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King of Solomon
Oct 23, 2008

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panko posted:

irrespective of omega's quality the sobriquet "The 4D Latino" is extremely loving hard

Yeah, and next chapter we're in for a treat, because Sekibayashi is here.

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ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Okay I read STAR and other than the most recent fight which was a bit of a letdown, the fights have been great.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
best chapter in a while

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
So, y'all think Shen's gonna kick it here, or Lu Wan?

yum
Oct 27, 2005

Only good things will come
to someone like
you.
Shen might make Yan fight this one.

JamMasterJim
Mar 27, 2010

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

So, y'all think Shen's gonna kick it here, or Lu Wan?

Rocks fall and everyoen dies.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Failed my 2025 Anime Resolution

JamMasterJim posted:

Rocks fall and everyoen dies.

Omega being revealed as a really poor roleplaying campaign wouldn't be the worst way to end the series.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Brought To You By posted:

Omega being revealed as a really poor roleplaying campaign wouldn't be the worst way to end the series.

Shen being a reaction by the DM because all the players are too ridiculously strong makes more sense than the actual narrative

Babe Magnet
Jun 1, 2008

that would suck actually

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

Chapter 291.

6 months to go. Annoying.

JamMasterJim
Mar 27, 2010

Hypocrisy posted:

Chapter 291.

6 months to go. Annoying.


Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Failed my 2025 Anime Resolution
I read Medaka Box. I'm not reading this chapter

Caidin
Oct 28, 2011
Whatever happened to that international illuminati anti-worm task force that showed up in one chapter and never again

Did they get got and I missed it? Did I imagine them in the first place?

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Caidin posted:

Whatever happened to that international illuminati anti-worm task force that showed up in one chapter and never again

Did they get got and I missed it? Did I imagine them in the first place?

Shen strolled into a Kengan meeting guarded by forces from the anti-Worm task force, revealed that the biggest anti-Worm militia in the group was actually a Worm operation, and then agreed to a Kengan match.

Also the Worm was pretty much dead by this point, I believe, because they wanted to reset the Worm or something and were killing their own members off while just leaving the top brass (Yan and the topknot).

yum
Oct 27, 2005

Only good things will come
to someone like
you.
do finger nail claws count as weapons? I suppose it’s in the same gray zone as the ninja dude from purgatory.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Failed my 2025 Anime Resolution

yum posted:

do finger nail claws count as weapons? I suppose it’s in the same gray zone as the ninja dude from purgatory.

The Falcon just had really messed up fingers due to extensive conditioning; basically the blend of Saw Paing's skeleton and Gensai's own hand conditioning. Yan might be putting himself out of the fight by pulling a weapon and also having superman syndrome. That combination hasn't been doing well this series.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Tosk
Feb 22, 2013

I am sorry. I have no vices for you to exploit.

lol I hadn't realized that in 291, the number of plates is mismatched. AI tho :(

Babe Magnet
Jun 1, 2008

ultimately a very minor hit, but I would not be able to look at anything my staff sent me ever again without questioning it a little bit lol. real unnecessary breech of trust.

Tosk
Feb 22, 2013

I am sorry. I have no vices for you to exploit.



Kureishi's arms are so hosed up in this panel

Warden
Jan 16, 2020
Gotta say, I've been enjoying Ohma versus Kureishi and Narushima.

Also, the whole bit about Narushima's scars is just distilled Kengan.

Caidin
Oct 28, 2011
It's nice that Narushima isn't here to just feed Ohma, at least. Been wanting to see uncle fight for a long time.

Artelier
Jan 23, 2015


Does anyone have that funny mspaint-ish comic about Gaolang vs Agito about how it was God Glow vs Dragonshot but there was another God Glow and there was another Dragonshot etc etc etc?

I thought it would be in the past few pages where the fight happened again, but I don't think I saw it? I was mostly skimming looking for images and don't see it. Wondering if I maybe accidentally skimmed past it or it happened way earlier than I thought.

I did go back far enough to find the Kaneda Julius post though:

usenet celeb 1992
Jun 1, 2000

he thought quoting borges would make him popular
I'm pretty sure it was this post (page 289) but the link seems to have expired, unfortunately:

Plutonis posted:

NOTE: Discord-hosted image links (like this one) expire approximately 24hrs after they were copied from Discord.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




So discord links are weird. They go into sleep mode if they're out of their natural habitat for too long. But if you drop the link back into discord it springs back to life like opening up a vaccuum seal on a coat.

Artelier
Jan 23, 2015


Yessss thank you so much! I was catching up on Kengan and forgot I already knew (and hated) the conclusion to the fight and wanted to find the eternally better fanmade version.

Vizuyos
Jun 17, 2020

Thank U for reading

If you hated it...
FUCK U and never come back
lmao that Narushima's power is a bear punched him in the eye once and somehow gave him 180 degree eyesight on that side

i can't even decide whether it's funny stupid or just regular stupid

at least we've got Koga and Ryuki back now. and Klara, Raian, and their mom. good poo poo

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Failed my 2025 Anime Resolution
Kengan Omega What do you mean Gaoh, the guy trained in an assassination style. Who has ambushed people numerous times in the series. And later learned the Koei style which is also an assassin style. Somehow forgot that the first rule to real combat is that you don't have to fight head-on? This is more a Koga problem, if anything Gaoh should have been the one doing much better against the Kure.


Vizuyos posted:

i can't even decide whether it's funny stupid or just regular stupid

I feel the same with Kengan Omega that I did with Naruto when it comes to ocular techniques. There's here, everyone relevant probably uses them, and I wish they didn't.

Tosk
Feb 22, 2013

I am sorry. I have no vices for you to exploit.

At this point Kengan is significantly more stupid than all of Naruto except maybe the very last arcs.

Everything about the training arc for Gaoh and Koga is dumb. Gaoh's mischaracterization is egregious but also, I couldn't help but feel like "taps them with a newspaper to simulate killing them" wouldn't be viable in this world, where killing intent and auras are real and the Kure clan members might react totally differently if they felt actual bloodlust. Beyond that, how is this supposed to meaningfully prepare them? We already saw Shen vs trap god Ryuki's master in the most elaborate and well-planned ambush with significant foresight and knowledge of Shen's abilities, that's just a nonstarter.

Finally, "consecutor" is just too much. Layer after layer of paper thin plot devices and mooks getting set up to hype these guys who will ultimately job to make Shen look overwhelmingly powerful before the endgame. I think I might drop Omega and reread the whole thing once it's over.

Scallop Eyes
Oct 15, 2021
This poo poo is stupid, and not in a fun way

my parents boyfriend
Jan 28, 2007

Angel of Piratey Death, Yarrr!
It is way too obvious when characters only show up to job, even for shounen.

yum
Oct 27, 2005

Only good things will come
to someone like
you.
these aren’t your run of the mill jobbers. They’re literal reskins of the MC, straight from the concept sketchbook itself.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Failed my 2025 Anime Resolution
The Gaoh and Ryuki training really does remind me of how Hayami somehow forgot that Meguro was insane from birth. Even though he picked up the teen after he'd killed 4 men who could be considered family to him, and his literal father. He thought that what made the original Meguro nuts was the brain alterations from pain to pleasure. But simultaneously made his clone son listen to the the deranged ramblings of a serial killer. And yet he's somehow surprised that his clone son was always crazy and had a penchant for fratricide.

If you told me that the story was being created by an AI, I wouldn't be surprised at this point.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
I mean it's partially drawn by AI too, I think, so it's possible.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT HOW I THINK EASTERN EUROPEANS ARE A BUNCH OF INGRATES AND NEO-NAZIS WHO DESERVE TO BE SUBJUGATED AND RAPED AND MASSACRED BY MOTHER RUSSIA

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

I mean it's partially drawn by AI too, I think, so it's possible.

its what

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Oh my bad. Generated.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT HOW I THINK EASTERN EUROPEANS ARE A BUNCH OF INGRATES AND NEO-NAZIS WHO DESERVE TO BE SUBJUGATED AND RAPED AND MASSACRED BY MOTHER RUSSIA
since when????????????????????????????????

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

If I recall correctly Sandro said an assistant generated something with AI that he ended up not using. Then he said he wasn't against using AI but the work he got wasn't detailed enough. Which is a weird follow up but I don't think Omega is actually AI generated.

Scallop Eyes
Oct 15, 2021
I think he's did it for backgrounds/some effects, if you look through his twitter he's posted some of the pages where he used it

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ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
I assume the most recent chapter, where Horis is talking about enemies with superior firepower (page 10) may also be somewhat generated given that one military dude appears to have a gun poking out of his helmet. Could just be sloppy drawing or a fashion statement, I guess.

Anyways I do not actually think Kengan Omega is AI written. Just poorly written.

ZepiaEltnamOberon fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Apr 22, 2025

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