I always thought, and it's been years since I read it, that he was more so in love with the idea of her, couldn't really adjust to young adulthood and kept clinging onto the one pure thing from his childhood, and romanticizing youth is obviously a huge thing in Japan. I do agree it veered into wacky territory towards the end (especially that one plotline), but I still think it's one of the better coming of age stories. Some brutal moments in it. I agree with the first parts until High School being the best though.

Solanin's the best of his works outside of PunPun IMO, by a decent margin and is more relatable and realistic as a whole for most people in their early 20s, some of the others are ridiculously obscure. Girl On The Shore is def decent though. I recommend reading his earlier short story collections too, they were decent, one of them had a Tarantino vibe with the interconnecting stories.

Sekai no Owari to Yoakemae
Hikari no Machi
Subarashii Sekai

etc, all pretty short, I think he's kinda fallen off for me in recent years, he's trying to move away from the sort of stories that defined him, he's still putting out decent stuff though just not the kinda things I really care about

Also can we finally put to rest the mockery of him being a bird boy in PunPun ffs, it was a good choice from the author.

Your Name 10/10

Damn..right in the feels

The Girl On The Shore...yeah had to mentally edit the characters to uni students instead of middle schoolers.

Solanin is one of the best manga I have ever read. He actually released an epilogue this year. Beautiful manga, the art was not that good but the story and characters more than made up for it.

You find the epilogue online? was pretty crazy he released it for the 10 year anniv if I recall. I'd looked around for the epilogue, think I may have to buy it though.

Like I said some of his short story collections are worth it but now you've read his best works

I read Nijigahara Holograph or w/e from him and I still have no idea really what the point of it was or what was going on.

edit: nvm found the epilogue

Black Clover?

thoroughly mediocre and these are things I hear from shounen fanboys

One of the worst shounen mangas i have read.

Main character is a blatant rip off of Naruto lol

I'm not the biggest anime fan, but the concept for this is pretty cool.

Batman Ninja is damn entertaining.

Even a japanese anime joker is elite ffs. Can't believe how many different adaptations have been done of him.

Watched the 3 Berserk movies, now i know why the Golden Age Arc is amazing, that Eclipse segment holy shit

Gonna continue from the manga now

they were pretty decent movies all things considered yeah

only time I've actually been disgusted and angry at a betrayal

Frivously consuming Berserk, maybe the best manga i've read ever. Got about a 100 chapters left though, gonna read Vinland Saga then Kingdom after.

Kaladin wrote:Frivously consuming Berserk, maybe the best manga i've read ever. Got about a 100 chapters left though, gonna read Vinland Saga then Kingdom after.

Greatest manga of all time. Can't remember turning pages as fast as I did with that.

Vinland saga is elite too.

Couldn't get into kingdom though.

Kingdom may be the GOAT marathon read..I trailed off after I caught up and the generic shounen tropes started to become prevalent, haven't read it in 4.5 years now. But for 400 chapters? ELITE.

So I won't say it's a waste of time.

Vinland Saga's prologue is the only thing I've read that's on par with Peak Berserk.

Firenze. 'Gamble Fish' please

thanks

will get to it in 2020

already got like 5 things on the go and plan to read

Kingdom is amazing. Bindged like 400 chapters in like 2 weeks(?)

Any of you shounen fans read The Rising of the Shield Hero?

It's pretty fun.

OUT

Dropped it months ago, it's based on a light novel

99% of Isekai which is insanely popular nowadays (hit by truck and transported to a fantasy world) is so bad

anyway Shield Hero seemed quite decent but someone said it basically ends up as your usual harem shit so ain't nobody got time for that

speaking of OUT

that's my favourite manga atm, starts off as your usual delinquent/high school drop out gang stuff and turns into a GOAT tier read with the biggest cliffhangers and moralty discussions I've seen in a long time

some prime Berserk tier betrayals and scenery in it ffs

not expecting ppl here to read it as I don't think delinquent and realistic stuff is the kinda thing ppl read/watch anime for

https://mangadex.org/title/30512/out

Firenze wrote:OUT

Dropped it months ago, it's based on a light novel

99% of Isekai which is insanely popular nowadays (hit by truck and transported to a fantasy world) is so bad

anyway Shield Hero seemed quite decent but someone said it basically ends up as your usual harem shit so ain't nobody got time for that

rip

few more chapters of it and the bird turns into a girl. I see

Firenze wrote:speaking of OUT

that's my favourite manga atm, starts off as your usual delinquent/high school drop out gang stuff and turns into a GOAT tier read with the biggest cliffhangers and moralty discussions I've seen in a long time

some prime Berserk tier betrayals and scenery in it ffs

not expecting ppl here to read it as I don't think delinquent and realistic stuff is the kinda thing ppl read/watch anime for

https://mangadex.org/title/30512/out

Is this like rainbow/worst?

yeah kinda, but it's a seinen so it's aimed at adults (think Rainbow was too)

it's the most popular delinquent manga in Japan atm

RealGunner wrote:

Firenze wrote:OUT

Dropped it months ago, it's based on a light novel

99% of Isekai which is insanely popular nowadays (hit by truck and transported to a fantasy world) is so bad

anyway Shield Hero seemed quite decent but someone said it basically ends up as your usual harem shit so ain't nobody got time for that

rip

few more chapters of it and the bird turns into a girl. I see

yeah I quite liked it and thought it was refreshing it wasn't your usual, guy just assembles a bunch of hot girls and then gets with them. But apparently that's what it turns into. Ain't nobody etc.

I just caught up with Berserk

Can’t believe he left us hanging on Casca

WHY DID WE GET GRIFFITH CHAPTERS???

Kaladin wrote:I just caught up with Berserk

Can’t believe he left us hanging on Casca

WHY DID WE GET GRIFFITH CHAPTERS???

lol. Haven't actually read in the last 3-4 years now but i can't imagine there has been more than 10 chapters since.

Forget about it now. He is the GRRM of mangas. Start vinland saga