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I hate, hate, HATE what is happening in new Jujutsu Kaisen manga chapters.
Just... lol.
Imagine Darth Vader being Luke's father, but after killing Obi-Wan he never shares a scene with Luke ever again, Luke never learns that he is his father, the revelation is only known by the audience, and at the end of the story Vader just fucking dies against, I dunno, Ewoks.
This is a level of an plot potential waste that we are seeing here.
And it is only one example of plot points being utterly wasted here!
Gege Akutani does not know how to write stories outside of cool battles. What a joke.
I could see the entire second volume being great material for a second film(the stuff with her and Hugo).
I think that's been pretty clear for a LONG time. Most of the cast is just chaff for him to have Cool Things happen.
Alita (live action movie):
Manga volume 3 spoiler
The live action Alita was surprisingly good and very faithful to the manga. I want to say it incorporates most of volumes 1-2 and some elements (not story) from 3-4. A second film could go further into 3-4 or jump ahead.
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I honestly didn't remember him being in it, I only saw it once. The most memorable bits involved Christoph Waltz, unsurprisingly. But yeah, the film was very well made(and faithful, far as I could tell).
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I think he felt way more memorable in the manga, he just seemed like a generic love interest in the movie.
Not a guy. They/them is correct for me.
And yes, that's the correct twist. It's a series that starts out very fun, because the growing terribly op is entertaining when it's not tied to genetic mcbland creeper, but it ultimately doesn't really execute on the potential or arrive at a satisfying conclusion.
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Akane-Banashi continues to be the best thing Shonen Jump is putting out, we're neck deep in a fireworks factory here and it's great
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Honestly, if I see a spider in my house and they run off and hide before I can get something I can use to deposit it outside of my house, this quote becomes my life.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
You know, I always thought the Laughing Man logo was wearing a sideways baseball cap, but looking at it now I'm not so sure.
Just incredible.
Vegapunk's foresight and going out like a champ.
So many 2 page spreads. The chapter flew by but was so densely packed with plot, I don't how the author keeps this up.
Giant pirates, 1000 chapters later. Haven't seen them since last millenia.
Re:CREATORS is a fun one.
I've heard that seriously suggested a few times as some hideous fusion of "no one wants to work anymore so let's force them to appreciate it" and "the Kids These Days Suck industry is seeking to escalate its rhetoric."
vegapunk
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
baseball cap was the intention I think
Vegapunk was passively willing to do many bad things, and while he tries to lawyer the rules and do the bare minimum, like the interpretation of "self destruct", he only rarely rejects orders completely. Judging by, like, everything about Vegapunk, it's probably effectively impossible for him to ignore the void century's secrets if he tries. And he talks about letting the pacifistas be used against Bonney as something he can't do.
Kizaru seems just a hair less ambivalent about what he can do. With Garp who just stops moving when he doesn't like what he's doing, and Fujitora who would chuck rocks at the holy land if he thinks he can get away with it, there are a lot of awkward fencesitters who still end up leaning on different sides of the fence.
The simple answer is because COVID demonstrated that so much of our contemporary office life is unnecessary. A thing that many had been saying for quite some time. So this reactionary rhetoric isn't a huge surprise but the amount of money being lobbed at state legislatures to try to do something about it?
I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but it does. Especially seeing it come out as anti-labor legislation like the above. Cut the legs out of people by employing their children at half as much for twice as many hours.
Mamayuyu is wonderful
[also I can never shake how much there is a real FMA-sensibility/vibe to it]
EDIT:
Mamayuyu is wonderful
Yeah it is
Though most of what Yondu said about keeping Peter around was a cover to justify to a bunch of kill-happy pirates why they didn't deliver Peter to his father or kill Peter."I'll kill you next time" is basically Ravager for "I love you".
"Why why why they ask?" Goes pretty hard as a line during that last page
Also Frieren: "Can you imagine beating a water mage in the rain? Because I can't."
I like it when water magic is strong in a story. RIP Richter's chance of winning that fight.
Looks like we’ll get to see video of that hero show on Smith’s shirt from the OP
also listening to Lulu in the preview it really just hit me:
Yeah, it's kind of weird seeing:
But in this specific case:
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I ignored it until recently when I found out what it's about. Despite it's subtitle, it's not a Villainess series (or an isekai or game setting, for that matter).
Rishe is a young lady who has basically known her entire life that she was going to have to marry the prince. It was a done deal, and she had no choice in the matter. However, when she is 15, someone lies about her causing the prince to very publicly end their engagement, which then results in her family disowning her. Wandering the streets, she stumbles upon a merchant troupe and ends up joining them. She finds she enjoys this life much more.
However, when she's 20, a war breaks out and she dies.
Suddenly she finds herself back when she was 15 and the prince is ending their engagement. However, this time she fails to meet up with the merchant troupe, so instead she ends up becoming an herbalist.
However, when she's 20, a war breaks out and she dies.
Repeat a few more times where she becomes a scholar, a maid, and a hunter.
On the sixth loop, she cuts her hair and poses as a man to become a knight. When she's 20, she ends up facing the man supposedly responsible for the war. He's a young man who is said to have killed his father in order to ascend to emperor and start this war. She puts up a better fight than all the other knights with her, but ultimately he kills her.
On her seventh loop, she takes a different route out of the palace and ends up bumping into the man who is supposed to become emperor and start the war. He becomes fascinated by the strange woman who displays a wide variety of skills and knowledge and ends up proposing to her. She accepts on the condition that she be allowed to do as she pleases at his palace, claiming she was just going to laze about, but actually planning to work to prevent the war from ever happening using all her knowledge from her previous loops.
THIS GIF from the OP is the first thing I saw, showing her through her first six loops.
It's based on a light novel series, and also has a manga adaption. Both of which are licensed are officially available in English.
But then the second (third?) episode was had her go "Hey, no bullying allowed here. We all respect each other," and solved the royal household's caste issues in one speech, everybody clapping at her pluck and maturity, and it was too much for me. I'm allergic to reincarnation things though, so ymmmv.
"Of course I will," said Luffy calmly.
"Yes. You can get me expelled from school any time you like. And I can bury you alive any time I like."
Fuck man, 100% in now.
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I would have never expected this to become one of my favorite reads but man so I love those two awkward dorks.
Labor continues
I am deeply curious how VW will play the issue this time.