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 Revised translations for early chapters have been uploaded! See below!Hinamatsuri is a battle manga about super-powered children.  Okay, not really. Hinamatsuri is actually about the pure-heartedness of children, and how they can help even the most jaded adults remember their precious memories of innocence and freedom.  Okay, not really. Hinamatsuri is really about these people:  Meet Yoshifumi Nitta, a mid-level yakuza more suited to office management and diplomacy than kicking rear end. Hobbies include collecting fine china and drinking at his favorite bar. His life is disrupted by:  Hina. She’s 13. She’s telekinetic. She has trouble using her words. Likes: Eating, sleeping, video games Dislikes: Effort, bathing They have a few problems.  But they manage to work them out.  Why should you read this? For starters, Hina is a type of protagonist we don’t see too often in a ‘single dad’ manga. She’s lazy, greedy, messy, and tactless. Not in a malicious way, though, just self-absorbed and almost completely oblivious to things that don’t directly affect her. Life-and-death mob negotiations taking place? She’s more concerned about the candy dish on the boss’s desk. A gunman takes her class hostage? As long as it doesn’t keep her from getting lunch, no problem. The supporting cast is also one of the strongest I’ve seen in a long while. Standouts include Hina’s psychic rival Anzu, who is a better person than her in almost every way, and long-suffering classmate Hitomi, who discovers many hilarious new talents while getting dragged into Hina’s nonsense. Finally, reaction faces.    Oh, the reaction faces. Update: The earliest scanslations of Hinamatsuri were very rough, bordering on unreadable in places. If these turned you off from reading, you may be glad to learn that most of the early chapters have been redone and greatly improved in the last month or so! Give it another shot, you won't regret it! Mary Annette fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Sep 23, 2013 |
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Hitomi is so great.
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Mar 9, 2013 03:37
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This really is the best ESPer manga, and I am glad that you made this thread, so that, escaping the confines of my "Surreal Daily Life Mangas" thread, more people will know about this.
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Mar 9, 2013 03:39
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Serious Frolicking posted:Hitomi is so great. Hitomi is arguably the best character, but Anzu and Hina are both also so good. It speaks to how good this manga is that all three of them could be protagonists in their own manga, and I would gladly read them all.
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Mar 9, 2013 03:46
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Mary Annette posted:
To quote Serious Frolicking from the seinen thread: Serious Frolicking posted:I like how Hina is amazingly stupid, but not in the usual cute way. She is actually sort of a terrible person. JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Mar 9, 2013 |
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Mar 9, 2013 03:50
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This is a really great series.
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Mar 9, 2013 04:41
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I love this series. Especially how the premise is designed to be stereotypically outlandish (a yakuza adopts a psychic teenage girl!) but it's all turned on it's head. The yakuza is a middle managed and might as well have a normal office job. The teenager acts like a real teenager most of the time. I was worried it would get too serious with the whole homelessness thing with Anzu, but it was handled wonderfully. Not whitewashing it, but also not making it out to be excessively horrible or anything.
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Mar 9, 2013 12:01
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 This is so amazing.
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Mar 11, 2013 07:22
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This is such a fantastic manga, I wish I didn't hear about it until it was finished.  I'm not sure why but the sleeping gags kill me every time.
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Mar 12, 2013 06:11
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Thanks for turning me on the this series, reading through it now. The translation is godawful and I pray some group will eventually go back and fix it, the quality is still somehow getting through. On chapter 10 right now; Hina's wonderful speech of "I suggest we choose the contractor through competitive bidding, in order to cut costs and improve the school lunch's quality. Take a short breath here." is killing me.
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Mar 12, 2013 11:48
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AmiYumi posted:On chapter 10 right now; Hina's wonderful speech of "I suggest we choose the contractor through competitive bidding, in order to cut costs and improve the school lunch's quality. Take a short breath here." is killing me. I hope that mob lawyer got a nice bonus, given what he had to work with. 
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Mar 12, 2013 17:34
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Along with last month's chapter of Hinamatsuri, the author drew up a one-shot story to celebrate his third year of serialization. It's a murder mystery!   And it's pretty much what you'd expect
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Apr 1, 2013 03:37
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That was absolutely great. It's like the perfect sort of "serious" humor story that they talked about a lot in a part of Bakuman, where everything is totally taken seriously, but the situation is just hilariously absurd. This guy is a mad genius.
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Apr 1, 2013 03:56
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DrSunshine posted:That was absolutely great. It's like the perfect sort of "serious" humor story that they talked about a lot in a part of Bakuman, where everything is totally taken seriously, but the situation is just hilariously absurd. This guy is a mad genius. It reminded me of a Monty Python sketch, same sense of absurdity as some of them with one sensible character going "What the loving gently caress?!?" at the insanity around them.
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Apr 1, 2013 15:01
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If someone told me that the funniest thing I'd read all day involved a detective failing to catch a breath mint, I wouldn't have believed them. I'm happy to have been wrong about this.
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Apr 1, 2013 18:14
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New short little 4-page thing. OK, you know what I said about the translation maybe getting better with time? Forget it. "Foil gras"? "Pulses?" This is disgraceful. I've got zero experience with scanslation groups and even less patience for nerd drama, but I do have access to the raws through volume 4, am a native English speaker (which seems to be what the current crew lacks), and am willing to take a stab at putting out a script of my own. Any goons who might be able to put it to good use, please PM me.
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Apr 4, 2013 18:33
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Man, Oyabun really, really wanted some grandkids.
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Apr 4, 2013 19:39
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This is unexpectedly entertaining.
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Apr 14, 2013 10:13
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Hitomi really is the best girl in the series.
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Apr 14, 2013 10:26
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I read the Last Supper. I really, really liked that "Gee, THANKS". It was just so perfect, this author is seriously something else.
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Apr 29, 2013 14:41
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I absolutely love Hinamatsuri.
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Apr 29, 2013 15:03
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A magic spell that can make one happy with one bowl of beef rice. It's called poverty! The last panel is amazing as usual. Those two are just too oblivious in their own ways.
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Apr 30, 2013 16:15
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tonberrytoby posted:A magic spell that can make one happy with one bowl of beef rice. It's called poverty! That was really depressing at the beginning and then became amazingly heartwarming on the last page. This is a truly great series.
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Apr 30, 2013 16:21
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Live strong, Anzu. Live strong! 
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Apr 30, 2013 18:06
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"Hina gets what she wants, I get what I can."  Loading up on shouga just because it's free  But then that last page.
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Apr 30, 2013 21:17
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Anzu is the best kid Is there any other manga that deals with poverty in neither a completely comical nor a tearjerking way? I like how this manga shows the seriousness of her situation without feeling exploitative about it.
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Apr 30, 2013 23:31
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Rexides posted:Anzu is the best kid Oliver Twist.  I haven't seen another manga that has what you're looking for, actually! The only manga I've ever read other than this that features homelessness in a big way is Legend of the Strongest Man Kurosawa and that's a pretty tearjerking, tense and serious manga.
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Apr 30, 2013 23:48
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Rexides posted:Anzu is the best kid Alyosha has some moments where Alyosha reminds me of Anzu. But they are not as common as they should be. http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Alyosha/Ch-025--A-Warrior-s-Break?id=128258#8 Strongest Man Kurosawa has a pretty good arc about homeless people. After this there is only stuff like "Poor Poor Lips" or "Hyakuen" which are less exploitive in their comedy than usual. ... Now that I think about it, there might be some anime in the world masterpiece series that deal with that.
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Apr 30, 2013 23:58
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Rexides posted:Anzu is the best kid Disappearance Diary, a one volume autobiographical work by Hideo Azuma, has large sections where he's living homeless. I think it fits the bill.
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May 1, 2013 14:40
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Two more chapters! The middle school detectives (also Hina) try to find out what Mishima's been up to after school while the teacher is still clueless or maintaining plausible deniability. Can they save her from her side job? Also, Nitta's sister pays a visit to her bro, enjoys some fun-employment.
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May 2, 2013 14:34
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Kleptobot posted:Two more chapters! This chapter was so funny! I kept chuckling and giggling throughout the whole thing. It's really hilarious seeing all the wild conclusions they leap to and the ensuing ridiculous faces.
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May 2, 2013 14:51
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They aren't references to Hetalia, you dumbass!
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May 2, 2013 14:58
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Serious Frolicking posted:They aren't references to Hetalia, you dumbass! But it's popular among high school girls!
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May 2, 2013 15:18
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I get that it's some kind of prerelease, but I couldn't help but hear his sister's voice in some kind of stereotypical Slavic accent. "While I'm not doing anything, food is great and there's beer. This is the heaven."
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May 2, 2013 16:15
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The faces in the Hitomi chapter were outrageous  Chapter 13.5 was also posted.
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May 2, 2013 16:57
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This wouldn't be half as good without the trials and tribulations of Hitomi.
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May 3, 2013 01:40
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This artist is fantastic at faces.
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May 3, 2013 02:29
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Chapter 21 is out and it is seriously scary. Even Utako is scared.
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May 3, 2013 12:48
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Chapter 22 is out too! http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Hinamatsuri/Vol-005-Ch-022v000--A-Guide-to-Get-Out-of-A-Homeless-Life EDIT: Anzu chapters are the most and chapters at the same time.EDIT2: Oh gods that second last page. EDIT3: Anzu is the best girl. The best. JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 13:42 on May 3, 2013 |
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A chapter with character development for Hina and then one for Anzu.... I am just impressed how there are so different but so amazingly deep characters in the same manga. Most stories don't even manage one.
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