Ominibus Manga Thread (Formerly the Bleach One)Follow

Wait, Ginjo died? I thought that fight was still going on.

Went back two chapters and huh, the fight was so unremarkable I didn't even notice it had ended.

If by read you mean look at the pictures in rapid succession then yeah.

Three weeks of no Bleach, and I'm guessing the next arc is going to start about then. Hopefully they explain why the Vizards are back to being Captains and such, and if Ririka committed suicide or what.

Which means none of it will be explained.

Oh, and in contrast Naruto continues to be an entertaining read.

Edited, Jan 11th 2012 11:42am by lolgaxe

I really liked Naruto today.

I really liked One Piece today.

I really liked Fairy Tail last week, too.

I'm still a bit confused by Bleach.

So, anyone reading Hunter x Hunter? Of all these shounen series it's my favorite. It's odd how I find each arc to be better than the previous.

I dunno, the last arc with the ant things was pretty damn weird. I'm not sad it's over.

Edit: I do love the series on the whole though. Just wasn't my favorite arc.

Edited, Jan 12th 2012 7:11pm by Daimakaicho

Bleach continues to be below average, Gantz is still "coming towards it's conclusion" every couple weeks, by the time a new chapter of Zetman comes out I feel like I've completely forgotten what happened previously, & Berserk continues to become adult One Piece (of which I've only read the first couple arcs).

Anything else I should be reading?

Over in the shoujo sphere, Skip Beat continues to crawl along at a troll's pace, and we haven't had any new Watashi ni xx Shinasai in ages.

Silver Spoon, the latest from Arakama Hiromu (she of Full Metal Alchemist), has been very good so far. Very educational too. No alchemy here... just dairy cows.

Edit: sh*t, the latest chapter of Gakuen Alice slipped past me! *inhales*

Edited, Jan 12th 2012 11:30pm by catwho

Well, it took me way too long to realize you weren't talking about Bleach there. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME KUBO

I was bored. So, I've never seen One Piece, so I checked out the latest chapter.

...Nevermind.

One Piece: Standard filler moving from end of last arc into new arc.

Naruto: Yellow Flash reappeared again? For a moment I thought it was Naruto with a chakra jacket, much like Ichigo tends to get, but then saw Naruto and the mystery individual together, which threw me off. It didn't look like Minato to me. I guess that's him. Or maybe it's the Nine-Tails in human form? Maybe I was too tired to read it this morning to follow properly.

I'm fairly certain it's just his clone.

Remember when he created a sage mode clone to detect the chakra rods in the 4 tails? He did it again. You can see a poof of summoning smoke in the mid left panel.

Or did you mean you didn't recognize the main Naruto? That's his tailed beast mode. That he has a fancy outfit is just the mary sue effect.

Edited, Jan 25th 2012 6:17pm by Allegory

Note to self: Drink coffee before reading manga, not during.

Yeah, hiatus for almost a month. I think it was February when it kicks up again.

And here I was worried about Gajeel getting hurt out in the woods or something silly. Makarov had this planned all along, didn't he?

Damn. I thought he said he was "halfway done" with his planned material just a year ago? But then he got bogged down in the Hueco Mundo arc, which was supposed to be 6 months long then turned into two or three years or whatever. Actually, all the arcs were supposed to be 6 months to a year long, and they ended up double or triple that.

Two years maybe, for this arc to finish then. Still plenty of Bleach to go.

I'm guessing during this break he had a long talk with the editors, who pointed out that he jumped the shark a few arcs ago and while he thought he was halfway done, he was closer to 3/4ths of the way done with what anyone could consider a reasonable amount of story based on the universe he built. Ironically, by setting it in this world he limited himself. Compare that to One Piece, which is halfway over because they've halfway finished their circumnavigation of the globe.

The only way Bleach could extend itself any more is if we find out there are more flavors of Soul Society than just the fuedal Japan one we've met already.

I'd be a little disappointed to see Bleach go. It has been the equivalent of a seeing a massively bloody multi-car pile up. Wouldn't doubt a Soul King related arc, who will turn out to be Brook Ichigo's mom. Or, you know. Could be absolutely anything because Bleach doesn't like to make sense.

And in Fairy Tail news, we have Assassin's Creed: Earthland.

Personally, my gut says that that's the direction he'd go for a spin off, more than an extension. Bleach itself is a bit too single-spot centric to really manage to drag something like that into the story, even for tite kubo. Though, tbh, I can't say I wouldn't enjoy seeing him do a same-universe spin off with, say, non-japanese themed shinigami, like, "Grim Reapers" or "Angels of Death" in a more European setting, where they're still shinigami, just with differently shaped zanpakutou. Honestly though, I think part of my reasoning for this is because I love tite kubo's blatant trolling



I wonder if hanataro yuki ryuunosuke (first person I thought of when I saw him, though they're noticeably different in appearance) is actually going to be relevant to the plot... my gut says "No, he's going to be tite kubo's 'time extension via random unrelated character story' character"

Aizen will reappear sooner than expected, I guess.

Image is relevant: The terror of Butterflaizen.

Edited, Feb 8th 2012 6:01pm by lolgaxe

But in a Naruto series, the adults are useless/dead!

Edited, Feb 9th 2012 10:06pm by IDrownFish

Next Chapter of Fairy Tail: BIG BOOB BATTLE.

*sigh*

The problem with the "industry" is that it assumes that we wish to remain passive consumers of content, eager to get our dribbles of their stuff when they deem it ready to share with us.

We are not passive, we are active, and dammit, we want our Jump comics 24 hours after the book is out in Japan.

Why is this so hard for them to understand?

Doesn't Mangafox just steal from mangastream though?

Yup. The scanlation groups are going to be forced back into IRC at this rate.