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Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014

Mikl posted:

I'm reminded of Amagami, the anime, which aired in 2010. It was adapted from a visual novel, which of course has several possible ending, and they solved the "which girl wins?" problem by giving each girl her own four-episode arc.


In the case of Amagami, it did not. There were lots and lots of arguments about which girl is the best, but they were all useless because clearly the best girl was Tsukasa.

that's not how you spell kaoru!

tsukasa's good though, definitely second place.

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Mulderman
Mar 20, 2009

Did someone say axe magnet?
Man Spirits was channeling her inner Power in that latest chapter of SHY.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
"Pepesha no!"

"Pepesha YES!"

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Inflammatory posted:

that's not how you spell kaoru!

Hell yeah.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Sindai posted:

"Pepesha no!"

"Pepesha YES!"

:getin:

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

vodkaaaaaaaaaa

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I can't believe Shy and crew are loving dead.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



Darth TNT posted:

Ayakakshi I want to drop this so badly, but I can't yet, but I agree strongly with Rigged Death Trap. I just like his art style, action tends to look sharp and clean. Designs are neat. :( But the groping and panty shots and..urghh A part of me keeps hoping this is going somewhere, but my mind is yelling "this thing isn't going anywhere!" Someone save me. :(

it's going to get worse, not better

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
It's the To Love Ru mangaka, so unless he's going to swerve into a battle manga he's likely to make it as porny as you can get in Weekly Jump. I actually think though it may not go as hard as To Love Ru because I can't remember the last Weekly Jump manga to have actual uncensored full frontal in it which To Love Ru had.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

my only complaint is it's annoying that i always have to go to the other app for it, or their lovely web reader

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

:rip:

Paracelsus
Apr 6, 2009

bless this post ~kya

Inflammatory posted:

that's not how you spell kaoru!


These guys know what's up.

Mraagvpeine
Nov 4, 2014

I won this avatar on a technicality this thick.

Fabricated posted:

It's the To Love Ru mangaka, so unless he's going to swerve into a battle manga he's likely to make it as porny as you can get in Weekly Jump. I actually think though it may not go as hard as To Love Ru because I can't remember the last Weekly Jump manga to have actual uncensored full frontal in it which To Love Ru had.

What about that Yuna series that ended recently?

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Mraagvpeine posted:

What about that Yuna series that ended recently?
Yuna actually censored nipples and stuff in the weekly magazine and then had the details added back in for the volumes.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
aggghhhhhhh jaiminisbox seems to have purged all traces of birdmen from their site. they've also purged most everything else, but who cares about that garbage?

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

aggghhhhhhh jaiminisbox seems to have purged all traces of birdmen from their site. they've also purged most everything else, but who cares about that garbage?

Weird, there's no official English release as far as I know

Zeether
Aug 26, 2011

Shaman King's coming out digitally on the 28th: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pr...me-ever/.161977

Larryb
Oct 5, 2010

Zeether posted:

Shaman King's coming out digitally on the 28th: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pr...me-ever/.161977

Speaking of which, have they announced a start date for the upcoming remake of the anime yet?

Protodude
Dec 10, 2013

Fun Shoe

Zeether posted:

Shaman King's coming out digitally on the 28th: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pr...me-ever/.161977

Sweet, I have comixology unlimited so this is exactly how I was hoping they'd release it, and I'm pleasantly surprised they'll have the whole original series up in a week. I hope they eventually release the prequel, sequels, and spin off, even if I have to pay for them.

Larryb
Oct 5, 2010

Protodude posted:

Sweet, I have comixology unlimited so this is exactly how I was hoping they'd release it, and I'm pleasantly surprised they'll have the whole original series up in a week. I hope they eventually release the prequel, sequels, and spin off, even if I have to pay for them.

Wait, there were more? How many different manga did Shaman King have?

Protodude
Dec 10, 2013

Fun Shoe

Larryb posted:

Wait, there were more? How many different manga did Shaman King have?

There's a two volume prequel named Shaman King Zero, a sequel Shaman King Flowers that's about 6-8 volumes before the magazine it was in was canceled, then a currently running sequel to that named Shaman King Superstar and spin off Shaman King Red Crimson that ended recently. I think a new spin off is starting soon too.

Larryb
Oct 5, 2010

Protodude posted:

There's a two volume prequel named Shaman King Zero, a sequel Shaman King Flowers that's about 6-8 volumes before the magazine it was in was canceled, then a currently running sequel to that named Shaman King Superstar and spin off Shaman King Red Crimson that ended recently. I think a new spin off is starting soon too.

Neat, are any of them any good?

Also I was thinking of getting into the series for the first time eventually. At what point in the manga does the original anime stop at (or at least I heard it didn’t go all the way through)?

KittyEmpress
Dec 30, 2012

Jam Buddies

Flowers did what Boruto did like 6 years before Boruto. I think it even has a similar main conflict in the first volume at least, where the kid was not as good with Shaman stuff as he felt he should be, and was using tricks to get around it?

It's been years since I read the opening chapters, I might be going crazy.

Zeether
Aug 26, 2011

https://twitter.com/minovskyarticle/status/1285609745680945154?s=21

Holy poo poo it looks gorgeous

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

KittyEmpress posted:

Flowers did what Boruto did like 6 years before Boruto. I think it even has a similar main conflict in the first volume at least, where the kid was not as good with Shaman stuff as he felt he should be, and was using tricks to get around it?

It's been years since I read the opening chapters, I might be going crazy.

Flowers is filled with problems that are the result of a sequel that never needed to happen, and Takei's insistence on keeping the parts of shaman king that weren't the series strength. Mostly the battle shonen trappings and tournament backdrop. It's revealed that Hao isn't the unanimous Shaman king but rather every previous king still exists and has the right to veto decisions made by the current king. Which makes no sense since Hao had previously killed everyone on the planet when he got in power but that gets handwaved. Anywho, they aren't too pleased that he's backing a specific family and don't care for his attitude either.

Hana himself as a protagonist is annoying by design. An entitled little brat with no charisma of his own, which makes sense given how he grew up being spoiled a lot and knew his family were OP. But he's also hard carried by the fact that his uncle can revive him on a whim and he also has a similar Oni manifestation ability as a result of something I can't quite remember. So whenever he makes too big a mistake he just gets pulled out of the fire. By the way, Yoh and Anna are dead. Iron Maiden too because the story has to really get rid of all the god-class shamans to make the conflict work. The main antagonists themselves are the previous shaman king symbolized by a walking illuminati mascot and his chosen fighter, a guy who uses cards to stop time and other effects. The whole thing boiled down to another competition (The Flowers of Maize) between the previous shaman kings to decide if Hao stays in power or if one of them can re-take the throne so everyone would be putting up their representative teams.

The best thing about the entire clusterfuck of a series is the Kamikazee pilot Hana manages to land as his spirit partner. I guess the Horo Horo spinoff is neat if only for the hardboiled feel to it but that also covers how Jeanne got killed and it's just boring to see previously established characters killed off by new people I'm not interested in at all.


At least we're getting an english release of the original series, that will be the best thing to come out of this whole deal.

Larryb
Oct 5, 2010

Did Flowers actually get an ending of sorts or was it cancelled prematurely? And as far as sequels go, is/was Superstar any better?

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Larryb posted:

Did Flowers actually get an ending of sorts or was it cancelled prematurely? And as far as sequels go, is/was Superstar any better?

Flowers "ended" but was rebranded as Superstar which is a direct continuation. I think it was a magazine change.

Larryb
Oct 5, 2010

Brought To You By posted:

Flowers "ended" but was rebranded as Superstar which is a direct continuation. I think it was a magazine change.

Ah, are any of the manga spinoffs any good then?

Also, at what point in the original run of the manga did the anime abandon the story entirely and go in its own direction ala the first FMA anime? Or is this a case where the two adaptions are so different from one another that you might as well just start the manga version from scratch?

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Larryb posted:

Ah, are any of the manga spinoffs any good then?
The spinoff's were Flowers and The Super Star which deal with Hana Asakura and TotallynotAnna. Red Crimson which follows Horo Horo and Ren's sister fighting a rival chinese family. And Marcos which started this year and follows out intrepid former X-Law but I don't know much about it.

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Also, at what point in the original run of the manga did the anime abandon the story entirely and go in its own direction ala the first FMA anime? Or is this a case where the two adaptions are so different from one another that you might as well just start the manga version from scratch?
I can't tell you specifically since it's been too many years. But the original anime had a lot of it's own stuff going on early on like Manta becoming a shaman and pairing with Amidamaru's blacksmith friend. It should have ended around the time they got to the Patch village I'm reading.

Larryb
Oct 5, 2010

Speaking of which, has there been any news on the new anime they announced a while back (like a release date or whether or not it’ll be a FMA: Brotherhood/Sailor Moon Crystal style remake that sticks closer to the manga version)?

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

aggghhhhhhh jaiminisbox seems to have purged all traces of birdmen from their site. they've also purged most everything else, but who cares about that garbage?

kaguya's good. the rest is extremely bad from what I've seen tho. man I hope someone else picks birdmen up if it doesn't get an official translation because it was so good

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

aggghhhhhhh jaiminisbox seems to have purged all traces of birdmen from their site. they've also purged most everything else, but who cares about that garbage?

Oh, I missed this was a thing and I was re-reading Kekkaishi purely because of the last Birdmen chapter continuing Yellow's trend of having bad parents who are at peace with leaving their family high and dry to go do their own thing.

I'd say this is a sign of Birdmen finally getting an adaptation but they purged everything. But kept Gantz :confused:

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
the rationale is that everything they got rid of is old stuff, either completed or abandoned projects. except they pumped out a bunch of birdmen chapters over the past month.

Mulderman
Mar 20, 2009

Did someone say axe magnet?
New series on Mangaplus.

Monster #8
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1007603

Made by Naoya Matsumoto who was an assistant to the mangaka who did Psyren.

Great art and a really neat concept.
I suggest checking it out!

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
there are a lot of elements to that that are right up my alley.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012
That one has unofficial translations up to chapter 3 for anyone looking to catch up to the raws.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Mulderman posted:

Made by Naoya Matsumoto who was an assistant to the mangaka who did Psyren.

I remember liking Psyren a lot and it being one of my favorite shounen series. I remember something about not liking the ending, but I can't remember why; was it cancelled early?

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
it had a very rushed ending, though i can't remember the reason.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Oooooohhhh this looks really neat. Sold.

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RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Psyren got cancelled and had a rushed ending yeah, but I thought the author did it quite well all things considered.

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