Liar Game ends
PostPosted:Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:28 am
People in China seems to think it'd be boycotted since for some inexplicable reason in the final chapter it talks about China is bad for the Tienanman Square. I think they should ban it for being a bad manga and allowing it to be viewed is a crime against humanity. In the Chinese sites they apparently don't let US domained guys read the manga that are viewed as too sexual or too violent and now they should add a category of 'too dumb'.
I don't particularly mind that the last arc in Liar Game totally sucks, but it's like you got this totally irrelevent and stupid game they're playing and then suddenly it turned out the entire premise of Liar Games was this guy is trying to film a movie to fight back against a mysterious regime that runs over protesters with tanks even though there's literally no relevance between the two whatsoever. This reminds me of how HXH's Chimaera Ant arc was supposed to be making fun of North Korea and the only reason it didn't spark an international incident was probably because nobody reads HXH outside of Japan. In both cases I think the authors think if you spew out nonsense and then blame it on a totalitarian government somewhere it suddenly becomes very smart, even though there's literally nothing in common between the two.
Other manga of note:
Billionaire Girl - Also ended and it was going fairly badly but didn't go too bad. The foreshadowing worked surprisingly well as the first time Yukari met the protagonist she's pleading that she has money as long as he doesn't leave her, and the story ends with exactly the same thing, though this time it's the protagonist saying it'll be expensive for his help and Yukari, of course, still says she has money because she's a billionaire.
Cross Country Warrior - Emperor Zhou finally died as dictated by history, and it reminds me of something out of Iliad where you know Hector has to die. Meanwhile, the MIB martial artists protecting China from alien invasions continue to march on through the tides of history. Currently, Cross Country (that's the main character's name) time traveled to meet the second Tang Emperor (who is roughly like Augustus Caesar in terms of his place in Chinese history) to look for help only to find that Tang Emperor already knew that 300 years in the future the Ultimate Kirin will turn China into a barren wasteland but he's got something akin to Marvel's Watcher's Vow or whatever where he's not supposed to interfere with the past/future even though he's pretty much the only person that can fight the Ultimate Kirin straight up. Meanwhile, back in current time in the Song Dynasty, the resurrected Tang Emperor (not the same guy from 300 years ago) is fighting Blaze who can absorb geothermal and solar energy thanks to his Kirin Technology implants, but the Resurrected Emperor teleported the battlefield to an ocean and it happened to a solar eclipse which prevented Blaze from using either source of energy, so now the second strongest guy in China is defeated it's all up to Thundergod, the strongest martial artist in China to stop the resurrected Tang Emperor who will somehow unseal the Ultimate Kirin in his quest to conquer China in the name of the Tang Dynasty. Of course Thundergod was supposed to have died 3 times by now but since he's mega popular each time the fans threatened to stop following the series if he died, so although it looks like Thundergod was going to sacrifice himself he'll probably miraculously survive once again.
Saint Seiya Omega/Saint Seiya girls - More cheap spinoffs off Saint Seiya. Apparently by the time of Saint Seiya Omega they finally realized that they should make some extra armor for the saints since it's kind of an important part of the world. What I don't get is that in the world of Saint Seiya the golden armor are basically godlike and you instantly become at least 10 times stronger when you wear one but they are not utilized 100% of the time! Even when the Gold Saints die they'd just leave that spot vacant and probably put the golden armor in a museum or something. We already know the golden armor can automatically distinguish friend from foe so even if you got the wrong guy wearing it you can disarm it later trivially (Saga can wear the armor as a bad guy because he's got split personalities so the armor can't tell he's a bad guy). I mean, we're talking about bronze/silver guys have a speed measured from mach 1-5 and any guy in golden armor has the speed of light for just wearing this armor. 99.9% of the fighting in the story can be avoided if they just make better use of their golden armor.
Speaking of armor, I still think it's hilarious in Saint Seiya Lost Canvas when Tenma got his god armor and this random no name guy is like: "So you're the one called Godslayer? Show me what you got!" and then died instantly and was like "Yep, that guy is definitely the Godslayer". I don't know about you, but I think I'd be running for my life if I was facing a guy called the Godslayer. Speaking of which, this happens all the time in Saint Seiya Omega apparently, as all these random nobodies try to attack this generation's Pegasus Saint who for some reason is now known by everyone as Athena's Godslayer (it's supposed to be a secret) and it never occured to any of them that you probably shouldn't attack a guy known as the Godslayer.
Aloysha - The ending turned very MGS-esque as Misha, some 95 year old veteran who should be on a wheelchair turns out to be the only person that could beat Aloysha in combat, and after some inexplicable hand to hand combat Aloysha defeated Misha and went back to her fictional former Soviet Republic country and liberated everyone, or something.
Hadoken Z - The story starts with a guy that looks suspiciously like Akuma destroying New York city with a hadoken, and since this is Akuma we're talking about, it actually seems quite plausible. So far there isn't much resemblance to Street Fighter in terms of plot.
I don't particularly mind that the last arc in Liar Game totally sucks, but it's like you got this totally irrelevent and stupid game they're playing and then suddenly it turned out the entire premise of Liar Games was this guy is trying to film a movie to fight back against a mysterious regime that runs over protesters with tanks even though there's literally no relevance between the two whatsoever. This reminds me of how HXH's Chimaera Ant arc was supposed to be making fun of North Korea and the only reason it didn't spark an international incident was probably because nobody reads HXH outside of Japan. In both cases I think the authors think if you spew out nonsense and then blame it on a totalitarian government somewhere it suddenly becomes very smart, even though there's literally nothing in common between the two.
Other manga of note:
Billionaire Girl - Also ended and it was going fairly badly but didn't go too bad. The foreshadowing worked surprisingly well as the first time Yukari met the protagonist she's pleading that she has money as long as he doesn't leave her, and the story ends with exactly the same thing, though this time it's the protagonist saying it'll be expensive for his help and Yukari, of course, still says she has money because she's a billionaire.
Cross Country Warrior - Emperor Zhou finally died as dictated by history, and it reminds me of something out of Iliad where you know Hector has to die. Meanwhile, the MIB martial artists protecting China from alien invasions continue to march on through the tides of history. Currently, Cross Country (that's the main character's name) time traveled to meet the second Tang Emperor (who is roughly like Augustus Caesar in terms of his place in Chinese history) to look for help only to find that Tang Emperor already knew that 300 years in the future the Ultimate Kirin will turn China into a barren wasteland but he's got something akin to Marvel's Watcher's Vow or whatever where he's not supposed to interfere with the past/future even though he's pretty much the only person that can fight the Ultimate Kirin straight up. Meanwhile, back in current time in the Song Dynasty, the resurrected Tang Emperor (not the same guy from 300 years ago) is fighting Blaze who can absorb geothermal and solar energy thanks to his Kirin Technology implants, but the Resurrected Emperor teleported the battlefield to an ocean and it happened to a solar eclipse which prevented Blaze from using either source of energy, so now the second strongest guy in China is defeated it's all up to Thundergod, the strongest martial artist in China to stop the resurrected Tang Emperor who will somehow unseal the Ultimate Kirin in his quest to conquer China in the name of the Tang Dynasty. Of course Thundergod was supposed to have died 3 times by now but since he's mega popular each time the fans threatened to stop following the series if he died, so although it looks like Thundergod was going to sacrifice himself he'll probably miraculously survive once again.
Saint Seiya Omega/Saint Seiya girls - More cheap spinoffs off Saint Seiya. Apparently by the time of Saint Seiya Omega they finally realized that they should make some extra armor for the saints since it's kind of an important part of the world. What I don't get is that in the world of Saint Seiya the golden armor are basically godlike and you instantly become at least 10 times stronger when you wear one but they are not utilized 100% of the time! Even when the Gold Saints die they'd just leave that spot vacant and probably put the golden armor in a museum or something. We already know the golden armor can automatically distinguish friend from foe so even if you got the wrong guy wearing it you can disarm it later trivially (Saga can wear the armor as a bad guy because he's got split personalities so the armor can't tell he's a bad guy). I mean, we're talking about bronze/silver guys have a speed measured from mach 1-5 and any guy in golden armor has the speed of light for just wearing this armor. 99.9% of the fighting in the story can be avoided if they just make better use of their golden armor.
Speaking of armor, I still think it's hilarious in Saint Seiya Lost Canvas when Tenma got his god armor and this random no name guy is like: "So you're the one called Godslayer? Show me what you got!" and then died instantly and was like "Yep, that guy is definitely the Godslayer". I don't know about you, but I think I'd be running for my life if I was facing a guy called the Godslayer. Speaking of which, this happens all the time in Saint Seiya Omega apparently, as all these random nobodies try to attack this generation's Pegasus Saint who for some reason is now known by everyone as Athena's Godslayer (it's supposed to be a secret) and it never occured to any of them that you probably shouldn't attack a guy known as the Godslayer.
Aloysha - The ending turned very MGS-esque as Misha, some 95 year old veteran who should be on a wheelchair turns out to be the only person that could beat Aloysha in combat, and after some inexplicable hand to hand combat Aloysha defeated Misha and went back to her fictional former Soviet Republic country and liberated everyone, or something.
Hadoken Z - The story starts with a guy that looks suspiciously like Akuma destroying New York city with a hadoken, and since this is Akuma we're talking about, it actually seems quite plausible. So far there isn't much resemblance to Street Fighter in terms of plot.