So... I don't know how many on this forum get and read Weekly Boy's demographic jump, and I'd like to discuss it with some other people.
Cover - I think Mr. Burdis would like this cover nice and bright very eye catching, also 300 million copies of One Piece sold in japan alone wow! wonder how many world wide it's sold.
One Piece Chapter 726: The Riku family - Ok here we are now warriors from the tournament are being sent to a chasm of toys and themselves turned into toys why? I dunno but also it feels like we may be heading into flashback town so grab your hankies and or tissues? So we'll have to see, the colour cover is very nice I really like that Sanji always had an eye for pretty girls/ladies. Favorite panel I'm already cheating because it two on page 19 when the King of the Tantata's is giving a brief look at their history and the other fairies are reacting to his words.
Toriko Gourmet 256: True Enemy!! - finally feels like this mega arc of Toriko is ending but what was Acadia plan all along and whats up with arm and leg my guess is that Komatsu has done something with the dark art's, not much to say feels like the wind down and little bits are given to us. my favorite panel is page 34 Paste Phlegm!!
Naruto Number 653: I'm Always Watching. This was my favorite chapter of Naruto since getting WSJ, I think it's Kishimoto character acting in this was very strong especially for obito who I've been kinda cold on. I don't know what he'll do probably join Naruto and face the other threat, my panel of choice will have to be on page 51 because it made me go awww (I'm a big softy).
World Trigger Chapter 37: Osamu Mikumo: Part 6 - So we end the fight between Mikumo & Kazama in (dramatic drum roll) a tie ok so Mikumo lost twenty times before that but what is everyone talking about the tie Amatori is apologizing for SHOOTING A MASSIVE HOLE IN THE WALL. You don't need to apologize for that that was awesome you are my favorite of the trilogy now which panel to choose hmmm? This one! page 80 Jin and all the neighbors badass.
Bleach 555. The Hero - Ichigo has a new look... ...again, ok so I like this new look don't know why yet, this one is very much a dragonball Goku running back to help his friends chapter, and we see what the quincies new form looks like hopefully see what this entails for the other soul reapers. my panel out of all the panels is definitely on page 90 it seems Ichigo has finally lighten up a lot saying he'll sneak off and have some food.
Nisekoi chapter 97: Request - Raku on a date with Marika and there's a mystery also her friend wacky and possibly Bi probally not this being Japan, I like Nisekoi for two reasons one is it's still pretty funnny which helps in the harem comedy story and the art is very good, can't say much about he mystery cause I know these character very little. now from this harem of panels I'll pick 105's last panel what is she doing?
One Punch Man special bonus chapter - man the art in this is great what to choose what to choose i'll take page 144 BANG! the story in OPM is getting better and better and funnier and funnier can't wait for the next chapter hope it's next week :D . If not guess I'll wait. :(
Blue Exorcist chapter 51:A Fool is the one whos is tricked - I don't know what's going on here really some dudes attacked these dudes so now there saving another dude. looks pretty. no panel pick :( not really invested enough.
Dragon Ball DBZ: 38 The Moon - So Goku won yay!! No of course not this is dragon ball we got another dozen chapters to go if my memory of the cartoon is right, ok I'm being silly now Dragon Ball in colour looks really nice the font not so much, The story in the manga goes at a nice pace if anything i wish i could enjoy it blind if no prior knowledge of the story like I am with the pre-DBZ series at the moment.My strongest panel is on Page 192 his tail goes like an angrey cat hee hee :lol: .
This has been a great chapter all together my favorite one I've read.
next week Seraph of the End :| I quit. bye! :wave:
Hawkmonger and I typically have a few words to say about WSJ in the New Comics Megathread every week. If you want to join in.
I actually haven't finished reading this week's issue yet. But as for One-Piece. I've I'm getting the gist of it, I think Don Quixote is turning all of his potential rivals into Toys just to get them out of the way. Using the tournament to let them tire themselves out and get them all in one place.
I actually look forward to hearing TA's words each week on the WSJ. For a while I thought i was the only person on here who read Shonen ( through collected editions) so getting the WSJ app was top of my list when I went digital. The attitude on this forum when it comes to niche comics is so much more tolerant than on more restrictive manga forums where they seem to have developed a snobby attitude. On the line up....
One Piece is always a winner for me. It's endlessly fun and knows how to get the right mix of action and down right silly to please my inner child. Doflamingo seem's to have been planning this arc's events for sometime, as he's been a constant thorn in the side oft he Straw Hats (albeit without them knowing) since day one. I think since Doflamingo has a devil fruit ability that is somehow compatible with that of his subordinates, as Trebol is the one who turns people into toys, Ceaser who enables them with artificial devil fruits and Violet who can see over the island through objects. Having a string based power he seem's be be acting as a puppet master over them....what confuses me though is his benefactor, Kedo of the four emperors, what does he exactly get from Doflamingo producing the DF smile?....
Bleach is another favourite of mine, indeed it was the first comic I ever read. Ichigo got new threads......again. And new zanpakuto.....again. But Kubo seem's to have left to many threads dangling to have the, wrapped up so quickly. The Fullbringers, Hollows, Arrancar and human world have all yet to get involved in the war with threads that have previously been established, but Kubo's writing style and erratic changes in pace often make it hard to predict when anything will be resolved.
Naruto just exists for me. It's lame, but neither here or there. I could easily live without it, but it's not offending me to any real degree. It just sort of is. Nisokoi on the other hand had potential. I quite enjoy love triangles if written correctly, and the first few chapter showed potential. But then it turned into your typical harem series with a few decent one off chapters. Vastly preferred Cross Menage, long may it rest in piece.
World Trigger, right, not bad all said and done. The art is a bit smooth but give it time and i'm sure it'll look just fine. The story is a bit by the numbers, but in that respect it's like a soft, worn pair of slippers. You can just slip the, on and no fuss. It's a little bit sad though that I think Chika isn't given nearly enough panel time. Her story arc seem's much more interesting than that of Kuga or Mikumo. I mean, the bloody girl blew a while through a think wall by accident. Bitches be crazy!
Toriko has finally brought me round. Though it isn't the greatest thing in the jump, it's not half bad. Some clever ideas and some utterly out there ideas, cool creature designs and completely hyperbolic action scenes. It could be so much worse. Frankly though I know little about beyond the recent flash back arc on Froese and Acacia. I might well start picking up the collections.
One-Punch Man is the dogs balls and no one anyone says can change that. It's just to awsome to be described in a single sentence, so i'll just talk about this weeks chapter. As a one off, it was good. It could have been easy for a fairly weekly 'monster of the week' series like OPM to just repeat the same stories very quickly, but it really doesn't seem to be running out of ideas anytime soon. And Saitama might well just be the most human superhero in recent comic book history.
Blue Exorcist and Seraph of the End or very similar to one another in terms of how i view them. i have limited experience with either, but enjoy them very much. They are kind of in the same boat as Toriko as I know so little about them, though Seraph is early days yet. Have started reading Blue Exorcist from the beginning though.
DBZ is just a bonus for me. I already know the whole story of by heart after a dozen reruns as a kid. Seeing the original art in colour is very cool though.
If I could ask for any other series to be included, Gintama, Tegami Bachi, Claymore and D.Gray-Man would all make good contributions to the fold, even if they are all from Jump Squared and the massive extra load each month might make it improbable. I have a solution to this. Drop Nisokoi. I mean it.
Toriko greatest strength has been it's fight scene one most fans point to is Toriko vs. Tommy Rod thats in Volume 10. series I'd like to see in jump JoJo's Bizarre Adventure from begining yes part ones bit meh but it's short and part two is great.
I'd be down for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I've heard its pretty wacky. But its been running for a while, yes? And its weekly? I don't think English Jump would be likely to serialize it from the beginning.
Somewhat related, have you guys been following Crunchyroll and their rollout of Day and Date digital Kodansha manga? Because that's a thing (http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga)
Unfortunately its a subscription based digital streaming service, and not a 'buy what you want' service like Viz.
But... day and date Attack on Titan!
wow cool hope they do Vinland Saga that is a great story highly reconmend
Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes, thank you TA! Now I can keep up with SNK and Fairy Tail! I always thought Kodansha could make a killing from a monthly publicant.
I'd also be up for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. And Magi, Kingdom of Magic as well. That's Shonen Sunday I think.
And while where talking about accessible manga by week, there's always Yen Press's Yen+ (http://www.yenpress.com/yenplus/). I believe it's a downloadable PDF for desktops rather than a tablet feature but it might be doable. Monthly Soul Eater and Jack Frost is worth £2 i'd say.
does it has Yotsuba? cause if yes may have to consider it. Magi I got the first volume and really enjoyed it looking forward to the next.
No Yotsuba i'm afraid but it does have the rather good Infernal Machines.
Wondered this yesterday, have any of the SJ crossovers been published yet? Thus far I think theres been a One Piece/Toriko one and a One Piece/Dragon Ball Z.
I bought one issue of Japanese Jump back in the summer, I think digital Japanese Jump was new at the time and I was curious how different from English Jump it really was. It was the big anniversary issue* that the One-Piece/Dragon Ball Z crossover ran. And while it was pretty short, and I couldn't read it, it just oozed charm. I was quite disappointed that it hasn't ran in English Jump. Perhaps its tied into some kind of licencing thing, or maybe English Jump is saving it for a light page-count week. But I would like to see it translated.
*another thing I quite liked about this issue of Japanese Jump, was that it ran a bunch of color versions of its most popular strips. English Jump did that too, but Japanese Jump also ran the regular Black and White versions too!
Dragonball One Piece cross epoch was already printed in the english shonen jump monthly magazine
Thanks guys. That just leaves the One Piece x Toriko one (there where a few others but featuring series that aren't published in the English edition so I highly doubt we'll be seeing them) and with a bit of look that'll get the one shot treatment at sometime.
OK. This weeks issue (#4/#5) is listed as having a single page missing in Toriko. I have deleted and re-downloaded as advised but to no avail. Is anyone else having this issue?
I didn't notice a missing page what was it of do they say
I did a bit of research and it seems to be sorted now
Don't forget to read and vote for the 6 Shonen Jump Manga Competition finalists! (https://mangaaward.shonenjump.com/en)
Interesting that none of them are from Japan.
I voted for Morning Star some I found not very engaging
Here it is. Tried several times but its still there. :(
Quote from: The Adventurer on 24 December, 2013, 11:27:29 AM
Don't forget to read and vote for the 6 Shonen Jump Manga Competition finalists! (https://mangaaward.shonenjump.com/en)
Interesting that none of them are from Japan.
The Japanese edition is running it's own competition. We're only being invited to vote for our fellow gaijin.
Yes.
Yes!
YESSSSSSS!
*punches the air repeatedly*
I GOT MY CHRISTMAS WISH! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-12-26/viz-shonen-jump-to-run-all-you-need-is-kill-manga)
Got in from a night out, slightly tippsy. That news sobbered me up right and proper. Excelent news.
Cool love that mans' art
Next issue will be my 1 year anniversary reading Weekly Shonen Jump. It's always interesting looking back on the my first year on a title. Especially when that title is a weekly serial anthology, which are a very uncommon breed in English.
I'd been aware of previous versions of Jump in the past, when it was a monthly print anthology. But it's line up never seemed to appeal to me. Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragon Ball always seemed predominant. Neither of which I had any interest in, and I had no reference for One-Piece, Bleach, and Naruto. All of which seemed like more of the same. Which was too bad, because I really wanted to read another serial anthology. In particular a manga based one. Unfortunately I never found a manga anthology with a line-up that really grabbed at my tastes. Somewhat mature action/adventure.
But alas. At the time it just wasn't to be.
Fast forward to late 2012 though, I'd just bought myself a brand new iPad. With the express purpose of switching to full digital for all my comic reading. (An experiment that has pretty much been a rousing success on all fronts btw). But at the time I was still working on transitioning from one format to the other and looking for new digital reading material while I was working through the last of my print pulls. I was reading through Anime News Network and came across an article about The recently relaunched, digital only, English version of Weekly Shonen Jump. The big news is that was going day and date with Japan. The other news was that they would be printing Akira Toriyama's Kintoki one-shot in the next issue. I wasn't too interested in the day and date thing, since I didn't read any of it. But the idea of a stand alone one-shot sounded interesting. And the best part?
Weekly Shonen Jump is only one dollar an issue!
Because that's the rub, if WSJ wasn't so dang cheap, I probably wouldn't have taken a chance on it. As it were, I actually got a little impatient since the Kintoki issue wasn't out yet I wound up taking a shot at the latest issue. The first day and date issue.
What I found was interesting to say the least. Let me be clear, I don't fear coming into long running series mid stride. If I did I wouldn't be reading 2000 AD, or Savage Dragon, or Usagi Yojimbo, or (at one time) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In fact I often relish the opportunity as it means I can not only keep up with current events, but also gradually fill in the missing gaps. Double the pleasure!
To say WSJ is heavy with long running series is a bit of an understatement. At the time One-Piece was coming to the conclusion of an arc, as was Bleach, Naruto was starting one, and Toriko was in the middle of one (I think). Nisekoi and Cross Manage were the newest series, one being rather episodic and the other easy enough to follow if you've seen a sports anime before. It was certainly a strange mix of sense bombardment.
Oh, and there was one brand new series. One-Punch Man. Which, looking back, is what truly rewarded my impatience. If I had missed its first installment I'd have really been pissed at myself. Best series of 2013. Hands down.
After the Kintoki issue came out I was quickly falling in love with WSJ in general. Toriko was pure madness, in a good way. I was starting to understand the hype around One-Piece. Cross Manage was surprisingly endearing (RIP). Once Blue Exorcist rolled around I found a lot to like in it too (though it got a little bogged down mid year). World Trigger would launch and while not the most exciting comic, it's entertaining enough. In all only three strips were total dogs in my eyes; Nisekoi (so generic it physically hurts), Naruto (a year latter I still have no idea what's going on), and Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal (actually is visually interesting, but a complete shill of a comic).
Which brings me to this week. Today as the release of a special bonus issue that premiered the new strip, All You Need Is Kill. Regular Jump is off this week due to a holiday in Japan, so this was a pretty welcome way to spare us another Jump-free week. I'm actually pretty excited about the inclusion of this comic. I'm a big sci-fi fan in general, and I love my sci-fi violent and somewhat thought provoking. Based on this first installment, this looks like it's going to deliver both in spades.
I just like the fact that English WSJ seems to be taking more chances with older audience material. Seraph of the End premiered a few months ago, that one also tends to push more mature themes and situations. Jump is slowly starting to become the kind of manga anthology I was looking for all those years ago. And that's what's got me the most excited for its future I think. If 2013 was anything to go by, my second year is going to be just as exciting as the first. Can't wait!
I would say in my readin of the weekly the one series that surprised me was Bleach since it's return has became really entertaining especially this current fight being a lapsed wraslin fan Mask is a character of the year for me. One Piece may have it's new golden arc with Punk Hazard set up and Dressrosa. Naruto... Toriko wow that fight with Starjun was intense but the arc lasted almost all year and got a bit tiring. Nisekoi I was liking especially the Mother chapter with Raku working at another sweet shop, but last week just made me cringe, Yu-gi-oh it card games and is really silly for how serious they make it. Blue Exorcist not into this, World Trigger series that survived the opening block and has improved more and more. Dragon Ball really good only seen the anime and my god how much padding that had this is just lean action. One Pinch man my second favourite after one piece but the art is the best. I'm glad that this finally got released in the uk this year and hope for more series to be added next year.
Another pair of thumbs up from me. Once again it's Naruto, YuGiOh and Nisokoi that continuesly dissapoint, frustrate and infuriate. Putting those three aside though, WSJ is one of the most consistently grat anthologies on the market.
Both Bleach and One Piece are old friends of mine being amongst the first comics I ever read, so even if the current arcs wherent incredibly fun in their own right I would still be reading them for that lovely smell of nostalgia.
Toriko and Blue Exorcist where boths eries I was familiar with going in but had never read before, both have been big surprises to me and are often highlights of my week.
Completely new titles Cross Menage, World Trigger, Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, Seraph of the End and, of course, One-Punch Man have all proven to be successes and contribute to my continual enthusiasm for the fold.
All You Need is Kill looks to be another promising addition to the series and I am very happy with the first chapter and indeed how the entire comic book compliments itself so well.
Japan Weekly Shonen Jump has four new series kicking off this month (http://fast.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-29/nura-shiibashi-durarara-narita-to-launch-shonen-jump-manga). Hope we get one or two!
According to the pod cast, one of those series will replace DBZ in a few weeks.
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 February, 2014, 12:56:38 PM
According to the pod cast, one of those series will replace DBZ in a few weeks.
DBZ is massive filler; surely everyone and their dog read it before? The colour is hardly a selling point.
Which series did they say it would be Hawkmonger?
Didn't say official announcment in next weeks podcast, I will keep ye informed.
Young Jump has 3 new series launching as well. (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-02-01/young-jump-magazine-to-start-3-new-manga)
So, maybe some more possibilities on the table.
This one is the most interesting of the 3 Young Jump stories -
Yokohama-sen Doppelganger (Yokohama Line Doppelganger, seen bottom right in image) by Vanessa Chihiro Tamaki is a personal story of two people who fight against fate in the midst of a chain of serial murders. In the crime pursuit suspense manga, the two protagonists can only believe in themselves. The series will debut in the 11th issue on February 13.
It would break up the almost exlusively action oriented line up that we currently have.
Of the new Shonen Jump series, I hope we get this one -
The "winter revolution" will begin with the fantasy crime action series Illegal Rare (top right in image) by Hiroshi Shiibashi (Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan). This new title will begin in the 11th issue on February 10.
I'm not a fan of romantic comedy or sports manga and Stealth Symphony looks a bit too cutesy and generically shonen.
We're getting Stealth Symphony -
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-02-06/ryohgo-narita-stealth-symphony-joins-shonen-jump-line-up
Interesting. Rhyoga Naritas series all share a universe, a rare occurrence in manga. I wonder...
QuoteInteresting. Rhyoga Naritas series all share a universe, a rare occurrence in manga. I wonder...
If we'll see Isaac and Maria? Because that would be rad.
Theirs always the possibility. Luckily i've never disliked something the man has done so I hope it'll be a hit.
Oh, and we where talking about crossovers?...
http://youtu.be/H-B8ddDyCCk
Not available in my country :(
As for shared universe manga, it's my understanding that all Akira Toriyama manga are cannon to each other.
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dream_9_Toriko_%26_One_Piece_%26_Dragon_Ball_Z_Super_Collaboration_Special
This is my first time reading DBZ
OK. So Murata went back and re-drew some panels from OPM. And i'm not talking about fixing Judge shoulder pads here I mean he completely redesigned Lord Boros.
http://8bitsaitama.tumblr.com/post/76455399149/i-liked-the-other-one-more
On the one hand, the mans a monster artist so anything from him and im happy. On the other, it'll completely mess up the eventual collected edition.
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 07 February, 2014, 09:04:45 PM
Interesting. Rhyoga Naritas series all share a universe, a rare occurrence in manga. I wonder...
I've never read anything else by him. What would you recommend?
On this week's issue;
I've always enjoyed
Naruto, especially the Akatsuki arc, but this battle has been going on waaaaaaay too long. If this is going to be the ultimate battle to end the series, it needs to be wrapped up quickly as it's already losing its impact. There have been so many 'ultimate finishing attacks' that haven't worked, I can't see how it's going to top itself.
Naruto is still out for the count and fading fast, as is Sasuke. Surely a titanic team-up between these two soon-to-be-revived shinobi will put paid to Madara's evil schemes?
Bleach seems to be coasting a bit at the moment too. Both series seem to be trying to finish but they're dragging it out so long, it's hard to stay interested. At least Bleach has cool enemies and (compared to Naruto) brisk and exciting fights. Byakuya Kuchiki steps in this week to save Rukia.
Nisekoi represents everything I detest about Japanese pop culture. Generic, formulaic, predictable, boring, filled with bland characters and tedious situations. I can't understand why this is even remotely popular. It's a charmless, by-the-numbers harem manga with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Go read
Ranma instead to see this kind of thing done right.
The polar opposite of Nisekoi is
All You Need is Kill, which is brilliant. I read the novel when it was first released a few years back and immediately thought it would make a brilliant film. It remains to be seen how successfully the Tom Cruise starring adaptation can capture the feel of the book, but the manga is doing an excellent job, thanks in no small part to Obata's gorgeous art.
We start to see some of the minute changes that can be made by even a subtle expression while eating this week. I love time manipulation stories and the ideas here can sustain interest even when there's no alien killing action. I hope it's released as a collected edition as I, for one, would definitely buy it.
World Trigger trundles along, failing to engage the reader in any way. The interchangeable, look-alike characters all melding into one, the blandly designed enemies being dispatched with no effort. I just don't care about it in the least. This week the characters go somewhere and nearly do something. Probably. I can't remember.
At least
Seraph of the End has a strong lead character and an exciting confrontaion just around the corner. As with most Shonen Jump series, the first volume has been about pulling the reader in with some comfortable cliches but hopefully we'll start to see it find it's feet when our heroes clash with Mika.
And, suddenly,
Toriko and Rin are getting married! This series never fails to surprise and delight. Endlessly inventive, playful and ridiculous. The Four Heavenly Kings along with Rin and Komatsu continue to search for the IGO President's legendary Full Course which will save the Human World from starvation. That looks like an old, bald GT Robo sat in the tree house...
Aaaand it's goodbye to
Dragonball. I've enjoyed re-reading this in glorious technicolour but I'm so familiar with the story that I'm not sorry to see it go either.
Next week we have the first episode of
Stealth Symphony. The art on that character looks a little bit cutesy for my tastes but I'll keep an open mind.
No
One Piece in this issue which is usually my favourite story. I'm dying to know who is currently impersonating 'Lucy' in the collosseum.
Weekly Shonen Jump continues to be amazing value at under 50p a week for around 200 pages of manga frolics. Even if you only read half the stories, it's
still better value than most other comics on the market. Long may it continue.
The Rin scene in Toriko had me in stitches this week. I gotta wonder though if this means Toriko is now half finished, now it's had the token time skip. Hope not because i'm really starting to love it. Like One Piece before it it's a very different Shonen series. Not a teenagers with supernatural power series for a start!
Yes. I liked Stealth Symphony VERY much indeed. In added to an already solid line up I'm more than chuffed. Kubo had me eating humble pie, Toriko had me guffawing, One Piece had me smiling like a 10 year old on prog day, All You Need is Kill was a great as per. And I now hate Yusuki Murata with a read hot passion. The man has to much talent.
Spaceghost, if you want to read Naritas novels your gonna have to read translations online as their are currently no official ones. Baccano is the place to start though.
Pleasantly surprised by Stealth Symphony which debuted this week with one of the best opening episodes I've ever read. Love the [spoiler]invisible dragon[/spoiler] character and the crazy world in which the story is set. Loads of potential here and anything could happen.
Shonen Jump is really strong at the moment. The only thing I'm not bothering to read is Yu-Gi-Oh because having not read any of it, at this point, it's just a load of garbled nonsense about a daft card game to me.
Still not keen on Nisekoi but I'm reading it just for value for money.
Naruto is still dragging things out but at least there's potential for a tide-turning event at the end of this episode. Bleach sees Rukia re-take the stage to resume the fight in Byakuya's stead.
One inevitable and unavoidable consequence of reading this type of series on a weekly basis, rather than in big chunks of tankoubon as I've been doing, is that the protracted battles feel even more protracted and I find myself wishing they'd just get on with it.
Something that isn't troubling One Piece at the moment as the story is barreling along at a frantic pace. Love the outrageously powerful bad guys in this arc.
One Punch Man is still beautifully drawn, daft fun, Toriko is mad and hilarious, and All You Need is Kill is the best new manga I've read in a long time.
Another fantastic issue.
I liked Stealth Symphony alot also
Me too!
Been catching up on D.Gray-Man, Tegami Bachi and Claymore recently. I feel in it's absence DGM could have been part of the opening line up. Shame the auther is suffering from such ailments. The latter two however I believe would make fine aditions to the rotter. The fact that they are aproaching new arcs (Claymore appears to be almost completely rebooted) gives me hope. Oh, and ive just bought the first volume of Jojo's Bizzare adventure. Should be interesting.
Is that part 3 of the JoJo stories?
Quote from: IronGraham on 27 February, 2014, 03:07:50 PM
Is that part 3 of the JoJo stories?
No, I believe it's the very beginning. But I could be mistaken, JoJo is such a long series with a number of reboots it's actually quite hard to pin point where to start.
Oh, and who here knew ONE and Yusuke Murata collaborated on a one shot back in 2012? What OPM is to Superman, Dangan Tanshi Fan Club is to Sailor Moon. And it's awesome.
http://onepixeljump.com/2013/02/07/why-does-everyone-in-my-fanclub-look-so-ugly/
Has anyone else tried the Manga Box app for iOS? Its a (legal) source of all kinds of free translated manga. Mostly stuff I've never heard of before (except the Attack on Titan spin-off, Spoof on Titan... which I just found out can be a bit spoilery. Whoops.). Basically it looks like a bunch of manga primary from Kodansha. For free. Online only though, and it appears new releases come out in weekly batches, and may expire after a time. (currently it starts at 'Digest', first chapters, then goes to Vol. 3, and then through current Vol.14. I dunno.)
EDIT: Oh yes, and latter this month, March 22, Comic Walker will be launching with a bunch of translated manga (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-03/kadokawa-comicwalker-app-will-offer-manga-in-english). I hope Gundam the Origin is one of the translated ones.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 07 March, 2014, 10:05:00 AM
EDIT: Oh yes, and latter this month, March 22, Comic Walker will be launching with a bunch of translated manga (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-03/kadokawa-comicwalker-app-will-offer-manga-in-english). I hope Gundam the Origin is one of the translated ones.
I can't wait for this. It seems too good to be true. I'm all for new, legal and above all,
free ways to read manga. I have to admit, although I
do buy lots of manga, I also use the Pocket Manga app a lot to read manga on my Nexus 7. I know it's not strictly above board, but I justify it to myself by buying the stuff I really want to own.
Similarly, I use an online anime website called which hosts high quality streaming, downloadable fansubs of pretty much
every film, series or OVA ever released in Japan. If I see something I like, I buy it. I just watched the first episode of Seirei no Moribito and was so impressed, I ordered it on Amazon.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 07 March, 2014, 10:05:00 AM
EDIT: Oh yes, and latter this month, March 22, Comic Walker will be launching with a bunch of translated manga (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-03/kadokawa-comicwalker-app-will-offer-manga-in-english). I hope Gundam the Origin is one of the translated ones.
Ooooohhhhh yeeeeaaaahhhhh!!!! :D
New series on the horizon. Assassination Classroom. Looks a little like Paranoia Agent.
https://twitter.com/VIZMedia/status/442070743853973504/photo/1
Anybody else notice that, as of this week, you can click the manga title on the contents page and fly straight to that episode?
Nice new feature.
It's been like that for months, Ghosty. ;)
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 12 March, 2014, 10:40:28 AM
It's been like that for months, Ghosty. ;)
Oh...I see... :-[
It is a useful feature though. As each issue is so large it really help you get to where you want to be on re-reads.
It's been like that since I started reading in JAN of last year.
Well, having seen you boys banging on about it for so long, I decided to give it a go this week. Quite frankly, I have no idea what in fuck's name is going in most of the stories but, at two quid for a month's subscription I'll give it a few weeks and see how it goes.
Anyway, things I enjoyed most (primarily due to accessibility) were One-Punch Man, Stealth Symphony, Blue Exorcist and Nisekoi (which reminded me a little of that Tenchi Muyo cartoon which I used to find pretty entertaining when I came across it on cable.) Toriko intrigues because of the utter lunacy of its premise while Naruto and One-Piece were utterly incomprehensible.
I'm aware that people have the same issue with something like 2000AD because of the amount of backstory but, when you're reading Chapter 657 of a particular story you can really see why.
If you can get the back issues, I'd go back a few and try to get a running start on a few series. At least go back two issues, to the start of Stealth Symphony at least. Or better to the Jan 11th issue for the start of All You Need is Kill (which was off this week). Toriko also kicked off its current arc on Feb 3rd, and was made pretty accessible as a result IMO.
And yeah. Expect to be a bit confused on a few of the more long running series for a bit. Wikipedia can help a little. One Piece is probably the one worth a little effort the most. Then Bleach.
I've been reading Naruto for over a year, and I still barely understand what's going on.
I, over a long period of time, bought the first 38 volumes of One Piece, Naruto and Bleach, then when Shonen Jump digital came out, I used the Pocket Manga app on Android to catch up to the current arcs. As I said before, I realise not everyone would be comfortable taking that route, but Viz Media have had plenty of my money up to now and I'm paying for Weekly SJ.
Similarly, I used the app to catch up on Blue Exorcist, One punch Man and World Trigger. Stealth Symphony, Seraph of the End and All You Need is Kill all started quite recently and you can catch up by buying the relevant back issues on the SJ app.
Quote from: The Cosh on 13 March, 2014, 09:04:49 AM
while Naruto and One-Piece were utterly incomprehensible.
I was none the wiser after a dozen issues, I skip them both now, Natuto has the bonus of iffy art.
I've only read OPM so far this week. Saving ther est for the journey to Sherwood Forest tomorrow. So i'm mildly curious by the One Piece spoiler Adventurer posted in the other thread. :lol:
Cosh, as Adventurer said, it's worth jumping back a few issues to catch up on All You Need is Kill and Stealth Symphony. Both had great introductory chapters and are very strong on the whole anyway.
As for the big four titles, One Piece is relatively easy to get into when it shifts from one arc to another, Bleach an Naruto will be incomprehensible to many new readers at this point. They are literally on their last yearly run though so expect them to wrap up sooner rather than latter. And Toriko just rebooted/time jumped so might be a little easier than the others.
Also, read One-Punch Man volume 1. It's worth it.
This weeks All You Need is Kill raises an interesting question. Has it been censored? The scenes if Rita in the shower appear to have been whited out so we can't see her nipples or vaginal area. I'm completely against censorship of art so I have to wonder if it'll remain that way or will be returned to it's original state in the collected edition. It's not like the scene was sexual in anyway either.
Japan has pretty draconian laws when it comes to nudity. Be it live porn or drawings. So I wouldn't be totally shocked if it was already edited.
If AYNIK was part of SJ then I would be inclined to believe it. But it's Young.Jump and anyone whose read Gantz can vouch it doesnt shy away from seriously 18+ material.
Yeah, but is that nudity, or just violence? Because like much of the rest of the world nobody cares about violence.
Just google image Gantz and get back to me on that one! :lol:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
*removes pipe from mouth*
I see.
I have enjoyed Nisekoi these past three weeks because of the characters it follows are more entertaining to me, and their relationship I prefer.
*sigh*
I begrudgingly admit the ending of the latest Nisekoi arc hit me in my emotion parts.
It was marginaly better than Nisokoi is on average. If only for those last few pages.
I kinda hope thats it for [spoiler]Doflamingo[/spoiler]. Pretty awesome way to die though.
not in a million years :lol:
oh i love one piece i adore it i have 69 volumes on my shelf with a 70th joining it.
[spoiler]I TOLD YOU GUY'S IT WAS SABO!!!!![/spoiler]
Ahem. Anyway.
World Trigger is getting released in GN format in october. I've missed everything from chapter 1 to 27 so might buy it...
One-Punch Man is finally getting the paperback release in English at the end of the year.
That is great news, who hear is looking forward to Hunter x Hunter returning I've never read any of his work so this will be interesting.
*phew* I didn't realize how hungry I was for more WSJ. I downloaded this week's (260 page) issue and just plowed through it.
Probably would have just read the whole thing in one sitting, but then I ran into Naruto. Which, either it or Nisekoi, is my typical 'take a break' point.
Indeed that was a lovely pack of thrills. Everything save Nisokoi and Naruto on fine, fine form. Shame that OPM was so short (4 pages?!) but at least we should be getting another next week.
Oh would you look at that! I finally give enough fucks to give this weeks Nisekoi a shot, now they introduce this sleaze ball teacher who passively comments on the attractive features of his young female students.
'Burns Ipad in a fit of rage'
Seriously, I don't care if theirs ever a marginally funny chapter ever again. I'm so fucking done.
All the implied student/teacher creepiness you could possibly want, with a heaping helping of incest (but it's okay because they're not actually related!) thrown in for good measure.
The worst part is? These sort of things aren't uncommon in harem rom coms any more, they're practically standard. Thanks otaku.
It's popularity seem's to have bombed in Japan as well, according to ANN. Let's hope it get's shit canned soon. I'm not one usually to beg for a comic to be cancelled but Nisekoi is just becoming offensively bad by this point.
'Sigh' Just keep thinking of HunterXHunter, Zac. It'll all be over soon.
Any interest in One Piece Strong World film?
It's a fun film, and an interesting addition to the One Piece canon, building on the back story to the entire series by re-introducing Shiki from chapter 0, a surviving pirate from the time of Roger and White Beard. Features some crazy mad animal designs.
Yea I really enjoyed it at the southbank
For unknown, mind-boggling reasons, the extremely dull and generic World Trigger is going to be an anime -
http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2014-05-27/shonen-jump-world-trigger-manga-gets-tv-anime/.74904
Here's hoping the infinitely better Stealth Symphony gets picked up for the same treatment.
I really like World Trigger and curious of how they deal with it's awkward start
I enjoy World Trigger, for all it's lack of originality, as it at least sticks to a formula that has some room for growth some intriguing ideas, such as the multi dimensional war hinted at recently.
Stealth Symphony has picked my interest recently. Jog as a chracter, at first felt really flat, but now he seem's to be becoming slightly sinister, even unhinged. Loving this series so far.
World Trigger started out kind of slow, but its grown on me a lot. Especially now that the 'bad guys' have made their presence known during the current arc. Its a very typical action manga, and while it started in a high school setting its managed to not go back to that. Yet. So that's always a plus for me. As for it getting an anime. The biggest concern is that it hasn't been running very long, and might have to write its own ending for the first season. Or just create a lot of filler. But better World Trigger then more Nisekoi.
But yeah, Stealth Symphony is unadulterated madness. But again... needs a bit more material before it becomes an anime. It hasn't even survived a year yet. So there's no guarantee it will last yet.
Also... Hunter X Hunter is back next week!
My main issue with World Trigger is that none of the characters are defined in any way. I literally don't know one thing about any of them. They're all running around fighting, looking pretty much identical but with slightly different hairstyles. Not a clue who any of them are, what they're like, what they want, where they came from, what their names are, nothing.
Compare that to a manga like One Piece or Bleach or Naruto (or Dragonball or HunterXHunter or Toriko or Blue Exorcist etc, etc) that spent the first year or so devoting time to establish each stylistically unique character and making sure we knew who they are, what past events shaped them, what they want and what motivates them.
World Trigger has done none of that. I bet if I showed you a picture of any World Trigger character apart from four-eyes or white-hair and you wouldn't be able to tell me a single thing about them, including their name.
I don't even know Glasses Guy and White Hair's names off the top of my head.
And I like the strip.
But to be fair, I have that problem with a lot of manga/anime.
The current arc has thrown a lot of characters at us, but I kind of like it because it shows how large scale this conflict is, and everyone's coming out of the woodwork to fight off the attack.
One Piece is going on hiatus for two weeks due to Oda's recent surgery. Ah well, i'm still on my big re-read of the series (currently up to Skypia. What the hell happened to God Enel anyway?) so i'll last just fine.
Actually, I saw Doflamingo for the first time about a volume or so back. You would never have thought he would become as big an antagonist as he is now from those few scenes!
Eneru fate is explained in the cover stories
So read my first Chapter of Hunter x Hunter intresting good job I read the recaps or would be more lost.
I really liked the end to all you need is kill may get the volumes. Hope Oda recovers fully after his surgery.
I DO wish Murata would stop redrawing chapters of One-Punch Man. It'll play havoc with the eventual collected edition (print will naturally be harder to update where as digital patches for the kindle editions will be easy enough).
Yeah but what he improves on looks even better
My second chapter of Hunter X Hunter (I downloaded the first chapter preview on the VIZ app ages ago). Definitely feels mid storyarc. Those [spoiler]crushed bodies in tanks[/spoiler] were surprisingly brutal. Shonen manga never seems to shy from grotesque imagery in the oddest places. I love it. Overall it looks like a promising addition.
All You Need Is Kill ends in satisfactory fashion. I wonder if Edge of Tomorrow will have the balls to [spoiler] end on such an open ended down note[/spoiler] or get a big rewrite. I'll guess the latter. Because Hollywood.
I'm really grateful for the (surprisingly well written) HXH catch up post. Although I now have the gist of what the series is about I still want to go back to the beginning and start reading. I'll wait it out till the eventual omnibuses though, like i'm doing with Toriko and Blue Exorcist and Claymore.
Seeing as they cast 51 year old Tom as an 18 year Japanese private they will probably have to have some form or rewrite [spoiler]They may still have the "there can be only one" ending. But not Tom killing someone young enough to be his daughter[/spoiler]
Seán
Any of you going to watch the film to see the difference?
I'll be watching it next wednesday. Expectations: optimistic.
Viz manga is now available on comixology!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-mazing cool, also in toriko Pistachio Princess (that is all)
Stealth Sympothny is nearing its end it feels like so much is happening now that it probably isn't long for this world (sigh).
Huh? Who did you hear from from, Iron? I certainly hope it's not the case, the series still has so much to offer.
I think he's saying that it feels like the series is hurtling toward some kind of conclusion, which might hint at cancellation.
Which would be the worst thing!
I actualy discused the possibility og cancellation with a chappy on facebook a while back, around it's third chapter. I really, really hope it's not the case and this is simply the first of many bumps that will build within the series.
I don't want it to be cancelled but it's been ranking low in the Japanese polls because Japanese kids don't know what's good, getting things cancelled like Barrage and cross manage.
I wish English Jump would release their poll numbers, I fill that jank out every week!
With Naruto and Bleach ending at some point the nebulous future, you'd think something as wild and wacky as Stealth Symphony would be the big replacement they need. But what do I know!
Stealth Symphoney could benefit from being moved to a different Shueisha magazine. Jump Square or Ultra Jumps demograph would no doubt appreciate it more.
Bleach I feel it's replacement in the big three was Toriko, and Naruto's will be World Trigger.
Did some digging, and looks like SS has been at the bottom for sometime. Bloody gutting, thats ceain to give it the axe. I feel empty inside knowing it's eventual fate is sooner rather than later.
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 11 June, 2014, 08:01:52 PM
Did some digging, and looks like SS has been at the bottom for sometime. Bloody gutting, thats ceain to give it the axe. I feel empty inside knowing it's eventual fate is sooner rather than later.
That's a real shame. I'm really enjoying it.
My scathing Nisekoi commentary...
(http://imageshack.com/a/img829/8697/4gmy.jpg)
Take that Nisekoi.
My Love Story WAS surprisingly enjoyable, and only further illystrates how far Nisekoi has fallen.
Blimey. I thought My Love Story was Yu-Gi-Oh level garbage with clumsy art which it would be an insult (to Paisley's finest) to compare with Buttonman's MS Paint oeuvre.
Really? I thought it was charming as all get out, and appeared to actively buck all cliches for the self-aware lulz.
It's no Ramna 1/2 or Urusei Yatsura, the only rom-coms i'll openly admit to loving, but it's certainly inoffencive enough. At least it doesn't feature peadophilia as "character development".
I'm with you Adventurer I liked my love story it's not like typical shojo romance one the protagonist is male and I'm guessing it's not an eternity for the couple to get together.
Interesting. Stealth Symphony has shifted two places up in popularity. Maybe the darker tone has increased it's popularity....
Where are you getting your ranking info?
Crunchyroll forum.
http://www.crunchyroll.co.uk/forumtopic-809337/weekly-shonen-jump-rankings?pg=0
Sound Stealth Symphony's deathbell, Japan WSJ is launching 3 new strips next month (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-06-25/shonen-jump-to-launch-4-manga-series-in-next-3-issues/.75929).
Of the three, My Hero Academia smells the mostly likely to turn up in English Jump. Its by Kōhei HORIKOSHI, the Barrage guy. So A) it'll probably be pretty fun. and B) it will probably get cancelled.
ffffffffffffffffffffff
I wouldn't say Stealth Symphony is out of it quite yet. I'm still holding hope anyway.
My Hero Academia seem's interesting as well. Barrage was fun.
Japanese kids don't know shit. I wish they'd get rid of Yu Gi Oh, World Trigger and Nisekoi instead of the good stuff. If Stealth Symphony gets cancelled and replaced with some other rubbish, I'll be well annoyed.
New work from the guy who did barrage is this is last chance now? I don't know what stealth symphony would do if it survived, this feels like what the writer was building too. Also don't get rid of World Trigger its brills
This week's Stealth Symphony chapter is amazing.
It was rather phenomenal wasn't it?
WELP (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-07-10/ryohgo-narita-stealth-symphony-manga-ends-next-week/.76506)
Game Over. User Win!
Well shit. Glad to finally have confirmation of collected editions. But still. Shit.
And Still no sign of My Hero Academia, even though it debuted last week. I thought for sure, if Symphony got the axe we'd get that as a replacement.
I'm rather excited for the Toshiaki Iwashiro one-shot. I rather enjoy Psyren, like THAT series it was sadly short lived (but still managed a respectable 20 volumes for a canceled series). Didn't Viz publish another of his one-shots last year? I wasn't a subscriber at that point.
Their was also a few interesting tit bits announced recently that might make it into the Viz Jump.
Assassination Classroom is finally being brought over to the west in collected form. Their was some unfortunate timing around it's first release date relating to Sandy Hook. It's a rather good series actually, so I hope this news means we'll see it added to the line up.
A Fist of the North Star epilogue has been published recently, to be collected in the final French TPB. English translation perhaps?
And finally, Jojolion, the 8th Jojo's Bizarre Adventure storyline is to end by december. This means by January we'll have a new Jojo. As it's published in one of the Jump's spin-offs and with the elevated popularity of the series i'm willing to bet a fair amount it'll be added to the line up.
I think they answered a question about Assassination Classroom that because of the subject matter they won't publish it in Jump same reason they aren't having Food Wars in Jump
I'm kind of mixed up about Bleach at the moment. As a long term fan it's throwing a lot at me but in typical Kubo style it feels half baked. At least Gigi's rain as possibly the most messed up villain in the series yet is amusing.
Hypocricy alert!
Tits are now OK in shonen manga. So long as they are in sets of a dozen and exist on one monster. Thanks HunterXHunter.
And a vagina mouth that would give a 2000AD artist pause.
In fact HXH seems to get away with this kind of thing much more than it's page fellows. Bleach's necrophile aside, nothing in any of the weeklys strikes as being particularly riskey. But in this weeks HXH alone we have the aformentioned Giger beasty, jars full of half disected corpses and featuses, and a Battle Royale featuring everyone including infants. If HXH wasn't so talky i'm sure it would be approaching Crossed level screwy.
That does seem to be HxH's main problem at the moment. Lots of chatting. Not so much moving things forward. Which is sort of killing my hype for it at the moment. Get this freaking expedition underway already! You've only been talking about it since the series returned!
Indeed. Pity, as theirs plenty to enjoy besides the general ickyness. Hopwlefully once the luls over it'll pick up ten fold.
I've only ever read the first 3 volumes of Hunter x Hunter and I'm finding this new series utterly incomprehensible.
So much so that I've started skipping it now as it's about as interesting as reading a foreign language menu decorated with pretty (and sometimes disturbing) pictures.
I'm finding nearly everything nearly incomprehensible. I think Seraph is the only story that I actually have an understanding of the story (and Bleach, but only because I have seen some of the cartoons). Everything else seems to require me to understand a few decades worth of backstory.
This weeks special was a joy because It was the start of a story and could be understood without any other knowledge. Obviously this will be the last we see if it *Grumble*
Seán
I actually probably wont read Spotlight: Tegai Bachi as i've read the series to date so far and own the first two volumes. A fun little series mind you.
Hey, remeber how getting new series from Japan Weekly Shonen Jump could often be a giant crap shoot, with inexplicable omissions?
Well, hopefully will be a thing of the past going forward! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-08-22/viz-to-preview-almost-all-new-shonen-jump-series-from-japan/.77935)
Out in digital in a few days. I'll wait out for the hard backs though. A long but worth while wait.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/JoJos-Bizarre-Adventure-1-Phantom-Blood-ebook/dp/B00N56P6UU/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_8
That is going to look so nice, shame this issue felt kinda light without the bonus material
Oh wow, the new digital edition of Jojo Phantom Blood has color pages and everything. Its always annoyed me that the digital editions of print manga that has color pages turned black & white for print costs, don't have color pages in their digital editions.
At any rate, hyped for Jojo.
It's funny, because Phantom Blood is my least favourite JoJo story, but i'm still super pumped for it after that preview. Great to see the red-tone pages as well instead of just greying it over. The older Stardust Crusaders editions looked awful when they did that.
In fact it's fun looking at Araki's old style from parts 1-3 and how he seemed to radically change it in part 4.
Are they going to rerelease the Stardust Crusaders volumes in this new format? Or is that still unclear?
Not yet confirmed, but i've been buying from Viz long enough to know their how they work. They'll keep the current editions in print because they are cheaper single volumes but will continue to release part three in these two in one's to accompany Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency. Plus these releases are based of the Jojonium editions which cover the first three arcs.
I think theirs will be Jojonium Phase 2 in Japan, covering parts 4 to 6, so with a bit of luck we'll get them as well. Considering Part 4 is my favourite by a not inconsiderable margin I would welcome it greately.
The survey is crap now. I can't even begin to fill it in. Instead of typing in the MM/DD/YYYY of my birt, now I have to use a scrolling pad tat works in DD/MM/YYYY!!!
Arrrrrgh!!!!!
I can't even get the Survey link to work from the issue since the latest app update!
Try the link via the web site, but good grief, how am I supposed to cast my opinion on the upcoming new series? Grrrr!
Does anyone know how this new 'Jump Start' thing is going to work?
All we've been told so far is that the Western edition will be publishing the first 3 chapters of every new series debuting in the Japanese edition. Does that mean that they'll be dropped after 3 episodes? Or that they may stay in the comic if they're popular?
Not sure I like the idea of endlessly reading the beginnings of stories I'm never going to see again.
Not quite. They will for sure publish the first three chapters, and depending on opinions expressed in the survey they will decide weather it's popular enough to keep. You have to remember, that Viz pay the rights to Shueisha manga initially to publish them in collected editions. As it is, the WSJ is a side project that they keep expanding on. According to the podcast their aim is to build up a weekly comic that is about the size of Japans own WSJ.
I'm all for reading the first three chapters of something that might not get licensed. Because variety is the spice of life. At the very least we get the chance of one or two sticking around.
Also, Hawkmonger... is that your Stand?
Im down like Charlie Brown for three chapter previews. Because even iff Viz decide not to continue with it, but I decide I like it, their are collected edition and scanlation sites to make up for it.
Nope, not my Stand. David Bowie's. But it's named after a Mercury song.....
Quote from: The Adventurer on 02 September, 2014, 10:33:39 PM
Oh wow, the new digital edition of Jojo Phantom Blood has color pages and everything. Its always annoyed me that the digital editions of print manga that has color pages turned black & white for print costs, don't have color pages in their digital editions.
At any rate, hyped for Jojo.
there is a reason it's not print cost its royalty costs to have colour pages is more expensive in print or digital because they have to pay the author more
Heeeerm....Judos could go either way at the moment. Likeing the look of Hi-Fi Clusters though.
Also worthy to note, by coincidence on the same week marking the one year anniversary of my owning an I-Pad and being officially subscribed to the Viz Jump I bought one of the 1990 Viz monthly prints of Baoh. It's remarkable to see how they have honed the weekly and monthly market for manga in the west over two decades.
Some if the comments at ANN concerning HXH hiatus are just disgustingly unpleasent towards Togashi. Though frustrating its understandable that he would take the time off due to poor health.
Indeed the level on entitlement is staggering in that thread. While I understand its frustrating to readers. The guy is legitimately ill. Grow the fuck up.
Well, words out. The Jump+ material includes, but is not restricted to, a Katakaro Himan one-shot, A Dragonball and One Piece crossover, and a new Rohan Kishibe one shot.
Lets hope for an English translation at some point!
So is it a digital comic thing? A spin-off? A one-shot?
ANN have an article with the full content listed. The DBZ/OP material isn't listed yet I assume as it'll start later on. I'd murder for this in English anyway, if only for the Hitman and Rohan one-shots!
No Worl Trigger this week :( hope the author is ok, don't think they mentioned it last week.
Yeah they said he was having lower back problems and I belive needed some minor surgery.
Well I wish him a speedy recovery
Seem's we've had quite a few odd absentes recently. HXH not withstanding, Naruto seems to have been given a week off so Kishimoto can work in the script for the last few chapters, World Trigger because of the aformentioned injury and One Piece next week. If it wasn't for the Jump Starters then the comic would look a little barren at the moment!
Yes we've had thoe weeks then their was two missing series and no monthly to fill the space.
Also Toriko is awesome when it has fights DAMN
A jump without one piece is a sad thing
Heeerm. Going off the Jump Starter pack, I doubt Judos will be returning but i'll check in in it every now and again as I feel it had potential. Hi-Fi Clusters feels like it's going to be te one that sticks though it's no Stealth Symphony. And Sporting Salts, for all it's good natured-ness doesn't feel suited to the western market either so I doub't it'll stay.
elDLIVE is....an odd one. I'd have to wait until the next chapter to decide if I think it's worth keeping though. And Amano snuck in a funny little jab at fan service in this one,which I was expecting. As a respectable comic artist she would never stoop so low.
This issue basically said Hi-Fi is not sticking around. Which kinda sucks.
Of the three I'd want sports salt to continue it had a good sense of humour and would display all the sports
At the very least it's better then Nisekoi.
I think it's enjoyable, but could easily run the risk of wearing thin in no time. Doub't it'll last mind you.
To be fair don't have high hopes for any I do wish we get a Sports series need more diversaty
Has anyone picked up the digital JJBA: Phantom Blood volume of kindle yet? Has their been any changes to either names of art? I'm mainly refering to Danny being set on fire (in Stardust Crusaders for viz, the dog being decapitated by Deaths 13 was changed to a rat) and Speedwagon's and Zepelli's name's being left unchanged.
I have read Phantom Blood volume 1 via Kindle. I can't really comment on side by side comparisons with the original source. But I CAN confirm Danny was a canine torch for certain and Speedwagon being named Speedwagon. So things look good on that front.
Unfortunately what doesn't look very good is the color pixilation on the handful of color pages in the Kindle version (mostly appearing in word balloons with red or orange coloring). Its pretty distracting and detracts from an almost perfect package. I want to find out if the ComiXology edition has the same problem.
Well thats good, I was worried that Viz would have been pressured by PETA again to edit the Nimal cruelty again, which has always struck me as stupid because it's never depicted in any other way other than as a bad thing....plus, you know, it's a comic.
Of more concern is the edit's to Part 3 which will probably never be restored in any format ever again [spoiler]when Dio fights Kakyoin atop a disintegrating mosque. A few years ago extremist groups threatened to bomb a shopping center in Japan if the offending art wasn't rectified.[/spoiler]
And I had my doubt's REO Speedwagons lawyers would bother filling a complaint, they never cared before now and in the recent fichting game Speedwagon was one of the few characters with a musical reference who didn't get changed. I'll wait until volumes 3-7 come out with the likes of Dire Straights, Wham, and AC/DC come into question.
That colour pixelation is somewhat worrying, is it just the "red" pages or the full colour one during the Aztec sacrifice? I should imagine a patch would be available at some point as I didn't see any issues in the preview chapters a few weeks back. Hopefully it doesn't afflict the physical editions either...not after how long i'll be bloody waiting!
I'll never quite understand why the musician names are such a big deal as they aren't actually using copyright or trademark. They're just names. That happen to be references if you're in the know. I know Japan has a different set of satire/parody laws (or lack there of), but in the US its pretty clear cut.
EDIT: I mean Judge Dredd regularly names blocks after real people and nobody cares.
I believe it was Prince's lawyer who first started the embargo on Araki's work appearing in the west when the PS2 addaptation of Part 5 Vento Aureo was about to be published abroad. Seem's Araki and Prince's lawyer couldn't come to an agreement on how to rename Gold Experience, so it got dropped, and this was effectivly the beggining of the very reason why we haven't seen anything other than the edited Part 3 until now.
In my opinion,mif Dire Straights can get past the census then it's fair to say we'll have deffinitive editions in English at last.
A good bit of news also is that in the most recent Jojonium released in Japan (volume 14, sporting a very snazzy Magicians Red cover) has confirmed that after a 6 month hiatus after volume 17 we'll get a second wave covering Part's 4, 5, and 6. Awesome that we're almost deffinetly getting the complete run. Still no word of Part 7 or 8 yet though.
So it'll be 17 volumes to get all the way through Stardust Crusaders?
Yeah, then about 8 volumes each for Diamond is Unbreakable, Vento Aureo, and Stone Ocean. Might sound like a lot, but considering it's six individual stories that form a long cingle narrative it's not so much.
I made it through 24 volumes of 20th Century Boys. I think I can handle it. Actually it sounds a bit shorter then a series that's been running since 1986 would be.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 06 October, 2014, 09:31:59 AM
I made it through 24 volumes of 20th Century Boys. I think I can handle it. Actually it sounds a bit shorter then a series that's been running since 1986 would be.
These are omnibuses though, so their actual content and number are up for debate as news emerges.
Anyway, volume 2 is up for pre-order!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1421578808/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1421578808/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Out of curiosity, in the survey how have people ranked the Jump starter series? For me it's:
1) èIDLIVE
2) Judos
3) Hi-Fi Clusters
4) Sporting Salts
Sporting salts
Hi-fi cluster
Judos
Edivel
1. èIDLIVE - There's a certain manic charm about this. Also it feels a bit more statisfying then the others. With the color, and increased page count)
2. Hi-Fi Clusters (its... not very good. And its premise is full of holes. But... I'm a sci-fi guy, so I would rather see this over the others)
3. Judos (just dumb enough to be amazing)
4. Sporting Salts (Better then Nisekoi, but not by much. Its no Cross Manage.)
Quote from: IronGraham on 26 October, 2014, 09:59:06 AM
Sporting salts
Hi-fi cluster
Judos
Edivel
He, the very opposit of me. Personaly, though I didn't dislike Sporting Salts per say, it's not very good either. Hi-Fi Clusters has some good ideas but execution could have been better. Judos is silly, so so very silly and thoug ut had it's faults in both story and art I was willing to see it continue. èIDLIVE has a charm to it, and some pretty cool out their ideas, and in general feel's 'fresh' and....reminds me a little of Stealth Symphony actualy. I can certainly give it the time of day.
What I'd love to see tho is barrages creators new series over these, the reason I put sporting salts is that it was good art reminds me of a manga in bakuman and its different to the other three which where all types of battle series and we have enough of them right now
ah balls Hi-Fi Cluster made it, also WTF Naoshi Komi
Food WAr is joing next week YAY!
Hi-Fi Clusters wasn't my first choice but i'll continue to give it a chance. And i've never read enough Food Wars to have an opinion but it could go either way ATM...
Did Food Wars get previewed a few months ago? I seem to recall not being too impressed by it. Unless that was something else...
This was a fairly strong issue of jump not many below par chapters and two amazing chapters
Food Wars Chapter 1 was previewed in the March 24th 2014 (issue 17) issue of WSJ if anyone was wondering.
It was Chapter 2 I believe actually Which still really confuses me....
The reason it was chapter two was because chapter one was a tad to risque
Would still have prefered Jojolion... :-\
I heard Food Wars even directly references it often, just to rub salt in.
Edit: yeah...
(http://i.imgur.com/xJcsMZM.jpg)
I too would love if they had jojo just start with part two and never look back
Well, out of all the Jump Start strips, HiFi Cluster was the one I'd want to read more of. Not really that interested in Food Wars to be honest.
With Naruto ending and Bleach apparently also coming to a conclusion, I hope they're replaced with something really good as the strips I'm interested in are dwindling rapidly.
Here's Brian Hanson, manga and anime columnist, summing up my feelings about World Trigger perfectly -
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Two aspiring manga artists sit across from one another, incredibly bored.
"We need to think of the most generic, by-the-numbers manga we can so we can get published in Shonen Jump and make millions of dollars," one says to the other.
"Okay," the other replies. "Let's just make a manga about kids fighting generic monsters. Those are always popular."
"Sure," says the other. "Let's have, like, the monsters come from some portal or something that opened up."
"Cool," he says. "let's call them 'Neighbors'! That's clever, right?"
"Damn right it's clever. And they fight these monsters with powerful weapons. And we'll call them 'Triggers' for some reason."
"Hey, works for me. We can call the manga 'World Trigger'! And the twist is that one of the main characters who fights these 'Neighbors' is himself a 'Neighbor' from the alternate plane!"
"And we'll explain all of this lame mythology with utterly lazy narration in the opening pages!"
Then the two of them danced around with mediocre glee.
I enjoyed this latest chapter of FOOD WARS significantly more then I expected to. Its cliche ridden, but it is quite accessible.
And holy shit, this arc of WORLD TRIGGER was honestly more enjoyable then it had any right to be.
QuoteTwo aspiring manga artists sit across from one another, incredibly bored.
"We need to think of the most generic, by-the-numbers manga we can so we can get published in Shonen Jump and make millions of dollars," one says to the other.
"Okay," the other replies. "Let's just make a manga about kids fighting generic monsters. Those are always popular."
"Sure," says the other. "Let's have, like, the monsters come from some portal or something that opened up."
"Cool," he says. "let's call them 'Neighbors'! That's clever, right?"
"Damn right it's clever. And they fight these monsters with powerful weapons. And we'll call them 'Triggers' for some reason."
"Hey, works for me. We can call the manga 'World Trigger'! And the twist is that one of the main characters who fights these 'Neighbors' is himself a 'Neighbor' from the alternate plane!"
"And we'll explain all of this lame mythology with utterly lazy narration in the opening pages!"
Then the two of them danced around with mediocre glee.
"And it has a strange obsession with teenagers being dismembered."
Also, has anyone else noticed that ONE-PUNCH MAN seems to have gone weekly all of a sudden?
Not that I'm complaining mind...
EDIT 6: And I do have to say, this final FINAL showdown in Naruto has been actually tolerable and sensemakeable. Still happy to see it go, but I'm glad its going out on a higher note then its been the last two years.
Also, Dismemberment.
Oh! I actualy enjoyed Food Wars as well. Seem's like daft fun. Chortled at the bandana gag.
So I'll give it several chapters, but I quite enoyed it.
World Trigger is everything Ghosty say's it is. But somehow it works much more than it has any right to be. It's not high brow entertainment, but it's a nice palet cleaner with some great art and action sequences.
And yes, any excuse for more One-Punch Man is amazing. Loved the Diamond is Unbreakable reference in this weeks chapter.
I love world Trigger it was really shot up since its shaky start it's my second favourite after One Piece.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-05/naruto-manga-mini-series-launches-after-main-series-ends/.80690)
Quote from: The Adventurer on 06 November, 2014, 03:55:58 AM
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-05/naruto-manga-mini-series-launches-after-main-series-ends/.80690)
YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
Quote from: The Adventurer on 06 November, 2014, 03:55:58 AM
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-05/naruto-manga-mini-series-launches-after-main-series-ends/.80690)
'Smacks head into table for 30 minuets'
Just let it fucking die!
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 06 November, 2014, 09:20:32 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 06 November, 2014, 03:55:58 AM
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-05/naruto-manga-mini-series-launches-after-main-series-ends/.80690)
'Smacks head into table for 30 minuets'
Just let it fucking die!
LOL al the good will it may of gained from leaving flushed down the shitter
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood Part 2 hit Amazon Kindle and ComiXology this week btw. Last volume stopped at a really annoying portion of the story, as I'm pretty sure the next chapter concluded the arc.
You know, they might have some problems (poor art in Part 1 and startlingly large plot holes in Part 2) but I have a soft spot for Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency. They have this odd relationship with the rest of the series (ie Ripple is shit in comparison to Stands) but it's nice that they remade bith of them in Part 7 AKA Steel Ball Run.
Is Ripple another translation of Hamon?
Ripple is the localisation but as with anything either which way. Hamon is just phonically how you say the Japanese word ハモン.
So besides the table tennis manga, amongst the next batch of Jump Star seriers will be a comic called E-Robot. Which amongst other genres it is listed as 'ecchi'. I'm afraid for my sanity.
Hang on. E-Robot. E-Robo. E-Ro. Ero. Erotica.
......
Dear god.
Hi all, been an age since I posted around here. Following a crazy house move I have fallen behind on many comics (you don't want to know how far behind I am in 2000AD!) and issues of WSJ going back to June-ish, so I have spent last week having an WSJ marathon. The good thing is I am now fully up to date, the bad is that I think there's more filler (or more accurately stuff that I just don't like) in WSJ than when I first started.
Food War seems like utter nonsense - a whole chapter about the consistency of a fish! It's like Toriko but without the fun, I'll not miss Naruto or Bleach as I've been skipping them as found it too hard to get into them so late into the series (as well I think the art for Naruto is plain fugly) I started off liking World Trigger but it's devolved into identical looking dudes shouting random stuff in battles for chapter after chapter - not quite on the point where it's now a "skip" but it's got tiresome, no opinion on One Piece as again I haven't a clue what is going on so skip it (will read it from the beginning one day!), I admit to liking Nisekoi originally but now every week it seems to get creepier and creepier - I don't even know who it's for. I thought these romantic mangas are aimed towards lady readers but it reads as some creepy male fantasy stroke wish fulfillment that it makes me uncomfortable, every single story is like a 30 page Lynx advert with every girl is trying to get into this guy because he's Mr. Fantastic and they're always exposing themselves in varying "hilarious" ways. I think some would argue that it's always been this way but I think the creepiness factor had been ramping up the more I read through them with this new "sister but not really sister, lets have a bath together" character being introduced who also happens to be sexy school teacher.
For the 3 part trial series they did I lost interest in èIDLIVe and skipped the last chapter, Sporting Salts wasn't my cuppa tea at all (sports manga!) and thought Hi-Fi Clusters was by the numbers manga, not outright bad but deja vu material. The only thing that I would continue to read was Judos.
Feel bad moaning when WSJ is so cheap (I keep expecting them to raise the price any day now) but it's not all bad: One-Punch Man is a joy, All You Need Is Kill was great, Stealth Symphony was good, both Seraph of the End and Blue Exorcist continue to be enjoyable romps. Toriko is like an acid trip to me, I barely follow it half the time but the journey is good!
Now time for that 2000AD marathon catch up (am I really that far behind!)
Interesting that ANN hasn't picked up on this yet, but the most recent Jojonium release features an essay by Araki specifying that volumes 1-17 (Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency and Stardust Crusaders) are indeed the first "season" of these releases and collecters editions of Diamond is Unbreakable, Vento Aureo and Stone Ocean are in the works for next year. Good stuff!
So Obata got a new series in two weeks looks like we know who will win the fan vote
I didn't notice Obata was in art duties for Gakkyu Hotei! It should at least look good then...
Been planning to do a year end report type post for a while and Mr Ipez has inspired me. Here's where I started with Shonen Jump:
Quote from: The Cosh on 13 March, 2014, 09:04:49 AM
Anyway, things I enjoyed most (primarily due to accessibility) were One-Punch Man, Stealth Symphony, Blue Exorcist and Nisekoi (which reminded me a little of that Tenchi Muyo cartoon which I used to find pretty entertaining when I came across it on cable.) Toriko intrigues because of the utter lunacy of its premise while Naruto and One-Piece were utterly incomprehensible.
And here's where I am now:
The sheen of novelty quickly wore off
Nisekoi after the first couple of stories and I can see where the pervy criticisms come from so I generally just skim it now.
Stealth Symphony got canned (although I felt its early promise had gone sour before then),
Blue Exorcist is hardly ever in it and
One-Punch Man. And those first two collections I got for free on Amazon are magic.
I warmed somewhat to
Naruto as it came to an end. Obviously I was missing a lot of backstory but I got the gist of it and it was clear that there were a lot of old relationships being closed down as it went on. After a few weeks I gave up on
One Piece due to total incomprehensibility and finding the artwork hard to decipher and haven't felt the urge to go back to it.
Bleach, on the other hand, I have found to be consistently enjoyable despite being in a similar endgame phase (episode 605!) to Naruto. The first episode I read had an excitable lass fighting a pretty cool demon whose USP was the ability to make you forget it existed. Despite the late stage and the weekly (re?)appearance of characters I don't know, the continual focus on strange new villains, bizarre fighting styles and badass dialogue mean it can be enjoyed perfectly well on that level.
World Trigger is readable but nothing special - I do love that one character goes around with a cat strapped to her head and nobody ever mentions it - and
Toriko is oddly reassuring in it's dedication to eating everything in sight.
On balance, I think the formula of a mismatched group of kids with some form of special ability thrown together in an awkward or dangerous situation is a bit of turn off as I can't be arsed with all the adolescent whining. I don't think that's (just) me being a grumpy old man. I'm just used to 2000AD, whose schoolage heroes can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Maybe that's why I find Bleach and One-Punch Man better than some of the others.
So it's odd that
Seraph of the End has become one of my favourites. Not sure what it is that makes this one stand out for me: the art is a bit more expressive or possibly it's that the older, mentor figures on each side seeem to get more page time than in some of the others.
Of the recent tryouts, I thought
Eidlive was far and away the most promising,
Hi-Fi Clusters seems dreary and formulaic while
Judos and
Sporting Salt were total guff.
I've been reading for the best part of a year now and I keep thinking about ditching it then I realise it's about 30 pence a week for 200-300 pages of comics and keep plugging away. Given what I've said above, maybe I'd be better looking elsewhere for my manga thrills without the squalling brats. Thing is, I do like the anthology format and the range of art and story styles, so where should I go from here?
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 November, 2014, 09:30:59 PM
I've been reading for the best part of a year now and I keep thinking about ditching it then I realise it's about 30 pence a week for 200-300 pages of comics and keep plugging away. Given what I've said above, maybe I'd be better looking elsewhere for my manga thrills without the squalling brats. Thing is, I do like the anthology format and the range of art and story styles, so where should I go from here?
I keep going through the same thought loop Cosh.
If you're looking for a cheap (free) way to enjoy a very diverse anthology that strays far from the Shonen formula, try MangaBox - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-12-04/kodansha-free-manga-box-app-launches-in-english
It's a free app which updates regularly and, although a lot of the stories do nothing for me, there are still plenty that I enjoy - Stra the Warlock, Green Worldz, Peephole, The Chronicles of Ayoka, My Grandpa's Stories Can't Be This Weird! and a few others that I dip in and out of.
The stories drop off after a while, but there's a healthy stock of 'back issues' which remain free to read.
Here's a link to the app on the Google Play store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=DeNA+Co.,+Ltd.+Manga+Box&hl=en_GB
Even if you only find one story that takes your fancy, it's free.
You might also want to try the Comic Walker app by KADOKAWA. Its got a lot of various stuff, and chapters don't disappear after X weeks like MangaBox.
Admittedly I only read Mobile Suit Gundam: Origin. But that alone is worth it.
Comic Walker got started when?! Thanks for the heads up on that.
Words can not describe how truely awful E-Robot is. Jesus christ how can this share a comic with fucking One-Punch Man?!
Japan
But the demographic in Japan for One-Punch man and E-Robot are different, OPM is aimed at more mature market and E is aimed at teenage younger demographic so you have to do shameless things to try and survive, don't get me wrong I don't condone it but I think aghera is doing funnier things with fanservice.
E-Robot is like Dr Slump but without any subtly.
Gakkyu Hottoei look's set to be the new addition to the line up, because to be honest it has no competition.
Added to that I think I heard on the podcast that Stealth Symphoney will be collected in three volumes next year. They've alse expressed interest in adding My Hero Academia to the line up, which would be sick.
I did enjoy the table tennis series it's sense of humor appealed to me unlike e-robot which was just awful. Having hero academy would be ace tho.
Looks like I can finally buy this and not have horrific lag while playing online!
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-21/shonen-jump-j-stars-victory-vs-heads-west-on-ps3-ps4-vita/.82495
Phantom Blood volume 3 now up for pre-order. I suspect the digital version should be out soon then...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1421578816?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00
I'll get them digitally just for space reasons, I have none
This is really cool I love seeing artists interpuation of other characters
http://i.imgur.com/P9A7Aae.jpg
Neat!
Also, I really liked the RKD-EK9 one-shot. Hawkmonger was right in the other thread, it's totally a Future Shock of the darkly humorous variety.
Quote from: IronGraham on 31 December, 2014, 10:54:27 PM
This is really cool I love seeing artists interpretation of other characters
http://i.imgur.com/P9A7Aae.jpg
Kohei's a total fan boy. When interviewed on Barrage he spent half the interview gushing about how much an influence Dr.Slump had on the series.
It also helps that he's a damn good artist. If Togashi really can't bring himself to draw HXH anymore i'd say he could subcontract Kohei to do the art and no one would complain.
RIP Hi-Fi Cluster (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-23/hi-fi-cluster-sci-fi-crime-manga-to-end-in-shonen-jump/.83604)
"At least you weren't as bad as E-Robot."
Well, damn. Look's like everything from the August Jump Start is being culled then. Ah well. The next line up should be announced soon. Let's hope for someing better.
'Ahem'
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
So My Hero Academia is joining the line up...
I know pretty sweet news, did the school judgement art seem different to any of you?
SWEEEEEEEET
Slightly disappointed they won't be double publishing the chapters we've missed until we're caught up though. It hasn't been running that long (like Food Wars)
I may have to do a terrible thing after next week's first chapter...
The new series just keep coming. Four new Jump Start series next month, one from the guy who did Psyren. Should be interesting....
Well the final (for now) Jojo omnibus was released the other day and WTF DID ARAKI DO TO DIO?????!!!!
?!
(http://imageshack.com/a/img537/5719/c9Dmeu.gif)
LIEFELD!!!!!!!
But on a more serious note their are two amusing nods to future instalments and it's really the only one of these covers I don't really like.
The upcoming line-up (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-02-09/viz-shonen-jump-to-add-yuki-tabata-black-clover-fantasy-manga/.84250)
They all look like they have potential so far.
Although not relevent to the Viz Jump, it is gratifying to know that the current generation of readers might not be so bad after all...
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-02-12/shonen-jump-to-end-robot-girl-manga-e-robot/.84359
Its hilarious how hard Black Clover is trying to be Naruto. Its not bad though, I kind of like [spoiler]the idea of the main character being so bad at magic he's become the avatar of anti-magic.[/spoiler]
I also saw alot of Naruto simalarities but the first chapter to Naruto had something diffrent. It was a good first chapter :p
Ditto. And considering Naruto set a presedent for the buddy orientated serials, naturaly a lot of titles in the last decade have fit into this mould. It's like when Fist of the North Star came out, everything in the Jump suddenly became about muscle men with massive eyebrows doing over the top martials arts.
man what a great issue of weekly shonen jump firing on all cylinders I currently want these jump starts to stay they all possess something different that I like.
Not wishing to Jump the gun before we even read the first chapter of battle Satellite, but i'd be cool if both Kagamigami and Cyborg Roggy stayed. Really enjoyed them. Hell, I wouldn't mind seeing Black Clover stick around either. Even if it is trying so, so so hard to be Naruto.
Oh, an [spoiler]FUCKING AIZEN REALLY KUBO?!!!![/spoiler]
This weeks black clover felt less Narutoy is that a word?
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 February, 2015, 07:55:18 PM
Well the final (for now) Jojo omnibus was released the other day and WTF DID ARAKI DO TO DIO?????!!!!
Actually, I just figured out why Araki drew Dio like this.
And it's rather clever....
Do share
Spoilers for Part 5....
[spoiler]The 5th 'Jojo' is Giorno Giovana. Sired by Dio after possessing Jonathans body. Giorno was always supposed to look like a younger Dio but no one ever twigged that they ever looked alike. So using his new style Araki has redesigned Dio to look more like Giorno, and Dio into the Joestar bloodline further by recreating a pose used by 4th Jojo, Josuke.[/spoiler]
Jojo is awesome
Well i've read through my two new Jump collections and Assassination Classroom is seriously growing on me. It has a pretty solid commentary on how the modern world is obsessed with the education system and how, if your not particularly skilled all round in school, you entire life is going to be hell. Which of course, is an entirely fake socialy constructed fear.
Oh, and theirs a goofy 5 page crossover with The Mishaps of Kusuo Saiki, about a young boy with PSI powers. I've read a few chapters since and it's a fun spoof comic that saterises the entire premise of Shonen Jump. But with it sharing the same pages as a very similar Gintama whispch has a decades head start on Saiki, I have to wonder how long it will last.
Oh Gakkyu Hotai. How could you stoop so low? :'(
Thought this might be of interest -
http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/daily-briefs/2015-03-17/one-punch-man-tv-anime-listed-for-october-premiere/.86056
Yeah they mentioned it on the podcast hopefully better then eyeshield 21 anime, and that was weird in school judgemnet
I really want to keep all these jump starts they have something interesting about them all
Quote from: IronGraham on 17 March, 2015, 10:50:50 AM
I really want to keep all these jump starts they have something interesting about them all
I agree. If it were up to me, I'd ditch World Trigger (I realise I'm in the minority but I find it sooooo dull), Nisekoi and Gakkyu Hotei and keep all the current Jump Starts.
And now I know why Gakkyu Hotei took a dark path this week. Apparently, despite settling into a good middle position in the popularity pole for the first few months, somewhere between Bleach/World Trigger and One Piece/ Hero Academia, the last four part story rated right at the bottom. By the looks of it, the series is on the verge of being axed.
Sadly Cyborg Roggy rated bottom this week, on chapter 4! Ach! Kagamigami is blazing ahead though and took a happy 4th place. Black Clover took a middle ground and Ultra Battle Satellite rated quite low.
I think the reason it ranked low was because their we're four new series and we just finished the arc and mystery manga get more votes on the reveal chapter so see how that one did. my vote hire another editor or what ever they need to do to keep these four please.
Herm, potentially. Saying that, the final page of this weeks chapter suggests we're approaching end game. At least we'll get a proper ending like Stealth Symphony.
Battle Tendency vol.1 now up for pre-order.
If this is the case expect the digital volume to drop any week now.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1421 ... ge_o00_s00
Its baaaaaaaak... (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-26/naruto-spinoff-manga-mini-series-to-begin-on-april-27/.86389)
Interesting how it doesn't actually specify that Kishimoto is returning, and seeing as most of the 'Gaiden' spin-offs from the Jump, Fist of the North Star has a shit ton of them and all add nothing to the story where as the Saint Saiya one that wrapped up a few months back looks really cool. I will say though, Kishimoto draws dynamic action better when it's sports related, and does anyone remember that hit man one-shot he did? Maybe he could focus on one of those instead of more Naruto....ah well, at least it's only a mini series. Just kinda wish Togashi would relinquish control on HunterXHunter and let another artist tell the draw the series, somewhat like this.
Hhhhmmmmm, so we got Black Clover. Not gonna say i'm dissapointed, because i'm not really as I quite enjoyed the first three chapters, but I was still hopeing for Kagamigami or Cyborg Roggy....
Black Clover was fine, but you just know how formulaic it's going to be. At least Kagamigami felt different compared to everything else.
Any of these could of been picked up I'd been ok not a bad lot this turn around
As a lover of fighting manga, my first and second choices were Ultra Battle Satellite and Cyborg Roggy, but I enjoyed all four of them.
I wonder if there's a possibility of a reprieve for series that don't make the vote? For example, when Hi-Fi Cluster won the vote to join the line-up and was then canned in Japan, could the next most popular series from that particular Jump Start not be brought in to fill the gap?
I suppose it's sort of impractical, but it's a shame we're losing three great new series.
From what I remember, Judos and Sporting Salts got canned as well. Meaning from the first wave only eIdlive is still ongoing. E-robot was so awful it didn't even get it's 18 week grace period and was shit canned after a few months. The table tennis manga would appear to still be ongoing though and it's doing OK. Gakkyu Hotei is definitely getting canceled judging by this weeks chapter.
Hey, does anyone remember that What Can You Kill? one-shot from a few months back? Apparently it got picked up as an ongoing series recently. Potential new addition to the line up?
Interesting will it be a horror series I guess
Oh cool! Battle Tendency volume 1 is out today! I thought it wasn't coming out till the 21st! Good news for all you digital buyers!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/JoJos-Bizarre-Adventure-2-Battle-Tendency-ebook/dp/B00VY2HJ5M/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
Interestingly not reported on ANN yet, School Judgement and Cyborg Roggy both confirmed for the can. Aaaah shit.
To bad about School Judgement. You'd think Death Note guy + Pheonex Wright style would equal a winner
Flicking through Battle Tendency vol. 1 on kindle.
So, they renamed Santana as Santvient?...OK, but Santana wasn't only a musical regerence but also a nod to the wind of te same name.
Well, at least Whamu, Eisidisi and Kars are references without risk if name changing.
I was really liking Straighen Up, right up until 'dancing gives you an excuse to touch girls'
And then flamboyance.
God damnit Japan.
I enjoyed it well enough. But I take the same issue with the girls in dancing comment, very much in poor taste though I did find the eccentric dance instructer amusing. A decent first chapter.
Devily Man looks....I don't even know. Shame about Lady Justice getting left out though.
I am utterly confused by the uk releasing of the hardcover jojo books. Amazon says vol 2 and 3 comes out may 21st. I got vol 2 in forbidden planet glasgow on monday. Is the 21st the vol 3 release?
Herm...I got both in the post on Monday. Very unusual....I'd say you could expect to see the next volume in FB in upcoming weeks. God knows what Viz are playing at....
I just read the first Lady Justice chapter. I was mistaken, it's probably best it didn't get a run in the English Jump. It's....'shudder' an E-Robot affair.
I'm considering trying out an issue of Weekly Shonen Jump...but I've never read a manga comic before (apart from a serialised Akira years ago) and wouldn't know where to start!
Should I just jump in on the latest issue on the website, or it it better to start with one of the back issues?
Well, there is a 'Jump Starter' free issue that has the first chapters of the major current titles. I'd start with that, just to get a taste for what you are in for.
A little advice, many of the series running in Jump have been running for a while, the shortest (My Hero Academia) having been running almost a year, the longest (One Piece) over 10 I think. Unlike Western comics, were accessibility for new readers is somewhat important, it's not as much in manga. Story arcs can last year's (I started reading Jump three years ago, Straw Hat Luffy is STILL in Dressrosa). There's an expectation that readers will go back to the beginning with the collected editions.
That said, it's not impossible to just jump right into the middle of everything and just pick it up as you go. Which is what I did. It might be a bit confusing and frustrating at first, but in 4 or 5 weeks you'll probably know if you dig it enough to keep going. English Jump does put up recap pages before every chapter to help get you up to speed on recent events and characters.
So yeah, Jump Starter issue first. Then I'd go for the May 11th issue, as it's got the first chapter of Straigten Up, and the kick off of the latest back to new titles.
Any further questions, Hawkmonger and I will be around I'm sure.
So for my own curiosity I downloaded the currently avalible 'Jump Starter Pack' issue just to see what chapters they were previewing for new readers. To my shock these aren't the first chapters of all the current series, they're actually close to current chapters, dropping new readers right in the middle of the latest arcs. This isn't as new reader friendly as I expected. I'm curious as to your take on this Jackstarr, and if it comes across as too overwhelming.
Also, curious as to how you're reading Jump. Smart phone? Tablet? PC?
Ouch. Poor show, the only first chapter is OPM...even when I got the Jump Starter pack a few years ago, it had first chapters for OPM, World Trigger, and Jaco the Galactic Patrolman. Though, I guess a starter pack actung as an intro to the series currently running via the first chapter of the current arc, it's at least guves a grounding beyond world building...
But yeah, jackstarr, the Jump is consistently my second favourite anthology going and well worth a try at the price they go for. Of the series presented, One-Punch Man, World Trigger, Black Clover, My Hero Academia, and Toriko are the most accessible to new readers.
Thanks for the advice!
I was looking at the website on my pc, but I'll be reading on tablet (other than 2000ad and the meg, which I still have a physical sub for, the rest of my comics reading is on tablet through Comixology).
I'll try downloading the Jump Starter pack, but if that starts in the middle of stories anyway, it might make more sense just to jump in (pun not intended) with the latest issues and pick up where things are currently.
I'll let you know how I get on tonight!
I should point out that One-Punch Man is currently AWOL. Artist Yusuke Murata illustrates the series for free, only taking a cut of the graphic novel sale's, so he take's his time. Chapter one is available in the Start pack and the first four or so GN's can be bought on kindle.
Theirs also HunterXHunter, which is starting a new arc which is (more or less) seperate from the rest of the series, upon it's return....if it ever does return.
Vuz have been teasing a supposedly massive announcement for a shonen title tomorrow. Could be a new addition to the line up, could be a new GN collection, who knows?....
Will it be Jojolion in WSJ?
PROBABLY NOT!
Five gets you ten it'll be Dragon Ball Super
Doub't they would make such a song and dance about Stardust Crusaders HC's, though it would be nice to have them uncensored unlike the current editions.
Jojolion is my dream addition and the most recent chapter is the best time to add it in months but it still seem's a stretch.
I agree that the Dragon Ball Super manga seem's the most likely, but I thought that started months from now so it seem's a little premature.
Aaand it's physical releases for One-Punch Man. Slightly underwhelming but still awesome news.
Huh. and I thought they had already printed some OPM trades already.
Alas no, it kept getting pushed back and back. Amazon UK messing up the digital volumes over here probably didn't help either. But they're here now, in time for the anime.
Now, about Stealth Symphoney collections (plus those two epilogues we never got).
Hrmmm....as much as I was looking forward to this, the whole "reading backwards" thing has been really offputting.
I'm used to reading foreign languages from right to left, but doing so in English just gives me brain meltdown. Unfortunately I didn't make it past the first dozen pages. I just don't have the patience to retrain my brain on this at the moment.
I can see why they do it, but honestly I'd prefer the art to be mirrored and to be able to read left to right.
:(
Awe, that's too bad. At this point I've been reading Manga alongside comics for so long is easy to switch my brain back and forth.
It is a little weird reading a left to right English line, then having to move my eye to the left of that passage to read the next line of text. But... eh. Like I said, after doing it so long its just second nature now.
I will say I am quite looking forward to this one-shot in tomorrows issue. A new creative team and an aesthetically pleasing art design, plus the wonders of victorian era England? Colour me intruiged...
Straighten Up! is doing really well. Two weeks into ranking and it's shoulder to shoulder with the top five titles (One Piece, Black Clover, My Hero Academia, Food Wars!, and Assassination Classroom). Seem's most likely to be added to Viz Jump.
Lady Justice is dead bottom, with Bleach and Kagamigami (please don't get axed, please don't get axed!). I give it till September before it get's axed.
Devilyman is....doing OK, in 8th place between Toriko and The Mishaps of Kusuo Saiki. If it maintains that place, it might have a life span of a few years.
Intresting I liked straighten up thought it was a cute series
Our very own PJ Holden drew Luffy for his son. Despite not knowing anything about the series...ah, the power of parent hood.
https://instagram.com/p/5nELrmRHGB/
Anyone who isn't following Kohei Horikoshi on Twitter probably should be. For ze original artz.
Surprising me completely, Weekly Shonen Jump is now available through ComiXology. Not DRM free, but if you don't like juggling more comic apps and don't care about having a subscription, it is now available through another source. Since I'm buying weekly right now, I think I'll be switching over, if only for convenience.
As mentioned above Shonen Jump is now available on Comixology so can someone point me towards a good jumping on point issue?
Fancy giving it a go :)
To be Honest with Shonen Jump doesn't have jumping on issues like Tooth so it's more a jump on and learn as you go.
Figured that might be the case. Will have to pick an issue and go from there then I guess :lol:
Interesting how the new series from the duo behind Bakuman isn't being included as a member of the line up but as a separate title in the app.
Not really of interest to me as I'm indifferent to Tsugumi Ohba as a writer, but Takeshi Obata is always welcome.
Good grief, I know that character popularity poll's are completely redundant but some of the results from Japans Hero Academia poll cracked me up. Midoriya's boots got a vote?! And someone entered Naruto for some reason!
And who the fuck voted for either Bakugo or Mineta, the two worst things in the entire series, full stop!
WOW Food Wars has been so good these past few weeks
Aye, found myself enjoying Food Wars increasingly recently, daft as it is.
Was that bath scene really necessary though?
Woof! Just got my copy of Battle Tendency vol.1. I've said it several times already, but Viz have excelled themselves with these reprints. Just gorgeous.
Also, I'm not usually interested in these little comedy strips but My Hero Academia Smash! had a few good laughs in it, particularly the two where a 6 year old Izuku get's duped by those silly spam ad's.
Woof, I just marathoned 5 weeks of Jump I was behind on. So much Manga.
No worries I had to do the same :lol:
Kohai Horikoshi is a man most shounen writers should take a leaf out of said book. In a single chapter he condenses more story than most of his fellows write in 10.
I know right. He knows how to focus on the main characters and their development, yet give his side characters time to shine, without bogging down the narrative in the process.
So who's going to be at TB maybe have a chat about WSJ
I'll be dithering about, IG. If you want to meet up at any point just shoot me a PM. :)
Did any of you check out Platium End? It was pretty good, in a fucked up kind of way.
I did buuuut I dunno. A few thing didn't quite ring true with me, and as I've said before I find Ohba a poor writer. But it's spooky cheap it's worth it for the art alone!
I liked and I'm a fan of their previous work Death Note<Bakuman and was sad to see the end of School Judgment
Hero Academia PV1. Set to air chore 2 next year and run until Spetember and will cover up to around the most recent chapter, the final assessment arc.
http://youtu.be/o0L1YC9YgxM
Sweet, I'll probably follow it to at least fill in the gap I haven read yet.
My problem with Platinum End was mostly about how it missed an opertunity to deal with believable depression, instead for going with something far more over the top and contrived.
Amusingly the author of Straighten UP! has started to incorporate actual songs and bands into his series. Starting with...One Direction?...Eh, whatever.
https://twitter.com/yokotainfo
Did not realise they were popular in Japan :lol:
Well now this IS interesting. I'd love to see something like this brought to the west...
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-12-06/lineup-revealed-for-jump-ryu-booklet-dvd-series/.96122
As somebody who has never read any manga, we've just had our works Secret Santa and I got a copy of Shonen Jump Advanced - DeathNote Vol 1.
Any comments? Is this an accessible intro or do I need a lot of backstory?
And it is so hard getting used to reading backwards!
Deathnote is a stand alone series, so if you're starting from volume 1 you're good to go.
Well that's a very specific secret Santa! :lol:
Cool, cheers Adventurer!
The label said "Dave Gibbons artwork was a bit expensive, so hope you enjoy this" They know I'm geekilly inclined!
Heh! Death Note's an odd beast, some love it some loath it. Most people have at least read it at some point, so feel free to share your thoughts on it.
Well, that was a fine first issue to kick the year off, though I have my grievances with Black Clover and Bleach right now, everything (bar the usual offender, Nisekoi) is on point right now. If only the Metal Bat chapters of OPM where longer though....
I'd also like to see more titles added to the Jump this year, their was a serious lack of it in 2015, only School Judgement and Black Clover got translated, and I was rather enjoying both Straighten Up! and Buddy Strike...
Theirs no way Horikoshi ISN'T riffing on Liefeldesqu super weapons and 90's god awful designs and name's in early Image comics. The mans a genius, I swear.
(http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w371/Hawkmonger/image.jpg1_1.jpg)
All the knifes and belt buckles.
ALL OF THEM
Wow, so much intruige in One Piece right now. I never thought i'd like or care about Sanji as much as I do now, hope Oda isn't lining him up as the first casuality of the oncoming war.
And did Horikoshi just up and out[spoiler] murder either Ragdoll, Tokoyami or Tentacle and have them canabolised OFF PANEL?!!!! [/spoiler]
Heh, i'm liking the Cat Viper already. The fact he's just a giant, benevolent [spoiler]Garfield[/spoiler] is very entertaining and clever on Oda's part. Surprised to see Capon make a come back as well, assumed he'd died during the time skip being such a lacky in comparison to his competition.
And holy shit that chapter of My Hero Academia. Midoriya is the best protagonist in the Jump right now and i'll fight anyone who disagrees, heck he probably couldn't do it himself after that fight. Brutal as fuck, wouldn't be surprised if he has to [spoiler]lose that arm.[/spoiler]
Toriko is also pretty great right now, everything seem's to be coming together for end game now.
Oh hey guys, you know that new romcom title about ghosts in hotsprings? Apparently we wont be getting a preview of it in the Viz Jump, for two reasons.
1. It's echi. 'Shudder'
2. It's the same dude who did E-Robot, and we all know how great that was...right? 'Shudder'
This first chapter of a new jump series taster. First wow feels like we haven't had one of these in a long time, second it works as a one-shot but I don't know how you'll stretch the journey maybe add the different Japanese folklore which would be interesting to learn about and finally the art is nice and light except for the demon hunter state of your hair mate. So optimistic in seeing where this all goes.
I...enjoyed it? It was a good first chapter, and was refreshingly dead pan it's it's delivery of acts of an awful nature, and for a first publication the art is remarkably solid (if wearing it's influence a little too much on it's sleave, certain characters look VERY Kishimoto). I'm intruiged to see where this goes, and heck, with Assassination Classroom ending soon and HunterXHunter still MIA, we could really do with another hit series.
Well Kimetsu no Yaiba has my vote to stay. Certainly has a lot of potnential to go around. This other Jump Star, Bye-Bye Humanity is also intruiging, but more because i'd never heard of it before and not sure why we can't have more. It's part of the Digital Jump + project in Japan, like eIDLIVE and One-Punch Man so it's not because of format that we can't have it...l
Interesting how many Jump titles are apparently in their last stretch right now. Ass Class and Nisekoi wrap up this year, Gintama is apparently going to conclude in the last issue of the Japan Jump (always puzzled me why it was excluded from the Viz Jump) and Toriko finally seem's to have some semblance of calm going on as it heads to inevitable conclusion.
Meanwhile, Bleach continues to reach up it's arse for ideas and HunterXHunter is still AWOL. Thank god for One Piece and My Hero Academia is all I can say! But we seriously need some new steady's going on, because i'm not sure World Trigger, Food Wars! and Black Clover can support the aforementioned on their own.
......Fuck sake Food Wars!
Dammit.
Oh hey, Battle Tendency vol.4 is out digitally! I've only just got my hands on vol.2, but it's great to see these are selling so well, each new volume always breaks into the NYT top 10,, which is pretty sweet!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/JoJos-Bizarre-Adventure-2-Battle-Tendency/dp/1421578859/ref=pd_sim_14_16?ie=UTF8&dpID=5153kt6L2sL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR108%2C160_&refRID=1VZECN2RJAG3EB5XVHA6
Wow! One Piece this week [spoiler]saw the regurn of Vivi and the Alabaster crew![/spoiler] Man, it really does feel like Oda is throwing everything into place ready for end game, [spoiler]Vivi[/spoiler] is the only strawhat to have left the crew of the course of the series, and yet, here she is!
Oh hey, found a series of images in Facebook of Horikoshi at work, and early pages from an unpublished My Hero Academia one-shot has Uraraka's power not being anti-gravity, but Gigantisism, like Mt. Lady! She even had a costume like her! Just shows how much can change between cuts!
thats cool
Well Daily Demon Diary came and went and...left no real impression what so ever. I guess some bits of it where kind of OK, but other bits where so Shounen cliche as to boarder on painful (oh look, the second chapter has KNICKERS LOL as a punch line, not seen that one before). I kind of liked the art though, you can tell the dude is new to the scheme and is practicing his talents, and I like the rough and readyness of it, even if it is a little early-2000's looking.
Over all, decidedly none plussed about it, we've had better Jump Starts (Straighten Up!, Kagamigami, Samon Summoner) so doub't this'll get in.
Heads up, new Shonen Jump formats on the way!
http://comicsalliance.com/viz-media-free-daily-digital-manga/
Welp, considering it's now in writing I did some maths. tacking into account currently uncollected chapters, to end on volume 74 Bleach has only 5 chapters remaining. Looks like Jump got tired of Kubo coasting it and axed the strip. A very sad end to a once great series.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-07-03/bleach-manga-to-end-in-74th-volume/.103916
"The manga [/size]entered (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-02-01/tite-kubo-bleach-manga-to-enter-final-arc)[/size] its final story arc in February 2012" - talk about streching it out wow well done just on keep getting that check
'Catched glimps of My Hero Academia ch.100 final page by accident'
Oh god Horikoshi don't do this, your a better writer than this, let this be the set up for a joke fuckin' spoilers!
Oh nooooooooooo! This is way worse then I imagined!
It's out of place for sure, let's hope it's a one off...or it gets lampshaded.
I couldn't wait to see if...that, cliffhanger got resolved satisfactially so I gave into temptation and read the MHA 101 raws. Thank the gods I did, I never should have lost faith!
OK OK, i'm only half way theough Chaoter one of Promised Neverland and i'm getting some very creepy, worry some vibes from this. In a good way, but still genuinly worrying.
EDIT: WTF I FUCKING NEW IT!!!
So yeah, this series might be kinda messed up but i'm strangely compelled by it, deffinetly the best Jump start we've had in years!
Sooo....how are we supposed to read the Astra: Lost in Space manga exactly? The Viz Media website is impossible to navigate...
open the menu then click shonen jump and under the current issue are all the recent free chapters
Hrrrmmm....Boys Over Flowers season 2 is showing up in that regard, but no Astra....I shall have to see if it's a problem with the app.
I'm seeing it also.
Not sure where IronGraham lives, but my immediate thought is... region locked?
I live in the uk I'll have another look
http://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/digital/astra-lost-in-space-chapter-1/4452
does this work?
No, a 404 warning again...this is beyond weird, across 3 devices it's still not working. I'll forward this to Viz so hopefully they'll fix it, they do say my IP address should be covered by the distribution.
:think: that is a bizarre
Aaand it's working now! Read the first chapter of Astra and it's...OK? :|
Love Rush page 1
*Me bashing my head against the wall repeatedly*
As a rule I don't skip anything complely in Jump, I'm making an exception here.
It lost me at the first line of the synopsis whilst the issue downloaded. Utter fucking dross.
Ubermale Gene
I tried....I fucking tried. I have to come to te educated conclusion Ryohai Yamamoto is the single WORST writer i've ever sampled more than one of their works from, and they are both more or less the same series anyway!
I bet it'll be a sticker!
And even after all that...it still didn't piss me off as much as Bleach 686.
What. A. Hatchet job.
lol
I'm hoping the epilogue started last issue is a fake out, and the final battle is still going on in the past and we're just seeing how the bad guy is manipulating the future to survive in the present (as he does).
I fully expect to be completely disappointed!
I hate bleaches ending you will too :(
'Ferociously bites on pride' Despite being cliche AF I....kinda liked Red Sprite?
Love Rush is still not being read, lifes too short but HOORAY! The Promised Neverland has been added to the weekly line up!
Red Sprite could be good. Though I feel it's art is a big weak overall.
But, lol, more manga orphens.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 01 September, 2016, 05:49:22 PM
But, lol, more manga orphens.
I think it could grow to the point where that's not going to have much baring on the plot. Look at Black Clover, Asta and Yuno started out as orphans and that never been mentioned since!
Japan's got another hole in their line up (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-09-03/osamu-akimoto-kochikame-manga-ends-on-september-17-after-40-years-of-serialization/.106073)
Jeeesus! Kochikame has been running for 40 years, and was always one of those titles that, despite never reading you just assumed would live forever.
Serious respect to Akimoto working under the weekly serialisation format for four decades!
6 chapters in and i'm finding Astra Lost in Space remarkably entertaining. A little cliche, perhapse, but a lot of fun and there are far worse comics on the market you actually have to pay for as well!
Is it me or is the art in Red Sprite ch 2 noticeably worse than in ch 1?...
Oh yeah, it ain't the best.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes chapter 1: If you set your expectations really low, you might enjoy it. Otherwise it's a shadow of the main series, such a misguided treatment of a great concept.
Red Sprite has joined the Jump line-up (next issue)!
But so has Love Rush. >:(
Kochikame eyebrows, Kochikame eyebrows everywhere!
So, Amalgam of Distortion, any thoughts?
Stupid it maybe, but I did enjoy it plenty enough and the art is GREAT!
Todoroki's story line continues to be one of the best aspects of the overwhelmingly excellent My Hero Academia. It see's every time we see another layer or aspect of his relationship with Endeaver I just get sucked in, it's such a strangely REAL issue, of abusive parentage and discrimination.
Well, we all saw this coming...
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-11-02/toriko-gourmet-battle-manga-heads-toward-climax-on-november-14/.108382
Well, Love Rush just got cancelled.
Heh.
I've literally not read more then two pages of it.
I NEVER do that, I even skimmed Nisekoi all the way to the end.
I can sum up the few issues I tried to read, if you like?
"Monster Musume clone, male protagonist rape gag, pages full of boobs and blushing, Borat thong gag-urk...fade to black."
Yeah, Love Rush made Nisekoi look like Ranma 1/2.
How long until Red Sprite is put out of it's misery too. Some iffy material in WSJ at the moment.
Red Sprite is honestly harmless. It just kind of does it's own thing as repetitive and unoriginal as that might be, and though One Piece and My Hero Academia are setting the action fantasy bar really high right now (MHA also delivering some genuinely original genre commentaries), Red Sprite could honestly work as a small press comic and be lauded.
Oh, and speaking of which, My Hero Academia Illegals #2 is a big step in the right direction after the sleazy first chapter, it even manages to smuggle in a guest appearence without feeling too gratuitous. Might be some hope for it yet.
Oh neat! Straighten Up! is getting an anime next year. Good chance to catch up on what looked to be a very charming series.
Oof! Well i've been enjoying Astra Lost in Space very much up to now, token mildly sleazy beach chapter not withstanding, its a solid space romp. That being said the most recent chapter pulled the [spoiler]transgender for shock value trope[/spoiler] on me, and though deftly handled in context to the acenario has left me a little cold.
I ask for more Class-B from MHA, I get more Class-B.
There is exactly a 0% chance [spoiler]Mirio[/spoiler] isn't the UA traitor.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 29 January, 2017, 03:14:17 AM
There is exactly a 0% chance [spoiler]Mirio[/spoiler] isn't the UA traitor.
Hhhmmm...I'm not letting my guard down. I'm certain it's a Class 1A kid....but which one...
Oh god. Oh my GOD! That new Jump Start is BAD! Like, worryingly bad. E-Robot and Love Rush where ey rollingly ecchi fodder, but the core concept of this love triangle is damn right deplorable.
See, I didn't find it fundamentally bad. It has a pretty basic and dull romcom premise (super serious boy student gets stuck tutoring two 'comically' flaky girl students. hi-jinks ensue). Harmless and dull. But then suddenly naked high school girls thrown in the last three pages. *facepalm*
WSJ catch up post: So i've been slacking on my weekly comics recently, so decided to marathon a boat ton this week, and here are my thoughts.
We Never Learn improves, but is still something not even remotely in my wheel house. Watch it become a smash it in japan, folks! U19 on the other hand I find fascinating. A kind of casual barminess you could only get in a Shonen manga, and an actually not half bad romantic story. If it where a one shot, how it will sustain itself with the introduction of 'powers' into the story I wouldn't mind seeing.
Demon Prince Poro Diary's is giving me Spring Weapon flashbacks, but the pop culture jabs and often filthy sense of humor I find much more my thing than in the aforementioned non-comedy. It's a strange one, for sure. Hungry Marie actually comes to us from a Jump alumni, Tamura of Beelzebub fame. It's not bad, and like Demon Prince before it feels like a mildly interesting take on something we've all seen before. I'm much less decided on this than I am the other three, it's certainly odd but i'm not sure it could bring anything new to the table.
But tomorrows issue, now, THAT I am excited for. Dr.Stone comes to us from two of the giants of the manga industry, Inagaki of Eyeshield 21 and Boichi of MF Sun-Ken-Rock. THIS is the title that i'm most excited for out of the entire Jump Start line up, not just because of the creative team, but because I suspect it will scratch a Toriko sized itch of mine.
Gosh, I am really digging the high camp madness that is Dr. Stone. I felt it could have dug itself into a rut really quickly but it's certainly an entertaining yarn! And the art is lovely!
Yuki Tabata and Kohai Horikoshi swapped series for a day. The results are pretty neat! (http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/04/29-1/my-hero-academia-and-black-clover-authors-swap-tributes)
Bakugō and Asta would probably be the bestest friends
Just read #23 and...my god, Promised Neverland pulled the rug out from under me.
[spoiler]Ray is Mother Elizabeths son.[/spoiler] Jesus christ this is going to get messy but urgh its so good!