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fighterholic
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Okay. SO I've actually finished this series. And I think that the recommendation I recieved to read it certainly played out. A traditional Masayuki Taguchi type manga style that many would know from the Battle Royale series. Blood, guts, action, and babes with big t***. Seeing from how extreme it's content is, I'd have to say that this series was run in Shonen Champion SOME TIME before they decided to become a little more strict on nudity. You will not get a series with that in a series from Shonen Champion now. Anyway, I'd have to say that I enjoyed the series. It was slow at times, had very unrealistic parts in it where a regular person would have died, and you would have expected the hero to die at times, but this is manga, so what can you say. The series ended kind of left open, but it showed that all of the main character's friends were there to support him for the battle that was to come at hand, and then that was it.
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Monumension
Joined: 03 Jul 2005
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Location: Norway
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:56 am |
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Hmm... I'm only up to the 6th volume of this series so far. I'm not used to shonen-mangas so I've never really gotten into this the same way I did with a seinen like Battle Royale.
| fighterholic wrote: | | It had very unrealistic parts in it where a regular person would have died |
You can say that again, there were instances I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! I believe that was the point of the whole series though. It's a pastiche; a mixture of all Hollywood-clishes imaginable (he even takes time to boast about his favourite action-heroes in one volume), and that can never be taken very seriously. I beleive I wrote about Baron Gong on the "worst manga ever-thread", but just like other guilty-pleasure-titles I guess you'll have to take it for what it's trying to be.
On a side note: I realize some of BGB's shonen-aesthetics followed Taguchi into Battle Royale which probably explains why people complained about some of the characters there being too card-cut.
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fighterholic
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:37 pm |
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| Monumension wrote: | | Hmm... I'm only up to the 6th volume of this series so far. I'm not used to shonen-mangas so I've never really gotten into this the same way I did with a seinen like Battle Royale.
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To be honest, the manga literally falls under the same category as a seinen title, but technically because of it's run in Shonen Champion, it's a shonen title. But hey, when I have kids I wouldn't be letting them read this title for the longest of time. But Taguchi did put out some good artwork for.
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Monumension
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:22 pm |
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Well I thought the plot-structure and development clearly showed signs of the all-typical shonen: Good guy fights bad guy - beats bad guy - even stronger bad guy appear - good guy fights new bad guy etc. The content, I agree, is on pair with most seinens though. Seriously, did every single female character lose their clothes at some point?
Yeah I also enjoy Taguchis artwork. I like his characteristic looking individuals (even more evident in BR) and how he creates such detailed background-areas in the panels (much thanks to his crew I guess).
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fighterholic
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:11 pm |
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| Monumension wrote: | | Well I thought the plot-structure and development clearly showed signs of the all-typical shonen: Good guy fights bad guy - beats bad guy - even stronger bad guy appear - good guy fights new bad guy etc. The content, I agree, is on pair with most seinens though. Seriously, did every single female character lose their clothes at some point?
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Yeah, that would make sense. And yes, it did look like there was a naked girl in almost every chapter  I don't know whether that's Taguchi's version of fanservice or not, but he didn't fail at it. It's just interesting how some girls are in a story just to get their clothes ripped off, although the female lead character for BGB almost got ripped in half. Technically, she should have died, even if Baron was holding her together. But then he took her to that healing pool, so the girl gets saved. Predictable.
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