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Just reread this series, still a masterpiece.
A shame I won't be able to buy it in my country. -
I gave it a re-read a while back, it's still as awesome as the moment I first discovered it. I can only echo others and hope for an anime adaptation - I don't really watch any anime at the moment, but this would be one I would be very interested in. This and I am a Hero.
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This and I am a Hero.
I'm certain TV stations want to avoid killing people with heart attacks.
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I am a Hero went on sale in my country a few weeks ago. Haven't bothered with it yet, is it good? I heard the psychological aspect is on par with PunPun, which is a good sign if you ask me.
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There are many many reasons I Am a Hero will never get an anime, and the gruesomeness is only one
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I'm certain TV stations want to avoid killing people with heart attacks.
That's what OAVs were invented for.:ninja:
Looks like this series is Bee's Knees,gonna try it as soon as I free myself.
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I am a Hero went on sale in my country a few weeks ago. Haven't bothered with it yet, is it good? I heard the psychological aspect is on par with PunPun, which is a good sign if you ask me.
Do it, it starts kind of slow but gets awesome really quickly. We have a thread for it as well so after you've begun your adventure into Hideo's little adventure, tell us what you think.
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I am a Hero went on sale in my country a few weeks ago. Haven't bothered with it yet, is it good? I heard the psychological aspect is on par with PunPun, which is a good sign if you ask me.
I couldn't get past the first chapter due to the fact every single page was a nightmare fuel.
I'm sure that means it did its job well, but I'm a pussy.Only thing I hate about the manga is, the fact it's serialized on Big Comic Spirits.
I love that magazine, but when I was flipping through it I kept coming across the pages, making me scream like a little girl.
I wish I could tear the pages out blindfolded so I could flip through the magazine safely afterwards.But enough of the off-topic.
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Only thing I hate about the manga is, the fact it's serialized on Big Comic Spirits.
Junji Ito was in Big Comic Spirits at some point. After him, everything would be sunshine and rainbows.
But the magazine is amazing anyway. I wish I could read series like Ushijima-kun or Hanazawa's second series, Boys on the Run in ongoing.
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Just finished reading this manga it's awesome and that final volume was ;_; .
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I couldn't get past the first chapter due to the fact every single page was a nightmare fuel.
I know the feeling, I once read a few pages of Kodomo no Jikan and felt thoroughly disgusted.
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That's a different sort of disgust altogether.
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I know, I know.
As long as we're in offtopic territory here, I usually have a poor stomach for gross imagery as well. When I first read Uzumaki, I was seeing spirals everywhere for days. It really creeped me out. There is some psychological stuff in 'Hero' as well but for me it's a totally different kind of "nightmare fuel" like Aohige puts it. Sure it's disturbing at times, but maybe I can handle it better than something that's purely meant to mess up your mind.
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From what I've read,Yoshihiro Tatsumi's stories have disturbed me the most.
There is something INCREDIBLY disturbing about stories where a son ditches his bedridden mother to die just so he could remove the burden that she represents,seeing how he wants to get a hot chick to live with him,where a man loses everything and has sex with a dog as a testament to how low he has fallen,where a couple of sewage workers routinely find dead newborns ditched in the sewers or where a man with sexual fetishes sets a brothel on fire,so that he can get stomped to death by the fleeing crowd of prostitutes,which apparently gets him off.
This is but a fraction of the shit that goes down in Tatsumi's comics.A real boiling pot of social misery.
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Thanks for recommending me I am a Hero, going to pick it up next week along with the new Vinland Saga.
Here, have some videos in return and suffer from the knowledge that we may never get a HnS anime:
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I just finished reading all chapters in one sitting. And I'm very happy that I decided to check this manga out, since it was one of the best manga I've ever read! I cried several times and the end was really satisfying. A very solid work.
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If they ever made an anime, the OP should be Pillows "Biscuit Hammer".
OBVIOUSLY.
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I remember getting a huge kick from spotting the pillows song names crop up in the manga, since it's not really rare for me to have my pillows playlist playing while reading comics.
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Nice to see this thread pop back up every now and again…. It pains me that we'll never ever see it animated though.
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I was pretty skeptical picking this up. Heck, I was pretty bored for the first half of it.
But then it snowballed and got awesome.
Wowee, what a good manga.
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Tried reading this manga a few days ago and it was utterly fantastic. Glad I heard so many people recommending it
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A wonderful manga, among the best ever.
If they ever make an anime they should go for some jazzy music for the combats, I was so lucky that this song just kicked on my playlist when reading
! Yuuhi VS Mikazuki farewell fight for the first time, so very very lucky.
http://www.goear.com/listen/65c6273/hot-guys-jabberloop
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Damn, just realized Animus reincarnated into the Master… mind blown.
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Just read the entire series, truly a phenomenal work, very touching and epic. I loved everything about it, from its amazing characters to its non-stereotypical, anti-cliche, refreshing aspects that made the story and characters memorable in my eyes. a must read for anyone who hasnt yet
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So those stupid assholes in Japan still haven't made this into an anime series?
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I'd abandon hope now, if not your future will just hold disappointment.
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I remember reading this series a few months ago, it was really fun. The art's p. sweet too.
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Just finished it, This is one of the greatest manga, no,STORIES, I have ever read. It's perfect in every aspect.
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I'm always very happy to see this topic bought up. Just to read the overall positive reaction for it.
Edit: I should really put aside the time to re-read it.
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Every time I see this thread bumped I think "Could this be the anime announcement?" or "Are they actually going to release this series in English?!"
Then I get sad.
Very happy to see other people reading it though. Love this series so much.
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Just finished this because the thread came up again. That was an incredible final battle. Incredibly satisfying series. Everyone should read it. I started this series twice before and was put off by the start, especially Yuuhi, but I'm glad I gave it a chance again. Another 12 kingdoms case here. The main character was just really unlikeable at first.
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Yuuhi was always an awesome character for me. Atleast with his honest deadpan humor. I don't need the upbeat generic dude or the "I wanna be that guy" badass dude as main in every series I read.
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Yuuhi was fine, but I can understand how some of the "I don't care if they blow up the world"/"bound by my grandfather's chains" ideas could be tedious. But he blows up the preconceptions about his character so quickly that it doesn't really matter in the long haul.
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Not really a Yoko case here.
Youko was purposely portrayed as an unlikable person, so when she matures and grows into the most awesomest awesome King ever, the catalyst was so mind blowing it immortalizes the story in your head.Whereas Yuuhi, while he did go through a change, is more about your personal taste.
Goddamnit you made me get depressed at the fact 12 Kingdoms may not end in the author's life time. :getlost:
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Yeah, I made myself depressed with that, too. What's even sadder is that people dismiss that series because of the first episodes. So annoying(but at the same time understandable).
I think what put me off was the whole "I wanna destroy the world" thing, it was just so strangely casual. I don't really mind the archtype Yuuhi's character is and it's different, it's just how it was handled just bothered me, but hey, the end result of this series is amazing and that's what matters.
and now I'm sad that this manga most likely won't ever have an anime adaption because it's been a while since it has finished and wasn't that popular apparently, but hey, you never know.
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Guess what just got licensed (in the US)!
It's definitely going on my must-buy list…
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I definitely will try to buy it at some point. This was definitely one of my all time favorite mangas
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I've never known such joys!!!!
First Teppu came out of hiatus now this! A great week just became an fantastic week -
Guess what just got licensed (in the US)!
It's definitely going on my must-buy list…
OH MY JEEBUS. This will probably be the only manga collection I'll ever have.
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This is one of the series I'll have to import.
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A must have for any decent manga collection.
Whish it would be released in Europe too.
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A must have for any decent manga collection.
Whish it would be released in Europe too.
France has 9 volumes in circulation already, with the 10th coming out soon.
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Yes, France does really publish a lot of sweet stuff. That comic culture really shows up when they pick the less popular but really good series.
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Mmmm…Christmas.
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Will buy. Mostly for gifts. I can't keep a series this amazing for myself.
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And newsflash! Hoshi no Samidare is getting a 2-cour anime adap….
Then I woke up.
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And newsflash! Hoshi no Samidare is getting a 2-cour anime adap….
Then I woke up.
Don't… Don't do that. :cwy:
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Even a licensed version is more than enough good news for me. Maybe it's even time for a re-read, I haven't read it since I wrote my original pieces about it in this topic.
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Yes, France does really publish a lot of sweet stuff. That comic culture really shows up when they pick the less popular but really good series.
Unfortunately the title is not very successful so my hope that his other serie can be translated one day are very low. Anyway last volume will come out in december.