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Just finished Yotsuba&! 12, which was absolutely scary. Why does this feel like the final volume (even though it says to be continued on the last page). What is the author hinting at between the lines...? It's like a Twilight Zone episode where everything seems OK, but if you look closely, something is wrong...
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Ash wrote:
I still haven't read/seen Another, even though I love Ayatsuji Yukito's work! Heck, my thesis is partly about him, and I've even met him once! But I've seen so much different kind of reactions on Another, I'm not sure whether to read it or not (especially as I still have to continue with his main series).
Oh god Another. I'll probably get around to reading/watching it when I become manlier. The things I've heard about the umbrellas in the show kinda make me hesitant to watch it.
I'm Blak, and I have shit taste.
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Blak The Great wrote:
Oh god Another. I'll probably get around to reading/watching it when I become manlier. The things I've heard about the umbrellas in the show kinda make me hesitant to watch it.
I admit, the umbrella part in the manga was kinda... disturbingly hilarious. Kinda disgusting, but also funny, cause it did seem like a terrible way to die. Although I think Kubodera was worse...
Read that in the anime, we see a hand/foot twitch... but apparently, there's also a Censor Stream regarding that part.
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I've recently been reading 20th Century Boys through again since about 7 years or so ago. I remember the manga being good, but reading through it again, I'm still completely blown away. The story is so well interwoven with its various plot points and excellent story-telling and characters. The art still remains fantastic to me and the pacing of the story is so well done. It's a constant reminder as to why I consider Naoki Urasawa to be my favorite mangaka when it comes to suspenseful, psychological thrillers with a touch of humor and drama. He's such a genius when it comes to it. I have yet to really find anyone else who I can hold at such a high regard when it comes to manga.
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CatMuto wrote:
Pierre wrote:
Man...that looks dull...this actually makes me worried for KH3 (since that team worked on the battle system)
I feel the same
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So Like probably everyone I read a lot of manga in my teenage years. At the time I was a huge fan of:
Bleach, Naruto, Death Note, Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura, Fruit Basket, Liar Game, Black Butler, Pandora Heart, Full Metal Alchemist, Ouran Host Club, Vampire Knight (This thing saved me from Twilight XD), The World God only knows, Soul Eater (still love the crappy art), Bakuman (the manga that helped me decide to go in art at college), Chobits (now I don't understand why I loved that serie) and surely a lot that I can't remember (in this case they must have been bad).
Nowadays I only still read a few of them, Bleach being my guilty pleasure (seriously where is this plot going to?). I started Good Ending and realized how much I just don't like slice of life manga, and decided to start NANA, which...is also a slice of life so I don't understand why I like that. A friend of mine, who's a big fan of CLAMP wanted me to start Tsubasa chronicle and XXXHolic but I just can't get into it because of the art... Attack on Titan also rekinkle my love for shounen because, come on, unexpected drastic death. I started also Are You Alice, I find it very intriguing and it's really a shame that those chapter are out so irregulary. I think my main problem is that either my series end or they become boring because they are soooo long. That's probably why I often consider monthly manga superior than their weekly counter part.
Also I read some smut manga... DON'T JUDGE ME!!!!!!!
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About mangas, well maybe I should try to catch up to One Piece. It's been months since I've done so.
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Koe no Katachi or "A Silent Voice" isn't gory though and easily recommendable if you like very deep but touching stories. It revolves around a middle school student who has impaired hearing. She transfers into a new school, where she is bullied by her classmates. One of the bullies, goes to the point that she transfers to another school. As a result, he is ostracized and bullied himself, with no friends to speak of and no plans for the future. Years later, he sets himself on a path to redemption.
sounds sad but cute right? well, it's actually really really depressing if you don't believe me, check out the one-shot here: click me!
and if you have been able to go through the entire one shot without crying once (which is immensely hard) then you can also continue by reading the series which is even more horribly depressing.
speaking of depressing, has anyone on here ever read Oyasumi Punpun? if heard it's really good and really depressing and I'd like to check it out.
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Lucy wrote:
The only manga I'm reading now is Shingeki no Kyojin and Skip Beat. I've been meaning to start reading Vampire Knight again, since it finshed, but I can never find the motivation to do so.
I remember I quitted reading Vampire knight when this happen.
Spoiler: A plost twist that make me cringe
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Shao-Mae wrote:
Lucy wrote:
The only manga I'm reading now is Shingeki no Kyojin and Skip Beat. I've been meaning to start reading Vampire Knight again, since it finshed, but I can never find the motivation to do so.
I remember I quitted reading Vampire knight when this happen.
Spoiler: A plost twist that make me cringe
Spoiler:
Within Temptation
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Lucy wrote:
Shao-Mae wrote:
Lucy wrote:
The only manga I'm reading now is Shingeki no Kyojin and Skip Beat. I've been meaning to start reading Vampire Knight again, since it finshed, but I can never find the motivation to do so.
I remember I quitted reading Vampire knight when this happen.
Spoiler: A plost twist that make me cringe
Spoiler:
Well...
Spoiler: Another detail that make me cringe
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Pierre wrote:
Man...that looks dull...this actually makes me worried for KH3 (since that team worked on the battle system)
I feel the same
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Shao-Mae wrote:
Well...
Spoiler: Another detail that make me cringe
Spoiler:
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I'm stuck in a bit of manga rut currently since my favourite manga Loveless hasn't been produced/scanlated since November 2013 so wondering if anyone has any recommendations they enjoyed?
I tend to prefer seinen/horror manga (Battle Royale, Cage of Eden etc) but I like a bit of comedy too and it's super important to me that the series is well drawn!
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I strongly recommend the Tekkon kinkreet manga, it's one of the best graphic novels I've read. The movie is great too.
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Would you be interested/do you read fanfiction of the series? Like, a continuation or a new legend of a Priestess?
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About manga in general... Death Note, HunterXHunter, Fullmetal Alchemist and Kuroshitsuji are great. I like Bleach, but it gets awful after the Hueco Mundo arc.
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dangerousoffender wrote:
Shojo manga are boring and obnoxious, IMO. I mean, some girl falls in love with some guy and somehow they end up together. The end. You already know everything about the story. No matter what happens, the protagonist is going to end up with this guy, her "true" love. I mean, what could happen in a shojo manga? Something really exciting or interesting? Nothing. It's all boring, dull stuff that happens every day, every time with people who are in love. I have zero interest in that.
It's a very big misunderstanding that romance manga = shojo (= targeted at girl public) manga. Series like Banana Fish, Basara and Reiko the Zombie Shop for example are also shojo manga... There's also a fairly big horror manga scene especially targeting the shojo public.
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Ash wrote:
dangerousoffender wrote:
Shojo manga are boring and obnoxious, IMO. I mean, some girl falls in love with some guy and somehow they end up together. The end. You already know everything about the story. No matter what happens, the protagonist is going to end up with this guy, her "true" love. I mean, what could happen in a shojo manga? Something really exciting or interesting? Nothing. It's all boring, dull stuff that happens every day, every time with people who are in love. I have zero interest in that.
It's a very big misunderstanding that romance manga = shojo (= targeted at girl public) manga. Series like Banana Fish, Basara and Reiko the Zombie Shop for example are also shojo manga... There's also a fairly big horror manga scene especially targeting the shojo public.
I'm ignorant on manga in general. I have never heard about shojo stories that aren't focused on romance before. Sounds interesting. My opinion about the specific kind of shojo I mentioned still stands, though (or about any romantic story for that matter).
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I'd like an answer about Fushigi Yuugi, though. I know that the FY Suzaku/Seiryuu arc was a bit... nyeh, at times, especially between Miaka and Tamahome. But Genbu Kaiden was pretty cool. And I have hopes for Byakko Ibun, which started in March though I've only seen the first chapter so far...
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CatMuto wrote:
Pierre wrote:
Man...that looks dull...this actually makes me worried for KH3 (since that team worked on the battle system)
I feel the same
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I also love Bleach, it was my first manga so I have kept reading it no matter what. An besides, some of the latest chapters have been actually good. Other than that I generally prefer watching anime first, though I really like some horror manga like Another or anything made by Junji Ito. (Fun fact: that guy used to be a dentist. The evil dentist trope really does have some merit in real life.)
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cesar26100 wrote:
One of my favorite manga ever is Death Note. I love the manipulative/magnificent bastard character type, so obviously I loved a manga about a battle of wits between these kind of characters. The series had to end with Light killing L and winning, though.
Anything past Chapter... I forget which number... Anything past the 6 Year Timeskip is bullshit. I understand them wanting to take exactly 108 Chapters to complete the story, but... considering how the mangaka HATED prolonged stories in manga, prolonging Death Note to get to 108 chapters seemed hypocritical. And, as said, anything past the time skip is bad for me...
You say you loved the battle of wits going. I loved it, too. The fact that it's gone post-Time Skip is a huge reason why I couldn't stand the second half.
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Pierre wrote:
Man...that looks dull...this actually makes me worried for KH3 (since that team worked on the battle system)
I feel the same
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I will have to check out that manga dullahan recommended.
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cesar26100 wrote:
I also love Bleach, it was my first manga so I have kept reading it no matter what. An besides, some of the latest chapters have been actually good.
I love Bleach, too. I am kind of emotionally attached to Bleach. Read it since I was 12 or 13. Every month, on my way home from school, I would buy the newest volume. And the first arcs are pretty good and addictive, lol. I am re-reading the manga all over again now and hope to get to the last chapters soon. I still think the quality of Kubo's writing decreased significantly after the Hueco Mundo arc, though.
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cesar26100 wrote:
One of my favorite manga ever is Death Note. I love the manipulative/magnificent bastard character type, so obviously I loved a manga about a battle of wits between these kind of characters. The series had to end with Light killing L and winning, though.
I also love Bleach, it was my first manga so I have kept reading it no matter what. An besides, some of the latest chapters have been actually good. Other than that I generally prefer watching anime first, though I really like some horror manga like Another or anything made by Junji Ito. (Fun fact: that guy used to be a dentist. The evil dentist trope really does have some merit in real life.)
I also love Bleach, it was my first manga so I have kept reading it no matter what. An besides, some of the latest chapters have been actually good. Other than that I generally prefer watching anime first, though I really like some horror manga like Another or anything made by Junji Ito. (Fun fact: that guy used to be a dentist. The evil dentist trope really does have some merit in real life.)
I've always wanted to start reading/watching Death Note, as I have heard good things about it. Where is the best place to start?
Does anyone have any opinions?
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DefenceLawyer wrote:
I've always wanted to start reading/watching Death Note, as I have heard good things about it. Where is the best place to start?
Does anyone have any opinions?
Does anyone have any opinions?
You start at the beginning. And when you get to the end... you stop.
In my 100% honest Opinion: Read the manga. Only half. Then, after a certain event (you will know which one I'm referring to) stop reading. After that event, there's a 6 Year time skip and everything after that is pointless, boring and culminates in an ending that feels so unsatisfactory, it'll annoy you.
I guess you can watch half of the anime after that, too. It's kind of a faithful adaptation, although they took out some of Misa's cool moments and played her up to be an airhead.
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