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Manga News/Discussion |OTS| Yeah I couldn't come up with a thread title ¯\_()_/¯

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Crash Station

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Now that my book's out, I can finally start on my manga backlog again.

Harem End

Kago Shintaro, you've done it again!

Taking tropes from a certain genre of anime and then using them as a pretense for murder is a fuckin awesome premise. And it just gets better with the corpse anime. That so much time was put into explaining how the corpses are used to emulate visual anime tropes via stop-motion shows just how much of a nutjob Shintaro is. Dude really thought it out.

Also, actual big names in anime taking part in a murder plot! Of course Itano and Mizushima are in on it.
 
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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Infinite Justice said:
Its funny seeing Haly trying to defend curry guy LOL

dude just needs to stop feed on the genre blindness with his fucking arrogance and go with the thing he's actually good at (having someone to protect as his current advantage over the other 2).
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I don't even know why he's supposed to be such a dick. It makes him an uninteresting character, actually.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Interesting character: Shounen hero #28473
Uninteresting character: Introvert working for the sake of his adoptive mother as both colleague and son

Okay mangaf, okay.
 
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striferser

Huge Nickleback Fan
Soma 104
Hayama not only won, he also raise a flag with his "sensei"
Also, incoming team battle soon, with Hayama, Kurokiba, and Soma as a team (maybe).
 
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hipbabboom

Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Usobuko said:
Against Murata's OPM, better usage of paneling leads to better pacing. I find it a chore to read when he indulge in large spread of similar images to emphasize on scale and movement. There's two MC in MP100 and they have good synergy with each other for comedic moments. Think of it as an exceedingly useless fraud in OPM who could abuse Saitama principles in life for his own benefits. I also it's better than the original OPM as far as art and pacing goes. They are both by the same author.
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I will concur with you about the first half of OPM in that while I enjoyed it, I couldn't shake the idea the feeling that it was all one huge experiment. I got the sense that the author wanted to try some really strange presentation techniques without any care about what it did to the story. While I found myself really enjoying it still, I know it wasn't perfect because the gradual evolution of the series was easily measurable inasmuch clear improvement in writing, and even comedic situations. The series really took off for me art during the invasion arc
(man that alien ship was some mind bending shit... the artist showed both proficiency in both the ability to show OCD level detail in both chaos and order)
and the latest chapters took a massive boost in in quality in the character art as well. I look forward to reading MP soon (after I catch up with Prison School) so I can have a point of comparison as you do.
 
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Zweizer

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Usobuko said:
Have you read these?

Dance Till Tomorrow ( very mild )
Boys on the Run
Kono S wo, Mi yo!
Monkurochou
Moteki
Platform - Endo Hiroki Tanpenshuu

Or anything by Seme Danjou / Mashiraga Aki ?

Punpun is a different breed.

If you want, you can marathon it along with the likes of Himizu, Farväl Falkenberg ( movie ) and then contemplate
if you still want to live in this world.

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Most of them more or less revolve around this theme. Personally, I think you'll be fine.
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Nice. Adding them to my backlog.
 
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Zweizer

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Shin Kurosawa ch12

Dat power spot.

Miss Sunflower ch26

The woes of a teenage student~

Gamma ch6

How cliché.

From Tomorrow on, No More Drinking (One-shot) by Chisako

Short and cute yuri story about two old friends, and one of them is an affectionate drunkard, or is she?
 
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Lain

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I just learned a few hours ago that Warau Kyuuketsuki by Suehiro Maruo is available over here. I know what I'll try to buy next.
 
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Shengar

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Angry Grimace said:
That's just so he can continue to pretend to be Naruto where they act like he made it all by himself and he wasn't super awesome to begin with, despite every single thing we've seen in the entire series.
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If only other character cooking get much focus as much as Soma's did and we actually understand cooking plus the cooking-babble the judges spout everytime they eat their dishes, what Soma made would look pale in comparison. It just his forte and quickwit aligned with what the judges expect.
Lain said:
He's the hero so you know more about him than about some other character. Soma is arrogant in as much as he has faith in his own abilities because he knows his own strong points and his own flaws. Another character being arrogant just comes out as a dick since there is less attachment, less knowledge. The reader just won't feel them close, unless for some reason they are attracted to that character (be it looks, quirks, traits that make them relate to that character more).

3 volumes in I don't consider Soma arrogant. Putting arrogant fools in their place while keeping a smug face isn't arrogance imo. When he was cheated out by Erina at the start, an arrogant person would have reacted differently. Soma believes in his ability and that's different from arrogance from my point of view, unless he just becomes a complete dick head as the story progresses, but I'm not there yet.
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A great response to Haly's defense
Though I don't bothered by dickish and arrogant character. Not all characters were made to be likeable. What Haly said have some truth in it though that Hayama doesn't have much story exposition like Kurokiba did (being close to Alice and battled Tadakoro before helped that a lot while Hayama only fought Erina's assistant).
 
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dani_dc

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AKB49 176

Look Minori, I know you really want to make this a success, but trying to get people to stay in a burning studio instead of letting them evacuate is not the correct course of action.

Really love the double spread at the end though. Captures perfectly the series definition of what an idol should be.
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rrc1594

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Magi 254

Somebody better die or something importance better come from this fight.

Also does anyone feel that Aladdin doesn't get any more powerful? I know he has gotten some power-ups, it just doesn't feel like it.
 
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Revo

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Ao no Exorcist 64

Damn, a double agent. Looks like most things from the last arc are being wrapped up, which is good, so hopefully something good is coming.
 
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dramatis

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FlutterPuffs said:
Sure, who took the bet?

EDIT: Apparently no one. Anyone knows how to use the random draw bot? I'll put up a contest for a game on Steam later.
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Lol I wasn't being serious. Looking back on it though, why were you so sure Naruto wouldn't become Hokage?



Also, the best suggestion for a title thus far has been this:
ColossalLazy said:
Creatively bankrupt.
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Any others want to try their hand before Grimace explodes?
 
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Quixzlizx

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I don't really think Hayama is that dickish. He is arrogant, but so are most of the S-Tier students at the academy. He hasn't actually pulled one asshole move as far as I can tell. If constantly repeating "I know aromas, I'm the greatest" is your worst character flaw, then you probably aren't that bad of a guy. Erina flunking Souma's entrance test out of spiteful pride is an actual example of dickish behavior. I would say Hayama has maxed out at "obnoxious" so far.

And I don't even like Hayama.
 
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bigkrev

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dani_dc said:
That's impressive, that's basically the one thing people seem to know of the game.

What were you expecting out of it?
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I saw that dialog video with the girls being complete bitches to each other, saw that it was a match-3 game. I just assumed it was all going to be implied stuff, but then finding out I had bought the censored version made me realize what the game actually was. I bought it because I thought it would be funny to play in a Hatoful Boyfriend kind of way.
 
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