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Yeah the election arc was seriously great and just made me like Ging more because it brought him down from the typical untouchable pedestal a lot of comics put their rarely-seen-hero-mentor-figures on, and was funny as hell too. Also the gang running the gently caress away from nen zombies. A lot of us would be less salty about HxH if it just wasn't so drat good. I've never read YKK, does it hold up even today? Pierson fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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See also Oh My Goddess which I hear is actually ending after what, thirty years and is pretty legendary for the main couple never so much as kissing.
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Nate RFB posted:They kissed a few times! It just never went beyond that, which wound getting a really silly hand wave excuse in the final arc.
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Nate RFB posted:Heaven basically sealed his sexual drive to prevent procreation between humans and gods. I couldn't stop laughing. Chillyrabbit posted:Delete oh gently caress I'm stupid and didn't read the thread.
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It stays that way in that the nen system is a huge part of the series and like JoJo's Stands it gives a solid background to powers to make them all internally consistent and to give the fights more depth than 'throw a bigger fireball'. The York Shin arc is immediately after Battle Tower I think and that's a top-tier arc so if you can read through that to find out how badly the system will affect your enjoyment.
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Nov 12, 2014 09:17
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Man someone put up a one-chapter interest check for the Banner of the Stars manga and all it did was remind me how much I want more Stars stuff. 
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It's been fifteen or so years since I last saw the series but I read that chapter and I remember how much I liked it. Were the novels ever translated? They were actual novels right, not LN garbage? I didn't even know there was a fourth volume, never mind a fifth. I'm tempted to go back to the series but I'm not sure whether it's something I should revisit or just keep my memories of and let go.
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Long ago did I stop getting mad about X series having insane success and Y series being kicked to the curb but yeah, it's a drat shame. Younger me found Jinto and Lafiel totally compelling and pitch-perfect as two young people growing up and slowly finding each other. I do remember the end of Banner 3 was both incredibly sad on one hand with but quite hopeful on the other and did work as a pretty good finale. I think I'll go check it out again.
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Here's something quaint that could get better but so far is an easy read: New Saga. It's fairly standard low-fantasy, but the gimmick is the first chapter is the end of the story, with the Demon Lord beaten. It was an incredibly pyrrhic victory though with everyone dead and the hero dying too. The dude finds one last device to send him back four years in time to when he was literally the archetypical Slacking Young Boy In A Nice Little Village. The good part is that he's pretty intelligent and he realises instantly what he can do, and starts to sequence-break the world as hard as he can. There's a bit more T&A than I'd like but the idea is a nice one and it's already had one really good moment: The hero knows where a labyrinth full of money is which they're gonna need to gear up, so he goes after it. Since he knows literally everything about the place instead of going through all the magic traps and monsters like the first time around he just digs through the side of the mountain directly into the treasure-room.
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The vengeance-murder-is-legal thing sounds like it was ripped straight out of Freesia, which did treat it as incredibly hosed up and the people who did it as incredibly broken people.
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There's definitely been a change since the start of the series and I think as he's drawn more and his style has changed he's lost something. Earlier on it felt like each character got their own distinct style when they were in focus that helped really characterise them. Look at Killua there, from the way he's drawn he almost looks like Hisoka; the same kind of expression, more shading (especially around the eyes) and thinner, more complex lineart that makes him look more like a villain. That totally sells Killuas character from what we knew of him at that point. When he got mad he got vicious. His dad was drawn the same in his first appearance. Gon is much more 'protagonist-y'. big eyes, much stronger lines and simpler shapes (that huge block of hair) and a big goofy smile. When he's mad instead of being thinner and more drawn-out he becomes even simpler and blockier (his eyes just become huge dark holes), nuance and complexity vanishing even further from his character because that is who he is: A really simple person who gets SUPER-MAD sometimes. Kurapika is drawn more similar to Killua but where Killua's hair is the more traditional 'coolguy spiky' Kurapika's overall haircut is more rounded, which is a much more aesthetically-friendly shape. Like Gon he has big 'good guy'-eyes and that makes perfect sense because his eyes are a huge part of his character and his primary motivation. The baggy cothes - almost robes - imply a more mystical and therefore calmer character than the regular clothes of the other main characters and from day one that's exactly what he is. Leorio is the adult member of the troupe and the voice of realism/reason. He's in a black suit and carries around a briefcase. In conclusion even if I preferred his older art style, Togashi is great and HxH remains a god-tier comic because of everything Bad Seafood talked about.
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Ytlaya posted:Medaka Box is bad, right? I'm looking for some fun shounen battle comic to read.
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Is the war arc immediately after the magician-city arc with Anime Gandalf? I remember dropping Magi about then because the entire arc seemed headed towards an obvious conclusion and I got bored waiting for the reveals I knew were coming.
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It starts off fairly grounded: Boy with big dreams uses plausible excuse to take part in future-rollerblading subculture and shows himself a natural, while surrounded by various archetypical friends and busty women. Then it began to descend into total madness, power escalation, and bullshit mid-season-upgrade asspulls. Exactly like Tenjou Tenge, basically. I mean for me it started off great but when the stakes got higher than "underground skate team tries to win local championship" and the side-characters were turned from entertaining people into one-joke paper cut-outs I tuned out.
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The new Promised Neverland nails a whole chapter in a single page. Emma doesn't play around, gently caress.
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How are we defining 'bad' fanservice these days though? Just out-of-place T&A in scenes it has no reason to be in, camera angles that emphasise T&A over important things, or actual skeevy stuff like that one comic about the shrine girl/ghost-clothes whose name I don't care to recall?
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DrSunshine posted:I think this would be actually an interesting topic of discussion for a thread. We've had some unusual, non-series megathread, non-"Just for fun" type threads over the years (like "What is slice of life?" ) and I think it'd be interesting to revisit such topics.
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I think it helps that even though it's 'slow' they're still making progress with something every chapter, and now there's a big solid deadline to keep anticipation high.
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Anime Girl Hitler and Anime Fat Hitler both got what was coming them imho.
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Irritated Goat posted:I finished the anime and near the end, I was waiting to see who died next cause the show just enjoyed murdering people in horrible ways. edit; i'm an idiot and you said 'anime' but the manga really did kill anyone who was slightly cool and left us with Swordgirl and Punchboy, if I read it right (first thirty or so chapters and last two).
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I kind of liked the cast otherwise which makes it kind of sad.
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Since we're detouring into World Trigger chat I dropped that series when it felt like instead of exploring the huge setting on their doorstep they instead spent their time bitching, arguing and fighting inside their organization hierarchy. Did I make the correct choice?
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Eyeshield 21 spoiled me on pretty much all other sports comics.
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I should get around to reading Kenshin on day.
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A picture of Charlie Brown running at the football Lucy is holding but Lucy is labelled TO YOU THE IMMORTAL and Charlie Browns T-shirt says THE READERS
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Promised Neverland has shown us very clearly what the destination is and it'll probably be at least as fun as the journey when they get there. We're like four mini-journeys into TYTL now, which have had more or less the same scenery, and the destination is still unknown.
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Wasn't the gimmick that they never ever interacted between their confession at the start and marriage at the end? A conceit that will surely make us care about the central romantic relationship of the series.
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The real romance was actually between boys and manga, with all the girls being side-chicks, so it's fine. edit; Bakumen had some WEIRD romantic sub-plots, if you could even call them romance. Like the woman who was thirsted over by the comic-relief lazy man and the fat man-child whose character arc was a line straight down basically, and the other main character who married his friend for errrrr reasons? Taxes or something? Pierson fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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That combo did Death Note which had like three female characters tops and some other stuff I've vaguely heard of, most of which is shounen. One of them is a woman though I think? Ignorance rather than malice maybe? I know nothing about the demographic trends of who reads Shounen Jump but I can't imagine authors who work primarily for young boys have any reason to learn how to write women or any compulsion to get better at it.
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Ytlaya posted:At the very least it's better than that other WSJ harem series with the ghost girl. that one is just 'tits; the manga' though edit; if she's a ghost girl how does he grab em!? Pierson fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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Being a ghost in anime sounds pretty cool so long as you're a shounen gently caress ghost and not some weird seinen blood monster.Ytlaya posted:I vaguely remember some other manga where this guy moves into an apartment with a ghost girl and they just gently caress constantly. In that manga she was semi-tangible; he could feel her but if he applied any real pressure he would pass through her.
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Are there any decent gay rom-coms?
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Isn't one of the reasons series turn into battle mangas is because their ratings fail and the editor demands quick fixes, one of which is usually 'more battles'? I vaguely remember this was what happened to Medaka Box? It isn't as if Jump is strictly opposed to non-fighting or more complex manga if they sell well, and direct combat isn't the only kind of conflict kids will read. I can see Promised Neverland turning more into a 'battle' manga as the kids have to outsmart, sneak and plan their way through hostile territory with extremely limited equipment and incredibly malicious opposition, but turning it into a straight-up fisticuffs comic feels impossible given the setup and characters involved.
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Medaka ruled when they let it off the leash.
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What else has successfully changed gears like that (in either direction) besides Medaka Box? Apparently Ken Akamatsu always wanted Negi to be a battle manga but was forced to start as pervy school hijinks and he switched it gradually enough either his editors didn't notice until it was too late or he brought them around to his side. Not that the pervy school hijinks ever ended they just became a backdrop and running gag to a space-magic adventure.
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I don't know if anyone else reads it but Kingdom of Gems has been throwing out some serious plot in the last few chapters and it's still really good, albeit definitely not for everybody. If you liked some of the general themes of Nier Automata (human creations dealing with themselves and their goals in a world where humanity is long gone), give it a shot.
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It's hard to tell from just a trailer but it looks great. Also I didn't notice until someone in the comments pointed it out but (latest chapter minor spoiler) the moon buildings are made of Bismuth and that's such a nice touch. Pierson fucked around with this message at 23:40 on May 16, 2017 |
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