Manga/Anime You Read/Watch

[quote=Searz][quote=JccmSaysNom]Imawabi no Dakini[/quote] Hmm.. Art looks nice, only 3 volumes. Giving it a read.[/quote]

[quote=xIchi]Read it. The end is kinda meh, but apart from that it is a tad too shounen-ish.[/quote]

[quote=OTGBionicArm]Sup weeaboos (I say this with luv<3) So I started watching Attack on Titan in English (Cause the Japanese version made my ears bleed). Aaand I actually kinda like it now. After 7 episodes. It was slow as hell at first but now theres a lot more going on. The English version is still super screamy though. Kind of annoying, but less so in English. Questions: Is Aren psychotic? No normal child would act like that. Why does the intro sequence show all those characters when I've seen like 3-4 of them get eated? Also, no spoilerinos plz. only on episode 8.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=OTGBionicArm]Is Aren psychotic? No normal child would act like that.[/quote] Possibly. He's quite brutal, aggressive and rash, but I think it makes him an interesting character. Especially so because he's very consistent over the course of the story, while at the same time getting developed as a character. [quote]Why does the intro sequence show all those characters when I've seen like 3-4 of them get eated?[/quote] No idea. Why even watch it more than one time? I never bother watching intros to series after the first episode. Worth noting about Shingeki no Kyojin (original title), is that the manga is a lot better, A LOT better when it comes to the storytelling aspect. The anime makes a load of changes to the story, the great majority of which are bad or just flat out stupid. If you want the story like it should have been told then the manga is the way to go. The art is a bit lackluster in the manga, but if you can get over that then it's definitely the superior version in my opinion.[/quote]

[quote=JccmSaysNom][quote=xIchi] The end is kinda meh[/quote] Definitely agree with you on that, I personally prefer shounen-ish things but dislike the naruto-like-shounen. How about Onanie Master Kurosawa? it's story and MC turn the most people away at chapter 1 but if you haven't already read it try giving it a shot. it is also more of a seinen.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=JccmSaysNom]Definitely agree with you on that, I personally prefer shounen-ish things but dislike the naruto-like-shounen.[/quote] Try to avoid using the terms shounen and seinen to describe genres. This is a common mistake even I have made in the past. They are a target demographic. Shounen being roughly teenage males and seinen being adult males. [quote]How about Onanie Master Kurosawa? it's story and MC turn the most people away at chapter 1 but if you haven't already read it try giving it a shot. it is also more of a seinen.[/quote] Yeah, it's pretty good. Have you read Molester Man? It's by the same author, and I consider it to be the better of the two.[/quote]

[quote=JccmSaysNom][quote=Searz] Yeah, it's pretty good. Have you read Molester Man? It's by the same author, and I consider it to be the better of the two.[/quote] I use the terms shounen-ish and seinen like, because the term teenage male and adult male blend together at some points but I will take your advice to heart. Yes I have read it, to me both were equally as good in their own respective rights, and having lurked a lot on 4chan I could easily relate to a 2chan story. And there is just something about the unrefined way the art is that really hits a soft spot in me.[/quote]

[quote=xIchi]I still think it's fairly accurate to use seinen/shounen/shoujo to point out obvious stereotypes that define this kind of style aiming at said demographic.[/quote]

[quote=Searz]I just finished Imawabi no Dakini. It was so-so. Storytelling was just a mess with several instances of exposition dumping. The fights were really lackluster and shallow. And many of them resolved in a pretty dumb manner. The art is ultimately what saves it from being bad. I'm not sure I'd call the art great, but it's definitely good and it has a pretty unique style, which I like. I would not recommend giving it a read. There are far better series to read in those genres. [url=http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Fullmetal-Alchemist/1?id=21232]Fullmetal Alchemist[/url] and [url=http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Shingeki-no-Kyojin]Shingeki no Kyojin[/url] being the first ones that come to mind. Both are kind of similar in style, just a lot better. Also, I just read chapter 65 of Shingeki no Kyojin. Holy crap. Something big is going to go down. [spoiler=SNK ch65]Historia might actually die O.O Oh why do you toy with my emotions like this o Isayama!?[/spoiler] [quote=JccmSaysNom]I use the terms shounen-ish and seinen like, because the term teenage male and adult male blend together at some points but I will take your advice to heart.[/quote] Yeah, try to use terms like action/adventure to describe series.[/quote]

[quote=xIchi]Ana Satsujin (manga) is nearing it's end and the author keeps throwing flashbacks at us q_q. Btw, for those who still watch Log Horizon... I had this feeling since S1, but now it's even stronger... Why the fuck waste so much time on those little shit brats? For real, they were needed to show the corrupt beginning of the new fantasy world. But why waste so much screentime/background etc on them. They don't seem relevant in any way and are just in to add a really annoying and unrealistic love interes for Shiroe zzzz. (Cept for the new skill he made for Rudi, but that coulda been any NPC, instead they put thos brats in the highlight). The only reason I can think of is to explain the world to outsiders, as we people who are reading/watching don't know as much as Shiroe, and instead of just having the Characters explain stuff, they let those brats do shit.[/quote]