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[Jintor]

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[hosannainexcelsis]

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Much of the most interesting Brains Base staff, led by Takahiro Omori, have migrated over to the new studio of Shuka. Shuka handled the latest Durarara anime and will be doing season 5 of Natsume's Book of Friends this fall.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Me and the Devil Blues 30

Utterly fantastic as always. How can one mangaka be so based.

 

[Semblance]

Ore to Akuma no Blues ch. 30

It's probably because I haven't read this in awhile, but his art seems a bit different here. These sketchy in-motion shots of RJ playing his guitar, as well as the people dancing, are fantastic though. Paneling too, as always.

Despite its page length, not a whole happens this chapter beyond him playing and another blues player freaking out over it, but fuck if it doesn't look amazing.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Probably because of Prison School he can't help but draw slightly different from the original style. Still looks 100% distinct from Prison School though.

 

[Semblance]

I swear I didn't think the chapter from February or whenever the previous one came out looked all that different from the previous material though. Again, it's probably just been a minute, so I already forgot.

And yeah, it's entirely different from Prison School. Dude's so versatile. It's impressive.

 

[Jintor]

man horimiya has a boatload of characters that are visually distinct when read in one shot but if you read monthly just blends into one another ==;;

 

[Revo]

A Thousand Years Ninetails 82-83

Finally revealed that he isn't the reincarnation to the fox clan.
Now things can get shaken up even more.

 

[LeleSocho]

Wow so many people i don't know in that "bald/thinning hair" picture

In red people that i don't know while the two in blue are the ones that i know but can't remember for the love of me who they are or where do they come from.

 

[Jintor]

also man i wish otherwise cool romance manga would stop casually putting domestic violence in there as goofs

/edit man horimiya gets weird once the m elements get introduced. I don't think the mangaka has a good grasp on it

//edit ALSO. A character has like COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED from the manga for like 20 chapters.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

I found the dudes twitter (same guy who did the one punch man/dragon ball fan comic) and there are two more images

https://twitter.com/dragongarowLEE/status/727102567545597952

dude is amazing at style emulation unless its tracing

 

[Lain]

Wow so many people i don't know in that "bald/thinning hair" picture

In red people that i don't know while the two in blue are the ones that i know but can't remember for the love of me who they are or where do they come from.

eyepatch baldy should be from rocky joe. I dunno the name though.

 

[LeleSocho]

eyepatch baldy should be from rocky joe. I dunno the name though.

Oh figures i couldn't remember, i was thinking completely different genres

 

[Angry Grimace]

You blocked all the faces so if you were hoping for identification you're probably out of luck.

 

[8 X 11 Printer Paper]

You blocked all the faces so if you were hoping for identification you're probably out of luck.

The unblocked picture was posted on the previous page.

 

[LeleSocho]

You blocked all the faces so if you were hoping for identification you're probably out of luck.

I wasn't looking for identifications for the red ones, even if listed i doubt i could recognize most of them.

 

[Coriolanus]

My Hero Academia => 23

Lovely enemy designs. Dude certainly isn't lacking for imagination in that regard.

Do feel somewhat annoyed by the feeling that the story's just going through the motions while the reader waits for All Might to die a tragic death.

 

[jman2050]

Tomo-chan 325

I think Jun's brain is broken.

Also Fumita must have read Angry Grimace's post, he decided to satisfy him by going on hiatus for ten days!

 

[TheRealTalker]

Yeah, everything up to Ice Hell arc is just perfect. Then the consequents arc get a bit slower but are still really good, especially in how he foreshadow a lot of things, melk knives and kuriboh pots are seen like in chapter 30. Blue nitros (B.B corn , blue blood or also nobles corn), the fact that they are on another level (it easily eat the ozone herb and it spit it because it's disgusting from his point of view, being used to gourmet's world ingredient). The name of the top chefs, Zaus and Setsuno.
Some of those arcs are really slow and give little progress, especially casino city arc and the shokurin temple arc, but have decent endings. After that it get seriously slow, up until the four beast arc, where things start to go downhill. Suddendly all the characters that have been hyped until there (Teppei first appearance was just amazing as well as the first fight against a sous-chef, Tommyrod) become irrilevant incredibly fast. And then the gourmet world, with some good moments, really go to shit, with tons of chars that you think they'd be amazing becoming fodders, some disappearing (Alfaro and Grinpatch had like a scene both then disappeared Wtf), and the main chars going from being a low tier to surpassing everyone in the span of 50 chapters when in the previous 250 chars he had a steady improvement that was really satisfying to see. And the worst thing? He skipped so many tiers without a single fight. So fucking bad.

Naruto and Bleach went to shit but were never that good to begin with, especially with their whiny self-insert mains, instead of an adult dude that act so (how many chars you see that smoke and drink? altough he stopped after a while) and is knowledgeable about the world (he knowing lots of top tiers and komatsu getting all excited about it). Toriko went from one of the smartest fighters in the manga (fight vs Grinparch was awesome , but in general he always outsmart his foes), to an idiot who challenge much stronger foes and get curbstomped thinking he could do something against them. We went from arcs where everyone had relevance and fights (regal mammoth, ice hell, bb corn arc where even dogs got relevant fights) to arcs where fights are basically inexistent, everything is a stomp of two pages to two chapters most and there's no tension or excitement anymore. What's worse is that everyone act cocky before getting curbstomped, it's like perception of power suddendly disappear (when everyone from the start had the ability to evaluate power levels, see toriko when he see Star GT robo the first time, or Teppei when he sense Alfaro and Setsuno etc...)

Indeed the rush is saddening but the sales were poor so the told him to likely rush it before it got chopped


the main saddening thing for me, like what you stated above is the missing people who were major players before and then just vanished from existence

some became Neo members but were later turned into fodders (no point of changing sides) while others just vanished to thin air

I mean Grinpatch was a major villain like TommyRod and Starjun but he just never appeared again in Part 2

that and the fact that you gave a great point about people now not being cautious anymore like the past

Wow so many people i don't know in that "bald/thinning hair" picture

In red people that i don't know while the two in blue are the ones that i know but can't remember for the love of me who they are or where do they come from.

really mate


Character from HXH, Character from Gundam, Characters from hajime no ippo, Characters from Osomatsu, Characters from Prince of Tennis, Character from Black Jack, Character from Black Lagoon, character from ASTRO BOY?!?!


heck you even put a red tag on one dude that is from OPM lol

 

[LeleSocho]

really mate


Character from HXH, Character from Gundam, Characters from hajime no ippo, Characters from Osomatsu, Characters from Prince of Tennis, Character from Black Jack, Character from Black Lagoon, character from ASTRO BOY?!?!


heck you even put a red tag on one dude that is from OPM lol

Who's the other from HxH? It's strange that i've skipped it as not even a month ago i've read it all over again.
All the others you mentioned are from series i don't read so unless i've encountered them randomly there's no way i would know them (i mean i could probably guess the Astro Boy one or even the Prince of Tennis given the obvious racket but that doesn't mean i know them).
for OPM if it's a Murata character then it's ok for me to have skipped it, i only read Murata's as a ONE's filler.

 

[MANUELF]

Yeah, everything up to Ice Hell arc is just perfect. Then the consequents arc get a bit slower but are still really good, especially in how he foreshadow a lot of things, melk knives and kuriboh pots are seen like in chapter 30. Blue nitros (B.B corn , blue blood or also nobles corn), the fact that they are on another level (it easily eat the ozone herb and it spit it because it's disgusting from his point of view, being used to gourmet's world ingredient). The name of the top chefs, Zaus and Setsuno.

Wasnt Ice Hell where some level 70s bugs were like some end boss and were killing everyone?

 

[LeleSocho]

Wasnt Ice Hell where some level 70s bugs were like some end boss and were killing everyone?

In Ice Hell the level 80 insect was Tommyrod's last resort as he used most of his energy for restraining it to be born

 

[8 X 11 Printer Paper]

Yeah Toriko's power levels got broken pretty early on.....

 

[MANUELF]

In Ice Hell the level 80 insect was Tommyrod's last resort as he used most of his energy for restraining it to be born

And now they are all fighting mosnters in the thousands, the capture level skyrocketed in the gourmet world,also I dont like those the world is way bigger than we said tropes, didnt like it in Toriko nor HxH

 

[Viridian6]

Criminale! 1-8

I need more.

 

[8 X 11 Printer Paper]

Ushio to Tora 1-74
Well now I know why something felt off about the early part of the anime, it decided to skip 24 chapters/6 stories so far.

 

[dani_dc]

Tomo-chan is on break from tomorrow until the 17th

Tomo chan wa onna no ko latest

Now, this is some complex situation

first, let us learn the history of sport bra.
The first thing to know about sports and breasts is this: women have always participated in athletics, bra or no bra. In ancient Rome, women bound their breasts with cloth and leather. Pottery and mosaics from the fourth and fifth centuries show female athletes wearing bikini-like uniforms. (Eveleth, 2015)

In the Victorian era, women turned to corsets to keep their breasts from moving too much. Those competing at Wimbledon in 1887 returned to their dressing rooms in between matches to "unhitch their bloody corsets," having been "repeatedly stabbed by the metal and whale bone stays of the cumbersome garments" as they played.

By 1911, women got a "sports corset" with flexible material, and thanks to the 1914 tango craze, someone even invented a dancing corset. But it wasn't until the 1920s that bras started to replace corsets in the United States, and while brassieres designed for athletic purposes were patented as early as 1906, they simply never caught on.

Finally, in 1977 — the same year Victoria's Secret was founded — the sports bra as we know it was invented by Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith, with the help of designer and runner Hinda Miller. That first sports bra was simply two jockstraps sewn together. It wasn't just that jockstraps were the right size, they were also the right idea. "We said, what we really need to do is what men have been doing: pull everything close to the body," Miller later told researchers. They called this new bra the Jockbra, but quickly changed it to Jogbra after store owners in South Carolina deemed the name offensive.

Some experts in female adolescent obesity and fitness suggested that young girls would be more comfortable in single-sex gym classes. But others said that option had its disadvantages, too.

according to Kimberly Burdette, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Loyola University Chicago who looks at the psychological factors that promote well-being and healthy weight in girls, says such separation might be helpful at a time when adolescent girls had a heightened awareness that others were looking at their bodies.

“It’s hard to be in the zone, focusing on athletic movement, on what your body can do, if you’re thinking about what others think your body looks like,” she said. “I like programming that is for girls only, where a girl can try a sport, regardless of her ability, without the male gaze.”

But Elizabeth A. Daniels, an assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, disagreed. “I’m not sure the concern or embarrassment is always just about boys,” she said, noting that girls can make derisive comments about one another. “So do we change the structure of the gym class or address respectful behavior?” (Hoffman, 2016)

Conclusion
Both Aikawa and Jun need to be respectful around Tomo despite her wearing a sport bra.

Reference:

Eleveth, Rose. ((2015, October 29) Why Are Sports Bras So Terrible? The science of and psychology behind bouncing breasts retrieved from http://www.racked.com/2015/10/29/9631102/sports-bra-research

Hoffman, Jan. (2016, May 2)Breast and Body Changes Are Driving Teen Girls Out of Sports retrieved from http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/bodily-changes-are-driving-girls-out-of-sports/?_r=0

Note: i just made this for the lulz

This was extremely educative.

 

[Quasar]

I hate to let you know, but Brains Base has essentially no talent left and hasn't really made anything good for the past several years.

Well I liked a fair amount, though i guess that depends on how you define several.

And I assume they are doing the new season of Natsume.

Admittedly the last thing I liked was One Week Friends.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Well I liked a fair amount, though i guess that depends on how you define several.

And I assume they are doing the new season of Natsume.

See:

Much of the most interesting Brains Base staff, led by Takahiro Omori, have migrated over to the new studio of Shuka. Shuka handled the latest Durarara anime and will be doing season 5 of Natsume's Book of Friends this fall.

 

[elyetis]

See:

Yay for a new Natsume season. I bought the first 3 volume but I couldn't get into it, I really prefer the anime for that one.

 

[dani_dc]

Golden Kanui 45

Clever way to turn around the situation, but I have a feeling this won't be the end of it, I have a feeling Ogata is going to have one more trick down his sleeve.

 

[striferser]

Wow so many people i don't know in that "bald/thinning hair" picture

In red people that i don't know while the two in blue are the ones that i know but can't remember for the love of me who they are or where do they come from.

The blue one:
eyepatch: Danpei, coach from Ashita no Joe
Oldman in a judo gi: Jigoro from Yawara! and Jigoro! manga

striferser, you should drop tomo chan, it's looking unhealthy for you

On the contrary, I'd say it's been quite productive to striferser's trivia knowledge!

I have no regret!

Tomo-chan is on break from tomorrow until the 17th



This was extremely educative.

Yeah, I've read several article related to sport bra and male gaze for that one...

Tomo-chan wa onna no ko
Hiatus? Boooo!

Barakamon vol.8
One of the most emotional moment in Barakamon series. The 1st half is the usual comedy with Handa and co trying to make cake and somehow got food poisoning, the middle school student trip, and Hiroshi trying to get a job. The closing chapter was quite heavy theme about losing someone and how the villager taking it.

 

[Zweizer]

Tomo-chan wa Onna no ko! ch325

What a bully.

Me and the Devil Blues ch30

Incredible as always. I do wonder how it'll end now that RJ got them all riled up.

The tones do feel a bit different from before, though I feel it's mainly due to the cleaning.

 

[Erigu]

Probably because of Prison School he can't help but draw slightly different from the original style.

That one was drawn before Prison School.

 

[Zweizer]

One Punch-Man ch60

Too damn short.

Nana to Kaoru ch146

Aw yeah, I missed you Tachi. It's nice that she's doing her own thing.

AKB49 ch208

Such a fierce battle.

 

[Revo]

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatte Iru Darou ka Gaiden - Sword Oratoria 21-23

rematch so soon hype
also didn't expect we'd get terorists in danmachi

 

[Zweizer]

A Room For Two ch6

No surprise that she is popular~

Custom Maid ch8

Who knew using a vending machine could be so tough.

Akuma no Riddle ch44

Lawl, at least that didn't last long.

 

[Sir Blaming]

Tokyo Ghoul Re 75
Welp, Kaneki rises from the egg; The king is born.
Ishida sensei, you sly bastard.

 

[Revo]

Tsukiyoda Sadame's Way of Saving The World 3

Sports girl hype!

 

[bjork]

Bebop High School 50

I like a good old fashioned series with dudes talking shit. But that last panel, ugh.

 

[RockTurtle]

Tomo-chan wa Onna no ko! ch325

what are they playing for?

WHAT ARE THEY PLAYING FOR?

 

[Kyuur]

Tokyo Ghoul: Re 75 (xpost from TG thread)

Furuta fucked up. I guess you absolutely need that combination of RC cell inhibitors and food deprivation to stop a monster like Eto. Or did someone unlock her cell? I don't think they were unlocking the higher class ghouls and no one but Hinami and Kaneki would have any reason to assist her. I'm going to go with her beasting, and I can't wait to see Furuta meet his demise now.

So Arima's Owl-Sword can launch projectiles, which can then be used as mines ala Nutcracker? He also seemed do something when Kaneki engulfed the weapon with his kagune, but idk what.

After Kaneki's inner turmoil, I have to think he's going to book it out of here. He didn't even put a scratch on Arima. If he does go down I'm going to have to assume an Eto assist, or maybe Eto will facilitate the escape and die. Would be sad though, she's one of the best characters in the manga.

 

[NCR Redslayer]

Tomo-chan wa Onna no ko! ch325

what are they playing for?

WHAT ARE THEY PLAYING FOR?

Wait ten days to find out!

 

[Sai]

So... Arima's definitely a closet Ghoul like Furuta, right?

 

[Sir Blaming]

So... Arima's definitely a closet Ghoul like Furuta, right?

For now, yeah, probably.

 

[Revo]

Plunderer 13-15

was thrown off by the school stuff at first but with all the history we've learned seems like we're in the past

history stuff is always fun

 

[OniBarubary]

Sengoku Youko 92

OH MY GOD ABOUT FUCKING TIME.

 

[striferser]

Sengoku Youko 92
The ship has officially sailed!
Not to mention that 1000 demon arm that appear to support Senya. sogood.gif
Mizukami deliver.

 

[A Huge Battleship]

Life Alive! The Student Council Elections I Started with You 1-6 (END)

My Sister is the Student Council President sounds like a bad eroge.

My Yandere Sister is the Student Council President and is Playing an Election Game With Me as the Prize sounds like a bad light novel. Coincidentally (or not), it's also a bad LN → manga introductory adaptation, suffering the usual problems that come with cramming too many developments into too few chapters. And a handful of others besides. My interest in the LN is minimal, unless the villain ends up winning.

 

[Revo]

Gunjou Senki 14

Time for the girls to show off how they'll survive.