalates about as properly as you'd expect (once you learn what the endgame is, anyway) and the art does it justice.

I mean there have I guess been other series that use the story (nothing new under the sun, after all) but it's fun to read and the art is seriously gorgeous.

Here's one of the panels that first wowed me (timg for huge, no real spoilers since there isn't enough context on the page to know what the gently caress)

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Lyon posted:

New Noblesse. I don't know if anyone is still following Noblesse but we are getting close to the next big battle royale and also, that last panel with Karias (had to Google his actual name) standing on Yuri's head was priceless..

The authors of Noblesse tend to have a pretty decent sense of gags like that I found. It's a pity they don't use it as much anymore, but it does stop it getting too old I guess.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Sindai posted:

Three new chapters of Feng Shen Ji: http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Feng-Shen-Ji/72

It's pretty much nonstop full-color :ssj: at this point, and it's glorious.

It really is! It's seriously one of the most gorgeous drat things.

Also I love how poo poo is probably going to seriously go down as soon as Tian gets back, wife all permanently dead this time.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Double post but two more chapters of Feng Shen Ji.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Yeah that's kinda sad but hey, Tian has loving Monochrome. Which also means he doesn't need to be built up any more than he already is but whatcha gonna do. Maybe NiTian will just get a cool death scene where he does okay but dies of petrification sickness.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Ytlaya posted:

It's worth keeping in mind that at least some things are based upon ideas that have since been debunked, like Rorschach tests. Then again, this is partly because many of the ideas that have popped up during the past 100+ years in the history of psychology research have been debunked or aren't really supported by evidence. This is largely because, unlike other parts of the body, it's almost impossible to do detailed research on the brain while a person is still alive*, and human brains differ greatly from those of the other mammals we would normally use as a proxy for this sort of research, like mice/rats (which isn't to say that data from those other species isn't useful, but it's less useful than if you were looking at a different part of the body).

*If you wanted to see the effect of some medication/therapy on a disease that affects a person's muscles (or even an internal organ like the lungs or liver) or causes a fever, you can do so relatively easily by taking a biopsy and/or measuring the levels of different chemicals in a person's bloodstream. But you can't (at least without very invasive surgery) look at the level of various chemicals inside a person's brain while they're alive, and due to the blood brain barrier you can't just take blood from their wrist/arm. As a result, we can only really rely on a description of symptoms before and after a patient uses a psychiatric medication. You can't (reasonably) drill a hole in someone's skull and measure how much dopamine/endorphins/whatever they're producing.

It's a pretty fun read, I agree.

As an interesting thing, my quantum mechanics professor in university was dual-appointed to the psych department. His research consists of putting little tiny electrodes into a specific type of finch's brain and administering mild currents and analyzing the effect on the song. Just feeding into the proxies thing, I guess.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Cynic Jester posted:

I don't think the soul weapon passes automatically. Seems like there is some ritual stuff that needs to be done to pass it off based on previous mentions of soul weapons, including the split one.

I wonder if Ignes did something that makes the transfer impossible and that's why Roctis went through all this?

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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KittyEmpress posted:

Rai stays pretty un-emotional, but he's pretty much the most caring character in existence. It doesn't really change his attitude though.

Frankenstein gets hilarious though.

It's pretty much Rai's whole thing. It makes for the occasional humorous misunderstanding, but most of the personality is in the entire rest of the cast.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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I started reading Trace.

One of these days I'll learn to just close the goddamn tab when I see the Nasty Cat logo :argh:

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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RatHat posted:

Not sure if you guys have been keeping up with The God of Highschool or not, but it's still pretty insane.

I keep forgetting to read it but I guess that's what you get. :stare:

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Dan7el posted:

I'm still reading it. I feel like it's been dragging on for a long time. We're just basically cycling through the elders with various battles. I really miss the original teens and their teen doings. Who will be the bad guys if we kill all the elders?

Aliens? Heh. Guana.

And yeah, holy gently caress: The Lord is out!

Well pretty clearly Crombell is the last boss since he's the one who got ahold of one of Frankenstein's old research journals.

Should really be more careful where you put that stuff, Frank.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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The Gamer has actually had its own thread for a while now!

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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KittyEmpress posted:

One of my main problems with Noblesse is that if M-21 was more open with who did what to him, where he's from, and what the hell went down, that'd be one major antagonist if not out of the way then fighting other antagonists at least. But they all keep super tight lipped on it.

Yeah, all he has to do at this point is say "Crombell shoved a werewolf heart in me and I escaped a while ago" and this guy is going to tell people and probably check it out. Like he doesn't even have to believe M-21 or anything, he'd probably say it.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Yasser Arafatwa posted:

Going to take a wild, unfounded guess that it has to do with their views/treatment of humanity. Muzaka probably prefers a control/eat? humans since they're lesser beings or whatever I'd guess, and obviously Rai is all isolationist and hands off. Or it'll end up being another comedy punchline since it does involve Rai and their disagreement was over something completely silly and inconsequential. Kinda betting on the former though, with Muzaka's dialogue in this fight he's had against the three black suits.

Either I've gotten totally lost or this isn't Muzaka fighting the black suits, Muzaka is the guy that Rai actually fought. I thought this was a relatively high in the Union werewolf hierarchy, but not the Noblesse equivalent that Muzaka is.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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lil baby anime posted:

New noblesse

After this chapter I feel pretty comfortable saying that the old lord is the second best character in this series.

Literally the goofiest character.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Jose posted:

https://www.webtoons.com is the website in case people were wondering, just be prepared for weird scaling. I have no idea how its being paid for with no adverts and no fee

I imagine they'll pack the ads in later? Naver is a weird business model though.

e: Old Lord always trying to get Raizel to not be a goddamn shut in :v:

e2: I sent a feedback email to them about the scaling, I figure they'll probably get a lot of them and then maybe introduce a non-scaled viewing mode.

Shugojin fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 9, 2014

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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unprofessional posted:

Did people not read Veritas, or was it some weirdo business reason it got cancelled, 'cause it's just about the best thing ever.

Sometimes poo poo gets cancelled unfairly. See also: Beelzebub.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Bernardo Orel posted:

loving finally. I get they wanted to show other characters, but oh my god it dragged on and on. And they made it crystal clear from the start that Frank and Rai will come in and save the day.

Getting in cheap shots with the power of lying :allears:

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Everything Burrito posted:

M-21's poo poo talking skills are still in top form I see. That resigned look on his face at the end though :(

He has off-screen poo poo-talk training with Frankenstein.

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Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

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Voted Worst Mom posted:

Actually god of high school is really good and knows how to use all of its characters forever while introducing millions of characters every week

This is true but I still don't understand it at all

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