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Manga News/Discussion |OT13| Don't bite the dog that feeds the hand.

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thesaucetastic

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Hakoiri Drops 6

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^Basically my mornings, but without the sweltering heat and just sleep deprivation.
 
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survivor

Banned
Mumei said:
Yeah, some of them are more obscure (in the West, at least), particularly Last of the Mohicans, A, A Prime, In Clothes Called Fat, Banana Fish, and A Drunken Dream and Other Stories. I found out about several series, such as Banana Fish, through Shaenon Garrity's Overlooked Manga Festival (she's now alternating with Jason Thompson at ANN for articles on House of a Thousand Manga), which are both great for more obscure (and likely out of print) manga.

A, A Prime and A Drunken Dream and Other Stories are both by Moto Hagio, a shoujo mangaka whom I've seen described as second only to Tezuka in how influential she was. Unfortunately she's been very little translated in English; Fantagraphics recently brought out gorgeous hardcover editions of A Drunken Dream, a compilation of her work from the 1970s to the present, and The Heart of Thomas, which was [one of the] earliest boys love stories in manga. Here's hoping more of her work comes to the States. A, A Prime was published by Viz many years ago, back when they were still flipping their manga, and I know little more about it than who wrote it, that FnordChan suggested it, and that it consists of three stories, "set in the same futuristic universe, all linked by the presence of “Unicorns,” people genetically engineered for space travel who now coexist somewhat uncomfortably with other human colonists. The Unicorns are extremely intelligent but have limited emotional and social skills, making them almost autistic. The first story
deals with a Unicorn woman who is killed in an accident and replaced by a clone, who then has to deal with the reactions of the crewmates who knew her predecessor.
In the second story,
a boy named Mori—who is also a rare breed of human, gifted with psychic abilities—falls in love with an uncommunicative and secretly troubled Unicorn girl.
The third story
catches up with Mori as a young adult when he meets and falls for another Unicorn—but this one is a man.
" (thank you, Shaenon)

In Clothes Called Fat is a josei manga, and was an impulse buy that I saw the bookstore. It's only a single volume, and is about body insecurities / self-image issues women face.

Banana Fish is... basically a shoujo manga take on a gang drama, though the only real indication that it is supposed to be a shoujo manga, from the language (coarse, at least under one translator) to the artwork (utilitarian and draftsman-like) to the setting (1980s New York City, as imagined by a Japanese woman) to the plot (I don't know, but I've read that it's quite grounded all things considered and it seems that way from what I've read), is the fact that there's a mostly implied homosexual relationship between the two principals, and that there's somewhat more emphasis on the outward expression of emotions. But when I was reading the first volume, at times it felt like a seinen.

The Last of the Mohicans is the 1973 remake of a manga adaptation of the novel of the same name. It was $5.99 and is nicely oversized. I have no idea if I'll like it, but it looks good on a shelf. :)
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The best part about A Drunken Dream and Other Stories is the very long interview Moto Hagio did with Matt Thorn at the end of the book. Lots of history about her earlier days as a manga artist and how the shoujo genre started out. Most of the short stories in the book are interesting, but honestly none of them come close to the quality of Heart of Thomas.
 
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Kyuur

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Bleach

Actually sort of good this week. The fight was actually sort of coherent and not just random powers and horrible melee like it has been for the past little bit.

Naruto

I literally lol'd at the chapter title and wondered if we were ending up with an Evangelion ending somehow. Fine for wrap-up I guess. Wonder if the manga is actually ending or we'll be going into a timeskip.

One Piece

Fucking amazing chapter. That combo attack made me so happy. Doflamingo is strong, but against 2 supernova captains? Good luck.

Hunter X Hunter

I'm not changing my avatar until issue 43! I believe! This is NeoGAF!
 
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Turin Turambar

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Mumei said:
I haven't. What's it about?

I could look it up, but I might get that more thorough recommendation this way!
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Ai-Ren is a sweet +18 romance story between a boy who is terminally ill who request an artificial girl to at least have company. It's sounds as a drama or tragedy, and while obviously it has a bit of that, it's mostly a cute, very human love story and it's framed as a the natural history of life and death, now bwaaaahh story.


In Clothes Called Fat is a josei manga, and was an impulse buy that I saw the bookstore. It's only a single volume, and is about body insecurities / self-image issues women face.
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Have you read Helter Skelter? A josei with slightly similar ideas I liked a lot.
 
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Tamanon

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Bleach

I'm guessing the zombie guys are under Mayuri's control. Since it was revealed that the love power only works on those with hearts, they shouldn't be affected by it.

Kinda weird to have a character with a slightly different variation of the Fullbringer boss's power though.
 
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dakkumauji

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zeromcd73 said:
Hunter x Hunter not coming back next week as planned and has entered permanent hiatus again.
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Time for Nisekoi|OT|

Antiwhippy said:
You know, might as well take this opportunity to reread nisekoi to see what avatar I can use.

Good idea Y/N?
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Go ahead, it's a fun series. (You read worse things before)

zeromcd73 said:
Pfft, Narita already got booted from Jump not too long ago.
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He's better off writing his Naritaverse stuff anyway. Too good for Jump.
 
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Mael

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Bleach

Mayuri have stolen an espada power to control the zombie captain.
the one who was killed by Byakuya.
His eyes could take control of stuffs.
the mark on their body is the same.
e : Espada 7 even I'd say
 
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Yado

Member
Does the writer of Hunter X Hunter not have an understudy or an assistant he can relay his plans for the series to?
 
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mjontrix

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DODGED A BULLET!

Kaz lives to see another day - TLG still has hope!

But it's going to be fun to see all the new avatars and tags - btw where is our winner?
 
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MetroidPrimeRib

Banned
Naruto 691

lmao the chapter is called CONGRATULATIONS

Yeah this ending feels about as much of a kick in the balls as that.
Although this chapter was decent.

Bleach 595

This fight is dumb and Byakuya already fought this guy.

One Piece 759

Being Bellamy is suffering.

And how long are they going to tease Law's backstory?
At least they got a hit on him, and are staying in mostly one spot per chapter now.

Hiatus x Hiatus

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What impeccable fucking timing. A new Dragon Quest game gets announced, and now we on hiatus.
And yes, this counts as the hiatus since they gave us a message and no return date.
 
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Pegosaurus

Banned
Hunter x Hunter

When do I get my Nisekoi avatar?
please feel better Togashi :(

Naruto

Lol I like how Naruto is bros with all the Tailed Beasts now. Did Kakashi lose his Sharingan permanently this time? I enjoyed seeing Madara and Hashirama's final moments, and Naruto ;-;

Where will we go from here, I wonder.

One Piece

Seeing Law and Luffy fight Doflamingo is so satisfying. I hope they give him even more of an ass whooping.

I hope Luffy saves Bellamy too

Bleach

I don't know what's going on anymore
 
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upandaway

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Akito said:
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It's beautiful
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Yeah... I guess that's happening. It's really a bummer that that's how this is happening, though. If he was just going out on hiatus like usual (and this is clearly not like usual for a trillion reasons, but I'm kinda tired of going over them again), I'd be able to laugh and change my avatar happy and all, but as it is I just hope he's ok and I can't really focus on laughing it off "lol another hiatus".

dan2026 said:
I think Togashi owes it to his long term fans to tell them exactly what the score is with him.
If is genuinely chronically sick, that's fair enough, but tell us!

Why is it all so vague?
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They did say just a while ago that's it's because of serious back pain.

zeromcd73 said:
That and the deeper issue being that Togashi doesn't like work, and knows that he has power over the Jump editorial staff like no other.

When Yu Yu Hakusho was booming Togashi didn't want to draw it any more and wanted a long break despite raking in the money for both himself and Shueisha he just stopped. He let the editors know this but they told him to keep going like they do with every popular manga. The difference with Togashi was that he actually pulled his own work and just stopped writing. That's why Yu Yu's conclusion was so abrupt and it only lasting 19 volumes where in Jump popular series go on for much longer (except Death Note).

He later agreed to do Level-E which was only serialized for 10 chapters a year and it which a massive success, and later Hunter x Hunter which was also massive. The editors can't really force Togashi to do anything he doesn't want fearing that he will pull his own serious like he did Yu Yu. He makes far to much money for everyone involved.

No reason for his illness has ever been stated in all of these years, and he has been seen at several events when he was meant to be on hiatus looking completely fine.
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Well um, do you have sources for any of that.


I'm also a bit upset that after like 7-8 years of a consistent monthly pace average, the one time they say that he actually has a problem and pull out spontaneously in an unplanned way like that, for the first time I'm seeing people actually asking about the Dragon Quest thing seriously because it's being brought up so much. I don't think we're being very cool right now but oh well.

By next week I'll do the avatar thing I guess... I still don't see any reason to suspect that this is another huge multi-year hiatus (they put out a similar message for the 2-week break), but 5 weeks is 5 weeks.
 
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PK Gaming

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Koe no Katachi 51

It's about time we got an entire chapter from Nishimiya's perspective. I always figured she was almost completely deaf, but the fact that she can hear words in such a distorted fashion almost seems even worse. It also explains the way she speaks too; it's literally impossible for her to speak in any other way :9

Anyway, this chapter was sad, but a little uplifting at the same time. Hopefully Ishida wakes up soon and we get a nice dose of healing :)
 
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Mortemis

Banned
Fuck you Dragon Quest. Fuck you.

The bet was just a nisekoi avatar, not onodera or any of the other shit characters. Time to find the most bland background character.
 
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