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Centuria had an insanely good opening chapter, trying to think of a better pilot in recent memory
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Tosk posted:Centuria had an insanely good opening chapter, trying to think of a better pilot in recent memory See, I felt like it wasn't a particularly special opening chapter, even if it was a good one-shot. We get backstory and powers for the lead, but at the end, we only have one real character, and no idea what his story is going to be like. Everyone else except the baby and the monster is dead, and the hook at the end is weak. Compare to Astro Baby, which has a similar setup in terms of relevant surviving characters, and you get much more of an objective, clear enemies, and a setting that allows for easy access to supporting cast, enemies, and adventures, on top of a strong ending hook. I'd say that's a stronger opening already this year, even if Centuria would be better as a one-off.
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Apr 9, 2024 07:45
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Where is Centuria published? I’m not seeing it on the Jump app.
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Apr 9, 2024 12:50
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Mumbling posted:This week’s Anemone wasn’t fantastic or anything, but not having the main protagonist show up at all helped a lot.
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Apr 9, 2024 13:10
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Brought To You By posted:I usually love me a series where humans and other animals have merged and the author is going to stop mid-fight to infodump some animal kingdom trivia. But I still don't think Dear Anemone is hitting any of good points. Maybe things can turn up now that we have two other people that aren't going to hilariously and pointlessly die in a few panels. I think part of the problem is that it’s too self-serious. Whereas something like the Chimera Ant arc in Hunter X Hunter, while very dark, actually has fun with the animal-people concepts.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:35
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chiasaur11 posted:See, I felt like it wasn't a particularly special opening chapter, even if it was a good one-shot. We get backstory and powers for the lead, but at the end, we only have one real character, and no idea what his story is going to be like. Everyone else except the baby and the monster is dead, and the hook at the end is weak. I finally got around to finishing Centuria yesterday. I felt the opening pages were very strong, but I agree with this assessment. We’re now in that weird void where we don’t know where this is going. A lot like Earthchild. Where the first chapter was pretty interesting with a lot of potential directions and it picked all of them and none of them. In this case there’s no clear goal other than “keep kid safe” except there’s no one after the child. So it’s already safe by sheer technicality.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:46
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Silver2195 posted:I think part of the problem is that it’s too self-serious. Whereas something like the Chimera Ant arc in Hunter X Hunter, while very dark, actually has fun with the animal-people concepts. One reason I'm still convinced Anemone has been planned as a much shorter series is because of how flat everything is. 3 chapters in and we are knocking on the door to the main objective. The MC has a greater control of Anemone's merging and she herself has more or less just fallen in line despite initially being presented as fully self serving. And the first of the major antagonists showed up and gave her speech on why she's angry. If this goes on longer than a few volumes I'll be surprised. Even for this kind of B-movie plot, setup and execution are important. The story can't just coast on fights which also aren't that great and all of which end very quickly.
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Apr 9, 2024 17:21
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It could always be angling for something like Parasyte where it goes into the implications of all this after it's out in the open.
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Apr 9, 2024 23:18
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Two Undead Unluck thoughts: I hope things stay stable enough to have Void and Andy meet because I'm pretty sure those two look shockingly similar to each other? Second one is current chapter spoilers. Surely this fight is the one where Feng unlocks the fourth form of the Zuishin Tekkan Rod after that gets summoned into the fight for him right?
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Apr 10, 2024 13:15
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Gachiakuta    I'm honestly kind of glad the Hell Guard's answer to Givers is super mundane, just shoot them. Yeah she has swords as well and we know her brother trained with a staff weapon. But maybe only 1 giver so far could qualify as bullet proof and only when their tool is active.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:39
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new watamote this most recent chapter(222.2) provides a level of cringe that I haven't gotten from this series in a long, long time. vintage watamote cringe, if you will.  tomoko's friend group becoming increasingly insane while tomoki continues to just be a normal guy increasingly irritated from being surrounded by insane people is one of my favorite parts of this manga
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Apr 10, 2024 20:56
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Watamote has been super fun what with Tomoko getting popular and not noticing it.
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Apr 10, 2024 21:21
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Catching up on Kagurabachi and its kinda hitting. I really like the way the author does action and while the characters feel very vector drawing tool designed in still \ talking panels, the actual action pages have a lot of cool or gorgeous art going on.
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https://x.com/WSJ_manga/status/1778259432650272919 looks like Two On Ice has melted
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Apr 11, 2024 04:35
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rip two on ice, it wasn't great but I don't think it was as bad as people say
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RubberLuffy posted:https://x.com/WSJ_manga/status/1778259432650272919 Ouch. Did it at least get to wrap up whatever it was going for? Manatee Cannon posted:rip two on ice, it wasn't great but I don't think it was as bad as people say Didn't hate it, but didn't get into it either. It just felt like it didn't know what to do at times from little I gleaned from it. As an aside, someone picked up Medalist for scanlations again and they've done 37 and 37.5 with intention to keep going until someone else steps up. The series is also up for another run at the Kodansha awards. 48th Annual Kodansha Awards Nominees Announced
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Apr 11, 2024 06:38
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Jerkface posted:Catching up on Kagurabachi and its kinda hitting. I really like the way the author does action and while the characters feel very vector drawing tool designed in still \ talking panels, the actual action pages have a lot of cool or gorgeous art going on. I'm still confused why people were so down on it before it started.
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Apr 11, 2024 08:25
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Manatee Cannon posted:rip two on ice, it wasn't great but I don't think it was as bad as people say In this case, I'm people. The thing that stood out to me about it was how it never let the art speak for itself. Almost very single page was packed to the brim with text explaining everything, from the sport to the emotions of everyone to what's happening next in the plot. Manga is a visual medium, and the art isn't bad, so put some weight on it. It also really depends on the viewers getting into songs that they only get as text on a page for the emotional payoff, which is really shaky ground. It's not even something where knowing the tone is enough (like a fight scene set to Maximum the Hormone), but much more based in the specifics, to the point of a title drop. Add in a sport that isn't even popular in-setting (to the point where the protagonists just get medals by default), and it's not hard to see why it didn't perform.
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Apr 11, 2024 08:39
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Electric Phantasm posted:I'm still confused why people were so down on it before it started.
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Electric Phantasm posted:I'm still confused why people were so down on it before it started. People weren't even down on it so much as they were shitposting in general, if I remember right. Some dumb video thumbnail had "the new big three of Jump!", with Kagurabachi as one of them before it had even come out, so people started making exaggerated sarcastic memes about how great Kagurabachi was to parody that. Then it came out and it was actually pretty decent, so the meme got legs from people going "ha ha read Kagurabachi, it's the greatest of all time (but no, seriously, it's worth reading, check it out)".
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being too wordy is definitely a death knell for a manga. I remember Ayashimon being very cool and funny but it just got so wordy that reading it felt like a chore.
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Apr 11, 2024 12:11
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UnderFreddy posted:being too wordy is definitely a death knell for a manga. I remember Ayashimon being very cool and funny but it just got so wordy that reading it felt like a chore. Honestly, it's a miracle Cipher Academy lasted as long as it did
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Shinji2015 posted:Honestly, it's a miracle Cipher Academy lasted as long as it did It helps to have a cast of cute girls.
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SpacePig posted:It helps to have a cast of cute girls. And an author who'd already had a bunch of big successes. That's also a factor.
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I’m beginning to think the author of Astro Baby has a thing for pregnant women
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Apr 12, 2024 19:09
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RatHat posted:I’m beginning to think the author of Astro Baby has a thing for pregnant women As long as the manga keeps being as interesting as it's been, he can keep writing in his kink.
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Apr 12, 2024 19:42
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the baby pulled a kewpie
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Apr 12, 2024 21:31
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RatHat posted:I’m beginning to think the author of Astro Baby has a thing for pregnant women I thought you might have been exaggerating, but, uh, you might be on to something there. The Game Devil: I honestly thought this series was going to end weeks ago, but it just keeps chugging along gift of poison: I feel like this whole situation could be easily resolved, but then we wouldn't have a plot Machi and Oboro: not a terrible start, but it feels like this one is going to take a while to get going
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Undead Unluck: I have a feeling that summoning sentient things (whether they are real or not) into the game make it so that you take their damage whenever the summoned living thing takes damage
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The Game Devil is weird. The art is pretty poor, the commitment to the idea of being in a game dropped almost immediately outside of some lip service paid to it, its understanding of how the games industry works is... lacking to say the least, but there is also a nugget of a compelling arc for the protagonist, the central cast gravitating around him and the villain. But it also feels extremely rushed? And yet as the poster previously pointed out, it's not so rushed that it has ended already and who knows how long it'll keep going at this point. Just a strange manga that I wouldn't be surprised was a victim of both the mangaka's inexperience and the attempt to receive feedback from their editor and course correct. It was never as solid as it should have been, but you can see faded contours of a better story that played with the same ideas.
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Rushed and not rushed. Rocks fall everyone dies but then also heres two multi chapter flashbacks back to back SJ+ Titles on the brink are weird.
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Apr 13, 2024 10:57
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I’m enjoying existential unplugged, the philosopher reverse isekai, quite a bit
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Didn't expect to have that much fun with philosophy ikemen. Hope to see true greek OGs rocking out at as some point in all their glory.
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I have a new one to suggest, Tank Chair. It's been pretty entertaining to read but I am extremely bad at giving summaries to interest other people. I think the art is neat and it has an interesting premise to it on top of a variety of combat wheelchair forms. https://mangadex.org/title/bb1f528f-de51-4b58-9878-c7ab55dd73c0/tank-chair
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Yeah Tank chair is good. Unfortunately it seems scanlations have stopped. Apparently there’s an official English version but it’s US only
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There's another website that you want to have an adblocker for that keeps uploading the new chapters, official releases be damned but I don't know if that would be okay to share or not.
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Sakamoto Days: ive kinda wondered this ever since the orphanage Slur/Uzuki came from is full of people with weird powers, but Akao being self-aware about being a split personality made by him to protect him makes me think that Uzuki was some sort of esper that assimilated the actual Akao’s memories into himself before she died so it’s really her in that sense. Also man Akao is just great in general.
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Undead Unluck with a character poll I can't really disagree with.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Undead Unluck with a character poll I can't really disagree with. No idea how Tatiana got that high up considering she hasn't appeared in a hot minute, but hell, same
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