Manga

[Southe,]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...lion-print-run
One Piece #59 Manga Gets Record 3.2-Million Print Run
over 190 million copies of the entire manga series have been printed

Hope they do somethign to mark 200 Million sales like Naruto Forest.

[Neversoft]

Oh and there is always 1000manga, which seemed to be a sister site of OneManga or something.

Anyway, I finished Ping Pong and Tekkonkinkreet recently. They're both by Taiyo Matsumoto, who is probably one of the most original mangaka's working today. Both were absolute masterpieces and his art is marvelous.

Just gotta love that art.

Right now I am reading Legend of the Strongest Man Kurosawa, which is about a middle aged loser who has gotten no where in his life until he is finally able to befriend his co-workers. However, he gets beaten half to death by delinquent kids for acting smug when he was drunk with his friends. After recovering he decides he has to fight them to move forward and to stop running away from everything - to finally get somewhere in his life. That is as far as I have gotten but it looks like Kurosawa finally realises the power behind his fists during the fight, hence the title 'Legend of the Strongest Man'. No idea where it'll go after that. Maybe he'll take up boxing or something. It is really good so far though, but since it is by the author of Kaiji that is to be expected. Speaking of Kaiji, why on Earth has no one on here but me watched this masterpiece!?

[Neversoft]

Claymore spoilers.

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Miria is dead, Raki has been captured by the organization, Clare has been consumed by some mysterious black substance which Priscilla is currently fighting and Helen and Deneve are in a tight spot and in need of saving.

Yagi always kills off everyones favourite characters lol.

[Axel]

So true.

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Poor Teresa ;_;

[Neversoft]

All three of my favourite characters are dead lol, but oh well, I guess that's what makes Claymore interesting. You really don't know what is around the corner.

[Southe,]

I'm dying 2 weeks to go also ruined 1 volume of OP in my bag cos my bottled water burst >.< was ragin.

[Neversoft]

All three of my favourite characters are dead lol, but oh well, I guess that's what makes Claymore interesting. You really don't know what is around the corner.

...but with that said the monthly releases sure have ruined my enjoyment somewhat. I dropped it from my top five the other day. Plus I thought it was entering its final stages soon but from the looks of things now it's far from it. The manga probably won't end for another ten years.

[Neversoft]

According to Weekly Shonen Jump, original one-shot manga will be published in six consecutive issues. Each of the six manga will be created by Jump's popular manga authors. The first title "Bench" by Kishimoto Masashi will be released on October 9th in issue no.45.

Schedule of the releases
Oct 9 - Kishimoto Masashi
Oct 18 - Sorachi Hideaki
Oct 25 - Konomi Takeshi
Nov 1 - Usuta Kyosuke
Nov 8 - Akimoto Osamu
Nov 15 - Toriyama Akira

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=260545

Woohoo, Sorachi!

[Southe,]

no oda? hmm kubo will be busy with bleach film meh. Toriyama im looking forward to i hope its another neko majin z i think it is ;D

[Neversoft]

Isn't Oda busy planning the rest of One Piece? I heard theres some two year time skip coming up or something. I doubt the Bleach film takes up too much of Kubo's time. He probably isn't doing a oneshot because he can't think of anything. I'm looking forward to Sorachi's (his oneshots have always been great) and Kishimoto's (because his art would work well in a baseball manga), but I am going to read them all.