-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Manga Discussion/News |OT7| This thread gets an F-; I quit; see you next week.
- Thread starter dramatis
- Start date
- Status
RepairmanJack
Member
Finally got to the point in Magi where the bet took place. How was anything but Rukh Properties even an option?
I'm really liking the Magnashutatt arc a lot. I really like how the oppression/slave/speciesism/whatever story is weaved into it pretty convincingly and doesn't come off as cheesy villainy. Titus being a clone made from rukh and not wanting to die and leave Marga....those feels. :/
^That image makes me want to catch back up on AssClass
I'm really liking the Magnashutatt arc a lot. I really like how the oppression/slave/speciesism/whatever story is weaved into it pretty convincingly and doesn't come off as cheesy villainy. Titus being a clone made from rukh and not wanting to die and leave Marga....those feels. :/
^That image makes me want to catch back up on AssClass
clay_ghost
Member
Oh another pokemon special reader
Not your spoil your reading fun, but this arc is the worst one till one. Every thing is rushed at the end.....I collect the Singapore english edition and am planning to stop after i completed the number collection with the end of HG/SS Arc.
Dedication Through Light
Member
If there's a choice then I go physical, unfortunately some stuff is only digital
. Oh well its better than not having it at all. Can't see how people read stuff on screens less than 7inches.
The iPad screen is perfect.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Reverend D
I'm excited that Tohru Fujisawa has a new manga out, but I'm kinda disappointed that it's a battle manga by the looks of it.
I'm excited that Tohru Fujisawa has a new manga out, but I'm kinda disappointed that it's a battle manga by the looks of it.
Lovers and Nakamas.
Dedication Through Light
Member
Tail Star 12
Great new character design. The writer should have used the climax moment more effectively, ended the chapter when Sanagi's hand was outstretched and the escaping members tried to reach his hand and failed falling into the clouds. Though I guess that would have been a tragic and cruel way to end the chapter, but since this manga is consistently depressing, would have been fitting. If only it had some sort of fandom.
Assassination Classroom 29
Itona's comments implies that Karma is even stronger than the AI unit. Hopefully Nagisa is third strongest, anyway, Karma = Itona > Nagisa > the rest in rank of the best characters present I guess. Hope they all get equal screentime.
Great new character design. The writer should have used the climax moment more effectively, ended the chapter when Sanagi's hand was outstretched and the escaping members tried to reach his hand and failed falling into the clouds. Though I guess that would have been a tragic and cruel way to end the chapter, but since this manga is consistently depressing, would have been fitting. If only it had some sort of fandom.
Assassination Classroom 29
Itona's comments implies that Karma is even stronger than the AI unit. Hopefully Nagisa is third strongest, anyway, Karma = Itona > Nagisa > the rest in rank of the best characters present I guess. Hope they all get equal screentime.
FlutterPuffs
Member
Dedication Through Light
Member
Was just browsing through more of the author comments (jan 25 - feb 6)
Toriko - A
^That. That was pretty cool.
Toriko's on a roll lately. Mansam, Rin, Yuda, Setsuno, and god damn Tengu! Damn.
Not only that, but Mansam with hair? lololol. Also, ZONGE has entered the scene! With all those Musou games he's played, the Bishokukai stand no chance.
^That. That was pretty cool.
Toriko's on a roll lately. Mansam, Rin, Yuda, Setsuno, and god damn Tengu! Damn.
Not only that, but Mansam with hair? lololol. Also, ZONGE has entered the scene! With all those Musou games he's played, the Bishokukai stand no chance.
SenorArdilla
Member
Tail Star 12
Great new character design. The writer should have used the climax moment more effectively, ended the chapter when Sanagi's hand was outstretched and the escaping members tried to reach his hand and failed falling into the clouds. Though I guess that would have been a tragic and cruel way to end the chapter, but since this manga is consistently depressing, would have been fitting. If only it had some sort of fandom.
I'll be a fan. I can't draw though.
Stuff I got this week:
I'm really disliking stuff released in omnibus formats. Too damn big.
I need to buy this.
Picked up Girl Friends too. Can't wait.
Stopped just before the cooking fest arc in Toriko but decided to catch up and man, I forgot just how much fun Toriko is. It's like pure perfected dumb fun. You never have to think so much about it, cook off where a bijillion or so people gather to watch? yea ok!
Assassination Classroom
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrother.
Slightly unrelated but aww yea
Assassination Classroom
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrother.
Slightly unrelated but aww yea
Niiiiiice.
Need to go buy some of them.
I NEED that General Franky T-shirt.
You sure like Chopper :lol.
Chopper shirts are the best ones.
Chopper shirts are great, which is good because it's like the majority of the designs this run lol. Might buy the pink one later with all his forms (because kung-fu point Chopper rocks)
It's not like there's a large number of mangas to buy in the UK.
j/k <3
So, Murata posted this on Twitter.
:bow
One Piece 698:
Not really, but then my comments are only directed at this chapter and below. Oda could reveal Doflamingo as Luffy's step brother in 2 weeks and kill my whole complaint. But I don't care about being right or wrong a week later, especially over a manga that the author can do anything with as he sees fit, I am just criticizing what I am reading as I read it.
Lol, after the beating Smoker took this chapter I am surprised you would bring that up voluntarily as something I will probably be wrong about. But yeah honestly I am not trying to convince anyone to see eye to eye with my comments vs defending my comments from posters who say I am" whining" like the poster is quoted below for simply making a chapter review post that had a negative comment in it.
Wrong.
Not really, but then my comments are only directed at this chapter and below. Oda could reveal Doflamingo as Luffy's step brother in 2 weeks and kill my whole complaint. But I don't care about being right or wrong a week later, especially over a manga that the author can do anything with as he sees fit, I am just criticizing what I am reading as I read it.
Lol, after the beating Smoker took this chapter I am surprised you would bring that up voluntarily as something I will probably be wrong about. But yeah honestly I am not trying to convince anyone to see eye to eye with my comments vs defending my comments from posters who say I am" whining" like the poster is quoted below for simply making a chapter review post that had a negative comment in it.
Wrong.
A Huge Battleship
Member
Doujin Work vols 2-5 (14-68)
Vol 6 is the last one but it doesn't look like there's been any progress with it. Shame since (unusually for a 4koma series) I'm really curious to see how this finishes up, i.e. whether Tsuyuri manages to completely destroy herfriend's business associate's self-esteem or not.
Yeah, the lack of restrictions makes this more enjoyable than the anime. Tsuyuri in particular is a real ball of malevolent manipulative magnificence. I love how the list of Najima's friends on the back of vol 4 includes all the main characters except for her. Reading between the lines much?
Vol 6 is the last one but it doesn't look like there's been any progress with it. Shame since (unusually for a 4koma series) I'm really curious to see how this finishes up, i.e. whether Tsuyuri manages to completely destroy her
Neoriceisgood
Member
Just throwing this out there, I think DTL would make a pretty solid Uchiha.
Aaronology
Member
Ditto. MangaF's constant raving about Onepunch eventually made me check it out. Totally blew me away. In my top 3 favorite series ever right now. Absolutely love it.
Onani Master Kurosawa, Ubel Blatt, Beelzebub... These threads have gotten me to read a bunch of material I would've otherwise avoided.
Amazing. Almost makes me want to run and play a few matches with her in Marvel.
Neoriceisgood
Member
I like that chun-li.
brotkasten
Member
He's way too happy and full of love for that. He'd be Naruto.
SenorArdilla
Member
Cloth Road 1-30
Characters are nice. Fergus is a talented designer who has little confidence in himself and gives up to easily. Jennifer, his older sister, is a vulgar girl who isn't afraid to speak her mind. The dynamic of brother and sister works perfectly, with one always propping the other up when they're down. Secondary characters are a hit-or-miss. The main antagonist
who doesn't pop up until the time skip, is kind of a dick. He uses the word "commoner" the way some people would call a slow person retarded.
The character designs get really interesting. The art can get kind of wonky though. That's about all I have say about this at the moment.
Intriguing story. The world is impressively built. Earth being covered by a giant fabric as a pseudo-ozone layer. Models and designers pairing up to fight others with future-clothing. Society being ruled by 7 fashion brands. It starts of with your typical brother and sister searching for a place to call their own. It starts getting into battle manga. And then action adventure. And then the whole plot escalates to ridiculous levels.
The fabric covering the Earth turns out to be their mother. And their father is an international criminal.
Characters are nice. Fergus is a talented designer who has little confidence in himself and gives up to easily. Jennifer, his older sister, is a vulgar girl who isn't afraid to speak her mind. The dynamic of brother and sister works perfectly, with one always propping the other up when they're down. Secondary characters are a hit-or-miss. The main antagonist
, their dad
The mom feels like a beaten wife.
The character designs get really interesting. The art can get kind of wonky though. That's about all I have say about this at the moment.
Crash Station
Member
Kamisama no Iutoori part 2 1-2
Bit less gory than part 1, but I guess that was necessary after the switch to weekly. The end result is the same though, which is a lot of people killed in disturbing ways.
Wonder if the main guy from part 1 is really dead. Guess we'll have to wait until they get up to the same point.
Bit less gory than part 1, but I guess that was necessary after the switch to weekly. The end result is the same though, which is a lot of people killed in disturbing ways.
Wonder if the main guy from part 1 is really dead. Guess we'll have to wait until they get up to the same point.
Neoriceisgood
Member
Any word on the no Bleach btw? It was an unannounced break, right?
I'll probably never understand the people who prefer digital/e-book over physical copies of books/manga. The act of reading itself is better to me when you hold it in your hand, feel the pages and notice the faint smell of ink/paper. And then there's the more satisfying collecting aspect. I don't feel as much attachment to books/manga/movies if I only have them in digital form. Unfortunately most of the manga I read aren't available physically here and I want to try keeping my collection homogeneous without too many english releases (Hayate and Wandering Son stand out enough already). And yes I do have trouble finding space for them by now and I still don't want to forsake physical.
Same thing goes for games for me. Yes, it's more convenient to get them digitally, but I'm less satisfied because the collecting aspect is gone. Even though I prefer playing PC games, I prefer buying console games since I don't have an impaired version (don't jump on this part talking about graphics I only play exlusives on consoles
) barring online multiplayer stuff that I don't care about in most games anyway and I only play pure multiplayer games for multiplayer. There's also not a single unplayed PS3 game I own because of that, whereas my steam library is much worse.Neoriceisgood
Member
Ah thank you, kind informer.
Dedication Through Light
Member
I'll probably never understand the people who prefer digital/e-book over physical copies of books/manga. The act of reading itself is better to me when you hold it in your hand, feel the pages and notice the faint smell of ink/paper. And then there's the more satisfying collecting aspect. I don't feel as much attachment to books/manga/movies if I only have them in digital form. Unfortunately most of the manga I read aren't available physically here and I want to try keeping my collection homogeneous without too many english releases (Hayate and Wandering Son stand out enough already). And yes I do have trouble finding space for them by now and I still don't want to forsake physical.
Same thing goes for games for me. Yes, it's more convenient to get them digitally, but I'm less satisfied because the collecting aspect is gone. Even though I prefer playing PC games, I prefer buying console games since I don't have an impaired version (don't jump on this part talking about graphics I only play exlusives on consoles
I think the space issue is at least the biggest concern. People dont like carrying all their game cartridges with them when they travel or game on the go, so its convenient to have everything on the device and ready to go. Similarly at least, it is kind of convenient having a few of my manga on my kindle versus carrying it all in hand, if I were traveling somehwere or what not. Though I do like having all my stuff on my shelves and on stacks and prefer the feeling of the paper, it adds a certain type of charm and feeling to the reading, making it feel a way more of an intimate and sensual experience.
Only digital I really have is just the dmp/dmg/sublime releases.
0_o
I only own ~150 mangas and already feel like its too much. I've been trying to ditch some of it (I have all of Kenshin and 1-24 of Eyeshield that take up too much space). If digital manga got cheaper (I think 4.99 that Viz asks for is too much), id probably buy a ton. 1.99 is probably my sweet spot- i'd probably buy all of One Piece at that price.
Dedication Through Light
Member
$4.99 is too much? Thats like about 69cents per chapter. How much less does one want their manga (lowest cost from other companies Ive bought is $7.49).
You could save and get the omnibus releases of One Piece.
I don't think I could ditch any of the manga I have, only saving space I really did was like buy only part 2 of Naruto, and all of the Arrancar Saga of Bleach. Wasnt planning on getting Full Bring and beyond but, Im like, I might as well just go ahead and complete the rest of Bleach. Maybe the future long series Ill just buy the arcs that Id really feel like rereading or stuff less than 10 volumes.
It's less intimidating when you see it, really.
I'm just really price sensitive. Looking at my shelf, The only manga from Tokyopop I own is .hack, because in the mid 2000s, Viz was charging 7.99 for most stuff where Tokyopop was charging 9.99. When Viz bumped all their titles up to 9.99 a few years ago, I pretty much stopped buying Manga (dropped to about 2 vols a year). 4.99 is too much for me to pay for a digital volume, so i'm not buying any. If they were 1.99, I could see myself buying upwards of 100 items a year, mostly on impulse at that price.
Shit, I don't have a computer capable of running games in any real capacity, and I own over 200 games in Steam from various bundles and sales.
I'm pretty sure the Shonen Jump/Shojo Beat stuff was the stuff at 7.99. Anything they published that wasn't under those banners (Detective Conan, Inuyasha, Flame of Recca, Excel Saga, ect) was always 9.99. I think it was 2009 or 2010 they moved them all to 9.99- I know this cause my copy of Ruroni Kenshin vol 6 (which I lost and wanted to replace) was 9.99 while all the other ones were 7.99
Dedication Through Light
Member
Is 9.99$ the price even for shounens/shoujos...?
In France they're often cheaper (around 6.80€
For Viz Shonen Jump/Shoujo titles, the price for new stuff is usually $9.99...(kids stuff like pokemon is 7.99)
Kodansha titles are usually pricier (like Fairy Tail and etc) at 10.49
Vertical seems to do the same at 10.49 for their stuff
Yen Press seems all over the place (like Bunny Drop is 12.99/Soul Eater 11.99)
Omnibus stuff is $14.99 - $19.99
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked