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pg666, so here's a demon goat drawn by a true goat
 
Oh cool page 666 hail satan. Anyone ever heard of a manga/movie called Hell's Angels? No relation to the biker gang. It's about this girl who dies and goes to hell but she still has to go to highschool. Generic as fuck premise but damn if it isn't fun and stylish. The latter parts drag a bit but the overall experience is worth it whether you go with the anime or the manga

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The red guy is the principal and his name is exactly what you think it is.
 
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Trashfire Garbagefuck said:
Oh cool page 666 hail satan. Anyone ever heard of a manga/movie called Hell's Angels? No relation to the biker gang. It's about this girl dies who and goes to hell but she still has to go to highschool. Generic as fuck premise but damn if it isn't fun and stylish. The latter parts drag a bit but the overall experience is worth it whether you go with the anime or the manga

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The red guy is the principal and his name is exactly what you think it is.
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Isn’t that the one that TeamFourStar officially did a dub for?
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n86hgIXc1BM
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I absolutely love Naoki Urasawa, but I think Monster is only a distant third after Pluto and 20th Century Boys. It honestly feels a lot like he took The Fugitive and set it in his pet setting of Cold War Germany. I would love a board game based on the series, though.

wtfNeedSignUp said:
Would it though? Even outside medicine I can't think of any scientific field be seen as much as heresy as just weird babbling that can't be proved.
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Well, heliocentrism would be the obvious one.

I guess maybe sorcery would be the better term. Lots of stuff in the chemistry, electricity and light/radio wave areas that can make some pretty impressive phenomena. go back much past the 1800’s and a flashlight would be seen as completely magical, or even a potato battery,
 
Gar For Archer said:
It’s not so much that “cartoons that aren’t comedies” are seen as children’s entertainment, but that “cartoons that aren’t comedies” meant for adults are almost completely non-existent.

It’s just such a weird mindset to me because kid’s cartoons ARE pretty varied in genre. You have sitcoms, but you also have a good chunk of action of various genres, and stuff that for lack of a better term could probably be called slice-of-life. But for adult animation, you’re going to have a tough time finding something that ISN’T a raunchy sitcom. I dunno why they think that kids who grew up watching cool cartoons wouldn’t also want to watch cool cartoons but with more serious stories and mature themes when they grow up - it’s really kind of a baffling chicken-or-egg thing for me. Were cartoons pigeonholed as “children’s media” because nobody made “serious” adult cartoons, or did nobody make serous adult cartoons because cartoons were pigeonholed as children’s media? Where and when did this start?
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late reply, because I completely forgot about my "what is anime" bait - the point I was trying to make is to get someone "into anime" it's not enough to show them a 10/10 entry level anime and expect the same reaction you had, you have to extend their horizon first, and especially for normies that's a huge effort. and even if they understand the themes getting them to accept the weeb aspects and tropes that early is borderline impossible.
so even when someone says "you've been talking about this anime thing, what's that about?", that doesn't mean they're really open to it. if you say "japanese cartoons" they'll think you're retarded or worse a bronie, because their point of reference is disney shit which is borderline infantile these days (which is one of the main issues, you can target children, but more often than not that means dumb and sanitized out of fear "they don't understand it otherwise" or "they can't handle it and gives them bad dreams!" - when was the last time someone died in a disney movie?).
to get them to understand you need give them a reference which functions kinda like anime, but doesn't necessarily need to be anime. pretty much everyone has seen last unicorn at some point, and while it can still be dismissed as "girly kiddie shit", it still holds up perfectly fine almost 40 years later.
once they've overcome the culture shock and say "wait, you're allowed to do that in cartoons?!" is when you go all out, but before that point anything will usually have the opposite effect.

however, it's not limited to burgers suffering from monoculture and their first foray into japanese animation...
 
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Slimy Time said:
And apparently contact other sites to remove their scans as well. That tells me that their whole "we really want this to get an official release so we are taking our stuff down to push for that" is bollocks. I suspect they got some sort legal notice telling them to stop uploading and take all their chapters down.

What's more likely, that in some autistic line of thinking removing all the hard work they have done and trying to scrub it from the internet will lead to an official release, or someone has threatened them with legal action leading to them doing this so suddenly?
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Did some digging and part of me thinks that the group has some delusions of being part of a official release given an old message from the artist for the series Daromeon somewhat mentioning the scans and the group seems to be acting smug over something based of a few leaked messages from their discord

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I have doubts Kengan will be officially picked by a publisher any time soon (if it does it'll probably be Viz because of Shogakukan) and I have more doubts that a random scan group will be hired to help.
Although tbf I can't recall the last time a fan scans/sub group has gone legit (not counting CR since they where never a group), I think I heard some members of Live-eviL going legit at one point but that was way before I cared about sub/dubs/etc.
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Mr Snek said:
The whole line of thinking there is all kinds of wrong. I really doubt independent fan translations will stop any official translation, if it happens at all, especially since if they drop it someone else will just pick it up. Kengan had really dropped off the last arc anyway so I'm not too bothered but it's still a shame they're trying to wipe the internet of the whole thing.
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The main issue is their massive moralfagging, Don't wanna do it anymore? Fair enough they can decide to not carry on with the translations. I respect that decision 100% But to try moral gatekeep others from doing translations is unbecoming. More importantly, anybody can tell that they're just saying that cause they got some C&D notice.

They are trying to say if anyone else tries to translate then it’s just an immoral way to get views. Basically trying to morally blackmail anyone else from translating Kengan. Disgusting behaviour on their part tbh. That is the part that bothers me the most, they want to manipulate you with guilt, when they come translating several manga (which according to their logic they will not have an official launch because of their translations) and what is that "if they see our work on other pages warn or drop it down"?

Just say you dont wanna do it anymore because no one reads the other mangas they translated. Baki never had an official translation & it has more than one season on Netflix. In fact they wouldn't be a Netflix anime without piracy. Baki dosent have a official release & it's been 20 years, & before you say "Baki actually has an official English translation it’s on Amazon". It’s only the 2nd series. Baki has 6 mangas & that one was released just 2 years ago, that manga stop being published in 2005. Useless too because you need to read the original to understand many things of the sequel. Except, it's not licensed & probably will never be. Ironic you need to read something illegal to understand something legal. No one will wait more than 10 years for a licensed manga.

Not just Baki either, there's also JoJo & Hajime no Ippo. All 3 of these series are 100+ volumes long. Even for 4 volumes a year it would take 30 years to publish them fully. Why do something so futile? Because people wanted them for years. If something like JoJo can't get it's chapters officially translated in English, what hopes does Kengan have? It's pretty much proof that popularity & demand don't always get series translated. Hell, just by HnG's own logic, the folks scanlating Kingdom should drop it cause it's never getting official release in English.

By the way, the Kengan subreddit already is on work doing the whole manga scanlating by themselves. They already did Chapter 112 it's the same quality as HnG.
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
The main issue is their massive moralfagging, Don't wanna do it anymore? Fair enough they can decide to not carry on with the translations. I respect that decision 100% But to try moral gatekeep others from doing translations is unbecoming. More importantly, anybody can tell that they're just saying that cause they got some C&D notice.

They are trying to say if anyone else tries to translate then it’s just an immoral way to get views. Basically trying to morally blackmail anyone else from translating Kengan. Disgusting behaviour on their part tbh. That is the part that bothers me the most, they want to manipulate you with guilt, when they come translating several manga (which according to their logic they will not have an official launch because of their translations) and what is that "if they see our work on other pages warn or drop it down"?

Just say you dont wanna do it anymore because no one reads the other mangas they translated. Baki never had an official translation & it has more than one season on Netflix. In fact they wouldn't be a Netflix anime without piracy. Baki dosent have a official release & it's been 20 years, & before you say "Baki actually has an official English translation it’s on Amazon". It’s only the 2nd series. Baki has 6 mangas & that one was released just 2 years ago, that manga stop being published in 2005. Useless too because you need to read the original to understand many things of the sequel. Except, it's not licensed & probably will never be. Ironic you need to read something illegal to understand something legal. No one will wait more than 10 years for a licensed manga.

Not just Baki either, there's also JoJo & Hajime no Ippo. All 3 of these series are 100+ volumes long. Even for 4 volumes a year it would take 30 years to publish them fully. Why do something so futile? Because people wanted them for years. If something like JoJo can't get it's chapters officially translated in English, what hopes does Kengan have? It's pretty much proof that popularity & demand don't always get series translated. Hell, just by HnG's own logic, the folks scanlating Kingdom should drop it cause it's never getting official release in English.

By the way, the Kengan subreddit already is on work doing the whole manga scanlating by themselves. They already did Chapter 112 it's the same quality as HnG.
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Reddit does something good for once. In all seriousness, that's some dedication. The scan and translation was a good read, so good on those in the subreddit for continuing work and not ruining things for fans because of moralfaggotry. Anyone who actually believe HnG's bullshit about pushing for an official release instead of them reacting to a C&D is a retard.
 
Slimy Time said:
Reddit does something good for once. In all seriousness, that's some dedication. The scan and translation was a good read, so good on those in the subreddit for continuing work and not ruining things for fans because of moralfaggotry. Anyone who actually believe HnG's bullshit about pushing for an official release instead of them reacting to a C&D is a retard.
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Kengan subreddit probably is the best & most not retarded community I think I've seen to this day.

Also yeah, most of the community (people on /a/, main post on on the subreddit seeing through this BS), is only not giving them shit due to their work on Kengan to this day, but they are still calling out the reasoning being bullshit.
 
albert chan said:
Anyone know why the first volume of Love Hina omnibus series is either $40-60+ or its on the verge of being sold out almost everywhere? I actually wanted to get all five omnibus versions over the summer.
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I see this happening with other series or volumes as well. Is it Corona-chan fault too? The fucking scalpers?
I wanted to finally read Railgun but I can't find some volumes anywhere, I was only able to get the first 2, the 8th and the 9th. I think it's odd because Railgun T aired just the past year and that they would milk the hype to sell as much as possible.
 
Page 666? I must recommend Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun. A 14-year-old boy attends a demon academy after his deadbeat parents sell his soul to a demon. The protagonist is adorable and the setting is so much fun. The openings are very catchy.
Also, Beelzebub was hilarious.
 
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Screw Danlon said:
Well, heliocentrism would be the obvious one.
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Heliocentrism wasn't considered heresy. Galileo wasn't forbidden from teaching it as a theory (rather than a proven fact), and it wasn't the real reason he got shown the implements. There were two strikes against Copernican heliocentrism. First, it went against Aristotelean cosmology, which was considered authoritative at the time. Second, it was provably, demonstratively wrong. People had access to Brahe's extremely accurate data on the movement of celestial bodies, and the circular orbits that Copernicus proposed were way off; that's the actual reason his book wasn't published until after his death. It was Kepler who proposed elliptical orbits that actually aligned with observational data.

Galileo's actual crime, aside from being a Platonist in an Aristotelean environment, was making a thinly-veiled expy for the Pope the idiot antagonist in Simplicio, when the Pope was an old friend and supporter of his.

A lot of the popular story surrounding Galileo and heliocentrism is Enlightenment-era revisionism meant to simplify things into a good-vs-bad narrative.
 
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