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He had traveled the seas, seen everything there was to see. Nobody was his equal, he was King of the Pirates. But one day, he was captured and executed by the World Government. Smiling as the blades descended, he shouted to the throng below the gallows; "You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place. Now you'll just have to find it!" and the Age of Pirates was born! One Piece follows Monkey D. Luffy, an aspiring young man who, as a child, ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit by accident and became a rubber man. He sets out to sea to build a crew and become King of the Pirates. Along the way, he encounters incredible dangers, fantastic sights, and some pretty dang weird characters. But he's always got his rather unique personality pushing him along, as well as his crewmates. One Piece has been running for over 20 years now and is well over 900 chapters. I've been reading it weekly for the most part since the early oughts, back when scans were both barely legible and barely scrutable, as entire pages were often under 700 pixels high and proportionally wide. It's pretty difficult to describe One Piece, as it's a massive series both in length and scale. One Piece is about Luffy's story, for sure, but the story always veers around to the goings-on around the world as well, political machinations, major shake-ups on the world scene, ramifications of Luffy's or other's actions, the world of One Piece is incredibly consistent and feels like a real breathing world despite the outlandish, fantastical things that constantly happen in it. Mangroves made of city-sized trees that ooze sap that forms bubbles, which are harnessed as flying devices by the locals. A gaping, bottomless void in the middle of the ocean, descending into who knows where. Sea leviathans the size of rhode island. A bed of undersea volcanoes that erupt on a set schedule, sending pillars of seawater high into the clouds. The locales of One Piece are just part of the wonder, as the cast of characters(apparently well over 900 different named characters as of a couple arcs ago, though many only show up for a panel or two) is positively colossal and the designs are just...just really out there a lot of the time. This is a fairly old spread at this point, but shows off a lot of the various more prominent characters, both heroes and villains, who show up in the first half of the series:  You may be one of the many folks turned off from the series after the horrific botching of the anime by 4kids many years back. While I would recommend against watching the anime as it eventually bogs down into ridiculous filler and just obscene pacing problems, the early episodes, first 100 or so, are probably worth seeing still. Otherwise stick to the manga. The artstyle can take some getting used to for some, but it's by no means bad, just stylized, and genuinely improves over time(though the women tend to start looking a lot like nami). My standard recommendation method is to read up through the Arlong Park arc. That's roughly the first 100 chapters. That may seem like a lot, and it is for any normal series, but One Piece runs on building things up over time. Arlong Park is the payoff to the entire prologue(pre-Grand Line) and it really is one of the most satisfying arcs I can think of in a manga. After that kicks off the Grand Line, which makes up a majority of the series. Oda is a master of the Chekhov's Gun. I've lovingly referred to his use of it as Chekhov's Arsenal. Characters who you think have been done and dealt with ages ago will show up again in the many concurrent Chapter Cover arcs, as each chapter has a "front page" with either a non-sequitur image of characters doing stuff by request, or a cover arc, where side stories happen, or follow up on defeated enemies/victorious friends, that sort of thing. Over the course of the series, these small single page stories have greatly improved the behind-the-scenes storytelling while the main series progresses. Or he'll just casually bring around an explanation for something that was readily apparent ages prior, if you connected the dots. And the flashbacks, hoo boy. You might not think you'll cry at things that may happen in this series, but One Piece can absolutely make you cry about the most seemingly innocuous things. And finally, One Piece is big. Like, really, really, big. We are talking eclipsing spiderman in sheer volume of sales and will likely overtake batman in total comic sales by the time it's finished big, possibly even take the #1 spot from superman. For at least a decade it outsold every single other top 10 manga series COMBINED. That's including Naruto, Bleach, Slam Dunk, Attack on Titan, etc. Even this year when it "merely" only outsold the next highest by a couple million, that's only because they released one less volume(3 rather than 4) this year. One Piece merch is everywhere in Japan, and rapidly spreading throughout the world. And it's easy to see why, One Piece is the most consistently good shonen series of all time. I can only think of three times it's seriously stumbled in over 20 years, that's an insanely good track record for something released every week, and even those would be considered "standard fare" bad stuff in series like bleach or naruto. With that, I will leave you with one last thing, Oda likes to draw big color spreads of the characters doing pretty much anything he can think of. Building a house out of people-sized Legos? Sure! Having a barbecue with a bunch of dogs in t-shirts? Why not! Completely change his artstyle into a more japanese woodprint style and draw the characters as samurai? You betcha! Casual hangouts in real-world clothes at a cafe, basketball throwdowns, football matches, sea-faring Wacky Races, super sentai, astro boy parodies, anything goes. The color spreads and non-sequitur chapter covers are obviously non-canon, but they are just a joy to see every time. I have picked out some of my favorites that are as spoiler-free as I can find.             There's also a very good Anituber called Super Eyepatch Wolf who did two excellent videos about One Piece(and does excellent videos about other stuff too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYtz2ZhKxFE&hd=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqnC-eVwrE&hd=1
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People will absolutely go for the official scans over the tanjiadohh lofulamingo-sama (Don Quixote Doflamingo) or BISOROMI BEAR (Bartholomew Kuma)-level translations I think. The only issue is the week early scan leaks. I think it includes anything in shonen jump, right? Past and present? That's a significant backlog. I have little doubt they'd expand it eventually too, just have a whole big catalog, maybe make deals with other publishers. Netflix for manga. 
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Laputanmachine posted:It's still just Shounen Jump and calling it the netlix of manga is really an overstatement.
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poo poo, have stuff you could add on with. Certain companies/types, add a buck a month. I'd do 10 a month if they added enough and the reader wasn't poo poo.
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So, Please Love the Useless Me just finally got wrapped up by scanlations. I recommended it here last year, and I hope some folks picked it up and followed it, because it's probably in my top 3 favorite romance series maybe ever. The humor is absolutely top notch, it follows full-blown adults instead of highschoolers(the heroine is 30), the romance is believable and the trauma is spot on(having familial experience with grifters, it definitely smacks of someone who's dealt with them before), every single named character is wonderful and it ends very strongly(and apparently a sequel started up shortly after!). I absolutely, 100% recommend it without exception. It's a huge step up from their previous work, Lovely Complex, which I also loved a lot and had a lot of the same humor, but definitely felt like a more inexperienced work compared to Damekoi(the shorthand folks use for this series). It's a goddamned shame it's never been licensed in english, but the entire series in Japanese can be had on Amazon, with used copies averaging about 5 bucks each volume. Here's the original recommendation for convenience: Captain Invictus posted:Another recommendation from me, by a well-respected author whose previous major work, Lovely Complex, was a pretty outstanding school-based romcom that bucked the general trend of romance series where it ends as soon as the two main characters actually start going out, and instead follows them for a good while before ending. Definitely worth a look, and it was genuinely funny instead of awkwardly attempting to be so like a lot of romcoms.
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Here's s fantastic series that's started up, it's not an isekai, just traditional fantasy setting. The Knight on the Frontier, Bard Loen quote:Abandoning money, fame and honor, the knight Bard embarks on a journey to find his final resting place. Tasting delicious food, admiring the unfamiliar scenery all by himself, his journey to find a place to die quietly begins. Series centered around older folks aren't super common, and I really like this one even if it gets preeeeetty melancholy at times. It has quite a good bit of humor to it, and Bard is a great protagonist. Also plenty of good looking cooking and food in it and the hearty enjoyment thereof. Only a little under a dozen chapters translated as of now, but the story definitely grabbed me, and the setting is an interesting one. The massive wall that extends as far as the eye can see and upwards into the clouds, except for a single slit that allows monsters to cross over into the human realms is properly portrayed as, well, monolithic. Not licensed(yet), but links to get the Japanese versions are on the mangadex page. Great site. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 13, 2019 |
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Yeah, that's a great thing that more companies are doing more to provide widespread, affordable avenues to read stuff. It being global is a huge thing, a lot of the issues with this stuff is regional licensing. speaking of affordable avenues to read stuff, humble bundle has a fantastic deal going on that includes, among other things, multiple volumes of Battle Angel Alita, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, To Your Eternity, Mushishi, Land of the Lustrous, Flying Witch, and Cells at Work. Definitely worth grabbing the 20 dollar tier, that's a shitload of largely high quality manga for a pittance. doomrider7 posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/books/...es_tile_index_1
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That's fantastic. One Punch Man is one of the most gorgeous series out there, even if it does go into the weeds a bit plotwise. For anyone who checks this thread out still, please go see Alita: Battle Angel. In addition to being a frankly accurate almost to a fault rendition of the manga I recommended in here years ago, it's just a drat fun movie in general, and Alita is just a great character you want to root for. The big eyes thing put a lot of people off, but it's something you stop noticing very quickly(average I hear is about ~15 minutes) and it even gets explained eventually. If the sequels get made, you're gonna see some wild poo poo, so I'd love for everyone to see it in theaters when possible because it's a joy to see in action. All the action scenes, and there's TONS of them, are excellently choreographed and have zero shakycam. Hell, they even bumped the appearance of the bounty hunter who has four cyborg dogs up to the start of the series so he could be in the first movie, it's great. The rotten tomatoes reviews are good(60%), but the audience score is extremely high, at 94%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cislZ9S0ocA&hd=1&t=6s Also, I've got another Sampler in the works, this one is pretty much all Isekai I think, because man there's a loving LOT of them and some actually aren't bad. I've already mentioned a few before but there's plenty more coming out all the time, so sooner or later some have to hit the mark.
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Yeah, it's an excellent adaptation. Lots of stuff straight out of the manga, like scenes directly translated from panel to screen, and even lots of lines directly taken from the manga despite being corny as hell, it gives it tons of charm. It's absolutely no Dragon Ball Evolution.
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The bar scene speech iirc is straight up word for word from the english adaptation of the manga. If you thought a line was corny in the movie, it was probably a direct line read from that, and imo gave the movie a lot more character for it. all the cheesy evil mcbadguy line reads by the expendable thugs were wonderful. definitely give your thoughts on the manga if you really get into it again, especially Last Order. Some regard it as much goofier than the first series(honestly, they're both pretty goofy in their own ways) but it to this day still has my favorite depictions of transhumanism and also has some of the best manga artwork, period. Legit stunning stuff, especially later on. Only one that rivals it to me is Yusuke Murata's work on One Punch Man and the like.
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If you're so insistent on being obstinate in not seeing it, so be it, it's your loss. It's a fantastic movie on its own, and a remarkable one as a fan.
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ryonguy posted:It's almost as if seeing the shots from it, reading reviews of it, and hearing how the story is mashed up is enough to see it as not something that is going to be good to watch for me. Also a huge amount of money that isn't disclosed went into marketing, without even getting into the discussion over "popular =/= good". Cameron is a hack, everything he touches is bloated, bland garbage (cue joke about how nobody can remember what a billion dollar movie was even about).
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It's the Isekai Roundup 2! Isekai literally means "Different World", and generally starts with a person in our world dying somehow(recent ones tend to have office workers die from overworking, an actual problem in japan), and waking up/reincarnating in another world, usually a fantasy-based one. It can also be the reverse where a fantasy person gets transported to our world. There's actually far, far, farrrr too many isekai series to have read through, to be honest, and there's like a dozen new ones every day. But the sheer volume of them coming out means that some will actually wind up being good if not great, amidst the legions of trash. And boy howdy, is there trash. But since there's so many, invariably there's some really intriguing concepts too. Without further ado, here are some isekai series I have read that I've felt are a cut above the rest, or have been recommended as great but haven't gotten to yet. I've already recommended a few prior such as Bakarina, but here are some others. Some are pretty new, or at least the manga versions are, so there may not be many chapters unfortunately. All series, licensed or not, have links to purchase the volumes on the Mangadex page for the series, it's pretty helpful! RE:ZERO: Life in a Different World From Zero RE:ZERO Part 2 - The Tale of "One Week" RE:ZERO Part 3 - Truth of Zero    First of all, let me say I had written off RE:ZERO for stupid reasons largely related to the two maid characters, Rem and Ram, looking like total stereotypical moeblob waifu-bait even though my friend told me "no, they're just really good characters". I finally decided to actually give the series a try and now I can really see why people like it so much. I'd just like to say 1: THIS SERIES IS EXTREMELY GORY, IT DOES NOT CENSOR ITS VIOLENCE. NO JOKE. KEEP THAT IN MIND. If you're okay with that, jump into the first series(the first link) right now, or here's a bit of a rundown of the premise: The story follows Subaru, a teen who was walking home from the corner store with some snacks when he's suddenly walking down a cobblestone road in front of a fruit seller in a fantasy world. Having no idea what is going on and thinking he's become an isekai protagonist, he wanders around only to IMMEDIATELY get mugged in an alley. He declares he will unleash his full power if the thugs don't flee, but...he's just a dude. He's got no powers, he's not a summoned hero or anything, just a teenager in a tracksuit with a grocery bag with some cheetos in it, and gets his rear end kicked. He's saved by a mysterious girl, whom he vows to help recover an item that was stolen from her. Some things happen, and he is led to a hideout where he is horrifically murdered alongside pretty much everyone he's met so far. Suddenly, he's standing in front of the fruit seller again, shaken. He's discovered his "power", the ability to "reload a checkpoint", it's Groundhog Day but only on death. But nobody else remembers what happened, and he viscerally remembers the feeling of being killed. The story is about a powerless person trying to be a hero in a world of monstrously powerful people, and the just nightmarish, soul-shattering aspects of the concept of "reloading a save". The series really goes places even in the parts covered in the anime/manga, and I hear the next arc, which is as long as the entire anime's multiple arcs combined, is far and away the best part, which is a high loving bar to clear. And Rem and Ram, ESPECIALLY Rem, are fantastically written characters. Rem is one of the best side characters I can think of in anime or manga, it really surprised me the depth of character she has and made me understand why people like her so much. Now, I'm only to the point of the anime/manga, so I'm not really sure what happens in the fourth arc, but the people who have read it are super excited for the anime adaptation of it coming out either late this year or 2020, so that's encouraging. But yeah, RE:ZERO is one of the best isekais I've experienced so far. The Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic  This one is fantastic. Three teenagers are walking along one day when suddenly a magic circle appears underneath them and summons them to another world as heroes. Except, only two of them were supposed to be summoned, the third was accidentally caught in the magic circle. But when he discovers he has Green-type magic, or Healing magic, he is unceremoniously dragged off by the leader of the Kingdom Rescue Squad, Rose. This is just a really great one, I won't spoil the fun, but just say dive into it. Rose is a great character and her squad are...characters. The Ideal Sponger Life(first page is NWS)  One day, average salaryman Yamai Zenjirou has an out-of-this-world experience—literally! He's pulled from Earth and dragged to another world where magic thrives and a gorgeous, powerful queen needs a consort. Now he's being pressured to marry that very monarch and help her bear a child. Will Zenjirou accept this life of lazy, luxurious love at the cost of leaving his home behind? It's actually a political series about the first queen in an entirely patriarchal society, and dealing with the ramifications of that. It sets it up to look like a harem with concubines and such but is actually an adorable, monogamous romance between the two main characters. I was skeptical but upon insistence kept at it and it's great. Really glad I didn't drop it immediately upon first impression.  Reincarnated as a Dragon's Egg  Dude gets killed in a burglary gone wrong and wakes up as an egg with legs and a tail. He's a dragon egg, and has to figure out how to survive in a forest jam packed with things that want to murder and eat him super hard. Has a game-style layout, he can access a UI, has a "god's voice" that is basically a Hints option in a game, and can evolve if he levels up enough. It's pretty promising, only problem is there's only 8 chapters so far, I believe it updates every other month. The chapters are really dense though, each manga chapter covers 7-10 chapters of the webnovel, I believe the currently-released manga chapter, 8, is the equivalent of like chapter 75 of the WN. The artstyle is fantastic, a really dark, gritty look to it, though the characters are generally very emotive or cartoony, especially the protagonist. It definitely got me intrigued pretty quickly though, and the moment the poisonous salamander showed up, I was hooked. My one complaint is the aforementioned glacial release schedule. Combatants Will Be Dispatched!  This is by the Konosuba guy. Do you know what Konosuba is? If not, go check it out, it's the greatest bunch of adventurer assholes ever. Combatants Will Be Dispatched is much in the same vein of "everyone is a shithead who you love and also love to see blow themselves up in increasingly hilarious ways", where the main characters are villains in a Power Rangers-esque evil organization who are sent to new worlds to see if they're worth invading or not. By doing "evil" or "mean" things, they earn villain points, which they can redeem to instantly get things like weapons, armor, etc from their superiors(who are also idiots). Not many chapters translated but it's goddamn hilarious anyways and worth checking out. Lots of fanservice and a handful of bad jokes. I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Max Level Witch, similar names  An office lady dies from overwork and is asked what she wants in her next life by an angel. She asks for immortality and to live a long, peaceful life on a plateau. She wakes up outside an empty house on said plateau, and in order to earn money to buy things she wants, starts killing slimes every day for pocket money. Since she is immortal, over the course of 300 years she grinded her way to max level by splatting a few slimes every day and became an insanely powerful witch by accident, and so people and monsters come by to disturb her peaceful life because they have heard of her strength in rumor. It's a very chill, cutesy slice of life series(one might say "moe~") and even with only 13ish chapters as of this post has progressed a surprising amount. It's a good, relaxing time! A Wild Last Boss Appeared!  It was in the year 2800 of the Midgard calendar. Back then, there was a Overlord who once reigned supreme and had reached the very brink of subduing the world. Her name was Lufasu Mafaalu, a great woman dreaded as the Black-Winged Overlord. She was too strong, too fast, and too beautiful. However, she was defeated by Heroes who opposed her ferocity, and her ambition was brought to an end. Or so went the story of our protagonist’s in-game character, whose body he now possesses for some reason in a world 200 years after Lufasu’s downfall. Follow our protagonist as he becomes unnecessarily feared by his surroundings and unnecessarily worshiped by his former subordinates as he―or now she―cheerfully travels around this fantasy world. This one's pretty fun and the artwork is great. Lufasu's fun and them trying to play their character straight reminds me of Overlord, but I like this one a lot more than that to be honest, and this one feels like it progresses more than what I read of Overlord. Sword Dad (I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated!)  This is about a dude who dies and reincarnates as a legendary sword in a game-type world, kind of a Master Sword-type. He's able to use magic to move himself around and fight, but as all swords, is much more suited to be held by someone. Enter Fran, a beastman slave of the Black Cat Tribe, who is fleeing from her slavers and discovers the sword embedded in the ground, where he'd accidentally gotten himself stuck a while ago. After dispatching the slavers, he basically adopts her as his daughter and wielder and they go on adventures. It's a mostly fun series but does have issues, some fanservice problems, some problematic characters, and I'm told later on in the light novels a particularly awful character shows up, so I'm hoping that is one thing that gets left out of the manga adaptation. But mostly it's fun to read Fran go on adventures with Sword Dad, just, the series has caveats. Though I do appreciate it is in no way sympathetic to slavery, at least, which is...a problem, in too many isekais. Handyman Saitou In Another World  Handyman Saitou got transported to another world, and discovered his general purpose skills with fixing things, handling locks, that sort of thing, is actually pretty desirable in adventuring parties. He joins a wizard whose mind is starting to go with age, a mysterious warrior, and a greedy fairy. The chapters are short but great, and the humor is just top loving notch most of the time. The Misfortunes of Local Knight Hans  Hans was one of the greatest knights of the realm, but he wanted to spend his days in a nice, quiet town in the countryside, so he transferred to one. Life was good, he kept the town safe, until one day a weird person with mysterious powers and black hair showed up, claiming to be "Japanese". Then, another one. And another one. More and more Japanese people with superpowers started appearing, making Han's quiet life quite a bit more hectic than it was supposed to be! I like this one a lot, it's focused not on the isekai people, but rather the guy in the world the people are being summoned to, who has to wrangle them and their weird powers. Ken'ichi and Mitsuba in particular are the best. Isekai Transporter  This is a short, fun one. So, in Isekai series, and frankly a ton of anime in general, there is a cliche now known as "Truck-kun", where a character is minding their own business and crossing a road, and an out-of-control truck kills the poo poo outta them. This has happened in literally hundreds of anime/manga and is a primary starting point for many isekai stories. So, a fellow in Thailand decided to start a series about what if all those unfortunate isekai truckings were actually on purpose, and a business was hired by various fantasy worlds to get the "correct" summon targets for them. It's very silly but entertaining. I'm a Spider, So What?  When a mysterious explosion killed an entire class full of high school students, the souls of everyone in class were transported into a fantasy world and reincarnated. While some students were reincarnated as princes or prodigies, others were not as blessed. Our heroine, who was the lowest in the class, discovered that she was reincarnated as a spider! Now at the bottom of the food chain, she needs to adapt to the current situation with willpower in order to live. Stuck in a dangerous labyrinth filled with monsters, it's eat or be eaten! This is the story of a spider doing whatever she can in order to survive! This one is likely what inspired the Dragon Egg one above. It's a very popular series and is getting a (terrible-looking) anime soon. It's of the game-type isekai, where she has the status window, number stats, etc, and in this one in particular, it just goes loving nuts with it. Like eventually literally entire pages full of stat windows. But it's still pretty entertaining despite that, she's quite an amusing character on her own. Saving 80,000 Gold Coins for my Retirement in Another World  An 18-year-old girl who lost her family in an accident, Yamano Mitsuwa falls off a cliff one day and transferred to a different world with a civilization level of medieval Europe. Mitsuwa who discovered it was possible to go and return to Earth after a deadly fight with wolves decided to live in both worlds. I will try not to let strange things circulate to not distort the progress of the world, but I won’t hold back for the sake of my easy life and safety! While wearing three handguns along with words and deeds that appear decent, in her head Yamano Mitsuwa is a sly girl. Making an effort to make money even with a small body that looks like a child to Westerners! Both this and the below Potion Isekai are by the same author, who seems to like to make isekais that are all about gaming the system super loving hard. To say they Go Places is an understatement. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Places go to Them. I Shall Survive Using Potions  Kaoru Nagase got caught up in a mysterious phenomenon and died on her way home from work. She skillfully convinced the higher-being that caused the "Degradation Mode" accident into giving her "The ability to create any potion with any effect I can think of", and to be revived in the other world with her younger-self's body! Kaoru, who’s now a rather sharp-eyed 15 year old girl, will work hard for a peaceful life in another world! The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious!  This one's fun but only has a handful of chapters so far. The artwork is downright hilarious, too. It's about a goddess who's tasked with summoning the right hero to handle an S-rank hardmode fantasy world, the type where the final boss is waiting for you right outside the starting town, completely unfair type. She finds the perfect candidate who could feasibly stand a chance, but...he's very careful. Maybe TOO careful?  That's about it for now, I think. Not all of them are stellar but I think they're at least enjoyable, and not total trash fires like Shield Hero or something. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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I only watched the last few episodes of the anime(the stuff after where the manga scanlations currently are) so I don't know if it changed a lot, but it really didn't feel like Subaru hadn't earned his way back into being heroic. he tried to brute force his way and it blew up in his face incredibly hard, especially when he went full Nice Guy towards Emilia, and she reacted in exactly the way he deserved. I feel for Subaru having to relive these terrible alternate existences, and it totally breaks him at one point, but it is also really great to see him learn and struggle and persevere through the mistakes. the white whale army gathering failure was particularly good, where he tried to exploit the other throne competitors but got shot the gently caress down every time and had to change tactics if he was going to get their support. I've seen a fair amount of people criticize the white whale arc but I felt it really gave Subaru a chance to shine even if he hosed up badly a few times, and the main goal was to get reinforcements to take on the witch cult, which worked. Also one of my favorite aspects of the series is how the curse works and prevents him from telling anyone about it, and how he abuses that detriment as a pretty loving dangerous offensive ability
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Just started reading this one today and it's super great from the handful of chapters I've read so far, and comes highly recommended already, so figured I'd add it to the pile. The Observation Record of my Fiancee, the Self-Proclaimed Villainess  I hadn't wanted to post it since I hadn't read it yet, but it's real great. It's in the run of "otome game villainess reincarnation" style with the almost sociopathic perfect-in-every-way blond-haired blue-eyed prince engagement angle that most otome games have, except...it doesn't follow the isekai protagonist. It instead follows the prince, who is amused by the girl's insane rambling about "flags", "plot points", "capture routes", and her absolute obsession with growing up to be a villainess and to fall at the pivotal story moment so the prince can have a happy ending with the heroine. She's fairly similar to Bakarina in a lot of ways. But when she mentions a plague that runs wildly out of control due to a shortage of medicine to treat it, leading to her mother's death in one year shortly before her 9th birthday, he decides to start preparing for it, just in case her babbling is meaningful, and if not, at least he learned something about medicine, which results in the plague being prevented altogether. It's pretty interesting in how she is dead set on keeping the plot of the game itself on track, even though it is fairly significantly derailed by chapter 3 already. I've only read up to chapter 4 of the 8 translated so far but this seems like a rock solid series so far, and is genuinely pretty hilarious with the occasional fourth wall breaking between the butler and the prince. Edit: okay, the heroine has appeared and it's pretty much the best Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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muscles like this! posted:As if anyone needed more reason to sign up for the Shonen Jump service they've just recently added parts 1-3 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Here's an insanely good series I recently started(and rapidly caught up with, as there's only 13 chapters as of this post), called Heterogeneous Linguistics.  A linguist travels among the world of monsters, learning how each species communicates, how their societies and beliefs work, languages, behaviors etc and documents it. He is accompanied by various monsters going the same direction as him, as well as his mentor's daughter, a werewolf-human hybrid and the best character in the series by far. The way it deals with various typical JRPG/fantasy monsters like slimes and werewolves and lizardmen is staggeringly good, I seriously can't say enough good things about it. Like, slimes? they have no sense of self. each slime can split into multiple pieces and have varied intelligence based on the size of the slime, and carry memories along with that fragment. they communicate via touch, and if they communicate with another slime, they merge and become one being, as if they had always been those two slimes as one creature with all the memories. It's such a loving good concept for a slime creature and it makes me giddy just recalling it. The series is hilarious, it's really nice looking, it's really frank in its depiction of things and doesn't worry whether you can understand what's going on or not, you're just carried along for the ride. Seriously, seriously good series, like rivals Dungeon Meshi for my second favorite series spot especially if it continues on with this level of quality. One of the latest chapters has the linguist encountering another linguist, a minotaur, and they both try to suss out each other's language without being able to directly communicate. Just stellar. I am really sad it's not licensed yet, as I immediately went to try and order the first volume off amazon only to find nobody's picked it up yet. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 16:12 on May 5, 2019 |
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Some more stuff that I've read or started reading. Franken Fran  BIG OL' WARNING BELOW "There is a Gothic-style mansion in a distant, rarely-visited part of Japan. There, the world's greatest surgeon, Naomitsu Madaraki, once lived but he hasn't come home in ages. Instead, the professor's "daughter," Fran Madaraki, lives there with a large amount of her own ghoulish creations and her "younger sister" Veronica. She's a very unusual girl, what with the stitch patterns on her face and the giant bolts on either side of her head. Just as skilled at surgery as her father, and if you're willing to pay her price, she can do everything up to and including raising the dead. Fran believes that a life should be saved no matter the cost, and keep that in mind, since the results of her surgeries are rarely (if ever) pretty. Fran can make anyone into anything, raise the dead, switch heads and bodies, and give you those eyes that you've always wanted. But do you actually want them? Is it a good thing to raise the dead? Do the ends justify the means? And does Fran care?" Just a heads up: Franken Fran is INTENSELY violent and gory in uncomfortable ways, and will likely deal with subject matter that will at one point or another make your skin loving crawl. Franken Fran is black comedy a lot of the time, and can be just downright excruciatingly depressing with its worldview and takes on human nature. But it is also great, and recently the author has decided to continue it after ending it years ago! I can't wait to see what new hosed up stories they come up with! Extremely Straightforward Boyfriend and Girlfriend  "Meet Shinichi Honda and Mako Wakamiya. One’s a boy, and the other’s a girl. But both don’t hesitate to say exactly what’s on their mind." This series is so far hilarious, quick, lewd, and very, very stupid. But that's what makes it fun. Mako and Honda are great together and their friends are mostly entertaining as hell too. Plus, they start going out pretty quickly, and honestly pretty naturally. The straightforwardness of both characters eradicates most typical romcom hangups, or spins them into their own fun take at a breakneck pace. A fun, silly series! Her Appetite is Too Big for Me Alone!  Also a rather lewd one, but a cute, weird romantic comedy. Funatsugi can see these strange creatures, some really just solid cosmic horror poo poo, and thinks he's just hallucinating and tries to just ignore them. But then...his classmate that he likes sees one, too. And then things get REALLY strange. Living With My Brother's Wife  "Since the death of her brother, seventeen year-old Shino Kishibe has been living with her sister-in-law Nozomi. Nozomi wants to be a person Shino can lean on, while Shino is determined not to be a burden. Together the orphaned high-schooler and young widow try to support one another while carrying on with their everyday lives." A very funny slice of life comedy that also deals with significant trauma and grief issues in pretty appropriate and serious ways. Shino losing her parents early in life and then her brother recently, and nozomi, her brother's wife, clinging to shino as a touchstone to her lost husband, is an extremely relatable and well-handled topic. But the series is also extremely fluffy, goofy, and funny. Gyaru and Dinosaur  Just the story of a gyaru who picks up a dinosaur and lets it live at her place. 
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Jun 6, 2019 13:38
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apologies for the double post, but Humble Bundle has just released another fantastic manga bundle of manga that have become anime. Included at the highest tier is(numbers after series names are volumes included): Attack on Titan 1-20 Cells At Work 1-5 Vinland Saga 1-10 Quintessential Quintuplets 1-3 Fire Force 1-15 Domestic Girlfriend 1-18 Blame! 1-6 + Movie Edition Attack on Titan: Before the Fall APOSIMZ 1-2 an artbook of stuff and it supports the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU, two very worthy causes. As for the contents, well: -Attack on Titan is excellent, the current arc that's been going for the last few years is probably the best it's ever been and it's approaching the climactic finale, I believe. -AoT: Before the Fall is not good, also not canon, and not by the original AoT author, it's by some other rando. -Vinland Saga is outstanding and is almost entirely one single character arc, that of Thorfinn, son of Thors, in the age of vikings. The artwork is incredible, the story is top shelf, and the characters are legit some of my favorites as a cast in any manga. Askeladd is a brilliant bastard, Thorkell is a mad giant, and other characters introduced later completely change the landscape of the story. The humor is genuinely great too, when it wants to be funny, but it's absolutely ready to show what vikings are really known for without shying away. These others I have not read/watched yet, but some I have at least heard about : -Quintessential Quintuplets I've heard great things about, it's about five twin sisters who need tutoring by some guy, maybe they all get married??? I dunno, but I hear it's actually really good, charming, and funny despite being a harem series. -Fire Force is about "firefighters" who, uh, fight fire with fire, literally? Here's the summary: quote:Year 198 of the Solar Era in Tokyo, special fire brigades are fighting against a phenomenon called spontaneous human combustion where humans beings are turned into living infernos called "Infernals". While the Infernals are first generation cases of spontaneous human combustion, later generations possess the ability to manipulate flames while retaining human form. -Blame! is by the guy who made Knights of Sidonia. I hear it's ridiculous but couldn't tell you a thing about it beyond that. -Domestic Girlfriend is a trainwreck given anime romdrama form. It is the soapiest of soap operas, or so I've heard. -I have no idea what APOSIMZ is. But yeah, bundle is absolutely worth it for AoT and Vinland Saga alone, the rest is a bonus.
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Jun 11, 2019 12:03
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It is not manga, but rather anime, but I feel this is still relevant to it. Thursday, an arsonist charged into Kyoto Animations Studio(Kyoani), poured multiple gallons of gasoline all over and on any employees he could reach, screamed "YOU DIE!" and set it ablaze. 34 people died in the fire as all of the main fire exits were blocked, combined with the accelerants and so much flammable material in the building, it went up in very little time. It is the worst post-war mass murder in Japan, and in addition, the entirety of the contents of the studio were lost, as there were no backups. Sentai Filmworks has started a GoFundMe to donate to the victims and their families, and many who survived are still afflicted with serious injuries and burns. https://www.gofundme.com/help-kyoani-heal this really, really loving sucks. Kyoani is one of the better animation studios in a country notorious for treating animators horribly, too. The only good thing is that the first floor nursery for the employee's kids was empty at the time of the attack.
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Jul 20, 2019 15:57
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This is one of my favorite new series, Elf Boyfriend and Boyish Girlfriend. It's about a haughty elf man and his tomboy girlfriend in modern japan, but is just adorable and charming even if the chapters are only a couple pages long each.
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Sep 23, 2019 19:55
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Yeah, Historie is one of those series that I'm waiting to end before reading. I've heard almost nothing but good things about it though. here's one I just caught up with that I had initially dropped after only a few chapters, but was convinced to pick it back up. Binged through the current 158 chapters, and loved it, it gets progressively more ridiculous as the series goes on, yet stays grounded when it actually matters. It's a shonen romcom in the vein of My Monster Secret or Ranma 1/2, and over the course of its run the artwork has improved dramatically. It's called Rokudou's Bad Girls and it's about a boy who is cursed to have a mark on his forehead that makes any "bad girls" fall in love with him, a problem when he lives in what is basically River City Ransom, a town jam packed with gangs and delinquints. Now, this sounds like a standard setup for a schlocky harem series, and indeed, quite a few girls fall for him, but he explicitly refuses to take advantage of people not making that choice of their own volition, and it really starts to get to him eventually, to the point that he starts feeling like he's incapable of being loved without the mark forcing it. It's a pretty neat scenario. The entire main cast of characters are great, Osanada Sayuri probably being my favorite, though Himawari Ranna really builds up a great character arc throughout the series. the humor is on point and the author really likes motorcycles as they are the best looking part of the entire series     the humor is suitably goofy and charming a lot of the time, which is why I feel it harkens back to the Ranma 1/2 style a lot. It's good fun.    edit: dungeon meshi updated and there's a new volume cover and it's the BEST 
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Oct 12, 2019 16:51
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oh hey, I thought the thread had been archived. I vaguely remember The Drifting Classroom being brought up by a teacher in middle school, iirc alongside stuff like Lord of the Flies, which we were reading at the time. Never read it proper, but I've definitely heard of it plenty since then as an iconic and depressing horror series. well, since the thread's still around and people are all quarantined so some reading material might be worth suggesting, here's what I've been reading as of late. Links to purchase English volumes or otherwise on each series's Mangadex page. BEASTARS  Beastars is fuckin' amazing. It is Paru Itagaki's award-winning anthropomorphic animal manga about a modern society of herbivores and carnivores. The most common and simplest comparison people make is "edgy zootopia", though it's not so much edgy(usually), more that it digs deeper into things zootopia only touched on the surface. Interracial relationships, segregation, the sociopolitical factors of a world with carnivores, but eating meat is outlawed. Do they just endure, or do they find other ways to sate their desire for meat? The series follows Legosi, a grey wolf, who is generally a quiet, humble person, but due to his species' reputation as an aggressive apex predator, is both feared and respected by most people despite his demeanor. He encounters a dwarf rabbit, Haru, and immediately falls for her. Amidst the murder and devouring of a classmate by an unknown predator at school, tensions between carnivore and herbivore are at an all-time high, and legosi has to come to terms with whether his desire for Haru is romantic...or hunger. Netflix funded an anime version, and it is FANTASTIC. It captures much of the amazing world perfectly, though I do recommend reading the manga from the beginning as well, as Paru's goofy artstyle and reactions for the characters has its own charm. The CGI, by Studio Orange(also known for Land of the Lustrous), is phenomenal and definitely puts to rest the notion that you can't do 3D anime well. The characters are wonderfully animated and very expressive, and the Japanese voice cast worked together in the same room while recording their lines, which really adds a lot of weight to their lines over being isolated in a recording booth.  TVIV thread for the anime ADTRW thread for the anime The Demon King's Daughter is Too Kind!!!  Ahriman, the most powerful Demon King in history, has conquered the world and rules over it with an iron fist. And he aims to raise his daughter in the demonic traditions of savagery, ruthlessness, and cruelty. But nothing can stop her innocent, kind demeanor, not even the Demon King himself. This is an absurdly cute series. It's just a cavalcade of plots to get her to do monstrous, evil things, and instead she frees a village of slaves from their overlord through the power of innocence, etc Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun!  If I had to describe Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun! in one word, it'd be: charming. This series is charming as hell. When his parents sell him to the devil to pay off their debts, Iruma assumes he's done for. But turns out, the devil just wanted a grandson to dote on. So Iruma is brought to the demon world and enrolled in school there, hiding the fact that he's a human from his demonic classmates. Shenanigans ensue. All the characters are fun, especially the main trio of Iruma, Alice, and Clara. Clara is the best little gremlin and the running gag of her and her family being the worst-drawn thing(and worst-animated thing in the anime) is one of my favorite parts of the series. It is just a super-upbeat, family friendly series, and I love it to bits. The series has passable artwork, but it doesn't need to be super well drawn to convey the good vibes it's sending out. This is from a recent chapter and makes me smile every time I see it  Kaiju Girl Caramelise  Afflicted by a "mysterious illness," high school first year Kuroe has spent her entire life avoiding socializing with others. However, after coming into contact with Minami Arata, the most popular boy in school, something changes— and Kuroe's true powers are unleashed... This is a really cute shojo romcom about a girl who, whenever she experiences extreme feelings, goes full Godzilla. I love the artstyle and Kuro's character, it's fantastic.  Demon Mom  Lorem, an infamous and fearsome demoness, has had to settle down for the sake of Gospel, her baby boy. Try as she might, she is a loving and doting mother, but she remains fearsome to both fellow demon and human onlookers because she retains the dire reputation of her wild and terrible youth years past. For the sake of motherly love, she has to persevere, to learn and to thrive in a world where she's not alone. For the sake Gospel and his future. Just a really cute and occasionally sad manga about a single demon mom trying to raise her baby boy Gospel. Initially I think it was just kind of an off-the-cuff sort of series by the author, but they've since developed a pretty decent storyline to go with it, and added some interesting new characters to the mix. The artist sure likes'em stacked, btw. Gourmet Adventure of the Legendary Tamer(main series) Sui's Big Adventure(spinoff, read after catching up with the main series)   Mukouda Tsuyoshi has been summoned from modern Japan to a different world of sword and magic. He thought of what kind of a huge adventure was waiting for him, but actually, Mukouda is just a civilian who got caught in a Hero Summoning. On top of that, Mukouda’s base status is shabby compared to the legitimate heroes. Suspecting the king of foul play, as he's morbidly obese in a country in crisis, apart from being war-happy, he decides to leave the castle by presenting his lack of martial prowess. The only thing that Mukouda can rely on in this world is his unique skill Net Supermarket - it can only order goods from modern Japan to the different world. There's a fair number of "isekai, but the character can order from Amazon". This one I enjoy because the main character is almost a side character in his own story, he's just the chef for the fighters in his party; Fenrir, a demigod wolf, and Sui, a baby slime. They go around fighting city-destroying calamities while he makes dinner in the meantime. Fenrir agrees to form a servant pact with him in exchange for cooking all sorts of meals for him. This quickly turns into the equivalent of a World of Warcraft newbie being escorted around by a raid boss, and it plays into that pretty well. It's a nice, chill, occasionally really funny series. The side story, Sui's Big Adventure, is a really cute take from the baby slime's perspective, really charming, for a slaughterhouse little slimeball. My Daughter is an S-Ranked Adventurer  A failed adventurer retired to the countryside, whereupon he discovered a crying baby in the woods. He raised her as his own daughter and trained her to be a fighter, and when she was old enough, she went off to become an adventurer. Soon enough, he heard back that she had joined the ranks of the most elite: the S-Ranked Adventurers, the ones who defend the country from calamity. But she's still daddy's little girl, and just wants to go back home to visit, she's so homesick, but her heroic duties demand her attention. It's a relaxed(most of the time) adventuring/slice of life series with a lot of heart. It hints at some greater storylines occasionally, and I think it's starting to get into one in the more recent chapters, but it's mostly about the hijinks of the daughter and her friends. 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Shiori Experience has the unenviable position of being a music-focused(involving existing musicians and often references their works, to boot) series in an entirely inaudible medium, and likely will never, ever be able to get an anime made without SEVERE compromises. But it does some really incredible things with what it has to work with, and the artwork is phenomenal as well. It can get overly dramatic and disney musical movie-esque at times with the tone, but when it hits things just right, the pages sing.
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May 11, 2020 03:41
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by all means, talk about your own favorite stuff too! I have found some great series I had otherwise missed from recommendations in here, so the more the merrier. and speaking of more, another manga Humble Bundle is here! For 20 bucks you get: all 8 volumes of Parasyte all 11 volumes of Your Lie in April all 34 volumes of Beck all 14 volumes of Love Hina all 10 volumes of Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 9 volumes of Princess Jellyfish 11 volumes of To Your Eternity 34 volumes of Space Brothers this is a MASSIVE deal, obviously. I've not read Love Hina, Your Lie in April, Beck, Descending Stories, To Your Eternity, or Space Brothers, but I have at least heard great things about To Your Eternity, Space Brothers, Beck, and Your Lie in April. The others, I'm not sure, but they're probably at least good, I'd love to hear from folks who have read them and your thoughts on them. I have however read and recommended Parasyte, and Princess Jellyfish has been recommended in this thread before, both are fantastic and well worth the price of admission alone, even if the bundle doesn't seem to have the entirety of Princess Jellyfish. but yeah, this is 131 volumes of manga for 20 bucks, a pretty fantastic deal.
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May 20, 2020 23:00
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It's always fascinating to hear stories of the mangaka wrestling with the editor over control of their series, especially when you can look at the work and reflect on how those discussions/arguments turned out.
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May 22, 2020 22:55
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I'll always have a soft spot for tenchi muyo. It's not the best, especially the more recent reimaginings, but the first few anime and a couple of the manga series are some good scifi-fantasy space adventures with romcom antics. I also love the weird as hell tech and ship designs, like the jurai ships being literal space trees, they grow them from a seed and the entire ship is grown into an elegant ship form, with the original tree at the center as the cognitive hub/control deck in this dreamlike garden area of the ship.
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May 23, 2020 00:20
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SlothfulCobra posted:I really liked Tenchi Muyo as a kid, but that was before I knew what sex is, so while I remember a lot of cool stuff, I don't actually remember the stuff that was the central point of the work. also, treeeeeee shiiiiiips. I wish there were better quality images of the various designs in the earlier series. a lot of just weird, alien-looking ship designs.   I believe they converse with the juraians by shooting singing beams of light from the central tree's leaves into a pool of water surrounding the roots of the core tree. for a fairly silly romcom, it had some really fascinating design decisions for the surrounding world. 
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May 23, 2020 01:53
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Dawgstar posted:It really felt more like Tenchi didn't want to choose instead of choosing them all. Even calling it poly feels not exactly right since the girls didn't particularly care about each other beyond their already established relationships. It also included Kiyone who is like The One who never actually cared about Tenchi that way? I dunno what is going on in some of the later series, there's jurai ships that just look like regular-rear end generic gundam-esque mechs, and some vaguely tenchi-styled characters that look like they'd be a nameless background filler character or some poo poo. I dunno. Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Mangas I've been reading and enjoying
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May 23, 2020 05:24
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here are a few oneshots that were mentioned elsewhere and are quite good. I won't describe them since they're so short, but they're both great. I happened to be going through the FF14 OST(which is phenomenal so far) and had Sultana Dreaming playing while reading these, and it fit super well. https://mangadex.org/chapter/427377 https://mangadex.org/chapter/903511
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May 30, 2020 07:49
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Yeah I read a bit of the Princess's Guilty Meal but it was a bit too dark for me. Seemed good if you were okay with it though.
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Jun 5, 2020 14:35
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started reading this Manwha called The Youngest Princess. it's about an archmage of a kingdom who is suddenly whisked away by a magic circle. when she wakes up, she is...a 6-month-old baby. At least the first few chapters follow her escapades as she wrangles her dad(the king) and others using nothing but her charms as an unintelligible baby, and other issues that may happen to a particularly important royal child.  the long scrolling format for manwha often puts me off of most series, but this is so charming that I'll definitely stick with it unless it does something particularly untoward later on.
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Jun 5, 2020 17:51
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so Attack on Titan is approaching its finale, with probably a volume or less to go before the ending. It's one of my favorite series of all time, and with the release of the season 4(final) trailer WHICH YOU SHOULD NOT WATCH UNLESS AT MINIMUM CAUGHT UP TO THE ANIME IF NOT MANGA, I feel now more than ever is the best time to get in if you've not seen it yet. some have made claims AoT is pro-fascist propaganda, but it's anything but. Like, the entire subplot of the finale arc is about children raised under a genocidal fascist regime being thrown into a war, learning that it's nothing like what they were taught and breaking free of their indoctrination as expendable soldiers for their authoritarian state
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Jun 6, 2020 07:02
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semi-related to this thread, I made a thread for Netflix anime including a bunch of adaptations of manga recommended in here, if you'd prefer the animated version, which, for something like Attack on Titan, is generally better than the manga version.
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Jul 15, 2020 10:35
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yeah apparently it just won a major annual award, too. It's been on my list to read for ages but I gotta save those universally-loved series for when I really need'em, as silly as that might sound.
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Jul 28, 2020 22:45
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Oh dang I thought I recommended that, yeah its phenomenal, seriously strong dungeon meshi vibes with its humor and worldbuilding. It's melancholic at times but always bolsters it with genuinely strong funny moments.
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Jul 29, 2020 06:44
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Everyone dies in the end. continuing the trend of "elves are old", there's a promising new series about a shrine maiden who takes care of her shrine's "goddess", who is just an elf that got reverse-isekai'd into our world hundreds of years ago and basically turned into a massive weeb. it's cute, and hints at the sort of melancholic immortality theme that frieran does. https://mangadex.org/title/50550/edomae-elf  
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Here's another fantastic horror-comedy I've been reading, it does a phenomenal job of mingling genuinely funny bits with Mieruko-chan-esque horrifiying spirit imagery and scenes. I'm genuinely never sure if a situation is going to turn out well for everyone involved or not, the author's done a great job of keeping things tense while also having a fairly lighthearted air to it all most of the time. But man, the latests chapters with the Spirit House have been chilling. The artwork's really strong, too. The characters have this intensity to their expressions that I can't quite describe. https://mangadex.org/title/38672/furyou-taimashi-reina It captures the intensity of the moment really well when it counts:  Reina is a really entertaining delinquint-style character who never feels the need to explain herself, so when she does something like this, even if she's in the middle of dealing with a malicious spirit, it makes her look like a violent crazy person to those around her who aren't aware of the supernatural 
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I was literally considering using that scene as an example lol Hell of a cliffhanger
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here's a really great one. Asuperu Kanojo (also known as Asperger's Girl or simply Aspergirl)  Yokoi Taku has trouble getting along with people, so he moved to Tokyo as soon as he graduated from high school. He now lives alone, making a living by delivering newspapers and drawing doujinshi, though people totally ignore his non-erotic works. One day, a girl named Saitou Megumi suddenly shows up at his door, claiming that she came all the way from Tottori to meet him because she's a big fan of one of his original works. It ends up that she has faced many hardships herself, and with no intention of leaving, she ends up living with him.   It's a genuinely heartfelt, awkward story of a man and woman who both have some serious problems. It can swing from genuinely hilarious shenanigans to anxiety-inducing panicked scenes at the drop of a hat, and it all works so incredibly well. I really feel for these characters and the series in only a few short volumes so far has made me cry on multiple occasions, it's a really powerful work. It's unabashed with its characters, there are multiple scenes where you will probably be made intensely uncomfortable or embarrassed by their actions, but that's what makes me enjoy these two all the more. It is a somewhat tragic, but ultimately hopeful story, and I'm excited to see where it goes from here. Also, the author has requested english readers petition for an english version if they're interested, via twitter. I'm banned so I can't, but if you can, please do: quote:The author of the manga is requesting people send a message to the editor on Twitter to gauge interest in an official English release. You can find his tweet and the editor's response here Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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