/jam/ - Japan, Anime, & Manga

Having a literal, on-point, to the second timer countdown for regen is kinda fucking stupid. Luffy shoulda ate some Meat.

>>91799
Well, better than Goku's minute that didn't even work because he apparently didn't realize staying in super saiyan 3 would continually deplete his stamina even at rest.

>>91799
I wasn't on board with it until they treated it as some sort of wrestling event. The people cheering a countdown completely justified it to me.

>>91801
Ho, Karin is actually her mother? Thats pretty amusing.

>>91804
Doctor Doom?
Magneto?

>>91808
Ahahahaha, this is awmazing!

>>91804
I was kind of liking the Gaiden up until this chapter. It was a cute little sidestory where the idiocy of the main plot wasn't hugely relevant. I guess that was too much to ask for.

>>91807
You're just proving my point for me, person who is excusing Doom's bullshit.

>>91812
Implying there are any actual heroes in Marvel

>>91816
Hah love it when Deku switches into his focused analytical behaviour.

>>91814
Genes are really goddamn important in Naruto. Especially during the end of the first series as its resolution is predicated on Naruto and Sasuske being descended from outright demigods to channel their great-great-great whatever.

Remember when some people thought there was going to be progress in Nisekoi and then there wasn't? Well, it's happening again.

>>91821
Yeah but Sakura has subhuman commoner genes that don't even give your offspring the most minor of buffs, Karin at least her superior Uzumaki blood.

By god, is Kishimoto a national socialist? With his emphasis on the importance of superior bloodlines bringing greatness and the fact Orochimaru did nothing wrong!

>>91823
Did the word starting with N and ending in azi get banned or something?

//youtube.com/watch?v=z-6Z0vDE4vY

BUT! What if Karin did it on her own with mad ninja science.
"NANI?! Sasuke cut his own balls off to put end to the whole genetic family feud thing?
Fuck that, I'm having my sharingan baby!"
Goes to the gene freezer because ofcoures Orochimaru has one of those.
>9 months later
"DAMN IT KARIN! Who going to take care of this mess?"
Then Sakura bursts through the wall, yells "yoink" and takes off with the baby.
"Thanks honey. Guess she wasn't kidding when she said she was going baby crazy."

>>91829
I enjoy this interpretation more than the cucking interpretation that's got everyone so pleased. It's hilarious without being mean-spirited.

i thought naruto ended

>>91840
It never ends.

>>91840
Yeah and I thought dbz ended too.

>>91828
Well, I guess it doesn't look too bad.
It might be fun if it doesn't end like GT, where they have lots of good ideas and now idea how to execute them in a satisfying way.

>>91846
Just admit it's because you're a shotacon and Naruto got too old for you.

I, for one, welcome a reset back to impish kid ninja playing tricks and proving himself more than a jokester.

Did Naruto fuse the two halves of Kurama into himself, or did he install one into Boruto so he can be more of an exact copy of him?

Well, that was certainly worthy of a final blow. If Doffy's standing up from this yet again, I'm gonna straight-up quit reading.

>>91866
To be fair, neither of them started off thinking they were anything amazing. It wasn't until much later that we learned about all the destiny crap they both had to live up to.

>Gintama OP wasn't genderswapped
Lazy fucks.

Yes, Sins is bad.

>>91871
I like the weird shit like Pain's Fight and Diamante's stuff (more relevantly) that everyone shits on. If the Threads got like that I'd love it.

>>91902
She's from one of his previous series? I've never read his other stuff.

>>91904
Holy fuck I forgot about that!

>“Dragon Ball Super” is a complete continuation of the Majin Buu story arc. It’s got a bit of post-battle aftermath, continues with the “Battle of Gods” arc where the God of Destruction Beerus appears and the “Revival of ‘F'” arc where Freeza comes back to life, and then, I’ve written a strange new story where they finally depart from this universe. They’re fighting against their neighbors, Universe 6! They’ll yell at me if I give away too many spoilers, so I’ll keep the rest a secret, but they’re chasing after giant Super Dragon Balls; I think things will unfold in a bright and simple way, that will be really fun and exciting!

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/2015/07/01/dragon-ball-super-complete-showcase-event-reveals-series-plot/

>>91923
What does that even mean, it's going to feel silly if they do more than just a brief recap of the movies.
In before they simply split the movies up into episodes and run them like that.

>>91923
>They’re fighting against their neighbors, Universe 6!
so, evil goku is the last boss, right?

Fujitora is a swell dude.

>>91938
Not enough energy for a dragonball revival.
Needs more Kageyama.

>>91934
She's cool but what is her quirk? Its not been clear.

>>91963
Character and realism

Fujitora continues to be a swell dude.

//youtube.com/watch?v=dhLfAM6KCTU

>>92019
More time travel crossovers?

I like that you don't post about Super but feel the need to continue posting every update to some nothing card game.

>>92043
Eh, I'd rather just wait for the home release.
Funi usually does good subs.

>>92043
No one should talk about Super.

>>92045
Yeah whatever Vegeta.

//youtube.com/watch?v=ssoQUKJuJAc

New Burrito trailer

Resurrection of F isn't as good as Battle of the Gods or.... I wanna say World's Strongest and Fusion Reborn but I don't remember all the old ones well enough (and the ones I do have been overwritten by the abridged versions). But it's fine. The monkey man hits the space alien (whose voice actor is KILLING IT by the way) and Team Booze is great and it's fun. Go see the fun movie!

Also they make a lot of the stuff people were worried about in the spoiler summaries fit pretty well. My only real complaint is that Jaco isn't exactly integrated smoothly.

>>92079
Hah was just gonna post that

So, uh...I kind of dropped Naruto years ago and all the places I used to go for subs don't seem to exist anymore.
So is there any preferred group now that I should look for The Last subs?

>>92081
Don't do this to yourself anon, it's not worth it for a waifu of yesteryear.

So I had rum to get rid of anyway so SURE, Naruto: The Last, why not. To preface this I will say that you should ideally still not watch this movie even though I am going to say nice things about it because if you've cut yourself off, you should stay cut off. If you need that one last fix, well:

-Jun Fukuyama as an eye themed supervillain who believes that the world must be destroyed to create a new one. HA. FUCKING. HA.
-The director of this thing, though he has few projects to his name, is still way overqualified for it. He headed up the Victorian Romance Emma and Midori Days adaptations and more importantly directed fucking Twelve Kingdoms.
-Basically they got this guy because they needed him to justify this incredibly unearned romance. There's a sequence early on where Naruto has to literally sort through both their memories in order to put together the "puzzle" of which one piece is an explicit confession. BUT WHATEVER.
-The fights aren't great. He's not much of an action director at the end of the day and was brought on for his romance experience (Also his close at hand relation with Pierrot but hey)
-They do get points for some cool environments thought. Most of the movie takes place on the moon.
-That magic hand clock is fucking weird.
-also the incredible easy of eye transplants in this universe
-and oh yeah THE NINJAS HAVE TRANS-PLANETARY LASER CANNONS SURE
-At one point this movie had me fucking fooled (although as I mentioned, rum) and I thought maybe this was actually going to be mostly through Hinata's legwork but NOPE. Brainwashing for the midboss fight and locked in a literal bird cage for the final boss. OH WELL. They do actually do the Love Love Tenkyoken though.
-I do love a good wedding assault scene, cliche as it is.
-Shikamaru is still cool.

>>92081
http://www.crunchyroll.com/

>>92085
Found it!
http://attackonnaruto.tumblr.com/post/126181724037/eng-version-part-1-x
http://attackonnaruto.tumblr.com/post/126181950897/eng-version-part-2-x

Ressurection F was pretty neat, I just wish the war scene was bigger.
It's gotta suck when Yamcha is considered less of an asset than Master Roshi.

>>92094
Holy shit! There are still people on this board!

I have a question about shonen jump its self why did they stop selling them here is my experience every time I went to my local food lion I went to the magazines to see what the recent shonen jump was and to also see if it came with a yugioh card then one day I looked and there was no shonen jump that day and there never was one since then so what I want to know is did they stop making them

>>92129

They stopped selling them (assuming you mean the Viz manga version) because they stopped making them. They went to an online distribution model, in which they publish chapters essentially simultaneously with the Japanese magazine.

>>92144
Who the fuck cares anymore?

>>92145
I'd say it was over the top, but Bleach passed the top ages ago.

>>92145

Anyone who still cares about Bleach is getting exactly what they deserve.

>>92148

So I know the popular thing is to hate Bleach on this board but I just have to ask. Am I the only one that still enjoys bleach as dumb fun? I mean I know it hasn't been "good" for a very long time and never will be again. But I don't take any of it seriously and I can appreciate it as silly entertainment for about 5 minutes every week.

Which is weird because towards the end of Naruto I really just did not give a fuck anymore. I wonder what the difference was?

>>92150
Bleach is still funny every once in a while, while Naruto went down the path of badly written drama without occasional humor. There's a good reason I started liking the spinoff manga better than the main one.

>>92150
It's like Homestuck, it's become so convoluted and keeps spiraling out of control with no end in sight even though the author keeps saying the end is really close and you just want to keep going because you've invested so much already it's like you want to see it to the end.
Like geez, start the final boss battle already Kubo/Hussie.

>>92150
>>92151
Fwiw, starting with The Last Naruto has... sort of patched itself up as a franchise? I mean it's still got space aliens and shit but from most reports Boruto is basically back to Part 1 and The Last was good too. Hell, aside from the weird paternity plotline 7th Gaiden had a fair bit of levity and was enjoyable.

All right, five episodes of Hunter X Hunter and I'm already invested. It helps that Megumi Han keeps being a top tier VA. Thank you, Netflix.

>>92154
>>92153
And this is why I learned to despise Homestuck.

I just started with the anime.
I haven't read the manga. I don't know the situation of the manga.
I am not an hypocrite.
I repeat, I am not an hypocrite. Don't hate me, please.

Is Usopp finally going to get his massive crew?

CAN'T DETAIN THE STAIN

>>92167
>>92168
I'm really that gullible, am I?

I'm watching Naruto, for the first time ever. Previously I'd watched the dub a couple of times 10 years ago when it came on CN, but I only ever saw the filler episodes since I saw it around the time those were airing. I'm 6 episodes in and while I enjoy it, I'm starting to see why people don't care for it. It's quite juvenile. Specifically the characters, which right now are kinda two-dimensional and stuff I'd expect from a cartoon set in middle school. That being said, the music is amazing. This has to be one of the best OSTs an anime has ever had.

I heard a lot of stuff from the manga is censored out though. Should I read that instead, or just watch the series and read that afterwords?

I have a question about dragonball I'm watching the season 3 dvds and while watching I noticed that all the episodes where Goku is training for the tournament seem to end faster then all the other episodes from season 3 and the episodes from seasons 1 and 2 why is that

You should probably read the manga if you're dead set on it, for expediency if nothing else (though yes the anime tones back the violence). Though worth noting is that the general populace doesn't really turn on the series until... chapter 350ish I think? The first arc or two is just place setting in any case.

>>92220

The manga is a better experience. That does not mean that it's good. But it's better.

Naruto has this thing where it starts off pretty bad, and then slowly gets kind of good, and then it slowly starts becoming bad again, and then it's fucking terrible and stays that way right to the end.

>>92220
Finished episode 14, and man. These fights are slow as shit for all the wrong reasons. There's about 30 seconds of something happening, and then the rest of the episode is spent explaining what just happened while the characters have a bunch of inner monologues that are identical to what they said last episode.

I'll finish up this arc, but after that I'll probably just switch to the manga just so things aren't so damn slow. I can't say I'm enjoying the series as much as I think I should be. Still, I'll keep going.

>>92225
It's the curse of shonen jump anime, since they all start while the manga is going, they have to either go real slow or terrible original content that usually isn't that good to stay behind.
They serve as half hour commercials for merchandise for a hype train that never slows down, so simply taking a break is generally not allowed.

>>92225
You shouldn't feel the need to continue this series if you don't like it. Go ahead and give the manga a shot but honestly Naruto just sucks.

As someone who only watched the Naruto dub on Toonami…yeah, it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

>>92233
Believe it!

>>92233
The dub or the series itself? If it's the latter, that's a bit unfair. Sometimes the manga can trump the anime adaptation so hard, it changes your perspective. Example: I used to hate the Yu-Gi-Oh anime. It was so dull. Then I read the manga, which is completely fucking different and a million times better.

Naruto-guy here, switched to the manga and I actually kinda like it this time. It has good action and pacing, and the characters aren't as annoying. But then I've only compared it to the end of the "Land of Waves" arc which is what I've already seen.

>>92235

Not a Shonen Jump title.

Also goddamn this guy's titty fixation is getting old. Like, we get it. You like boobs. Okay.

The arc may have been dragged out, but these last few chapters of One Piece have been a real delight.

>>92238
My bad. I see "Shounen Jump" and I see "Shounen General". I'll take it over to the /jam/ General.

>>92250
It actually would be nice if we did make this Shounen General.

>>92256
90% of the manga talked about on this board are shounen. This would just be a second /jam/ general at that point.

One Piece had another amazing chapter yet again. It's truly at its best when it's all about world building.

alright Shunsui, but i mean, your power isn't as cool as "radioactive zombies of everyone i've ever killed" and "fire so hot that just by existing it slowly destroys the universe, and can incinerate someone completely out of existence"

old man Yama was a more hardcore sword-ghost

>>92274
I'm really starting to miss the other part of the crew though.

>>92279

I really hope that the first half of this arc is just Luffy, Zoro et al running around Zou, continually running into the aftermath of some insane bullshit the other half of the crew got up to, and wondering what the fuck HAPPENED here!?

>>92300
I am honestly shocked by Tsuyu's position, I guess she hasn't found her Y-san yet.

>edgelords 1 and 2 taking Tsuyu and All Night's proper spots
I can live with the generic MC #1 vote, but I can't deal with this

>>92303
>>Calling Icyhot an edgelord
The hell is wrong with you?

>>92304
I haven't read in awhile I guess, did he stop being Grim Rival #164288?

>>92305
He stopped almost as soon as he started.

>>92307
Really, most of the poll is fairly expected. Bakugou and Todoroki are the rival characters that always get nearly as popular as the main character, Uraraka's the main female lead. Iida being below Tokoyami is surprising, but outside of that it's pretty much what you would guess.

http://onepiecepodcast.com/2015/10/13/how-scanlations-ruin-your-one-piece-experience/

Yup.

//youtube.com/watch?v=D8VBmlxnScE
That britich accsent.

>>92345
You should reread Dressrosa, it's long but the fun is absolutely there. It's easy to miss reading that arc week to week. I am loving this crazy silly new arc already.

>>92349
Geez, the absolute last thing I wanna do is reread Dressrosa, that's the absolute last arc I wanna revisit right now, the first word I associate with that arc is "trudge."

>>92345
Dressrosa was fun at the start and after party. In between kinda dragged, but that's kinda standard for this series by now.

I've only just now got around to reading Dragon Ball, although I watched Z for several years when it first aired. I liked Toriyama's art style a lot better towards the beginning, and less as it moved towards where Z started. It seemed a lot more fluid and detailed.

>>92361
It's clean in a way that you really appreciate.
You don't want it to be so busy that it's hard to follow what's going on, but you also don't want to kubo it up and make everything happen in a void that's boring to look at.

Speaking of cleanliness, what happened to the violence in DBZ? I remember in the original Dragon Ball, the fight between Goku and Piccolo was brutal and bloody as fuck. Meanwhile a typical fight from Gods, F and Super is like an episode of Power Rangers. I'm not saying it needs to be brutal and bloody to be entertaining, but I really miss being able to take the series seriously. I know you're not really supposed to, but what used to be badass to me became cheesier and cheesier as time went on.

>>92363
Unless the translations I'm reading are inaccurate, young Goku also straight up kills the villains. As soon as Z starts he becomes the typical idiot shonen protagonist who won't kill even when there's really no other option.

>>92364
Goku killed people in DBZ. (Recoome, for example). However, he did plea for Krilin to not kill Vegeta, and that was because he wanted to fight him again. Which was changed in the English dub to showing mercy.

>>92366
He only knocked Recoome out, Vegeta was the one who killed him. Goku didn't even want to finish off Frieza, and we got a half page of a big frowny sad face when he did(n't).

>>92366
>>92366
No, Goku didn't kill anyone in the Ginyu Force just like how he didn't take out Nappa, he was full on bullshit-Messiah mode.

And yeah and he was even refusing to kill Freiza, he was entirely content to let him go back to ruling his genocidal empire by actively giving him energy to help him escape the exploding planet that Freiza himself had destroyed.
Even when he got pissy that Freiza used it to attack him he half-assed the counterblast and somehow failed to kill the nearly dead Freiza.

Honestly Goku and Vegeta are lame main characters, watching them get handed yet another new tier of (recoloured) bullshit power while everyone else get shit on even more is lame as hell.

>>92370
>>92361

Toriyama has masterful sequential art chops, but his bigger-picture storytelling isn't so hot. The former can cover for the latter for a long time, but eventually the shit just builds up.

>>92372
He was making everything up as he went along~
Like, to the point of skipping rough drafts, I think I've heard.
He made a big deal about Jaco the Galactic Patrolman being one of the only stories he's sat down and planned ahead and drafted out like one is supposed to when one makes manga.

Guess what? My Hero Academy is gonna be animated by Studio BONES.
http://heroaca.com/
Hope you enjoy your BONES anime original ending! If they make enough to get ahead of the manga, that is.But then again, Kekai Sensen started anime original fairly early, so there is no easy tell at this point either way.

Can't wait for the doujins from this One Piece arc.

An island of animal people.
I wonder if Chopper's finally going to get his special chapter.

>>92409
Thank fuck I'm not the only dude left on this board who doesn't want to fuck animals.

>>92410
...they're not really animals, though, more like hominids or a bipedal alien species...

>>92411
Blah blah blah blah blah, Typical furry logic.

>>92374
The most forethought Toriyama gave to most of his work was making sure he had enough whiskey to get through the chapter.

//youtube.com/watch?v=o0L1YC9YgxM

Hero Academia PV

>>92446
REMEMBER KIDS

BRUSH YOUR TEETH

>>92446
Depending on how his power works he might not actually be able to brush his teeth due to the hand always being on his face when using his powers.

>>92451
When the chapter was being released on /a/ it was theorized that his power might be somewhat involuntary.

From the way he specifically put all his fingers except one on Deku's throat and panels of him doing that same thing with other objects in previous chapters it seems like if he puts his whole hands on something it automatically starts to crumble.

>>92412
If it has human intelligence and can consent, it's fair game as long as I'm concerned.
And perhaps more importantly: they're not real.

>>92470
Now THAT's as ugly as I imagined him to be.

>>92484
Fuck.

>>92484
They'll keep it going eternally, just like DBZ which was yanked out of its shallow grave after all these years.

>>92486
I'd rather have One Piece Kai.

>>92484
... Wasn't he supposed to be doing like, some kind of Mobster series, tho? One he'd done preview promo work for?

>>92487
The world of One Piece is so goddamn rich that all Oda would need to do to keep it going until the end of time is change protagonists.
As maligned as the Supernovas were by some people, there's an alternate series in every single one of them as potentially rich as the one we actually got.

>>92489

He did a mobster one-shot, but that doesn't mean he'll turn that into a full series. Either he decided to just leave it at the one-shot, or the reader response to it was sufficiently poor that Jump decided not to pick it up - which wouldn't surprise me, it was pretty awful.

>>92496

The first three chapters are really repetitive, I find. And the comedy just doesn't land.

>>92499
Yeah, but that was just the setup, I wanted to see a bit into the execution from there on!

>>92529
THOSE ARE GREAT!

>>92529
//youtube.com/watch?v=_K5JkuRCJD0

I mean you can certainly tell he's a man who draws everything while wearing Spiderman gloves.

>>92681
He'll take any chance to take a shot at Sanji, but yeah he's usually actually pretty good at addressing threats and taking a situation seriously. It just doesn't come up much.

>>92686
Ummm, I know you are trying to make that seem terrible and don't get me wrong I can certainly under stand why you'd say that.

BUT THE IDEA OF FUCKING DRAGONBALLS THE SIZE OF PLANETS THAT GRANT A SINGLE LIMITLESS WISH IS SO FUCKING COOL, so cool it's actually wasted.

What it should be is that instead of collecting them they should randomly arrange throughout the cosmos in such a way that they only align once every five years and you'd have to use exploration and intelligence to piece together when and where to summon him.

That way it'd be a cooler challenge and give non-fight based members something to do, furthermore that knowledge should end up being known to every race throughout the universe, then you'd have a hell of an excuse to fight not even for the wish, but to ensure villains don't get it.