Meet the Urumas, a slightly dysfunctional family of four sorcerers. Mom, being the most powerful sorceress around, works away from home keeping the world safe. Dad picks up the slack and takes care of the family. Except when he's out, which is when the older brother Jin finds himself in the unenviable position of keeping tabs on his sister Ran. And Ran, the youngest, is a willful girl with too much power and too little wisdom. Let's take a look at Ran's everyday misadventures, shall we?
It's really cute and sweet. You can check it out here.
Started reading Blood Lad v.1 during some downtime at work and was so hooked by the middle I had to buy it. So far it's wonderfully funny and feels like a breath of fresh air in terms of demon fighting shounen manga. The worldbuilding is good, the characters are fun to read, the designs are great, and the jokes work most of the time. The translation by Yen Press really helps it flow along at a great pace, too. The fanservice is a bit off-putting sometimes, but that is a small complaint in a sea of good fun, I think.
Silver Spoon's cool. It goes on all light-hearted ag slice of life for a while before it hits you with depressing reality. All in B+/A, would recommend.
Yep. As ruffas said, it's all light-hearted, and then it gets super serious for a bit - usually, as Ruffas pointed out, introducing you to some of the more choice realities of farm life and farm work - then right back to the light-hearted stuff. Also, as someone who has lived on and worked on farms - they get the farming(and farmers) dead on, too. They take some small liberties, but none that aren't explained either explicitly, or by the fact that they're a Agri School, rather than just being a farm.
I just caught up with Punpun; fuck my life its only gotten more depressing yet mind bogglingly well made. I'm going to have to re-read it but hope there is some foreshadowing of a good end for our characters because the situation looks horribly bleak.
Dilemma: What do I do when I like a series, but the only translations (which were made after another group stopped doing it because the group dissolved) suck absolute ass?
I just caught up with Punpun; fuck my life its only gotten more depressing yet mind bogglingly well made. I'm going to have to re-read it but hope there is some foreshadowing of a good end for our characters because the situation looks horribly bleak.
Asano Inio is seriously one of my favorite author now because of Solanin and Punpun alone, hope he has a long career.
Dilemma: What do I do when I like a series, but the only translations (which were made after another group stopped doing it because the group dissolved) suck absolute ass?
Fix them? That's usually what I do with bad subtitles, if only so I don't have to deal with the Engrish again.
The problem isn't really that they are dumb, but that they are missing. Almost every chapter I've seen of the group has some boxes untranslated, or replaced it with some incomplete translation including some words marked with (?) since they weren't sure.
No, but the current arc which involves a Marine Admiral, two of the seven Warlords, and two Yonkou (two of the four pirates which rule the second half of the Grand Line) is going into its finale, and two "new"* characters appeared. One of them was highly anticipated by the fans as he is thought of as a major player in the near future, and the other was partially thought to never appear again because she was more of a bit character.
The One Piece will probably take another couple of years, as Oda said at the 10 year anniversary of the series that he planned for another 10 years.
*I use the scarequotes because both characters appeared in flashbacks before.
To put the stupidity of your statement into perspective, let's assume for a second the Prince of Nothing series was released in smaller, serialized chunks and you hadn't read it.
Me: "Crazy shit is going down in the Prince of Nothing series." You: "Did they win the war? Did Kellhus find his father?" Me: "No. All I can say is 'Circumfixion' ." You: "OK, so really nothing happened."
Or maybe Eagle is a good comparison too: Me: "Crazy shit is going down in Eagle" You: "Did he become president?" Me: "No. But holy shit that National Convention." You: "OK, so really nothing happened."
You don't have the context to actually understand or comprehend the significance of those plot developments in One Piece. And seriously, if the only measure of importance to any series is the final McGuffin, then I have no clue what series you ever enjoy.
None of those examples are as crazily long and drawn out as One Piece. It's so long I don't even care anymore except to know about the One Piece. You know how Nadia has island episodes? Basically all of One Piece is Island episodes to me now. Skip it all until the One Piece shows up. Even in Hajime no Ippo, the longest of the long, they're one step away from the World Championship right now. Then again, if he loses this upcoming fight then the world championship fight will be even further away and I might bail on that as well until the actual World Championship.
When I start reading a story I only keep reading if I have a reason to care what happens. If that thing I care about, my reason for reading, is infinitely delayed I stop caring. Just like a conversation. I'm trying to talk about X. You can go on a few tangents, but a tangent that lasts 10 years, I'll just walk away.
See, this is your mistake. You label something without having even seen it and dismiss it out of hand because you now no longer have any measure something without having any context. Thus you miss major plot points without which the finale of the series will have little meaning or will even make sense. To me that's like saying "I liked that first volume of Monster, but I'm too lazy to read 18 volumes total. I'll just skip to the last one." Same with 20th Century Boys.
Maybe you are too lazy to commit to a series on the scale of One Piece, but declaring major developments to be meaningless does nothing but reveal your ignorance and to a certain extent arrogance. You comparing such major developments to the Nadia island episodes puts only a greater emphasis on that. You must be really glad that Bone exists as an omnibus, because you probably would have not made it through it in its 13 year serialization.
I definitely would never have read bone had it not been a compilation. Bone also kind of falls apart at the end. It should have been shorter. Had it been longer than it was, I probably would have stopped reading even with the compilation.
One Piece, if you skip the details of fights, can be summarized so succinctly that it's amazing how little happens in so many volumes.
I'd challenge that statement. Anything can be summarized in a couple of sentences if it has to be done, but cutting out the details is also a disservice to the piece of media itself as it robs context and narrative. It is particularly unfair to do so to such a visually supported medium like manga. In any case, it is kind of a weird statement to make for someone who hasn't actually read it.
How much is "a bunch"? Personally, I believe Oda improved a lot of it and rather quickly, particularly pacing, and it's never been to a horrid pace like for example Bleach or Slam Dunk has been, which is actually unreadable pacing. Definitely far from anything that should make anybody stop reading it if they love everything else about it. Seriously, I just don't understand why either of you stopped reading it or are so afraid of commitment to a single series when you spend the same amount of energy on other things.
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Meet Sakamoto.
You wanna know how cool he is? He's so cool, gravity is his plaything.
He also loves to fight. Giant Hornets. With a compass.
Sakamoto. He's a cool dude.
http://mangafox.me/manga/yuusen_shoujo_plug_in_girl/v01/c001/1.html
Yowamushi Pedal is shounen. Pure, delicious, glorious, shounen. Absolutely worth spending time on, 5/5, will read again.
Seriously, some of the biggest reveals and plot developments in the history of the series. I am excite.
The One Piece will probably take another couple of years, as Oda said at the 10 year anniversary of the series that he planned for another 10 years.
*I use the scarequotes because both characters appeared in flashbacks before.
Me: "Crazy shit is going down in the Prince of Nothing series."
You: "Did they win the war? Did Kellhus find his father?"
Me: "No. All I can say is 'Circumfixion' ."
You: "OK, so really nothing happened."
Or maybe Eagle is a good comparison too:
Me: "Crazy shit is going down in Eagle"
You: "Did he become president?"
Me: "No. But holy shit that National Convention."
You: "OK, so really nothing happened."
You don't have the context to actually understand or comprehend the significance of those plot developments in One Piece. And seriously, if the only measure of importance to any series is the final McGuffin, then I have no clue what series you ever enjoy.
When I start reading a story I only keep reading if I have a reason to care what happens. If that thing I care about, my reason for reading, is infinitely delayed I stop caring. Just like a conversation. I'm trying to talk about X. You can go on a few tangents, but a tangent that lasts 10 years, I'll just walk away.
Maybe you are too lazy to commit to a series on the scale of One Piece, but declaring major developments to be meaningless does nothing but reveal your ignorance and to a certain extent arrogance. You comparing such major developments to the Nadia island episodes puts only a greater emphasis on that. You must be really glad that Bone exists as an omnibus, because you probably would have not made it through it in its 13 year serialization.
One Piece, if you skip the details of fights, can be summarized so succinctly that it's amazing how little happens in so many volumes.