General Manga Discussion

[Dr Doom]

For discussing all Manga.

[False Profit]

Being that this is the official MANGA thread and not the general all-purpose anime/manga thread... I hope that I can put the average/above average comic reader on to some good stuff.

and vice verse.

PLEASE don't be put off by the back-to-forth reading order or the fact that it's black and white. A LOT of the themes in manga closely mirrors the themes in american comics.... but sometimes with a more adult bent on things.

You also don't have to wait a month++ for your favorite works. Shit comes out once a week and always on time.

Oh, if you're into the more popular books like One Piece, Bleach or Naruto (ugh), feel free to discuss it. But I can't stand it, so I ain't touching it.

And of course.... If you feel like starting a thread to discuss your favorite works, feel free.

[Blood-RaiyneThreezie]

...Guess Who has Arrived...Bitches!!!!

[Dr Doom]

lol, welcome.

[Blood-RaiyneThreezie]

Who has made the jump already?

[Dr Doom]

So far some of the comic people, Capo, turtle, MM, Ktulu, NJ should pop up soon. I've contacted everyone today but it's just wait and see how many of them actually read their pm's (lol) and sign up immediately. Just get to posting around the spot so it looks active and more will start dripping in. It's still early after all (for you guys, I've been at it for half my day now, lol).

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Being that this is the official MANGA thread and not the general all-purpose anime/manga thread... I hope that I can put the average/above average comic reader on to some good stuff.

and vice verse.

PLEASE don't be put off by the back-to-forth reading order or the fact that it's black and white. A LOT of the themes in manga closely mirrors the themes in american comics.... but sometimes with a more adult bent on things.

You also don't have to wait a month++ for your favorite works. Shit comes out once a week and always on time.

Oh, if you're into the more popular books like One Piece, Bleach or Naruto (ugh), feel free to discuss it. But I can't stand it, so I ain't touching it.

And of course.... If you feel like starting a thread to discuss your favorite works, feel free.

I'm here. Wassup.

And Naruto's GOAT.

[Danbo]

I'm here. Wassup.

And Naruto's GOAT.

/facepalm

Oyasumi Punpun is GOAT.

[Dr Doom]

/facepalm

Oyasumi Punpun is GOAT.

And the GOAT poster returns.

[Danbo]

And the GOAT poster returns.

But of course. Now get out the thread since you don't read manga, lol.

[Chapter]

/facepalm

Oyasumi Punpun is GOAT.

Wait WTF?

Is this who I think it is?

Don't forget who recommended Oyasumi to you motherfucker!

[Danbo]

You ain't recommend me shit, bitch!

[Chapter]

You ain't recommend me shit, bitch!

Yup, that sounds like Books lmao

You ain't mad, iz you?

[Danbo]

Who's Books? I'm Danbo, recognise. You're clearly the one who's mad cuz Punpun pwns Naruto.

[Chapter]

Who's Books? I'm Danbo, recognise. You're clearly the one who's mad cuz Punpun pwns Naruto.

Oh dear....alright I'll play along...Danbo.

I've only read a couple of chapters of Punpun. I'll have to get around to it eventually.

[Danbo]

You do that.

[Dr Doom]

lol! Man, I missed this.

[Chapter]

You do that.

Asshole. Glad to have you back... I think.

[False Profit]

great. Now all we need are some badly drawn parodies of our posters and a 1000+ thread of naked comics and cartoon characters to make our hobby seem more childish than it really is and everything will be back to normal.

[Danbo]

Asshole. Glad to have you back... I think.

http://i54.tinypic.com/k4eb6d.jpg

[Chapter]

lol! Man, I missed this.

I missed this too. All that's missing is Bo- I mean Danbo's loli avi's.

[Chapter]

great. Now all we need are some badly drawn parodies of our posters and a 1000+ thread of naked comics and cartoon characters to make our hobby seem more childish than it really is and everything will be back to normal.
*shrug* They were rush jobs...

[Blood-RaiyneThreezie]

Books???? The Anime Savior Has Returned!!!!!


Now I can be lazy again.

[False Profit]

*shrug* They were rush jobs...

you know I' ma a fan.

[False Profit]

soooo.... what's everybody reading? I got

Hajime no Ippo
Holyland
Until Death Do Us Part
XxxHolic
Gamaran
The Breaker: New Waves
Iris Zero
Kodomo no Jikan (dont judge me)

stuff I've recently dropped

One Piece (stopped enjoying it, may pick it back up when it picks up)
History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi (started being formulamatic, corny too. Seems to be spinning it's wheels)
Bleach (I dabbled, may pick it back up)

stuff that I recently finished
Alive: The Final Evolution (4/5)
The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer (5/5, hell I'll give it a 7)

I'm sure there's more stuff...

[Danbo]

I'm currently reading

All Rounder Meguru
Amanchu!
Berserk
Bokurano
Dorohedoro
Gantz
Gunjo
Homunculus
I am a Hero
Ichinensei ni Nacchattara
Liar Game
Miyori no Mori
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Oyasumi Punpun
Ran to Haiiro no Sekai
Shamo
Suiiki
Vinland Saga
Yotsuba&!
Zetman

I just finished reading Pluto and train_man densha otoko.

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I was reading Aiki, but the raws never got scanlated past chapter 68. Other than that, I'm reading Naruto, Claymore, and Berserk. I'm also reading the recent chapters of Vinland Saga and although a skipped a huge amount of chapters in the middle, I still know what's going on pretty well and the flashbacks help.

I'm gonna start reading Oyasumi Punpun. Inio's an interesting mangaka.

I stopped reading The Breaker: New Waves because I'd rather not be following a series like that weekly. I much prefer to read all of it at once since if I hadn't done that for the first series, I may have dropped it before it picked up.

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I'm currently reading
I just finished reading Pluto and train_man densha otoko.

I started reading Pluto and got a few volumes in. It was kinda like 20th Century Boys but it didn't pull me in as much. I dunno, Urusawa's method of building up tension and suspense just gets a bit boring after a while.

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soooo.... what's everybody reading? I got
Kodomo no Jikan (dont judge me)

http://thahiphopcorner.com/forum/Smileys/default/9jlhk2_th.gif

[False Profit]

lmao don't play with me! I already explained countless times that-

there's no explaining it, is there?

[False Profit]

I'm currently reading

All Rounder Meguru
Amanchu!
Berserk
Bokurano
Dorohedoro
Gantz
Gunjo
Homunculus
I am a Hero
Ichinensei ni Nacchattara
Liar Game
Miyori no Mori
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Oyasumi Punpun
Ran to Haiiro no Sekai
Shamo
Suiiki
Vinland Saga
Yotsuba&!
Zetman

I just finished reading Pluto and train_man densha otoko.

I've been meaning to pick up Liar Game. How does it compare to other brain twisting mind screwing manga?

[LadyDip]

I'm currently reading

All Rounder Meguru
Amanchu!
Berserk
Bokurano
Dorohedoro
Gantz
Gunjo
Homunculus
I am a Hero
Ichinensei ni Nacchattara
Liar Game
Miyori no Mori
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Oyasumi Punpun
Ran to Haiiro no Sekai
Shamo
Suiiki
Vinland Saga
Yotsuba&!
Zetman




THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE TO READ LOL fuck errything else

[Danbo]

I've been meaning to pick up Liar Game. How does it compare to other brain twisting mind screwing manga?

Liar Game is pretty interesting, some of the games are great to read and trying to figure out how they will win is fun. My only problem with it is that the manga is packed with dialogue of explanation. I understand it's needed so you can follow what's happening, but sometimes I think things are explained too many times. LG is still a worthwhile read though.


THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE TO READ LOL fuck errything else

Lol! I love both of those. Getting to the see the Golden Age arc in its original manga format was awesome and reading the parts which the anime missed out was cool. Gantz is sooo addictive, never read a manga faster than that. Caught up to the 333 chapters in 5 days. Tae <3

Although, I think you would love the action in the Shamo(martial arts) and Vinland Saga(Vikings) manga. Also, Homunculus may lack action but it's so trippy and a great mindfuck, I think you'd enjoy it.

[LadyDip]

lol i cleared Gantz in 2 days. and read Berserk like twise. thats my favorite right there.

Vinland Saga....*looks up* it seems interesting. i may look into it. is it overly violent?

[Danbo]

Yepp, Vinland Saga has great action and lots of it.

[Dr Doom]

I don't think I'll ever get used to Books reading manga, lol.

[Danbo]

Why is that?

[Dr Doom]

Just because you were always so adamant about not reading. Speaking of which, how's Planetary coming along? lmao

[Danbo]

Excellently.

[LadyDip]

Yepp, Vinland Saga has great action and lots of it.


NICE



wait....this is books ???? wow

[Danbo]

Lol, I am indeed the one and only.

[False Profit]

soooo.... who's gonna be the first to start a thread chronicling their favorite non bleach/one piece/naruto manga?

it's not gonna be me again, is it?

[Blood-RaiyneThreezie]

Books...what made you come back now? Better yet, why didn't you come back before?

[Danbo]

soooo.... who's gonna be the first to start a thread chronicling their favorite non bleach/one piece/naruto manga?

it's not gonna be me again, is it?

That depends, if I started a thread about a manga, would anyone read said manga? Don't wanna end up talking to myself.


Books...what made you come back now? Better yet, why didn't you come back before?

Simple really, I came back because I felt like it. I didn't join TC2 because I didn't feel like it.

[False Profit]

Sure, I'll read it.

[Danbo]

Though, that still presents the problem of which manga to pick. I'm up to date on most of my reading list and none of them are weekly releases.

[Chapter]

That depends, if I started a thread about a manga, would anyone read said manga? Don't wanna end up talking to myself.


Yeah, that would most likely happen. =/

[Danbo]

Lol, would you wanna help in stopping that from happening?

[Chapter]

Lol, would you wanna help in stopping that from happening?

Yeah, if my extreme selectivity doesn't get in the way lol.

[Danbo]

hah, we could just pick a manga that no-one has read yet and follow that. I don't care what the genre is or whether it's completed/publishing. What kinda title are you looking to read atm?

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Anything with nice artwork really. I don't have an appetite for any specific genre atm.

[Danbo]

Well, some titles I've been thinking of reading are

Slam Dunk
Lament of the Lamb
Angel Sanctuary
MPD Psycho
Kodomo no Omocha

Do any of those sound good to you?

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Well, some titles I've been thinking of reading are

Slam Dunk
Lament of the Lamb
Angel Sanctuary
MPD Psycho
Kodomo no Omocha

Do any of those sound good to you?
Fine by me. Some sound familiar but I'm not gonna look any of them up, the more I know about them the less interesting they seem to become lol.

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Working on blocking out my biases and giving any and all manga a fair chance with the only condition being that the art must be good. If I don't like the art at all then I can't read it. But, if the manga itself turns out to be crap after reading a good chunk, I'll drop it. It's actually easier to do this when I don't read synopses; they cause me to make up my mind before I even give a series a chance.

So far, it's going okay. I started Akira and I'm 106 pages in. I wanted to just stop reading at times, but I'm sticking with it. Fortunately, my attention span is more malleable than before so it's not so tough to persist when nothing quite makes sense yet. I'm also reading Bakuman right now, I read the first two chapters but I'm re-reading them to familarize myself before I go forward.

Man, I should make a journal thread for this and track my progress towards being an otaku. It seemed to work with my first journal, why not make a second?

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Wait, what am I talking about? Scratch that, I'm only reading stuff I find entertaining. I find Bakuman interesting so far and I can relate, so I'm sticking with it.

[Dr Doom]

I could always start reading manga, lol.

[False Profit]

the REAL problem is gonna be the fact that you can zoom through 100 chapters of a manga in one sitting. Me and Black were having a discussion on it a while ago... Let's say we all started reading Slam Dunk tomorrow.

You'll get some of us trying to write it out chapter by chapter and failing. It's too easy to get caught up. You'll get some of us (polly me) being on chapter 151 by the next day and doing their best not to drop spoilers. You'll get someone who's only on chapter 6 because of time restraints...

it's really all more tricky than it sounds.

Then I don't want to try and come to an agreement with everyone like "We're only gonna read this many chapters a day!" because THEN reading manga will feel like a job. Folks will be posting "have you read so and so yet? no? then you need to hurry up!" like they're you're boss and you're getting paid.

[Dr Doom]

Well, if you don't think you can do chapter per chapter, then just look at Books' MAL, pick a manga he's progressed at quite a bit but hasn't finished and pick that up. It's not like it's a set rule we all have to start on the same manga and discuss it with each chapter, just do what works best for you.

[Danbo]

Working on blocking out my biases and giving any and all manga a fair chance with the only condition being that the art must be good. If I don't like the art at all then I can't read it. But, if the manga itself turns out to be crap after reading a good chunk, I'll drop it. It's actually easier to do this when I don't read synopses; they cause me to make up my mind before I even give a series a chance.

So far, it's going okay. I started Akira and I'm 106 pages in. I wanted to just stop reading at times, but I'm sticking with it. Fortunately, my attention span is more malleable than before so it's not so tough to persist when nothing quite makes sense yet. I'm also reading Bakuman right now, I read the first two chapters but I'm re-reading them to familarize myself before I go forward.

Man, I should make a journal thread for this and track my progress towards being an otaku. It seemed to work with my first journal, why not make a second?

You make it sound like you have ADHD, lol. Akira is totally awesome btw.


the REAL problem is gonna be the fact that you can zoom through 100 chapters of a manga in one sitting. Me and Black were having a discussion on it a while ago... Let's say we all started reading Slam Dunk tomorrow.

You'll get some of us trying to write it out chapter by chapter and failing. It's too easy to get caught up. You'll get some of us (polly me) being on chapter 151 by the next day and doing their best not to drop spoilers. You'll get someone who's only on chapter 6 because of time restraints...

it's really all more tricky than it sounds.

Then I don't want to try and come to an agreement with everyone like "We're only gonna read this many chapters a day!" because THEN reading manga will feel like a job. Folks will be posting "have you read so and so yet? no? then you need to hurry up!" like they're you're boss and you're getting paid.

Yeah, I've thought about that aswell. No real way to get around it. If a manga is interesting though, I can read a lot in a day. I don't really read manga chapter by chapter, always make sure I finish atleast 1 volume in a sitting.

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It's not ADHD; it's me fighting against the overwhelming sense of indifference I have even to my interests.

As far as picking one manga, instead of it being a discussion, it should be more like individual people logging their progress all in one thread, and if a discussion starts then so be it. Just be careful to avoid spoilers and it shouldn't be so bad. And yeah, there is the issue of covering massive amounts of story in a short time, but I can actually do pretty well with making post-by-post updates of minor events and details that catch my attention.

[Danbo]

Spoilers won't be a problem aslong as people actually use spoiler tags and note what chapters/volumes the spoilers are about.

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Spoilers won't be a problem aslong as people actually use spoiler tags and note what chapters/volumes the spoilers are about.

Zen, it's zettled! /french_accent

[False Profit]

then you guys wanna do it all in here? I only suggested individual threads for individual books just to try and catch the attention of non-manga readers in here. You know... maybe get them to branch out a bit. I kinda doubt that any all-american comic readers have even been in this thread. lol

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then you guys wanna do it all in here? I only suggested individual threads for individual books just to try and catch the attention of non-manga readers in here. You know... maybe get them to branch out a bit. I kinda doubt that any all-american comic readers have even been in this thread. lol

Yeah I was thinking separate threads for each book.

[False Profit]

aahhhh.... good man!

I guess my only solo decision is what to start reading and chronicling. I was the only one in it, but I admit I had HELLA fun updating my Mirai Nikki thread in the old forum.

Until I sat down and read 200+ chapters in one sitting. Then I was like "maaaan, I ain't trying to explain all that shit!"

I guess it's best to take the Earnest Hemingway approach to writing: When it's starting to get good and you can't wait to write what's next.... then stop right then and there. That way, you'll ALWAYS be looking forward to the next time you'll start writing.

[False Profit]

Wish I could have started Holyland or Hajime no Ippo. I think there's plenty of people in here that would enjoy either one of them.

[Danbo]

Wish I could have started Holyland or Hajime no Ippo. I think there's plenty of people in here that would enjoy either one of them.

I dunno if anyone would pick up Ippo anyway, with the over 900 and counting chapters. I've heard about Holyland, sounds cool but Shamo already covers my martial arts manga section.

[False Profit]

never heard of Shamo. sounds like a Billy Mays infomercial product.

[LadyDip]

soooo.... who's gonna be the first to start a thread chronicling their favorite non bleach/one piece/naruto manga?

it's not gonna be me again, is it?

i will. ill do berserk!!!

[False Profit]

lmao of course. *bows* If you're gonna start chronicling from where you are in the series, just be sure to give a brief (as brief as you want, dear. Copy+paste from wiki if you wanna) description of events up to that point.

Even if I don't pick the series up, it'll be interesting to watch your constant orgasms when the body parts go flying.

[Dr Doom]

So I figure I'm going to start on two books. One will be Yotsuba, simply because I read a bit of it and it was pretty funny and I could use an easy going book. But... I also want one book with incredible art (and preferable incredible writing) simply because I want to experience how good manga art can get. Any suggestions?

[Danbo]

So I figure I'm going to start on two books. One will be Yotsuba, simply because I read a bit of it and it was pretty funny and I could use an easy going book. But... I also want one book with incredible art (and preferable incredible writing) simply because I want to experience how good manga art can get. Any suggestions?

Yotsuba&! is the funniest manga going, love it. BLAME! has absolutely incredible artwork, possibly the best I've ever seen. Although on the writing side Nihei prefers to use illustration over narration and let the reader piece things together, so I dunno if that's what you're looking for.

For a manga with more meat in the story, yet excellent artwork, you simply can't go wrong with Oyasumi Punpun. Asano is one crazy ass genius I'm tellin ya. Punpun mixes normality with absurdity so effortlessly, reading it is like pure euphoria.

[Dr Doom]

You make both BLAME! and Oyasumi Punpun sound brilliant so I don't know which one to choose. What are they about?

[Danbo]

BLAME! synopsis:

Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head.
Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.

Oyasumi Punpun synopsis:

Witness the titular Punpun - who is depicted as a tiny, caricatured bird in an otherwise normal human setting - as he copes with his dysfunctional family and friends, his love interest, his oncoming adolescence and his hyperactive mind.


If you want a manga with an atmosphere like you've never felt before read BLAME! The world that Nihei creates is so unlike any type of human civilisation, it sucks you right in. The atmosphere is honestly one of the biggest reasons I gave the manga a 10, no other title can touch it in that department.

Oyasumi Punpun is the best drama/comedy around. Punpun's behaviour is so erratic and crazy, he'll have you laughing at his antics all the time. There are no normal characters in this manga, everyone is a little crazy with their own problems and the way Punpun and his family are drawn as caricatured birds just pushes the absurdity level so high, but Asano is so great in his writing that you never feel like he's doing it just to be different.

[Dr Doom]

I think I'll start with BLAME!, simply because it seems like a greater contrast with Yotsuba. Oyasumi Punpun sounds hilarious though and will probably be the one after that (unless I quit after one issue like you did Planetary, smh).

[Danbo]

Trust me, you won't be quitting Punpun. The first chapter is so fucking hilarious, you simply won't be able to drop it.

[Dr Doom]

We'll see about that when I get there. :)

[Danbo]

Lol. When you planning to start reading the manga?

[Chapter]

We'll see about that when I get there. :)

Asano's the truf. Seriously.

[Danbo]

Asano's the truf. Seriously.

Truth.com

All his manga are atleast 8/10.

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And his art is amazing.

[Danbo]

True that. Even better that he also has his own art style, he's the best mangaka in the business imo.

[Dr Doom]

Lol. When you planning to start reading the manga?

I dunno, when it feels like the time for it. *cue mysterious music*

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So when are we gonna pick a manga to read?

[Dr Doom]

I just did, lol.

[Danbo]

So when are we gonna pick a manga to read?

I just read the first volume of Franken Fran, we could follow that if you like.

[LadyDip]

lmao of course. *bows* If you're gonna start chronicling from where you are in the series, just be sure to give a brief (as brief as you want, dear. Copy+paste from wiki if you wanna) description of events up to that point.

Even if I don't pick the series up, it'll be interesting to watch your constant orgasms when the body parts go flying.


wait....what am i doing exacly lmao

[Dr Doom]

Read the first three chapters of Yotsuba which I had already skimmed through before. Great stuff, lol.

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I just read the first volume of Franken Fran, we could follow that if you like.

Franken Fran....I read a random chapter or two way back. Good stuff, but very morbid. Not for me atm.

Oh, just realized something. No horror/gruesome/guro stuff. Right now, anyway.

[Danbo]

Read the first three chapters of Yotsuba which I had already skimmed through before. Great stuff, lol.

Heeeeeeeelp meeeeeee! get the bad person!! :rofl3:

And it's Yotsuba&! Get it right, boy.


Franken Fran....I read a random chapter or two way back. Good stuff, but very morbid. Not for me atm.

Oh, just realized something. No horror/gruesome/guro stuff. Right now, anyway.

Well we're never gonna get anywhere like this, lol. You pick something.

[Chapter]

Alright, let's read Franken Fran then.

[Danbo]

Lol, I thought you didn't want something like that atm?

[Chapter]

Yeah, but at this point I'm not going to spend time searching for the .00001% of manga that my extremely specific preferences seek right now.

[Danbo]

Fair enough. I'll get a thread up.

[Dr Doom]

Heeeeeeeelp meeeeeee! get the bad person!! :rofl3:

And it's Yotsuba&! Get it right, boy.

"Dad is an enemy of the earth?" :rofl

And I do apologize for getting it wrong. With that said, I will call it Yotsuba for short.

[Danbo]

The whole global warming chapter was brilliant, Yotsuba is so gullible. No, you most certainly will not.

[Dr Doom]

Just finished the first Volume. :rofl3: @ how casual the dad and Jumbo talk about her being abandoned as a child.

[Dr Doom]

Okay, so I downloaded BLAME! but found the first issue saying I had to read from left to right. Is there any way to read it in its original format from right to left? My keen observing eyes absolutely despise the horizontally flipped art for it ruins the flow completely.

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Okay, so I downloaded BLAME! but found the first issue saying I had to read from left to right. Is there any way to read it in its original format from right to left? My keen observing eyes absolutely despise the horizontally flipped art for it ruins the flow completely.

I just searched several websites and it looks like the first 19 chapters are flipped everywhere. You'll just have to bear with it. Sorry dude. :shrugs:

[Dr Doom]

Ugh, such bullshit.

[Danbo]

Read all the available chapters of Nihei Tsutomu's latest manga 'Knights of Sidonia' very different from the usual Nihei. The story is nice and developing fine, albeit much more commonplace than his other stuff, with it being set in space and having mechs. The mech designs are great though. Sidonia, the ship that the people live on is probably the strangest looking spaceship ever, it's basically an asteroid with a big ass pillar through it, lol.

My only real complaint is Nihei's change of art style, I just don't see why he did it. The art isn't bad but compared to his GOAT level Blame! art, KoS is just a big step down. My reaction to his change in style was basically

http://i568.photobucket.com/albums/ss125/failgecko/1269180568898.jpg

[Chapter]

Lol, he changed it to look more like a shounen manga. And it works, imo the tone of KoS would be a lil off for Biomega-style art.

[Danbo]

But KoS is published in a seinen magazine, there was no need to make it shounen-esque.

[Chapter]

But KoS is published in a seinen magazine, there was no need to make it shounen-esque.

Hm, I see. But I still think the tone of the story is more shounen-esque than his other works, so it makes sense that he changed his style to complement it.

[Danbo]

I agree, the tone isn't as dark as his other manga and he changed his method of storytelling for it, including much more speech. I have no problem with him changing his style if it works, but I just feel like this style kinda loses a lot of the detail he used to have. There's still some excellent art present though, like on all the double page spreads.

[Chapter]

Yeah, and I still prefer his other stories to this since I've never liked mechs. I just checked it out since it has Nihei's name on it.

[Danbo]

I quite like mechs. What's good about KoS is that the mechs aren't overpowered with a whole arsenal of crazy weapons, so there's more teamwork involved rather than just one suit raping everything.

[Dr Doom]

Just read the first three chapters of Blame!

...

What. the. fuck. is going ooooon? lmao

[Danbo]

Killy shoots shit up with his crazy ass gun? lol.

[Dr Doom]

That roughly sums it up, yeah.

[Danbo]

What do you think to Nihei's artwork so far?

[Dr Doom]

Pretty damn good, especially the devices/machinery with all that crazy ass detail with computer chips and tubes and bolts and more tubes. And the character design (mostly of the bad guys) is awesome. Really techno-horror style, for lack of a better word.

[Danbo]

I just love how crazy the layout of the megastructure is, there's just random stairs and stone walkways above bottomless pits everywhere.

Are you liking the manga?

[Dr Doom]

It's difficult to say. Right now I wouldn't say I like it or say it's good, but it does have me intrigued in its world and characters.

[Danbo]

You'll think it's epic by the time you're done, and if not, well then your opinion is simply null & void :)

[Dr Doom]

Only time will tell.

[Danbo]

Well let me just say, when you read Blame! Don't go into it thinking you're gonna get characters full of depth and development or a mindblowing story that'll make your jaw drop, just FEEL the manga. Blame! is all about sucking you into its atmosphere. It's more than a manga, it's an experience, it's a dive into the mind and a trip through the imagination, it's like watching Jennifer Lopez lez off with the one from Destiny's Child with the big thighs ;)

Understand that and you'll love BLAME!

[Dr Doom]

Well let me just say, when you read Blame! Don't go into it thinking you're gonna get characters full of depth and development or a mindblowing story that'll make your jaw drop, just FEEL the manga. Blame! is all about sucking you into its atmosphere. It's more than a manga, it's an experience, it's a dive into the mind and a trip through the imagination, it's like watching Jennifer Lopez lez off with the one from Destiny's Child with the big thighs ;)

Understand that and you'll love BLAME!

This is a strange reference coming from you, but I'll take your word for it, lol.

[Danbo]

lol, why is it strange?

[Dr Doom]

I guess I didn't see you as the "gets-turned-on-by-Jennifer-Lopez-lez-off-with-the-one-from-Destiny's-Child-with-the-big-thighs" kinda guy, unless I'm missing some deeper reference.

[Dr Doom]

Never mind, I remembered the reference. How could I miss it in the first place, lol.

[Danbo]

lmao, SMH!

[Dr Doom]

I really should try to remember that whenever you say something that doesn't sound like you, there's a 99% chance you're quoting Ali G, lol.

[Chapter]

Claymore 113 is out.

OHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!

[Chapter]

I may make a Claymore thread if there are more than just two people who read it (me and dip). Otherwise, no point in making a thread for a manga that comes out monthly if only a couple people are reading it.

[Dr Doom]

Up to chapter six on Blame! (speaking of which, how many chapters go in a volume?) and it's still a glorious mess of dystopian cyber-industrial sewer chaos.

[Chapter]

Up to chapter six on Blame! (speaking of which, how many chapters go in a volume?) and it's still a glorious mess of dystopian cyber-industrial sewer chaos.

I think they go by number of pages rather than chapters.

[Danbo]

I may make a Claymore thread if there are more than just two people who read it (me and dip). Otherwise, no point in making a thread for a manga that comes out monthly if only a couple people are reading it.

I've been thinking about reading it for a while, so I think I'll go ahead and start it.


Up to chapter six on Blame! (speaking of which, how many chapters go in a volume?) and it's still a glorious mess of dystopian cyber-industrial sewer chaos.

It does vary, but from what I've seen in manga, volumes usually range from 5-10 chapters per volume and the page rate can go from like 130 to over 400. Blame! has 6/7 chapters in each volume.

[Dr Doom]

Ah, alrighty then.

[Dr Doom]

http://i56.tinypic.com/30aquf5.jpg

So much win. :rofl3:

[Danbo]

lol :) what chapter you up to now? 9 is one of my favourites.

[Dr Doom]

Finished 11. Chapter 9 has definitely been the best so far.

[Danbo]

9 is still easily one of the best. hahaha water from your nose :rofl3:

[Dr Doom]

The way she enters Ena's room (kicking in the door and doing the roll) is hilarious.

[Danbo]

Indeed it is :)

"Don't move! non stop"
"wa! wa!"

The part with the mother is hilarious aswell. You're half dead *shoots again* now you're fully dead :rofl

[Dr Doom]

Or how she first 'kills' dad and Jumbo, then switches characters to avenge their deaths. :rofl3:

[Danbo]

lol, every single page of that chapter is just so epic!

Just read the newest Yotsuba&! chapter. omg I can't frikkin breathe :rofl3:

[Chapter]

Rape is some depressing shit to see. Even in a manga.

Just saying. You get over it, but it's still unpleasant to see.

[Danbo]

Why are you reading a manga with rape in if you find it unpleasant?

[Chapter]

Why are you reading a manga with rape in if you find it unpleasant?

1. Didn't see it coming, or didn't think she would actually be that dumb. She was too naive.
2. Usually I avoid manga with rape because only tragedy have it, and it's often times just to be edgy when it's there or they could've went without it. It sucked when I read it in this particular manga because the situation is realistic and based on actual events (and tragedies).

[Dr Doom]

So what manga are you talking about?

Finished Vol. 2 of Yotsuba&!. She really hates that bright colored eyeball scarecrow thing, doesn't she? lol

[Chapter]

Kanojo wo Mamoru 51 no Houhou, in English 51 Ways to Protect Your Lover.


February 23rd, 20XX.
Looking for a job in the famous TV station at Odaiba, college senior Jin Mishima attended the recruitment orientation. Not far away from the station, Nanako Okano, a gothic lolita trying to attend a concert, found out that her friends tricked her about the concert ticket because of jealousy. The two bumped into each other and "reunited" -- they were junior high classmates -- moments before an earthquake of Richter Scale 8.1 turned the island (the entire city, in fact) into ruins.

From here on, 51 Ways is a predictable but remarkably believable survival adventure. Based on a well-researched novel by Minoru Watanabe, the series paints a picture not quite as explicit and horrifying as ones in other apocalyptic fiction, but one that is frightening in it's detail.

[False Profit]

pity you're not reading The Breaker weekly anymore, Black. NOw I can't spoil it.

[Chapter]

pity you're not reading The Breaker weekly anymore, Black. NOw I can't spoil it.

I should, but there's some series that I just prefer to read in bulk instead of weekly. It's due to the manhwa pacing, I guess.

[Chapter]

But then again, I could catch up in twenty minutes or so if I wanted to lol.

[False Profit]

yeah, I understand the whole pacing thing. If it werent for my gawking at Jinie, I prolly would only read it once a month, too. lol

[Chapter]

yeah, I understand the whole pacing thing. If it werent for my gawking at Jinie, I prolly would only read it once a month, too. lol

Yeah, she could get the thumping. They gave her some nice-ass thighs I tell ya.

[False Profit]

ROFL at us thinking just alike. She got like... the hottest legs/thighs in manga right now. :gargamel

What color do you think her eyes are?

[Chapter]

ROFL at us thinking just alike. She got like... the hottest legs/thighs in manga right now. :gargamel

What color do you think her eyes are?

I dunno, I'm stuck between green and hazel.

[Danbo]

Lol @ this convo.

[Chapter]

No wait! Amber for certain...

[Chapter]

Alright, I'm all caught up to New Waves (if chapter 18 is the most recent). I figured out beforehand why Shioon was able to recover so quickly before the explanation, but this SUC business intrigues me. The art is still sick, the amount of linework is deceptively low but every line's so well-placed and there's a good contrast struck by the right number of tones that Jin-Hwan uses that it looks extremely detailed to the eye (but very clean). I haven't seen many artists use thinner lines for inking as effectively as he has.

Oh, whoops. Artist in me talking :P

Edit: Just read 19. NOW officially caught up.

[False Profit]

I dunno, I'm stuck between green and hazel.


I was DEFINITELY thinking green! To offset the red hair!

[False Profit]

and discuss things in artistic terms all day. I may not share the depth of knowledge or the eye for it, but I love watching someone speak on something they love with a passion.

except sports.

[Danbo]

and discuss things in artistic terms all day. I may not share the depth of knowledge or the eye for it, but I love watching someone speak on something they love with a passion.

except sports.

Unless the sport is loli entrapment, right?

[Dr Doom]

Unless the sport is loli entrapment, right?

Fucking dead!

[Chapter]

I think this forum's doing better than Animania did in days of old since the only threads made now are for the series that more than one person is following with the rest of them in the general discussions, whereas before there were a trillion random topics with only a handful of responses. It makes everything look more consolidated and livelier. Danger Room never had a problem so it's whatever with that I guess lol.

[Dr Doom]

Finished Vol. 3 of Yotsuba&! and Chapter 19 is the second best chapter after Chapter 9. Yotsuba punching that goat for eating the food meant for the baby goat was hilarious.

"This will be your first time going to a zoo, huh? Do you know what they are?"
"I-in theory."

lol

Another extremely hilarious moment when she's flower cupid and finds out the woman is a police officer.

*pulls water pistol out of purse and nods*

"Right?"

*puts it back in*

:rofl3:

[Danbo]

Finished Vol. 3 of Yotsuba&! and Chapter 19 is the second best chapter after Chapter 9. Yotsuba punching that goat for eating the food meant for the baby goat was hilarious.

"This will be your first time going to a zoo, huh? Do you know what they are?"
"I-in theory."

lol

Another extremely hilarious moment when she's flower cupid and finds out the woman is a police officer.

*pulls water pistol out of purse and nods*

"Right?"

*puts it back in*

:rofl3:

lol, I remember those parts. Hilarity :rofl

[Dr Doom]

I also liked the part where she was scared of the owl. She's really spooked by big eyes, lol. And her change in stature when Asagi teases her about the gift (pretending not to know what she's talking about before revealing the fireworks) was hilarious, she looked so incredibly hurt.

[Danbo]

Asagi is always like that with Yotsuba, teasing her must be so easy. I love the Yotsuba/Ena/Miura trio, all their different personalities make great comedy.

[Dr Doom]

That chapter with Yotsuba bringing the frog over to Ena and Miura wearing the big colored eye mask to scare Yotsuba is hilarious. Yotsuba panicks over Miura, Miura panicks over the frog and Ena panicks over her toy bear that Yotsuba uses to fend off Miura, lol.

[Danbo]

Lol. Like I said, hilarious trio. The Danbo chapters with those 3 are side splittingly funny.

[Dr Doom]

Finished Vol. 2 of Blame!, where the first major plot points have started to hit and Killy blows a hole through the supposedly indestructible roof of the Mega Structure (I think it was the Mega Structure), then blows up the tower beneath him. The art has gotten absolutely friggin' ridiculous in terms of character designs (the safeguards) and the totality of destruction. Sickness! And with the addition of Cibo it seems the plot (and the setting) will be expanded on a bit more than Killy walking through endless hallways/bridges/sewers blasting the shit out of freaktards looking for net genes.

And finished Vol. 4 of Yotsuba&! as well. The chapter were Yotsuba makes her own newspaper (about Fuuka's broken heart) and makes 'milk' for her dad had me in stitches. The way the chapter ended cutting off with the dad spitting the 'milk' in her face was brilliant. Also loved Yotsuba and her dad playing Rock, Paper, Scissors in an earlier chapter. Ah, who am I kidding? That whole chapter with Fuuka's broken heart and Yotsuba trying to cheer her up was hilarious.

"Asagi's never been rejected!

And um... you have two fat legs!"
:rofl

[Danbo]

Finished Vol. 2 of Blame!, where the first major plot points have started to hit and Killy blows a hole through the supposedly indestructible roof of the Mega Structure (I think it was the Mega Structure), then blows up the tower beneath him. The art has gotten absolutely friggin' ridiculous in terms of character designs (the safeguards) and the totality of destruction. Sickness! And with the addition of Cibo it seems the plot (and the setting) will be expanded on a bit more than Killy walking through endless hallways/bridges/sewers blasting the shit out of freaktards looking for net genes.

And finished Vol. 4 of Yotsuba&! as well. The chapter were Yotsuba makes her own newspaper (about Fuuka's broken heart) and makes 'milk' for her dad had me in stitches. The way the chapter ended cutting off with the dad spitting the 'milk' in her face was brilliant. Also loved Yotsuba and her dad playing Rock, Paper, Scissors in an earlier chapter. Ah, who am I kidding? That whole chapter with Fuuka's broken heart and Yotsuba trying to cheer her up was hilarious.

"Asagi's never been rejected!

And um... you have two fat legs!"
:rofl

That's what I'm sayin!

Both the safeguards and silicon creatures have sick designs. Lol yeah, there's more to the story with the arrival of Cibo.

That newspaper chapter had me dying! The fact Fuuka sees it after all her family have is hilarious, she was so embarrassed :rofl and how Yotsuba takes Fuuka's example about her dad not loving her literally, rofl!
Loved the milk in the face stunt aswell, too funny.

[Dr Doom]

I did think it was sorta cute that her father wanted to know who the boy was so he could get at him for breaking his daughter's heart. Embarrassing too, but cute. But the best part was Ena asking if the news headline was true and Yotsuba shouting that her newspaper tells no secrets! lmao

[False Profit]

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/AniScans/hajime-no-ippo-2073613.jpg

....Ippo's gonna kill this dude.

[False Profit]

but this new challenger's whole plan MAY just be to get the usually calm and collected Ippo to get pissed in the ring and make a mistake.... it's actually a pretty sound plan. But I think dude is neglecting the fact that Ippo's gonna kill him before he makes that critical mistake.

Also read the latest chapter of Mysterious Girlfriend X. But nobody cares about that, either. But hey, threadcount is threadcount.

you two can go back to your heterosexual flirting ritual.

[Dr Doom]

Finished Vol. 3 of Blame! "Gatdamn!" roughly sums it up.

[Danbo]

First volume of the Edolas arc in Fairy Tail was pretty good, some nice twists going on.


but this new challenger's whole plan MAY just be to get the usually calm and collected Ippo to get pissed in the ring and make a mistake.... it's actually a pretty sound plan. But I think dude is neglecting the fact that Ippo's gonna kill him before he makes that critical mistake.

Also read the latest chapter of Mysterious Girlfriend X. But nobody cares about that, either. But hey, threadcount is threadcount.

you two can go back to your heterosexual flirting ritual.

How is that manga? I've thought about reading it at some point since I saw it recommended on MAL for fans of Sundome, which I love.


Finished Vol. 3 of Blame! "Gatdamn!" roughly sums it up.

You're gonna have to remind me what happens exactly.

[Dr Doom]

It's once Killy and Cibo have made their way to the level above and stumble upon those pygmee looking motherfuckers? Killy regains his ability to identify people and objects and stuff with his eyes and finds out that one girl is a powerful Safeguard, who starts killing people. They take her out but she escapes and they then try to get everybody to hide inside this facility before the Safeguards return. The bridge however is destroyed and Cibo links to Killy to use his other restored ability of talking to the Builders and get the Builder to help the people get inside. Then this huge friggin' Safeguard monster appears and slugs it out with the Builder while releasing Safeguards who start killing the people and stuff explodes and shit crashes down and it's just gigantic battling. I should note that the Vol. ends before the battle is over so I don't know how it ends yet.

[Danbo]

Powerful Safeguard girl? iirc that's Sanakan, right?

The monster you're talking about, is that the bit when those people are being moved and that big fuck off thing like tears through the wall? Standing on the left side opposite some other weird looking thing with a long neck of sorts and the ground is all cracked?

[Dr Doom]

Sanakan, yeah. And yeah again. That 'some other weird looking thing' is the Builder, lol.

[Danbo]

I have that image saved on my laptop, looks so fucking cool!

[Dr Doom]

Yeah, that shit looked crazy.

[Danbo]

It seems your opinion of Blame! has improved :)

[Dr Doom]

I wouldn't say it necessarily has improved, it's just that I can make more sense of it now, lol.

[Danbo]

You know it's epic though, don't lie to yourself.

[Dr Doom]

I'm not denying that, I'm merely saying that as the manga progresses I realize better how to place stuff that has happened earlier. The shit's epic, truly epic, but like all good stories it starts off small and simple. And it's in that progression from small with little story to epic on epical proportions that the manga truly shows its quality.

[Danbo]

Aslong as you know that =]

[False Profit]

How is that manga? I've thought about reading it at some point since I saw it recommended on MAL for fans of Sundome, which I love.



lol MGX is nowhere NEAR as bad as Sundome.

I enjoy MGX because it's.... kinkily unique in it's premise. Almost innocent, even. Sundome....

Thanks for bringing up Sundome, though. I haven't read a chapter in about 3 years.

[Danbo]

Lol! How many chapters of Sundome had you read before?

[False Profit]

somewhere in the 30s. I'm giving myself a refresher course as we speak.

[Danbo]

Cool, the manga was fully translated only recently, so you can finish it now if you want :) I love how Kurumi is such a tease with Aiba but she does it to develop his character rather than just for the sake of adding ecchi moments, the relationship between the two of them is brilliant.

[False Profit]

and it's more perverted than I thought. Ever seen that movie The Secretary?

[Jack Roller]

and it's more perverted than I thought. Ever seen that movie The Secretary?

It's like that?

[False Profit]

wha- where the hell did you come from!? Say "The Secretary" and you appear like some perverted ass genie!

but yeah, yeah It's like that, with the genders reversed and more character development.

[Danbo]

More perverse moments involving Kyoko were needed, lol. I haven't seen it.

[False Profit]

http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/u12/the-secretary.jpg

I need this in my life.

[False Profit]

More perverse moments involving Kyoko were needed, lol. I haven't seen it.

and koyuko is the most broken character in this book. But just like kodomo no Jikan, if you scared of the seedy underbelly of what makes real life people tick, this isn't somethign you should be reading.

Hell, if I had MY way, I'd make adults read this kind of stuff before they became teachers. If they said it was horible and disgusting or simply porn, I'd burn their resumes and blacklist them from ever working with children or teenagers.

ever.

[Dr Doom]

lol @ Jack Roller.

[Jack Roller]

wha- where the hell did you come from!? Say "The Secretary" and you appear like some perverted ass genie!

but yeah, yeah It's like that, with the genders reversed and more character development.

lmao. Sounds like a good read.

[False Profit]

I'm at a low point emotionally. Thinking about reading Fruits Basket.

[Dr Doom]

How exactly did you end up at this emotional low point?

[False Profit]

woman problems over the weekend. why?

[Dr Doom]

Because I care.

[False Profit]

:whatthef:

I... I don't know what to say. wait- what

[Dr Doom]

lol, that probably does sound weird depending on how you read it. Just be glad someone still cares about your measly existence instead of making a pedophile joke and laugh at your broken soul.

[False Profit]

instead, I started reading Onani Master Kurosawa. TehNominator at MAL gave it a 9, so I figured... why not?

And besides, the premise of being Death Note with masturbation.... who can pass up a combination like that? My only regret is that I didn't start a thread on it and I'm already on chapter 10.

[Danbo]

I've read Onani Master Kurosawa, was a great manga, gave it an 8/10.

This image is too funny

http://i52.tinypic.com/ajtgjo.jpg

[False Profit]

Im loving the shit. Kurosawa is so.... dramatic! And it was KILLING me the way he's stuck in the stall with his dick in his hand and ol girl is standing outside like "Okay... this is the plan..." and he's like "BITCH WILL YOU GO AWAY!?"

But he can't say it out loud.... because she'll snitch and he knows it!

[False Profit]

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/AniScans/28.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/AniScans/29.jpg

Getting away with Murder?

No!

GETTING AWAY WITH MASTURBATION!!!

:rofl3::rofl3::rofl3:

[False Profit]

I've read Onani Master Kurosawa, was a great manga, gave it an 8/10.

This image is too funny

http://i52.tinypic.com/ajtgjo.jpg


yeah, I just got to the page where that came from... the fact that he can equate that to what's going on around him but still be oblivious to it all is... I don't have any words for that. lol

[Danbo]

Lol! Kurosawa and Aya make a pretty interesting duo, she's so angry and vengeful and he doesn't really give a shit about her plots, just wants to keep his secret a secret. Sometimes reading it is like

http://i54.tinypic.com/hupqug.jpg

[False Profit]

Aya has a serious.... SERIOUS anger face.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/AniScans/k233.jpg

RAAAAGE.

[False Profit]

....what. the. fuck.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/AniScans/ok385.jpg

my thoughts exactly.

[False Profit]

well, THAT didn't go the way I thought it would. It started off so promising, too.


I wish they could have kept it up. http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/Smileys/587.gif


anyway, yeah. enjoyable for what it was, faltered off once it hit a certain point. I'll give it 7/10.

[Danbo]

[Fanboy mode ON]

Chapter 47 of Aria = BEST CHAPTER EVER!! OMG WHY WASN'T THIS IN THE ANIME???!!!

Alice further cemented her legacy as the greatest character of ALL TIME! (Yes Doom, she IS better than Alicia so be quiet)

Lots of awesome pages from the chapter!! (wanted to post more but 10 image count limit got in the way -_-)

http://9.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/009.jpghttp://7.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/010.jpghttp://1.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/011.jpghttp://3.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/014.jpghttp://4.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/015.jpghttp://0.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/019.jpghttp://7.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/020.jpghttp://6.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/023.jpghttp://4.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/024.jpghttp://1.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2734/10-047.0/compressed/025.jpg

Alice is the Princess of Bubbleland?! OMG that's sooo CUTE AND FRIKKIN AWESOME! Athena is so lovely for doing that for wonderful Alice <3

Love it, Love it, LOVE IT!

[/Fanboy mode OFF]

Yes, I realize my fanboyism for Alice there was a little crazy but I don't give a shit, lol.

PS. No ****** Alice haters were killed during the making of this post.

[Chapter]

O_o

Well then...

[Dr Doom]

Ara ara. I still like Alicia the best, but this was great stuff indeed. I'll be sure to put Aria on my to-read list (technically it was already on it, just not on a priority position, which has changed).

[Danbo]

Alicia is cool and all, I love her too but Alice is just on a whole other level of brilliance! Acting grown up but being the biggest kid of all makes her so lovable. The punish left hand campaign, her self rules and bubbleland dreams, it's too much awesomeness for 1 character to have I tell ya.

[Dr Doom]

This video says different. ^__^


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvnC4OFOgCQ

[Danbo]

lmao! 7 minutes of just ara ara. I only watched the start bit, but I love that part when Akira keeps saying Kinshi and Alicia just keeps on repeating ara ara and ufufu while walking backwards :rofl3:

Alice is still the best though. Amano is hilarious aswell, at the end of the volumes she writes a couple pages with her thoughts on stuff (like the production of the Aria anime) it's always fun to read, she draws herself as this funny looking cat.

[Dr Doom]

lmao! 7 minutes of just ara ara. I only watched the start bit, but I love that part when Akira keeps saying Kinshi and Alicia just keeps on repeating ara ara and ufufu while walking backwards :rofl3:

That's one of my favorite moments of the show. It's a shame it didn't include the whole scene, because after they've gone around the back Aika says something about Akira who storms through the back door because she heard it, lmao.

[Danbo]

Yeah, that was a really great scene. The 3 girls really are like mirror images of their mentors.

[False Profit]

Currently reading Dengeki Daisy.

Currently up to chapter 9.

hate to say it, but I needed this.

[Danbo]

Just finished reading Aria, you already know the score. Perfection in every way possible.

http://i55.tinypic.com/2a9s7lu.jpg

Greatest of all time!

[Dr Doom]

Finished Vol. 4 of Blame!, after Killy and Cibo have gotten into Toha Heavy Industries and had their first encounter with Mensab and Seu. The art is still absolutely crazy and I'm definitely 'in it' now.

[Danbo]

Mensab's design is proper weird looking, lol. There's some amazingly drawn fight scenes with Seu :)

[Chapter]

Guess I should start reading Blame! then...

[Danbo]

Guess I should start reading Blame! then...

You'll be glad you did.

[False Profit]

VERITAS! Looks like Joe Madureira art... or am I thinking of humberto ramos?

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/AniScans/veritas-376423.jpg

[Chapter]

Yeah, it's like Joe Mad's stuff, except not so polygonal.

[False Profit]

it's a pretty cool lil manga... of course it doesn't have that *PUNCH* feeling that The Breaker has.... It meets somewhere in between The Breaker and AIKI, feelingwise. I was mreh at first, but I started really liking it around chapter 9. And you're right. It's a non-angular Joe Mad style. The fact that it's read left to right for some odd reason means it takes some getting used to. Funny, innit?

I guess by the time I'm done with it, you guys should all be done with Blame! Then I can pick Blame up and act like I just discovered it and go on and on about how great it is and invite you all to read it with me. may even make a Blame! thread.

[False Profit]

also, the art here looks really.... clean? How would YOU explain it, Black? Heavy inks? sparse backgrounds? Say something really artsy sounding!

[Chapter]

also, the art here looks really.... clean? How would YOU explain it, Black? Heavy inks? sparse backgrounds? Say something really artsy sounding!

X) From that picture, I'd say it's pretty slick. The inks are thick and there's a nice contrast between white and black so it also gives the guy a sense of weight, which now that I think about it isn't really conveyed in comics very well.

[False Profit]

exactly. too many colors and not enough ink in the way. There was even an anime out last season that used heavy inks to GREAT effect and bloodletting. I didn't watch it, though. anti ecchi and all that.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/AniScans/veritas-376624.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/DevilotsAdvocate/AniScans/veritas-376625.jpg

A lot of manga doesn't look this clean, either. Too much gray. This REALLY feels like it's black and white.

[Chapter]

Yeah, tone abuse leads to alot of manga looking like a sloppy mess when the pics are enlarged. Since manga (especially those tiny-ass Japanese volumes) are printed pretty small, it doesn't look too bad on paper. This manhwa (it's a manhwa right?) looks like it has a nice balance of detail and simplicity.

I remember looking at Veritas once or twice and putting it after a chapter or so but I think I'll give it a chance now if it gets better.

[Chapter]

I feel like I'm outside of the anime bubble because I'm not reading or watching One Piece. I tried, but twenty chapters in it just was pretty bland. I guess I'll have to do the drudge-work and read it until it starts to get interesting.

[Dr Doom]

Books, at what chapter of Fairy Tail should I pick it up to be up-to-date with the show?

[Danbo]

Books, at what chapter of Fairy Tail should I pick it up to be up-to-date with the show?

Start at chapter 165.

[Dr Doom]

Arigato and all that.

[Dr Doom]

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9681/yotsubae.jpg
:rofl

Finished Vol. 5. It seems Yotsuba has found her arch-nemesis in the treacherous Yanda, lol. The part where she shines the light beam in her eyes then crashes into the garbage can was hilarious. So was the weather doll she made that looked like she hung a person, and her freak-out over not going to the beach.

[Danbo]

Yanda is brilliant, Yotsuba absolutely hates him :rofl the pranks he pulls on her are great.

[Dr Doom]

Oh, and I forgot. The debut of Danbo. lol @ Miura taking Ena's money and having to stay in the role.

[Danbo]

Danbo is KING!

[False Profit]

finished all of Veritas without even realizing it. Art alone would get a 9 from me... story got kinda mreh along the way. pushing a 7 right now... it says it's complete, but the book ended on a cliffhanger. so who knows? *shrug*

[Chapter]

I'm seeing a recurring trend in all these manhwa....the art would be a 9 or higher, but the stories would either start off slow and then really pick up later, or start off good then fall off.

[False Profit]

I've come to realize that I'm a lot more lenient with manga than anime when it comes to The Slow Boil. Take Alive: The Final Evolution (http://myanimelist.net/manga.php?id=219) for instance. It started off slow as hell. But I stuck with it and enjoyed it immensely. I try to give the writer enough time to grow into his characters.

[Chapter]

The synopsis for that story kinda reminds me of Lives. Go figure *shrugs*

Yeah, I noticed a while back that I'm more lenient with manga than I am with anime, and that's primarily because I can read manga as fast or as slow as I want, whereas with an anime I can't watch it sped up and then slow it down once things start to pick up. For most shounen, four chapters = roughly 1 episode, but the time taken to read 4 chapters<<<<the time taken to watch one episode.

[False Profit]

lol damn what did you think of this "Lives"? because I never heard of it, but it's done by the guy that did BAttle Royale. The seer potential for angst calls out to me....

[Chapter]

I didn't read the last chapter of Lives because I couldn't find it at the time, but from what I read of it shit was pretty fucked up lol.

[False Profit]

then I guess I'll put off reading Blame for a few days and jump right into Lves.

Although I honestly remember trying to read Blame before. I found the art to be too..... gritty.

[Danbo]

"Fujita, Fujita, fucker, no munney, no luk, no frenz. Sick ov dead Matsumura, Fujita Fujita, uzless!"

Man, I love Ebisu :rofl3:

[False Profit]

^^ and what is this? Or is this something only Doom is gonna know about?

[Dr Doom]

I don't have a clue what that is, lol.

[Danbo]

^^ and what is this? Or is this something only Doom is gonna know about?

Ebisu is a character from Dorohedoro and she's hilarious. That's a song she was singing about her friend Fujita, lol.

[Chapter]

then I guess I'll put off reading Blame for a few days and jump right into Lves.

Although I honestly remember trying to read Blame before. I found the art to be too..... gritty.

Really? The architecture and cyberpunk influence is pretty gritty but the characters themselves look pretty delicate lol. Maybe you should check out Wolverine: Snikt! first then (assuming you haven't read it) since it's by the same author and it's in color. It might be an easier transition into his style.

[Chapter]

It might be a good transition for Books to get into western comics as well :)

[Danbo]

lol, there's too much anime and manga I wanna get through for me to even think of reading western comics aswell.