manga update
PostPosted:Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:26 pm
Naruto - I think they need to stop having these fights where stuff happens and then it turns out everything was either all an illusion or that it was just 10 clones fighting each other and nothing actually happened. I guess it's a good way to stretch out the content when you can repeatedly kill the same guys and then just start over because it wasn't real.
Bleach - Right now I think a good way to end this is if Aizen gets killed in one round and it'd be like 'whoa he really did die, that wasn't an illusion!' Of course even if that happened I'm sure they'd just find some new enemy to fight. Bleach really handles the multiple fights poorly. I'm guessing it'd be another 2 months from the scene of "Aizen is preparing to fight" to "Aizen is actually fighting" and by then we'd have forgotten he was supposed to be here.
One Piece - Luffy reminds me of Tsubasa. He's supposed to be some kind of hero for children with impeccable courage and stuff, but his actions are a sad caricature of what he is supposed to represent. Just like Tsubasa takes steroids to help him become better at soccer (except the stuff he takes is more dangerous than steroids, I don't think steroids cause your feet to fall off), Luffy seems to have these new awesomeness-in-a-can thing he's injecting himself with whenever he needs more power. So remember kids, when friendship, truth, and love fails, inject yourself with steroids and that solves everything.
On another note, the background story of OP seems to be rewritten every other week. Now it turns out Ace knew about the plan all along even though it sure looked like he did not. Yes I realize Ace never said: "I didn't know about the plan!" but he sure looked like he did not, and now in his flashback he clearly knew. The current confrontation is turning into something of a joke, as Whitebeard looks more like Mr. Satan who than "the Strongest Man in the World". I mean all along you're told this guy has the power to destroy the world and now it looks like any Admiral could've beaten him let alone the 2 guys above the Admirals (Sengoku and Garp). Yes I realize the Admirals aren't exactly weak guys, but Whitebeard's title was "Strongest Man in the World", not "Strongest Man in the World not in the Marines."
Ravages of Time - Finally hits part 300, and Liu Hua makes a return, someone even a ROTK nut wouldn't remember much about. It's pretty amazing how you pretty much have to consult the official ROTK written in ancient Chinese to verify that all these random guys showing up really existed (and some of them are just made up), and yet it's not really dragging on. ROTK was not just about Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei, and Ravages of Time does a good job reminding us that. The caption that reminds you who these guys are comes in rather handy, especially for anyone not well-versed in Chinese history.
Saint Seiya: Lost Canvas - They call this the sequel but it seems more like the prequel. Clearly Hades is dissatisfied with his incompetent henchman like Wyvern, Gryphon, Behemoth, and so on, and now has hired more potent evils like Mephisto. I assume we'll be seeing Baal and Diablo showing up shortly. All the goofiness aside, Mephisto does look far more interesting than the previous mythical-animal-themed henchman, but someone should've reminded him that NOBODY, and I mean nobody, has ever been exiled/killed by banishing them to another dimension in the world of Saint Seiya.
Another interesting tidbit is that while Hades possesses mortals their hair turns from blonde to black, but it didn't occur to him if someone's hair turn from black to blonde it means now they're now a good guy. You'd think if Hades has been fighting Athena for millenias they should have something obvious like this figured out a long time ago. It's really funny because the good guys can never tell that someone turned against them when his hair turned black, and the reverse is true on the other side. I guess that part was intended to be a parody of this since Hades actually commented why did one of his guy's hair turn from black to blonde, but dismissed it as nothing important until that guy tried to kill him.
Bleach - Right now I think a good way to end this is if Aizen gets killed in one round and it'd be like 'whoa he really did die, that wasn't an illusion!' Of course even if that happened I'm sure they'd just find some new enemy to fight. Bleach really handles the multiple fights poorly. I'm guessing it'd be another 2 months from the scene of "Aizen is preparing to fight" to "Aizen is actually fighting" and by then we'd have forgotten he was supposed to be here.
One Piece - Luffy reminds me of Tsubasa. He's supposed to be some kind of hero for children with impeccable courage and stuff, but his actions are a sad caricature of what he is supposed to represent. Just like Tsubasa takes steroids to help him become better at soccer (except the stuff he takes is more dangerous than steroids, I don't think steroids cause your feet to fall off), Luffy seems to have these new awesomeness-in-a-can thing he's injecting himself with whenever he needs more power. So remember kids, when friendship, truth, and love fails, inject yourself with steroids and that solves everything.
On another note, the background story of OP seems to be rewritten every other week. Now it turns out Ace knew about the plan all along even though it sure looked like he did not. Yes I realize Ace never said: "I didn't know about the plan!" but he sure looked like he did not, and now in his flashback he clearly knew. The current confrontation is turning into something of a joke, as Whitebeard looks more like Mr. Satan who than "the Strongest Man in the World". I mean all along you're told this guy has the power to destroy the world and now it looks like any Admiral could've beaten him let alone the 2 guys above the Admirals (Sengoku and Garp). Yes I realize the Admirals aren't exactly weak guys, but Whitebeard's title was "Strongest Man in the World", not "Strongest Man in the World not in the Marines."
Ravages of Time - Finally hits part 300, and Liu Hua makes a return, someone even a ROTK nut wouldn't remember much about. It's pretty amazing how you pretty much have to consult the official ROTK written in ancient Chinese to verify that all these random guys showing up really existed (and some of them are just made up), and yet it's not really dragging on. ROTK was not just about Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei, and Ravages of Time does a good job reminding us that. The caption that reminds you who these guys are comes in rather handy, especially for anyone not well-versed in Chinese history.
Saint Seiya: Lost Canvas - They call this the sequel but it seems more like the prequel. Clearly Hades is dissatisfied with his incompetent henchman like Wyvern, Gryphon, Behemoth, and so on, and now has hired more potent evils like Mephisto. I assume we'll be seeing Baal and Diablo showing up shortly. All the goofiness aside, Mephisto does look far more interesting than the previous mythical-animal-themed henchman, but someone should've reminded him that NOBODY, and I mean nobody, has ever been exiled/killed by banishing them to another dimension in the world of Saint Seiya.
Another interesting tidbit is that while Hades possesses mortals their hair turns from blonde to black, but it didn't occur to him if someone's hair turn from black to blonde it means now they're now a good guy. You'd think if Hades has been fighting Athena for millenias they should have something obvious like this figured out a long time ago. It's really funny because the good guys can never tell that someone turned against them when his hair turned black, and the reverse is true on the other side. I guess that part was intended to be a parody of this since Hades actually commented why did one of his guy's hair turn from black to blonde, but dismissed it as nothing important until that guy tried to kill him.