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ITT: manga masterpieces
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>>122706640
pic unrelated
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>onani
>master
>kurosawa
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>>122708396
>literally buckets
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Would you guys consider Homunculus up there?
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did you guys like 2001 nights?

i thought that was really nice
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>>122706941
fag
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>>I'm not a robot
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Mujaki no Rakuen
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>>122708633
Yes
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>>122708855
what manga is this? i like the art
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Hype as fuck
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>>122708633
cool scenario but it could have been executed better
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>>122708960
Literally a 10/10


YKK and Berserk are honestly true masterpieces.
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Biscuit hammer is the best shounen thing i've ever experienced
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>>122706750
>not Akagi/Ten
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Dorohedoro, Children of the Sea, and Sunny are all pretty damn good. Should throw in me and the devil blues as well.
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Such an amazing first act, but things tapered off fast
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10/10

Anime by madhouse please
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>>122706640
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>>122706640

akuma no blues
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>>122714876
I concur.
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>>122711854
where can I read that? only chapter 1 is available
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>>122715401
I could never get into Vagabond, I recognize it's good , it just doesn't work for me..
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>>122716369
>recognize it's good
>just doesn't work for me
What does that even mean
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>>122716575
That I'm not a retarded fuck?
I can see it's well written and the art is great.

But the story does not appeal to me , simple as that.
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Certainly not a work of art, but goddamn I'd say everyone should read it at least once
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>>122706640
Definitely a must read
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>>122708855
>>122711809

Until you find out everyone in that pic is under 17, then it becomes a pain in the ass to read.
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>>122717047
Just began reading it, all I can say is that I can't wait for it to get good, because I know it will but fuck 20 chapters in and this shit kinda sucks, the mc, side characters, art, expersisons, feels really generic, hope it doesn't take long to get good tho.
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>>122717553
Everything picks up after the start of vol 4 (chapter 34 i think)
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More like ITT:opinions

Half of these are shit.
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>>122717553
i'm reading this now. the first parts are pretty cliche but the art is getting great and it gets a hell of a lot better story-wise as it goes.

the beginning has too much "he's the best just because. oh my god isn't he an amazing climber!", but it definitely starts shying away from that and starts actually showing his shitty life and actual trials he has to endure. it's starts getting a lot darker and presents things a little more maturely. but i'm only around chapter 90 so we'll see.
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>>122717977
Yeah that's pretty much what I was expecting from this manga before starting it so I'm not worried about the beginning being shitty, also, can't wait for the art. Is it the same artist tho, if so then that dude fucking improved like hell from the pages I've seen on OPTs.
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thx 4 all the recommendations ^^
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1 piss
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>>122718099
My brothers of Himalayan ascent.
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>>122716369
Same here man, I actually read all of it, to be honest, I think its a little bit overrated, especially since I see people comparing it to Berserk.
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>>122706640
punpun is shit, get over it

>but muh traced photographs

Shit story
Shit characters
Shit themes
Shit art
Shit dialog
Shit pacing
Shit screentones
Shit ending
Shit protagonist
Shit attempt at DEEP
Shit emo plotline
Shit muh feelings
Pure
Fucking
Shit
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>>122723640

I liked it.

You can say I have shit taste, and perhaps from some perspectives, you could be right. However, you can't go back in time and take the enjoyment and catharsis I derived from reading it away from me.

I tell you this because I feel like it might be upsetting to you.
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>>122716757
Greatest love story ever told.
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>>122723804
I honestly don't care. /a/ does this with all sorts of manga series. They take something positively mediocre and create a hypetrain. Pretty soon, droves of newfags are claiming it's the best manga evar!!!1 and it gets an overblown reputation. It's group mentality at its finest. That enjoyment you enjoyed. It was fake. You enjoyed the atmosphere around you reading Punpun. Not the story itself. You gave in to hype. It's a fucking shit manga.
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>>122724061
>I honestly do not care
Then why did you make an initial post about punpun instead of listing your own masterpiece, and why did you respond to him in the first place. Now respond to me, and prove that you do care you flaming fucking faggot
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>>122724061
>doesn't care
>still takes the time to make a couple posts in an attempt to tell some random schmo to stop liking what you don't like

Cute
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>>122724149
>being this assblasted someone just shit all over your mediocre emo manga

Excuse me while I kek

KEK
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>>122714876
Anyone who says otherwise is somebody who hates fun or is a liar
Either one a shit
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>Punpun and Biscuit Hammer
Two shitty manga worshiped by newfags
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>>122724222
Sure buddy
Nice trips though
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>>122724149
>>122724222
refrain from shitposting please
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Hand down best Manga I've ever read, I recommend it to everyone on this board
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Punpun was creative and well executed. Unhappy people just hate it because other people they don't like praise it.
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ITT = people confusing masterpiece with favorite.
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Lmao punpun fags, not even Inio's Magnum Opus.

Which is Nijigahara Holograph.
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>>122724604
>anyone who doesn't just nod along with what I say has some sort of problem in their life. I need to believe this because I cannot handle people not just agreeing with my thoughts.
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>>122708633
It was good for what it was but I wouldn't consider it a masterpiece.

>>122714661
The War was fucking shit.


>>122717047
Agreed.
Though I wish it ended with how the author wanted with the guy dying at the end like the guy died in real life.
But whatever it's still good.

>>122717553
It's generic on purpose.
Really.

It starts off so fucking cliche and then BAM, it punches you right in the fucking guts and reminds you that real life isn't a fucking shonen and shit just happens.
The first time I read it, it just completely blew me away. I like to believe it was intentional just to fuck with the reader.
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While I'm recommending things for this thread, I would name Ai-ren for being a near damn masterpiece.

It's fucking amazing when you can make true sadness in every single chapter.
When you can make simple children playing in the yard so fucking sad.

There was some side characters that really didn't need some focus but all those chapters focusing on the children just hurts on such a horrible level.
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>>122725126

Why would you do that? Why would you spoil the ending of a manga that you claim to have really enjoyed in a thread where you are replying to people who are in the process of reading it?

I know it's not like it's a brand new ongoing manga, but more than one anon just now said they were x number of chapters in. Why the fuck would you go and reveal a major piece of the ending? Do you not want them to experience it the way you did? At least as far as that part goes, the suspense will be ruined. No "punch in the gut" for them.

Good job.

This is why we have spoiler tags. For exactly this type of thing.

I'm not even annoyed for myself, I've read it.
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hey guys look at how cool and contrarian I am
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>>122725466
I didn't spoil anything, I just wished it ended with the guy dying.
I didn't say how or why or what happened to the guy.

You know damn fucking well how it ends so don't start bitching at me that I spoiled anything you faggot shit.
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>>122725520
oh fuck off
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Does anyone else like Blame? I just started reading it, and its been great so far
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>>122725520
>I just wished it ended with the guy dying.

and now any suspense those anons might have had about whether he does or not will never be built up, the question of the character's very survival is now a non-issue.

But you haven't spoiled anything though. right?
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guys its MASTERPIECE thread.
not :
>i think i like it thread
>its been great thread
>the ending is impactful thread
>my favorite so far thread

get a dictionary faggot
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Also, Bitter Virgin is damn near masterpiece for what it is.
It's very short, only 4 volumes, and just fucks you over.
Try not to read the tag and judge the story by its cover; it has shoujo art, so it'll all be nice, cuddly and warm.
>>122725550
Being told getting on your nerve?
You know damn well I didn't spoil anything yet you went full autism for no reason.
Fuck off yourself faggot.

>>122725651
Did you even read the manga?
You know damn fucking well what happens at the end.
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>>122725702
its good and all. definitely up there for shoujo, but not masterpiece.
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This was such an insane ride.
It kinda got really fucking stupid with a dickgirl uberstrong subplot that was introduced out of fucking nowhere and then vanished.
And a lot of the whole ''oh my god guys, this guy is so fucking legendary and never defeated before'' aura vanishes depending of the fight.

But goddamn is it near perfect when it wants to be.
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>>122716757
Why would i read anything at all more than once ?
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>>122725894
To recapture the feeling you had the first time you read it?
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>>122725702
>You know damn well I didn't spoil anything
other than the MC surviving the end, ruining all the suspense in the final arc
are you literally retarded?
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>>122725988
Shows how much you read the manga.
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>>122724583
Shit ending though
Also it's kinda random
But if i had to choose to read or ditch it i'd rather read it
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>>122726026
I have no idea what the fuck is your point. Yes, I have read the manga. Yes, I know how it ends. Yes, you did spoil at least one major aspect of its ending.
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>>122725961
Those feeling can never be reached again anon
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>>122708960
I'm glad that this was posted early
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>>122726122
>major aspect
You're forgetting the OTHER major aspect dumbass.

>>122726167
Hmm, true.
You can still look back at the moment where you felt those feelings.
Like looking at photographs of your birthday party or when you were drunk.

Sure, you can't get those same feelings as that specific day, but you can try to get some slight glimpse at it.
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Name one reason OPM isn't a masterpiece.
you can't
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>>122726229
>spoiling part of the ending isn't spoiling because I only spoiled part of it not the whole
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>>122724228
There's a few others that I could imagine competing with it (Gash Bell for characterization, emotional payoff, and fairly intelligent battles comes to mind), but it is certainly in the league where not many other titles come to mind.
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>>122715342
>there will never be a Biscuit Hammer, Spirit Circle, or Sengoku no Youko anime
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>>122726242
Which is why I'm telling you to calm your fucking ass off.
It ain't the biggest damn part of the ending.
His survival isn't the important part, it's how broken he is at the end which is the biggest part.


>>122726234
Garou's arc hasn't been drawn yet.
It's just alright with good art at the moment.

Once Garou's arc gets fully drawn, I'll call it a masterpiece.
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>>122726331
and I'm telling you you're an absolute fucking moron for spoiling ANY aspect of the ending, regardless of how insignificant you seem to believe it is.
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>>122716575
Its one of those things where you can recognize the objective quality of piece of art (technique, storycrafting, prose, etc.), but still dislike it subjectively. This is what is actually meant when art is defined as subjective, rather than "its not shit because its my style."
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>>122725501
but blame! is actually a masterpiece of science fiction, especially in the architecture department
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>>122726331
>His survival isn't the important part, it's how broken he is at the end which is the biggest part.
that's not even fucking right god damn
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>>122725571
a short is getting animated in sidonia season 2, pic related
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>>122726395
blame is neat
so is punpun was my point
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>>122726435
When is S2 airing again?
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>>122726395
How much of a masterpiece can it really be if the author's own daughter says she's embarrassed by it after reading more manga and she wishes her dad had written something actually good and fun and interesting like Shingeki no Kyojin.
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>>122726505
next season mate. so really soon
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>>122726559
Chill.
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>>122726555
dont remind me. he even made a titan sized gauna in sidonia just to kill it
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Ciguatera was really good until the ending came out of nowhere.
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Can we agree that Yotsuba is a masterpiece in cuteness?
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>>122726676
hinamatsuri >=yotsuba
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>>122708612

>I am a Hero
>literally took 3 tankoubons before we meet 2nd character
>people acting realistic on zombie apocalypse
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>>122717047
good job anon. Good to see some real god tier here.
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>>122727108
I am a Hero is meh overall.
It just gets praise because it's ''good for a zombie story''. If you read it as a comedy, it's hilarious.
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>>122723640
>>>/v/ tier thinking
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>>122726395
God i need to read this. It looks incredible.
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>>122723640
Cute arguments
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>>122726782
I second that.
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>>122726555
Females like shit
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Devil Ape and Woof Woof.
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It's a cluster of info at times, but Zetman is as much of a masterpiece as possible.
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Fight me

There will never be another manga of this scope that works on every level.
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At minimum, an honerable mention to Homunculus.

It's got it's flaws, but blow for blow, it's a great psychological read.
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Mhm....
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>>122727375
>Everything's going right for mc, time to panic - the manga
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This one was so incredibly thrilling, one of the few mangas where I just couldn't stop reading for 12 hours straight.
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>>122727581
After the first 20 or so chapters at least, it needs a bit of buildup but after that it becomes more and more incredible.
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Incredible art and creativity. Very interesting concept it explores.
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>ITT: Recommend me the same manga everyone posts every single day in every single stupid one page thread
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>>122727686
>except with out the pedo rate moe shit

What's the problem?
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>>122716575
It took me a while to get into it. I dont like the MC too much, but theres a flashback arc about some random deaf kid and his adoptive father. Fucking best shit ever. Only flashback arc I've liked since Berserk.
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>>122727581
No, sorry, fuck your shit, 20CB was pure fucking shit.
At least post Monster if you're going to post a masterpiece from Urasawa.
20CB is possibly his worst.

Nearly everything except Friend dying out of fucking nowhere was shit.
A nice idea of children dreams somehow ruining the world and how a religion went from being a whisper to the sole superpower religion in the world. But it barely shows how it happened which makes it all the more bullshit.

It really feels as though Urasawa took Johan and went all ''hey, rather than not give the main antagonist a name like Johan, let's make his identity and face unknown''.
It was just horribly fucking done the entire time.

Best fucking work by Urasawa my goddamn ass.
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>>122725872
I agree that the dickgirl shit was fucking stupid, but I think the whole legendary aura vanishing overnight was intended to reflect how it works in reality. You win, everyone talks about you. You lose, you're nobody.
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>>122727581
>mangas
Of course it is thrilling, when you are 12.
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>>122727162
god i could hear the fucking music in my head while reading this
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>>122717047
this manga legit made me depressed for like 2 weeks. I dont even know how, stories dont usually make me deeply sad.
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Easily a masterpiece.
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>>122723640
>No mention of LGBT

shit bait
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>>122727412
4 vol is my favorite, it amazes me the effort that goes into the backgrounds in this manga
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>>122727726
Why would you give credit to Johan for being the super manipulator but not Friend ? Everone fawns over Monster all the time but I found it to be pretty boring, it revolved about a small circle of characters that I didn't found believable enough to care about with the exception of maybe Sara.

20th CB had some major motivations and I liked how Friend does not only manipulate a couple guys but makes the whole world into his instrument, turning the supposed heroes into terrorists. I also really enjoyed that all of these guys were just normal adults with all their flaws and the constant anxiety of being persecuted by the whole world - but still trying to right their wrongs. That and the whole scale the manga brought was just so much bigger than Monster that I enjoyed it endlessly more, you can have your taste, I have my own.

>>122727743
Shitposting isn't a commendable trait anon.
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>>122727739
>You win, everyone talks about you. You lose, you're nobody.
That's not what I mean.
Like, for example, in the fight themselves, that faggot with his mouth fucked open fought Irako the first time.
He gets shown to be such a goddamn beast, killing so many people and shit.
But then, as he fights Irako, all his aura of badass vanishes. For no fucking reason.

At certain points, some characters are shown to be badass on such an impossible inhuman level and are then brought down to seem as though they're human in the middle of a fight.
And it doesn't happen once but many times over the course of the manga.

Like, for example, Gennosuke gets build up to be such a badass by the end of the manga despite his injury but when he fights Irako in the end, he doesn't have a badass aura.
Just why?

And Irako gets to have an insane ''I am Death motherfucker'' aura even though chapters prior, it was shown that Irako was just being a lazy faggot who struggled in his matches.

It's really inconsistent.
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>>122727753
That's what you call a masterpiece.

The metaphorical portrayals in that manga are so good you can actually completely understand them, down to the smallest details.

ie. the suffocation of this scene.
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>>122727910
>someone saw me acting like a retarded baby and called me on it
>must be shitposting
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>>122727412
Agreed.
Also Beck is one of my favorite manga
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>>122727910
Monster is shit too, Yawara is best Urasawa.
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>>122727938
It's shitposting as long as you contribute nothing with discussion value but only cheap phrases with malicious intent.
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>>122727982
Oh, you silly fucking kid. Did someone hurt your feelings? Do you want to cry to your momma? Why not open a tumblr page to tell people about all the pain from being prove to not have the right to post on this site?
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>>122727581
>not Monster
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>>122727910
Because Johan actually manipulates people if you look close at the details of the manga.
Burned records, getting loved ones to help him, blackmail, getting serial killers to do his bidding, doing shit himself, etc.

Friend is shit because his motivation is stupid
>huuurrr you weren't a good friend so I'm going to fuck over the world

We never fucking know how Friend gets to be influential. Hell, not even the characters know.
His second in command even laments that he has no fucking clue how they got that powerful near the end.

It's all a big fucking joke.
How the fuck did Friend fuck the entire world?
How did he manipulate everyone?
We're never shown because it doesn't matter.

Just like how Friend bending the spoon shit was pointless.
Or how pointless that guy who could tell the future.

Or how about how Friend's daughter gets this large attention to herself about getting the mafia together to fight off Friend and whatever and NOTHING happens from it.

No assasinnation (red herring, huuurrr) and then Friend fucks the world.
None of it matters.

None of the characters do anything.
The MC just comes back out fucking nowhere by the end with a bullshit case of amnesia.
What the fuck?

Everything is all just a whole ''ooh shit, I remember something from my childhood which is important to the plot!''. shit over and over.

Johan actually fucks people because his main goal in life is to fuck as many people as he can, doing as little as he possible can, to corner himself and then get out of getting himself killed by doing as little as possible.

Johan is the greatest character written by Urasawa and it shows.
20CB is just shit.
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>>122728062
But 21th Century Boys fixes all this

Oh, wait.
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>>122728062
I think you mispelled Grimmer.
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>>122717609
Best Yankee manga , and one of the best shonen out there
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Better than Punpun
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>>122728130
I prefer Ocha Nigosu
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>>122727910
What makes Monster so good is that it feels like a hunt.
You want to find out who the fuck Johan is and you also feel his overreaching hand touching everything.
Even when Johan isn't on screen, you can feel his manipulation by his followers.

And the sad fact is that no one really understood Johan by the end.
The guy just trolls the living fuck out of everyone, fucks so many people just to kill them, and it's all hidden very well across the entire manga.

I can't call Monster a masterpiece because of Urasawa's main flaw which is having damn interesting good characters contributing nothing overall.
Like that psychologist or that psychiatric or Anna.
But it's the discovery of Johan as the story progresses that makes it good.

And the ending is shit but only if you don't understand why Johan kills people.
If you do understand Johan, the ending is the best Urasawa has made.

>>122728109
Grimmer is 2nd best.
Goddamn do I love that guy.
He reminds too much about myself.
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>>122717047
I think this is one of the most overrated manga on /a/.

I thought it was good, but just good. It had a decent enough start but went downhill pretty quickly, I'm not sure what lesson it was supposed to teach if any, I'm not sure what story it was trying to tell. The ending especially felt really weak to me.

But I mean, amazing art, the main character was really interesting, but I don't see why so many people insist on this manga.
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This one right here , fucking masterpiece one of the best manga i've read. It's just AWESOME
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>>122728246
It's autism done right with good art.
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>>122728246
Truly meaningful human connections are rare, but they can be more beautiful than nature.
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>>122708633
Shit started getting too weird at the end
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Where my K/a/ijibros at?
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>>122728246
Because they like it? You can't tell people what to like or not
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>>122728281
Yeah but I can't think of a better way for the manga to end.
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>>122728313
He's not complaining that people like it, he also likes it, only that he doesn't see it as a masterpiece and that people are overevaluating it.
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>>122728219
>He reminds too much about myself.
Is he 12-year-old and presses enter after even sentence like yourself?
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>>122728247
my nigga!
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>>122728405
Please be more insulting about what I say rather than how I structure my opinions.
You'll sound like someone who actually has something to say.
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>>122728062
As far as I remember Friends motivation was that he lived their child scenario, he basically just wanted to "play" - although it doesn't necessarily make him better than
>huuurrr you weren't a good friend

Ii'spretty sad that many events don't really equate into any results but that's the same with Monster for a large portion of the manga, Urasawa just likes to have his heroes fail I guess. The last Arc was a disappointment.

Probably have to reread it to really comment on what you said, it has been a couple of years since I read it. Overall you are not wrong but the positives did outweight the negatives by a large margin, at least in my memory.
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not even an honourable mention here?
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>>122728459
But I was insulting about what you say. It is not might fault that you can say childish things such as "he reminds me of myself."
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>>122728466
>the positives did outweight the negatives by a large margin
I think the same. It's been a while since I've read it but as convoluted as the story became, the good ideas and characters were always there. Also, that goat scene where the world ends for the second time
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>>122728479
2crazy
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>>122728466
>Urasawa just likes to have his heroes fail I guess.
To be fair, I liked the bit where history gets completely written in Friend's favor and the heroes just fail.
That was a damn good twist.
I liked the characters but it felt as though the story kept building up to something and just ended up not amounting to much.

It's really interesting how a simple cult went from being a whisper to a full blown superpower but the how it happened is completely ignored.
There's probably some message how things happen and no one knows how it happened but it doesn't seem well done.

>>122728487
It doesn't sound easy since it should have been the first thing you brought up.
I liked Grimmer for many reasons. His personality does remind me a lot of myself in how he acts in various ways, how unemotional he is yet still acts with compassion and dedication.

You're just being a little shit, again, about how I structure my sentences rather than my opinions. Saying childish things, in your opinion, does not make them wrong.
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>>122728584
Bet until last year you were self-identifying as Sasuke.
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Murata's OPM, just for added quality his skill brought to an already god tier comedy.
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>>122728640
I can't wait for Garou's arc to be completely drawn.
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>>122728604
Grimmer is the opposite of edgy. But yeah, Johanon is Sasuke-tier.
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Just gonna put this here. See the opinion on this.
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>>122728798
ummm ahhhh.... i have no word anon
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>>122728308
Everything by Fukumoto is a masterpiece.
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>>122728849
>ummm ahhhh.... i
I have have. Get out.
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>>122724583
I just finished reading.
Weird ride, random and entertaining as fuck. Lots of surprises.
Not really a masterpiece since the ending just goes a bit nowhere and ends but still pretty good.
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Simply 10/10.
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Maybe not quite masterpieces, but here are the ones that fill me with warmth inside.

>Kyou Kara Ore Wa

Undoubtedly the best yankee manga of all time. Golden characters, solid humor, and managed to keep fresh over all those chapters.

>The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer

Some of the strongest characters in a shounen series, emotionally, and was able to wrap itself up in a perfect amount of chapters, with possibly one of the nicest endings I've ever seen.

>Yotsuba&!

I don't need to explain this, faggots.

>Hotel
I SEE TREES OF GREEN. AND RED ROSES TOO.

>Sun-Ken Rock
Mostly because of the art quality. I've never seen more detail in characters. Every chapter is hype because of the detailed fights.

>Mahou Tsukai No Yome
Because a love story between a Japanese girl and a British Demon is just so perfect. It has a vibe that reminds me of old English children's books, like The Secret Garden. I love it.

>Onani Master Kurosawa
No-one was ready for that one.

>Sakamoto Desu Ga
Fucking Sakamoto.

There's probably more but I read so many that I lose track of some of the great ones.
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>>122730878
Great quality mangareader pic.
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>>122728247
Is it much better than the anime?
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>>122725872
Dickgirl was introduced as a necessary but unfortunate break since the author needed the buildup for the final duel, I believe.

I fucking love how in Shigurui the author doesn't show us the character's thoughts, but rather relies on the expressions and on the narrator's comments.
I also love how the subversion near the end where the "bad guy" , or better antagonist, turns out to be the only character to give us the only positive message of the whole manga, while the "good guy" is a complete slave to rules and social expectancies.
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>>122714876
>>122726249
>>122715342
>>122730994
Samidare is great and all, but Spirit Circle has been leagues better in my opinion. Yes, that's how high i'm rating it.

My only gripe withit is that's still ongoing so it still have the chance to fuck up the ending, but Mizukami has shown he knows what he's doing and in particular SC give the feeling how something carefully planned in detail in advance, so i'm not that worried.
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>>122731736
Yeah, although Irako was a complete dick, you can see that he was truly the only one who fought the system to make a name for himself. Irako really seemed weird in some parts where he showed empathy like when he threw up while having to cut the faces of his targets but also cold blooded killed a physician for experience.
And in the end of the story, the Kogan girl had to kill herself because she knew that her husband was still fucked by the system and would forever be a husk of a man.


It's a really downer ending but perfectly reinforces the overall themes of the manga.

I really would have minded the dickgirl bits if that frogbro came back.
You saw him at some parts, he gets an arc and you seem him as part of the contestants at the end. Yet we never see his fight or what happened to him.
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>>122706640

Go on anons, try reading this before you go to sleep.
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>>122728849
>ummm ahhhh
>....
>i
>No puncuation

Get older, Lurk Moar then start posting in that order.
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>>122708564
lol no, shit ending
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>>122727940
it's not a masterpiece though. I own the tanks up to volume 17 and in all honesty: it's entertaining but really bland and with pacing issues. It's absolutely worth a read but not really anything special...
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>182 replies
>ctrl + f Nausicäa
>0 result
>Gunnm
>0 result
Are you really speak about materpiece or just manga you liked ?
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Greatest battle manga ever written, that has to account for something.
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>>122732772
Shit ending? I say shit half part.
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>>122732853
Nausicaä is really good.
GUNNM is good too but I'm not sure if it's a masterpiece. I feel like most people who really love it have the nostalgia goggles for it - especially when they argue it's so much better than last order which I don't really see at all.
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>>122730092
>>122732717
Is this /a/ now? A cesspool of shitposting and grammar nazis.
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>>122732929
Dat art.
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>>122732267
>babby's first urban myth goosebumps-tier "scary" stories
>masterpiece
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Where can I download all these mangas from?

For archiving purposes, that is.
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>>122733527
Madokami.
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>>122733642
>Madokami
Thanks, Anon
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>>122733642
>>122733687

Where do I register?
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>>122733715
nvm I'm retarded
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>>122727773
Greatest comedy I ever read
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Amazing imo. What does /a/ think?
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>>122726555
Time to abort her.
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Made by two master artists, that's for sure, though both Ray Bradbury and Hagio Moto have done better stuff.
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>>122733839
Hit too close to home, a similar experience happened to me.
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>>122726555
How old is Nihei's daughter anyways? I always just assumed from that comment that she was quite young, like how Oda talks about his daughters liking Precure more than One Piece?
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>>122726555
Sheesh, how old is she?
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>>122732267
The only thing even slightly creepy in that series is the musings between sections in the volumes, the stories are all pretty tame.
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Cry everytime
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Tokyo Ghoul is a masterpiece especially with that briefacase ending

Still early for to form an opinion about ;re
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>>122725126
>>122717977
thanks guys, I gave up during the "wow amazing climber genius" but I'm try again now
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>>122727921
God i hate that fucking bitch.
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>>122733101
>now
It's been like this for a while.
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>>122725571
Best mango.
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>>122733965
hey faget what happens to that tank manga on your blog?
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>>122726555
Daughter has shit taste I say. Blame is one of the few manga I reread once in a while. Unlike Shingeki no Kyojin which I even stopped following because the story goes nowhere.
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>>122714876
It could have been higher on my list if it wasn't for that damned everyone-marries-everyone ending.
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>>122734774
What, Black Knight Story? I finished it quite a while ago.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!119QSBhS!bCe22AtmY6puabi3XL5b1A
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>>122728479
This is Tropical Citron, right?
Honorable mention sounds about right. It's great, but ultimately maybe not as meaningful as it wanted to be.
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>>122717047
Great taste
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>>122725571
Almost done with it, I don't get half of it.
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>>122733020

Last Order isn't high literature by any means but it was a lot more fun to read than the original

The end felt really rushed though
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>>122715291
I came here to make sure this was posted. Glad to see it got here early.
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>>122728281

>shit started to get weird
>japanese
>weird

u wot m8, havin a giggle
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>>122717047
Summer climbing season soon, you guys ready?
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>>122716575
I kind of get what they're saying, it's like when a favorite author covers a topic you're not really interested in. You still like them for being good but it's just not a story you want to read.

I like Natsune Ono manga but House of Five Leaves is a chore for me to go through because I'm not interested in feudal Japan/samurai stories.
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>>122727412
Are there really people that hate Akira?
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One of my first harem and nothing even come close to it.
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>>122715342
I'm I the only one who wants trigger? Or shaft?
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I reread LHC the other day and it was even better than the first time. It's probably not considered Furuya's best but it's great for what it is.

>>122728281
I liked the direction it took, I think the mangaka intended for the story to focus on the MC and the med student getting over their personal demons rather than it just being the MC running around trying to figure people out.
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>>122735208
>snickers
Disgusting.
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>>122735492
It usually gets the 'it's overrated' treatment.
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>>122735681
I agree, but it has one of the best energy-weight-size ratios for food anywhere.
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>>122735492
Don't hate it, but I'm reading it now and it's taking longer than it should be. The plot is brilliant, the storytelling is great and the art is incredible, but it's been slow-moving at some times and flat-out boring at others.
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Ashita no joe
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>>122735492
I found it to be boring . Kaneda is annoying faggot who think he is some kind of badass gangsta while tetsuo is to much of an attention whore. Dropped it at volume 3.
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>>122735881
>Kaneda, I'm pregnant
>Cool, I can watch you have it.

Kaneda IS a badass gangsta.
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Shintaro Kago stuff.
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>>122736057
Forgot pic
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>>122714876

>Khara x Trigger adaptation never
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>>122736097
He really is amazing. I wish he would get more translations.
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Is there any manga which can capture the raw emotions of mono no aware like YKK can? I'm not trying to sound pretentious but YKK is the only manga which actually helped me appreciate the beauty of every day stuff like sunsets and shit, it's straight up amazing.
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Weird nobody has posted this yet.
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>>122736144
He really pushes what comics can do as a medium at times. Also, his stuff is fucking hilarious at times. That fetus collection one had me in tatters, I was not expecting it to go in that direction.
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>>122736144
His work gets translated at a decent clip
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>>122736242
It's sad you needed a manga to help you appreciate a sunset.
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>>122727262
It's great. Give it a read.

Biomega is great, as well, if you don't mind the genre changing completely about 2/3rds of the way through.
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>>122708396

Takigawa a shit.
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>>122736417
Maybe but when you've lived in the city for as long as I have you don't generally stop and stare long enough to be amazed by nature since you're always on the move.
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>>122728191
You mean most overrated shit ever, worse than Punpun in every conceivable way.
Read pic related for a good one volume-long tragedy.
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>>122706640
I finished punpun a couple days ago.
Now I don't know what to do with my life.
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This thread is an excellent example of why /a/ manga taste fucking sucks. Most people read manga just for ``feels'' or because they have this plebian need for ``deep'', and/or dark, and/or edgy seinen, which is why these threads always get filled with the same stuff -- Asano Inio, Onani Master Kurosawa, Fukumoto, Berserk, Homunculus, Hokou no Kito, Vagabond, Tokyo Ghoul, and many other. Now, besides the works of Asano Inio, Tokyo Ghoul, and Homunculus, the rest are objectively good, but still too popular on /a/. There are literally thousands of manga out there, and yet people circlejerk over a handful of series that have already been discussed to death in the past years. Can you please read more than 20 series before trying to decide on the masterpieces in the medium? Because otherwise we are doomed to drawn in this sea of shit taste and peasantry.
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>>122736974
Ok, how bout you go first
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>>122736974
I can't believe you actually spent time typing out that mindless drivel about how everyone's taste is shit except your own, please remove yourself or contribute to the thread if you're going to act like a stuck up faggot.
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>>122715096
>not Kurosawa
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>>122736974
The majority of people on /a/ will only read manga that's available in English, if you don't like it you're free to go anywhere else.
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