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Manga News/Discussion |OTE| Thought it was a smut paradise, it was shounen hell
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Yeah.
Sure, but I'd recommend the anime instead for parts 1 and 2
Is it streaming anywhere?
PhillipCostigan
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Nana to Kaoru 21-22
Welp. Those were chapters.
Welp. Those were chapters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_n_k5nNA3A
It's still the PV for the manga but anime announcement is incoming?
OPM 43
I can see why Murata redesigned him. sogood
ShokuSoma 60
Isshiki Suit >>>>>>>>> Isshiki 3rd Form
AKB49 149-150
Yoshinaga's still breathing but I'm glad she hasn't appeared that much in the past few chapters.
Stretch 1-2
Two roommates experience the joys of stretching together. It's certainly a rather "unique" series in its own right!
Zai x Ten 14
Uh, Mission Accomplished!
I can see why Murata redesigned him. sogood
ShokuSoma 60
Isshiki Suit >>>>>>>>> Isshiki 3rd Form
AKB49 149-150
Yoshinaga's still breathing but I'm glad she hasn't appeared that much in the past few chapters.
Stretch 1-2
Two roommates experience the joys of stretching together. It's certainly a rather "unique" series in its own right!
Zai x Ten 14
Uh, Mission Accomplished!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_n_k5nNA3A
It's still the PV for the manga but anime announcement is incoming?
PhillipCostigan
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Yeah I think I'm dropping Nana to Kaoru. Not digging the SM angle and the characters/story aren't at the point where I could get past it. Oh well.
Read Prison School and Monster Musume.
astrogamer
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Dr. Hitomi's Infirmary 6
That's an interesting childhood friend. Also I want to see Hitomi's sister's eyes
That's an interesting childhood friend. Also I want to see Hitomi's sister's eyes
A Huge Battleship
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Black Museum Springald 1-6 (END)
Holy mackerel, talk about exceeding my expectations. An inspired, fantastic re-imagining of the legend of Spring-heeled Jack, who was said to have terrorised England in various guises during the 19th century. So gripping that I was doing a pretty good impression of the Curator for the majority of the story. Speaking of, the author needs to heed her demands in the afterword and revisit the museum with other criminal tales. Now, if not sooner.
HassanJamal
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Franken Fran 1-End
Im not into manga that has depiction of gore, especially ones of this caliber but the art and stories in Fraken Fran helped give me the push to read it to the end. If I had to describe what sort of stories to expect, it'd be like a messed up gore-ified version of Black Jack, with occasional parodies such as Kamen Riders, Mascots parks, giants and loads more. Besides the gore, art, stories, theres also the scientific bits tossed into each of operations done by Fran which I have no clue if they're possible or not but given Kigitsu Katsuhisa's detailed depiction of bodies being mashed, split, cut, and what have you, who knows, they might be possible.
Despite the insane amount of gore that made me uncomfortable, I actually liked Fran and her adventures of science and 'life-saving' and would have liked to seen more, wanted to see more insane science and at least what her father looked like.
Edit: Whoops did not notice that, my bad.
Im not into manga that has depiction of gore, especially ones of this caliber but the art and stories in Fraken Fran helped give me the push to read it to the end. If I had to describe what sort of stories to expect, it'd be like a messed up gore-ified version of Black Jack, with occasional parodies such as Kamen Riders, Mascots parks, giants and loads more. Besides the gore, art, stories, theres also the scientific bits tossed into each of operations done by Fran which I have no clue if they're possible or not but given Kigitsu Katsuhisa's detailed depiction of bodies being mashed, split, cut, and what have you, who knows, they might be possible.
Despite the insane amount of gore that made me uncomfortable, I actually liked Fran and her adventures of science and 'life-saving' and would have liked to seen more, wanted to see more insane science and at least what her father looked like.
Edit: Whoops did not notice that, my bad.
Rafa=FedKilla
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Illegal Rare was incredible. Hate the main character's face though. Looks like fan art.
Infinite Justice
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Sorry to hear.
If you cant get past the bold then its for the best that you drop this series since it wont change even when the characters slowly do (hell the SM angle is what brings most of those changes to light).
Soma
Megumi giving that slight tease with her thank you speech lol
Also the swag is off the fucking charts with Suit Isshiki, dude knows when its time to be goofy and when its time to be serious.
I guess after this Isshiki "arc" the competition will continue on and that should be good since there are some broken people in there. Plus i don't think Soma is gonna take it (will defeat the mook as a way of giving that Elite Ten guy the middle finger, might defeat Hayama) and that will be all Alice.
A Huge Battleship
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1: Franken Fran is one of my all-time favourite mangas and it always warms my transplanted cow's heart to see more people reading it.
2: Check rule 2 in the OP and then remove your image before something bad happens.
It's funny how normal this all seems in context.
HassanJamal
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Just edited, thanks for the heads up.
Also, its a really good manga, nice stories, interesting characters(mine being Fran and poor poor Kuhou), funny takes on pop culture stuff. I really recommend it to anyone who can push through the gore. Just a shame it ended so soon. I would like more of Fraken Fran.
PhillipCostigan
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The problem I'm having with it is not that it contains SM per se, but more like for the first 20 odd chapters that I've read it's that and only that. Like the characters aren't interesting at the moment anyway, and it's like "well there's more urination than character progression right now".
Maybe I'll return to it, but it would have to have some character stuff pretty soon. Like the SM hook isn't interesting me and there's nothing else there at the moment.
thesaucetastic
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If you want another battle + comedy story, One-Punch Man is a good choice (still need to read it myself though). If art makes it or breaks it for you, start with the remake by Murata.
If you want waifus, massacres, rape, all that depressing stuff - try Akame ga Kill.
If you want something with comedy and character development, try Silver Spoon. By the same author of Fullmetal Alchemist. Speaking of which, if you haven't read FMA, do that.
If you want something I'll recommend regardless of what you actually like, try Kono Oto Tomare damnit.
edit: I couldn't get past the first chapter of Nana to Kaoru, so you've at least made it farther than I have. S&M is kind of a turn off for me I guess.
Eventually, it just becomes the catalyst of pretty much all of Nana's growth. Like, every breather after New Years arc is pretty much for getting over some repressed anxiety of hers.
It starts off really crass, finds the angle it wants with the third character being introduced (~20 chapters), and then finds the tone it really wants to go through around ~30 chapters in. It never drops the S&M stuff, and in a sense they get "harsher", but it's basically just there to carry the character development instead of just there as S&M.
Dedication Through Light
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But thats the only thing good about Illegal Rare.
thesaucetastic
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Dude I've seen that dog-play chapter because I randomly skipped ahead to see if it gets any better. That totally made me decide to drop it.
I mean, I'm not a fan of lewd manga to begin with. I am a big fan of character development though. I just don't think I could stomach her degrading herself and the power imbalance between them long enough for that to start to happen. The trade off doesn't seem worth it. I don't judge people who are into s&m obviously, I just don't find it entertaining to read.
Ten de Showaru Cupid - It's like opposite Nisekoi.
Power imbalance between them coupled with the dog breather is an awkward sentence. Like, did you read the entire breather or just a few pages? That breather was basically one to go against Kaoru and he wasn't in-control.
To each their own though, just find the context of that one off. That said, there's one breather that does fit with what you're saying (basically, the big breather before that one), though both sides find that it went too far.
Power imbalance between them coupled with the dog breather is an awkward sentence. Like, did you read the entire breather or just a few pages? That breather was basically one to go against Kaoru and he wasn't in-control.
To each their own though, just find the context of that one off. That said, there's one breather that does fit with what you're saying (basically, the big breather before that one), though both sides find that it went too far.
Infinite Justice
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Yea i can see that (luckily i was intrigued by the SM stuff to keep going lol)
Another issue is that imo that growth takes a while and inchs along as the story goes so even if you get pass the hump you might not like the progress and SM is still in full force at that point
. Indeed
and its funny that only Kaoru usually notices that something is off with her
Is that the one where
he found out that he can't ignore his feelings and made that epic speech to everyone who was somewhat taking advantage of her kindness?
if so that payoff was great even though it did go too far
if so that payoff was great even though it did go too far
Yea i can see that (luckily i was intrigued by the SM stuff to keep going lol)
Another issue is that imo that growth takes a while and inchs along as the story goes so even if you get pass the hump you might not like the progress and SM is still in full force at that point
Yeah, that's the final sticking point. It's really slow in hard developments so if it's a case of "dealing with the S&M", it probably won't go fast enough. Like, we're looking at this + Arashi so like 150+ chapters and the amount of real progress is fairly limited.
That said, it's also the non-S&M chapters that provide the best moments. The S&M chapters are actually just strictly limited to some character breakthrough. The non-S&M chapters are the relationship-focused ones.
And then Tachi and Tachibana provide the rest of the developments for Nana's side.
Yeah, that one. The payoff is good for them but as far as the S&M power play goes, it's probably the most over-the-top one I guess. Most the rest of the breathers are pretty tame. Honestly, the chapter covers are worse than the contents typically :x
...well, there's the suppository bit but that's not really a breather.
dakkumauji
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yesplz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_n_k5nNA3A
It's still the PV for the manga but anime announcement is incoming?
why make an anime? they will never top the live action version
dakkumauji
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yeah, but I'll actually finish the anime
Dedication Through Light
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Still the best LA series Ive seen, the actors were perfect for my favorites and just delivered in a way that an anime just cant reach.
Though if an anime could bring in Kurosaki, Tamaki too, Ill certainly watch.
ColossalLazy
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Soma 60
Dat Ishikki in a suit. So much swag.
Dat Ishikki in a suit. So much swag.
thesaucetastic
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There's two parts to that dog bowl one: There's
the bit where he's imagining how it was going to be (and his imagination of the scenes is almost always the dominating dom and submissive sub setup) and then there's the reality of the two eating their soba out of the bowls happily. The entire dog breather ended up for Kaoru's benefit of realizing he doesn't need to be "perfect dom" the entire way through and that he's just as much a part of it as they are.
thesaucetastic
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Er, yeah,
the two girls eating out of their own plates/bowls. And that's the second time, the first was omurice if I recall. It's a really long, time-wise, breather
That's fine, I was just noting I found choosing that arc of all of them for that point to be kind of funny since it serves to kind of respond to that issue :x
dakkumauji
Member
Shokugeki no Soma 60
Third and FOURTH form activated.
Third and FOURTH form activated.
ColossalLazy
Member
So good. But there is more.
ColossalLazy
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Samurai Papa 9
LOL
I cannot decide who is better. The teacher or the single mother?
LOL
I cannot decide who is better. The teacher or the single mother?
The legendary double breast gra---oh, no, just an elbow to the face.
Which I guess is legendary too.
dakkumauji
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Double Gauge 09
The fight was pretty awesome even if the weaponary still leaves me squirmish.
Looking forward to the not dead protag to show his stuff next chapter.
The fight was pretty awesome even if the weaponary still leaves me squirmish.
Looking forward to the not dead protag to show his stuff next chapter.
Boku no Idol - I read this forever ago and didn't know there was a sequel. Re-read it and it's ... okay, I guess. It's more the start of a possible romance than anything fulfilling.
Atashi no Idol - ...and then this doesn't answer anything. Just more of a confirmation that they're a dumb couple that won't find the chance to confess.
I got my hopes up ;___;
Atashi no Idol - ...and then this doesn't answer anything. Just more of a confirmation that they're a dumb couple that won't find the chance to confess.
I got my hopes up ;___;
dakkumauji
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Samurai Papa 09
I think sensei will be a great match.
I think sensei will be a great match.
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