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[OniBarubary]

Sket Dance is very very good. It's basically Gintama lite (which makes sense considering the dude was Gorilla-sensei's assistant for a couple years); a gag manga first and foremost that can oftentimes do drama very very well. I'd actually say that even though it's pretty hilarious, it is very successful at it's drama and it never really feels forced or unrealistic. It has one of my favorite arcs in it, the Bossun Birthday Arc (calling it something else would be huge spoilers), wherein I lost my shit. Really really clever writing and it can get downright sad sometimes with some of the character's problems or issues. But at the end of the day, it's just a very hopeful and happy manga.

Amusingly, I sometimes re-read certain chapters or arcs and they're almost always the drama ones. When the manga ended, the culmination of the Switch Arc left me legitimately bawling.

It also is surprisingly progressive; it's last "big arc" was about shit very few manga, especially shonen manga, would touch with the care and respect it does.

Shit, I'd like to go on about it all but all the best moments are huge spoilers that ruin climactic arcs

 

[cntr]

Yeah, I read Sket Dance years ago and really liked it, but the translations stopped pretty early so I stopped.

I should pick it up again, hm.

 

[OniBarubary]

Admittedly the "ending" ending kinda blows, but everything leading up to it is fucking excellent.

I love the series, it's just that no one ever really talked about it so I never really...well...got a chance to talk about.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Seconding all of that. The Happy Birthday arc blew my mind and had me screaming. The characters in the manga were pretty much all great.

 

[captainpat]

Anyone know of any Crime dramas like Black lagoon or Gangsta but like grounded in reality?

 

[OniBarubary]

Anyone know of any Crime dramas like Black lagoon or Gangsta

Boy oh boy, do I have a list for you. *rubs hands together*

but like grounded in reality?

Oh. *goes back to reading his book*

 

[Infinite Justice]

Yea sket Dance was pretty cool, especially when the emotional arcs popped up and while i thought the Birthday arc had a bunch of things that made it a bit too convenient, the message was still there.

For me the Switch Arc was the one.

 

[OniBarubary]

Lol which Switch arc? Dude had a lot of arcs

 

[Infinite Justice]

Lol which Switch arc? Dude had a lot of arcs

I didn't want to spoil it but all of them.

but if i have to pick then it would be the first one

Spoiler

which starts the whole thing and shows how fucked up he actually was

 

[Zweizer]

Nanashi no Asterism ch17

Even Mister Perfect's patience has limits.

Nomi Joshi ch19

As tasty as the food looks, it's tough to gorge on oil (and alcohol I guess) and not feel conscious.

Nozomi x Kimio ch30

Loves (eventually) trumps big boobs.

 

[Black Bishop]

No Guns Life: Great little manga about a hard boiled cybork with a revolver for a head. Last few chapters (12/13) have now started to drive deeper into the real plot, and at the same time have made me terrified of the 'gun slave' units.

Spoiler

 

[OniBarubary]

NGL is pretty ballerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Ascheroth]

NGL is one of the rare manga that has official releases in my language while not having official english ones (as far as I know). And it could overtake the scans at the same time. How bizarre.
Volume 3 comes out in April, looking forward to it.

 

[captainpat]

Oh. *goes back to reading his book*

Yea, I figured as much. I don't think I know of any gritty anime or manga crime drama doesn't have maids or people jumping 50 feet in the air.

 

[SalvaPot]

Yea, I figured as much. I don't think I know of any gritty anime or manga crime drama doesn't have maids or people jumping 50 feet in the air.

Baccano? I don't know if it has a manga.

Hardly realistic.

 

[ColossalLazy]

Yea, I figured as much. I don't think I know of any gritty anime or manga crime drama doesn't have maids or people jumping 50 feet in the air.

You could try Green Blood or Sanctuary (its more about Japanese politics but one of the main charcters is a Yakuza)

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Yea, I figured as much. I don't think I know of any gritty anime or manga crime drama doesn't have maids or people jumping 50 feet in the air.

Ushijima the Loan Shark

 

[bobohoro]

Prison School 239

That title. Just messing with us now.

 

[Boogiepop]

Any chance anyone can speak on whether the original manga of Cat's Eye properly wraps up, how closely/thoroughly the anime covers it, and/or how the remake is? Was kind of hoping the anime would completely cover the story, seeing as it's 73 episodes to cover 18 volumes and both ended in the same year, but after just finishing watching through it for the first time, it definitely has one of those non-endings with nothing resolved that often pop up in incomplete adaptations. (All that said it was a nice capstone, and admittedly the overarching plot was pretty non-important to the series throughout, but it's still kind of disappointing not to see any resolution on that stuff).

 

[nabe_shogun]

Nomi Joshi ch19

As tasty as the food looks, it's tough to gorge on oil (and alcohol I guess) and not feel conscious.

But that's what all the alcohol is for. Makes everything OK

 

[HassanJamal]

Speaking of SD, based on a quick search, has it really been 3 years since he worked on anything new?

Yeah, I read Sket Dance years ago and really liked it, but the translations stopped pretty early so I stopped.

I should pick it up again, hm.

I remember that, there was this one time when young naive me went and looked for the translator group, entered the chat and asked how I could help with SD translation since it was a while it had been translated. I remember leaving the chat with some of the members giving my regards to that group. Dont recall what group though since it was eons ago, anti-something in their title.

Also you totally should, its really great. Bossun, Onihime, Switch and a ton more secondary cast were pretty fun characters. Hopefully this isnt spoiling much but there's a lil sister character that IIRC a literal tsundere with a slightly reasonable justification to her persona, an emo rock dude that speaks in emo rock words and never sentences and an occult obsessed girl who looks like Ju-on and a bunch more that pop up as you read on.

 

[cntr]

Yeah I definitely need to pick it up

shit I have way too much to read

 

[Jintor]

i wonder if i can possibly write a LN without ever actually reading a LN because fuck god i hate LN prose

 

[upandaway]

Sket Dance was great, not as good as Gintama but I really liked it, of course main character arcs were the best. And also similar to Gintama, Sket Dance had a really slow start and didn't really get good until some time into it.

 

[A Huge Battleship]

Maou-jou de Oyasumi 22

Swallow 1 Princess (with or without water) after every large meal and remember to brush thoroughly. I figured her nightmares would be about bees, and I also figured that everyone else's nightmares would be about her.

 

[spiritfox]

Prison School

WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON ANYMORE

 

[OniBarubary]

Sket Dance was great, not as good as Gintama but I really liked it, of course main character arcs were the best. And also similar to Gintama, Sket Dance had a really slow start and didn't really get good until some time into it.

Yeah, unfortunately a lot of the early stuff was the author getting his feet underneath him and it didn't really pick up til maybe after the first big arc. Which, if it was the Onihime arc, came unfortunately too early because her arc was the weakest =/

"MY ENTIRE SHTICK IS I'M THE LEGENDARY DELINQU-OH SHIT SOMEONE TOOK MY LACROSSE STICK, I AM NOW A WEAK, PATHETIC GIRL WHO NEEDS TO BE RESCUED"

Left a really bad taste in my mouth


Maou-jou de Oyasumi 22

Jesus Christ, she doesn't even care anymore. "I casually committed genocide, whatever"

Kumo desu ga, nani ka? 14-2

Jeez, these last couple chapters have just been a monkey vs. lone spider siege. She has to evolve to escape this predicament, she's got no chance with the bigger monkeys there. I'm going to be super disappointed when she turns into a human-looking spider because her just being a kinda large spider makes this way more entertaining.

 

[HStallion]

Hey two more pages of ONE's One Punch Man comic! I guess that's something right?

 

[dramatis]

Onepunch-Man (ONE) 108

Classic Saitama.

 

[A Huge Battleship]

Tachibanakan to Lie Angle 4-8

Huh, somehow I missed that 1) this had started updating again and 2) it's getting an official English release. Nothing particularly positive to say about the household's new addition - hooking her up to an alcohol IV might make her more tolerable to deal with. I enjoyed seeing how the festival's events played out from two different Angles, even if one was far more developed than the other. Iori and Hanabi evidently have a mutual attraction going on, so naturally the pair will never hook up and childhood friend will end up winning. Hope that isn't the case, since I'd consider it a bad end.

 

[Angry Grimace]

I just started hysterically cackling at work when I remembered that the Fuuka anime starts airing this week.

 

[cntr]

I just started hysterically cackling at work when I remembered that the Fuuka anime starts airing this week.

oh fuuka

 

[B-Dubs]

I just started hysterically cackling at work when I remembered that the Fuuka anime starts airing this week.

Oh man, please tell me there's people in AnimeGAF that don't know what's coming. I need those fresh reactions.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Oh man, please tell me there's people in AnimeGAF that don't know what's coming. I need those fresh reactions.

Kiritobread already announced his intention to watch and I made sure to tell him to not spoil it on MAL or by reading comments in the streaming videos lol

 

[OniBarubary]

I just started hysterically cackling at work when I remembered that the Fuuka anime starts airing this week.

As someone who has kinda fallen out of watching a lot of animes this...last...year, I am watching the fuck out of this simulcast.

 

[B-Dubs]

Kiritobread already announced his intention to watch and I made sure to tell him to not spoil it on MAL or by reading comments in the streaming videos lol

Oh man, thank you for doing that. This has really brightened my dour spirits. This is going to be so good. So good.

 

[FlowersisBritish]

Is the Fuuka anime even going to go that far in? At what point did it happen?

 

[Angry Grimace]

Is the Fuuka anime even going to go that far in? At what point did it happen?

There's like no chance it doesn't get to it; it was chapter 37. Based on the structure of the manga, I'm fairly certain it will ends on Aoi showing up in the last episode and revealing her name.

 

[B-Dubs]

There's like no chance it doesn't get to it; it was chapter 37. Based on the structure of the manga, I'm fairly certain it will ends on Aoi showing up in the last episode and revealing her name.

 

[Zweizer]

Hi Score Girl ch33.6

Never underestimate gyarus.

Maou-jou de Oyasumi ch22

There are worse dreams to have.

A Kiss and a White Lily ch28

The battle is on!

Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari ch24

As expected Saphir joined the party, poor her.

As an aside, dwarves always seem to get the short end of the stick.

 

[BassForever]

My body is ready

 

[FlowersisBritish]

My body is ready

"Hit me with your best shot!"

 

[ColossalLazy]

Golden Kamui 81

Dat symbolism.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Golden Kamuy 81

Laughed out loud at the Last Supper scene. Why is Kiroranke Judas and Asirpa Jesus tho?

 

[ColossalLazy]

Golden Kamuy 81

Laughed out loud at the Last Supper scene. Why is Kiroranke Judas and Asirpa Jesus tho?

Foreshadowing, perhaps. I think that

Spoiler

Arsipa skin might be tattoed (we only saw her full clothed) and be the key to locating the gold. Kiroranke is still a mystery, so he might kill or betray Arsipa for the gold.

 

[cntr]

Need this to be updated with MHA author.

Late response, but uh, Horikoshi never actually showed his face at Jump Festa and wore a picture of a hand over his face the entire time.

So here you go.

 

[bobohoro]

Helck 84.1

This can only end in tears.

 

[ColossalLazy]

Helck 84.1

Thats not okay at all. Poor Helck.

 

[Semblance]

Helck ch. 84.1

I'm pretty happy last chapter's cliffhanger was just a fake out.

But you know this upcoming fight is going to be tragic, so uh.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I missed reading some really good manga I need to go back to some classics

there is ahold manga I use to read about a Samurai guy in the Edo period forgot the name of it had some interesting battles forgot if it was based on real people or not

can anyone help me remember the title for this manga?