Great stuff right here. Sorachi sure can write humor. I liked the many Nausicaa references and the lot of quotes on youth.
One Shot Thread
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myanimelist.com has this rated as the #3 manga ever (OP is #7 fyi). I haven't read it yet but I will soon if only for the rating and the length.
~~Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan~~
http://www.mangareader.net/905/watashitachi-no-shiawase-na-jikan.html
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A gundam centaur. YUM!!!
Are they gonna make a short OVA on this?. It sure is fun.
Did anyone notice OOTANI's name? They always mentioned him in the Gintama anime.
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Gouda or gOuDA? this youth totaly over powered Kishimotos youth!
great story and phylosophy. -
"I'm just a innocent, freedom-seeking Zoma!"
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I don't relate to japanese school life at all.
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Have you gone or Do you go into a Japanese school in Japan?
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LFNdUuC70Cs
Play this song when it starts in the manga. It's hilarious.Anyway, Bankara was hilarious and awesome. The way that the bread was used as two different symbols which later merged together was extremely well done. I enjoyed the Dragon Warrior 3 references too.
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That was fucking amazing.
I would read the hell out of that as a series.
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I almost cried manly tear. Sorachi is awesome.
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Is Gintama as great as this awesome one-shot ? I never gave it a try but i may reconsider this in a near futur.
That was fucking hilarious.
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wow Sorachi's one shot kicks the shit out of Kishi's
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The Bankara one-shot was way too fucking weird. I didn't get it at all.
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I don't dislike offbeat absurd comedy and Bankara or whatever it's called had one or two jokes that had the potential to be pretty funny, but the timing's completely off, the language is strange, it was full of weird references to obscure Japanese stuff I've never heard of and all in all it didn't make any coherent kind of sense. So yeah, it was shit. Then again, I haven't read Gintama so maybe people who did got used to that sort of comedy already?
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I don't dislike offbeat absurd comedy and Bankara or whatever it's called had one or two jokes that had the potential to be pretty funny, but the timing's completely off, the language is strange, it was full of weird references to obscure Japanese stuff I've never heard of and all in all it didn't make any coherent kind of sense. So yeah, it was shit. Then again, I haven't read Gintama so maybe people who did got used to that sort of comedy already?
You should read Bobobobo.
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Have you gone or Do you go into a Japanese school in Japan?
No, this delinquent stuff, the high valuation o grades, extreme importance of sports and clubs, this school life stuff is hard to relate to. I get it and it most likely totally works for the kids in Japan who are JUMPs audience but it just misses me.
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I don't dislike offbeat absurd comedy and Bankara or whatever it's called had one or two jokes that had the potential to be pretty funny, but the timing's completely off, the language is strange, it was full of weird references to obscure Japanese stuff I've never heard of and all in all it didn't make any coherent kind of sense. So yeah, it was shit.
"Some foreigner reading a fan translation filled with translation notes didn't get the references" != "shit".
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The Doraemon names are awesome.
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http://www.mangafox.com/manga/present/v01/c001/
Damn, this one-shot rocks. From the author of Hotel. -
Does anyone have a link to the Otters 11 one shot?
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@Sea:
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/present/v01/c001/
Damn, this one-shot rocks. From the author of Hotel.Yeah, Present is awesome. I didn't know it was from the same guy as hotel, but it makes a lot of sense.
Otters 11: http://sleepyfansscans.blogspot.com/2010/08/jump-36-37.html
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I don't dislike offbeat absurd comedy and Bankara or whatever it's called had one or two jokes that had the potential to be pretty funny, but the timing's completely off, the language is strange, it was full of weird references to obscure Japanese stuff I've never heard of and all in all it didn't make any coherent kind of sense. So yeah, it was shit. Then again, I haven't read Gintama so maybe people who did got used to that sort of comedy already?
well you either like Sorachi's work or you don't and having an understanding of Japanese culture and and a wide knowledge of manga and anime definitely helps to understand the jokes .
but just because you dont get it dosent make it shit there are plenty of people who get Sorachi and love his workand devilbatdive! what country are you from because i'm form Australia and even though Japanese school life is different then Australian school life its not like its completely unrelatable
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I have to say, I'm a big fan of gintama, but I felt the one-shot was only so-so.
It felt like one of the one-off chapters of Gintama, but longer. the characters weren't as likable, and it had more wierdness in it than badassery.
I definitely got some laughs out of it, but overall it just felt like one of the more bizarre gintama chapters, and after it was done I almost expected gintoki to burst out of somewhere going all, "WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS SHITTTTT?!?"
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@Sea:
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/present/v01/c001/
Damn, this one-shot rocks. From the author of Hotel.That was a cool mindfuck OS, thx for sharing.
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LFNdUuC70Cs
Play this song when it starts in the manga. It's hilarious.Anyway, Bankara was hilarious and awesome. The way that the bread was used as two different symbols which later merged together was extremely well done. I enjoyed the Dragon Warrior 3 references too.
This one is much more authentic Gokuyuske.
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This one is much more authentic Gokuyuske.
Thanks, Renegade. I hadn't heard about the song before reading Bankara, so I just picked the first one on youtube to listen to during the action scene.
I still assert that this one shot was awesome, by the way. It's a quirky, original take on genre that beautifully combines nonsensical humor, pop culture references and badassery. I look for originality in my one shots, and this one had it in spades.
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@Sea:
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/present/v01/c001/
Damn, this one-shot rocks. From the author of Hotel.That was a great one-shot. Probably gotta check out more of this guy's works.
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That was a great one-shot. Probably gotta check out more of this guy's works.
yep, read it too. Was really good.
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Bankara was really funny! I'd really like to read more of it.
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bakara was brilliant. maybe the best one-shot i've read period.
i've only seen a bit of gintama, but unless something's getting heavily altered in the official translations, it's never been that good.we'd have a one piece rival if it was.
the toriyama one-shot is definitely getting translated, right?
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@Ao:
i've only seen a bit of gintama, but unless something's getting heavily altered in the official translations, it's never been that good.
It has. I take it by "a bit of" you mean "the beginning of" - as logic would have it, this one-shot is more comparable to current Gintama.
And Gintama is definitely my second favorite series currently running in Jump, after One Piece. I don't know if it's a "One Piece rival", but it is damn good.
The official translations are fine.
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yeah, everything i have seen and read was from around the first saga or whatever.
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Then you have every reason to keep reading. It gets much better.
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Yeah Bankara was a nice one.
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Last week's Top of Super Legends installment, Takeshi Konomi's "Moon Walker Ltd." has a translation here for those interested.
It's quite good.
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Sweet, I'll check it out.
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Scans, yes, but no scanslations I know of. The guy said Mangastream would do it, but I'm not so sure myself.
You'll have to read it the old-fashioned way, with a raw open in one window and a translated script in another.
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Thanks, looking forward for scanlations of it in the future.
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Read Bench, and I have to say the main character reminds me exactly of Naruto. Bleh
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So did any scanlation team said that they will do Toriyama's one shot?
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So did any scanlation team said that they will do Toriyama's one shot?
i've been waiting for that myself, but haven't found anything.
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Well I'm pretty sure a lot scanlators will do the new DB chapters.
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As uncreative as the "main chara" looks like, which we see on the jump cover, i doubt it`s necessary to translate the one shot Akiyama thought to show us.
Will be just another Dragonball meets Sandland ..
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You'll never know …
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At least i hope deep inside me that he will prove myself wrong.:happy:
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I hope it is something like Dr.Slump or the early Dragon Ball … funny and some fighting.
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@Don:
As uncreative as the "main chara" looks like, which we see on the jump cover, i doubt it`s necessary to translate the one shot Akiyama thought to show us.
Will be just another Dragonball meets Sandland ..
Uhh so new.so…dragon ball meets dragon ball in a desert?