You're right, my bad: it was 71, not 72 (all the numbers in the table of contents were off by one in the first printing(s?) of the book, and that's what I was looking at).
I am still juggling between TTWyR and Prince of Tennis as the sole winner of "FUCK THE EXISTENCE OF THIS MANGA" award.
Oh alriiiiiight, I'll read 7 seeds this weekend... I'll even post impressions..... most probably.............. most likely...............................
Let me think about it. I mean, I am always open for exposing KINGDOM to more people but ummmmmmmmmrghhhhhh the artwork in 7 seeds is truly repulsive to my sensibilities.
You should read it. I'm the type of person who could easily swayed off by fan service, but due to the over-the top nature and serious art style of the manga, they're actually made for laugh. Also it wouldn't be far fetched if I called it well written. It seems the author have made solid outline of what'll happened in the manga.
I read the 1st volume already, and while I can appreciate the environment art it's that Shoujo character art that I *really* hate. The whole sparkly eyes and bishounen long hair dudes and things like that.
His previous works between Prison School and Ore to Akuma No Blues looks absolute shit though. Looks like Hiramoto went into depression and desperation after his masterpiece (which is true) got cancelled
Hiramoto ordeal reminds me of Naoshi Komi similar fate
You'd be better off just waiting until this arc ends, probably around the end of this year. OP arcs are much more enjoyable if you can bulk read the whole arc at once.
Avoid it. It is example of a story ruined by unrealistic characters reacting in unrealistic ways to events blown way out of proportion. Youd get more entertainment from reading Charles Baudelaire "Les Fleurs du mal" (#AmazonCart) than you would reading this boring manga.
Whoa, don't mind me who has never posted in this thread before, just coming here to say this is the wrongest post that has ever wronged.
If you've ever been a depressed thirteen year old kid in a shitty small town with a drive to escape and be somebody then the characters are not only realistic but painfully, heartbreakingly relatable. Kasuga is a wonderful portrayal of that pretentious kid who wants to be a special snowflake but is really a creeper with no sense of self. As someone who has suffered from crippling depression, Nakamura's rabid anger towards her shitty town, her broken family, the small-minded nature of society, and most of all herself, and her burning desire to see all of it go to hell, to run away and escape from it all, that shit hits super close to home. And Kasuga's relationships with Saeki and Nakamura showcase perfectly that feeling of naive young "love", of being so stupidly infatuated you can't even see someone as who they really are, as well as illustrate how Kasuga tries so hard to find his own identity through other people.
Yes, things are blown out of proportion, and characters don't always react rationally because that's what teenagers do - even the smallest, pettiest problems feel like the end of the world when you're that young, and the manga expertly captures that. I honestly can't think of a manga with a more realistic portrayal of teenagers with mental problems and deep-seated personality and identity issues.
tl;dr Aku no Hana is basically my favorite manga of all time.
And the anime is fucking great too, and anyone who got turned off because of the art style has absolutely no taste whatsoever.
It only seems fitting that I finish reading the Ruby/Sapphire arc the day its remakes get announced.
A pretty great ending for an arc where the latter half was pretty much the world ending over and over. More or less, it definitely showed Ruby's growth of a character. Sapphire had some too, but it was definitely more about Ruby.
The final final battle was definitely the most interesting.
Even more interesting was the idea to actually kill off some characters. Sure, Ruby also had a deus ex machina to undo all that, but it still hit hard.
Another great arc to a great series. Can't believe we're actually going to get the Fire Red/ Leaf Green arc translated soon!
Whoa, don't mind me who has never posted in this thread before, just coming here to say this is the wrongest post that has ever wronged.
If you've ever been a depressed thirteen year old kid in a shitty small town with a drive to escape and be somebody then the characters are not only realistic but painfully, heartbreakingly relatable. Kasuga is a wonderful portrayal of that pretentious kid who wants to be a special snowflake but is really a creeper with no sense of self. As someone who has suffered from crippling depression, Nakamura's rabid anger towards her shitty town, her broken family, the small-minded nature of society, and most of all herself, and her burning desire to see all of it go to hell, to run away and escape from it all, that shit hits super close to home. And Kasuga's relationships with Saeki and Nakamura showcase perfectly that feeling of naive young "love", of being so stupidly infatuated you can't even see someone as who they really are, as well as illustrate how Kasuga tries so hard to find his own identity through other people.
Yes, things are blown out of proportion, and characters don't always react rationally because that's what teenagers do - even the smallest, pettiest problems feel like the end of the world when you're that young, and the manga expertly captures that. I honestly can't think of a manga with a more realistic portrayal of teenagers with mental problems and deep-seated personality and identity issues.
tl;dr Aku no Hana is basically my favorite manga of all time.
And the anime is fucking great too, and anyone who got turned off because of the art style has absolutely no taste whatsoever.
Whoa, don't mind me who has never posted in this thread before, just coming here to say this is the wrongest post that has ever wronged.
If you've ever been a depressed thirteen year old kid in a shitty small town with a drive to escape and be somebody then the characters are not only realistic but painfully, heartbreakingly relatable. Kasuga is a wonderful portrayal of that pretentious kid who wants to be a special snowflake but is really a creeper with no sense of self. As someone who has suffered from crippling depression, Nakamura's rabid anger towards her shitty town, her broken family, the small-minded nature of society, and most of all herself, and her burning desire to see all of it go to hell, to run away and escape from it all, that shit hits super close to home. And Kasuga's relationships with Saeki and Nakamura showcase perfectly that feeling of naive young "love", of being so stupidly infatuated you can't even see someone as who they really are, as well as illustrate how Kasuga tries so hard to find his own identity through other people.
Yes, things are blown out of proportion, and characters don't always react rationally because that's what teenagers do - even the smallest, pettiest problems feel like the end of the world when you're that young, and the manga expertly captures that. I honestly can't think of a manga with a more realistic portrayal of teenagers with mental problems and deep-seated personality and identity issues.
tl;dr Aku no Hana is basically my favorite manga of all time.
And the anime is fucking great too, and anyone who got turned off because of the art style has absolutely no taste whatsoever.
Whoa, don't mind me who has never posted in this thread before, just coming here to say this is the wrongest post that has ever wronged.
If you've ever been a depressed thirteen year old kid in a shitty small town with a drive to escape and be somebody then the characters are not only realistic but painfully, heartbreakingly relatable. Kasuga is a wonderful portrayal of that pretentious kid who wants to be a special snowflake but is really a creeper with no sense of self. As someone who has suffered from crippling depression, Nakamura's rabid anger towards her shitty town, her broken family, the small-minded nature of society, and most of all herself, and her burning desire to see all of it go to hell, to run away and escape from it all, that shit hits super close to home. And Kasuga's relationships with Saeki and Nakamura showcase perfectly that feeling of naive young "love", of being so stupidly infatuated you can't even see someone as who they really are, as well as illustrate how Kasuga tries so hard to find his own identity through other people.
Yes, things are blown out of proportion, and characters don't always react rationally because that's what teenagers do - even the smallest, pettiest problems feel like the end of the world when you're that young, and the manga expertly captures that. I honestly can't think of a manga with a more realistic portrayal of teenagers with mental problems and deep-seated personality and identity issues.
tl;dr Aku no Hana is basically my favorite manga of all time.
And the anime is fucking great too, and anyone who got turned off because of the art style has absolutely no taste whatsoever.
It only seems fitting that I finish reading the Ruby/Sapphire arc the day its remakes get announced.
A pretty great ending for an arc where the latter half was pretty much the world ending over and over. More or less, it definitely showed Ruby's growth of a character. Sapphire had some too, but it was definitely more about Ruby.
The final final battle was definitely the most interesting.
Even more interesting was the idea to actually kill off some characters. Sure, Ruby also had a deus ex machina to undo all that, but it still hit hard.
Another great arc to a great series. Can't believe we're actually going to get the Fire Red/ Leaf Green arc translated soon!
Out of some Pokemon Special Chapters so far, RS Chapters is definitely one the best. Ruby's conflict with his father because he wanted to be a coordinator is what makes this chapter so interesting. The only problem is that RS, much like any other "main" chapters suffered from horrible pacing in the end due to the authors have to catched up with the game. If only Pokemon Special an actual weekly series, it wouldn't have pacing problem, probably.
Junko Kawakami
Lily Hoshino (Otome Yōkai Zakuro)
Naoki Yamamoto (Believers, Dance Till Tomorrow, Arigatō
Natsume Ono (Ristorante Paradiso, House of Five Leaves)
Sukune Inugami
Takako Shimura (Hourou Musuko, Aoi Hana)
Usamaru Furuya (Palepoli, Genkaku Picasso, Suicide Club, The Music of Marie)
Inio Asano (Solanin, Goodbye PunPun, What a wonderful World, Nijigara Holograph)
Hiroaki Samura (Blade of the Immortal)
Jiro Matsumoto (Freesia, Uncivilized Planet, Keep on Vibrating, Alice in Hell, etc)
Couldn't they take instead Shonen Jump? Togashi can move to Aternoon
One Piece: making attractive ladies copies of Nami + Robin. Also tone down the incredibly excessive fanservice. It's like there's some sort of rule or something in OP that every attractive female in OP must wear something totally ridiculous.