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Biorg Trinity 11
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Fuji and Hosa are great. Kind of like this story of Fuji wanting to become himself and not Hosa, though I wish it did have Hosa save him yet again. In any case at least he got to absorb the cat and become a really hot catboy for a bit. I wonder if he will have to fight that way since the new Biorg Unit is around :(.
 
Nisekoi 169

Catched up. Don't even know why I read it at that kind of speed, because it went from being dumb to boring at around chapter 50. Probably just wanted to be done with it. It has do be one of the mangas with the most incosistent characterisation I've ever read and the plot moves at a glacial speed, if it isn't forgotten outright for about a dozen chapters. It sort of felt similiar to Hayate No Gotoku overall, only that the latter remains somewhat funny and has enjoyable characters. In Nisekoi we have:

  • Raku: Incosistent power levels. Goes from dense dumbass to almost psychic levels of understanding others. Also changes from useless to inhumanly capable if the arc needs it. Basically has no real character.
  • Chitoge: Is she even still in this story? Feels more like a stalker by now.
  • Kosaki: Liked her at first, by now she's gotten unbearable. Repeating the same situation for the xth time is no fun.
  • Tsugimi: Would be interesting if the setting had more of the initial gang war stuff in it. Just doesn't fit that much in the story being told and feels tacked on.
  • Marika: Introduced as a somewhat joke character with hidden drama potential, remained as a joke character that does not entertain. Why is she even in here?
  • Yui: Childhood friend and don as well as onee-san, had potential, didn't go anywhere.
  • Haru: Honestly had the most character progression out of all of the cast. Was extremely annoying at first, by now is the only character I can somewhat tolerate.
  • Everyone else: Ruri/Maiko is actually the best pair in this. The rest is boring.
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GET THE ROPE
 

Nordicus

Member
Man, it costs only around half as much over here, and I still find it somewhat expensive.
There are series sold for half price here too, but it's mainly shounen trash (and One Piece), shoujo trash, old junk, or the occasional good series that I have no idea how it got picked up. I can get all 12 Yotsuba&! volumes for 7 euros a pop!

But no Ippo. Never any Ippo!
 

Zweizer

Banned
There are series sold for half price here too, but it's mainly shounen trash (and One Piece), shoujo trash, old junk, or the occasional good series that I have no idea how it got picked up. I can get all 12 Yotsuba&! volumes for 7 euros a pop!

But no Ippo. Never any Ippo!

Ah, that does sound more reasonable.
 

balgajo

Member
Again!! 77-92
Ok, I was mistaken, this manga is great from the beginning till now, I thought that drama club ark is stupid idea but now it looks really fun. Sad thing is - we'll never be able to hear "I want to die" musical cause there is no chance for anime...
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Fun fact - mangaka who draw Again!! is the same guy who did Moteki.


Man, how I feel sad to know that Again was cancelled. Used to like this manga a lot. I'm yet finish drama club ark.
 

striferser

Huge Nickleback Fan
Shokugeki no soma 117 & extra chapter
Soma become even more handsome. :drolll
lol, souma dad, like father like son, giving foodgasm to M ladies
 

thesaucetastic

Unconfirmed Member
All you Y-sans are going to be on suicide watch when Marika eats it.

Nisekoi 169

Catched up. Don't even know why I read it at that kind of speed, because it went from being dumb to boring at around chapter 50. Probably just wanted to be done with it. It has do be one of the mangas with the most incosistent characterisation I've ever read and the plot moves at a glacial speed, if it isn't forgotten outright for about a dozen chapters. It sort of felt similiar to Hayate No Gotoku overall, only that the latter remains somewhat funny and has enjoyable characters. In Nisekoi we have:

  • Raku: Incosistent power levels. Goes from dense dumbass to almost psychic levels of understanding others. Also changes from useless to inhumanly capable if the arc needs it. Basically has no real character.
  • Chitoge: Is she even still in this story? Feels more like a stalker by now.
  • Kosaki: Liked her at first, by now she's gotten unbearable. Repeating the same situation for the xth time is no fun.
  • Tsugimi: Would be interesting if the setting had more of the initial gang war stuff in it. Just doesn't fit that much in the story being told and feels tacked on.
  • Marika: Introduced as a somewhat joke character with hidden drama potential, remained as a joke character that does not entertain. Why is she even in here?
  • Yui: Childhood friend and don as well as onee-san, had potential, didn't go anywhere.
  • Haru: Honestly had the most character progression out of all of the cast. Was extremely annoying at first, by now is the only character I can somewhat tolerate.
  • Everyone else: Ruri/Maiko is actually the best pair in this. The rest is boring.
Sounds about right. Welcome to the suffering
 

Vito

Banned
Hiroaki Samura's Afternoon series v1 cover & bigger artbook cover pic for the Battle Angel Alita's author's artbook


I'll post Blame covers whenever they show up on Kindle or at least HMV. Kodansha's paperback pics for covers on Amazon are a measly x500px
 

Zweizer

Banned
Hiroaki Samura's Afternoon series v1 cover & bigger artbook cover pic for the Battle Angel Alita's author's artbook

I'll post Blame covers whenever they show up on Kindle or at least HMV. Kodansha's paperback pics for covers on Amazon are a measly x500px

The Gunnm cover looks pretty great.


That's pretty insane lol.

Anyone wants to try out a cake baked by ShindoL?
 
Biorg Trinity 1-11
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Yes more people reading Biorg Trinity. Best Seinen in a JUMP Comics magazine.

[b]2015: A Space Series 12[/b]
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Well the scientists is a great design. Better than most kid genius prodigies and he ran fast and had great scenes.

Sadly the ending followed the same sort of thing people who write Science Fiction Space Age Stories love to write about. That is living your life happily after being contacted by aliens bent on destroying the Earth due to the atrocious human nature of exploiting other life forms, and then dying as the aliens destroy the Earth as payback.
 

Lain

Member
Magial Girl of the End Volume 1

This is such A Huge Battleship manga. Almost everyone dies and turns into a zombie magical girl. Hell, even some that don't seem to have died kinda have turned into magical girl zombies. With such a double cliffhanger end to the first volume, I can't wait for volume 2.


I'll have to do some count to see if 100$ a month is doable on my budget.
 

scy

Member
Man, I just randomly caught up on that too.

It gets weirder then normal (by it's standards) and then really weird. I had to double check that I was only 4 chapters behind.
 

bobohoro

Member
Seriously?

You're still incorrect about Marika though

GET THE ROPE

I might have been a bit harsh on her to get some reaction.

Nah, but seriously, like all the other characters (if one can call them that) in Nisekoi, she's just kinda there and just kinda does stuff. There is no development, no progress, nothing new, and every time there finally does happen something, it's forgotten 10 chapters later, buried under the same old misunderstandings, a new love interest and a hazy connection to some promise 10 years ago that frankly, should have been cleared up 100 chapters ago.

It's not even the fault of Marika herself, it's just that character interactions in Nisekoi are dumb as fuck and her chemistry with Raku is basically non-existent. I mean, it's a good thing that she trolls the other heroines, but that alone doesn't make for an interesting character, that's just fulfilling the subconscious wishes of readers.

It's another ecchi manga.
I can safely say it's not too bad actually, another guilty pleasure manga to the list.

I can't find a title in the posts, I'm interested!


Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 9

Things are getting weird.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
2013 WednesdayGAF - ninjas, pirates, ghosts

2015 WednesdayGAF - porn
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
WednesdayGAF became ThursdayGAF thanks to Shueisha's attempt at cracking down on leaks.

Nobody talks about anything anymore though since Naruto is over (well at the moment I guess its back), Bleach is nonsensical and One Piece is the same arc over and over.
 

Arabesque

Member
Holy fuck at Stapraighten up Welcome to Shika High Competitive Dance Club.

Fucking hell at the name though. The manga is fun but the title is stupidly long

WednesdayGAF became ThursdayGAF thanks to Shueisha's attempt at cracking down on leaks.

"attempt"

Managing to reduce full scanalations from 6 days ahead of street date to 5 days ahead of street date doesn't strike me as much of an improvement.

And given how things get first leaked by like a week still, it seems they haven't fixed the source of the problem other than put a patch on it.
 
UQ! Holder 78-79
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Great arc so far, though I hope he wont actually write Tota with Yukihime, that would be so bad, Tota-nii is great with his Santa and thats it.

Wish the purification magic was explained a bit more, though will be impressed if he shows huge improvement from that four minute recovery. There has to be some trick Obasan isnt telling.
 
Fucking hell at the name though. The manga is fun but the title is stupidly long



"attempt"

Managing to reduce full scanalations from 6 days ahead of street date to 5 days ahead of street date doesn't strike me as much of an improvement.

And given how things get first leaked by like a week still, it seems they haven't fixed the source of the problem other than put a patch on it.
That's because the ultimate source is that distribution takes time, and some places will always inevitably get it early in order to get it out everywhere in Japan on time. It's unavoidable as long as they stick to physical distribution
 

bobohoro

Member
Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 10

That last chapter.
Sachi.
;(

Edit:

113

I...
What?

114

Well, I'm glad we're back to romance again. Got scared for a sec there.
Hehe.
Haha.
...

116

*laughs*
I guess this is just the manga it is in the end.
 
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