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 Kengan Ashura is a 2015 manga from Sandrovich Yabako (who also does Danberu nan kiro moteru?) and artist Daromeon (from Ketchup Ninja) and has been called the Baki of the 21th Millenium! It runs on the Ura Sunday Magazine, has won a poll to receive an anime last year and has a hundred loving raw chapters before the scanlators catch up!  Story Yamashita Kazuo is a depressed salaryman in his 50s and a loser at life. On his way back from the bar, he has a chance encounter with Tokita Ohma, a young fighter who easily defeats an enormous roughneck who just challenged him. This proves to be the foreshadowing of something bigger, as Kazuo's boss, President Nogi, introduces him to manage Ohma as a fighter and compete in the Kengan Association, an underground fighting ring in which every large corporation in Japan participates and solve their differences and competitions by putting fighters to beat the absolute poo poo out of each other!  Why should I read it? Because it's BAD loving rear end and INSANE. Also it has JERRY TYSON.        
Plutonis fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Jan 31, 2017 02:29
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i like kengan ashura and i'm going to marry adam dudley
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Jan 31, 2017 02:41
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This series is extremely good. A Baki for the modern age.
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Jan 31, 2017 02:44
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Why should you read Kengan Ashura? It has action!!!   It has comedy!   It has politics!    It has capitalism battles!!  It has anime women! (LGBT friendly)  It has Jerry fuckin' Tyson, the human SCUD missile!!!  And it has these cute intermissions, where the creators talk about their behind-the-scenes process: 
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Jan 31, 2017 03:13
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Kengan Asura is extremely good
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Jan 31, 2017 03:27
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   I've seen the raws, and I love all these goons
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Jan 31, 2017 03:36
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http://www.hokutonogun.com/ is translating it, along with a bunch of other manly series.
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Jan 31, 2017 03:43
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Buzzsaw Roomba posted:Kengan Asura is extremely good
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Jan 31, 2017 04:58
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Buzzsaw Roomba posted:Kengan Asura is extremely good I love it. It is much better than Baki. I'm going to read it again and again.
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Jan 31, 2017 05:40
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Danberu and Kengan. Sandrovich is truly a lover of the muscle arts
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Jan 31, 2017 06:29
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Hell yeah bitch.
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Jan 31, 2017 12:07
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Mary Annette posted:I love it. Let's not say things we can't take back now
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Jan 31, 2017 12:31
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Wanna see the big-rear end fishing industry grandpa fight soon.
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Jan 31, 2017 12:31
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AnonSpore posted:Let's not say things we can't take back now
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Jan 31, 2017 13:48
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Bushmeister posted:Wanna see the big-rear end fishing industry grandpa fight soon. Old Man Fisher-Dude's match is Round 9 - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-006-Ch-042?id=332964#18 We are still at Round 2, and it seems to take about 2 to 3 chapters to go through each round. It's gonna take a while to get to Fishing Grandpa's match. EDIT: And that's assuming we don't get a sudden interruption to the entire tournament ala Naruto's chunnin exam's final tournament and Orochimaru's invasion.
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Jan 31, 2017 14:05
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Mary Annette posted:It is much better than Baki.  Bushmeister posted:Wanna see the big-rear end fishing industry grandpa fight soon.    Big rear end fishing industry grandpa. Enjoys fishing, beer, and duels to the death.
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Jan 31, 2017 14:50
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The fishing grandpa fight starts in chapter 83.
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Jan 31, 2017 16:13
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I want to see the fight of "the man from dreams" who's famous catchphrase is "the time for dreams has ended"
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Jan 31, 2017 16:55
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Work Friend Keven posted:I want to see the fight of "the man from dreams" who's famous catchphrase is "the time for dreams has ended" That's Donquixote Doflamingo and he was already defeated.
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Jan 31, 2017 16:58
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I think he means the not-Mickey Mouse guy. Also, one of the tags in the OP is broken.
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Jan 31, 2017 17:04
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kengan ashura is kind of like baki if everyone in baki wasn't covered in grotesque tumors
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Jan 31, 2017 20:29
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it takes itself a lot less seriously than baki too. both are good
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Jan 31, 2017 20:32
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:kengan ashura is kind of like baki if everyone in baki wasn't covered in grotesque tumors Hm... Kengan Ashura is kind of like Baki if everyone wasn't male, and there were actually some female characters. But Jose is right, both are good.
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Jan 31, 2017 21:10
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Jedah posted:Hm... Kengan Ashura is kind of like Baki if everyone wasn't male, and there were actually some female characters. There's only 1 that's a fighter though, and she's not even in the tournament.
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Jan 31, 2017 22:30
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RatHat posted:There's only 1 that's a fighter though, and she's not even in the tournament. Sure, but a bunch of the CEOs are women, who are important/influential characters within the context of the story. Compare that to Baki: There's Baki's girlfriend, Kozue. And Baki's Mom, Emi.  Neither are fighters.There's Tokugawa's sister (who appears for like, what, 3 chapters) and who else? Being very generous, we'll include Jack Hanma's Mom, Jane, who is barely ever seen, and Natsuki, Doppo's wife. Although she rarely gets a cameo. Oh, and there's Yujiro's Mom, who was extorted by her infant son.
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Jan 31, 2017 23:02
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All the main characters in the most important work of the Kengan Ashura canon, Danberu nan kiro moteru?, are women.
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Jan 31, 2017 23:03
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I'd definitely agree that the series could use some more female fighters, but the female characters we have are pretty solid.
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Jan 31, 2017 23:07
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Blazed through the 49 chapters in a single sitting and wow this series is fun. Wrestler dude is probably my favorite so far. I love his personality and his fighting philosophy a ton, and the concept of a pro wrestler as an entertainer really works in the dude's favor for a series like this and a stage like the Kengan tournament.
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Feb 1, 2017 00:55
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Hate-Senpai posted:Wrestler dude is probably my favorite so far. I love his personality and his fighting philosophy a ton  Yeah, he's awesome. Also, the artist pokes fun at their all-male fighting cast: 
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Feb 1, 2017 01:14
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Jedah posted:
The dude's system of "rights" and "responsibility" is really neat and I hope he gets to shine more in the tournament. I like that despite his loss, he's still a really big threat, especially since he gets right back up after the match is over and doesn't really seem to be worse for the wear. I'm also super interested in the convict dude. ZepiaEltnamOberon fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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Feb 1, 2017 01:35
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All the girls in this series are top-tier
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Feb 1, 2017 01:37
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El Burbo posted:All the girls in this series are top-tier Fujoshi secretary is fantastic.
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Feb 1, 2017 02:05
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Hate-Senpai posted:The dude's system of "rights" and "responsibility" is really neat and I hope he gets to shine more in the tournament.  This guy is a perfect fit for the manga.  His character design reminds me of some badass wrestlers from the manga Garouden, mixed with WWE wrestlers. El Burbo posted:All the girls in this series are top-tier  Definitely. Togo Tomari is somehow scary and cute. She's a wonderful broke brained weirdo.
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Feb 1, 2017 02:27
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I loving love this comic, it's so gratuitously violent and the style is pretty unique for the anime fighting genre as well!
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Feb 1, 2017 02:36
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Jedah posted:
The writer's note about visiting an actual wrestling match and seeing actual thumb tacks being used in matches terrified me, like holy poo poo, what the hell.
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Feb 1, 2017 02:37
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Seconding that the portrayal of pro wrestling and indeed everything else about this manga is Top Notch
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Feb 1, 2017 02:38
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Hate-Senpai posted:The writer's note about visiting an actual wrestling match and seeing actual thumb tacks being used in matches terrified me, like holy poo poo, what the hell. Yeah that's called extreme wrestling, it's pretty gross.
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Feb 1, 2017 03:18
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Also it actually won the poll in 2015 (before mob psycho did), not last year. Hope that happens soon...
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Feb 1, 2017 03:28
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Wait, a 2015 manga? Doesn't it have way too many chapters to have started in 2015?
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It started in 2012, it just won a poll in 2015.
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