Well that One Shot was pretty amazing. It's taken me a little while to warm up to Fujimoto's work and his style, but I'm a big fan now for sure.

Absolutely devastating. Gonna take a while for this to truly sink in.

RIP to a true titan of manga and art in general.

@Zar:

I dunno if we have a general manga thread, so I'll take a chance and ask here instead.

So the last shonen I've been invested lately is One Piece and MHA, and a recurring criticism of both is that their fight sequences - while not bad - aren't their strong points. This made me curious what manga there are with fights that are considered top notch, and what constitutes such a fight. I can't remember reading any work in recent years where fighting was even the main draw.

The only one I can think of -at all- is the first half of Naruto.

To restate the question to fit the thread better, what manga would you recommend for someone who'd like to study some genuinely great battle sequences in comic format?

First series that comes to mind is Kengan Asura. I think it can be classified as a shonen, it can be a bit gory and violent but nothing like Berserk levels of dismemberment. Simplest way of describing it is that it's a Fighting Tournament manga. There's obviously more going on, especially in the 2nd part of the series, but the main thrust of the story is martial artists fighting and looking very cool doing it.

Hopefully you haven't already read it and I haven't completely wasted your time lol

@glass:

! I honestly couldn't visually read what was going on for several panels this chapter

Yeah I was struggling with quite a few of the action shots too. Recently I feel like the action has been quite clear and easy to follow as well, but it's never been Horikoshi's strongest attribute.

I would've been absolutely fine with Kacchan, but I am very into Dynamight. The title of Great Explosion Murder God is suitably over the top, as befitting of Bakugo.

Even as a non-American, this result makes me pretty damn ecstatic. Lots of work to do still but you gotta take the wins where you can. Congratulations USA.

My first thought was that we just saw Bakugo have his quirk stolen, but then I remembered that AFO needs to use his hands to do that, also Endeavour was stabbed by those tendrils a couple of pages earlier so no stolen quirk this time. So the stakes here are either forced quirk activation to…fight Deku I guess? Or, death/paralysis kinda deal.

I'm going with quirk activation considering we have some loose plot threads to tie up with Kacchan(which I'm now convinced is his hero name) and the fact that at the start of the chapter Shigaraki thought to himself that he needed to find another quirk to take down Deku. We got a wee hint last chapter I feel with the brief mention of the training the two youngsters have been doing with Deku being unable to get the better of Bakugo and his quirk.

Altogether a great chapter.

@Deicide:

No, nor I said it would.

VOlumne 98 is probably going to be 985-994
We've seen half of it: 985-989, with the heroes getting more and more advantages. This chapter maximized that feeling.

I think 990-994 will be the opposite, with the villains taking the prominence. The heroes will be separated, there will be deaths and defeats.

I'm not saying this villain streak will end exactly in 994, volumes aren't usually that perfectly planned.

But I think Oda will leave some big heroic moment for Chapter 1,000, so I guess somewhere between 990-999 we will have the end of act 3 and the intermission (which may or not be longer than past ones). Then Act 4 starts either before or at chapter 1,000, but the big comeback moment happens in 1,000.

Chapter 1000 ending with the reveal of Gear 5 perhaps?

@auem:

I am expecting few more quirks will spontaneously show up within Deku to save the total annihilation. Endavour's fate is still a toss up.

Yeah considering Nana's Float quirk was brought up in the arc before this (I think) it would be an opportune time for it to manifest. Although I'm not sure exactly how much use it would be right now, especially if Deku should presumably not be able to use it to a useful standard.

@Robby:

Notably, 5 of Naruto's 7 polls were before its timeskip, so not nearly as much in the second half.

Really? How strange.