Psycho666Soldier

It's so good, dude. I ended up finishing about a week ago and I've moved on into Z territory now. The Red Ribbon was originally as far as I got with the anime a long time ago because the files I downloaded had corrupted subtitles around the episode where he's training with Karin, and I checked and every episode after that had the same issue. So it was nice to finally see the Fortune Teller Baba arc. It's really funny that out of all the things the manga has, they feel the need to censor the cusswords. Every time they say, "Fooey!" I have to laugh.

Finally ready the most recent Elusive Samurai:

I did end up reading Beat & Motion: Holy shit, and Chainsaw Man:

I had a day where I said fuck work and was reading at my desk, and then I literally just spent the rest of the evening at home reading. I think I started that day halfway through the first tournament and just found myself wanting to blitz through the Red Ribbon arc. The time flew. Like you said, even though a lot of the chapters are only 13 pages, between the dialogue and how drawn in to the individual panels I am, it feels like a lot is going on. It's pretty awesome to see how great at depicting motion in his art, and I just don't think you can fully appreciate that watching the anime, so I'm glad I went this route.

I'm caught up on all the Sunday manga, though don't have any specific comments that don't just amount to "Yeah, this is still good" for pretty much all of them, so will hold off until at least next Sunday. Gotta read the most recent of the ones you just mentioned, but that's on hold because I've been binging Dragon Ball the last week and am now 14 chapters away from finishing that.

The irony is that when you see Denji going through issues like "I always think with my dick," you know it's like an actual existential crisis for him, not just him being silly. You can tell Fujimoto likes trying to get to the bottom of his characters' true feelings

Caught up on Show-ha Shoten And Chainsaw Man too!

New Kaiju No. 8 today!

Chainsaw Man is also on the docket. It is one of the ones I was pretty far behind on, but not quite as bad as some. I'm working on Show-ha Shoten first and then Chainsaw Man will probably follow

Just watched the first two episodes of Elusive Samurai last night, and they really popped off with the animation, huh?

Bummer that they were spoiled for you. I hate when that happens, especially the biggest stories of the show. It's a shame about the Gauntlet because it was so hype up until that point. I'm not even mad about Christian getting a title shot, but the ending just felt completely flat in comparison to everything that happened before it. The Casino Gauntlet match format is an absolute hit, though.

I know the couple wrestling people other than MT don't really post here anymore, and I think for the most part had moved on from AEW, but did anyone catch All In? Thought it was overall an awesome show, and Swerve/Bryan and Storm/Mariah were worth it alone.

I think the true strength of Sakamoto Days' action is the over-the-top aspects that they try to somehow ground with whatever logic, because nonsensical or not, it almost always pays off satisfyingly for the action. I feel the same way with the sand-blasting. Great round of chapters this week. Very excited to see what comes next for everything.

Caught up on Beat & Motion

Just finished chapter 218 of Undead Unluck. She said the thing!!!

Akane-banashi 122 Spy x Family 103 Gonna read all of this week's chapters of the series I've been caught up on, catch up on Beat & Motion and Show-ha Shote , and then I think I'm gonna finally tackle catching up with Shoji Null and Wild Strawberry. There's also a lot of other new series from the last couple months I want to give a shot. Did Jiangshi X end up getting cut? It didn't grab me too much so I dropped it early.

And now I'm all caught up

----------- I've got up through Ch. 163 with Elusive Samurai. This war with Moronao has been great. Loved how it started with pure chaos with both sides countering rapid advantages.

I think it's still arguable that the initial DB run before it introduced the Z era is better than Z. I'd say it's all consistently amazing up through the Cell Saga, but there's a certain depth to the combat and conflicts that isn't always there with Z fights. I actually have never read the manga other than select random chapters that I bought individual comics of or I read at a friend's house as a kid, so I've been wanting to actually start from the beginning now that Toriyama passed. I wanna go back and enjoy HIS full artistic vision. Plus I know he's legendary for his action page layouts.

Been listening to heavy music all day today, so I took a detour to catch up on Kaiju No. 8. Man, this series still has some of the best action art and monster/character design of anything going right now. They also do a good job of making the back and forth twists and turns feel epic and well-timed: Just kind of reading back on some of the posts I ignored for potential spoilers, and it's interesting to see my gut feel on the anime for Kaiju No. 8 resonates. I haven't watched it yet, but the previews just made it feel somewhat less engaging than the way it's presented in the manga. Would you say it's still worth giving a shot, or have you been convinced of just following the manga rather than the anime?

Been trying to plow through Elusive Samurai, but I was more behind than I thought. I was back in chapters released in March I just finished 156 and have about 11-12 more chapters to go

Somehow I left off on the chapter of Akane-banashi where Maikeru got the votes for promotion and I forgot to comment on it. But his performance was awesome, and I absolutely loved Master Zensho unable to deny he deserves the promotion despite the seething hate he has for him. I'm caught up now and I'm already gearing to get a little choked up at Shiguma's reaction to Akane's performance. But I'm particularly excited that we may finally get to see Shiguma perform

I'm kind of expecting Sakamoto will try and Uzuki will either end up sort of killing himself or the redemption will come from a sacrifice. Would be very interesting if he ended up having to actually finish the job for the first time since the start of the manga, but I don't think the character is meant to take that direction.

Caught up on Sakamoto Days again. Sad to see how Uzuki and Rion were setup. Even more crazy to see Kindaka wake back up, though! Seemed like someone who would more or less be dead for the rest of the series, but he definitely makes a good master for Sakamoto. Have to imagine this training arc(however long it'll be) will be the last stop before the final showdown. Unless the series intends to continues with a new overarching story after this, but that's probably not the case. It's been one of the best series in the last couple years, so I'm excited to see how it all shakes out.

I still have to read the last 20-30 chapters because it's clear Horikoshi wanted to end it but they made him drag it out and it was getting painful to read every week. 3/4's of the way in, it's one of the best modern battle shonen and plays on a lot of tropes in cool ways. It also has some of the best art in the game today. The last quarter or so of the manga is a mess for a multitude of reasons on the plot front. One of the biggest being a not so graceful redemption for a character who doesn't really deserve redemption. I think it's worth it for the journey moreso than the destination, as it has one of the most interesting exploration of villains I've ever read and like I said, the art is incredible. I mean, when you think about it, I feel you can say that about a lot of manga/anime where it's pretty great up until the ending lol