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You are getting a continuation. Think of it as a visually illustrated cliff notes. Itll be faithful but it cannot be exactly what it was before.
Like how Negima shifted genres over time?
So, Luluco's transformation always cracks me up, because it's not just a random design. No, it is clearly based on this:
It is an animated shitpost.
This Crocodile fellow seems like a bit of a prick.
I don't know what I'm going to do when One Piece ends. It's been a part of my life since high school. It's like losing a part of myself or something (ok, maybe not THAT dramatic). Is this how normal people felt when M*A*S*H ended?
Arabasta isn't even that long by contemporary series standards. But yeah, it's the 2nd longest arc in the series for a LONG time.
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Sounds like a Stand name.
Wait... Sounds like the copyright-friendly localization of a Stand name.
Which one? I would say play the visual novel, but it drags too.
I'm eight episodes into the original first season. And so far the response has been, "Oh just watch eight more episodes, and then after that it starts to pick up. Those last ten episodes are pretty good, but it's really a few more into the second season where it starts to pay off."
I could literally watch three full good series by that point.
If this is the case then I'll go ahead and post the part in Space Patrol Luluco where they defeat the life fibers in two minutes.
the VN is a slow burn but it is actually good and not animated by studio deen
It also takes eight hours to get anywhere, as it happens.
As far as the comic itself goes, a few things come to mind, I guess. (for context, I'm in the middle of the Birth Ceremony part of the Conviction arc)
* Wow they are not kidding about "this is not for kids". There's "not for kids because it has people's insides winding up on the outside" like Baki or Kengan Asura or whatever, or "not for kids because it has nudity" like a bunch of things, and then there's this which has both but more to the point is "not for kids because it is made out of nightmares"
* I think, of all the fictional worlds I've ever seen or read about (except for maybe I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream or It's A Good Life, both of which are much smaller-scale) this is the one I would least like to have to live in.
* I get that the pacing is like this on purpose, but it could really do with taking a pause for breath more often, sheesh. Maybe it's reading it all in a chunk like this. (and to be fair it's not in general a story that is particularly relaxed even when it's not a single multi-volume action sequence)
* The art is in general incredible, the backgrounds and monsters are amazing, the direction is great, but the combat choreography is pretty confusing at times; there are a lot of panels which are "Guts goes whoosh with his sword and someone else/multiple someone elses fall into pieces" and it can be tough to work out what's actually going on. And while he can draw horses as well as Kaoru Mori, it doesn't make it any easier to tell what's going on when it's 100-guys-from-army-A-on-horses charging into 100-guys-from-army-B-on-horses.
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He keeps coming:
and now he's right up in the faces of the bad guys, and Mozgus looks like he's growing wings:
Mozgus, who definitely now has wings, yells at him:
Guts throws knives, but now somehow he's _behind_ Mozgus? And also suddenly on the far side of some pillars from the bad guys?
Yup, somehow now there's pillars between him and them, and they're facing towards him again:
Or, further on in the fight; this time it's Guts who's turned his back on the torturers, Mozgus and crew are in the background.
We cut to Skull Knight and Luca for a bit; when we get back to the fight, suddenly Guts is right up and slashing at wheel-guy?
They shove back and forth for a bit:
then (and this is the sort of thing I was particularly referring to) there's a bunch of speed lines:
at the end of which we work out that clamp-on-chains guy has grabbed Guts's sword. Eye-pincedrs-guy is up and to the right of the panel here.
Guts rolls away, somehow(?) gets his sword unclamped, dives towards the feet of giant-wheel-guy, speed lines come out of his non-sword hand along the floor, oh, and also in that instant giant-wheel-guy changed his grip on the wheel from flat-face-on to side-on:
And now we find out that the speed lines were Guts throwing a knife into the eye of eye-pincers guy, who guess somehow teleported down to ground level because in the previous page he wasn't where Guts was throwing that knife at. Guts chops off the foot of giant-wheel-guy, eye-pincers guy is dead, and Guts is now somehow moving sideways instead of forwards based on how his cape is trailing behind him now.
I mean, I can generally speaking tell what has happened by the end of a fight, as far as "who still has all their limbs attached", and any given panel is generally very impressive, but the actual details of where people are / where they're facing / etc get a bit lost.
For another example, here's a panel from volume 10 where obviously the various soldiers are having a very bad day and Guts is making them into smaller bits of soldiers, but it's very hard to tell what actually happened while this was going on:
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I'm not sure if I want it to suddenly get wild again out of nowhere, or just steadily turn into a completely grounded slice of life show.
I’m going to make a called shot:
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I've seen plenty of genderswap fanart for Todoroki Shoto before, but it's still weird to see some turn up here.
aha! I think I'm just not spending enough time trying to disentangle which line is which / searching the backgrounds for people -- that definitely makes sense now that you point it out, but I thought that
and you're right, I didn't see eye-pincers-guy there at all, I just wasn't looking carefully enough.
Can you help me understand what I missed visually at the start of the chapter?
Then, everyone else is surprised by something, now the tentacle is trying to grab Mozgus's hand, or the bible, or something. Egg guy's tentacles whizz around a bit and he's moving back up towards the hole in the ceiling again, because he's definitely higher in this panel than the previous one.
At this point, we can't see Mozgus any more, so the first time through I thought that egg guy had grabbed Mozgus and was taking him away, so was confused a few pages later when we find Mozgus is just fine and can also now create fire blasts to get through the door (I think?)
What actually happened, according to a summary, is that the tentacles were stabbing Mozgus and everyone else, and (I guess?) that's how they get the turn-into-angels power? Now that I look really carefully, there's a little 'prick' sound effect next to where he's saying '--LEN' at the bottom of the first page, and his mouth is foaming at the top of the second one, so I guess those are the visual cues for what's happening to Mozgus; maybe 'hyn' is the sound effect for 'tentacle stabbing someone' and that's what I didn't understand?
And I think I may have been wrong about it being a blast of fire coming from Mozgus through the door and down the stairs; now that I pay more close attention to which amorphous blob of spirits is which at the end of book 19, I think one or other of the two blobs we see here is the one with Casca in it, but I still can't work out if that one is the one that was attacking Mozgus et al on the first page (which then turned around?) or the one that was coming up the stairs from behind Isidro, or if they both hit one another. I think it's the one coming from downstairs which then shoots forwards to break the door, and then I guess destroys the blob that was menacing Mozgus at the start, and Casca falls out of it into Mozgus's arms, but I have had to spend a fair number of minutes flicking back and forth through pages to try and disentangle this much, and this is important bits of plot that I'm not understanding rather than just "who was where when they got stabbed".
The first time I read that page (the double-page spread six pages after the title) I actually thought it was Isidro saying 'close your eyes!' and then making an explosion with one of the tiny hand-grenade things we've seen Guts use, because he has a small thing in his hand and then there's an explosion, but that is probably just Isidro trying to find something to throw the way he's been throwing rocks before, and while the 'close your eyes!' speech bubble doesn't have an obvious owner it's most likely Jerome.
It does seem like, with enough attention, everything is in there one way or another, and yeah, just reading things through it's not often too confusing to just keep on going and say 'yup, Guts sure did kick some ass there' but I also sometimes wish I found it easier to tell what had happened without having to treat it like a puzzle that needed solving; maybe i just haven't got the hang of visually parsing his art style.
Another question, then -- can everyone else here tell what's going on in One Piece fights? Because I also get super lost there, and those have a similarly dense art style, so it may well just be that I'm not good at picking details out when there's this much going on in a given panel. (compared to, say, Ashita No Joe, which limits the amount of stuff happening in any given panel of combat so it's a lot easier to tell which line represents what)
(edit: I'm not trying to just complain about Berserk, I am genuinely trying to work out what it is that I'm missing here, because I've had to stop and try to work out what just happened a few times now and I'd like to not have to do that. Also I found it was a fascinating experiment looking at combat in different places to see how it works -- how does Baki do it? (answer: hard to tell what's going on among all the muscles and the fact people's bodies aren't always doing things that bodies would be expected to do, but it's usually pretty consistent about where people are). What about Claymore? (answer: people / things are whizzing all over the place but it removes background / replaces it with just speed lines, so I have less visual distractions and can more easily tell what's going on. What about something older like Ranma 1/2? What about One-Punch Man? etc)
I couldn't keep up with Jujutsu Kaisen because I couldn't tell what was going on in the fights there, and that's another one which people seem to like a lot so if there's a way I can get past this confusion I could avoid missing out on some stuff.
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