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Tenjo Tenge: Where the boys are bad, and the girls are badder.

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Post by itsanakedrockstar »

OH! Great is pretty hardcore compared to most other manga artist... the head spliting by necroman is pretty gruesome but the level of detail is awesome though... but his level is nothing compared someone like Waita Uziga...
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In terms of hardcoreness I've seen much worse... :twisted:
soldis1: the story about the biggunned girl is also my favourite. And it's not that much hentai.
The coloured arts are awesome.
Most of the stories are just regular hentai stuff (more or less sickening....Necroman was ok [for a hentai story] until this big dude came and wasted some people).
Two last stories seem less hentai (almost none), and I like them better than the others (maybe cause they have some plot [it's better even if I can't understand it] and not just a girl and one/a couple of guys doing her).
B&W arts around the middle of the manga are weird...but they are so well drawn...
Overall it's a fine H-manga. Mostly because of Oh!Great's fantastic drawing style.

Yeah, I also noticed Bob too on 28th page (but somehow I missed Nagi).

LOL it's my 69th post....and coincidentally it's about hentai :D
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Not that I'm an authority on hentai, and I haven't seen Naked Star, but I don't find Oh! Great's hentai stuff to be any much worse than most of the other hentai manga out there. Solidis1 just needs to read more H manga... :wink: :)
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The last spaceship story (with the girl and the cryogenic chambers and shit) was the one Oh! Great did for the Ultrajump special.

And Naked Star is being torrented too (the usual places). Kind of disappointed since it's all compliation, less than 10 new artworks ? maybe less haha
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Post by zip »

It might be hentai by oh! great really knows what he's doing. The art is awsome! Fromt art to concept. A+
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Fulsion wrote:The last spaceship story (with the girl and the cryogenic chambers and shit) was the one Oh! Great did for the Ultrajump special.

And Naked Star is being torrented too (the usual places). Kind of disappointed since it's all compliation, less than 10 new artworks ? maybe less haha
Already Torrented! I was really looking foward to scaning this too :oops:
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Post by kujoe »

For something that is supposedly "porn," the story about the woman and her reflection and the tragic spaceship story are actually quite interesting. The visual content didn't really bother me one bit (I've seen worse.) and I would definitely consider this a worthy purchase for any Oh! Great collector.

Hey--with a cover like that, why the hell not? 8)
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I just saw it and I can honestly say (Storywise) Silky Whip was Better (Hmm.. Makes me want to start a poll:P ). The Art in Naked Star is nice ( I love how oH Great draws his ladies :twisted: ), but was not strong enough to make me want to order it.
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OK, is anyone sharing anything or what? :shock:

At least? point out the usual places. The usual places I know have got pretty much nil. :(
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MrProphet wrote:OK, is anyone sharing anything or what? :shock:

At least? point out the usual places. The usual places I know have got pretty much nil. :(
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can find it at http://www.hongfire.com/. Just click on the Torrents
link at the top left and then do a search on Naked star. You will find
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Hmm... I looked at their old tracker bt.hongfire.com yesterday, nothing was there. Hmm...

Thanks
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Old tracker has gone nil
Go to the Torrents links not the Old tracker link (they should really take that off :P )
If you follow the steps it should lead you to the new one :wink:
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Post by MrProphet »

Yeah, I already got it.

Nothing to get obsessed with, really, but an OK H-doujinshi. In my opinion.
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MrProphet wrote:Nothing to get obsessed with, really, but an OK H-doujinshi. In my opinion.
Yeah, see that's what I am saying. It was okay, but not something I am going to Rush order to the house. I kinda wish he had worked more on TT and not this IMO, but hey maybe this was stewing inside his head and he had to let it out creatively. Better letting it out creatively in Naked star than in TT, Tenten already have enough gratuitous sex to make you wonder whether its a fighting manga or hentai :?
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Well, if getting a "Naked Star" once in several years is enough for Oh!Great to stop putting stuff like what happened to Enma Enmi into TJTG, I am VERY cool with that!

But, as it is... Naked Star is definitely not my type of manga (even considering hentai). The only story that I even remotely liked was the last one, with the starship, probably because it had minimum sex and maximum story. The rest was pretty yucky: SM, rape, murder, really-really weird stuff. It's not too much over the top, but let's say, I am not excited but this kind of stuff and I rather pity people that do get excited with this.
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Post by kujoe »

Well, personally, I don't think this the type of book you buy for the sake of erotic appeal. It seems to be more aimed for the die-hard collector in mind. From what I can see, at least half of the book is composed of Oh! Great's previous works. :?
MrProphet wrote:Well, if getting a "Naked Star" once in several years is enough for Oh!Great to stop putting stuff like what happened to Enma Enmi into TJTG, I am VERY cool with that!
Actually, I was expecting that at least one story would have three times the gruesomeness of the Enma scene... Heh. Nice to know I was wrong.
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Well, yes and no... Some scenes were pretty sick. Especially when murder was involved.

I was just saying that although Enma's scenes were not really all that hardcore at all, they just weren't appropriate for TJTG. I mean, Tenjou Tenge has it's share of sex and violence, but I think that really gruesome stuff, like BDSM or whatever, is just not really up to the tastes that readers of TJTG have aquired throughout the years.

We expect a certain level from Oh!Great... we expect the cool artwork, sexy babes, some ecchi here and there, really good fights and a deep storyline. But definitely NOT hardcore rape/SM. At least, I didn't. And as a person who buys this stuff, I didn't really appreciate it that much.

So, my point is... If Oh!Great needs to get some of his creative stuff out, like pv82 suggested, well.. be my guest, make hundreds of Naked Stars... just don't put it in Tenjou Tenge.

The same way, we as fans, agree that he can have as much funky roller-blading/skating nonsense as he wants, since he obviously loves this stuff... Just in Air Gear, not Tenjou Tenge.

I am all for creative freedom and I respect Oh!Great's right to draw whatever the hell he wants to draw... it's just, Oh!Great owes us, the readers, some respect too for sticking with him even as he was shoving Nagi up our collective ass and giving him a break anytime he needs to unwind a bit and totally forget he has to come up with an actual story there. Because we love what he does, simple as that.

That is my humble opinion, but I'm gonna stick to it.
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My thoughts exactly :D
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MrProphet wrote:Well, yes and no... Some scenes were pretty sick. Especially when murder was involved.

I was just saying that although Enma's scenes were not really all that hardcore at all, they just weren't appropriate for TJTG. I mean, Tenjou Tenge has it's share of sex and violence, but I think that really gruesome stuff, like BDSM or whatever, is just not really up to the tastes that readers of TJTG have aquired throughout the years.

We expect a certain level from Oh!Great... we expect the cool artwork, sexy babes, some ecchi here and there, really good fights and a deep storyline. But definitely NOT hardcore rape/SM. At least, I didn't. And as a person who buys this stuff, I didn't really appreciate it that much.

So, my point is... If Oh!Great needs to get some of his creative stuff out, like pv82 suggested, well.. be my guest, make hundreds of Naked Stars... just don't put it in Tenjou Tenge.

The same way, we as fans, agree that he can have as much funky roller-blading/skating nonsense as he wants, since he obviously loves this stuff... Just in Air Gear, not Tenjou Tenge.

I am all for creative freedom and I respect Oh!Great's right to draw whatever the hell he wants to draw... it's just, Oh!Great owes us, the readers, some respect too for sticking with him even as he was shoving Nagi up our collective ass and giving him a break anytime he needs to unwind a bit and totally forget he has to come up with an actual story there. Because we love what he does, simple as that.

That is my humble opinion, but I'm gonna stick to it.
Yeah, I understand and I do agree. It's not like I'm upholding or glorifying this kind of content or anything, but let's just say that I saw it coming. After all, my first exposure to Oh! Great was through works which have his more "sex and violence" flavor thrown in, and even during that time his art wasn't yet as developed as it is now. (Yes, Silky Whip was quite "hardcore" for me then. Now, I consider most of it as either hard or just plain strange.)
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Post by bloodreign »

it looks interesting and could be worth dling and reading. plz post sites that hav it for dling.
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bloodreign wrote:it looks interesting and could be worth dling and reading. plz post sites that hav it for dling.
BR, look a couple post above. I give pretty good map to the place, so it shouldn't be hard :P
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Translated first 18 pages of the last chapter

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I decided to translate the last chapter of Naked Star. I've translated the first 18 pages, and should finish the rest in a few days. I'll definitely upload it to IRC, might put up a torrent for it. I haven't decided on that yet. It would be nice if someone else would like to distribute it, since I don't really want to keep dedicated seeds for something that is just a lark.

Anyway, more information to follow in a day or so. I haven't set this one up through the GMAOServer, so there isn't anything on the site until I upload it.
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Dembol wrote:soldis1: the story about the biggunned girl is also my favourite. And it's not that much hentai.
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Two last stories seem less hentai (almost none), and I like them better than the others (maybe cause they have some plot [it's better even if I can't understand it] and not just a girl and one/a couple of guys doing her).
If anyone was interested, IIRC almost all the work in Naked Star has been published elsewhere:

star side notes (the artwork at the beginning) - previously published in Manga Hot Milk (hentai magazine), IIRC

The Beautiful World - new work, I think

oneself - previously published in Rei-shiki (hentai) magazine

Hane - previously published in Rei-shiki (hentai) magazine

Shabon (the one with the different art style) - previously published in Rei-shiki (hentai) magazine (actually, I didn't think this was an Oh! great work - IIRC it's credited to E-ko)

The articles about fetishes - previously published in G^3 volume 1 doujinshi at least (and perhaps also Manga Hot Milk magazine)

Necroman - previously published in two parts in G^3 volumes 1 and 2

Toshimaku Seibu Sensen (the one with the big-gunned girl) - previously published in Shonen Ace magazine (ie it's not a hentai manga)

S-song of sapphire star- - previously published in Ultrajump Megamix volume 1 (ie it's not a hentai manga)

As far as I'm aware, Naked Star is basically a compilation of almost all of Oh! great's miscellaneous works - a bit surprising that it collects together stuff which was previously published by different publishers.

The only miscellaneous manga by Oh! great which I can think of which was not included in this book is "A+ (A Plus)" - that manga was previously published in Shonen Magazine (ie not a hentai magazine). (G^3 volume 1 also has "Tenshi ni Cobra Twist", but that was in a rough, unfinished format.)
B&W arts around the middle of the manga are weird...but they are so well drawn...
Yeah, they are the articles about fetishes...
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Sapphire Star translation

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Hey all, you can grab a torrent of my Sapphire Star translation if you like. I don't know how long I will keep it seeded, so be fast.

http://tjtg.mangatranslation.com/zips/S ... ar.torrent

As I said over on the general announcement, you should listen to "Say Hi To Your Mom"'s "Let's Talk About Spaceships" while you read. Check out http://sayhitoyourmom.com/music.htm for a link to the (Great) song.
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whoa... thanks fugu! I didn't realize that Saphhire Star was such an interesting story. Makes a lot more sense now than whatever I was guessing based on the images alone.

good stuff 8)
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Could anyone lead me into the direction of getting Oh! Greats G^3 volumes 1 and 2 thanks. Not scans the actual book.
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West Side Street chapter translated

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For those of you that are interested, I've released another chapter from Naked Star, West Side Street. You can grab the torrent here: http://tjtg.mangatranslation.com/zips/N ... ip.torrent, and as with Sapphire Star, I won't keep seeding this forever. I've quit seeding Sapphire Star, but have not removed it from the tracker.
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Post by zip »

thx but i saw this to late ^^; starside is gone (still a seed but i dont seem to get anything from him/her).
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kinvu wrote:Could anyone lead me into the direction of getting Oh! Greats G^3 volumes 1 and 2 thanks. Not scans the actual book.
It's not easy getting the books, even in Japan. Even if you could find the books in a doujinshi store in Japan, the price would be pretty high. The G^3 volumes are two of the doujinshi that doujinshi stores sometimes advertise that they're willing to pay good prices for. Outside Japan, your only realistic option is to win a bid on Yahoo Japan - the doujinshi are auctioned there now and then.

IIRC most of the contents of volume 2 now appears in Naked Star, so you don't really need volume 2 anymore, though it may have a few rough TenTen pics. (As a result, perhaps prices for volume 2 have dropped as well, but I haven't checked this). A fair bit of the contents of volume 1 were reproduced in Naked Star as well.

I happen to have two copies of volume 2 :) but, I'm sorry, I'm not willing to part with the second copy at this time.
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Post by kinvu »

Thanks for the info but if and when you do decide to let it go please let me know thx.
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