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#777 Jan 27 2012 at 12:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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Seeing as how it is on hiatus and there's no reason to let this thread die until the misery starts up again, today's Fairy Tail brings with it the eventual "possible" rematch between Natsu, Gajeel, and Laxus. A three way free-for-all would be awesome, in my humble opinion. Then probably a two-on-two vs. the "Generation 3 Dragonslayers" at the end, and I'd guess it'd be Natsu and Laxus with a "I'm redeeming myself" sort of reasoning.

I'm okay with this.
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#778 Jan 28 2012 at 10:44 AM Rating: Excellent
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? Smiley: lol
#779 Feb 01 2012 at 8:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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D'aww, My Little Tailed Beasts: Friendship is Chakra.
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#780 Feb 01 2012 at 10:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Bleach is actually coming to an end.
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#781 Feb 01 2012 at 11:44 AM Rating: Good


Well, that arc could take quite a while. Still, I enjoy the series, yes even now, so I'm a bit bummed about it.

Soul King arc then?
#782 Feb 01 2012 at 12:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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.
#783 Feb 01 2012 at 3:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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Well color me completely shocked. I was kind of expecting it to go on until Armageddon, like some kind of terrifying ouroboros on paper.

Edited, Feb 1st 2012 4:07pm by IDrownFish
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#784 Feb 03 2012 at 2:45 PM Rating: Good
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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. Smiley: frown 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.
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#785 Feb 08 2012 at 2:50 AM Rating: Good
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The final Bleach arc begins.

If you haven't read it be prepared for a complete 180. It's like Kube took every criticism to heart and used the break to rectify all of them. No more empty back grounds. No more sputtering around wasting time and drawing things out. I have to say this looks incredibly promising.

If you have read it yet I thought I'd attempt a troll, in honor of Kube. Still, hard to believe that two of the big three will be over soon.
#786 Feb 08 2012 at 3:13 AM Rating: Good
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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.


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 Smiley: laugh

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The final Bleach arc begins.

If you haven't read it be prepared for a complete 180. It's like Kube took every criticism to heart and used the break to rectify all of them. No more empty back grounds. No more sputtering around wasting time and drawing things out. I have to say this looks incredibly promising.

If you have read it yet I thought I'd attempt a troll, in honor of Kube. Still, hard to believe that two of the big three will be over soon.


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"
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Am I the only one who clicked on this thread expecting actual baby photos [of Jinte]? o.O

Except if it were baby photos, it would be like looking at before and afters of Michael Jackson. Only instead of turning into a white guy, he changes into a chick!
#787 Feb 08 2012 at 10:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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I hate the weak comic relief characters. Hopefully he'll die soon.
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#788 Feb 08 2012 at 10:29 AM Rating: Excellent
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Aizen will reappear sooner than expected, I guess.
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Image is relevant: The terror of Butterflaizen.


Edited, Feb 8th 2012 6:01pm by lolgaxe
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#789 Feb 08 2012 at 5:28 PM Rating: Excellent
In Other Big Three news, you should see the pairing wars that erupted all over the Naruto forum I hang out in. Smiley: lol

SEE IT WILL END NARUHINA BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO HOLD HIS HAND

NO NO WAIT IT WILL END NARUSAKU BECAUSE SHE WANTS EVERYONE TO BE THERE TO HELP HIM
#790 Feb 09 2012 at 5:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Oh, I love ship wars.
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#791 Feb 09 2012 at 8:35 PM Rating: Excellent
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catwho wrote:
In Other Big Three news, you should see the pairing wars that erupted all over the Naruto forum I hang out in. Smiley: lol

SEE IT WILL END NARUHINA BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO HOLD HIS HAND

NO NO WAIT IT WILL END NARUSAKU BECAUSE SHE WANTS EVERYONE TO BE THERE TO HELP HIM


Personally, I don't give a rat's *** about naruto, he's so far outside of gamebreakingly badass and into marty stu territory at this point that even for a shounen series the willing suspension of disbelief is stretching thinner than fuuton: rasenshuriken's blades something really, really thin that isn't insanely nerdy to reference. Besides, Everyone knows shikamaru's the main character, he's just so lazy that he lets naruto do all the "attention getting" and "big hero" moments while guiding him from the shadows.

If there's a spin-off/continuation about the next generation, where the konoha 11 are all teachers and such, ie: 10 year time skip, I hope it'll be about asuma's kid so we get to see adult shikamaru being shikamaru Smiley: lol
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Am I the only one who clicked on this thread expecting actual baby photos [of Jinte]? o.O

Except if it were baby photos, it would be like looking at before and afters of Michael Jackson. Only instead of turning into a white guy, he changes into a chick!
#792 Feb 09 2012 at 9:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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If there's a spin-off/continuation about the next generation, where the konoha 11 are all teachers and such, ie: 10 year time skip, I hope it'll be about asuma's kid so we get to see adult shikamaru being shikamaru Smiley: lol


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

Edited, Feb 9th 2012 10:06pm by IDrownFish
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#793 Feb 10 2012 at 5:12 PM Rating: Excellent
Fairy Tail today just broke my GaLe shipper's heart Smiley: crymore

The Juvia panty shot was funny though.
#794 Feb 11 2012 at 10:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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Next Chapter of Fairy Tail: BIG BOOB BATTLE. Smiley: thumbsup
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#795 Feb 12 2012 at 12:12 PM Rating: Excellent
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Mangastream is no longer subbing VIZ releases, including Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach, effective immediately.

Thankfully Fairy Tail is not on that list, but I'll still have to find somewhere else to read Bleach now... :(.
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#796 Feb 12 2012 at 12:17 PM Rating: Excellent
*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?
#797 Feb 12 2012 at 4:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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It's the exact same issue as the music and movie industry here in the States: The world around them is evolving, and they aren't evolving how they present their product to keep up, leading to stuff like this happening.

Smiley: oyvey Anyone know other websites that still have it weekly? Edit: Mangafox, for the moment.

Edited, Feb 12th 2012 5:06pm by IDrownFish
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#798 Feb 12 2012 at 4:46 PM Rating: Excellent
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Doesn't Mangafox just steal from mangastream though?
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#799 Feb 12 2012 at 6:22 PM Rating: Excellent
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Do they? Well, ****.
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#800 Feb 12 2012 at 6:52 PM Rating: Excellent
Yup. The scanlation groups are going to be forced back into IRC at this rate.
#801 Feb 12 2012 at 9:12 PM Rating: Good
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I'd forgotten about Mangafox. I usually swing over to Mangareader when looking for whatever else.
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