[It's not my fault!]

All these years later I'm still mad they didn't adapt the minus arc

>>154359297
This. The minus arc and the student council election were the best arcs in the whole manga. It could've ended with Zenkichi becoming president and I would've been happy.

『 I dont' think you understnad what the brackets are supposed to be, Anon. 』

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「I really wish there was more content with Kumagawa in it.」

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>>154359271
Daily reminder that Kumagawa died a virgin.

>>154359512
what happened to him?

>>154359512
what are the brackets for? i never understood that

>>154360261
It's a Japanese pun.

>The reason why Kumagawa's "speaks" in brackets is a bit of a pun (see 『カギカッコ』). The context here implies literally [括弧]{かっこ}つける (kakko tsukeru), meaning "to add brackets/parenthesis (to something, e.g., a sentence)." The pun involves a well-known expression [格好]{かっこ}つける (kakko tsukeru), meaning "to show off or try to look cool." Kumagawa speaks in the way he does because he is trying to sound cool.

When he's being sincere, he doesn't use the brackets, as in >>154359512

Fuck, what was that one page where he says "I'm the victim!" and Medaka loses her shit?

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He was the best.

Might be my favorite Nisio character even though I'm a huge Monogatarifag.

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he's good but not the true hero of the manga

>>154361237
Medaka Box is one of those manga that would probably be even better when read in japanese, assuming that you can understamd all the puns without explanatons.

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>>154361287

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>>154359603
It is implied he is swimjews baby daddy.

>>154363360
Why does Nisio write the best jews?

can someone explain his character to me?

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>>154360261
Here, in manga version

>>154364178
The world's most successful and powerful loser.

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>>154364178
He's a sore loser who shitted on people, but being a bitch when smacked by the MC.
So just exactly that, a sore loser.
Pic related, him in middle school.

All Fiction is actually stronger than his first sealing ability.

>>154364178
Here is what you need to know. In the second Shonen Jump popularity poll contest, Kumagawa won with almost four thousand votes. And Medaka the main protag who holds second place, didn't even reach a thousand.

>>154364528
>tfw handbra jeans

>>154364178
He's like if you took the power, fetishes, and losing ability of everyone on /a/ and pumped it all into one person.

He's basically /ourguy/

>>154364178
He loved a girl. But he was afraid that he only loved her because she was beautiful. So he ripped off her face. He still loved her even without a face so he was happy that he isn't shallow.

>>154364528
Nips had shit taste big deal, if can't even explain it means he's just some stuck up generic character that nips usually love.
Probably something like Natsu.

Well that answered my question.

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>>154364178

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>>154364618
just post the page.
Now after knowing the context though, is it really what he did? Aren't he actually sealed her off or some shit?

>>154364622
Get raped. He can't be explained.

>>154361387
Unironically kill yourself

>>154364178
NisiOisin's magnum opus.

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>>154364178
literally me: the character

>>154364178
Imagine a Mary Sue heroine who is da best at everything and cannot lose ever.

Now imagine a villain who's aware of this and decides that this is bullshit.

>>154363360
The fuck? Where is that ever implied?

>>154364396
Irony is Medaka was beating him up over nothing.

He was just in a strange relationship.

>>154364553

>Handbra + jeans

My nigga. I was proud of Kumagawa that day.

>>154359603
he is immortal (thanks to all fiction) though.
unless you are referring to all his deaths that were all fictioned, in which case he has died a virgin many times.

>>154363360
sorry, anon, your fanfic was never implied to be canon

>>154365488
this.
all he did was rip a god's face off to test his love.
she also ruined his plans of maintaining school peace when he was class president.
she was a delinquent in middle school so he tried to set her straight with destroyer-san, but she wouldn't stop.

>>154366741
>class president
I meant to say student council president

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>>154364806
>be me
>am normal kid
>parents send me to super power research center to see if I am "abnormal"
>see autismo kid next to me
>try to warn her about normal people
>some normalfag tells her to become super hero
>middle school
>am student council president
>autismo kid is delinquent
>send friend to try to discipline her
>she doesn't stop
>friend falls in love with her
>he quits student council
>am in love with vice president
>try to prove my love love for vice-prez by ripping her face off
>it's okay since she is a god
>autismo kid walks in
>autisticscreech.wmv
>she starts beating the shit out of me
>tells me to drop out of school
>have no other choice since she is threatening to kill me

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>>154366741
He couldn't win ;_;

I want to marry Anshin'in!

>>154366888
>he only wanted the girl he loved to stop wanting to kill herself
why are the other characters so shitty towards him?
he isn't a bad guy at all.

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i didn't know this was a thing

>>154364724
Did you say please?

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Post yfw

Funny that Zenkichi and Kumagawa became bros

>>154366941
He was an absolute dick to everyone along the way and I don't remember anyone figuring out his motives.

>>154367063
That scene resonated with me so well.

>>154364622
He won the popularity contest by bribing the readers with fetish outfits.

>>154367063
>mangafox

>>154367171
>yfw

>>154367089
no one tried to figure his motive out.
he was only a dick in order to provoke them to test their skills/abilities to see if any of them could beat anshini'n.
everyone was a shit to him without even trying to understand him.

>>154367336
He was pretty good at being manipulative they probably took him at face value.

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>>154367336

>>154367418
that's exactly what they did.
none of them tried to look any deeper into his motives other than what he said (which was him bullshitting them).
medaka even claimed to have reformed him despite not having done anything to help/understand him.

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Sometimes it feels like Nisio's trying way too hard to look edgy. You feel like he's conveying some kind of message about modern manga but it's hiding behind too many layers of irony.

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>>154367480
I always loved his minus's believe though.

>first few powers have psuedo-science explanations
>then comes a reality warper and a literal god
Nisio sure had no fucking clue what he was doing.

>>154367569
plot twist:
he wasn't a minus the whole time, but was a non-equal that had a skill that turns all other skills that he gains into minus/negative skills and boosts their minus power over time. this is why when he got hundred gauntlets it turned into all fiction. it is also why he is able to make new skills by combining the skills he has (i.e. non-fiction and april-fiction).

>>154367657
it was his first serialized manga and it wasn't originally supposed to be a battle shonen so its not really that surprising shit got pretty loose as it went on

>>154367657
You may have missed the point

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>>154367705
No anon, a minus isn't based on what ability he had. It's about the personality and the outcome of those ability.

anyone want to tell me why it turned into a battle manga for no reason?

>>154367848
I for one, am glad that it turned to be battle manga. I dropped Medaka Box exactly at chapter one and picked it up again in chapter 56.

I have been there during weekly thread and even now I have never read chapter 2 - 54.

>>154367809
not if your a non-equal.
anshini'n had both abnormalities(plus skills) and minuses because she was a non-equal.

>>154367848
most likely popularity reasons. many jump manga go this way if they start to fall too low. Yu Yu Hakusho was originally just going to be Yusuke having ghost adventures.

>>154367759

I dont know man. I doubt Nisio is the type of guy that wants to run a weekly comedy ecchi romance manga

>>154367895
there was too much bs to make it enjoyable

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>>154367809
Emukae's denial scene was tragic, but I'm glad they actually went through with Zen just saying "no" right to her face instead of stupid yandere shenanigans. Not like he was gonna end with anyone but Medaka in the first place.
She's still the best girl though and won in my heart ;_;

>>154367996
>comedy ecchi romance
really? the sense I've gotten from his work is that he likes all those things

>>154364178
His special ability is that he's a loser.

>>154368064

Yes but not as the main subject. He likes it as filler. He always goes full philosophical bullshit

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>Keep forgetting what he did other than MB
>look him up, again
>re-discover for the 8th or so time that he wrote XXXholic and the _____gatari set
I'm surprised every time.
Every single time. It's incredible.

can explain the concept of the "adults" in japan when they compare it to teens like in MB?

>>154368800
He wrote a spin-off novel for xxxHolic (as well as JoJo), but the actual manga was made by CLAMP

>>154369519
Really? odd. You have a link for the spinoff?

>>154364453
Book Maker is OP as fuck you mongoloid. Kumagawa with All Fiction doesn't stand a chance against Ajimu, Medaka, etc. But Kumagawa with Book Maker can. He'll still lose though since that's the point of his character but it would give him a better chance than having All Fiction.

why the fuck does everyone have the same blood type

>>154367001
zenkichi you lucky dog.

>>154367063
no they didnt. it just became meh,

>>154371414
Because Abnormal have that kind of blood.

>zenkichi
>mentality= zero
>previous mentality= normal
what?

>>154371454
What does being a zero even mean?
Is he juat so average that it became a special thing?

>>154371687
Japaness have horoscope based on your blood type.
O have a special meaning but I forgot which one.

We should have gotten a spin-off about Kumagawa trying to enter the work force while trying to be a responsible adult. In his own way
Or, even better, Medaka gives Kumagawa a gig as a teacher in Hakoniwa and we get "GTK"

>>154359271
Are there any other absolute madman characters that were more fun than Kumagawa?
Reigen from Mob Psycho 100 was based too but he was nowhere near Kumagawa's levels

>When translated from kanji, Devil Style means The Right to do What is Wrong.
but I thought it was a "no surprises" style like
oh you have another transformation? nope. well maybe not exactly but the exact manga page explained it better

>>154372264
He appeared in a total of 2 episodes of the anime and I still think he was the best thing on it.
And that extra episode's villain was retarded
That piano going nuts when he appeared in the last actual episode of abnormal was so great. They wasted Ogata by not making a "minus" season, she did a spectacular job.

>>154372264
Kaiki and Ii

>anime adaptation was done by Gainax, up to the minus arc

I'm still pretty mad, the anime was such horse shit compared to the manga. Why does monogatari get such a good budget and medaka box doesn't?

>>154363360
Dude, she was cute, and their relationship had promise with the first-name basis and him coming back from the dead to help her, but I doubt that.
They say the last time they saw him was the graduation ceremony and in the last chapter, the narration says Kumagawa vanished without a trace in defiance to the rest of the planet.
Unless he pulled some memory erasing shenanigans on Mogana, the kid ain't his.

>>154372443
>and him coming back from the dead to help her
>>154367809
>>154364661
My god I miss this fucker.
And I am of the opinion he was just as good as a villain
Anyone ever translated the novels?

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>>154359603
I love pages like this.

>>154364553
One writer, One character, one guy who understands god tier fetishes and juxtaposition.

>>154359271
Dude subversions lmoa.

>>154373440
>I will aim for the cover of WSJ
Dammit, Kumagawa. You were far too good for this wretched world.

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>>154373502
How can an antagonist that betrays people left and right be so pure?

>>154367502
There's no message, he's just doing what any other battle manga is doing but having his characters talking about it while they're doing it. It's completely generic but hiding behind meta.

>>154373440
Whose breasts are those on the right corner?
Is Kumagawa gonna pull some cinderella shit to find out? I'd read that.

>>154359297
Zaregoto got an adaptation. There's still a faint hope. And then it will be terrible

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>>154373440
I've never felt so strongly about a character poll than I did about this one. It's so rare to see legitimate, unrestrained joy in manga and actually buy into it.

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>>154359271
Author of this used to do porn right? what was his doujinshi name?

i hope his new manga doesnt flop tough

>>154376964
Ill boy ill girl don't seems to do well.
I don't think there is a translation anymore.
Sadly.

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>>154377019
For fucks sake, i bet its nothing for nisio as much as the artist

>>154376964
>>154377019
It's also already ending
But for the kind of story it is it's as likely that it's ending because the story is actually concluded rather than because of lack of popularity

>>154377098
Oh ! Hope that it will be translated once it's ended.
And that Akira find a nice job after.

tfw everyone was revealed to be just a bunch of chunnis

>>154379865
That's how I interpreted the ending as well.

>>154364178
simplest way to put it:
hes the antagonist in a common shonen manga whose aware that hes the antagonist, he knows that his whole life he will never win at anything because the main characters will always make friends, always become strong and always defeat him.

>>154377019
I really liked that one. Why, CXC

>>154377130
I want him to team up with Nisio again