/jam/ - Japan, Anime, & Manga

>>90751
THAT IS AN AWESOME TEAM, I FUCKING LOVE HATSUME ALREADY

>>90753
She makes me wonder if there are any quirkless heroes running around.

>>90762
They're called cops.

>>90762
>>90763
Wasn't it roughly 80% being the stated percentage of humans with quirks in this setting? People without unusual abilities are the minority here.

Its not only superheroes and villains that have powers, certainly seems possible for there to be police officers who either never wanted to be a superhero, failed at that whole business and took a different career path or who have quirks that weren't so suited to being superheroes.

>>90764
>>90763
The only reason I'm asking this is because I kinda want some Question/Batman like person running around doing stuff.

>>90765
Normal humans are uncommon Super heroes and villians, Super people are uncommon in normal jobs.

Exceptions to both rules exist so something like a Question or Batman who can grapple with Supers is very likely.

If there were quirkless heroes, then Izuku wouldn't have had the idea that without a quirk he could never be a hero. His first little character arc pretty much requires there to be no quirkless heroes.

>>90801
How do people feel about the upcoming official english translation?
I don't know their reputation, think the only proper release I've got is the first volume of One Piece bought from a bookshop on an impulse buy, can't remember its quality.

>>90806
>Baby 5 and Senior Pink confirmed for most tragic DonFlamingo family members.

Are we counting Law and Rosinante in that? Because they had some nastiness going on too...

>>90807
They're more victims than members.

>>90810
They'll have to change the name from fake love to real love.

//youtube.com/watch?v=wjOsCSGP4sY

Anyone else looking forward to Xenoverse?

Like, it's done as poorly as it can be, but Bleach could have almost been interesting again, the idea of using Ichigo's retarded nonsense abilities to frame him for the murder of the soul king would have been great...if you hadn't fought your way in, every good idea is ruined BEFORE it's implemented, like shit Bleach is a really magical piece of garbage.

And even more shit is happening in Nisekoi. I'm really curious how he's gonna get it back to status quo, because that is what's gonna happen.

So, how's the Assassination Class anime?

>>90840

Short of Raku touching his first titty without having a coronary, this has been some pretty status quo breaking shit.

If I had to picture a way to return to the status quo without just undoing everything, she could end up living with him. Between the Yakuza and the Triads having VIPs living there it's not like she'd be unguarded.

>>90841
The teacher character is entertaining, the rest of the characters are boring as sin. The show is like GTO except dumber and with a ludicrous gimmick.

>>90859

I feel like Oda doesn't know how to write a good/interesting/engaging female character anymore. Even Nami and Robin are just "there" for funny reaction faces rather than any meaningful character interactions.

Remember when Robin was a character

>>90862
She wants to live

>>90860

Yeah it was, although it was a bit different (as usual).

I'm glad the artist is getting work, I thought Psyren was fucking great despite occasionally slightly wonky art.

>>90862
This ark isn't about the Straw Hats.

>>90861
Like everyone else? You think they've got it bad, look at Sanji (Oh you can't because he hasn't been shown for a few dozen chapters) and Brook. Christ.

>>90862
When she was a villain? Yeah. Same for Franky. Same for Nami. EVERYONE enjoyed better characterization before they joined. Post-join, you vie for good fights and gags. Something that Robin has recently had a good amount of so why you crying.

>>90865
Unfortunately true. It's about Crocod- I mean Doflamingo and the inhabitants of the Kingdom he's terrorizing and the crossover BLEACH character Trafuckouttahere Special Boy D. Waterlawoo.

>>90866
>and the crossover BLEACH character Trafuckouttahere Special Boy D. Waterlawoo.
Oh.
I remember you.

>>90869
Is that right?
Well we had someone on the old /op/ who said the same stuff basically any time he appeared. It just seemed likely that you where him.

Also, the fuck is GODa?

>>90874
They might feel like it'd have a harder time because it's rather competing with Marvel and DC on the Western market than with other manga. And oldschool superheroes might be a tough sell to the Western manga audience, most of which specifically avoid cape comics.

>>90876
Thankfully it appears so, this is after all the last arc, though that means this arc could go on another like, 4 years.

>>90878
You seem stressed. Everything alright?

>>90879
He doesn't seem stressed to me, he sounds like someone with an intense opinion. Nothing abnormal about that.

>>90880
They're not mutually exclusive.

>>90859
Agreed. That was a less bullshit reason, but it's still kinda bullshit.

Don't know where the hell Kubo is going with Bleach anymore.

>>90888
uraraka is the only one I don't like, the rest are rad.

>>90888
something is off to me. Can't pinpoint it, but something is missing, it feels like a cheap amateur work.

>>90890
It's flat coloring.

>>90891
I don't think it's that. I think it's the construction of the faces. Like the mouths look a little off center on several of them, and I feel like some of the eyes that are furthest from the viewer aren't foreshortened quite right.

>>90904
FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEAH!

>>90917

Yuuuuuuuuuuuup, that’d just about do it.

>>90917
Hey Aizen, remember how you wanted to become soul king? Well do we have a deal for you!

>>90917
you actually seriously imply that it's bad jsut because someone predicted it? It's a great development, and people predicted it because it made sense and allowed a great character to come back.

>>90921
No, I'm implying it's bad because IT'S FUCKING STUPID AND POORLY WRITTEN.

And the fact that people so easily predicted it indicates how trite it is, furthermore Aizen is one of if not the worst villains in fiction.

Bleach is the definition of trite.

Aizen is terrible, that is true. But hell so much of bleach is awful from its MC to its Villains.

Bleach and Naruto were both getting pretty awful after a certain point.

>>90923
A pretty early point, too
Bleach: After the original Soul Society arc
Naruto: After Sosuke abandons Konoha

>>90924

Kill la Kill could have used more room to breathe and really layout the School Battle Royale stuff instead of that getting squashed into one montage episode for most the club heads. Not much longer just around say about ten more episodes to flesh things out.

10 more episodes of KLK is the last thing anyone needs.

>>90930
The Club Presidents were basically your tokusatsu "Monster of the Day", so I didn't mind her plowing through them after getting experience on the early ones.

>>90930
>>90933
I would have preferred they made the boring middle part where they go around Japan conquering other schools into a montage, spread out the Club Presidents to a few more episodes, and overall condense it down to maybe 13 episodes total.

Dude what, school conquest arc was great, it had Takarada and Scarfketsu. If anything they should cut Ragyo and just have it be Ryuko vs Satsuki where the former is chasing the latter around Japan.

They should have had Satsuki become the main charcater. That would have alleviated a lot of the problems I had with it.

>>90939
I agree, though having Satsuki as the protagonist from the outset wouldn't work. Like, maybe introduce some more hints of Satsuki's faceturn early on, then at the midway point she gets taken over by Junketsu and becomes an evil general of Ragyo's until the end.

>>90947
fuuuuuuuuuuuck, I think that might be even more messed up than Zuko's backstory.

Also yeah, take the klk discussion to another thread.

Having big noses is a racial stereotype that the Japanese have for white people?

>>90951
Yes, especially roman shape Noses.

>>90989
I love his relationship with Midoriya.

Mind control or hypnotism, perhaps?

>>90994

i want gravity girl to win I am so tired of explosion dude

>>90997
Same though I'm hoping he'll get some depth during this.

>>90997
She won't. She's at a complete disadvantage and if the mangaka has Kacchan fail here yet again, he stops being a rival and becomes a joke ( he already kinda is). She might put up a surprisingly good fight, but I doubt it.

>>90999
Todoroki's the rival now, but really I think Urararaka will probably win just because it'd be unexpected. Bakugou is nothing but blunt force and he still needs to learn how to be smart, part of the contest (and that first match between him and Midoriya) has been showing how his lack of effort and clever thinking fucks him over and makes him really easy to beat.

>>91002
Except that he learned after the fight and his talk with Midoriya. He's still a rageaholic and easily provoked, but he does try to analyze the situation and even incorporated his teammates into his attacks during the cavalry battle. He's not quite that one-dimensional. Otherwise he wouldn't be here in the finals and we'd be seeing Uraraka vs Smuglord instead.

>>91009
I don't get it. Care to explain?

//youtube.com/watch?v=B7goIsc4uV0
//youtube.com/watch?v=aTeEa6ohRyA
Good thing they have the new movie as well as Dragonball Online to continue to draw content from

>>91012
And he said this was going to be the serious movie, so it's likely going to be played completely straight, unlike super Saiyan God which was slightly tongue in cheek

>>91039
That's a very western looking cover there.

>>91050
Pretty sure that's the intention.

>>91050
The creator is a big ol westaboo. He draws while wearing spiderman gloves.

>>91052
Has he said what series he's into? I wonder how some of the more niche series like Sandman fare with them. I know Watchmen only had fans there because of the movie.

Anyways, what is up with white haired people and the whiteness of their hair being the result of having fused with part of a god as an infant in order to save their life, conveniently making them the perfect candidate to replace said god in the event of its death?
That seems to happen a lot.

>>91075
You have no excuse to be reading bleach.

>>91076
Maybe it's an Atla reference.

>>91082
Seems like cliche over-extended shit if it pulls something like that, is it?

>>91082
I'm not sorry I left at the one girl too many at all.

>>91082
There were people who didn't realize immediately she'd be moving in with him so she could stay in Japan, when that "plot development" came out? This type of manga can only be milked for all it's worth by having nothing important change.

>>91100
That's kinda the point isn't it?

And yet the next movie is going to play Goku and Vegeta being the strongest and their confrontation with the movie villain completely straight from all accounts, the other heroes will keep on being fodder versus the stupid revived SSJ freiza's fodder.

>>91109
What you are saying implies all Dragonball movies are created equal.

Its pretty damn lame how the new movie is going even further out of its way to shit on Gohan.
Its even making him rely on super saiyan again for no reason despite now crapping on the concept of the different super saiyan forms from the original series. It's kinda like GT all over again.

>>91122
I think it's too early to be saying things like that.
If you'll recall, Super Saiyan Gohan was featured heavily in promotional material for Battle of Gods, but only because it looked more iconic; in the actual movie he only uses Super Saiyan during the godhood ritual.

Gohan became a scholar, gave all Earthlings super powers, and retired to bone his wife. I would say he has been well served. See also Krillen hooking up with 18.

By what measure is Vegeta a good deal? I mean yeah Goku's no prize but at least he's nice.

>>91155
There's nothing good about Vegeta and Bulma hooking up, its not like he's any better than Goku.

>>91157
Vegeta/Bulma was the first (at least because I can't think of any other) great big "It came out of nowhere" pairing in a shounen anime. It sparked the creation of fandoms for every single crazy coupling combination in every shounen afterwards. Thus in turn it is at least partially responsible for every shipping war that has ever been fought since then.

Even if it was the most lovable pairing in the world, that is a sin that can never be forgiven.

>>91155
>Better deal
>Genocidal maniac who CONSISTENTLY makes things worse by making world destroying threats even stronger.

Vegeta is probably actually dumber than Goku.

>>91168
No, its still stupid looking and totally nonsensical.
If he's gotten stronger just from training then he should look the same.

And it looks like super saiyan Gohan is going to end up jobbing to a henchman at this rate.

You know what would be cool is if instead of that dumb looking thing he unlocked actual other stages. Like, he gets Cooler mode then gets another after that.

Also I was rewatching a bunch of Abridged season 3 and am I the only one that finds 17/18's treatment of 16 weirdly heartwarming? It's like the Iron Giant with space monkey hunting.

>>91173
Deon you'll never stop liking absolutely everything about the series no matter what they do. You are the board's #1 DBZ fanboy.

>>91177
I hate Bio Broly.

Bio Broly has no Goku and lots of 18 and Hercule so it actually rules.

>>91179
The biobroly is actually one of the more original dbz movies.

Hell goku doesn't stick his nose in at all in fighting the villain, not even to take screentime to to appear as a ghost and save the day.

That and the biobroly clone being a freakish muck monster instead of just that shitty character played straight easily elevates it above the second broly movie.

>>91182
This series is so good! I'm so unsure how the next match is going to play out.

>>91232
I was hoping for blue God Vegeta!

>>91232
Because the stick in your butt is gigantic.

>>91238
>"Kuririn’s arrest of two thugs is interrupted by a call from Bulma. He hurries home to prepare, where he puts on his dōgi, and gets No. 18 to shave his head. He tells his wife and daughter to stay safe. As he flies away, No. 18 whispers, “So cool….”"

>>91244
A) That's hilarious

B) Why do you want to harsh on people's mellow bruh?

>>91245
First of all be aware that anon is not one poster. Second, "AHAHA WOMAN NO FIGHT SO HILARIOUS XD"

>>91246
First of all be aware I never implied that.
Second, "AHAHA THEY HAVE A CHILD THAT WOULD BE LEFT UNDEFENDED IF THEY BOTH FOUGHT."

>>91244
>>91247
>>91246
If anything 18 should be the one going into battle since she's stronger than Krillin?
The scene is slightly dumb and it might even seem a little out of character for 18 to react that way but its not really a big deal, there's bigger issues with the writing of the film seen in the Synopsis than that.

>>91253
Plus Fairy Tail went to shit so a nice magic swords and sorcery series'd be nice.

>>91253

Eh, I'd have rather had Battle Satellite, it wasn't enormously original but the art was way better and it had decent fight scenes. Black Clover was a snoozefest all the way through.

>>91253
It goes beyond simply being 'naruto-esque'.

>>91255
Really, I was into everything besides Cyborg Roggy.

Why is Viz Media still calling Zoro "Zolo?" Especially when the 4kids dub is long gone.

>>91270
Zorro isn't in the public domain, so they're likely just trying to avoid litigation.

>>91244
>>91246
>>91249
Yeah it super sucks that they're not only doubling down on "only Goku can beat the villain" but "if you have a vagina you don't get to do anything," on top of awful shit like Piss Freeza and the basic premise itself.

It COULD still be okay, Battle of the Gods looked like shit because the marketing only talked about the (shitty) fight but it was only like, 15 minutes of the movie. But it's not likely.

>>91273
We all knew it was going to be bad when it was announced to be the serious business movie for everyone who hated how silly battle of gods was.
But what if you like Dragonball silly?
Kudos for those guys who wrote a fan song the author loved so much that he based a major motion picture on it though.

At least we'll always have DBZA.

//youtube.com/watch?v=XrWoJKGSjLM

I love the Androids.

>>91270
>>91271

It might also be a mandate from morons at Shueisha. I have a friend who does manga translation, and you wouldn't believe how often she has to use an absolutely idiotic glossary of names and terms because that's how the previous release translated them, and the micromanaging Japanese client insists on maintaining continuity with them.

>>91277
Judging by Seven Deadly Sins, pretty dang fast.

>>91278
nah, powelevels are what ruined sins.

>>91282
Meh

And an out of nowhere shonen transformation is where I draw the line. Really ready for Dressarossa to be over now!

>>91282

>internal organs poisoned with radiation (that he's stitching together with his string power because... that's how radiation works?)
>has complete control of an island-spanning bird cage
>able to use Haki for defense and attacks
>"We'd only get in Luffy's way!" from Nico fucking Robin

And then this. Dressarossa has been working on my last nerve. I don't remember Alabasta being this exhaustive.

Dressarosa is indeed gonna be one of the worst arcs and nobody is gonna argue otherwise, I have zero connection to it and it's characters, that said I'm more interested in this than I am anything else because since it's a Luffy power up it will be somewhat interesting.

Gears aren't Super Sayian which are boring color changes and just strength ups, they are generally creative variations on his central rubber abilities. I dunno, it's been a 6 months to a year since I cared about one piece so I at least hope this is interesting.

>>91287
Toriko, is that you?

>>91286
I like Dressrosa.

//youtube.com/watch?v=EGpt11LveNc

What if Ywach is just Aizen's Bankai and getting caught was part of his keikaku the entire time.

>>91291
I like it more than Skypeia at least. Now those where characters I didn't care about.
The only thing I don't particularly like about Dressrosa is the amount of characters he shoved into it. There's just too many to give anything more than a slight gag for character. Which Oda has loved to do for ages, but there becomes a point where there's just too many at once, and all the charm of the character gimmicks get lost amongst themselves. Particularly for the Strawhat crew themselves, who seem to have been just going with the flow sense the time skip. In a lot of ways, this arc is like a condensed Baroque Works arc, but lacking in the interesting character developments.

I think what we need is some strong disclosure as to what happened with the main crew in those two years. Because as it is, they kind of feel distant.

Dressrosa's fine, we're just at the point in the arc where it's almost over and we're ready for it to be done. Oda always has arcs overstay their welcome slightly for people like us who tune in every week for a morsel.

>>91307
therideneverends.jpg

>>91307
All these terrible shonen series getting new movies
//youtube.com/watch?v=Hs2qv_GOJt8

>>91352
I love when a manga bucks Japan's superlust for bloodlines and heritage.

>>91355
Not only does it buck it, it calls it out as some nefarious shit.

I think Gear Fourth looks pretty cool.