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brotkasten
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You haven't even reached the Team Winter arc and if you keep reading at this pace, you'll turn 50 before you do. Damn, 20 minutes for 27 pages.
brotkasten
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Shinobi no Kuni 2-3
I really like Mumon and Bungo. I'm still a bit on the fence about Heibe, but his messenger job should be interesting and now that Bungo is going with him, he might even show more than one side of his character.
Seeing Mumon getting bossed around by Okuni is really hilarious.
I really like the art. There are even more panels I'd love to post than I thought after reading the first chapter. But don't worry, I won't. <3
I really like Mumon and Bungo. I'm still a bit on the fence about Heibe, but his messenger job should be interesting and now that Bungo is going with him, he might even show more than one side of his character.
Seeing Mumon getting bossed around by Okuni is really hilarious.
I really like the art. There are even more panels I'd love to post than I thought after reading the first chapter. But don't worry, I won't. <3
Yep. Kind of drags occasionally, and there are some pretty ridiculous fight conclusions... But, the manga's still got it's high points.
The recent match with Vorg was pretty great.
Dedication Through Light
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Ill miss seeing the covers to my favorite magazines drap, aria, gush, be boy gold, chara, etc.
Damn, now we have to use variable sources for news again, worst news ever
What are some other good sources?Damn, now we have to use variable sources for news again, worst news ever
The Otaku Shoten part of the Mangahelpers forum.
"God's Beard!"
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7 Seeds is the best currently serialized manga by no small margin.
But it doesn't start that way.
There goes my reason of using Twitter everyday.
brotkasten
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Shinobi no Kuni 4-6
Heibe betraying Iga is not that surprising, but almost killing off Bungo was kinda unnecessary. I thought he is an interesting balance to Mumon. Anyway, Tsuge playing Lord Nobukatsu was a nice, I really like this kind of political intrigues. The plan to invade Iga is also a nice one. Nothing blinds people like money, even when they get the obvious thing shouted at them by the enemy (that damn Daizen).
Heibe betraying Iga is not that surprising, but almost killing off Bungo was kinda unnecessary. I thought he is an interesting balance to Mumon. Anyway, Tsuge playing Lord Nobukatsu was a nice, I really like this kind of political intrigues. The plan to invade Iga is also a nice one. Nothing blinds people like money, even when they get the obvious thing shouted at them by the enemy (that damn Daizen).
Cromartie High School
Are you a bad enough dude to read this manga? Are you?
An hilarious parody of delinquent mangas, where everyone tries to prove that he's a badass. If you like absurd mangas like Gintama or Bobobo (I do) it's perfect.
It's over the top, some stuff just doesn't make sense and in the end you just laugh your ass off all the time. It never stops, there's always a stupid comment, a situation that make you go "WTF?"...
The MC does his best to survive in a high school filled with punks, a robot, a Freddie Mercury look-alike or even a gorilla.
Yes, a gorilla.
Are you a bad enough dude to read this manga? Are you?
An hilarious parody of delinquent mangas, where everyone tries to prove that he's a badass. If you like absurd mangas like Gintama or Bobobo (I do) it's perfect.
It's over the top, some stuff just doesn't make sense and in the end you just laugh your ass off all the time. It never stops, there's always a stupid comment, a situation that make you go "WTF?"...
The MC does his best to survive in a high school filled with punks, a robot, a Freddie Mercury look-alike or even a gorilla.
Yes, a gorilla.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
The anime for cromatie high is a pretty excellent adaptation.
Dedication Through Light
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News is the only reason to use twitter? I like looking at peoples random reactions to anime/manga, anime/manga pr's of posters and their stuff, and I guess finding more fanarts.
Relaxed Muscle
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Cromartie High School
God that guy in the center.
Is like they mixed Freddy Mercury with Jean Reno.
FlutterPuffs
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Watch the anime. They use jet engine SFX for the punches and it sounds so sexy.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
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brotkasten
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Is the anime still running?
ColossalLazy
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TWGOK 227
So Keima has to make Tenri the best girl lol. Poor Elsie last girl.
So Keima has to make Tenri the best girl lol. Poor Elsie last girl.
brotkasten
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Shinobi no Kuni 7-10, end of Vol 2.
Hahaha, this was a fantastic play by Iga. Really loved it. I guess it felt a bit cheap that Heibe's father was all like "I've planned this form the very beginning, all according to keikaku", but it fits with the political setting, so I don't mind it. They even took Daizen into consideration, but I'm glad this is going to backfire in the long-run. With Heibe on his side, this might get really interesting for Mumon.
I love Mumon's simple face that gets thrown in every now and then, especially during the more serious scenes. It's kind of funny and sweet how Okuni is the only thing that drives him. Working on the construction side or assassinate people, as long as he gets money to please her, it's fine.
He's such a great character. I'd love to see him animated.
Hahaha, this was a fantastic play by Iga. Really loved it. I guess it felt a bit cheap that Heibe's father was all like "I've planned this form the very beginning, all according to keikaku", but it fits with the political setting, so I don't mind it. They even took Daizen into consideration, but I'm glad this is going to backfire in the long-run. With Heibe on his side, this might get really interesting for Mumon.
I love Mumon's simple face that gets thrown in every now and then, especially during the more serious scenes. It's kind of funny and sweet how Okuni is the only thing that drives him. Working on the construction side or assassinate people, as long as he gets money to please her, it's fine.
He's such a great character. I'd love to see him animated.
FlutterPuffs
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Not sure, I usually stop watching an anime after I start reading the manga.
brotkasten
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Really? With something like boxing you'd think it translates really well into anime. As long as it isn't done by Studio Periot or another cheap studio, of course.
Its have 2 different season, ended with the best fight in the series.
FlutterPuffs
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brotkasten
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Holy shit, that was ... crazy. But yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. I couldn't really get into the Initial D manga, but I loved the anime, because it's just much more exciting to watch with all the music and effects.
Dedication Through Light
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Tegami Bachi Letter Bee v13 (50 - 54)
Dr. Thunderland said exactly what I would say about the volume, what happened to all my younger characters and what not and poor Lag, Zazie, Conner, who barely got any time on panels (though Zazie got the most epic appearance with Jiggy Pepper, best panel even if it was the final page of the volume). All these old men and soon to be old Lloyd Largo. Not that it was bad as all these reveals worked to change my opinion on Akatsuki, as well as Hazel and Garrard. I want to know so much more about their world, the artificial son, the human experimentation and etc, August must hurry.
Oh and the Shidanjuu, Partitia, really detailed and nice.
Dr. Thunderland said exactly what I would say about the volume, what happened to all my younger characters and what not and poor Lag, Zazie, Conner, who barely got any time on panels (though Zazie got the most epic appearance with Jiggy Pepper, best panel even if it was the final page of the volume). All these old men and soon to be old Lloyd Largo. Not that it was bad as all these reveals worked to change my opinion on Akatsuki, as well as Hazel and Garrard. I want to know so much more about their world, the artificial son, the human experimentation and etc, August must hurry.
Oh and the Shidanjuu, Partitia, really detailed and nice.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Soul Eater should come out today or tomorrow. It´s going to be brilliant.
Why the hell is my Vinland Saga chapter?
Why the hell is my Vinland Saga chapter?
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
Good collection of short stories covering some of Hagio's work over the past 30 years. The stories ranged from sci-fi to romance and to completely bizarre and weird ones. Most of them were really interesting exploring very different themes which made this a very strong collection of oneshots. Surprisingly enough the main story, A Drunken Dream didn't end up being the best one. While it had an interesting concept about tragic life and cycle of death before meeting your loved one, the way the story flowed was very confusing. However, the story was all in colour and Hagio's colouring is fantastic so it made it worthwhile.
The best stories were Hanshin: Half-God which gave a good perspective about self-sacrifice, and identity about twins attached at the hip. My other favourite story was Iguana Girl which while had a ridicolous concept, it turned out that it was a very personal story and the mother character in the story was basically based on Hagio's mother. Then there is The Willow Tree, a story consisting of almost no dialogue but told in a simple two panels per page layout showing the life of a single boy as he grows up while being watched by the woman under the tree. Very good twist at the end.
While most of the stories were worth reading, the best part really about this manga is the great 18 pages interview with Moto Hagio conducted by Matt Thorn. And this isn't one of the terrible manga interviews where they only give lame one liner answers and show almost no interested. Hagio went in details in almost all her answers and showed great enthusiasm. The interview basically went over her early life, her parents hatred of job, the opposition against early shoujo manga, members of the Forty-Niners, the origin of BL manga, and her inspirations.
One neat little detail that I never knew about is that basically at the time all the interesting shoujo stories were always rejected in favour of cliched shoujo stories about girls trying to find their lost mother and having amnesia. However, one editor, Junya Yamamoto basically didn't give a damn about any of the preconceived notions of girls stories and encouraged people like Hagio or Takemiya to write interesting and unique stories that were controversial at the time.
I found this part amusing while she was talking about how most editors just never got girls comics and exposing the incompetence of the judges at manga awards.
Good collection of short stories covering some of Hagio's work over the past 30 years. The stories ranged from sci-fi to romance and to completely bizarre and weird ones. Most of them were really interesting exploring very different themes which made this a very strong collection of oneshots. Surprisingly enough the main story, A Drunken Dream didn't end up being the best one. While it had an interesting concept about tragic life and cycle of death before meeting your loved one, the way the story flowed was very confusing. However, the story was all in colour and Hagio's colouring is fantastic so it made it worthwhile.
The best stories were Hanshin: Half-God which gave a good perspective about self-sacrifice, and identity about twins attached at the hip. My other favourite story was Iguana Girl which while had a ridicolous concept, it turned out that it was a very personal story and the mother character in the story was basically based on Hagio's mother. Then there is The Willow Tree, a story consisting of almost no dialogue but told in a simple two panels per page layout showing the life of a single boy as he grows up while being watched by the woman under the tree. Very good twist at the end.
While most of the stories were worth reading, the best part really about this manga is the great 18 pages interview with Moto Hagio conducted by Matt Thorn. And this isn't one of the terrible manga interviews where they only give lame one liner answers and show almost no interested. Hagio went in details in almost all her answers and showed great enthusiasm. The interview basically went over her early life, her parents hatred of job, the opposition against early shoujo manga, members of the Forty-Niners, the origin of BL manga, and her inspirations.
One neat little detail that I never knew about is that basically at the time all the interesting shoujo stories were always rejected in favour of cliched shoujo stories about girls trying to find their lost mother and having amnesia. However, one editor, Junya Yamamoto basically didn't give a damn about any of the preconceived notions of girls stories and encouraged people like Hagio or Takemiya to write interesting and unique stories that were controversial at the time.
I found this part amusing while she was talking about how most editors just never got girls comics and exposing the incompetence of the judges at manga awards.
Dedication Through Light
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But will it be understandable.
Anyway I wonder how many chapters away are we until the end of the manga, I guess just less than five?
brotkasten
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Shinobi no Kuni, 11-13
I love this, I need more ninja/samurai stories like this, in a realistic setting, but still with small jutsus (mostly manipulating people, disappearing in the smoke and things like that and no fireballs and giant enemy crabs) and politics.
It's so great to see the Council's plan blowing up right in their face. I almost felt sorry for Bungo, the poor guy has such a blood lust and can't participate in the war. Mumon's decision to join after all understandable, but maybe I would've preferred a time skip, where his decision haunts him later on. But the fight against Daizen and/or Heibe has to happen, I guess.
I love this, I need more ninja/samurai stories like this, in a realistic setting, but still with small jutsus (mostly manipulating people, disappearing in the smoke and things like that and no fireballs and giant enemy crabs) and politics.
It's so great to see the Council's plan blowing up right in their face. I almost felt sorry for Bungo, the poor guy has such a blood lust and can't participate in the war. Mumon's decision to join after all understandable, but maybe I would've preferred a time skip, where his decision haunts him later on. But the fight against Daizen and/or Heibe has to happen, I guess.
The Sweet Alien manga is oddly cute and touching.
There are bunch of other people that post some cool stuff (almost no manga/anime related, don't really know any good non company feeds to follow), but nothing beats waking up in the morning and seeing my timeline getting spammed with various magazine/volume covers and random manga news.
There are bunch of other people that post some cool stuff (almost no manga/anime related, don't really know any good non company feeds to follow), but nothing beats waking up in the morning and seeing my timeline getting spammed with various magazine/volume covers and random manga news.
dakkumauji
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TWGOK 227
No way, that's a third grader.
No way, that's a third grader.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
It's those big eyes.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S is very good. I watched first season and i liked it.
Adventure for the sake of adventure is worthless. There should be an overall reaching plot and a goal that the adventure should moves towards. We know that aladdin was "created" to balance the rukh and that´s the whole plot of the manga, and Al Sarmen want to plunge the world into depravity. So a war between the 2 and their allies is inevitable. The war between the Kou and Raem is inevitable in the struggle for control and expanding ones power. So a shonen war arc critic for a result that everyone knows and expected is really not in its place when it´s a foregone conclusion that war is going to happen one way or another with different factions.
I do agree with you about Mor though. It´s ridiculous that she has been absent for so long, and while both Aladdin and Alibaba got their training chapters, we got robbed from seeing Mor exploring and learning about the Dark Continent. I really hope that the manga elaborate about that in details, since it will be a new world building materials and a big chance for development for Mor.
Adventure for the sake of adventure is worthless. There should be an overall reaching plot and a goal that the adventure should moves towards. We know that aladdin was "created" to balance the rukh and that´s the whole plot of the manga, and Al Sarmen want to plunge the world into depravity. So a war between the 2 and their allies is inevitable. The war between the Kou and Raem is inevitable in the struggle for control and expanding ones power. So a shonen war arc critic for a result that everyone knows and expected is really not in its place when it´s a foregone conclusion that war is going to happen one way or another with different factions.
I do agree with you about Mor though. It´s ridiculous that she has been absent for so long, and while both Aladdin and Alibaba got their training chapters, we got robbed from seeing Mor exploring and learning about the Dark Continent. I really hope that the manga elaborate about that in details, since it will be a new world building materials and a big chance for development for Mor.
dakkumauji
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All I really use Twitter for is to see what news stories Siliconera and Gematsu post.
brotkasten
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Shinobi no Kuni 14-16, end of Vol 3.
As always, money is the motivation that keeps people going. I didn't expect Mumon to turn the war like that and I'm not sure how I feel about this. But he's definitely the greatest ninja of Iga, goddamn. Absolutely frightening and skillful.
As always, money is the motivation that keeps people going. I didn't expect Mumon to turn the war like that and I'm not sure how I feel about this. But he's definitely the greatest ninja of Iga, goddamn. Absolutely frightening and skillful.
Crash Station
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Cromartie High School
Are you a bad enough dude to read this manga? Are you?
An hilarious parody of delinquent manga mangas, where everyone tries to prove that he's a badass. If you like absurd mangas like Gintama or Bobobo (I do) it's perfect.
It's over the top, some stuff just doesn't make sense and in the end you just laugh your ass off all the time. It never stops, there's always a stupid comment, a situation that make you go "WTF?"...
The MC does his best to survive in a high school filled with punks, a robot, a Freddie Mercury look-alike or even a gorilla.
Yes, a gorilla.
As much as I love the anime, the manga is WAY too wordy. It shouldn't take 10 minutes to read a chapter half the length of a normal one.
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