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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    You're allowed to not like something! You're also allowed to not be a goose about people enjoying it. Unless it's Harry Potter, in which case being a goose about it is a moral good, because j.k Rowling is a terrible person who's actively spreading harm.

    Honestly, well chainsaw man I sort of bounced off it the first few times I tried to read it. But when everything gets rolling and the wheels start to come off the Chainsaw bus it's an excellent read with a sympathetic protagonist doing his best, and some gorgeous and eerie imagery - the Darkness Devil sequence is often cited was a highlight for very good reasons!

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Is it just me, or does Chainsaw Man seem way overhyped?

    I'm not saying it's not good. I don't know. I haven't seen it.

    But it feels like I've seen 36 trailers for the fucking thing over the past four years. Release it or shut up already.

    I've literally been trying to read the first volume for the past year and it's constantly sold out after frequent restocks in every store here(in SoFla, otaku central).

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Damn maybe there's a reason there's so many trailers for it, like maybe the manga is good or something

    Oh really is it good? Then by all means, tell me more about how there's going to be an anime for it eventually.

    I mean I already know there's going to be an anime for it but tell me again.

    On December 14, 2020, it was announced that the manga will receive an anime television series adaptation produced by MAPPA.[58][59] It had a stage presentation at the Jump Festa '21, as part of the Jump Studio series of stage presentations that were held online on December 19–20, 2020.[60][61] The first trailer for the anime series was shown at the "MAPPA Stage 2021 – 10th Anniversary" event, held on June 27, 2021.[62][63] The anime is directed by Ryū Nakayama (director) and Makoto Nakazono (chief episode director), with scripts by Hiroshi Seko, character designs by Kazutaka Sugiyama, and devil designs by Kiyotaka Oshiyama. Tatsuya Yoshihara is serving as action director and Yūsuke Takeda is directing the art. Naomi Nakano is the color key artist and Yohei Miyahara is designing the screens. The music is composed by Kensuke Ushio.[64][65][66] The series is set to premiere in October 2022 on TV Tokyo and other networks.[5][67] Crunchyroll has licensed the series outside of Asia and will be releasing it along with an English dub.[68] Medialink licensed the series in Asia-Pacific.[69]

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Chainsaw Man is getting an anime?

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    @cj iwakura it's all up on mangaplus/Viz media if you have a subscription. Literally only costs a couple of bucks a month and gives you a massive backlog

    Only issue is you are limited to 100 chapters s day, but you have to be really binging to hit that

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    for me it's incredibly easy to just fucking disappear 100 chapters in a day, especially if it's something like one piece or naruto

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    @cj iwakura it's all up on mangaplus/Viz media if you have a subscription. Literally only costs a couple of bucks a month and gives you a massive backlog

    Only issue is you are limited to 100 chapters s day, but you have to be really binging to hit that

    Appreciated, but I don't read digital apart from the super rare exception that it's never localized and never will be.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not gonna lie, I am impressed by that.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    RT800 wrote: »
    Is it just me, or does Chainsaw Man seem way overhyped?

    I'm not saying it's not good. I don't know. I haven't seen it.

    But it feels like I've seen 36 trailers for the fucking thing over the past four years. Release it or shut up already.

    I've literally been trying to read the first volume for the past year and it's constantly sold out after frequent restocks in every store here(in SoFla, otaku central).

    I ordered the full set of Chainsaw Man during the Right Stuf anniversary sale back in July and they only got it all back in stock and shipped to me last week.

    On the inside of the front cover of Vol 1:
    First Printing, October 2020
    Ninth Printing, February 2022

    My Vol's 2 and 3 are both on their eighth printing

    It's certainly in high demand

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mysst wrote: »
    Asking if something you've never seen is overhyped is begging the question so hard

    As someone who just read the first three volumes, it's not life-changing or revelatory if you aren't like, in middle school still and haven't had a wide exposure to things, but it's a pretty good One Of Those Stories, that being a shonen battle manga with a dumbass protagonist.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think it's certainly higher concept than most battle manga but is limited by the magazine it's published in

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    Asking if something you've never seen is overhyped is begging the question so hard

    As someone who just read the first three volumes, it's not life-changing or revelatory if you aren't like, in middle school still and haven't had a wide exposure to things, but it's a pretty good One Of Those Stories, that being a shonen battle manga with a dumbass protagonist.

    Nah, you can't read three volumes and then give a synopsis like this. It goes to some WILD places. I think the show will be a BIG deal for a lot of people.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I read the whole thing and my opinion is more or less in line with DarkPrimus', if that helps, it's a real good manga and has amazingly cool art, and has a more adult plot and more ultraviolence than most shonen battle stuff, but it also isn't my favorite thing ever. Go in with moderate expectations and you won't be disappointed, and may find yourself pleasantly surprised.

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    Asking if something you've never seen is overhyped is begging the question so hard

    As someone who just read the first three volumes, it's not life-changing or revelatory if you aren't like, in middle school still and haven't had a wide exposure to things, but it's a pretty good One Of Those Stories, that being a shonen battle manga with a dumbass protagonist.

    I think the last half or third is where it's actually good. The first half was fine but i dropped it for a while.

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    i was definitely waffling on chainsawman for a while, but the sword guy arc hit pretty much all the right notes to get me fully on board
    the shakeup of what you think is going to be the supporting cast, the first hints of what makima can do, denji and power in the elevator, the page with no dialogue where they just go to town on that one guy's balls

    absolutely just my brand of bullshit

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    The thing that I liked about Chainsaw Man was the sheer chaos energy would multiply every arc; it always managed to do something so incredibly stupid yet increasingly awesome every arc. It tapped into primal emotions.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    i think a lot of what makes chainsaw man work is that it does take a lot of time to slow down and show scenes of denji and power being the dumbest roommates to ever live

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    i was definitely waffling on chainsawman for a while, but the sword guy arc hit pretty much all the right notes to get me fully on board
    the shakeup of what you think is going to be the supporting cast, the first hints of what makima can do, denji and power in the elevator, the page with no dialogue where they just go to town on that one guy's balls

    absolutely just my brand of bullshit

    The narration on that page
    "Himeno, can you hear this up in heaven?" while they're just stomping that guy in the balls. I love it so much.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    i think a lot of what makes chainsaw man work is that it does take a lot of time to slow down and show scenes of denji and power being the dumbest roommates to ever live

    also shows two people in a non-romantic intimate relationship with about 3 braincells

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'll just read a bit more Chainsaw Man before bed, I says to myself

    Reading will be better to get me to sleep than playing video games or watching TV, I says to myself

    [Three volumes later]

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    @DarkPrimus I'm very much looking forward to you hitting the full chainsaw man experience, because boy, the train has no breaks

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    There are some good faces in Dandadan this week.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dandadan:
    the godzilla was actually an Eva, hm, yes. powered by Okarun's missing testicle, of course.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dandadan:
    the godzilla was actually an Eva, hm, yes. powered by Okarun's missing testicle, of course.

    It makes perfect sense when you think about it.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I finally got around to finishing the Rosario Vampire manga last night.

    The chapters were frequently 40-50 pages long, but I when starting the final volume last night I thought I'd just read the first chapter in the volume and then go to bed.

    I opened the volume and got to the table of contents...only two chapters were listed. The 200 page final chapter, and then 60 page epilogue. So I just went ahead and read the whole thing (who needs sleep?).

    It's crazy how different the manga is from the anime (after the beginning, at least). The author even has comments at the end of several volumes implying that he's rather unhappy about the anime's focus on being a perverted moe harem romcom.

    The art also drastically improved over the course of the series. Which can be a double-edged sword when it gets into the body horror and gore.

    One complaint of the final arc is...
    No Ling-Ling!
    In the previous arc, she tries to sacrifice herself to defeat Aqua, but is shown to have been rescued by her grandfather so she can be put back together. But she never does anything for the rest of the manga. That wouldn't be too bad if she was said to be at home recovering, but she was specifically shown on the airship heading to the final battle. But when the airship arrived, she wasn't there. It wasn't until the very end that she was shown again in a group shot, having presumably been fighting offscreen the whole time.

    Honestly, I think the author forgot about her during the fight.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    I finally got around to finishing the Rosario Vampire manga last night.

    The chapters were frequently 40-50 pages long, but I when starting the final volume last night I thought I'd just read the first chapter in the volume and then go to bed.

    I opened the volume and got to the table of contents...only two chapters were listed. The 200 page final chapter, and then 60 page epilogue. So I just went ahead and read the whole thing (who needs sleep?).

    It's crazy how different the manga is from the anime (after the beginning, at least). The author even has comments at the end of several volumes implying that he's rather unhappy about the anime's focus on being a perverted moe harem romcom.

    The art also drastically improved over the course of the series. Which can be a double-edged sword when it gets into the body horror and gore.

    One complaint of the final arc is...
    No Ling-Ling!
    In the previous arc, she tries to sacrifice herself to defeat Aqua, but is shown to have been rescued by her grandfather so she can be put back together. But she never does anything for the rest of the manga. That wouldn't be too bad if she was said to be at home recovering, but she was specifically shown on the airship heading to the final battle. But when the airship arrived, she wasn't there. It wasn't until the very end that she was shown again in a group shot, having presumably been fighting offscreen the whole time.

    Honestly, I think the author forgot about her during the fight.

    What a blast from the past. Yeah it has some serious genre shift as the manga goes on. The art leveling up was kind of in tandem with the genre shift.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I only read two volumes of Chainsaw Man tonight

    Please ignore the empty whiskey bottle.... it was mostly empty already

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yo.

    Zombieland Saga is fucking good!

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    I only read two volumes of Chainsaw Man tonight

    Please ignore the empty whiskey bottle.... it was mostly empty already

    So which volume did you end on?

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Yo.

    Zombieland Saga is fucking good!

    Those two episodes are all I've seen before, so I'm excited to see where it goes, even though I've absorbed a few spoilers.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    I only read two volumes of Chainsaw Man tonight

    Please ignore the empty whiskey bottle.... it was mostly empty already

    So which volume did you end on?

    I finished Volume 8.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    I only read two volumes of Chainsaw Man tonight

    Please ignore the empty whiskey bottle.... it was mostly empty already

    So which volume did you end on?

    I finished Volume 8.

    So then:
    you're really in the thick of chaos then, huh?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Yo.

    Zombieland Saga is fucking good!

    Those two episodes are all I've seen before, so I'm excited to see where it goes, even though I've absorbed a few spoilers.

    Zombieland saga thoughts I have
    I liked the first few episodes a lot, before it settled into its real premise and I realized it was just going to be a played-straight idol anime with the band's gimmick being the zombie theme. I was hoping for more of a plot than that, maybe some satire of the idol industry even, but alas. Did not end up liking it overall after getting some high expectations from those first few eps.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Yo.

    Zombieland Saga is fucking good!

    Those two episodes are all I've seen before, so I'm excited to see where it goes, even though I've absorbed a few spoilers.

    Zombieland saga thoughts I have
    I liked the first few episodes a lot, before it settled into its real premise and I realized it was just going to be a played-straight idol anime with the band's gimmick being the zombie theme. I was hoping for more of a plot than that, maybe some satire of the idol industry even, but alas. Did not end up liking it overall after getting some high expectations from those first few eps.

    These are pretty much my feelings too. The first couple episodes felt like it was going to be genuinely creative and subversive towards idols/the idol industry, and then it was just... almost entirely tonguebathing the entire idol industry like every other goddamned idol show from there out with a minor peppering of weirdness, but the gimmick mostly left behind aside from a token gag in some episodes.

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