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[BakedYams]

yams denial is strong

DenialYams

Soma 97

ALICE MOM

Best mom.

Should I ever finish Buyuden or just act like it never existed like I do for half of Gantz? (At chapter 90ish out of 134)

Crap manga, unless you don't love yourself, don't bother reading it. If you want GOAT fighting/boxing manga, go for the manwha Green Boy or manga Hajime No Ippo. If you want martial arts, try out Holyland (GOAT manga).

I'm not seeing what's so scary about it?

That's just the norm for your regular, she's going to stab him and kiss him while he's bleeding, yandere girl.

Perfect.

Maken Ki 70

Nothing happens! not even enough lewd to make it interesting >:C

PM some GOAT manga for ignoring me you prick. Make it spicy and delicious.

 

[Zweizer]

Their Story ch1.5-2

At least she managed to convey her feelings.

Zweizer-kun so tsun~~

Iyaan~

Be quiet, you dummy.

 

[Ayumi]

Their Story ch1.5-2

At least she managed to convey her feelings.

Be quiet, you dummy.

I still don't understand why foreigners find *dere so intriguing.. (*´ﾟдﾟ｀*)

 

[ArclightBorealis]

I still don't understand why foreigners find *dere so intriguing.. (*´ﾟдﾟ｀*)

Depends on the type of dere...

 

[Zweizer]

I still don't understand why foreigners find *dere so intriguing.. (*´ﾟдﾟ｀*)

Foreigners, and especially hekk, are dumb ¯\_(=w= )_/¯

 

[rrvv]

Wednesday is so boring now :<

 

[grandjedi6]

been saying for the last two years

shiraishi a shit

odagiri best

Who? Oh right, Yamada's trophy girlfriend. Yeah, she's pretty boring. I wish he'd once again go after that socially inept nerd who he regularly body switched with. You know, whatshername! Wonder what ever happened to her...

 

[AquaWateria]

Tokyo Ghoul:re PV Volume 1
http://youtu.be/SeIeqH30sE0

Man why are all the PVs so good, this one is really well made. Also that music is great. I wish I knew where it came from.

Anyways it seems Vol 1 of Re is releasing on Dec 19. I hope it sells really well.

Also forgot to mention Smug Loli looks amazing :0 I hope she's shown in the next chapter because this is literally the first good picture that's shown of her.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Shin Kurosawa 4

#nocontext

 

[dakkumauji]

Chrono Monochrome 08-09

Maria Theresa is so moe.

 

[campfireweekend]

I'm starting to realize I enjoy reading manga much more than watching anime. But I'm kind of at that point where I've read most of the obviously good stuff, so I need help find the lesser known, still just as good shit.

So recommendations would be awesome.

Top 5 and Nisekoi rankings for reference:

1. Oyasumi Punpun
2. Prison School
3. Me and The Devil Blues
4. Molester Man
5. I am a Hero

Haru>>>>>Chitoge>Everyone Else>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Onodera

 

[Shengar]

Foreigners, and especially hekk, are dumb ¯\_(=w= )_/¯

But where is hekk??!

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

I'm starting to realize I enjoy reading manga much more than watching anime. But I'm kind of at that point where I've read most of the obviously good stuff, so I need help find the lesser known, still just as good shit.

So recommendations would be awesome.

Top 5 and Nisekoi rankings for reference:

1. Oyasumi Punpun
2. Prison School
3. Me and The Devil Blues
4. Molester Man
5. I am a Hero

Haru>>>>>Chitoge>Everyone Else>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Onodera

That's some pretty diverse taste. Try -

Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
Franken Fran
Strongest Man Kurosawa
Onepunch-man

You said lesser known and I'm already stretching it with some of the above ones so I assume you've read Berserk but will mention it anyway

Also check out Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction by the Punpun author.

Your comment made me remember when Devil Blues is gonna get translated, those chapters have been out for a while right?

 

[survivor]

I'm starting to realize I enjoy reading manga much more than watching anime. But I'm kind of at that point where I've read most of the obviously good stuff, so I need help find the lesser known, still just as good shit.

So recommendations would be awesome.

Top 5 and Nisekoi rankings for reference:

1. Oyasumi Punpun
2. Prison School
3. Me and The Devil Blues
4. Molester Man
5. I am a Hero

Haru>>>>>Chitoge>Everyone Else>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Onodera

Bunch of stuff I liked

A Drifting Life
Baka and Gogh
Getenrou
Harukana Machi-E
Helter Skelter
Living Game
Music of Marie
Ping Pong
Ressentiment
River's Edge
Takemitsu Zamurai
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Undercurrent

 

[AquaWateria]

I'm starting to realize I enjoy reading manga much more than watching anime. But I'm kind of at that point where I've read most of the obviously good stuff, so I need help find the lesser known, still just as good shit.

So recommendations would be awesome.

Top 5 and Nisekoi rankings for reference:

1. Oyasumi Punpun
2. Prison School
3. Me and The Devil Blues
4. Molester Man
5. I am a Hero

Haru>>>>>Chitoge>Everyone Else>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Onodera

I would recommend you Tokyo Ghoul a Seinen that's psychological and has a lot of great world building, symbolism, and character development. Also the Art improves drastically as it goes on. It also has a ongoing sequel called Tokyo Ghoul:re.

The Breaker and the sequel The Breaker:New Waves is a great martial arts manga that's a must read.

Also try Barakamon a really good Slice of Life that's hilarious. All the characters are enjoyable and entertaining.

 

[Crash Station]

Boku wa Mari 39

Closing in on the selfcest I see.

 

[ThatChairMan]

Owari no Chronicle Vol. 5A

"Wow, things have gotten serious!" Author's words in the afterword cannot be more correct. With the team finally fully assembled from the last arc, I expected something big to happen. And it did, with their team being disbanded as the two team leads look into their pasts and urge everyone to do so as well. On top of that, a betrayal from what I had previously just considered comic relief characters, and the main enemy faction preparing for a war of justice, hinting that they're not actually as evil as they were initially portrayed. I'm expecting tons of revelations in the latter half of this arc.

And Sayama Mikoto is definitely one of the funnest main characters in a while. I can definitely see why he was 1st place in male light novel characters back when this was an active series.

 

[FlutterPuffs]

I'm starting to realize I enjoy reading manga much more than watching anime. But I'm kind of at that point where I've read most of the obviously good stuff, so I need help find the lesser known, still just as good shit.

So recommendations would be awesome.

Top 5 and Nisekoi rankings for reference:

1. Oyasumi Punpun
2. Prison School
3. Me and The Devil Blues
4. Molester Man
5. I am a Hero

Haru>>>>>Chitoge>Everyone Else>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Onodera

Dude.

7 Seeds. The art will put you off for a bit at first, but after the Winter Arc, you'll never go back.

So good.

 

[thesaucetastic]

Re: Favorite Covers:

Or basically anything done by Hayakawa Nojiko.

Good choice. Sucks that I still can't think of any covers that moved me ;_;

I still don't understand why foreigners find *dere so intriguing.. (*´&#65439;&#1076;&#65439;&#65344;*)

Kuudere da best (or whatever archtype Kirigiri from Dangan Ronpa was).

QQ Sweeper 4

This just makes me feel bad for custodians.

 

[dakkumauji]

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. -Monologue- 07

No one should underestimate Hachiman.

 

["God's Beard!"]

I still don't understand why foreigners find *dere so intriguing.. (*´&#65439;&#1076;&#65439;&#65344;*)

On the topic of culture shock, why does Japan continue to poison itself with harem manga as a whole genre?

The fact that there is a whole subculture devoted to the idea that you deserve to be showered with the soulless shells of women compressed into the purest forms of fetish possible blows my mind. A thousand variations of gag reel plus softcore porn is the height of fashion in the industry.

At what point does Japan realize that cultivating toxic relationships and promoting antisocial behavior in popular entertainment transfers over to reality and has an effect on actual, breedable people?

Are KNIM and Monster Musume some sort of advanced eugenics plan? Because looking at Japan's birth rate over the last few decades, it's working:

Notable events for context:

• 1970: Lone Wolf and Cub comes out, making a heroic effort in maintaining masculinity in Japan Unfortunately, the introduction of comics into post-war Japanese culture created an irreversable avalanche of discarded testosterone.
  
• mid 1990s: Dragon Ball Z attempts to restore the past glory of strong males in anime, but the power of Sailor Moon and the invention of the waifu pillow keep the emasculation of the Japanese Male in a deadlock. The end of the 90s sees a stabilizing force between the two extremes until...
  
• 1998-2001: The harbinger of death, Love Hina is serialized in Weekly Shonen, popularizing and empowering the harem genre. Birth rates again begin to decline.
  
• 2005: Idolmaster series releases. In the coming year, Japan enters a negative birth rate for the first time in history.

Coincidence? You tell me.

 

[ColossalLazy]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";141548095]

Notable events for context:

• 2005: Idolmaster series releases. In the coming year, Japan enters a negative birth rate for the first time in history. Berserk series starts its hiatus hell.

Coincidence? You tell me.[/QUOTE]

Fixed for accuracy.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Fixed for accuracy.

A valid addendum.

Just imagine a world without Shonen or Moe. All that would be left is 7 Seeds and Vagabond.

Wonderful.

 

[dakkumauji]

Brothers Conflict feat. Natsume 04

Why do I like my new sister and how can I deal with my brothers liking her too!?!

 

[thesaucetastic]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";141548731]A valid addendum.

Just imagine a world without Shonen or Moe. All that would be left is 7 Seeds and Vagabond.

Wonderful.[/QUOTE]
We'd be left without Fullmetal Alchemist though.

Otherwise, you're preaching to the choir in regards to harem manga. It's the worst.

Black Haze 81-82

Rowell's the best.

 

[dakkumauji]

Wakako-Zake 01

A series about a 26 year old woman as she eats and drinks her troubles away by herself.

Being bothered while eating does seem to be the worst.

 

[thesaucetastic]

Himouto! Umaru-chan 41.5

I don't know who to ship him with.

This is a problem.

 

[360pages]

I think Japan's low birth rate is less due to their media and more due to the fact that most of them are nearly worked to suicide. Actually, it's crazy how opposite Japan is actually compared to the media they have.

They would rather work and use the little time they have off to themselves rather than trying to pursue a relationship. There is no time to date where my life deciding career test is coming up! You can't blame them for that, if you asked me after spending nearly my entire week studying just so I might have one day, nay, a few hours to myself before I have to work or start studying again I wouldn't be out chasing girls around. Plus relationships are time consuming. costly and might not work out.

Then again considering America and teen pregnancy and rape and how you need to get rid of you virginity as quickly as possible if you are a guy there is a lot wrong with how everyone thinks now.

 

[BakedYams]

Voynich Hotel 1-65

Godolikeru

 

[rrvv]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";141548731]A valid addendum.

Just imagine a world without Shonen or Moe. All that would be left is 7 Seeds and Vagabond.

Wonderful.[/QUOTE]

In reality we going to hace more :dtl stuff

 

["God's Beard!"]

Then again considering America and teen pregnancy and rape and how you need to get rid of you virginity as quickly as possible if you are a guy there is a lot wrong with how everyone thinks now.

America only recently defunded abstinence-only education. There's a culture of ignorance in the US that causes a lot of our social and sexual health issues.

 

[dakkumauji]

Silver Spoon 108

Megane~

And I liked how they revealed which school won.

 

[dani_dc]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";141548095]On the topic of culture shock, why does Japan continue to poison itself with harem manga as a whole genre?

The fact that there is a whole subculture devoted to the idea that you deserve to be showered with the soulless shells of women compressed into the purest forms of fetish possible blows my mind. A thousand variations of gag reel plus softcore porn is the height of fashion in the industry.

At what point does Japan realize that cultivating toxic relationships and promoting antisocial behavior in popular entertainment transfers over to reality and has an effect on actual, breedable people?

Are KNIM and Monster Musume some sort of advanced eugenics plan? Because looking at Japan's birth rate over the last few decades, it's working:



Notable events for context:

• 1970: Lone Wolf and Cub comes out, making a heroic effort in maintaining masculinity in Japan Unfortunately, the introduction of comics into post-war Japanese culture created an irreversable avalanche of discarded testosterone.
  
• mid 1990s: Dragon Ball Z attempts to restore the past glory of strong males in anime, but the power of Sailor Moon and the invention of the waifu pillow keep the emasculation of the Japanese Male in a deadlock. The end of the 90s sees a stabilizing force between the two extremes until...
  
• 1998-2001: The harbinger of death, Love Hina is serialized in Weekly Shonen, popularizing and empowering the harem genre. Birth rates again begin to decline.
  
• 2005: Idolmaster series releases. In the coming year, Japan enters a negative birth rate for the first time in history.

Coincidence? You tell me.[/QUOTE]

So you're saying that we should introduce harem mangas in India and China?

 

[BakedYams]

I'm 40 chapters in with Zetman, why is it so boring?

 

[dakkumauji]

Youkai Shoujo - Monsuga 15

Back to good old friendship and youaki bonding instead of iron arms.

 

[AquaWateria]

I'm 40 chapters in with Zetman, why is it so boring?

I mean the series deals with Justice as it's main topic and brings the discussion of what Justice is defined as. Though just read a little further and see if you can continue.

 

[BakedYams]

I mean the series deals with Justice as it's main topic and brings the discussion of what Justice is defined as. Though just read a little further and see if you can continue.

aiight dawg, ill give it a shot

 

[dakkumauji]

Tonari no Seki-kun 68

Seki-kun is a future MacGyver waiting to happen.

 

[grandjedi6]

I think Japan's low birth rate is less due to their media and more due to the fact that most of them are nearly worked to suicide. Actually, it's crazy how opposite Japan is actually compared to the media they have.

They would rather work and use the little time they have off to themselves rather than trying to pursue a relationship. There is no time to date where my life deciding career test is coming up! You can't blame them for that, if you asked me after spending nearly my entire week studying just so I might have one day, nay, a few hours to myself before I have to work or start studying again I wouldn't be out chasing girls around. Plus relationships are time consuming. costly and might not work out.

Then again considering America and teen pregnancy and rape and how you need to get rid of you virginity as quickly as possible if you are a guy there is a lot wrong with how everyone thinks now.

Japan's low birth rate has nothing to do with media, masturbating to harems, or being overworked and suicidal. It has almost nothing to do with men at all. The primary factor in the lowering birthrate is a more educated female population who are choosing to delay childbirth in favor of furthering their careers, if not avoiding it altogether. It's a trend that's happening in all developed countries.

The same trend is occurring in America. The difference is that America supplements it's birthrate with immigration (who also tend to make more babies on average). Japan's problem is that it doesn't have the same level of immigration to keep up with the lowering birthrate.

 

[Ayumi]

Aren't you guys going a little off-topic..?

Discussing &#12475;&#12483;&#12463;&#12473;&#12375;&#12394;&#12356;&#30151;&#20505;&#32676;in a simple manga thread doesn't seem very suitable.

 

[wonzo]

japans low birth rate has everything to do with women being treated like complete dogshit in the workforce (and society as a whole)

Touch v24-26 END

The idol stuff in the last two volumes was weird and jarring but otherwise this was a fantastic ending to a fantastic series. I'll have to get around to Mix once I';ve cleared out the backlog and caught up on stuff as I think it's the one thats set 2 and a half decades after this.

I'm really glad coaches operation was a success. ;-;

 

[upandaway]

Mangaf's birthrate isn't that high either, y'all hypocrites

 

[grandjedi6]

Mangaf's birthrate isn't that high either, y'all hypocrites

What are you talking about? We're birthing new members all the time!

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Magi

Gyokuen´s actions just came back and bit her in the neck.

 

[dani_dc]

Mangaf's birthrate isn't that high either, y'all hypocrites

List of "Mangaf babies":

• .

 

[campfireweekend]

That's some pretty diverse taste. Try -

Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
Franken Fran
Strongest Man Kurosawa
Onepunch-man

You said lesser known and I'm already stretching it with some of the above ones so I assume you've read Berserk but will mention it anyway

Also check out Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction by the Punpun author.

Your comment made me remember when Devil Blues is gonna get translated, those chapters have been out for a while right?

Bunch of stuff I liked

A Drifting Life
Baka and Gogh
Getenrou
Harukana Machi-E
Helter Skelter
Living Game
Music of Marie
Ping Pong
Ressentiment
River's Edge
Takemitsu Zamurai
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Undercurrent

I would recommend you Tokyo Ghoul a Seinen that's psychological and has a lot of great world building, symbolism, and character development. Also the Art improves drastically as it goes on. It also has a ongoing sequel called Tokyo Ghoul:re.

The Breaker and the sequel The Breaker:New Waves is a great martial arts manga that's a must read.

Also try Barakamon a really good Slice of Life that's hilarious. All the characters are enjoyable and entertaining.

Dude.

7 Seeds. The art will put you off for a bit at first, but after the Winter Arc, you'll never go back.

So good.

Thanks! I'll definitely check out all of these.

Are there any like "reading clubs" in mangaGAF, like where people read something old and well regarded together?

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Thanks! I'll definitely check out all of these.

Are there any like "reading clubs" in mangaGAF, like where people read something old and well regarded together?

Yeah, we have them a lot now. I think some people just got finished reading Touch by Mitsuru Adachi.

 

[dani_dc]

Thanks! I'll definitely check out all of these.

Are there any like "reading clubs" in mangaGAF, like where people read something old and well regarded together?

You missed the Suzuka and Touch reading clubs!
As well as Dresden one (variety of mangas chosen by dresden).

The OP is updated with the current reading clubs right at the top, right now we have two going on, one of which dedicated solely for short stories. And the spiritual sequel to Dresden club, the wonzo December reading club.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

You missed the Suzuka and Touch reading clubs!
As well as Dresden one (variety of mangas chosen by dresden).

The OP is updated with the current reading clubs right at the top, right now we have two going on, one of which dedicated solely for short stories. And the spiritual sequel to Dresden club, the wonzo December reading club.

I went looking in the OP and found this.
Someone gonna get paid, it still says still pending in the OP lol

 

["God's Beard!"]

Aren't you guys going a little off-topic..?

Discussing &#12475;&#12483;&#12463;&#12473;&#12375;&#12394;&#12356;&#30151;&#20505;&#32676;in a simple manga thread doesn't seem very suitable.

Children of Men 2:
The Land of the Setting Sons