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Dresden

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Area D

Art by the Shin Angyo Onshi guy.

Feels like Deadman Wonderland with SAO art. Prison island! Tyrannical captors! Superpowers! Wimp protagonist.

Dunno if I'll stick to this.
 

Stat Flow

He gonna cry in the car
BLEACH

Has Kubo ever bothered to explain how come in Bleach universe people can die twice? People that have died got their soul sent to Soul Society... then they can die again? So what's the point of Soul Society then? It's just weird seeing all the melodramatic scenes about someone dying when, hey!, they're already dead in the first place!
Soul Society and the Human world work like two sides of a coin. When one dies in soul society, they are reincarnated into the human world with an erasure of their past memories. It's reincarnation.
 

Laughing Banana

Weeping Pickle
Soul Society and the Human world work like two sides of a coin. When one dies in soul society, they are reincarnated into the human world with an erasure of their past memories. It's reincarnation.

And then comes the problem about how the Soul Society is filled with people from Japanese only, hahaha. What happens if a French guy died, for example? Or an Italian guy? Does Soul Society has "branches"?

I doubt Kubo ever thought that far, and these are just silly questions, I know, but it's interesting regardless to know if he ever addressed this.
 

Freshmaker

I am Korean.
And then comes the problem about how the Soul Society is filled with people from Japanese only, hahaha. What happens if a French guy died, for example? Or an Italian guy? Does Soul Society has "branches"?

I doubt Kubo ever thought that far, and these are just silly questions, I know, but it's interesting regardless to know if he ever addressed this.

We do know that Mexicans go to Hueco Mundo.
 

Laughing Banana

Weeping Pickle
We do know that Mexicans go to Hueco Mundo.

Hahahaha.

Out of all the big three I always personally feel that Bleach's universe is the one that filled with "holes" the most in terms of logic... I guess this can't be avoided seeing how Ichigo and friends are actually living in the "real" world unlike Naruto or One Piece.

Also I also like how people who have "died" as proven they have become a Shinigami such as Ichigo's dad can just live again in the world no problem--even gotten married and having children!
 

Kettch

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Anne Freaks

That was a little shorter than I would have liked, but still an excellent story. Wish it were easier to find more series like this.

Tensai Family Company

I loved Nodame, so this didn't disappoint. One horrible place for the scanlators to stop for 3 years though, what with the cliffhanger and all. Too bad this will probably never be finished.

Always appreciate the GAF manga recommendations.
 

scy

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If anybody wanted to know why I was too busy to read manga...the gaming side will tell.

Scy, thanks for the line. ;)

Now back to manga! YES!!!

EDIT:
Never-mind! lol

God, I felt so bad for you when I saw the topic locked :| Street date may have been broken for the game but I'll probably just wait for my Amazon pre-order to arrive. Not like I'm done with Graces yet anyway.

Magico 2

whoa they kissed by the second chapter?!

This is some kind of innovation in manga

Yamada-kun to 7-nin no majo has a kiss in the first chapter and the entire plot device seems to revolve around it. So there's another shounen like that for you :x
 

exarkun

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LOL at the new guy's little sister Chiyo falling in love with Beel.

"Although I may be inexperienced, please treat me well" lolol

I tried watching the anime, didn't like the early animation so i returned to the manga and thank god that I did. The funny parts are better in the manga I think
 

Laughing Banana

Weeping Pickle
They were in their shinigami bodies in SS when he said that. Shinigami are souls, that´s why humans with zero/low riatsu can´t see them.

Urrrgghh. So souls that have souls......? So a living person has 2 level of souls.......?

Also, it's incredibly perplexing how technically "dead" people like Urahara or Isshin can hang around in the real world like nobody's business... hell, one of them even mated with a living human and became a father of three.

Not to mention so many are shipping IchigoxRukia out there, while Rukia is technically a dead person already....

Bleach is one of the finest example of necrophiliac manga around, hahaha.
 
Urrrgghh. So souls that have souls......? So a living person has 2 level of souls.......?

Also, it's incredibly perplexing how technically "dead" people like Urahara or Isshin can hang around in the real world like nobody's business... hell, one of them even mated with a living human and became a father of three.

Not to mention so many are shipping IchigoxRukia out there, while Rukia is technically a dead person already....

Bleach is one of the finest example of necrophiliac manga around, hahaha.

What? No.

When shinigami are in Soul Society they are in their soul form. They get gigai (faux bodies) when they go to the human world, like Rukia did in the beginning of the manga. When shinigami fight they revert back to their soul form.
 

Solune

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[Nisekoi 1-19]

Generic shounen romcom but I don't care, it's a fun read. Everyone knows it's about the cute girls.

Chitoge
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Waifu points:
1.
2.
3.

Verdict: Not a waifu

Onodera AKA who I will now affectionately call OnoDERE
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Waifu points:

1. Side bang - ✔ HNNNG
Verdict: Total waifu

Tsugumi

Waifu points:
1. Looks cute in girls clothing
2. Has a cute ribbon
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Verdict: Suitable waifu
 

qcf x2

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Hahahaha.

Out of all the big three I always personally feel that Bleach's universe is the one that filled with "holes" the most in terms of logic... I guess this can't be avoided seeing how Ichigo and friends are actually living in the "real" world unlike Naruto or One Piece.

Also I also like how people who have "died" as proven they have become a Shinigami such as Ichigo's dad can just live again in the world no problem--even gotten married and having children!

You can assume that it takes place in the "real world," but it was never stated to be Japan (or Earth). There was no mention of country; only suggestions (Chad's backstory, for instance).

And Ichigo's dad, Urahara and Yoruichi are using gigais. The latter two were exiled. The former we don't know about yet.
 

Laughing Banana

Weeping Pickle
Hmm, I didn't remember any mention Isshin is using gigai. Still, it's still technically "dead" people roaming around in the world of living and even making families though. How convenient.
 

iavi

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Hmm, I didn't remember any mention Isshin is using gigai. Still, it's still technically "dead" people roaming around in the world of living and even making families though. How convenient.

Yeah, he was using the same power-sucking one Urahara put Rukia into in the beginning. He mentions that being in it for so long took a lot of his power (but not all of it, since he's the endgame beast) when he was first unveiled as a Shinagami against Grand Fisher.
 

Verelios

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Sengoku Youko 37:

This here? This right here man? Is the shit. God damn, I love this guy, especially after the Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer.

Honestly liking new main, because nine tailed fox was kind of boring after awhile.

Fairy Eye. Hah.
 

flawfuls

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Sengoku Youko 37:

This here? This right here man? Is the shit. God damn, I love this guy, especially after the Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer.

Honestly liking new main, because nine tailed fox was kind of boring after awhile.

Fairy Eye. Hah.

It's nice that this is getting translated again. About this chapter specifically I think the author is starting to overuse the whole
death drama
thing. He is starting to feel like the Adachi of battle manga.
 

upandaway

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I need to at least skim Sengoku Youko before I read the new chapter. It has been way too long.

I'm so happy it's getting translated again. Does anyone know the frequency of releases in Japan?
 

Verelios

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It's nice that this is getting translated again. About this chapter specifically I think the author is starting to overuse the whole
death drama
thing. He is starting to feel like the Adachi of battle manga.

Yeah, but I don't really mind that so much. Most likely because
he'll end up fighting the fox for dominance or just because he wants to/wants to protect something (like the world or his place in it, I don't know) Seems more like a device to get them moving and the adventure started. Honestly, I don't care about about cheap deaths but if it gets the plot moving, go right ahead. Fox guy probably has all nine tails by now and is almost a demon. Should be interesting to see where he's gone (probably crazy).
 

Laughing Banana

Weeping Pickle
There is a good probability that this is just my memory failing me, but I don't remember ever reading a manga with as much blushes and cute faces as NISEKOI. That's the whole point of this manga, huh, selling ~moe desu~
 

Ferga

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Bleach

Wait... Did kubo just try to use a thing called characterisation?! Holyy shiit............

A bit late and a bit too obvious but at least it's there, right? Am i right guys? guys?

*cough* *cough*
 

Glass Rebel

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This might not fit in here since it's technically speaking from the anime and it's kinda cross-posting from the Jazz Hip-Hop thread but fuck it, at least Stat will enjoy it:

My friend Wy-i has released another beat using a sample from Miyazaki's Totoro

Totoro 2.0 - Wy-i
 

Wiseblade

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Silver Spoon

Missed the last couple of chapters, somehow. Good stuff.

Magico

How can you propose to someone in front of their husband?
 
Anne Freaks

That was a little shorter than I would have liked, but still an excellent story. Wish it were easier to find more series like this.
My sentiments exactly. The author's done another series called Kimi no Knife which dabbles in similar themes, but it's not in the same league IMO.
 
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