Just a quick word of appreciation for all the admins to deal with all that fuss so that we have a place to destress :)
Thanks y'all! If you come to Tokyo, ramen on me. (DM me first).
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RE: Downtime!
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RE: Scanlation: Volume 58 HQ - Smoker - Italian
Quasi quasi e' del Necro-posting…. Un brindisi alla salute di Smoker e della sua vita scanlation-free! :)
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RE: Berserk
One of Muira's assistants has spoken out on that issue. He WASN'T unhealthy.
There's also no official decision yet if they'll be continuing, but it sounds like its maybe possible if they're not dismissing it outright.
I haven't been able to go out for a week and chocolate has become a precious food. (2006)
Two thirds of my body is made of energy bars. Does that mean that Berserk is two-thirds sponsored by the manufacturer? (2009)
I haven't been able to see live cherry blossoms this year either. (2011)@Robby, it makes sense they are trying to "protect his honor", but Miura writing these three things is a clear sign of overwork.
Even a decent diet and some exercise don't protect you from overwork, excessive stress, and never/rarely leaving the house.
It's very possible that it was a self-induced pressure, but as their editor they should have pushed (forced) him more to take breaks.
Unfortunately here in Japan it's not common to have a manager who tells you to go home or to take it easy. I have been working in recruitment in Tokyo for a few years now, and I heard plenty, plenty horror stories. The "average" nice guy/manager will not push you, and will be sympathetic, and might even say "don't push yourself too hard, ne?", but will not tell you to turn off the pc and give you extra days off. It's an endemic, toxic work culture here - even more so in the gaming and animation industry; there, tons of designers are paid pennies because they are so much in love with their work, and therefore overworked.
Miura's death saddens and angers me, because a good editor/company should have prevented those conditions - but I will now remember to tell myself to chill out whenever there's a break, and be happy for the mangaka. -
RE: Berserk
(pasting from an Italian website)
Kentaro Miura (1966-2021) died on 6 May. He leaves no wife or children. Cause of death is aortic dissection. In practice, the internal tissue of the aorta tears and creates a sac. When the pouch in turn breaks, the outcome is fatal. Causes include high blood pressure and excess stimulants. Only early diagnosis can save lives. But what was Miura's life like? Let's try to read the autobiographical notes he left in his comics …
I got a fever of 40. Looking back, I only had two days off this year. (1993)
I lost 5 kilos without doing anything. I wonder why. (1993)
For the past two months, I've slept an average of less than four hours a night. (1993)
I will turn 27 in July. Looking back, it's been 27 years of comics. Is this what I want? (1993)
Since I moved, my hours of sleep have been less than four. (1994)
It's the same every year, I have to work on Christmas and New Year. I would like to celebrate, once in a while. (1994)
I had a day off for the first time in a month and a half and when I got out, I had heat stroke. (1995)
I bought new shoes and clothes for the New Year. I only have a pair of sneakers. (1996)
I was in Okinawa for my first mangaka vacation and for the first two and a half days I was sick with heat stroke. (1998)
In the past month and a half, I've been out for two hours to have dinner at a club. (2001)
If I haven't seen people for a long time, my mouth no longer works as it should. (2002)
My days off are half a day every two months. I haven't taken two consecutive days off in four years. I'm getting tired. (2004)
I had another collapse from overwork. (2005)
My thirty years are about to end. My life is a mess, made up only of manga. But it can't be returned to me, so I'll go ahead! I will stay indoors again this year. (2006)
After all, I will not be locked in the house, because I feel alone. (2006)
I haven't been able to go out for a week and chocolate has become a precious food. (2006)
Two thirds of my body is made of energy bars. Does that mean that Berserk is two-thirds sponsored by the manufacturer? (2009)
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RE: Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
I've long been of the opinion that the Elder Stars are actually pretty upstanding fellows….who hate themselves and what they must do every single day.
I'd be surprised if they weren't adventurers who got caught up in the history of the world and in order to protect people from a nefarious force/their own history, do what they must.
They're afraid of what might happen if someone tries to 'break the wheel' because they know the futility of it.
That's where Luffy comes in because he'll subvert even their expectations.
NOT an easy job for Oda to write, but that's what we trust him to do.
In a way, similar to Thanos of the last Avengers movie: wanting to "keep balance", and therefore annihilate part of the population, but not with joy or anger - something like that?
It becomes an interesting (and somewhat) classical twist - of opposition of not good vs bad, rather different visions of seeing/considering what is (the greater) good.Greg, do you think that at Elbaf Big Mom will recover her memory and become non-hostile to Luffy as an indirect consequence? :-o
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RE: Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
Yeah. But even after 6 years I don't think anyone has found the secret part, or at least mentioned it.
I did, some time ago… But obviously I'm oblivious to why you may be attached to that song at all, to begin with...! Because very "op-like"?
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RE: One Piece 874 Ita by RZ Team
mi accodo - Grazie e buone vacanze! :-)
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RE: Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
+1 - I'd love to watch that, if possible!
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Gonna be on Jump Police today airing at 10AM Tokyo time. (In three hours) If anyone has or finds a HQ recording, please lemme know!
Hi Greg, I don't know if you already saw this:
https://live.line.me/channels/79/broadcast/4131267
For anybody else, from Japan the link is accessible for now - hope it works from overseas, too.
Btw, what do you do in your day when you don't work on OP-related things? :-o