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OniBarubary
Banned
Jitsu wa Watashi wa 107
I can't. I literally fucking can't. The crying dinosaurs. My god.
I can't. I literally fucking can't. The crying dinosaurs. My god.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The next official WSJ releases on Jan 4, so the scans from last weekend will appear in the online official jump on Monday. Typically the first week of January doesn't have a chapter either, so there won't be chapters next week either.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
WSJ One Shot Specials
Wow, there are a lot of Jump series I don't care about!
Platinum End 3
getting contrived now. 13 God candidates but 4 of them live within 10 miles of each other. C'mon.
Wow, there are a lot of Jump series I don't care about!
Platinum End 3
getting contrived now. 13 God candidates but 4 of them live within 10 miles of each other. C'mon.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Tomorrow is New Years, so might as well spam this one more time for good measure.
Ok. Here is what I have for you all so far -
If I missed you, have anything down wrong, or you want to change anything, tell me. By the way, for good measure, if you put down JoJo's Bizarre Adventure I am counting that as ALL of it unless you specified otherwise like Real Talker. I'm not gonna count spin offs or continuations for series like Fist of the North Star.
Ok. Here is what I have for you all so far -
If I missed you, have anything down wrong, or you want to change anything, tell me. By the way, for good measure, if you put down JoJo's Bizarre Adventure I am counting that as ALL of it unless you specified otherwise like Real Talker. I'm not gonna count spin offs or continuations for series like Fist of the North Star.
This line is too obvious
Dedication Through Light
Member
one shot news years ball wsj
No haikyuu? No saiki kusuo in his own one (but at least jet black wing and nendo)?
Enjoyed World Triggers and BLack Clovers and Buddystrikes.
No haikyuu? No saiki kusuo in his own one (but at least jet black wing and nendo)?
Enjoyed World Triggers and BLack Clovers and Buddystrikes.
A Huge Battleship
Member
Happy Mono-Eye Day folks! It's this time of the year again:
Best Manga of 2015
Only includes stuff I began reading this year, or picked up again from scratch.
Left to right, no order:
Series
The Little Match Girl / Abyssal Naval Base (doujin) / Shokugeki no Soma / Kyou, Curry!
A Lollipop or a Bullet / Spine House / The Furou Siblings / Tsugihagi na Kanojo
Mugen no Minamo ni
One-shots
The White Witch and the Snow-Viewing Tea Party / Kitan Jojishi Mother Goose / Witches of the Forest of Solitude
Best Series - The Little Match Girl / Spine House
Best One-shot - Kitan Jojishi Mother Goose
Worst Series - Gift: Under the Rainbow
Best MC - Rin (The Little Match Girl)
Best Heroine - Bloody Mary (Kitan Jojishi Mother Goose) / acinoreV|Vanessa (Sousouki Reginald)
Best Waifu - Alice (Shokugeki no Soma)
Worst Character - Mitsuru (Shokugeki no Soma)
Looking at the size of my backlog, the phone number for the Samaritans would probably be more helpful for me than joining the backlog club.
Best Manga of 2015
Only includes stuff I began reading this year, or picked up again from scratch.
Left to right, no order:
Series
The Little Match Girl / Abyssal Naval Base (doujin) / Shokugeki no Soma / Kyou, Curry!
A Lollipop or a Bullet / Spine House / The Furou Siblings / Tsugihagi na Kanojo
Mugen no Minamo ni
One-shots
The White Witch and the Snow-Viewing Tea Party / Kitan Jojishi Mother Goose / Witches of the Forest of Solitude
Best Series - The Little Match Girl / Spine House
Best One-shot - Kitan Jojishi Mother Goose
Worst Series - Gift: Under the Rainbow
Best MC - Rin (The Little Match Girl)
Best Heroine - Bloody Mary (Kitan Jojishi Mother Goose) / acinoreV|Vanessa (Sousouki Reginald)
Best Waifu - Alice (Shokugeki no Soma)
Worst Character - Mitsuru (Shokugeki no Soma)
Looking at the size of my backlog, the phone number for the Samaritans would probably be more helpful for me than joining the backlog club.
AquaWateria
Member
I PMed you my list.
Infinite Justice
Member
LOL
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
A Huge Battleship
Member
Taboo-Tattoo 39
RIP death flags. Good thing this chapter was fairly mindless, since I'm starting to lose the plot a bit. I still think Schrodinger's Cat would've been more effective without the possession trick, especially if it leaves her that vulnerable to damage.
AquaWateria
Member
Okay then here's my list.
JoJo
Berserk
The Ancient Magus Bride
Kokou no Hito
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
If you had to pick just 3, which ones would you pick. You can add others later after you complete one to fill another in. I want to keep it at 3 because the point is to slim down your backlog to just those three choices so you know you will read them. Anymore and I feel like you would get burden of choice once more, making it null.
AquaWateria
Member
TheRealTalker
Banned
OPM 105 (ONE)
this is why I let it pile up.... I mean cut halfway through something intense (It will likely get updated)
Tornado sounded basically like a pure villain here though... she even wants her sister to embrace the dark side
this is why I let it pile up.... I mean cut halfway through something intense (It will likely get updated)
Tornado sounded basically like a pure villain here though... she even wants her sister to embrace the dark side
One according to his twitter is ill so he couldn't do the whole chapter. The rest is suppose to come Jan 2.
Tornado basically is screwed up after being sold to scientist by her adopted parents and abandoned by the scientists when that monster got out.
So she is trying to push her views on her sister where she is basically its only them and no one else.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I find it hard to articulate the vast appeal Berserk holds for me. I was first exposed to it this year, and it has so intensely changed the way I view the world and my life since that time. Literally, it's one of the cornerstones in my inner-world. I very consistently refer to it as a source of internal symbols and meanings.
I can analyze aspects of the story for hours and hours. It actually increases my interest, cumulatively, and keeps me thinking "Jeez, this Miura dude is a story-telling, character weaving, universe crafting genius!" I can't think of many other things that have had this effect on me. It can be a great work of art, able to stand on it's own merits with awesome execution/artistry/poise, but still, I often find it pales in comparison to the power Berserk has had on me. Berserk is a whole universe in it's own right. And not just in the typical fictional sense. Everything seems to be carefully thought out, and there's a lot of subtlety. I also think a large part of it is Miura's willingness to explore various existential problems such as the meaning of struggle, overwhelming despair, and the darker aspects of humanity.
It's offered me so much inspiration. There is this deep sense of truth that resounds throughout the entirety of the story. From incredibly intimate and personal levels (Griffith, Casca, Guts, new members!), to incredibly vast and metaphysical (yet metaphysical doesn't just mean arbitrary hocus pocus, one can actually extrapolate the metaphysical things for themselves, and have it make so much sense! It's logical and plausible and appeals to the patterns and such that I see in the world). It's just so rich, and in many ways it mirrored (and also redefined) the philosophy I've held, about existentialism/suffering, archetypes, the existence of "evil" (the idea!), etc, and how all of them are wrought from humanity.
It blows my mind when I think this is all the work of one man. I was never previously that interested in the graphic novel/manga format, but Berserk showed to me how masterfully it can be done, and how much can be conveyed just via a few panels. Also, the art! Gosh, the art!
Gah, this amounted to more of a "Berserk is just an effing masterpiece" than me specifically saying why. If I was a more patient person, I could write paragraphs and paragraphs trying to encapsulate the essence of Berserk's awesomeness, from the smallest of minutia, to large/overriding themes or motifs, but I don't think this would be doing anyone any favors, as I have a tendency to be long winded or verbose, and by all means, I feel the work should speak for itself.
TheRealTalker
Banned
^^^^
well put.... there are so many great series now that I feel we are returning to another golden age of entertainment
Oh I never knew.... hopefully he gets a well needed rest
Also that plot.... dang I never knew that did that leak
well put.... there are so many great series now that I feel we are returning to another golden age of entertainment
Oh I never knew.... hopefully he gets a well needed rest
Also that plot.... dang I never knew that did that leak
Cat Street - fin.
I've not read Boys Over Flowers or watched any of its various adaptations, and I don't think I ever will tbh, but I am familiar with the basic story. Cat Street, another shoujo by the same mangaka, has a setup I find much more interesting. It's about a girl, Keito, a former child actress, who suffered a traumatizing experience on stage as a kid, and sank into a deep depression. Things are so bad that she drops out of school and cuts herself off from the rest of society. The story begins proper when Keito is 16 and wandering around on her own, where she's approached by a stranger who guides her to El Liston, a laid back school for teens who are lost in life. There she makes some friends, other students with issues themselves, and together with her little band of stray cats she begins trying to pick up the pieces of her life.
Keito herself is really charming. Though every now and then she'll have a dramatic moment, for the most part she is a kind of honest look at a former hermit trying to be social again. She is unfamiliar with the real world, and uneducated on top of that, so there's this mix of confusion, surprise, and a bit of frustration in her reactions to common everyday things. It's kind of sad. She has trouble reading and writing, she struggles to articulate her thoughts, she makes a dated pop culture reference that her friends find embarrassing. At one point she has a conversation with her dad and wonders when he got so old. Life completely passed this girl by. Of course, there's more to Keito's story than just feeling bad for her, she really does work to overcome her obstacles and her growth throughout Cat Street, from awkward teen to an upbeat adult, is handled well.
Unfortunately, right when Keito gets her first boyfriend, the pacing accelerates to an absurd degree. A lot of what are supposed to be important moments, like the aforementioned boyfriend, just suddenly happen and as a result don't have much impact. Some friends phase in and out, some friends are benched for the rest of the story, there are multiple time skips, and a few things that should've been expanded on (her relationship with her family, particularly her mother) are hastily taken care of and it's all pretty unsatisfactory. All of this happens within roughly 15 chapters, no less. Keito is still quite likable, and I wouldn't say the latter half-ish of Cat Street is, like, unreadable or anything - well, mostly. See, right before the end, the mangaka completely loses it with this kidnapping arc. This arc is so out of left field and over the top dumb. It adds nothing, not to the overall plot, not to Keito as a character, and it not only feels like this was stapled on to the story at the last second, but it takes up time that could've been better spent on literally anything else.
Things calm down enough in the final two chapters to give Cat Street a warm sendoff, but the damage had already been done. Great lead character, mostly well done look at a recluse trying to reenter the real world, but it turns into a mess. I wish this were better.
I've not read Boys Over Flowers or watched any of its various adaptations, and I don't think I ever will tbh, but I am familiar with the basic story. Cat Street, another shoujo by the same mangaka, has a setup I find much more interesting. It's about a girl, Keito, a former child actress, who suffered a traumatizing experience on stage as a kid, and sank into a deep depression. Things are so bad that she drops out of school and cuts herself off from the rest of society. The story begins proper when Keito is 16 and wandering around on her own, where she's approached by a stranger who guides her to El Liston, a laid back school for teens who are lost in life. There she makes some friends, other students with issues themselves, and together with her little band of stray cats she begins trying to pick up the pieces of her life.
Keito herself is really charming. Though every now and then she'll have a dramatic moment, for the most part she is a kind of honest look at a former hermit trying to be social again. She is unfamiliar with the real world, and uneducated on top of that, so there's this mix of confusion, surprise, and a bit of frustration in her reactions to common everyday things. It's kind of sad. She has trouble reading and writing, she struggles to articulate her thoughts, she makes a dated pop culture reference that her friends find embarrassing. At one point she has a conversation with her dad and wonders when he got so old. Life completely passed this girl by. Of course, there's more to Keito's story than just feeling bad for her, she really does work to overcome her obstacles and her growth throughout Cat Street, from awkward teen to an upbeat adult, is handled well.
Unfortunately, right when Keito gets her first boyfriend, the pacing accelerates to an absurd degree. A lot of what are supposed to be important moments, like the aforementioned boyfriend, just suddenly happen and as a result don't have much impact. Some friends phase in and out, some friends are benched for the rest of the story, there are multiple time skips, and a few things that should've been expanded on (her relationship with her family, particularly her mother) are hastily taken care of and it's all pretty unsatisfactory. All of this happens within roughly 15 chapters, no less. Keito is still quite likable, and I wouldn't say the latter half-ish of Cat Street is, like, unreadable or anything - well, mostly. See, right before the end, the mangaka completely loses it with this kidnapping arc. This arc is so out of left field and over the top dumb. It adds nothing, not to the overall plot, not to Keito as a character, and it not only feels like this was stapled on to the story at the last second, but it takes up time that could've been better spent on literally anything else.
Things calm down enough in the final two chapters to give Cat Street a warm sendoff, but the damage had already been done. Great lead character, mostly well done look at a recluse trying to reenter the real world, but it turns into a mess. I wish this were better.
TheRealTalker
Banned
Seeing as 2015 is now coming to an end.... (has already ended for people living in the future) we can make up random awards that have no relevance what so ever
Again I reward the Nakiri family for the genetic superiority in possessing the best looks in all of Shokugeki no Soma
No wonder why Soma's Dad wants his son to get hitched ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Again I reward the Nakiri family for the genetic superiority in possessing the best looks in all of Shokugeki no Soma
You can hate on Erina for all you want but she has that Nakiri DNA... the same blood of Queen Alice runs in Erina's veins
No wonder why Soma's Dad wants his son to get hitched ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
MANGA NEW YEARS BACKLOG CLUB
Let the games begin
oh, and happy new year
Let the games begin
oh, and happy new year
Lets see what manga smut dreams the new year brings.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
I think i'm going to add more manga to new year manga club...
Happy new year MangaGAF!
I made my 2015 manga list
1. Dungeon Meshi
2. Spirit Circle
3. Vinland Saga
4. Jojolion
5. Silver spoon
6. Shin Saikyou densetsu Kurosawa
7. Prison School
8. Otouto no otto
9. One punch man
10. Mob psycho 100
Honorable mention:
Dagashi Kashi
Match girl
Shokugeki no soma
Method to make a gentle world
Kono bijutsu niwa mondai ga aru
Re:life
How i stalked some dude with an exposed nipple and stumble upon zenithian sword
Hana to Alice
Thou shall not die (Yoko Taro x Daisuke Moriyama)
Yandere Kanojo
Flying witch
Alice in borderland
Drifters
Sesuji wo pin
High Score Girl
34sai Mushoku san
Random award
Best hero: Thorfinn (Vinland Saga)
Best heroine: Hotaru (Dagashi Kashi)
Best supporting character:
Chairman/Silva/Man in brief/Assman (Prison school)
Rindo (Shokugeki no soma)
Best author: Kui Ryoko (Dungeon meshi, terrrarium in drawer)
Best illustrator: Hiramoto Akira (Prison School)
Best cover design: One Punch Man
Best hiatus: Togashi Yoshihiro (Hunter x Hunter)(Only because we never know if he's going to finish it or not, Miura at least has bigger chance to return)
Best 'no context' manga: EG Maker
Best monster girl: Rachnee (Monmusu no nichijou)
Best food: Fried Basilisk (Dungeon meshi)
Historical moment in manga: They off the boat (Berserk)
Still waiting for it to resume publication: High score girl
Happy new year MangaGAF!
I made my 2015 manga list
1. Dungeon Meshi
2. Spirit Circle
3. Vinland Saga
4. Jojolion
5. Silver spoon
6. Shin Saikyou densetsu Kurosawa
7. Prison School
8. Otouto no otto
9. One punch man
10. Mob psycho 100
Honorable mention:
Dagashi Kashi
Match girl
Shokugeki no soma
Method to make a gentle world
Kono bijutsu niwa mondai ga aru
Re:life
How i stalked some dude with an exposed nipple and stumble upon zenithian sword
Hana to Alice
Thou shall not die (Yoko Taro x Daisuke Moriyama)
Yandere Kanojo
Flying witch
Alice in borderland
Drifters
Sesuji wo pin
High Score Girl
34sai Mushoku san
Random award
Best hero: Thorfinn (Vinland Saga)
Best heroine: Hotaru (Dagashi Kashi)
Best supporting character:
Chairman/Silva/Man in brief/Assman (Prison school)
Rindo (Shokugeki no soma)
Best author: Kui Ryoko (Dungeon meshi, terrrarium in drawer)
Best illustrator: Hiramoto Akira (Prison School)
Best cover design: One Punch Man
Best hiatus: Togashi Yoshihiro (Hunter x Hunter)(Only because we never know if he's going to finish it or not, Miura at least has bigger chance to return)
Best 'no context' manga: EG Maker
Best monster girl: Rachnee (Monmusu no nichijou)
Best food: Fried Basilisk (Dungeon meshi)
Historical moment in manga: They off the boat (Berserk)
Still waiting for it to resume publication: High score girl
Sibersk Esto
Banned
It's something alright.
damnit Zweizer I thought it'll be something extremely lewd not a straight up porn.
Well, I never did specify how less safe for work it'd be~
Wakabayashi Toshiyas 4-koma Collection ch38
Gosh, these two are so adorable, it's almost criminal.
It's alright to be a little bit more selfish~
Seishun Rikon ch6
This is turning sour unexpectedly fast.
Yuri Kuma Arashi ch. v1 Omake
Hahaha.
Batou Shoujo ch29-33
So lewd, and romantic, but mostly lewd.
trash. ch30
Huh, that's a strange weapon.
Red String ch35
That wasn't very smart.
Gosh, these two are so adorable, it's almost criminal.
It's alright to be a little bit more selfish~
Seishun Rikon ch6
This is turning sour unexpectedly fast.
Yuri Kuma Arashi ch. v1 Omake
Hahaha.
Batou Shoujo ch29-33
So lewd, and romantic, but mostly lewd.
trash. ch30
Huh, that's a strange weapon.
Red String ch35
That wasn't very smart.
Should never trust Zweizer with hiss "less" safe for work.
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