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Bro, Sasha's had all but three or four panels of 'screentime.' She's a doodle, not a character.

That doodle has been more entertaining in a single page then eren has for the entire manga.

Eren is pretty bland but I can’t really complain his notch above your standard mc.

When the fox was taking Naruto's chakra, wouldn't he be effected by its purity. I assume that's why he's less angry.

Stop! before you give kishi ideas

No it was explained that if naruto lost the tug of war the fox would have taken over.
 
What do you mean by plot characters meeting up so easily?
Like how Maou meets up with everyone through travel or vice-versa. All of a sudden the hero teleports in to hang out. Female knight, old man, new king, merchant, and Maou all coordinate a timely arrival for the upcoming battle. Normally there are hurdles to traveling all over but they quick-travel like TES. It's a bit much IMO.
 
Like how Maou meets up with everyone through travel or vice-versa. All of a sudden the hero teleports in to hang out. Female knight, old man, new king, merchant, and Maou all coordinate a timely arrival for the upcoming battle. Normally there are hurdles to traveling all over but they quick-travel like TES. It's a bit much IMO.

Dunno man, they got teleportation magic, maybe they have like demonbook or something where they all schedule when to meet up
 
Like how Maou meets up with everyone through travel or vice-versa. All of a sudden the hero teleports in to hang out. Female knight, old man, new king, merchant, and Maou all coordinate a timely arrival for the upcoming battle. Normally there are hurdles to traveling all over but they quick-travel like TES. It's a bit much IMO.

Fast travel mechanic as part of the story? Brilliant!
 
Detective Conan 457-459 (Teitan High School's Ghost Story)

Not my favourite mystery. I never liked Conan/Ran/Sonoko adventures and the ghost stuff wasn't that interesting.

Anyway I'm planning on finally catching up. This time I will take it slowly. I don't see the point of reading multiple volumes a day like I did last time marathoning Conan. I might read just one murder arc a day.

Who here is all caught up on the manga? I do remember few posters talking about the latest chapters before.
 
Dragon Ball SD - Chapter 5 / Chapter 1 Monthly

Best chapter of the manga by far, not only did it do a decent job summarizing events, and putting its own spin on them, there was actually some funny moments! Though given what happened, I wonder how Goku
will meet Chi-Chi...

Yes Naho, yessssss....

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TLRD (ch 15)

-Got to enjoy characters created just to show an "adult version."

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Rito made an original statement this chapter for TLR. "Wha...what's this? Soft, really big things are on top of me..." Hmmm, really Rito I wonder what they could be. Maybe the last 500 events didn't give you an idea to what the answer is...

Does anyone else find it funny that even though the fan-service has been bumped from a 10 to a 31 that TLRD has a far more developed story then TLR? Hmm.

As for the content here, well Rito has a new harem candidate I guess. We found out Yami's real name, which is usually a cliche' name but fits her very well. And there was a "tearful" reunion (hehe, I'm fucking hilarious). Oh but there was definitely some groping of Momo, which is not a bad thing, and we got to see basically a naked adult Yami. Kampai.

Ch in 3 (reunion, teleport, Momoisthepureawesome)
 
Hideout 1-7

Damn, this is pretty damn creepy. Even with little dialogue, you can totally tell how messed up this situation is. Very uncommon and fresh idea to have a potential murderer finding himself in a horror scenario, at least without that being some kind of twist at the ending.
 
Hideout 1-7

Damn, this is pretty damn creepy. Even with little dialogue, you can totally tell how messed up this situation is. Very uncommon and fresh idea to have a potential murderer finding himself in a horror scenario, at least without that being some kind of twist at the ending.

oh shit the rest of the chapters got translated? I only read the first three and the art was awesome. Gotta finish it soon
 
Bakuman

Eiji continues to be the true hero of this series. He's like Luffy as a mangaka.
He's alright but he is no Hiramaru who is the only interesting character in the manga.

I find it funny that the two main artists Eiji and Mashiro are quite the pair of losers compared to the rest. Shujin is at least married even though it is to a boring dip. Hiramaru is living his life getting engaged to Yuri-tan and even the monkey suit guy this chapter is going to parties. Fukuda and his team at least look like they are enjoying their lives.

Yet Mashiro is staying AWAY from this girlfriend on some ridiculous promise. Eiji is probably sleeping his nights away on his dakimakura. Both are slaving away doing nothing but work. Is the real competition an attrition battle of loneliness? Maybe those two are just looking for each other...uh-oh.

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NO Shujin. Shut your face. Stop making up shit that makes no sense in the first place. It was fine calling it a breather chapter. That's concise and everyone gets it. Even other terms like relaxed and relief are fine. But this nonsense is not fine.

Oh!

And newsflash, Bakuman had another declaration occur. Holy shit, start the presses.
 
TLRD (ch 15)

Rito made an original statement this chapter for TLR. "Wha...what's this? Soft, really big things are on top of me..." Hmmm, really Rito I wonder what they could be. Maybe the last 500 events didn't give you an idea to what the answer is...
To his credit, it could've easily been someone's ass.
 
He's alright but he is no Hiramaru who is the only interesting character in the manga.

I find it funny that the two main artists Eiji and Mashiro are quite the pair of losers compared to the rest. Shujin is at least married even though it is to a boring dip. Hiramaru is living his life getting engaged to Yuri-tan and even the monkey suit guy this chapter is going to parties. Fukuda and his team at least look like they are enjoying their lives.

Yet Mashiro is staying AWAY from this girlfriend on some ridiculous promise. Eiji is probably sleeping his nights away on his dakimakura. Both are slaving away doing nothing but work. Is the real competition an attrition battle of loneliness? Maybe those two are just looking for each other...uh-oh.


Think back on the HS reunion chapter. Mashiro's lack of a life is to exemplify the actual sacrifices needed to not just succeed, but dominate. Shujin got caught up in romance, he was then written to falter in his output for a long spell.
 
Choujin Gakuen vol 1

This is awesome. It's like Soul Eater with shades of One Piece. I love all 4 main characters that have been introduced so far. I think Hachi might be my favorite. All battle series should have a fighting bipedal dog.
 
Think back on the HS reunion chapter. Mashiro's lack of a life is to exemplify the actual sacrifices needed to not just succeed, but dominate. Shujin got caught up in romance, he was then written to falter in his output for a long spell.
Well, it isn't like this is the first time I thought this. It has been a parallel with the passing of Mashiro's uncle and his story. And there has been plenty of punishments for neglecting ambitions for personal enjoyments.

The reason I bring it up now is that with the recent Hiramaru event, there are no more loser characters to go along with Eiji/Mashiro. It is easy to tell that Shujin is more interested in letting Mashiro graduate to the next part of his life then dominate the manga world as a personal ambition. So you are left with Mashiro against Eiji, the battle of ambitions. This is fine since it shows the difficulties in pursuing dominance in manga, etc... But now there is such a black & white with the rest of the characters. Everybody is starting to just go along for the ride, which involves circular type redundant narrative loops might I add.
 
Naruto

You know, people getting surprised that the thing that knows Naruto best con be convinced by Naruto? Wut? The fox knows everything about Naruto. So why is it hard to imagine that the fox can be convinced by Naruto´s sincerity. Naruto fought with the fox before he controlled it. Now he has embraced it. The fox knows Naruto´s deepest desires. So why is it hard to believe that the fox gets convinced by the person who knows him the best? I mean, come on.

Not very hard to believe the kyuubi was training Naruto the entire time. if naruto failed his training the kyuubi would show no mercy and discard Naruto. it's had multiple chances to kill Naruto and never goes through with it. It wants Naruto to finally treat it as a partner and not a mindless tool. ultimately that's what all bijuu want.

Kishi has finally made me sympathetic to the Kyuubi more so then any villain.
 
Soul Eater Not 10

Haha Liz and Patty appeared. They are delinquents and awesome. Next chapter should be good.

Nurarihyon No Mago

Finally this arc is over, on to the new arc. The sword is complete. Riko should get much stronger now.
 
It seems I ran out of long established manga in my wishlist so I'll just continue with Domina no Do and read Buyuden and some other stuff. Is there any big established thing I should take note of that I missed?

Bakuman

The breather chapters are probably the worst idea they had yet in the series after Tanto. That's some rotten kiwis right there honestly now. Honestly.

And a mascot, too. What the hell.

I said this before but really the best way to enlarge the series at this point would be to introduce partners to both sides. Could be love interest, could be a pet (therefore fill that silly mascot role), but it would be smart, useful as hell and make the conflict be way more intense due to a higher quality level of action from both sides. It would fit with popular Jump themes, it would allow for much easier to understand dialogues, and if they REALLY want breathers, it would make that happen too way more naturally than random SoL chapters which every reader will notice is filler to draw out the manga.

From how Hattori took it, though, it seems the readers will like the breathers and the mascot, so whatever

HMPH

HMPH!!!!

Shaman King 47-48

I think I can officially declare this by now, I'm 100% past every single thing I remembered about the series (which was about 5 pages total), so I'm in it completely blind. Gotta love my memory.


GAMARAN

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Like a boss. You have my attention.
 
Breath of Fire IV vol 4

Wow, this keeps being both good, and rather cruel.
In volume 3
an entire village of kids was massacred mercilessly
, in volume 4 there is
the stuff about Elina and the whole torture to that poor girl that helped Fou-lu to mercilessly kill her to curse Fou-lu.
I wouldn't feel bad if both Ryu and Fou-lu do a bit of cleansing of the human filth before the story ends.

Countdown 7 Days vol 2

This was more interesting than the first volume. The resurrection at the start was funny and the interaction between the emotionless Mitamura and the freshly dead/resurrected Hanasuke is more enjoyable this time around.
There is also the whole conspiracy side, with the end showing
a stalker room filled with picture of Mitamura. Wonder who is the obsessed freak.
 
Kami-sama no Iutoori 7-8

I knew he was stalling to get their voices down

New girl has nice tits

I figured somone was going to turn up at the end, wasn't expecting her but I guess that was the point.
 
I said this before but really the best way to enlarge the series at this point would be to introduce partners to both sides. Could be love interest, could be a pet (therefore fill that silly mascot role), but it would be smart, useful as hell and make the conflict be way more intense due to a higher quality level of action from both sides. It would fit with popular Jump themes, it would allow for much easier to understand dialogues, and if they REALLY want breathers, it would make that happen too way more naturally than random SoL chapters which every reader will notice is filler to draw out the manga.
Basically, it needs drama and I agree. The best parts of Bakuman is when there was actual conflict or struggle. Mashiro ending up the hospital, the struggles with Tanto, and even some of the conflicting love story bits. Who cares about Nanamine because it didn't affect Ashirogi at all. It was just another stupid war declaration against their success. Same thing with Eiji since who cares anymore? Does anyone really give a shit if they surpass Eiji? Can they even do so since he has been owning them for the entire time? What about the slob Nakai's story? Fukuda and his crew? All forgettable or forgotten.

So yea, the issue is just a bunch of fluff that doesn't mean anything. It's like SoL of competing mangka and it is fucking boring. Hiramaru with his originality saves any shred of positivity left in the pages of silly dialog.
Haven't read Bakuman in MONTHS ... should I try to catch up?
You're caught up.
 
Could be since it seemed more like a style change (a lot of females that looked alright before, looks really good now)



1) Naruto didn't actually know shit about the fox save the usual stuff he heard.
2) Because the fox has been defensive and remains so even now?


There was a point were the fox claimed that Dark Naruto was the true version of Naruto and asked what happened to him. Plus he looked pretty bummed out when he was sealed in that Senjuu chakra cage the last time.

Because the fox went from trying to overtake and break free from Naruto to wanting nakama now?

It's not so much surprise, but the whole facepalming at someone whose supposed to be filled with nothing but hate falling for talk no jutsu (a good test run for Sasuke, oh god!!), not that that's supposed to be a surprising thing at this point.
Naruto hated the fox because it was the fox´s fault that Naruto grew up alone.
We never knew the reason of why the fox was hating on everyone. Now we know that people only used the tailed beasts as weapons and totally disregarded the tailed beasts´ feelings.
The fact that Kishimoto is giving depth to the tailed beast makes me glad that these creature/summons are not just chakra weapons to be used at people´s discretion. It makes the beasts a multi dimensional characters, and can build on that to create peace in Naruto´s world.
 
Its pretty sad how bad Bakuman has fallen to. I was reading old posts the other day and its funny how everyone was hyped about the manga from the Death Note guys.
 
No. 6 chp 7

I think it played out just as well as it did in the anime. Though it seemed Shion is way more attentive about Nezumi here than in the anime. Otherwise, wish Safu wasnt still involved in the plot.
 
One Piece is awesome and Bleach does repeat everything periodically but still... that pic makes no sense.

All 3 have linear storylines and expanding universe. It's the quality of the storyline that differs
 
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