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threesixtee

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"lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 13:48

I was just at waldenbooks, and a ton of new manga came out this week, and I know there's more coming too.

stuff they had:
negima
gundam seed
gundam seed astray
tsubasa reservoir chronicle
xxx holic
prince of tennis

out later this may:
ccs box 2
trigun maximum
bleach

out, but not at waldenbooks and I really have to buy:
street fighter #7 (double issue!)

what sucks is I only went to but pita ten #3 and ai yori aoshi #3, and I saw all that new stuff. but as it turns out, may 6-9 is another "buy 4, get the 5th" promotion, so I didn't buy anything at all. and the new del ray books are a little pricey... $11 a book. I know its only a dollar more than tokyopop stuff, but that makes it $3 more than most viz books. I know I pay $13 for trigun, but those are like twice the size of normal manga anyway, so its a good deal.

may will be an expensive month. ; _ ;

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Radish

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"Re(1):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 14:03

Negima is hilarious but not in the way I think the artist intended. It's like he thought "Hmm, people liked Love Hina.. I'll do it again, but add more girls. Also having to draw them taking baths every 5 minutes for LOL BAKA WACKINESS was tiresome so I'll just fix it so their clothes blast off when the hero sneezes."

Holiday

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"Re(2):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 14:51

Negima starts getting awesome once they start ripping of Fate Stay/Night, what with all that

Spoiler (Highlight to view) -
Master / Servant stuff and demons to smash up in a sexy fashion.

End of Spoiler

No Archer-tan yet though. Zepy must be disappointed.
Yue rocks, Evangeline rocks, and I kinda like Mana now as well.

If you're getting Tsubasa : RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE get XXXHolic as well as they both cross over a little bit. Can't really say that I've been impressed with both the stories so far though...

StickClick

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Bronze Customer

"Re(3):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 15:02

Hmm..

Anyone know anything about Buddha? It's by Tezuka, and I think there are three total volumes... The books are these gorgeous black and white hardcovers, and they're pretty thick, at that...

It kinda looks interesting.

Ammadeau

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"Re(4):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 20:26

... none of those manga remotely interest me.

So when does the final volume of Azumanga come out?

Satoshi_Miwa

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"Re(5):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 20:54

quote:
... none of those manga remotely interest me.

So when does the final volume of Azumanga come out?

Already out...I picked mine up last week and have read it twice!

Separated at Birth?

Spoon

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"Re(1):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 20:56

quote:

xxx holic

Details.

Iggy

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"Re(2):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 22:59

quote:
xxx holic
Details.

One of the two current series by Clamp. Pretty drawings of anorexic characters doing basically anything in a vogueing classy way that tends to be ridiculous.
Now their readers know X, their most important series, was actually bullcrap and there was nothing to save in it, Clamp turned into a parody of themselves, and a non-funny parody if I may. This is one of the few series you can like better when you don't know japanese, because you only look at the pretty drawing (if you like the style) and can imagine "I'm sure the scenario is actually great, it's too bad I can't read the text!".

本当にしつこい女だなぁ...

threesixtee

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"Re(3):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 23:15

wow, maybe I'll avoid holic and tsubasa... and probably negima too. thanks for the heads up everyone. I really don't need negima anyway, pita ten and ai yori aoshi more than make up my monthly allowance of romantic comedy anyway. I'm still interested in gundam seed astray though, I hear it fixes all the gaping plotholes that the anime had.

Holiday

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"Re(4):lots of manga..." , posted Thu 29 Apr 23:38

quote:
wow, maybe I'll avoid holic and tsubasa... and probably negima too. thanks for the heads up everyone. I really don't need negima anyway, pita ten and ai yori aoshi more than make up my monthly allowance of romantic comedy anyway. I'm still interested in gundam seed astray though, I hear it fixes all the gaping plotholes that the anime had.

Hey, Negima is vey good! Well, it only gets good later on (book 4 onwards), but I like it's level of goodness.

Btw, how is Ai Yori Aoshi? I picked it up because of the anime series, but didn't bother getting more after the 1st manga.

Zepy

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"Re(5):lots of manga..." , posted Fri 30 Apr 04:58

Negima is nothing like Fate/Stay Night! That's over stretching it! Blasphemer.

On top of that, I think Negima is good... sometimes. Though only recently these past weeks have I started liking it. Which is about... 3-5 chapters out of 52 currently. I bet I will return to hating it again next week.

And Tsubasa is horrible.

Radish

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"Re(3):lots of manga..." , posted Fri 30 Apr 05:23

quote:
xxx holic
Details.
One of the two current series by Clamp. Pretty drawings of anorexic characters doing basically anything in a vogueing classy way that tends to be ridiculous.
Now their readers know X, their most important series, was actually bullcrap and there was nothing to save in it, Clamp turned into a parody of themselves, and a non-funny parody if I may. This is one of the few series you can like better when you don't know japanese, because you only look at the pretty drawing (if you like the style) and can imagine "I'm sure the scenario is actually great, it's too bad I can't read the text!".

I find it hilarious that there are still fans who take Gainax and Clamp so seriously. They both make series with stories that are delivered so heavy handedly, but with such ridiculous plots (oh no another girl from space has come to be my girlfriend; oh I hope my trauma of my childhood doesn't come into play!).

Holiday

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"Re(6):lots of manga..." , posted Fri 30 Apr 09:16

quote:
Negima is nothing like Fate/Stay Night! That's over stretching it! Blasphemer.

But Akamatsu seems to constantly ripping of some idea in an inferior fashion!
Who know's maybe he'll be ripping off Quartett for the next story, haha.

Bonus:
I wonder how much the seiyuu bill will be for the producers...