brotkasten
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I know you got bad taste and all that, buy come on. It's really good.
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Damn DBZ still on the list, and its about to beat out toriko?
Dedication Through Light
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I, personally, dont think the placement matters, and Toriko got a color page last week.
It's not a real ranking.
The order really doesn't matter that much, and I think DBZ (its the shitty color version) has been last pretty much every week since it started a few months ago.
brotkasten
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One day, Toriko is going to be really popular. I can feel it.
Well it has good rankings in the Japanese Jump.
Dedication Through Light
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How much more popular do people want Toriko to be. It already has a 100+ episode anime, 3mln yearly seller, several videogames, and even I guess, two movies now? ( a 3D one and one upcoming).
It's just that Shueisha wants it to be the next Bleach or Naruto.
Saying it's not popular is stupid, but it's just not popular enough when you see how hard Shueisha is pushing it.
BassForever
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It's not going to break though that barrier in the US until it gets put on television on either Toonami or Disney XD or some other channel like that.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Toriko doesn't seem to be even Assassination Classroom popular from what I can tell. It looks generic as fuck to me.
I've tried to get into Toriko multiple times. The art is really off-putting to me (its not something i'm accustom to in a shounen), and I really could give half a shit about food as a premise (Only reason i'm still enjoying Food Smut was because I liked it ironically in the beginning, but its actually won me over).
Then again, I had my first One Piece experience since dropping the manga after 2 vols on Toonami this weekend (episode 206?), and felt like I was in a fever dream, so who knows what makes things popular
Then again, I had my first One Piece experience since dropping the manga after 2 vols on Toonami this weekend (episode 206?), and felt like I was in a fever dream, so who knows what makes things popular
AssClass is more popular right now.
BassForever
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Toriko and One Piece are series you just have to stick with but they do take off and become fantastic
Dedication Through Light
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With the wide amount of manga out there, one is better off just finding other more compelling series to read than painfully enduring excruciatingly dull chapters to get through just for the chance of feeling rewarded for it.
brotkasten
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I had a really hard time getting into One Piece and I don't think I could do the same again.
BassForever
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Yeah Century Soup Arc of Toriko (and Arlong Arc of OP) are when the series begin to hit their stride.
brotkasten
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How many chapters until that arc begins?
Dedication Through Light
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Chapter 63 - Century Soup Arc.
Starting that late, you miss one of my favorite foods in the series
BassForever
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Chapter 63 or Episode 23
Chapter 63.
The chapters before it can be a real slog. I almost dropped it multiple times to be honest.
I wonder what the all-OT top 10 looks like now, last time I was second after Angry-man, didn't feel goodClick the "Replies" number.
Current top 10
Difference between Toriko and One Piece is that Toriko doesn't do drama/emotion at all really (you'd think there would be at least anger, but even that is almost never a big deal, since Toriko believes in survival of the fittest), so I don't think Toriko will ever get good in a similar curve to OP. But yeah Toriko does need a while to get good, and it does get good (really good).
Right now it's really popular with kids so its popularity will hang on whether those kids stay on it when they grow up, I guess (assuming it lasts that long obviously)
Phoenician_Viking
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Yeah, it will overshadow DB WW.
I'm looking at this popularity vote for best seinen manga on Manga-News and it's very disappointing. Punpun lost to Arms Peddler and Gisele Alain lost to fucking Prophecy. And here I thought French manga fans had good taste cause of Kurita. Whatever is left won't be as good as last year's winner, Bride's Story.
Prophecy is so fucking bad. It's what you get if a deranged 10 years old tried to write manga about social justice.
Prophecy is so fucking bad. It's what you get if a deranged 10 years old tried to write manga about social justice.
Prophecy is popular cause it's dark and edgy.
But you know, Manga-News's community isn't really a good example...
ColossalLazy
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Arms Peddler is pretty good although its completely different from Punpun so its hard to compare them.
Dedication Through Light
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Im confused how there is a world in which people like Spice and Wolf over Btooom! or that Tiger & Bunny would lose to anything on that list
The Tiger & Bunny manga is shit.Im confused how there is a world in which people like Spice and Wolf over Btooom! or that Tiger & Bunny would lose to anything on that list
brotkasten
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Chapter 63 - Century Soup Arc.
Starting that late, you miss one of my favorite foods in the series
63 chapters is a lot, damn. I don't plan to skip the other chapters, but it's definitely harder to start with.
@DTL: Kuroko's Basketball won best shounen of 2012, cheer up.
The Punpun loss is more of a personal disappointment since Arms Peddler isn't a bad manga, but the Gisele Alain loss makes me angry.
People thinking Prophecy is anything more than just a juvenile power trip fantasy makes me sad.
The Punpun loss is more of a personal disappointment since Arms Peddler isn't a bad manga, but the Gisele Alain loss makes me angry.
I'll probably go lower when you factor in this thread too! It's the perfect plan.You're falling behind, fire-breathing lizard:
Eeeeeew
brotkasten
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It's pretty easy, when you see him discuss with others. He won't let you go like that.
e: And that was probably before the max 20k post rule.
You're falling behind, fire-breathing lizard:
I wish I can go back to OT 1/2 level of posting.
brotkasten
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There's no going back (and that's better for all of us).
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Nobody will ever pass me unless I get perm'd because even if I don't get the most in a thread, I tend to still have like 800 posts in every thread.
I don't remember many arguments like that. Naruto was really popular in the first thread for most of it, particularly the entire Pain arc. The biggest argument series I remember in OT1 was super long form, incendiary arguments between Ignis and Freshmaker about whether Bleach was the worst shit of all time. Big One didn't show up until the end of OT2 or OT3, I forget.
brotkasten
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I'm pretty sure Kurita will pass you if he keeps going like that.
Nah, I think Grimace is untouchable now.
Kurita may just do it given enough time.
brotkasten
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I'll give it a year or two.
You're falling behind, fire-breathing lizard:
First OT Grimace scares me.
zyxwvu4321
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Akame ga Kill 36
I really, really hope that Gun Girl finally gets to kill Man-eating Dog Girl.
I really, really hope that Gun Girl finally gets to kill Man-eating Dog Girl.
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