That big scene around the end... man what a metaphore

>>132042
I heavily recommend reading Melancholia and Suicide Parabellum, they're shorter, quicker, and more of a mindfuck.
>>132051
Is Anonymous lel'ing at the text above?

Yeah. I guess DDDD was pretty good afterall. It took ~25 chapters before the plot started moving away from more heavy SoL stuff, but things went kinda nice. Definetly good manga

It's actually kind of neat how much they let the readers piece together what happened after the time skip. like the video game creators probably built the mech that the Demons likely were riding around the end.

>>132058
>Suicide Parabellum
This was awesome. It's so short but it feels substantial for its length. I really like how you're gradually given more information to make sense of this scenario that you're initially in the dark on. It does feel like the kind of story you need to read a second time to fully make sense of. Or not. I got kind of lost with the chronology of things once the other Chihayas started showing up, but maybe given the nature of the "real" Ouka it's not actually important. Not sure how I feel about the ending. Can't tell if it's supposed to imply whether Chiyaha was an actual sentient being or if it was just meant to symbolize Ouka falling back into her extended coma. Uhhh something something, karmic twist ending. I guess serves her right for trying to take her own life? It's good either way.

I think I'm fond of short form stories like this. They're what I wish Fujimoto would make more of instead whatever the hell he's doing with CSM. Uzumaki was one of the first manga I read start to finish and left a pretty big impact on me, and that was only like 20 chapters, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised. Dowman Sayman wasn't really on my radar until recently, but I want to read more of him now.

>>132087
Parabellum is a strong contender for one of his best works, in my opinion. That's why I ranked it at the top alongside Voynich and Melancholia.

Now, for a bunch of spoilers

This is a story with looping, but not a looping story per se. As more layers and more instances of Chihaya pile up they begin to interfere with one another and navigating the dream world differently, like how they group up and patrol certain areas, then thwarted by the masked one. They are all figments of her imagination, the ideal person that she wishes to be pursued by, there's an endless amount of them but only one ultimate Ouka, as host of the dream. Chihaya's sacrifice in the zeroth layer upends the game and allows Ouka to wake up, the details beyond that don't exactly matter, it's a selfless miracle, but I would assume the bullet is still there as it causes her to relapse back into the dream world, where all the characters still live in the back of her mind.
What happens at the end, is that just like how Chihaya was previously going into the layers created by Ouka's suicide, Ouka has returned and done the inverse: entered Chihaya's world through the corpse she left in the boss room. But the pursuer pulls a Homura, as her love and loneliness makes her take over and shoot Ouka with the parabellum while inside Chihaya's domain, thereby restarting the game. Amazing stuff really, as sudden for us as it is for Ouka. Insanely succint.

>Fujimoto
I gave my thoughts on Goodbye, Eri above, it's also an amazing single-volume manga. In fact, it's only a few pages shorter than Parabellum. He's definitely capable of making more like it.

I finally gotten around to GTO: Paradise Lost which takes place after GTO and it's really good so good it's almost better than the GTO anime.
Sadly I can't really talk about the plot because it's so spoiler heavy. I can say this though: He's teaching bratty Idols now.

reading nana, wasnt interested at all at first but a friend liked it so i decided id read it so we can have it in common, i really like it but i might just be a sucker for anything involving romance

I haven't actually read much manga lately, only some danmei novels.

JJK is supposed to end September 30th

>>132619
Seems kind of strange for it to end when it's so popular, but it's good that it's written with an ending in mind. With that and My Hero Academia ending it seems like there's going to be room for some new giants to emerge.

>>132624
It's got defined plot villains so if they get defeated then they have to switch into spinoffs

>>132625
What do you mean, if you have big bad established villains/end points just have some new badass villain come out of nowhere and beat them offscreen.....

I was actually surprised by how good this was. The first few chapters and the art were kind of meh but i ended up reading around 40-50 chapters in 2 days.

pointless bump

>>133268
Uhhhh, I can tell you I read like a fuckton of chapters of Tsuyoshi and it was pretty shit. It's a martial arts series where random challengers keep popping up to fight with an unbeatable dork that just wants to be left alone, but the enemies are fairly bland, and the techniques are a mixture of actual martial arts, tech, and magic but it doesn't go particularly deep into any of them. Tsuyoshi always wins because he's the strongest, and he's the strongest for reasons no one understands. A hundred chapters in, he snaps and decides violence is the answer, but even then he doesn't actually kill anyone, and after that I dropped it. It's better to go and read Baki.

The QA manga I read up to volume 10 and it's okay-ish, it still has unique moments when it continues to focus on jank and I always found them hilarious, but outside of those it's rather weak. It's not very good at conflict since Haga is too knowledgeable and resourceful to lose, and he's never meaningfully challenged in moral terms. Characters don't evolve and the story as a whole feels staggered as things suddenly end and then it simply moves on to another thing. At one point they get trapped, they have a timeskip while remaining trapped, immediately after it there's a flashback training arc, and from then on it becomes a lot more generically action-y. In general it deals with death really sloppily, too. In general I would not recommend it, even if it has parts I quite enjoyed.

>>133271
I can't even remember any of Baki but I know I read it

>>133273
I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't remember too much of it either. But I'll be damned if it isn't a wild ride.

>>132169
>Melancholia
This was great too. I really like these types of stories where you have multiple characters with their own personal plots that kind of run independent of each other, but overlap and cross over from time to time. It makes me think of a TTRPG campaign, or at least the kind of campaign I would want to run.

>I gave my thoughts on Goodbye, Eri above, it's also an amazing single-volume manga.
It is. Look Back is great too. One thing I would hear sometimes about Fujimoto is that he's much more suited to making oneshots than longer series and I'm inclined to agree.

bought the neko book
everynyan is so cute and the colored pages are great
overall just a very calming iyashikei

reading oddman 11 and holy flip these shabs are kimo

>>133674
cuuuuuuuuuuuuute

>>133409
>Look Back
A nice read, although I can't say I didn't get confused with the time travel. Interestingly enough, I ended up switching to dual view when I noticed halfway through he was making use of these pairs of pages that are much more bound to each other than to the ones before or after, and more or less function like a spread with a break in the middle. Another neat design choice. And he really does like dishevelled girls, huh?
If you want more Downman, there's Babylon and Nickelodeon. I do think Nick is a lot like Melancholia but somewhat weaker. As I said, it's not as interconnected and it peters out with a non-ending. Babylon is more straightforward in terms of its smaller and consistent cast, still has some very nice twists.
>>133684
SKABs, super kimo anime babes.

Also neat how Shark Kick is a parody of Fire Punch of Chenso put together.

b

i wish ponko didn't get axed

New tower dungeon chapter baayyybeeee

Just finished Gunslinger Girl. It was good. I want to say more about it but I can't type out my thoughts. I think someone on kissu recommended I read it a while back, so thank you to whoever that was.

This manga is like a trainwreck in that it's hard to stop looking at it. I picked it up because the title stuck out and so far volume one has just been about her smell fetish.

Nuclear explosion bird's boobs get bigger with every chapter she's in. She's also super cool in the panels she has big tits in, which shows there is a correlation with coolness and cup size.
Cheating Detective Satori's storytelling leaves a lot to be desired, but it makes up for it I think.

lazy bump

read a bunch of trashy genderbend manga
could only fap to two. one had this old guy become a hot woman but he only ever wore a hot dress in the second to last chapter
the other is a trashy native isekai but it had the guy genderbend out of nowhere and it's so completely shameless about it that it ended up getting pretty hot

>>135934
I like genderbend/TF stuff if they go into the psychology of the character and how it changes or gets warped. Otherwise it's like most reincarnation/isekai where it stops mattering and just turns into normal fantasy, which I guess is the kind of trashy stuff you're referencing.
Like if a guy turns into a girl and starts fucking the brother without a moment's reflection then it's just incest with some sprinkles on top, but if a guy becomes a monstergirl and gets brain-blasted by estrus hormones then we're cooking.

>>135934
>>135936
I like forced magical girl TSF but most of it follows the same formula and stops to matter somewhere around chapter 10. The family finding out never means anything anymore and by chapter 15 most of the class already knows, the childhood friend is openly fapping to the former (male) bestfriend, the childhood crush has openly expressed their yuri feelings and the majority of "magical girl" training has revolved around teaching the MC how to pee and wear frilly dresses.

imouto-chan makes a compelling argument

>>136096
if that hag is the onee-chan then she needs to share that sperm

>>136097
the hag is some homewrecker (girlfriend) trying to muscle in on imouto's pure loving relationship with her onii-chan

>>136096
Really undeniable logic here. Hagtits needs to GTFO

>>136098
so what's the homewrecker's punishment for hurting imouto

>>136100
Trial before the /qa/-12, with maximum sentence ranging from expulsion from the /qa/ continuum to death

>>136100
I don't know yet (this is the latest release) but I imagine she'll get what she deserves. Either Onii-chan stands up for his imouto, or imouto-chan goes nevada-tan on her.

Bump - Apologies, I haven't read much recently except a very poor quality (possibly poorly translated too) danmei webnovel. Will be getting up to date on TRUMP

>>136414
Actually no, I did read Ryoto killed his brother. It's reminiscent of The Summer Hikaru Died. Pacing is very quick though and makes be nervous for its future.

New fuckin GUNNM: mars chronicles chapter baayyyybbeee

>>87082
More like please read. After a long time of mulling over it and trying to get into a calm place, I was finally able to finish ShimiShim today, the whole of the final volume in one. It seems like while Shimeji didn't get the Bible, Majime certainly did.

*Spoiler Warning for the rest of this, if it wasn't already obvious*

If the rest of the story was setting up this event and giving some characterization to everyone, this volume was taking all of that setup and dialing everything to its extreme. With everyone's will meshed into chaos and those who do still exist living out the most extreme version of whatever desire they had, such as the cylindrical man and Sumida/Sensei. The two of them in an interestingly mutually beneficial relationship yet mostly a one-sided love from Sumida as she eternally paints Sensei. Sensei also being one of the first after having achieved her perfect donut topology realm to have decided that she's bored of reality in trying to hang herself from the center. Foreshadowing the conflict with this limitless realm to come later, and probably one of the greater themes of the entire arc and maybe the manga centered around purpose in life.

Then comes the Majime/Shimeji house life, and here is where I think we can find good insight into their relationship, but more importantly Shimeji's feelings. Everything is peaceful and they're happily living together a normal life. And then it goes on. And then it continues to go on, for years, without much development. Then one day Shimeji decides she wants to cheer up Majime, but is pulled into a more romantic moment by her. Something she may not regret too much, but she doesn't feel ready for in some way. I think this is probably because, as contrasted in the end, she's just giving her all to Majime in the process. Slowly allowing herself to become nothing and be subsumed into Majime. In realization of this, Shimeji finds that something in her rejects this passive acceptance of being absorbed.

I think the next arc serves as a good transition into the final arc where that rejection is brought up once more. Shimeji is thrust into chaos as she's lost Majime, lost everything, and the world around her seems to be crumbling apart. She stays solitary wandering about just aimlessley going place to place until finally stumbling upon Yomikawa who gives her the spiel of all the theories for the world and the infinite book knowledge she possesses as a meta being akin to Shimeji's sister and the Gardener. But what's important is that once she takes Shimeji into her novel realm, all physicality is erased. Leaving Shimeji in the most ideal form for reflection yet with nothing to drive her in any which direction. In the midst of all the thinking she's able to do, the realization of potentially losing Majime hits her like a truck as her outlook on the future causes something to happen in the realm which washes over Yomikawa until she releases Shimeji to cry on the outside. What I believe is that it's one of the major turning points where Shimeji is able to finally let out all the emotions she's been bottling inside. Leading to when Shimeji reunites with her sister, despite the sacrifice that'd need to be made, deciding she wants Majime and a more stable reality to exist. Setting into motion the final arc, as the one condition to not allow the chaos to start up once more is her sister forcing everyone into solitude.

This solitude gives everyone in the story at least a millenia of reflection and self-thought after being reconstructed following the repair on reality. Majime's returned and unlike the rest of the characters is able to mostly construct a living and breathing world in her realm. A testament to her love of companionship and empathetic nature as for most of the others their times spent have resulted in mostly single-focused realms of which their passion manifested. Shimeji's as well is mostly a place of solitude and rest, having converted to a blob-like shape that can only dream and rest. All this showing just how boring and derived of purpose a life of solitude would be, even for the most power beings in existence that can will in whatever they desire, even Majime who retreats into her own solitary space awaiting Shimeji.

All this lasting until the galaxy express comes to pick her up to take her across those different worlds described prior. After a long journey finally ending up in Majime's world with somewhat frantic as Majime herself is nowhere to be found. Then going against her nature to be passive and stew over Majime's disappearance, she finally goes to search her out herself and they reunite in one of the most heartwarming scenes of the manga. Nearly merging into one the next panel as before from their mutual joy over the reunion, but this time the merge stopping on its own as they can 'feel' each other's outline. I believe this to be the result of Shimeji finally understanding more herself as a person and that want to exist with Majime, not just for her. Having finally found the purpose in her once directionless life.

The manga leaves off after with the two of them donning their godly garments and deciding to not stop at the two of them, but to go and meet back up with everyone. Does their life as pseudo-gods continue into happiness as they strive for this grand reunion? Or is the attempt futile and will only lead to doom like Shimeji's sister said it'd be. All that's for certain is that the two are happily reunited and much better off for it than confined to the safety of solitude. I'd like to hope that their journey has a happy end.

Like every story that makes me consider life on a deeper level, this is certainly a masterpiece and I can't wait for what tkmiz does next.

>>137440
I believe the purpose you talk about ties into, at least as I see it, the theme of interrelation.
The people who best manage to survive are those anchored to someone or something, and the fundamental problem is that Sis destroyed the fabric of those relationships in her pursuit of absolute freedom and truth. Tkmz is definitely sending a message by having her sacrifice herself to undo her mistake, and framing said truth (which Yomikawa partly dismisses, partly admits) as secondary compared to the two's relationship taking the final spotlight. It's also interesting how their greatest moment mirrors their lowest, where instead of blurring out they reassert their boundaries in a mutual act of acceptance and intimacy.
I wouldn't put as much emphasis on their gained powers though, to me the former is a straight continuation of how the setting works. It's shockingly consistent in its writing, if you take the time to look into it.

Freud, please... she's not even mine...

>>137778
Ah! Nevermind, scary.

>>137778
>>137779
I like the juxtaposition of sexiness and ugliness alongside the sweetness and cruelty. Mixing the two together here and there to confuse the reader

>>137778
Hello anon.