Manga you are currently reading

[kazukifafner]

it gets a LOT more stylish and dynamic a bit later

[Juggernaut6]

The new volume of Blade of the Immortal was absolutely awe inspiring! And you can tell that it is going to end soon, maybe within the next few volumes.

[DerringerZONE!]

Currently reading "Umineko No Naku Koro Ni - Episode 2". The thrill dwindled down since the first episode ended, but I might see this manga through. I'm also planning on watching the anime.

[kazukifafner]

Just caught up on Sun-Ken Rock.

This series is just too manly.

Like, holy shit, basically.

[Space Cowboy]

Up to date is Level 102 right?

Do-Heun is the greatest.

[kazukifafner]

Yeah, I was a few volumes behind.

Tae-Soo is a scary motherdiddlyer O_O

Honestly, Pickaxe straight up made that battle <3

[Gesso]

Just picked up Tonari no Seki-kun

Seriously, the main male character has to be close to being Nichijou's Mai-chan's equivalent.

[Pinwheel]

Just caught up on Sun-Ken Rock.

This series is just too manly.

Like, holy shit, basically.

It's Beelzebub with the manliness ultra amped up, alongside the art of course. I'm behind on this. Last I remember they were breaking into a casino or something along those lines and tons of men fought Ken's gang, any idea what chapter that is? Reading that from the beginning of the arc won't kill me. Edit: I recall Ken beating up two sisters who were basically hooker Assassin's if that helps.

[Space Cowboy]

Oh god Ken fighting those sisters. Jesus balls.

That was quite awhile ago, like theres been about 70 chapters since that point. It's all on Batoto if you need to read and by looks of it. He was fighting hooker assassins around chapter 38.

We're on 102 now haha. You are in for one HELL of a ride.

[Gesso]

Shingetsutan Tsukihime

Description: The story follows Tohno Shiki, a teenage boy who, after a near-fatal accident in his childhood, gained the mysterious power to perceive lines covering everything around him. When he cuts along these lines, whatever it was immediately falls apart with a clean cut; in other words, killing it. He would have quickly gone insane from living in a world that could fall apart so easily, had it not been for a wandering self-proclaimed magician who gave him a pair of glasses that blocked his unnatural perception when worn.

Soon afterwards, he was disinherited from his family and sent to live with some relatives. For eight years he lived a normal life, hiding his special eyes, until one day he receives a letter inviting him to come back home. Shiki suddenly becomes caught up in strange and life-threatening series of events, ones that are somehow linked to his childhood accident and a forgotten past...

I really need to get back to this. So far I reached up to about 20+ chapters or so IIRC. Totally worth the read if you ask me.

[Space Cowboy]

Rereading The Lucifer & Biscuit Hammer at the moment.

Still in my mind, one of the most perfect manga series I've ever read.

[kazukifafner]

Read all of Bokurano.

This is masterpiece material right here.

"Zearth, take-off."

;A;

[Zul]

Just finished Bokurano myself.

I thought I'd never get minddiddlyed again after having seen Madoka but, well, Bokurano did it.

[HadesDragon]

i've read up until like volume 6 of bokurano

having watched the anime before reading it, the manga is way more philosophical and intellectually interesting, the anime just gives us "they had a bad situation and then things got better before they died" with most of the kids, which was the case in the manga to a degree, but what i feel has happened in the manga so far is that the kids' stories become progressively more cerebral and gripping. Kirie's existential and philosophical dillemmas don't exist in the anime at all, for instance, and Chizu doesn't get gangraped.

I already knew the manga was better just from a few of the spoilers I read, but I was unaware of just HOW much the story was changed. This is all because the director hated the original story. Thing is, he should have either not been given the project, or just sucked it up and made it a more faithful adaptation anyway because all of his changes just dampen the emotional weight and interesting ideas from the source material.

[Zul]

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I was reading up on the Anime/Manga differences and I came across this.

Regarding differences between the stories in the manga and in the anime, Hiroyuki Morita, who directed the anime, wrote in his blog that he dislikes the original story and has, in some ways, been making changes to the plot for that reason. He also wrote that, at one point early in the development of the show, he asked manga author Mohiro Kitoh if he could find some way to save the main characters — the kids who must pilot Zearth. He wrote that Kitoh responded that his choice was fine as long as the changes did not involve "magical solutions" to the story.


Morita closed out the blog entry with the statement "The director of the animated version of Bokurano dislikes the original manga. From here on out, you can't expect the animated version to expand on what you might find appealing in the original. So, fans of the original, please do not watch the animated version from now on"

I never expected the Anime director to actually say something like that. I guess he wanted to avoid the manga fans bashing the anime.

I don't really plan on watching the Anime, the Manga was enough for me.