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[Tarka Dhal]

The thing with Ice Kaguya arc is that it was a chore to go through in the manga, due to it being weekly at the time it came out.

Ah, yes, I’m familiar with that problem. It’s a big part in why I avoid ongoing manga series. I finished Jojolion last year and can’t imagine how tedious it must have been to sit through as it released.

As for that /a/ outrage, it was about some feminist bullshit when Fujiwara said some shit about women empowerment, which might be just Aka's autism.

4chan retards being retards, as per usual. I should know better.

Oshi no Ko starts really good, but shows how Aka doesn't know how to continue stories, end stories, or have any contingency plans if shit goes wrong (it did, & he basically pussied out). It already showed with Kaguya-sama, it shows in OnK too.

They're both good series, don't let internet grognards prevent you from seeing for yourself whether you enjoy them.

I have enough investment in Kaguya that I probably will see it through to the end. Oshi ni Ko doesn’t sound like my thing, but I might skim through it once a few more episodes release. There’s not a whole lot airing right now that I’m interested it, and I like having stuff to look forwards to even if it is a little trashy.

 

[Saul Goodman Fan]

Just finished FMA Brotherhood for the first time. It’s the first anime series I’ve finished that was on the long-ish side and it was definitely worth it. I know it’s like saying the Beatles are a good band or the Godfather is a good movie but I can see why it’s widely loved. I’ll definitely read the manga at one point.
Is Hunter x Hunter on the same level at all? I’ve seen everyone say I should watch it if I liked FMA.

 

[Lone Star]

After watching bits of Zatch Bell when it was on Toonami, I finally got into the series properly and binged the whole thing. Really glad I did it since it turned out way better than I thought. It got a bit cheesy at times and I wasn't fond of the final arc, but it was overall so damn good. And thank Christ I read the manga instead of watching the anime. I would've been pissed to watch 150 episodes just for an incomplete, cliffhanger ending.

Had no idea a sequel series was even happening until I started which baffles me since the author waited over a decade to continue the story. I miss Gremlin Zatch, but I'm slowly getting used to his teenage self.

Still kind of hard for me to call him Gash instead of Zatch...

 

[Registration]

Just finished FMA Brotherhood for the first time. It’s the first anime series I’ve finished that was on the long-ish side and it was definitely worth it. I know it’s like saying the Beatles are a good band or the Godfather is a good movie but I can see why it’s widely loved. I’ll definitely read the manga at one point.
Is Hunter x Hunter on the same level at all? I’ve seen everyone say I should watch it if I liked FMA.

Give some time and acquire taste. Now you just ate the store brand mac and cheese, now het ready to eat handicraft pasta made by someone grandmother that is FMA 2003.

I just finished boruto chapter 80, quite cool bit bummed about the 4 month hiatus. As someone who never read Naruto and started with Boruto I dont understand why people are mad that Sarada eyes changed. Isn the whole point of the magical eyes to do that?

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

haven't watched the movie yet, but afaik the anime already cut parts out (the whole thing with kaguya's brother, unless that was part of later arcs) and paced it so it ends with the confession - that's usually where most romance stories become boring anyway since the anxiety of will they/won't they is gone.
the movie just feels like banking on the popularity (especially given how fast it released) wrapping up some loose ends without shitting on everything retroactively.

since the issues (and reaction) of the source are known by now I wouldn't be surprised if A1 is aware of it and tries to steer around it, but otoh it never stopped studios in the past so who knows if they'll do 4th season eventually for the money...

A1's extra stuff actually made the series more enjoyable, so they might save the anime. Also, I think the brothers come a bit later.

They will most likely do S4, Kaguya-sama is a pretty famous anime in Japan.

Ah, yes, I’m familiar with that problem. It’s a big part in why I avoid ongoing manga series. I finished Jojolion last year and can’t imagine how tedious it must have been to sit through as it released.


4chan retards being retards, as per usual. I should know better.



I have enough investment in Kaguya that I probably will see it through to the end. Oshi ni Ko doesn’t sound like my thing, but I might skim through it once a few more episodes release. There’s not a whole lot airing right now that I’m interested it, and I like having stuff to look forwards to even if it is a little trashy.

The ongoing series fatigue was definitely a reason, but the reason the fatigue kicked even harder was cause it was just after the confession, pretty much the biggest point the manga hit at the time.

Also, this time the f/a/gs on 4chan aftually had some merit for their retardation, because it was so out of nowhere & out of character that it felt like cheap shock value. Hell, some even thought it was the scanlators turning into localisers.

As for Oshi no Ko, it might be good for this season, cause it might just adapt the first 55-60 chapters. It's what comes after that'll be going from pretty good, to kinda tardy, & then to fully retardy.

 

[vern]

There are, but not on mainstream fandom places, they're mainly on 4chan's /a/. Which is surprising cause they shill the hell out of him & his works.

/a/ kinda got burned out of kaguya around when jag dropped the series, I know a few anons who picked it up in the first place (and stayed with it for better or worse) because of his live translation threads.

 

[FatMebius]

Still kind of hard for me to call him Gash instead of Zatch...

They should have changed his name to Box or Snatch.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Fate/Type Redline honestly is probably up there as my favorite Fate spinoff, absolutely love this panel. Honestly this may not be the best panel to shill this manga but I'd absolutely recommend it, since it is a very interesting take on a holy grail war and has a pretty strong cast of characters.

Spoiler: Really Cool Panel

As for other stuff I've been keeping up on

MHA (manga) is still going on a downward spiral and is basically continuing to invalidate arcs that came before it (especially the All Might vs AFO arc)

Jojolands is a great read and I really enjoyed the spin-off Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak.

Chainsaw Man is still pretty great.

Wished Spy x Family had more meat to its newer chapters, but it's fine.

I plan to rewatch Monster in its dub since I heard it was actually good so that could be exciting. I do want to get back to Urusei Yatsura since I really kinda just neglected it and it was a pretty fun show.

 

[WULULULULU]

I have enough investment in Kaguya that I probably will see it through to the end. Oshi ni Ko doesn’t sound like my thing, but I might skim through it once a few more episodes release. There’s not a whole lot airing right now that I’m interested it, and I like having stuff to look forwards to even if it is a little trashy.

Having to stick through with the Kaguya scanlations and finishing to its conclusion left me with a bitter taste in my mouth that I just went back reading pre-2000 manga. It was fucking awful and there was clear bias for the author on which characters he wanted to succeed, obviously the main MC couple gets the good ending but the side characters and their characterizations were so bastardized that I felt like Aka was trying to trash the series so that it never gets any spin-offs/popularity after the ending. New anime/manga at this point are just so fucking trash that I'm not bothering with investing my time with either of them and honestly, this new manga adaptation of his looks bland as fuck.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Having to stick through with the Kaguya scanlations and finishing to its conclusion left me with a bitter taste in my mouth that I just went back reading pre-2000 manga. It was fucking awful and there was clear bias for the author on which characters he wanted to succeed, obviously the main MC couple gets the good ending but the side characters and their characterizations were so bastardized that I felt like Aka was trying to trash the series so that it never gets any spin-offs/popularity after the ending. New anime/manga at this point are just so fucking trash that I'm not bothering with investing my time with either of them and honestly, this new manga adaptation of his looks bland as fuck.

That's because as I said, & as proven by Kaguya-sama & later Oshi no Ko. Aka doesn't know how to continue & end his stories. In fact, Oshi no Ko shows that he also doesn't have any planning, or even back-up planning, & doesn't have the Toriyama skills to just bullshit through his story either. In fact, some say he only made this manga cause he was getting bored of Kaguya & wanted a way to fling with Mengo Yokoyari (the female artist of OnK).

I don't even wanna know how his Infinite Bullet manga was.

 

[Gorillion others]

MHA (manga) is still going on a downward spiral and is basically continuing to invalidate arcs that came before it (especially the All Might vs AFO arc)

And, of course, just when you think Stain is gonna do something important in the last chapter, all he does is mumble out "altruism" like he's made some astounding revelation.

Yes, moron. That's what real heroes do. By the way, has anyone noticed how "hero killers" like Stain and Garo were such a fad until recently? Yeah, they kill heroes, so edgy, they're trying to make a point, etc.

I mean, ONE basically ended the Garo arc anticlimactically on purpose. That's the point. Garo wasn't trying to make some grand point about good and evil. He was just a kid doing the equivalent of robbing a convenience store or doing hard drugs. The author left some hints that he's just a troubled teenager at his core, and whatever reasons he had were just covering up how fucked his life actually was.

 

[WULULULULU]

That's because as I said, & as proven by Kaguya-sama & later Oshi no Ko. Aka doesn't know how to continue & end his stories. In fact, Oshi no Ko shows that he also doesn't have any planning, or even back-up planning, & doesn't have the Toriyama skills to just bullshit through his story either. In fact, some say he only made this manga cause he was getting bored of Kaguya & wanted a way to fling with Mengo Yokoyari (the female artist of OnK).

I don't even wanna know how his Infinite Bullet manga was.

Oshi-whateverthefuck looks like coombait and as Aka-tradition would be, the later part would obviously be shit. May as well pass this season (again)

MHA (manga) is still going on a downward spiral and is basically continuing to invalidate arcs that came before it (especially the All Might vs AFO arc)

Who even keeps up with MHA at this point? Almost no one gives a shit about it, much like Boruto.

Wished Spy x Family had more meat to its newer chapters, but it's fine.

I'm growing increasingly bored with SxF's lack of plot progression. You can have so many nothingburger chapters and wholesome art until the audience gets tired of your shit and tells your characters to either fuck, or continue the mission.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Who even keeps up with MHA at this point?

Honestly I would’ve just dropped it if I didn’t bother to keep up with the manga. It’s just that might as well see this shit end if I’m already this far.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Oshi-whateverthefuck looks like coombait and as Aka-tradition would be, the later part would obviously be shit. May as well pass this season (again)

I don't think it's even good for coombait purposes. The best girl of the series literally dead in the first episode.

Who even keeps up with MHA at this point? Almost no one gives a shit about it, much like Boruto.

I sadly do, I have a tism for completionism.

 

[Golfing on the Moon 1971]

Is Hunter x Hunter on the same level at all? I’ve seen everyone say I should watch it if I liked FMA.

No. HxH is grossly overrated. The 2011 show starts off very good with the Hunter Exam arc, and then the show gradually goes downhill from there. York New City was the last arc I found enjoyable, and that's where I would recommend you stop. After that, you have the island and Chimera Ant arc which were dreadful, boring slogs.

 

[Lone Star]

No. HxH is grossly overrated. The 2011 show starts off very good with the Hunter Exam arc, and then the show gradually goes downhill from there. York New City was the last arc I found enjoyable, and that's where I would recommend you stop. After that, you have the island and Chimera Ant arc which were dreadful, boring slogs.

And also the series is constantly on hiatus and chances are it'll go the way of Berserk where the author will die before it reaches a conclusion. If I recall right, some panels of the manga are barely more than scribbles due to the author rushing or being lazy.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

No. HxH is grossly overrated. The 2011 show starts off very good with the Hunter Exam arc, and then the show gradually goes downhill from there. York New City was the last arc I found enjoyable, and that's where I would recommend you stop. After that, you have the island and Chimera Ant arc which were dreadful, boring slogs.

I unironically recommend the 1999 version just for the plain kinography. It actually enhances the manga. It's objectively kino in many ways compared to the 2011 adaption, despite being filler.

The 1999 movie:

As for that "enhancing manga" partHere's Kurapika getting his chains in all 3 versions. Split version is in the spoilers

Spoiler: More Comparisons

A split version of the Kurapika Chain Lore



The TL;DW in one collage;

Some video comparisons:

Gon VS Hanzo - 1999 vs 2011

Kurapika VS Nostrade's Henchmen - 1999 vs 2011

Zeno & Silva VS Chrollo in 1999 version. Not a comparison, just looks really cool.

TL;DR - HxH 1999 is kino.

And also the series is constantly on hiatus and chances are it'll go the way of Berserk where the author will die before it reaches a conclusion. If I recall right, some panels of the manga are barely more than scribbles due to the author rushing or being lazy.

Togashi has a spinal issue. Basically his back pains so much that he can barely sit straight, let alone draw manga. He does sometimes redraw a lot of those scribbles, & still somehow draws through the pain for new chapters.

 

[HexFag]

Can't reply to the post but if you can, try to watch using the Hunter x Hunter 1999 Remaster. A bunch of fans cleaned up the initial release to try to get it Blu-Ray quality. There used to be a version hovering around on YT if you didn't want to download but I believe it got taken down. The quality speaks for itself.

 

[The tired cat]

Give some time and acquire taste. Now you just ate the store brand mac and cheese, now het ready to eat handicraft pasta made by someone grandmother that is FMA 2003.

FMA 2003 is pretentious drivel and that's being nice about it.

 

[Tism the Return II]

Now that there's more Gash 2 I went back to reading it. It's kino boys, it's good and doing interesting things. Raiku is making some pretty okay explanations to nerf the characters and keep the action interesting.