Looks like we'll never know who shot fake Bulge.
Uh.. he's a prince, people would want him assassinated, why would the sniper himself be important?
Looks like we'll never know who shot fake Bulge.
Uh.. he's a prince, people would want him assassinated, why would the sniper himself be important?
Uh.. he's a prince, people would want him assassinated, why would the sniper himself be important?
Because in manga everything tends to be connected.
I'm sure if the manga went on we'd probably find out it was some potential villain who knew about Org and didn't want Bulge to use it.
oh… it's over... what. O_o
Because in manga everything tends to be connected.
I'm sure if the manga went on we'd probably find out it was some potential villain who knew about Org and didn't want Bulge to use it.
I understand that, I'd prefer if manga didn't always reduce "who murdered who" into potential "one on one battles". Why can't a sniper just be a freaking sniper?
Shouldn't the focus be on the person who hired the sniper?
I understand that, I'd prefer if manga didn't always reduce "who murdered who" into potential "one on one battles". Why can't a sniper just be a freaking sniper?
Shouldn't the focus be on the person who hired the sniper?
Well wasn't that the issue? We didn't really get to see why someone apparently followed fake prince and sniped him when he encountered Astro. It feels like it would have been an interesting plot point at some point. Usually to kill royalty you need a better reason than just because, or that it was Tuesday. Finding the sniper and questioning why they'd assassinate the prince or who do they work for would be the next logical thing to ask.
Did whoever want Bulge dead know that he was fake? I'm still a bit unsure who said they saw the trajectory of the lazer.
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/sensei_no_bulge/c001/24.html
The guards saw where it came from? But it's not really addressed. It's just weird.
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/sensei_no_bulge/c001/26.html Then we get a hint, but that's about it. And the sniper seemed confused too?
I thought it might have been someone who was associated with the first alien enemy, but he seemed to still be trying to figure out how to get the Org or didn't seem to know the Prince had it as far as I could tell. So er…in conclusion...the sniper is important too. :ninja:
I'm sad to see this series end.
It had potential, but I think it just couldn't keep up with the big boys.
Managed to get out a good closing chapter though. It's a shame this series got sacked… I enjoyed it.
Barrage ended and left me with no strong feelings whatsoever. Compaired to his first series, this one wasn't an improvement story wise for Hirokoshi. He tried to do a more traditional Shonen Jack story but his execution of it is sort of underwhelming. There were genuinely great moments, but all together they didn't really lead to a consecutive and engaging comic. It leaves me wonder how the series would have gone if Horikoshi wouldn't change the premise of one shot this much.
But I'm certainly looking forward to his next work. Like others have claimed, Horikoshi still has that little something that attracts you to his comics. And his art improved quite a bit, so hopefully he will continue to work and improve further, to be deservedly popular one day.
Obligatory response to this being canned.
So the first volume finally comes out this month. The most surprisng thing is that Viz is going to to be doing a simultaneous digital release of the first volume on Thursday as well. They also annouced the first print volume will be out in March 1013. I really am not into owning digital manga, but I liked Barrage and want to support it, so I'll be picking it up digitally.
You can also see the cover of first volume here:
http://books.shueisha.co.jp/CGI/search/bigimg_put.cgi?isbn_cd=978-4-08-870583-5
And you can read the preview of the first volume here:
http://www.s-manga.net/comics_new/cn_20121004_wj_jpc_9784088705835_senseino-baruji-1k_mVv6svZg.html
Well yeah. Viz has to keep pretending its a big deal and they have full faith in it until its done, since they pushed it in the first place.
Luckily for them they don't have to put up the charade for long.
holy hell, I was just looking for pics of Vol. 1 five seconds ago
Btw, does anybody know of some way to send Horikoshi a message? Didn't we find some pics he'd posted on Twitter at some point
It's kinda cool that it atleast gets a print release in English. I'll definitely pick it up.
holy hell, I was just looking for pics of Vol. 1 five seconds ago
Btw, does anybody know of some way to send Horikoshi a message? Didn't we find some pics he'd posted on Twitter at some point
If you tweet Shonen Jump's twitter about that they will give you an honest answer. Sometimes they will say that you can send them to them and they will redirect it for you, and other times they say your only chance is going air mail directly to the editorial department in Japan.
Oh. And if you do get an answer I would love to know too by they way. :)
Now if only I could make heads or tails of the confusing jungle that is twitter
Now if only I could make heads or tails of the confusing jungle that is twitter
It's not that bad. The only thing is that if you use it more than twice in one day it makes your feel ashamed and that everyone has the right to call you a teenage girl.
It's not that bad. The only thing is that if you use it more than twice in one day it makes your feel ashamed and that everyone has the right to call you a teenage girl.
Hey, that's not true! It depends on how you use it. You can be called a gay guy.
Hey, at least Horikoshi isn't tweet dramaing it like that Hokenshitsu no douchebag.
Hey, at least Horikoshi isn't tweet dramaing it like that Hokenshitsu no douchebag.
What is this aboout :wassat: ? First I have heard of it. I am always suprised to learn how many mangaka have twitters. There should totally be a thread just talking about mangaka twitters.
Btw, does anybody know of some way to send Horikoshi a message? Didn't we find some pics he'd posted on Twitter at some point
Just an update here. It seems that Sasaki Hisashi posted a photo of the letters that readers send in an he got asked if overseas fans could do it. He said that the creators read all their fan mail, and you can send in letters, but please don't get upset if there is no reply.
Here are his tweets in chronological order:
I've got to send Horikoshi a nice encouraging letter, but he's not working at JUMP for the time being, is he?
I assume he's still working with them at the moment even if he doesn't currently have a series running.
Well, volume 1 came out..
Didn't even make it in the oricon charts for sales amount, waaay off the rader, and most likely below 10k in sales.
Ouch.
At least, Jump apparently prints at least 30k of any tankoubon, and pays the author for that amount printed, so he got some cash out of it.
This is the story…
of how good art isn't enough to cover up a forgettable story.
Seriously. The only thing I'll remember about this manga is the art and the prince being shot in the first chapter. Of course the latter of those is somewhat diminished by the fact that it wasn't even a real person that got killed. Ugh.
Cover for the second volume is out:
http://books.shueisha.co.jp/CGI/search/bigimg_put.cgi?isbn_cd=978-4-08-870584-2
I liked the series :(
I feel horrible for Horikoshi =[
And that Bulge is landing underneath PAJAMA NA KANOJO in the rankings is a fucking crime against everything ever
the terrible Pajama no Kanojo
Believe it's top three.
Which means someone, somewhere, is rating Pajama whatever in their top three favorite manga.
I could rub salt in the wounds by bringing up that Pajama no Kanojo, which so many people shitted on in this thread, sold more than triple the amount Bulge did in just the first week of its first volume release… but that would be cruel and mean. Why would I kick a dead horse in the groin. :ninja:
Lol that's why I love you bluebeard
I could rub salt in the wounds by bringing up that Pajama no Kanojo, which so many people shitted on in this thread, sold more than triple the amount Bulge did in just the first week of its first volume release… but that would be cruel and mean. Why would I kick a dead horse in the groin. :ninja:
Ow! My heart!
…dammit.
Guys, this was bad cliche shonen. It had potential in its first chapters, but that was all.
It's a pity…
I actually liked this manga more than Toriko, and I really tried to see for myself what's up with Toriko, too. :(
Yeah. So Crunchyroll put up one of their pixiv art dumps where they like just vomit dozens of popular pics. Yeah interesting thing is, there was one THAT LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE BARRAGE. And guess what, it was indeed by the creator of Barrage, Kouhei Horikoshi. This was the image they posted.
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=31271293
It seems like Horikoshi just started trying digital recently. He talks about how he see no end of digital in the future so he would like to do more as he gets better. He didn't start uploading until October 26th too, and most of his images haven't even broken a thousand hits, except for that Ghibli one wich is already over 23,000.
I have a feeling that at most we will see him try at Weekly Shonen Jump one more time. I think that if he is getting burned out and realizing there are better places for his works elsewhere, he may try to move magazines. I would definitely like to see him get a succesful weekly series, but I have a feeling he wouldn't stuggle as much in something like Jump Square.
And on a more personal note. I totally hope he is as cool as a person I think he is. When I was reading Barrage, after already knowing about Oumagadoki Zoo, I had this terrible feeling that Horikoshi may be a lot like the main characters from Bakuman, who I personally really disliked. I enjoy manga above all else, for the story, but when I read Bakuman I would get really upset, because more than making a manga they themselves respected, all that really mattered to them was making a number one manga, nothing else mattered. That really doesn't sit well with me. I really hope that Horikoshi is not like that, and though he may have a bit of a pipe dream of becoming a best selling Jump mangaka, I hope that in his next work he will put himself first. I felt Barrage had a lot of things happen that didn't feel like they had to happen, but sort of like Horikoshi thought these formulaic things should happen as dictated by previously succesful series.
And also, I liked Pajama no Kanojo as well as Barrage. I think it is really great Jump can have such varied series. I have a bigger problem with Jump itself. I think it is way to archaic. I am really happy to see their strides on the digital front, and really I think it has to do with Hisashi Misaka. Anyone who fallows him on twitter knows how pro-digital he is and he seems to be really pushing it in Japan, and using Viz as a testing ground as well. I really hope that Jump will change it's ways before I am an old man. I don't want them to be niche series apologists, I understand that what they do leads to the the best of the best series getting published, but I don't think that there isn't room for them to improve themselves. When you lay it out simple, they rather have 5 super series with little effort, than 5 super series and 6 great series with a moderate effort.
End of my rant. Sucks that Viz didn't do a simultaneous release for volume two as well..
I had this terrible feeling that Horikoshi may be a lot like the main characters from Bakuman, who I personally really disliked. I enjoy manga above all else, for the story, but when I read Bakuman I would get really upset, because more than making a manga they themselves respected, all that really mattered to them was making a number one manga, nothing else mattered
I think you missed the entire point of Bakuman.
They were all about doing the best series they possibly could. There was a long arc about them doing Tanto JUST to try and appeal to a certain audience, but they struggled with it and hated it because it wasn't a series they had any respect for, so they quit doing it and moved onto material better suited to their strengths, and they went on to do super popular hits that they were extremely satisfied with using all their combined knowledge and experience.
They used rankings to gauge how well they were doing, and would occasionally schedule certain ideas to go up against other series (due to friendly rivalry) … but they always did the best series they could. Every time they started thinking about just appealing to the rankings by say, going for a straight up battle manga or adding gratuitous panty shots, they rebelled against the idea and kept doing their own thing, or suffered through it for one series then hit a more personal vision in the next. They constantly pushed the moral, with all the creators and side characters, that you have to tell your own story with your own heart and passion and best effort in it. Nanamine, the villain character that did nothing but sell out to rankings and the whim of the audience was reviled and did incredibly badly.
Eiji, who just did a story to be published got high rankings naturally, but it wasn't till he started trying his very best and revising and reworking and doing his very best personal product that he truly succeeded.
The ranks were there to measure progress and add stakes and a final goal, but they were never the only reason the characters were creating stories.