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Are people still into Chainsaw Man? It completely lost its charm to me.

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Reading witch hat atelier now, and while art is fantastic it feels like I'm reading children's cartoon like mlp or something.
I see a very interesting world, but reader get's to see it though eyes of a kid and her kiddy problems that get's solved with friendship and magic (literally), also bad guys have all the cool designs and good guy witches are cucked to hats with no brim.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WZNDaILsCIc
All of the restrictions on law abiding witches are because of 'war bad' or something. Any wrong think (e.g. teaching utilitarian magic to ignorant masses, applying magic to body or wearing cool hats) is punishable by mindwipe and non negotiable deportation to gulag island.
>>980
I put it on hold for more then a year now, I should get on it soon.

>>982
You can easily guess it’s made by a woman from the art alone, like really just from first glance. Not in a bad way, but I’m intrigued by it.

>>980
Personally I never cared for chainsaw man so much Tokyo Ghoul on the other hand...

>>985
Tokyo Ghoul was kino but the author’s autism ruined it. He revived a dead arabian tale of ghouls, their equivalent of vampires and and werewolves, but made it about sexual repression and shounenshit.

>>986
Was it really sexual repression? I saw it simply as society putting boys and men down as a whole.

>>987
Yes, which is what I meant by autism, he made it a kind of social commentary. Think of it like how Shippuden lost all the Ninja charm of Naruto and just became dbz

>>988
Well that's lame.
>Live in Nipon and have legal hookers
>Somehow think that's social commentary

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Looks like my favorite shitshow got a batch of new chapters.

>>1004
What is it about

>>1006
It's about reading the first chapter and not getting filtered by it.
Main character is an average anon, with average anon habits. Until a girl joins his workplace and brings him out of the apathy that he buried himself in, mainly by fertile woman smell she emits.
I won't say anything more as it would ruin the experience of reading it.

>>1008
I like those kind of stories because it’s what I used to daydream about until I lost all hope and decided to just wait for the eventual ww3

Tower Dungeon 19. Great chapter Continuing from my previous post >>966 about necromancers, we got a flashback, and it seems they're not humans to begin with, it isn't a mage class like other fantasies which makes sense. Now the author is making it seem like they're parasites? I just hope it isn't alien bullshit.

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I dropped JoJolands and will not read it ever again. I always knew japs worshipped the west, but I truly believed that they’re different to the rest, just a little bit, but no the moment faggotry was normalized, all their media suddenly started including them. Trend chasing slaves.

>>1038
>the moment faggotry was normalized
Did you miss the Yuri/Yaoi shit all the way from the 90s or what?

>>1038
Jojo's always been gay as hell though. Araki's never going to out-gay Vento Aureo without depicting actual on-screen buttsex.

>>1040
I don't know, man. JOJOLANDS has a literal nigger tranny named Dragona as the deuteroganist. Now that is fucking bizarre.

>>1039
You don’t have to be smart to know that the classic portrayal of Yaoi/Yuri is completely different from the modern westernized portrayal of it in media. You can’t call Berserk gay and woke because Griffith was fucked in the ass. There’s nuance to be taken into consideration. The existence of Astolfo from fate and other traps, wasn’t to normalize homosexuality, like in the case of Witch from Mercury, where the show ends with rings in their fingers, which is a subtle political message about the ongoing same-sex marriage debate in Asia.
Actually why should I mention other works when I have JoJo itself?
In part 7 Lucy steel was molested by another woman, so why is it different to JoJolands now? Because it was completely sexual in nature, there wasn’t an underlying motive behind it, like supporting the modern LGBT movement. The woman who molested her was a married woman, talking about how she loved having sex with her husband, which was intentional to not make it a homoerotic scene, but typical fan service, because most men like some lesbian action, but not the LGBT one. Meanwhile in JoJolands, the lesbian in question is black, who talked about how she hates men, then sent a text to her white girlfriend that she loves her sooooo much. Why was thar situation handled in a completely different manner?
>>1040
JoJo was always bizarre and weird in a “gay” way but never actually homosexual. The only instance of homosexuality in the series was a one panel, literally one of two guys hugging each other, and it was never confirmed if they were a couple actually. So I ask, part 5 was in 1995, why did it take Araki literally 30 years to depict homosexuality again, if it was always gay and one of his interests? Strange.
And this part in particular is odd, it’s set in America, the main Jobro is a tranny, riddled with Breaking Bad references and other tv shows, and now you have an interracial lesbian couple.

I think Araki’s ego was hurt by Jojolion and how everyone laughed at his shit writing, so he decided to take a big fat shit on his fans as revenge by creating JoJo The Netflix Part.

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Anyone reading One Piece here? Since Elbaf started, Oda has been making weird mistakes, like swapping an axe for a sword in the crew’s official customs, now he corrected Gunko and Shamrock, making them saints. I don’t understand how you can forget something like the character’s family name in their introductory box. Also Brook suddenly became a big player, he’s tied to Gunko’s past, and Oda gave him Ice powers, saying he borrows them from hell…  honestly very late into the game, I can’t find myself interested in him anymore. I don’t like how Oda fumbled a skeleton character, they’re always cool like Morte.

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>>1004
This sex chapter is the most cringe I've ever read.

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I was skeptical of the title "Interspecies Reviewers" at first but it's surprisingly good.

>>979 (OP) 
These days mainly Manwhas, lots of nice ones.
All the manga I'm reading's monthly ones now so it's not looking too great.
>Bug EGO
>Versus
>Centuria
>Choujin X
>Bugle's Call
>Ragna Crimson (current arc's putting me to sleep though)
Rest is solid 5/10's that come out every 3-5 months.
>>980
First part was constant fun back to back but I'm not really feeling this second part.
It has its moments but I'll wait for it ti finish to decide if I like it or not.

>>1041
That is pretty gross, if true.
>>1042
Implied gay shit off the top of my head:
>the two dudes in the murder squad who were introduced with "haha they don't fuck... maybe... unless?"
>shark guy and tongue guy
>narancia thinking that two of the crew were sucking each other off
>disease guy telling mud guy that he likes him unprompted (admittedly bit of a stretch but it's still weird)
Almost all of the heterosexual relationships in the part were presented as negative. Diavolo impregnated a woman and he's batshit insane and he tries to murder the kid. Babbyface is a stand that mocks the entire idea of childbirth. Giorno and Buccellati come from broken homes. Trish doesn't even end up with anybody, or if she did, that's how much attention was put into that aspect of the story when I don't remember.
A better comparison is with something like Part 4 where the only really gay thing that happens is when Kira gets in the bath with Hayato. And it's clearly to humiliate him because Kira already knew that something was up, and the scene was presented like the horrible thing that it was.
Meanwhile the initial cast is a bunch of skirt chasers. Koichi basically has a loving relationship tossed into his lap. Kira gets so far into the married man roleplay that he has to mentally pull himself out of it and wall himself off from getting emotionally attached to his fake wife. I believe that Tonio's  motive in the spinoff manga is to cure his wife's cancer too.
And before you argue that Rohan was supposed to be a gay thing, even if it was, he was still clearly exploiting Koichi. My point is that there's a major difference in style between "I'm not explicitly saying that these grown men are having sex but I'm not stopping you from coming to this conclusion :)" and "oh fuck this creep is using his superpowers to molest me" and I'm not convinced that it was a complete accident on Araki's end.
I don't know why you're acting like I think that Araki was a good boy all that time from Part 5's ending to now (or whatever you're doing) but that's a whole can of worms in itself and it's just easier to point at the biggest and loudest example.
Anyway it took me a whole month to write a response so I think I'm going to go hold my face against an active belt sander.
>sage for completely worthless post

>>1122
First part had a fun cast and the story was constantly moving, second part just repeats the same things already in part 1 over and over again.

>Tower Dungeon
Best girl already ruined, she’s a gender bender..

>>1132
Just saw the new chapter today and oh boy, back on not liking it.
I think the author just doesn't give a fuck with this part 2 lol.

>>1153
What did you like? It’s the cringiest shit ever.

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It’s hilarious to me that Ran is holding the entire Detective Conan manga hostage. Most of the problems with the narrative like the frozen timeline can be fixed just by Shinichi growing old naturally as Conan until he catches up to his previous age, but a consequence of this is Ran becoming a hag, something Gosho can’t afford. Japanese mangaka are such weak writers they can’t find solutions to road blocks like this or are too emotional to off one character, even though I think it’s more of a fear of backlash from the fanbase. Muh keep the harmony and avoid conflict which is engraved in their brains. Anyway I think it would be a far more compelling romantic story if it becomes a tragedy around Ran’s age, or her moving away with her life. Without mentioning the fact that Haibara exists, a better love interest in my opinion and the same age too, so Ran didn’t need to exist at all.

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Anyone else run into the dumbest fucking shit and still have a good chuckle?

>Bouken ni Iku Fuku ga Nai!

>>1302
In some manga(and anime), it's basically half the fun. Sometime it's the whole concept.

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I started Call of the Night on Monday and finished it yesterday. The series gave the impression it wouldn't have appealed to me since I don't like the hypebeast look Nazuna has as an indication of a kind of personality, that it would've had the detached ironic alienating quality Chainsaw Man has, the aesthetic of the volume covers being so 2020s, and that I found the character designs to lean heavily into what was sexy eye candy made for callous kinds who only cared for anime only for hot chicks though the art style and fashion of the female characters is what eventually nagged at me to read it.

It was actually quite good. Kō's personality and psyche have believable weight, and despite her looks Nazuna from the get-go isn't a shallow and salacious person. The story takes a slow pace for the first half roughly, Kō spending time with Nazuna and his few friends while getting acquainted with most of the vampires he'll be in contact with spending a fair amount of time with them on their own without it being a chore though it is linear, that is to say resolved without a cut to other stories. I was unimpressed with the pacing and lack of sophistication yet still remained drawn to it for the relationships and how each segment would resolve which is when I realized that this was a shōnen without fighting. It was in line with Vampire the Masquerade with the precedence socialization and the world at night took over a boring bish bash bam secret war. Maybe I've gone soft too but the ending was trying to wrangle emotions out of me and it touched me like I was young, however simple that tragedy may be in its delivery and premise is it fair people never get over the sorrow of forlorn love. Something I pondered reading was what it's like to actually be vampire and how becoming one isn't to be taken lightly: how you are left without a future, how you remain the same biological age forever, that the one you fall in love with will eventually get old and die while you remain ominously pristine as your cells never die, leaving you to forever roam. Would you be unfaithful for being in love with someone else even a hundred years after their death, would you count as a new person every century since humans don't last that long and you exist parallel to time, how does it feel knowing the love of your "life" is on a time limit and death has become pitiful while to them it is the culmination of who they are, to never grow up with your friends and family if you have any leaving them with the sorrow and incompletion that comes with a death, as a human weighing all of that while a vampire wants you from their purest heart and soul.

The biggest dip in quality are when the vampires in the 2nd half are introduced which is to say out of nowhere and with generic shōnen battles and Kō acts like a generic shōnen protagonist when it's time to fight in which conflict with them is resolved just as quickly, and they're weak characters as well largely for their connection to the story at that point, the lack of gravitas that makes for, and their appearances. We hardly see the cast from the first half in the second, and there was a character towards the beginning who showed up for a couple of chapters and is never acknowledged again which wasn't written like a random nor do we see the giant lolita again once her conflict is resolved so I think Kotoyama was playing it safe for how the story would play out if there were snags that wouldn't fit into his vision down the road. As for that pacing many chapters are spent on plots that could've had the duration of the whole series put to better use if they were a little shorter as by the end of it while there is a churning growth in the characters a lot really doesn't happen in arcs, I get the feeling that Akira may have been struggling with unrequited love over both Kō and Mehiru but it's plausible to assume Kotoyama did really mean to just be like a sister to both. It's not like the city needed to be a character too, but more events that lead to substantial growth happening wouldn't have hampered the way that ruminations and dialogue advanced the characters.

Not trying to end on a funny or crude note but the only petty complaint I have worth mentioning is that Kō dresses like a little nigger.

>>1304
And I wouldn't trade it for anything. If I had a million bucks, I'd erect a billboard across the street from the Japanese PMs place with "KEEP MANGA WEIRD" in blinking lights.

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Been reading *Rice Shoulder*, *Yane no Shita no Artemis* and *Dekai Usagi ni Natsukareta!?*

I thought the first was an old Showa-era boxing manga but it was released in 2007. The art style is goofy and gets the feel of old boxing manga perfectly! I like the characters and the fights are really well done. I am pretty biased though as I have been learning boxing IRL so I can relate a lot to Okome's training from scratch. 

Artemis is just a really, really well-done romance manga. Both the girls are utterly incredible ||and very sexy too||. I haven't read a manga with this good of a duo since *Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru*. I find the romantic progress has been good so far and the comedy funny (see panel related). The term 'girlfailure' is overused by SEAbraned retards online but both the main girls are examples of how to write such a character well.

Dekai Usagi is really new and only has a couple of chapters but I like the tall, shredded genki senpai. I look forward to seeing where it goes.

As an aside, I really wish there were more romance manga with a fat heroine. It sucks being sick in the head for them!

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>>1316
Addendum: in case you haven't read it yet please read Onani Master Kurosawa. Despite the title it's one of the best manga I have ever read.

>>1316
is this really considered fat? more like a little plump.

csm 2 ended it was fucking garbage, good riddance. Fujimoto wrote Fire Punch so it will forever absolve him.