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[Wiseblade]

I made it on to the wall of shame!

Wait, that's not a good thing...

 

[CoolS]

Naruto always delivered the action, it was bam, Naruto v Pain, bam, Sasuke v Kages, bam, Sasuke v Danzo, bam, Kisame v Bee, bam, Naruto v 9 tails, well thats where Im at. Whats happened in One Piece in the same time frame....Luffy crying, flashback, barely any fighting on the way to fishman isles, barely anything on the isles...In Bleach, there is just non stop high climax action too. I just want action in my One Piece.

But we basically had non stop action all the time before in One Piece. Shanabody, Amazon Lily to a lesser extent and then Impel Down and the war. Oda always likes to balance this stuff out and imo always did that in the past. But I agree that since the war the hasn't been to much action.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

As much as I think OP is overrated, OP has been awesome these past weeks

What One Piece have you been reading? Tying up the weak Neptune, Luffy being in the large princess's bosom, and strawhats shopping, is far from what I imagine "awesome" to be...

 

[Entropia]

What One Piece have you been reading? Tying up the weak Neptune, Luffy being in the large princess's bosom, and strawhats shopping, is far from what I imagine "awesome" to be...

I don't know about you - but bouncing around on a mermaid's breasts is pretty damn awesome.

 

[smurfx]

What One Piece have you been reading? Tying up the weak Neptune, Luffy being in the large princess's bosom, and strawhats shopping, is far from what I imagine "awesome" to be...

i've totally loved the chapters since they got to fishman island.

 

[Wiseblade]

What One Piece have you been reading? Tying up the weak Neptune, Luffy being in the large princess's bosom, and strawhats shopping, is far from what I imagine "awesome" to be...

Yeah, but you think Bleach is the pinnacle of the comic medium. Which pretty much invalidates your opinion.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Yeah, but you think Fairy Tail is the pinnacle of the comic medium. Which pretty much validates your opinion.

fix'd for I think that is the meaning you were trying to proclaim.

 

[That Singer Guy...]

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shit

 

[flawfuls]

Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo Volume 1

Hahaha this is a blast. The pacing is great, there are awesome plot every few pages and everyone is an insane psycopath. When I got to this page(spoiler) I already knew that this would one of the best shounen manga ever.

 

[Lirlond]

I'm going to try and at least be a runner in the race this time.

Have Mangastream stopped scanning SE: NOT! ?, haven't seen it up, and they did SE not too long ago.

 

[Zoramon089]

How did I still not make the list?! I posted nearly every week. ARGHSKHDS

 

[TacticalFox88]

Yeah.. but you also champion Bleach.

And still proudly do so!

 

[Dedication Through Light]

And still proudly do so!

Its actually shocking that people wouldnt champion Bleach...

I mean, after years of building up the greatest villain known in manga history and seeing his downfall, it just blows my mind that people wouldnt...

 

[Kreed]

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Seriously, I'm hoping NOT to be in the top 20 this time around. :lol

Mission accomplished. I told you I'd do it Rewrite!

 

[Vox-Pop]

And still proudly do so!

Team Bleach!

 

[RagnarokX]

Its actually shocking that people wouldnt champion Bleach...

I mean, after years of building up the greatest villain known in manga history and seeing his downfall, it just blows my mind that people wouldnt...

Because it was a pretty big anticlimax? They build this up for waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer than it needed to be and then Ichigo gets a deus ex machina right before the final battle and finishes it all with the lamest looking final attack ever; ink spill.

 

[Anonymous Tipster]

Its actually shocking that people wouldnt champion Bleach...
I mean, after years of building up the greatest villain known in manga history and seeing his downfall, it just blows my mind that people wouldnt...

Wow, insulting One Piece and championing Bleach in only two pages. Not a good start, thread.

Also, Aizen is garbage and you know it.

 

[Trickster]

Wow, insulting One Piece and championing Bleach in only two pages. Not a good start, thread.

Also, Aizen is garbage and you know it.

I don't know man, I think he just enjoys action filled manga and anime, and don't give a shit whether it makes sense or not.

 

[Anonymous Tipster]

Eh, to each their own I suppose.

It reminds me when people were crying foul at the One Piece flash backs right after the war arc, simply because they weren't the war or the crew reunited. They were interesting, but since it's not what they wanted they were 'boring and lame'.

People!

 

[watervengeance]

Its actually shocking that people wouldnt champion Bleach...

I mean, after years of building up the greatest villain known in manga history and seeing his downfall, it just blows my mind that people wouldnt...

I'm actually surprised they didn't make the fight longer. So much potential wasted in my opinion.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

Beelzebub have already been released

It actually hasn't. Expect it on Friday.

Jump appears to be delayed this week so never mind that.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Because it was a pretty big anticlimax? They build this up for waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer than it needed to be and then Ichigo gets a deus ex machina right before the final battle and finishes it all with the lamest looking final attack ever; ink spill.

Come on, I dont think it was an anticlimactic event. Everyone I saw was going crazy over Mugetsu Ichigo and thought it was an awesome moment indeed. That aside, even with that happening, Aizen was ultimately still not defeated by Ichigo, as I think I predicted way back then. Werent you glad that he wasnt, and glad for Urahara being the one to truly save the day and stop Aizen?! Now that was unexpected!

 

[Stat Flow]

A new OT3. How exciting. I look forward to discussion, flaming, hating, and dickriding.

Of course, the day we get a new OT is when Jump is delayed. Goddamnit.

 

[Kusagari]

Wow, insulting One Piece and championing Bleach in only two pages. Not a good start, thread.

Also, Aizen is garbage and you know it.

Aizen was the only thing that made Bleach readable.

 

[smurfx]

i don't know whose defeat was more anti-climatic. aizens or orochimarus. orochimaru was build up for half of the manga and then becomes sasuke's and itachi's bitch. aizen was the ultimate boss and then has a cheap ass defeat. bah who cares i want hunter x hunter to come back. i miss hisoka.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Ok guys I will ask this again:


How is the quality of Big Viz release of Vagabond? Don't want pages falling out.

 

[pieatorium]

i don't know whose defeat was more anti-climatic. aizens or orochimarus. orochimaru was build up for half of the manga and then becomes sasuke's and itachi's bitch. aizen was the ultimate boss and then has a cheap ass defeat. bah who cares i want hunter x hunter to come back. i miss hisoka.

Aizens definately, Orochimarau was a shadow of his potential whereas Aizen was at his most hax. I havent really liked anything in HxH since the end of greed island other than a few of the powers shown.

 

[Noshino]

Naruto always delivered the action, it was bam, Naruto v Pain, bam, Sasuke v Kages, bam, Sasuke v Danzo, bam, Kisame v Bee, bam, Naruto v 9 tails, well thats where Im at. Whats happened in One Piece in the same time frame....Luffy crying, flashback, barely any fighting on the way to fishman isles, barely anything on the isles...In Bleach, there is just non stop high climax action too. I just want action in my One Piece.

wait what?.... you really think that there is more action on Naruto and Bleach than in One Piece?....

Buahaha, I mean, sure, Oda could always extent every single freaking page and make a whole chapter out of each....and it would probably still have more action/story than Naruto and Bleach

 

[flintstryker]

Its funny to see me at four considering i pretty much stopped reading anything and posting consistently for a few months now.

 

[Stat Flow]

I'm enjoying Bleach, One Piece, and Hitman Reborn right now. In Naruto, I don't know what the fuck is happening nor do I really care about any of the characters that have been shown in the last 10 chapters... (Minus Gaara and Kakashi, and even then his battle against Zabuza was lame). This war is turning out to be a clusterfuck that makes no sense, the only thing good has been the art, and even that fell short in the last chapter. Speaking of that last chapter, that truly accentuated the clusterfuck-ness of this war.

 

[Haly]

Kumagawa is the ultimate troll in manga.

Aizen is nothing compared to him.

lol hyping up monocle, no way he can be worse than Kumagawa.

 

[flintstryker]

I can't fathom how any one in their right mind would even entertain the thought of Aizen being the greatest villain of all time.

I think you guys need to read some mangas like say Grappler Baki and Baki Son Of Ogre Hanma Yujiro shits on Aizen from a great distance.


Seriously though Bleach is waaaaaaaaaay too slow for me to take it seriously and the fights are generally boring as fuck, which means i am far from glad that there is a lot of it, Naruto is better in that regard however i am still angry that they disregard the best Villain they had (Orochimaru) for some retarded eye fetish freak.

Fairy Tail was just basically the same shit every arc and was starting to fail me as the third rate One Piece wannabe that it is so i stopped reading it.

Hitman Reborn was just flat out uninteresting in the future arc after they found out that they were being dicked around by a guy to prepare them for the real white hair dude family or some shit.

Kekaishi - i stopped reading because i like it and wanted a lot to marathon whenever i start it back.

See the problem i have with at lot of these shonen mangas is that even though they have a lot of action, the actions are generally too frigging boring for me to give a damn, which is why i generally love One Piece as the buildup towards the big actions are generally great enough for me to care about why they are fighting this guy they are currently fighting.

 

[Zoe]

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Cool, I dodged the wall of shame!

 

[CoolS]

See the problem i have with at lot of these shonen mangas is that even though they have a lot of action, the actions are generally too frigging boring for me to give a damn, which is why i generally love One Piece as the buildup towards the big actions are generally great enough for me to care about why they are fighting this guy they are currently fighting.

Nicely put.

One Piece always gives us a good reason for the fights and we always now why it is happening and what the opponents motivations are. That's another reason it is my favourite Manga right now.

 

[Dresden]

Cool, I dodged the wall of shame!

By one post, even.

Kumagawa is the ultimate troll in manga.

Aizen is nothing compared to him.

lol hyping up monocle, no way he can be worse than Kumagawa.

All-Fiction is pretty much a giant troll on every retcon ever.

 

[Freshmaker]

I made it on to the wall of shame!

Wait, that's not a good thing...

What are you implying?

 

[Nocebo]

Reading Bleach is what I imagine it's like to be old, dying and suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Everything feels like it moves in slowmotion, you can't help but get a feeling of Déjà vu, there is nothing to look forward to and ultimately you just want it to be over, you keep thinking of the past and how things used to be better, there's all these new people around you but you don't know who the hell they are nor do you care etc.

 

[Freshmaker]

Wow, insulting One Piece and championing Bleach in only two pages. Not a good start, thread.

Also, Aizen is garbage and you know it.

They be hatin, I be smirkin'.

 

[Haly]

All-Fiction is pretty much a giant troll on every retcon ever.

Nisio: With this plot device I can do whatever the fuck I want! Fuck yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

 

[TheKaeptain]

Its actually shocking that people wouldnt champion Bleach...

I mean, after years of building up the greatest villain known in manga history and seeing his downfall, it just blows my mind that people wouldnt...

Seeing him get his ass kicked was the highlight of the series.

 

[Dresden]

Nisio: With this plot device I can do whatever the fuck I want! Fuck yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Monocles better be Kumogawa.

"You thought I was reconstructing my personality? LOLOLOLOL"

 

[Haly]

Watch the council win and he's all like "I made your victory become nothing".

Trollol

 

[Dedication Through Light]

wait what?.... you really think that there is more action on Naruto and Bleach than in One Piece?....

Buahaha, I mean, sure, Oda could always extend every single freaking page and make a whole chapter out of each....and it would probably still have more action/story than Naruto and Bleach

Oda needs to condense the chapters or at least be more focused on the events in the chapters. If it wasnt for the greatly designed environments then I would probably be up in arms about the pacing and the lack of consistent action in the series.

The build up to any sort of fighting in One Piece is, for example in this arc, extremely slow and unfocused, actually I dont even know what Luffy and co would be fighting for at this point. The plot is too complex and Ive completely lost focus.

Bleach had for the past 200 chapters (since Ichigo faced Grimmjow in Hueco Mundo), consistently, fight after fight after fight after fight, I think this arc has been the longest its been without any (if we ignore the Uryu incident and the panic at the dollhouse).

Reading Bleach is what I imagine it's like to be old, dying and suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Everything feels like it moves in slowmotion, you can't help but get a feeling of Déjà vu, there is nothing to look forward to and ultimately you just want it to be over, you keep thinking of the past and how things used to be better, there's all these new people around you but you don't know who the hell they are nor do you care etc.

Slowmotion?! What, everything feels as if it moves refreshingly fast, even reading a chapter feels like it moves too fast. I know in the past, so much would be covered that I would be shocked I finished reading it in under two minutes. (well in this arc Kubo has enhanced the writing by using exhaustive explations). Slowmotion, its only taken Ichigo three chapters to gain his powers back in this "training arc," now that isnt slow at all.

 

[TacticalFox88]

Bleach reads FAR better in chunks.

 

[flawfuls]

Hadou no Mon

Nice, a Yakuza that isn't super old. It's weird how few real Yakuza manga there are. It's great stuff, the writing is good and it's as manly as you would expect. My only complaint is that it's seems kinda racist.

 

[Noshino]

Nicely put.

One Piece always gives us a good reason for the fights and we always now why it is happening and what the opponents motivations are. That's another reason it is my favourite Manga right now.

Great art style, memorable characters, well paced, less predictable than most mangas and how small events or small details that are usually overlooked are actually brought up later on (I love this, it makes me go back and review previous chapters).

Those are the reasons as to why I like One Piece more than the rest.

 

[CoolS]

Great art style, memorable characters, well paced, less predictable than most mangas and how small events or small details that are usually overlooked are actually brought up later on (I love this, it makes me go back and review previous chapters).

Those are the reasons as to why I like One Piece more than the rest.

Those are the two features I wish mor manga would have.

You can almoste NEVER predict what is going to happen next with Oda's writing (maybe with the exception of WB dying) and even the tiniest thing can become relevant in the future. On of my favourite examples is Rayleigh.

 

[Dresden]

Oda gets a lot of credit for digging shit up from earlier chapters to use it later on. Too much, in fact.

 

[Noshino]

Oda needs to condense the chapters or at least be more focused on the events in the chapters. If it wasnt for the greatly designed environments then I would probably be up in arms about the pacing and the lack of consistent action in the series.

The build up to any sort of fighting in One Piece is, for example in this arc, extremely slow and unfocused, actually I dont even know what Luffy and co would be fighting for at this point. The plot is too complex and Ive completely lost focus.

Bleach had for the past 200 chapters (since Ichigo faced Grimmjow in Hueco Mundo), consistently, fight after fight after fight after fight, I think this arc has been the longest its been without any (if we ignore the Uryu incident and the panic at the dollhouse).

Yah, if you think that One Piece needs to be condensed (lol, how much more condensed do you want it to be?) yet like the fact that Ichigo has been fighting all this time with the story not developing much at all... something is wrong with you @_@

Slowmotion?! What, everything feels as if it moves refreshingly fast, even reading a chapter feels like it moves too fast. I know in the past, so much would be covered that I would be shocked I finished reading it in under two minutes. (well in this arc Kubo has enhanced the writing by using exhaustive explations). Slowmotion, its only taken Ichigo three chapters to gain his powers back in this "training arc," now that isnt slow at all.

It does feel like slowmotion, the story is horribly paced. Im a big believer that Bleach could fit on a children's book...

PS: Technically, we could say that at the very least, the "training arc" began on 431 with "Our purpose is to restore your shinigami powers"

 

[Angry Grimace]

Something needs to happen in Fairy Tail, Naruto or Bleach that isn't boring as shit.