[Manga Chat]

[Psycho666Soldier 250]

I just need to read the last 4 chapters of Wild Strawberry and then I'll be caught up on all the current stuff I care to be caught up on, so I'll be blitzing some JoJo's soon.  I expect you to finish before I even come close, though.

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So many new chapters today!!

 

Fabricant 100

 

It was pretty clear from the title page that this thing was over, and I immediately felt a bit relieved. This series has been decent but I wouldn't really mind if it went away. It was quite a good final chapter though, some really good panels with No. 100, and then I was a bit sad when I got to the last page. 

No. 100    

 

 

Tenmaku Cinema

 

Please say her mum likes the movie

 

Gokurakugai

 

I love the new guy   

 

Everything else was solid, just don't really have anything specific to comment on them...

 

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Polished off Diamond is Unbreakable today. Very solid overall. I enjoyed it. I guess it still more or less follows the "and here's another stand user!" formula that I didn't like at times in Stardust Crusaders... I just tended to like the new characters and stands in Diamond is Unbreakable better than the ones in Stardust Crusaders. Now I'll give JJBA a little break, but I do look forward to starting on Golden Wind eventually.

 

I'll take my first look at Martial Master Asumi tonight as my bed-time story  

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I zipped through all the available chapters of Martial Master Asumi last night. I like it a lot! I will definitely keep reading it every week  I like Nito, great main characters. Also, I totally would have picked the girl with the glasses too   This reminds of lots of the things I liked in Neru: Way of the Martial Artist. Hopefully Asumi sticks around longer. It's an interesting contrast having just read a ton of JoJo. They're both shonen, and they boil down to dudes fighting other dudes (and dudettes!), but in JoJo you have stands and supernatural powers, special abilities with sometimes complex rules and all that stuff that you have to remember, whereas in MMA you've just got people fighting the old fashioned way. Makes me appreciate the simplicity of more realistic shonen, even though I do still love the more fantastical shonen series too (HxH being one of my all-time favourites, Nen is cool as anything... but also rather complicated!)

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Tenmaku Cinema

A very solid ending, I liked it. I am left wanting more, but I'd rather that than to have something drag on too long and tire of it.

 

Elusive Samurai #125

I totally forgot about her... Kind of a random appearance, but the squad really needed the help!

 

Shojo Null went to a bi-weekly schedule. The mini-chapter to announce that was cute.

 

Akane-banashi #77

I really liked this chapter. Everybody's fired up to get better! Makes me feel a bit more ambitious just reading it.

 

Asumi #12

Glad they skipped ahead to this tournament without wasting much time on the prep for it, getting permission, etc. I am excited to see the next fight!

 

New series MamaYuyu: I didn't exactly love it, but there were some really interesting pages with good art and nifty panel layout ideas. I'll give it a few more chapters to see if it hooks me.

[Psycho666Soldier 250]

Still gotta catch up on some of the rest from both this and last week, but I really liked Tenmaku Cinema:

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It's hard to tell whether it ended short because a lack of success or if it was always intended to be this short.  I had been thinking once this movie is made, there's not as much mileage on them making movies after being accepted.  So as a short story, I really enjoyed it.  I feel like it could make a good film/OVA, so I hope the short run was intended.

 

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3 hours ago, Psycho666Soldier said:

Still gotta catch up on some of the rest from both this and last week, but I really liked Tenmaku Cinema:

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It's hard to tell whether it ended short because a lack of success or if it was always intended to be this short.  I had been thinking once this movie is made, there's not as much mileage on them making movies after being accepted.  So as a short story, I really enjoyed it.  I feel like it could make a good film/OVA, so I hope the short run was intended.

 

I was very satisfied with the ending, and that made it feel to me like it was planned that way. Didn't feel like it was cancelled/ended on short notice. Or, if the author had hoped for this to run longer, then they at least had a back-up plan in mind to make it a shorter story if needed. In any case, yeah, it was executed really nicely as a short story. I'd love to see this animated as a movie or a short two- or three-part OVA. 

I agree that once they had the first film in the bag, there wasn't much left to do. I suppose it could have continued and the characters could go on to a bigger film project, and encounter newer and bigger challenges, sort of like part story and part edutainment about filmmaking. But that feels a bit too niche to me. Having said that, PPPPPP went 70 chapters and Akane-banashi is closing in on 80 chapters and still seems to be going strong, and manga about aspiring pianists and rakugoka is probably just as niche as manga about aspiring filmmakers... Who knows.

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Chainsaw Man #142

Another 14-pager... boo. But only seven days 'til the next one drops, and it looks like the sparks are really gonna fly in the next week. Time for Chainsaw Man to get his groove back!

Also, I can't tell if this chick is just messing with Denji, but if she was being sincere then the whole "I'm a Denji fan" thing was very sweet.

Also also, it's crude and very basic humour but the wiener talk always gets a giggle out of me  

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In other news, I guess I lied about putting JoJo on the backburner for a while. I haven't been getting good sleeps for over a week because I'm trying to save money by cutting back on booze. I have had some rather boring sober evenings (into nights) where I can't get to sleep, so I start reading manga. My early review on Golden Wind (only 20-something chapters in) is that it's not as good as Diamond is Unbreakable. Not bad, but clearly not as good so far. Hopefully it gets better. 

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YuYu Hakusho just hit the vault in the Jump app!

 

 

Commence binge reading in 3, 2, 1...!

[Psycho666Soldier 250]

I saw that and considered doing the same because I never finished the anime proper.

 

Akane-banashi #76 and 77

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A pretty lovely pair of chapters that really brought this whole festival arc around.  It was nice to see some emotion and development from the other apprentices removed from Akane.  And you can still feel how heartbroken Akane is, but she's got her spark back and it's got me excited for whatever comes next.

 

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I read about 10 chapters of YuYu Hakusho last night. Feels good man. I love the anime too. It's a shame that Togashi can't finish things properly, but the not-so-great ending doesn't ruin the rest of it for me. Such a great story.

 

Also, totes agree re: Akane-banashi  

[Revolver 25]

I was looking for it just a little bit ago and was disappointed I couldn’t find it on the app and didn’t want to buy it. Looks like I know what I’ll be reading now!

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You guys check out the new series this week? (Kagurabachi)

 

I thought the first chapter was pretty rad.