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It's probably for the best anyway...with Veritas it was a loss but Tokyo Ghoul's been pretty lame for a while. I'm behind on pretty much all the good series but impulsively started reading Arion. It's a little too dumb/oldschool/simple for my tastes, but it has its moments. I'm surprised by the rate and ease we seem to be seeing the Greek gods die at Arion's hands, unless those turn out to be illusions or they can resurrect themselves somehow. I also don't really like the handling of Athena. She just doesn't seem very Athena except in appearance, I get the personalities and depictions of these gods are kind of twisted, I like crazy old coot Zeus, but the character Athena doesn't really seem to have much Athena in her other than being a warrior woman. I hope Ares comes back. Also every moment with Apollo is usually gold. His depiction as a snooty rapey rear end in a top hat who curses like a 13 year old on the internet is pretty much spot on.  
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Aiki-S is still happening for anyone who cares. And well...  UHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhh 
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Cake Attack posted:Is The Heroic Legend of Arslan any good? But yeah, like you said, cool setting, established skilled manga-ka, I'm following it and reading it monthly for a reason. I expect good things.
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Sakamoto desu ga, still awesome, still hilarious. This chapter...the perfect heist?! Nightmarish next-level porn?! http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Sakamoto-desu-ga/Vol-003-Ch-014--Sakamoto-Really-is-a-Freak-?id=209755 
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Hypocrisy posted:Looks like the powers that be got to the Liar game writer too.  At least I'll always remember the fun smuggling game.  I liked the capture the chairs or w/e one too.
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argh, I'm gonna have to reread all of March Comes in Like a Lion, Historie, and Vagabond at this point considering they're so slow I remember barely anything about the characters and plot by the time anything comes out. At least it'll be fun. Also Natsunokumo (which I really liked) if it ever starts updating again after like 300 years, but at least that'll be a shorter reread.
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Yeah, for some reason I really loved Monster/20th Century Boys/Pluto but Billy Bat just hasn't ever really hooked me the few times I tried getting into it. I might dive into a reread sometime soon, I mean, it is Naoki Urasawa.
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Maybe I should get back into that series, it's just that the whole GIANT-TITTED DEMON QUEEN FANSERVICE is basically a fundamental part of the manga's aesthetic (at least where I was reading, I mean a pivotal character is basically designed like some kind of hentai poo poo or something) kind of giving me immediate douchechills. Hey, I don't see her in this chapter, sweet! I know people tend to go, "hey that's just manga" (especially outside of ADTRW), but actually you can find a lot of good manga that doesn't have creepy weird awkward "anime/manga stuff" in it...does eliminate a lot of series though.
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Captain Invictus posted:
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Ytlaya posted:Furuya Minoru's series (I've read Himizu, Ciguatera, and up until the current chapter of Wanitokagegisu) are really interesting. The plots and characters are just extremely uncommon and pretty much the polar opposite of clichè. You should consider reading Boku to Issho, it's not quite as dark and serious as the aforementioned series but it's by Furuya Minoru and it's probably my favorite comedy manga of all time (also has the best manga faces outside of AIKI). http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Boku-to-Issho Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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well at least now the Seinen thread can talk about a series a little less creepy like Boku wa Mari no Naka RIP in jail
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Can't wait to tell my grandchildren about Elf Island. Oh wait this isn't the Berserk thread, woops.
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Hypocrisy posted:Huh. So that's how Shamo ended. p.s. Jigoku no Alice, the current series by Jiro Matsumoto (Freesia, Uncivilized Planet, Tropical Citron, all great)...remains awesome, new chapter.  
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sorry but there's no age as a lil child in which you could have tricked me into doing boringass chores. c'mon  not even if you made me imagine the broom as a lightsaber or some poo poo.
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Wooooooow the ending to Shamo was almost as good as the ending to Gantz
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Serious Frolicking posted:I like inuyashiki because it is following up on the sadly underutilized 'virtuous old man gets super powers' concept from gantz. Like, whenever the old man got an appearance in gantz it always seemed like he would have been a way better protagonist than weepy douchebag kurono. I wouldn't actually recommend Inuyashiki to anyone though, unless you're where I am where you've read most of the typical recommended excellent manga on ADTRW and just skim/sample a buncha random series that vary from good to middling. Like if you're someone who hasn't read the best of say, Naoki Urasawa or say, gotten into Vinland Saga/Historie/I Am a Hero/etc, don't even bother validating the Gantz guy with your attention any further. I mean even with sci-fi/action manga, there are better dudes to choose from. Cool old dude though.
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I didn't really get very far after the whole PAIN AND TORTURE HAVE GIVEN ME ABS, BLACK FINGER NAILS, AND WHITE HAIR it's like a new super saiyan paradigm man it's kind of sad considering the promise of the first chapter (the early chapters really do feel like a series from someone less retarded, it's like they switched writers like that other dumb thing Ajin or w/e). It went to poo poo faster than any manga I've read, Gantz didn't go to poo poo that quickly! It's sad reading posts of mine in this thread in like May talking about how Tokyo Ghoul is this fun new promising action series I'm reading. I know it didn't have a lot of brains or nuance to begin with, but it's remarkable how much dumber it got, like all of a sudden it went from this:  to this:   (and it's really not the translation that's the issue. I wonder if the manga-ka got brain damage or something) Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 00:57 on May 14, 2015 |
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Hypocrisy posted:New Boku dake ga Inai Machi AKA The Town Where Only I Am Missing
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Izumi Konata posted:mooooooooom! when are those lazy fan translators going to finish yawara, and can u bring down more pizza bagel bites pls? Or not. Lotta manga and fan translators in the sea. Inuyashiki's translations have gotten much better though, I'm not quite caught up. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Paracelsus posted:Probably this one. And at some point I'll have to see if I can get into Billy Bat, that one hasn't really stuck with me yet
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Are you guys talking about Jigoku no Alice? That's a pretty decent series and while I'm sure it has some typical Matsumoto weirdness I don't seem to remember any graphic rape or anything like that. I think it's a pretty good series, though it doesn't get updated super often. He's possibly my favorite manga-ka, but he does often do some sexually weird/hosed up poo poo (though just as often there are his series where I don't feel like the sexuality is gratuitous or meant to be fanservice, just part of what he does). TheFallenEvincar posted:Right? Some of the visuals Jiro Matsumoto brings to the plate are just amazing. It's one of my personal favorites. TheFallenEvincar posted:p.s. Jigoku no Alice, the current series by Jiro Matsumoto (Freesia, Uncivilized Planet, Tropical Citron, all great)...remains awesome, new chapter.   I really like Freesia, Tropical Citron, Uncivilized Planet, and a couple of his short story collections...didn't bother with Wendy or any of the other weird series he did that got too fetishistic. Here I thought I was the only Matsumoto fan around here, I remember making a thread devoted to him no one really posted in. I was kind of disappointed by the new I Am a Hero volume (the Kengo Hanazawa thread is gone now right?)...it might just be me or a result of having waited so long that I lost the storyline momentum, but I wasn't really a fan of much that happened (and not much happened, so it was like...I waited for this? I feel like individual chapters of the story had way more going on in them compared to this volume) and for the first time it kind of felt to me like Hanazawa wasn't sure where he was taking the story or what he was doing exactly. I mean the Italy stuff was cool, but I'm not a fan of it going so Apocalypse no Toride (though hey, good timing for that series ending) or the abrupt character death. Or how highschooler+goon protagonist actually seems like a possible thing now and she's like, falling for him? C'mon Hanazawa Come back Emperor Two Shovels. And I'm not even bothering to finish Shamo at this point. I'll get around to the disappointment of that eventually...I finally read Imperial Guards at least, so that was awesome. Strains of Gunka no Baltazar with other cool poo poo, though I was pretty bummed that it had to end like that. I was excited to see the political intrigue of this sort of Russo-Japanese War. http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Koukoku-no-Shugosha Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Aug 16, 2015 |
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thanks for constantly recommending Dorohedoro over the years btw ya'll, because it was always one of those series I put aside like "well, I'm sure this is good but the art style is too much of a turnoff for me to read much of it" but after sleeping on it for forever I finally put that aside and after the initial one chapter ease-in period I'm hooked and horrified and laughing and puking. I don't think I've ever read a manga that packs more  pages into every chapter, every time I turn the page I'm just like "There's no way she'll top thaaaaaaaaaa-   "
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Corpse party demon goat cat under wizard dress I think Dorohedoro might cause schizophrenia
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The cool thing about Dorohedoro is that despite most of the important characters being pretty hard to kill and stay dead, what with Noi, the good doctor, demon goat cat, etc. the series still so far retains this sense of brutality and tension (in between the laughs) that I don't feel like any character is truly "safe". I'm gonna be really bummed if my favorite character, the best character (clearly), and best-dressed character (great sneakers), Johnson bites it SHOCKING!  I was so scared when someone finally figured out they should try whipping out a can of Raid 
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RatHat posted:drat, Freesia is really good. And a million times more coherent than Matsumoto Jiro's other works.
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Turin Turambar posted:In seinen news, it seems the Crime & Punishment based manga is already finished and translated. Maybe I will start it next week. apparently I was enjoying it. TheFallenEvincar posted:p.s. to whoever recommended Crime and Punishment, hot pick, it's really awesome so far.
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There is only one manga that is not a porn And that is Dorohedoro
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:What's the ahegao bug manga. If you say terraformars I'll kick yo rear end
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Holyland comes to mind thinking of seinen manga with a good amount of fighting
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Yikes, doubly creepy going back to chapter 19 and seeing that one close call he describes again from the children's POV
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yeah I mean, I know he's been comatose and supposedly brain damaged but I'm surprised Gaku didn't already try to off him while he's in the hospital bed at least once. I guess if it looked like foul play he'd be under watch
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So how long does it take to ditch the creep factor? Anything tagged "ecchi" makes me antsy
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This is like the only manga I've bothered to follow regularly anymore...what a chapter  http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Boku-dake-ga-Inai-Machi/Vol-006-Ch-034--Closed-Door--August-2003---February-2004?id=258285
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I honestly prefer pre-creepyfuckedupshit Wolf Guy (where it was just him being smug in high school) to any point of Akumetsu, it just got tedious and tiring where every scenario was like "AH-HAH I AM RANDOMLY IN OBAMA'S TOP SECRET BATHROOM, YES INDEED I RECORDED THIS VIDEO OF YOU BEATING A SMALL ORPHAN!!!!!!! YOUR GUARDS CAN DO NOTHING!!!!!" and I'm not sure I was totally onboard with a lot of the political screeds. I like Destroy and Revolution in that sort of vein, though that's been dragging lately.    
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Pewdiepie posted:That sounds awesome. The part about witnessing Obama beat up a child from his bathroom. I don't see what those pages you posted (suicide island?) have to do with any of it.  
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LORD OF BUTT posted:...so it's animes trying to institute Japanese literal fascism over American crypto-fascism.   
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LORD OF BUTT posted:what in the gently caress   ANIME IS GOD GOD IS ANIME  I feel like I'm the only person in the world still reading this lol
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AnonSpore posted:I still laugh sometimes when I think of Holyland's narration style. Two dudes be fighting and suddenly the mangaka interjects with "Many people think (insert opinion about fighting). However, based on my own experiences, (insert different opinion)!" in a little narration box. This happens a buncha times throughout the manga. !"
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Ringo Roadagain posted:the superior political satire to that guys manga is the world is mine cause it's got a giant rear end loving bear that some crazy, gay?, old dude tries to kill. Also some burtal rear end loving murders and when I say brutal I actually mean it in the rarely used in manga discussion way, so real brutality that actually kind of made me feel sick as in ill. Not like berserk where guts brutal chops like 5 dudes in half and I'm like that was fuckin sick.  Lookit that dog go. Good dog
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