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Registration said:
Finished reading Blueberry Doll by Ken Ishikawa, a scifi sex comedy parody manga with a sex toy android from the future staying with a broke university student.

Man, I wish it was longer, basically it was Cutie Honey if it was good and it was just 1 volume long. It was very fun to see the ideas of sex toys from the future.
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Also the parodies were fun too.
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I really wish more Ken Ishikawa works were fully translated. This was very fun.
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Finished reading it after the rec. It genuinely has some great 80s era Ishikawa panels which are all in service to a dick joke it's pretty funny.
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One of my biggest interests with manga is that it is the closest medium to film in print. There are lots of comic adaptations of films around there (mostly shit and cut to 48 pages with very few exceptions)

However in Japan, you had manga adaptations not of children's related movies but ANY film that you can think of and obviously there would be differences.

But as you can imagine, most of these manga can't even be reprinted anymore so most of them may be as well lost.

What can we get from a Planet of the Apes manga that a comic couldn't offer?
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Or a Ben-Hur manga?
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It is just a curious thing, tie in media that is disposable to anyone but a very few people in a single island.

I still want to read the Waterworld, King Kong and Tron manga lol
 
Registration said:
One of my biggest interests with manga is that it is the closest medium to film in print. There are lots of comic adaptations of films around there (mostly shit and cut to 48 pages with very few exceptions)

However in Japan, you had manga adaptations not of children's related movies but ANY film that you can think of and obviously there would be differences.

But as you can imagine, most of these manga can't even be reprinted anymore so most of them may be as well lost.

What can we get from a Planet of the Apes manga that a comic couldn't offer?
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Or a Ben-Hur manga?
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It is just a curious thing, tie in media that is disposable to anyone but a very few people in a single island.

I still want to read the Waterworld, King Kong and Tron manga lol
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There was also a Space Ghost manga. Why didn't they adapt that to anime the same time they made that PPG anime?
 
I did read School Boy Zombie Romeo, a comedy manga about a zombie boy in a normal japanese school and his friendship with a normal boy who is jealous that even a zombie is better seen by his classmates than him.
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Quite funny stuff for those who like zombies, and yeah, the zombie doesn't speak at all
 
The new One-Punch Man season began just as everyone feared. The entire episode is basically just a bunch of still shots with flapping lips. A glorified slideshow, more or less.
 
Lone Star said:
The new One-Punch Man season began just as everyone feared. The entire episode is basically just a bunch of still shots with flapping lips. A glorified slideshow, more or less.
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It's a chapter with nothing but people sitting around talking. There's a scene of old hero association dudes at a table, and a scene of everyone resting on the floor of Saitama's apartment, and that's the episode. I would not have expected it to be much more animated than the manga.

I don't have high hopes for the season (man, the OP is fucking awful) but this slideshow thing I keep hearing is a retarded circlejerk that was going on before it even aired. Another week is really not that long to wait for something to actually complain about surely
 
Otri said:
This has probably been posted before, but is anyone else sick of this shit "anime" artstyle from western studios? It looks ugly as shit i hate it so much. That tomb raider show that everyone forgot about and the LoTR animated thing comes to mind
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It's all unwatchable, I only watch old hand-drawn anime now. Modern shit just looks like a weird combination of CGI yet at the same time lazy animation (which shouldn't even be a thing if you're using computer programs to create it). And it makes every anime look the same, there is no variation in tone or style. I don't watch anything outside of 1987-1998 nowadays.
 
Red Dragon said:
I found the first episode kinda mediocre, but the art is so gorgeous I'm willing to watch at least 3 eps to see where the story is going.
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I think the concept is fun. World barely has any kids left, Santa is gone, and this kid is the decendant of Santa and has his powers. I'm giving it a chance
 
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They not even trying.
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Oh shit lmao. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... I guess.

When it comes to OPM, it was a good 1-off show buoyed entirely by Madhouse being Madhouse, an interesting but short-legged concept, and ludicrous somewhat deserved hype. But here's the thing, when your Shonen deconstruction/parody becomes just another Shonen, the venture is mute. I think Madhouse knew that fact which is why they only did that one season. They made it, they busted their asses on it, and then they moved on to greener pastures before shit got stale...
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Frieren gets multiple Madhouse seasons, and OPM only gets one.
 
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