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Relaxed Muscle
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Gantz
Troll deaths are getting old, and why the fuck you kill a character that was in the manga for abour 200 chapters off screen!!??
Troll deaths are getting old, and why the fuck you kill a character that was in the manga for abour 200 chapters off screen!!??
Yes, I liked Reika as a character!
they're kind of odd.
i wonder how the giants found/enslaved them for this show. I mean, these guys shrugged off shots that were annihilating the giants combat suits and severely injuring the level 70 alien from osaka. how the hell did the giants beat these guys in the first place?
Yes. yes. yes.
Its second only to blade of the immortal in terms of current manga. funny how both of the artists actually went to art school (even if one or both didnt finish), it has clearly had an effect on their ability to draw an even slightly convincing human figure.
ColossalLazy
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Gantz
A major character dying offscreen, horrible waste of chapter to only show Kurono B crying.
Not even the tits save that chapter.
Real
Dat art. The drama is handled very well. Sucks to wait for vol 12.
Liar Game
Harimoto didnt even begin his scheme and Akiyama is on top of it.
A major character dying offscreen, horrible waste of chapter to only show Kurono B crying.
Not even the tits save that chapter.
Real
Dat art. The drama is handled very well. Sucks to wait for vol 12.
Liar Game
Harimoto didnt even begin his scheme and Akiyama is on top of it.
So do I.
Hajimete no Aku (ch133)
-A rarely mentioned series gets a rare mention.
This has been a consistent read of mine though it is a rare mention. It's basically part SoL, part romcom, and part battle manga. The reason it can ping-pong around is that the good vs. evil here is vague. It is also unstructured and quite comical. So it is easy to just bring in the battle scenes when it is necessary.
This chapter was one of the SoL being a sport's festival one. But the main reason I stick with Haji Aku is that it can be quite funny. The other would be that most of the characters are fleshed out well. It's a good series if you find yourself getting tired of some manga which only go in one direction constantly.
Ch in 3 (festival, wardrobe, competitions)
FlutterPuffs
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Hayate The Combat Butler? The protagonist is pretty kickass.
He's crazy. I can't forget that chapter where they're basically following him to check how many random girls he can score in one day.
The Earl And The Fairy volume 1
Nice start for this. Story shows potential, with a bit of mystery, fantasy and intrigues. The characters aren't bad either as far as I'm concerned.
I like Lydia, she's a bit naive and too goody good despite the bad things she had to endure growing up because of her red hairs and the ability to see and talk to faeries but her actions and thoughts in the first volume made her appear interesting and funny, which is also a good counter to Edgar's cunning and realistic ways. Ermine and Raven didn't have too much exposure except for some backstory info about their past, so I hope they'll get expanded a bit later.
The art is also good, I really dig the character designs.
Nice start for this. Story shows potential, with a bit of mystery, fantasy and intrigues. The characters aren't bad either as far as I'm concerned.
I like Lydia, she's a bit naive and too goody good despite the bad things she had to endure growing up because of her red hairs and the ability to see and talk to faeries but her actions and thoughts in the first volume made her appear interesting and funny, which is also a good counter to Edgar's cunning and realistic ways. Ermine and Raven didn't have too much exposure except for some backstory info about their past, so I hope they'll get expanded a bit later.
The art is also good, I really dig the character designs.
Black Republican
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liking this little fairy tale tourny
Gantz
I would be overjoyed with the death that awful character but
should of died 200 chapters ago, I no longer care about gantz to read it.
deserved to die for the crime of cloneing the worst character in gantz.
3rd worst character down now 2 kies and that loli are left.
I would be overjoyed with the death that awful character but
she
deserved to die for the crime of cloneing the worst character in gantz.
3rd worst character down now 2 kies and that loli are left.
Black Republican
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You shut your mouth.
Back on the MS thing: the ridiculous part of Viz shutting MS down is that we basically know what Viz wants - they want to go from a model where you get everything for free to a model where you get 3% of what's out there for money. It's silly because it's just a bullshit conceit that it takes all this effort to scan mangas and they just couldn't do it day and date. But people are already doing it for free. There's no rational reason they can't do 100% of the Jump series day and date. There's a reason Crunchyroll works, and it isn't because the series it runs are 2 weeks late and include nothing but Naruto.
I've never been opposed to a money model, I'm willing to pay for series I like. I just don't see why they can't monetize this in a way that will actually satisfy consumers.
Dedication Through Light
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Print? From my understanding Europe has way more and is farther along in print for lots of series compared to the US.
It would be fine if jpn companies would take it upon themselves to reach out to the rest of the world, too much burden on one company.
I meant digital
I don't buy prints
. Even with its filler I find it better to buy the Anime of the Stuff I read. Manga takes up so much room compared to a few DVDs
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
It's not like you would've been able to tell what the hell was happening up to her dying so that really doesn't matter.
The whole death scene... Holy shit. That wins the awkward as fuck award. I think I'm done with Gantz.
For image quality, here's a comparison between Viz's SJA and MS. You can see a couple more examples here.
Viz
MS
Viz
MS
The Viz versions look much better.
Dedication Through Light
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MS seems to like darkening their images which seemed to eliminate some of the details.
ST&RS 21
So what is that in the tornado? A face and a town or something? Brilliant plan though. I felt they rushed to get through the plan but the result was magnificent.
ST&RS 21
So what is that in the tornado? A face and a town or something? Brilliant plan though. I felt they rushed to get through the plan but the result was magnificent.
Spieler Eins
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This starts to get annoying. Mangastream didn't even hoard their chapters. I'm buying the printed volumes of the series I'm interested in since over a decade, but waiting 3 months for new content is a pain, hence I need my weekly shid.
Don't you dare Viz. I need my Bakuman
I agree, for some reason I like the darker images... don't ask me why.
And btw, who exactly did the scanlations for Mangastream anyways? Seems like various sites like Mangareader, Mangafox, ect. had the Big 3 up about the same time (if not earlier) than MS. It sucks that they won't be hosting the popular stuff anymore, but unless the same group's work is what's on other manga sites, I doubt this gonna really effect us much. Just like when Onemanga went down, everyone just transferred to another site.
Scanlators are like weeds, as soon as you pluck one, two others pop up in it's place.
And btw, who exactly did the scanlations for Mangastream anyways? Seems like various sites like Mangareader, Mangafox, ect. had the Big 3 up about the same time (if not earlier) than MS. It sucks that they won't be hosting the popular stuff anymore, but unless the same group's work is what's on other manga sites, I doubt this gonna really effect us much. Just like when Onemanga went down, everyone just transferred to another site.
Scanlators are like weeds, as soon as you pluck one, two others pop up in it's place.
Thank God Viz don't have Beelzebub
Dedication Through Light
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3 months? 99 cents to wait for two weeks though. (or a sub).
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I would imagine so.
They are removing all series which run in Jump period whether they actually are running them in Alpha or not. That's kind of the problem here.
Those pics look good.
I would pay for that quality, but it's not available in my country. (Does SJA have the recent chapters?)
btw, SJA is not available in my country, because another company has the rights to publish for example One Piece(right?)
But, would they get into trouble, if they made their service available anyway?
I would pay for that quality, but it's not available in my country. (Does SJA have the recent chapters?)
btw, SJA is not available in my country, because another company has the rights to publish for example One Piece(right?)
But, would they get into trouble, if they made their service available anyway?
Zoramon089
Banned
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How could people prefer the darker images? Do you guys like having details obscured?
How could people prefer the darker images? Do you guys like having details obscured?
It has more to do with the shade. The viz ones look almost unnaturally bright to me, the monstershits in the first one should be ocluding more light.
Dedication Through Light
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The biju's face, the beetle flying one is almost as if MS failed to draw his face, thats the most glaring detail omitted in them.
The One Piece MS version is actually fucking terrible. I don't mind the Naruto differences.
Agreed. Lighter is vastly superior. Night and day.
Woah, the fan scanlations look like crap compared to VIZ. The Naruto one especially shows how the obsession with black destroyed details.
Infinite Justice
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wow those MS scans are so dark, hell that moth like creature in naruto even lost crazy detail because of it.
"God's Beard!"
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For everything bad you can say about Wolf Guy, we did a fucking good job cleaning those chapters compared to the guys trying to push out their shit same day. It's the only reason I helped them.
Shouta
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Does this surprise you? I've been saying that fan scanlations have been crap for a long time when it comes to keeping as much of the original as possible. Most really just overdo it and make it look awful. It's nice that they do it so fast but it takes more work to make it look like what it is intended to be.
The worst opinion.
I'm not sure what this means, I've already discussed the importance Osamu Tezuka has on the manga industry. He didn't invent the shojo style that became standard for most anime, he just influenced it.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'd give MS a pass on image quality if they'd stop calling Gerard in FT "Jellal."
I didn't notice that till you pointed it out, yep the moth looks really bad in the ms one.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The insane part to me is asking MS to stop doing HxH even though Alpha doesn't even have HxH. That sounds like the exact opposite of the best way to sell that service.
Viz gets their images directly from Jump/Shueisha. Scanlators getting their images from raw providers/scanning from the weekly news print magazines don't stand a chance. Ignis posted a good example of what scanlators usually deal with back in the OT3 thread.
I know we've gotten a lot of "characters" in this thread but is that seriously the only thing you read?
I know we've gotten a lot of "characters" in this thread but is that seriously the only thing you read?
Dragon Ball is the creme de la creme of Manga is it not?
Just noticed Bench! was taken off MS too. Weird as Kintoki is still there
Zoramon089
Banned
Well yeah. It should be obvious why their scans are cleaner considering they get them from the original source
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