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final sage of fantas
Joined: 01 Jul 2005
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Location: New Jersey
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 Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:21 pm
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Does anyone know when this well come out in America? My sis flipped out when she saw it. Any help is appreciated.
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Dranxis
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:27 pm
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final sage of fantas
Joined: 01 Jul 2005
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Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:28 pm
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Thank You (gives you pie) my sis well be happy.
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Stylez025
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:05 pm
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Death Note is quickly becoming one of my favorite mangas ever. Its damn good
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GATSU
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:21 pm
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Sounds a little too much like Ringu, but I'll check out the inevitable preview in Jump.
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Kagemusha
Joined: 20 Feb 2004
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Location: Boston
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:05 pm
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| GATSU wrote: | | Sounds a little too much like Ringu, but I'll check out the inevitable preview in Jump. |
It's pretty diffrent actually, more of a psycological thriller, and it's main character is somewhat of a sociopath. It starts off quite good, though a little show, showing a suprising amount of maturity for a SJ title. Interesting conflict and characters and almost devoid of any clices. Then things start going downhill rapidly at a very specific point in the story. I'm hoping the author can pick himself up, and I'd probobly still finish it even if it remained the same quality, but definitally overhyped, probobly due to the fact that this is the most mature and thought-provoking thing alot of people have ever read.
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coolerimmortal
Joined: 22 Aug 2003
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:23 pm
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Overhyped? I disagree. It's an excellent series...Viz has done well, licensing Monster and Death Note. Now if they could only get a few more mature manga and start another magazine...
Death Note went downhill around the time when Raito/Light lost his memory, but then it fixed itself with Raito/Light regaining his memory, trapping Rem, and causing the deaths of L and his helper, IMO the most satisfying chapter in the entire series. The new arc is shaping up pretty well...I doubt if Death Note will be able to continue very long without becoming terrible, though...There are only so many L duplicates they can come up with...and if a guy named O ever shows up, I'll be angry.
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Kagemusha
Joined: 20 Feb 2004
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:42 pm
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| Quote: | | Overhyped? I disagree. It's an excellent series...Viz has done well, licensing Monster and Death Note. Now if they could only get a few more mature manga and start another magazine... |
Considering people are acting like it's the first and most intellectual thing ever to happen to manga, I'd say it is overhyped. It's good, and if it does get out of the slump it could be one of the best things to come out of Jump in a while, but it isn't one of the greatest things of all time like people are saying.
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milcor1
Joined: 27 Mar 2005
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:46 pm
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Death Note has become too full of itself, is what I think. I mean, I just don't care anymore what happens to anyone in that manga.
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coolerimmortal
Joined: 22 Aug 2003
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:42 pm
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| Kagemusha wrote: |
| Quote: | | Overhyped? I disagree. It's an excellent series...Viz has done well, licensing Monster and Death Note. Now if they could only get a few more mature manga and start another magazine... |
Considering people are acting like it's the first and most intellectual thing ever to happen to manga, I'd say it is overhyped. It's good, and if it does get out of the slump it could be one of the best things to come out of Jump in a while, but it isn't one of the greatest things of all time like people are saying. |
I suppose you are correct, then; my apologies.
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senguthewolf
Joined: 13 Aug 2005
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:02 pm
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| Quote: | | Death Note is quickly becoming one of my favorite mangas ever. Its damn good |
yea it is. i read the first volume online, after seeing it in the store written in japanese, untranslated. it looked good then, and does still
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.Sy
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:37 pm
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I'm also really interested in the manga. After reading the scans, I became hooked. But a concern of mine is the direction it will be going. It was looking good, until an unexpected turn of events made the story longer than I thought it would have become. I'd hate for the manga to go on and on and eventually become tasteless. One of the things I really enjoyed about the plot was the pacing. The plot was really good, as well as the art. Characters aren't spared, and Kira kills the people who get in his way. But if it goes on to be twenty volumes, I doubt I'll show interest in buying it. I'm used to waiting, so I don't have an issue to waiting for the series to finish.
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hagakure|returns
Joined: 11 Aug 2005
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 9:54 pm
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| .Sy wrote: | | I'm also really interested in the manga. After reading the scans, I became hooked. But a concern of mine is the direction it will be going. It was looking good, until an unexpected turn of events made the story longer than I thought it would have become. I'd hate for the manga to go on and on and eventually become tasteless. One of the things I really enjoyed about the plot was the pacing. The plot was really good, as well as the art. Characters aren't spared, and Kira kills the people who get in his way. But if it goes on to be twenty volumes, I doubt I'll show interest in buying it. I'm used to waiting, so I don't have an issue to waiting for the series to finish. |
You're talking about a Shonen Jump title here. They are expecting to go as long as they can and the mangaka reap all the benefit of having a successful series.
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ryokoalways
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:46 pm
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This series shouldnt go over 18 volumes tops. 3 arcs would be about pushing the limit.
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