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I wonder if this also explains the outbreak of smug, one-fanged gremlins bullying the title character a few years ago. Nagatoro and...Uzaki I think was the name are two prominent ones that come to mind
Sort-of-related thing that I've been wondering about for a while -- having read Kaiji, I now spot references to it in a bunch of other places, be it just 'zawa zawa' as a sound effect, or 'the Kaiji nose' (you know what I mean), or most recently I read something where they talked about earning 'perica', etc.
But I've seen _way_ more references to the last panel of Ashita No Joe, the "draw the character, but they're sitting slumped in a chair turned to white ash because they're (really tired/etc)" scene seems to show up all the time.
So, question -- what other super-common references are out there? Those two are the ones I can think of that I've seen a lot; I'm sure there's other ones that I'm just not seeing because I've not read the original, or am just not noticing things because I'm not paying enough attention.
Following up my previous comment, the other reason I think manga exploded over here, beyond just the insular and toxic western comic fanbase... Is that generally, if you wanna read a series?
You just pick up the fucking series. I can tell someone go read FMA, or Delicious in Dungeon or whatever. I don't need to give them a bloody guide to which chapter to read when, or warn them that their favorite character ended up in the hands of a writer with a hate on for them.
Marvel and DC comics have a lot of cool stuff, and there's some excellent comics being published under their umbrella, but it has to be said the whole publishing model is insane and actively consumer hostile.
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Trying to tell someone to gamble their livelihood on expanding a base that might not then exist is kind of crap? If you have an audience, keep it. Most attempts by products to reach 'New consumers' tend to fail spectacularly! You piss off your base and then no one new picks up the slack so your once promising future is now dead. Woo.
There are plenty of smaller authors trying stuff in the doujin space or whatever that you can find whatever you want.
Anywho, someone asking about comedy and no Gintama mention? Shocked. Damn amazing series.
just what the fuck is Ginka?
- a patterned shard of Ginka’s body was recovered and used to reanimate a 300-years-dead dragon
- Ginka’s body has been depicted in two ways: The patterned shards, and the, primarily, Elemental Ginkas that are apparently born from those pieces coming together
Magaraka is said to be using Ginka’s body, but noting that it isn’t actually complete, and while not a 100% match, it does correspond to the “SECRET” Ginka listed among the Elemental Ginkas.
Excerpts of the relevant bits about Ginka’s body:
We know from the recent chapter that the deal with Magaraka is that he sought to obtain the moon of Verokia in order to obtain the power to continue living, and it would appear now that he certainly seems to have an immortal one (it certainly survived Ginka knocking the head off, then reattaching with no harm seemingly done to it), and we know that the Royal Family of Verokia released the moon from its orbit rather than to let it fall in the hands of Magaraka…
But then, how does Magaraka have a seemingly immortal, if incomplete, body? And why are these shards we’ve seen before referred to being shards of his body?
With all of that then, and the absolute power we’ve seen Ginka demonstrate so far, it feels like the answer we are being pointed towards is… Ginka is the Moon of Verokia, a vast, magical construct that has a will and mind of his own. It would explain the shattered, patterned fragments, the way they seek to come back together, and the fact that he’s so specifically skilled and teaching Glüna Verokian magic. It might even reflect that what Magaraka meaning that he hasn’t been able to taste the moon yet being that, with the body incomplete, that he hasn’t yet had a taste of the true power that it holds. Could it be then that Ginka’s body that Magaraka is using is effectively an avatar or incarnation of the larger Moon of Verokia?
The main discrepancies being the timeline: when was the fall of Verokia? What has Ginka been doing since then since it’s implied that Verokia is a fairly ancient kingdom. And what does this mean about Magaraka’s attempt to take the moon for himself? I suppose its feasible that perhaps that was merely the first attempt, given that he implies he can body hop at will when he looks at Glüna during the fight, so perhaps he failed at taking the Moon and jumped into someone else’s body to preserve himself until he could try again, and the at some point the Moon incarnated in the form of Ginka (and, perhaps, the rest was shattered across the globe, leading to the fragments?) and then sometime ten years prior Ginka and Magaraka met again leading to Magaraka taking Ginka’s human body for himself while the rest of him was left to reform into the various Elemental Ginkas?
EDIT: okay few more going back further:
So at the very least, Magaraka and Ginka fought about ten years back, with Magaraka stealing his body. We know from the rest of this that the body however is incomplete, though not whether or not he stole an incomplete body or that it broke during/after Ginka’s attempt to stay alive after he was body jacked by him.
Though now that raises the question: What is Magaraka present resurrection or revival then, if he managed to steal Ginka’s body 10 years ago? What happened that he’d need to be revived after seemingly securing Ginka’s body in that battle?
EDIT: oh wow okay somehow I didn’t notice before: I thought those were tattoos or some other kind of marking all over Magaraka-in-Ginka, but looking more carefully they’re the missing chunks (check the edges of his forearm and his left knee and it’s more clear)
Hopefully maybe that’s not a sign we’re rushing Toward the ending, but it does feel like maybe there’s pressure to pick up the pace and tension in the main plot; with the recent bit I could see the plot getting a fire lit under it with
Now with Magaraka on the scene, you have a massive threat who also wants those pieces so he can have Ginka’s power, the very thing Ginka has sworn he won’t allow anyone else to wield
It definitely feels rushed thanks to how hard Nosferatu has kind of jobbed to set up the new reveals, but maybe that’s just badly shifting gears under editor mandates rather than gearing to wrap things up
- The Yamcha pose
- A reference to the four excited gaijin
- A menacing Jojo reference
Given anime production times, this year is likely the tail end of the isekai boom. Yay!
what's next in the cycle
zombies? mummies? robots? food trucks?
aaah
home ownership
I already made the mistake of looking at next season's lineup, and there's still well into the double digits. So it ain't over yet. Not by a long shot.
Looking at you, Faraway Paladin!
I actually do really like Faraway Paladin, it's just kind of funny that it feels like they had to slip it through the door by pretending it was an isekai
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You’d remember his work from G Gundam, GaoGaiGar, Betterman and more, as well as adapting CLAMP’s designs for production in Code Geass
it's weird, because I think the only actual impacts him being reincarnated has are...
- him trying to live a noble life where he actually does good, because he feels like he wasted away his life on Earth;
- him being a precocious child growing up;
- him being a champion of the goddess of reincarnation.
Like, that's it. And the first could just as well just be because his undead foster family raised him well, the second point could just be a personality trait, and the third point could just as well be a natural response to his first major antagonist being the god of undeath.It doesn't even add a fish-out-of-water element where he needs everything explained to him, because he was raised out in the booneys anyway and got a pretty thorough academic upbringing from an archmage. His main issue is just having his knowledge be some hundred years outdated. He knows just as much as a non-isekai'd person would know if put in his position.
I'm reading that High Elf Slow Life manga at the moment, and it's somehow got an isekai that's even less relevant than Faraway Paladin. I think the only impact him being reincarnated has had is that he actually left the forest unlike all the other high elves?
Even better, according to the author,
Witch from Mercury Cour 2 trailer, first half is a recap (spoilers for the end of cour 1 just FYI if anyone is holding out), new footage starts at 50 seconds in.
Episode 65
It sounds like they not only knew about the possibility of an attack, but were deliberately baiting one - with Willy as the bait. I don't understand why they were doing that.
it's been a bit so I don't fully recall but
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There's a manga I follow where it's technically not an isekai but does involve isekai. Basic premise is that there's a guy who was born with three souls inhabiting his body: his, a Japanese student's, and a famed general from the Warring States period of ancient Japan. The main one is the actual owner of the body and the other two are basically voices in the head, though he can cede control to one or the other temporarily. This means he can do things like have modern day knowledge of tech (but only so far as the Japanese student understands so nothing too advanced) and he uses it to make money with things like acquiring sugar without the very expensive sugar cane and producing intricate jewelry through the use of electrolysis to do gold plating.
The story is focused entirely on the main character who was born in that world, so it's not an isekai, but the presence of those two other souls means it involves isekai as a concept.
Because that's the most messed up thing I've seen in a story in a while.
Don't forget how playing Final Fantasy 7 contributed to the evil plan. Might've just sunk into depression forever, except Square had to make Final Fantasy 7.
That said, a lot of the writing around Shide is less than great, especially what he is and how his own abilities work. The story always plays fast and loose with the shadows, but it's mostly fairly consistent taken as a whole package by the end, at least to my own satisfaction for being able to explain things and close off the paradoxes and whatnot... except for him. Gotta handwave, like... a lot around his deal.
It made a lot more sense after I started reading it and very quickly realized that all the character names are german words.
Also, Nier: Automata V1.1a Ep 7, finally getting some A2 action!
They did a great job recreating the castle, and I'm fine with being past it, because I hated that level.