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RECOMEND me some manga

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:38 am
by ninja
Id like to read something like Tenjo Tenge .
BY that I mean fighting mixed with bad ass girls.
Thanks :D

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:53 am
by hitori
How about 'Air Gear' by the same author?
Less serious storyline and more gratuitous (semi) nudity scenes than TJTG.
Character designs are quite refined and the artwork is awesome.

My only problem with the title is that the story's kinda cheezy.
It's a typical "beat bad guy -> a new stronger previously unknown bad guy appears -> main character work ass off and beat the new bad guy -> yet another stronger previously unknown bad guy appears -> ad infinitum" style perfected by DragonBall.

Image

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:46 pm
by Banorac
Those covers sure look sweet *drool* :)

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:52 pm
by puppetmaster
Any idea where to get the scanlations? If there exist any, that is.

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:36 pm
by pv82
Snoopycool is doing them

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:53 pm
by kujoe
Yeah, Air Gear definitely has a more refined art style. It even looks smoother than Tenjo Tenge's sometimes, and that's something considering that Air Gear tends to have a more "street punkish" look to it.

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 2:52 pm
by Banorac
pv82 wrote:Snoopycool is doing them
Do they use bittorrent and would you be so nice to provide me with a link ? ^^

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:36 pm
by FuguTabetai
Banorac wrote:
pv82 wrote:Snoopycool is doing them
Do they use bittorrent and would you be so nice to provide me with a link ? ^^
Come on Banorac, the first hit on google: http://www.snoopycool.com/ It is guessable even.

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:31 pm
by Banorac
FuguTabetai wrote:
Banorac wrote:
pv82 wrote:Snoopycool is doing them
Do they use bittorrent and would you be so nice to provide me with a link ? ^^
Come on Banorac, the first hit on google: http://www.snoopycool.com/ It is guessable even.
I can't help it I'm silly :cry:

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:37 am
by shinoda32001
would the mangatranslation group consider air gear for their new project because you hardly see snoopycool releasing air gear anymore.

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:54 am
by FuguTabetai
shinoda32001 wrote:would the mangatranslation group consider air gear for their new project because you hardly see snoopycool releasing air gear anymore.
First of all, this isn't a group, it's just me.

Second, that is a horrible reason to start translating something: there is already a group working on it! I definitely wouldn't be any faster than Snoopycool.

I do wish I had some interesting stuff to translate (oh Vulgar Ghost Daydream volume 7, where are you?) but I've already stated my non-interest in Air Gear when it first came out.

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:21 pm
by Banorac
The snoopycool site seems to be down :?

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:08 am
by Starakin
yea that's temporarily, shouldn't last more than week.
(and AG project is still ongoing, shinoda32001)

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:48 pm
by Mataza-kun
Banorac wrote:The snoopycool site seems to be down :?
Yeah, but anyways they don't have direct downloads on the site for Air Gear, and neither BTs if I recall correctly. The fastest and possibly only way to get it is through their irc channel

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:58 pm
by puppetmaster
You can get the first two volumes if you know how to use emule. There u can also get volume 3-8 Scans in japanese

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:25 pm
by moyism
Mataza-kun wrote:
Banorac wrote:The snoopycool site seems to be down :?
Yeah, but anyways they don't have direct downloads on the site for Air Gear, and neither BTs if I recall correctly. The fastest and possibly only way to get it is through their irc channel

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:58 am
by Mataza-kun
I was always talking about Air gear, I get the other releases through Bt too. I think I saw a news once where they were saying AG would be released only through Irc, but sure, obviously I could be wrong :P

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:56 am
by Banorac
I've never used IRC, my brother had it on 'his' PC, but it just didn't work O.o

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:11 pm
by Rooster
Air Gear is a Kodansha product so there are no links to it on their site.

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:13 pm
by Banorac
a Kodonsha product ? :?

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:05 pm
by FuguTabetai
Banorac wrote:a Kodonsha product ? :?
Snoopycool got a letter from Kodanshya requesting that he take down all Kodanshya related stuff from his website. It was a big deal over on the manganews.net forums a while back. You know, big evil lawyers coming out after hobbyists.

I actually got a nice email from TokyoPop a few months before they started translating Great Teacher Onidzuka, one of the guys said that he was a fan, and was going to send me a GTO volume 1 when they were done with it. (Oh, and of course, please remove all your scans.) The GTO volume never did show up, but that's cool.

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:25 pm
by Rev
that stupid. I can understand if they told them to take it off because it's licensed but if it's not I would tell them to fuck off.

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:05 pm
by MrProphet
Umm... Kodansha is the legal owner of manga distribution rights. As in... worldwide. So it is licenced, and always was.

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:20 pm
by pv82
FuguTabetai wrote:I actually got a nice email from TokyoPop a few months before they started translating Great Teacher Onidzuka, one of the guys said that he was a fan, and was going to send me a GTO volume 1 when they were done with it. (Oh, and of course, please remove all your scans.) The GTO volume never did show up, but that's cool.
WHo knows, maybe DC will send you a copy of TT free. I do think you deserve it, seeing as this site and Anime are the main reasons why I see it being this popular. :wink:
Umm... Kodansha is the legal owner of manga distribution rights. As in... worldwide. So it is licenced, and always was.
Media Factory has sent the same kinda request for thier anime. FanSubbing might be over in the near future.

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:40 am
by FuguTabetai
pv82 wrote: WHo knows, maybe DC will send you a copy of TT free. I do think you deserve it, seeing as this site and Anime are the main reasons why I see it being this popular. :wink:
I haven't heard anything from DC, and if I do, I can assure you, it will not be nice.

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:25 am
by Banorac
FuguTabetai wrote:
pv82 wrote: WHo knows, maybe DC will send you a copy of TT free. I do think you deserve it, seeing as this site and Anime are the main reasons why I see it being this popular. :wink:
I haven't heard anything from DC, and if I do, I can assure you, it will not be nice.
Why'd you think that ?

And so there's no way of getting Air Gear anymore now ? :?

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:32 pm
by puppetmaster
Banorac wrote:
FuguTabetai wrote:
pv82 wrote: WHo knows, maybe DC will send you a copy of TT free. I do think you deserve it, seeing as this site and Anime are the main reasons why I see it being this popular. :wink:
I haven't heard anything from DC, and if I do, I can assure you, it will not be nice.
Why'd you think that ?

And so there's no way of getting Air Gear anymore now ? :?
As I told you, you can download the first two volumes of the snoopycool release with "emule" they have only translated till somewhere in volume 3 so if its complete some time it will be on emule for sure ...

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:27 pm
by moyism
Banorac wrote:
FuguTabetai wrote:
pv82 wrote: WHo knows, maybe DC will send you a copy of TT free. I do think you deserve it, seeing as this site and Anime are the main reasons why I see it being this popular. :wink:
I haven't heard anything from DC, and if I do, I can assure you, it will not be nice.
Why'd you think that ?

And so there's no way of getting Air Gear anymore now ? :?
yo banorac, check your PMs. I think you'll be very happy ;)

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:02 pm
by MrProphet
I have all of the AirGear tankoubons, and i don't really know why I care. It's such a waste of money.

It's like Oh!Great took all of TJTG ecchiness, multiplied it by 10 and then added a halfassed excuse for a story, maily cenetered on his obsession with rollerblading.

It's lame... TJTG is not great because it has boobs. It's great because it has such a wonderful story AND boobs. AirGear, in comparison, is a total waste of time and money.

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:01 am
by moyism
hey MrProphet, you never know... Air Gear could just have an insanely slow start until something "WOW" happens. I'm still enjoying it, if anything it's a lot more relaxed and an easy fun read.

Plus Ikki is a lot more lovable to me than Nagi ever was. :twisted:

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:19 am
by Agent_Wax
While I don't think that AG is a complete waste of money, if does seem to be getting really draggy. The fight with Behemoth is taking forever, and is not even cool to start of with. Overreliance on macho-posturing and cool poses instead of developing good fights with creative techniques tend to get me down. But the last story-arc I really enjoyed though (the one with the guy in the wheelchair). It had some good character development.

The 'mythology' part has only just been introduced. Character development is still happening, though slowly, while the babe quotient is way down. :cry:

I'm still hanging on to this, though I may quit if things don't pick up in the next couple of volumes.

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:33 am
by hitori
I read it just for Sukumizu Kamen and Shimuka... :lol:

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:41 am
by kujoe
I was wondering how many volumes of AG are out there right now. It seems to me that AG tankoubons are being churned out in a faster pace than TJTG.

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:08 am
by MrProphet
I have 7.

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:26 pm
by Banorac
moyism wrote:
Banorac wrote:
FuguTabetai wrote: I haven't heard anything from DC, and if I do, I can assure you, it will not be nice.
Why'd you think that ?

And so there's no way of getting Air Gear anymore now ? :?
yo banorac, check your PMs. I think you'll be very happy ;)
I love you :3

People here are great :D

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:02 pm
by Agent_Wax
Hitori wrote:
I read it just for Sukumizu Kamen and Shimuka...
So do I, my friend, so do I. But they're not getting nekkid any... :cry:
And if you caught the chapter a couple of weeks ago, that acupuncturist is one hot mama... :shock: but I get the feeling she won't show up again soon. :x