Underground but masterpiece thread
Underground but masterpiece thread
Liam Morales
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Jayden Parker
randomly read it after seeing advertised in one of my old viz manga.
Matthew Gray
Name?
Julian Scott
Togari
Xavier Morgan
Urasawa isn't underground he made fucking Monster user
Eli Thompson
Urasawa ins't
billy bat is
Isaac Garcia
that's a shame, that's probably his best
Asher Mitchell
i heard it was trash
Charles Jones
Based bat bros
It was great, it's a wild ride the whole way through.
Landon Williams
Honestly backing up that user, Id say its close to his best if not his best, much grander scale and direction than usual and while the ending will make some people say wut, it actually has a clear point to the ending at least.
Jackson Howard
Zachary Howard
>Urasawa
>Underground
What am I reading, user?
Also, Kasane is fucking great. But it's not underground, too. It's getting a fucking movie.
Josiah Garcia
Had some really interesting ideas, but I didn't really understand what the story was really about or what it was trying to say.
All I got out of it was "Man, wouldn't it be crazy if Mickey Mouse was an eldritch horror, and Walt Disney was a nazi?"
Mason Cook
This. Monster were way more coherent. And 20th century boys - more entertaining. Though the story was even harder to follow than Billy Bat.
Evan Kelly
I found TCB a lot easier to follow than BB. Plus TCB had a really strong themes of nostalgia, friendship, the power of music, etc. Billy Bat I couldn't get a clear idea of what I was supposed to take from it.
Jack Richardson
Part of the ending was pretty good, even if it was a bit melancholy for my taste.
Part of the ending was "you want answers, lol fuck you I'm a bat"
Juan Wilson
Okay, I stay corrected. It was easier to follow the flow of the story in 20CB, but fuck if I know what exactly happened. With BB it was the other way round: I completely understand what happened but I still no idea what was the fucking point of it happening.
Asher Bennett
Aaron Bailey
I can follow the events of TCB pretty easily, but I wholeheartedly agree on BB. When I finished the last chapter all I could say was "Okay, but why though?" I felt the exact same way when I finished Fire Punch.
>Part of the ending was "you want answers, lol fuck you I'm a bat"
Maybe the story works better if you read it as a Lovecraftian horror story.
Joseph Taylor
Oh yeah, I absolutely agree on Fire Punch. I think the whole morale of the story was "Welp, you should have died earlier". I might have to re-read 20CB. I was way younger when I first read it, and maybe now it'll be easier to understand.
Grayson Green
TCB befits a lot from rereading it. Only really confusing part about TCB is the the identity of the second Friend, but that's done on purposed.
Luis Smith
That's exactly the point where I got lost. Thanks for the advice, user.
Jason Morris
They reveal his name in 21st Century Boys, but it's someone we only ever heard of once near the very beginning. It was done to try and give the reader the feeling of forgetting details that seem inconsequential at the time, but ended up having massive significance later that the characters go through in the story itself.
Andrew Robinson
I read the explaination, but I still got no coherent picture of what actually happened there. I definitely need to try and re-read it.
Nathaniel Brown
Fire Punch? More like Kino Punch
Kayden Bennett
Still hits me right in the feels
David Miller
Felt like he got a hundred chapters in and realized "fuck.. I don't know where I'm going with this"
Carson Thomas
20th Century Boys sucked after the first part
David Long
not masterpiece, but pic related was hell great despite having 3 arcs that almost repeat the same formula.
the manga was great, but the end was awful. people complaining about 20th century boys and monster end should shut the hell up and read Billy bat. I would even say it´s worst that Sun-ken rock end, and this is coming from someone wh odoesnt usually complain about ends in manga
Jose Perry
I would say it´s better than Monster and Pluto.
Blake Flores
>I didn't really understand what the story was really about or what it was trying to say.
It's about drawing, comics and how they can bring light to people's lives. It's all a bit self-aggrandizing in my opinion.
Blake Wright
Urasawa can't seem to deliver satisfying conclusions to his works.
Aaron Lewis
Fire Punch didn't really have a moral or message, just presented a horrible dilemma and its better that way.
Nolan Gonzalez
>Movie
DOGSHIT LIVE ACTION I SAY.
FUCK THOSR JAPS.
Great taste nevertheless , fucking amazing ride.
It was ok.
But it got stale really fast.
And thanks to the user who presented pic related to me.
It ended up being one of my favorite manga And what Nazo No Kanojo X should have been
John Davis
Did the user who was shilling this stop?
Andrew Watson
I haven't finished it but to me it's a conspiracy theory filtered through manga.
Or perhaps it's about American intervention in post-war Japan?
It's bananas but it's not impossible to follow. It also gave us this gem:
Camden Martin
Thanks for user who was shilling this. Good story
with a lot of extra points for non stylized shading and non "perfect" shapes/forms/lines, rare things in a manga
Aaron King
It might be simplistic but I really like it and can't see many flaws
Kayden Davis
I'm gonna read every manga posted in this thread. Take that!
Cameron Phillips
>it was ok
sundome was ok
Tyler Adams
Now here's a really underground manga
Wyatt James
Not sure if anyone still remembers The Big O.
Benjamin Bell
>Anything Urasawa
>UG
He's one of the most well known modern mangaka with an active career spanning decades
William Miller
What was the reason for the meat being unable to cross the ocean? I vaguely remember it being something to do with the salt which felt so absurd given the insane methods they had to take in order to kill it. Can't remember why that became a thing later on in the story.
Matthew Powell
Bump
Liam Hill
based as hell
Jaxon Diaz
sauce?
Owen Brown
Holyland
Ethan Butler
Rarely mentioned, the art and storytelling is gorgeous.
Bonus round: the Roman baths manga
Thomas King
Yeah this was a fucking great read. The art was fucking magnificent.
Kayden Cooper
>Roman baths
Thermae Romae?
Tyler Green
I need to rewatch it since the last time I saw it was around 20 or so years ago. Had a great art style
Gonna need to read Holyland. Need more motivational /fit/ shit to read to get me on the right path
This manga (pic related) gets no love on here. Only on some occasions, but very sparse. ;__;
Brayden Adams
too bad billy bat ending was rushed and disappointing
Evan Barnes
The manga was the best version of Battle Royale but you can't buy it anywhere anymore
Isaac Baker
Yeah, I assume that's why. Translation was butchered to shit too in English.
Viz did release the English TL of Angel's Border not too long ago. Who knows, maybe they'll pick BR's manga back up and re-translate it...?
I hope.
Jackson Baker
Yeah, and maybe Viz will reprint 2001 Nights too.
Austin Ward
i hope so too, user
Nolan Campbell
Finaly, someone who appreciates the best girl.
A horrible dilemma stops being horrible when everything around is horrible and constantly on fire too. And the ending is in complete dissonance with that whole hopeless mood while being completely irrelevanr. I remember there being some theme of identity, but it's completely invalidated when the MC's identity gets reseted by his "death". I honestly liked the story until that point, but it resolved into nothing.