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Nightraid May Dhunia guide me on my path. Since: Jan, 2001
May Dhunia guide me on my path.
#326: Aug 30th 2013 at 2:15:37 PM

I think this series really deserves a recap section. It's not as long-running as some of the others that received recap pages so Archive Panic won't be as much of a problem as it'd be for some other series. Either way, there's a lot of interesting stuff that deserves a closer look.

Your mind is a software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it.
Scherzo09 Revy Gonna Give It To Ya from Roanapur Since: Jul, 2010
Revy Gonna Give It To Ya
#327: Aug 30th 2013 at 5:33:55 PM

[up][up][up]Not really; she was really able to get to Revy. Fabiola is someone who knows how awful the world can get but chooses to have values because they matter to her. And Revy, desperately and impotently, wants to believe that who she has become was an inevitability of her conditions and not something she chose to be.

edited 30th Aug '13 5:39:35 PM by Scherzo09

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FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#328: Aug 30th 2013 at 5:57:52 PM

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edited 30th Aug '13 6:03:50 PM by FOFD

Scherzo09 Revy Gonna Give It To Ya from Roanapur Since: Jul, 2010
Revy Gonna Give It To Ya
#329: Aug 30th 2013 at 6:47:53 PM

Well I think one of the reasons I liked Roberta's blood trail is characters like Fabiola, and I feel the overall tone kinda showed that it isn't as nihilistic as it sometimes appears to be; its just this really murky grey; and that people aren't intrinsically evil but can easily become that way.

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Couchpotato20 Will kill you from Hell Since: Apr, 2011
Will kill you
#330: Sep 2nd 2013 at 1:08:01 PM

@Scherzo 09

Bro. Stop referencing the Black Lagoon Roberta Blood Trail OVA. Much of that material is non-canon and doesn't reflect the main material from the manga which is the appropriate source. Revy isn't shaken by Fabiola's words one bit. If anything she's peeved by her ungratefulness, and Garcia's after Rock went out of his way to help them.

"I don't give a rat's ass about going to hell. I guess it's because I feel like I'm already there." -Mugen
Scherzo09 Revy Gonna Give It To Ya from Roanapur Since: Jul, 2010
Revy Gonna Give It To Ya
#331: Sep 2nd 2013 at 2:13:16 PM

[up]IDC, the anime is what I've watched. It's the canon I've been following, so everything I've said has been true about that. I'm sure as fuck not going to read all of Manga arc.

If anything, if what you're saying is true than I prefer the anime to it, because I like that it paints things as being less nihilistic. And even if Revy wasn't fazed, Fabiola still stood her ground in the manga too. And actually, now that I think about it, the bits of the new Arc I've read sort of show that Fabiola's comments about Rock have gotten to her, so I feel that is true to the manga there.

Anyways, don't obsess over canon, I'm just talking about what I've seen.

EDIT: Actually reread Fabiola and Revy's conversation in the Manga; even there it does seem like Fabiola gets to her, though she keeps up the facade. The only things the anime adds are the nightmare sequence, Revy arguing with Rock, The Spec Ops team capturing the general but then losing it to the CIA, and a different epilogue. I generally think the anime is an improvement (I love Eda's politicking and getting more of the human side of Revy), but the one thing from the Manga I wish they'd kept was Caxton having to shoot down one of his troops.

edited 2nd Sep '13 2:55:09 PM by Scherzo09

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LDragon2 Since: Dec, 2011
#332: Sep 7th 2013 at 6:06:47 PM

So being a fan of action, would you recommend this anime to me?

And for that matter, does it contain shootouts that rival the ones seen here?

tongue

Scherzo09 Revy Gonna Give It To Ya from Roanapur Since: Jul, 2010
Revy Gonna Give It To Ya
#333: Sep 27th 2013 at 2:35:55 PM

Raws of Chapter 85 are up. Is it me or are the chapters getting shorter and shorter.

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PacalII Since: Jan, 2013
#334: Sep 27th 2013 at 3:24:03 PM

[up][up] Yup, it's awesome. I reccomend seeing the first episode, it will give you a good idea of the whole series's "feel".

[up] It's been sixteen pages since the beginning of the new arc, and the last one is only thirteen. It is a huge dissapoint :(.

johnnysasaki Since: Jun, 2012
#335: Sep 27th 2013 at 11:08:50 PM

the author is just becoming lazier and lazier.Shorter chapters,releasing chapters once in a blue moon...

MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#336: Sep 28th 2013 at 1:50:50 AM

[up]

You never followed Saki or Iris Zero, have you? This is nothing. :P

Firestorm Nudist Snake from Just Chillin Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Noddin' my head like yeah
Nudist Snake
#337: Sep 28th 2013 at 5:46:05 PM

[up][up] Calling Hiroe "lazy" is pretty harsh, especially with how good the art still looks. I'm just glad he's back at all, considering the long ass hiatus before then.

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#338: Sep 28th 2013 at 7:17:03 PM

No, I'm pretty sure there's a point where you can call a guy lazy despite how good his art (as little as we see of it) may look.

I think Hiroe already left that point three states behind.

Firestorm Nudist Snake from Just Chillin Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Noddin' my head like yeah
Nudist Snake
#339: Sep 29th 2013 at 12:21:48 AM

"Shrugs", as long as he's churning them out at all, dude can take as long as he wants, just outright calling the dude "lazy" is toolish to me.

edited 29th Sep '13 12:22:39 AM by Firestorm

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#340: Sep 29th 2013 at 9:22:42 AM

See, that's part of why authors nowadays are the way they are.

In any serious line of professional work, you are expected to deliver your work in time. That's a basic principle of professionalism, one most jobs can and will easily fire you on if you don't meet those parameters. If you feel you can't meet those requirements, or they are unfair, then fine, but then don't get into that line of work in the first place. Doujin authors and fanfiction writers are excused because they aren't being paid for it and they are doing it only because of their hearts' desire, but part and parcel of being a professional is delivering well, on time and regularly.

edited 29th Sep '13 9:29:43 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#341: Sep 29th 2013 at 9:40:55 AM

[up]

Depending on the publisher, the editorial department grants a mangaka certain leeway on releases, especially if said author has some "cred" in the business already. This is the main reason why Togashi's somehow managed to stay on Jump's payroll despite the stunts he's pulled with Hunter X Hunter, why Miura's still puttering along with Berserk despite regularly stopping due to IDOLMASTER game releases, and how Ritz Kobayashi's Saki has managed to stick around in SQ-Enix despite her erratic posting schedule (Saki went from weekly, to bi-weekly, to something like a single 14-page chapter a MONTH, to bi-weekly again, and back to monthly due to Ritz's operation).

It's not hard to imagine that BL's being given some space too, especially with the row that happened in the previous magazine that it was published in.

edited 29th Sep '13 9:43:10 AM by MyssaRei

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#342: Sep 29th 2013 at 9:45:07 AM

Togashi has a very good reason, since his health is continuously frail and faltering.

Miura allegedly has self-confessed psychological issues, which is a very big thing to admit in Japan.

Anyway, while publishers shouldn't retake the slave driving system of yore, giving charte blanche to authors is just as bad an idea in the long run. It ultimately leads to the fandom becoming smaller and more centered on circles of patient hardcore fans, rather than keeping the attention of the average readers, which the medium needs so badly now.

edited 29th Sep '13 9:48:19 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

Scherzo09 Revy Gonna Give It To Ya from Roanapur Since: Jul, 2010
Revy Gonna Give It To Ya
#343: Sep 30th 2013 at 12:00:20 AM

Well I feel at least Hiroe's consistent; he went on Hiatus and didn't give a fake timeframe of when he'd be back, and since he's come back he's been releasing chapters every month. I guess what annoys me is, if there is to be an S3, its looking to be several years away, since the PRC arc has produced two episodes worth of material, three if you're being reeeeally generous.

edited 30th Sep '13 12:01:08 AM by Scherzo09

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Vertigo_High Since: May, 2010
#344: Sep 30th 2013 at 7:31:46 PM

Hmmm yeah I don't see a season 3 happening, but personally I'm glad we just got Roberta's blood trail.

I think Hiroe's having some personal troubles or something.

edited 30th Sep '13 7:32:26 PM by Vertigo_High

Scherzo09 Revy Gonna Give It To Ya from Roanapur Since: Jul, 2010
Revy Gonna Give It To Ya
#345: Oct 5th 2013 at 8:35:16 PM

Translation of the new chapter is up. Revy's plan seems to have compeltely backfired.

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PacalII Since: Jan, 2013
#346: Oct 6th 2013 at 1:41:02 AM

You mean by the fact that she got completely wasted? :D

NNLand STUPID LUCKY Since: Jan, 2013
STUPID LUCKY
#347: Oct 6th 2013 at 11:01:07 PM

[up] That had better be the case. Passing out during a goddamn shower. Honestly. I will say, that Li and Rock's new found interaction is really getting me excited... especially her murderous grin and Rock's throwing away of his tie.

edited 6th Oct '13 11:01:35 PM by NNLand

Scherzo09 Revy Gonna Give It To Ya from Roanapur Since: Jul, 2010
Revy Gonna Give It To Ya
#348: Oct 6th 2013 at 11:11:44 PM

[up][up]No, I meant that she seemed to think Li speaking to Rock might inject a bit a normalcy into him, but she's seemed to only be enabling his further descent.

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#349: Oct 8th 2013 at 4:51:33 AM

Is it me or am I seeing UST between Rock and Feng?

Keep Rolling On
NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#350: Oct 8th 2013 at 5:26:05 AM

I thought it couldn't be any more blatant if they had literally rubbed it up our faces.


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