Idolmaster is overrated. I mean it's generic animu designs with annoying animu music.
If Miura is done with the manga at least let it get animated til they leave for the home of the Faeries.
Berserk
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6-7 month break now.
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…wait, this is serious? I thought the guy was just fuckin' with us, but you're all taking it as fact... You can't honestly fuckin' tell me a guy who's been working on a series for 10+ years just threw it to the side for music videos.
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Okay… this does suck a fuckton...
but after frowning for a few seconds... I burst out laughing...
Sorry... but this is FUCKING HILARIOUS. I've never seen a manga-ka show such a lack of devotion towards his series. He's even worse than Togashi. He might as well just make the next chapter have just one page with a sincere note stating "lol fuck you guys." -
Idolmaster is overrated. I mean it's generic animu designs with annoying animu music.
No, dude. Just no.
Idolmaster is amazing. The fact it's not in English is a huge barrier to people really appreciating how fudgeton awesome it is, and you really have to wade through tons of anime, manga, and yes video games/visual novels to really get the jist of why it's great.
I can total-fudging-ly understand why Miura is infatuated with it. As someone who campaigns on a slant of being anti-moe, anti-loli, not even I can voice much opposition to it.
It is an incredible game. Worthy of Berserk's manga-ka? If he RETIRED maybe, but don't rat on it for being an overrated game. It's several years old but still great.
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This blows pretty hard - but I'm sure Miura will come back to the story… eventually. I mean, let's hope anyway. D:
And to be fair, the guy has been working on Berserk for about as long as most of the posters here have been alive. I can't blame him for wanting to take breaks - even long ones - if they enable him to keep slugging on. Though we all hope Oda would never do something like this - with the amount of work mangaka of his caliber do every day, if him taking an occasional break meant he could maintain energy for his series, I wouldn't mind it at all.
…So long as he didn't turn into a Togashi.
Edit: What makes Idolmaster so great, Terek? This is a sincere question - I don't know all that much about it n' Wikipedia can only tell one so much.
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Guys, I'm sorry, but I think you should stop taking this so seriously. So far we only got one source. No one here has even questioned it, they sure have over on Berserk related sites.
A break is one thing, but to think he quit his manga for a stupid game is… well, stupid.
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As I rule I'm skeptical out of anything that comes out of Sankaku Complex, but it's more fun to speculate about THE FALL OF MIURA TO THE IDOLMASTER, GODHAND OF JAPAN than it is to bitch and moan about how many months it's been since a Berserk chapter was released.
True or not, it gives us something to do.
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I actually haven't read the last 4 chapters of Berserk yet, so I got some padding. Damn, I haven't read the last 12 chapters of OP either.
Having a job sucks.
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April fools…?
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a bit early.. but plausible.
i'd hope that's the case.
The more i think about this.. the more i start to realize how far-fetched it is…
Becoming obsessed with idol-master, yeah i can see that. But having that obsession indefinitely halt something a person has spent a good many years of his life creating would just be fucking sad. -
Him quitting Berserk entirely for Idolmaster is most likely bullshit. But him taking a longer break due to it is possible. Hence why I said 6-7 month break now.
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I smell april fools, I honestly thought that a new chapter came out
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I'm just hoping that this is just bait to get Miura to work on the manga again.
@MT- Does it include annoying young animu girl voices akin to Lucky Star?
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@Buuhan - The reason it can be taken as fact so easily is because Miura took a "break"(God knows he doesn't need it) a couple of months ago for this very same reason.
It'd be a bit funny if this hadn't happened before, now it's just pathetic.
No, dude. Just no.
Idolmaster is amazing.
I stopped reading your post here.
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This is one of the most hilarious things I've heard all week.
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A solution. Berserk fan base should start collecting money donations and then use the donations to buy Miura a hooker. And continue doing so everytime he releases a new chapter. Everybody wins.
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A solution. Berserk fan base should start collecting money donations and then use the donations to buy Miura a hooker. And continue doing so everytime he releases a new chapter. Everybody wins.
That would only work if it's a hooker that cosplaying as a Idolmaster character.
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That would only work if it's a hooker that cosplaying as a Idolmaster character.
Meh, I doubt the cosplay part would be hard to arrange.
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April fools…?
Perhaps?Story was originally broken in december so I don't think so.
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@MT- Does it include annoying young animu girl voices akin to Lucky Star?
The game is voiced, but there aren't any Lucky Star otaku voices (I guess). Not really stereotypical either…one of the cool things about the game is you can see how you, the Producer, can clearly have a hand in impacting the idol's lives. A girl with a tomboyish theme like Makoto, for example, might play up huskiness in her voice as part of her character.
I stopped reading your post here.
Yeah.
Unless you can claim to have played or at least watched/understood Idolmaster on some level beyond a general knowledge of what it is you're making no real effort to understand why Miura is doing this and what's going through his head.
He's an artist, what he thinks is going to be totally foreign to us. Even if people like us lack talent in the drawing field, we can express a creative mind in other venues and that impacts us. It impacts him as well, and I've got a partial idea of what he's thinking.
My thoughts are he feels he's making a personal connection to the characters, because the Producer is young and can influence in unique ways. This sense of interaction/personability has been lacking in Miura's life.
Personally I think it's a good thing…he might cross apply this connection to Guts and Caska's relationship, getting Caska to trust him again and getting her memories back. Miura might also overdrive the pacing to something acceptable, now that he's happeier.
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^Malintex is Miura a chronic depressive or are you just guessing he is based on the manga'a subject matter?
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He's not quitting, he's just taking another fucking break. For something very fucking stupid…
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The game is voiced, but there aren't any Lucky Star otaku voices (I guess). Not really stereotypical either…one of the cool things about the game is you can see how you, the Producer, can clearly have a hand in impacting the idol's lives. A girl with a tomboyish theme like Makoto, for example, might play up huskiness in her voice as part of her character.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolmaster
Well looking at the character designs and that most of the girls are underage, really gives this game a very otaku-ish feel. …and that 20 year old character's personality kinda clinches.
...and the lack of otaku voices? Doesn't seem that way from I'm seeing...@Shmeckie- Pretty much.
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A solution. Berserk fan base should start collecting money donations and then use the donations to buy Miura a hooker. And continue doing so everytime he releases a new chapter. Everybody wins.
I wouldn't pitch in
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shmeckie pretty much nailed it.
on the other hand… maybe Miura is trying not to become consumed with his work. I'd hate for him to get burned out on Berserk like Kishimoto seems to be with Naruto as of late. Perhaps Miura is trying to prevent himself from becoming tired of doing Berserk?
I'd rather have him getting his jollies playing Idolmaster than force himself to push out chapters for the sake of having them done
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Yeah.
Unless you can claim to have played or at least watched/understood Idolmaster on some level beyond a general knowledge of what it is you're making no real effort to understand why Miura is doing this and what's going through his head.
He's an artist, what he thinks is going to be totally foreign to us. Even if people like us lack talent in the drawing field, we can express a creative mind in other venues and that impacts us. It impacts him as well, and I've got a partial idea of what he's thinking.
My thoughts are he feels he's making a personal connection to the characters, because the Producer is young and can influence in unique ways. This sense of interaction/personability has been lacking in Miura's life.
Personally I think it's a good thing…he might cross apply this connection to Guts and Caska's relationship, getting Caska to trust him again and getting her memories back. Miura might also overdrive the pacing to something acceptable, now that he's happeier.
So you're saying I can justify taking long "breaks" and not doing anything if I say I'm an artist.
Awesome.
Fact of the matter is the guy isn't doing his job,a job he's paid to do, because he wants to play some game. It wouldn't matter if it was about controlling little girls or not so trying to fluff it up like you just did is pretty dumb. I'd rather Miura just quit altogether if crap like this is the reason; it would suck but that's how it is.
Even if this is an April Fool's thing(which seems sort of viable considering a couple of months back it was the same reason) we already know the guy's done this before so not like anyone having a problem with this is wrong.
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yah know…
Miura becoming obsessed is one thing, but lord knows if Idolmaster had an unlock-able demon rape mode... well...
...consider the Berserk fanbase screwed
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Haven't we been screwed for a while already?
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Even if this is an April Fool's thing(which seems sort of viable considering a couple of months back it was the same reason) we already know the guy's done this before so not like anyone having a problem with this is wrong.
All the complaining would be understandable if it wasn't akin to a crackhead going into a rager because he can't get his daily and nightly fix.
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No one's gotten that "raged" over this though, least in this thread.
Hell if you go by the posts since the information was given I'm probably the one most annoyed by it.
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Sounds too fake to be true. I doubt he quit.
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Yea people keep reading into that wrong.
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Yeah. He's just having fun, and not really quitting(I think). Some hobbies a better left a secret.
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shmeckie pretty much nailed it.
on the other hand… maybe Miura is trying not to become consumed with his work. I'd hate for him to get burned out on Berserk like Kishimoto seems to be with Naruto as of late. Perhaps Miura is trying to prevent himself from becoming tired of doing Berserk?
I'd rather have him getting his jollies playing Idolmaster than force himself to push out chapters for the sake of having them done
I agree. While it's frustrating, I also want authors/artists to take their time in order to make the best work possible for them, rather than be rushed and give us sub-par offerings.
Harry Potter is a good example of this. While I love the series, I do think Books 6 and 7 could have been better if she wasn't pressured to get them out so damn fast.
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i think the art and story of berserk are on an exceptionally high level. i'd take some rough looking art if it meant he could churn some chapters out at a quicker rate. it seems like the story still has a pretty long way to go before it reaches any kind of conclusion, and these breaks are killers…
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So you're saying I can justify taking long "breaks" and not doing anything if I say I'm an artist.
Pretty much. Switch "artist" with "student" and we have an even more compelling case…or one generally considered to be a reasonable excuse.
This mental image of fanboys/girls acting as slave drivers and Miura being the miserably rich, pitiful and lonely slave - doesn't hold much water with me.
It's not like everyone in this topic wakes up every morning thinking "YE GODS, NO Berserk! Time to post angry words on the internet!". Berserk is an occasional treat and people know there are long periods in between treats. So this is a longer period, it doesn't change how people treat Berserk right now - as a manga to read and enjoy when a new chapter happens to come around.
Let the man live his own life as he wants and not the way fanfolk want him to. I mean isn't "caving into pressure" the same argument people use to criticize Toriyama's DB past Freiza? If he burns out the quality fans demand will only decrease, so let him be.
Well looking at the character designs and that most of the girls are underage, really gives this game a very otaku-ish feel. …and that 20 year old character's personality kinda clinches.
...and the lack of otaku voices? Doesn't seem that way from I'm seeing...I don't buy the loli thing, since there's this G-G-G video circulating online of 19 year old Korean girls people are calling seductive lolis. "looking noticeably younger" isn't the same as "looking like a prepubescent girl".
I do agree there is an obvious appeal to otaku, though, which Miura is in a way. I don't think it's because of the character designs or voices alone though, but primarily the vibrant dancing, music, celebration of youth discovery/innocence and, most of all, connection to the characters.
You can't make a personal connection with Konata, and honestly, given how she was portrayed who would want to? Control over how an idol matures in personality is partially controlled through interactions with the Producer, which gives status control to people who wouldn't have the guts or position in society in real life to experience.
Idolmaster plays like a visual novel, and the characters change and adapt…it's all scripted of course, but well scripted just like any novel. The characters are also near-picture perfect embodiments of different ideals the Japanese value in idols, with the unnecessary flaws banished and those that are left turn out there by design.
It's the quintessential game for visual novel/anime/manga fans, which was why I was impressed. If Japan somehow works in Dance Dance Revolution into the game structure it will have even more unstoppable momentum.
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I agree. While it's frustrating, I also want authors/artists to take their time in order to make the best work possible for them, rather than be rushed and give us sub-par offerings.
I agree but so long as the artist/writer isn't pulling a Togashi or Inada (Beet).
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A solution. Berserk fan base should start collecting money donations and then use the donations to buy Miura a hooker. And continue doing so everytime he releases a new chapter. Everybody wins.
For heavens sake, man! He's already old, now you wanna give him an STD?!
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Pretty much. Switch "artist" with "student" and we have an even more compelling case…or one generally considered to be a reasonable excuse.
No, that's retarded.
This mental image of fanboys/girls acting as slave drivers and Miura being the miserably rich, pitiful and lonely slave - doesn't hold much water with me.
Except nothing I've said has to do with the readers themselves. Try again.
It's not like everyone in this topic wakes up every morning thinking "YE GODS, NO Berserk! Time to post angry words on the internet!". Berserk is an occasional treat and people know there are long periods in between treats. So this is a longer period, it doesn't change how people treat Berserk right now - as a manga to read and enjoy when a new chapter happens to come around.
Again, nothing to do with the readers.
Let the man live his own life as he wants and not the way fanfolk want him to. I mean isn't "caving into pressure" the same argument people use to criticize Toriyama's DB past Freiza? If he burns out the quality fans demand will only decrease, so let him be.
What are you even talking about. Besides if you're trying to say someone is "burnt out" after months of doing nothing then…there's already a problem.
Either way, seems you're too caught up in your little "let my people go" crusade so even address my points accurately anyway.
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btw, how old is Miura? I worried the grim reaper may get to him before he finishes. Not calling death on him or anything.
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Let the man live his own life as he wants and not the way fanfolk want him to.
It's his career you dumbass contrarian.
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Exactly! You can't just take a break from your job because you're addicted to a fucking video game…! The hell is wrong with his superiors?!
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You can if you;re an "artist."
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are we still bitching about the fact that muira is addicted to a loli fest game?
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Miura is 42. He still has quite a few years of Idolmaster ahead.
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Exactly! You can't just take a break from your job because you're addicted to a fucking video game…! The hell is wrong with his superiors?!
actually, like was already said. Yeah, big artists can take huge breaks. However they don't really make any money when they aren't doing anything. (unless you're collecting bread from Berserk merchandise being sold). And in Miura's case… it's not really professional to quit and play a videogame (for whatever reason). But if that's what he wants to do.. then i guess that's what he wants to do.
It's a little different with manga writers though. I don't think Oda could just "take a break" anytime.. cause i'm sure he's under contract. As for Miura, he seems to get lots of leeway over the years. So you're absolutely right:
seriously... what the hell is wrong with his superiors?
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Oh man just imagine once Miura finds out there's DLC for Idolmaster. 2 year break here we come.
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actually, like was already said. Yeah, big artists can take huge breaks. However they don't really make any money when they aren't doing anything. (unless you're collecting bread from Berserk merchandise being sold). And in Miura's case… it's not really professional to quit and play a videogame (for whatever reason). But if that's what he wants to do.. then i guess that's what he wants to do.
It's a little different with manga writers though. I don't think Oda could just "take a break" anytime.. cause i'm sure he's under contract. As for Miura, he seems to get lots of leeway over the years. So you're absolutely right:
seriously... what the hell is wrong with his superiors?
Actually, Oda gets to take way more breaks than the other Shonen Jump authors, most likely due to his massive popularity. Thankfull,y Oda is not a douche, and usually just takes his breaks to do research, or get some big event ready, or something.
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The only time I can remember Oda taking anything resembling a break was when he got sick a year or so ago. Otherwise we only occasionally get weeks off from OP.
I think a responsible break taker is Takehiko Inoue. They can be long, but not ridiculous, and he doesn't usually stop at awkward times like Miura or Togashi.