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#lurk
http://gotlurk.net + #lurk@irc.irchighway.net
Biggest and most complete English scanlation archive on the intarwebs.
It's worth learning IRC to use this.
MangaUpdates
http://www.mangaupdates.com/releases.html
Latest scanlations releases can usually be found here
MangaJouhou
http://www.manganews.net
It's like MangaUpdates, but shittier.
[Manga Upload] COMIC BOMBER
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Lots of quality stuff here to be read. :*
http://zin-seinen.vnmanga.com/series/
Assorted DDL raw manga if you're weeaboo for it.
RIKI-OH must be read by everyone who appreciates manliness and violent comics. I don't fucking care if you don't know Japanese, because I sure as hell don't. THE SHEER MANLINESS OF RIKI-OH BREAKS THE LANGUAGE BARRIER.
It's up there with Hokuto no Ken and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. You will be amazed.
Not to try to change the subject, but the RIKI-OH movie is also incredibly awesome. The sheer kickass level blows any other martial arts movie away, by far.
Recommended Manga:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W5NKW2AQ - MPD Psycho
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb Nijigahara Holograph, G Senjou Heaven's Door, Homunculus and SANCTUARY
>>4
I think the movie only covered the first volume or two. I'm not quite sure because I haven't seen the movie except for a few scenes, but that's still a lot of awesomeness uncovered considering the manga is 12 volumes!!
I should upload more stuff to COMIC BOMBER.
Especially THE WORLD IS MINE. Yes yes, especially that.
Has anyone read Freesia? Really really great. Also in Nijigahara Holograph what is the importance of the butterflies?
>>8
Freesia is fucking awesome. Can't wait for volume 9 to come out.
I'm not quite sure about the butterflies yet in Nijigahara. That had me kinda puzzled.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
You guys should read A Spirit of the Sun. It's fucking awesome so far and it'll leave you begging for more.
>>8
I'm guessing they were about the same as the butterflies in Boogiepop Phantom. Something about bringing back bad memories, etc.
http://www.colonthree.org/manga.html
Uzumaki, Tomie and some of the other shorter manga on there are very awesome and worth reading.
>>10
I started reading it and thought, "Well this has a pretty old art style and doesn't seem like a plot that would really interest me." BUT THEN I STARTED READING IT OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME!
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Just uploaded Baka & Gogh and Kami no Shizuku.
Baka & Gogh is really good so far. The art is super stylish.
Kami no Shizuku is about wine. Yeah.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Hanaotoko, Japan Tengu Party Illustrated and Nasu.
The art styles of all three may be troublesome to people who are too used to the generic animu look.
Hanaotoko is about this kid named Shigeo moving in to his baseball-crazed idiot father's place. Great character development and it's so fucking funny at times.
Japan Tengu Party Illustrated is about tengus in modern society. The author's art is simply stunning. The guy doesn't even touch the screentone.
Nasu is by the same author of Tengu Party. A bunch of short stories that involve eggplants in one way or another. More entertaining than it sounds, I assure you!
I uploaded Hanaotoko when I was half way through volume 2 and just finished volume 3 right now. Now there's a good fucking ending.
I think I'm going to download everything else by Taiyo Matsumoto.
Yes, yes I shall.
Thank you so much comic bomber all of these have been really really great!
So I've been working through the Matsumoto stuff. I just finished reading BLACK & WHITE (Tekkon Kinkreet) and it was pretty good. Like Hanaotoko, things got really rolling towards the end.
Viz is releasing the omnibus of Tekkon Kinkreet soon which has all three volumes in one book, unflipped and what not. Maybe I'll buy it.
Alright, onto the next Matsumoto work, it's time for PING PONG.
Tengu Party is pretty awesome. The story wouldn't normally be something that appeals to me but I just can't stop reading.
Multi-track decantering manga is hilariously awesome.
>>22
What is that?
Also what is the source of Multi-track drifting and Thrust Vectoring owns the sky?
>>23
He's talking about Kami no Shizuku. It's this ridiculous wine manga.
Multi-track drifting comes from this Initial D doujinshi called "Densha de D".
STEEL BALL RUN volume 5 was awesome.
Are the starting volumes of Jojo's on bomber?
>>26
The rest of Jojo (minus just about all of Part 6 because it was never translated) can be found here:
http://jojo.highervoltage.net
>>27
Thank you, just started reading it. Young Dio is the ultimate bad guy.
Last night, I read "The Push Man and Other Stories". It's a collection of one-shots that was published in 1969. It's really good!
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7448
>>28
Fucking right he is!
I've been neglecting to update COMIC BOMBER as of late. So I updated a few series and added the first volume of Cesare.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Cesare is by Fuyumi Soryo, a popular shoujo mangaka that suddenly started writing seinen manga in recent years. She wrote stuff like MARS and Eternal Sabbath, both of which are excellent reads.
Soryo (with help from a historian well versed in this time period) writes this "serious historical fiction" about Cesare Borgia, a figure from Italian history. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia). Seems like a lot of popular mangaka these days are drawing history. (Inoue Takehiko with Vagabond, Hitoshi Iwaaki with Historie, etc.)
You start the book with the most blandest, plain black-and-white cover ever. Something that you'd easily pass in a bookstore if it wasn't for prior knowledge about the manga or the author. But the inside is the complete opposite of bland. Soryo's refined art really shines in the backgrounds and the clothing. I'm no historical expert, so I can't really say anything about the authenticity of it all, but everything looks so well done and it's just incredibly detailed. It feels like you're stepping back in time to Italy in the end of the 1400s.
Just read New Grappler Baki v11. You can't take this series seriously. You just can't. If you want an in depth story with delicate character development, Baki will be pure hell for you. The manga does one thing amazingly and that's the violence. The fights and the action are top notch. If you're looking for something filled to the brim with raw testosterone, this is it.
Volumes 1-11 are available here.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/
Kotonoha released the first five chapters of Hitoshi Iwaaki's Historie. It fucking kicks ass, check it out.
RIKI-OH. It's ranks up there with Hokuto no Ken and Jojo in manliness.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Thank you very much dearest Comic Bomber I have enjoyed your manga immensely. Riki-oh is even better than the movies. ww
>>36
I love that group, even with their blinding slow speeds, because they're the only ones out there manly enough to translate hot blooded Kazuhiko Shimamoto comics.
I just started Berserk, it's AMAZING.
I like Umishso and Yotsuba&!.
>>38
Just wait till you get caught up with the latest chapter in Japan. Then you'll be impatient and bored like the rest of us!
I've been pretty gay for NANA lately. I've been reading a bunch of josei manga lately.
>>40
Yep I'm caught up now. Fuck. Is it just me or was the arc with the original Band of the Hawk all the way up to the Eclipse much better than it is now? I mean it's not bad right now, it's still great but still. Maybe it'll become better when Caska is back.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Read Goodnight Punpun and Boku to Issho if you guys haven't.
ಸ ಜ ನಾಗಲೋಟಿ ಮಠರವರು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಖ್ಯಾತ ವೈದ್ಯರು ಹಾಗು ಸಾಹಿತಿಗಳು. ಸಜನಾ ಎಂದು ಖಾ್ಯತರಾಗಿರುವ ಇವರ ಪೂರ್ಣ ಹೆಸರು ಸದಾಶಿವಯ್ಯ ಜಂಬಯ್ಯ ನಾಗಲೋಟಿಮಠ.
೨೦ ಜುಲೈ,೧೯೪೦ರಲ್ಲಿ ಗದಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಜನಿಸಿದ ನಾಗಲೋಟಿಮಠರವರಿಗೆ ಜನಿಸಿದಾಗ ಸದಾಶಿವಯ್ಯ ಎಂದು ಹೆಸರಿಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಇವರ ತಂದೆ ಜಂಬಯ್ಯನವರು ನರಗುಂದ ತಾಲೂಕಿನ ಶಿರೋಳ ಗ್ರಾಮದವರು.
ನಾಗಲೋಟಿಮಠರವರು ಪ್ರಾಥಮಿಕ ಹಾಗು ಪ್ರೌಡ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣವನ್ನು ಸದಾಶಿವ ಬನಹಟ್ಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂರೈಸಿದರು. ವೈದ್ಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣವನ್ನು ಇವರು ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿಯ ಕೆ.ಎಂ.ಸಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂರೈಸಿದರು ಹಾಗು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರಥಮ ರಾಂಕ್ ಗಳಿಸಿದರು. ನಾಗಲೋಟಿಮಠರವರು ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿಯ ಕಿಮ್ಸನ ಪ್ರಥಮ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಇವರು ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲೇ ಅತಿ ದೊಡ್ಡ ದೇಹದ ಹರಳುಗಳ ವಸ್ತು ಸಂಗ್ರಹಾಲಯವನ್ನು ಬಿಜಾಪುರದಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಿದರು. ಬೆಳಗಾವಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇವರು ಸ್ಥಾಥಪಿಸಿರುವ ಪ್ಯಾಥಾಲಜಿ ಮ್ಯೂಸಿಯಂ ಕೋಡ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ದವಾಗಿದೆ. ಇವರು ದಿಕೂ್ಸಚಿ ಮಾಸಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯ ಗೌರವ ಸಲಹೆಗಾರರಾಗಿದ್ದರು.
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`/ | | ＼ ／Let's talk comics again everyone! Who here has been reading Berserk lately?
>>46
Yeah, that latest chapter was pretty badass. I like where this is all going.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ec21d390b89568eaf089d577516ac47b23da7e6891d52b72
Mangascreener finished Japan Tengu Party Illustrated.
I recommend you all read it. It's only four volumes. （・∀・）
>>51
You won't regret it! The surreality of it all makes it so magical.
I need some seinen to read, requesting suggestions.
>>53
THE WORLD IS MINE by Hideki Arai. The first two volumes are incoherent, confusing and is filled with senseless violence. Afterwords, you get some of the best storytelling and character development you'll see in manga. If you like and want more senseless violence, check out RIKI-OH.
General tip, check out anything and everything at Mangascreener and Kotonoha. Off the top of my head you should try out Japan Tengu Party Illustrated, Children of the Sea and Historie.
http://hokutoarmy.wordpress.com/downloads/#Souten2
Holy shit, somebody is scanlating Fist of the Blue Sky again （・∀・）ィィィィ！！
ROOKIES by Masanori Morita is epic manliness.
>>56
It's really cheesy. I mean, it makes me cringe at times. I don't think a volume goes by without Mikoshiba crying. But yeah, it's fucking great stuff. I need to get caught up with Rokudenashi BLUES (by the same author) since somebody has been translating that again.
Morita also did a bunch of one-shots. If you look on COMIC BOMBER (link near the top of the thread) in the ONE-SHOTS folder, look for one called ALL THE WAY DOWN. It's 5 pages of fucking awesomeness.
Drawing-wise, Morita is a deity.
Mikoshiba cries the less un-manly tears of the series, though he must show the people home that he's becoming a man through that tears. And about manliness, there's Shinjo anteing up every SINGLE FUCKING TIME:
"How long have you been playing? Four months?"
"No, that's actually three."
Rokudenashi Blues is slightly less epic, I read it all easily downloading it from scansites though. Must look at the one-shots.
>>59
I think that should replace the normal ｷﾀ━━━━━（ ﾟ∀ﾟ ）━━━━━!!!!! in SAoVP.
Aaaaaaaaaaand added to my notepad.
Please do yourself a favour, and read THE WORLD IS MINE. You'll thank me later.
http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/one-shots/#eyes
LOOK ME IN THE EYES WHEN YOU TALK
A one shot by Hitoshi Iwaaki, the author of Parasyte and Historie. It's about a man who can no longer see people's eyes after he's beaten up by a bunch of thugs.
No one ever reads Stone Ocean. It's one of the better JoJo series.
http://www.onemanga.com/JoJos_Bizarre_Adventure_-_Stone_Ocean/
Jolyne is manlier than most JoJo's out there.
I've been meaning to catch up with STONE OCEAN. Really!
Holy shit, three new chapters of THE WORLD IS MINE. Things keep getting better and better and it all ends on such a bad cliffhanger.
do any of you VIPPERs know a good handheld device with which i might read my virtual manga? i was thinking psp because im interested in its PSX emulation capabilities and the ease with which games can be pirated and its image viewer seems just right for reading manga, but do you know of anything better?
also i've been reading Soul Eater which is alright, not super impressive - though i really like way the sun and moon are drawn
>>62
I just caught up with it. What the hell happened to the bomb kid (I forget his name) after the dream fight against the Higu? Ever since he's been COMPLETELY different. I don't understand why.
I THINK DRAGON BALL Z IS THE BEST ANIME EVER!!!!!!!!
I GOT A IQ OF 160!!!!!!! I GO TO MIT!!!!! I DONT SUCK AT CHESS!!!!!!!!! I GOT A LOT OF SMARTS SEE????!!!!!
>>70
Before he was so frail and was such a pussy, but now I think he's snapped. It's like him and Monchan switched personalities after that.
>>72
Yeah I guess that's the case. I'm really curious what that scene was supposed to represent, when you see the bear with an umbilical cord etc. I wish they would scanlate faster! We need a VIPPER scanlation group or something.
>>73
KEFI has a translator, but no editor. I'd learn how to edit, but my PC doesn't want to run Photoshop ('A`)
I just purchased the 5 volume ENTERBRAIN reprint of TWIM. I've been slowly reading (just barely grasping what's going on) it starting from where KWIM left off. Only a few chapters beyond it now and it's so great. This has to be one of the best manga ever.
>>75
Man, I'd love to have those Enterbrain reprints, even if I can't understand the language. Those books are fucking THICK.
Also also also, check out Hideki Arai's other stuff like KIICHI!, SUGAR, I LOVE IRENE and his short story collection, "AMANATSU", if you happen to have easy access to them. I can testify that KIICHI! and SUGAR are PRETTY AWESOME, however, I haven't read the latter titles I listed, but I've heard GOOD THINGS.
Man oh man, I love this fucking author.
SHIGURUI is pretty fucking awesome, holy shit. It gets better and better with each chapter.
>>78
http://www.mediafire.com/spore
This comic is so good, it's scary. I mean, it's been consistently awesome and that awesomeness hasn't slowed down for a second. It keeps shoving pure awesome in your face chapter in and chapter out and leaves you begging for more. I can't get enough of it.
It's like if something like Vagabond was fused with something over-the-top like Grappler Baki (complete with the grotesque beauty of manliness).
Shigurui is ridiculously good, it's maybe my favourite manga ever. I was kinda disappointed when it started being more about the fighting for the sake of the fighting, but that feeling diminished a little bit every time it made me say "holy shit did that really just happen", and that was pretty much every other page. Also I'm about 10 chapters behind, maybe it's changing again.
My only worry is the ending, I really hope it gets beefed up a lot or changed totally from the original story. Even in that, with the characters pale shadows of what they are in the manga, it was not what I would call entirely satisfying; in the manga it could be an absolutely crushing letdown. Still, it's not a big worry, I'm fairly confident it will be made awesome.
I think I'm in love with Miu.
Tuesday, 9PM: If chapter 3 was the ending, that was a little sudden. Maybe it's better this way. I don't think I could read several volumes of masturbatory hijinks.
I think I have a manga crush on Iku. Something about her is amazing.
Dear SAoVQ manga experts,
What good seinen is there other than what's already been posted in this thread? I absolutely loved Shigurui. My other favorites are: TWIM, Berserk, MPD Psycho, Freesia, Ciguatera and 20th Century Boys. Any recommendations?
>>84
Me and the Devil Blues. Scanlations ended right before volume 2 ended because it got licensed, but check them out. Everything about this comic is top notch. A story about Robert Johnson shouldn't have this kind of over-the-top suspense and "magic" to it, it's just amazing. It's rare when a comic sends shivers down my spine constantly like this does. The North American editions don't have the color pages, but they're well worth the money.
To branch off some of your favourites, check out stuff by the same authors if you haven't. Kiichi!, Boku to Issho, Himizu, MONSTER and PLUTO instantly come to mind. As for other authors, I'll just name names off the top of my head:
Hitoshi Iwaaki (Parasyte/Kiseijuu, Historie)
Iou Kuroda (Japan Tengu Party Illustrated, Nasu, Sexy Voice and Robo)
Makoto Isshiki (Piano no Mori, Hanada Shounen-shi)
Shinkichi Kato (National Quiz, Baka & Gogh, Ranman)
Inio Asano (Nijigahara Holograph, Solanin, Goodnight Punpun, What a Wonderful World!)
Taiyo Matsumoto (Black and White/Tekkon Kinkreet, Hanaotoko, No.5)
Daisuke Igarashi (Children of the Sea, Witches, Hanashippanashi)
Nihonbashi Yoko (G Senjou Heaven's Door, Shoujo Fight)
Makoto Yukimura (Planetes, Vinland Saga)
Ryuichi Ikegami (SANCTUARY is fabulous, STRAIN was alright... a lot of his other stuff wasn't all that great...)
Kiba Koichi (KILICO)
Fuyumi Soryo (Eternal Sabbath, Cesare. MARS is the only shoujo manga I got really gay for.)
If you wanna keep things simple, just look at what Mangascreener and Kotonoha have to offer. You really can't go wrong. All the one-shots they've done are really good too.
>>85
Thanks VIPPER! I really appreciate it. Going to get to work on this list ASAP~
KEFI released three more chapters of THE WORLD IS MINE
ｷﾀ━━━━━（ﾟ∀ﾟ）━━━━━!!!!!
STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADAN
http://senfgurke2.wordpress.com/
This guy is uploading cool stuff like MUSHISHI and HONEY AND CLOVER.
Some guy is scanlating Historie where Kotonoha left off at a FEVERISH PACE.
http://www.mediafire.com/hox
If you haven't read it before, check it out. It's seriously some awesome stuff by the guy who did Parasyte/Kiseijuu.
http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/ongoing-series/historie/
>>93
(with points here and there fantasized for the sake of character development becuase how are you supposed to get that out of historical texts)
Any VIPPERs read Change 123?
bampu
The World Is Mine seems like it's going to get really fucking awesome in the next chapter or so. I like where this is all going.
Toyoda Tetsuya is slowly becoming one of my favourite mangakas.
Check his stuff out:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=7375
TWO MORE CHAPTERS OF THE WORLD IS MINE (ch 92-93)
Stone Ocean was translated comparatively recently, so nobody had ever really talked about it. It's great like all of JoJo, but the ending was a bit of a clusterfuck.
On another note, I just finished 20th Century Boys. I'm going to have to get my hands on that live action movie (Apparently it was released on Monday)