Fullmetal Alchemist, Gash Bell, Blade of the Immortal, Shin Angyo Onshi.
Vagabond, Vinland Saga and Kingdom are a little more grounded but I think they are just as good.
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Fullmetal Alchemist, Gash Bell, Blade of the Immortal, Shin Angyo Onshi.
Vagabond, Vinland Saga and Kingdom are a little more grounded but I think they are just as good.
AquaWateria
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Try Tokyo Ghoul a Seinen. The art really improves as it goes on like till chapter 30 and so on. It also contains one of the best main character development in a manga. It also has a sequel called Tokyo Ghoul:re that continues the series (ongoing). So try that you won't be dissapointed.
And if you like martial arts try The Breaker and it's sequel The Breaker:New waves.
Also for God looking art and nice action try Onepunch Man.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
My Hero Academia is a new Shonen Jump series. It's pretty good so far and it's looking like it won't be suddenly canned anytime soon.
If you like the Big 3 and HxH give it a shot.
DAMN IT! I really like Bartender too, down to earth and simple manga. Its the whole reason why I got into drinking at bars.
Nope, I've rarely laughed when reading it. Its cringe-worthy at most.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
My Hero Academia is going to be the series people turn on super fast. I virtually guarantee you'll see people saying how it went to shit within 20 chapters.
I am suddenly interested. Time to read.
AquaWateria
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With growing popularity there will be growing hate it's inevitable. I mean there are people calling it Naruto 2.0. It's not like it's gonna go downhill like Naruto did, please tell me it won't guys please.
Just as long as it remains light hearted and fun and make Deku a genuine underdog character, I'll be ok with it. If it becomes emo garbage like Naruto did I'm going to be eh on it.
Plus the character design itself has me more interested in this than Naruto. It's real rough but there's a lot of really unique and cool designs in My Hero Academia to the characters and monsters.
Infinite Justice
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Hence why i'm just watching from the sidelines for now to see what ultimately happens.
Though to its credit its been getting a massive amount of hype compared to other recent jump works (that ultimately sucked shit) so we'll see if it can keep it up..
AquaWateria
Member
Is it me or did it start getting hype right when Naruto ended, because to me it seemed as if nobody really cared about it when it was starting out. Oh well I just hope it doesn't go downhill.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I was there day one brah.
Bought the digital version of Viz's One Punch Man. Hate digital but hopefully we get that print....
AquaWateria
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You did say it would get popular, props to that man.
I read it before Naruto ended myself when we got those shitty translations, then dropped it cause eh fuck shitty translations. Then a new group came out and started to scanlate the series and posted it on various boards and I gave it another shot and really enjoyed it.
It also caught on in Japan before Naruto ended. Maybe it was the need to fill that Naruto niche, but I think there's a bigger element to it. Primarily linked to the success of Marvel movies as these worldwide blockbusters, now practically put into a shonen manga.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I was wrong about Soul Catcher(s)........ At least Jump is continuing it though.
Tokyo Ghoul ch108-143 (End)
Well, we get some more twists and reveals. The final battle and the events that unfolded during, while gripping, didn't felt very satisfying. I can see why there were meltdowns at the ending.
Ultimately I'd say it was a rather enjoyable series as a whole. It takes a little while to get going as it feels somewhat directionless before the introduction of Aogiri Tree, but after that the overall plot remained pretty strong, even if it came at the cost of diminushed focus on the question of coexistence between humans and ghouls. The premise of humans and ghouls being morally not much different felt somewhat clumsy at first, but in this instance works thanks the perspective from the protagonist, Kaneki.
Kaneki himself is pretty interesting protagonist, and I must say I rather liked him, the way he grew and faced the sturggles he encountered in the course of the series. Not perfect by any means, but he was a pretty well-rounded character, with doubts, goals and evolution.
Solid read and I can see why some (I won't drop names here) are crazy for it. Still...
Arima should have been the protagonist.
Well, we get some more twists and reveals. The final battle and the events that unfolded during, while gripping, didn't felt very satisfying. I can see why there were meltdowns at the ending.
Ultimately I'd say it was a rather enjoyable series as a whole. It takes a little while to get going as it feels somewhat directionless before the introduction of Aogiri Tree, but after that the overall plot remained pretty strong, even if it came at the cost of diminushed focus on the question of coexistence between humans and ghouls. The premise of humans and ghouls being morally not much different felt somewhat clumsy at first, but in this instance works thanks the perspective from the protagonist, Kaneki.
Kaneki himself is pretty interesting protagonist, and I must say I rather liked him, the way he grew and faced the sturggles he encountered in the course of the series. Not perfect by any means, but he was a pretty well-rounded character, with doubts, goals and evolution.
Solid read and I can see why some (I won't drop names here) are crazy for it. Still...
Arima should have been the protagonist.
Save 'N Quit
Banned
Trinity Seven 17.5-18
I'm thinking the author hasn't settled on what size Liese is supposed to be at this point in time since it keeps changing constantly.
Also, that's a pretty lame time stop ability.
I'm thinking the author hasn't settled on what size Liese is supposed to be at this point in time since it keeps changing constantly.
Also, that's a pretty lame time stop ability.
Toad is whatever gender it wants to be.
Haha I read it and decided it was best to refrain from mentioning it.
"God's Beard!"
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What's everyone's top 5 Shonen Jump comics that have worse character development than Garfield?
1. Fairy Tail
2. Bakuman
3. Shaman King
4. Bleach
5. Toriko
1. Fairy Tail
2. Bakuman
3. Shaman King
4. Bleach
5. Toriko
Helter Skelter
I've read this some time ago and was rather disturbed by it (in a good way). This time it was obviously not quite as shocking an experience but the Ririko's hellish trip is still a sight to behold. I also manage to watch the live action movie this time and it turned out pretty much as expected. The film was toned down quite a bit but sticked really close to the manga otherwise. The rather bland and stiff acting plus bad make-up and special effects were what ultimately pulled it down. If you can't tell the Ririko from the beginning and the one at the end of the story apart aside from some bruises then the story lost its whole meaning.
I've read this some time ago and was rather disturbed by it (in a good way). This time it was obviously not quite as shocking an experience but the Ririko's hellish trip is still a sight to behold. I also manage to watch the live action movie this time and it turned out pretty much as expected. The film was toned down quite a bit but sticked really close to the manga otherwise. The rather bland and stiff acting plus bad make-up and special effects were what ultimately pulled it down. If you can't tell the Ririko from the beginning and the one at the end of the story apart aside from some bruises then the story lost its whole meaning.
Cause I was bored, did this for the color page for My Hero Academia. Transparency:
Could be useful if anyone makes an OT for the series someday.
It looks nice.
The manga is alright but the character design are lackluster and not memorable. The tropes its using has been dried out of all its goodness for ages. I say this manga will die by chapter 30.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I bet you anything people will say it sucks faster than they did Naruto. I remember the last series people were all excited about in Jump. Yeah, that's Assassination Classroom.
Don't get hype on a concept.
What's wrong with Ass Class? i stopped reading it a couple of chapters in but from what I read it was a pretty enjoyable and fun series. I mean Soma is better obviously but ass Class didn't seem to have anything that offends any normal sensibilities or outright bad writing.
AquaWateria
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Why Arima the Gary Stu as protagonist?
What do you see in this heartless bastard?
Anyways I'm glad that you read it and you know you wanted to mention my name on how crazy I am for this series
Why Arima the Gary Stu as protagonist?
What do you see in this heartless bastard?
Anyways I'm glad that you read it and you know you wanted to mention my name on how crazy I am for this series
I was being facetious, but you have to admit his achievements are pretty impressive considering he's (apparently) human, and doesn't play around at all during his fights. Of course, he hasn't got any development in the course of the series so character-wise he's nowhere as interesting as Kaneki.
Amon would have made a pretty interesting protagonist though.
AquaWateria
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Arima was entirely a beast, that signature dodge though.
Yeah Amon would have definitely made a interesting protagonist.
I heard that the jokes were repetitive.
Hero's Academia is already stale as shit at chapter 10. How many trite tropes can u fit in those 10 chapters really zzzz
I've literally read this manga already 10 different times with 10 different names, and i will forget it like the other dozens of copycats titles i've forgotten.
AssClass was probably not as a stale but it went nowhere and wasn't funny either as an episodic manga, read like 10 chaps then dropped. Naruto/OP/DB etc... had all a grander scope, a way more visible endgame, a sense of exploration and prospect adventure all over the world even if they may have went to shit later on... those boring as shit wannabe superpowered highschool kids which literally live in the HS and nowhere else are so stupid and unbelievable. The only one i ever read that was decently was Medaka because he was a megatroll and even that was unberably boring the first 30-40 chaps.
I've literally read this manga already 10 different times with 10 different names, and i will forget it like the other dozens of copycats titles i've forgotten.
AssClass was probably not as a stale but it went nowhere and wasn't funny either as an episodic manga, read like 10 chaps then dropped. Naruto/OP/DB etc... had all a grander scope, a way more visible endgame, a sense of exploration and prospect adventure all over the world even if they may have went to shit later on... those boring as shit wannabe superpowered highschool kids which literally live in the HS and nowhere else are so stupid and unbelievable. The only one i ever read that was decently was Medaka because he was a megatroll and even that was unberably boring the first 30-40 chaps.
Hah
Eh it's just an illusion. After reading the manga in full the only drastic shift I noticed in terms of characters going crazy with their powers is during the tail end of the "Dragonball" portion when Goku fought Piccolo Jr. That was Z era stuff before "Dragonball Z" was even a thing. I think they did Z cause there was a plan on making Gohan the new main character but that never came to be cause Goku is more popular.
I think that was far more natural, since it was the end of the first half pretty much. Even then that was the first example of that kind of stuff in Dragon Ball.Of course this evolved far too much and the first 5 arcs of Dragon ball was very much an adventure while the Z arcs was mostly stationary in one area fighting stronger and stronger foes.
It was less of an adventure and more about who brought a bigger gun to a fight. The only time this came up in the first half was in the world tournaments and even then those were paced well and only happened after every other major arc, thus they weren't boring.
The flow was. Adventure---->Tournament----->Adventure.
Save 'N Quit
Banned
Originality and tropes are not so much an issue with skillful execution.
Survival game genre is blooming in Japan but most of them feature uninteresting and lazily designed game, cliche development usually complemented with the stereotypical Yandere characters. They go for the maximum 'ha, in your face' twist, nailing neither the psychological nor game aspect of the genre.
Survival game genre is blooming in Japan but most of them feature uninteresting and lazily designed game, cliche development usually complemented with the stereotypical Yandere characters. They go for the maximum 'ha, in your face' twist, nailing neither the psychological nor game aspect of the genre.
ColossalLazy
Member
Preach.
Infinite Justice
Member
apparently it was doing well after its first "official" rank and that might have eventually got a sub group to translate (would explain how quickly the translated chapters were coming out).
I think the naruto thing could be a coincidence or maybe it was because Naruto was wrapping up it allowed whatever group to see what the next jump project could be
like any broken clock
LOL
plus with his previous work we now might know the theme of whatever tankubon is released eventually
This is THE golden doctrine to tropes and execution.
I wouldn't say Hero Academia skillfully executes its cliches, a story is hurt when you can predict what will happen next. I know you probably aren't talking about Hero Academia, but I'm just saying.
I don't know, at the same time it's okay to have some. You don't want to just have random shit happening like what happened near the end of Naruto and Bleach. Sure you can't predict what's happening, but there is also no logic.
A well done and told but predictable story, will always be better than an off the wall one that doesn't tell the story well. Even the most basic, Save the princess Story can be fun with good characters.
Infinite Justice
Member
I thought Double Arts was a great example of this where most of its tropes are pretty fucking obvious but it added a new wrinkle to it that made the whole thing interesting imo.
Oh Double Arts
*pours 40*
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Magi
You know what?
This is kinda a believable explanation for the death of that old hag, I like it.
You know what?
This is kinda a believable explanation for the death of that old hag, I like it.
Sure, but thankfully it usually isn't one way or the other. Personally I would rather read a story with new concepts and ideas that isn't perfectly told than something told really well but feels like 10 other stories I have already experienced.
dakkumauji
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Busshi no Busshin - Kamakura Hanbun Busshiroku 01
A sculptor creates a statue to fight a raging god but loses causing him to fuse with the statue and now they awaken many many years later.
Well the first chapter had some pretty cool action. The premise is interesting though I would probably appreciate it more if I knew Buddhism more. But, will keep reading to see where this goes.
A sculptor creates a statue to fight a raging god but loses causing him to fuse with the statue and now they awaken many many years later.
Well the first chapter had some pretty cool action. The premise is interesting though I would probably appreciate it more if I knew Buddhism more. But, will keep reading to see where this goes.
AquaWateria
Member
Is there a reason why it was axed, to me it seemed better than Nisekoi.
dakkumauji
Member
Boku Girl 31
Takeru route is still my ship but imouto route is now my number 2.
Takeru route is still my ship but imouto route is now my number 2.
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