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I really liked the first fifty or so chapters of My Wife is Wagatsuma-san. The humor is a little bit like Daily Lives of High School Boys, but there's a serious romantic side to it. It's been spinning its wheels for a bit but I'm still reading it.
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Crunchyroll have added three more manga for Simulpub. - Ajin : Demi-Human - A Silent Voice - Koe no Katachi - The Heroic Legend of Arslan http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-842285/new-simulpub-manga-from-kodansha-ajin-koe-no-katachi-the-heroic-legend-of-arslan
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Koe no Kotachi getting picked up has made me so incredibly happy. It's such a good series and deserves more exposure!
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All three of those are fantastic pick-ups. My only qualm with Crunchyroll's manga system is I wish you could mark manga you're reading to your account similar to how you would queue anime on their site. Saves me from having to constantly checking to see if there's a new Space Brothers only to see that it still has not updated, as amusing as it is to see Mutta dressed up as Jack Sparrow.
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Allarion posted:All three of those are fantastic pick-ups. My only qualm with Crunchyroll's manga system is I wish you could mark manga you're reading to your account similar to how you would queue anime on their site. Saves me from having to constantly checking to see if there's a new Space Brothers only to see that it still has not updated, as amusing as it is to see Mutta dressed up as Jack Sparrow. That's definitely something that's needed. I have a mangareader app on my phone that keeps track of what chapters I've read and lets me know whenever a new chapter of something I've marked as a favorite has been uploaded to whatever site I read it on. In constrast, the Crunchyroll manga app seems to let me mark things as favorites, but doesn't track reading or alert to new chapters at all.
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I still feel that the reader is a bit clunky. I noticed a week or two ago that it was splitting up two-page spreads if they didn't conveniently fall on the correct two pages.
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Allarion posted:All three of those are fantastic pick-ups. My only qualm with Crunchyroll's manga system is I wish you could mark manga you're reading to your account similar to how you would queue anime on their site. Saves me from having to constantly checking to see if there's a new Space Brothers only to see that it still has not updated, as amusing as it is to see Mutta dressed up as Jack Sparrow. This is something that I would love and would use the manga service much more if I could just check a queue to see what I can read instead of checking each series manually.
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I signed up for this early but didn't really get rolling with actually reading stuff until I discovered how much more useable the phone app is over the browser version. (What's up with that?) So what is everyone reading? I went on a reading binge the last few weeks and ended up more or less getting caught up with: Yamada-kun. Hush you. For what it is it's decently entertaining and moves at a good clip. Also it's basically kissing porn, which is a vastly underserved market or something. My Wife is Watagatsuma-san. I remembered all the buzz about this one months back. Started very entertaining, ended terrible and depressing. Disappointing but I haven't entirely dropped it yet. Seven Deadly Sins. Very solid, well paced shonen with an interesting setting and lots of oddball characters. I probably like the main hero the least, but that's shonen for you. Soredemo Machi blah blah There was an anime for this I never watched. Manga is great, clean, fun though. Just wish they'd do something about the huge gap already. Starlight Woman This manga is one of the strangest things I've ever read, but not entirely in a bad way. I've basically taken to picturing the MC as reclusive, alien-origin She-Hulk. I haven't decided if I like it or not, though. Spirit Circle SO GOOD. SO BRUTALLY GRIM. SO...few chapters available so far. Dammit Crunchyroll, prioritize your best series a little! Heroic Legend of Arslan I started reading this not knowing it was based on a novel. Or done by the Fullmetal Alchemist lady. These two facts explain so many things in retrospect. It is also of course excellent, and does a good job of carefully setting up what will no doubt eventually be a true epic story with a billion important characters to keep track of. You can just say Persia instead of Parsia though, seriously. You're not fooling anyone. Koe no Kotachi Blew threw it in two days. Emotionally devastating and utterly riveting at the same time. Painfully true to life in so many ways. If I had to hand out a medal for best manga currently available, it would be this. UQ Holder is on my list to check out, I'm just stubborn about these things and slowly grinding through Negima first. I know it's not required reading, I'm just like that. On the whole I'm pretty happy, but so many of their pickups are new or have huge back catalog gaps that there is far less reading material available then I expected at first look through. So that's me, what about you guys?
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It's just Arslan and Attack on Titan for me. I do plan to read Coppelion at some point but that's quite the backlog. Arslan is monthly, right? Does anyone know when during the month it comes out? I really wish there was an alert thing.
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I haven't read Arslan but of the series I've read on Crunchyroll's list of available titles, the must-reads would be: Attack on Titan Soredemo Spirit Circle A Silent Voice(Koe no Kotachi) Fortress of the Apocalypse Inside Mari
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I thought the first couple chapters of Okitenemuru were really promising, but I'll probably wait a couple months for a backlog to build up before I keep reading it. Following comics week-to-week is too frustrating for me, especially if they're in the middle of a big slump like Wagatsuma-san. A Silent Voice and Arslan seem pretty good so far too, although Arslan's first chapter has maximum fantasy name overinflation. I laughed on page 38 at Tahir (Twin-Blade General) Marzban (cavalry leader) Kishward.
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Randallteal posted:
Marzban is a real thing, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzban A lot of stuff is actually proper Persian.
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quote:I really wish there was an alert thing. This is one of the things that annoys me the most about the service. I have no idea when anything gets updated or if there's even a schedule. There's a coming soon bar on the website (but not the otherwise superior app version) and that's it, unless I'm missing something obvious. It's especially aggravating for series that have gaps because I don't really care that the latest chapter is released when your collection goes 1. 2, 3, 32, Crunchyroll.
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Having gone over actual good stuff people might want to check out last time, let me pretty much do the exact opposite of that. After trying some of the other manga available out at random I just need to vent, honestly. Love Theory The premise is basically creepy uncle ghost dude is going to teach you how to talk to girls, which is not awful, but it apparently believes it can't keep it's losers audience attention without gross over the top fanservice every other page, so blech. Not worth it. Orange I don't want to say this is bad but it could use a "Warning, Dangerous High Level of Shojo" tag on it somewhere. Weirdly it's almost a gender reversed spin on Wagatsuma-san, but I personally felt like I was drowning in chatter halfway through the first chapter and I generally like Shojo. If its up your alley though, more power to you. Is This Girl for Real? Middle school boy brings home an alcoholic college girl home to work for his mangaka mom and she keeps trying to have sex with him. Hurray? Seriously, this is awful and any sensible parent would have booted her rear end out of the house so fast she'd have broken the sound barrier. Action Mask This is like, that boring superhero parody episode in every anime ever except they expect you to take it seriously. Ironically, Action Mask is a firm believer in non-violence and non-action at all times. His fighting style is to block monster punches with his face until he can see into their heart and purify it with ACTIIIIION BEEEEEAM. Fricken Action Beam. The only joy to be found in this manga is rooting for the monsters to kill his smug face once and for all. Shindo This wants to be a heartwarming story about a young music prodigy and whatever but the execution is all over the place. The art is ugly, the story is meh, and it has the most awkward musical metaphors I've ever seen. Does a young girl playing the piano evoke the melody of singing freshwater fish to you? No? Never? Huh, I could swear that was a thing. Oh well. Buffalo Girls gently caress. THIS. poo poo. Not surprisingly, this is straight up porn, right down to the cringe-worthy writing and dialogue attached to every awful unlikeable human being in this manga. All in glorious (Garish) color for reasons that quickly become frighteningly obvious. Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen Why are there already two manga about brothels? Whyyyyyy? This is at least somewhat classier then Buffalo Girls, which says nothing at all. More specifically this is apparently about obscure fetishes and the fulfillment there-of. Yeah... Diary of Ochibi It's uh...Children's Lit? Except incomprehensible? Ajin Demi-human Average middle-school boy suddenly discovers he's not human and can't die! Now everyone wants to catch him for the shady science money! This one is really weird and honestly far too soon to see where it's going but the execution so far isn't that impressive. You'd think from the promotional image it would be a creepy horror thing or something but up to the point I've read it's just a kid and his friend on the run from...basically everyone?
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There's a couple more chapters of Ajin already out there, it's just Crunchyroll playing catch up on that if you want a better picture of how the story goes. It's not quite horror though, more immortal sociopaths dealing with each other and society. I get Parasyte vibes out of it personally, the difference being that the main character is not a good person. Also I like how society basically treats immortals as this minority curiosity that aren't even considered human, so of course the immortals seem like the side you're supposed to sympathize with, and then you find out most immortals are psychopathic assholes, including our main character. Anyways, here's what I'm reading other than Ajin. Space Brothers is still pretty great though some side character's stories are weaker than others. Fairy Tail is just something I was long reading before Crunchyroll along with all the other shonen manga so might as well list it here since technically Cruchyroll hosts it. Yamada-kun I feel improved once it started progressing its plot. It could have ended a while ago once the original set of witches were done, but moving on from that has been interesting. Wagatsuma has been pretty dumb lately. It's probably trying to be parody by making the teacher be the clumsy archetype taken to a ridiculous extreme, but it's still pretty dumb. Attack on Titan is in the same boat as Fairy Tail, though better writing obviously. Seven Deadly Sins also in the shonen boat, but it's a pretty good with some unorthodox abilities for the main characters. UQ Holder same as above, only with immortals. Sun-ken Rock is interesting, since it's basically a crime mafia manga that is set in Korea. It's pretty high in fanservice though (I'd say a bar higher than Prison School, so borderline porn), but balances it with fairly solid action scenes. Orange I read ages ago only to be sad there has been no update. I think it's a pretty solid shojo with a decent premise, but I'm a sucker for time travel gimmicks. What I find fascinating is the glimpses of the future characters, since they have their own separate happy endings that they seem willing to "change" though it's becoming more likely they want to give their alternate past selves a different happy ending than the one they've got. It's different from the usual time travel gimmick of having to change the past to amend everyone's terrible lives, since they're already fairly happy and seemed to have learned to move on from whatever the past tragedy was. Recollection is from the same author of Orange, and has an equally interesting premise. It works with the same gimmick of some forgotten event having tragically happened in the past as well, so I guess the writer likes that particular story staple. There's some fun interactions between the main character and "God" but like Orange, there's too few chapters and no updates. Spirit Circle is just great all around. Arslan I'm fairly excited for given the pedigree of both its author and artist. I've never seen Legend of Galactic Heroes, but Arslan is written by the same dude so hopefully it works as a nice substitute until I get around to LoGH. Combined with Arakawa's art, it seems like a fairly solid combo. Koe no Katachi is something you should be reading regardless.
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Delusibeta posted:Does this mean that linking to these via other manga readers are now considered Thank God that they didn't license any good manga.
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Binged thought this and isn't awful, while somewhat generic and definitly a little fanservicey is a pretty decent love story with the sex being reduced to gags. A good time waster. Edit: V be warned than Wagatsuma takes a dive in quality by chapter 70 (60 on the manga readers) and so far hasn't recovered. Dark_Tzitzimine fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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madmac posted:Orange I don't want to say this is bad but it could use a "Warning, Dangerous High Level of Shojo" tag on it somewhere. Weirdly it's almost a gender reversed spin on Wagatsuma-san, but I personally felt like I was drowning in chatter halfway through the first chapter and I generally like Shojo. If its up your alley though, more power to you. I have a sufficiently high exposure and tolerance to that stuff that if you cut me my blood would probably have shoujo sparkles. Seriously, if you're particularly allergic to shoujo you probably should stay away from me. That said, it did feel like it started out slowly, but I liked it more as it went on. Not much to comment about the others--their covers and premises were sufficiently offputting or uninteresting that I never checked them out. With the exception of Ajin which... really isn't very good. Tokyo Ghoul (not on Crunchyroll) is a far better and more interesting take on the premise. A lot of people seem to like Wagatsuma-san, maybe I should give it a chance after all. Edit: ^^^ Too bad about that dive in quality you mentioned. Edit: Nevermind, it isn't worth the argument. Kaja Rainbow fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Allarion posted:There's a couple more chapters of Ajin already out there, it's just Crunchyroll playing catch up on that if you want a better picture of how the story goes. It's not quite horror though, more immortal sociopaths dealing with each other and society. I get Parasyte vibes out of it personally, the difference being that the main character is not a good person. Also I like how society basically treats immortals as this minority curiosity that aren't even considered human, so of course the immortals seem like the side you're supposed to sympathize with, and then you find out most immortals are psychopathic assholes, including our main character. Huh. Thanks for the summary, but not for me, I don't think. quote:I have a sufficiently high exposure and tolerance to that stuff that if you cut me my blood would probably have shoujo sparkles. Seriously, if you're particularly allergic to shoujo you probably should stay away from me. That said, it did feel like it started out slowly, but I liked it more as it went on. Ha! I actually like a lot of mainstream-ish Shojo stuff. It just seems to be the more uber-shojo works that make my head spin. I have a sparkle limiter or something. madmac fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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The manga reader is really bad but at least I can use a web browser unlike shonen jump alpha
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Jose posted:The manga reader is really bad but at least I can use a web browser unlike shonen jump alpha Shonen jump alpha works in a web browser. It works badly, but it's there.
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Mar 27, 2014 21:43
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Not in the UK anyway unless I'm reallly blind. Should have said I was there
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Never mind, separate apps
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:Arslan is monthly, right? Does anyone know when during the month it comes out? I really wish there was an alert thing. According to their website, Arslan will be published on the 8th at 4:00pm. It runs in the same magazine as Shingeki no Kyojin, but I don't know if they go out on the same time. For those of you reading it, Arslan isn't just based on a set of novels, it's based on a set of novels by Tanaka Yoshiki, aka the guy who wrote "Legend of Galactic Heroes" and it is a wonderful, if still incomplete ride. (Don't worry, the novel series is split into two parts and there is a pretty good stopping point at the end of the first one, for those of you that are afraid of not getting closure.) It was actually the first series he worked on directly after he finished with LoGH. When asked why he chose a Persian setting for a fantasy epic instead of the more traditional European one, his reply was that "Persia's really great..."
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Who knows if anyone cares, but vol 5 of Is This Girl For Real just showed up, which finally catches the archives of it up to the current chapters.
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They uploaded another volume of Spirit Circle recently, too. It's not quite caught up, but it's close.
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Been reading Arpeggio of Blue Steel on CR, and it's pretty fun. Kind of like a damper Battlestar Galactica 2004 (with extra moe, but that's Japan for you), and the art is rad. Mangaka knows how to draw a drat fine smackdown between transforming alien warships. The back-catalogue is now almost caught up with the current updates, which is good too.
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Darth Walrus posted:Been reading Arpeggio of Blue Steel on CR, and it's pretty fun. Kind of like a damper Battlestar Galactica 2004 (with extra moe, but that's Japan for you), and the art is rad. Mangaka knows how to draw a drat fine smackdown between transforming alien warships. The back-catalogue is now almost caught up with the current updates, which is good too. Yeah, it isn't something that I would subscribe to Crunchyroll for, but it isn't a bad read. Some interesting nautical tactical battles and AIs evolving their own personalities and figuring out how to deal with stuff (even if the implementation is a bit too moe sometimes) are the main things that sell this series to me. Plus there's some politics and stuff. I would rank other stuff like Arslan or Spirit Circle or A Silent Voice or Orange or UQ Holder above it, but it's still decently fun.
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BTW, for anyone confused, most manga is off this week due to a Japanese holiday.
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Can you even get notifications for poo poo Crunchyroll has snapped up?
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Shukaro posted:Can you even get notifications for poo poo Crunchyroll has snapped up? Not that I'm aware of. They added joshikausei, which is a decent manga though. I also read what they put up of girl may kill and it seems decent.
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Shukaro posted:Can you even get notifications for poo poo Crunchyroll has snapped up? They only recently added bookmark tracking for the mobile app, and they have a Chrome app that claims to track new chapters (never tried it), but as far as anyone can tell there's nothing on the website itself.
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Their updates shows up on mangaupdates.com The site at http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga also lists today's and upcoming updates, but doesn't really seem to have a sensible way of presenting recent ones. Similarly, unfortunately even with all the improvements, at least the Android app doesn't seem to highlight new issues for bookmarked series, either --- you can see if there is something updated by going to each individual manga, but not get an overview.
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They have a RSS feed, but it seems to update at... odd times. Before or after they upload new chapters, basically (the 'before' is particularly prominent for Attack on Titan and Arslan, where the RSS feed'll pop their chapters a full day before they're actually uploaded).
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I really love being able to read Seven Deadly Sins legally on Crunchyroll, but the translation quality is disappointing. There are typos and other issues that make me wonder if anybody is even editing the chapters before they're published. I was hoping that the printed version would fix some of that--maybe the version released online was a sort of rough draft that would get reworked before going to print. So I bought the printed volume one, but it's full of mistakes, and it's even worse in print since they use a font that has lower-case letters and then sometimes bold it. There are entire sentence bubbles that are practically illegible. When you can zoom in on a computer screen, this doesn't matter as much, but in the book, it's really unfortunate. It's a shame because this is my current favourite manga, so I want to support it legally, but the scanlations are out faster and they're more legible. (I still go to crunchyroll and let the advert play for the current Seven Deadly Sins chapter so hopefully it gets some revenue from that.)
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It's not very consistent. The translation and typesetting quality on Yamada-Kun, Inside Mari and a lot of others is top-notch, but a few like Sun-Ken Rock and Space Brothers seem to have ended up with pretty amateurish teams, or totally different styles than the others.
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True. I've been reading Attack on Titan on crunchyroll as well, and I have no complaints about that translation.
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