Anime/Manga Aficionado's Lounge! II

[Dark Soul # 7]

Excellent chapters of Beezlebub, Toriko and D.Gray-man this week!

Beelzebub: Very good. Funny and bizzare mirror situation with a revelation and possible badassness to top it all off.

Toriko: I'm really liking master Chin and I look forward to seeing what Shuu can do.

D.Gray-man: I like this but I would probably like it more if there was less waiting time between chapters.

The Chibi-love triangle is hilarious. Oga is disappointed in Beel for being a chicken. Be like you're dad Beel.

You mean be completely oblivious to the other sex? Be'el isn't dumb enough for that.

[Pong]

Beelzebub: Very good. Funny and bizzare mirror situation with a revelation and possible badassness to top it all off.

You mean that tojou challenge to Aiba mirrors how Oga randomly challenged people back in the first arc?

You mean be completely oblivious to the other sex? Be'el isn't dumb enough for that.

Say what you will but Oga was never reduced to tears because of girl problems.

Oga is awesome.

[zomg]

Claymore: finally the fight is over and even better Raki meets the group, it's going to be a long month for the next chapter... :p

[Hazard]

Kore wa zombie desu ka? Of The Dead:

Ayumu.

I can say this with certainty.

I don't envy you.

I don't envy you at all.

[Robotech Master]

Kore wa zombie desu ka? Of The Dead:

Ayumu.

I can say this with certainty.

I don't envy you.

I don't envy you at all.

It would be hard to. Powers arise from being dead and crossdressing? A harem of beautiful women, but half of them are kinda spiteful towards you? Man, he's got it rough.

Taeko's "I'm jealous of your legs" comment was hilariously damaging, but it was also kind of cute on her part.

Saras...well it isn't too common in harems, or any anime for that matter, for a girl to decide she wants in on that after seeing the man's ass. Female Gaze + Love at first ass shot? Quite unusual, but par for the course with this series I suppose.

[Hazard]

It's the cross-dressing for me, which honestly wasn't really all that bad until now.

I mean, in front of the entire school, who are uploading photos to the internet during your transformation sequence and to top it all your memory erasing powers fail at the critical moment (and If I am reading into this right will likely fail for some time at least), and to top it off you end up naked.

That's just humiliating.

I'd die. Just die. If I were a zombie I'd redie.

[Dark Soul # 7]

You mean that tojou challenge to Aiba mirrors how Oga randomly challenged people back in the first arc?

No. I meant how the chibi-love triangle mirrored the Oga/Aoi/Hilda love triangle, to a point.

Say what you will but Oga was never reduced to tears because of girl problems.

That's because he's too stupid to realise that he has girl problems.

Oga is awesome.

That he is. Never said that he wasn't.

He's also a colossal moron.

[Dark Soul # 7]

It would be hard to. Powers arise from being dead and crossdressing? A harem of beautiful women, but half of them are kinda spiteful towards you? Man, he's got it rough.

Rough was the first season. This season seems to aim at side-splittingly humiliating.

[Holy Spirit]

New chapters of Freezing just came out.


Director: "Maybe... I've been too hasty..."



Bit of an understatement.

[Yun Lao]

Decided to read the first volume of Biomega. Definitely interesting, although I'm unsure if I should continue on until I read Blame! Are the two connected, or is it just the same mangaka?

[Siriel]

So, you guys may recall me and Hazard saying that the first season of Cardfight!! Vanguard was over.

Well, it turns out that after an entire year of delivering one episode per week, the creators took a long, well-earned rest of...one day. The first episode of the second season played yesterday, eight days after the first season ended.

Cardfight!! Vanguard is apparently immune to your silly concepts of "anime season" and "taking a break".

[Ghost]

Decided to read the first volume of Biomega. Definitely interesting, although I'm unsure if I should continue on until I read Blame! Are the two connected, or is it just the same mangaka?

I never finished Blame, but as far as I can tell: They are kinda connected, but not really, no.

That is to say, some stuff appears in both (Toha Heavy Industries, synthetic humans, etc) so they are at least alternate versions of the same setting. But if they are supposed to fit together in some kind of continuity, I have absolutely no idea how.

Granted, I found Biomega to be really hard to make sense of half the time, and Blame wasn't much better. So hell if I know.

[Len Ikari145]

Rough was the first season. This season seems to aim at side-splittingly humiliating.

And yet Sakura from Dokuro-chan still has it worse. At least Haruka and Seraphim aren't killing him for every minor misunderstanding.

[Pong]

No. I meant how the chibi-love triangle mirrored the Oga/Aoi/Hilda love triangle, to a point.

Oh yeah, you right. I can see that. But the kids are a lot more hmmm.... unrestrained.

That's because he's too stupid to realise that he has girl problems.

If he doesn't realize he has them, it means he doesn't have a problem. It's not something that bothers him

That he is. Never said that he wasn't.

He's also a colossal moron.

I sometimes wonder if Oga is just a huge moron or if he is frankly speaking, crazy.

We've seen few times that he sometimes thinks farther ahead than he lets on. But usually he just goes and does something totally absurd by any human logic.

Oga is actually quite interesting character because we rarely get insight into what he's actually thinking




Meanwhile in Id... everybody loves Id. And I mean everybody.

Men, women, humans, elf, dragons, magical swords, ancient abominations from eras long past... they all practically trip over themselves to prove who's he's bestes friend is. Then Id flips up and goes on a rampage.

I love Id but it's hard to deny that he's borderline Gary Stu.

[Hazard]

Saint Seiya Omega:

Well, there is a school for Saints.

You know, I kind of want to poke fun at this, but it does kind of feel like something Saori would do. Most of the Saints are dead by the end of the manga, and school seems overall safer than the previous methods of training. I mean, the original Saint Seiya had like 100 kids being sent and only 16 or so returning alive, and that's not counting the guys those kids had to compete with to become Saints. Hell, the tamest training method is a kid having to fight grizzly bears daily and choking them to death.

So yeah, a school kind of makes sense. Safer all around and they need to fill in those ranks.

So, you guys may recall me and Hazard saying that the first season of Cardfight!! Vanguard was over.

Well, it turns out that after an entire year of delivering one episode per week, the creators took a long, well-earned rest of...one day. The first episode of the second season played yesterday, eight days after the first season ended.

Cardfight!! Vanguard is apparently immune to your silly concepts of "anime season" and "taking a break".

Such are the powers of merchandise backed anime is what I would normally say, but this pace is pretty damn fast even for that. Closest thing to this I can recall 5d's beginning right after GX ended, but even then that's different.

Man, I kind of feel sorry for those writers.