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Manga News/Discussion |OTZ| Reading Shounen Garbage < Watching Moe Garbage
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Tribes of Trusty
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Hey guys, I missed ya
Yamada 73
Kiss engage, full throttle !
Yamada 73
Kiss engage, full throttle !
hosannainexcelsis
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I wouldn't mind live action adaptations if contemporary Japanese live action productions had competent acting, cinematography, and direction. Not to mention that there are times when the translation from the page to the screen is too literal, and you end up with something that looks unbearably dumb in live action.
Anime adaptations aren't necessarily going to be slavish translations of the source material; it really depends on the individual production. There's plenty where the experience is substantially different than reading the manga, and not just because of voice acting.
I know! It's just that I'm less intrigued and excited to see something that is still... I don't know what word is appropriate... cartoony... (it's hard for me to explain it in English, sorry :lol)
Aizo
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Do you generally stay away from anime?
No, but I can't say I'm really into anime either.
I only watch Polar Bear Cafe and Space Brothers (and both are adaptations, believe it or not!).
Glass Rebel
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anime died to be resurrected with kill la kill and space dandy
Aizo
Banned
I'm surprised you don't just watch originals.
Theonik
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The Rows of Cherry Trees
It is a very delicate and elegant piece, where it tells us the story of Yukiko, a first year student in the Sakura Girl's institute, a girl only highschool. Her story involves her relationship with her Upperclassman Chicage, president of the Ping-Pong club she is part of.
Constantly you can see a lot of symbolism in it and tropes that Shoujo manga are to abuse for years to come. The author himself continued to be active and moderately popular during the 60s with this being one of his earliest works. It kind of was heavily reminiscent to works like Aim for the Ace! and similar later works as an example.
Overall, if you are curious about the genre especially I would suggest you take a look if only just for curiosity's sake, though frankly this is pretty good! It's also only about 4 chapters.
This was a very interesting read, it's a Shoujo Ai manga so it has everything you would expect from such a manga, except it was published in 1957 so it serves as an excellent example for the evolution of the genre over the years.
It is a very delicate and elegant piece, where it tells us the story of Yukiko, a first year student in the Sakura Girl's institute, a girl only highschool. Her story involves her relationship with her Upperclassman Chicage, president of the Ping-Pong club she is part of.
As the story goes on the two have a falling out for a certain ping pong related reason and the protagonist remembers the heart warming story of how they initially came together. Romantically it doesn't go very far which I suppose is pretty normal for its time, even now a lot of yuri/shoujo manga are afraid of going too far into things.
Constantly you can see a lot of symbolism in it and tropes that Shoujo manga are to abuse for years to come. The author himself continued to be active and moderately popular during the 60s with this being one of his earliest works. It kind of was heavily reminiscent to works like Aim for the Ace! and similar later works as an example.
Another curious stylistic choice you might have noticed which I haven't really seen much is how they seem to like using different colours of shade for different chapters. I found that kind of distracting at first but you quickly get used to it.
If you didn't realise it was old already look at how she dresses in her house
Overall, if you are curious about the genre especially I would suggest you take a look if only just for curiosity's sake, though frankly this is pretty good! It's also only about 4 chapters.
I look up the original animes people keep recommending but nothing is relevant to my interests.
Theonik
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Save 'N Quit
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Wow, I'm looking at the Mushibugyo chapters and they've skipped like 75+ chapters alone.
Not including the 10+ more between the two recent ones.
Not including the 10+ more between the two recent ones.
Glass Rebel
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what the hell is makai ouji, how is it josei and why is it starring sindbad?
Dedication Through Light
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Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist is awesome. Everyones want that William Twining.
Yep it's pretty awesome.
A Huge Battleship
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Jigokuren: Love in Hell 1-18 (END)
Enjoyed it more for the setting / setup rather than for anything else it did. Excessive gore and suffering is all well and good, but it doesn't have the same appeal if there's no real consequence to it. Credit due to the author for attempting to put something resembling a genuine story in with the torture porn, but it was pretty badly handled.
pi-piru-piru-piru-pi-piru-pi
Enjoyed it more for the setting / setup rather than for anything else it did. Excessive gore and suffering is all well and good, but it doesn't have the same appeal if there's no real consequence to it. Credit due to the author for attempting to put something resembling a genuine story in with the torture porn, but it was pretty badly handled.
Also it caused me to check out and add Jigokusei Remina (Junji Ito) to my backlog, so that's a plus.
I'm still pretty damn confident about that one, sorry.
Sometimes, they use the plural form of a foreign word as a base, indeed. Doesn't change the fact there's no actual plural in the Japanese sentence though.
But I'm not sure why you're even talking about that anyway, here. "Berries" would just be the logical plural of "Berry" / "ベリー" in an English translation. Why should Oda use the plural form?
"Usually"? As in "more often than not"? ^^;
Might well have something to do with the Spanish pronunciation... Obviously, the older the word, the weirder it can get. Sounds like they ended up with a weird mix.
The double consonant of "Mecca" may not be pronounced anymore in English, but in Arabic...
As for "summit", take a better look at the Japanese spelling...
It's so great.
Fun fact: Back in 97 when One Piece premiered, Takehio Inoue (Slam Dunk, Vagabond, REAL) read the first chapter while staying in LA. He knew from there it would be a great series. Good foresight.
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/06/26/a-conversation-between-takehiko-inoue-eiichiro-oda/
Have you tried Tiger & Bunny or Noein?
Excellent foresight from an excellent Manga-Ka
Oh yeah, I forgot T&B. It was actually pretty cool.
Yep. I enjoyed that show even with all the advertisements in your face. Funny to see Bandai sponsoring Heroes lol.
Noein is another show I enjoyed. Had its flaws but worth watching. It deals with time traveling if you're into that.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Come to think of it, I can't seem to conjure up any manga of this kind where it is not immediately obvious who is the "winning girl" is.
grandjedi6
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Most romance series of any medium are pretty obvious which girl/boy will win. The good ones are the ones that delude you into thinking otherwise even though, logically, the heroine/first girl on the cover wins.
Take Toradora for instance. There was tons of people arguing who the guy would end up with even though the title itself (TORA-tiger-Taiga; DORA-dragon-Ryuji) made it obvious who the main pair was.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I prefer romance series that don't try to pull any harem bullshit, though I do like harem stuff from time to time.
Hibi's still the best by a country mile though.
Dedication Through Light
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Doukyonin no Binandomo 2
Well I wonder if the two month wait was worth it for a chapter with limited progress. Ended just like the first with Ugajin in his bed in the middle of the night, but no answers for why. On the other hand hearing the backstory for Tomoki and Kazuki's family was a bit interesting though odd (father remarry a 20 yo, guess it raises eyebrows but certainly nothing to break the family over). Still dont know who I would want Tomoki with, Ugajin would be interesting, though Nonomura is just the typical nice guy, so nothing really unique with that.
Well I wonder if the two month wait was worth it for a chapter with limited progress. Ended just like the first with Ugajin in his bed in the middle of the night, but no answers for why. On the other hand hearing the backstory for Tomoki and Kazuki's family was a bit interesting though odd (father remarry a 20 yo, guess it raises eyebrows but certainly nothing to break the family over). Still dont know who I would want Tomoki with, Ugajin would be interesting, though Nonomura is just the typical nice guy, so nothing really unique with that.
Ichigo 100%
Was reading over ANN's detailed Otakon reports and I saw in the opening ceremonies that Nobuhiro Watsuki was invited but his work schedule didn't give him the time to make the trip. That would have been neat for the attendees if he could have made it.
It's not a manga, well actually it probably got one since everything does, but the VN/Anime Shuffle does this.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Ooh, something to look forward to when I get back.
Initial D 672
Chapters are sooooooooooooooooo short. I love how they're talking about Shinji like he's Takumi. Pretty much a mirror image of Takumi when he first started racing on Akina. Takumi got this though. He'll have a hard race, and it'll probably end being as close as possible, but Takumi got this.
Chapters are sooooooooooooooooo short. I love how they're talking about Shinji like he's Takumi. Pretty much a mirror image of Takumi when he first started racing on Akina. Takumi got this though. He'll have a hard race, and it'll probably end being as close as possible, but Takumi got this.
Absolutely.
Glass Rebel
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I thought it'd be something you'd enjoy just based on the art.
I wonder if Urasawa's 41 page Monster Kingdom one-shot is going to be published anywhere as a standalone volume. It's in the newest issue of Big Comics released during the weekend. It sounds pretty interesting. It's set in an alternate reality where Tokyo has been the victim of many monster attacks over the years, and they have developed ways to minimize the damage caused by such attacks. As a side effect though, Tokyo has also become a huge tourist attraction for monster fans from around the world. The main character is a French monster fan who travels to Tokyo for sightseeing, and he meets a woman who has lost family members to monster attacks. I wanna read... 
Kingdom 185-187
I just knew something like that was gonna go down. I hope Kou lives on and Sei takes out that shitty mother of his. (and yes, i'm not that well versed in the warring states era of china)
Also, translations are finally ahead of the anime series!
Ketchup Ninja 6-7
That shot of the Twin Towers was pretty… jarring to say the least.
I just knew something like that was gonna go down. I hope Kou lives on and Sei takes out that shitty mother of his. (and yes, i'm not that well versed in the warring states era of china
)Also, translations are finally ahead of the anime series!
Ketchup Ninja 6-7
That shot of the Twin Towers was pretty… jarring to say the least.
Aizo
Banned
Do you know if there's much that the anime leaves out?
As a whole? A few races left out here and there plus some deeper character development that's pretty rewarding. Fifth Stage ended with this last race just starting so the anime should pick back up with this race whenever Final Stage comes out.
I just wish the chapters would be released quicker. The last chapter in the series came out at the end of July and we're still 40+ away from it.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Akutou Danshi Collection Chapters 1-4 END
I'm not sure if anyone here has read it, but its about a girl that has to leave her expensive all girls school because of her family going extremely poor and heading to a Co-Ed school living in a dorm known as "The City of Crime." Not only that, but this dorm will be demolished if the students don't behave, so in order to keep the dorm she'll be staying in, our heroine must take on the job of being dorm manager and keeping her follow students out of trouble. Good thing she has a secret weapon!
Can she truly handle the task and stay out of trouble herself? Find out!
I'm not sure if anyone here has read it, but its about a girl that has to leave her expensive all girls school because of her family going extremely poor and heading to a Co-Ed school living in a dorm known as "The City of Crime." Not only that, but this dorm will be demolished if the students don't behave, so in order to keep the dorm she'll be staying in, our heroine must take on the job of being dorm manager and keeping her follow students out of trouble. Good thing she has a secret weapon!
Can she truly handle the task and stay out of trouble herself? Find out!
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