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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
The ending of The Hero, the Dragon, and the Courier got translated and honestly the series ends poorly. It got bad when the joke time travel agency became more of a thing, but that series is like 4/10. I wish I never read it.
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Eden's Zero had a disappointing at best ending. 5/10, first it resolves everything through a time travel clusterfuck that makes absolutely no sense, then the protagonist rescues his love interest in his grand gesture, declaring himself to be her friend when you would think a confession of love would take place; fast forward a few years and she's about to have their kid, when miniature robot somehow chooses to resurrect instead of being reincarnated because apparently she can just do that. Which in addition to calling in to question why the reincarnation was offered in the first place(Also, why did the mother earth deity wait years to make this offer rather than just telling her the moment she shut off?), results in the birth of the protagonistic pair's first child being upstaged by a side character coming back. The final panel of the series ends with them completely forgetting about their newborn because of this. It's just such a bizarre series of events and not even in an entertaining way.
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
The ending of The Hero, the Dragon, and the Courier got translated and honestly the series ends poorly. It got bad when the joke time travel agency became more of a thing, but that series is like 4/10. I wish I never read it.
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that's why I never bother with running series anymore.
 
ZMOT said:
that's why I never bother with running series anymore.
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It’s more of an issue it got really wordy, I honestly stopped caring about the protagonists (post office), and it rushed the finale.

Like the main character was the worst character and the resolution was nonexistent. There’s supposedly an epilogue, but I have no desire to read it.
 
I just read the first 26 chapters of Dandadan, and I sincerely hope that the upcoming anime for it is not overrated and just a “flavor of the month” type of shounen anime. The art style admittedly had me hooked, and I can see why the mangaka Tatsuki Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man fame loves it.
 
I am so burned out on JJK. The current arc feels like it's been going on for years, I just want it to be over but I also feel this like grim determination to stick around until the end since i've been following for so long. I don't even read the leaks properly anymore, I just scan 'em to see who died. I'll probably come back and read it through again in a few months when everything's died down, but right now it feels like a chore, like Gege and all of us are dragging ourselves to the end. Kind of a pitiful end to one of the decade's biggest Shounen titles.
 
Just posting because I have to let somebody know, I’m rewatching Yu Yu Hakusho right now for the first time since the OG Adult Swim run and I still love Kuwabara.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
I just read the first 26 chapters of Dandadan, and I sincerely hope that the upcoming anime for it is not overrated and just a “flavor of the month” type of shounen anime. The art style admittedly had me hooked, and I can see why the mangaka Tatsuki Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man fame loves it.
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Dandadan really is a comfy series. It's pure unadulterated supernatural fun, kind of like a more lighthearted take on chainsaw man (humans forming alliances with spirits to combat the broader supernatural threat) with much cleaner art. It's got a charming, goofy aesthetic and the fact that the illustrator churns out work of that quality on weekly basis is seriously impressive.
 
admiral said:
I am so burned out on JJK. The current arc feels like it's been going on for years, I just want it to be over but I also feel this like grim determination to stick around until the end since i've been following for so long. I don't even read the leaks properly anymore, I just scan 'em to see who died. I'll probably come back and read it through again in a few months when everything's died down, but right now it feels like a chore, like Gege and all of us are dragging ourselves to the end. Kind of a pitiful end to one of the decade's biggest Shounen titles.
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I quit reading BNHA when they got inside the mountain lab. Then months later I looked it up again, and they were still in the mountain lab. Then I looked at the anime some time later; you guessed it: Mountain lab.

It's actually interesting as to why a shonen takes off and keeps gassed for a while before suddenly losing steam, not always as obvious as Part 1 ending and Part 2 starting like Chainsaw man. BNHA pretty much always followed the same patterns, so why did it last for what, 3-4 seasons before being boring?
 
⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
I quit reading BNHA when they got inside the mountain lab. Then months later I looked it up again, and they were still in the mountain lab. Then I looked at the anime some time later; you guessed it: Mountain lab.
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Just out of curiosity, how much did it rip off the Kilimanjaro episodes of Zeta Gundam? I swear, manga writers need to be given a chapter limit just like TV anime writers have an episode limit.
 
So I watched The Witch and the Beast and decided to read through the manga since I enjoyed the world and characters and I was really surprised the art was so good. I'm very bummed out that it's been on 2yr hiatus because of the author having health issues. Now I need to find something else to read in my free time; can anybody recommend a good delinquent manga or maybe a supernatural one that's already completed? I've been trying to fill a hole usogui and sun-ken rock left lol
 
sasazuka said:
If you want to read a manga that's not ending any time soon, come back to WataMote, they've been stalling on Tomoko's graduation for at least half a decade. It's been "the first day of the school festival" for over a year now (with various "special chapter" detours outside the regular timeline of the manga)..
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Didn't it turn to dog shit after around chapter 100? As in, it's nothing like it was, Tomoko is now a normie and the manga is largely about the million side-characters.
admiral said:
I am so burned out on JJK. The current arc feels like it's been going on for years, I just want it to be over but I also feel this like grim determination to stick around until the end since i've been following for so long. I don't even read the leaks properly anymore, I just scan 'em to see who died. I'll probably come back and read it through again in a few months when everything's died down, but right now it feels like a chore, like Gege and all of us are dragging ourselves to the end. Kind of a pitiful end to one of the decade's biggest Shounen titles.
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It's over. 5 chapters is not nearly enough to provide closure for all of the open story threads. We will not see a merger, it's possible that Nobara returns to use Resonance on Sukuna's last finger, either Hakari or Uraume will be off-screened. It will be a dog shit ending for a dog shit manga. I've been praying on it's downfall and with this announcement I can say that it'll be quickly forgotten once it ends. All the praise the writing is will soon end. I'm looking forward to an anime adaptation though since I really enjoyed the fights.
 
Caesar said:
Usagi Drop is probably the cutest series i've seen/read but for fucks sake that timeskip. Why did he have to get with Rin. Surprisingly the anime showed restraint and didn't animate that.

It was such a cute and wholesome series, why man, why.
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I remember that shit. Really enjoyed it until the time skip, then something changed about it. It wondered why the best friend was getting ignored, and then Rin's horrible cunt mother turned out to at least not be a gramps shagger, so suddenly Daikichi and Rin weren't related... it all seemed unnecessary. And then you realize they are setting up Rin and Dai and the entire thing gets weird and awkward and you long for the earlier part of the show.
bango skank said:
Just posting because I have to let somebody know, I’m rewatching Yu Yu Hakusho right now for the first time since the OG Adult Swim run and I still love Kuwabara.
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Hiei was always my favorite Vegeta, but when he became the dragon, he became my favorite character.
 
rapecel said:
Didn't it turn to dog shit after around chapter 100? As in, it's nothing like it was, Tomoko is now a normie and the manga is largely about the million side-characters.
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I still enjoy WataMote despite the focus shift away from Tomoko's severe social anxiety (which still pops up from time to time) but I like all of the side characters. That being said, they've dragged out the current school festival storyline a bit too much and there's still supposed to be another "day" of it (which I hope won't take another whole year to publish the way the first "day" did).
 
Lone MacReady II said:
I remember that shit. Really enjoyed it until the time skip, then something changed about it. It wondered why the best friend was getting ignored, and then Rin's horrible cunt mother turned out to at least not be a gramps shagger, so suddenly Daikichi and Rin weren't related... it all seemed unnecessary. And then you realize they are setting up Rin and Dai and the entire thing gets weird and awkward and you long for the earlier part of the show.
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Man the first half warmed my heart so much. Then Ibsaw Teen-Rin and I was like aw he's gonna get all protective about her getting a boyfriend and shit. Maybe the series ends in him walking her down the aisle. No, not even close.

Daikichi had a moral dilemma about his grandfather being a perv and having a side piece and then he does that? Ffs.

It was written by a woman aswell wasn't it which is even more confusing.
 
⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
I quit reading BNHA when they got inside the mountain lab. Then months later I looked it up again, and they were still in the mountain lab. Then I looked at the anime some time later; you guessed it: Mountain lab.

It's actually interesting as to why a shonen takes off and keeps gassed for a while before suddenly losing steam, not always as obvious as Part 1 ending and Part 2 starting like Chainsaw man. BNHA pretty much always followed the same patterns, so why did it last for what, 3-4 seasons before being boring?
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The pacing is just really off. JJK had a lot of good ideas but this final arc really feels like Gege doesn't know what to do with all the loose threads and instead of fixing them, he just spins out more 'epic' battle moments in the hope no one notices all the holes and unanswered questions.
rapecel said:
It's over. 5 chapters is not nearly enough to provide closure for all of the open story threads. We will not see a merger, it's possible that Nobara returns to use Resonance on Sukuna's last finger, either Hakari or Uraume will be off-screened. It will be a dog shit ending for a dog shit manga. I've been praying on it's downfall and with this announcement I can say that it'll be quickly forgotten once it ends. All the praise the writing is will soon end. I'm looking forward to an anime adaptation though since I really enjoyed the fights.
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If Nobara comes back I will genuinely be mad. This entire last arc has just been 'hey look, it's this guy! He's back!' over and over again and if that's the big final twist then that is lame af. The anime will probably redeem it somewhat. I'd like to see more of Heian Sukuna fighting with his 4 arms, I think Mappa will make it look really cool.

The biggest piece of praise I can give JJK is that Sukuna as a villain was a really cool concept both in terms of personality and design. Having him not be some scheming mastermind going for world domination or ultimate power was a good breakaway from typical shounen tropes. It's a shame he's spent this entire arc batting off waves of fodders and shedding limbs like confetti, as we're now certainly never going to see what he could do at full power, in his true form.
 
admiral said:
The biggest piece of praise I can give JJK is that Sukuna as a villain was a really cool concept both in terms of personality and design.
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He's basically Grimmjow + Zangestsu (both from Bleach).
admiral said:
Having him not be some scheming mastermind going for world domination or ultimate power was a good breakaway from typical shounen tropes.
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Bleach did that way earlier. Zangestsu is a Hollow like any other. He's always looking for a way to gain control over Ichigo's body (and succeeds at times).
 
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