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great doodle, bottom left?

wonder

Weekly manga are definitely inferior on average but you're going to miss out on some good series if you ignore them entirely. Likewise, there's plenty of good series that are stranded in magazines with nothing else of value. If you don't move to a new hobby once you finish the low-hanging fruit you'll know my pain eventually.

They both good, fuck off, not everything have to be 1 side or the other.
Vagabond, Spirit Circle, JoJo part 6 anime when?

Shit taste but great looking 3x3

>you're going to miss out on some good series if you ignore them entirely
I don't mind missing out on a few good manga when I get to skip most of the bad ones. I have no interest in the weekly shounen stuff or any kind of rubbish aimed at dumb 15 year olds. The ones I've tried were all a waste of time.
>If you don't move to a new hobby
What sort of idiot only has one hobby?

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Hopefully they stop with Stone Ocean. SBR with 3D horses would be a nightmare. Vagabond probably won't ever get an adaptation because no studio has the resources to make something that long anymore. It will look horrendous compared to Inoue's art. A Berserk style adaptation could be the only thing that could work, but nothing has been made with that style in over a decade and it still looks pretty dumb.

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Manga doesn't waste my time like Anime does. I can read like almost a volume (depending on how much text the author incorparates) in the time of an Anime episode which usually only adapts like 2 chapters.
Also i feel like a lot of Anime directors don't know how to translate Manga into Anime. For example the comedic timing always seems to be so off in Anime even if the scene was really funny in the Manga.

When I realized almost all anime are just manga advertisement.

Sea, Matsumoto
Kiki, Wonder, Pin Pon, Yesterday

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you already seen the kaijuu no kodomo movie? how was it

It's what you should expect from a good adaptation. It cuts away some parts that don't work well on screen and focuses on the strengths of animation which is making a great looking movie. Angalade and Jim get the biggest cuts, but they still fulfill their roles well. The soundtrack sounds pretty weak if you listen to it on youtube, but it worked really well with the movie. The climax is absolutely magical.

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This is my favourite song from the OST
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>The soundtrack sounds pretty weak if you listen to it on youtube
you think that? The main reason i'm excited for it is becuase i've been listening to the soundtrack a shit ton on youtube. Its some of joe hisashi's best work in a long time and the insert song is amazing.
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God tier Yonezu song for sure. This Hisaishi OST is definitely stronger than his earlier ones, like on Nausicaa, which sounded pretty wonky and the best song in it was a remixed Handel. I have an ear for classical music so hearing minimalist sounds wrong to me. Princess Kaguya was strange because it has a traditional Japanese folk feel, and they put some very bizarre notes in the wrong places. On the other hand, the Moon Asshole music was the highlight of the movie.
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Since Children of the Sea is a lot more about the atmosphere than any kind of story being told, Hisaishi's minimalist works surprisingly well. There are no "Laputa" bangers and there doesn't need to be.

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Putting the fact that anime is almost inherently shittier just by virtue of being seasonal aside, the talent pool for direction in anime is pathetic compared to manga artists. Couple that with the fact that they have to adapt someone else's artistry in their own vision and you have a recipe for total shit. No one could ever do a Vagabond adaption justice, because you are adapting from Takehiko fucking Inoue,

What the last one in middle row? Cant find it on reverse search.

anime isnt competing you fucking tard

>when did you realise manga was the superior artform
When I started to compare the source material with their respective adaptation, and in most cases the former was just superior, objectively.
By the way, great taste and nice balance between aesthetics and comfy
Based adventurous user, cool taste. Takemitsu is probably one of my favorite samurai manga
Harsh, but fair opinion on manga, but I don't agree with it. Manga offers you possibilities that anime can't offer you and vice versa, it's just a matter of taste. I like the composition of your chart, that represents different types of color schemes and is rich of different art styles. Shame that you look down upon manga since the latter, among others, is what makes the medium so great.
Read the PP manga if you haven't already, friend. Your taste is as good as ever
>SD and Redline
based
What's on the far bottom right, user?

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>inherently shittier just by virtue of being seasonal
In what regard? Cause I don't think being held down to 13 episodes a season is holding it back anymore than a painting on a canvas, unless we're talking about straight up adaptions.

>Shame that you look down upon manga
I am simply here to defend the honor of the vastly superior art form. I own physical copies of art books for Igarashi's as well as Matsumoto's works, so I am far from someone who "looks down" on manga. I look down on mangafags.

Knights of Sidonia

Bottom right is Swing You Sinners! I though about some of the Betty Boop pictures like the one about inflation and selling earth to a space Jew, but it's hard to pass up a graveyard trip.

The existence of some gold anime doesn't make manga less superior. There are lots of good films but books are the superior medium. The irony is that the more advanced our technology becomes, the shorter the lifespan of our art. The limitations of manga are what make it so good. A standardised page size and a pen. From that starting point, the end result can be incredible. When it comes to anime, production committees get involved, contracts, employees, licences, tv arrangements, legal fees and a lot more deadweight. If the whole team is on the same page and lead by a great creator, you can have yourself a good anime. It's rare, though.

My imagination is stronger than any anime adaptation so it's all a disappointment

You realize editors and publishers have a tremendous impact on the publication of manga, right? Pretending for outside influence to be exclusive to anime is ignorant at best, and pants on head retarded at worst.
>There are lots of good films but books are the superior medium
Far from it. The artistry required to produce a piece of audio visual media can never be matched by literature. Sound itself has the potential to be its own thematic layer, even telling a story adversary to the works visuals or narrative exposition. For animation, you can add appreciation for the art of visualizing movement. Audio visual media ask the viewer to understand visual language, color as well as music theory and be knowledgable in various other fields to even realize the importance of details. Such sublty is impossible in literature, since the mediums limitations force the author to specifically mention them to make the audience aware of their existence.

Are three-by-threes simply a collection of nine random pictures or is there supposed to be a theme?

> t. brainlet amerimutt
> Manga doesn't have my explody sounds or music that some hack that's not the author or me chose waaaa

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i'll probably just read manga once i've gone through every anime i've ever wanted to watch. Modern day shit just aint cutting it especially when more then half of a season are inferior manga adaptations and hardly any original anime is being made

No worries. Neither am I a mutt, nor am I as ignorant as you are.

Just start now. Adaptations have been mostly bad since adaptations existed.
Are you the retard from the anime vs manga thread a short while back

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A medium's artistic merit only goes as far as its level of critical analysis. By those standards books > movies and manga > anime.

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i dont think thjere is critical analysis of manga on the same level as movies yet

Really bad taste

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>when did you realise manga was the superior artform
I can't say that I consider any art form "superior" to any other. They all just are very different from one another. Manga can do things anime can't - and vice versa.

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Watership Down still isn't anime.

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... and manga.

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I recently switched to manga, so my taste is probably pretty bad right now.

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>switched to manga
From what?
Also, please rate others.

I mean i kinda just stopped watching anime cause I can barely find time to watch anything aside from like a few things due to work. On the other hand, I have enough downtime at work that reading isn't an issue.
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>I can barely find time to watch anything aside from like a few things due to work.
Sadly, I can relate to that. I haven't stopped watching anime altogether, but I don't watch as much as I used to. If only my Japanese was good enough to casually let anime run while I do other things, like I do with stupid series or youtube shit.

I haven't stopped all together either, I still am watching Gundam whenever I can, but seasonal stuff is hard to find time for, especially if it has source material I can easily acquire.

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I don't read a lot of manga. The majority of what I have read doesn't grab me for some reason. I guess it just feels like a limited format since it has neither the strengths of full animation or literature and is instead an awkward in-between. I don't read many comics for the same reason. There are a few really good manga though.
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Straight-up adaptations are something I tend not to watch too much either. Still haven't watched Kimetsu no Yaiba, for example, because the manga is so much quicker to read.
Then again I do have some recent adaptations on my 3x3: I did watch OPM's second season recently, but of course it couldn't compete with the manga.
And naturally, I was immediately on board with Cutie Honey Universe and would gladly watch any new adaptation of the manga, but Nagai adaptations have always been a special kind of anime, haven't they?
I guess what I want to say is that sometimes anime can be different from their source manga, maybe better, maybe worse, or maybe just a different kind of enjoyment.

Yeah I'll also go out of my way to check out stuff like Nagai adaptations. Even the worst one I've watched, Mazinkaiser SKL, was still super fun in a way.

>the worst one I've watched, Mazinkaiser SKL
I actually have never seen that one. Is it worse than Devilman Crybaby as an adaptation?

Its mostly that its kinda dumb, its like a Metal Album cover got adapted into an anime. its still really fun, it just isn't as good as any of the other recent Mazinger anime.

Since I started reading manga.
Absolutely great taste, 7/7. I'm reading Children of the Sea currently and I feel like it'll slip in my 3x3 once I'm done.

3/4, middle middle and bottom middle?

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4/7, Koizumi is absolutely based. Too bad it's not going to be fully translated like ever.

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>its like a Metal Album cover got adapted into an anime
You know, that does make me want to watch it momentarily. (I really should, together with all those Enma adaptations that I have had in my backlog for I don't know how long now.)

Its only like 3 episodes long so you could probably knock it out in one viewing.

Yeah, probably. Hell, tomorrow is a Sunday and I have little work to do right now, might as well just watch it.

Kakukaku Shikajika.

>middle middle and bottom middle?
Victorian Romance Emma, and Eden: It's an endless world.

How didn’t I recognize it as Eden. Thats a quite good manga. Thanks for the other one though.

I always knew it, but I didn't actually stop wasting time on seasonal anime until recently.

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Children of the Sea over Witches or Hanashipanashi for Igarashi Daisuke, huh? I respecc it, but Witches is much better in my opinion.

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>Are three-by-threes simply a collection of nine random pictures or is there supposed to be a theme?
Yes, there is supposed to be a "theme": They're supposed to be your favourites.

Should we bump this thread? Seems like a slow day?
But we need more (new!) grids.

I disliked Witches because it was too on the nose and I don't like that it puts all the different mysteries of the world on the same level. The setting didn't grab me and I don't like witchcraft in general.
You're on the right track with Cromartie and should seek more good delinquent manga. Cyborg 009 is an interesting pick because nobody talks about it anymore. >solitary gourmet
>jojolion
Welcome, my son.
You've done well to avoid the worst of it and the only sign of bad taste is HxH. We all know that YYH is better if you're putting a fighting shounen on.

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Publishers have an impact if you're deep into the industry, but literally anyone can get a pen and paper and start drawing. There's a very large doujin market for that reason.
You mustn't read enough if you don't see the superior of written word to everything else. Written word is interactive because your mind has to fill in the blanks, and since it's doing that you can become far more engaged with what you're reading. Movies do all the work for you so they're less engaging. Written word is the second most influential medium ever discovered, after spoken word. The chances a movie will change your life are low, but written word has a good chance.
Manga is a balance between images and words that is very accessible, but keeping some of the benefits.

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I've started reading Emanon now, and I do really enjoy it so far.

I read Cyborg 009 in high school. Library had the Tokyopop release.

What kind of school library has manga?

Can't be too uncommon. Mine had Emma and a few other obscure things.

I find that strange. Over here in Germany, school libraries mainly have schoolbooks, "scientific" stuff (or what teenagers take for scientific), classics of literature and relatively bland teen-literature. Not that I'd ever seriously considered getting books from there to read in my spare time in the first place.

Mine had some shonen trash

Would I like Summit of the Gods if I hated Kokou no Hito and I think Walking Man is merely good?

>Alita
You're fucking up, my dude.

Most likely. Summit of the Gods doesn't do any of the pretentious imagery shit that The Climber does frequently and it's not drawn out to that length. It's much more of a story than Walking Man. There's a narrative, a framing story, every character has a history and it has a very cathartic ending. If you like human stories about going beyond your limits and finding purpose in life, Summit of the Gods is your thing.

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Summit of the Gods isn’t fully translated into English, is it?

It is. It's not scanned so you have to buy it. Only 5 volumes so it's not too expensive.

>Vagabond
What the fuck happened to Takemitsuzamurai?

The farming arc in Vagabond is really, really good.

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Eh. It doesn't make up for the previous 30 volumes. Takemitsuzamurai is the best samurai/swordsman manga for me, and one of the best drawn manga period. Vagabond has a lot of hand-holding, which always bugs me.

The slow and deliberate pace is fine for me. Vagabond has a better display of characters than Takemitsuzamurai does. Takemitsu is focused almost entirely on Senou.

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I guess if you prefer a multi-character focus, Vagabond is the manga for you. Personally, I didn't care about Matahachi, Otsu, Kojiro, or anyone besides Musashi, and when I got fed up with the manga, I stopped caring about him too.
The characters don't make it for me in either, though I don't usually worry about characters when it comes to manga, because that's almost guaranteed a weak point. But I believe Takemitsu does a lot of things right, moreso than Vagabond.
For me, the Hokusai-infused art and it's sheer intensity juxtaposed by minimalistic tranquility, the excellent use of the manga medium, the way it builds on previous samurai/jidaigeki manga, and the fact that it doesn't dawdle make it one of my absolute favorites.

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Takemitsu is Matsumoto's best manga. It has his best art and doesn't get bogged down like some of his others. One of the things that bothered me was the homosexual warrior guy. I hate homos.
Matahachi, Takuan, Denshichiro, Ueda and Ittousai were all very interesting characters because they're written like real people, rather than as the goofy fiction characters in Takemitsu. I like goofy fiction characters when they're in Jojolion, but not so much in a samurai story. Vagabond's length works to its favour because it shows the gradual progression of Musashi from a dickhead into a zen legend.

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>Matahachi, Takuan, Denshichiro, Ueda and Ittousai were all very interesting characters because they're written like real people
They don't read like real people, at least not to my satisfaction. Even if they did, that doesn't mean I found them interesting or worth reading about. I feel like some of them are "goofy fiction characters", but the realistic art communicates them as more realistic than they're written.

If you don't know someone like Matahachi, you are the Matahachi.
You should get out more and find some friends.

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Guy, I work dealing with people personally every day. I also read books. I know how realistic characters can be written. The worst mediums for well-written characters happen to be animation (e.g. anime) and sequential art (e.g. manga). Maybe compared to most manga, they seem incredible well-written in Vagabond. However, it's not done to my satisfaction. So I look to the rest of the work, and I find Takemitsu is much better and more enjoyable when it comes to samurai/jidaigeki manga, and manga in general.

Eva from Monster > whatever well-written characters you guys are arguing about.

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But Eva isnt even the best character in Monster

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>We all know that YYH is better if you're putting a fighting shounen on.
Honestly only someone blinded by nostalgia would say that. HxH trumps it in fights, characters, story and in about everything else.

Look out, guys, this man reads books.
We all read books, dipshit. Perhaps you're a woman and don't understand how men function, or maybe you work in retail and think pisses off customers are all people. You can find many people on history that fit the character archetypes shown in Vagabond, but I can't find one that's like Senou. You could loosely classify him as a savant, but what savant becomes a king? He's got two personalities. It works for the story but it's not realistic.

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TOP MIDDLE?

When I started reading manga to get ahead of the events portrayed in the anime for longrunning series and getting pissed off at waiting for the next season for 12 episode anime. I then realized it was the art was unmolested and there was nothing cut

it's Takemitsuzamurai

Mine's had a nice mix of stuff. Bokurano, Natsume Yuujinchou, Tokyo Mew Mew, Saraiya Goyou, it was real nice

Decided to make an arc 3x3 to add some spark to the thread

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2/3 (for the "real taste")
Please rate others.

Anime: 3/6
Manga: 1/1
Please rate others.

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I couldn't take Joe seriously after Harimau.

When I was 13

I really wish Yea Forums got split up into a board for Anime and a board for Manga.

There's really no need for that. Just remove the shounen-war shitposting and everything's fine.

/ma/ would be a dead board. It's better that we're a small fish in a large pond because at least we can draw people in this way.

>/ma/ would be a dead board.
Nah, I guess it would be about as slow as /m/ (which actually should be the name of the manga board), but far from being dead.

Are 3x3 threads with manga-grid OPs generally slower than those with anime-grid OPs? Honest question, because it feels that way.

Yes it's a good way to filter out the unwanted

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>nagatoro.jpg
Why doesn't anyone ever put her manga on his 3x3? I came close.

Perhaps at the conclusion of this arc if there's a shift in the right direction, it'll start popping up. It's still a gimmick at this point so it will have to do something impressive to break out of that.

You're very fixed on this realistic character business. I already told you that neither impresses me, Vagabond nor Takemitsuzamurai. I'm also pretty sure Senou has a different function. He's certainly not meant to be a super realistic character, at least not one based on a historical figure. It should be pretty obvious since the art doesn't reflect much realism in the characters.
>We all read books, dipshit.
Sorry, but I don't believe you. Your level of analysis is poor, and a large portion of books are written by homos.
It's hard to believe you ever considered Takemitsuzamurai a favorite, considering how much you didn't understand what it was about and how much you dislike it.

>manga 3x3 thread
>post anime 3x3
autism

>manga 3x3 thread
No one ever said that this was a manga 3x3 thread, retard. And even if it was, arbitrarily excluding anime will just kill the thread faster.

I'm not sure if Kengan will stand the test of time for me but I really liked it and the last few chapters made me emotional as hell.

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>boohoo you like something more than another thing
>that means you can't like it
Is this what American education looks like? Name a well written character and explain yourself, then I'll ignore your comment because it's going to be retarded.

Stardust Crusaders and Jojolion are the best parts. Never understood the Diamond is Unbreakable love, and Battle Tendency isn't very good.

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>Name a well written character
You are stupidly fixed on this. We're done here.
I thought you better than this, considering your love for Taniguchi, but you're just another retarded cunt. Your Taniguchi manga will probably disappear too once you read some more entry-level manga.

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>koizumi
based.

Bump?

I don't think you have ever told me which show on my grid you don't like tho

Not him but Taniguchi is hardly entry level, the only entry level-ish manga he has is A Distant Neighborhood

Okay, just finished Mazinkaizer SKL. I do definitely get what you mean by "Metal Album cover adapted into anime". It was definitely heavy on the action, I'd say a bit too heavy on the action. It lacked exposition and character building, overall, and the pace was horrible: It did rush through plotpoints like they were nothing and took too many small twists and turns. The whole thing both feels rushed and at the same time like it could have been shortened to half an hour. My favourite ten minutes have to be the start of episode 2, when they tried to get a bit into exposition and didn't have a large-scale battle for a chance.

However, all that being said, character interactions were actually great, and what made it feel truly Go Nagai. Yuuki is very sympathetical, as is Kaido, though the latter mostly seems just to be there without a character arc of his own. Magami has his own arc, but that one feels half-hearted and is done with within minutes.
My favourite character has to be Himiko. I wish they had done more with her. Could have had a really strong arc with strong conflicts (that were teased, but not more than that). Even as it is, I really dig her character and her design. Plus she's hot. (Reminds me a little bit of a certain someone I love.)

And props to the Akira/Miki cameo in episode 3. No, I didn't blink and miss that one.

Visually, cinematographically, it was really well made. Really nice to look at, apart from a few weak points in editing, unmotivated cuts and such. It worked well with colours, had good imagery and a fair bit of symbolism.
And I did enjoy the music, the voice acting and sound design.

So ... my verdict: I actually liked it quite a bit. Definitely not worse than Devilman Crybaby. Sure, the writing wasn't much better, but it actually was really fun (like you said), and it was, in its own way, very Nagai.
Definitely worth watching.

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I assume you're , as the other two are manga grids?
It's Hokuto no Ken. Never quite connected with that one. Not with the main character and his motivation, nor did I like the setting or the style of writing.
By which I don't want to say it's bad per se, mind you, because it isn't, but not my cup of tea. So maybe it deserves partial points ... but because I had rounded up a bit for Doremi, I had to round down for this one.

fair enough. I guess it is the one I would have the hardest time defending
I'm honestly more saddened from finding out you do not share my fondness for doremy, which could very well be my absolute favorite

>finding out you do not share my fondness for doremy
Well, I did give it a point. Which means that I do like it. It does have that character focus I'm always looking for (like the autist I am, see ), and does it quite well. I guess what makes me a bit skeptical of it, like of so many mahou shoujo things that came after Sailor Moon, is that the central conflicts seem a bit forced and simplistic. Of course, part of that is down to it being intended for a younger audience.
Of course, there's also that little (unjustified) remainder of the distaste I first had for it when I was still a teenager and just looked at Doremi, Wedding Peach and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (which aired on TV over here around the Sailor Moon timeslot) as relatively uninspired ripoffs. I only started to appreciate them for their own merits years later.

Quick bump.
Should I post alternative grids again?
And again with some music?

Okay then. Bump.

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I don't have that one. It's Walking Man. A Distant Neighbourhood is good but it's not in the pool of Taniguchis I consider for my chart.
Listen here, you poser cunt. You don't get to act all superior then turn your tail when you get pressed on something. If you don't think x character is well written, give some fucking examples of what you think is. Don't care what it's from. If you say some shit like Joker from The Dark Knight, or some faggot character study from gay ass American literature, then you should never be allowed to speak again.

>x character is well written
>American literature
I doubt he'd point to American literature for a well-written character. No one thinks American literature has well-written characters.

He sounds dumb enough to think that it's the best because he wrote an essay on it once. There are well written characters all over the place and it's very easy to find them. The elitism that manga doesn't have well written characters is something only a sperg would say. You can find them in Astro Boy all the way to The Name of the Rose. The most common failing point is not on writing characters, but on making a good story. You'd have to be really stupid to write only bad characters since there are hundreds of reference points in our lives.

You don't have to tell me. I do realize that manga has loads of great characters. That's one of my main reasons for reading manga.
And I was a bit hyperbolic, of course, about American literature. It's just that always when I hear "American literature", I immediately think of The Great Getsby, which marks one of the very rare cases of me dropping a book only a few chapters in, because of its mindnumbing shallowness.

Nothing wrong with hyperbole to make a point. The big draw of manga is the art, but that doesnt mean thats all there is. Some stories are best told visually.
An example of "literature" that sucked is Crime and Punishment. Perhaps the most infuriating and insufferable books ever written. It goes on and on and on and everyone is unlikable other than Razumikhin. It's a level of overratedness that rivals Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop.

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Whats the middle left?

What's the intire middle row?

Fucking this. This character is insanely well-written.

1/8

Not him, but this one's been talked about in here already. It's Taniguchi's "Aruku Hito" (The Walking Man). Never read it.

Other Taniguchi things. That Louis Viton travel diary thing. And "Summit of the Gods".

Saucenao (for cropping) + Yandex find all three of them, by the way. Here's a Tampermonkey-script I wrote the other day in the 3x3 thread, if you need a quick way to get from one to the other:

>pastebin.com/fyurHGUr

Walking Man, Venice and Summit of the Gods
All by Jiro Taniguchi

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Running out of alternates again.

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Still waiting for new grids.
The usual suspects have all already been here, but we usually get a few new 3x3 as well.

Guess it can't hurt to keep it around a little bit longer.

Bump ...

Pretend that NNB is actually HxH

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>Pretend that NNB is actually HxH
That's kinda hard to do, but I'll try. In that case:
3/7
(Oh, and: Please rate some others.)

>he's never read any lit
Embarrassing

I know you're shitposting, but he certainly has.
This post is from him:

Halfway through this legendary manga. We never get to know what Akagi is thinking, even though he's the protagonist. It's hard not to root for Washizu.

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Okay, and what are your other 8 favourites?

then he reads Yea Forums but doesn't understand it.

Crime and Punishment is for tryhards. It's a stupid person's intelligent book. Just like 1984. If you're reading that garbage and you're impressed, perhaps you should read something else appropriate to your capabilities like Fairy Tail.

Shitty thread, as you would expect from a 3x3.

Okay. Post yours, please.

Just like 1984.
Nah, it couldn't possibly be THAT bad.

Erm ... meant for:
>Just like 1984.

Thanks

bump

I'll give this thread one more bump and then I'll give it up unless something new is posted.