No.131750
>>131749i was saying it's not great because that was what an opinion on a forum was
No.131754
>>131746Ooo, you read the new editions then. The tankobon release had 15 volumes - same content for both editions regardless. I should have done that.
No.131897
I have read Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun up to date most of it while at work.
No.132004
>>87056Wow, the ending to My Home Hero felt quite sudden. They were doing the flashback & looking back on their efforts kinda thing, but I didn't expect the next couple chapters to be the last. I thought they were setting up the finale, and it would end a bit later.
Overall, pretty great. I do think that the arcs were too segregated however, kinda stop and start.
No.132042
>>131135I just finished this too. It's great, but I don't have much else to add on to what was already said.
No.132056
That big scene around the end... man what a metaphore
No.132058
>>132042I heavily recommend reading Melancholia and Suicide Parabellum, they're shorter, quicker, and more of a mindfuck.
>>132051Is Anonymous lel'ing at the text above?
No.132059
Yeah. I guess DDDD was pretty good afterall. It took ~25 chapters before the plot started moving away from more heavy SoL stuff, but things went kinda nice. Definetly good manga
No.132060
It's actually kind of neat how much they let the readers piece together what happened after the time skip. like the video game creators probably built the mech that the Demons likely were riding around the end.
No.132087
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>>132058>Suicide ParabellumThis was awesome. It's so short but it feels substantial for its length. I really like how you're gradually given more information to make sense of this scenario that you're initially in the dark on. It does feel like the kind of story you need to read a second time to fully make sense of.
Or not. I got kind of lost with the chronology of things once the other Chihayas started showing up, but maybe given the nature of the "real" Ouka it's not actually important. Not sure how I feel about the ending. Can't tell if it's supposed to imply whether Chiyaha was an actual sentient being or if it was just meant to symbolize Ouka falling back into her extended coma. Uhhh something something, karmic twist ending. I guess serves her right for trying to take her own life? It's good either way.I think I'm fond of short form stories like this. They're what I wish Fujimoto would make more of instead whatever the hell he's doing with CSM. Uzumaki was one of the first manga I read start to finish and left a pretty big impact on me, and that was only like 20 chapters, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised. Dowman Sayman wasn't really on my radar until recently, but I want to read more of him now.
No.132169
>>132087Parabellum is a strong contender for one of his best works, in my opinion. That's why I ranked it at the top alongside Voynich and Melancholia.
Now, for a bunch of spoilers
This is a story with looping, but not a looping story per se. As more layers and more instances of Chihaya pile up they begin to interfere with one another and navigating the dream world differently, like how they group up and patrol certain areas, then thwarted by the masked one. They are all figments of her imagination, the ideal person that she wishes to be pursued by, there's an endless amount of them but only one ultimate Ouka, as host of the dream. Chihaya's sacrifice in the zeroth layer upends the game and allows Ouka to wake up, the details beyond that don't exactly matter, it's a selfless miracle, but I would assume the bullet is still there as it causes her to relapse back into the dream world, where all the characters still live in the back of her mind.
What happens at the end, is that just like how Chihaya was previously going into the layers created by Ouka's suicide, Ouka has returned and done the inverse: entered Chihaya's world through the corpse she left in the boss room. But the pursuer pulls a Homura, as her love and loneliness makes her take over and shoot Ouka with the parabellum while inside Chihaya's domain, thereby restarting the game. Amazing stuff really, as sudden for us as it is for Ouka. Insanely succint.I gave my thoughts on Goodbye, Eri above, it's also an amazing single-volume manga. In fact, it's only a few pages shorter than Parabellum. He's definitely capable of making more like it.
No.132254
reading nana, wasnt interested at all at first but a friend liked it so i decided id read it so we can have it in common, i really like it but i might just be a sucker for anything involving romance
No.132608
I haven't actually read much manga lately, only some danmei novels.
No.132619
JJK is supposed to end September 30th
No.132624
>>132619Seems kind of strange for it to end when it's so popular, but it's good that it's written with an ending in mind. With that and My Hero Academia ending it seems like there's going to be room for some new giants to emerge.
No.132625
>>132624It's got defined plot villains so if they get defeated then they have to switch into spinoffs
No.133268
pointless bump
No.133271
>>133268Uhhhh, I can tell you I read like a fuckton of chapters of Tsuyoshi and it was pretty shit. It's a martial arts series where random challengers keep popping up to fight with an unbeatable dork that just wants to be left alone, but the enemies are fairly bland, and the techniques are a mixture of actual martial arts, tech, and magic but it doesn't go particularly deep into any of them. Tsuyoshi always wins because he's the strongest, and he's the strongest for reasons no one understands. A hundred chapters in, he snaps and decides violence is the answer, but even then he doesn't actually kill anyone, and after that I dropped it. It's better to go and read Baki.
The QA manga I read up to volume 10 and it's okay-ish, it still has unique moments when it continues to focus on jank and I always found them hilarious, but outside of those it's rather weak. It's not very good at conflict since Haga is too knowledgeable and resourceful to lose, and he's never meaningfully challenged in moral terms. Characters don't evolve and the story as a whole feels staggered as things suddenly end and then it simply moves on to another thing. At one point they get trapped, they have a timeskip while remaining trapped, immediately after it there's a flashback training arc, and from then on it becomes a lot more generically action-y. In general it deals with death really sloppily, too. In general I would not recommend it, even if it has parts I quite enjoyed.
No.133273
>>133271I can't even remember any of Baki but I know I read it
No.133409
>>132169>MelancholiaThis was great too. I
really like these types of stories where you have multiple characters with their own personal plots that kind of run independent of each other, but overlap and cross over from time to time. It makes me think of a TTRPG campaign, or at least the kind of campaign I would want to run.
>I gave my thoughts on Goodbye, Eri above, it's also an amazing single-volume manga.It is. Look Back is great too. One thing I would hear sometimes about Fujimoto is that he's much more suited to making oneshots than longer series and I'm inclined to agree.
No.133674
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bought the neko book
everynyan is so cute and the colored pages are great
overall just a very calming iyashikei
No.133684
reading oddman 11 and holy flip these shabs are kimo
No.133696
>>133409>Look BackA nice read, although I can't say I didn't get confused with the
time travel. Interestingly enough, I ended up switching to dual view when I noticed halfway through he was making use of these pairs of pages that are much more bound to each other than to the ones before or after, and more or less function like a spread with a break in the middle. Another neat design choice. And he really does like dishevelled girls, huh?
If you want more Downman, there's Babylon and Nickelodeon. I do think Nick is a lot like Melancholia but somewhat weaker. As I said, it's not as interconnected and it peters out with a non-ending. Babylon is more straightforward in terms of its smaller and consistent cast, still has some very nice twists.
>>133684SKABs, super kimo anime babes.
No.133698
Also neat how Shark Kick is a parody of Fire Punch of Chenso put together.
No.134230
b
No.134779
i wish ponko didn't get axed
No.135932
lazy bump
No.135934
read a bunch of trashy genderbend manga
could only fap to two. one had this old guy become a hot woman but he only ever wore a hot dress in the second to last chapter
the other is a trashy native isekai but it had the guy genderbend out of nowhere and it's so completely shameless about it that it ended up getting pretty hot
No.135936
>>135934I like genderbend/TF stuff if they go into the psychology of the character and how it changes or gets warped. Otherwise it's like most reincarnation/isekai where it stops mattering and just turns into normal fantasy, which I guess is the kind of trashy stuff you're referencing.
Like if a guy turns into a girl and starts fucking the brother without a moment's reflection then it's just incest with some sprinkles on top, but if a guy becomes a monstergirl and gets brain-blasted by estrus hormones then we're cooking.
No.135939
>>135934>>135936I like forced magical girl TSF but most of it follows the same formula and stops to matter somewhere around chapter 10. The family finding out never means anything anymore and by chapter 15 most of the class already knows, the childhood friend is openly fapping to the former (male) bestfriend, the childhood crush has openly expressed their yuri feelings and the majority of "magical girl" training has revolved around teaching the MC how to pee and wear frilly dresses.
No.136097
>>136096if that hag is the onee-chan then she needs to share that sperm
No.136098
>>136097the hag is some homewrecker (girlfriend) trying to muscle in on imouto's pure loving relationship with her onii-chan
No.136099
>>136096Really undeniable logic here. Hagtits needs to GTFO
No.136100
>>136098so what's the homewrecker's punishment for hurting imouto
No.136101
>>136100Trial before the /qa/-12, with maximum sentence ranging from expulsion from the /qa/ continuum to death
No.136102
>>136100I don't know yet (this is the latest release) but I imagine she'll get what she deserves. Either Onii-chan stands up for his imouto, or imouto-chan goes nevada-tan on her.