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Sagabal
Apr 24, 2010



Chihiro Rokuhira is the son of a legendary blacksmith Kunishige, who once forged several magical swords to use in a war of sorcery. Long after the war was over, shadowy assassins killed his father, destroyed his home and stole the blades. All but one, which Chihiro plans to use to hunt down his father's killers and recover the weapons.




Chihiro wants to be edgy but his friends won't let him. He wields the blade Enten, the last sword forged by his father.




Shiba is Chihiro's dad's goofy old friend, and he's helping Chihiro. He can teleport.




This series loving rocks

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Sagabal fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Jun 16, 2024

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Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

This manga is loving awesome.

Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

I get at least one thousand times more excited for a new chapter of Kagurabachi compared to a new chapter of JJK. Is this a commentary on the steadily declining quality of JJK? Or on the incredible quality of Kagurabachi? Read it today and find out for yourself...

Sagabal
Apr 24, 2010

Pewdiepie posted:

This manga is loving awesome.

having the chapter where hakuri tells chihiro to kill his dad, come out on fathers day is so sick lol

Shinji2015
Aug 31, 2007
Keen on the hygiene and on the mission like a super technician.

Sagabal posted:

having the chapter where hakuri tells chihiro to kill his dad, come out on fathers day is so sick lol

:hmmyes:

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
this series kicks insane levels of rear end

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

This series kicks rear end. The paneling and imagery during action sequences are top notch. The drat fish get me every time.

Jerkface
May 21, 2001

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE DEAD, MOTHERFUCKER?

The author still has a weird issue with vector graphic looking talky panels with those rectangle mouths, BUT the action is sick, the sword stuff is cool AF, and there is a lot of very very cool paneling and inking on the action stuff.

I gotta hand it to him, this poo poo might last!

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Sagabal posted:

having the chapter where hakuri tells chihiro to kill his dad, come out on fathers day is so sick lol

Authors eulogy for Toriyama:
I spent so much money on dokkan battle as a kid lmao

Fereydun
May 9, 2008

Tosk
Feb 22, 2013

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

It's really good. Art can be a bit rough at times but even from the beginning where its popularity was sort of a meme and people were deriding it as a cheap Bleachlike, it seemed to me like a series with a lot of potential.

I think it will probably be one of the series to rise up and fill the gaping hole that Jump is about to have as MHA, JJK and even One Piece wind down to an inevitable end. I really appreciate that we're almost 40 chapters in and we've gotten a nice dripfeed of lore and backstory, but the plot isn't in a hurry to get anywhere in particular.

Elite
Oct 30, 2010
I haven’t noticed the art being rough, but I do think there’s an issue that some of the character designs are too samey. The members of the Tou mostly blur together for me for example (with one obvious exception).

Sagabal
Apr 24, 2010

38: Race
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1021427

Sagabal
Apr 24, 2010

39
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1021628

Jerkface
May 21, 2001

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE DEAD, MOTHERFUCKER?

Frightening how quickly this has come to genuinely own this arc has been great

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
Kagurabachi is a pretty solid case for just letting newbies cook for more than like 1 loving volume before telling them they're axed. The series looks like nothing special to start out besides some decent art, but what do you know- when you give it a couple volumes to define its characters and conflicts it suddenly stops being a meme!

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

This manga is so good holy poo poo.

That page of Hakuri just sitting there while he drops live grenades on the auctioneers is so sick. This is probably the best character turnaround I've ever seen.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009
this manga isnt blowing my mind but its a really solid action thing and it has a really good eye for 'cool' panels/composition. feelsl ike something that could really pop off if it keeps going/gets an anime

Flair
Apr 5, 2016
I will also sit in the camp where the art, paneling, and set pieces are pretty good. But everything else, the story, dialogue, themes, etc. is just okay. I don't think mind a series with great art with an okay story; I can imagine this as an anime to kick rear end.

rkd_
Aug 25, 2022

Loved that frame of Hakuri too, so awesome. Also really liked this latest chapter. I agree though that generally the story isn't mind-blowing and I also had a hard time differentiating some of the characters. Can't wait to see where this story goes though.

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

I might have gotten a little wound up after hitting those last two chapter lol

But yeah this is like the perfect material you let animators pop off on. Didn't they announce an anime already or did I imagine that?

Shinji2015
Aug 31, 2007
Keen on the hygiene and on the mission like a super technician.

Fabricated posted:

Kagurabachi is a pretty solid case for just letting newbies cook for more than like 1 loving volume before telling them they're axed. The series looks like nothing special to start out besides some decent art, but what do you know- when you give it a couple volumes to define its characters and conflicts it suddenly stops being a meme!

tbh I think it being a meme to begin with is why it got the time to cook

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Shinji2015 posted:

tbh I think it being a meme to begin with is why it got the time to cook
yeah but it should've just gotten time to cook anyway.

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
TBH I don't think a western meme has anything to do with a JP comic getting more time, I think it just dodged early cancellation for whatever reason (an editor needed to fill a niche, nothing else prepped to go, popularity was just high enough that the axe fell elsewhere, whatever the reason is we'll probably never know), the introduction showed a lot of style and didn't trip over it's own feet like Earthchild or Ice-Head Gill, and the first major arc was pretty good and showed a lot of potential depth to the characters and places the plot can go that the current arc is capitalising on.

Tosk
Feb 22, 2013

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

The story itself hasn't developed into anything special yet, but the pacing is on point compared to most shonen. I appreciate that it's been giving the plot and the characters room to breathe and develop. We'd probably have gotten more major antag teases, hamfisted flashbacks etc by this point in a lot of other manga.

Sagabal
Apr 24, 2010

40
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1021563

Sagabal
Apr 24, 2010


mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Shits getting crazy. I cant get enough of seeing the Enchanted Blade's powers in action

Ibblebibble
Nov 12, 2013

Now poo poo's really popping off.

Blaze Dragon
Aug 28, 2013
LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

I started reading this manga because of the memes. I thought the first couple of chapters were very edgy and impossible to take seriously.

Now? Now I want Hakuri to finally kill his entire family and take over, boy deserves all good that can come his way, and Chihiro is a genuinely cool person and a great friend and Shadow the Hedgehog-level edgy (the best kind of edgy).

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

But Chihiro would never take candy from a baby
it would not be fine by him

Sagabal
Apr 24, 2010

41
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1021567

Shinji2015
Aug 31, 2007
Keen on the hygiene and on the mission like a super technician.
If this ever gets animated, people are going to go nuts over this fight

rkd_
Aug 25, 2022

This is so hype. This begs for animation.

Jerkface
May 21, 2001

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE DEAD, MOTHERFUCKER?

i love how wild and mysterious the shinuchi powers are, the staging and art are really selling it as an overwhelming power using only a fraction

rkd_
Aug 25, 2022

Yeah, but the author will need to stick the landing. Perhaps we won’t even ever see the full power as it seems difficult to deal with narratively.

Ccs
Feb 25, 2011


This is definitely a manga I would've read if it had been released around the same time as Kenshin. The character even has a cross shaped scar on the cheek!

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013
This entire sequence is batshit crazy. I also rather find myself being impressed by bad dad. He really was quite powerful.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Good rear end chapter

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rkd_
Aug 25, 2022

:hai:

rkd_ fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jul 28, 2024

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