Once again more relationships and plot points are being wrapped up. I can't believe this series will continue all the way through 2012 (not that I'm completely opposed).
Bakuman
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It might only go through the first quarter and then switch off with some other series.
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I hope. Has it ever happened before? You'd think they'd give the spine to Toriko or another series that's not working towards the end.
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LMAO @ Hattori's reactions.
The manga needed a bigger dose of Hiramaru and the managaka delivered. Since he's going on the ride again I hope he has the balls to actually ask. I just wonder if humor will be used to avoid an answer or if she'll actually say yes or set some silly rules and conditions before they can get married.
Hope they continue the Yoshida is having an affair joke while he continues to be oblivious.
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I have to wonder what their next series is going to be. Obata has drawn pretty much the whole spectrum… if we knew who Ohba really was, too, we'd also know his (or her, even, possibly) works. So far, Obata has drawn a board game manga (Hikaru no Go), Comedy (Cyborg Grandpa-G), a One Shot (Hello Baby), Action/Fantasy (Blue Dragon - Ral Grado), and Thriller/Suspense (Death Note). He's done it all. Their next series could be anything, really.
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@Fire Fist:
if we knew who Ohba really was, too, we'd also know his (or her, even, possibly) works.
Hiroshi Gamō. He worked on a superhero gag manga called Tottemo! Luckyman.
http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=19188&page=259&p=2414466&viewfull=1#post2414466
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@RobbyBevard:
Hiroshi Gamō. He worked on a superhero gag manga called Tottemo! Luckyman.
http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=19188&page=259&p=2414466&viewfull=1#post2414466
Ah, I always believed that was just the popular rumor, but with Aohige basically pointing out the evidence, it's a pretty sure thing. Thanks.
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Dynamic Proposal! This was a fun little chapter (like all Hiramaru chapters) and I like how they've been able to develop Yoshida as a character from "Evil manipulative editor who is evil" to a guy who actually cares about Hiramaru's well being. I just hope the action slows down a bit next week for the actual proposal.
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We've definitely hit the third act, the question now is just how long it's going to last. I hope they take their time and include a good ending for all the characters and one final big arc of conflict so as to end it at 200 blank. That could still justify the spine for 2012.
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Any chapter with Hirimaru antics is a great chapter.
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Did Yoshida just get honest to God character development? O:
Seriously this chapter was amazing. I wonder since this manga is wrapping up soon if we'll see bits of everyone else's lives (Fukuda, Takamaru, Nakai, Iwase, Shiz-pfffffffft HAHAHA)
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I wonder since this manga is wrapping up soon if we'll see bits of everyone else's lives (Fukuda, Takamaru, Nakai, Iwase, Shiz-pfffffffft HAHAHA)
Hmm, that gives me an idea.
"Don't You Forget About Me" plays while credits run
After successfully getting an anime in which Azuki voiced the heroine, Mashiro achieved his dream of marrying her. However, he decided they couldn't consummate their marriage until he created a manga that ran for 500 chapters. They finally had sex at the age of 65.
Takagi and Kaya stayed married and had 3 children. Takagi would intermittently cause strife and disputes within his family and circle of friends over due to his poor handling of trifling matters that could have easily been avoided, but no one ever called him out on it.
Hattori eventually became the Deputy Editor-in-chief but was later hospitalized after reading a manga that was so good that it caused to him to have a reaction shot so severe that it put him in a coma.
Eiji continued to be a competitive rival toward Ashirogi and created several popular manga. He also became the first man in history to make physical love to a comic book. Scientists today are still baffled as to how this was accomplished.
Aoki inexplicably broke up with Hiramaru and immediately began a relationship with Fukuda, which quickly led to the two being married. Hiramaru channeled his resulting depression and emotional turmoil into his third manga series, also otter-based, which became a love drama to shake the ages.
Nakai ended his career as a manga artist to become a gang leader on Tatooine. His infamy is known throughout the galaxy.
After +Natural was cancelled, Iwase ended her career in manga to pursue a new career as an Ann Coulter-ish political commentator. Her infamy is known throughout the galaxy.
Shizuka's whereabouts, to this day, remain a total mystery
Shiratori ran afoul of a dog named Cujo.
THE END
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Remember that. Post it again when the series ends.
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Haha oh Nobodyman XD
Team Ashirogi's other assistants were never heard from again, Yoshida later became Prime Minister of Japan, and Nanamine became a member of Yoshida's cabinent, embezzling millions of Yen for his next scheme to take down Team Ashirogi.
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Nakai ended his career as a manga artist to become a gang leader on Tatooine. His infamy is known throughout the galaxy.
THE ENDheh, this made me laugh quite a bit.
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Amazingly Hilarious Post
That was amazingly hilarious.
So yeah, probably one more chapter to wrap up Hiramaru, and then how many more? Probably like 10ish.
I didn't read a lot of the posts earlier comparing the Weiss/Swartz thing to Death Note, so can someone tell me if was there ever any indication that the two mangaka wanted to end Death Note after L died? Because these recent chapters have either been saying so or expressing regret that they didn't.
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I predict an April wedding (and conclusion).
So like 16-20 more chapters.
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Go Hiramura! Great chapter! I do hope they get married. He deserved a yes after all the work he puts on making Aoki happy. And also, i want to see the reactions from everyone on team Fukuda, as marriage is one of the most important plot points of the story. At least for Ashirogi Muto.
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That was amazingly hilarious.
So yeah, probably one more chapter to wrap up Hiramaru, and then how many more? Probably like 10ish.
I didn't read a lot of the posts earlier comparing the Weiss/Swartz thing to Death Note, so can someone tell me if was there ever any indication that the two mangaka wanted to end Death Note after L died? Because these recent chapters have either been saying so or expressing regret that they didn't.
General fan consensus that the second half of the series sucked.
The art, storytelling and mind games didn't drop at all from the creative end, but the series just wasn't the same after the main antagonist died. It could never quite rebuild the tension it had, and the replacement L just felt like a cheap imitation. (And in fact he won by a compination of fluke and an incredibly cheap unrealistic, unforeshadowed trick in the end, so… even his win felt lame.)
I dunno how fair it is to say they're doing all the things they couldn't do with Deathnote, more of a case where, 7 years later with hindsight, there are obvious flaws they could have avoided if they did the series now.
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@RobbyBevard:
Remember that. Post it again when the series ends.
Duly noted. It shall be archived on my computer.
Of course, I may have to update some of them depending on how the final chapters play out. Also, I'll have to come up with endings for Nanamine and Takahama.
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Also, thanks for the compliments guys.
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I know whatever I write I'll probably notice it's flaws more noticeably 7 years later. So I think it's good to kind of joke about themselves. Meta humor is fun like that.
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Go Hiramura! Great chapter! I do hope they get married. He deserved a yes after all the work he puts on making Aoki happy. And also, i want to see the reactions from everyone on team Fukuda, as marriage is one of the most important plot points of the story. At least for Ashirogi Muto.
All that work? Holy crap I really hope you propose to a girl you've gone out on one date with just so you can tell us what happened.
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All that work? Holy crap I really hope you propose to a girl you've gone out on one date with just so you can tell us what happened.
they've technically been going out for 2 years in series
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All that work? Holy crap I really hope you propose to a girl you've gone out on one date with just so you can tell us what happened.
One date on screen, they must be going out offpanel for Aoki to feel flatered and not creped out by him.
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Haven't they just been having the ''tea meetings'' that Yoshida set up and other stuff like that up until now, or am I forgetting material?
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Haven't they just been having the ''tea meetings'' that Yoshida set up and other stuff like that up until now, or am I forgetting material?
Wasn't it just that once? So he's basically proposing at the 2nd date.
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Regardless, they've been dating for two years. Assuming they aren't like Mashiro, they've probably been having regular phone calls and lunches… even if they've only had one official date.
At the very least, he worked as an assistant for her for one week after Otters ended.
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I still find it creepy, more so than romantic.
I also must have missed the note about them being exclusive boyfriend/girlfriend
They've gone on two play-dates…
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I admit that the stalker shrine-like wall of photos he had a while back was creepy. And it doesn't help that I got Vol. 8 yesterday either.
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It's still better treatment of women than Misa Misa.
And a healthier relationship than Mashiro's.
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@RobbyBevard:
It's still better treatment of women than Misa Misa.
And a healthier relationship than Mashiro's.
That's not saying much. Not that Kaya after the marriage has been anything other than a proper boring wife. And the Goddamn Homewrecker.
Now that I think about it, there isn't any female editors…
Anyway they most likely went out in dates during the 2 years that they have been seeing eachother, to expect that they only had 2 dates in that time is like saying that the strawhats only eat during the afterarc party or during the interarc Sanji cooking time, or for a less exagerated example, that they don't party or fool around out of focus. There's nothing indicating that they do, except common sense and knowledge of the characters, and that we see them do that on panel.
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@RobbyBevard:
It's still better treatment of women than Misa Misa.
And a healthier relationship than Mashiro's.
At least Hiramaru isn't a dick like Takagi is to Kaya.
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The raw for chapter 160 is out (http://mangahead.com/Manga-Raw-Scan/Bakuman/Bakuman-160-Raw-Scan)
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The raw for chapter 160 is out (http://mangahead.com/Manga-Raw-Scan/Bakuman/Bakuman-160-Raw-Scan)
Even raw, this chapter is amazing.
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It's not raw, it's chinese :(
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Looks like Bakuman is going to take it's own advice and go out on top with lots of awesome chapters.
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Chapter still not out?
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Dangit, don't bump the thread asking if the chapter is out when its due to be out at any time!
Bakuman is typically scanlated way later than everything else, (super text heavy, smaller audience) and mangareader is the only place that really pushes it… Sunday or Monday release is pretty normal for it.
Spoiler pics, summaries and translations are out if you can't wait any longer,
http://mangahelpers.com/forum/showthread.php/74172-Bakuman-160-Spoiler-Thread
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Uh.. http://www.mangareader.net/zombie-hunter/26/2 Is this for real?
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Clearly those 26 chapters are all an elaborate hoax, because Bakuman has NEVER borrowed from existing ideas and tropes to create its series that don't actually exist, and no one has ever done a story about zombies before.
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Chapter is out….on Mangafox. DEATH! DEATH to the Aoi x Fukada Flag! Let It Buuuuuuuuurrrrrrrnnnnn!!!!
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Finally!
And a good chapter, at that. Very sweet.
Then it came back to the regular leads in their endless repeating cycle of
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! I wonder what the difference between the first volumes are. I'm guessing either Eiji is stringing his chapters together better so that they work as a volume more efficiently, or that the final chapter of the volume has a better cliffhanger then Reversi's.
On a side note, looks like MRI Scanlations has disbanded. Sounds like the translators aren't completely dropping Bakuman, but for the next little while I suspect we might have some delays with chapter releases.
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Cripes, once again they're worrying way too much about Eiji. Can't those two actually enjoy their success for once?
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! I wonder what the difference between the first volumes are.
I think the answer they provided in this chapter is simple enough. Eiji came off of Crow which was selling 2 million copies per volume. That success drags his fanbase along… that might not have been reading the series in Jump proper.
Hunter x Hunter does badly in the actual mag polls, but then its tankobons sell a million copies, so it doesn't matter. Not everyone that buys the trade also buys the weekly.
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Longer delays, at any rate. Shame about MRI.
I enjoyed the chapter - it was cute! - but isn't it a little… weird, that Hiramaru has snuck up, snatched, and accomplished Mashiro's dream before even he has? Without the stupid restrictions? From the very start he's been motivated to impress Aoki and it's what's kept him drawing all this time. He set benchmarks for himself, steadily worked up his courage and buckled down when times got tough, and here he's won himself a girlfriend - now a wife (who he's gone on dates with without any troubles, I might add) - and another anime adaptation. I wonder if Ohba and Obata realize that they just undermined themselves a bit here.
You sorta wonder why Hiramaru isn't the main character after all sometimes.
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You sorta wonder why Hiramaru isn't the main character after all sometimes.
Because as fun as he is, he works best in short little bits?
This series is at its absolute peak for a while when it was just focusing on EVERYBODY every week. Each cast member would get 2-4 pages, then onto the next plot, and it worked brilliantly.
When it focuses just on Mashiro and Takagi, it tends to drag. Mostly because they've basically been in a holding pattern since PCP came out. Had it not been for the medical problems, its possible Trap would have gotten an anime for them years ago… and had they not been Eiji obsessed and given up on Tanto, that probably would have gotten an anime too. (Tanto was safe, and steady, and they just weren't satisfied with that.) It's their own faults, mostly. Especially hinging on that stupid stupid promise that they made when they were 15 that makes no sense when they're 25.
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I sometimes wonder if Eiji is really comparable to Oda. I don't really think so, since Oda sold over 2 million with a single volume in one week…
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I'm fine with Eiji getting a bigger print run than Ashirogi, but I feel like its a bit stupid that it would just explode like that in the third print run. If they were going to set Eiji up for more, I'd think they would've given a higher initial print run in the first place. It just confuses me how Ashirogi can only have a third print run of 30,000, but Eiji gets one of 900,000. I simply don't understand why Ashirogi's would continue to go down for the third print run, but Eiji wold shoot up to 3x the original print run for his