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#152 Nov 20 2013 at 5:44 PM Rating: Good
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The only other thing of note is that The World God Only Knows manga has announced that it is in its final arc. After 250 chapters, it's finally winding down!

I should catch up on that one of these days. I'm pretty far behind at this point.
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#153 Jun 17 2014 at 2:53 AM Rating: Good
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And so another amazing volume of Emanon comes to an and. Now we wait god knows how many years for the next one.

This is the perfect example of a series where the feel is so good and the art so incredible that I don't even care that nothing really happens.
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#154 Sep 15 2014 at 2:08 AM Rating: Good
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I started reading AKB49 on a whim the other day. Now I can't stop reading it and I don't know why. Looking at it objectively it's not really all that good, but for some reason I am loving the hells out of it even though I know it's stupid and kind of trashy.


Weirdest part though? It's how the whole crossdresing thing is totally unimportant. The "guy crossdresses to become an idol" is hardly an original plot for a manga but in most cases the jokes usually revolve around the crossdressing shenanigans or trap cuteness. Not this time though. He's not concerned about being found out in the changing room or being in close contact with the girl he likes or any of the usual gags. The fact that he's a guy often goes unremarked and untouched on and is completely unimportant for chapters at a time. It makes me wonder why they bothered to go the trap route to begin with.
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#155 Sep 15 2014 at 8:17 AM Rating: Good
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The last crossdressing type story I read was Pretty Face and that was years ago. Very many years ago. Thug with secret crush gets into accident, totally burned up and comatose for a year or so. Doctor that saves him only had the picture the thug had in his pocket of his crush so thinks he is the she. Circumstances turn the thug's crush mistakes thug for crush's sister.
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#156 Sep 15 2014 at 4:46 PM Rating: Good
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lolgaxe wrote:
The last crossdressing type story I read was Pretty Face and that was years ago. Very many years ago. Thug with secret crush gets into accident, totally burned up and comatose for a year or so. Doctor that saves him only had the picture the thug had in his pocket of his crush so thinks he is the she. Circumstances turn the thug's crush mistakes thug for crush's sister.


I've read that one. It's actually not bad, especially considering its age. Good character development.
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#157 Sep 16 2014 at 9:29 AM Rating: Excellent
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Oh hey, this topic is alive again! Smiley: lol

Ore ga Doutei o Sutetara Shinu Ken ni Tsuite finished in August. Worth reading, I very much enjoyed it. I'm not a huge fan of some gaping holes in time-travel manga (for example, I always think to myself, "dude, you went back to 1999, and you focus on wooing some chick instead of, I don't know, STOPPING 9/11!?"), but this one's ending wasn't as rough as a lot of others' are. I still think it started better than it ended though.

The Gamer is a lot of fun and new chapters of the manhwa come out each week. The main character acquires a power called "The Gamer," which basically makes him live like a videogame character in real life; he can increase his stats, access an inventory, and use skills. Even as he's introduced to the underground magic world known as the Abyss, his skill seems pretty unique (and so far incredibly broken). While the action has been a little slow for the past several weeks, the series is basically every RPG nerd's dream. It has theorycrafting galore.

For Light Novels, I've read several as well. Log Horizon is great. The anime sticks very closely to the source material, but season 1 covered volumes 1-5, and only 7 volumes have been released and translated so far. That makes me worried that season 2 will have some filler. You do get a lot more internal monologue and detail from the LN, and it is *slightly* darker. But it seems to be a very good adaptation if you'd prefer watching the anime to reading the LN.

At deadgye's recommendation I've started reading Mushoku Tensei. Only started, as there are like 19 volumes... I'm about a third through volume 6. There's a lot of good about the series; I very much enjoy the premise of the main character being reincarnated with his past life's memories, and spending several volumes describing how this affects him growing up again and slowly laying out the rules for magic in the fantasy world and an explanation of the different races and their history. That said, the main character is kind of disgusting at times. I get that his "quirks" are supposed to be jokes about NEETs and hikkikomori, but I really feel like it translated poorly to a written medium. In anime or manga form, slapstick could get away with some situations like sniffing a 15-year old's dirty underwear to sniff, or attempting to seduce a 12-year old girl... but in those mediums it would picture a child doing that. When written out I can't get away from the incredibly awkward feeling that this is really not a child, but a 36-year old man attempting to harass or assault children.

So, still on the fence, but it's been an interesting and fun read. The Baka-Tuski translations also include a bunch of notes for references non-Japanese would not catch. Very helpful!

Many months back I also began reading Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria. VERY good, VERY interesting, but the writing style of LN's just kinda turned me off after a couple of volumes. It's hard to keep page numbers straight when reading online. Hopefully Mushoku Tensei won't have a similar fate for me!
#158 Sep 16 2014 at 11:09 PM Rating: Good
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I started reading The Gamer a few weeks ago at your suggestion and I'm hooked. Jee-Han's powers are crazily OP but it never feels cheap because despite how it looks at a glance, it's not really a fighting series. It's mostly about grinding and theorycrafting and everyday life. Most of his time is spent wondering about how best to level his skills and allocate his stat points and how many more times he has to '"run a dungeon" to level up and stuff. Regular old fantasy action fight scenes are usually just side things that happen to other people occasionally.
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#159 Sep 16 2014 at 11:14 PM Rating: Good
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LockeColeMA wrote:
The Gamer is a lot of fun and new chapters of the manhwa come out each week. The main character acquires a power called "The Gamer," which basically makes him live like a videogame character in real life; he can increase his stats, access an inventory, and use skills. Even as he's introduced to the underground magic world known as the Abyss, his skill seems pretty unique (and so far incredibly broken). While the action has been a little slow for the past several weeks, the series is basically every RPG nerd's dream. It has theorycrafting galore.
I would love the hell out of that power(only thing better would be portals, IMO). Sounds like a pretty good read, too.
#160 Sep 23 2014 at 7:24 PM Rating: Good
I just realized Berserk has had a couple of new chapters this year & apparently Zetman has been released somewhat regularly over the last year or so.

So ya, that, if anyone "forgot" about them & was reading them.
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#161 Sep 29 2014 at 5:55 AM Rating: Decent
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Otaku no Musume-san is pretty fantastic. I believe I had read most, if not all, of it previously but it was great to go back and read it again (and I definitely did not remember the ending!). It's somewhat like a mixture of Usagi Drop and Love Hina, though without the harem aspect; otaku extraordinaire Kouta has lived his twenty-six years indulging in his passion for the genre, which he dove into after having his heart broken by his high-school sweetheart. His life as a manga assistant is filled with lively characters in the bordering house he dwells in, but one day nine-year old Kanau shows up on his doorstep claiming to be his daughter. When she discovers that her father is an otaku, hilarity ensues. That said, the series isn't perfect, and I have a few criticisms:
1. Nicchi, Kouta's lolicon sempai and best friend, comes dangerously close to that line between playing off pedophilia for laughs and having it be just too **** much. While his obsession turns out to be an important plot point for the ending, it's still awkward as hell. I think the main issue is that he's supposed to be a lolicon when it comes to ANIME. When you feel sexually attracted to real girls under the age of 10, that's pedophilia, and frankly it doesn't strike me as funny.
2. The series does an extreme tone change in the last several chapters when Nozomi comes back. While the only personality we've seen for her throughout the series is from infrequent letters, her character struck me as being more like Miki than what she really was. When she shows up she's just... a **** There's no really good way of saying it. She hates Kouta, and what boggles my mind is why she even told Kanau where to find him if she was fine living with her "uncle" and half-brother. I suppose it makes sense if she expected her daughter to be turned off by his otakudom, but still - abandoning your child for a year? Ugh. I didn't like how there was no indication that this was her "true face" until five chapters from the end.
3. Until the last couple of pages, there was no indication that Haruka and Kouta had sex. But seriously? Awkward. The guy has now been raped twice... and apparently has a fertility rate through the roof. Two times having sex, and two kids. What terrible luck!

Now, those complaints don't mean it's not a worthwhile series, just that it's not perfect. I'd rate it as a solid 8/10, maybe even a 9/10. Fair warning; it's seinen for some mature themes (like parental abuse) and some fan service.


Oh good, I just read this a day or two ago and wanted to tell people to read it. Only one year behind Smiley: lol I myself had no problems with the tone change because to me it felt consistent enough with the information we were given by that point. Of course I also had zero problems with Nicchi, because none of that stuff ever feels awkward to me lol. "Yes Lolita, No Touch!" I think I gave it a 9/10.

Also go and finish v6 of MT if you haven't by now! Turning Point 2 happens there, and then we finally leave the juvenile period and enter the youth period!

Edited, Sep 29th 2014 8:01am by Deadgye
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#162 Sep 29 2014 at 6:28 AM Rating: Good
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Also I highly recommend DanMachi to everyone. It's a dungeon crawling focused thing about MCs growth as he tries to catch up to his waifu, and stuff. There's a manga that follows the main storyline, and a manga (sword oratoria) that follows waifu from a bit before the start of the main storyline, and a 4koma manga for MC's goddess. The main storyline and sword oratoria's source are both light novels, that are of course better than the manga.

You can find all the translations at solitarytranslations.
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