- No Wave
- Sep 18, 2005
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I am a hero finally picks up at around chapter 70 or so. I was extremely disappointed in it until then, as I'm a huge fan of the author's other work (Boys on the Run and Ressentiment).
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- No Wave
- Sep 18, 2005
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I kind of love the ending to Boys on the Run, even if it's the Kengo Hanazawa manga I'm least likely to ever read again. Like sure, I Am a Hero hosed up the landing, but it's still overall a better journey I think. I don't know because I haven't actually read Boys in the Run in full in the sense that I started it a billion years ago whenever they started scanning first and I never did a reread. So maybe it's a solid journey of repugnant lovely characters.
I digress because I was saying I really enjoyed the final fight. It's this one shithead loser against another shithead loser, but one of them can fight well, but he's already heavily injured, so the shithead loser MC uses the assistance of a child and another adult to finally beat him. It's just dirty and dumb and fitting for a manga mostly full of lovely people with minor minor victories.
I liked the 116th chapter, it's a funny little epilogue. would've been too schmaltzy for such a dirty sad pathetic manga if it had ended at 115. good fun.
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Was the guy that Gen mentioned at the end Ando, the same boxer who Tanishi and Hana had to beat together?
No Wave fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Feb 4, 2018
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Feb 4, 2018 19:11
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- No Wave
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I hope (shuumetsu no valkyrie) Kojiro doesnt like die offscreen or anything. the part about not feeling so good after the fight was concerning.
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Oct 3, 2019 16:25
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- No Wave
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Is Usogui the only "sinister high-stakes gambling" manga currently active? I really enjoyed One Outs, Liar Game, and Gambling Emperor Zero but it's hard to find more like them.
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May 25, 2020 14:02
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- No Wave
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While I enjoy Usogui, it definitely has some of the dumbest "tricks" used in its gambles. Like the camera eyes in the hangman one you mention, or the guy who has synesthesia that lets him detect the locations of everyone in a labyrinth by listening to pipes.
Usogui benefits from (at least up until the point I'm at) having the sidekick character do things other than "comment on how awesome the main gambler guy/girl is."
I consider the "high stakes gambling" genre to be a subgenre of the "death games" genre (some of which include gambling alongside other games/competitions). Probably the best representative of the genre is Kami-sama no Iu Toori.
High stakes Gambling is an entire sub genre now.
Though most tend to have a really boring MC and generic supporting cast. Usogui is partly great because of the jojo-esque insanity of the world.
Alwo ones involving female characters tend to be overly horny for no good reason? I unno
Read Kaiji.
No Wave fucked around with this message at 00:11 on May 26, 2020
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