@robbybedfart:
I'm pretty sure Oda did the first 100 chapters without a break. At least, thats a "fact" I've heard tossed around a few times. And he had less breaks earlier on that he has had since.
That Kochikame has never missed in 30 years is truly a credit to his discipline. Must have an actual buffer or awesome assistants or something.
Or you know. Sheerly loves what he's doing combined with a good work ethic. That helps.
And Oda doesn't have that?:/
@Thousand:
And Oda doesn't have that?:/
33+ breaks in 12 years compared to 0 breaks in 30.
Discounting all other factors, (like Strong World, obviously), one record is better than the other.
In Oda's defense, Kochikame's author is also a duo? a la Bakuman's or "Bakuman"
@robbybedfart:
33+ breaks in 12 years compared to 0 breaks in 30.
Discounting all other factors, (like Strong World, obviously), one record is better than the other.
Yeah but that doesn't mean he doesn't have good work ethic and doesn't love his job.
First, thank you very much for the compliment.
Secondly, I did my research regarding breaks here. If you're the same Greg I've seen in the OP section, then you can navigate this site far better than I can, but for anyone interested, the section on the left labeled "ジャンプ連載順位" with a bunch of years under it is a collection of charts of Shonen Jump tables of contents. With those charts (plus my own chart, which does cover the part of 2010 that this website has not yet included), I counted the absences for OP, Naruto, and KochiKame myself to attempt to prevent any errors, but feel free to double check; if I have made an error, I'll be happy to correct it.
Thanks for reading. Here's hoping HxH returns soon.
Buwahaha! That certainly answers THAT! I'd heard he didn't take a break his first 3 years but I had no idea that even AFTER that he only took 3 breaks up until 2003. Man is running on crazy juice.
Since you're here, again, great article. In particular I enjoyed the offering of both positive and negative points in a unbiased format which may sound contradictory given what I post here but I'm posting on AP, not writing a professional piece like you did. Awesome job and an incredibly useful tool for fans. Infinitely more useful than Wikipedia's 'He has taken several breaks' blip.
Re: KochiKame
No matter how you slice it, that's impressive. However, do keep in mind there's no overarching story which means each week simply 'happens'. Not taking away from that crazy record but it's significantly easier for Akimoto to come up with his stories after he hits the proverbial resent button each week without a continuous narrative. Again, not taking away from the accomplishment though. Man loves what he does and apparently Oda and the other JUMP authors respect the hell out of him given their comments from time to time in the ToC.
Greg , trusting wikipedia on any manga outside of Naruto is a bad idea . Look at the OP pages . All one of them (the characters page) . Guys runing it won't even consider a split of that ginormous page and they don't even bother to add more then one sub section , only making group names bold so they don't show up on contents .
Looks effing terrible .
I never trust Wikipedia. That's a given. But this isn't about trust, just thoroughness which, from time to time, Wikipedia can be surprisingly thorough.
But that article is really fantastic. I actually had fun reading it seeing all the figures.
Nice going on the article by the way . Even if the original version of the last chapter of Greed Island looked so much more horendous I believe .
Just me that hopes that the king and komugi gets married and lives the rest of thier lives in solitude and hapiness… or something?
Just me that hopes that the king and komugi gets married and lives the rest of thier lives in solitude and hapiness… or something?
that's actually kinda repulsive.
In what way?
It's the closest thing to a happy ending that there's any chance in getting at this point.
In what way?
It's the closest thing to a happy ending that there's any chance in getting at this point.
I'm still holding out on the hope that the kind noms himself to death
Repulsive i dunno, just turn her into an ant? :/
Just read the introduction for the 4th Trial in HxH
The whole Hunter X Hunted (no pun intended) is pretty awesome, I remember playing a game like that called "The Ship".
Freaking awesome, loving this manga :D
Which chapter are you on specificaly ?
Also , you should read slowly . About one chapter per week . That way you may finish a mere month or two before the end of the hiatus :ninja:
No.
Read it all in one day.
You must suffer with the rest of us.
Chapter 29
I actually didn't want to read this at all, was waiting for when the series ends to even bother reading it
But damn, I got convinced by Dark Lord Zenigame and the other guy with the purple name and awesome avatar with "dark" on its name
By Sunday I will have read it all, 100% guaranteed ;_;
Don't be so sure about it .
Cause you'll just end up in a dead end for months on end like the rest of us .
I know, that's exactly why I put the ";_;" there
Go read Homunculus, it comes out slowly too.
If there was one thing that I didn't like about the war was that practically all of the fights were done off screen and shanks showing up and pretty much ending the war. Other than that it was entertaining but certainly not Oda's best since I don't read OP for power houses, I read it for it's adventures, hell my favorite arc is sky piea and from my understanding most people hate it which I find shocking cause it has one of the best anatoginists in the series and an incredible flash back.
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@Kairouseki:
Go read Homunculus, it comes out slowly too.
I'm wondering if you're attempting a pun or not..
(just read 1-10 in a sitting)
If there was one thing that I didn't like about the war was that practically all of the fights were done off screen and shanks showing up and pretty much ending the war. Other than that it was entertaining but certainly not Oda's best since I don't read OP for power houses, I read it for it's adventures, hell my favorite arc is sky piea and from my understanding most people hate it which I find shocking cause it has one of the best anatoginists in the series and an incredible flash back.
Yeah, Skypiea's my favorite saga, too. The War, however is probably worse then every saga except East Blue.
@Badass:
Yeah, Skypiea's my favorite saga, too. The War, however is probably worse then every saga except East Blue.
well White Beards death was epic my favorite death scene in any manga I've read
@Gepetto: as it happens my favourite arc is also Skie Piea. Alsio No way is the war as bad as the Davy back arc. That arc wasn't bad it just wasn't Oda good.
@Choper- it is certainly one of my top ranking deaths. I would probably put it on par with Jiraiya's death, meaning right at the top of the list of badass deaths.
@Badass:
The War, however is probably worse then every saga except East Blue.
Man, this is almost as funny as your Chronicle comic.
@Friend:
@Gepetto: as it happens my favourite arc is also Skie Piea. Alsio No way is the war as bad as the Davy back arc. That arc wasn't bad it just wasn't Oda good.
@Choper- it is certainly one of my top ranking deaths. I would probably put it on par with Jiraiya's death, meaning right at the top of the list of badass deaths.
I'm not too fond of skypiea but I'm not one of those idiots that skipped it, I watched every episode waiting for it too end making the arc all the more horrible the first around watching it… flashback was the best bit btw. As for WB death... that was pretty epic.
It would feel cheap to skip a whole arc (isn't it one of the longest) in a manga that long. It can be tiring but catching up completely to a manga of One Piece length or longer can be very satisfying. (For me the only manga I read that is longer than OP is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure).
The MHQ arc is the best shonen manga arc.
York Shin isnt far from that.
York Shin is probably my personal favourite, in that I'm nostalgic abnout it AND it is actually awesome. It depends on series. For example if an arc is long and that is accepted as an arc then any of the Jojo Parts can be classed as individual arcs. Part 3 of Jojo is probably shorter than Hueco Mundo for example.
Yorkshin is my fave HxH arc, Freeza/Namek for Dragonball, Sensui arc for YYH, Soul Society or Pendulum arc for Bleach, Sasuke Retrieval for Naruto, Part 3 for Jojo, either Beltorze vs Beet or Grineed vs Beet for Bouken oh Beet, the Buddha aliens for Gantz, The golden age arc for Berserk, Pegasus or Millenium World for Yu-Gi-Oh and either Arlong or Skypiea or CP9 for OP.
After chapter 260 the chimera ant arc becomes fuckin epic !!!!
That Morau dude is pure badass ! and Netero of course.
Friend of Luffy and Gon: I totally just saw that sigpic in one of the earlier Sandman comics and was like "shit, someone on the AP forums has that as an avatar or something."
It was pretty weird. Sorry everyone else, off topic.
Lol the offtopic is kind of allowed with this thread because we have possibly months to discuss HxH without much happening. Yeah I'm a hardcore Sandman fan, so much so I can with seriousness compare it to my godly manga yonkou titles: HxH, One Piece, FMA and Dragonball. I rarely say this with non-Japanese comics.
Man, this is almost as funny as your Chronicle comic.
Thanks. I try.
In all seriosuness, there was not much interesting about the war in the first place. A bunch of big names all in one place caused a bunch of people to fangasm and love it. I'll admit that the Ace death, Whitebeard Death, and Blackbeard drama were good, but everything else was pretty bland.
I did, however, like Sabaody, Amazon Lily, and Impel Down.
I will enjoy watching the war in anime soon. I'm jumping back into my big 3 manga "up to date now to catch up with the anime" series- Naruto, Bleach and One Piece.
I used to love Sandman but did not feel motivated to read beyond "A Game of you" , even if I know it was not bad (I actualy realy like the dog character , Martin ten bones I think it was) and that there are far beter books in the series . This was due to price reasons as well , because they started printing the volumes in colour here . Before A Game of you they were all black and white and it fit , but then they switched to colour which meant :
1. Glossy paper . For some reason they only use the glossiest paper that human kind has been able to produce , on colour comics here it seems . You know , the kind that when you touch a page with your thumb the print stays there and no matter what you do you can't clean it off ? Realy weird when I saw a local Preacher volume . I had the original , so it felt weird and unecessary to see it like that .
2 . Price . The price literaly went up by cca. 40 % a book . And they weren't exactly cheap before .
3. Cutting books in half . This was a result of 1 in trying to mitigate 2 . Happened to releases of Preacher as well . I just did not feel motivated paying the price of what was originaly a whole volume forone half of a volume , and suporting the idiocy of spliting the volumes , as I see that as deviating from the original experience . I loved the 2nd Pracher volume , "Until the End of the World" , because it had both the awesomely grim "All in the family" story and the decadent and more easy going "Hunters" . (Parking bicycle's in people's asses if you wanna hint)
It's all down to taste, you like it and have taste :p Nah I kid I don't expect others to find a series godly if I do lol. Yup I appreciate the price thing, I'm way behind on my OP volumes and I'm having to heavily use the library atm.
slurpm.com/nonsense/other/comics- if you're not above stealing things from the internet, that is. And don't mind digital versions over hardcopies, which is a pretty major distinction I guess.
I read manga online aso I don't see the difference really. Besides online versions works well with Warren Ellis's Freakangels.
The only series I read torrent versions of till date was Animal Man and The Doom Patrol by Morrison .
Wouldn't mind finding one for the Mystery Play as I am very hyped to read that . Strangely I did not finish what I don't have of Preacher that way . I have most of Salvation in issue form so I won't buy a paperback where there will be like two new issues , 35 bucks , including shiping , is a little too much for just two issues .
It's not like I did not like Sandman . I adored it , even if alot of times what was going on made no sense , from an artowrk persective here . Especialy aparent in "Season of Mists" . I can not get what Loki disguised as Susanoo-no-Mikoto does as he leaves the castle as things apear behind him , he makes weird motions etc.
But it was a combination of price , volume spliting (which I absolutely hate as noted) and the fucking glossy paper that made me not buy the next books in the series .
My library can be annoying but it's the best I have until I am able to get a job. I'm 2 volumes away from being finished Y the Last man so when I'm done that I can order some Preacher in.
Yeah, I'm not that fussy when it comes to volumes and stuff if that's my only option. Shonen Jump manga is quite shoddy in how it is made now, probably for cheapness because the covers bend really easily now.
I don't mind LQ paper that much - unless you can actualy see the little bits standing out in the image - , but I hate the gloss . It desecrated my Punisher volume with the Russian in it .
The Russian , by the way , seems to be Garth's last great character . Because Mam Gnucci was not and the ending , thansk to Steve , looked like such a goddamn cop out to the ending of All in the Family .
That and he completely redid Tool from vol. 1 of Preacher and just made him white and named him Sopa (haha) . But he just could not let them have some rest, Tool loses both his arms and Soap gets drunk raped by "Bubba" and is then killed (I think) .
The paper is ok, it's the wekaer cardboard that annoys me. I mean I'm very tidy with my manga but they get all bendy covered very quickly. I look forward to Preacher, I might have another series I can compare to my Yonkou of manga. That will take some doing though.
I…..wouldn't look at Preacher like that . Sure , was fun, but .....ya know something ? The only time that Jesse actualy searched for God , the big tag line of the series , was at the end of the first paperback . After that.....he prety much ran around and ran into people for fifty issues .
We never realy saw , as far as I know , a single trace of God's passage for most of the series or even where he was on Earth .
Plus there are things that just make God look like a complete and utter moron .
Oh well then it's probs gonna be in my 9-10 rank perhaps lol. Hopefully good enough so I may eventually buy it!
Garth is good with random things but I find Jesse to be a bit of a douchebag . Not only cause of the dumping Tulip thing , but that he always finds a person with a diferent opinion then his to be wrong and a bastard .
He actualy seemed a bit better before All in the Family , once his sob past and reason for unwillingly ditching Tulip became clear…..he just seemed too fucking moral and too elitist for me to like .
That and there's that one issue where Garth has Elvis say that "America is the greatest country ever was or ever will be" and that it "shows the way to the stars" .
Now reading "Greed Island" arc
Seems fun, but arcs without Hisoka aren't as fun :(
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