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Anyway, as much as I love a good "call out fest" anyone feel like chatting about predictions for the big 3? I'm not going to bother with OP, its too difficult to accurately assess where Oda will go next but I think Naruto and Bleach are fair game.

In Naruto
-methinks Naruto will finally start kicking ass, and eventually enter the full bijuu state. I imagine the Kyuubi has enough power to wreck the other Bijuu hosts in no time flat.

Kakashi or Guy sensei will die. Kakashi most likely as he already escaped death once. Naruto and Bee will inevitably be captured and the biju's sucked out of them. Kabuto realizes that the plan is about to come to fruition and then stops the process utilizing his secret jutsu he hasnt revealed. Tobi attempts to use the edotensei jutsu but realizes it has an unfortunate side effect that he couldnt imagine, rending him nearly useless. Realizing that his plan wont succeed in his plan, he takes in several of the biju but loses control. Bee and Naruto are free and unite with Kabuto and Guy and the other kage to take down this amalgamation of multiple tailed beats incarnate. Fight ends with a Kage killed. Itachi arrives to reveal that Tobi was actually Sasuke, this Sasuke reveals that he was trying to change the past, but realizes that Naruto has changed and would be able to change Sasuke.

Sasuke realizes that the Hokage is there and surprise attack to nearly kill Tsunada. Naruto fights Sasuke, and brings him to the point of realizing that he was wrong and that he isnt strong enough to be Naruto. Sasuke cries and secedes, and comes back to the village fully redeemed. Time skip, Naruto hokage and Sasuke his aid in the position of how Shizune is to Lady Tsunada. end.
 
Serious question: Would this improve things or not?

I don't even know. If you want to read a series with adult art and violence (which seemed to be WG's main draw during it's "heydey"), just read Vagabond since at least it's, well, good (I'm not even remotely caught up to where that ended). There's also Berserk, but I read so little of it so long ago, I can't say if it's even any good, although it has the rep as being good.
 
It really sickens me seeing random profiles on MAL giving Wolf Guy scores like 9 or 10. Makes me think hard about sharing the same hobby with these people.
 
I don't even know. If you want to read a series with adult art and violence (which seemed to be WG's main draw during it's "heydey"), just read Vagabond since at least it's, well, good (I'm not even remotely caught up to where that ended). There's also Berserk, but I read so little of it so long ago, I can't say if it's even any good, although it has the rep as being good.

I've read Wolf Guy and, personally, it being a for serious hentai would at least have the excuse of "It's just trying to be porn with plot!" for the short comings. And that would let me take it less seriously and ... meh, fuck it, it's not really worth thinking this hard about it.

And every time I try to catch up with Berserk, I picture Miura raising his idoru and then I end up in a corner sad.
 
I've read Wolf Guy and, personally, it being a for serious hentai would at least have the excuse of "It's just trying to be porn with plot!" for the short comings. And that would let me take it less seriously and ... meh, fuck it, it's not really worth thinking this hard about it.

And every time I try to catch up with Berserk, I picture Miura raising his idoru and then I end up in a corner sad.

My Balls actually IS Porn with Plot without any disguise and it's like 19507819208591029501 times better (although I'd hardly say My Balls was "good," but I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh in basically every chapter).


Speaking of Vagabond, when is that supposed to start up again?
Whenever he decides he's not bored it, is the official word. I think he had some illness problems.
 
Oh god Wolf Guy. Something that started off with great potential turned in to such utter garbage. The first half of the series (up to chapter 50) was ok. But then came the utterly despicable second half. Not to mention the protagonist ended up being the definition of a whiny emo, even more than Sasuke.
 
Anyway, as much as I love a good "call out fest" anyone feel like chatting about predictions for the big 3? I'm not going to bother with OP, its too difficult to accurately assess where Oda will go next but I think Naruto and Bleach are fair game.

Sasuke will somehow backstab a weakened Tobi (Obito) and gain the power of the 10 tails. The final showdown between him and Naruto will play out similarly to Tetsuo VS Kaneda in Akira.
 
I think the plot twist in Kimi No Iru Machi is worse than the Moon's Eye Plan too.

The reason why the MEP wasn't even that big of a deal was because it's just a MacGuffin for the evulz plot that has no real relevance to the overall story. If he said he was doing it all for money, it wouldn't have materially changed the plot.
 
My Balls actually IS Porn with Plot without any disguise and it's like 19507819208591029501 times better (although I'd hardly say My Balls was "good," but I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh in basically every chapter).

"The battle for mankind has begun ... in his pants."

Best summary ever? Maybe, maybe not. But damn if it didn't work.
 
My Balls actually IS Porn with Plot without any disguise and it's like 19507819208591029501 times better (although I'd hardly say My Balls was "good," but I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh in basically every chapter).


Whenever he decides he's not bored it, is the official word. I think he had some illness problems.
it was announced a few weeks back that it was gonna start up again though.
 
O god people talking about that fucking trash of a manga called Wolf Guy .
Trying to hope that someday a sane mangaka will do a good werewolf story.

So, what happened to Ubel Blatt? I stopped reading it a year or so ago thinking it was dead, then I just found a new chapter that came out recently. Is it back for good? What happened to the writer/artist?
 
Trying to hope that someday a sane mangaka will do a good werewolf story.

So, what happened to Ubel Blatt? I stopped reading it a year or so ago thinking it was dead, then I just found a new chapter that came out recently. Is it back for good? What happened to the writer/artist?
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Wolf Guy

Volume 1 motherfuckers

Pros:
  • Art is pretty nice.
  • Girls are amazingly hot in almost every panel in this series.
Cons:
  • This feels like the male version of Twilight, full of wish fulfillment crap while pretending it has something deeper to it.
  • None of the characters have any likable traits.
  • None of the characters are realistic even though they try to be, these characters feel like the author tried to write them realistically without actually knowing what the real world is like.
  • Dialogue is utter crap. Page spreads of "HUH?" and other wonderfully written dialogue.
Status: Still not worse than the Itachi Pursuit arc.
 
Trying to hope that someday a sane mangaka will do a good werewolf story.

So, what happened to Ubel Blatt? I stopped reading it a year or so ago thinking it was dead, then I just found a new chapter that came out recently. Is it back for good? What happened to the writer/artist?

Well there always Vampire Bund lolol

Big One early Vols okay\bad is when get to about chapter 60 it turns into so much fucking trash .
 
Oh god Wolf Guy. Something that started off with great potential turned in to such utter garbage. The first half of the series (up to chapter 50) was ok. But then came the utterly despicable second half. Not to mention the protagonist ended up being the definition of a whiny emo, even more than Sasuke.


this plus the slow translations was the nail in the coffin for this series imo.



Well there always Vampire Bund lolol

that's mean :/ (and i like Vampire Bund enough)
 
Wolf Guy

Volume 1 motherfuckers

Pros:
  • Art is pretty nice.
  • Girls are amazingly hot in almost every panel in this series.
Cons:
  • This feels like the male version of Twilight, full of wish fulfillment crap while pretending it has something deeper to it.
  • None of the characters have any likable traits.
  • None of the characters are realistic even though they try to be, these characters feel like the author tried to write them realistically without actually knowing what the real world is like.
  • Dialogue is utter crap. Page spreads of "HUH?" and other wonderfully written dialogue.
Status: Still not worse than the Itachi Pursuit arc.

The first half isn't even *that* bad. Like, it isn't good, it's poser shit with Inugami going, "THE POWER OF THE WOLF SO MAJESTIC" while staring off into the woods, but it's not off the rails shitty until a while in. It's not a long series, however.
 
Wolf Guy

Volume 1 motherfuckers

Pros:
  • Art is pretty nice.
  • Girls are amazingly hot in almost every panel in this series.
Cons:
This feels like the male version of Twilight, full of wish fulfillment crap while pretending it has something deeper to it.
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You know. That actually seems pretty apt. (Considering the authors of both are obviously mentally disturbed, lol)

And god the dialogue. Inugami's constant god awful inner-monologuing makes Naruto's preachiness into gold by comparison.
this plus the slow translations was the nail in the coffin for this series imo
I don't blame the many translation teams it went through for not wanting to stick with it, especially after the halfway mark.
 
Trying to hope that someday a sane mangaka will do a good werewolf story.

So, what happened to Ubel Blatt? I stopped reading it a year or so ago thinking it was dead, then I just found a new chapter that came out recently. Is it back for good? What happened to the writer/artist?
Hiatus hell.
 
Keishi Sokan Asami 1-5

Wish there was more of this translated. Hot policewomen following cases and doing sexy things.
 
"Fuckin' humans"
"Fuckin' humans"
"Fuckin' humans"

- Wolf Guy, Chapter 12 pages 2 & 3
^^^Hence why it went through so many translation teams. Could you imagine having to translate that awful dialogue? (and this was when it was still tolerable)

Now, even though I had written the series off after the bad scene happens, I kept checking up on it just to see how bad it could get. The worst I could take was when the author devoted an entire chapter to
Inugami's inner monologue after having killed some dogs and what he felt about it
....yeah...a whole chapter of that..
 
Of course, something that clearly has never been stated a shitload of times already.

Christ we get it, humans fucking suck. Shut the fuck up, Wolf Guy
"Humans are trash and Wolves are majestic!"

better get used to reading that if you're in for the whole 9 yards. :P
 
Of course, something that clearly has never been stated a shitload of times already.

Christ we get it, humans fucking suck. Shut the fuck up, Wolf Guy

Can't wait till you reach the later parts then LOL


I stop reading it a good while ago .
Much harder to kept on reading something that not good\you dislike when you only start reading it a short while ago.

Same here but it was the latest translated chapter at the time and i got really busy.

I heard some depressing stuff happened to a character i actually liked :/
 
There is no middle ground in this fucking thread.

Bleach (a character driven manga) had 2 years concentrating on side characters, build them up, show personality, powers, philosophy, and people whine about it. (i am not saying the Fake Karakura arc was not long, but my point still stands)

Naruto (a plot driven manga) concentrates on a very few characters who are relevant to the plot, and no the Konoha 11 sans Naruto and Sasuke are irrelevant to the plot. Even Sakura. And people whine about it.

It´s screwed if you do concentrates on side character in this thread and screwed if you don´t. There is no middle ground whatsoever.
 
I stalled on Bund when it got to the
pregnancy
and
trap/homo-erotic
stuff. That's after tolerating the
fake loli
for so long.
 
There is no middle ground in this fucking thread.

Bleach (a character driven manga) had 2 years concentrating on side characters, build them up, show personality, powers, philosophy, and people whine about it. (i am not saying the Fake Karakura arc was not long, but my point still stands)

Naruto (a plot driven manga) concentrates on a very few characters who are relevant to the plot, and no the Konoha 11 sans Naruto and Sasuke are irrelevant to the plot. Even Sakura. And people whine about it.

It´s screwed if you do concentrates on side character in this thread and screwed if you don´t. There is no middle ground whatsoever.
No it isn't. Both of them were bad for pretty basic reasons.

Bleach was worse because we didn't care about the characters fighting on EITHER side. In Naruto, we just hated it because the fact they were fighting those characters at all was a fucking conceit created by Kishimoto completely overdoing a good idea he had used in Part I to resurrect the Hokage to fight Sarutobi.
 
Same here but it was the latest translated chapter at the time and i got really busy.

I heard some depressing stuff happened to a character i actually liked :/

I get the feeling something bad happened to friendzoned girl, given how volume 10 ended (and that's where I'm at at the moment). Please tell me I'm wrong.
 
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