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Manga News/Discussion |OTE| Thought it was a smut paradise, it was shounen hell

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Dedication Through Light

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Stealth Symphony 4

Pretty interesting setup of nonhumans in V&V. Actually at the rate its going it seems Souya and Jig are the only true humans. Troma has a human form at least. Hopefully there are a few others, but Im fine with just Jig Souya Troma.
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I think the the next step in the plot was an expected one so nothing surprising there but will like to see how it is tackled. Troma must step in.
 
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Conan-san

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Why is it that all the good WSJ stuff has this ability to go "What?! Oh Jesus I can't wait until next week / Month" (The SoTE clifhanger is an absolute arse) Whilst all I think whilst trudging though Nisekoi, Bleach and Naruto is "GoAwayGoAwayGoAwayGoAway"?
 
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bigkrev

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scy said:
Is that our new measurement?
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I missed the last 10 pages or so, didn't see what had happened. I stand by my statement though- there is so much going on that it's impossible to follow or understand in my opinion.
FWIW, I originally had "a touch of autisim" before realizing that was pretty insensitive, and went with ADD, something I've had since I was 4 years old, and totally understand is real when I'm off my medicine

kasane said:
shin and that commercial dude

as for sena

idk
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Short hair version or long hair version?
 
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kasane

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dakkumauji said:
meh, who cares about sena

he's like tsuna from Reborn. The main character but no one cares enough about him to pair him up with someone. inb4 dtl spams me with tsuna pairings
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i liked tsuna more than sena

i kinda hate kyoko tho

Edit: While we're talking about reborn, i hated the non ending

would have liked to see more of his 10 year self or something
 
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scy

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bigkrev said:
I missed the last 10 pages or so, didn't see what had happened. I stand by my statement though- there is so much going on that it's impossible to follow or understand in my opinion.
FWIW, I originally had "a touch of autisim" before realizing that was pretty insensitive, and went with ADD, something I've had since I was 4 years old, and totally understand is real when I'm off my medicine
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A timely coincidence then lol.

That said, I'd almost say the opposite personally. I'm not patient enough, I think, to fall into this massive world building it's attempting. Or maybe a combination of both? I can't find myself following the frantic "HERE'S EVERYTHING" it's attempting.
 
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dakkumauji

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kasane said:
i liked tsuna more than sena

i kinda hate kyoko tho

Edit: While we're talking about reborn, i hated the non ending

would have liked to see more of his 10 year self or something
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Kyoko was just creepy since it was basically like Tsuna's mother.

It's funny how only one of the males actually uh I guess ends up with a girl in the series with all the future hopping it does. Of course I assume the fanbase probably flatout denies it.

Dedication Through Light said:
Darn was going to post 2759, 2769, and 2772.
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Called it. I do like how the Reborn fanbase calls the pairings by numbers. Makes it pretty easy.

scy said:
A timely coincidence then lol.

That said, I'd almost say the opposite personally. I'm not patient enough, I think, to fall into this massive world building it's attempting. Or maybe a combination of both? I can't find myself following the frantic "HERE'S EVERYTHING" it's attempting.
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I dunno, I like it. I like the world and how there's like everything about it.

I mean I'll probably be sad since there's this giant world and it'll probably get cancelled before it gets fully explored.
 
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scy

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thesaucetastic said:
Hatsukoi Shinjuu 14-15
kind of gross
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It's pure love.

...and a suicide pact.

dakkumauji said:
I dunno, I like it. I like the world and how there's like everything about it.

I mean I'll probably be sad since there's this giant world and it'll probably get cancelled before it gets fully explored.
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Well, I'm interested but I suppose that's the same case here: It'll probably be cancelled so I can't really find myself devoting much energy to following all the world building when i don't have faith in it bearing fruit.
 
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dakkumauji

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scy said:
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Well, I'm interested but I suppose that's the same case here: It'll probably be cancelled so I can't really find myself devoting much energy to following all the world building when i don't have faith in it bearing fruit.
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I mean I guess its only boon in a chance of surviving is the prestige of its writer, who has Baccano and DRRRRR! fame.
 
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Dedication Through Light

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Seraph of the End 13
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Childhood friends reunited and one solely focused on their friend only. This is perfect storytelling and the best chapter thus far. Throw in the surprising ability reveal at the end and maybe losing himself too even, too good.

Though am slightly concerned with the other friends now that they are trapped over their and Yu cant distinguish friend or foe just sinners.

Also first time realizing the writer wrote The Legend of the Legendary Heroes and one of the other LNs I started, Mokushiroku Arisu. Love all his stories.
 
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Blackhead

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thesaucetastic said:
Greyface said:
upandaway said:
Greyface said:
I'm getting burned out by the never ending weekly series and novelty stories. Can we have another poll or recommendation thread (similar to flawfuls or bjorks) that adds the best manga from the last three years or so?
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Take a look at the recommendations lists that dramatis painstakingly compiles for every OT (it's near the OP). It's a bit big but if you mentioned the flawfuls thread, you might not mind.

If you want something more concentrated, just give us something some tags and we'll recommend on the spot.
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dramatis's OP recommendations is exactly the type of weekly and novelty series that I'm tired of. I'm not even keeping up with OP anymore :|
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Well, what do you mean by "weekly" and "novelty"? When I hear that, I think of the shonen staples and slice of life series. Judging by what little you've said, I think you're looking for things that are either A) already completed B) have meaningful growth or character development on a regular basis.

With that said, if you don't mind ongoing manga, try Spirit Circle (battles and supernatural), Koe no Katachi (drama), or Shougeki no Soma (food battles and comedy). For finished ones, try Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer or Full Metal Alchemist (as if you haven't read/watched it already). Another good completed one that I haven't read is Oyasumi Punpun, which is depressing as fuck apparently.
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The posts compiled are exactly not the type of weekly and novelty series that you're so tired of. I essentially gather almost everything I see that qualifies as an impression of a first volume or a first chapter, a recommendation, or a review. There's probably some I didn't catch because I was skimming the thread too quickly, but by all means if there is something that should appeal to you it can be found there. One of the points of me collecting the posts in the first place was to perhaps have someone who read that one thing manage to reach a new reader. There's variety captured from as many different manga as people read here, from Mr. DTL's scandalous stuff to wonzo's crazy reads to [insert somebody maybe]'s artsy fartsy highbrow manga.

One of the other points is that there are people who share common lewd interests that may not be following the thread that closely, so they can just peer into the list and see what A Huge Battleship is reading and think, "It's probably porn" and "Reading". That's the reason why I label each link with a poster name.

Not all of them are recommendations. You can see from the label I started adding to each one, (imp), (rec), (rev), which are quite self-explanatory. The ones I do not label, that is usually the content of the post (one-liners) so you can judge for yourself which of the three it is.

I understand that since I'm lumping pretty much everything together, sifting through the imp/rec/rev list itself may be a problem. However, the reason I keep to the format is because I think that manga can be less of a "I'll read what you recommend" thing and more of a "It might be interesting to try something new" thing. If you think it's too hard and too much work to skim through the list and find something that catches your eye, the option of flawfuls's and cosmicblizzard's threads are there, and moreover there is always the option of asking the thread itself. The ever reliable Google is also an option. You can bump the threads you asked about! You are welcome to make your own manga recommendation thread! Go ahead and make a thread in OT asking for 'not weekly or novelty' manga recommendations.

What you are saying, as it sounds to me, is "I'm too lazy to look for myself, can somebody else make a detailed list of manga that fit the vague description of 'not weekly or novelty' for me? I put the effort to make a post asking for the list, rather than using the same amount of effort to ask for recommendations. The list in the OP doesn't fulfill my requirements, sorry about that". I made a list. If the list is useless, say so; I will stop compiling. You are free to use the "hunt and peck" method of NeoGAF search before I started making the list (the third reason why I started compiling posts).
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No disrespect to your fantastic OP but it isn't a poll of the best manga. It's a random collection of mangas with an interesting premise. Only a quarter of that list is rec/rev and even then the rec/rev posts rarely go more than a paragraph or compare to other works. I'm saying let's take stock now and then and do some ranking. What seemed good the first time you read it might seem different in hindsight.

This is the best thread to post about a poll. *shrug* Well carry on
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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?"
Greyface said:
No disrespect to your fantastic OP but it isn't a poll of the best manga. It's a random collection of mangas with an interesting premise. Only a quarter of that list is rec/rev and even then the rec/rev posts rarely go more than a paragraph or compare to other works. I'm saying let's take stock now and then and do some ranking. What seemed good the first time you read it might seem different in hindsight.

This is the best thread to post about a poll. *shrug* Well carry on
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The problem is more that just saying, "please exclude novelty series and weekly series" works about as well as typing that exact phrase into Google.
 
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Wiseblade

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I didn't read anything on Wednesday, so my reactions are all fresh!

One Piece
Glad to see that Usopp doesn't have to use Sogeking as a crutch to force himself into action, although it would have been fun to see the mask again after all these years. (Seriously it's been what, 5 years since Thriller Bark? Time flies!)

Naruto

Dead Guy walking.

World Trigger

Has slowed to a crawl.

Nisekoi

Why do I even take the 3 minutes to read this garbage?

All you Need is Kill

Meh. Sure looked pretty though.
 
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scy

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Greyface said:
No disrespect to your fantastic OP but it isn't a poll of the best manga. It's a random collection of mangas with an interesting premise. Only a quarter of that list is rec/rev and even then the rec/rev posts rarely go more than a paragraph or compare to other works. I'm saying let's take stock now and then and do some ranking. What seemed good the first time you read it might seem different in hindsight.

This is the best thread to post about a poll. *shrug* Well carry on
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You're asking for the impossible. You're not going to get a "best" manga by polling us. Give criteria that means something and you can get relevant suggestions. The list is just dramatis taking posts we do, not like any proper "Hey I liked this here's a write-up on it" sort of thing.
 
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PhillipCostigan

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you'll all be happy to know I watched the last few
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episodes of Toradora today.

Amazing. Just amazing.

I SWEAR I WAS CUTTING ONIONS AROUND DINNER TIME AND...

aww fuck it I hate onions.

:')
 
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survivor

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There you go Greyface, thats everything good that was released in the past few years or got active translations recently and was missing from flawfuls thread.

A Girl by the Sea
Sunny
Alice in Hell
Mix
Golondrina
Aku no Hana
Ran and the Gray World
Orange
Thermae Romae
Boys on the Run
Getenrou
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru
Sakamichi no Apollon
Silver Spoon
 
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thesaucetastic

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Greyface said:
No disrespect to your fantastic OP but it isn't a poll of the best manga. It's a random collection of mangas with an interesting premise. Only a quarter of that list is rec/rev and even then the rec/rev posts rarely go more than a paragraph or compare to other works. I'm saying let's take stock now and then and do some ranking. What seemed good the first time you read it might seem different in hindsight.

This is the best thread to post about a poll. *shrug* Well carry on
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Not sure why you bolded certain things of my post, but okay. Your poll idea assumes that we can agree on what qualifies a series as one of the "best". I could love some fluffy and cute romance manga that another poster hates for the same reasons, and another poster could love a gory and politically intriguing manga that I hate for those reasons. And that poll wouldn't satisfy you either if it included the weekly and novelty series that you were trying to avoid, seeing as you haven't adequately defined that for us. I think it's enough that the OP has the volume covers of most of the series that MangaGAF on the whole reads.

That list from flawful's thread is still pretty applicable today, anyway.
 
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Vito

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Manga mondays at Dark Horse, Carl Horn talks about Hiroki Endo's Eden: What an Endless World, which happens to be a personal favorite of mine.

www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1634/manga-mondays-return-eden

I was just looking for an excuse to post this again, figured I'd use his ICv2 interview where he namedropped it, but this is even better.

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This is a cleaned illustration from the backcover of the 13th volume, there's another nice illustration of her but so far I've only seen it on a little booklet that was given away at a signing event and a prize.

Disclaimer: Eden sold like shit in the States, it's stalled and Dark Horse never bothered to reprint the earlier volumes. Meanwhile in Italy a 9 volume omnibus large trim edition just had its last volume published this January and All Rounder Meguru volume 12 came out last week.
 
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scy

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Hamsters are adorable, that's why.

I wonder how it'll end. I imagine it'll end soon, anyway. Dragging it out at this point seems a bit ... eh.
 
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Blackhead

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Angry Grimace said:
The problem is more that just saying, "please exclude novelty series and weekly series" works about as well as typing that exact phrase into Google.
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scy said:
You're asking for the impossible. You're not going to get a "best" manga by polling us. Give criteria that means something and you can get relevant suggestions. The list is just dramatis taking posts we do, not like any proper "Hey I liked this here's a write-up on it" sort of thing.
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Not sure why you bolded certain things of my post, but okay. Your poll idea assumes that we can agree on what qualifies a series as one of the "best". I could love some fluffy and cute romance manga that another poster hates for the same reasons, and another poster could love a gory and politically intriguing manga that I hate for those reasons. And that poll wouldn't satisfy you either if it included the weekly and novelty series that you were trying to avoid, seeing as you haven't adequately defined that for us. I think it's enough that the OP has the volume covers of most of the series that MangaGAF on the whole reads.

That list from flawful's thread is still pretty applicable today, anyway.
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I'm personally weary of weekly series and novelty stuff but I didn't mean to imply that those should be excluded from a list of best manga. My weariness is the impetus for asking for a best manga list not a personal recommendation list (although thanks to every poster who suggested some titles).

The OP contains a list of (a) Popular Manga (b) Random Recommendations. I think there's room for a (c) Best Manga. (The inclusion of Bleach and Naruto in the Popular Manga evidence enough that popular is not synonymous with best :p )

It is not impossible to take a poll on GAF. It's already done every year for hiphop e.g. GAF-Hop presents: The 2013 Hip-Hop Awards (Vote now!) and GAF-Hop presents: The 2013 Hip-Hop Awards | The Results. I think best of year lists should only included completed series but that's up for debate.
 
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scy

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We've gone through this before with the thread of trying to figure out how to do a "Manga of the Year." I know that other threads do have those but it's a bit harder when there's really not that many serieses(eses) that are finished in a year unless we start trying to find all the random one-shots or one volume works. Unless it's just a constantly running thing of "vote for best mangas ever that are completed up to the end of the year" which would probably not end up being all that indicative of much.

And I still think "novelty" needs a real definition here.

dakkumauji said:
Man, I don't have time to read another MangaBox title.

I was already getting tired yesterday reading my like 15 series from there.
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I find it funny that the three you're not reading are the only three I am lol. Peephole, First Love Suicide Pact, and I Was Human.
 
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ColossalLazy

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If we do take a poll for best manga, we will be seeing a lot of weekly series such as One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.

Its what most people casually read.
 
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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?"
ColossalLazy said:
If we do take a poll for best manga, we will be seeing a lot of weekly series such as One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.

Its what most people casually read.
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Nah, you could start a thread in the OT, but the entire thread will be people voting for Berserk. Whether that's something you think is good, I don't know, but that's what you're going to get.

If one asked us in here, you'd get a much wider selection, but nobody's going to agree on anything.
 
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dakkumauji

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scy said:
I find it funny that the three you're not reading are the only three I am lol. Peephole, First Love Suicide Pact, and I Was Human.
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I guess those three were things that didn't catch my eye.

I will say I'm not entirely enjoying all of them mostly due to how short the chapters are. Some work fine at that length while others just feel like they are taking chapters and splitting them up.

ColossalLazy said:
If we do take a poll for best manga, we will be seeing a lot of weekly series such as One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.

Its what most people casually read.
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That's pretty much the caveat of any Best of whatever thing especially when you have things that run throughout the whole year and more. It's a lot different than say Best Anime of 2013 since you can easily narrow it down. I mean sure you could do that with manga saying stuff only released during a certain time frame but who wants to actually go and place limits on that.
 
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