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I never gave Otr of the Flame a try. Kinda assumed it wouldn't last. I just looked it up in the Jump app and apparently chapter # 34 (just a couple weeks ago) was the final chapter. So, if I'm ever bored, I guess I might as well zip through it. Wouldn't take long to read 34 chapters. Of the other new-ish ones that I never tried out, Ichi the Witch seems to be doing well (67 chapters and counting, and seems to be popular). Shinobi Undercover and Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi are also in the 60-70 chapter ballpark so there must be something good about them. I think I'd rather wait for some of these to finish, and then check them out and binge-read them if they're good enough. I highly recommend Someone Hertz if you haven't started on it yet. It's very good IMHO. Also, are you caught up on Witch Watch? It's starting to get really exciting again. Higher stakes than collecting butterflies.
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I finally got up to Akane-banashi #187 after being behind for a little over a month, and I absolutely love the way Kaisei is characterized. We finally got a glimpse into his personal feelings and he's actually a really nice, likeable guy - but fundamentally driven by the opposite means around Shiguma's Art, so can't truly be friends with Akane. At least not as artists. Very excited to catch up on this God of Death training arc Once I catch up on Akane-banashi, I think I'm gonna force myself to start 2 of the new series(catching up on Gonron Egg and either Someone Hertz or Kingdom) and then gonna read Under Doctor and check that out, because the first few pages and the art REALLY intrigued me I didn't read this one just because I'm not normally a sports fan so I usually need someone telling me it's great to check it out, but I'm still mad about Martial Master Asumi. It's weird because it kinda felt like it was a series destined for cancellation, but also felt like it had so much quality and potential to be huge if given the chance. There was another couple I know we both got pretty attached to that was cut pretty early. Hunter's Guild was disappointing. Still haven't checked out anymore of Otr of the Flame which could maybe be good, but I was kinda meh on the first chapter
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Harukaze Mound ended today at 30 chapters. That was a bit of a bummer. For a hurried ending, it wrapped up pretty nicely. I would have liked to get more of this story instead of rushing straight to the ending (time skip) but at least it was an uplifting ending. I'll fill in all the blanks with my imagination I guess. It sure seems tough for sports manga to last. Ekidon Bros (marathon running) didn't get past 20 chapters. It wasn't an incredible series or anything, but I thought it was enjoyable enough. The recent-ish golf and ping pong mangas also got cut rather quickly. And of course Martial Master Asumi didn't last super long despite being quite good IMHO. Blue Box, on the other hand, seems to be going strong still. I still haven't read it. Tried watching the first episode when it premiered on Netflix and it didn't really grab me. Maybe I should give it a second chance. The new one this week is called Under Doctor. An assassin turned doctor (presumably an underworld, back alley, kinda doctor?) I'm not going to try it out just yet. I'll wait and see if any of the other new ones I'm reading (Gonron, Someone Hertz, Mage Next Door, JJK Modulo) have any staying power. Odds are at least one of them will end prematurely if the popularity isn't there. So I'll wait for another one to end eventually before trying another new one. I'm enjoying learning more about Shomei in Akane-banashi. Wasn't happen to see... Zensho (?) appear in the final pages though. He's probably going to do something with the Isshokai to mess with Akane
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Agreed on both! I enjoyed this week’s chapter of Elusive Samurai a lot. One last game of tag 🥲 The idea of using fun house mirrors to get to the real Uzuki in Sakamoto Days was clever too. I’m curious to see what twists and turns remain in this fight. I doubt Sakamoto has solved Uzuki’s multiple personality thing this easily…?
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Ahh, so it looks like Tokiyuki doesn't want to allow Takauji to have his head or make him commit suicide or submission. I fully dig that! Excited to see how it all plays out. Loved the most recent Sakamoto Days. Trapping Uzuki in a mirror house is so simple but makes sense with Takamura's personality. Classic Sakamoto action panels in this one
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Happy birthday to: Nairn Smoith (40) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Last year's defeated games 1. Hades 2 (credits + epilogue) Beat this on the 1st, so it counts!
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This week’s episode of JJK was epic stuff. Unsurprisingly, it had nothing to do with rules for the Culling Game Maki is a savage Poor Mai
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New year, new games beaten. My list from last year: Definitely a much better showing than 2024. Far happier with what I played last year overall. I have a couple already for this year as well. 1.) The Roottrees are Dead This is one that really took me by surprise. I was reading a list of "Best Indie Games of 2025" type of thing from a game journalist I like/trust the opinion of an noticed this one among a few other titles that seemed interesting and decided to grab it while it was on sale. At face value it's a very simple investigation type of game. A plane crash takes the life of a family tied to a prominent candy company, including the current President of the company. You are hired to investigate the family's genealogy and build out a family tree starting from the founder of the company using internet, magazine, and library searches. What I thought would be a fun little puzzle game to play on the side while I played other stuff ended up consuming ALL my free time as I got sucked into the narrative and digging into the intrigues of this family. I don't know what it is, but it really scratched an itch I didn't know I had when it comes to investigation style games. And even better, once the family tree is finished, there's an extra bit where you dig up a major family secret and you think you're done AND THEN THE OTHER HALF OF THE GAME BEGINS. It takes the training wheels off, and you REALLY have to pay attention to what you're doing as you start digging into affairs of prominent family members and attempt to find "missing" branches of the family tree. It was an incredibly satisfying experience for something so straight forward. 2.) Immortals of Aveum In contrast, this game was a bit of a hot mess. I wanted to like it, and it had some honestly impressive world building and background info and a story that was just good enough not to shut it off, but the gameplay was pretty repetitive and a bit annoying and it's like the dialogue was written by someone who had done nothing but watch MCU movies their entire life to the point that it felt almost nothing but strung together sarcastic attempts at witty quips nonstop. Despite that, I actually liked a few of the characters, but the narrative itself was painfully predictable and there were some story moments that were just plain irritating and I may have actually yelled at the TV a couple times in frustration at the choices being made by some of the characters. There was a solid foundation, and there could have been a good game in there somewhere with the right execution, but it definitely fell short in the long run. At least it didn't feel like a total waste of time thanks to the aforementioned enjoyable characters.
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Happy bday @KR ! Come back and say hi sometime
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Happy birthday to: KR (39) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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It certainly would be less of a heartbreaker if Tokiyuki dies from illness, so I agree that would be much less of a gut punch. I guess it would feel somewhat anti-climactic though Still don't want it to end
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God, Elusive Samurai #234 is so bittersweet. It almost feels like, "what was it all for?" In a good way narratively, it's just such a bitter pill to swallow. Almost would have been less a kick in the balls for Tokiyuki to die by his disease. It's amazing how quickly you can blaze through multiple chapters of Sakamoto Days and how nicely it flows that way. Was behind for a while but got caught up this morning and I'm still in awe of how the action is laid out. Have to imagine we're setting up for the final fight finally. At least for Uzuki. Loved the Spy x Family mini chapter on Schlag and it explains so much about her. I love that we got to see another side of her these last few chapters and that she's not just some one-dimensional villain. That said, I get the feeling this incident with Henderson is about to lead to the State Police cracking down on Eden and getting closer to finding Twilight. I'm intrigued. Still gotta catch up on the newest series. I've read a couple first chapters but need to get further
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First episode just came out last Friday 1/16
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Didn't know another season of Frieren was out. Going to have to check that out.
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It's a little late, but here is the 2026 anime thread. Whatchu watchin'!? MAL Winter 2026 page AniChart Winter 2026 Lots of heavy hitters airing this season I am enjoying Fate/strange Fake, Trigun Stargaze, Frieren, and Hell's Paradise. I'm also watching JJK even though I did not enjoy the Culling Game arc in the manga. Still holding out hope that the anime will make it better. The first few episodes were mostly a snooze-fest though. Too many rules @h2ojunkie @Tassifox @Psycho666Soldier @Vic Boss @Anelle @Eizan coooooome baaaaaacccckkkkkk
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Elusive Samurai # 234 It's almost over for Tokiyuki and the boys I feel conflicted about this arrangement with Takauji. It makes sense and all that, but it's somewhat of a bummer at the same time. Tokiyuki is a true leader though, that's for sure Very curious to see his final shenanigans in the last chapter(s) Kurumizawa's Folly # 12 I feel bad for Hata, what a messed up life for this poor kid. The last page of this chapter... Sakamoto # 244 I saw it coming a mile away but this was chapter was still 100% awesome. Sakamoto comes back at just the right time. Bad ass. And then writing on the camera Kagurabachi # 108 This fight has been epic. Look forward to this title more and more every week. Very gritty art style. Witch Watch # 232 It's getting serious again! I am very excited for this arc, hopefully it doesn't let me down. Someone Hertz # 17 Beautiful colour cover pages in this chapter. I love the characters and character designs in this series. Mizuo The page of her crying on the swing was very impactful. You'll get 'em next time! Spy Fam # 127.3 Amusing little back story Ms. Schlag (Goraimaru Narukami )
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Pretty sure I finished the Hades 2 epilogue and it's kinda not worth it, honestly. The ending that you get before the credits was way more satisfying
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I think you beat Hades 2 a day or two after me, lol. I made it my goal to hit credits in Hades 2 before the new year. 1. DOOM: The Dark Ages 2. 📱 Balatro 3. Diablo IV 4. Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred 5. Donkey Kong Bananza 6. Control 7. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound 8. (Famicom Disk System) The Legend of Zelda 9. / Hades 2 (first time) 10. (Famicom Disk System) Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 11. (Famicom Disk System) Metroid 12. Dispatch 13. Metroid Prime 4 14. Metroid Prime 1: Remastered 15. / Hades 2 My thoughts pretty much echo Kyle's. I had a similar thing to the first game where I fell off hard in early access, but when it came out in 1.0 I was hooked again, especially since I got it on the Switch 2 as well as the PC. The cross save syncing wasn't perfect, but the fact that it works at all is fucking awesome. I'm still working through the epilogue stuff, but much like Hades 1, i'm kinda ready for it to be over completely. Like Kyle said, with Hades 1 you beat it around 8 or 10 times to get the full ending and that was it, but with Hades 2 you had to beat both final bosses multiple times, AND THEN you have to do a bunch of other things like get your relationship levels up with certain characters to a certain level, there are some characters that have gone missing between games and you get vague hints as to where they are after you roll credits and you've gotta do THAT. I'm still definitely enjoying my time, but I don't really know if i'll have the same urge to beat it after going through it a few more times. Just after the credits alone i've beaten the underworld boss around 8 times and i'm still not finished, so doing that for so many times in a row gets kinda frustrating.
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19.) Hades 2 I think I liked this one even more than the first one. Same general formula, but just enough added to it to keep it fresh and some fun twists to expectations here and there. I'm sure there's still a TON more to do like there was with the first one, but I hit the point where the main objective is complete and the credits rolled (which required beating the "main" end boss about 8 times, and the "other" end boss about 4 or 5 times if I remember correctly), so I'm calling that good enough though I may continue to play it for a while off and on to see where it goes from there. Only thing that was a little disappointing is they didn't swap out bosses sometimes to keep things fresh like in the first one, though with the 2 different paths you can take it makes sense. The two options kept things fresh enough that it was only a minor gripe. 20.) A Plague Tale: Requiem Jesus, this game was bleak as hell. It pretty well rivals The Last of Us 2 for being a relatively unpleasant experience in terms of story. I once described TLOU2 as "It's a good game, but I didn't have fun playing it." and I think I'd apply that to this one too. The first one could be rough at times, but it balanced out the unpleasant parts with some more light hearted stuff and had an overall happy ending. This one was just depressing nearly the whole way through and the few small "happy" moments seemed brief, and the point where the "other shoe drops" were telegraphed pretty heavily so it was hard to enjoy them. From a gameplay standpoint, much of it is improved, but the AI of the rats was way more finicky and obnoxious so it made the overall experience more frustrating which was disappointing since the environmental rat "puzzles" in the first game really stood out to me as well designed and elevated the experience there, where it definitely diminishes things here. I'm still glad I played it, but had no intention of every playing it again honestly. I'm curious to see if they'll do another sequel that leads off of the after credits scene because that could be pretty interesting, but for the time being it looks like they're making a spin-off game, but it centers around one of the better characters introduced in the 2nd one, so I'll definitely check it out. Not sure I'll beat anything else before the new year, but I'm happy I managed to beat more than 10 games this year. Stopping most of the live service shit I was playing definitely made a huge difference.
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We had a pretty good Xmas overall. A couple of long days because I’ve had this cold for a week or so and there was so much going on. I was tired Fortunately I’ve pretty well kicked the cold now. My kiddos and wife all enjoyed their gifts. Great success! I got a couple of nice bottles of booze to slowly enjoy over the course of the winter. Trying to cut back a bit these days
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Happy birthday to: Deimos (41) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Today's Birthdays - Nick (whover THAT is)
h2ojunkie replied to Birthday Greeter's topic in General Insanity
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Took the whole week off for christmas. I had my kids for most of it because all of my family came to town this year. Didn't do anything crazy, just hanging out with them mostly. Took some family photos. Spent christmas eve with my lady friend. Went on a mountain bike ride with a big group of people and had some food with them afterwards. Had dinner with her family. Christmas was pretty relaxed at my parents house in the afternoon. All the kids were excited about presents. Got my kids some clothes, legos, earings, some stone mushrooms for the girl and swords for the boy. Couple of puzzles for the family and a block stacking game. I got myself a bike light during black friday along with some clothes, so I didn't really need anything. Parents still gave me some money in my stocking.
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Today's Birthdays - Nick (whover THAT is)
webhead replied to Birthday Greeter's topic in General Insanity
Happy birthday dude! ❤️
