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Allarion posted:All I know is dancing is pretty rad. You get to touch girls all you want. What an endorsement.
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The new issue is up. Black Clover is continuing with the world building from last chapter, which I'm pretty excited about. I'm really digging Straighten Up. It seems to be following the standard coming of age/sports/slice of life manga formula, but it's cute and it doesn't look like it'll go way over the top (like pretty much everything else in Jump right now). Also, the cover this week is fantastic, IMO.
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May 18, 2015 19:01
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I loves me a good mimic joke.
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May 18, 2015 21:02
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Waffleman_ posted:You get to touch girls all you want. What an endorsement. Truth in advertising. It's not amazing or anything but Dance Club is pretty cute and I hope it sticks around. Black Clover just gets less interesting with every chapter. Everything else has a thread so whatever.
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May 19, 2015 14:56
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I do get the feeling a large portion of Straighten Up is lost due to it's format. You're already dealing with a lack of audio so all the focus gets placed on the animation andfrom what I've seen I don't think the artist has the chops to pull this off successfully. Murata could probably draw a bitching dancing manga.
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May 19, 2015 16:25
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To be honest I stopped reading on the panel where someone said "This is that song from Frozen!"
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May 19, 2015 16:32
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Senor Candle posted:To be honest I stopped reading on the panel where someone said "This is that song from Frozen!" But then the other kid said "that's kinda lame" I think.
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May 19, 2015 17:12
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I have high hopes for Straighten Up mostly because of the author's older manga, which to be fair were based off of 2ch postings and a lot more cynical. Still, I feel like he can probably tell a solid story given the chance. Also he's totally a goon for wanting to play Magic the gathering after work. Black Clover is still doing really well for itself since it got a push and it has managed to break into the top 5 a few times. The mimic joke was pretty great as well.
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May 19, 2015 17:47
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Allarion posted:I have high hopes for Straighten Up mostly because of the author's older manga, which to be fair were based off of 2ch postings and a lot more cynical. Still, I feel like he can probably tell a solid story given the chance. Also he's totally a goon for wanting to play Magic the gathering after work. Note: he is referring to Masturbation Master Kurosawa! and Molester Man, neither of which is nearly as lewd as the title would suggest. Okay, Masturbation master does involve some, er, fluids.
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May 20, 2015 00:27
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Molester man was a surprisingly good manga for what it was called, and probably one of my favorite relationship stories, since it's basically an E/N story where the goon manages to make one step forward with his life.
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May 20, 2015 02:17
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masturbation master is also like that, although not really a relationship
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May 20, 2015 02:27
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For anyone who's curious about Lady Justice which Viz did not pick up for Jump Start last week, here's a Japanese link. I'm kind of surprised it wasn't, because other than the usual panties joke and other fanservicey parts (still less than Food Wars or To Love Ru in comparison), it looks basically like a teenage Wonder Woman/Supergirl story. 
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Allarion posted:For anyone who's curious about Lady Justice which Viz did not pick up for Jump Start last week, here's a Japanese link. I'm kind of surprised it wasn't, because other than the usual panties joke and other fanservicey parts (still less than Food Wars or To Love Ru in comparison), it looks basically like a teenage Wonder Woman/Supergirl story. It looked a bit cheescakey, but my "tolerance" for that is probably lower than most people since I haven't really follow anime/manga heavily for a long time. The cheesecake also felt really forced. That probably comes with the territory, but it only furthers my feeling it'd be better if it was removed. That said, it looked ok for a first issue. The jokes about her growing up were probably the best part. Outside of that, the battle and reveal felt a bit formulaic and going through the paces. However, that is probably a result of the issue having to establish everything. It could have been better, but it could have been worse. I can see it developing into something good with time. Also, spotted a little shoutout. 
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May 25, 2015 06:59
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Devilyman reminds me a bit of Death Note if it were a comedy. Which I like. I also hope Straighten Up sticks around, it's adorable as hell.
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Waffleman_ posted:Devilyman reminds me a bit of Death Note if it were a comedy. Which I like. I also hope Straighten Up sticks around, it's adorable as hell. I totally agree about Devilyman, but it's just not hitting the right notes for me. I'll have to see what chapters 2 and 3 come up with. Straighten Up has been a pure joy to read. I really hope it stays.
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Yeah, we'll have to see past the establishing of the premise and see how the series is going to conduct itself on a chapter by chapter basis.
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Those two pages of Lady Justice made it look really cool.  Nth'ing on the Straighten Up love, though.
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May 26, 2015 20:38
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I like Straighten Up so much I actually took this week's survey and asked them to keep it around.
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Gakkyu Hotei returns this week in WSJ's biggest issue yet! Edit: The ending of Gakkyu Hotei is pretty underwhelming, but I guess that's what happens when you're cut short. Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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Jun 8, 2015 19:15
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Devilyman is better than I expected. It's actually making me want to vote for it a bit over Straighten Up, just because I can't think of where that'll go. Since I'm reading Bakuman right now, I want to see it as a battle manga.
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I lost a lot of interest in Food Wars when it became Competition High School Type 8f (Super Elite Talent, subtype Rich As gently caress). I hadn't read any of it until it showed up in SJA, but the Iron Chef-like segment it started off with in SJA was decent. I'm still skipping right over Nisekoi. My eyes just slide right off the page most times. Seraph of the End's too dismal; there's little hope to be seen and just the 'good' guys just got their asses kicked despite last-second Shonen Power Up. It's just not fun. I wish they hadn't've cut out a bunch of chapters of My Hero Academia. I'm still mostly lost with Blue Exorcist--didn't start SJA until it was probably 30+ chapters in. I was quite surprised there was a half-nipple in this chapter. Of the current try-outs, I still like Straighten Up more than Devilyman, although I loathed the character design for the male senior dance club guy. Maybe I just want more sane slice-of-life stuff right now.
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quote:Edit: The ending of Gakkyu Hotei is pretty underwhelming, but I guess that's what happens when you're cut short. The entire last chapter was pretty much "This is how the story would have played out if I hadn't been cancelled suddenly" so yeah, I guess that's inevitable. I'm getting slightly more interested in Devilyman but I still like Straighten Up better by a pretty large margin. Agreed that I'm steadily losing interest in Food Wars the more over the top the school gets. I have no idea wtf is happening with Blue Exorcist at any point and I don't expect to since my entire experience with the series is watching the first episode of the anime a hundred years ago. Seraph of the End is still really not selling me on ever bothering with the anime.
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At least Jump managed to let Gakkyu Hotei come to an end. Doesn't happen for a lot of stuff.
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I enjoy the absurdity of Food Wars, but I'm mainly in it it see the ridiculously good cooking over anything else. Devilyman's definitely interesting, I wonder how long the concept will sustain itself, but the third chapter of Straighten Up was just too drat cute so it's got to get my vote.
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Devilyman had a fantastic third chapter. I think that I like it better than Straighten Up, but I think that Jump could use something like Straighten Up more than it could use Devilyman.
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To be honest, I don't understand these polls. It's basically just us deciding which series they aren't going to put the effort into translating. I wish there was a Shonen Jump we could get that was just a translated Japanese version. I honestly could not give less of a poo poo about the first three chapters of series I already own, but I sure would like to read Haikyuu!! week to week legally.
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Jun 9, 2015 23:59
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The problem with new jump series is that I just can't get attached to anything least it gets canned. Evey series I've even vaguely liked has been shot in the head just as it comes to bloom with Stealth Symphony being the key one from the Alpha translated lot. So I want to read Step Up but I know in my heart of hearts what will continue is Develryman and I know that it'll rot into the same DBZ nonsense that farts up like half of alpha's lineup (I mean, christ, Naruto ended and it's still haunting the magazine) ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Black Clover's been doing well. It managed to beat out Assassination Classroom and One Piece last week, so Jump's been pushing it like they did with My Hero Academia. Ultra Battle Satellite is probably the next series getting canned. Kagamigami has also been steadily dropping for a while too. You never know about some series. Soul Catcher(s) was around for quite a while before it got moved off into Jump Next. Course, most of those chapters were never translated so we never knew. Allarion fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Jun 10, 2015 06:21
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Behead those who insult Dragonball.
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Allarion posted:Black Clover's been doing well. It managed to beat out Assassination Classroom and One Piece last week... That is a crazy sentence to me. I think it'll get better, but right now it's pretty much like a mix of old Naruto and generic manga. The world seems fun.
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Black Clover is still as bland as bland can get. And the main character is incredibly annoying. He's like Naruto as a kid. Except Naruto had a reason to act the way he did.
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Skychrono posted:That is a crazy sentence to me. It's not the first time it's done that. It has jumped up there a few times already. I just didn't mention it just in case it's one of those one hit wonder kind of things. It still might be, but it's done fairly well for itself. I'm tempted to say it's supposed to be Jump's answer to Seven Deadly Sins since fantasy manga seems to be all the rage with kids these days. On the sales front, Seven Deadly Sins has been the top selling manga for the first half of 2015.
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coathat posted:Behead those who insult Dragonball.
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no, that's "cancel anything good"
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New issue is out. There's a one shot of Folie À Deux. It seems pretty cool to me.
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Saint Seiya is terrible. I recognize it probably invented half the tropes we see in fighting shonen manga, but it's just so...ugh. It's nearly 30 years old, and it's aged terribly. The art is bad, the plotting is bad, the characters are unlikable, and the superpower rationalization is stupid. I'll be glad when this flashback run is over. Just like I'm glad Zexal is finally done.
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Pyroclastic posted:Saint Seiya is terrible. I recognize it probably invented half the tropes we see in fighting shonen manga, but it's just so...ugh. It's nearly 30 years old, and it's aged terribly. The art is bad, the plotting is bad, the characters are unlikable, and the superpower rationalization is stupid. Yeah, I have to agree. I never saw or read it originally, but it seems it didn't age well.
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It doesn't really improve as it goes along either. It's just constant flimsy excuses for fights with no downtime or character development against increasingly implausible tiers of enemies for ambiguous stakes. It's basically like the last few years of Bleach, except not having fun early arcs and visually interesting designs to fall back on. There's definitely worse shonen stuff around, but few that were as long running or popular.
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I buy these once every so often, when I see an interesting One-Shot, but I just can't seem to get into digital manga, especially when I can get it for free elsewhere (Please excuse my utter lack of morals, I can't help it!) Free scanlated manga elsewhere isn't my main reason for not being a regular customer however, It's that I have a lot of trouble focusing on it on a computer. I had nearly every issue of SJ when it was still being printed physically, and I miss that. I'm an old timer.
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Thanks for sharing? Dunno what you want us to do about it.
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