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There Bias Two posted:It's as if we were all watching a somewhat decent play, when suddenly all the actors paused halfway through the second act to unleash wet farts at the audience as the curtain fell. It's more like reading a comic, and the comic ending isn't super good.
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Maybe Nihei just got bored? Or else he's just decided to draw a line under these characters and do a sequel series with the New Sidonia.
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Autonomous Monster posted:Maybe Nihei just got bored? Well he did foreshadow something happening in the future of New Sidonia, so maybe there'll be a new series?
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Sep 27, 2015 15:51
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Who was the guy Izana ended up with? It's hard enough to distinguish any of Nihei's characters that don't have obvious unusual traits, let alone after a timeskip.
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Sep 27, 2015 17:28
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Paracelsus posted:Who was the guy Izana ended up with? It's hard enough to distinguish any of Nihei's characters that don't have obvious unusual traits, let alone after a timeskip. Yuhata: 
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Sep 27, 2015 18:17
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I really liked that ending, and I hope desperately we get a sequel series.
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Sep 27, 2015 18:54
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I think the reasons his ending arcs always feel like let downs is that he's just really bad at presenting drama, like objectively dramatic things happen but they're fed to us with a heavy dose of sedatives. The exact same ending but presented/paced by a different author would have probably felt like an amazing ending. In other words it's like the gauna tried to mimic a good ending and while they hit all the technical points, they failed to capture the humanity of it and it ends up being 17 meters long.
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Xy Hapu posted:I think the reasons his ending arcs always feel like let downs is that he's just really bad at presenting drama, like objectively dramatic things happen but they're fed to us with a heavy dose of sedatives. The exact same ending but presented/paced by a different author would have probably felt like an amazing ending. His stuff always feels like it was made by an alien lol. W/ the weird writing and the cool detailed backgrounds + comparatively poorly drawn people
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halleys comet posted:His stuff always feels like it was made by an alien lol. W/ the weird writing and the cool detailed backgrounds + comparatively poorly drawn people Not an alien, a beetle. Anyways, this may be the best ending (or even close to a good one) but he did tie up most plot threads and had a well-defined ending where you know what happened to the characters and what they'll do in the future. Fine with me!
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Reading your comments I expected a really terrible ending and prepared myself for the worst, and now that I finally read it turns out it's kinda ok. It's so much better than what I was promised that I sort of like it, even though it's completely average.
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I Love Annie May posted:Reading your comments I expected a really terrible ending and prepared myself for the worst, and now that I finally read it turns out it's kinda ok. It's so much better than what I was promised that I sort of like it, even though it's completely average. Yeah it was a rushed "and they all lived happily ever after" ending with a hook into a potential sequel if he ever feels like it. I would've loved to see more adventures of the Sidonia but I'm pretty neutral on this ending, wasn't great, wasn't horrible, just...there.
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I would call that quite obviously rushed but not awful in of itself. Reminded me of the one that The World God Only Knows got a while back.
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Sep 28, 2015 02:34
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Sep 28, 2015 03:49
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Nate RFB posted:I would call that quite obviously rushed but not awful in of itself. Reminded me of the one that The World God Only Knows got a while back. Pretty much my feelings. I don't really mind the content of the ending, it was just very rushed.
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I just marathoned the entire Sidonia series + manga over the last couple of days and what the gently caress is that romance and what the gently caress is that ending  get with your bigendered buddy, not the 5-story alien hybrid war machine with the mentality of a child / little sister you freak. I'm miffed about romantic canon.
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Sep 30, 2015 04:03
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Um, tsumugi is the best ok. Let robot(?)s love too
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I generally liked the ending, and I love how unabashedly and casually weird this series is. Some series talk about trans-humanism, but this series REALLY means it.
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I wonder how that kid is going to turn out, considering that her father is some kind of immortal and her mother is technically made out of placenta. Isn't that how chimeras are made?
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Avulsion posted:I wonder how that kid is going to turn out, considering that her father is some kind of immortal and her mother is technically made out of placenta. Isn't that how chimeras are made? It is, but Tsumugi seems to have become more complete than the earlier doubles. I wouldn't rule out SUPERPOWERS though.
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immortal flow posted:I just marathoned the entire Sidonia series + manga over the last couple of days and what the gently caress is that romance and what the gently caress is that ending But now she's got both the looks and part of the personality of Tanikaze's crush who died ages ago, instead. This is totally better and not horrifying in the least.
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Kassad posted:But now she's got both the looks and part of the personality of Tanikaze's crush who died ages ago, instead. This is totally better and not horrifying in the least. That's repulsive to the extreme.
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man characterizing Tsumugi as having "the mentality of a child" is dumb as poo poo, she was naive at first but that phase didn't last and she is pretty clearly emotionally mature by later chapters. Also genetically she's like 50% hoshijiro anyway, in case you forgot
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my biggest complaint with the ending is that it's totally lacking in climax. the rush on these last few chapters pretty much blocks that off, though.
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so what do I need to watch like a hawk to find out about Nihei's next manga, when/if one is decided?
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Wasn't the whole mini-ocean on the front half of Sidonia that got clobbered off? Are they just eating guana-bits on this planet? Maybe they had seeds and junk stashed somewhere else.
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Zenzirouj posted:Wasn't the whole mini-ocean on the front half of Sidonia that got clobbered off? Are they just eating guana-bits on this planet? Maybe they had seeds and junk stashed somewhere else. They're pretty good at cloning.
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poo poo, this thread blows my mind. I still have Noise and all volumes of Blame! (the later ones in storage), but never thought Nihei would make more comics! I just kind of assumed nobody bought his weird poo poo anymore and that's it. Also, all his manga are translated into German, so this means when Knights of Sidonia is completely published (the German version is still at volume 12, it seems), I finally have a reason to buy manga again. Though it's a bit weird. The series is finished but the German publisher needs 7 months to translate the last volume? What the hell is this poo poo. Back when I was reading manga, they put out finished volumes 1-2 months after the Japanese release. Welp, time to wait for me. Edit: Looking more stuff up, it looks like volume 15 was the end of the manga. OK, Egmont now you're taking the piss, you better not take 7 months for volumes 14-15, too!
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Dec 9, 2015 01:35
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They were probably so astounded by how bad the ending was that they lost their work ethic
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Relin posted:They were probably so astounded by how bad the ending was that they lost their work ethic It's an happy ending and it's easy to understand. Good enough for me. Looks like Nihei stopped doing drugs when writing this manga.
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He just wanted to make his daughter happy.  
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Dec 9, 2015 12:47
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thats fuckin brutal, nihei junior
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http://manga.life/read-online/SidoniaNoKishi/chapter-78.5/index-1 Knights of Sidonia/Blame! crossover special https://my.mixtape.moe/eebojy.webm
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I'm running an rpg based on Blame!, Biomega, and Nihei's whole style over in TG, if anyone here's interested. The setting is fairly open and will be partly defined by the players during setup, and the system is free and super-simple. The scenario is pretty much the whole Electrofisher arc from Blame! - a bunch of walking WMDs, superhuman scientists, and tribal warriors defend a remnant of humanity from a blindly hostile artificial world.
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Avulsion posted:http://manga.life/read-online/SidoniaNoKishi/chapter-78.5/index-1 I have no clue what any of that was about but the architecture was drawn good.
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Pewdiepie posted:I have no clue what any of that was about but the architecture was drawn good. That guy is looking for the Net Terminal gene which is required to access the Net Sphere, which is the only way to control that automatic building/maintenance systems that build the good-drawn architecture, which kill anyone who is a threat to them or who tries to access the Net Sphere without the proper genes. That thing on the bridge with him was from one of the (at least) three different factions of post-human monsters vying for control of the Net Sphere. I really love where Nihei went with the combination of the self-replicating machines consuming all resources (can't really call it "grey goo" here) trope + skynet/technological singularity. Nothing else is quite like it.
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It's surprisingly hopeful really. It may have taken a long....long....long time, but Killy and the Authority sure do keep trying to fix things. And of course, eventually do. Even the crazy rear end silicon lifeforms get saved in the end.
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Boogaleeboo posted:It's surprisingly hopeful really. It may have taken a long....long....long time, but Killy and the Authority sure do keep trying to fix things. And of course, eventually do. Even the crazy rear end silicon lifeforms get saved in the end. Killy is basically the terminator crossed with wall-e.
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I would like to check in to this thread to say I read BLAMe! The first half/three quarters of it was I think one of the greatest manga I've ever read then I kinda lost track of the plot and the series ended, on what I felt was a flat note. Now I'm rereading Sidonia and that manga is way more lucid than I ever remember it being -- I'll chalk it up to being able read the chapters all at once instead of waiting weeks/months between chapter translations. I'm about halfway through right now. I love it. Sidonia is the greatest harem series ever put from pen to paper. Next I plan to read Biomega and as far as I understand thats the "trilogy". I hope my brain can handle it.
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If you read BLAME! and thought to yourself, "This is great but it would make a lot more sense if there was an android and a bear jumping a motorcycle off the roof of an exploding gothic cathedral" then you're gonna love Biomega.
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Biomega is great. I'm not sure that I like it more than Blame but it's close, probably because Zoichi is basically Killy but with (sort of) a personality. You should check out Abara as well. Wish it would get an English release, I'd love to own a copy I could read.
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