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Larryb posted:I’ll probably wind up watching both then.
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That level of wordiness only happens in the very last (unfinished) arc and that page is specifically infamous. In general HxH is wordier than most shounen but not by a crazy amount.
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Feb 9, 2021 00:09
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I wasn't that into that fight either. It didn't feel like Hisoka/Chrollo were actually trying to kill each other (something HxH fights tend to convey very well) despite all the bystander death. Just lacked something, hard to say. Boat is fun but I don't expect to ever get something on chimera ant's level again.
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Feb 9, 2021 00:22
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last ~30 chapters of Jojo4 > Chimera Ant > Impel Down That's my top 3. It took me so long to come around to chimera ant at the time because for a while it felt like it was actually going to kill the manga but in the end he pulled it off and reading it all again now it's just incredible.
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Feb 9, 2021 03:02
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If you gave up on food wars number 311 is probably still worth reading. It's the one where you find out about Soma's mom, and was looks like something the author came up with at the start of the story.
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Mar 14, 2021 14:41
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Manga authors dont make much unless they get a mega hit. A big perma series takes them from scraping by to multi-millionaire. Even if the author doesnt enjoy doing it it's just too rewarding to not do if you get the chance.
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Silver2195 posted:Since there's no weekly manga chapters to discuss at the moment, now is as good a time as any to post our general essays about shonen manga. Here goes: I was actually upset when One Piece dropped this line recently. It's just pointless but every shounen these days seems to require someone to explicitly point this out. Despite my many complaints about OP compared to what I consider its peak it's unreal how committed Oda has been to it for 20 years. Any normal human would have lost their mind by now. No Wave fucked around with this message at 16:04 on May 3, 2021 |
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May 3, 2021 16:01
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Darth TNT posted:I knew someone was going to bring up the one moment in a full war arc that was funny. The most serious arcs in the manga are imo all pre-timeskip (Arlong Park, Saobody, Marineford). No Wave fucked around with this message at 13:35 on May 4, 2021 |
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May 4, 2021 13:31
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A lot of shonen manga have a few things they want to convey and use manga cliches as glue to fill out characterization and content and connect plot pieces that are actually interesting. I read 100 chapters of Black clover and it appeared to be made entirely out of glue, though some of the characters are fun enough despite that (like the BB commander).
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Jun 9, 2021 03:36
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Gambling Emperor Zero is Fukumoto doing something that feels more like Liar Game than Kaiji does (ie main character is a super genius), but isnt as serious as either kaiji or LG. I love GEZ part 1 but he hasnt worked on the series after part 2. One outs has a lot of similarities with "death gamble" manga (but its about baseball). No Wave fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jul 2, 2021 |
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Jul 2, 2021 03:38
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Darth TNT posted:Well it’s still better than when he didn’t skewer Ryusei when he started introducing money and poo poo.
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Mar 7, 2022 02:31
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I'm not even picking it up until I know fulgore and kyanchome are back.
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Apr 14, 2022 16:24
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I'm not the only one who sees it, right?
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Apr 29, 2022 16:19
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Indiana_Krom posted:I often call One Piece "The Textbook Shounen", it is really good but also never anything other than a Shounen Manga. No Wave fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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Jul 23, 2022 04:37
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Apparently there was some talk online going on about the "under 19 club" last year for series cancelled before they hit 19 issues. Maybe WSJ didnt like the meme and they want earthchild to hit 20 issues before cancellation.
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Aug 1, 2022 14:20
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Zeon's such a straightforward shonen villain but he's so good.
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chiasaur11 posted:I know at least a few shonen authors have made long term plans that they carried through, especially in shorter runs. For example, Tatsuki Fujimoto explained the names of some of his characters in a way that confirmed he knew how things would end with them from the start.
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If you do give up on soma chapter 311 is a good chapter that can stand on its own and was clearly planned from day 1 so it's worth it. (Mimasaka was definitely my favorite character, hacking the shokugeki format was such an ideal villain power)
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Sep 13, 2022 14:58
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Manatee Cannon posted:latest pppppp chapter kinda reminds me of when naruto threw out its theme of the protag being just some guy that got good through hard work to claim he was secretly ninja jesus this whole time
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Sep 20, 2022 22:38
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Naruto terrified everyone because he had an invincible animal inside of him. Hard work saves his soul and earns him the respect of the village, it isn't the source of his chakra. Kishi makes this as clear as possible early on when he puts the genius of hard work vs the worst person in the world and hard work loses. No Wave fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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Sep 20, 2022 22:59
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I don't think any amount of work in Naruto World can make you catch up to innate talent. Rock Lee basically exits the story after his loss to Gaara, his memorable scene being to cry when he sees that Sasuke is a genius of HW+T. The entire point of the zombie war was to justify the hard work of the chakra-impaired. The attempted message in naruto on that topic is that hard work is worth it even if you can't ever catch up to godly talent though maybe draw the line at popping out eyeballs.
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Sep 20, 2022 23:16
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Neji is a super hard worker. The fight is about beating Neji so that he stops believing in his destiny (although in the end he does in fact die protecting Hinata... one of the cruelties of the story).
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Sep 21, 2022 00:49
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Ytlaya posted:I feel like having a new series in WSJ must be one of the most incredibly stressful job experiences No Wave fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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Oct 11, 2022 21:02
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Alacron posted:https://mangadex.org/chapter/a62d8c81-b772-4a2b-b78d-38eab4924607/1
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ImpAtom posted:I have never read it I realize. Did it get an English release?
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Feb 14, 2023 23:16
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Wow the translation stopped at volume 25. In the middle of the faudo arc three volumes before Zeon is defeated. What a hosed up place to stop translating.
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Feb 16, 2023 14:26
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:they've been churning through new series looking for the next big hit. they don't want moderately popular, moderately successful manga. though to be fair, most of the stuff getting the axe is complete garbage.
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May 8, 2023 17:26
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Rohan Kishibe posted:I remember really liking Magi, but I fell off around when they went to the magic school and faced off with dumbledore and scharezade`s... clone?
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May 9, 2023 23:17
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(Versus) The humans' plan just succeeded, idk why we're talking like they have no chance. They wont win in a shonen battle but thats probably not where the series is going.
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Silver2195 posted:Wait, Ippo is still running?
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Alacron posted:- Greed Island is easily the worst arc with the worst villains. Bomberguy was very boring and he looked like Egon from The Real Ghostbusters, and I can't remember anything about his partners. 
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Nate RFB posted:Setting aside what my feelings might have been when I read the first ~18 volumes twenty years ago and then set it down for reasons I forget, when I got around to the 2011 anime a few years ago I was struck by how much I bristled against and in general disliked Gon as a character. He felt almost incongruous with the type of setting established in HxH and I certainly found myself with far less patience for that type of plucky overly optimistic shounen kid protagonist than I would have in the past. However Chimera Ant I feel retroactively snaps a lot of his character into focus in a way that makes a lot of his actions in the past make far more sense and feel more at place in a brutal setting like HxH's world. Doesn't hurt either that he and Killua basically cleanly exited the manga in a way that felt satisfying enough.
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Oct 28, 2023 16:36
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If black clover never came back would anyone notice?
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panko posted:heed your own words and look elsewhere than the manga magazine marketed mostly towards the underaged for your bounteous 2d fix
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SJ has cancelled roughly 80% of series before they hit 26 chapters and has done this since the 80s. They just weren't translated before so you would never see it happening if you weren't in Japan. https://landofobscusion.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-tangerine-terminator-look-at-shonen.html
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Did his crush ever find out about the body swap? The permanent plotline of keeping that a secret (and trying to make the reader invested in that) was probably the dumbest part of that series.
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Silver2195 posted:In epilogues/sequels: No Wave fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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