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timesteel
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dang how did I miss thermae romae getting an english release |
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BrokenByDefault
 Posts: 35 Location: Australia |
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It's a fantastic series, I can't recommend it enough! If only I was able to read Japanese or French to be able to import the remaining volumes. Yeah, they are rather awkward looking my shelf because of the size, but the beautiful cover art and colour pages sure do make up for it! Although, I'm just thankful that I get a chance to read the series, since it would cost a fortune to buy a set of the Tokyopop release living here in Australia. |
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st_owly
 Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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I need to get this volume, but the one thing that has always baffled me about this series is that, for some reason, you can't like more than one group. I do wonder how true that is to reality. I'm glad to see the series finally ending, I bought the first volume in 2008!! Now if only YP would release the rest of Goong... |
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Agent355
 Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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I'm pretty sure Goong is complete in Korea, right? How many volumes is YP behind on?
Question about Paradise Kiss: I love Nana, but I had trouble getting into PK. The story is not as engaging as Nana, IMHO, and I found the Tokyopop format, particulary the tiny font they used for side comments in most panels, to be nearly impossible to read. I was thinking about giving ParaKiss another try now that Vertical gave it a new format and translation. How do those new editions hold up? |
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Buster Blader 126
 Posts: 1206 Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
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Overall Favourites of the Year? Two titles that come in mind.
The Drops of God: It's been a long while since I've been so enthralled with a series and been left wanting more. I love how the creators draw the feelings and reactions of the characters consuming the wine they drink. The characters are loads of fun as well; their antics more so. Come on Agi, let us have more! Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M: I've still only read the first five volumes, but it has already left a major impact in me. Daigo's fantastic feats to save lives and the raw emotion that we see from them really moved me, and should have sold more people on this series. Masahito Soda's thick lines highlight so much, from the roaring flames to the way Daigo heaves in exhaustion after a mission. That twinge I feel in my chest when civilians thank Daigo from the bottom of their hearts doesn't happen all the time, you know. I wish I could talk about Cross Game, but I still need to read the last three books. Favourite Continuing Series: Skip Beat! and Otomen. The former continues to entertain me with its intriguing storylines and dynamic between the two protagonists. The latter has me laughing out loud in several instances while going through each new book for the first time. The budding seriousness of the storyline is a nice touch. Pleasant Surprises: I have a weird relationship with Kekkaishi. Every time I pause reading this series to read something else, it takes a while for me to get back into it. But once I do, man is it good! It continues to impress, as of 26 volumes. I always find myself wondering what will happen next, only to have Yellow Tanabe throw a curve. Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac) proves to be a whirlwind of cheesiness and awesomeness. The head-SPLAT falls and Viz's gaudy font for the first few volumes get me laughing, but those 1-2 page attack spreads are amazing! It's been great reading some of these posts. I look forward to reading more. |
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zawa113
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This series definitely deserved to sell more, glad you're only 5 volumes in but so enthralled already! I remember that when I went to read one volume of this series, I ended up reading 3 or 4 easily, I also love the artwork, it's clear and easy to understand, but he uses those thick lines really well. His action artwork is just awesome, I rather wish more mangaka imitated it. And then, at the end of every arc, you get this awesome good feeling buzz, so it's a full shonen manga package that few other deliver on. And it will continue to be awesome for 15 more volumes! This was probably on my list about 2 years ago. If we can move even one more person to go out and buy this, I will be pleased (c'mon guys, I wasn't wrong about Twin Spica, was I?) |
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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If it makes you feel any better, it's still pretty recent news, since the release date was November 20. A second The Drops of God mention definitely means I'll have to pick that one up. Apologies if anyone else mentioned it too, I may have missed it since it hoped onto my radar mostly because it was paired with Parakiss. |
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st_owly
Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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YP have released 12 volumes in English, but volumes 9-12 are 2 in 1's, so I guess that makes 16 Korean volumes. There are 27 volumes in Korea, if I remember correctly. |
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Animegomaniac
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On the shelf: I picked up Yotsuba & ! but I'm waiting with Negima so I can get the final four books in one {depressing, soul crushing} chunk.
On the Shelf: Wish You Were Here variety: Viz released Nausica in a high class hard cover format. Know what I'd love that way? Shopping Trip To Yokohama. It'd be just so amazing. The Little Devil and the Biscuit Hammer. Somehow, I expect that I'll get a BD release of an anime that never will get made before I can ever see volume one get licensed. Why? Yeah, that's what I want to know. Book, anime, whatever; I love good stories and this is a great one. On the QT {wink} reading: Fujimura-Kun Mates. It's best described as an absurdist take on harem stories. Why won't the harem lead choose one of these girls {Or any grl for that matter?}? RAFO... Binbogama-Ga! The anime got me into the manga; I love how monthly comedies are drawn and this one's no exception. Amazingly epic and funny as a broken leg. That get hits with a baseball bat. Repeatedly. With great relish. By a perverted monk. It's not for the faint of heart or those with an aversion to gag breasts. Heaven's Lost Property: Continues to develop and continues to get both simpler and more complex with each chapter. An action sci-fi fantasy comedy that loves taking cues from soap operas. What's to love? It works. Tonari no Kahiwasagi-San. I've always been a fan of shonen romances {since I started reading them, natch} and this one's pretty damn cute. GE is getting on my nerves and I've giving up on Town Where You Live so long ago {many, many times as well}. This is the only left that I'm reading, while looking forward to each chapter. Genshiken Part Deux, mostly to see if the fanbase {that means you, maybe not you} finally catches on to Sue and Madarame, never mind Madarame. It's been building since her first appearance, it may eventually come to head now what's happened, happened. I'll start collecting it once all of the first series gets rereleased but I'd rather see the anime on my shelf get continued instead... |
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lys
 Posts: 1010 Location: mitten-state |
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You know that's available on JManga? They've got the first two volumes so far. (sorry if you knew and are reading it there; I couldn't really tell by how you worded your statement.) |
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Thatguy3331
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Hm.... I suppose I'll give my spin then....
Best purcahses: Tie between Animal land and Itsuwaribito. I've been buying animal land for along time now and have recently ordered volume 6, and Itsuwaribto's first volume started off pretty well for me and I went out to get volumes 2 and 3. I also got Attack of the titan but I haven't read it yet and its basically a blind buy on my part. Best online manga: I suppose I'll give this to assasination classroom for being consecutivly enjoyable during the course of its run, much like beelzebub when I got into it I haven't found a chapter I hated yet. I can't exactly think up anything else so I guess I'll leave it there. |
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Kelly
Posts: 868 Location: New York City |
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My votes are:
Most disappointing: xxxHOLIc. Not because the ending was soul crushingly sad in a very quiet way - I was expecting things to go down somewhat close to the manner they did, because this is CLAMP, we were getting pretty big hints, and the Tsubasa gang already got a reprieve, so I strongly suspected Watanuki had to be screwed after that - but because everything was rushed and some things went unexplained while others became red herrings (the egg, anyone?) Favourite: Vampire Knight. As alot of foreshadowing bore fruit, Kaname proved to be pure evil, Aido broke our hearts and Zero fans got some last-minute fuel. Next year looks to be very interesting indeed. |
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Wiizard
 Posts: 27 Location: Igrejinha, RS, Brazil |
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Best comeback: Liar Game, which is still going strong, although it's not as good as last arc, but I think that's because the 5th game is when it's gonna get real.
Hunter x Hunter went into hiatus again, but it's life I guess. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't my favourite manga ever, but it's gonna keep going, so at least there's that. I don't like reading short manga mostly, so I usually start reading long series, which means I almost never read something actually recent. I read two big names last year. Kekkaishi, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and Soul Eater. Gotta say, those battle scenes are gorgeous to look at! I also think One Piece had a much better year than 2011. spoiler[Last years arc was all we hoped for the beginning of the New World, and Fishman Island was kinda dissapointing to me, because none of the villains were that interesting, plus I hate underwater levels in videogames  ]
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skafreak51
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Here goes nothing.
Favorite Older Series: It's not really that old, but Yotsuba. I bought the first 10 volumes at AnimeNEXT without knowing much about it, and I was pretty blown away. It's really a perfect example of a series that is so simple that is still filled with depth and joy- it does what it tries to do better than anything I've read. Biggest Disappointment: Gantz. The series started really strong; I literally tore through the first 3 or 4 volumes, but it eventually becomes an extremely repetitive series and loses all the depth that the series started with. Sad to See it Ending: 20th Century Boys. Now, I still don't know whether the ending on that series was an immense train wreck, or if the actual ending is in 21st Century Boys (which is releasing soon,) but even as rushed as that ending was, the manga was still fantastic. One of my favorite series of all time. Also, Bakuman. Yes, this series has faults. Yes, they are apparent. But getting past that, it's become such a highly engaging series. I rarely feel the need to buy anything on release, but this is the one series I need to get the day its out. Surprise of the Year: For this one, it's Bloody Monday. I didn't expect much from it- and the first 2 volumes dragged into cliche shonen territory- but once it freed itself at let it be its own thing, it actually got really, really great. It's not perfect, but it's still really damn good. Only complaint is that the artwork never really goes above normality- there are a few pages in each volume that do, and those pages are great. Just wish there was more. Favorite Continuing: Obvious for me, it's One Piece. Last year's Fishman Island Saga was a gigantic downer- it felt as if Oda no longer had a clue of what he was doing- but thank God, One Piece returned to being the fantastic manga that it was. Sadly one of the only shonen action manga that does things right. Great "Re"releases: Genshiken (Omnibus,) Message to Adolf. Manga I Read This Year and Somewhat Enjoyed: Thermae Romae was pretty good, occasionally going into "great," but the series pretty much repeats itself every single chapter. There's a lot of potential for the series to really go somewhere, but I don't think it will. Still, I'll continue it. I finally got around to reading Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3 which was printed a few years back here. It's silly, it's dumb, it's sometimes cliche, but the artwork is excellent and as silly as it gets, it's something that I actually thoroughly enjoyed anyway. I'd keep reading more if it came out here. I'm also still reading Toriko, even though it's not too good. It never engages like manga shonen action manga do- honestly, I'm only reading it because of the fantastical adventure of weird food and creatures it leads you on- and in that aspect, the mangaka does it well. |
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Wiizard
Posts: 27 Location: Igrejinha, RS, Brazil |
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Yeah, the sceneario's were overdrawn some times, the action scenes were confusing as hell, and it didn't help that Bakuman and Hunter were having such good arcs. And you're right, it's sad that we don't get much good shonen action manga. This is a genre that, I think, because is so oversaturated, could use some more good releases. FMA is over, Bleach and Naruto are meh at best nowadays (in my opinion at least), and the ones that are good get sacked midway through (like Psyren or Sensei no Barrage). |
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