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MetroidPrimeRib
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Hi Score Girl 37
Backseat drivers in a dating sim? Beyond terrible.
Borrowing a virtual boy? Even worse.
Backseat drivers in a dating sim? Beyond terrible.
Borrowing a virtual boy? Even worse.
A Huge Battleship
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Strange Babys 3
My memory's kinda hazy, but didn't the lead duo already effectively hook up in the one-shot? Those events are referred to in the main story so it's not like it's been retconned out of existence. Her dating this other girl is silly, since it's evidently not where her heart really is. So now we just play the waiting game until either the inevitable happens, or I get bored of the mediocrity and drop this.
My memory's kinda hazy, but didn't the lead duo already effectively hook up in the one-shot? Those events are referred to in the main story so it's not like it's been retconned out of existence. Her dating this other girl is silly, since it's evidently not where her heart really is. So now we just play the waiting game until either the inevitable happens, or I get bored of the mediocrity and drop this.
How many books is that? Looks bigger than mine! Impressive stuff.Finally finished building my new manga shelves!
I only left out One Piece (both Brazilian and Japanese tanko) and my Togashi collection, which remain in my bedroom.
Thankfully I think I still have enough room for... 5 more years or so
I thought about doing something similar but I don't really have enough books to where that's necessary tbh.
It's the right call. You gotta savor it.
Finally finished building my new manga shelves!
I only left out One Piece (both Brazilian and Japanese tanko) and my Togashi collection, which remain in my bedroom.
Thankfully I think I still have enough room for... 5 more years or so
That's a pretty cool setup. It's rare to see bookshelves that have space to spare.
OniBarubary
Banned
The Promised Neverland 24
Holy shit that was intense.
We going into end game now.
Isabella got some legs on her to reach them that quickly. Considering she went through the same shit as the kids I'd imagine she's in peak physical condition.
Holy shit that was intense.
We going into end game now.
Isabella got some legs on her to reach them that quickly. Considering she went through the same shit as the kids I'd imagine she's in peak physical condition.
Finally finished building my new manga shelves!
I only left out One Piece (both Brazilian and Japanese tanko) and my Togashi collection, which remain in my bedroom.
Thankfully I think I still have enough room for... 5 more years or so
Where you buy the bookshelf?
A Huge Battleship
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iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls - Comic Anthology cool / cute / passion
Collection of standalone comedic shorts featuring the various Cinderella Girls factions. My reading experience here was largely a reprise of when I read KanColle anthologies and have to sift through the chapters to find ones with decent characters, with the varying art styles helping to hold my interest along the way. There were a couple of gems scattered throughout, plus I improved my intel on some of the lesser known idols, so it was time fairly well spent.
Also bullying Momoka is the worst thing a human can do.
Collection of standalone comedic shorts featuring the various Cinderella Girls factions. My reading experience here was largely a reprise of when I read KanColle anthologies and have to sift through the chapters to find ones with decent characters, with the varying art styles helping to hold my interest along the way. There were a couple of gems scattered throughout, plus I improved my intel on some of the lesser known idols, so it was time fairly well spent.
Also bullying Momoka is the worst thing a human can do.
Seriously, it's worse than littering, not eating your vegetables or telling someone to read Hot House.
nabe_shogun
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Finally finished building my new manga shelves!
I only left out One Piece (both Brazilian and Japanese tanko) and my Togashi collection, which remain in my bedroom.
Thankfully I think I still have enough room for... 5 more years or so
Looks like you got a lot of space there, though some of those look pretty tight at the top. How long are those shelves?
I still need to find a better solution for all my stuff, as its currently a mess.
Here's what I have in my room. The top two shelves are two rows deep.
OniBarubary
Banned
Should I read Sakuranbo Syndrome or will it just piss me off?
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Promised Neverland THIS ESCALATED SO DAMN QUICKLY! THE FUCK HAPPENED?
Finally finished building my new manga shelves!
I only left out One Piece (both Brazilian and Japanese tanko) and my Togashi collection, which remain in my bedroom.
Thankfully I think I still have enough room for... 5 more years or so
Brazilian manga prints looks very good.
Dedication Through Light
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end game? what?
Mockingbird
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The Promised Neverland ch. 24
Good god. What a chapter!
Good god. What a chapter!
Dedication Through Light
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Finally finished building my new manga shelves!
I only left out One Piece (both Brazilian and Japanese tanko) and my Togashi collection, which remain in my bedroom.
Thankfully I think I still have enough room for... 5 more years or so
Im always afraid of hanging shelves what if earthquakes or some other vibration wont they tumble down. Will those still sag?
It'll probably piss you off, but it's good catharsis. Think of it like a raunchy...mc has syrup on his dick Ichigo 100% and just enjoy the nonsense.
At least it's less disheartening than that manga where the guy emits marbles or something every time he climaxes.
It will probably piss you off with the choices the characters made in the end.
I think he's one of the better seinen romcom mangaka but his stories tend to have a particular flavor of schadenfreude.
Dedication Through Light
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Visual of Dr. Stone from Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi
Thats the ugliest art wise from the group.
I have no idea! I need to count them up.
Thanks! The random piles of manga I had lying around were driving me insane, so I planned ahead this time, haha.
I made it myself with my old man's help! They're actually just wooden boards we treated and painted, then stuck to the wall with multiple support pins each (so that they handle the weight of all that paper without bending).
They all have around 22cm between them, although the top two are taller to make sure the tallest volumes (eg. JoJo) fit. The shelves are 5m long, and cover up the entire wall!
There are some US prints in there, but yeah, I'm actually very proud of our local output. Both major Brazilian publishers (JBC and Panini) have been improving year after year.
There are no earthquakes in Brazil! At least not close to the coast. Our buildings aren't even built with them in mind. So if an earthquake does hit where I live, it'll probably be the end of times and I won't be too bothered with my manga collection hitting the ground.
In terms of minor vibrations, they should be able to handle it. We may even have exaggerated a little in terms of how many support pins we set up for each shelf, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
BassForever
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Astra Lost In Space 2-24
So the Viz pod cast has talked about how great this series is
And they weren't wrong
If you are a fan of 7 Seeds and haven't read Astra you need to stop what you're doing and read it considering it's free on Viz's website.
Astra Lost In Space is a sci fi survival manga about 9 kids who on a school trip are sucked into a space phenomena and end up 5000 light years away from home near an abandoned ship, the Astra. Using the ships computers they're able to chart a course for home that has them planet hoping in an attempt to keep food and water supplies up. However danger is a foot as evidence rises that a traitor is among them one who may have no intentions of ever getting home.
Astra's strength lies in it's 9 characters, they're all really well developed and balanced where you find yourself enjoying all of them which also makes it trickier to guess who the traitor is
. The series moves at a fairly brisk pace 24 chapters in and they're on the 3rd of the 5 planets they need to visit before they can reach home. As a big fan of sci-fi I appreciate the effort the mangaka takes to ensure each planets has a reason for all it's weird alien decisions.
Additional speculation on the plot
So the Viz pod cast has talked about how great this series is
And they weren't wrong
If you are a fan of 7 Seeds and haven't read Astra you need to stop what you're doing and read it considering it's free on Viz's website.
Astra Lost In Space is a sci fi survival manga about 9 kids who on a school trip are sucked into a space phenomena and end up 5000 light years away from home near an abandoned ship, the Astra. Using the ships computers they're able to chart a course for home that has them planet hoping in an attempt to keep food and water supplies up. However danger is a foot as evidence rises that a traitor is among them one who may have no intentions of ever getting home.
Astra's strength lies in it's 9 characters, they're all really well developed and balanced where you find yourself enjoying all of them which also makes it trickier to guess who the traitor is
it's probably Aries if there even is a traitor since my guess is Aries isn't human she's an android or a clone
Additional speculation on the plot
The series has mentioned the idea of clones and introduced a chapter with the parents back home and a strange new law about dna sampling the population. I'm wondering if the 9 Astra passengers are all some kind of science clones to be exceptional recreations of their parents since 7 of the 9 are for sure "failures" for whatever reason. The only two who aren't are Aries who's background is a mystery and the little girl who's name I forget and that while she could be lying I get the impression she genuinely doesn't understand the sinister behind the scene events going on around her. I'm not convinced Aries is truly a traitor but she's likely not a clone like the other 8 and if my android theory is correct it would explain how she could cut the cables to disable the long range communications and not know about it. She's also one of the students who only recently transferred.
Well she's the main girl after all...
OniBarubary
Banned
Just got to Chapter 16 in Sakuranbo Syndrome and I can already tell I'm going to hate this because he got together with the girl he liked and they're in a relationship now and he's still mansplaining shit and there's like 70 chapters to go.
Edit: Guess I'll read Astra instead.
Edit: Guess I'll read Astra instead.
She's the final boss, basically. The worst.
OniBarubary
Banned
Sakuranbo Syndrome 22
Man, I can already tell that I'm going to hate the way this manga goes because Asou is a fucking amazing woman and the MC is lucky to fucking have her.
Good Night World 52
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Edit: Sakuranbo Syndrome 24
Oh my god, fuck this Earth, Asou doesn't want kids and hates them marry her you fucking simp or give her to me somehow through some sort of manga magic what the fuck
Man, I can already tell that I'm going to hate the way this manga goes because Asou is a fucking amazing woman and the MC is lucky to fucking have her.
Good Night World 52
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...what
Edit: Sakuranbo Syndrome 24
Oh my god, fuck this Earth, Asou doesn't want kids and hates them marry her you fucking simp or give her to me somehow through some sort of manga magic what the fuck
Shouta
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Nijidama is the one you're thinking of. It's from the same author and is part of the same general series but it was the first manga. Sakuranbo Syndrome is his second one. Gaze Upon this S is the third (full) one. He's been doing a few collaborations with others and been doing a lot of period series recently.
I thought Nijidama was the best of the Cupid mangas myself as the interactions and story development were more natural and better conveyed the ideas he was exploring. Sakuranbo and Gaze are pretty decent but start getting a little out there.
Yeah, he's one of my favorites. I've talked about him on the forum back when those series were still running. He's one of the few authors that actually involves sex and related topics as a meaningful part of the story, usually. You don't get many others that actually explore that stuff at all. They'd usually just do it for shits and giggles or as a some sort of plot device.
But there's definitely a lot schadenfreude in there, lol. Gaze Upon this S is really strong (or maybe more sad and disheartening...), on that front and makes it his roughest of the Cupid series. I'd highly recommend Ore x Yome for folks that want to get a taste of his style without the schadenfreude. It's a bunch of short stories in the same vein as his Cupid manga.
Fun Fact about Taku Kitazaki: He's had a handful of assistants over the years and most are pretty famous, at least in Japan anyway. Masahito Soda, (Capeta and Me-gumi no Daigo), and Tarou Nogizaka (Iryu ~Team Medical Dragon~), Motohiro Katou (Q.E.D. Shomei Shuryo), and Wakoh Honna, (Nozoki Ana) were all his assistants at one point.
Asou is too good for Agawa. She's easily one of my favorite manga characters in this genre.
Shouta
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I would watch a drama where Hiroyuki Sanada is Senshi. He'd need the full beard though.
Promised Neverland was nuts this week, it can only be a rush to the end of the arc from here
It's easily my favorite sports manga, really really really good. Unfortunately the release pace isn't close to the Japanese pace but what can you do
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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I'm just waiting for Takatin to appear and destroy some aliens with his French Bread.
Thermae Romae? Yup, two movies that were hits.
OniBarubary
Banned
Sakuranbo Syndrome 53
Gotou-san got a fat ass.
You know, even with the couple girls throwing their pussies at him, this manga isn't nearly as anger-inducing as most led me to believe.
I think Shouta had it right, even when it's doing tropey or annoying stuff, it's still handling it's plot, characters and sexuality in a surprisingly fresh and unique way that you don't often see in manga.
So for all that, I'm enjoying it.
Asou still fucking top tier character though.
It's also really good proof for when people say that if a relationship or love is requited that that is the end of the manga is total bullshit. There's so much you can write and do when people are in a relationship and the constant putting off of it is just super weak writing. I long for a shonen where the main couple just...is a couple and they write around it.
You know who fucking did that? Shaman King.
Gotou-san got a fat ass.
You know, even with the couple girls throwing their pussies at him, this manga isn't nearly as anger-inducing as most led me to believe.
I think Shouta had it right, even when it's doing tropey or annoying stuff, it's still handling it's plot, characters and sexuality in a surprisingly fresh and unique way that you don't often see in manga.
So for all that, I'm enjoying it.
Asou still fucking top tier character though.
It's also really good proof for when people say that if a relationship or love is requited that that is the end of the manga is total bullshit. There's so much you can write and do when people are in a relationship and the constant putting off of it is just super weak writing. I long for a shonen where the main couple just...is a couple and they write around it.
You know who fucking did that? Shaman King.
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Dedication Through Light
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but
I understand that this discounted Weekly Shonen Jump membership does NOT include any Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
Love Tyrant 1-21
Been reading this here and there over the past few months just because of how easy and effortless it was to get into, it's nothing special at all (at all (at all (at all))) but it's nice brain-free comfort food. It's a pretty generic harem romcom. The tsukkomi is pretty weak most of the time but it does have its moments, like flat out telling the MC that he doesn't matter. will probably just continue checking in once in a while, maybe
Dating a Team Magma Grunt ch1-2
Also checked this out again from the beginning on a whim last week. This is still the best thing.
Been reading this here and there over the past few months just because of how easy and effortless it was to get into, it's nothing special at all (at all (at all (at all))) but it's nice brain-free comfort food. It's a pretty generic harem romcom. The tsukkomi is pretty weak most of the time but it does have its moments, like flat out telling the MC that he doesn't matter. will probably just continue checking in once in a while, maybe
Dating a Team Magma Grunt ch1-2
Also checked this out again from the beginning on a whim last week. This is still the best thing.
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