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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] 
Also, a fun little titbit for those who didn't spot it, One Piece gave a little nod to Naruto just as Naruto gave a nod to it. That's pretty cool, I guess.
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baltaismelnais (11/06/2014) [-] **baltaismelnais rolled image** Better hate this than jews. Hitler already did them bad
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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] Shock-horror, the progeny of Hyuuga Hinata (who was herself the progeny of puppies, kittens, and the personification of social anxiety) is a cute little ****** .
In what world would Hinata ever give birth to anything that wasn't at least a 5 on the "Dawwww" scale?
Maybe next time we see her (which will probably be in the final Naruto Shippuden movie) we'll get more than three panels worth of Namikaze ******** (which I assume is her name because I can't ******* find it anywhere in the chapter... but given that Naruto's kid is called BOLT maybe it's for the best we don't know.)
In what world would Hinata ever give birth to anything that wasn't at least a 5 on the "Dawwww" scale?
Maybe next time we see her (which will probably be in the final Naruto Shippuden movie) we'll get more than three panels worth of Namikaze ******** (which I assume is her name because I can't ******* find it anywhere in the chapter... but given that Naruto's kid is called BOLT maybe it's for the best we don't know.)
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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] Oh, good, it's nice to see that Naruto (now that he actually knows who his dad is... which was kept from him and everyone else in the village for **** knows why) kept his mother's name instead of his actual one. But hey, Uzumaki reads better then Namikaze anyway.
Also, Himawari is... eh... it's not as dumb as I was expecting but it doesn't live up to the expectation.
Also, Himawari is... eh... it's not as dumb as I was expecting but it doesn't live up to the expectation.
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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] Bolt, actually. But in Japanese pronunciation that is "Boruto" so... near as makes no difference it's Borito.
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topperharly ONLINE (11/06/2014) [-] people are going to hate me for that, people hat me already, but i kinda liked naruto.
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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] I liked it up until the time skip but then it got dumber and dumber and we never got any good fights because everything was about Naruto who only ever learned three techniques so every fight ended the same way.
Best fights in the series are still the ones against the sound 5.
Best fights in the series are still the ones against the sound 5.
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baltaismelnais (11/06/2014) [-] It was a good story, what's to hate? Inb4 *********** for it, but people just don't know how not to be assholes and overlook bad stuff
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bluemagebrilly (11/07/2014) [-] You don't look at a story and completely skip over the bad stuff and focus on the 'good' things. That's just fooling yourself.
It's like taking a crap on an apple, then eating the small bits that didn't get crap on them. It's do able, and it'll probably taste okay, but you're still enjoying an apple covered in crap.
Naruto has a good universe, a good basis for a story, but Kishi flipped a switch after he started getting obsessed with Sasuke and the tailed beasts. Originally, Kyuubi had no connection with the tailed beasts other than being another demon.
Which is why Shukaku is so different from the rest.
And then Kishi just started going on and on about Sasuke this, Sasuke that, and then all the stuff questionable said.
You do not get a potato if you only consider it in time lapses. You get a lie.
Like a tomato.
It's like taking a crap on an apple, then eating the small bits that didn't get crap on them. It's do able, and it'll probably taste okay, but you're still enjoying an apple covered in crap.
Naruto has a good universe, a good basis for a story, but Kishi flipped a switch after he started getting obsessed with Sasuke and the tailed beasts. Originally, Kyuubi had no connection with the tailed beasts other than being another demon.
Which is why Shukaku is so different from the rest.
And then Kishi just started going on and on about Sasuke this, Sasuke that, and then all the stuff questionable said.
You do not get a potato if you only consider it in time lapses. You get a lie.
Like a tomato.
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baltaismelnais (11/07/2014) [-] I didn't say that I don't look at the story and completely skip over it. You misunderstood. I read the whole story, and payed less attention to the things I disliked, while still taking notice of them. People that complain here focus only on the bad things, which is why they look so bad.
I never said that Naruto had a bad story, universe of characters.
I never said that Naruto had a bad story, universe of characters.
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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] I'm not gonna ********* you and I'm gonna approach this civilly but from the time-skip onwards Naruto's story takes a massive nosedive in quality. It focusses less on the interesting characters, strips Naruto of much of his personality but doesn't replace it with anything, it's nonsensical, we get very little closure along the way to things raised before the time-skip, and what few elements in there that were good were not enough to outweigh the massive amount of bad stuff which includes the missed potential.
E.G: Almost every fight in Shippuden is either **** or irrelevant. There are a couple of good ones at the start of Shippuden but as time passes they become more and more naruto-centric to the point where he ends up jumping into other people's fights in order to save them because he's kung-fu-ninja-action-jesus.
Credit where it is due there are some genuinely good chapters out there. The ones revolving around Gai vs Madara and the work that goes into landing a single hit against Madara are very good, on-par with the series when it was at it's best. Another high point would be Shikamaru royally ******* Hidan in the mouth-pussy because he kicks so much ass.
However those are just a few chapters in a mountain of suck. The pain fight has echos of good choreography but it suffers from Naruto only having two abilities (Rasengan & Shadow Clone) which leads to it not being as good as even the fight between him and Sasuke before the skip because back then the Rasengan was a really novel idea.
Naruto tries to be better than it is and fails. After the skip it really seems to want to be an epic story on a grand scale but it fails in doing that when it is compared to series that actually do that well like Kingdom.
However... before the skip Naruto genuinely was one of the best shounen around. The fights were clever, the characters were deep, the conflicts were memorable and inspiring, and the art-style was evocative. Old Naruto went out with a bang and then Shippuden arrived with a whimper.
E.G: Almost every fight in Shippuden is either **** or irrelevant. There are a couple of good ones at the start of Shippuden but as time passes they become more and more naruto-centric to the point where he ends up jumping into other people's fights in order to save them because he's kung-fu-ninja-action-jesus.
Credit where it is due there are some genuinely good chapters out there. The ones revolving around Gai vs Madara and the work that goes into landing a single hit against Madara are very good, on-par with the series when it was at it's best. Another high point would be Shikamaru royally ******* Hidan in the mouth-pussy because he kicks so much ass.
However those are just a few chapters in a mountain of suck. The pain fight has echos of good choreography but it suffers from Naruto only having two abilities (Rasengan & Shadow Clone) which leads to it not being as good as even the fight between him and Sasuke before the skip because back then the Rasengan was a really novel idea.
Naruto tries to be better than it is and fails. After the skip it really seems to want to be an epic story on a grand scale but it fails in doing that when it is compared to series that actually do that well like Kingdom.
However... before the skip Naruto genuinely was one of the best shounen around. The fights were clever, the characters were deep, the conflicts were memorable and inspiring, and the art-style was evocative. Old Naruto went out with a bang and then Shippuden arrived with a whimper.
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baltaismelnais (11/06/2014) [-] And more simply but, this is a story that must be considered in large time lapses, for if you include all of it, you will get potato
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chris chris (11/12/2015) [-] i suppose funnyjunk is down again, but the weird part is its still showing 1 page with a bout 20 links or so, to pictures. and they are all porn.
whats goin on?
whats goin on?
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bluemagebrilly (11/07/2014) [-] You get a kid. Sakura gets a kid. Chouji gets a kid. Ino gets a kid.
Anko gets 500 pounds.
Naruto gets 2 kids and a laptop.
Said it on another post arleady, but the ending was horrible.
Expected, but horrible.
It was also super clear that Kishi, or whoever had to make up the names of the children, was pressed for time.
Sasuke + Sakura = Salad? Also that kid looks like she's going to be in porn. I don't know why I think this, it's just the way she smiled and spoke about Naruto's son just gave me that feeling.
For now, everyone will switch to hating on Bleach if anyone still reads it, but now that Naruto is gone...
I'm not sure. Maybe a new manga will finally take its place... Personally, I'm hoping Gintama gets more popularity now and the anime starts up again.
Anko gets 500 pounds.
Naruto gets 2 kids and a laptop.
Said it on another post arleady, but the ending was horrible.
Expected, but horrible.
It was also super clear that Kishi, or whoever had to make up the names of the children, was pressed for time.
Sasuke + Sakura = Salad? Also that kid looks like she's going to be in porn. I don't know why I think this, it's just the way she smiled and spoke about Naruto's son just gave me that feeling.
For now, everyone will switch to hating on Bleach if anyone still reads it, but now that Naruto is gone...
I'm not sure. Maybe a new manga will finally take its place... Personally, I'm hoping Gintama gets more popularity now and the anime starts up again.
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questionableferret [OP](11/07/2014) [-] Maybe people will start hating on Fairy Tail. That series is a trainwreck. That said, it's sincere enough that I can't wish it too much eyre. It's just trying and failing to be smarter than it is.
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bluemagebrilly (11/07/2014) [-] Fairy tail is just... I dunno. It had a good start, sort of like Naruto to be honest, but the writer made the same mistake he made with Rave Master.
Friendship.
Friendship, friendship, friendship. Like, we get it. You're friends, that's great. And then there's these demon things, and the dragon Natsu was looking for since Chapter 1 was inside him the whole time, which makes 0 sense and actually just raises more questions than answers.
I also hate time skips like that, the writer clearly ran into a wall there.
It's possible people will start complaining about it, but it's not that popular I think.
Friendship.
Friendship, friendship, friendship. Like, we get it. You're friends, that's great. And then there's these demon things, and the dragon Natsu was looking for since Chapter 1 was inside him the whole time, which makes 0 sense and actually just raises more questions than answers.
I also hate time skips like that, the writer clearly ran into a wall there.
It's possible people will start complaining about it, but it's not that popular I think.
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questionableferret [OP](11/07/2014) [-] I'll point out one astonishingly clever thing about Fairy Tail that might be entirely accidental but might also be absolutely brilliant. Back in the Laxus arc Natsu couldn't get past the age barrier because he had Igneel inside him. Neither could Gaziel so we're gonna have to see if Metalicana is inside him too.
Also, we're gonna need one ******* magnificent explanation for all of this.
But as for the friendship thing? That's not the key flaw of Fairy Tail. That appears a lot in One Piece too and that is one of the best shounen ever made. The key flaw is the lack of consequences. Erza never loses. Nobody ever loses. Everybody wins. When people lose they end up winning. Time Skip's only consequences were introducing two Dragon Slayers that ended up being easily curb-stomped firstly by Natsu and then by... friendship?
Hiro Mashima can't stomach losing his characters. He just can't. It's his biggest flaw. He can't stomach them disappearing or losing or anything like that and because there are no consequences you're never drawn into the tension because you know, no matter what, nothing bad is going to end up happening to these characters.
Also, we're gonna need one ******* magnificent explanation for all of this.
But as for the friendship thing? That's not the key flaw of Fairy Tail. That appears a lot in One Piece too and that is one of the best shounen ever made. The key flaw is the lack of consequences. Erza never loses. Nobody ever loses. Everybody wins. When people lose they end up winning. Time Skip's only consequences were introducing two Dragon Slayers that ended up being easily curb-stomped firstly by Natsu and then by... friendship?
Hiro Mashima can't stomach losing his characters. He just can't. It's his biggest flaw. He can't stomach them disappearing or losing or anything like that and because there are no consequences you're never drawn into the tension because you know, no matter what, nothing bad is going to end up happening to these characters.
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bluemagebrilly (11/07/2014) [-] Age barrier? I don't recall. The only thing I saw that put Laxus against the two was the difference in power, which was due to his experience. I suppose that /is/ an Age barrier, but didn't have anything to do with Igneel. I'm betting Gajeel has Metalicana as well, but who knows?
Biggest flaw with the whole 'inside you' thing was the images we had of Igneel and whoever raised Wendy talking in some cave like area. Well, and the whole thing happening in general but...
Friendship /is/ the key flaw in Fairy tail for the exact reasons you said about how he can't stand losing characters. Every time they get into hard situations, it's like a wall of text about how they support one another to give each other strength. They do that some-what in One Piece, but not nearly to the extent that it happens in Fairy Tail. Like every fight has huge speeches about it with every character.
The strength gain is also horribly stretched. We can see them getting stronger throughout the battles, but the time skip thing was just kind of.. weird. They could have easily introduced the whole fighting tournament and what not before hand and Gajeel/Natsu got way too strong for just unlocking a 'second source of mana' or whatever it is they did.
And you know, the biggest thing that bothers me is how the writer focuses on certain characters over others, just as he did in Rave Master. At the end of Rave Master, only one guy could really do anything without cutting his humanity away, and he ended up being locked in crystals or something silly like that.
In Fairy Tail, only those characters we saw get stuck in time actually have the power to do anything. I find it very hard to believe no one in Fairy Tail, even if they were really sad, couldn't be really strong. I mean, it was said in the beginning that the guy who took over as 'Master' temporarily was really strong at the start.
Meh, I dunno. It has some big flaws, in my opinion, but for me it's mostly the friendship speeches and lack of loss.
Biggest flaw with the whole 'inside you' thing was the images we had of Igneel and whoever raised Wendy talking in some cave like area. Well, and the whole thing happening in general but...
Friendship /is/ the key flaw in Fairy tail for the exact reasons you said about how he can't stand losing characters. Every time they get into hard situations, it's like a wall of text about how they support one another to give each other strength. They do that some-what in One Piece, but not nearly to the extent that it happens in Fairy Tail. Like every fight has huge speeches about it with every character.
The strength gain is also horribly stretched. We can see them getting stronger throughout the battles, but the time skip thing was just kind of.. weird. They could have easily introduced the whole fighting tournament and what not before hand and Gajeel/Natsu got way too strong for just unlocking a 'second source of mana' or whatever it is they did.
And you know, the biggest thing that bothers me is how the writer focuses on certain characters over others, just as he did in Rave Master. At the end of Rave Master, only one guy could really do anything without cutting his humanity away, and he ended up being locked in crystals or something silly like that.
In Fairy Tail, only those characters we saw get stuck in time actually have the power to do anything. I find it very hard to believe no one in Fairy Tail, even if they were really sad, couldn't be really strong. I mean, it was said in the beginning that the guy who took over as 'Master' temporarily was really strong at the start.
Meh, I dunno. It has some big flaws, in my opinion, but for me it's mostly the friendship speeches and lack of loss.
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questionableferret [OP](11/07/2014) [-] The barrier set up around the town hall to stop Makarov leaving had rules (like all of Fried's Runes) that forbade anyone above the age of eighty (or around that mark) from leaving the runes. It went unexplained for a long time and really just served to keep Natsu and Gaziel out of the action but with Igneel being in Natsu it actually turned out to be quite clever foreshadowing.
The biggest flaw with the 'inside you' thing isn't that, as you can explain it away through any number of reasonings (plus, it's Grandine that visits him shortly after Wendy joins the group so there is credence to that) rather the biggest flaw is how astonishingly stupid it is.
The friendship thing isn't the problem, it's more a symptom OF the problem. Because Mashima is incapable of losing stuff he created an environment where there don't need to be consequences and where disputes could be solved routinely through friendship... which is retarded, sure, but it's Mashima's own limitations, not the friendship, that is the root of the issue.
And yes, the strength gain is retarded. Also, Erza never loses... past the Tower of Heaven arc Erza has never lost a battle.
And aye, he focusses a lot on the wrong characters. E.G: Gerard. Every arc Gerard appears in some form or another but he's not that interesting a character. He just appears. Also, Mashima continually has characters act out of character for the sake of the plot. E.G: Since the Edolas arc have Natsu and Lisanna (childhood friends who you could even, at a stretch, say were to some degree in love with one-another) spent even a moment together? In fact, has Lisanna been in any way beneficial to the story since she came back? She was one of the best elements of the early arcs, learning that there HAD been this loss and whilst she was a little too perfect she was a cool idea that gave the characters of Fairy Tail some shared history and loss.
And Macao is meant to be strong but we never see him do anything strong so... *shrug*.
Another big flaw is that Mashima can't write fight scenes. Think about it. Elfman vs Bacchus was badass but later on Ichiya comes along and one-shots Bacchus AND another guy. That means that Ichiya is like 10 times as strong as Elfman. The jokey pervert character is far, far stronger than Elfman. *sigh* It's like one character's victory must always come at the loss of another.
The biggest flaw with the 'inside you' thing isn't that, as you can explain it away through any number of reasonings (plus, it's Grandine that visits him shortly after Wendy joins the group so there is credence to that) rather the biggest flaw is how astonishingly stupid it is.
The friendship thing isn't the problem, it's more a symptom OF the problem. Because Mashima is incapable of losing stuff he created an environment where there don't need to be consequences and where disputes could be solved routinely through friendship... which is retarded, sure, but it's Mashima's own limitations, not the friendship, that is the root of the issue.
And yes, the strength gain is retarded. Also, Erza never loses... past the Tower of Heaven arc Erza has never lost a battle.
And aye, he focusses a lot on the wrong characters. E.G: Gerard. Every arc Gerard appears in some form or another but he's not that interesting a character. He just appears. Also, Mashima continually has characters act out of character for the sake of the plot. E.G: Since the Edolas arc have Natsu and Lisanna (childhood friends who you could even, at a stretch, say were to some degree in love with one-another) spent even a moment together? In fact, has Lisanna been in any way beneficial to the story since she came back? She was one of the best elements of the early arcs, learning that there HAD been this loss and whilst she was a little too perfect she was a cool idea that gave the characters of Fairy Tail some shared history and loss.
And Macao is meant to be strong but we never see him do anything strong so... *shrug*.
Another big flaw is that Mashima can't write fight scenes. Think about it. Elfman vs Bacchus was badass but later on Ichiya comes along and one-shots Bacchus AND another guy. That means that Ichiya is like 10 times as strong as Elfman. The jokey pervert character is far, far stronger than Elfman. *sigh* It's like one character's victory must always come at the loss of another.
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bluemagebrilly (11/07/2014) [-] Ohh, that. I completely forgot about the whole barrier thing. Thought it was weird at the time and I believe what I figured was that the dragons that raised them implanted those Dragon stones into their chests, sort of like Sting and Rogue or whatever, but I guess the age thing makes more sense.
Still a very dumb aspect, I was expecting them to be in a location similar to how the whole time skip thing went down. Under a powerful barrier that kept anyone, even the black dragon, from finding them. I'm pretty sure Wendy's dragon met Igneel before they actually met, but I could be wrong. It has been awhile.
I don't really understand why Gerard came back, to be honest. Everything about his character is just a big 'what?' kind of thing. Like Tear hypnotizing him into going crazy and then ending up as his underling... among other things. It would have been better if he just went crazy and that was it.
I did really hate what they did with Lisanna, especially after the build up. Only thing it has done so far was give the older sister an excuse to flip out. Sorry, by the by, for the way I'm vague on characters. I'm not good at keeping up with names. She hasn't really added any aspect to the story so far, and it was kind of weird how she came back anyways. Like, I get that Elfman hit her really hard, but her body disappeared, didn't it? How else would she appear in the other world? Who the hell did they bury?
I fully agree with everything bad about Bacchus. There was /so/ much build up, like two chapters worth of him being built up to be as strong as Erza and how he was a very powerful fighter. The Elfman fight was pretty good, but after that, he just becomes a joke. Doesn't redeem himself at all, nor does the rest of his team.
To be fair about Ichiya, though, he's always meant to be very strong since his first appearance, he just never really got the chance because he screws around too much, but ... I dunno.
Still a very dumb aspect, I was expecting them to be in a location similar to how the whole time skip thing went down. Under a powerful barrier that kept anyone, even the black dragon, from finding them. I'm pretty sure Wendy's dragon met Igneel before they actually met, but I could be wrong. It has been awhile.
I don't really understand why Gerard came back, to be honest. Everything about his character is just a big 'what?' kind of thing. Like Tear hypnotizing him into going crazy and then ending up as his underling... among other things. It would have been better if he just went crazy and that was it.
I did really hate what they did with Lisanna, especially after the build up. Only thing it has done so far was give the older sister an excuse to flip out. Sorry, by the by, for the way I'm vague on characters. I'm not good at keeping up with names. She hasn't really added any aspect to the story so far, and it was kind of weird how she came back anyways. Like, I get that Elfman hit her really hard, but her body disappeared, didn't it? How else would she appear in the other world? Who the hell did they bury?
I fully agree with everything bad about Bacchus. There was /so/ much build up, like two chapters worth of him being built up to be as strong as Erza and how he was a very powerful fighter. The Elfman fight was pretty good, but after that, he just becomes a joke. Doesn't redeem himself at all, nor does the rest of his team.
To be fair about Ichiya, though, he's always meant to be very strong since his first appearance, he just never really got the chance because he screws around too much, but ... I dunno.
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questionableferret [OP](11/07/2014) [-] Hiro Mashima is just not a very good writer. I can deal with it since Weekly Manga Recap points out all the dumb stuff but at the same time I also follow three of the best manga ever made so it's not like Fairy Tail being bad really affects my enjoyment of the medium. It's refreshingly bad, actually.
The manga I follow are One Piece, Kingdom, and Onepunch Man. They are prefect examples of how to do manga and how to do narrative in general. Man, I could gush about the technical skill that goes into the making of those three series for days.
The manga I follow are One Piece, Kingdom, and Onepunch Man. They are prefect examples of how to do manga and how to do narrative in general. Man, I could gush about the technical skill that goes into the making of those three series for days.
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bluemagebrilly (11/07/2014) [-] Haven't seen the other two, but One Piece is one of my favorites.
Even the flash backs, such as the one it's on currently, are pretty dang good.
I also felt like Oda completely over shadowed Kishi in terms of nodding towards each other. There were like so many Naruto references in just one picture, but Naruto itself only had Luffy's symbol at the end.
Even the flash backs, such as the one it's on currently, are pretty dang good.
I also felt like Oda completely over shadowed Kishi in terms of nodding towards each other. There were like so many Naruto references in just one picture, but Naruto itself only had Luffy's symbol at the end.
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questionableferret [OP](11/07/2014) [-] Then there's Onepunch Man.
A comedy manga about a superhero who beats all of his enemies in One Punch and is a really unsuitable person to be a Superhero. And everything else in the manga is drawn beautifully but he's drawn like **** most of the time.
The Mangaka of this manga is a ******* mentalist. He does stuff just for the sake of doing it. He wasted multiple two-page spreads just zooming into a highly-detailed city in one chapter and in another he devoted several pages to just the firing of and dodging of a massive laser beam. There is a massive amount of style that goes into this manga but it doesn't come at the cost of substance.
Read it. It's glorious.
A comedy manga about a superhero who beats all of his enemies in One Punch and is a really unsuitable person to be a Superhero. And everything else in the manga is drawn beautifully but he's drawn like **** most of the time.
The Mangaka of this manga is a ******* mentalist. He does stuff just for the sake of doing it. He wasted multiple two-page spreads just zooming into a highly-detailed city in one chapter and in another he devoted several pages to just the firing of and dodging of a massive laser beam. There is a massive amount of style that goes into this manga but it doesn't come at the cost of substance.
Read it. It's glorious.
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questionableferret [OP](11/07/2014) [-] Are you kidding? Kishi knocked it out of the park. Dude, think about it. The final page of the manga.... the page fifteen years in the making... the page that is the culmination of the entire journey of the main character of the series...
BOOM! One Piece logo.
One Piece? Are you going to remember what chapter number has the Naruto opening page? It's just gonna blend into all of the others in time. Kishimoto totally did the better homage (at least the more meaningful one).
Anyway, Kingdom is basically everything Shuppuden tried and failed to be. Shippuden wanted so desperately to be big and epic but Kishimoto couldn't deliver... but Kingdom delivers. It delivers on-time and in perfect working order WITH the batteries!
It is a massive-scale war manga set in the longest period of warfare in human history. Ever heard of the hundred years war? Yeah, well this war went on for hundreds of years. Between 200 and 250 years by most estimates. In this period some of the greatest military minds of all time lived and were constantly crashing against one-another in war after war after war with hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of men on single battlefields, and it ended about 200 years before the Roman Empire began.
The Chinese Warring states period.
And holy ******* **** , dude... this manga is just... no other manga handles week-to-week tension quite like Kingdom. The artwork is pretty damned good (except the horses... this guy can't draw horses) and as serious and grim as it looks it is actually a really heartfelt tale with some genuinely funny moments and a lot of warm friendships. Definitely a must-read.
BOOM! One Piece logo.
One Piece? Are you going to remember what chapter number has the Naruto opening page? It's just gonna blend into all of the others in time. Kishimoto totally did the better homage (at least the more meaningful one).
Anyway, Kingdom is basically everything Shuppuden tried and failed to be. Shippuden wanted so desperately to be big and epic but Kishimoto couldn't deliver... but Kingdom delivers. It delivers on-time and in perfect working order WITH the batteries!
It is a massive-scale war manga set in the longest period of warfare in human history. Ever heard of the hundred years war? Yeah, well this war went on for hundreds of years. Between 200 and 250 years by most estimates. In this period some of the greatest military minds of all time lived and were constantly crashing against one-another in war after war after war with hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of men on single battlefields, and it ended about 200 years before the Roman Empire began.
The Chinese Warring states period.
And holy ******* **** , dude... this manga is just... no other manga handles week-to-week tension quite like Kingdom. The artwork is pretty damned good (except the horses... this guy can't draw horses) and as serious and grim as it looks it is actually a really heartfelt tale with some genuinely funny moments and a lot of warm friendships. Definitely a must-read.
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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] Want to have a kick-ass adulthood to replace it?
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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] Boom. Kingdom. Weekly series with artwork befitting a monthly series. Berserk-level quality action with great writing, characters, and generally everything else.
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questionableferret [OP](11/06/2014) [-] Except for the horses. This guy can not draw horses. Jesus ******* christ this guy can not draw horses. People? He can do people. But his horses are an unexpected highlight to the artwork. It never really distracts from the scenes but... yeah... they don't stand up to scrutiny at all.
Knock yourself out:
www.mangareader.net/1730/kingdom.html
Knock yourself out:
www.mangareader.net/1730/kingdom.html
