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Tearjerker in this week's episode.
Also, something I noticed:
When Otohime was talking about Shirahoshi's ability to call Sea Kings, she said someone who come along one day to teach her how.The silhouette looks a bit like Shanks. Did anyone else see that?
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So question/comment, I guess.
Shonen Jump Alpha this week:
One Piece color spread looks good, but the full screen option of the reader is kind of meh, compared to other readers.
Next week is off, I guess for Golden Week, two weeks delayed?
Bakuman is ending , and the manga they have selected to run in its place is called Rurouni Kenshin Reboot, from Jump SQ. This makes me ask two things: 1) I assume there was an original Rurouni Kenshin at some point, was it good? and 2) Jump SQ is the monthly magazine, right? How are they going to convert that to a weekly format?
Shonen Jump Alpha this week:
One Piece color spread looks good, but the full screen option of the reader is kind of meh, compared to other readers.
Next week is off, I guess for Golden Week, two weeks delayed?
Bakuman is ending , and the manga they have selected to run in its place is called Rurouni Kenshin Reboot, from Jump SQ. This makes me ask two things: 1) I assume there was an original Rurouni Kenshin at some point, was it good? and 2) Jump SQ is the monthly magazine, right? How are they going to convert that to a weekly format?
Ruroni Kenshin is very good. Oda worked on it as an assistant!
And yeah, Jump Square is monthly. Not sure why they chose that, maybe they're going to rotate in different manga in that slot?
Shonen Jump Alpha this week:
One Piece color spread looks good, but the full screen option of the reader is kind of meh, compared to other readers.
Next week is off, I guess for Golden Week, two weeks delayed?
Bakuman is ending , and the manga they have selected to run in its place is called Rurouni Kenshin Reboot, from Jump SQ. This makes me ask two things: 1) I assume there was an original Rurouni Kenshin at some point, was it good? and 2) Jump SQ is the monthly magazine, right? How are they going to convert that to a weekly format?
Ruroni Kenshin is very good. Oda worked on it as an assistant!
And yeah, Jump Square is monthly. Not sure why they chose that, maybe they're going to rotate in different manga in that slot?
So Oda was an assistant on Rurouni Kenshin. Oda's assistant, Mashima, created Fairy Tail, and then Mashima's assistant created Yankee-Kun to Megane-Chan. This happens a lot, I'm guessing? You can tell, at least with Fairy Tail, that he was influenced by One Piece.
When they say reboot, is this a do over of Rurouni Kenshin? I guess we'll find out in two weeks.
Rurouni Kenshin was pretty badass. It also has the greatest english dub of an opening. While there haven't been any overt references to it in One Piece, I expect Wano to be full of them.
Shonen Jump Alpha is running a survey to see which series have enough fan interest to be added to the magazine. A week or two ago, the One Piece Podcast had an interview with the woman in charge of SJA, who said that they're pushing for Gintama and Reborn to be added due to the popularity of their official anime streams. I've always been interested in reading Gintama, and lord knows Reborn needs a decent translator.
I'm frustrated, but it makes sense, that there has to be some artificial barrier (i.e. crew being in different bodies) in order to make these fights interesting. Otherwise I have a feeling, like in the Hodi Jones fights, once they get to go all out it is just going to be over.
I don't know if the manga was better than the anime but Ruroni Kenshin the anime always struck me as a poorly done Trigun style story. Even though I think Trigun came after Kenshin by some time. I didn't mind Kenshin until Shishio.
Kenshin never truly suffers any real consequences for his refusal to kill. Vash despite his superior alien genetics hides a body so damaged it looks like a disheveled small-town road paved 40 years ago. Shishio was the perfect foil to Kenshin and yet again, his story arc was written as such that Kenshin never really had to face himself and face the consequences of practicing his philosophy in Barbaric times. Legato forced Vash to choose whether he'd save his friends or kill, Shishio was about to kill Kenshin for his weakness and yet, instead, mysteriously burns up. It felt too much like a stupid cop-out to prevent Kenshin from ever having to question himself, his stance on life, and how he was going to live in the world. He never really grew as a character after the OVAs while Vash was regularly challenged to change his lifestyle because the world was just far bigger than him and his plans. I can appreciate what Kenshin did as far as advancing anime, but in retrospect it just feels lacking compared to other titles that have done the same story but, in my own opinion, set it in a far more believable world with more realistic characters. (which really, if you're going to do a moral drama over killing, good characters are essential)
Which back to one piece:
I seriously hope Bon Clay has some sort of disfigurement from his fight to showcase how he just barely lived. I'm honestly starting to get a little tired of all of these dramatic fights where no one dies. It was fun at first but since One Piece is still going it eventually starts to wear on me. I mean where's the excitement going to come from if you set a tone where you never are afraid for a character's life? I had hoped Marineford was showing that was about to change, finally, with the title. I guess we'll see!
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
I used to watch Samurai X back when it was first broadcast here in 1998 just because Dragon Ball Z followed it. I didn't really care about it now, and I doubt I'll care today.
Rurouni Kenshin was pretty badass. It also has the greatest english dub of an opening. While there haven't been any overt references to it in One Piece, I expect Wano to be full of them.
Shonen Jump Alpha is running a survey to see which series have enough fan interest to be added to the magazine. A week or two ago, the One Piece Podcast had an interview with the woman in charge of SJA, who said that they're pushing for Gintama and Reborn to be added due to the popularity of their official anime streams. I've always been interested in reading Gintama, and lord knows Reborn needs a decent translator.
Where is this survey being taken? I feel like Reborn! and Beelzebub would be good additions, if I had to pick two. Reborn! especially, that series kind of got the short end of the stick with its localization.
Rurouni Kenshin was pretty badass. It also has the greatest english dub of an opening. While there haven't been any overt references to it in One Piece, I expect Wano to be full of them.
Shonen Jump Alpha is running a survey to see which series have enough fan interest to be added to the magazine. A week or two ago, the One Piece Podcast had an interview with the woman in charge of SJA, who said that they're pushing for Gintama and Reborn to be added due to the popularity of their official anime streams. I've always been interested in reading Gintama, and lord knows Reborn needs a decent translator.
Where is this survey being taken? I feel like Reborn! and Beelzebub would be good additions, if I had to pick two. Reborn! especially, that series kind of got the short end of the stick with its localization.
I'm honestly surprised that they would want to push Gintama, considering that they stopped translating the physical volumes due to poor sales.
Rurouni Kenshin was pretty badass. It also has the greatest english dub of an opening. While there haven't been any overt references to it in One Piece, I expect Wano to be full of them.
Shonen Jump Alpha is running a survey to see which series have enough fan interest to be added to the magazine. A week or two ago, the One Piece Podcast had an interview with the woman in charge of SJA, who said that they're pushing for Gintama and Reborn to be added due to the popularity of their official anime streams. I've always been interested in reading Gintama, and lord knows Reborn needs a decent translator.
Where is this survey being taken? I feel like Reborn! and Beelzebub would be good additions, if I had to pick two. Reborn! especially, that series kind of got the short end of the stick with its localization.
I'm honestly surprised that they would want to push Gintama, considering that they stopped translating the physical volumes due to poor sales.
I haven't listened to the interview again, but I think the editor said that Gintama's official anime subs have been pretty successful. I think the series is still running too.
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New chapter:
-I'm glad Law hasn't lost his ambition.
-Franky-faced Chopper is weird looking.
-I almost missed it, but at the end of the chapter, Luffy breaks Nami's chains by biting them
Also, Law seems like the kind of guy to have chronic backstabbing syndrome. Don't care though, he's such a thoroughly awesome character in every way.
I'm just pleased we didn't have his time-skip be offscreen nerfing. Good to see that not just a Cesar's watchdog. Too good a character design to waste on something like that.
I don't know if the manga was better than the anime but Ruroni Kenshin the anime always struck me as a poorly done Trigun style story. Even though I think Trigun came after Kenshin by some time. I didn't mind Kenshin until Shishio.
Kenshin never truly suffers any real consequences for his refusal to kill. Vash despite his superior alien genetics hides a body so damaged it looks like a disheveled small-town road paved 40 years ago. Shishio was the perfect foil to Kenshin and yet again, his story arc was written as such that Kenshin never really had to face himself and face the consequences of practicing his philosophy in Barbaric times. Legato forced Vash to choose whether he'd save his friends or kill, Shishio was about to kill Kenshin for his weakness and yet, instead, mysteriously burns up. It felt too much like a stupid cop-out to prevent Kenshin from ever having to question himself, his stance on life, and how he was going to live in the world. He never really grew as a character after the OVAs while Vash was regularly challenged to change his lifestyle because the world was just far bigger than him and his plans. I can appreciate what Kenshin did as far as advancing anime, but in retrospect it just feels lacking compared to other titles that have done the same story but, in my own opinion, set it in a far more believable world with more realistic characters. (which really, if you're going to do a moral drama over killing, good characters are essential)
Which back to one piece:
I seriously hope Bon Clay has some sort of disfigurement from his fight to showcase how he just barely lived. I'm honestly starting to get a little tired of all of these dramatic fights where no one dies. It was fun at first but since One Piece is still going it eventually starts to wear on me. I mean where's the excitement going to come from if you set a tone where you never are afraid for a character's life? I had hoped Marineford was showing that was about to change, finally, with the title. I guess we'll see!
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Imagine Bon Clay with a bit of Deadpool and Clayface mixed in.
Hmm, I wonder if they'll start showing the dub again for free...
Funimation puts dubbed episodes on its website, although it doesn't put the full library up at once. So I'm sure they'll start adding new ones to the rotation within a few months. (leaving a window to maximize DVD sales) I'm honestly shocked that Funimation has somehow survived what has been otherwise an almost total collapse of the anime industry here. Is there even another company around still bothering to produce dubs of anything?
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
The former ashes of ADV sometimes dubs stuff. Viz has largely gotten out of it. Bandai America just closed up shop a few months ago.
Funi survived because they largely stayed out of the bidding wars and had DBZ that whole time. When ADV did explode they got to cherry pick their entire catalog for those that did actually sell on DVD.
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To resimplify. New chapter next week.
Also, something I noticed:
Biggest spoiler in this week's chapter
Ah well, should make for a good fight.
Now I don't regret standing outside of Oda's house for months on end shouting GANBARE!!!!! over and over again!
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Shonen Jump Alpha this week:
One Piece color spread looks good, but the full screen option of the reader is kind of meh, compared to other readers.
Next week is off, I guess for Golden Week, two weeks delayed?
Bakuman is ending
Ruroni Kenshin is very good. Oda worked on it as an assistant!
And yeah, Jump Square is monthly. Not sure why they chose that, maybe they're going to rotate in different manga in that slot?
So Oda was an assistant on Rurouni Kenshin. Oda's assistant, Mashima, created Fairy Tail, and then Mashima's assistant created Yankee-Kun to Megane-Chan. This happens a lot, I'm guessing? You can tell, at least with Fairy Tail, that he was influenced by One Piece.
When they say reboot, is this a do over of Rurouni Kenshin? I guess we'll find out in two weeks.
Its based on the Live Action movie that's coming out.
And yea, starting out as an assistant is a pretty standard career path.
Shonen Jump Alpha is running a survey to see which series have enough fan interest to be added to the magazine. A week or two ago, the One Piece Podcast had an interview with the woman in charge of SJA, who said that they're pushing for Gintama and Reborn to be added due to the popularity of their official anime streams. I've always been interested in reading Gintama, and lord knows Reborn needs a decent translator.
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Which back to one piece:
Where is this survey being taken? I feel like Reborn! and Beelzebub would be good additions, if I had to pick two. Reborn! especially, that series kind of got the short end of the stick with its localization.
I only saw the show a few times, roughly 10 years ago.
The moment I read your post it started playing in my mind.
I'm honestly surprised that they would want to push Gintama, considering that they stopped translating the physical volumes due to poor sales.
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I haven't listened to the interview again, but I think the editor said that Gintama's official anime subs have been pretty successful. I think the series is still running too.
This is the survey link.
The interview is 22 minutes into this podcast.
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-Franky-faced Chopper is weird looking.
-I almost missed it, but at the end of the chapter, Luffy breaks Nami's chains by biting them
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Also, Law seems like the kind of guy to have chronic backstabbing syndrome. Don't care though, he's such a thoroughly awesome character in every way.
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A bit later than I hoped, but at least it's got a date now.
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Funi survived because they largely stayed out of the bidding wars and had DBZ that whole time. When ADV did explode they got to cherry pick their entire catalog for those that did actually sell on DVD.
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