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[Gintoki313]

One Piece

Sabo getting that fruit sure did just.. happen. If they didn't intend to really give it away, why the hell was it actually strapped to that fish's back? I'd expect it to still be locked away somewhere. Kinda lacking in fanfare, tho, Sabo getting and eating it.

I was hoping for whenever someone got it, that it'd be some jaw dropping shock. Instead Sabo just leisurely picks it up, and eats it. Then uses it in mere seconds (in which I thought it takes a long time until someone could learn to use a devil fruit?). That was probably the only part of this chapter that I didn't like. I'm just a little disappointed that the tournament ended so sudden, and the fruit was eaten so leisurely.

 

[scy]

He's got a full three in his harem and he doesn't even notice any of them. Hell, he's probably closest to noticing Erina, given that he at least notices she acts like a weirdo in his presence.

Close enough to be winning.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Close enough to be winning.

Best girl and winning aren't the same thing.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

We've been told all this time that the Uchiha symbol was a fan (uchiwa).

Thats probably where the name comes from.

If you look at the red bit of the symbol, you can see a crescent moon. Nice symbolism.

 

[upandaway]

Are we even gonna get scores in a 1 v 1 though?

We'll probably just get a "and the winner is..." with 2 panel last page with their faces in each panel.

It'll probably be the same as it was with the coins, each judge picks and a majority rule.

 

[scy]

Best girl and winning aren't the same thing.

Don't ruin my dreams.

 

[kasane]

Best girl and winning aren't the same thing.

doping truth bombs

 

[LeleSocho]

Best girl and winning aren't the same thing.

Amen.
You could almost say that Best girl and Not winning are the same thing.

 

[Kieli]

I'm pretty sure Jun-sensei is what will happen to Tadokoro.

She will eventually go old and single, remaining forever bitter inside some sort of dilapidated house in the middle of nowhere. Still salty that she lost her husbando to a blond-haired woman.

Meanwhile, Soma will travel the world and grow into an ovary-busting man-specimen.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Thats probably where the name comes from.



If you look at the red bit of the symbol, you can see a crescent moon. Nice symbolism.

Further proof:

If we just look at the red sections of each symbol we see a sun and crescent moon.

 

[Kurita]

I see a spiral

 

[Nordicus]

Dorohedoro 124-125

Note to self, even as a demigod, hiding a person in your stomach area is not smart, especially if you've got superpowered abs that could crush anything.

R.I.P.

I find it rather funny that the author is apparently struggling to give this story an ending. So many plot threads that she wants to tie up, sometimes still inventing new ones

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

I see a spiral

If we just look at the red sections

Ignore everything but the red sections.

 

[Haly]

It's still a spiral dude. I mean, sometimes people will draw the sun like a spiral but it's not exactly an established metaphor in the Japanese visual imagery canon.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Mangabox looks to be getting into the vomic (motion comic?) scene with one for Ana Satsujin/Peephole

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

It's still a spiral dude. I mean, sometimes people will draw the sun like a spiral but it's not exactly an established metaphor in the Japanese visual imagery canon.

smh I told you only look at the red sections. Its a red circle -____-. Just like how the red section of the Uchiha clan is a crescent moon.

 

[Charade]

Mangabox looks to be getting into the vomic (motion comic?) scene with one for Ana Satsujin/Peephole

Oh god.

 

[Save 'N Quit]

Bleach 576

Only 1 meteorite?

Pfft.

Already saw Law slice one up.

Drop like 3 or 4 more and then maybe I'll be impress when he cuts them in half.


One Piece 744

Praise lord Usopp!

Him and Buggy should meet up for once.

Sabo hype is at critical mass.

Now we just need him and a Luffy tag team.

 

[Eleuin]

Don't see it.

 

[upandaway]

I see a spiral

My mouse hovered over this post, and I slipped over the keyboard somewhere (I heard a click, didn't actually feel anything, so I have no evidence that I performed the click), and suddenly 3 tabs opened up all at once: One of Kurita's user page, one quoting the post, and one of the post by itself (like when you'd click on the post number). Scared the hell outta me. Dark voodoo magic. No clue how it happened.

For general information I didn't write this post in the tab that opened up quoting the post. I closed it by reflex and clicked edit again. Seriously scared me.

 

[Kieli]

My mouse hovered over this post, and I slipped over the keyboard somewhere (I heard a click, didn't actually feel anything, so I have no evidence that I performed the click), and suddenly 3 tabs opened up all at once: One of Kurita's user page, one quoting the post, and one of the post by itself (like when you'd click on the post number). Scared the hell outta me. Dark voodoo magic. No clue how it happened.

You were already mangekyou sharingan.

 

[Save 'N Quit]

Mangabox looks to be getting into the vomic (motion comic?) scene with one for Ana Satsujin/Peephole

 

[Haly]

This is a spiral:

It's based off of this:

Which is a popular condiment made out of ground fish called narutomaki. His last name, Uzumaki, also means "spiral" or "whirlpool".

If Naruto was translated Duwang-style, his name would be rendered Fishcake Spiral.

 

[Charade]

My mouse hovered over this post, and I slipped over the keyboard somewhere (I heard a click, didn't actually feel anything, so I have no evidence that I performed the click), and suddenly 3 tabs opened up all at once: One of Kurita's user page, one quoting the post, and one of the post by itself (like when you'd click on the post number). Scared the hell outta me. Dark voodoo magic. No clue how it happened.

For general information I didn't write this post in the tab that opened up quoting the post. I closed it by reflex and clicked edit again. Seriously scared me.

Another power besides Black Ivy?

 

[dakkumauji]

Mangabox looks to be getting into the vomic (motion comic?) scene with one for Ana Satsujin/Peephole

vomic is such a bad term. it is also one letter away from vomit which I thought it was originally

 

[Nordicus]

Stop encouraging panda's chuunibyou, guys

 

[Kurita]

My mouse hovered over this post, and I slipped over the keyboard somewhere (I heard a click, didn't actually feel anything, so I have no evidence that I performed the click), and suddenly 3 tabs opened up all at once: One of Kurita's user page, one quoting the post, and one of the post by itself (like when you'd click on the post number). Scared the hell outta me. Dark voodoo magic. No clue how it happened.

For general information I didn't write this post in the tab that opened up quoting the post. I closed it by reflex and clicked edit again. Seriously scared me.

That was a really interesting story, thanks for sharing.

 

[upandaway]

Mangabox looks to be getting into the vomic (motion comic?) scene with one for Ana Satsujin/Peephole

...I'm pretty sure that's not how Peephole's first chapter went.

 

[Sai]

It's kind of funny how Psycho_Mantis' rather simple point is being missed. Disregard the spiral and it's a full circle, just as you disregard the rest of the Uchiha clan's insignia for the crescent.

I doubt Kishimoto always intended for it to be that way, but it works; that's obviously what he was portraying in that spread.

 

[Akito]

Oricon Comic Rankings March 31st - April 6th

01. Kimi ni Todoke #21 (166,060 / 721,551)
02. Shokugeki no Souma #7 (132,403)
03. To Love-Ru Darkness #10 (131,565)
04. Haikyuu!! #10 (123,779)
05. Ohkami Heika no Hanayome #10 (56,255)
06. Beelzebub #26 (55,746)
07. Kinnikuman #46 (54,988)
08. One Piece #73 (50,464 / 2,693,416)
09. Bungou Stray Dogs #4 (49,471)
10. World Trigger #5 (48,381)
11. Ginga Patrol Jaco Special Edition (47,482)
12. Gakuen Baby Sitters #9 (61,735)
13. Soredemo, Yasashii Koi o Suru (46,116)
14. Kagerou Days #4 (44,080 / 127,264)
15. Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsuraii!! #6 (42,235 / 138,585)
16. Saiki Kusuo no Sainan #8 (42,001)
17. Jojolion #6 (40,038 / 390,977)
18. Uchuu Kyoudai #23 (39,983 / 371,570)
19. Fairy Tail #42 (36,630 / 428,474)
20. Kanshikan Tsunemori Akane #4 (34,874)
21. Mujaki no Rakuen #5 (34,813 / 74,478)
22. Ginga Patrol Jaco (30,802)
23. Koi no Kamisama Komi Naoshi Collection of Short Stories (28,969)
24. Soul Catcher(S) #4 (28,569)
25. Hachimitsu no Hatsukoi #7 (27,420 / 92,459)
26. Skip Beat! #34 (26,785 / 262,908)
27. Youkai Watch #1 (26,657 / 179,239)
28. Katsura Akira Collection of Collaborated Short Stories (26,028)
29. Ten Count #1 (25,981 / 39,646)
30. Moyashimon #13 (25,291 / 233,727)
31. Youkai Watch #3 (24,846 / 123,195)
32. Youkai Watch #2 (24,728 / 121,731)
33. Kagerou Days Official Anthology Comic -Spring- (24,531 / 74,289)
34. Kuroko no Basket #26 (24,470 / 708,879)
35. Gin no Saji #11 (24,132 / 853,851)
36. Daiya no Ace #40 (23,753 / 276,087)
37. Ansatsu Kyoushitsu #8 (22,962 / 633,075)
38. ReRe Hello #3 (22,909 / 95,334)
39. Kenka Kagyou #1 (22,898)
40. Dragon Jam #11 (21,861 / 39,434)
41. Naruto #68 (20,608 / 981,118)
42. Ayakashi Hisen #12 (19,760 / 72,501)
43. Shingeki no Kyojin #12 (19,316 / 1,649,761)
44. Kaze Hikaru #35 (19,118 / 66,690)
45. Museum #3 (18,850)
46. Kono Oto Tomare! #5 (18,772)
47. Bokura wa Minna Kawai-sou #5 (18,404 / 65,504)
48. Cuticle Tantei Inaba #13 (18,109 / 52,715)
49. 17-sai, Kiss to Dilemma #4 (18,021 / 61,133)
50. Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo R #1 (17,560 / 150,116)

 

[TheRealTalker]

Bleach 576

Only 1 meteorite?

Pfft.

Already saw Law slice one up.

Drop like 3 or 4 more and then maybe I'll be impress when he cuts them in half.

Every main currently running Shonen has done it so far


Madara did 2


Fujitora did a couple more


Midora blew up the whole entire human world

 

[Haly]

It still really doesn't work, because Uchihas have access to both Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi, the names of sun and moon deities. It would fit it Naruto's signature move was Amaterasu but it isn't, it's a spiral vortex like his name. Factor in his heritage from the Senju clan, who was known for their wood release, the motifs behind Naruto and Sasuke respectively lend themselves far more to a "Heaven and Earth" dichotomy rather than a "Sun and Moon" one.

(Until you factor in Susanoo at which point the dichotomy gets broken again and it becomes Gods vs Mortals.)

 

[scy]

Mangabox looks to be getting into the vomic (motion comic?) scene with one for Ana Satsujin/Peephole

I'll watch this later but I'll preemptively frown.

 

[kasane]

As i was scrolling down i thought kimi no iru machi was still no 1 for some reason

LOL

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Oricon Comic Rankings March 31st - April 6th

02. Shokugeki no Souma #7 (132,403)
04. Haikyuu!! #10 (123,779)
06. Beelzebub #26 (55,746)

10. World Trigger #5 (48,381)
16. Saiki Kusuo no Sainan #8 (42,001)

29. Ten Count #1 (25,981 / 39,646)

Ten Count is really doing well glad its popular for the genre, hope it gets to the 70K range and more.

World Trigger growth over Saiki Kusuo, if it can stay like that as the weeks go on, it may come close to 100K before leaving the charts.

Im guessing the series had their sales cut off by a few days than usual due to the chart tracking period end date due to lower than the last volume numbers debuts.

 

[Sai]

It still really doesn't work, because Uchihas have access to both Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi, the names of sun and moon deities. It would fit it Naruto's signature move was Amaterasu but it isn't, it's a spiral vortex like his name. Factor in his heritage from the Senju clan, who was known for their wood release, the motifs behind Naruto and Sasuke respectively lend themselves far more to a "Heaven and Earth" dichotomy rather than a "Sun and Moon" one.

(Until you factor in Susanoo at which point the dichotomy gets broken again and it becomes Gods vs Mortals.)

It's more about their respective inheritance of Yin 'n Yang that lie at the root of their powers, than their signature moves. Recall Kishimoto's first explanation of Asura and Indra's respective inheritance from their father, and the component powers of his Banbutsu Souzou.

The symbolism has been pushed heavily for the past few chapters, the sun and moon being depicted behind Asura and Indra, the ends of Rikudou Sennin's shakujou also represent the sun and moon(which Obito and Madara have used) and were aligned appropriately above Naruto and Sasuke along with depictions of Asura and Indra in the prior chapter's color spread.

 

[dakkumauji]

Oricon Comic Rankings March 31st - April 6th

I see Super Interesting Darkness is very popular.

 

[Kieli]

I'm scared for the day when Soma gets an anime adaptation. No way it's not going to be a cheap, conveyor-belt production.

 

[Skab]

Aku No Hana 56

Wait so that was all a dream? Lame.

One more left :[

 

[dakkumauji]

I'm scared for the day when Soma gets an anime adaptation. No way it's not going to be a cheap, conveyor-belt production.

Basically depends on what studio is doing it.

Kinda dooms it if it is Toei, Studio Pierrot, Gonzo, Madhouse...

 

[Sai]

I thought Madhouse was one of the good ones. Isn't that the studio that handled FMA?

[EDIT] - Wewps, that was Bones.

 

[Rebel Leader]

I thought Madhouse was one of the good ones. Isn't that the studio that handled FMA?

[EDIT] - Wewps, that was Bones.

Yep, bones.


Bones does great stuff

 

[Akito]

Well, you can always hope for the HxH Madhouse team, they'll run out of material to adapt soon enough lol

 

[kasane]

Well, you can always hope for the HxH Madhouse team, they'll run out of material to adapt soon enough lol

I was wondering what they would do as i haven't watched in a while.

 

[Sai]

The heavily stylized manga never get the adaptations they deserve. Air Gear would've been a horribly written spectacle if a higher budget studio was tasked with it.

It'll be the same for Soma. Abandon all hope.

 

[Nordicus]

Puchimas 38-42

How can a manga about cute almost pet-like humanoids have such an amazing GAR character like the Producer?

He is simply unreal!

Such a shining specimen of an adventuring man

 

[Haly]

Soma is pretty generic though.

Just give it to SHAFT.

 

[scy]

I'll watch this later but I'll preemptively frown.

Well, I watched it.

Well.

Soma is pretty generic though.

Just give it to SHAFT.

I'd be fine with this I think.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

I thought Madhouse was one of the good ones. Isn't that the studio that handled FMA?

[EDIT] - Wewps, that was Bones.

Why would one want madhouse, with such inconsistenty between a mahou sensou one season to a mahouka/nogamenolife the next, Id be afraid it turn out to be a bad adaption more than a good one.

As long as Toei doesnt get it...

 

[Mortemis]

Man, I was halfway through the One Piece chapter thinking that it is just too good, it's probably on break next week... Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.

But yeah this chapter was probably my favorite chapter in recent memory. Godsopp was just too good, and Sabo showing his face/eating the devil fruit was a bit fast but still awesome. I'm okay with the pace picking up tbh. Can't wait until Luffy actually starts fighting Dofla.

Soma's not even interested in girls. (Hence, the DTL fantasy scenarios)

He's got a full three in his harem and he doesn't even notice any of them. Hell, he's probably closest to noticing Erina, given that he at least notices she acts like a weirdo in his presence.

I find it hilarious he's closest to noticing the one that least wants to be noticed.