/a/ - Anime & Manga

I read Chainsaw Man and thought it was ok, at least. I don't see what the big fuss is about, the fights were nice and I'm glad that they didn't take like 300 pages to end, but it kind of felt I dunno bare bones compared to most fights I've read.

>ever created
That's one tall order, especially with, allegedly (haven't read it myself), both guts and griffith being fags at one point or another. The last one I read before running out of chapters was Kingdom, which I enjoy a fair amount, but I do vastly prefer the side characters (especially the bandit general) verses the actual main character(s). It's been a while now, should probably check on it to see how it's progressed.

>>18
>I don't see what the big fuss is about
It might be catching on since it's a breath of fresh air from an industry riddled with shallow self-insert power fantasy mangas. The characters are likeable and the mangaka knows how to tell a story--on top of making decent fight scenes. It feels like the mangaka's trying to emphasize on the characters and the storyline moreso than the fights, which might be the reason why the battles feel lacking compared to other series that focus solely on that.
>>17 (OP) 
>Anything you recommend?
I've been reading Kengan Omega lately, I'd recommend Kengan Ashura and Kengan Omega if you haven't read that yet.
Lately, I've been finding myself reading mostly Korean titles. It seems as though the Koreans are making better quality manga/webtoons than the Japs in general now. I'd recommend "Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World" on that end. It might be the only isekai that I've enjoyed, aside from that other isekai with Aquasama.

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>>17 (OP) 
>Anything you recommend?
Maybe try Usogui. 
It's a gambling manga with the premise of combining battle and gambling while also trying to give a reason why people have to stick to the rules and can't just brute force their win.
The series makes a huge change over the course of it's volumes. The art makes a phenomenal leap and the story goes from focusing on the gambles only to developing characters personalities a lot more and creating more context for their relationships. To not spoil too much there's a reason it becomes very re-readable in the later chapters. tons of foreshadowing
The translation work also got finished just recently and the only reason to wait longer would be the team working on improving the early translations right now.

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>>43
>Anon (You)
>It's not me

>>56
It might be the old (You)s from the previous /a/ that got nuked.

>>22
>It feels like the mangaka's trying to emphasize on the characters and the storyline moreso than the fights,
>it feels
It doesn't feel it is more focused on its character more-so the fights. We know a-lot about the main cast and most of chapters are mostly about the main casts and some of the things they do.

>>82
**But don't know what the fuck is >>43 even talking about.

>both guts and griffith being fags at one point or another
There's more to it than that. Read berserk nigger.

>>95
for
>>19

found something nice
https://nyaa.si/view/1304255

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What is some good horror manga? The only horror manga I have read is Uzumaki.

>>365
Read the rest of junji itou's stuff

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Did this manga have anything going for it? Or is just your usual SOL?

>>22
>Kengan Ashura
I'm interested in reading this one, specially since the anime seems to be CG shit. I always prefer watching the fighting genre rather then reading it but the illustrations look fucking sweet.

>>365
I heard Chi no Wadachi is pretty good.

>>373
>Did this manga have anything going for it? Or is just your usual SOL?
I think I've read it and enjoyed it. But I'm not sure.

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>>17 (OP) 
>and Futari Solo Camp
For some reason the author decided to make the FeMC the wrong type of annoying in the first chapter but outside of that first meeting the story is comfy. Really basic camping trivia for if you're ever going to a public campsite and food recipes every odd chapter or so. Artist also doesn't discriminate on the fanservice which I'm sure is appreciated by the ladies. 

>Anything you recommend?
It will be getting an anime next season so I think Shadows House is a good rec. Same author as Kuro, the story of a little girl with her bizarre black cat, but this time about a manor of nobels that lack any features and the humanoid dolls that serve them.

>>385
that shadow house one seems good

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>>373
It's ok I had fun reading it but it gets somewhat boring after awhile so I never finished it.

>>385
>Shadows House is a good rec. Same author as Kuro
Nice

Seconding Shadow House, it's very good. Love how it transitions from a creepy slice of life to a full mystery/conspiracy with the characters ageing and progressing through the levels of the manor. 

I would highly recommend anything by Fukumoto Nobuyuki. Kaiji is one of his most famous series about a dirt poor NEET in shitloads of debt that is forced into underground gambling in order to pay off his debt. Kurosawa is more down to earth than Kaiji and centers around a 40 year old failure who decides to chase the things he's always wanted - respect from his co-workers, popularity with the ladies, and a life worth living. Silver and Gold has a similar premise to Kaiji in that a down-on-his-luck man is drawn into the world of scam artists and gambling. 

Although not drawn by him, Fukumoto's Confession and Seizon LifE are shorter series and I cannot recommend them enough. Confession revolves around 2 mountain climbers stranded in a storm. Fearing they'll die, one of them confesses to murdering the other's girlfriend - but the storm eases up enough that they are able to make it to a cabin for shelter. The manga then follows the tense few days while they wait for the rescue team, with the confession weighing heavily on both of their minds. Seizon LifE follows a man's quest to find out what happened to his daughter over a decade ago when her remains are discovered buried underneath a car park, racing against time as his cancer diagnosis has given him months to live.

>>436
Images didn't post, fuck.

Read Liar Game. It is the greatest.

These are good suggestions, thanks. Is there a good central repository for manga since mangadex is down?

>>501
Fuck knows but mangadex should be back up soon.

Would you like to see a list of my favourite shounen manga (all of them), or my favorite e. g. renga novels?

I promise not to mention Nanase Inoue this time.

There.

Also, I know this blog will probably be renamed (if not again in a week) to Posts about different stuff soon, but I also hope it stays the same.

I want this to be a sort of platform to rant and swear.

Perhaps this won't be a good reading blog but that's not my goal.

Onward to the next topic!

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>mangadex is back
>new layout is modern pseudo-minimalism shit that doesn't even work without JS

>557
>all featured manga are current-season anime
does chan even work without js?

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>>444
good stuff, thanks
>>557
I miss web 1.0

>>>512
Try these:
https://mangabuddy.com/
https://mangaclash.com/
https://onimanga.com/

Are there any good sites to download manga? Madokami has been really shit since they decided to restrict user uploads.

>>559
I'd kill for a return to Web 1.0, everything looked so cool back then. Even when it was lame it was like walking into a teen boy's bedroom, so not bad.

>>593
see >>361

>>361
>no seeders

>>623
There are always at least 8

>>654
I've had that torrent for like a month now, couldn't even download the metadata.

>>17 (OP) 
Manga is superior to anime most of the time

I was going to read Berserk but I thought I'd wait for it to finish first.

>>1015
don't do that, most manga never ends.

>>1016
>>1043
Not him but one of the only reasons anime/manga is appealing is that they don't penny pinch it forever and whlie Berzerk person did penny pinch it not all manga lasts forever obviously. If it is not ended I myself don't touch it regardless of the media's origin. If the only good manga are the ones that take advantage of addiction and never end then it'll have a bad ending like the tv shows do that do that same neverending thing.

>>1015
>>1016
Mirua's dead. The story is as finished as it's ever going to be.
What, are you waiting for a posthumous fanfiction about how the story could have concluded?

>>1044
>missing out on One Piece
I feel sorry for you

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>>1048
Is it actually good or do you have sunk cost fallacy because you followed it for years?
I would rather not read gigantic shonen, when I can read 10 good (and completed) mangas in same time.

>>1049
I did not follow it for years, i watched it all recently and am now giving it some time to make some more progress from where I stopped (a good chunk into Wano)

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Weight limiter... release

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I finished reading Akame Ga Kill. Despite the setting of it being completely fucked up.Especially when I got to the part where Lubbock gets one of his fucking nutsacks crushed  The ending to Akame ga kill is just top tier, which is a shame the anime version is just bad overall. 
Only thing people have against it is Tatsumi didn't get paired up with Akame but that doesnt really bother me since it was nice seeing Esdeath getting heart broken from it.

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Someone please keep translating Futari solo camp, PLEASE!

Wow, this thread is as dead as my habit of reading manga. Somehow too often characters look to me as samefacey palette swaps. Maybe I'd read something new if it were looking as outlandish as Homunculus or as filled with sexual tension as Sundome. Something different enough for this jaded oldfag typing in an abandoned thread.

Where do you guys go to read mango? Do you buyfag or pirate? Official or fan translations (or did you do your reps)?

>>2059
mangadex even though it looks like shit since they redesigned it for mobile. whenever i cant find something there, i look on manganato

Is there even a place to pirate official translations without ((( torrentimg )))? I'm sick of shitty translations with watermarks on every lage that stop halfway through.

>>2063
You want to pirate without torrenting? What, are you going to fork over the dough for the bandwidth and for copyright-free hosting?

>>2026
I want to pirate without litterally broadcasting my ip to the world torrents are a giant honeypot. And lol at moral fagging about pirating. Go back to reddit.

>>2069
Just use a VPN if you're so scared.
>inb4 kek paying for piracy!!???
You can also use your VPN for other purposes, so you're not exclusively paying "for piracy".
>lol at moral fagging about pirating
But it's true. If hosting terabytes of data and freely distributing them by yourself was so easy and cheap, we wouldn't have torrenting in 2024.

>>2069
i think you are quoting the wrong post

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>>2072
>newfag zoomer scared of torrents can't even quote right

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>>2069
Its only legally dangerous if you are uploading shit. But this is not why I am replying. Its the the post you are actually reffering to. What the hell has /clang/ to do with torrenting?