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Who is the best one?
This one?
This one.
This one!
Swords are tools for killing Ms Kaoru
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Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

Buying a big 2 pound book every week to keep up with the couple series you like seems super wasteful so I dont blame people for forgoing it, even though I still think the anthology format is super good and am mad jealous only euro publishers realized how good it was too.

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El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Lurking Haro posted:

Might be one of the reason why free online magazines are on the rise.
The mangaka are barely getting money from the magazine prints and the ads inside mainly offset the print cost.
Shonen Jump regularly has ads for cheap training equipment. Wanna get buff like Goku?

I mean,

Yes

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

I sniped burbsbo

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
e: Wrong thread. gently caress!

Wark Say fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Apr 24, 2018

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

kotakus sending some mixed messages here!!!

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Sharkopath posted:

I sniped burbsbo

Gah !

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Plutonis posted:

kotakus sending some mixed messages here!!!



lol

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009


El cazador de hector

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013
A few people here seem outraged at him writing Manga again. Personally I'm more outraged at him being free and still in possession of his dick.
You can boycott him all you want if it makes you feel better, But realistically,if he's not writing Manga, what would you rather have someone like that do? Go clean up a park near playing kids? Hell no! Die in a ditch might be nice, but not reading his Manga isn't going to accomplish that...unfortunately.
I'd rather he stay up in his attic (preferably without internet) and draw a decent manga then walk around where he can get anywhere near kids.

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

Rehabilitation is better than vengeful destruction when it comes to law imo.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Sharkopath posted:

Rehabilitation is better than vengeful destruction when it comes to law imo.

he won't be rehabilitated though

he'll just go get more child porn but more secretively

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

if only there was a middle ground between capital punishment and fining someone 2000 dollars, but, well, we still havent found it. maybe someday we will.

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

Endorph posted:

if only there was a middle ground between capital punishment and fining someone 2000 dollars, but, well, we still havent found it. maybe someday we will.

*thinking incredibly deeply*

Hang him from a cross along the appian way?

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Watsuki needs help.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
I mean, while I think it's still loving reprehensible, I do not think he's beyond help. Of course, that's still gonna be hard as heck.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
what would kenshin do

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Didn't Kenshin admit that he would've likely killed himself after the Bakumatsu but decided that doing so would've been the easy way out for him?

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

Since I'm never gonna watch the rest now, was there any good stuff after the Shishio arc?

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


It's been a long time but I remember feeling the show was basically running on fumes after that.

Srice
Sep 11, 2011

The anime sucks after that point because it's all filler that was bad enough to get it cancelled before they could resume adapting the manga.

The manga, however, gets into some of the best parts of the entire series.

GimmickMan
Dec 27, 2011

Wark Say posted:

Didn't Kenshin admit that he would've likely killed himself after the Bakumatsu but decided that doing so would've been the easy way out for him?

It has been months and it still boggles the mind that you can write such a compelling story about guilt, compassion, trauma, forgiveness, etc. and still participate in the systematic exploitation and abuse of minors.

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

GimmickMan posted:

It has been months and it still boggles the mind that you can write such a compelling story about guilt, compassion, trauma, forgiveness, etc. and still participate in the systematic exploitation and abuse of minors.

Hypocrisy is humanity's oldest and most cherished friend.

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

P-Mack posted:

Since I'm never gonna watch the rest now, was there any good stuff after the Shishio arc?

Jinchu arc in the manga is roughly as good as the Kyoto arc and better in some places.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Radish posted:

It's been a long time but I remember feeling the show was basically running on fumes after that.

the third season is some filler bullshit

they never animated kenshin's final arc

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Fabricated posted:

Reminder that the guy who did the music for the Death Note and Kaiji anime got busted with weed and was permanently blacklisted by the industry. Lol

yo just wanted to say that this post got me checking out kaiji and that's some good poo poo, so there's the silver lining to this story

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Kurtofan posted:

what would kenshin do

manslay him

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-05-16/rurouni-kenshin-gets-new-stage-play-in-october/.131614

Cipher Pol 9
Oct 9, 2006


Welp.

Interestingly, I was listening to an episode of the Shonen Jump Podcast recently and when the question of 'who is the oldest SJ manga protagonist' came up, there was a mention that they should probably not talk about it before moving on. That's probably a sign that they're well aware of what happened at least, even if they haven't discussed it. I wonder what'll happen when the manga returns.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Goku is way older than kenshin tho. He was born in like the 800s.

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


Goku is like 44 years old.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Actually, how old is Goku? He spent a year dead after Piccolo killed him along with Raditz and then he spent like 7 or 8 years dead between Cell's Game and the Bibidi Babidi Boo saga; both Goten and Trunks are still children in the Dragon Ball Super timeline, so it probably hasn't been that long since the BBB saga ended. Plus however many years he spent in the room where 1 year goes by while only 1 day has passed IRL.

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009

Ryo from KochiKame is in his mid-thirties and if you count aging, Joseph Joestar is almost 70 in Part 3.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
close this thread, imo.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Eh, no. If people don't post it will die, if people wanna post about it it won't.

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-06-04/rurouni-kenshin-hokkaido-arc-does-not-return-in-viz-shonen-jump/.132432

Caros
May 14, 2008


Good to know that at least the english publisher isn't exactly chomping at the bit to get him back in action.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

lol i read the comments

Caros
May 14, 2008

Kurtofan posted:

lol i read the comments

Avoid reddit. I know it is a general rule, but I poked my head into the kenshin subreddit and now I want to put a fist through a wall after reading a half dozen "He paid his debt to society" comments.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

"It's okay. There are other Terminators! Just give us this one!"
Hell Gem

Caros posted:

Avoid reddit. I know it is a general rule, but I poked my head into the kenshin subreddit and now I want to put a fist through a wall after reading a half dozen "He paid his debt to society" comments.

Paid eheheh.

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El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

It is back on the japanese side though, paired with a "I'm very sorry. I'll do my best from now on" kind of apology

http://yaraon-blog.com/archives/128984

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