What's your favorite manga, /a/. Pic related
>>140985755
That manga was a wild ride.
I really enjoyed it but the ending was kinda eh.
Pic related is one of my favourites.
that one
>>140986075
this one
Probably this desu
I put off reading it for about 2 years because I made fun of the art, quickly became one of my favorite series after I started reading it though.
>>140986420
>made fun of the art
Nigga, it looks beautiful.
>>140986420
looks amazing,I have a hard on for medieval mangas like berserk,Vinland among others.
Worth picking up anon?
>>140986222
Just dropped by to say you have a marvelous taste.
>>140986786
Good taste mate.
>>140986420
I've been meaning to read this for a while, just haven't had the time.
I really enjoy Dorohedoro, one of my favorite for sure
this one is so gore it's a prohibited export
>>140985755
>>140987300
the one the upper left looks like a mongolian
>>140987238
What the fuck was this manga?
Just what!?
why?
huh
I don't get it
>>140986994
Why is Kaiji blonde?
Drifting NetCafe.
>>140987409
Ichi
he's #1 at what he does, and what he does is not very nice
Berserk
Yotsuba
Monster
PunPun
20th Century Boys
GTO
Hoshi no Samidare
Homunculus
Ashita no Joe
Mushishi
These are objectively the 10 best manga there is,and if your favorite is not on the list you have shit taste
>>140987652
I've read through it twice and seen the movie, I still...
just what the fuck mang
>>140987662
>Punpun
You had me then you lost me.
>>140987238
It's probably less abut the gore and more about the rape. That and the necrophilia.
The gore was just kill bill tier over the top.
>>140987409
It was retarded anyway, just shut your brain off and accept it for what it was. I mean come on, it was about a hitman who became the way he was after bullies in HS raped a girl in front of him to bully him.
Then he just goes around murdering things with his shoes, and his final oppnent is a hardcore masochist whe gets errect when thinking of how he will be cut up and killed by Ichi.
>>140987763
2deep4u?
BLAME! or maybe Nijigahara Holograph
>>140987662
Sounds entry level as fuck.
I'm not posting my favourite, as this is a rec thread.
Your taste is shit.
>>140987763
>le edgy is bad meme
Kill yourself
Probably YKK. It's just so comfy and watching Alpha is always fun.
>>140987409
emotional killer tricked by delusional midget
>>140987856
When something is good people talk about it a lot it it becomes popular so entry level shit is usually the best of it's medium.
>>140986868
In my opinion no. What ruins it is the overuse of a fuck load of shounen tropes. It jarring to see in a manga that contains so much killing. Almost retarded to see a guy gets a power boost, or how a great general loses to power of courage. I rather go for Ravage of time.
>>140987890
When someone just syas it's shit and your first response is pretty much "who cares if it's edgy", then it says just how shit it is.
It's not shit because it's edgy, it's shit because it's predictable and no longer relatable. You know damn well everything will go as wrong as possible for Punpun and the cast, so you just stop caring. It started off with relatable, small issues, but it ended up with suicide cults.
>>140987662
>Punpun
Your list means shit now. Garbage you little teenage edgelord.
>>140988083
So why arent you listing Naruto, OP or Bleach?
They are all obviously the best of the medium because they are so popular.
Popularity doesnt mean quality.
>>140988210
No, but lack of popularity most likely means it is shit
7 Seeds, easily.
Yumi Tamura knows how to write characters.
>>140988253
>lack of popularity most likely means it is shit
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/237652/whats-an-alternative-for-hidden-gem
>>140987662
>Oyasumi
Kill yourself reddit.
>>140988083
Is sao your favorite anime?
what's with all the punpun hate?
Chihayafuru
>tfw no update for one entire month
>>140988469
general consensus is it's fine but overrated as hell, those who say it's shit are most likely a vocal minority.
![Evatoodeep[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JrOgLr6.jpg "Evatoodeep[1].jpg")
>>140988469
This. That feels.
>>140988469
It started fine, then dwelled into teenage angst, which is also fine, since the guy became a teen, but the self-loathing went to insane level. To the point of you just wishing the little cunt would just commit suicide, but somehow they MC gets a happy ending. Well, not according to him, but the little fucker got friends, a girlfriend and family after doing all the shit he did. What the fuck? And he doesn´t appreciate what he has.
The other problem is how all the little edgy faggots come out of the woodwork and have to tell everyone how they are Punpun, and how it feels like them.
I couldn't pick one specific favourite I don't think.
Posting this since I haven't seen it in the thread yet. A consistently funny manga.
>>140988469
Doing coming-of-age the wrong way. And the mangaka wrote it to spite the readers. Read the interview
>>140985755
>>140985755
One piece
First manga I read
Read it as a kid and I still read it now
>>140985755
This is my favorite
I know it's not the best but I like it a lot
>>140988955
>still a kid
>>140988955
Also read OP as a kid. But Oda never developed the story to mature with it´s audience, it got more childish even, and less screen time for the main characters. Read more stuff mate.
>>140985755
I fell in love with Berserk's art too quickly for this to even be a contest for me.
![fma_0007_by_figureduchess-d7mh9y0[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QVitaFY.jpg "fma_0007_by_figureduchess-d7mh9y0[1].jpg")
>>140985755
Fullmetal Alchemist
I can't rate Berserk yet as much as I love it to death because it could all very well go to shit before it ends.
>>140988902
Absolutely fabulous taste, anon. YKK is the manga that has occupied my thoughts more than any other.
>>140989110
It went to shit by the middle where fucking chinks ninja came in, a little annoying shit midget girl, and pointless wall arc, and went the bottom when they pulled a disney ending and discarded the whole equivalent exchange. Who knew that 03 anime version was the greatest thing to happen to that franchise?
>>140989110
>it could all very well go to shit before it ends.
Just like fma
>>140989084
Yeah it gets progressively more childish and less fun as it goes on. When my brother read a random volume laying around our Library, he asked me if the characters were meant to be mentally retarded or not. Which, granted having loud obnoxious characters for a kids manga is fine, but can be kinda awkward when an adult is trying to take it seriously.
The Megastructure is just a fantastic setting.
>>140989213
I really wanted to like the FMA manga but it got really kinda boring somewhere near the middle. The entire last arc was really poorly paced, and it felt hard to care about the characters because so many things were going on.
>>140989250
I liked Biomega better, but Blame was quite good.
![Wallpaper%20Chobits!%20(7)[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zW6O3Yz.jpg "Wallpaper%20Chobits!%20(7)[1].jpg")
>>140989213
>>140989220
Yet I still can't think of a manga that didn't.
Monster pissed me off.
Flowers Of Evil
Kodomo No Jikan was alright.
>>140989250
kind of worried for how the adaptation will be handled
>>140989302
That´s the problem, the focus on the brothers got lost somewhere, and without the brothers, you couldn´t give too much fuck about the story. 03 knew what the readers wanted, and gave it to them. Brotherhood fights were nice, but since it followed the manga, it became shit at the same place the manga became shit. But Brotherhood even butchered the beginning just to rush to the action.
>>140989344
Aku no Hana latter half was the best. MC realize how pretentious he was, got best girl, and everything was damn vanilla.
>>140987662
Vagabond
>>140986786
>>140986867
Joe Joe's Adventure is alright
>>140989460
It felt a bit sudden with the timeskip, like with a lot of manga that end with a time skip it feels like it was a case of the editor telling the author their time is up get it done.
I do agree it at least delivered on the MC realizing that mindset was not sustainable and he had to grow past it.
More I think on it there's not many manga that for me ended in a satisfying manner or didn't crap out on their main theme.
While in Chobits Hideki was a shallow dumbass for the sake of reader insert it did ask deeper questions of the impact of persocoms through other characters.
>>140989639
praying they use Tusk for ED in part 7,
when they get to it in 2026
OMK is the nip´s answer to Catcher in the Rye, and simply a masterpiece.
>>140989425
Yeah, I know people bitch at you when people tend to say they liked the 03 anime better than the manga, but at least it knew how to keep itself focused. Ed had a more consistent arc, and Al felt more like an actual character. Yeah it ended up focusing on other characters from time to time, but those characters had heavy ties to the Elrics. The last three episodes were far more tense than the last several chapters of the manga. And i really hate saying that cause I tend to prefer manga over anime in general.
>>140988731
>tell everyone how they are Punpun, and how it feels like them.
To a degree this is fine, especially the childhood stuff with him not admitting his dreams, and the parts where seeing happy kids with dreams made you bitter.
Every christmas I feel like shit becuase everyone is so happy and I just feel pissed becuase I ahve depression and feel isolated seeing all those smiling faces.
I'm not edgy though.
>>140989696
That would be pretty cool, but knowing David they won't do anything literal
>>140989639
Steel ball Run in particular is one of my top ten manga, since I judge all of the parts as their own thing. That said I like a lot of the parts.
>>140986786
>>140986867
>>140989639
>>140989949
>>140987166
God-taste, pal
>>140988731
But the guy did serve prison time, you retard
>>140989344
>aku no hana
It was legitimately trash after the timeskip
>>140989722
It's shit
>the best character
>the best setting
>the best genre
this manga is just perfect
>>140985891
Underrated manga. I've never gotten someone to reply to anything Eden related. People would just call it edgy for killing so many characters, but it keeps you on your toes.plus the ecchi scenes are great
>>140989722
What's funny is I'm sure the translators meant for a lot of those scenes to be funny, but that's honestly what I thought when shooting my load while thinking about other girls my ago. Pretty accurate depiction of adolescent sexuality.
I'm going to go with Aku no Hana just because no one has posted it yet and it's in my top 5.
Anyone?
>>140985755
Just finished reading this the other. Really digged it. The art was good and the overall experience of reading it was quite a ride.
>>140991468
What's the others and how did you feel about the timeskip?
KKOW close second
>>140985755
Berserk
>>140985755
Cory in the house
>>140991606
Source?
>>140992132
Updates never
>>140992425
>trying this hard
Not sure about favourite but I really liked Kokou no Hito.
>>140992594
good choice
>>140991961
>>140986868
>>140987662
>>140989109
Hey just wanted to say are you hyped for them getting back on the boat for the ride back
>>140992689
Dont even joke about that
>>140992594
>>140992567
What a coincidence! Same person for what I posted
>>140992425
Wew lad
>>140992425
>>140992594
It's the only manga I liked enough to get physical copies of.
Now I just need to wait for them to arrive.
I was however, dissapointed that certain characters didnt get fucked over like the deserved.
>Theiving whore finds a beta male to leach off
Atleast the one guy is probably filled with self loathing seeing what he could have been.
>>140991904
Not him, but the time skip made the manga from good to great. Watching characters grow up in mind and body is the best.
>>140991304
Eden went to shit once the story fully focused on the virus and it became the planet vs virus. I enjoyed the early parts but quickly grew tired of the politics involved.
>>140992594
I can't believe how solid the art got after the first time skip out of highschool. It was below mediocre the first couple chapters.
>>140987662
>Berserk
5/10
>Yotsuba
9/10
>Monster
4/10
>PunPun
4/10
>20th Century Boys
2/10 (Including the sequel)
>GTO
7/10
>Hoshi no Samidare
8/10
>Homunculus
Backlog/10
>Ashita no Joe
10/10
>Mushishi
9/10
Lurk more.
>>140993246
I agree the science parts got pretty boring at time, but there was enough character drama and action to make up for it.
>that rescuing Mana arc
>>140994386
Please end your life
>>140994471
Those ratings are the absolute truth. Feel free to prove me wrong.
Protip:You can't.
I just refrain from mentioning Punpun in these threads. Too many contrarians who can't take that people from Tumblr might share common interests
>>140987172
That manga is pure gold
>>140992425
>>140992425
This edgy kid
>>140994386
Agreed except for Mushishi
comfiest misunderstanding; comedic goldKKKKIIIIIIIEEEEEEE/10
>>140994460
>that rescuing Mana arc
That was pretty great though one thing I didn't like was the sister being killed off like that and seeing her crush when she was drowning.
>>140994993
Vinland Saga
>>140985755
I like you OP, I like you a lot
Also Punpun right now is one of my favorites
>>140995053
I want leddit to leave.
>>140994666
Yeah, it's clearly a 10/10.
>>140994615
Bad art, meh everything else.
>>140995053
>I like you OP, I like you a lot
Please, just get out.
Poopy
>>140995461
Was this based off the Japanese woman tortured to death?
>>140991253
Mitshashi a shit
t. Imai
>>140994991
>her crush
I don't think it's implied in any way that she had feelings for Maya
>>140995507
Magi is amazing
>>140986420
>That siege of sai
Easily one of the most epic moments in manga
>>140991253
top taste, laughed a fucking lot when reading this.
Pluto, Bokurano, Nausicaa, or >>140985891
Drifters
>>140994943
OnePiece
>>140991253
good taste
>>140985755
>>140989250
>>140987166
excellent taste gentlemen
>>140989110
it's bad even as entry level manga, get your shit together famalam
Not the best (definitely in the top 3 though) but easily my favourite.
>>140988169
I prefer Crows but nice pick.
>>140998508
If FMA was obscure, you retards would praise it blindly
>>140992425
then show us what you read faggot.
Probably Fullmetal Alchemist. I've reread that series more than any other manga.
I really don't know though. Akira maybe as well?
>>140999302
Genreric /a/ triggerd by my opinons
Is there anything with good and consistent writing?
Recommend an anon up will you.
>>140999686
Good over the whole line ? That's theoretically impossible, even my favourite manga had arcs that made me almost drop them
(however I tend to drop things easily)
>>140988333
This, best flashbacks ever
>mfw waiting for more WaHH
It's never going to end is it?
>>140999528
not really i couldn't give shit about what you think but all you're doing is criticizing others and giving nothing in return. All I'm saying put up or shut up.
>>141000264
Hey don't reply to ten year olds, this is an 18+ site, don't humor their shit taste.
>>140986222
My absolute patrician nigga.
Favoriting Hotel Voynich is an automatic access to the patrician eden afterlife.
>>140994383
Yeah the art was good as shit. The art was GOAT by the end.
>>140995440
? I can't enjoy a manga and say to someone I enjoy their tastes?
>>140995666
??
Hard to say desu, but if I'm forced into a ranking it would go like
>1.Otoyomegatari or Hotel Voynich
>2.Blame
>3.Berserk (gets this low cause of the post-golden age obvious flaws)
>4.Dungeon meshi
>5.Dorohedoro
>6.Steel Ball Run
One think I would appreciate is that people would post the name of the manga with the picture, so I can add them to my "to read in the future" collection
>>141000600
Are you also implying snake is best monogatari?
>>141000636
Crab is love crab is life.
Snail is not bad but I'm not a pedo.
The World is Mine
>>140987172
WHY DID SHE GO AFTER THE WRONG PEOPLE!!!!!
>>140989109
Zodd is based
>>140999528
>>140992425
>>141000652
>Crab is love crab is life.
Patrician status revoked.
Atleast it's not Bat.
>>141000264
Fine I read good shit like monster musume
>>140985891
its a tie between this and Narutaru.
>>141000752
In reality, she is going after EVERYONE, so there is no "wrong" people to go after as you say
Blame!
>>141000600
I'm surprised how many people, myself included, count SBR as it's own thing on these lists. Not that i'm complaining.
Man lurking trough this thread made me realize how many cool shit I have yet to read and watch, one lifetime won't be enough even if I you dedicate your days to doing nothing but that. Why even keep up with it ;_;
>>141001199
It's alright man, we all read shit at our own pace. Some people can't down a several chapter series in a few days. Pretty sure you can read all of that if you schedule out your time well enough.
What shit were you interested in man? Maybe making a back log or a priority list can help?
Yeah
>>141000264
Fairy tale
>>141001088
I think that's cause it has a massive change of quality and thought put into it. Keep in mind that I haven't read yet Giorno's and Jolyne's seasons but I think that I'll skip em.
>1-4 stands and scenarios are mostly boring and overexaggerated (the hand presentation, the sun in 3, almost all stands in Jotaro's journey)
>7 takes a sudden metanarrative twist, plus new stands have some really cool mechanics and are generally well thoughtexcept scary monsters.
I don't think otaku plebs will get Steel Ball Run. /a/nimefags just like the "le XD oraora meme" and shit. All the Golden rotation stuff, Tattoo you, Tusk's latter forms, D4, Chocolate Disco require some sort of processing to be understood, and they are amazing for that. If you have some sort of physics knowledge and some suspension of disbelief D4 and Tusk act 3 and 4 fight achieve legendary hype status.How do you kill a guy that can travel through parallel infinte universes? You hit him with the only force that can travel through time and space; which is the whole earth's gravity catalyzed by the perfect move of a horse, the "perfect animal" for man, into a perfect shot that travels infinitely through dimensions.That's why SBR is one of the peaks of action manga.
>>141001579
plus that art jump
>>141001669
Forgot that, yeah. Some vignettes deserve to be wallpapers.
>>141001421
>Gantz
Get this shit outta here pleb.
I really loved Punpun.
It's the only manga I've ever read that properly conveyed the feeling of despair in a believable way, and I only liked it more once I read it in Japanese and got to read the poignant phrases without the terrible translation butchering them.
Every time something goes wrong, it's never contrived. Both sides are shown, every failure on Punpun's side is properly shown as someone else's success, as an accidental stepping on Punpun's toes.
The way he actually keeps trying despite knowing his lack of potential, the way he pretty much stumbles through life, I couldn't believe how accurately it depicted depression while every other work (both western and eastern) still seems to think depression = "Bohoo I'm so sad look I'm crying".
When I actually read some of the reactions to it I was mystified. Anyone calling it edgy because it's dark, or that it's bland because "Everything just goes wrong all the time" must have read it with astounding superficiality.
It's probably the same people who call OMK shit, saying the broccoli girlfriend reveal was a shitty twist. It kind of reveals that they're unable to comprehend at all the world they're reading about, or any of its characters.
>>140989401
There is going to be a new Blame! anime? The old anime episodes I've watched were pretty bad.
Pic related or Saikyou Densetsu Kurosawa
>>141001363
I have a giant backlog, when I'm in a mood for a certain something I dive in it and start reading what pleases me most at that time. The problem is I tend to bing-read/watch things (for a day or two non-stop), then I lose all of a sudden my interest in that specific something and never look back on it- it's like that feeling after you come and your mind suddenly clears up. The latest example is De-de-de-de Dead Demon Destruction: read like 3 tomes in day a month back and since then I don't care about it, even while the story just started getting good. I think I have the highest dropped/watched ratio of mankind.
Pic related, dropped the series in the last episode cause I went to sleep for that day and the day after that I couldn't care less for the ending.
Help
>>140987856
>Sounds entry level as fuck.
Just like this whole thread.
>>141002005
>giant
How big exactly? Mind posting a number?
I'm really curious about stuff like this, sorry about that.
>>141001867
could you even call that an anime. all i remember is the architecture and the pan shots.
>>141001867
I honestly can't say, but it has to be directed by someone really good at what he does and animated by a very capable studio. The pacing and visuals are really complex in blame, and even myself at some points got lost by the sheer immensity of the events going on.
Plus it's not going to be a normie hit, and probably not even an otaku pleb popular series; I think that I'm gonna stick to the manga if the first chapter doesn't looks good enough.
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>>141002179
>normie
Fuck off.
>>141002250
What? You expect Blame to become a new Shingeki or SAO?
>>141001866
>I couldn't believe how accurately it depicted depression while every other work (both western and eastern) still seems to think depression = "Bohoo I'm so sad look I'm crying".
How much media have you consumed in your life?
>>141002335
Lurk more, newfag.
>>140994383
>>141000543
>That art when climbing K2
>Falling ice is shown as cars/busses etc to give a sense of scale
I hadnt seen stuff like that used before (without there being attention drawn to the metaphor) but I loved that.
>>141002349
A lot.
My life pretty much only consists in consuming entertainment.
Accurate representation of sadness in media is rare enough, but in Japanese manga it's almost non-existent.
In a majority of occasions big enough to be almost the totality of cases, 'sadness' is just a plot device with no head or tail, badly incorporated in characters that don't behave like it.
>>141002118
On my AB account I have easily 100+ bookmarks i have to watch yet or just felt like bookmarking it at that sudden moment. For manga its less, around 20, I just remember the titles from these kind of threads.
I know its not that >giant as some of the anons here probably have, but its still more than enough to have a hard time choosing which I will dedicate my time to
>>141002492
I'm not sure how you can spend your whole life consuming entertainment and still think depictions of depression are all sobfests. Hell, if we're going to talk about nip stuff Punpun's basically just updated No Longer Human.
>>141002492
I think you're confusing the edginess trope with real depression
>>141002583
>I'm not sure how you can spend your whole life consuming entertainment and still think depictions of depression are all sobfests
It was a bit of a hyperbole, but making it a point of its own would have diluited the post and made for too big of a tangent.
My point was that depression is often depicted as something passionate, something visible and that produces a lot of 'action', be it through sobfests, or manic episodes.
And even when it's done better, something always feels 'off' to me.
I guess Punpun was the one I found the closest to what I personally think is accurate, that permeating feeling of apathy that is only rarely interrupted by frustrating mental screams at life.
>>141002646
I don't get what you're trying to say, although I'll deny that I find Punpun edgy in any meaning of the word.
"Edgy" implies it's trying to be cool or chuuni with its execution, Punpun is anything but that. Anything 'dark' in the story is pretty much recognized as either pathetic or wrong by the narration itself.
>>140988253
I'm responding six hours later just to tell you how retarded you are.
>>141002839
>My point was that depression is often depicted as something passionate, something visible and that produces a lot of 'action', be it through sobfests, or manic episodes.
Like Punpun then?
>>141003086
Punpun doesn't have sobfests or manic episodes though.
He's stoic throughout the whole thing, and his screams are solitary and without any results.
"Manic episodes" doesn't mean shouting, manic episodes produce results, for the worse or the better.
Even when recognizing he irreparably ruined his whole life and everything he though could fix it, his only reaction is staring in the mirror and shrugging. That's the core of his behaviour that I feel many others fail to grasp.
>>141000935
Narutaru is legitimately the worst thing Kitoh's written.
>updates fucking never
I wanna fucking kill myself
>>141003255
>"Manic episodes" doesn't mean shouting, manic episodes produce results, for the worse or the better.
And running cross-country, beating up random faggots on the way, and ultimately getting Aiko to suicide isn't results?
>>140997979
Unexpected romance that was actually good, angel densetsu was much more than i though it would be but it got slightly repetitive.
>>141003318
Then do it. No one is stopping you
>>141003318
Man Japs really can't draw other races
>>140988469
>manga/anime is popular on /a/ during its run
>hype begins to diffuse to other places like reddit and MAL
>no longer an "/a/ thing", so it's hated
It's pretty obvious how the opinions have changed over time. Of course there are valid criticisms just as before but it the contrarian effect becomes obvious when you start to see kneejerk angry reactions every time it's posted - usually associating the series with reddit or MAL.
This happens most often with series that are considered "deep", because people will stop believing that it's deep once they realize it has mainstream appeal.
>>141003439
Are you implying anyone in that image looks like a real person?
>>141003354
That's the ending to his gradual deterioration though, after a thousand times he let Aiko go during his life.
At that point it wasn't even just depression anymore, he developed psycopathy.
I'm mostly referring to the whole work, you can't deny that the dominant emotion in Punpun's life is apathy.
>>141003411
>no access to scans
>no knowledge of cleaning or typesetting
>no knowledge of Japanese
Yea Ill get right on that
>>141003443
>>141003443
>no longer an "/a/ thing"
No, it's more like the people on /a/ who praise it get progressively more annoying as it obtains popularity with people who barely read manga and make hyperbolic claims and shit.
>>141003514
Nigger, he tries to rape a girl like halfway through. That's not a manic outburst?
>>141003482
Everyone but Jimi is drawn in the typical anime style, he himself is kinda anatomically realistic, yet he still doesn't look like the original at all.
The mangaka is (barely not) implying that all blacks look the same.
>>141003530
He meant the "want to kill myself" part, retard.
>>140985755
literally i'm so edgy xD - the manga
>>140988731
>>140988731
>but somehow they MC gets a happy ending
Anyone claiming this is waving a giant shining banner spelling "I didn't understand anything in the whole manga" over their heads.
It's always amusing to see how many people seriously say failing at killing himself was a good ending for punpun.
Living is the worst punishment he could have endured.
And that girlfriend he doesn't even want is going to make his life into a book.
He wants to forget, he wants to erase his whole life, and she is making it into an indelebile testament while he's figuratively tied up to a chair to watch it happen.
The last pages are a heartwrenching bad end, yet retards like you take them as a justification to say "lol it sucks he didn't deserve such a good ending"
>>140986994
Akagi...
>>141003651
>>>/tumblr/
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>>140988469
Wll of course, first is popularity, contrarians have to hate anything that starts getting popular.
Second is that a lot of faggots can't stand sad or frustrating stories, they expect punpun to be relatable and to think how they do not understanding that he's a negative figure, a total inept
Ashita no Joe
>>141003667
"Psychological" manga in a nutshell.
Dorohedoro is my favorite, pretty zany
Angel Denmetsu also, comedic masterpiece
>>141003676
>The last pages are a heartwrenching bad end
Not really. A depressed guy continues living on while being depressed, that's not particularly heartwrenching.
>>141003706
Calm down sperg
>>141003865
Keeps on living while wishing to die, while the life he's disgusted towards is turned into a visual work for the eyes of the whole world.
Even the author himself, to dispel all the wrong interpretations of the ending, said in an interview that he thought of letting him die, but forcing him to live was the worst punishment he thought Punpun could suffer.
>>141003667
>I'm a little pussy and anything that contains darker themes is edgy
you faggots are the equivalent of the fucktards that spend their times watching just comedies because they are too retarded to stand anything else
>>141003651
>Jimi Hendrix doesn't look like Jimi Hendrix in this manga, so that means Japanese people can't draw black people, and that the mangaka is implying black people all look the same
Take your pills.
Devilman
>>141003958
Yes, I've read the interview, I'm not claiming it's supposed to be a good ending. I'm just disputing that it's heartwrenching or even that effective - Punpun's suffering isn't because of external factors as much as internal ones, so I don't think having a different character's perspective as the epilogue was a good way to do it if he wanted it to feel awful.
>>141003974
Man, my wording was maybe a bit too political for you dipshits, I'm saying that mangaka did a really bad job at drawing him and yes I haven't seen a lot of realistic drawings of blacks in manga
>>141004061
I guess you could see it that way.
Personally, I think having an external view made it more effective.
Because you, as the reader, know what's in Punpun's head. But you're treated to the point of view of a girl who doesn't half of an idea of what's in there, and thinks she's doing a good thing.
So you kind of look at punpun and you know that inside he must be tearing apart at an intensity he never felt before, but you can't see it, just like she can't.
Sometimes not showing is more effective.
>>141004203
Wait, we're talking past each other. I'm not talking about Sachi's point of view saving him, and I'd actually say she sort of knew what she was doing, since I remember some ominous-sounding comment about "I won't let you" or something similar. I'm talking about that middle school classmate who narrates the last bit after the timeskip.
>>141004187
He just designed him differently. That's literally all it comes down to.
>>141004279
Oh.
Well, it's kind of the same thing, still. What I wanted to say about the reader being able to see what 'people' see when looking at punpun still stands.
>>140985891
The entire volume dedicated to the brothel sort of dragged on it for the most part owned bones. Surprised it isn't more popular.
>>141004353
I just feel like showing us how completely fine his life is by normal standards is not a strong way of showing how it's gotten worse by his standards.
Blame will always reign at the top for me.
Yes it has flaws, Nihei clearly didn't know where he wanted to go with the series early on, and only developed a coherent narrative after volume 6. He was also the Anti-Kubo in that he drew amazing backgrounds, but any character or action sequence left the reader wondering whether he was looking at a face, a potato, or an exploding potato where a face used to be.
Despite all that, the story of the world itelf, often told directly through the art, is goddamn incredible.
And yes, I am aware that a Blame! Movie will come out. It will not be good. A movie could capture the action sequences well, but the real meat of Blame was in the art itself. A movie simply cannot capture the sense of time required for Blame without the audience giving up and walking out of the theather. The movie could be a great action movie, it cannot be a good Blame movie.
>>140996338
No. This is the zombie apocalypse one.
>>141004417
But that's the point I was trying to make?
Anyone looking at him goes "Look, he's doing fine!", but you could have said that for a lot of Punpun's life.
And you, the reader, know that his life isn't "nice" by any definition of the word, despite how it may look like from an outside glance.
>>141004393
It's quite popular, it's just died down a bit over the years. The last bits weren't very well-received.
It's really hard to decide but I really like Coponicus no Kokyuu. I wouldn't consider it 10/10 but the ending wasn't terrible at least. Nothing ruins a manga like a bad ending.
>>141000710
I keep putting this on my backlog and really need to read it.
>>141004456
>Anyone looking at him goes "Look, he's doing fine!", but you could have said that for a lot of Punpun's life.
Yes, but we had an internal perspective for that, so it didn't look nice. Like, I get the concept of the ending, but I think combining that outside perspective with the "saving" didn't work very well.
I think at this point we're just going to have to agree to disagree, because we have basically the same understanding of it and just different opinions on how effective it was.
I don't even hate that LO that much
>>140989250
Fuck yeah
I'd say this for sure.
Getter Robo Go is really cool.
