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Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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So, I picked up and marathoned through Shin Angyo Onshi when I stumbled across it, and I have to say, if you haven't read Shin Angyo Onshi, you need to read Shin Angyo Onshi. And I mean all of it, including the author notes at the end of the volumes and the gag panels with the author, editor, and artists. It is seriously, legitimately, a fantastic, astounding manhwa.

On the subject of webcomics produced by webtoons, there is also The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn. If you like Hellboy, you're going to like this one.

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Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I marathoned The Breaker Part 2: New Waves and...yeah, it's not as good as the original. Here's the things that are excellent about it: Elder Kwon, and that one page of Shioon saying that he's still got some time left before he turns to dust. Honorary mention of the Ghost Doctor calling out Chunwoo's bluff about blowing up the arena because he's so loving pissed his rival got killed he doesn't give a poo poo anymore. Just judging from New Waves, I won't bother keeping up with The Breaker part 3 until its finished and I can read it in its entirety, because seriously trying to follow this series as it came out must have been one of the most awful things I can imagine doing with your time. Someone earlier in the thread said that it was the way it was because it was setting up Part 3, and I agree with that wholeheartedly. But I think that's kind of lame too, a story should stand on its own without setting up the next part, and New Waves doesn't do a very good job at that.

So here's my predictions for Part 3. Chunwoo's life basically sucks right now and it's probably not at all how he wanted things to go when he first set out to be a martial artist, so he's rigging the game so Shioon can kill him. I'm saying there's about a 50/50 chance that Chunwoo dies at the end, and if he does, there's a 50/50 chance that it'll be him either killing himself directly or indirectly, or Shioon doing it. I can't really say what might happen with any other character, but for those characters, I'm calling it as the endgame.

Also why does the author keep bringing up Saehee when she serves next to no point, they completely ignore her existence until it's time for "uh oh, gotta give Shioon motivation."

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Sekrun is the best. Mods change my ava to this.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Wrist Watch posted:

I cannot loving stand the way Noblesse uses white space. It's the dumbest poo poo, if the author would put the panels closer together like a normal person chapters would probably be literally half as long.

I was having issues with my internet a couple weeks ago and it made reading Noblesse practically impossible. Did my connection go out? Is there supposed to be literally nearly a page of white space here? Do I need to reload the page because Webtoon doesn't actually load pages in advance and my connection hiccuped, causing random panels/pages to not appear? Who knows!

Tons of manhwa do this, and yes, it is insanely infuriating. Particularly for webtoons.com, since it takes a while to load each page and their background is white, so you never know if a page is just loading or if it's supposed to be that way.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I just read the soccer match chapter of GoHS and what the gently caress is this.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I've just caught up on GoHS and I can't loving believe or predict where this plot is going to go. For a while there I was just like the commenters saying "Bring Mori back, you bitch" but I don't even care anymore, everything is just going so off the rails it's zooming through the Milky Way.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Annarasumnara, I think, just destroyed my soul, holy crap. It's one of the few I've read that have made me feel genuinely empty inside. Is God of Bath as good as this is?

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Shin Amhaengosa is still the best manhwa I've read, yeah, but Annarasunara is really good.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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http://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/noblesse/ep-447/viewer?title_no=87&episode_no=448

You know, I feel like Noblesse's best moments are nothing but these moments, and I love it every time.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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If you were effectively a godlike being who has perhaps only once, maybe twice (Muzaka and Rai's brother) before in your life (against his brother, unless he gg,wp him too) been pushed to your limits, then I'd imagine you too would lack a discerning sense of danger.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I would legitimately be laughing and clapping like an American in a movie theater if Rai actually does die, but somehow transfers his powers to that human red head guy who uses them in his martial arts and the webcomic basically turns into The Breaker, but with vampires and werewolves.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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God of Highschool is crazy pants and I suspect the author may have had a mental breakdown at some point because wow, this manhwa.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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You know, I really like Lunark, and pretty much have from the get-go, even when she was more of a traditional Noblesse villain. I hope she doesn't die...

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Just when I thought it was over, GoHS once again pulls the story in a completely new direction. I was actually loving livid after this latest chapter, but I love one of the comments: "I aim for this level of pettiness actually." It's so loving petty, and it's both great and makes me mad at the same time.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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This single image perfectly encapsulates M-21's existence.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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If I remember correctly, in Korean mythology if a fish manages to swim up a waterfall they become a dragon, an Imoogi. It represents Mori Hui's evolution into a free thinking, free willed entity and also the immense struggle of trying to get out from under the weight of his original's shadow.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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The current situation in GoHS seems to be exactly as I thought it would. Daewi is head of a drastically weakened Nox and trying to find Mori while also opposing Mubong, Mira is still amnesiac and head of the homeless people, Soojin is also probably opposing Mubong for the same reasons as Daewi, and Ilpyo is also probably not on their side but can't do anything about it since he's head of a school now.

I can't imagine how pissed Daewi must have been when he woke up and learned everything.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Alright, fine, I'll read Kubera. Anybody whose posts are nearly constantly praising something either knows what they're talking about or is a huge shill bot.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I dig the more or less clearly explained magic system in Kubera.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Yeah I marathon'd Season 1 and will probably start Season 2 in a bit. I've enjoyed what I've read thus far, I don't regret it. I'm a little confused by the mother though, for Yuta. So is she a clone of Kali, his real mom, or was she one of those Chaos tribe asuras that assimilated Kali's maternal feelings toward Yuta somehow for some reason? Like, was she made specifically for caring for him, or was she a separate entity before hand?

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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OK, I figured it was just author's mood versus the story's tone, but no, Asha is actually a bitch. It was hard to understand, because she's apparently a very popular character with the Korean fanbase, and in universe everyone fauns over her, but from the get-go she struck me as a bitch. Good thing it wasn't just my interpretation.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Her actions cause all the mushrooms on the planet to go extinct.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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...you know, there were very blatant hints at the very, very beginning, but I don't think I like all that much where Kubera seems to be heading...

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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It's a plugin. I would do it, but just because the fan translated version (the one that uses the overlay) is more grammatically correct and sounds better in English. That said, the webtoon's translation actually isn't that bad, the point still gets across, which is remarkably better than some of their other stuff.

EDIT: The guy, I'm certain it was Ytlaya, who said that it's basically a mystery manhwa is spot on. The author herself said it was a romance manhwa, but if so, it's a pretty hosed up and creepy one. I'm going to keep reading for the mystery, but man, none of these characters are going to end up happy by the end.

Gologle fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Apr 27, 2017

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I wouldn't quite call what she's been doing "sheltering".

Anyway, I've finished Season 2. I'll come back to it in a year or two and see where Season 3 is, but right now I can already make some predictions, especially because the manhwa flat out shows you how it will end, plus the revelations revealed near the end of Season 2.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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My interpretation over the deal with Kubera the series at the moment is that the four primeval gods have kind of taken on a big wager between themselves over the fate of the universe after the Cataclysm. Each of the major players in their interpersonal war have chosen certain champions to represent themselves and their interests. Asha is Vishnu's, Yuta is Kali's, who knows who Brahma's champion is, maybe Claude, and I don't know who Shiva might have chosen. Kubera is in on this too, because his actions in the Cataclysm have directly lead to this conflict.

I'm pretty sure Ananta was never supposed to die, and his death means his immeasurable power is up for grabs to whoever wants it, so all these factions are vying against each other to get it for themselves. Kubera seems like he's trying to right his wrong and hand the power to Kubera Leez, who is probably the only person in the series right now, other than maybe Agni but I don't think Agni is interested, who can use that power for a purely beneficial purpose.

There are still some major questions going on though, like Vishnu's whole motivations. Why is he doing the things he's doing? And I'm sure Kalavinka is tied up in his schemes, but in what way?

And as for more short term predictions for Season 3, I fully expect Kasak to be dead at this point. It doesn't seem possible for him to be alive in the sura realm unless his dad came in to save him.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I feel kind of dumb, up until now I never questioned how and why Frankenstein was so strong. His Dark Spear literally absorbs the strength of what it devours to grow stronger. This means Frankenstein probably has a severely hosed up backstory beyond the little we've seen and know of.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I dunno about posting manhua here, but just in case, Feng Shen Ji is the poo poo.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Gosu is great. But there are apparently major spoilers for Yongbi, a prequel manga that Gosu is a spin-off of that takes place in the past that is only halfway translated and isn't up to the part where the spoilers in Gosu matter.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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The Star Wars comic they have on there isn't too shabby.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I like how even double cheating Maduke was still losing to Muzaka, so he had to triple cheat, only to finally get someone to say "ok, that's going too far, we're stepping in." Technically quadruple cheating, because Muzaka, like Rai, isn't even at his full power after their titanic clash thousands of years ago.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I Don't Want This Kind of Hero is super good you guys.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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The translation is in fact extremely poor.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Even behind spoiler bars I didn't want to post that, because it's a relatively recent development. But yes, I know this is like the famous last words, but "it does get better." What originally drew me to the series was the humor, but the characters actually started to get me invested. I love the Chief and Naga, and the idea of a world where superheroes are more than just larger than life people who fight larger than life threats, they are actual public servants who perform everyday helpful activities more often than just fighting villains.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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The reason why I couldn't get into The Gamer is actually for that reason, now that I think about it. I read a long ways in, and then I came to the realization "Oh, this comic is the webcomic equivalent of grinding in an MMO, and way too much time is spent doing explicitly that." I'm not going to read a comic devoted to watching a gamer literally grind his real life stats up when I could go do that in a game myself.

They can't all be God of High School, that just randomly shifts gears every so often with little warning.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Is there anybody who doubts that the first elder is Rai's brother revealed to be alive this whole time? Why was Rai's brother even evil in the first place, I don't think we ever got anything about him other than those few pages of Rai confronting him.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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That sucks rear end, but it doesn't really change things for me. I was already content to forget about it for a few years until the second part is complete.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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I can almost guarentee it will be slower once they reach the end of Season 1.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Imagine you're doing some late afternoon shopping and then a loving vampire lord walks in and pulls all the instant ramen from the shelves.

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Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

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Speaking of adult manhwa, until the site it was on got taken down because Lezhin (rightly, to be fair) doesn't like people translating and hosting their comics and not giving them a dime, I was reading Refrain Love purely for the plot, and not the porn. The protagonist starts off an rear end in a top hat who just got out of the army and went home to bang his girlfriend, one of many he's had in his life and treats as trophy objects. Only he discovers that he cannot orgasm, because every time he does he gets sent back in time to the morning of his military discharge. This begins the struggles and development of our main character, as he desperately looks for a way to break his curse, find who has done this to him, and maybe learn a few lessons along the way. It was fun, and funny, and I'm sad I never got to found out what happens to him, because I had reached the part where he was starting to turn into a good person.

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