Bakuman

W-What's wrong? I think all those songs are pretty awesome.

^ You think wrong. You shall be reeducated.

^^^Funny, I used to like that song. Wonder why I can't stand to hear it now.

Context. All these songs put together, minus the awesome graphics of the belach OP and all those character portraits.

In before One Manga dies for good: Bakuman's latest chapter is out.

http://www.onemanga.com/Bakuman/95/01/

I predict:

Whatever Akina's trying to convince Niizuma to do, it's most definitely NOT becoming a couple.

Also I think I'm falling in love with Niizuma more and more each chapter.

edited 23rd Jul '10 10:43:47 AM by Anarchy

Uh... they already revealed what she was planning. A crossover between +Natural and Crow.

edited 23rd Jul '10 5:59:26 PM by Clarste

Shock! This never happens in manga! I knew seduction was right out, but this... Who could have foreseen?

Nothing, but nothing makes me love a bit of entertainment like the words, "Did not see that coming."

ROFL. I must have missed the last page because I saw the hiatus and the Chapter 95/The End notice and I thought, AWWW CLIFFIE.

AND FFFFFUCK THAT IS EPIC.

...I really want to read Crow. And +Natural. And the crossover. I've never felt this way before about any of the manga in this manga, but holy shit for once those panels are REALLY living up to their supposed awesomeness.

Oh and Clarste, it might be better if you spoiler tag that for people who haven't read the chapter.

edited 23rd Jul '10 1:48:40 PM by Anarchy

I'm not sure why someone would be reading further into this thread without reading the chapter.

The point is that the next couple of posts after a link to the new chapter are visible when people open the thread. If you mention something that happens in the chapter in those first few posts without using spoilers, there is a good chance that you will accidentally spoil someone. Mentioning the crossover right after the chapter link, took all the surprise out of that plot twist for me.

That is why there is a general 5-post rule for spoilers after the chapter comes out.

FIVE POSTS IN, SPOILERS AWAAAY!!!

THIS WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME! I was bracing myself for some cringeworthy Bakuman TM Sexism, and I was all like "It's weird, we fans have been speculating on those two, and they'd make a hilarious couple, but something's not right... this is just... wrong somehow... where are they going with this?" Answer: THEY WERE GOING TO AWESOMELAND, WHICH IS Beyond the Impossible, OVER THE HORIZON OF THE UNIVERSE!!!

I mean FUCK. This... I'm... this manga really is getting better with time.

Unusually, I didn't shed Manly Tears at the awesome... guess I was too busy laughing my ass off at the wild speculations of the editors. Talk about Getting Crap Past the Radar... "You mean every day?" "The quality of the manga might suffer".

...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

Me too, I was expecting them to play the "Akina is desperate for a man"-thing to be played straight. And people here were going to bitch about it. Then the last page happened

Holy Shit.

Also, seconding wanting to read Crow. The art looked really REALLY Bad Ass in this chapter.

I'm glad that she was going over actual ideas with him, rather than just flirting, but the crossover really doesn't sound like a good idea to me. + Natural is supposed to be a whole 20 Minutes into the Future deal nominally set in our world, whereas Crow is... not. Shoehorning them into one canon just strikes me as silly.

HA! Tell that to the fans of DC and Marvel!

Some pages in one manga are not loading for me, but everyone seems to be having no problem. Can anyone point out another site with an up to date manga scanlation.

@Desertopa:

Fortunately, the writers of Bakuman have a way to address that concern.

Nitpicky Reader: But isn't "Natural+" like X, and "Crow" like Y, so how could they be in the same canon?

Enthusiastic Reader: It's all explained on page 15 of this next chapter! See?

Nitpicky Reader: Hmm...well, I suppose that could work. But is it really plaus—

Enthusiastic Reader: I don't care! This is the coolest thing I've seen in Shonen Jump since the end of One Piece!

In other words, they'll probably Hand Wave it.

I thought Bakuman didn't actually give many details about the manga-within-the-manga? I mean, I've looked around, but I haven't been able to find any info about Crow aside from the fact that it's a battle manga whose main character might be named Crow.

*sigh*. I binge on Bakuman after three weeks with no internet...and I come to a story telling me how wonderful chivalry is and how it is dangerous for women to be in the apartments of men...yeah.

Other than that, I'm good.

edited 28th Jul '10 6:40:50 PM by A_H_R

Ahem. Dangerous?

Because men are dangerous animals barely able to contain their sexual desires as is. Why, it would be no surprise if a man were to rape a woman in such a situation! It's not his fault, really. It's just part of being a guy. He can't help it.

I think I've made it clear that things like that annoy me, yeah? Can make reading a shoujo manga... irritating if I stumble upon the wrong ones.

edited 30th Jul '10 9:38:59 PM by IthilionTheBrave

A vile calumny! All men are not like that! After all, 12 to 20% of men are gay, so it wouldn't be more than 88%, at the outside.

I keed, I keed the Y chromosome.

lesigh, anyone know when the new issue'll come out?

It's taking a break this week, so next week.

Bwuh. Why am I always last to know these things ;_;