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The what Book,Manga and Comic book are you reading thread
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08-30-2013, 09:39 PM
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Powerman293
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Been reading Psyren, Yugioh GX 5D's and Zexal, and Bakuman.
Starting off with yugioh Zexal, it starts off exactly the same as the anime but then goes into original territory once the later part of volume 2 happens with the Black Corn Xyz showing up. I'm really interested to see where this goes and I heard that there's a manga exclusive Utopia (the main monster the main character, Yuma, uses) upgrade coming up.
The yugioh GX manga really isn't that great. I like Jaden's alternate backstory and characters switching up roles and decks but asides from that and cool duels, its just a copy and past story from the original Yugioh. I did like the final duel where Jaden whipped out all of his Six attribute Elemental Hero fusions and his game winning monster he only uses in this last duel (which they fucked up in making the card version of)
.... Literally the same thing could be said about 5D's except Yusei has no backstory. We don't even learn how the hell he or the other characters that have Duel prison tattoos in the series get them in the manga on their faces. Although, I do give them props for making the connection between the original Yugioh and this series much more prominent in stuff like locations.
Are we seriously turning the original Yugioh story line into a Mad Libs for the origin of these mangas?
A dark evil named _______ has been sealed by ________ and its servants, the _________
over ________ thousand years ago and possess the _________duelists from __________
for world domination until the _________ stop them again
The problem with these mangas is that they come out in a monthly shonen jump in Japan so they literally have only one arc to tell, and by the time they are done telling it, the anime has already been long over. They also sprinkle in characters from later in the anime into that alternate continuity. This monthly release style also has the potential to fuck up the pacing. It wasn't so bad in Yugioh R, GX ,and Zexal but 5Ds got screwed over really hard.
"Let's have Yusei duel this manga exclusive character in chapter 1 to show off the new cards"
"And then have him duel some random Skeleton dude on a horse in chapter 2"
"And then have him duel Jack Atlas in Chapter 3"
Thirty some odd chapters later....
"Shit, we need a villain."
Editor: "How about that Skeleton guy from chapter 2?"
Bakuman is a great manga. I'm only up to Volume 8 but its really good. If you don't know what it is, its basically a manga about manga artists who aspire to be the top series. And the people who made this also made Death Note. I usually like anything action related, but this has a really good story for having such a simplistic concept. Not to mention the tons of subplots going on with good development for the other tons of other characters. It also has really interesting concepts debated over like inexperience, trusting your own judgment or your editors, pushing yourself to the limit, what is love, and how much you must love your work and manga to keep on making a series.
Psyren up to Volume 8. This series is about a mysterious world called Psyren and people are getting abducted out of nowhere and very few people return and now they have Psychic powers. The main character, Aghea, gets abducted into this world. I like this series, it has a cool premise and lots of interesting moral elements. I like the fact that it goes into detail about the types of Psionic powers there are, how people control it and what people's personal powers are. Its really intresting to see where this cocept can go and expand and where battles could end up by end game. I'm only in the 60's of chapters but I have seen some crazy shit. My main problem with this series though is that all of the villain humanoid characters look like Bleach villains (I've never seen Bleach but I have read about some dude who
stopped a regenerating villain by stabbing a sword into his heart and poisoning him with a time slowing drug.
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