Random Manga Thread

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Next up are the first two chapters of Karasaw Naoki's comedy, "Super Cruel and Terrible Tales of Mangaka," a parody of the "Cruel and Terrible Tales of Mangaka."

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Next up is Desert Witch, by Matsumoto Jiro and included in his 1-volume collection, A Revolutionist in the Afternoon.

Good stuff. Thanks Hox.

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Next one is Nihei Tsutomu's Numa no Kami (God of the Marsh). I miss Nihei's old art style...

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Next one is an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Lake," by Haigo Moto in the collection, "R is for Rocket."

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>>151733665
It's just a manga dump thread. I'm not expecting much discussion to begin with.

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The lines are taken directly from Bradbury's prose, in case anyone's wondering.

>>151733767

/a/ seems allergic to manga threads. It's a shame that you need a pass to feasibly dump manga nowadays, and you still can't bump your own thread without juggling IPs. At least they finally reduced the cooldown timer for 4chan Gold Account™ Users, so it doesn't take 5 hours to dump a single volume.

>>151733701
>>151730811
>>151731646
Huh. I was working on a collections chart for the fuck of it last week (never got around to finishing that, now that I think of it), and you hit three of the entries already. I approve of this thread.

>>151734023
>you still can't bump your own thread without juggling IPs
You can, just not in the first 10/15/whatever-it-is minutes.

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>>151734023
I remember the good old days when could just auto-dump manga in a reasonable time frame while doing something else.

I only bother to dump manga now when I've got a lot of free time and a second monitor to read books on.

>>151734023
Irregular general manga threads just died off during last year or so. Not to mention that they had low survival rate to begin with.
>>151734090
>just not in the first 10/15/whatever-it-is minutes
So that's how this shit actually works these days? The rules behind it were puzzling me for a long time.

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>>151734318
>>151734090
>>151734023
Do you guys think we're at the point where having a separate manga board would be better or no? I've been against it for the longest time but I feel like the board's changed so much in regards to manga-content that it might be the only solution.

Thanks for this, man.

>>151734393

I'm against board splintering, but /a/ - Anime & Manga is just Anime with related Manga nowadays anyway.

It would probably be just as dead, only threads would stay up longer. For comparison, I looked at Reddit's manga board just now, and despite the supposedly high number of subscribers it has, they also have threads dying off at 5 posts.

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>>151734523
Yeah, that's been one of my objections for a manga board too. I can imagine a lot of generals for the 10 or so really popular manga, and then everything else would barely hit 30 or 40 posts before they die.

>>151734393
I'm against it, frankly. I don't really feel that making a manga board would increase quality of discussion that much, because it can't create a userbase that isn't there. The popular series that already get discussion here would get generals (and I happen to think most of those series, and more importantly their fanbases, are pretty cancerous), the things with recent anime adaptations would also get generals and/or dominant threads, and the few people wanting to discuss more niche stuff would still be a minority with short dead threads for the vast numbers of non-popular manga. And personally, while I'm primarily a mangafag, I watch plenty of anime and would much prefer the two to stay conjoined if there's no major advantage to splitting them.

>>151734659

People just don't like discussing manga. Oh well.

The system in place that hinders manga dumps doesn't help, either.

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I love how this story ends.

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And now a chapter on how to draw Shonen manga from the comedy, "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga."

>>151734834
Oh, I should've mentioned that this should be read left-to-right.

>>151735241

There will always be powerlevel shit.

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Next one is a oneshot from Kitou Motohiro, included in the collection, Hallucination from the Womb.

>>151734393
It'll be just dead for the most part board, which I can't call an improvement over what we have now. Only that it will take longer time for a thread to die.
I just want to be able to dump manga here as easily as when the cooldown was 30 seconds, man.
>>151734834
Too bad Pulp never got to translate the whole first volume.

>>151730811
This cover page is art, right here.

>>151735478
Just wan't to say thx dude, top comfy thread

Hox: As always, doing god's work.
Keep it up.

>>151734393
I'm for it, but I know it's a terrible idea that would never work. I miss the old 'what have you been reading lately' threads, but anymore they would just get spammed or pruned as request threads.

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>>151735848
>I miss the old 'what have you been reading lately' threads

I don't understand how these went away and got replaced with One Page Threads, which is basically a random imagedump of pages taken out of context to be "shocking" or "hilarious." It kind of feels like a parallel to modern internet trends where there's more memetic images and catchphrases thrown about and less actual discussions. Can't people be bothered to at least post some thoughts or impressions on what they're actually reading anymore?

>>151736069
Mods and Janitors were deleting them. One Page threads can pretend to be other things. People sharing manga is a request thread by modern /a/'s standards.

What really grates is the one page threads just keep worse and worse.

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And now for another absurd comedy by Shintaro Kago.

>>151736356
Wait. Did she shoot the tank and collapse in despair or did someone shoot her from behind? Female detective had the gun, but I don't see what her motive would have been.

https://a.pomf.cat/plqdtw.txt

Lemme know if someone wants something. Not much I can do with this amount of books anyway.

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>>151736611
Not clear, but my best guess is that the cloned girl found another gun from somewhere.

>>151736859
>if I keep doing this
Okay, I'm laughing.

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Next up is Katou Shinkichi's oneshot, Shoujo Manga.

Great stuff, thanks Hox! Happy new year!

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>>151737669
Happy new year to you, anon.

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And now a chapter from Shimamoto Kazuhiko's Burning Pen, a comedy about a hot-blooded mangaka.

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And now for a chapter from Noramimi. For people who haven't read this series, all you have to know beforehand is it takes place in a world where mascot-like creatures (think something along the lines of talking animals or Doraemon) exist and work on a contractual basis with families to be playmates for children.

The main character Noramimi is one such mascot who hasn't yet found a family to work for.

Do you post anywhere else, Hox, or are you mostly a 4chan exclusive phenomena?

Always appreciate threads like these.

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>>151738154
I'm faithful to 4chan. I do a lot of lurking but never really actively partake in discussions anywhere else. If I ever feel like ranting or putting up some long opinions, I do it on my site though (http://hoxtranslations.blogspot.com) along with manga releases.

>>151737781
Oh man, Shimamoto's stuff is so good. God bless Hokuto no Gun for translating it

>>151730811
I remember marathoning this and Chronicles of the Clueless Age back in the day. They were both great.

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>>151738344
I wish they'd pick up Aoi Honoo though. The live action drama only adapted like the first 5 volumes or something, if I recall.

>>151738407
Yeah, I agree entirely. But they translated Blazing Transfer Student on its entirety, so I have faith eventually they'll translate the rest of his works.

>>151738143
Noramimi is still one of my favorite series. I'm always thankful that you finished the translations. Not my favorite chapter though.

>>151738464
Really? I always liked this chapter a lot as it's a good one told from the parent's perspective, unlike a lot of the other chapters that are told from the perspectives of the kids or mascots.

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And now a couple pages from Furuya Usamaru's Short Cuts. Shame this doesn't get posted as much anymore these days.

>>151738495
Most of my favorite chapters are the ones the focus on the staff at Hello Kids. Sarashina's flashback being the one that always jumps to mind. Also any chapter with Dottari in it.

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>>151738739
Oh, I should mention that this is meant to be read left-to-right.

>>151738739
Starting with the best page I see.

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>>151738739

Did you see that Plastic Girl got reprinted?

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And now a sci-fi story from Hoshino Yukinobu. I've probably posted this one too many times but among his stuff shorter than 30 pages, this is one of my favourites.

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>>151738976
Woops, wrong story. Ignore that page.

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>>151738929
Oh did it? I've always wanted to own a copy of it.

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And now a oneshot by Urasawa Naoki. I wish he'd sort of recapture his older, simpler style. Billy Bat was pretty unsatisfying and felt like a caricature of the "multiple narratives+cliffhanger/twists" that he's been relying more and more ever since Monster. I could even settle for Urasawa trying to do something completely new and reinvent himself.

Not entirely related to the thread at hand, but I've given a quick run through your blog and, as a history student, I must say your posts on the matter are really good. Will keep reading so keep posting.

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>>151739647
Cool, a fellow history fan. If I could affect arrogance for even one second as a man with no credentials, read books on as many different time periods and places as possible. Reading in-depth is obviously necessary for anyone who plans to go deeper in the field, but I feel like you really need a good broad foundation first. I don't think the random sampling of world history courses that history undergrad majors are supposed to take is really enough. Most schools don't even offer courses on the histories of Poland, Vietnam, Denmark, or whatever.

>>151738976
>Hoshino Yukinobu
this one is pretty good I admit.

>>151739799
Yeah, you're absolutely right, and I've been doing a spectacularly shit job of reading recently, so that'll have to change. I'd recommend (though you've probably know something of the matter, since you know Braudel and such) reading on some theory of history. It's not always the most engaging content, but it sure opens your eyes (it opened mine, at the very least).

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>>151739893
Yeah, I do have a couple books related to theory that've been on my shelf forever now that I really need to get to, like Provincializing Europe.

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And now for Yoshihiro Tatsumi's Abandon the Old in Tokyo.

Good stuff as usual Hox.

Birthday coffin is really throwing me for a loop. I'm not even close to understanding what is being implied by the line about the guy needing "two more" - presumably the wife isn't one of the two, right?

Also the girl mentions her birthday, does the Japanese word used work as a double entendre for "day you were born" like it does in English? Because if the dude is raising her (and not just cloning her that very day) it seems weird that the last one left around is not the chronologically oldest.

I like it but I feel like I'm missing something to give this a lil more clarity...

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>>151740168
If you look carefully here >>151736259, you'll notice that each tanked is marked with a number for the age and he still has two more tanks left to fill. And yeah, birthday in Japanese is literally "birth day" as well.

>>151740159
hello again!
good to see another day with this thread.

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>>151740168
Also, the last one left around isn't the oldest because he's been only raising a single clone at any time since, you know, the clones would find out if there were a whole bunch of them being raised all at once.

>>151737664
>shoujo artist giving uo
You know this kind of thing happen often in the manga industry too.
I did my share on translating bunches of green horn shoujo and one shot for practice and some author's final notes seem very heart breaking.

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>>151740421
Yeah, I can imagine there's a fuckton of mangaka who publish a couple obscure series in unpopular magazines before giving up. It's a shame, but that's just how a competition is. Luckily with the advent of the internet, there are less costly ways for people to get their works out there without having to go through the traditional magazine publishing industry.

Thank you for all your work, Hox, especially PunPun and Ashita no Joe. It was a crime that there was not a completed translation of Joe until recently, but now we have it, thanks to your scanslation work.

Keep up the good work

...He's the hero /a/ deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

>>151738817
Ah, a classic

>>151740168
Thanks for the note about birth day in Japanese.

>>151740272
I was thinking this way at first but some things seem to contradict that, for instance the girl says she never went into the "vat" room, but upon entering it at the end she says "My big and little sisters?" I took that line to mean she had seen them (alive) before. Ofc it could also be interpreted as something confused she says cuz she doesn't know what clones are

I don't want to hung up on plot aspects but just want to see if there's some big hint I'm missing about the husband's motivation.

Right now it works for me as a mysterious story hinging on the wife's line "That's not love" and the mystery of the father's motivations. But gah so many little details - like why does she hire the agency if she just plans to murder the girl? Does this imply that the father is keeping her out and the warrant was just her ruse to get onto the property? bah

>>151737019
the shading is phenomenal

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>>151740667
Katou Shinkichi is definitely my favourite mangaka art-wise right now.