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Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

new chapter of kaiji started off bleh but by the end turned things around and was real good. really got my heart racing.

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Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Tonfa posted:

If you like mahjong and peak FKMT artstyle Ten is the manga for you.



ten is fkmt's magnum opus. also probably the most difficult to get into for your average person considering the mahjong is far more involved than in akagi or probably any of his other works. but it is worth it. fkmt works always have powerful endings but ten is on just a whole nother level. even compared to kurosawa's ending

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

I started reading Ten, the nice guy in the way of Tenhou

I feel like for any other manga that what Im about to say would be detrimental because I would be setting the bar too high. But not with Ten.

Prepare your self for the GREATEST ENDING OF ALL TIME

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

fkmtkrazy is back in action and has put up a new chapter of kurosawa

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

it's christmas in july new akagi new kaiji AND new kurosawa

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Pewdiepie posted:

New Akagi chapter!!!!! Its happening!!! The detective makes a draw. And then he prepares to take another draw. What could possibly happen next???

holy poo poo what a loving chapter that was

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010



Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010


amazing

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

new akagi

we are so close. it's gotta happen soon. it's all going to end. washizu will die! go for it yasuoka!

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

FAT BATMAN posted:

Akagi can't make a 4th kan, can he..?

nah

Cowwan posted:

Does Ten actually go somewhere good? I fell off when it stopped focusing on cheating at mahjong and moved to the flow or whatever they called it.

there are a few instance of some really cool cheating when the east vs west stuff starts, but a lot of it is flow + unique mahjong games. I liked it but the mahjong because is way uh heavier I guess I'd say than in akagi. the last 3 volumes is what it's really known for. goes from a good mahjong manga to something real special. imagine something in the same vein as the final chapter of kurosawa, but lasting way longer.

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

everyone read the new kurosawa chapter right now, please

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

new kurosawa is out

i got chills when it became apparent that the arm wrestling showdown was gonna happen. kurosawa lost though so I was really sad. he was right though. it kind of wasn't fair. the kurosawa from 9 years ago would have won, but the kurosawa from the right now went from a 9 year long coma to being homeless. and being homeless means you dont get to eat well very often if at all. he hasn't had the chance to become strong again.

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

what an amazing chapter of akagi

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

i was gonna wait till it was fully translated to read gin to kin but now that they are doing this live action and it is short enough that they can probably do the whole thing I decided to read it now.

holy poo poo is this billionaire mahjong guy loving nuts

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Plutonis posted:

You gotta be more specific

the one who likes locking people in solitary confinement and then watching them jerk off to porn

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Now that it's finally over what was everyone's favorite part of the match?

For me, it was the epic pei saga.

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Pewdiepie posted:

Hey everyone!!! New kurosawa!

Im still not over Gasoline being such a huge jerk to Kurosawa after beating him at arm wrestling. if this was 9 years ago kurosawa would have won and then he would have gotten all the girls.

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Akagi is over

http://fkmtkrazy.blogspot.com/2018/02/tohai-densetsu-akagi-yami-ni-oritatta.html

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010


even in his first ever published work there are blacksuits

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

nrook posted:

Is Hero actually good

I am a huge Hiroyuki fan but I always heard it was not good so I didn't read it

I see a lot of people saying they like it actually but I didn’t really care for it from what I’ve read. Seems to run pretty antithetical to Hiroyuki’s character at the end of Ten. I only read the first few chapters though so who knows. I just don’t really care for the idea of Hiro being the man to succeed Akagi’s dying wish, whatever that’s supposed to be.

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

CodfishCartographer posted:

Still seems like fkmtkrazy, just with "new management" according to their twitter

actually there are two groups. fkmtkrazy just released 338 today. But a group called Endless Moment released 338-340 over the last few days. They need to sort this out so someone can get to translating Kurosawa and all the weird Fukumoto one shots fkmtkrazy has raws for

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

apophenium posted:

I've just begun the Washizu mahjong part of Akagi. Utterly mindblowing that this game, this night in the manga, unfolds over more than 200 chapters spanning 10+ years of monthly releases. And from what I've heard FKMT manages to keep it pretty taut all the way through. Quite the impressive feat of dedication.

20 years. and the best parts is probably the last game, game 6.

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010


after seeing what they are going to use funaki for I really want kurosawa to kick the asses of all the akido guys

Ringo Roadagain fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jul 28, 2022

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Looks like Akagi was reincarnated as a golden retriever after ten

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CgytwMBobXl/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

wrong thread

Ringo Roadagain fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Sep 14, 2022

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

kurosawa cant kick this guys rear end soon enough

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Hypocrisy posted:

I'm not sure what I want Endou's fate to be.

I want him to survive because gently caress hyodou.

But I also want him to die because gently caress endou

Ringo Roadagain fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Feb 27, 2023

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

No Wave posted:

"That one weird arc that seemed to drag on"... pretty funny way to describe the Washizu arc (which is 70% of the length of the manga iirc). Ten and Akagi have chunks written at very different points in the fukumoto's career, I think akagi ran on and off for 20+ years? Only truly ending recently. Ten and Akagi do intertwine a lot and I dont even know if there's a read order I'd recommend.

Personally my favorites are kaiji part 1 and gambling emperor zero part 1 because they're so insane and nonstop. GEZ in particular I think is fantastically entertaining and people dont talk about it as much (though it did get adapted into a movie at some point). Kaoji part 1 is by far the most famous/beloved, correctly, and is almost everyone's entry into the fukumotoverse.

Akagi actually ran incredibly consistently. I think fukumoto only once took a year off from writing it, and then the following year released chapters biweekly instead of monthly to make up for the year off.

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

chapter 4 of nikaido hell golf

https://mangadex.org/chapter/1ab1689a-4edd-4163-9aa7-d0e54159c0e2

this golfing manga is so good

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Plutonis posted:

Nikaido legit might be the biggest loser protag Fukumoto came with by far. Way more pitiful than Kaiji and Kurosawa.

its really impressive

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

No Wave posted:

The Kurosawa sneaking food into his coworkers' lunches ordeal was pretty high grade. This one is definitely brutal too though.

the thing that differentiates them, to me, is their circumstances. kurosawa was independent. nikaido has been mooching for 10 years. its like if instead of kaiji living with sakazaki for 2 months after the bog, he lived with him for 10 years.

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Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Ventana posted:

Yup, I caught up on Golf manga since the thread seemed to like it, and I didn't really expect the passing years to hit me as hard as they did. I'm really rooting for him, but that last Kirishima chapter put those feelings into perspective. And we're 2-3 years past that chapter now too.

This was cute, though I'd be sad if it turned out Bongo was the friend who ditched Kaiji on the loan that started off the series. :(

nah, that guy is named in the first chapter

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