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Chiibi
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 Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 12:29 pm
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| Cardcaptor Takato wrote: | | I enjoy SAO but isn't this just the plot of the first SAO movie? |
Well, I had a similar thought...but he can do a lot more with a novel series than being confined to two hours. 
| Hiroki not Takuya wrote: | | It could be that what English speakers like about "his" writing and style could actually be due to a good translator with a bent for good English composition and writing. |
What are the odds of a fan translation and an official one sounding just as pretty? Because I have read both.
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Shay Guy
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:38 pm
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| Shay Guy wrote: | | I dunno, stepping away from "episodic gag manga with lots of poop jokes" seemed to work out for him. |
lol yeah, I was gonna say. DBZ is one of the most successful manga series in history. Of all the possible examples out there to choose from... and they pick Toriyama. |
In fairness, IIRC a lot of the motivation behind ending Dr. Slump was that he was struggling to keep coming up with new gag plots on a near-weekly basis, and he and Torishima figured an adventure series with longer story arcs might be more manageable. So maybe you could consider Dragon Ball his "comfort zone" after all?
(I think it was volume 17 of Dr. Slump that made me think "This is just a straight-up Dragon Ball arc.")
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Fluwm
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 2:15 pm
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I mean, considering his infamous memory, anything with a narrative focus is well outside Toriyama's "comfort zone." What he feels most comfortable doing is clearly short one-off gag comics and character design work.
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MagicPolly
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 2:15 pm
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Stick to what you know best I guess
Illustrations are going from BUNBUN to his sister
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TsukasaElkKite
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 2:48 pm
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| Quote: | | mixed reality game merging with real world |
Sounds exactly like Ordinal Scale.[/quote]
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Angel M Cazares
Joined: 23 Sep 2010
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 6:18 pm
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| Kenfra wrote: | | Kawahara isn't a bad writer. I look forward to this. |
Yes. He is Satoshi Kon 2.0 
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Top Gun
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 6:27 pm
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Given how woefully ignorant Kawahara has seemed to be of basic game design tenets, mayhaps he should give some other concept a try instead?
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Romuska
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 7:31 pm
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| Shay Guy wrote: | | I dunno, stepping away from "episodic gag manga with lots of poop jokes" seemed to work out for him. |
I was talking about his post Dragon Ball work. |
Care to elaborate? I’m fairly certain none of the manga he he made post-Dragon Ball were intended to be anything more than short stories.
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MFrontier
Joined: 13 Apr 2014
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 8:36 pm
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| L'Imperatore wrote: | | When I read the headline, part of me kinda hoped he'd try to leave his comfort zone and write something NOT about MMO. Ah well. |
The Isolator isn't about an MMO, so he has done it before. I am kinda surprised though since the last time he talked about writing something new he said he wanted to write a romance and this doesn't seem to be one. |
The premise talks about the MC dealing with his female classmate being a monster so maybe there will be a romance portion?
Kind of reminds me of how other than the Isolator Reki's works tend to have the leads confess to teach other in the first volume lol.
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MagicPolly
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:39 pm
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| Angel M Cazares wrote: |
| Kenfra wrote: | | Kawahara isn't a bad writer. I look forward to this. |
Yes. He is Satoshi Kon 2.0 |
Isn't bad != phenomenal
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Chiibi
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:32 am
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| MagicPolly wrote: |
| Angel M Cazares wrote: |
| Kenfra wrote: | | Kawahara isn't a bad writer. I look forward to this. |
Yes. He is Satoshi Kon 2.0 |
Isn't bad != phenomenal |
People loooooove being jerks to fans of Kawahara. Which is plain immature and uncalled for.
-a victim of SAO anti abuse since 2012. United, we stan
....for the record, I'll take Reki Kawahara's works over any of Satoshi Kon's stuff.
OH YEAH. I SAID IT.
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Nate148
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 8:29 pm
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| Hiroki not Takuya wrote: | | It could be that what English speakers like about "his" writing and style could actually be due to a good translator with a bent for good English composition and writing. |
Here is a hint Accel World Sword Art Online and The Isolator have different translators yet read the same.
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Chiyosuke
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:08 pm
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| Blazi wrote: | | A Light Novel title that's not 15 pages long? What a rarity. All jokes aside, wonder what Kawahara will cook up in this new LN. |
I completely felt this 
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Kiwi Arms
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:13 pm
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| Chiibi wrote: | People loooooove being jerks to fans of Kawahara. Which is plain immature and uncalled for.
-a victim of SAO anti abuse since 2012. United, we stan
....for the record, I'll take Reki Kawahara's works over any of Satoshi Kon's stuff.
OH YEAH. I SAID IT.
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That's how some very angry YouTubers got their career started.
Jokes on them though SAO still as popular and loved as ever.
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Chiibi
Joined: 19 Dec 2011
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 5:27 pm
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| Kiwi Arms wrote: |
That's how some very angry YouTubers got their career started.
Jokes on them though SAO still as popular and loved as ever. |
Yeah, and I hate them all.
But they pretty much got the opposite response to what they wanted.
If you truly hate something....calling it to people's attention is only going to increase its popularity.
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